What kind of knitter are you?

Hi Anna Maria,

lol! You've knitted a lot more than me! although when I was a teenager I carefuly followed instructions from a knit stitch book, falling leaves I think, it was about 12 by 4 inches, it was beautiful. I made lots of stuff like that, which didn't turn into anything but frogging material. but I'd really like to learn to knit reasonably well like crocheting, it's very satisfyingly different!

And yes, your new keyboard transmits just fine! :)

Hugs back,

David >

In message , Katherine writes

Thanks everyone for your friendly welcome.

My current project is untangling a bag full of yarn I inherited from my mum, and rolling it into lots of balls. She (like me) was a crafting

In message , M Rimmer writes

I don't know what happened to the rest of my post! Here it is:

Thanks everyone for your friendly welcome.

My current project is untangling a bag full of yarn I inherited from my mum, and rolling it into lots of balls. She (like me) was a crafting dilettante, and when she passed away in June her current obsession was stumpwork.

was planning a piece of stumpwork representing the cottage my parents own in Ireland which they both loved very much, and where my dad

In message , M Rimmer writes

Thanks everyone for your friendly welcome.

My current project is untangling a bag full of yarn I inherited from my mum, and rolling it into lots of balls. She (like me) was a crafting dilettante, and when she passed away in June her current obsession was stumpwork.

was planning a piece of stumpwork representing the cottage my parents own in Ireland which they both loved very much, and where my dadnow spends most of his time. She had a bag full of tools and materials, a selection of photographs and books for inspiration, and a collectionof yarn in the necessary colours - mostly greys and whites for the walls and roof of the cottage, and greens, pinks and reds for flowers. They'reall 2 ply acrylic, many of them are speckled colours rather than one solid colour, since that represents natural materials more convincingly.They're a range of lengths, from a foot or so up to a 2 or 3 ounce ball. They're all loosely tangled up, and they look really nice together, as aselection of colours. They're all somewhat muted and natural-looking, and they do evoke the colours of the cottage and that part of Ireland. Now I'm just not excited by stumpwork, but I like this yarn, so I thought I'd make a scrap yarn afghan something like this:

then give it to my dad to use in the cottage. So far I have spent several evenings untangling yarn and rolling into balls, and I haveseveral more evenings of this ahead of me. But it's a nice connection to my mum, seeing and feeling the yarn she carefully selected and stored.We work in similar ways so I know she spent many evenings and afternoons looking at and fondling the yarn and imagining different ways she mightuse it.

LOL It took a while for your message to get through in its entirety, but at last we were able to read the whole thing. I have a ball of yarn to untangle, too, but I have no idea when I will get to it.

Katherine

For some strange reason I am better at lace knitting than at making=20 garter stitch (better doesn=B4t mean good). Maybe after years and years o= f=20 crocheted lace and doilies my brain works in that direction only, who=20 knows. I really LOVE knitted items, it=B4s just the process being SO stressful=20 for me. Dropped stitches really make me crazy!

Anyway, never say never :-)

Thank you for the keyboard feedback.

Hugs,

Anna Maria

Hi anna Maria,

Dropped stitches... I never know I've dropped them until I count the number of loops on a needle when I've finished a row... :(

Actually, there is one thing that doesn't come across, at least to my screen reader: the apostrophe ' in "it's" etc.

Hugs,

David

Crochet is so much better under that regard... but the softness of knitted items, I love that!

I try now: it's. It is not easy to find the right key on this Estonian/Russian keyboard (long story). Thank you for your patience.

Anna Maria

Hi M, It's nice to meet you. I hope you come back often and "play."

Janise

Okay Anna Maria, the apostrophe comes across now! :)

Yes! That's what's different... knitting is softer, at least what I have done so far...

:) David