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Knit U: Tech Q: Toe and Heel reinforcement - Answer Knit U: Pattern: Baby Surprise Knit U: Promo: Newspaper article ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:30:53 -0500 From: Dan&Shelley Arenson <arenson@uconect.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern A: IK The Very thought of Him leslieh wrote: I am now finishing the fronts of this cardigan and have read ahead to the collar/ lapels and am wondering if there > was a mistake in the printing. > > The pattern reads: > "P/U and knit 45(49,49,53,53)sts between marked points. Work 1 row in > mistake rib and mark center 15(17,17,19,19)sts. Work short rows, adding 2 > sts to center sts every row 12 times. On next row work across all > 45(49,49,53,53)sts." > > If I have added 2 sts 12 times to the center portion, how can I still have > the original number of stitches that I picked up?? > Have I missed something here? > > Also, for the added in stitches to the center portion of the collar, would I > be better to center them within the 15 stitches or add one to each end? Or > does it matter? The instructions go on to say that stitches are added to > each end of the collar once you finish the short row portion, but no > direction is given for the additions in the short row part. Dear Leslie; I am not doing this sweater but have done short rows before and I think I can answer your question, or can at least attempt to do so without visual aids. When you are short rowing the collar you are basically knitting back and forth across the center marked stitches more times than the outer edges, kind of zig-zagging. When the pattern reads "Work short rows, adding 2 sts to center sts every row" you are not really adding stitches to the total, rather you are knitting 2 stitches past where you had knit and turned the previous row. Let's see if I can get this really clear. (Please forgive me if I explain something already obvious to you. I'd rather err by over-explaining than under-explaining.) Assume the smallest size. "P/U and knit 45 sts between marked points." OK, that's pretty obvious. "Work 1 row in mistake rib and mark center 15 sts" so knit (in mistake rib) 15 sts, place marker, knit 15 sts, place marker, knit 15 sts. "Work short rows, adding 2 sts to center sts every row 12 times" Work back across the collar, the first 15 sts, then the 15 marked sts, then work 2 more sts. Turn work and knit back across those 2 sts, then the 15 marked sts, then work 2 more sts. Turn work and knit back across the sts you just worked (19) and work 2 more sts. Turn and work back across those 21 sts and then work 2 more sts. Turn work, etc. until you have gone back and forth 12 times. (On the very last row you'll need to knit to the end so you're ready for the next row.) "On next row work across all 45sts." You may want to move the marker as you knit more sts across the center so you know how far you knit on the last row. You also may want to wrap; there will probably be instructions for wrapping sts in short rowing somewhere in the pattern, or if not, try looking it up in any knitting reference. Hope this helps and is understandable. Feel free to e-mail me privately if you can't understand what I wrote. Shelley in CT ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:12:22 -0500 From: "April Smith" <asmithky@earthlink.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: dna cable I have designed several dna cables I am happy to share. One is a two-by-two cable very like the one posted by June Oshiro, only slightly narrower (15 sts wide) and with a single garter ridge for the bases. I developed this cable for a "Dolly Cardi"--a shawl-collared Aran cardigan that also has my knitted interpretation of rna, gene, and phage images (the ovine Dolly was the inspiration). The other is a smaller one-by-one twisted stitch dna cable from a "Henry Higgins"-type vest (pipe and hornrims required). This cable is 11 stitches wide with less relief. Photos and charts for these sweaters will be posted--presently, not imminently--on my own web site. But, in the meantime, if anyone is interested in the charts, email me directly and I will gladly send them along. April Smith, a long-time listener to these discussions (lurker seems so rude) asmithky@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:36:45 EST From: Cjhurt2516@AOL.COM Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: Lacy summer tops and cover-ups In a message dated 03/19/2000 1:10:57 PM Central Standard Time, owner-knitu-digest@xrx-inc.com writes: << Cotton novelty yarns (of the bumpy knarly type) and simple patterns seem to work well with this technique... swatch a couple of different stitches and see what you think. Come to think of it, some of the new elastic-type yarns would be interesting to try... so many possibilities! >> Jill of course wouldn't talk about her own unventions/designs....but I have made the Flyaway Free shrug on her site and it was so fun with large needles, a bumpy eyelash yarn and a great new stitch idea. One great button finished my garment - loved making it in 3 evenings! Thanks, Jill, for your patterns. Carol in St. Louis Today is a gift - that's why it's called the present! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:15:56 -0500 From: "Carol J. Warren" <cjw@ezol.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: Question on sleeves My shoulders slope and the drop-shoulder look in a sweater photo makes me envision the FO falling right off, even if I like the sweater. However, I'm starting to think that it's the horizontal seam where the sleeves are attached to the sweaters which is drawing my eye there; I've seen a couple sweaters with no visible line there and so I'm thinking that perhaps I should stick to making the sweaters in one piece. Trouble is, the pattern may call for some details that will go in the wrong direction if I don't figure out how to do this right. So I am looking for helpful hints. I'm thinking that if I make the sweater in -mostly- one piece, then add pattern details down from the elbow or wrist line, that could work. What's the easiest way you other Knit-U'ers use to get around drop-shoulders if you like the rest of the pattern but not the shoulder look? Also: if I work from the bottom up and cable-cast-on the sleeve stitches I want, will the sleeve stitches 'hang' right, or is there some trick I should know first? I guess if I work top-down (which I'm ready to try!) I would just bind off the sleeve stitches. Carol, who is using her old email address again (and getting all the postings now) in Lower Delaware, which is Slower Delaware. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:00:59 -0500 From: "Carol J. Warren" <cjw@ezol.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: Question on Socks I make thick non-binding socks for family members with swollen feet; they can't wear them in shoes but wear them around like slippers a lot. (Now I've started to sew soles onto them!) All the talk about sock reinforcing leads me to ask if anyone has ever tried weaving extra yarn into the toe areas *after* the knitting is done? I'm occasionally working on a jacket in Sally Melville's Knitting As Warp technique, and as I am finishing up yet another pair of the sock-slippers tonight, I thought about doing that. Carol in (S)Lower Delaware, where the windy March beach is just great! