DreamOutLoud13 said:
It's longer than my arm now!
Yay!! Having fun with it?
DreamOutLoud13 said:
It's longer than my arm now!
love2bmama said:socks are not at all hard to knit!
alison0313 said:I started knitting last winter. http://www.knitty.com/issuespring05/PATTbranchingout.html[/url] I must have ripped out my work 1000 times, but learning how to do those tricky stitches was a huge help in reading other patterns.
I made that same scarf as a Christmas gift for someone using Noro Kuryon's self striping yarn and I love how it came out (you can't see the pattern in this picture, but its there):
I'm currently working on this cable scarf. I'm enjoying making it, but the scarf itself is a bit thin for my liking.
The yarn is Debbie Bliss Cashmerino, and its fantastic and sooooo soft.
DreamOutLoud13 said:I must admit. This thread made me start knitting. I'd been wanting to learn for years, but was never able to get it right, but then this thread happened, and love2bmama posted a link to a wonderful site called knittinghelp.com, and I learned to knit
but eventually I ended up with a small knitted square with only a few mistakes, and I felt accomplished:
And so then yesterday, I started on a scarf:
It's sooo soft, and I love it, and it could actually stand to be narrower, but it'll be nice having a big chunky scarf like that It's addicting though
I have high aspirations though. I can't wait to start using fancy yarn and self-striping yarn and double pointed needles!
wenda said:I LOVE to knit. I learned along with alison0313 at knittinghelp.com.
And before that I made these:
Keeps my hands warm in my freezing cold office.
Buying yarn is a sickness. I love, love, love going to the yarn store. I've spent more on yarn than anything else really. Well, except my car payments, lol.
wenda said:
Thanks very much! I have never been and honestly I've never even heard of it. But now I wanna go!!
Don't know how far I'd travel for yarn though. Sounds dreamy though...sigh.
Nightsong said:If any of you are looking for a small project to use up your yarn, these Comfort Dolls for Africa are very easy to make and a really wonderful idea.
http://www.icross.ca/project.htm
Basically you send the dolls to ICROSS, they then use them as cushioning when they ship AIDS medicines and supplies and then give the dolls to children.
Pretty neat idea I found out about from Donna on the Zootopian Hawaiian board, here's a pic of some of her dolls:
Mr. BAW said:Me, second bottle of wine tonight, but good enough to read you!
Yeah, make me one, extra Mexican size!
I can't coz I'm left handed