BYC KNITTING CLUB

[CathyB]

Good afternoon!

 

[Queen Scoot]

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yay!!!!!! there is life out there in the knitting world besides me!!!!!
i was begining to wonder..........

 

[mrsengeseth]

I love knitting!! Right now i have a pair of thick socks on the needles for dh. I also crochet and have a shawl on the hook. I want to make more dishcloths/wash cloths.

 

[Queen Scoot]

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to the BYC knitting club!!!

 

[momofdrew]

I just restarted knitting after I got burnout from making my Hubby an Irish Knit sweater...He is an XL...and it took me forever to finish the project...I'm talking years here...I am just starting to make socks for myself and also have been making prayer shawls for my church ministry...we bring them to shut ins and those going thru chemo
Pam

 

[herbandteas]

I found a neat site for dish cloth patterns and towels.

http://www.knitsbyrachel.com

 

[2manyhats]

Thanks for sharing that site. Those are awesome.

 

[momofdrew]

Thanks ffot the site have copied a few and plan on trying them...Pam

 

[catcrazyuk]

Hi again fellow knitters

!

I've been fairly quiet lately due to harvesting veggies from the garden - I'm back at work on Monday (I'm a lunch lady at my son's school), then at some point we'll have to harvest the cooking apples

. It's all work and no play here right now.

I'm in the process of knitting 4 cardigans (yes, four). I found a huge heap of yarn in my stash, and discovered there was enough to make one each in chocolate, olive, and spice, and that I'd have enough for a fourth if I used the left overs from those and added some mustard yellow yarn in a striped pattern

. Waste not, want not, as the saying goes.

On top of that, my dad (bless him for indulging me!) has been buying me a weekly magazine that claims to teach you to knit one square at a time, and provides you with the yarn you need. At the "end" of the magazine, you sew up all the squares you've made into a blanket.
I'm about 15 squares behind on it right now, and there's about 6 more squares due to come - then I have to do all the finishing touches (adding cross stitch, motifs, blanket stitch, etc) to the individual squares.

On the up side of the blanket, I have learned some techniques that I thought were beyond me (my nan taught me to knit when I was about 6, but we never got past knit and purl stitches). Having taught myself to cast on and off, make button holes, do basic shaping, pick up stitches for a neck band, etc, I was quite content... But now I can do intarsia, cable and fair isle

.

On the down side of the blanket, we just discovered that the weekly magazine isn't ending after this blanket is complete - as soon as this one ends, they're going on to another blanket!! They even gave the first ball of yarn for the project a few weeks ago. I'm looking forward to it really!!

Then there's the sad, lonely projects waiting to be sewn up. At last count there was 1 cardigan, 3 tops, and a sweater.

I thought I would get some of the sewing up done during the summer break (I find it goes quicker if I sit in the garden!), but we only had the one week of warm weather - the other 5 weeks have been chilly and wet. Oh well, maybe I'll have to make better use of my weekends!

Anyway, sorry for the essay - but that's me up to date with my stitching progress!!

Hugs to all,

Cat.

 

[deb1]

Wow, Cat. What is the name of that magazine!

I just stated knitting. I've done some dishcloths and am now working on a sweater that I found in a book called Charmed Knits. I've made a lot of mistake in it but it will look okay for my daughter to knock around the house in.