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:37:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Lois S. Young" <lsyoung@mtu.edu> Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: IK The Very thought of Him Leslie asked about adding sitches in short rows on the center of a neckline. If I understand the directions correctly, you don't add extra stitches to the total in the short rows, you just make each row-let 2 stitches longer. For instance, the center part of the smallest size had 15 sts. On the first short row, you work 17 = 15 + 2 sts, then turn. Work back 19 = 17 + 2, turn, work 21, etc until you have done this for 12 rows. This technique is used to raise the back of the neck. HTH Lois Young ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:55:07 -0800 From: Margaret Reinke <miggie@humboldt1.com> Subject: Knit U: Opinion: Stash/husbands I thank God every day that my husband has a woodworking hobby! He has to have every saw, jig, router bit, type of wood on hand...so can't say a word about all my different needles, stitch holders or types of yarn!! He also has several WIPs at all times, so consider myself very fortunate. When we travel he likes to hit Home Depot, and other Home Improvement stores....so is undertanding of my need for SEX. hehe. OKC: just finished one and 1/2 done with a second pillow cover for 16 x 16 " pillow forms for great nephews. One has a VW bug on it and the other has a basketball. FUN. Happy knitting. Margaret ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 23:28:57 -0500 From: teresa medina-castillo <medcast@juno.com> Subject: Knit U: Opinion: Knitting Etiquette - I was taught (by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart) that any kind of work meant as labor; knitting to sell, or utilitarian items was not in observance of Holy Days. But, if one is creating something to please the senses, in the spirit of charity or as a means of contemplation then it would not be work, it would be a prayer. Otter Woman May you walk safely and well upon your chosen path. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:41:12 -0500 From: "Michael Brookings and Melinda Ferguson" <m-m@cfw.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: x2 Couple of odd end questions. Does anyone use one of the circular needle "sets" with the different sized needle ends to attach on? Do they work smoothly? Does it really save needing all different length circulars? (DH wonders why I have size 8 needles in 3 lengths). Secondly, I just frogged a sweater knitted with two strands held together. When I rewind the yard, should I separate the strands into two balls? Or can they stay together since the new sweater will have doubled yarn also? TIA Melinda in the Shenandoah, where it is winter again ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:42:04 EST From: SwiftSky1@AOL.COM Subject: Knit U: Promo: Knitting on TV Saw an old M*A*S*H episode today that I've never seen before (and I thought I'd seen them all!). Everyone was ordering from the Sears Catalog and Margaret Houlihan ordered yarn for a potholder. BJ held the skin while she wound it. In the next scene, her potholder has become a scarf, then a sweater and at the end she was wearing it on her lap as an afghan. It looked like she was holding the needles properly. Nancy in NNJ where my tulips are coming up! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:33:58 -0500 From: Dan&Shelley Arenson <arenson@uconect.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern A: baby sweater query > I am about to design a sweater for infants, and I have a quick opinion > question to ask of everyone: do you prefer drop shoulder, square armhole > . . . or set-in sleeves for infant's sweaters? I've knit a number of baby sweaters for my own babies as well as for gifts. My hands-down favorite is an EZ pattern knitted in one piece from the neck down, with a yoke neck in garter. She wrote the pattern with a lace stitch body which could be changed to almost anything if you wanted a different look. I first found it in a VK mag many years ago, and it is also in EZ's Knitter's Almanac (extremely affordable in paperback if you don't already have it). The sleeves are generous, making it very easy to get baby into and out of said sweater. I've even made the sleeves a bit narrower than called for and still found them well sized. I must have made over half a dozen of these sweaters and they were quick, easy, and only have 2 tiny little seams under the arms to sew up when you're finished. Good luck and happy knitting. Shelley in CT ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 22:02:00 -0800 From: "Cynthia Falco" <secure-shredllc@prodigy.net> Subject: Knit U: Shops: Advice on San Diego knitting store Hello, I'll be in San Diego later this week, and wondered if there is an outstanding knitting store - I know there are four shops in S.D. - wonder if any are worth a cab ride after my conference on Sat. pm? Please respond by Tues. eve. Thank you! Cynthia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 06:48:01 -0500 From: Brunson and Carol Fidler <fidlers2@nothnbut.net> Subject: Knit U: Tools Q: silk hankies I to have very rough hands (all year) to spin or work with silk I use cheap surgical gloves works well. Carol Fidler ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:48:54 EST From: "Ana Leiderman" <ana_leiderman@hotmail.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: Cotton and Fading - Answer Hi everyone! Thought I'd put in my 2c worth, since I do work for the Fabric of Our Lives people... Cotton is mostly dyed with one of three different dyes: Direct -- also called a pigment, composed of fairly large molecules that have a hard time penetrating the fiber structure, thus held to the fiber through weak inter-molecular forces. Fades easily and crocks. To test for this, wet a white fabric or kleenex and rub the fabric/yarn. If the color comes off on the fabric, then the dye is most probably direct. Direct dyes have very poor light and wash-fastness. Fiber reactive -- which reacts with the cotton fiber to form a permanent bond. It fades less with washing, but tends to be very sensitive to chlorine. For example towels, which tend to resist fading, but turn funny colors with bleach. Vat dyes -- these are the most colorfast, since they are insoluble pigments that are broken down into smaller molecules to permit them to enter the cotton fiber, and then reassembled into larger molecules once inside, locking them in place. Indigo belongs to this class of dyes, which is often also resistant to mild solutions of bleach, although not indigo specifically. To keep most dyes from coming off the fiber, you have to increase the molecular forces between the dye and the fiber. You can do this by soaking in salt water to increase the amount of available electrically charged molecules. This will also stop the bleeding if you do happen upon a bleeder. More soap will only increase the bleeding, as most soap is surfactant (reduces surface tension) and disturbs the electrical balance of the fabric. Another solution is to use the "colorsafe bleach" available in the market. This is not really bleach, but a detergent formulation designed specifically for cellulosic fabrics (rayon, cotton, ramie, hemp, linen, lyocell, etc.). The detergent contains a cellulase enzyme that "eats" the fiber fuzzies on the surface of the fabric, making the color stay brighter longer. For best results, use warm water. Cold water will prevent the cellulase from working, and very hot water will kill it. You can identify products containing cellulase enzyme by the Cotton logo on them. Probably more than you wanted to know... Just the teacher in me! Ana Elisa ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:47:54 +1200 From: Lorraine and Neville Major <lmajor@xtra.co.nz> Subject: Knit U: Publications: WG and other things Hi Carole said: "Maybe with so many different people on the list - even though we seem to have run off most of those outside the US and Canada - we should all simply delete what we have no time for or are too narrow to stop and appreciate. Life is too short to be so irritated by this, folks." I just want to let you know there are still some of us Down Under people here. I haven't posted lately because study and work etc got in the way. A few days ago I got my 'Wool Gathering', and enjoyed reading the tributes to EZ. I was also very interested to see the twisted edging in it, which Elizabeth unvented some years ago. A version of that edging appeared in VK Fall '98, and was credited to an accidental unvention by Nicky Epstein & Dorothy Ratigan. I have been passing that on to many people since I saw it, but hadn't thought of the 2-colour version so will have to do a test drive of it very soon. EZ was certainly right when she said she never 'invented' things, just 'unvented' them, as she was sure someone somewhere would have done it before. And thanks to the many mentions on this list, I finally tried the POK cast on recently. I am looking forward to all the reports of Stitches, as I know it is unlikely I will get to any. However, in a couple of weeks I will be heading to our (NZ) Creative Fibre Festival. It used to be called the Woolcrafts Festival, but it was decided a few years ago that we needed to recognise that crafters also work with other natural fibres (mohair, linen, cotton, etc). I will be teaching a couple of knitting workshops, which should be fun. (And if anyone reading this is coming here with one of the tours eg IK, do look for me.) And I just found a report in the newspaper, originally from a US source. It mentions actress Daryl Hannah learning to knit, and I thought you would appreciate a couple of sentences I have taken from it. The headline says 'Knitting takes hold with the hip', and I quote: 'Knitting, once considered a craft for old ladies in rocking chairs, is becoming popular with a hipper crowd.' and 'She [Hannah] has yet to master purling - a complicated inversion of stitches to produce a ribbed effect ....' Time to cast off for the night Lorraine in New Zealand's beautiful West Coast mailto:lmajor@xtra.co.nz Personal Home Page - http://www.minidata.co.nz/major/index.htm Creative Fibre - NZ Spinning, Weaving and Woolcrafts Society http://www.creativefibre.org.nz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:50:23 -0500 From: "Anita" <careynol@seidata.com> Subject: Knit U: Opinion: Kip and religion-opinion I belong to a lesser known religion. We go to a Sunday meeting that would approximate Sunday school for a Christian denomination. Our spiritual meetings are held every 19 days and are completely separate from the Sunday classes, I always knit in Sunday classes, (stopping, of course, during prayers) and there are several other women who knit or crochet occasionally. Our Spiritual Meetings have 3 sections a spiritual section, a community (business) section, and a social section and I knit through the community portion all the time, never during the Spiritual and only occasionally during the social, (usually too busy eating) If this caused a problem for anyone I am sure I would have heard about it by now, but as one of the tenants of our faith is that work performed in a spirit of service is worship we may look at the whole thing differently. Just one more opinion Anita mailto:careynol@seidata.com The Fiber Artist Madison, IN I don't need drugs, raising teenagers is as far from reality as I care to get! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 08:41:10 -0500 From: "Wolfhoundwoods" <wolfhoundwoods@starpower.net> Subject: Knit U: Opinion: Kntting is the subject AND some tech stuff BRAVO CAROL! I completely agree with you. I get inspired from ideas and I LOVE it when things make me THINK! I DO hope that the list owners let the borderline stuff continue because it is often what I find most interesting. And I LOVE the animal stuff. Surely it is quite appropriate to discuss the creatures who give us our materials! In this vein, although I am not trying to start anything (REALLY!), I have been hoping that someone would say a few short words about musk oxen... Tech. stuff - (sort of!) 1.can you wash quiviut like you wash wool, with mild soap and warmish water etc?? I am knitting a quiviut scarf and want to wash it when I am done and of course do not want to ruin it!! 2.Why doesn't wool felt while on the sheep!!! With all the rain and walking around I am wondering how it stays nice!! Frances ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:59:30 -0500 From: "C. Strebendt" <yeti2@bigfoot.com> Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: afghan in new "knitters" Good Morning, I received my new copy of Knitters - what a great issue this is - the tribute to EZ is wonderful and inspiring, and the patterns the most imaginative I have seen in years! My questions: I have been experimenting with the mitred afghan on page 40. All of the pattern works, but I'm not happy with the joins in the middle of the mitred squares. I've tried marking the corner and center stitches with safety pins, which helps a little, but the result is still somewhat "random", although not quite sloppy. I ended up knitting a bobble and sewing it to the center of the resulting square, but if I have to do this over every join, there will be too many bobbles for my taste. If you look closely at the picture of the afghan, you can see that there are small irregularities in their joins, also. Does anyone have a solution for afghan corner joins? I really want to make this afghan. My son will be leaving for college next year, and he is never without an afghan over his feet in the winter. I sympathize with the lady whose college daughter shrunk her Christmas sweater. I know of no solution to this one, but, anticipating college for a couple years now, I have been knitting all of my son's sweaters in washable wool, or wool acrylic blends. Seal in Plattsburgh ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:52:11 -0500 From: "Margaret H. Velard" <mvelard@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: Cheryl Oberle shawl pattern Hi All, Was glancing at the new Piecework yesterday (hadn't yet gotten to the cash machine and was down to $1) and there was a "Praire Shawl" also by Cheryl Oberle, which looked kinda nice - also there was a mention that she has a new book (her first) coming out in March 2000? Now? IS it out yet? It was a very nice thick shawl with a relatively large gauge - don't remember - but looked simple enough and had a nice border as well - Margaret in Manhattan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:38:00 -0800 (PST) From: doris dippel <centerpole@yahoo.