Aaron,

I am in the motel tonight and will be home Monday, I will set down
then and read this, and I will respond.

I hope to have more time for the sheath then,

Yes the gansey had cables but, the sweater and the pattern are long
gone now.

I will keep in touch
Dennis
wrote:
What gansey pattern? Does it have cables?

The steel needles ate the aluminum cable needle that I had been using, so I
took a 7" steel sock needle and bent it over a mandrel to make a nice "U"
shaped steel cable needle that I actually like better than the aluminum
commercial ones.

I though it would be hard to bend the spring steel, but it turned out to be
easy. Annealing and retempering after forming gives it a "better" feel.
Thus, you can bend any of the needles to suit your knitting style.

If you (or Wooly) want steel cable needles just let me know, cause I made a
bunch of those short steel needles before I worked out the physics and
decided to just do all my knitting on longer needles.

Current versions of "How to Use a knitting Sheath". These are still in
evolution. Any suggestions?


1. Wrap yarn around right hand and place on top of right needle
2. Take needle with stitches or cast on in left hand
3. Push the first stitch to tip of needle with left thumb and, at the same
time flick left needle so that the right needle gets inserted into stitch
4. Warp yarn, moving right hand a little as possible
5. Flick left needle with left hand to pass the stitch over the new wrap
and, at the some time push tip of right needle back through the old stitch
with the left thumb (purl) or left index finger (knit)

Alternate

1. Wrap yarn around right hand and place on top of right needle
2. Take needle with stitches or cast on in left hand
3. Push the first stitch to tip of needle with left thumb and, at the same
time flick left needle up and flex right needle to the left so that the
right needle gets inserted into stitch
4. Warp yarn, moving right hand a little as possible
5. Flick left needle with hand to pass the stitch over the new wrap and, at
the some time allow right needle to spring back through the old stitch which
allows almost "push button" knitting.


Aaron





"SpikeDriver" wrote in message
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Hello friends,

I have a pair of sport weight socks to finish for our Grand Daughter and
an afghan for our Pastor who is getting married.

I hope to then get busy with my knitting sheaths to see if I can keep
count of how many stitches I knit a minute.

We have been busy here refinishing the hard wood floors in the living
room and master bedroom. Of course, I am just supervising. I don't do
the hard manual labor any more.

I am looking at gansey patterns for next month, I am going to try on on
the sheath. I have made one you could really call a gansey.

I hope I have not missed to many important days, I do love you all.

I noticed how hard you have been on my friend Aaron and men in general
so I thought I would lay low for a while. It seems pretty rough in here
some times.

I am glad we have been together long enough we can all take a joke, what
are true friends for.?

I do log in long enough to see it my Twin is posting then I usually
leave and get my chores done, Gail have been keeping me very busy making
sure the remodeling is going well.

Hugs & God bless you all,

Dennis & Gail