I think it's time to sweep the dust of this sub forum.
I knit, mostly really simple things, like scarf's and wrist warmers, since I started to knit for real just a little more than a year a go.
My grandma was a real master knitter, unfortunately I wasn't that interested in knitting or sewing as a kid (stupid me :P), I was more interested to hang around with grandpa who was a carpenter. :)
I'm trying to catch up, by now at least my loops are smooth and even and I know how to use stocking needles, even if I haven't learned to make stocking heels and toes yet.
Also I need a English/Swedish knitting dictionary!
Oh, dear, NOT me.
I'm co-ordinating a knit and crochet Zebra Stuff project for carcinoid cancer fundraising, but that's as far as I go.
Knitting to me isn't so much about producing stuff, I mostly do it because it calms me down, and helps me get my concentration back.
I mean it beats barbiturates and I can live with the side effect, a lot of knitted scarf's. ;) ;D
the anthrokid knits
me-- I'm the one who holds the yarn
do you knit free form or do you use one of those kit or plastic forms you can buy now?
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Plastic forms? Never heard of it.
lol- something called an knifty knitter
http://www.provocraft.com/products/detail.php?cl=knifty%20knitter&scl=&item=21-0100
i love to knit.. and right now i'm making a scarf.. i love it
i have some really awesome bamboo needles and of course- a couple of steel ones! i use straight needles and i have a couple of ones where you can knit in the round........... i love it, but i would never use one of the plastic forms- it's a little to rigid for me- but I would love to learn how to do socks!
*scratches head*
You call using one of those knitting in English?
*scratches head*
I use regular needles, stocking needles or a round needle depending on what I'm doing. As I'm knitting caps at the moment I tend to use a smaller round needle (40 cm, 5mm needle), with the yarn I use right now 18 loops =10cm so one need about a 100 loops for a woman's cap and that is a bit too much for stocking needles.
For the big mohair shawl I used a larger 80cm, round 5.5mm needle since it's easier to knit really big things on a round needle and use it like regular needles (much more room for the loops, they also weight less).
I bought a pair of regular bamboo needles a couple of weeks ago and they are pure heaven to use! I have a silk scarf to knit before Christmas and I really look forward to the bamboo and silk combination... :)
Me nerdy... noooooo ;D
I don't like the knifty knitters at all- i just don't think it is knitting at all
and the bamboo needles are pure heaven- i want to eventually get a whole set of them- plus they are eco- friendly which is always good!
and lol- round needles--- i love them!
i can't make much right now- i'm still learning so much
but like i say- i want to learn how to do socks soon- kinda like pippi longstocking stockings :)
DavidH has just brought me a knotty knitter kit which I received mid-day today. I have already made a small hat for a baby, and am now working on a "snood" - gosh - I think I am showing my age, we wore those way back in the days of old, shortly after the car was invented I think.
Anyway it is a fun thing to do. My rug making will have to sit beside the chair for a few weeks whilst I have fun with this new kit.
I got a Nifty Knitter (http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS364&q=knifty+knitter&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=TAlTTarHHMWBlAeA2MzeCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CFIQsAQwAw&biw=1007&bih=551) set for th'Opsalette (my daughter) for Christmas and she loves it. Is the Knotty Knitter something like it?
If I recall correctly, I think that was the brand name on an image I posted recently when writing about the plastic hoops as in the photo you linked, Opsa.
WendyH: wow! Sounds like you dived right in and are being productive! My first project was a pair of one-skein-each tubes which I insisted were slippers. Over the knee, too-open-a-[weave]-for-my-taste, slippers. Currently they are hiding in the very back of my closet.
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Quote from: WendyH on February 09, 2011, 07:40:07 PM
DavidH has just brought me a knotty knitter kit which I received mid-day today. I have already made a small hat for a baby, and am now working on a "snood" - gosh - I think I am showing my age, we wore those way back in the days of old, shortly after the car was invented I think.
Is that like a Thneed?
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uLEl_Km4s5c/TQ-gONziitI/AAAAAAAAAWc/xXoPdi-PwO8/s200/once-ler+knitting.jpg)
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Calling WendyH...
Calling WendyH...
Come in, WendyH...
How is that knotty knitter working for you?
I have almost completed the first of a super-densely-looped shlipper. If all goes well, the second will be done sometime around Christmas. ;) Hope your project(s) is going faster?