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New Knitting Thread (And spinning) (And crochet too I guess)
bluerobin427:
haha nice. Even if there aren't patterns in there you like, it looks like there are good techniques to learn. I have a "learn to knit" book from my mom, but I ended up going to knittinghelp.com for their videos because I needed so see the needles moving. :|
Eris:
Yeah, there are different stitches in there that I am going to try out just to experiment, I just found some of the stuff hilariously kitschy. I think I might have had a jumper with that sheep pattern when I was a kid.
yelley:
hey rachel, knitting can be inexpensive (www.knitpicks.com) unless you are like me (www.allnoro.com).
Ladybug:
I think knitting is like a lot other hobbies - you often start out (relatively) cheap and then realize you want to spend a whole lot more money than you planned on, but it's not necessary.
I finished two projects yesterday. One is a pair of socks knitted from a traditional pattern (though slightly modified by me, didn't like parts of it) and the other is the hat for February, called Stripey. I'm pretty satisified with both, but the socks have some "concentration errors", where I couldn't be bothered to frog rounds to fix wrong stitches, so there are a couple of those here and there, and I'm not too big on the color combo. Figured I'd use up the yarn I had lying around, but ended up having to buy more, and now I have about the same amount leftover. Great. Anyways, first project with an afterthought heel, and it was scary, but kinda cool that it worked.
(Heel is same kind of "pointy" shape as the toe, bottom of sock is a kind of grid, back is the same as the front.)
Lines:
The DPNs I buy typically cost only slightly more than straight needles. Yeah, there are more of them, but they are also smaller. And circulars are only good, I've noticed, when you're working top down, because you can do magic loop. But I still like working bottom up because you can pull the top tighter when you close it off.
I am making these!
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