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: Cotton and Fading - Answer I'm reading Knit U posts one at a time, so I just finished one about the content of posts. Ana has just 'educated' me about something I wouldn't seek out or know how to find on my own without considerable research--I probably would not do! I remember knitting in the '50s when what we did was knit. Buy the pattern, buy the wool (there were no synthetics to speak of) and follow the directions. No knowledge of all the side issues and processes that produced the yarn. Just knit. Forty plus years later, technology and experimenters like EZ have thrown open the door to a world of information I enjoy reading at Knit U. Adult education is not a rote form of learning, but one that stimulates exchange of information and ideas (which we find here) and the capacity of the learner to pick and choose according to usefulness and interest (which we also find here). I don't object to the variety of posts. If something isn't to my interest or need, I can skip it. But revealed in each note is more than information. The writer discloses something of her/himself that fleshes out the art of knitting to being more than mere needles and yarn, but persons who knit and how their individuality creates and enjoys the substance we call knitting? I wonder if the reason we may have 'lost' knitters from other than Canada and the US is that Knitters isn't available in other countries--and Knit U posts make frequent reference to patterns in it. Doris in Illinois ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:14:27 -0600 From: Fred and Catherine Moore <moore@codenet.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: IK The Very Thought of Him Hi Leslie and all, I'm not Kathy Zimmerman, but I think I can help with this question. > The pattern reads: > "P/U and knit 45(49,49,53,53)sts between marked points. Work 1 row in > mistake rib and mark center 15(17,17,19,19)sts. Work short rows, adding 2 > sts to center sts every row 12 times. On next row work across all > 45(49,49,53,53)sts." > > If I have added 2 sts 12 times to the center portion, how can I still have > the original number of stitches that I picked up?? > Have I missed something here? The stitches you are adding to each short row are not new stitches, they are part of the original 45(49,49,53,53). So it's really "Work short rows, knitting 2 more stitches every row 12 times." When you finish the short rows, you will have, for the smallest size, 39 of the original 45 stitches worked, and there should be 3 stitches on each side left of the 45. "On the next row work across all 45..." You work those last 6 (3 on each side) stitches in this row. Does this make sense? If not, email me and I'll try to sketch it out for you. Catherine, expecting major snow in Colorado today. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:46:36 -0500 From: "Sandy " <miner@valinet.com> Subject: Knit U: Events: KNITTERS WEEKEND in NJ WANDERINGS' COUNTRY STORE will host a KNITTER'S WEEKEND, April 15 & 16, 2000 at their Martinsville, NJ shop location. Featured guests, Knitwear designer Sandy Miner, and her daughter Dawn, will be presenting several informal seminars including KNITTING FOR CHARITY, BRING YOUR CHILD TO KNIT and GRANDMA's TEA. Sandy, also known as the founder of WARM THE BABY and HATS WITH HUGS, will bring along a number of her latest designs and patterns. There will be several Trunk Shows from Plymouth Yarns, Morehouse Farms and The Lamb's Wool, along with plenty of yarn and fellow knitters! There is no charge for the weekend events and hours are Saturday from 10am - 4:00 pm and Sunday from 1:00 pm- 5: 00 pm. WANDERINGS is located at 1944 Washington Valley Rd, Martinsville, NJ . For additional information, please e mail WanderKnit@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:51:16 EST From: Washagizig@AOL.COM Subject: Knit U: Opinion: Knitting during religious events. My take on this is I don't knit during actual services, but I do before or after. My belief is that when we make things we are imitating the Creator. No other beast has the creative capacity put in mankind. We've all heard that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. We honor the Creator when we create! If anyone gets "bent" about it point this fact out. Angel in Las Vegas ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:52:38 -0800 (PST) From: Dez Crawford <zonata@excite.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: Toe and Heel reinforcement - Answer > If you feel you need to reinforce the heels and toes of your socks, as you > are knitting them, use some of the fine 2-ply yarn put out by Froehlich > Wolle. I do not recommend using Woolly Nylon because the nylon is stronger > than the wool is and will *cut* the wool eventually. Funny, but I've NEVER had a problem with wooly nylon cutting the wool. But then it might be a tension thing--I make an effort to let it keep its crimp and not stretch out as I work it along with the other yarn. I do find that at the point where the wool begins to wear thin and the socks are ready for mending, the wooly nylon itself does NOT wear thin. It keeps the shape of the stitch and makes mending easier because it gives a "framework" for the repair stitches. And I know it keeps my cuffs in shape. Just my $.02 worth. - --Dez, in Baton Rouge, where it has finally rained and was chilly this morning. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 08:59:46 -0500 From: Joseph Napolitano <jolynn@capital.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern: Baby Surprise Hi All, In response to Ann who wrote about her Baby Surprise turning out long and narrow. She said she used baby weight and # 3's. Well, I used Canadiana worsted and # 6's and guess what.... mine turned out long and narrow too! My next mission is to soak it a bit and wrap it up in a towel for awhile then try and stretch it . I think I'll be waiting around for quit some time if I hold out for someone to have a looong skinny baby.The way it is right now it would fit my kitty Alex. Talk about hard work being unappreciated! I'm not giving up though, I think I'll go up a few needle sizes and try again.Any suggestions form those who have made the BSS would really be appreciated. Linda Kosakowski ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:19:00 -0500 From: "Joan Tinsley" <onxycat@home.com> Subject: Knit U: Promo: Newspaper article Hi All: Today in the Courier-Journal Features Section (www.courier-journal.com) appears an article entitled "Pullover furniture" in which a NC designer, Lisa Nichols, makes furniture covers from knit sweaters. I can't find it on the internet so I've typed it below. If this is not correct, please delete. Pullover furniture. Your've heard of drapes made from bed linen. Now there are furniture covers from knit sweaters, thanks to North Carolina designer Lisa Nichols. Known in New York and Chicago, Nichols' sweaters are worn by Goldie Hawn, Sally Field, Jaclyn Smith and Jane Fonda. Her trademark olive and lemon-grass color combination, diamon patterns and vine-and-leaf motifs are now gracing stylish Paul Robert Inc. furniture from North Carolina. That helps careful hostesses make dramatic design statements in their homes. "My designs are a perfect extension for Paul Robert furniture," said Nichols. "Like fine furniture, my sweaters are heirlooms, and now the Lisa Nochols Collection by Paul Robert takes my trendiest designs and combines them with their own incredible sense of furniture design--it really is the perfect combination." For more information, call Paul Robert Inc. at (828) 632-7021. This article was prepared by Larry Muhammad, of the Courier-Journal. This is another form on using sweaters. Interesting? Joan in KY ------------------------------ Knit U: Pattern A: IK The Very thought of Him Knit U: Pattern Q: dna cable Knit U: Pattern Q: Lacy summer tops and cover-ups Knit U: Tech Q: Question on sleeves Knit U: Tech Q: Question on Socks Knit U: Pattern Q: IK The Very thought of Him Knit U: Opinion: Stash/husbands Knit U: Opinion: Knitting Etiquette - Knit U: Tech Q: x2 Knit U: Promo: Knitting on TV Knit U: Pattern A: baby sweater query Knit U: Shops: Advice on San Diego knitting store Knit U: Tools Q: silk hankies Knit U: Tech Q: Cotton and Fading - Answer Knit U: Publications: WG and other things Knit U: Opinion: Kip and religion-opinion Knit U: Opinion: Kntting is the subject AND some tech stuff Knit U: Pattern Q: afghan in new "knitters" Knit U: Pattern Q: Cheryl Oberle shawl pattern Knit U: Tech Q: Cotton and Fading - Answer Knit U: Pattern Q: IK The Very Thought of Him Knit U: Events: KNITTERS WEEKEND in NJ Knit U: Opinion: Knitting during religious events. Knit U: Tech Q: Toe and Heel reinforcement - Answer Knit U: Pattern: Baby Surprise Knit U: Promo: Newspaper article ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:30:53 -0500 From: Dan&Shelley Arenson <arenson@uconect.