Knitting Peeves?

Glad I could tickle your funny bone. Trust me I've doubled my pleasure many times. If I didn't look at it this way there would be no point in knitting. It would become more frustration that relaxing.

Betty

I made about 8 pairs of these for Christmas last year. I loved knitting them and I loved the outcome. I used Brown Sheep's Lambs Pride and had no problems at all when felting them to the correct size. They were a big hit with everyone. I have worn my own pair out and need to do another pair for myself.

Now I want to get the pattern for the children's slippers and try those. Sharon

da, my knitting pet peeve is when I've shaped a shoulder on a sweater and I run out of yarn ... I attach new yarn, then shape the last few short rows near the shoulder seam, bind off, AND weave in many extra tails. It's all really bunched up and extra thick at a refined area of a sweater ...

_ _ _ _ _ Millie snipped-for-privacy@eagle.ptialaska.net Death has no beard.

Tell them it keeps you off the street and out of trouble? ;-)

=Tamar

Maybe she keeps it for special occasions and, like some people do with the "good" dishes, no occasion is ever quite special enough?

I have sweaters I'm glad I made, but I rarely wear them. There are times when they are the right thing, and times when they aren't.

=Tamar

I've been thinking. It's extremely unlikely that there really was an identical sweater there, because commercial knockoffs are never quite like the patterns sold. Also, you mentioned that you work with complex and unusual designs.

Even if it's a classic cable-and-pillars design that might actually be found commercially, it's not identical because of the differences between hand-crafted garments and factory-made ones.

It is almost totally unlikely that the kind of person who doesn't knit would remember a pattern in any detail well enough to be able to make an accurate comparison.

My feeling is that anyone who says that kind of thing is probably either ignorant, lying, jealous, or trying to cause trouble. In all cases, the best response is to ignore them, calmly and coolly, as if they had made a socially-embarrassing noise. If they think they've given you a compliment, they are to be pitied.

=Tamar

Tamar, the part about being pitied hits the nail on the head. It still amazes me that there are so many people who have no idea that you can really make something nice with two sticks and a piece of string. :) DA

Yes Tamar But you made them for Yourself ,,, And you are `allowed` to make then only for display in the closet :>:>:>

mirjam

Do crochet patterns count too? I bought 'Knitting' magazine in September because they had a lovely crochet hat on the cover. I started making it yesterday, only to find that after the

2nd row, there were NO instructions as to the number of stitches - not after the increase rows, in fact, not at any stage in the pattern at all!

I had to give up and find another pattern, it just confused me totally!

Liz

And the symbols aren't standardized between designers/publishers. Something that means one thing for one publisher can be totally different for another.

What drives me nuts with the charts is having to *count* the number of symbols to knit or whatever in a row each time I pick up the work. The written instructions specify the count, so I don't have to waste time re-counting..and re-counting and hoping I haven't miscounted at some point.

Nyssa, who is still anti-chart

Of course crochet counts too! Try the website for the magazine and look for "errata". If you can't find anything, e-mail them and ask them for some help. I did once with Vogue knitting and they were very helpful.

Shelagh

Or when you've been spinning away and loose the end onto the bobbin, sometimes you can scrape and scratch away forever at the bobbin and never find the end where it has wound itself in so tightly... Cheers...Cher

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"Shillelagh" wrote

Hi Shelagh,

Good idea - I have sent them an email! I do still want to make the hat, and I have JUST the right yarn for it in the stash! :-)

Thanks

Liz

I have to expand on that.I heartily agree with you! Back in jan of '84, I got sick of watching my aunts' create all of these beautiful things and decided knitting was the thing I was going to HAVE to learn how to do. I went to LYS and found a pattern. It had charts and graphs and written instructions!!! : ) I then went to the local Kmart and bought a whole bunch of yarn.I didn't want to spend a whole lot of money on yarn If I couldn't do it or figure it out. I can be quite dense sometimes!!! I wanted to make a striped sweater. If it turned out well I would then make another one in different kinds of stripes. Ok I knitted away and got it all done and was REAL proud of myself. It went fast too.It was a light blue and lavender stripes about an inch and a half wide. I went to the store and bought this magazine, Woman's World; I get every week. I could NOT BELIEVE IT!!! On the back cover they had previews of the next issue and THERE was a picture of MY sweater!!! And it only gets better. I made the next sweater the following month still trying to recover from that shock. This one was a royal blue with a light pink pinstripe and dark pink pinstripe next to each other. The blue was about an inch and half wide. I get it all done and go to school with it on. I was a senior in school that year BTW . Yep. Lo and Behold; one of my good friends had just bought the SAME sweater for $20 at the mall. I was not happy. At least mine was handmade!!!

And nicer, too, I am sure!

Katherine

Betty i really don`t mind varigated wools strating differently , the whole idea of varigated is For me Variation [without tears ] , Surprises ,Fun mirjam