I wish I had read this article before I went to Ireland. I think the yarn I bought in 2004 when I was there has aged enough and I should get it out and make a sweater. There are so many beautiful ones it will be hard to choose.
Knitting helps refugees
A story like this helps me remember how blessed I am to live in a country like ours. Where women can do so many amazing things.
Ten tips for crocheters
The links says it is for crocheters, but several can be used by knitters as well, especially number 10. It is stretching exercises to do when you have been knitting or crocheting for a long period of time.
How many ways are there to cast on?
Here is at least 38. When you open the link, click on it once and it will enlarge the pictures.
100 years old and still knitting
Wouldn’t it be great if we all could knit this long!!!
Quite the Quilt!
SAW THIS ON KNITTING PARADISE AND THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY SEEING IT AS MUCH AS I DID! DON’T KNOW IF I HAVE THE PATIENCE TO COMPLETE SUCH A BIG PROJECT. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
So a couple years ago after finishing a log cabin blanket for a nephew, I had the idea to make a log cabin style blanket for us. But king sized. And in squares of 5 different sizes, from 2 inch by 2 inch up to 10 inch by 10 inch. All the squares except the 2 by 2’s are log cabin style. My son designed a blanket 100 inches by 100 inches with the various square sizes and off I went making squares. 446 squares in all.
The squares were a nice portable project, but weaving in ends was not. It took a long time to weave in the ends and I’d go in spurts in doing it. Well I finally finished weaving in those ends, over 1700 of them in total, yesterday. I washed and dried all the squares in case I had an errant ball of wool among my scraps. Amazingly, none shrunk. Last night my girls helped me lay out the squares based on the design. It took us about 2.5 hours. Then we pinned the squares to an extra sheet I had underneath it so we could roll it up and keep it out of the way. Once I get it all seamed together, which I think will take a while, I’ll post more pictures.
The squares were a nice portable project, but weaving in ends was not. It took a long time to weave in the ends and I’d go in spurts in doing it. Well I finally finished weaving in those ends, over 1700 of them in total, yesterday. I washed and dried all the squares in case I had an errant ball of wool among my scraps. Amazingly, none shrunk. Last night my girls helped me lay out the squares based on the design. It took us about 2.5 hours. Then we pinned the squares to an extra sheet I had underneath it so we could roll it up and keep it out of the way. Once I get it all seamed together, which I think will take a while, I’ll post more pictures.
The squares
The design
All the ends, in a gallon bag
Squares laid out
The squares again, the blue on the left is the sheet
The design
All the ends, in a gallon bag
Squares laid out
The squares again, the blue on the left is the sheet
Counting Rows
I think all knitters have their own unique way of counting rows. Here’s one using stitch markers.
http://untangling-knots.com/2017/06/14/counting-stitch-markers/
Knitting Behind Bars
Interesting article how it took a woman in Maryland five years to get the local prison allow her to teach the prisoners to knit, but she was persistent and it made a difference in the men’s lives.
https://www.good.is/articles/prisoners-transform-through-knitting-behind-bars?fb_ref=rightrail
Yarn Cakes
Yarn cakes seem to be the “in” thing at the moment. If you don’t like the color combinations that the companies out there have, make your own.
A Rocking Chair That Knits
Now this is my kind of knitting!! Sitting and rocking and knitting.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/04/a-rocking-chair-that-knits-you-a-hat-as-you-read-the-paper/
