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Oh wow those are cute as hell. I'd never have the patience to make the same cardigan twice - I barely have the patience to make a second sock. Nice work!
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That's so adorable, I love it  Did she help pick the colors?
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Midnight Sun posted:I made matching cardigans for my daughter and me. Pattern is Sorbet Cardigan from Mille Fryd, yarn is Drops Air. So cute!
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Thanks, guys!  FelicityGS posted:That's so adorable, I love it I actually had a lot of yarn left over from different projects, so I just supplemented with the beige and yellow. She saw me knitting the one for myself, and promptly announced that she wanted one just like me. So I apparently have the taste of a 6-year old.
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Speaking of MKALs, is anyone doing the Great British Baking Shawl MKAL? https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-great-british-baking-shawl I bought the yarn for it from KnitPicks. It might be fun, or I'll just have a lot of yarn for something else.
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Those sweaters rule! I haven't tried a different MKAL than a couple Westknits, and I don't watch a lot of British Baking shows, but maybe that would be a way to hook my daughter in to knitting finally. She loves the GBBS but when I taught her to knit, she quit after like 4 rows. Maybe we just need a goal to work towards.
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icehotels posted:Speaking of MKALs, is anyone doing the Great British Baking Shawl MKAL? Just bought the pattern and some yarn for it. I love GBBS and knitting, sooo...
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Have any of you sold/destashed yarn on Ravelry? An acquaintance is trying to offload a literal garbage bag full of Koigu PPPM.  
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STEAK FOR BREAKFAST posted:Have any of you sold/destashed yarn on Ravelry? An acquaintance is trying to offload a literal garbage bag full of Koigu PPPM. Yes. List a price with it but don't be surprised if you get lowballed few times. Just wait and someone will want it at your price. It can take a while to get a buyer. So far I haven't been burned but I am sure it's mostly luck.
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Tell them to try the Koigu group as well as general destash groups, too. Most brand groups have an iso/destash thread and someone would be thrilled to snap that lot up.
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Thanks guys! I’ll pass on the info. I’m knitting some socks and gloves with ~FREE YARN~ right now.
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Latest FO! A jumpsuit and a hat for a baby boy. 
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That's super cute!!
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http://imgur.com/a/v3YcXEY I knit this worsted weight blanket pattern, and I love how it turned out...but wow it took forever. Never again. ButtsFromTheSky fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Nov 2, 2019 |
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ButtsFromTheSky posted:http://imgur.com/a/v3YcXEY This is absolutely gorgeous! Nice work!
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ButtsFromTheSky posted:http://imgur.com/a/v3YcXEY Never again... until you want another one. It's very awesome! I made a big fingering weight cardigan and swore never again. I am queueing up patterns for a new one!
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ButtsFromTheSky posted:http://imgur.com/a/v3YcXEY I love it, that's so good
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ButtsFromTheSky posted:http://imgur.com/a/v3YcXEY Beautiful!
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How would y'all feel about a gang tag contest? Is that something that would spark some interest?
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Gang tag contest! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3903115
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I finished the Great British Baking Show mystery knit-a-long. The wool is from Miss Babs and was really pleasant to work with. I have to give it a little blocking and weave in all the ends but. It was a fun knit with enough going on to pay attention to. I also finished Wingspan but I haven't blocked that yet, so no pictures. The yarn from Blue Brick took six months to get to me, but it was worth it and I loved working with it. Totally would order from them again once they're not dying under Ibis colourway. 
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That's really pretty, Sehkmet!
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I made some hats for my family for xmas
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The write-up was really cute, there's a couple recipes in there, and the pattern was really easy to follow. Really enjoyed the knit. You can still get the pattern through Ravelry I think if you want to give it a go yourself!
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In place of your first link, which is outdated/misleading (everyone wants to make koala mittens, but koalas don't need mittens), I would use this one https://m.facebook.com/groups/2414894225229792?view=permalink&id=2920337934685416 Note that most of the items needed are sewn and some are crocheted. There are only 3 things that can be knit. It's important not to knit when sewing is called for because they don't want animals' digits to tangle between the yarn.
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This is a rather odd question I admit, and only incidentally related to knitting, but I imagine if anyone can help me with this question they would be posting here. I was looking at some old documents recently and noticed something odd. There are a lot of pre-20th century items that get described as being stuffed with "horsehair," or made from horsehair felt, with horsehair generally defined as the hairs from the tail and mane of a horse. This surprised me since obviously a horse does not have a lot of tail hair, so it should be very expensive and thus quite rare. With a little digging I found that a lot of what is conventionally referred to as "horsehair," is often in fact not from horses at all. Instead it is the fur or hair of cattle and pigs "curled" through processing, and used in place of the more expensive material. Here's something describing the use of these substitutes: Back in the thirties and probably earlier, the US was producing and consuming a lot of what gets called in these documents "cattle hair felt." You can still buy cattle and swine hair mixes on Ali Baba, sometimes still described as horsehair despite the same description being up front about the actual animals it came from. So I guess my question is what is cattle or pig or horse hair felt like? I was under the impression that in order to make felt, you had to use the soft undercoat of an animal. That the stiffer outer guard hairs, which I was under the impression were similar in form to the short fur of most conventional breeds of dog/pig/cow/horse. Are they only used in furniture because they can't hold together for other purposes? Bit of an obscure topic I know, but if anyone who has used their dog hair in knitting or felting projects has input I bet it'd be relevant.
