Stitch and bitch knitting circle

What is German?

Dude, come down to escobar.. im leaving in a min xxx

You know, it's that thing I try and do sometimes, but it just gets me painful looks from confused natives. Oh hang on, or is that knitting?

Escobar? I would, but I doubt anyone would let me in at this time of night. I expect you've probably left by now too, unless you're hiding in the bogs.

btw - I've made a sock! *much*glee*

well aren't you clever! show us a pic or are you coming on sun?

Hi,

I am interested in joining the meet up this sunday. unfortunately, I know nothing about knitting and don't own any needles or yarn. I was wondering if anyone would mind lending me a spare pair for tomorrow?

Hey Internetaholic--I'm new too, and planning on going tomorrow. I have needles you can borrow and some yarn kicking around. It's not the greatest or prettiest yarn ever, but it will be fine to practice on while you learn. As for learning, I know basics and would be happy to teach you what I know, although it certainly looks like there will be people who are far more talented than I! See ya there!

Ooooh, new people!!! Internetaholic, montypy16, would be great to see you there this evening! I'll make sure to bring along some extra needles and yarn and some books!

Here's that article from Süddeutsche Zeitung Extra from 16th November 2006...I'm not posting the whole article..only the most important part. I'll bring the copied page along this evening!

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And zooming in:

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Talking about being anonymously famous!

i think the underlined bit is referring to me


amazing to see so many people there tonight!

Laura K are you still hanging out in Escobar?

you make that sound like i'm trawling for business.. but yes, i was there on friday... why? or did you mean the group - we are in cafe mondial nearby now
miss you!xx

laura_k, since when did you turn Asian then?

bonnie!!! We all miss you! Come to Munich and visit us!

Wow, it was soooo great to see so many people (new faces as well as the regulars) there last night! I hope that all will be back!

Holy polony, the group exploded last night!

Does anyone know who the unkempt beardy guy was?

Was there a beardy guy? I must have been too concentrated on my knitting.

it was Sidthespid's mum

You mean the ZZ Top dude?

It's comforting to know where I inherited my moustache

Yeh, the zz top guy, he approached our table for a bit and looked like he was trying to establish conversation. I would have obliged, but my German is well dodgy. Confronted with the reality of trying to intervene fat bird gossip, he gave up and walked around the place with another guy, looking at pictures on the wall and discussing stuff.

The owner perhaps? What might he have wanted?

Hope we're not going to get thrown out of another place...again

or maybe it was another stalker journalist from the SZ..

i like your moustache but you shouldn't really have dyed it purple, it's too billy connolly

You reckon? I was going for the Nina Hagen look. Oh, well. Nevermind.

I started the second sock today and then had to toad. I know you frog, but I toad.

Oh and incase anyone felt left out last Sunday, please do come again. It's easy to welcome newcomers when they turn up one or two at a time, but when mass newbieness occurs, some folk often get overlooked.

If you did feel overlooked, try it again! We're not that bad, unless you're a mean sort of person, in which case we'll pick on you mercilessly. (A couple of us are Brits, so we're good at that. Trained well from an early age you see. Simply cannot suffer fools or meanies. Compelled to mock and give a damn good thrashing if necessary.)

Sid's right! Y'all need to come back. I actually managed to get around to almost everybody on Sunday...but don't feel left out if I didn't get around to say hi to you...just come back and I'll make sure I'll make it this time!

As for all the Newbies/Noobs (oh, alright, the regulars, too!), if you'd like to go on a yarn/needle crawl, just post and we'll organise something. I'm usually free during the day anyway...so if any of you are up for it, we could organise a yarn crawl follow by a cuppa or coffee somewhere and perhaps throw in a bit of an impromptu SnB session!

This Sunday, 14th January, same place, same time! Just don't forget to sign-up!!! (It's not compulsory to sign-up, but it would be nice to have an indicator for the reservation)

Cathy, where are you?!!! Coming along this Sunday?

I would be up for that. I still need to buy needles and stuff. But I'm not sure right now when exactly I'll have the time. The whole week looks rather packed. But I'll try to make time if something's organzied.

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Yes, peepz, I'm knitting TWO Kolenyas at the same time on ONE set of dpns!!!

Started: 07th January 2007
Finished: These are WIPs!
Yarn: Noro Kureyon, 100% Wool, colour #124 and #180
Needle: 3.5 mm INOX dpns
Pattern: Kolenya from Sheep and No City
Technique: Knitting TWO Kolenyas at once on ONE set of dpns using Kory Stamper's 2 Socks in 1 method from Knitty Fall 2006

...and yes, that's the glass of wine to calm my nerves...although I have to admit that I'm getting used to knit continental and English at the same time holding yarns in both hands. And I'm getting faster! Talk about "extreme knitting"!!!

