Knitter Rollcall

[Darlica]

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 ), 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!

[Sibling Chatty]

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.

[Darlica]

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.   

[anthrobabe]

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?

[Darlica]

  
Plastic forms? Never heard of it.

[anthrochild87]

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!

[Darlica]

*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}

[anthrochild87]

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

[WendyH]

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.

[Opsa]

I got a Nifty Knitter set for th'Opsalette (my daughter) for Christmas and she loves it. Is the Knotty Knitter something like it?

[pieces o nine]

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.

[Aggie]

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?

[pieces o nine]

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?