Knitting

chrissyb

Sorry I've been a bit quiet but I'm still in hospital after a knee replacement surgery.  Give me a little while and I'll be rearing to go again!

Love n hugs all!   Chrissy

anndh

Thanks, mebmarj!!

I just need to get to tomorrow and get this surgery going!!!!!!!  Okay, off the board and back to the knitting....

And no, I don't think it's bad to be a yarn addict. 

chrissyb

anndh, you will do just fine tomorrow and they only take other nodes if they find something in the sentinals.................deep breath lovely, you can do this!  Good luck!

Love n hugs.  Chrissy

SoCalLisa

dutchgirl6

Well, this sounds like a fun group.  I am the queen of unfinished projects, I am currently (not) working on a sweater for my niece's baby, who has just turned three and there is a new baby in the house.  I am trying to get it done for that little one, but I just can't tear myself away from this darn computer!  You are all inspiring me to pick up those needles again.

dutchgirl6

My mother was a great knitter, boy could she make those needles fly!  She made sweaters, mittens, hats and socks for all six of us, every year.  She was a lefty and I am a righty, so it frustrated both of us when she tried to teach the ten year old me.  I picked it up in my twenties and she was very impressed.  I never forgot the day that she told me that I had a "beautiful hand for knitting", that meant a lot to me.  As she got older, and had trouble reading patterns she started to knit socks for her grandchildren, my DD still has half a dozen pairs that she wears all the time.  When she started to forget how to make the socks, we knew that there was something wrong with her, and she was eventually diagnosed with Alzheimer's.  Knitting is one thing that everyone in my family, and many friends identify with my mother.

CherrylH

Merrinell,

If your travels in Western NC take you to or near Brevard, there is a wonderful knit shop there - Charlotte's Fibers. I have a dear friend in Hendersonville and when I go out to visit that is our first stop!

olgah34

mebmarj, I nam yarn addict too! staying home, I found a lot of shops on-line ( DBNY,elann.com , etsy...) and now I am there all the time.. I found myself an excuse- prices soooo good!

Chrissy, I am happy you done with your surgery! Wish you speedy recovery!

olgah34

Ann dh, my thoughts and prayers for you today!

SOCALLISA, thank you! looks wonderful!

Kicks

anndh - I couldn't knit during chemo- but chemo had nothing to do with it I can't knit. I had no problem crocheting or tatting during A/C but d very little during Taxol as I just didn't have the energy.



A while ago I saw someone asking about buffalo yard. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a certain brand or yarn from buffalo. I do know that there are some 'home spinners' in this area that do spin buffalo. (Well it is actually bison as the animal most in USA think of as a 'Buffalo' is actually a bison.) How they get it is something I don't know as there is no way 'buff' are going to get it off them. Think it might come off slaughtered ones or they have scrath racks set up in the pastures or feed lots so they can scratch. It off. If you get some light yard that is supposed to be bison then it's either bleached/chemically treated or from beefalos.

Merrinell

I am going to love this site!  Don't knit that much, but you sound like a bunch of great gals.  My main problem as I began chemo was that I just couldn't make myself begin anything.  I do a lot of machine embroidery, and am a procrastinator.  Since I got my BC diagnosis Dec. 12th, I never got to some items monogrammed for my grandchildren...plus other items.  Couldn't get to my unfinished quilt.  All I felt like doing was reading....and eating my popsicles! 

SherryH:  We live over the mountain from Brevard, south of Waynesville on Hwy. 276.  Don't get to Brevard very much.  I see that you're from Oak Park, IL.  It's a small world.  One of my husband's buddies in the Corps of Engineers while they were stationed in Germany in the late 50's was from Oak Park, and just this past winter I met a lady from there who lived in the same neighborhood! 

SoCalLisa

Marinell, I see you are doing CMF chemo too..I did it back in 2001, eleven years ago..there is a thread for CMF under Help me Get through treatment, CMF question...lots of good info there..sending hugs..

SoCalLisa

PS, we had a great time in Charleston last year...

groovygirls

Kicks- there is a company called Buffalo Wool Company and the specialize in buffalo fiber. The fiber that is usually used is the down. It is lovely to work with and wear. It is quite expensive (I got my one and only skein on sale). It wasn't "beefalo"

moonlight60

Hi Everyone!! Good to see you here I've been working a lot and recovering from Radiation. Geez, I only had 25 treatments and I still had a pretty bad skin reaction. Just unlucky I guess.

