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Pleat resources AK&DStrohl 03-08-2008
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Posted by Pogonip on March 14, 2008, 5:54 am
BEI Design wrote:
> Pogonip wrote:
>> BEI Design wrote:
>
>>> competition kilt, but once she decides on a tartan and I
>>> make her a new kilt we will be having custom hose made
>>> to go with it. And they run into fairly big $$$:
>>>
>>> http://www.tartantown.com/dance_tartan_hose.html
>
>> Those are argyles! I used to knit them in a fingering
>> weight wool. They're fun to knit.
>
> I'm sure in lighter weight wool yarn, and knit to mid-calf
> length they would be called argyles. The custom hose knit
> for dancers are fairly heavy and they go to great lengths to
> match as closely as possible the colors and pattern of the
> dancer's kilt tartan. They are also knee length with a
> turned-back cuff, the girls wear an elastic band under the
> cuff to keep them in place. DGD's teacher has offered to
> take measurements on her next trip to Scotland so we can
> have custom hose made for her new kilt.
>
> Maybe you'd like to take a shot at it? ;-)
>
> Beverly
>
>
Thanks for the invite, but not at this time.

--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/

Posted by BEI Design on March 14, 2008, 1:41 pm

Pogonip wrote:
> BEI Design wrote:
> >
> > Maybe you'd like to take a shot at it? ;-)
> >
> > Beverly
> >
> >
> Thanks for the invite, but not at this time.

Huh??? Sounded to me like it was something you would
welcome taking on. ;->

Beverly



Posted by Pogonip on March 14, 2008, 3:29 pm
BEI Design wrote:
> Pogonip wrote:
>> BEI Design wrote:
>>> Maybe you'd like to take a shot at it? ;-)
>>>
>>> Beverly
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for the invite, but not at this time.
>
> Huh??? Sounded to me like it was something you would
> welcome taking on. ;->
>
> Beverly
>
>

*Pfffffttt* Tell ya what. Next time I'm 15 again, ask me and I'll
probably be glad to do it.

Actually, they can be done on a knitting machine now. It's intarsia. I
did them on four needles, and blew my home ec teacher away. She
couldn't even knit and purl. It was my way of avoiding the awful way
they taught sewing - with all the measuring and basting and checking
every step before going on, so that it took a semester to make an apron.
I learned knitting from a "how-to" booklet.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/

Posted by BEI Design on March 14, 2008, 9:15 pm


Pogonip wrote:
> BEI Design wrote:
>
> > Huh??? Sounded to me like it was something you would
> > welcome taking on. ;->
> >
> > Beverly
> >
> >
>
> *Pfffffttt* Tell ya what. Next time I'm 15 again, ask
> me and I'll probably be glad to do it.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. ;-)

> Actually, they can be done on a knitting machine now. It's
> intarsia. I did them on four needles, and blew my
> home ec teacher away. She couldn't even knit and purl. It
> was my way of avoiding the awful way they taught
> sewing - with all the measuring and basting and checking
> every step before going on, so that it took a semester
> to make an apron. I learned knitting from a "how-to"
> booklet.

I very nearly failed Home Ec, I knew more than the teacher
and didn't hide the fact. :-}

I learned knitting from my mother who had this odd technique
of keeping one needle (the left-hand one) stationary and
anchored in one's lap (that may be common, but I've never
seen anyone else knit like that). I love knitting that way,
keeps my hands from tiring, but having learned that way I
never could manage knitting on in-the-round needles, or the
four double-pointed needles for sox and other seamless
stuff. When I knit sweaters for my dog, I alter the pattern
so a seam runs into and down the tiny little "sleeve".

Beverly



Posted by Olwyn Mary on March 14, 2008, 10:59 pm
BEI Design wrote:



> I learned knitting from my mother who had this odd technique
> of keeping one needle (the left-hand one) stationary and
> anchored in one's lap (that may be common, but I've never
> seen anyone else knit like that). I love knitting that way,
> keeps my hands from tiring, but having learned that way I
> never could manage knitting on in-the-round needles, or the
> four double-pointed needles for sox and other seamless
> stuff. When I knit sweaters for my dog, I alter the pattern
> so a seam runs into and down the tiny little "sleeve".
>
> Beverly

I learned to knit in England, where the technique is to keep the right
hand needle firmly anchored in the right armpit, leaving the rh free to
manoeuvre the yarn. When I switch to a circular needle, I also have to
switch to knitting continental style.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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