Knitting, crocheting and general craftery
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Sep 2011
10:39am, 10 Sep 2011
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Zeb
My mum says you need to put it on the back of two chairs. I make Mr Zeb or one of the kids hold it. Hello, you lot are a bad influence. After reading this thread I'm now 4' into a very long scarf. |
Sep 2011
10:44am, 10 Sep 2011
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HellsBells
finished the girl's scarf last night and made her hold a skein of laughing Yaffle whilst i balled it - it turned into a fun activity that kept the whole family occupied (please note the heavy sarcasm) It took hours and many fingers to detangle! |
Sep 2011
10:48am, 10 Sep 2011
17,243 posts
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Velociraptor
I had no kids available, and think it might have been dangling a bit loosely from the chair-backs. I should've got eL Bee! to stretch his legs out and looped it round his ankles while he was at the computer. Might get a load done while the Vuelta is on telly today ...  Great stuff, Zeb! Looking forward to the photos. Are you on Ravelry? My patients are failing to turn up this morning. I'm making good inroads into the slubby-cotton baby-sized hoodie I started knitting a week or so ago. It's quite strange making something that's supposed to look scruffy and rustic rather than neat and precise. |
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Sep 2011
10:56am, 10 Sep 2011
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Velociraptor
Phew! Not just me, then, HellsBells! I wonder whether Tink will be so keen to have a big cardigan made with paviyarns.co.uk (I hasten to add I didn't pay anything like £14.95 a hank for it!) if she knows she's going to have to be the stooge for the de-skeining of five hanks! Artesano do some nice free patterns online. I showed one to Tink. She declared it to be like a witch's cloak and showed me a grandad-style cardi in the Joe Browns catalogue on which she wants hers to be modelled. |
Sep 2011
11:32am, 10 Sep 2011
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runner duck
ooooh that yarn looks lovely, v'rap. glad it's not just me that finds it hard to deskein. the only time i've done it i had a disaster with the first skein. the second and third i hung from the hook on the bathroom door (i was in a hotel) and very carefully balled it while following the skein up and down and detangling as i went when the wool in the skein crossed over. it took ages and i had very achey arms by the end! i'm thinking of asking father christmas for the relevant equipment i have only one ear of the first teddy to go. i think sewing it up is going to be testing. not done anything like it before! luckily daughter has baggsied the first one and i know she will be forgiving of any imperfections does anyone know which stuffing is good? or is it all much of a muchness? again, completely new territory for me! |
Sep 2011
11:32am, 10 Sep 2011
8,105 posts
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Meglet
Why do they sell it in skeins and not balls? Surely it's just as easy to make a ball from the raw stuff as a skein? I made my first attempt at amigurami with a pattern off the internet and an oddment of wool I bought for something ages ago. I was amazed to keep the right number of stitches at eachnstage and it doesn't look too bad! Need to do some ears then sew it together (it's a teddy bear head). Hopefully visiting a wool shop later today. |
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Sep 2011
11:37am, 10 Sep 2011
5,891 posts
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runner duck
excellent question, meglet. especially as it seems to be the companies that make very expensive (and beautiful) wool that don't ball it. i understand for the little hand dyed company places. unless there is a reason that i just don't know, which is perfectly possible aargh just looked on the amigurami website - i really need to learn to crochet! maybe that should be my goal, to be good enough at crocheting to make amigurami christmas presents next year
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Sep 2011
11:40am, 10 Sep 2011
8,106 posts
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Meglet
It really wasn't that difficult, especially as it only uses dc and no other stitch! Crochet has a way of making quite a firm piece when it's finished too which I like. Thank goodness for the internet which I've used to remind me how to decrease and do the stitches properly.
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Sep 2011
11:42am, 10 Sep 2011
5,893 posts
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runner duck
in which case they might be good projects to learn on, then
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Sep 2011
11:45am, 10 Sep 2011
17,245 posts
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Velociraptor
Maybe it's just a pretentiousness thing with the skeins, and we should boycott all the companies that don't sell ready-balled yarn (For hand-dyeing, it's a lot easier to do with a skein.) |
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