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern A: IK The Very thought of Him leslieh wrote: I am now finishing the fronts of this cardigan and have read ahead to the collar/ lapels and am wondering if there > was a mistake in the printing. > > The pattern reads: > "P/U and knit 45(49,49,53,53)sts between marked points. Work 1 row in > mistake rib and mark center 15(17,17,19,19)sts. Work short rows, adding 2 > sts to center sts every row 12 times. On next row work across all > 45(49,49,53,53)sts." > > If I have added 2 sts 12 times to the center portion, how can I still have > the original number of stitches that I picked up?? > Have I missed something here? > > Also, for the added in stitches to the center portion of the collar, would I > be better to center them within the 15 stitches or add one to each end? Or > does it matter? The instructions go on to say that stitches are added to > each end of the collar once you finish the short row portion, but no > direction is given for the additions in the short row part. Dear Leslie; I am not doing this sweater but have done short rows before and I think I can answer your question, or can at least attempt to do so without visual aids. When you are short rowing the collar you are basically knitting back and forth across the center marked stitches more times than the outer edges, kind of zig-zagging. When the pattern reads "Work short rows, adding 2 sts to center sts every row" you are not really adding stitches to the total, rather you are knitting 2 stitches past where you had knit and turned the previous row. Let's see if I can get this really clear. (Please forgive me if I explain something already obvious to you. I'd rather err by over-explaining than under-explaining.) Assume the smallest size. "P/U and knit 45 sts between marked points." OK, that's pretty obvious. "Work 1 row in mistake rib and mark center 15 sts" so knit (in mistake rib) 15 sts, place marker, knit 15 sts, place marker, knit 15 sts. "Work short rows, adding 2 sts to center sts every row 12 times" Work back across the collar, the first 15 sts, then the 15 marked sts, then work 2 more sts. Turn work and knit back across those 2 sts, then the 15 marked sts, then work 2 more sts. Turn work and knit back across the sts you just worked (19) and work 2 more sts. Turn and work back across those 21 sts and then work 2 more sts. Turn work, etc. until you have gone back and forth 12 times. (On the very last row you'll need to knit to the end so you're ready for the next row.) "On next row work across all 45sts." You may want to move the marker as you knit more sts across the center so you know how far you knit on the last row. You also may want to wrap; there will probably be instructions for wrapping sts in short rowing somewhere in the pattern, or if not, try looking it up in any knitting reference. Hope this helps and is understandable. Feel free to e-mail me privately if you can't understand what I wrote. Shelley in CT ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:12:22 -0500 From: "April Smith" <asmithky@earthlink.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: dna cable I have designed several dna cables I am happy to share. One is a two-by-two cable very like the one posted by June Oshiro, only slightly narrower (15 sts wide) and with a single garter ridge for the bases. I developed this cable for a "Dolly Cardi"--a shawl-collared Aran cardigan that also has my knitted interpretation of rna, gene, and phage images (the ovine Dolly was the inspiration). The other is a smaller one-by-one twisted stitch dna cable from a "Henry Higgins"-type vest (pipe and hornrims required). This cable is 11 stitches wide with less relief. Photos and charts for these sweaters will be posted--presently, not imminently--on my own web site. But, in the meantime, if anyone is interested in the charts, email me directly and I will gladly send them along. April Smith, a long-time listener to these discussions (lurker seems so rude) asmithky@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:36:45 EST From: Cjhurt2516@AOL.COM Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: Lacy summer tops and cover-ups In a message dated 03/19/2000 1:10:57 PM Central Standard Time, owner-knitu-digest@xrx-inc.com writes: << Cotton novelty yarns (of the bumpy knarly type) and simple patterns seem to work well with this technique... swatch a couple of different stitches and see what you think. Come to think of it, some of the new elastic-type yarns would be interesting to try... so many possibilities! >> Jill of course wouldn't talk about her own unventions/designs....but I have made the Flyaway Free shrug on her site and it was so fun with large needles, a bumpy eyelash yarn and a great new stitch idea. One great button finished my garment - loved making it in 3 evenings! Thanks, Jill, for your patterns. Carol in St. Louis Today is a gift - that's why it's called the present! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:15:56 -0500 From: "Carol J. Warren" <cjw@ezol.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: Question on sleeves My shoulders slope and the drop-shoulder look in a sweater photo makes me envision the FO falling right off, even if I like the sweater. However, I'm starting to think that it's the horizontal seam where the sleeves are attached to the sweaters which is drawing my eye there; I've seen a couple sweaters with no visible line there and so I'm thinking that perhaps I should stick to making the sweaters in one piece. Trouble is, the pattern may call for some details that will go in the wrong direction if I don't figure out how to do this right. So I am looking for helpful hints. I'm thinking that if I make the sweater in -mostly- one piece, then add pattern details down from the elbow or wrist line, that could work. What's the easiest way you other Knit-U'ers use to get around drop-shoulders if you like the rest of the pattern but not the shoulder look? Also: if I work from the bottom up and cable-cast-on the sleeve stitches I want, will the sleeve stitches 'hang' right, or is there some trick I should know first? I guess if I work top-down (which I'm ready to try!) I would just bind off the sleeve stitches. Carol, who is using her old email address again (and getting all the postings now) in Lower Delaware, which is Slower Delaware. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:00:59 -0500 From: "Carol J. Warren" <cjw@ezol.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: Question on Socks I make thick non-binding socks for family members with swollen feet; they can't wear them in shoes but wear them around like slippers a lot. (Now I've started to sew soles onto them!) All the talk about sock reinforcing leads me to ask if anyone has ever tried weaving extra yarn into the toe areas *after* the knitting is done? I'm occasionally working on a jacket in Sally Melville's Knitting As Warp technique, and as I am finishing up yet another pair of the sock-slippers tonight, I thought about doing that. Carol in (S)Lower Delaware, where the windy March beach is just great! