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[Knitting] Zauberball!
I picked up this lovely wool on Wednesday at I Knit London, and now I'm thinking I may get a second ball of it if they still have it on Saturday.
Zauberball translates to 'magic ball', and I think that even in the ball it live up to its name. It's just alive with possibilities, isn't it? The wool comes in an astounding array of colours, not all of them this bright, I promise!
Which one do you think I should make? :)
Zauberball translates to 'magic ball', and I think that even in the ball it live up to its name. It's just alive with possibilities, isn't it? The wool comes in an astounding array of colours, not all of them this bright, I promise!
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| Zauberball! I'm sorry for the blurry photo, iPhone, iPhone, blah, blah, blah, but I really love this wool and the colours are fantastic. It will make up into very long stripes that fade into one another gradually, and right now I'm trying to decide what to make with it. Right now, I'm thinking of the Flit & Float Scarf from this spring's Knitty, or maybe.... |
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| Bettie's Lace Stockings |
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| Firestarter |
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| Magic Mirror |
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| Summer Sliding |
Which one do you think I should make? :)
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I have never got beyond knit and purl and I can't remember when the last time was I did any. I think it was when I knitted a scarf for my teddy bear which was all of an inch or 2 wide and took me forever. I might have just made it into my teens at that point.
But... socks! Such cool socks.
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I suppose that at some point I could just knit you some. You have tiny dinky feet, don't you? Well, tinier than mine, anyhow. Don't tell anybody I said that. ;)
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That would be very cool of course. I feel if I lust after the pretty socks I *ought* to learn how to make them myself but at the same time I'm shameless enough to admit I would never turn down socks being knitted for me :-) My feet are size 6, so I never thought of them as being dinky tiny feet, but it does all depend on one's frame of reference.
So - Monday. We'll see if I get lured in - with the current sock mania in British fandom it seems likely.
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Yeah, you tell yourself that, but then you just keep finding new places to put it, don'tcha? ;) Yarn fiend!
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It was to be The Year of Knitting From Stash, but it just didn't happen... ;-)
They just keep making such nommable yarn!
ETA: I love Jeannie's socks; I'd do magic mirror in this. And in fact, I might! ;-)
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The wool is fabulous!
Your classes gave me the confuidence to try being a bit adventurous (for me) with my knitting.
I finished my (bottom-up doll sweater and didn't like the ribbing around the waist, so reasoned that if I threaded the needle through a row all the way around just above the ribbing and unravelled it up to the needle, I could knit down to a new waist form there. OK, so It wouldn't unravel and I had to take the scissors to it, but it worked!!!
Teddy
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Summer Sliding!
Teddy
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I vote for the lace stockings.
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I'm doomed to the land of cotton, making baby gear for my soon to be born niece. (Her Mom, my sis-in-law, is sensitive to wool.) That said, oh my goodness the baby gear, and the fun that is knitting for the wee person.
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Knitting for babies is instant gratification, plus it makes their mothers think you're cool. :)
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Andi's a knitter too, but I'm not sure how much she's been doing for the kid while the semester is still going on. (She's a prof.)
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Knitting question.
I have a lovely sweater for one of my dolls, I included an opening at the back to allow for his huge head and extremely skinny neck... but the opening is too short.
Is there and easy/quick way of reworking it larger, or should I go the seamstresses route and stitch around the area the slit needs to be made longer, cut the slit and treat it like a fabric that frays easily...?
Teddy
Teddy discovers steeking...
(One way of doing openings for large heads (on future items!) is to make them with a shoulder opening; leave one shoulder unseamed, add a few rows of rib on one side and two or three buttonholes in the same amount of rib on the other. I've got a child's jumper pattern from the 1950s done like that...)
Re: Teddy discovers steeking...
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Teddy
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Do you have to have your legs all twisted round the wrong way like in the Bettie's one? Oh, the others look like normal feet, that's OK then *g*...
I like the look of the Summer Sliding pattern, or Magic Mirror (is that too much magic?)...