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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 2/16/2010 8:37:18 PM
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creationtalk
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How are projects going?
Mine are going slow. I had almost finished the body of a crochet jacket, but I don't like the way it is coming out. The picture showed it flaring in the hips, but the pattern added the extra stitches to make it flare in the body...and didn't put any in the hip area. I'm thinking of pulling it out and improvising...but it was a lot of work so not sure I want to go that far. Other sweater (on knitting machine) is also going slow. I've been gone from home so much I don't have time to work on it. Today I finished 20 crochet crosses to go in the gift bags of the volunteer group working on our church. Every spare minute for the past week was spent working on them--we had planned something different, but then the schedule changed and the original plan would not work.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 2/19/2010 9:16:09 PM
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I don't know how to crochet, but I wish I knew somebody close by who could make me a shrug. I know somebody who managed to buy one, but she got the last one in the store. I've got some shirred tops and dresses with straps on them, but I don't like showing off my upper arms. A shrug would be a perfect solution.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 2/20/2010 8:56:39 AM
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I don't know how to crochet, but I wish I knew somebody close by who could make me a shrug. I know somebody who managed to buy one, but she got the last one in the store. I've got some shirred tops and dresses with straps on them, but I don't like showing off my upper arms. A shrug would be a perfect solution.
Why don't you knit a shrug? There are lots of patterns for knit shrugs as well as crochet. Here is one pattern:
Ruffled Shrug
You can find others if you do a google search on "knit shrug patterns"
Another alternative for covering the shoulders is a ruffled scarf like this
Ruffled Scarf
or
ShortRowScarf
Or, you can get a crochet pattern you like and we can try to help you online...
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 2/20/2010 9:30:23 AM
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cherish405
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Crochet is something that I don't know how to do, and at the moment, something that I don't really want to learn. I've got to be in the right frame of mind for that kind of thing.
I'm not the fastest knitter around. The warmer temperatures would be well and truly over by the time I get around to finishing it, if I ever finished it.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 3/18/2010 7:07:11 PM
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How are projects going?
I have two sweaters currently on hold. One will need to redo about 2/3 of what I've done so far, other is waiting for me to finish my current "urgent" project--a knit center/crochet (granny square) border with a running horse (pattern from a photo of my son's horse running in our pasture) in the center. THis will be donated to the silent auction the local Arabian Horse Association will have to help the youth pay for the trip to the Youth Jamboree and horse show this summer.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 3/18/2010 10:53:14 PM
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cherish405
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Wow, that's quite a project, the one with the horses. I wouldn't know where to start!
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 3/20/2010 3:59:12 PM
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I crochet. I'm working on a shawl right now.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 3/25/2010 10:47:40 PM
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creationtalk
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Wow, that's quite a project, the one with the horses. I wouldn't know where to start!
Thanks. The horse on this one is just an outline. Once it's finished, I'm hoping that the organization it is donated to will post a picture to their website. If they do, I will put a link here. I'm getting closer to finishing. I have one more side for the border and a little more to do in duplicate stitch and embroider, then attach the border and finish. Hopefully it will be done by early next week since the silent auction starts on April 8.
Actually, making a pattern from a photo is not really that hard. Several years ago I made 6 placemats with Appaloosa horses on them--a different picture for each placemat. Also keep in mind that knitted/crocheted "pictures" do not have the same detail as the original. The smallest thing that can be represented is the size as a single stitch. Sometimes that isn't much.
You have to know the gauge of your project (relative number of stitches = number of rows) and you need a gridded tracing paper. I use paper with a 10X10 grid. Gridded tracing paper is expensive, but well worth it for designing.
Anyway, I figure out how large I want the project to be in inches, then using the guage, convert that to a number of stitches. I will make each square in the grid one stitch. For most crochet and knit projects, the number of rows per inch won't be the same as the number of stitches per inch, so I will need to use a photo editing program to edit the picture by enlarging (or reducing) as needed in each direction so that each square represents one stitch
--example: suppose the gauge in the stitch I want to use is 20 rows = 4" and 16 stitches = 4" and the original subject of the picture is 4" tall and 6 " wide. I want the knitted/crocheted picture to be 10" tall and 15" wide, then I use the gauge to determine how many stitches I need to meet that--10"/4" = 2.5 ==> 2.5 X 20 rows = 50 rows and 2.5 X 16 stitches = 40 stitches wide.
I would then expand the picture so that it is 50 squares high in the vertical, and 40 squares wide in the horizontal. The GRID will not look like it has the correct dimensions, but the finished work will.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 3/25/2010 10:48:49 PM
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I crochet. I'm working on a shawl right now.
Welcome!
What yarn are you using for the shawl? Do you have a favorite type of yarn?
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 4/22/2010 8:08:48 PM
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Finished the afghan with the horse--at midnight the night before the start of the silent auction.
Haven't started another project or resumed working on projects on hold. Work is keeping me busy.
How are others doing?
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 4/23/2010 10:52:38 AM
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cherish405
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I've stopped knitting for while and traded it in for cross stitch.
Is there any way we can see the horse afghan? Did you take any pics?
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 4/24/2010 10:52:03 AM
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Is there any way we can see the horse afghan? Did you take any pics?
