things

[carleton97]

1. I do not have the emotional fortitude to instruct an entire fandom on the difference between alternate universe and alternate history. Therefore, unnamed fandom, SHUT UP with your intense discussions of same. You are giving me a headache.

2. I have a pile of UFOs on my desk. Unfinished objects, that is. Christmas presents for Jane and Mrs. Jane's Mom, a baby shower present for Bryn, a scarf, and a pair of socks. Also a ball of roving attached to to my spinning wheel.

3. Question for MN hiatus!con folk. It's the 27th - 29th, right?

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[carleton97.livejournal.com]

All my bamboo dpns are the cheapie Clover ones and I've never had any of them splinter. One of my 1s is a little bent, but they're so thin I'm not surprised.

I prefer dpns because my knitting form sucks and I can prop my left hand needle on my stomach to help out my useless non-dominant left hand.

I'm trying to get over that, though, because I love making socks, but not the process of making TWO, so I'm going to try out knitting two on one long circ: http://www.misocrafty.squarespace.com/journal/2006/1/30/turkish-cast-on-tutorial.html

[bbennett.livejournal.com]

I have got SO MUCH SOCK YARN and exactly three unmatched socks. I suck. I saw the article on the recent knitty about knitting two at a time and am contemplating trying it, but I'm a very sporatic knitter (I painted all summer, but cold weather makes me want to knit), so I don't know if it'll 'stick' with me.

[carleton97.livejournal.com]

I'm staring at the leg of sock #2 of a pair of Trekking ones right now. I had to rip back the heel flap last night when a stitch magically disappeared so I'm feeling pretty pissy about the whole thing.

My brother is a total AC nazi so it was SO HOT in here most of the summer so the very idea of touching wool made me want to die. But the weather broke last week and it's been about 30 - 40 since then, so I'm reinvigorated.

[bbennett.livejournal.com]

My kickstart was a weekend in Maine, knitting in front of the fire at my friend's house, which was built in 1774. I figured if that wasn't inspiration, nothing was.

I keep thinking about getting a drop spindle, but remind myself "NO. YOU DO NOT NEED YET ANOTHER INTEREST THAT REQUIRES BOTH TIME AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT". But still - how cool would spinning have been in front of that fire?

[carleton97.livejournal.com]

That would have been amazingly cool.

Spinning is your friend. You want to spin. Spinning is your friend...

[bbennett.livejournal.com]

OK, off topic, but it's fetching related, so not really. :) I actually just posted this on Knitty's board, then remembered we'd just discussed the pattern. Any thoughts?

/cut and paste

I'm on the first glove of my second pair, and while I love the pattern, I'm having the same issue that I did with my first pair - when I pick up the two stitches on either side of the thumb to form the thumb tube, I end up with gaping holes.

On the first pair, I closed the holes by weaving in yarn ends through them, thinking maybe it was a gauge issue (the pair ended up a bit looser than I wanted). For the second pair, I both tightened my knitting and went down a needle size, but while the glove itself turned out well, I still have the holes where I picked up the stitches (which I did by picking up the outside loop of each of the two stitches closest to the thumb). Pulling tightly almost seemed to make the holes worse.

I can certainly 'fix' the holes as I did on the first pair, but I'd obviously like to figure out the proper way to knit them. My LYS owner suggested twisting the stitches, but is that what others do to avoid the problem? Am I incorrect in assuming I should only pick up one side (the outside loop) of the stitch?

[carleton97.livejournal.com]

You've just hit on my main problem with making gloves of any kind. No matter *what* I do I end up with the holes. I think I'm just a sucky knitter.