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| Miss Kitty |
WIP's Wednesday 02/18/09Another week gone by. 10 more days til the end off the month..We get only 1 more Wip's Wednesday in for Febuary.. Me-- Big D's blanket.. Think I frogged  more then I knitted this week.I don't know what I'm doing but can't keep the count right..
Just turned the heel on my socks and doing the gusset now. Then on to the foot.. Going to start to look for the pattern for the next pair with beads.... 
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| PhoenixTears62 |
Hi Miss Kitty I am working on the dish cloths for the swap. I need to get to my socks but just haven't. I am still working on the layette for the lady at work. It's coming along very slowly. I don't like the pattern and find it boring.
congrats on your socks. Are you using double pointed needles or the needles with the cable? Sorry your blanket is being a pain. I know you will figure it all out. You do such beautiful work. Hugs:) Ok what is everyone else up to? |
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| Kahud48 |
Me, what am I working on you ask 
Socks, yes, I am still trying to knit these things up and having a frustrating way to go with them. I am going to master this yet! Ain't no knitting going to get the best of me, I am going to conquer this knit thing yet! I did knit a little heart yesterday  I went onto Vickie Howell's
blog and knitted the little heart. It looks so cute and I think I did a bang up job on it if I do say so myself
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| Miss Kitty |
I'm using 2 circular needles. Doing 2 socks at once on 2 circular needles.. Still doing the gusset. The pattern is decrease 1 stitch per row. So I have to decrease 1 stich per row for 38 rows.. Almost there..Only have about 12 more rows to go, then the foot.. |
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| TX CrochetLover |
Working on a knitted scarf, knitting another maulet bag in pink this time, and crocheting a baby blanket, which I got off count so it got bigger at about row 30. I may have to frog the whole thing. Yuck! | ||
| Miss Kitty |
Oh no You don't have to rip it all do you.. I think that the stitches multiply when you are not working on them..
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| Kahud48 |
Well there is one good thing Selena, it is crochet and that helps. I never can find my stitches in knit when I have to pull out, I always have to start
over. I will be so glad when I get that part figured out. |
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| TX CrochetLover |
Yeah, there is a trick to that part of knitting which will come with experience I think!!!! I did recover one row of a towel I am knitting. But I am afraid I may have twisted the loops. This is a new thing to learn. After crocheting for a long time, the learning curve for knitting will seem long until we are proficient in it, then we'll be like the great knitters here on the board--- albe to whip out projects! LOL! Yeah, I decided to frog the baby blanket. Today was my sort, frog, and store yarn and projects. I'll show you what I mean on off topics. I got a craft room/office for me now! |
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| Kahud48 |
Amen on the knit, I will be glad too when I can get that part down pat.
I have learned something that helps me now and that's a cheater yarn
What I do is run a strand of yarn thru a row, or round about every 5 rows/rnds or so. That way if I do a goof, or slip a stitch ( I still have trouble with getting that back) I just pull out back to those few rows/rnds to the cheater yarn row/rnd. I have had to start over to many times to not come up with something, LOL! |
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| Miss Kitty |
That is called a lifeline..
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| Kahud48 |
Ahhh, and here I thought I had came up with something all my own 
Let me tell ya, it is truely a lifesaver when it comes to knitting, for me anyway seeings how I am having to pull out so much 
I am getting better at this though and I think that working on the socks has really been helpful with coordinating my hands and with my tention. I am knitting continental, seems to be more coordinated for me. I haven't had to pull out at all on this pair so far, knock on wood! I have actually learned how to turn my needles at more of a 90 degree angle and have not missed or dropped a stitch yet. I think that it is working with the 4 needles that has helped me here. It Is making the knitting go faster too
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| TX CrochetLover |
Oh a lifeline, that is a GREAT idea! That is something I will incorporate in my knitting, cause I am not really good at picking up stitches yet. | ||
| Miss Kitty |
Lifeline
I use dental floss. I always get a free one at the dentist office.. So I have a bunch.
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| Kahud48 |
Hmmm, I don't insert or work the lifeline thru the stitches, I just knit over a runnig row,
or round as I knit it. I just do it a little different but is basically the same thing. |
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