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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Sep 03 - 12:16 PM Great stitch library - I may even take it upon myself to learn cable now.... after 30 years I think I'm ready... It's got some bastard adverts attached though, took ages to get rid of them. LTS |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: lady penelope Date: 23 Sep 03 - 07:35 PM Knit, pearl, add, reduce. You now have my entire repatoire. I'm REALLY good at scarves. My main trouble with knitting is that it REALLY relaxes me. I start falling asleep in about 15 minutes. I'm not joking. I've just started beading and it's beginning to go the same way.... hey ho TTFN Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: LadyJean Date: 24 Sep 03 - 12:47 AM A lady I know knitted a snake cozy for her friend's boa constrictor. The boa would crawl into it when it was changing it's skin. She had to knit another snake cozy for her friend's husband. That one was smaller. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Sep 03 - 04:49 PM But did it change into a bigger snake once inside it? I'm about 2/3s up one side of a cardigan for Bratling. I suspect my patience will run out before the wool does. I'm also about 20 squares off completing 2 patchwork jackets, one nearly finished for my god-daughter and one to sew up for me. Don't hold your breath in waiting to see any of the garments! LTS |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: black walnut Date: 26 Sep 03 - 01:05 PM How's it going, Peter? ~'nut |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Sep 03 - 01:41 PM What is MMario working on these days? |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: GUEST,MMario Date: 26 Sep 03 - 01:51 PM you asked. Remmeber that... 1) an afghan as a "everything this year" present to my sister. In six shades of kidsilk haze to match our fieldstone fierplace and new couch. it's slightly under half done. 2) an experimental washcloth - supossed to be done in size 40 cotton thread on size 1 needles. I'm using worsted cotton on size four needles. 3) a peacock tail shawl in variagated yarn. (This is what I had with me in Portsmouth) 4) a pi-doily in crochet 5) several crocheted shawls 6) a vine lace scarf in linen yarn 7) a knit shawl in 'ostrich plume' lace pattern 8) a knit shawl in white cotton thread 9) a very late christmas present from two years ago for a friend in filet crochet. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: GUEST,mmario Date: 26 Sep 03 - 02:12 PM number three is being done in Red Heart 'painted desert' |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: black walnut Date: 26 Sep 03 - 03:15 PM Will I ever finish that beautiful celtic spiral llama wool sweater which only needs another arm, and a neck? Not anytime soon... I have a grandneice and a grandnephew (twins) to worry about. I love knitting for babies. ~b.w. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Peter T. Date: 26 Sep 03 - 04:20 PM Entangled in life. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: black walnut Date: 26 Sep 03 - 05:16 PM Knot surprising. ~b'nut |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: LadyJean Date: 26 Sep 03 - 09:24 PM Attention all knitters! Check out cas@seamanschurg.org and make the world an ever so slightly better place. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Sep 03 - 12:01 AM MMario, that's an impressive list of projects! I just gave my 15-year-old daughter a Singer sewing machine for her birthday. My next-door neighbor gave me the sewing machine she was going to give it to a garage sale, but she had hardly used it in the 45+ years since it was given to her. It's a Series 15, with a gear instead of a belt drive--they call it the "farmers" machine because of all of the heavy duty utilitarian use they're put to. I had it cleaned and oiled and a new power cord put on. Just as knitters probably amass materials for projects that sometimes never get started, I have drawers and drawers of fabric and patterns. I have told her that as long as we're sure the fabric will fit the pattern, she can ask me to use some of this