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Posted by Samantha Hill - take out TRASH on February 13, 2008, 9:28 am
Wow, I am really pleased with how fast this sweater is going (for a
reminder, I used the sweater calculator from knittingfool.com to create
a drop-sleeve gansey pattern and am knitting with two strands of
worsted, one black and one tan, creating a nice random marled look).
I figured out how to do the semi-set-in (or whatever they are called)
sleeves thanks to the great instrux posted here. I have the entire back
knitted and the front knitted up to the point where I have to split for
the neck opening.
I am chuckling at this lovely marled look, because I am the only sibling
in my family who can cook without being a slave to a recipe, and there
have been times when I have made something like "throw whatever is in
the fridge that looks good into the pot stew" types of dishes only to be
asked by one or the other of my sisters for the recipe, which, of
course, I cannot give, so I look at the random color spots on this
sweater and chuckle, wondering whether, if one of them knitted the way
they cooked, they would ask for the chart to get that lovely random
pattern. ROTFL.
I am hoping to get this thing done before the very cold weather is past,
but since it seems like spring is already dawning on Northern
California, I might not.
After this, I want to knit a similar sweater only with worsted cotton to
handle warmer weather. Not sure if I will do double-stranded or
single-stranded. Will have to do a swatch to be sure.
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Posted by LauraJ on February 13, 2008, 2:28 pm
It sounds lovely! And if it is too warm for you to wear, you can always
send it to me - we are still getting snow and gross grey wet weather. I am
sure some of the Canadians in the group would make the same [very generous,
of course] offer!
I hope you'll post a picture when you're done!
Cheers,
LauraJ
> Wow, I am really pleased with how fast this sweater is going (for a
> reminder, I used the sweater calculator from knittingfool.com to create a
> drop-sleeve gansey pattern and am knitting with two strands of worsted,
> one black and one tan, creating a nice random marled look).
>
> I figured out how to do the semi-set-in (or whatever they are called)
> sleeves thanks to the great instrux posted here. I have the entire back
> knitted and the front knitted up to the point where I have to split for
> the neck opening.
>
> I am chuckling at this lovely marled look, because I am the only sibling
> in my family who can cook without being a slave to a recipe, and there
> have been times when I have made something like "throw whatever is in the
> fridge that looks good into the pot stew" types of dishes only to be asked
> by one or the other of my sisters for the recipe, which, of course, I
> cannot give, so I look at the random color spots on this sweater and
> chuckle, wondering whether, if one of them knitted the way they cooked,
> they would ask for the chart to get that lovely random pattern. ROTFL.
>
> I am hoping to get this thing done before the very cold weather is past,
> but since it seems like spring is already dawning on Northern California,
> I might not.
>
> After this, I want to knit a similar sweater only with worsted cotton to
> handle warmer weather. Not sure if I will do double-stranded or
> single-stranded. Will have to do a swatch to be sure.
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Posted by Samantha Hill - take out TRASH on February 13, 2008, 2:40 pm
LauraJ wrote:
> It sounds lovely! And if it is too warm for you to wear, you can always
> send it to me - we are still getting snow and gross grey wet weather. I am
> sure some of the Canadians in the group would make the same [very generous,
> of course] offer!
LOL. Well, I have an underactive thyroid and rheumatoid arthritis, so I
am sure I will still find *some* use for it. :)
> I hope you'll post a picture when you're done!
Where does one post pix for this NG? If I can get my 16YO to take a
picture with my digital camera (that I still can't really use) and then
get it on my computer (which is totally over my head), then I can post
one somewhere if there is a place to do it that's not too complicated.
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Posted by suzee on February 13, 2008, 9:42 pm
Samantha Hill - take out TRASH to reply wrote:
> LauraJ wrote:
>> It sounds lovely! And if it is too warm for you to wear, you can always
>> send it to me - we are still getting snow and gross grey wet weather. I am
>> sure some of the Canadians in the group would make the same [very generous,
>> of course] offer!
>
> LOL. Well, I have an underactive thyroid and rheumatoid arthritis, so I
> am sure I will still find *some* use for it. :)
>
>> I hope you'll post a picture when you're done!
>
>
> Where does one post pix for this NG? If I can get my 16YO to take a
> picture with my digital camera (that I still can't really use) and then
> get it on my computer (which is totally over my head), then I can post
> one somewhere if there is a place to do it that's not too complicated.
You can't post pictures for this NG, but if you have a page on Flckr or
one of the other photo hosting sites you can post a link to it.
sue
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Posted by Samantha Hill - take out TRASH on February 14, 2008, 9:41 am
suzee wrote:
>
>> Where does one post pix for this NG? If I can get my 16YO to take a
>> picture with my digital camera (that I still can't really use) and
>> then get it on my computer (which is totally over my head), then I can
>> post one somewhere if there is a place to do it that's not too
>> complicated.
>
> You can't post pictures for this NG, but if you have a page on Flckr or
> one of the other photo hosting sites you can post a link to it.
(hoping this sounds like I am amused, not angry or being sarcastic or
anything, sort of in a classic slow drawling John Wayne type of tone of
voice) Well, if I was on one of those photo hosting sites, I wouldn't
be asking if there was a place to post pix for people on the NG, would
I? :)
I have been on Usenet since my connection was a Unix box with a
"lightning-fast" 2400 baud modem, and trust me, I would never try to
post them here, which is why I was asking if there was a place to post
them. The sewing newsgroup has a Yahoo group mailing list where you can
upload pix to share, and I don't know if there is a similar place for
this list also.
I am not really good at digital photos and have never been a big
picture-taker anyway. I can point the camera and shoot, but I have to
delegate everything else (including reminding me how to look at the pics
on the camera) to my youngest (age 16) to handle for me, and he is
incredibly busy these days.
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