My avatar is now a picture of the blanket. The pictures didn't turn out very good--the horse looked better (to me anyway) on the afghan than in the picture. Also had to decimate the picture a lot to get the website to accept it...but it gives an idea of what it looked like.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 4/24/2010 8:11:33 PM
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cherish405
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That looks awesome! Well done!
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 4/25/2010 5:54:28 PM
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I forgot to update y'all and let you know I figured out crochet - and finished my first afghan a few months ago.
If you're on ravelry you can view it there:
Hexagon Afghan
In other news - I'm starting another afghan, more of a scrapghan - trying a ripple.
Anyone have any quick and easy baby crochet patterns? My friend's going to be having a baby in a few months and I want to make her something nice.
-reba.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 4/25/2010 10:38:08 PM
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Rebakah,
Congratulations on mastering crochet!
The easiest baby blanket I make is made with a shell stitch. It can be made from any type of yarn from baby fingering yarn to the super bulky baby clouds yarn.
Pick your yarn and a hook appropriate for the yarn (Examples: size D = fingering yarn, size F = sport yarn, size H = worsted yarn, size J = bulky yarn--the choice is really what you are most comfortable)
the pattern is simple--make a loose chain that is the approximate width that you want for the blanket, in multiples of 5 stitches plus 2
special stitch: Shell = 5 dc in same stitch; for bulky or super bulky yarns, you may want to work [dc, ch1, dc, ch1 dc] in place of the 5 dc
Row 1: single crochet in second chain from hook, *skip 2 chain and work shell in next chain skip 2 ch sc in next chain* repeat across chain.
Row 2: ch 3, turn, work 2 dc in first sc, *sc in center stitch of shell, work shell in next sc* repeat across, finish with 3 dc in last sc.
Row 3: ch1 turn, sc in dc *work shell in sc, sc in center stitch of shell* repeat across.
Repeat rows 2 and 3 until the afghan is the size you want.
gauge doesn't matter.
I've used this pattern many times with many different yarns. The finer the yarn the longer it takes to complete. Using a super bulky yarn like baby clouds I can finish a baby/toddler size afghan in a few hours. A receiving blanket in fingering yarn might take several weeks.
Join as you go and/or diagonal granny squares in multiple colors also make a beautiful and relatively easy baby blanket.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 4/26/2010 10:26:07 AM
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cherish405
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Congrats on mastering crochet, Rebekah! You know more than I do! That's ok though.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 4/27/2010 12:14:35 AM
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creationtalk - that pattern sounds awfully familiar - I think I may have done a shell stitch before - I'll try it out and post a picture after I've got a bit of it done.
thanks cherish405! I really love crocheting - I've also taken up sewing - well I'm trying to at least.
Sad news friends, I got my rejection letter from the 2nd annual vanna white competition. It was my motivation for finishing my afghan - at least I got a nifty magnet and 20% off coupon and phew I don't have to weave in all of the ends now!
I think I'm going to finish it with a fleece backing - anyone here ever combine fibers like that?
-reba.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 5/1/2010 4:43:34 PM
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I knit and crochet.
I have a sampler afghan, a top down cardigan, and some plain socks on the needles. At the moment, I'm not crocheting anything-although I do like it, too. Crocheting uses more yarn than knitting so, even though it's a bit faster for me, I usually end up knitting. I find it more versatile-arans, lace, fair isle, ganseys, the possibilities go on and on...
I'm "knitnspinner" over on Ravelry. I need to log in and update my stuff over there, though.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 5/1/2010 10:42:05 PM
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cherish405
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Aww, I'm sorry about the rejection letter.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 5/8/2010 5:50:02 AM
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Hi All, I am new to the Crosswalk Forums. I knit a shrug about 2 years ago, but was having difficulty with putting it together. The instructions are rather vague, beyond sewing up part of the side seams and adding the sleeves. The rest are pictorial and I just haven't been able to figure them out. I keep meaning to have another go, but haven't got around to it.
I also have a cardigan still on the needles - that went on hold when I discovered an error in the pattern and it took an age to get the correction from the magazine where I found it - and a bolero waiting to be made up - again a case of no round-to-its lol. Meantime I have been knitting phone covers and hats tubular style on 2 needles.
Looking forward to more chats here about knitting! I don't do crochet.
God bless and make you a blessing!
Gillian
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 5/8/2010 7:57:43 AM
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cherish405
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Hey Gillian! Welcome to Crosswalk. I hope we'll see you lots, and not just in this thread.
You sound like a clever cookie, knitting boleros and shrugs and things. I'm not that clever.
I do scarves. Have made squares and strips to be sewn together for blankets to go to the homeless. I don't even do the sewing. I have no idea how to do that. Have never been taught.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 5/10/2010 9:42:06 AM
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 5/10/2010 9:45:25 AM
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sewing pieces together is not really hard. There are a couple of methods. There's the Mattress stitch for one. you can look it up online. there are all kinds of websites, that will show how to do lot of things. Just type in, how to knit,
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 5/10/2010 9:50:47 AM
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thanks, creationtalk, for the baby blanket pattern. it looks easy. I'm knitting a baby blanket on the diagonal for my new granddaughter. I might try your pattern next.
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RE: Knitting and Crocheting - 5/10/2010 12:22:46 PM
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cherish405
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Welcome, Mary!
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