fabric and I'll probably say yes. But she's beginning to understand how I accumulated this cloth (and inherited a lot from my mother when she died a few years ago). I took her to the local fabric store last week and she saw how you can go a little nuts when you see some of those great materials. It was a lot of fun making MMario's Secret Santa gift last year. The cost of the fabric was within the Secret Santa guidelines, but when it is handmade there is certainly value added. The materials weren't all those traditionally used for a throw, but they were a lot of fun to buy and work with! We do like to experiment! SRS |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 27 Sep 03 - 04:43 AM Don't even get me started on how much fabric I have squirrelled away in the back bedroom, nor how many half finished projects I have. There's at least one suitcase full of half finished cross stitch stuff, 2 cases of kits bought/acquired and not started, 1 case of balls of wool, mostly virgin and untouched, a whole drawer full of patterns, a drawer full of embroidery silks, another of sewing threads, a wardobe full of scraps and enough needles to hide a haystack in (incidentally, the needle in a haystack was from the old tradition of thatching hay stacks so that the rain ran off them. Thatching needles were used to 'sew' bundles of thatch together to make the roof and these needles are about a foot long. It was easy to drop one through the thatch and lose it in the hay. Guess who got a book of useless information for her birthday....). And then there's the loft. Bratlings cardigan has progressed to side 2, where I'm just starting the bottom rib. I'm impressed, it may even be finished whilst she can still wear it. LTS |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: black walnut Date: 27 Sep 03 - 09:12 AM LadyJean, the link didn't go anywhere for me. Could you describe the destination please? ~b.w. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: black walnut Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:57 PM Helping Peter with his stitches the other day got me itching to get back to some knitting myself. I could have finished that difficult sweater that only needs a sleeve and a neck, but no, I'll do simple no-brainer hooded cotton blankets for my niece's twins. BUT I've lost ALL of my knitting needles - a zillion of them - in a house renovation. They are somewhere. But where? So I went out yesterday and bought yarn, and needles, but I'll be darned, I sure wish I could find those needles. ~b.w. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: GUEST,MMario Date: 09 Oct 03 - 01:14 PM now that you have bought replacements you will probably find the originals shortly. update on my projects: 1)kidsilk haze afghan to match fireplace - over 2/3rds done. 2) 3) 4) 5) several crocheted shawls - languishing in neglect 6) a vine lace scarf in linen yarn - I did two rows on it! 7) a knit shawl in 'ostrich plume' lace pattern - in progress - it has become my "car project" 8) a knit shawl in white cotton thread - I thought about it. 9) a very late christmas present from two years ago for a friend in filet crochet. I thought about it with a great deal of guilt.... |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Oct 03 - 11:19 PM Any of those items headed for the Mudcat auction in time for the holidays? |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: GUEST,Basket Weaver Date: 10 Oct 03 - 05:43 AM Heard that Cosmopolitan magazine had an article on how to 'Knit your own orgasim |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: GUEST,MMario Date: 10 Oct 03 - 08:10 AM yes, Mary - there will be some items in the mudcat auction soon - just after getaway! |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Sleepless Dad Date: 10 Oct 03 - 11:31 PM Singer Christine Lavin is coming to town soon. We received a post card from the venue that said she wanted to meet with fans who were into knitting and crochet before the concert so they could have a session together. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 11 Oct 03 - 12:40 AM Pearl two....
The Mudcat is the home for you....
