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Chit Chat at the knitting circle

karrie — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:44:59 +0000

The only thing I really talked about at knitting this week was a neat little thing I read about on allie’s blog – Stretchy Circulars. They have a cord that is stretchy and i am guessing it is made out of something similar to the the drive band on my spinning wheel…. unfortunately they only come in size US2 and i like my socks on something a little smaller, but I am going to keep my eyes on their site.

Things i should have talked about:

The new Louet spinning wheel, Victoria. It is portable and an interesting alternative to the Ashford Joy.

The new needles over at Knitpicks. They have a new interchangeable set, as well as sock sized DPN’s and circulars that are CHEAP! They look like imitation addi turbos. Seriously, check out those circular needles.

Have I mentioned that I still go to knitting circle?

karrie — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:29:26 +0000

The tuesday night knitting circle at the Mel-O-Dee continues on… If you are in El Cerrito at 8 pm, stop by. Tuesday we talked about a lot of interesting things:

A new knitter! Debbie did some successful recruiting at the Berkeley Knit in Public event.
The cute little garter stitch kitty. It looks so good in leftover sock yarn
we didn’t really talk about it, but I noticed that one of my fellow knitting circle members has her eye on a really cute pattern. Top down all the way, i say!
Abby’s sock knitting tragedy which I feel partially responsible for… She has bounced back though. I saw her knitting a pair of baby socks just the other day.

Things i should have talked about

Tepache– Apparently this is a fermented drink made from pineapple.. And you can make it yourself. At least the Crochet Dude did . Has anyone tried this? Is it good? This reminds of the Kombucha Tea that I read about on Flawed Maude.
A fellow knitter reports that Emmet Otter is in the Smithsonian. I believe that I am one of the only people in the world that does not like Emmet and his poor little muppet family. I have seen too much of their feet that don’t really touch the ground or support any of their weight (=freaky).

So you think you can knit.

karrie — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:57:27 +0000

I do. i know there are many knitting challenges
that I have never tackled, but you have to save something for the retirement
home, right? One of my co-workers has a girlfriend that is really interested in
knitting. He is always asking me questions about it and the other day mentioned
that he saw someone “double knitting.” I was confused… How could his
untrained eye detect whether or not the person was indeed knitting a
double-thick fabric? Then he said she was “knitting two mittens at once.” The
fact that I was completely unimpressed had to have been obvious when i asked
“were they both on one needle?” See. I am
knitter.

That’s what I thought until
being totally blown away by Eunny at See Eunny Knit! a few days ago I was browsing
some ring or something and came across this post. I thought it was a beautiful pattern,
though a curious shape. then I saw what she was doing… Steeking armholes into
it! Good god how brave! (click the link and look at it already) it seems so
much more adventurous to cut up a fair isle sweater than a crappy top down
raglan of the type i might make. And not only does she have the skills to knit
fair isle patterns in pretty colors, she has the skills to teach us all how to steek something too. I am
totally glued to her blog.