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I've restarted my 1st sweater!
Board: Knitters and the Fiber Arts
Apr 25, 2008 5:11am
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KnitWit and others - I finally got someone to figure out where I left off on the sweater I began in 1981. I had the front and back panels, and one sleeve complete when I set it aside for many years. I've been wanted to knit more sweaters, but I had this major block and fear to try again. I took my work to the the local KnitWitts, a church group that makes charity blankets, and one of the ladies took a quick look at it and told me where I needed to start again. I did 12 rows yesterday. I will have to get better light because I am working with 2.5 needles and navy wool and mohair yarn. If I can do a little each day I hope to have it finished before summer. That's my new goal. THEN, and only then, I will be hitting the stores for new patterns and taking a class or two to learn more than knitting and purling. Solving VLB's will be toast for me.

My stitches haven't changed! When I get it finished, I'll post a picture. You can let me know if it looks handmade.

~speedsquare
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Reply to: #217817 by speedsquare
Apr 25, 2008 5:19am
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Woohoo--a post about knitting!! I was getting really confused there--what was everyone talking about?

My current project is a pair of socks that I'm making with some cotton yarn that I dyed using leftover dyes from our Girl Scout tie-dye project. I think I have those 2.5 needles too--I know they're smaller than the recommended 3s! And I'm going crazy because they're dpns and the yarn keeps sliding off, especially when I keep it in my bag. I think I need either to invest in wooden needles or to get a whole bunch of corks to stick on the ends!

:-)
Kit Kat
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Reply to: #217820 by Kit Kat 61
Apr 25, 2008 5:27am
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You might want to give those corks some breathing time before you do the knitting, hehehe.

I don't know, but surely there is something we can still on the ends of the needles. I dropped a couple of stitches and I just hope I retrieved them properly. Maybe it won't show in the dark colors.
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Reply to: #217822 by speedsquare
Apr 25, 2008 10:05am
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with needles that small, stick a bit of PZ Kut on the ends???

romana
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Reply to: #217817 by speedsquare
Apr 25, 2008 10:34am
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Quote I am working with 2.5 needles and navy wool and mohair yarn.


Better you than me, darlin'! Mohair makes me sneeze! :-)

That's great that you're so close to being finished though. I'm looking forward to seeing a picture.

Knit Wit
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Reply to: #217817 by speedsquare
Apr 25, 2008 11:19am
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Yay! I know you had talked about finishing ths sweater. I can't wait to see it:) I am taking the baby sruprise sweater class at unwind (LYS). I am looking forward to it:) Perhaps we will bump in to one another there:)

Idhunna
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Reply to: #217957 by Idhunna
Apr 25, 2008 11:37am
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Is LYS the store downtown? If so, the person who helped me teaches a class there, so I am told. I am itching (not from the mohair) to go inside that store and see what they have. It's about 2:30 and it looks like I have about 4 more navy rows to go before I switch colors - next color -- one of my all time favorites - LODEN GREEN.

It is a simple rainbow stripe - I chose navy, loden, butterscotch, cardinal, and eggplant; in between each color four rows of off-white.

Do you know the hours for the store downtown? Are they regularly open?
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Reply to: #217963 by speedsquare
Apr 25, 2008 12:01pm
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Quote I chose navy, loden, butterscotch, cardinal, and eggplant;


Now I really want to see a picture. It sounds great!

Knit Wit
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Reply to: #217963 by speedsquare
Apr 25, 2008 5:07pm
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Sorry I didn't get back earlier. I took a half a personal day and had to make the most of it:) We went to the county assessor's office and got an exemption put on our property taxes that we should have been using for the past four years...but didn't know about; I got a haircut and eyebrow wax; and we went out for dinnner AND lunch, and cleaned out the garage for our neighborhood's clean-up day this weekend...I feel like I got a lot done.

LYS is chat speak for Local Yarn Shop. Our Yarn shop is Unwind Yarn Shop. The lasy that owns it is Vicki Hair, Was it Laura Arndt that helped you? SHe is teaching the class I am taking there, but there are several ladies who teach there.

I think Unwind has one of the bext selections of cascade yarns I have seen anywhere. She carries the most colors I have seen in one yarn shop. She also has lots of great natural fiber yarns stocked...silks, bamboo, hemp, cotton, even soy, I think.
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Reply to: #218123 by Idhunna
Apr 25, 2008 5:16pm
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I must check it out. AND - when you are feeling up to a road trip, we should go to Morgantown where there is a fantastic yarn shop. As I recall the owner raises their own wool that's for sale in the shop.

I'm so bad, I didn't remember, but I think it might be Vicki. My cold has left my hearing a little muffled. I'd say she's maybe 30?

And now for the news ----- I have completed 4 rows of loden. Did you see the 2 pictures I posted earlier today?
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Reply to: #218127 by speedsquare
Apr 25, 2008 5:51pm
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I have to go look at them....I have a question for you ss, what blog do you use? Is it free? I have some things I need to be able to put on the internet for a project that I am working on. It's directions for cutting plastic bags to make plarn....and then links to all of the plastic bag patterns. I need a free web page or blog to post it on so that instead of distributing pages of patterns tomorrow at the Earth Day celebration, I am just giving out one half sheet of links.

I am going to look, right now:)
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Reply to: #218149 by Idhunna
Apr 25, 2008 6:01pm
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I love all the yarn I got at this lys...in england while I was visiting.... sigh. I may need to go back just to buy more yarn...

(where's that collapsable duffle bag??)

night writer / romana