February 18, 2005
Let's talk about socks baby!
Let's talk about socks baby!
(apologies to Salt 'n Pepa)
The first Stashbuster spiral is done :)
Changing the colours is enough to keep it from being a boring old stockinette sock, and makes the knitting seem faster. I've started the second one, but haven't got far yet.
For any of the Aussie sock knitters out there, Lisa has started a Yahoo group called Sockmonsters. It's a group aimed at Australian sock knitters. :)
Em's cardigan continues. I've reached that stage of the sleeve where it just doesn't seem to grow no matter how much knitting you do. I measured it last night, it had 3 inches to go, I knit about 50 rows ;) and I still had 2 and a half inches to go.
The plain knitting must really be eating at me - I'm considering a Fair Isle sweater for DH. I've never knit Fair Isle. Haven't a clue how to strand the yarns, no idea what is beginner Fair Isle (is there any such thing?) and what isn't, and I don't know where to go for a good kit at a good price. Steeks scare me. Perhaps I should start with a hat or somesuch. Ease myself into it. That way, if I stuff it up, it isn't such a big deal ;)
Let me know if you know a good beginners kit, or some other good place to start.
Comments
Sorry to hear about your migraine of a few days ago. Both my sisters suffer from them, and they are horrible. I have headaches, BAD, but not migraines. Someday I hope to tackle Fair Isle, and my plan was to start with fingerless gloves, and then move up to perhaps a cushion (we'd say pillow) or perhaps a bag. But I think you'd be up for a man's sweater straight away....you're good with all that fiddly stuff!!
Posted by: Norma at February 18, 2005 01:32 PM"Changing the colours is enough to keep it from being a boring old STOCKINETTE sock, and makes the knitting seem faster. I've started the second one, but haven't got far yet."
LOL! Over the past week, it's been looking increasingly like you've finally been turned to the dark side. ;)
Posted by: Pamela Lee at February 18, 2005 06:59 PMLook for the book KNITTING WORKSHOP by Elizabeth Zimmerman. (My local library has a copy, but I wanted one of my own and bought it off eBay) She shows you how to do a fair isle hat as a "swatch" for a sweater, using whatever you have on hand and doesn't require certain sized needles, etc. It's a swatch! You're going to knit it in the round, basically to find out if your gauge for your sweater is right--easy to read, chatty, and very informative!
Posted by: Cathy at February 18, 2005 11:20 PMThat sock is completely charming.
Posted by: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee at February 19, 2005 12:49 AMDonna, A good introduction to 2-color knitting would be a hat kit from Bea Ellis web-site.
http://www.beaellisknitwear.com/originals.html#hats
Also, the following web-site will make up a sweater kit from the book Sweaters from Camp:
www.schoolhousepress.com/
I don't know about beginner's Fair Isle but when I was in my early teens and didn't know any better, I made a Fair Isle jumper for my younger sister. No one to help me and I found it very hard to keep tension right and not pull too hard on floats. It turned out reasonably, even with my poor ability to read charts. It wasn't till I was totally finished that I met someone with knitting experience and learned the whole design should have been embroidered afterwards onto the plain fabric with knitting stitch. Could have been done in half the time and much better. Live and learn!
Posted by: Jan at February 18, 2005 10:50 AMJan