So, who else's up on a Yarn Crawl/Cuppa-Coffee/Impromptu SnB Session??? I'm planning this for this coming Friday 12th January 2007...say, meeting up at 12?? Tell me if you're interested!!!

Yeah - I'm interested. Although mostly in the coffee part. I shouldn't buy any more yarn - I've got too much and I won't be able to take any of it back to Australia. And, it will be "+1" for me. So where do you want to meet?

hello ladies,

would be interested in coming along next week (cant make it this Sunday ). Havent knitted since my school days though - can anyone suggest a simple pattern? I'll get some suitable wool and needles then.

helen

hey.. i am up for friday lunchtime.. even though knitting is the devil..

Chook, laura_k: How about meeting up at Sendlinger Tor to go to Wollkorb first? Then we can proceed to Wolle Rödel and then have a cuppa at Victorian House or just pop over for a coffee at Starbucks (knitting not compulsory, but is welcomed nevertheless)...and the last stop probably will be Beck's Geknopft & Zugenäht.

I'm not going to buy any yarn - actually I'm seriously considering a yarn diet this year and maybe to join the Stash-Along/Knit from your Stash 2007 (<--- CLICK) - I'm actually organising this yarn crawl for internetaholic...so I hope she can join, but if she can't, we'll still go ahead with it.

Anyone else for the yarn crawl this Friday?? Aelfwynn, SidtheSpid??

helend, not only ladies here...I'm the gent. How about just a simple ribbed scarf? Or if you're up to a bit more challenge (which actually isn't a challenge at all), you can always try the My-So-Called-Scarf (<--- CLICK) like the one that I made:

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Oh excuse me - no offence intended

That looks just about manageable...now I just need some yarn and needles and Im away! Another addictive hobby...

Ooh another newbie! YaY!

Welcome welcome welcome! There's a few rules you should know about first though...

Forgotten-but-added-later-rule = Once you've mastered the holding of the needles, you must allow us to initiate you into knitting-in-the-round. Then you can make a pair of Kolenya gloves and then,, only then, will you become one of us. *evil*laughter* It will eventually become a way of recognising members in public places. A bit like the masons.

Don't sit next to me, I'm utterly horrid. Oh and don't even think about coming if you're not up to scratch on bitching, 'tis the way the cookie crumbles. Though we're mostly well seasoned bitchers, so if you're a bit out of practice on that one, I'm sure we can help in some way or another. Especially me, I'm the drunk with a gap between my teeth and I'm apparently obssessed with gasthaus loo cleanliness. I have my reasons.

Don't sit next to the Stricktor, unless you want to end up loving him to pieces, 'tis inevitable.

Don't sit between me and LauraK, unless you're okay with British humour. We both come from places that are not unlike Royston Vasey, which is terrifyingly true, but in a comforting sort of way.

Don't sit next to Talkstostrangers, coz she's so beautiful, it makes everyone else pale into fugliness.

Don't sit next to Talkstostrangers' German fella, coz you'll end up wanting to get yourself a German fella.

Don't sit next to Chook, coz she smells of baba ick. Only kidding, she actuallys smells lovely and we all want to squidge her baby coz she's so adorable and the mummy is so friendly, you'll want to put her in your pocket too (she's tiny, so you probably could aswell).

Don't even tink (ooh I've gone all patois lol) or think about sitting next to C_in_Märchenland, because beneath that chic, professional exteria, there's a filthy mind that revels behind those eyes of hers. I love it.

Okay, well the chances are that you'll end up sitting next to at least one of us, so my advice is to brace yourself. It's the only option.

...exactly. And whatever you do, make sure you don't get surrounded by all of us. It can get extremely scary!

MWAHAAHAAHAAAA!

Oh and Sid, we forgot to mention the Kolenya-Rule

So we did. I'll edit it now.

Oh and I forgot to add - I'm up for a coffee or three tomorrow. Did you say 12pm?

I havn't been into the Victorian house yet, just looked through the window longingly, like an otherwise-well-fed Dickensian waif. Can we ? Can we? Ooh can we? Pweeeease???

Sid, well, we'll let the mojority decide tomorrow about where we'll be going. Chook's coming "+1" and you can't take prams into the Victorian House (one of the owners - there are three of them - told me when I was there with Abra and the kids - NB: NOT mine - once). And beside all these, please, if we go to the Victorian House: Don't hit on my friend who works there (if we actually go there and he's working). TalkToStrangers's "That Man" was eying my friend in a very uncomfortable way when we were in Brown's Tea Bar together.