Olgah, I'm sorry I didn't answer your question...stretching or blocking lace is easy and the best part of the project. It's when your blob of knitting because beautiful lace What I do is soak in room-temp water for about half an hour, then I squeeze out the water (don't rub or twist if it's wool or some other fiber that will felt or shrink!) and then pin it out, either on my bed or my carpet, overtop towels.

You can do a search for blocking knitted lace and find more advice on the internet

olgah34

Thank you, moonlight! I guess, I will try with shawlette first...Like Annis on Ravelry ...still working on green mohair sweater sleeves. I think, because of chemohead I knitted one longer then other about 4 inches.

CherrylH

Olga,

I knit both sleeves at once. Use a 36" circular needle in appropriate size. Using two balls of yarn cast on both and follow directions, knitting back and forth. Both will be done at the same time, same length.

3monstmama

I am NOT a yarn addict!  Why I can quit anytime I want to. . . just don't want to!

Not sure about anyone else but my treatment center had a knitting support group for cancer patients and caregivers that met once a week.  It was so nice to hang out with women who both "got" it and yet, didn't need to talk about "it."  I still try to go and hangout when I can.

AlaskaAngel

Hi

I learned to knit when I was "new in town" and attended the knitting group run by the local shop owner. We owe so much to women like her! I went for the big project, an aran sweater for my sweetie, and by a year later I had finished it, and it actually fit him and he actually wore it!!! (My MIL, a "Canook", could and did knit anything and everything on the planet, may she RIP.)

I have not done any handiwork since dx 10 years ago. Yet I am riveted to the image when I watch the lace on the women in the movie Howard's End... I would like to make the beautiful lace neck/blouse cover designs... what is the name for those?

A.A.

CherrylH

3mons,

Yeah, I've heard that before!!!

olgah34

3monts, I am jealous. We don't have it here, in Raleigh, NC. May be I should organize it?

Cherry,thank you, I did it before, on regular needles.

But I forgot about it.My sweater is ready, pictures later. Tomorrow go to A.C. MOOREto get big needles for shawlette and shuttle for tatting.

olgah34

trying to attach a picture of just finished sweater... good luck how did i do it before? now it is asking image URL, what is it?

JustJean

I agree - go for it! I've crocheted for over 50 years and I love it and it is very much a stress reliever for me, and now I'm finally learning how to knit. I'm making my first project, a simple moss stitch washcloth, and now that I've gained more mastery over the stitches, it's very much like crochet - that repetitive motion and seeing something come off your hook/needle is very satisfying.

I even took my washcloth project to the airport today to pick up my son after spring break. It was a lot easier than taking the almost finished afghan I've been crocheting!

moonlight60

I've got Annis in my queue too! But it has nupps...nupps make me crazy.

olgah34

Here is my project on RAVELRY:

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Viltis/rebecca-pullover

groovygirls

It's beautiful! And so are you

olgah34

Thank you, Joanne!

olgah34

my new project

LuAnnH

Took me some time to read all the way thru these posts and I enjoyed this thread!  I have crocheted since I was very little!  My mom always was in her chair crocheting something anytime you saw her.  Her yarn basket continued to grow and grow over the years and she would have several projects going at once.  You all brought back memories talking about how you were either a righty or lefty and your mom the opposite.  My mom was a lefty and I'm right handed but she was able to teach me well.  The only thing I hated is when she would check my work as soon as she found a mistake she would start pulling out my stitches for me to redo...  I hated that and it was like she took pleasure in that. LOL

I inheirited all my mom's crochet needles and many many craft supplies when she passed away.  My aunt has also gifted me with more yarn than I will probably use in a lifetime.  So I have been trying to find something different to make other than the same old afghans that I have a gazillion of.  My mom made my kids some really cute blankets with pictures of cars and such on them when they were babies and I would love to find patterns of blankets like that to make my grandsons.  They love blankets and take them with them everywhere they go.  I am always buying them a fleece or some type of blanket like that but know they would love to have a special blanket from grandma.  I'd appreciate any ideas.

I am at my sons now visiting my little monsters and will be heading home tomorrow so I'll be ready to get busy on something once I am home and settled in a day.  I'ld love to try and knit but don't have the slighest clue how.  I might have to get a book and give a shot to see how it goes.  Who knows I might be good at that too!

shorfi

Wow...I looked you up on Ravelry and your sweater is absolutely beautiful