Sincerely,
Keep posting....it might take three weeks...... but you can build a thread at this site! Don't give up.... |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Oct 03 - 06:48 AM Garg - it's PURL. I'm stunned - I finished the back of the Bratling's cardigan - at this rate there may be sleeves too by Christmas! And I know what you mean about needles - I had a posh matched set of everything, plus all the left overs and cast offs (sorry) from mothers' collection. Can I find a pair that match now? Can I buggery. I had to buy some more. Still haven't found the originals though! I've been using a set of half length needles - about 6 inches in length, they are really easy to carry round in my bag or a pocket. Trouble is, I knitted so many squares on them, to make into jackets, that I've had to buy some extra long ones (about 18 inches and nearly impossible to use anywhere but in the middle of the room) to knit up the ribs! The short ones are so neat that I've even used them on the Tube with no ill effects to other passengers (apart from the man who got tangled up in my wool but that's another story). LTS |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: black walnut Date: 11 Oct 03 - 08:01 AM Christine Lavin is terrific - she finds very creative ways to break down the performer/audience barrier. Good for her for thinking up this one. Notice....this is now a music thread! ~b.w. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Joybell Date: 11 Oct 03 - 08:31 AM Great Peter I'm glad it's going well. Can I contribute a song to sing while you work. Shearing the Wethers Tune -- Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet. by me during the shearing season of 1999. Death is an angel sent down from the blue With thin bony hands he will clip me and you Crutching and wigging he'll sort out the dags To send to the Devil in calico bags. Cho. Shearing the wethers for the Master's wool coat And a nice fluffy muffler to wrap 'round His throat. Angels to sort out the sheep from the goat Each soul is a staple in the Master's wool coat. Loved ones are passing each day and each hour Right through the sheep-dip and traeatment for scour* Pure and pest-free and woolly we'll wait For the last bell to ring at the last wool-shed gate. Let us be passive till grazing is through And shearing and sorting and spinning is too Then we'll be gathered without burr or stain And knitted by angels in rib, purl and plain. * a cattle disease actually but it rhymed well. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Peter T. Date: 11 Oct 03 - 10:59 AM WOW. this is a truly great song -- have you recorded it?! (I don't know about the "Let us be passive" part though -- Let us be peaceful, maybe, but passive? Jesus may have likened us to sheep (and he knew his humans, and he knew his sheep), but I see no reason to be passive). yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Oct 03 - 12:58 PM Ooh - knitted by angels - what a lovely phrase! That could become a slogan ..... I suspect that to be passive is to just let it all flow, and go with it, rather than fighting against life, which will get you in the end whichever way you go, so best to go with as little stress and fuss as possible. LTS |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Peter T. Date: 11 Oct 03 - 01:30 PM Going with the Master's "shearing" would doom all science, medicine, and most of the struggle against the way things are. We can peacefully work against suffering; being passive is sheeplike in the bad sense. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Joybell Date: 11 Oct 03 - 07:09 PM Thank you Peter and Liz. I suspect I was having a bit of a dig at the idea of being a sheep in the Christian sense. I'm not passive at all actually and I know that my Christian friends aren't either. Jesus certainly wasn't. The real sheep around here are extremely passive and they put up with so much I wish I could cheer them up. Passive is a nice sounding word but maybe it's a bit unfair. Feel free to change it if want. I have always been particularly proud of the knitting bit. No I've never actually performed it. It just landed in my head one day and has been lying dormant I think. Please go ahead and sing it around. My husband drew a picture of an Angel-shearer to go with it but I don't know how to send that here. I'm so glad you like it. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Peter T. Date: 12 Oct 03 - 11:55 AM I think it is the real thing, a good song, so nicely knitting the themes together. Already working on it. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Penny S. Date: 12 Oct 03 - 02:26 PM Liz, have you tried circular needles? Two short needly ends with a nylon loop joining them. Much easier to manipulate in confined spaces. Available in various lengths, and can be used for to and fro knitting as well as in rounds. Open up a range of ways of knitting whole garments seamlessly, too, but it can get a bit heavy near the end. Penny |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 Oct 03 - 06:14 PM Never had the opportunity to use a circular needle, but as I rarely do anything bigger than a 6 inch square anyway, it's a bit of a moot point. I've used 4 double ended needles, for gloves and sleeves, they were fun. I liked making gloves, wish I could find the pattern again. LTS |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Joybell Date: 12 Oct 03 - 06:36 PM Great Peter. The song needs a good airing. Think of us out here as you knit and sing and good luck with both. The shearing is starting about now. