My favorite site for knitting is Ravelry. Free to join, tons of patterns and ideas, wonderful community!
My favorite site for knitting is Ravelry. Free to join, tons of patterns and ideas, wonderful community!
Whenever I need to learn a new stitch or technique for a project and can't get to the local yarn store (they are awesome, there BTW), I can always find excellent technique videos on You Tube. I watch a few times and then refer back if needed when I am actually doing it. This is good for those insomniac knitting sessions. I have also found that knitting is good meditation--I have trouble just sitting still without fidgeting, so knitting is an excellent alternative!
Hello from Germany. I picked up knitting a year ago again. I am not very good with patterns, but with a simple design. I just knitted 2 swirls, which turned out great. Right now I have a seemless yoke on my needles. I bought a book for that, but then I actually used a pattern I had found on Ravelry long before. I hope the sweater will turn out good, but it looks fine so far.
As for wool, I mostly use plarn - plastic yarn - because its cheap and it wont shrink . My needles are from knit pro, the wood ones whith the changing tips. I also had the metal and plastic ones, but I now only use the wood ones.
I started learning to knit a few years ago with the hope of one day making socks. Last week I finished a pair that actually look like a pair of socks! I have made a few pair before but they were not the kind you would want to show off. So, I am finally achieving my goal of making a simple pair of socks, (love the sock yarn with self striping or self patterning), and hope this is the first of many that will get better and better. I also have made my share of dishcloths and still work on them - everyone loves them for a gift it seems - and they are easy and fun to do. My knitting group meets at the library once a week and we have recently grown by leaps and bounds. Lots of fun!
"Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in the midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free." Leonard Cohen
That's neat Sad Eyed Lady. I would love to be able to knit socks. I'm still in the rectangle stage. I just made a basket weave pouch for my notions, and it came out really nicely. I made up the design, and it looks like a wrapped present. We have a library group, too. It only meets once a month, though. That's great that yours is doing so well.
I just finished a long duster sweater (mid-thigh) for myself. What a slog. That took most of the summer. Now that the weather is turning cooler, I have my knitting mojo back. I just finished a vest for my DD and a shawl for me. On the needles right now I have another shawl and a fair isle sweater. I love fair isle. I'm always amazed at how fast it progresses! Probably because I have to concentrate on a chart.
I need to get a pair of socks knitted up for DH's b-day and I need to start thinking about Christmas knitting.
The only thing I have yet to try is steeking. I need to just plunge in and learn it so I can make fair isle cardigans. I'll have to practice on a child's sweater one of these days.
It is fun to try new stitches and patterns. I have a project going that is for "social" knitting that is simple and doesn't require much thought or close attention to a pattern. Anything more complicated I keep at home where I can concentrate while I have good music playing in the background.
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