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I saw the Ravelry group here (and happily joined) but since not everyone is on Ravelry yet so I took the liberty of making this group.
I knit & I just taught myself to crochet. I'm currently doing a scarf and a shawl, both gifts. Then I'm going to attempt my first sweater (for my 4 yr old).
I have a striped baby blanket on the go for Jen in dark purple, blue, black, teal and rust, a throw I'm slowly making in various shades of brown and a girl baby blanket I'm making for Vivian mostly. All crochet. I haven't been down with knitting lately. I'm such a hooker. :)
I have a really easy crochet pattern for a dress if you want-I made it when Vivian was a baby, but I think you can make it bigger. Crochet is so much easier!
Thank you so much for creating a non-Ravelry knitting group. I'm still a-waitin' and a-wishin' to get onto Ravelry.
My blog isn't strictly a knitting blog, because I write about all sorts of things, but I am most definitely a knitter.
Eden - a child's sweater is a good place to start when you're attempting your first sweater. Just because everything's so small that it goes much faster. Hope it goes well! Do you know what pattern you're going to use yet?
Dora (and other hookers!) - do you have a recommendation for a book or website for the totally novice crocheter? I'm thinking it's about time I learned how to crochet. The colors for your baby blanket sound really nice.
Annika - tell me about it! I have a million unfinished projects too. Maybe during November we should all try to finish some of our old unfinished projects?
What I'm currently working on:
- Just finished knitting all the pieces of the Rowan St. Mawes sweater for my husband (in delicious, delicious Rowan All-Seasons Cotton) and I'll probably be sewing it together this weekend.
- Working on the Elann Esprit Chemo Turban. It's fun and odd to work with such stretchy yarn.
- Contemplating patterns I can invent that will make use of the ridiculous amounts of leftover sock yarn I have in my stash.
The book I learned to crochet from, I highly recommend:
Crochet: Learn to Crochet Six Great Projects (Klutz)
by Anne Akers Johnson
It has the best illustrations I've found (I learn visually) and is the most clearly written.
The pattern for the sweater is the Lion Brand Cotton-Ease child sweater in three colors. I'd already gotten the yarn, not knowing what I was going to make with it. Then they posted the pattern, one skein each of three colors. Perfect!
I always use the about.com page for crochet-I picked it up on my own from that site, and various books I have. I'll dig them up later since a few of them have been great-my one favorite shows many different crochet combinations, which allows me to work stuff on my own instead of always following a pattern.
I had also printed "hot to crochet" instructions available from MarthaStewart.com but never got around to seeing if they'd work for me. So that's an option as well.
I also joined the Ravelry group. I'm currently working on knitting the Huggable Hedgehog, tesselated fish blanket (knitting 160 fish), everlasting bagstopper, and some fingerless gloves(Eric's glovelets) which I'm seriously considering putting in a permanent time-out. I'm looking forward to the challenge of posting 30 days in a row. Hopefully it will encourage me to knit more too!
Those pattern titles sound delicious. I'm a little kazoo for hedgehogs so I'm looking that one up first. I think there's a project group at Ravelry for a Knit Every Day type project.
I'm a knitter, though I don't blog about my knitting NEARLY enough. Perhaps that will be one of my November challenges for myself.
I'm currently working on a blanket for a friend's wedding gift. Wedding is in June 08. I think I have approximately 20 inches done (width). Need to measure it tonight.
I'm on a scarf binge lately, it's all about the gift giving season and trying to get things done and packed away before the panic sets in :) I've got a few simple ribbed ones that I'm doing for the kid's teachers, and some socks for a couple people as well. I have no luck with bigger projects aside from shawls, sweaters are the bane of my existence. I do have one that I've started on for my son, the front is done, let's see if I can actually finish it before the spring.
I've crocheted for many years...i've made a handful of afghans and too many scarves to count. Now I've taught myself to knit and have made a cardigan for myself...a sweater for my daughter, am halfway through a sweater for my other daughter and have plans for a sweater for my mother. I've totally lost my soul to the world of yarn!!!
I too taught myself to knit and crochet. I just couldn't "get it" when someone tried to teach me, I had to read it!
I'm currently making a scarf for my son, a blanket (that's been in progress for over a year), and arm warmers for the football games. It's fianlly cold enough!
I haven't yet blogged about my knitting or crocheting, I'm not sure why.
I'm working on socks at the moment. I've got my first pair finished, need to blog them. My second pair has one well-fitting, and one ill-fitting leg, so I'm thinking of frogging half of one and redoing it. Finally, I have one anklet done that I'm not happy about, but the second is better, so again I may possibly frog part of it.
HI,
Just joined. I didn't find out about NaBloPoMo until this afternoon, so I have no Nov. 1 post, but I figure I can finish out what's left of the month.
What am I making? Currently, I have 4 projects on the needles, though I'm working on just 3 of them. I have an Alice Starmore sweater hibernating until after Christmas.
I have a pair of socks, in shades of red. I'm doing the 'I Love Gansey' pattern from the Six Sox Knitalong.(I'm only 2 patterns behind--sigh.)
I am working on a lace hooded tunic from Vogue Summer 2007 magazine. I'm using Tatamy Tweed (Kraemer Yarns) which is a DK cotton acrylic blend in natural with bits of black and brown.
Last, but not least, I'm doing the Baby Pinwheel sweater from the Elann web sites free patterns collection. I belong to a local knitting group that knits for charity. This sweater will be for them.
Hey y'all. I just joined a few minutes ago. I am not on Ravelry yet. I hope that within the next 2 weeks :)
I do so much freeform crochet it's hard to tell what I am working on at any given moment. In my head I have a hat design. Right now I am working on a small patch of afghan stitch with stripe yarn. I guess I will just try and see where that leads me. Lots of other projects that I have finished are posted on my blog :D
I just finished a hat which I will be posting on my blog tonight. I cut up some old t shirts to make into a huge ball of yarn to knit a rug on giant needles. Starting another hat tonight too from Last Minute Knitted Gifts. Love the funky hat with the flaps!
Ooh, I've been thinking of doing something similar w/ t-shirts, maybe making a rug or something.
I love the LMKG hat pattern. I just made one for my daughter. It laddered for some reason. I think it must have been the yarn b/c I've never had a a dpn project ladder on me before. She doesn't care. She loves the hat.
I'm working on a Coiff from Knit Wit now that I finally found a skein of Rowan Cork. ;)
I've made two rugs from T-shirts. They are a bit hard on the wrists but oh so worth it! Do you have a photo on your blog of your daughter's hat? I'll go look.