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:37:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Lois S. Young" <lsyoung@mtu.edu> Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: IK The Very thought of Him Leslie asked about adding sitches in short rows on the center of a neckline. If I understand the directions correctly, you don't add extra stitches to the total in the short rows, you just make each row-let 2 stitches longer. For instance, the center part of the smallest size had 15 sts. On the first short row, you work 17 = 15 + 2 sts, then turn. Work back 19 = 17 + 2, turn, work 21, etc until you have done this for 12 rows. This technique is used to raise the back of the neck. HTH Lois Young ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:55:07 -0800 From: Margaret Reinke <miggie@humboldt1.com> Subject: Knit U: Opinion: Stash/husbands I thank God every day that my husband has a woodworking hobby! He has to have every saw, jig, router bit, type of wood on hand...so can't say a word about all my different needles, stitch holders or types of yarn!! He also has several WIPs at all times, so consider myself very fortunate. When we travel he likes to hit Home Depot, and other Home Improvement stores....so is undertanding of my need for SEX. hehe. OKC: just finished one and 1/2 done with a second pillow cover for 16 x 16 " pillow forms for great nephews. One has a VW bug on it and the other has a basketball. FUN. Happy knitting. Margaret ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 23:28:57 -0500 From: teresa medina-castillo <medcast@juno.com> Subject: Knit U: Opinion: Knitting Etiquette - I was taught (by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart) that any kind of work meant as labor; knitting to sell, or utilitarian items was not in observance of Holy Days. But, if one is creating something to please the senses, in the spirit of charity or as a means of contemplation then it would not be work, it would be a prayer. Otter Woman May you walk safely and well upon your chosen path. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:41:12 -0500 From: "Michael Brookings and Melinda Ferguson" <m-m@cfw.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: x2 Couple of odd end questions. Does anyone use one of the circular needle "sets" with the different sized needle ends to attach on? Do they work smoothly? Does it really save needing all different length circulars? (DH wonders why I have size 8 needles in 3 lengths). Secondly, I just frogged a sweater knitted with two strands held together. When I rewind the yard, should I separate the strands into two balls? Or can they stay together since the new sweater will have doubled yarn also? TIA Melinda in the Shenandoah, where it is winter again ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:42:04 EST From: SwiftSky1@AOL.COM Subject: Knit U: Promo: Knitting on TV Saw an old M*A*S*H episode today that I've never seen before (and I thought I'd seen them all!). Everyone was ordering from the Sears Catalog and Margaret Houlihan ordered yarn for a potholder. BJ held the skin while she wound it. In the next scene, her potholder has become a scarf, then a sweater and at the end she was wearing it on her lap as an afghan. It looked like she was holding the needles properly. Nancy in NNJ where my tulips are coming up! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:33:58 -0500 From: Dan&Shelley Arenson <arenson@uconect.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern A: baby sweater query > I am about to design a sweater for infants, and I have a quick opinion > question to ask of everyone: do you prefer drop shoulder, square armhole > . . . or set-in sleeves for infant's sweaters? I've knit a number of baby sweaters for my own babies as well as for gifts. My hands-down favorite is an EZ pattern knitted in one piece from the neck down, with a yoke neck in garter. She wrote the pattern with a lace stitch body which could be changed to almost anything if you wanted a different look. I first found it in a VK mag many years ago, and it is also in EZ's Knitter's Almanac (extremely affordable in paperback if you don't already have it). The sleeves are generous, making it very easy to get baby into and out of said sweater. I've even made the sleeves a bit narrower than called for and still found them well sized. I must have made over half a dozen of these sweaters and they were quick, easy, and only have 2 tiny little seams under the arms to sew up when you're finished. Good luck and happy knitting. Shelley in CT ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 22:02:00 -0800 From: "Cynthia Falco" <secure-shredllc@prodigy.net> Subject: Knit U: Shops: Advice on San Diego knitting store Hello, I'll be in San Diego later this week, and wondered if there is an outstanding knitting store - I know there are four shops in S.D. - wonder if any are worth a cab ride after my conference on Sat. pm? Please respond by Tues. eve. Thank you! Cynthia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 06:48:01 -0500 From: Brunson and Carol Fidler <fidlers2@nothnbut.net> Subject: Knit U: Tools Q: silk hankies I to have very rough hands (all year) to spin or work with silk I use cheap surgical gloves works well. Carol Fidler ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:48:54 EST From: "Ana Leiderman" <ana_leiderman@hotmail.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: Cotton and Fading - Answer Hi everyone! Thought I'd put in my 2c worth, since I do work for the Fabric of Our Lives people... Cotton is mostly dyed with one of three different dyes: Direct -- also called a pigment, composed of fairly large molecules that have a hard time penetrating the fiber structure, thus held to the fiber through weak inter-molecular forces. Fades easily and crocks. To test for this, wet a white fabric or kleenex and rub the fabric/yarn. If the color comes off on the fabric, then the dye is most probably direct. Direct dyes have very poor light and wash-fastness. Fiber reactive -- which reacts with the cotton fiber to form a permanent bond. It fades less with washing, but tends to be very sensitive to chlorine. For example towels, which tend to resist fading, but turn funny colors with bleach. Vat dyes -- these are the most colorfast, since they are insoluble pigments that are broken down into smaller molecules to permit them to enter the cotton fiber, and then reassembled into larger molecules once inside, locking them in place. Indigo belongs to this class of dyes, which is often also resistant to mild solutions of bleach, although not indigo specifically. To keep most dyes from coming off the fiber, you have to increase the molecular forces between the dye and the fiber. You can do this by soaking in salt water to increase the amount of available electrically charged molecules. This will also stop the bleeding if you do happen upon a bleeder. More soap will only increase the bleeding, as most soap is surfactant (reduces surface tension) and disturbs the electrical balance of the fabric. Another solution is to use the "colorsafe bleach" available in the market. This is not really bleach, but a detergent formulation designed specifically for cellulosic fabrics (rayon, cotton, ramie, hemp, linen, lyocell, etc.). The detergent contains a