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Tuesday, 18. April 2006
Did YOU know where yarn comes from?
knitting_keeps_me_sane, 15:12h
I always suspected that yarn grew on trees.
It turns out, I was right!!
You didnt really believe me, did you? :-)
(True to real Colours)
I spun up this skein today because I wanted to experiment a bit. I dont usually spin singles, but for experimenting you cant beat using only ½ of the time creating a skein. I spun this by adding in (admittedly large) tufts of coloured fiber every 1-3 yards, depending on mood and how interesting the movie was (Shakespeare in Love).
I want more, and have decided to use a bit more time on it, and so I will take this:
Add some more white (note that the colours are the exact same colours as in the brown skein) and see what I can come up with!
It turns out, I was right!!
You didnt really believe me, did you? :-)
(True to real Colours)
I spun up this skein today because I wanted to experiment a bit. I dont usually spin singles, but for experimenting you cant beat using only ½ of the time creating a skein. I spun this by adding in (admittedly large) tufts of coloured fiber every 1-3 yards, depending on mood and how interesting the movie was (Shakespeare in Love).
I want more, and have decided to use a bit more time on it, and so I will take this:
Add some more white (note that the colours are the exact same colours as in the brown skein) and see what I can come up with!
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No-purl, No-seam garter border pictorial.
knitting_keeps_me_sane, 12:13h
Here be pictures and babbling:
Feel free to request further pictures and babbling if I left something out: skrukhoene-at-hotmail-dot-com.
Lets start out with this whipe heap of wool.
Lovely, aint it? Just as lovely as the doorstep of our back door I used to take pictures on :-) (The denim thing is the lower part of a jeans leg I cut off and made into a knitting bag. Me loves it.)
For your wieving pleasure, I knit a non-pattern (purl) round and am here a stitch and a YO before my TWO corner stitches - you need two corner stitches for this trick from the very beginning on.
Knit the YO and knit the first corner stitch veery losely - if you pull it tight this corner will pull in which isnt desirable.
Macro:
Now, turn your work, carefully not to let any stitches slip off your needles, put the just-worked stitch over on the right-hand needle, insert your left-hand needle into the stitch BEHIND the one you just put on the right-hand needle, pull it over the first stitch, and off the right-hand needle, keeping it on the left-hand needle! Knit this stich, it now serves the same purpose as a corner stitch. YO and start your pattern round :-) The picture shows this maneuver (which sounds harder than it is) after the stitches have switched places.
When you have knitted a few stitches it should look like this:
The manipulated corner:
When I have knit that round and come to the manipulated corner from the other side, YO, k1, turn, pass 1 st. from LH needle to RH needle, pass second stitch over first one to the RH needle, knit round.
For the edging I am planning to knit those two corner stitches together, eg. treat them as one stitch to try to create the illusion that there was only ever one stitch.. :)
I hope my wording was clear and understandable :)
Have a nice day
/Lene (who wants to spin now..)
Feel free to request further pictures and babbling if I left something out: skrukhoene-at-hotmail-dot-com.
Lets start out with this whipe heap of wool.
Lovely, aint it? Just as lovely as the doorstep of our back door I used to take pictures on :-) (The denim thing is the lower part of a jeans leg I cut off and made into a knitting bag. Me loves it.)
For your wieving pleasure, I knit a non-pattern (purl) round and am here a stitch and a YO before my TWO corner stitches - you need two corner stitches for this trick from the very beginning on.
Knit the YO and knit the first corner stitch veery losely - if you pull it tight this corner will pull in which isnt desirable.
Macro:
Now, turn your work, carefully not to let any stitches slip off your needles, put the just-worked stitch over on the right-hand needle, insert your left-hand needle into the stitch BEHIND the one you just put on the right-hand needle, pull it over the first stitch, and off the right-hand needle, keeping it on the left-hand needle! Knit this stich, it now serves the same purpose as a corner stitch. YO and start your pattern round :-) The picture shows this maneuver (which sounds harder than it is) after the stitches have switched places.
When you have knitted a few stitches it should look like this:
The manipulated corner:
When I have knit that round and come to the manipulated corner from the other side, YO, k1, turn, pass 1 st. from LH needle to RH needle, pass second stitch over first one to the RH needle, knit round.
For the edging I am planning to knit those two corner stitches together, eg. treat them as one stitch to try to create the illusion that there was only ever one stitch.. :)
I hope my wording was clear and understandable :)
Have a nice day
/Lene (who wants to spin now..)
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