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  • shorfi
    shorfi Member Posts: 791
    edited April 2012

    I'm thinking, if only I could learn to knit with double pointed needles, I would be able to move on to other projects. But they intimidate me so much...oh well...maybe one day...

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  • olgah34
    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited April 2012

    Thank you! actually, original design was on page with teenagers, but I thought, why not? It is just a sweater, not mini- skirt os smth...Laughing

    tried to start shawlwtte, it had to cast on 363 sts...eeewwww...kind of afraid to get started. Iwas in A.C. MOORE,they did not have a shuttle for tatting...

    Chrissy, how are you?

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  • LuAnnH
    LuAnnH Member Posts: 8,847
    edited April 2012

    Has anyone seen these crochet needles that you knit with?  I think they were calling knotting or something like that.  I saw the ads in a magaizine and it looked interesting and wondered if anyone had seen or triede them?

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  • moonlight60
    moonlight60 Member Posts: 57
    edited April 2012

    Oh Olgah...363 st to cast on?? Poor dear, those long cast ons drive me crazy too! What helps me is to accept from the get go the cast on will take forever and then take the time to put a stitch marker every 20 stitches. It helps tremedously when the inevitable happens and you lose count :)

    I just bought the yarn for my next project (and informed my son that it was his Mother's Day pressie to me lol)...the Anacapa shawl. It used to be available only in a book of patterns but I saw today in Ravelry that it is now available by itself!! I'm excited...I've lusted after that shawl for a long time!

    I just looked at your sweater on Ravelry...beautiful!!! The lace pattern is gorgeous in a pullover...very delicate :)

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  • olgah34
    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited April 2012

    Thank you, moon...I hate my wig, though...I actually started a shawl, not big one, it is Ishbel.And it does not start on 363 sts...Did not get into lace part yet. It is fun to knit...Go to look at AnacapaSmile

    They dpn't sell shuttles for tatting here..

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  • olgah34
    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited April 2012

    I saw Anacapa for $6. Is it it?

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  • GmaNiki
    GmaNiki Member Posts: 42
    edited April 2012

    Hello knitters!! I cant remember when I didnt knit. My love is socks and lace, but currently have a hat, a bag, a cardigan and 2 pairs of socks OTN. I am 4 weeks out from surgery but have had a set back and major infection and it has been hard to stay upright for long to knit, but I still carry my bag with me as I move from the bed, to the couch, to the recliner, etc. DH keeps asking me why and I say I want to know where it is and if when the time is right I can just start again. I am feeling it could happen any time now, only on pain meds at night now.....

    BTW if you dont know how to knit on double pointed needles, try using the magic loop method, or two circulars. Knitting in the round can be done!

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  • olgah34
    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited April 2012

    GMA Niki, welcome! I love lace too, you can see on Ravelry ( I am VILTIS, it means hope in Lithuanian). I never did socks , but last year my kids from Chicago ( I live in NC) asked me for wool socks for my son, daughter- in- law and 3 years old grandson. And I did it! I liked it so much, I got addicted. But

    this year I want to make something hice and lacy for her. Still don't know what yarn is the best...I did buy in A.C. MOORE, but I want something nicer and not so expensive. WEBS?

    Shorbr, doble pointed needles were not different for me, then any other needles.I did  knit

    socks  pretty tight, and sts did not , how to say in English? run away? They stayed on the needle.If you have

    SKYPE, I could show you...

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited April 2012

    Hi Olga and the rest of you girls!   So sorry to have been absent for so long but instead of one week for my hospital stay for knee replacement it turned into a three week ordeal and I was only released yesterday.  Needless to say I have not practiced my tatting but I will be able to do that now I'm home.  I'm really looking forward to getting proficient at it!

    The weather has certainly turned colder while I was in hospital but that just means that I will definitely be getting the needles and wool out.......lol.......besides, my DH has been loosing weight and all his pullovers are hanging like bags so he is in need of some new ones.  It will indeed keep these hands of mine busy.

    Hope you are all having a great day!