Anyway, so here's the schedule roughly:

What: Yarn Crawl + Cuppa/Coffee + Knitting
Where: Meeting up at Sendlinger Tor. The route is: Wollkorb --> Wolle Rödel --> Starbucks or Victorian House or some other place --> Ludwig Beck's Geknopft & Zugenäht (and then I'd probably have to go to univerisity...*meh*)
Who: Up until this moment: Elemmaciltur, laura_k, SidTheSpid, Chook + "1"
When: Tomorrow, Friday 12th January 2007, starting at 12 o'clock, i.e. noon
Why: Actually I'm organising this for internetaholic...hopefully she'll be able to come...if not, we'll go ahead anyway.

Really? I saw two ladies coming out of there once, most definitely with a pram. I remember coz one of them was so busy going through her bag that the pram started to roll away and she looked up just in time to grab it. She looked at me and burst into laughter. I think she'd been on the irish coffee!

Well, we could try...and if we can't take the pram inside, we could still park it in the ante-chamber.

Ante-chamber?

Why does that sound ever so slightly evil?

Sid, wanna go knit in the darkroom with extra big needles??? Coz darkrooms are usually in the back whilst Ante-chamber's in the front.

All newbies, please don't be scared away by the above comment of mine to Sid...this is the normal SnB modus operandi (no, not the darkroom...just the dirty talking).

I would expect nothing less *grin*

Right, I'm off now as I'm in need of more brown for tonight.

and no, Stricktor, that's not code for anything filthy, though it should be.

and no, it's not code for scoring scag either

I'm going to start a new separate stitch and bitch in the same cafe at the same time but where no rude words or innuendo are allowed.

Well, if we were to go knit in the loo, I don't see any problems knitting in a darkroom.

Sounds good - I have no problem leaving the pram in the anti-chamber. In fact I could leave it outside and if someone knicks it its insured anyway and I can get something better. Lucie will love to do some lap climbing or table dancing.

BTW I have a confession - I have never knitted in the round...I HAVE NO KOLENYAS or SOCKS.

Well, high time to learn, isn't it, Chook?

Ooooh, thanks Elemmaciltur, a yard crawl for me. I definitely wanna join, BUT I have classes till 2ish. It might end earlier or I might try to sneak out earlier if no one notices me. If someone could PM me their mobile (I actually might have someone's number already ) and I'll call once I am done and I'll make my way down to wherever u guys are at. See y'all tomorrow!

May I join? I could extract my pretend posh alias for the evening and snub my nose at the unruly types. I could switch between tables. Ten minutes being the filthy Sonia lookalike that I am and the next ten minutes being a prude. What a super idea. You think the waiter would charge me twice?

oh my gosh! you DO look like sonia! you killed pauline!

internetaholic i think it's my number you've got so just call when you're free and i'll tell you where we are.

I know. I was traumatised when it was first said to me. Can't argue with it though

Chappy insists that although I look like Sonia, I am apparently and most definitely a Kat Slater through and through, which is prob true coz I'm a right stroppy cow and I scream like a thing possessed in an argument.



Then again, I quite like the idea that I killed Pauline, she was a right cow and needed sorting out. Personally, I would've done it intentionally and with far more gusto.

I'd have done it with that bloody fruit bowl.

@Internetaholic - Welcome!

Okay, SnBers! It's Yarn Crawl Day!!!

What: Yarn Crawl + Cuppa/Coffee + Knitting
Where: Meeting up at Sendlinger Tor. The route is: Wollkorb --> Wolle Rödel --> Starbucks or Victorian House or some other place --> Ludwig Beck's Geknopft & Zugenäht (and then I'd probably have to go to univerisity...*meh*)
Who: Elemmaciltur, laura_k, SidTheSpid, Chook + "1" and internetaholic. Anyone else who would like to join are more than welcome!
When: Today, Friday 12th January 2007, starting at 12 o'clock, i.e. noon
Why: Yarn crawl for internetaholic...She'll be joining us a bit later though

See y'all later!!!

SnBers! Yarn Crawl was good fun yesterday.

Knitting session tomorrow (13th January 2007), same place (Café Mondial - Pariser Straße 34, 81667 Munich-Haidhausen), same time (5 p.m.).

Have you signed up? (If you don't get around to signing up but would like to come, we would be still very happy to see you anyway!) See y'all there tomorrow!

Elemctruckl, i transferred you the money late friday night. thanks for the lend!!

See yas later.

I succumbed to buying yarn on our expedition on Friday. Japanese Noro wool - stunning colours. So the Kolenya's are in progress. I'm pretty impressed with them so far as its my first attempt at knitting in the round. I am using the magic loop method as I found using dpns too unwieldly. I've done the first page of instructions but I am stuck on the top of the second page. Elemmaciltur - I need your help please!

The bit I don't get is what they mean by slipping Stitch Marker 1 - do mean move SM1 to this spot? And secondly, can you confirm whether "kfb1" is a "Bar Increase" - ie knit front, back?