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By Denise, on June 22nd, 2007% I am trying to knit a shawl for my Mother. She would love a nice lacey one like Icarus but I admit that is just beyond my skill level I just can’t seem to manage lace. Textured knitting sure.. simple lace patterns sure.. but not that!
So I have tried a few patterns and I just bought one that I thought would work for me.. and started it last night. Well.. It’s just THE WORST PATTERN WRITTEN EVER! I sat there and worked through the first 5 rows no problem.. they are set up rows.. and then the lacey section started. WELL it was totally unclear what to do. It switched from the written out instructions to the pattern stitch instructions.. did not tell how many times to repeat the pattern stitch, and was just generally so vague I gave up! I even had Ashley look at it and she agreed. I can generally follow patterns, I am an intellegent person.. I can even follow vague patterns to a degree but this one took the cake! And the worst thing is I PAID for it! So I am going back to some of the free patterns I have dug through to try again! I think I will end up with the Strawberry pie shawl.. or the Flower petal shawl.. simple easy.. the strawberry pie shawl is still on the vague side but with enough good information that someone can work it out!
I really really just want to get this done for my Mommy!!!! You know! She worked hard, she put up with me.. she deserves something pretty! So hey any suggestions throw them my way. It is a DK weight yarn I am working with it’s a little bit textured.. so a fancy lace won’t work.. something simple but pretty!!! HALP!
By Denise, on June 21st, 2007% Wow this is here a whole day early! Which makes me very happy! Now I have some reading for the trip too!
I don’t dare open this book today! I will totally get sucked into the cool knitting vortex it is sure to create and never come out again to clean up the house! And I hate coming home from vacation to a messy house!! Off to give Caleb a breathing treatment! Looks like we are going to have to lug the nebulizer along with us!! Oh well. Just a little bit more to pack!
Edited to add: Oh dang it! I looked.. I opened it.. my head is already about to explode with ideas just from looking at a few of the photos!! I’m DOOOOMED!!!!!
By Denise, on June 21st, 2007% Well I have to admit these results are closer than I would have thought. Here they are!! It seems slightly more people do go round the looms counter clockwise though..
The current results of your poll:
Do you work around your knitting loom clockwise or counter clockwise?
Clockwise 42.2%
Counterclockwise 46.4%
Both depending on what mood I am in! 11.5%
This week we are headed out to visit my birth parents. Got to take some knitting!!
I am hoping to finish this poor neglected project..
The coriolis socks!
I also have a prayer shawl in progress on the looms I need to finish, and another needle knit one to work on. I think that will be enough to keep me busy! And now that that is settled I can get on to my other less important packing!
By Denise, on June 20th, 2007% Ok.. This is the second time a very pregnant lady has gone missing in this area in the last few years. The last time it turned out VERY poorly for the mom. This time.. I hope for better. But I am a little extra weirded out because the survailience photo they have circulating is taken from the survailence camera at the grocery store where I often shop, at my bank counter there inside the store. It sure doesn’t get much closer to home than that…
Seriously.. if you are in the general northern/central Ohio area visit these sites and keep your eyes open and your ear to the ground!! Let’s hope for the best.
By Denise, on June 20th, 2007% I should be cleaning. I should be knitting or anything but I can’t.
(picture a photo of me sitting on the couch typing this with one hand with a big ole three year old boy laying in my lap fast asleep sucking his thumb. I couldn’t for the life of me get anyone to find . . . → Read More: I can’t get up!
By Denise, on June 19th, 2007% Ok. I admit it.. I really didn’ think my schedule through when promising a tutorial on the flower loom with videos and everything for this How to’s-day, so I need to table it for a week.. this is VBS week and things are a bit more crazy than I expected! Summer is the busy time of year around our house.. so I give you and oldie but goodie this week! I recently had someone use this little idea I thought up two and a half years ago (how can it be that long!!) and so I thought it was perfect to dredge up, make a little more easy to find; and share with anyone who missed it the first time around!! So without further ado.. how to make your own home made yarn swift!
Who wants to spend big bucks on a yarn swift? ME.. but I don’t have it! Not if I want some skeins of yarn to put on it that is! So I was trying my darndest to use my WONDERFUL yarn ball winder that I got from my birth Mother for Christmas and failing miserably! The yarn was getting tangled, the baby was getting into it, and I was STRESSED! I had to do something! I had to get the job done! But what could I do! Well my brain went into over time, I scanned Ebay but the swifts are few and far between, expensive and the bidding is furious! So that was a wash!
Then my eyes fell upon the objects in the house. What could I use? The back of a chair? NO. The legs of the chair? NO. What could I use.. Then I saw it! The holy grail! The object that would save me from my stress! A computer chair! Look at those spinning legs thought I. They look like they could work.
But what about the wheels? The yarn wouldn’t go round them, it got tangled in the. So I lost the wheels. Now what? I would have to find something to do for pegs! I didn’t have any dowels that we thick enough to fit in the holes left by the wheel pegs. UGH!
Then again my eyes fell upon the object of my desire! I spotted a crayola marker lying on the floor! Eureka! I grabbed it and it was a perfect fit!
Just stick those markers in the spots where the wheels normally go and voila! You have a swift! You can even adjust it by stitcking the markers in those triangular parts (if you have them) in the cross beams of the legs..
I can just see it now.. knitters carefully examining computer chairs for certain swift making attributes before they buy! (boy and we thought we just had to search for hand knit sock enhancing shoes!!)
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