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 Oct 03 - 08:15 PM Ah, but the shearing's no for you, ma bonnie lassie-o! LTS |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Joybell Date: 13 Oct 03 - 08:53 AM Oh no and I'm very glad. My laddie-O has never been tempted to shear either. Our neighbour gets in teams of shearers - usually Kiwis and last year most of them were women. Hell of a job for anyone, even big muscled males. There was a time when women were not allowed anywhere near the shearing sheds but that's all changed. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: black walnut Date: 13 Oct 03 - 09:32 PM I FOUND MY NEEDLES!!!!! :-) ~b.w. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 14 Oct 03 - 02:20 AM HUZZAH!!! I spent the whole night on Sunday untying a huge mares nest of a knot that had got into the middle of my ball of wool. I suspect it was one that got stuck on the spindle of the winding machine, it looked fine from the outside but inside was one great twisted mess. It took me a total of 7 hours to unravel it - the ones between 11.00pm and 6.00am! But I was never tempted to cut - that is a fatal mistake! I'm onto the sleeves now, a major miracle as I've never finished a garment the same year I started it (except for a baby jumper but I couldn't do anything else!) or before the recipient has grown out of it. LTS |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 14 Oct 03 - 06:58 AM Where can a person find the tune for your song, Joybell? I am a knitter, a former keeper of sheep, and have recently lost my partner. I'd like to "hear" your song but don't know the tune. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Jeri Date: 14 Oct 03 - 08:01 AM I found a midi on this page or click here for just the midi. Maybe you could sing 'placid' or 'patient'? |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: GUEST,Peter T. Date: 14 Oct 03 - 08:16 AM Is the world ready for black walnut and her needles together in the same place? yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Joybell Date: 14 Oct 03 - 05:59 PM Thanks Jeri I would have had trouble doing that. The midi shows a bit of variation but not enough to worry about. I heard the original song done by the Delmore Brothers - I think. Anyway it's an old gospel standard. "Placid" is fine - I think it sings better anyway. Animaterra I will think about you singing and knitting too. I hope things improve for you soon. A singing, knitting partner sounds like a great catch. My true-love sings but he's not much on knitting. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Joybell Date: 14 Oct 03 - 07:01 PM Oh! Animaterra How could I have been so stupid. I misread your name in my haste to reply. There is a male mucatter with a similar name - No it's not really all that similiar - I'm just dense and stupid that's what I am. And they say sheep are dumb. Please forgive me. I am so pleased that you liked the song and I hope that you still want to sing it. My thoughts have been with you and I'm so very sorry about your terrible loss and so very sorry to have made such a dreadful mistake. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 14 Oct 03 - 07:08 PM Joybell, it's ok. Compared with some of the things well-meaning folks have said to me lately, it's nothing. Thanks for the links, Jeri- I'll give it a listen! Allison |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Joybell Date: 14 Oct 03 - 08:38 PM This thread is about so much more than knitting isn't it. Songs, friends, angels, wool, sheep - all knitted together. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: black walnut Date: 15 Oct 03 - 02:27 PM Peter, the world isn't ready for me even without the needles! May your stitches be even, your dye lots agree, and whatever you drop be pickupable. ~b.w. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: black walnut Date: 23 Nov 03 - 07:17 PM I've been knitting another baby blanket...only I was working on this one last night in the dark in a local folk club, while listening to Christina Smith and Jean Hewson perform their wonderful Newfoundland music. I had to ladder back 32 rows this afternoon to fix a knit that should have been a purl. Argh. ~b.w. |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Joybell Date: 23 Nov 03 - 07:26 PM It's shearing time again here. Funny to think of you knitting wooly blankets, bw, while we are basking in the sun. Joy |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Mr Red Date: 24 Nov 03 - 08:05 AM For a song about knitting check out my site & scrolldown to last song |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Nov 03 - 08:29 PM I finished the cardigan for Bratling and she likes it. So do the cats who have barely got off it since she left it over the back of the sofa! LTS |
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Subject: RE: Help with my knitting! From: black walnut Date: 20 Dec 03 - 09:53 AM ALMOST done those baby blankets - in time for Christmas! (darned ulnar nerve has kept me from doing more than a row or two at a time). Made me a cable sweater yet, Peter? ~b.w. |
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