cellulase enzyme that "eats" the fiber fuzzies on the surface of the fabric, making the color stay brighter longer. For best results, use warm water. Cold water will prevent the cellulase from working, and very hot water will kill it. You can identify products containing cellulase enzyme by the Cotton logo on them. Probably more than you wanted to know... Just the teacher in me! Ana Elisa ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:47:54 +1200 From: Lorraine and Neville Major <lmajor@xtra.co.nz> Subject: Knit U: Publications: WG and other things Hi Carole said: "Maybe with so many different people on the list - even though we seem to have run off most of those outside the US and Canada - we should all simply delete what we have no time for or are too narrow to stop and appreciate. Life is too short to be so irritated by this, folks." I just want to let you know there are still some of us Down Under people here. I haven't posted lately because study and work etc got in the way. A few days ago I got my 'Wool Gathering', and enjoyed reading the tributes to EZ. I was also very interested to see the twisted edging in it, which Elizabeth unvented some years ago. A version of that edging appeared in VK Fall '98, and was credited to an accidental unvention by Nicky Epstein & Dorothy Ratigan. I have been passing that on to many people since I saw it, but hadn't thought of the 2-colour version so will have to do a test drive of it very soon. EZ was certainly right when she said she never 'invented' things, just 'unvented' them, as she was sure someone somewhere would have done it before. And thanks to the many mentions on this list, I finally tried the POK cast on recently. I am looking forward to all the reports of Stitches, as I know it is unlikely I will get to any. However, in a couple of weeks I will be heading to our (NZ) Creative Fibre Festival. It used to be called the Woolcrafts Festival, but it was decided a few years ago that we needed to recognise that crafters also work with other natural fibres (mohair, linen, cotton, etc). I will be teaching a couple of knitting workshops, which should be fun. (And if anyone reading this is coming here with one of the tours eg IK, do look for me.) And I just found a report in the newspaper, originally from a US source. It mentions actress Daryl Hannah learning to knit, and I thought you would appreciate a couple of sentences I have taken from it. The headline says 'Knitting takes hold with the hip', and I quote: 'Knitting, once considered a craft for old ladies in rocking chairs, is becoming popular with a hipper crowd.' and 'She [Hannah] has yet to master purling - a complicated inversion of stitches to produce a ribbed effect ....' Time to cast off for the night Lorraine in New Zealand's beautiful West Coast mailto:lmajor@xtra.co.nz Personal Home Page - http://www.minidata.co.nz/major/index.htm Creative Fibre - NZ Spinning, Weaving and Woolcrafts Society http://www.creativefibre.org.nz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:50:23 -0500 From: "Anita" <careynol@seidata.com> Subject: Knit U: Opinion: Kip and religion-opinion I belong to a lesser known religion. We go to a Sunday meeting that would approximate Sunday school for a Christian denomination. Our spiritual meetings are held every 19 days and are completely separate from the Sunday classes, I always knit in Sunday classes, (stopping, of course, during prayers) and there are several other women who knit or crochet occasionally. Our Spiritual Meetings have 3 sections a spiritual section, a community (business) section, and a social section and I knit through the community portion all the time, never during the Spiritual and only occasionally during the social, (usually too busy eating) If this caused a problem for anyone I am sure I would have heard about it by now, but as one of the tenants of our faith is that work performed in a spirit of service is worship we may look at the whole thing differently. Just one more opinion Anita mailto:careynol@seidata.com The Fiber Artist Madison, IN I don't need drugs, raising teenagers is as far from reality as I care to get! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 08:41:10 -0500 From: "Wolfhoundwoods" <wolfhoundwoods@starpower.net> Subject: Knit U: Opinion: Kntting is the subject AND some tech stuff BRAVO CAROL! I completely agree with you. I get inspired from ideas and I LOVE it when things make me THINK! I DO hope that the list owners let the borderline stuff continue because it is often what I find most interesting. And I LOVE the animal stuff. Surely it is quite appropriate to discuss the creatures who give us our materials! In this vein, although I am not trying to start anything (REALLY!), I have been hoping that someone would say a few short words about musk oxen... Tech. stuff - (sort of!) 1.can you wash quiviut like you wash wool, with mild soap and warmish water etc?? I am knitting a quiviut scarf and want to wash it when I am done and of course do not want to ruin it!! 2.Why doesn't wool felt while on the sheep!!! With all the rain and walking around I am wondering how it stays nice!! Frances ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:59:30 -0500 From: "C. Strebendt" <yeti2@bigfoot.com> Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: afghan in new "knitters" Good Morning, I received my new copy of Knitters - what a great issue this is - the tribute to EZ is wonderful and inspiring, and the patterns the most imaginative I have seen in years! My questions: I have been experimenting with the mitred afghan on page 40. All of the pattern works, but I'm not happy with the joins in the middle of the mitred squares. I've tried marking the corner and center stitches with safety pins, which helps a little, but the result is still somewhat "random", although not quite sloppy. I ended up knitting a bobble and sewing it to the center of the resulting square, but if I have to do this over every join, there will be too many bobbles for my taste. If you look closely at the picture of the afghan, you can see that there are small irregularities in their joins, also. Does anyone have a solution for afghan corner joins? I really want to make this afghan. My son will be leaving for college next year, and he is never without an afghan over his feet in the winter. I sympathize with the lady whose college daughter shrunk her Christmas sweater. I know of no solution to this one, but, anticipating college for a couple years now, I have been knitting all of my son's sweaters in washable wool, or wool acrylic blends. Seal in Plattsburgh ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:52:11 -0500 From: "Margaret H. Velard" <mvelard@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: Cheryl Oberle shawl pattern Hi All, Was glancing at the new Piecework yesterday (hadn't yet gotten to the cash machine and was down to $1) and there was a "Praire Shawl" also by Cheryl Oberle, which looked kinda nice - also there was a mention that she has a new book (her first) coming out in March 2000? Now? IS it out yet? It was a very nice thick shawl with a relatively large gauge - don't remember - but looked simple enough and had a nice border as well - Margaret in Manhattan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:38:00 -0800 (PST) From: doris dippel <centerpole@yahoo.