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Wow, I thought this would never happen
I finally finished my sweater -- that is, one
totally-knit-but-never-sewn-together pair of baby blue jeans, two ponchos, two pairs of legwarmers, and three crocheted string bags (about the only thing I can crochet) later. It's that gansey style made with a double strand of worsted weight, one black and one tan. Fits perfectly *blissful sigh*. All I need to do is weave the ends in, but at least I can put it back in my room and not have to leave it in the living room for it to stare reproachfully at me. I ought to go back and see how long it has taken me to get to this point. At least it will be ready for cold weather. Next items on knitting agenda: 1. Take the sweater down to the post office after business hours (so nobody stares at me for weighing something I am not going to mail) and find out how much yarn it took to make it so I can write it in my notes. 2. Weigh the balls I made from tying together yard-long pieces of scrap yarn in an orderly fashion and see if there is any hope of making another sweater from them -- this time a jacket, not a pullover. Otherwise I have to make a poncho. I have three graduated shades of beige/tan/brown to double-strand it with to make a sort of striped background on the scrap-yarn balls. 3. Get up the courage to try a pair of socks (worsted weight first) now that I know the legwarmers I made fit me really well and can just add the foot part of the sock onto them. Of course, these may need to take a back seat to the sewing agenda for a little bit should my job interview pan out. But it feels WONDERFUL to have finished that sweater. I thought I would never be able to do it. |
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Wow, I thought this would never happen
SAMANTHA
C O N G R A T U L A T I O NS , On the finnished sweater and that it fits and YES YES start another one in a Different pattern HURRAY Also congrats on all those other items ,,, you are a real proffesional knitter now [esp with some projects not finnished, which is a proffseional must] items on knitting agenda: 1. * * *Take the sweater down to the post office after business hours (so nobody stares at me for weighing something I am not going to mail) and find out how much yarn it took to make it so I can write it in my notes. Yeah i have done this at times ,,, !!! 2. * * *Weigh the balls I made from tying together yard-long pieces of scrap yarn in an orderly fashion and see if there is any hope of making another sweater from them -- this time a jacket, not a pullover. When joining threads for a project , Don`t knot them , just knit or crochet old thread`s few cm end together with few cm of begining of new thread !!!! Maybe you have enough for a vest [ sleevelss sweater ] Vests are very useful and always in fashion . You also might knit it on the side and thus get the stripes [ of the different colors length ways ,, if you need a pattern ,, ,,,,, you know where to ask !!!! mirjam |
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Wow, I thought this would never happen
Ps ,,,,,, maybe you have enough threads for a Moebious ,,,
mirjam |
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Wow, I thought this would never happen
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Ps ,,,,,, maybe you have enough threads for a Moebious ,,, I had to knot the scrap yarn to make it into balls and get a regular pattern. I have five balls of roughly 350 yards apiece -- a little hard to leave un-knotted. I am not a vest kind of person, so I am either going to make a cardigan-type sweater or else a poncho (a different type than my last two. I'm thinking of either doing the Quick Country Jacket at the bottom of this page http://www.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/pat...&submit=search or the Danbury Hooded Jacket (hand-knit, not loom-knit) on this page http://www.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/pat...&submit=search Of course, I may chicken out and do the One-Stitch jacket instead http://www.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/pat...ubmit=searc h but it doesn't look like it would be as warm as something with a collar and a closer neckline. |
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Wow, I thought this would never happen
Oops -- forgot one. The Three-season cardigan he
http://www.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/pat...&submit=search |
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Wow, I thought this would never happen
Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply wrote:
I finally finished my sweater -- that is, one You go, girl. Great. Faaaaaantastic. Now you have got properly started, there will be no stopping you. Congratulations from me, too. Keep us up to date with your progress. Olwyn Mary in New Orleans ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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Wow, I thought this would never happen
i like the 3rd one , [ but i have quite some sweaters ] you always could add a nice shawl [ matching the sweater , in facts make 2 or 3, matching the sweater somehow !!!!! But the first 2 are just as neat ,,,, mirjam |
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Wow, I thought this would never happen
On Aug 4, 6:39*am, Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
wrote: Oops -- forgot one. *The Three-season cardigan he http://www.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/pat...guage=&store=%.... Very Very nice !!!!! mirjam |
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Wow, I thought this would never happen
On Aug 4, 8:42*am, Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
wrote: wrote: i like the 3rd one , [ but i have quite some sweaters ] you always could add a nice shawl [ matching the sweater , in facts make 2 or 3, matching the sweater somehow !!!!! But the first 2 are just as neat ,,,, mirjam I've been drooling over that Danbury jacket for years even before I was brave enough to think about knitting without my knitting machine. If you drooled about it GO KNIT IT !!!!!!! mirjam |
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