knitting DOLDRUMS

Me too. I need to finish another Christmas commission and I need to finish stringing beads on scarf fringes. Hell, I need to cut the fringes and tie them on the scarves before I can string beads.

And I promised spawn a gifty craft project that has yet to materialize.

I don't even feel like spinning, I'd rather just go back to bed for a couple of weeks until Giftmas is over!

I can't cast on in the round without having a twist. I've tried about

3 or 4 times this morning, and it ain't happening. Bleh!

Hesira

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Good for the waist line I've heard. Never did much for mine :-(

Mary

All that Fibonacci has dulled my brain. Or was it the endless casting on and ripping out? You must be referring to something other than a twisted cast on.

Hesira

LOL

Marilyn

You know those self-striping socks I was knitting side-to-side, so they'd have vertical stripes? I mismeasured my gauge or something and didn't check it again once the piece got underway, and I finished sock #1, and there is no human on earth who could get it on. I've ripped it out, and will knit knee socks the normal way (for me, top down).

Back at square one,

Georgia

I think most of us get it during the holidays Noreen.

Dennis

YarnWright wrote:

I don't have doldrums. I have no time.

TTFN Katherine

It sounds like a neat idea, anyway. If you ever decide to try it again, I bet the problem was that you measured stitch gauge and what you needed to measure was row gauge - # rows around the ankle instead of # stitches.

=Tamar

It showed up in the right place here. :-)

=Tamar

Noreen

I'm sorry to hear that. No doldrums here. I'm busy crocheting another lace scarf and swatching to design an interesting knit cable scarf.

Then, with the wind howling late yesterday, my elderly neighbors remembered I knit and asked me to make them hats so they can sit outside w/out freezing when I went out to feed/water/check on the feral cats sheltering in our wood shed.

When the cold rain comes here, requests for knits pour in, pun intended!

Leah

You could be right. I probably won't try it again. The socks won't have much horizontal stretch--which socks need, and I didn't like the seam up the back (I hate seams!). I wouldn't like it even if I didn't miss a couple of stitches. Phooey!

Georgia (now wondering if you can make knee socks just by making crew socks

7 inches longer...)

"Georgia" wrote in news:_ZadnTl47LTpEs7anZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@insightbb.com:

well, yes & no. if you do the entire leg in a stretchy rib, it might work, but you're really going to be happier with the result if you use shaping... which requires using a knee sock pattern, not just a crew length extended. a crew sock stops just below where the calf of the leg starts getting full. if you knit 2" of rib & then switch to stockinette or pattens for 7-8", the sock just won't go over your calf & you end up with a slouchy ankle. a knee sock pattern should have increases & decreases to take account of the shape of the calf & may need some fiddling to get it to fit your particular calf shape (i have rather fat calves, but when i was doing weight training i could deadlift 900 pounds) lee

I meant The Twist :-)

Let's Twist again like we did last summer ... ?

Mary

...

I wouldn't like to cross you :-)

Mary

I told you my brain was dull! Thanks for clearing that up.

Hesira

Mary Fisher said:

It's really easy, though, and it doesn't take a lot of extra stitches. If you start with the cuff on a circular needle and try it on as you go, you can sculpt it to fit perfectly even if you are doing a pattern that might draw it in more. Increase fast just after the thin part under the knee, knit maybe 10-14 rows of the wider part, then begin decreases a little slower than you increased. The increases and decreases don't have to be right next to the middle of the back, though they usually are there; they can be at the sides and make a design. Look at Tyrolean twisted-stitch sock patterns for some ideas.

=Tamar