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: Cotton and Fading - Answer I'm reading Knit U posts one at a time, so I just finished one about the content of posts. Ana has just 'educated' me about something I wouldn't seek out or know how to find on my own without considerable research--I probably would not do! I remember knitting in the '50s when what we did was knit. Buy the pattern, buy the wool (there were no synthetics to speak of) and follow the directions. No knowledge of all the side issues and processes that produced the yarn. Just knit. Forty plus years later, technology and experimenters like EZ have thrown open the door to a world of information I enjoy reading at Knit U. Adult education is not a rote form of learning, but one that stimulates exchange of information and ideas (which we find here) and the capacity of the learner to pick and choose according to usefulness and interest (which we also find here). I don't object to the variety of posts. If something isn't to my interest or need, I can skip it. But revealed in each note is more than information. The writer discloses something of her/himself that fleshes out the art of knitting to being more than mere needles and yarn, but persons who knit and how their individuality creates and enjoys the substance we call knitting? I wonder if the reason we may have 'lost' knitters from other than Canada and the US is that Knitters isn't available in other countries--and Knit U posts make frequent reference to patterns in it. Doris in Illinois ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:14:27 -0600 From: Fred and Catherine Moore <moore@codenet.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern Q: IK The Very Thought of Him Hi Leslie and all, I'm not Kathy Zimmerman, but I think I can help with this question. > The pattern reads: > "P/U and knit 45(49,49,53,53)sts between marked points. Work 1 row in > mistake rib and mark center 15(17,17,19,19)sts. Work short rows, adding 2 > sts to center sts every row 12 times. On next row work across all > 45(49,49,53,53)sts." > > If I have added 2 sts 12 times to the center portion, how can I still have > the original number of stitches that I picked up?? > Have I missed something here? The stitches you are adding to each short row are not new stitches, they are part of the original 45(49,49,53,53). So it's really "Work short rows, knitting 2 more stitches every row 12 times." When you finish the short rows, you will have, for the smallest size, 39 of the original 45 stitches worked, and there should be 3 stitches on each side left of the 45. "On the next row work across all 45..." You work those last 6 (3 on each side) stitches in this row. Does this make sense? If not, email me and I'll try to sketch it out for you. Catherine, expecting major snow in Colorado today. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:46:36 -0500 From: "Sandy " <miner@valinet.com> Subject: Knit U: Events: KNITTERS WEEKEND in NJ WANDERINGS' COUNTRY STORE will host a KNITTER'S WEEKEND, April 15 & 16, 2000 at their Martinsville, NJ shop location. Featured guests, Knitwear designer Sandy Miner, and her daughter Dawn, will be presenting several informal seminars including KNITTING FOR CHARITY, BRING YOUR CHILD TO KNIT and GRANDMA's TEA. Sandy, also known as the founder of WARM THE BABY and HATS WITH HUGS, will bring along a number of her latest designs and patterns. There will be several Trunk Shows from Plymouth Yarns, Morehouse Farms and The Lamb's Wool, along with plenty of yarn and fellow knitters! There is no charge for the weekend events and hours are Saturday from 10am - 4:00 pm and Sunday from 1:00 pm- 5: 00 pm. WANDERINGS is located at 1944 Washington Valley Rd, Martinsville, NJ . For additional information, please e mail WanderKnit@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:51:16 EST From: Washagizig@AOL.COM Subject: Knit U: Opinion: Knitting during religious events. My take on this is I don't knit during actual services, but I do before or after. My belief is that when we make things we are imitating the Creator. No other beast has the creative capacity put in mankind. We've all heard that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. We honor the Creator when we create! If anyone gets "bent" about it point this fact out. Angel in Las Vegas ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:52:38 -0800 (PST) From: Dez Crawford <zonata@excite.com> Subject: Knit U: Tech Q: Toe and Heel reinforcement - Answer > If you feel you need to reinforce the heels and toes of your socks, as you > are knitting them, use some of the fine 2-ply yarn put out by Froehlich > Wolle. I do not recommend using Woolly Nylon because the nylon is stronger > than the wool is and will *cut* the wool eventually. Funny, but I've NEVER had a problem with wooly nylon cutting the wool. But then it might be a tension thing--I make an effort to let it keep its crimp and not stretch out as I work it along with the other yarn. I do find that at the point where the wool begins to wear thin and the socks are ready for mending, the wooly nylon itself does NOT wear thin. It keeps the shape of the stitch and makes mending easier because it gives a "framework" for the repair stitches. And I know it keeps my cuffs in shape. Just my $.02 worth. - --Dez, in Baton Rouge, where it has finally rained and was chilly this morning. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 08:59:46 -0500 From: Joseph Napolitano <jolynn@capital.net> Subject: Knit U: Pattern: Baby Surprise Hi All, In response to Ann who wrote about her Baby Surprise turning out long and narrow. She said she used baby weight and # 3's. Well, I used Canadiana worsted and # 6's and guess what.... mine turned out long and narrow too! My next mission is to soak it a bit and wrap it up in a towel for awhile then try and stretch it . I think I'll be waiting around for quit some time if I hold out for someone to have a looong skinny baby.The way it is right now it would fit my kitty Alex. Talk about hard work being unappreciated! I'm not giving up though, I think I'll go up a few needle sizes and try again.Any suggestions form those who have made the BSS would really be appreciated. Linda Kosakowski ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:19:00 -0500 From: "Joan Tinsley" <onxycat@home.com> Subject: Knit U: Promo: Newspaper article Hi All: Today in the Courier-Journal Features Section (www.courier-journal.com) appears an article entitled "Pullover furniture" in which a NC designer, Lisa Nichols, makes furniture covers from knit sweaters. I can't find it on the internet so I've typed it below. If this is not correct, please delete. Pullover furniture. Your've heard of drapes made from bed linen. Now there are furniture covers from knit sweaters, thanks to North Carolina designer Lisa Nichols. Known in New York and Chicago, Nichols' sweaters are worn by Goldie Hawn, Sally Field, Jaclyn Smith and Jane Fonda. Her trademark olive and lemon-grass color combination, diamon patterns and vine-and-leaf motifs are now gracing stylish Paul Robert Inc. furniture from North Carolina. That helps careful hostesses make dramatic design statements in their homes. "My designs are a perfect extension for Paul Robert furniture," said Nichols. "Like fine furniture, my sweaters are heirlooms, and now the Lisa Nochols Collection by Paul Robert takes my trendiest designs and combines them with their own incredible sense of furniture design--it really is the perfect combination." For more information, call Paul Robert Inc. at (828) 632-7021. This article was prepared by Larry Muhammad, of the Courier-Journal. This is another form on using sweaters. Interesting? Joan in KY ------------------------------ |
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