     Love n hugs.  Chrissy

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  • olgah34
    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited April 2012
    Chrissy, I am happy you are back! What is it in Australia now- autumn?Laughing
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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited April 2012

    Wow I haven't pickedup  my needles in 25 years.I used to manage a needlecraft and yarn shop.Must get back into it but arthritic hands will slow me down.I bet the real wool and inported fancy yarns cost a fortune now.I think I will start with an afghan first just to get back into it again.Great thread.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited April 2012

    This past weekend our musuem hosted a Back to Back Wool Challenge where guilds are tested from the clipped wool to spinning and knitting with a clock to see how much they accomplish within a particular time.We were the impartial judges and I took these photos

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited April 2012
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  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited April 2012

    A good place to buy name brand yarn for less is DBNY Yarn Girls (discontinuedbrandnameyarn.com). Sorry I don't how to make links hot. DBNY sells discontinued yarn and also buys yarn from stores going out of business. They just had a great stash building sale. I get one or two updates a week from them on yarn sales.

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  • olgah34
    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited April 2012

    CherrylH...I have been bying there like crazy...Oh, my! But I did not see nice sock"s yarn there.

    Supersock store has some, but it seems to be expensive and too fancy for the socks.Lisa, do you work in the museum? wow

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited April 2012

    I am the photographer for the museum (Volunteer) Olga..it is just a tiny museum for our community

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  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited April 2012

    Olga, what part on NC are you in? (you can PM me if you don't want to post on here). I grew up in the Piedmont/Sandhills area. A good friend from high school currently lives in Hendersonville and I will be visiting her later this year. She is a knitting nut just like me.

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited April 2012

    Olga it is Autumn here and heading for winter at a fast rate!......lol.  DH has even had the fire going while I was away and for him to bother about lighting it, it must have been cold!!!

    Lisa those pics are great! (as usual) and very interesting.  Some years ago I bought myself a spinning wheel with the idea of learning but other things took over and I never got the chance to even try.  I know the wheel is still in the shed.............maybe I just need to go get it and have a go....................lol

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  • olgah34
    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited April 2012
    CherryH, I live in Raleigh , NC for 15 years...Would be nice to meet with you and your friend! Where do you live ? Is it far from Chicago? I cannot wait to finish my treatment and go there to visit my kids...Smile
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  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited April 2012

    Olga, I live just outside Chicago and I work in the City. I wo uldlove to meet y ou when you come visit. I'll take you to my favorite yarn shops!!!

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited April 2012

    Chrissy, when I was a teenager,  We had a Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown where I stayed with my grandmother for the summers..I demonstrated carding the wool, spinning it and then weaving it...they dyed it and set up the looms...thank goodness..I was a volunteer and had alot of fun..

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  • olgah34
    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited April 2012

    Lisa, did your grandmother tell you how to knit?

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited April 2012

    no, I learned in College..in the sorority house...

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  • olgah34
    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited April 2012

    We have a Museum in Rumsiskes, Lithuania. It is  a place, looking like a village 100 years ago, or more.It is like you get into another time...Shacks, tools, everything. Very ofteh folks groups perform there , especially on holidays. It is very beautiful there.They also have a fair sometimes, and artisans sell home made stuff, not only knitted, but ceramic vases, amber necklaces, ets. I would like to put some pictures, but somehow cannot attach it. They call it museum of etnografy. Oh, Gosh, I miss Lithuania!

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  • AlaskaAngel
    AlaskaAngel Member Posts: 1,836
    edited May 2012

    Hi! I finally got a tatting shuttle while I am in the Lower 48 -- at the moment near Seattle, in Bellingham at a motel, wending our way today back into Canada on our way home from a spontaneous trip to the Olympic Peninsula that turned out to be serendipitously fabulous weather... (meanwhile my friends at home in Alaska tell me it has been steadily stormy there, so it was good timing I think!) I stumbled into a yarn store in Port Townsend, where another knitter nut there was minding the store put the tatting shuttle in my hands at last....!.... along with white thread and off-white... so now it is time to get a book (at kindergarten level, so that I don't end up with this project in the closet like some others I have) to help me get started.... any recommendation for a beginner book would be appreciated....

    AlaskaAngel

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited May 2012

    Just gotta report that I finally finished one grandson's Christmas stocking (4 yr. old's) and started on the second one (9 yr. old's). Then really must hustle to finish the 12 yr. old's before C-day! (I'm sloooow.) Will post pics when they're all completed. Happy to be moving on past cancer!! 

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited May 2012

    I got bored so I started a new sweater for my DH yesterday. Not sure how long it will take me to complete, hopefully just a few weeks. Lol. Will post a pic when done.

    Love n hugs all! Chrissy

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  • olgah34
    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited August 2012

    Hello, I am back.I have fatique and chemo head, but somehow I can knit. try to show and attach my new works...

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  • olgah34
    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited August 2012
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    olgah34 Member Posts: 407
    edited August 2012

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