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It didn't feel good. I have no direct experience, just reading old novels where people would complain about horsehair pillows/upholstery being prickly, from hairs working their way through the covering. From the description given and from what I understand, it wasn't felt in the way we think of felt; it was still separate hairs, which provided the resilience. Dog hair in spinning/knitting projects is only long soft hair afaik (think huskies). I don't think you could do much with short/wiry hair because the staple isn't long enough. You could draft it with something longer, but it would be miserable.
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Squalid posted:This is a rather odd question I admit, and only incidentally related to knitting, but I imagine if anyone can help me with this question they would be posting here. I was looking at some old documents recently and noticed something odd. There are a lot of pre-20th century items that get described as being stuffed with "horsehair," or made from horsehair felt, with horsehair generally defined as the hairs from the tail and mane of a horse. This surprised me since obviously a horse does not have a lot of tail hair, so it should be very expensive and thus quite rare. The mattress I had growing up was stuffed with hog hair. My grandmother bought it at auction for my mother when SHE was little, and it was an antique then (it's a rope bed that someone converted to put in a box spring). The bed was an unusual size, larger than a twin but smaller than a full, so it would have needed a custom mattress, but my parents never got one. They did put an cover on it because it turned out I was allergic to the hog hair or maybe the dust mites that made 90% of the filling. I slept on this mattress that was at LEAST 60 years old until I was 19 and went to college. I was so thrilled when I found out the bed in my dorm room was only two years old. Anyway I made felt out of cat hair once. It was pretty prickly.
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From taking a weaving class in the same space as an upholstery class I know that horsehair felt is definitely still used today in upholstery, but I couldn't tell you whether it's animal hair or a synthetic version. I think if it's curled, with enough heat and pressure you can felt just about any animal fiber, but I could be wrong.
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cool thanks for the input, yall. I bet the tendency of the ends of hairs to poke through seats was a major reason furniture makers loved to use the longest hairs they could find, since longer fibers mean fewer ends. And you can totally still get it, genuine horsehair is actually supposed to spin into great threads and blends well with stuff like alpaca. It's just fantastically expensive. In a lot of furniture from the 20th century forward you'll also sometimes see "rubberized" horsehair, which i think is a synthetic alternative (or maybe partially synthetic?). I suspect unless it is very obvious what it is however, most of the stuff sold as horsehair is in fact from pigs or cattle, unless it is obvious otherwise. The thing that got me wondering about this is I saw some 19th century athletic padding was supposedly stuffed with horsehair, as well as medieval gambesons. That sounded absurdly decadent, and digging into it i'm pretty sure horsehair often just gets used as a generic term for all unidentified animal hair stuffing. Incidentally there is one breed of cattle that does make good yarn. It's the adorably fuzzy highland cattle:  similar to huskies, they have an outer and an inner coat. The inner coat is what makes for good yarn, and you can comb it off them once a year just like with a dog. BonerGhost posted:From taking a weaving class in the same space as an upholstery class I know that horsehair felt is definitely still used today in upholstery, but I couldn't tell you whether it's animal hair or a synthetic version. hmm. . . I had always heard it only worked with certain furs that kinda. . . split? into forked barbs. That's why beaver pelts were so valuable back in the day, because their fur was really good for felt hats. I guess this might not apply for needle felting though, only wet felting. I haven't exactly experimented on anything exotic though, so maybe you could manage with whatever if you were dedicated enough. Squalid fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Mar 10, 2020 |
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The other thing is that while an individual horse might not have too much hair in its mane/tail, there were an absolute shitload of horses. There's also a pig that you can use for wool, the mangalitsa (although its primary use is meat). One of its ancestors, the Lincolnshire curly coat, really was used for wool routinely.
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A friend and I kickstarted a wool from Mongolian farmers, and yak wool is gonna make such ballin' hats. Is yak wool good for hats?
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Aerofallosov posted:A friend and I kickstarted a wool from Mongolian farmers, and yak wool is gonna make such ballin' hats. Is yak wool good for hats? People make technical mountaineering baselayers out of it so it should be fine
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Anyone have any good baby patterns they want to share? I've got a little one due in late spring and bought a bunch of yarn but finished the projects I found for him, a onesie and a swaddling bag. Now I've got a ton of leftover baby yarn that needs to be used. Only thing I don't want to make is a baby blanket, since my wife wants to make that.
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Genpei Turtle posted:Anyone have any good baby patterns they want to share? I've got a little one due in late spring and bought a bunch of yarn but finished the projects I found for him, a onesie and a swaddling bag. Now I've got a ton of leftover baby yarn that needs to be used. Only thing I don't want to make is a baby blanket, since my wife wants to make that. Baby Surprise Jacket February Baby Sweater
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Seconding baby surprise jacket, I made my very first one for a friends baby and it is a fast and pleasing knit.
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