Tea? (Part 2)

[potsy]

Potsy

Potsy

Has anything exciting happened in the last few days?
Is it worth reading back a few pages or should I just presume everything is as it should be?

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Has anything exciting happened in the last few days?
Is it worth reading back a few pages or should I just presume everything is as it should be?

Did you bring Jo back with you

 

[potsy]

Did you bring Jo back with you

Just her head in a bag if that's any good to you?
Jo who?

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Just her head in a bag if that's any good to you?
Jo who?

Yeah right ............. I think he does protest too much ........... you know what they say potsy

Anyway nice to see you back

 

[Speicher]

Potsy and Phil

Make yourself comfy, here are some needles and some yarn, Arch and I can teach you how to knit. What colour wool would you like to knit a scarf in?



Potsy do not poke Phil in the ribs with the needle.

 

[Speicher]

Thank you Gromit for that link to the patterns. I have been looking for a delicate sort of jumper like one on that site, I cannot post a link, as the icons above are greyed out.

 

[potsy]

Knitting's for girls Speicher

 

[Arch]

Arch, on your test piece, what about if you slip the second stitch ie knit 1, slip 1 knit (n-1)? This would mean that the stitch on the outside will have been knitted, not slipped.

When I do the shaping for armholes and necklines on jumpers, I do: knit 2, slip 1 knitwise, pass slip stitch over. This gives a neater edge, I think. That is my guess anyway. If I do knit 2 together (like the pattern usually says) then I end up with loose loops on the edge, if you follow me. I know you are not decreasing, but the loopy bit still applies.

I am curious as to which part of the cow it is.

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Yes, I've had patterns that say k1, slip 1, k(n) etc. But I think it works the other way too. I suspect that with a stuffed toy, the neatness of the edges isn't so vital, as one can solve a lot during the sewing up and stuffing. In a sweater, I can see you don't want a bulky seam on a neck etc.

I'm having a sort of gobi aloo dhal for dinner, thanks to a tin of spinach found in a recycling box last week.

 

[Speicher]

Yes, I think there is a lot of skill involved in sewing up the pieces to form a knitted animal. It has taken me a long time to learn how to sew garments together.

When my nieces and nephews were small, I enjoyed knitting them jumpers etc, and my sister-in-law would sew them up for me. Nieces and nephews get bigger, and then they decide they would prefer to wear fleeces. I now just knit jumpers for myself, as a change from sewing.

Have you found the right colour wool for the vegetables?

 

[Arch]

Yes, I think there is a lot of skill involved in sewing up the pieces to form a knitted animal. It has taken me a long time to learn how to sew garments together.

When my nieces and nephews were small, I enjoyed knitting them jumpers etc, and my sister-in-law would sew them up for me. Nieces and nephews get bigger, and then they decide they would prefer to wear fleeces. I now just knit jumpers for myself, as a change from sewing.

Have you found the right colour wool for the vegetables?

The fruit pompoms? I haven't looked yet. My wool is rather.... buried beneath a lot of other stuff....

I like sewing up toys, the seams are never very long, and with a bit of tactical stitching you can counter any lumps or bumps. Sewing up garments is very dull, and I think it's more important to make sure everything is neatly aligned on a sleeve or whatever...

 

[Archie_tect]

Went out on my bike for an hour... had my tea, then a yoghurt and I'm still hungry... not a snack to be found!

 

[Archie_tect]

Need and cake!

 

[JoeyB]

On the tea tonight...nom nom nom

 

[JoeyB]

Nope, its english for Yorkshire Tea lol

 

[JoeyB]

...aaaand now I want a doughnut.

D'oh!