Are there any knitters here???

Welcome, Portia! There are some here (although I'm not one) but there are even more knitters over on rec.crafts.textiles.yarn. And yes, you can absolutely make your own designs with embroidery. After all, someone had to design everything that is available out there...

We're a motley crew. Surface embroidery, counted-thread embroidery, mach> Hi!! I am not so sure if I am in the right group for public borard.. I

I don't, but I know where to get directions if anyone else wants to try. Bwahahahahaha

Ssshhh! Maybe we just don`t TALK about it! ;-)) - you haven`t seen my Hotmail address!!!

Pat P

Sorry for posting in the middle BUT

There are a few people that may have tried the last!

Cheryl

I've knit for almost 30 years now, mostly lace lately. On a shawls and ponchos tear at the moment. I've knit just about anything you can imagine. I love a handknit sweater, but will freely admit that knitting sleeves makes me a bit nuts--I just want the project finished by that point you see! lol

Currently, I have a thick wool poncho with cables in the works, a sports weight cotton short sleeved sweater (current issue of knitters magazine) and a very light laceweight lace shawl going.

Caryn

I've knit for almost 30 years now, mostly lace lately. On a shawls and ponchos tear at the moment. I've knit just about anything you can imagine. I love a handknit sweater, but will freely admit that knitting sleeves makes me a bit nuts--I just want the project finished by that point you see! lol

Currently, I have a thick wool poncho with cables in the works, a sports weight cotton short sleeved sweater (current issue of knitters magazine) and a very light laceweight lace shawl going.

Caryn

Hi Portia,

I've just started knitting and I love it. I also cross stitch, embroider, make bobbin lace and a little needle lace, crochet, weave on table and inkle looms, make potholders on a loop loom and cord on a lucet, do nalbinding and, this just in, am learning tablet weaving. Am I an expert at any of this? NO! I'm a competent dabbler and I love it!

Jessie

Good morning from Calif.. Thanks to you all.. I love the voodoo doll one.. Made me giggle a little.. Well, I see there are quite a few things some of you do. And yes, I am a dabbler as well.. Just haven't found anyone to show me some things yet.. And I had bought some material a while back to learn how to hand quilt.. Just haven't gotten to doing so.. I have some many unfinished projects to knit.. But right now our financial situation put things off a bit.. I hope in time I can finish everything I started.. I start something and start something else and so on and so on.. Iam sure many know what I mean here on that score.. Thanks Brenda for clarifying that.. Anyway, have a blessed day, and I look forward to learning from you all.. Just afraid to ask and not bother ppl too much with too many questions.. Portia

Even better - just knit tank-tops!

Pat P

Well, *that*'s easy to fix, Caryn! Just knit the sleeves first and leave the front and back till later! Sorry, I've already ducked and run away! :)

My current project is a knit baby blanket for DN & wife's baby that's coming the end of this month. Joan

Or you could do what I do. Knit the front, or the back. Then do one sleeve. Then do the other front/back, whichever is necessary. Then do the other sleeve.

Somehow breaking them up like that makes it seem as though they aren't neverending objects. I know it sounds weird, but it works for me.

Lucille

Please don't be afraid to ask questions. No one will mind and you'll probably get more answers and different methods then you ever dreamed were possible.

The only problem is there are too many enablers here, so be prepared to want to learn new things and start new projects. ;o))))

Lucille

I knit seamless , one piece sweaters ,,, i usually start at the neck and work down ,,,, which means that the sleeves get narrower and narrower ,,,,,till the cuff .... mirjam

I have been looking up tank patterns so I can start by doing those.. Simpler until I am ready to do sleeves.. Afraid I am going to make one shorter than the other.. :-)

If you knit on 2 needles [flat sleeves ] you can knit them together [ using 2 seprate balls of wool] , and than they will have to be same length . If like me you knit in the round you can use a counter , or see by the tape measure or pattern that they are the same ...... Are you sure your arms have the smae length? mirjam

A friend had the solution to that -- using two balls of yarn, knit both sleeves at the same time on the same needles, side-by-side.

I knit in the round, so that doesn't work for me, but I lay the second one on top of the first every couple rows to be sure they're the same length.

Thanks Karen.. I like that idea of knitting them at the same time.. When I get to trying something with sleeves, I will keep that in mind.. Portia/California

I was taught that sleeves are properly done at the same time on the same needle so that one is sure that they are the same length. Of course, when you are halfway through and one has 47 stitches and one has 49, you know you've goofed.

Elizabeth