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help: 50 inches
rcty,
.... note: I asked this question from the knitting designer herself, but so far no word back ... so, I'll ask here ... As for knitting up afghans, I saw a simple garter stitch pattern, but how do you knit up to 50 inches of garter stitches? _ _ _ _ _ Millie Gigi Fifi Mimi Fiji kiwi bikini WiFi |
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help: 50 inches
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:32:56 -0800, Millie James
wrote: rcty, ... note: I asked this question from the knitting designer herself, but so far no word back ... so, I'll ask here ... As for knitting up afghans, I saw a simple garter stitch pattern, but how do you knit up to 50 inches of garter stitches? _ _ _ _ _ Millie Gigi Fifi Mimi Fiji kiwi bikini WiFi Millie - do you mean, how do you fit them on a needle? I would use a 60" circular. I have a 60" cable for my Denise interchangeables. I'm assuming it has to be knit in one piece. Alison |
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If you do not have an interchangeable cable-needle system, it can be done
using 3 (or more), shorter circular needles. Cast on to 2, then use the third to knit off of the first. Then, the (now empty) first is used to knit off the second, and etc. So just borrow extra circular needles from a couple of folks in your local knitting group. With enough friends and moxie, you can knit for even a really fat elephant. In theory, you can also use a bunch of double pointed needles, but that ends up being like a horror movie about big spiders unless you use a knitting sheath - which are even rarer than Denise systems. "Alison" wrote in message ... On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:32:56 -0800, Millie James wrote: rcty, ... note: I asked this question from the knitting designer herself, but so far no word back ... so, I'll ask here ... As for knitting up afghans, I saw a simple garter stitch pattern, but how do you knit up to 50 inches of garter stitches? _ _ _ _ _ Millie Gigi Fifi Mimi Fiji kiwi bikini WiFi Millie - do you mean, how do you fit them on a needle? I would use a 60" circular. I have a 60" cable for my Denise interchangeables. I'm assuming it has to be knit in one piece. Alison |
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You knit and knit and knit ,,,,, Sorry Millie , now seriously , is the
question , how to measure it ? lay it on a flat surface and measure it . mirjam _ _ _ _ _ Millie Gigi Fifi Mimi Fiji kiwi bikini WiFi |
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Alison wrote:
Millie - do you mean, how do you fit them on a needle? I would use a 60" circular. I have a 60" cable for my Denise interchangeables. I'm assuming it has to be knit in one piece. Alison I did not know there were 60 inch circular needles. ... Is cable needles the same as circular needles? Also, I don't know what interchangeables are. Maybe I got to take another peek at knitting gadgets and such! Thank you for your input. _ _ _ _ _ Millie Gigi Fifi Mimi Fiji kiwi bikini WiFi |
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Millie James wrote:
Alison wrote: Millie - do you mean, how do you fit them on a needle? I would use a 60" circular. I have a 60" cable for my Denise interchangeables. I'm assuming it has to be knit in one piece. Alison I did not know there were 60 inch circular needles. ... Is cable needles the same as circular needles? Also, I don't know what interchangeables are. Maybe I got to take another peek at knitting gadgets and such! Thank you for your input. Cable needles are short ones with a `kink' in the middle for putting a few stitches on when making cables. Circulars are a single needle with two ends and flexible line (called a cable) in the middle. They come in various lengths from 12 to 60 inches. sue |
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can I be a smartee and say one stitch at a time?
50 inches is not that big , a cable needle will do ya fine. As an ample person , I knit more than that in the round for a sweater with ease. coggie Millie James wrote: rcty, ... note: I asked this question from the knitting designer herself, but so far no word back ... so, I'll ask here ... As for knitting up afghans, I saw a simple garter stitch pattern, but how do you knit up to 50 inches of garter stitches? _ _ _ _ _ Millie Gigi Fifi Mimi Fiji kiwi bikini WiFi |
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oops I meant a circ needle |
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"Millie James" wrote I did not know there were 60 inch circular needles. ... Is cable needles the same as circular needles? Also, I don't know what interchangeables are. Maybe I got to take another peek at knitting gadgets and such! Thank you for your input. _ _ _ _ _ Millie Gigi Fifi Mimi Fiji kiwi bikini WiFi I have the Boye NeedleMaster shown here http://www.herrschners.com/products/...__id-3483.html KnitPicks recently got into the act with http://www.knitpicks.com/needles/needles_list.aspx?dgroups='KPOptions' -- Jan in MN |
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