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Red gansey - crummy pic

Here's a crummy pic of the gansey. The pic is crummy because my 7yo digital camera seems to have forgotten what "high resolution" is even with an empty memory card installed.

So much of the stitch detail is absent in this photo. The upper yoke is done in a panel of seed stitch (martyr stitch per one of my cronies) and double martyr (twice as much of a bad thing!). The sleeves are plain stockinette with garter ridges. The pattern started out as Beth Brown-Reinsel's "White Gansey", I modifed the upper body by lengthening the back with an extra pattern panel, then I inserted shoulder straps with neck gussets. This dropped the front neck opening to prevent strangulation.

Ends are darned in, I need to scour it and block it out. That's for another day though.

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next project is a Shapely Tank in Kathmandu wool/silk/cashmereblend, then a sweater for the kidlet, and maybe another for me. Ineed sweaters in this climate, yep, I do.

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Wooly
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Congratulations, Wooly,

Sweater looks great! I can make out some of the detail. At least I can tell there are different textures.

Hesira

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hesira

It looks WONDERFUL! Great color too. I am actually almost done with my NYCO Aran-style cardigan vest--just 2.5 more rows of ribbing (300sts each!). I think it's going to need blocking or some kind of beating into shape, but, for all the knitting I've done with natural fibers, I've never had to block anything, so I'm not really not sure what to do. It was all knit in one piece--no seams (that's why the ribbing is taking me forever). What is scouring?

Georgia

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Georgia

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 20:23:58 -0500, "Georgia" spewed forth :

Well, you've probably eventually blocked everything you've knitted - things get dirty, things get spilled, etc.

Scouring: more correctly a term used to denote the thorough washing of raw wool. I apply it to the washing out of knitted goods too.

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Wooly

Even with the low-resolution pic it looks great!

The Other Kim kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom

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The Other Kim

It looks great...love the colour!

Sounds lovely.

Michelle

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Eastern Edge

Wooly, the sweater looks wonderful even with the crummy resolution. It would be great to have a sharp pic of the different stitches. ;>)

BTW, there is a wonderful sweater pattern in the September "Creative Knitting" magazine. It's on page 34 and called "Woodsy White Pullover". For me, I'd make the back plain, but I love the way the front, sleeves, neck and bottom are done.

Shelagh

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Shillelagh

That sweater is the reason I bought the magazine today. Like I need a nice warm sweater here in SoCal, even in the middle of winter :-)

The Other Kim kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom

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The Other Kim

Hi W.

That is a lovely piece of work, I like the detailed pattern not being the same all over.

Thnx for sharing this.......cher

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spinninglilac

Wooly, The picture may look crummy to you, but it looks very artistic to me. And the Gansey is beautiful! I don't remember who you are making/made it for, but I'm sure it will be worn with pride.

Janise

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Janise

Hmmm, I don't think that it is crummy, Wooly. Very nice. I love the colour.

Higs, Katherine

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Katherine

I like that one, too, Shelagh. However, after discussions with some yarn people in Halifax, I think that I would do the back patterned as well.

Higs, Katherine

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Katherine

Wooly................it's a great looking ganey. You should be proud of it!!

David

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David Thomas

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The sweater looks so beautiful! I use "my imagination" where the resolution is not clear, but it is not difficult to see that this is a quality work!! Congratulations! AUD ;-)

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Aud

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 14:22:49 -0300, "Katherine" spewed forth :

Nono, the pic is pretty crummy. The sweater is quite nice in person and I'm sorry the crummy pic isn't showing it off.

Thanks :D It's Bendigo Woolen Mills "Cherry" Colonial 5-ply, just shy of 8spi on 2.5mm needles. Lots of knitting...

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Wooly

Well, I used my imagination to fill in the crummy bits.

Higs, Katherine

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Katherine

Is Creskeld Guernsey yarn really similar to Brown Sheep Nature spun? What kind of yarn did you end up using?

Aaron

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<agres

On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:48:23 GMT, spewed forth :

Never having laid hands nor eyes on Creskeld Guernsey wool I don't know how it compares to Naturespun. I've used Naturespun Sport to make socks, the stuff wears like iron when knitted at a moderately fine gauge - I made a pair of kilt hose at 8spi, the label calls for

6-7spi. I confess that my hands hurt for days after I finished the second stocking: that yarn did NOT want to be knitted that tightly.

I did have a bag of Wendy (formerly Poppleton) gansey-weight yarn, but I didn't like the color (a rather sickly burgundy tweed sort of thing) so I homed it on. That was several years ago. My recollection of the Wendy is that it was similar to the BSNS in size and smoothness but was more firmly spun and plied. Possibly Wendy and Creskeld are more similar to each other than they are to BSNS, but again, I've not seen the Creskeld wool.

I'll send you a sample of the yarn I used for the Red Gansey, along with a ballband and contact info for the mill. Bendigo is in .au but they'll send a color card for no cost,. Shipping is free for orders over $40 - an easily-achieved total though the yarn is both inexpensive and thrifty as you'll see when you get your color card.

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Wooly

Wooly,

From this Nerd's view, some days you need some leverage.

Think of a knitting needle as a lever. The tip moving the yarn is the resistance. Where you "pinch" the needle between your thumb and a finger is the fulcrum, and you apply the force with you little finger or ring finger.

When I am knitting along continental style, the distance between the fulcrum and the tip is about 1/2 the distance between the fulcrum and the force. (Sometimes I do choke up, and hold the needle much closer to the tip.) This gives me a mechanical advantage of ~1:2. Even choked up, and holding the needle very close to the tip the greatest mechanical advantage that I can get when knitting Continental or English style is about 1:5.

When I am knitting with a knitting sheath, the sheath becomes the fulcrum, the tip remains the resistance, and the thumb or second finger is free to provide the force to move the needle. Now the mechanical advantage is 1:10 or 1:15 -- ten or fifteen times greater! AND, I am using a stronger part of the hand to apply force to the needle. Moreover, the lower end of the needle remains fixed so that there is less wasted motion.

Get out a pair of single pointed needles, and watch the lower end of the working needle. It goes all over the place. That is wasted motion. With cable needles, that wasted motion acts against the resistance of the cable and the fabric hanging from it to become significant wasted energy.

The tremendous mechanical advantage that I achieve with a knitting sheath means that I can knit very firm yarns, very tightly with minimal stress on my hands and reduced wasted motion means that I can knit other things with less effort.

Mechanical Advantage is good. Ask a sailor! I will send you some.

Aaron

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<agres

Chortle, chortle. Not with me it doesn't. I was taught "British style" knitting, having grown up in the north of England, and the right hand needle stays tucked firmly under my right armpit where it cannot go anywhere.

However, the rest of this technical discussion, although interesting, is completely irrelevant to me because I usually knit only while watching tv or attending meetings, and I am not usually counting the energy output, just keeping my hands busy and doing something useful in time which would otherwise be wasted.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn Mary

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