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Thu, Apr. 7th, 2005 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterJoy! The new issue of Knitty is up!
I may have bought even more yarn. Um. Yes. Despite the fact that I am still working on my first sweater and am only halfway through, I seem to be finding even more patterns I want to knit!
(this post is interrupted because free breakfast has appeared at work, along with fresh coffee! I am perpetually amused at how people will immediately spread the word and descend like vultures on the hapless pastries. Not that I would ever do that, of course ^_~)
But they had some balls of cotton yarn at Michael's going for 97 cents a ball. That means I can knit up a cute tank top or t-shirt for 10 dollars! I'm going back tomorrow afternoon to pick up more, heh heh heh.
I am also in two knitting circles, which are actually incredibly fun and relaxing, one of which is with some people at work, which is really nice and a good way to get to know people.
I'm just really enjoying this, even dropping stitches or trouble-shooting other people's mistakes. For some reason, I like the mathy bits of converting patterns from one gauge to another, and I like figuring out how all the stitches fit together so I can figure out what happened to make a hole in the fabric.
Since there are only so many scarves I can knit for myself and foist off on my family, was sort of wondering if anyone would be interested in assorted knitted pieces. Hats, blankets, random whatnot that I may like knitting but not wearing... Still sort of wondering if they would be sell-able for a teeny amount or to cover shipping, or as presents or whatnot.
Aaand, this is all counting-eggs-before-hatching, given that I haven't even finished my sweater yet!
I may have bought even more yarn. Um. Yes. Despite the fact that I am still working on my first sweater and am only halfway through, I seem to be finding even more patterns I want to knit!
(this post is interrupted because free breakfast has appeared at work, along with fresh coffee! I am perpetually amused at how people will immediately spread the word and descend like vultures on the hapless pastries. Not that I would ever do that, of course ^_~)
But they had some balls of cotton yarn at Michael's going for 97 cents a ball. That means I can knit up a cute tank top or t-shirt for 10 dollars! I'm going back tomorrow afternoon to pick up more, heh heh heh.
I am also in two knitting circles, which are actually incredibly fun and relaxing, one of which is with some people at work, which is really nice and a good way to get to know people.
I'm just really enjoying this, even dropping stitches or trouble-shooting other people's mistakes. For some reason, I like the mathy bits of converting patterns from one gauge to another, and I like figuring out how all the stitches fit together so I can figure out what happened to make a hole in the fabric.
Since there are only so many scarves I can knit for myself and foist off on my family, was sort of wondering if anyone would be interested in assorted knitted pieces. Hats, blankets, random whatnot that I may like knitting but not wearing... Still sort of wondering if they would be sell-able for a teeny amount or to cover shipping, or as presents or whatnot.
Aaand, this is all counting-eggs-before-hatching, given that I haven't even finished my sweater yet!
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Sat, Apr. 23rd, 2005 01:32 pm (UTC)If you're following the written out instructions, you want to take it in the order that it's written. Otherwise, you have to follow the chart from the bottom up. I'm not sure why knitting charts are like this. I think it's because you knit upwards, as opposed to the other way around, so it actually ends up being more intuitive.
Hope that helps.
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Sat, Apr. 23rd, 2005 08:17 pm (UTC)I eventually figured it out... I was counting all the YOs as a stitch, when in fact they're not really, so I wasn't sure how it worked out.
But got it now (with the exception of all my mess ups, sigh).