austrya Posted November 14, 2007 Author Share Posted November 14, 2007 I neglected my children for about 1/2 hour and made Grace this outfit made with 2 of my old t-shirts. This is just my practice outfit. Don't pay any attention to the fact that the stripes on the sleeves go in different directions... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 that is fantastic Christy!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 I got my ravelry.com membership today.....of course I am swamped today and can't even think about tooling around on there.....but soon.....VERY soon! (I am "Reni" on there.....shocker, I know) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ms. yvon Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 wow! that baby outfit looks fab! just had the four day holiday weekend. MUCH crafting to be had! knit up a beret out of some thick/thin blue wool...the formula seems to be quite easy, but i leaned on the proprietor of a new knit shop in my neighborhood to get me rolling. (the young woman who owns the shop is also a drummer. rad!) did some serious work on the quilt that's just passed it's 4 year anniversary. HOME STRETCH! it's all machine quilted but for some hand quilted stars in the border. i'll try to get some pix hooked up here. also worked for a couple hours on a cotton blanket i've been knitting since 2003. how do these things last so long? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jenbobblehead Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 how do these things last so long? "real" life gets in the way, unfortunately. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ms. yvon Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 dumb old job. ok. here me out on this...am considering buying a...knitting machine. (waiting for gasps and shouts of "heretic!" to die down.) i have a lot of ideas for sweaters with small patterns knit into large areas of solid color. i haven't made any of them aside from baby sizes b/c the idea of knitting small gauge yarn in stockinette stitch for so long is offputting. anyone here had experience with machine knitting? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jenbobblehead Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Hey kate!!! i went to a big art/craft thing and someone was selling sleeves (cable knit) for $28/pair! so kind of like leg warmers, but more like arm warmers. They looked great and i thought of you... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 that sounds cool!!! I found a beautiful pattern for some long fingersless mittens today and would love to try it, but didn't wanna drop the $$ on the book right now.....I am looking into fair isle mittens...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
austrya Posted December 1, 2007 Author Share Posted December 1, 2007 I'd love to be able to do fair isle. There is a lady who sells crocheted arm warmer things on etsy. I want a pair. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=8176568 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poppydawn Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 that sounds cool!!! I found a beautiful pattern for some long fingersless mittens today and would love to try it, but didn't wanna drop the $$ on the book right now.....I am looking into fair isle mittens...... I've got lots of fingerless mitten patterns. Check your Ravelry account; I'll send you links. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jenbobblehead Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I've got lots of fingerless mitten patterns. Check your Ravelry account; I'll send you links.what is a fingerless mitten? don't mittens already not have fingers? that is what differentiates them from gloves? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poppydawn Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 What I'm thinking are gloves/mittens that end between the first and second knuckles. Like this: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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poppydawn Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Exactly! Another lovely example, but I don't have a pattern for this one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viatroy Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 What I'm thinking are gloves/mittens that end between the first and second knuckles. Like this: those are cool -- I'll take two! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I finally finished an afghan I have been working on for months - for a cousin. It is made from really soft and fuzzy wool and alpaca.....soft soft soft! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the_fliz1 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I finally finished an afghan I have been working on for months - for a cousin. It is made from really soft and fuzzy wool and alpaca.....soft soft soft! Very nice, my aunt used to make afghans for us kids when I was a yung-un. I miss them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poppydawn Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 those are cool -- I'll take two! Get in line. Someone just asked me to make a pair for $$ - my first commissioned knitting job! The afghan's gorgeous, Kate! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ms. yvon Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 KATE! that blanket looks and sounds amazingly cozy! lucky, lucky cousin. when i make quilts to give away, i always sleep under them once or twice before they go out. just have to. also: am knitting these gloves: fetching from knitty i'm using a deep orange merino/cashmere/microfibre blend. i copied the pattern wrong (sigh) so the cuffs are actually about 4 cables longer. still: perfect for my jackets with loose cuffs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ms. yvon Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 What I'm thinking are gloves/mittens that end between the first and second knuckles. Like this:poppy, if i had looked back a couple of pages, i would have seen you post this pic. this is the pattern i am knitting now. if one doesn't add the extra, oh, 20-odd rows of cabling, these gloves can be finished in two days. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poppydawn Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 I screwed up the cabling on the first pair I knit, but I decided they worked well on me. They go about 1/3 of the way to my elbow. I also used a tweed yarn (heh ... I just typed Tweedy). It sort of obscures the cables, but overall I like the effect: If you look over my left shoulder, you'll notice a quilt my granny made with the scraps from all the clothes she made for me when I was a kid. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ms. yvon Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 I also used a tweed yarn (heh ... I just typed Tweedy). i wonder if we made the same error transcribing the pattern! i can pick out the "grandma's flower garden" pattern quilt behind you. what a wonderful gift! i have a couple quilts my grandmother made from my dad's old shirts when he was little. she was a seamstress, so all the scraps worked their way into her quilts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poppydawn Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 i can pick out the "grandma's flower garden" pattern quilt behind you. what a wonderful gift! i have a couple quilts my grandmother made from my dad's old shirts when he was little. she was a seamstress, so all the scraps worked their way into her quilts. My granny was a professional seamstress, too. She's almost 82 and still does some quilting. Last year she found some quilt tops made by my great-granny, who died in 1980, and finished them. I got two of them - one made from old feedsacks and another that looks like it might have come from Pottery Barn circa 2007. It's our bedspread. No better than I quilt, I've saved a lot of Clara Jane's baby clothes to make a quilt. It'll probably be a plain ol' patchwork, since that's all I can do. I just know how much I love looking at the quilt with all my old baby clothes, and how many memories it brings. I've got boxes of old clothes and my granny's fabric scrap hand-me-downs, waiting for me to actually learn to sew and do something with them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tellya Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 i knit like this: http://www.decoraccentsinc.com/knifty_knitters.html I have been trying to take a picture of the pretty scarf I made but my camera is the suck. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 i knit like this: http://www.decoraccentsinc.com/knifty_knitters.html I have been trying to take a picture of the pretty scarf I made but my camera is the suck. You knit? Who knew? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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