Stitch and bitch knitting circle

@Grinner:why do you spend so much time here?

I am Bitching!!!

heres my nice pretty pic...

@Rhapsody, wow, you're stripes are nice and tidy. I think that I'll just have to knot the yarn and try tucking the knot into the side somehow. I'll have to see also whether I can tug and pull the yarns a little bit where the joins are to make it tidier.

So, peeps, tragedy striked my scarf last night. While knitting it, I pulled too hard and some stitches came off the needles, unravelled themselves into several rows below. I tried to save it with my crotchet needle...but it was far from saving. So, I've frogged the last part and starting off from the beginning again (I can't unravel all of them, because I've weaved in the yarns already and made some minuscule knots when I've done it). Oh, well, I guess that it's better so, so that I can make the scarf perfect this time, especially with the colour joins. *fingers crossed*

Lesson learned: Don't knit at 3 in the morning, especially when you have hardly slept the day before.

sorry to hear about the unravel, i can empathise. Good luck with the restart
mine is moving ever so slowly...i need some new dvds to knit to...lol

If there's anything left of the scarf bring it along on Sunday. I'm sure we can rescue it.

@Rhapsody, thanks!

@Nicky, well, I've unravelled the last black strip to the white one. I don't think I want to save the thing, because I've already started all over again, so that I can get the yarn colour joining tidier. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the old one with the three stripes though. Maybe I'll bring it along on Sunday, inspite of everything, and we'll see if I could bind it off somehow...and then I could do some experiment with it, i.e. throw it in the washing machine and try felting it, just to see what it's like. *LOL* But no worries, I'm quite okay with re-starting anyway, besides, I want to have this scarf finished by Sunday, so that I can wear it to the university on Monday. The only thing that I'm regretting is the half balls of yarns that I used up for every stripe.

Maybe we could find a way to turn it into a matching hat? But it would probably be best to simply unravel it and re-use the yarn. Waste not, want not.

Hey, do you guys know anyone who can do repairs to a sweater? I have a really pretty sweater with some stitching on the ends of the sleeves but it is falling apart all around the sleeves. Here is a picture (hope it's not too big).

@Kitkat, sorry, I'm not good at fixing. I couldn't even help my own dropped stitches.

@Nicky, I'll bring the scrapped scarf along this Sunday...although I have to tell you that with my new one, I'm almost back to the same stage now, i.e. starting the white row very soon. Am determined to get the white stripe and at least the second charcoal stripe going today.

@kitkat64 You might try crocheted carefully around the sleeves with the same colour wool. Otherwise can't really think of anything.

@kitkat64: that bit that's coming apart is an embroidery stitch, a variation on the Feather stitch. There are some instructions on it here, which I find kind of difficult to read, but you or a crafty friend might be able to make sense of them. I can fix it for you, but I'm a bit of swamped right now, so, uh, maybe next month...?

So, if you haven't read this on my blog, here it is:

[img]http://static.flickr.com/43/82559113_8645af9538.jpg[/img]

So, after about a day of on and off knitting, I got back up to where I was before I frogged. As you can see, left is the old one that I frogged and the right one is the new one I'm doing.

Incredible, but I think that the phrase "practice makes perfect" is pretty true. The stitches on the new one is very even. I mean, look at the left edges of the old one and you can see where it twisted and turned, nothing of that on the right one (okay, I just hope that it won't twist and turn when I weave the ends in)...

[img]http://static.flickr.com/41/82559114_6a60c47beb.jpg[/img]

And I mean, look at the colour joins. Now I just knitted the first stitch of the two colours together, dropped the old colour and carried on with the new colour only...and now the join is clean! Compare the old (left) one and the new (right) one!

The only thing I have to figure out now is what I should do with the old one. I'm actually considering binding it off somehow (provisional bind-off, is there such a thing?) and then throw it in the washing machine to see if it would felt...just for fun. *LOL*

I think that's a great idea! I'd love to know how that stitch felts (without doing the work myself...)

@elammaciltur: i recently found a way to make the edges really tidy. Are you coming on sunday? if so, i can show you if you like.

your new one Looks really good

Hello,

Just wanted to ask if anybody tag along on to your cicle on sundays or is there a fixed number of people?

Sara

I showed up once as an onlooker and believe you me, there is no limit to the Stitchers & Bitchers.

@Alala, Okay, felting it will be! But first I have to find a way to bind it off.

@Rhapsody, Yup, I'm there this Sunday. I mean, the new one has a tidy edge...however, I'm dreading that I'll lose that once I weave in the ends. But yeah, you can show me how anyway and we'll see. (I'm pretty sure that one edge will be bulky, because all the loose yarns are on that side).

@Bonnie, There's no limit. Just come along. The more, the merrier. If you can't knit and want to learn, I'm sure we can find you something. Otherwise you can just bitch with us. *LOL*

@Eurovol, you showed up once? I probably wasn't there back then, eh?

@Emmaciltur Don't see the problem with binding off. Can't you just unpick the last two rows and use this yarn to bind off with? Or simply join in a length of new yarn to bind off with? If you don't have any particular aspirations for this piece, then it doesn't really matter about the extra 'ends' of yarn. See you tomorrow!

You mean on Sunday, right?

Yes, sorry!

Say...what time are we metting tomorrow? Anyone else joining? Would really love to have heaps of people around...alala, eurovol, rhapsdy, bonnie, abra, naimless, werewolf?

I can't make it till about 4.30, but knowing me, that probably means 5 o'clock. Would be great if there was a big group waiting for me. How about sitting in the middle bit on the couch - that was really cosy - and not so smoky as at the bar. Easier to have the table too.

Damn. I finished one glove and was almost done with the second (though I set it aside for awhile), and I snapped one of my knitting needles in two. Now I have to go buy another set before I can finish it. I've got the whole set now, though - scarf, hat and gloves.

ugh. Wish I could be there, really really, but I'm chained to my desk today. Homework hell. Have fun, y'all.

@IPJ: pictures?

i can come whenever, just tell me when to be there.

I'm coming along between 4.30 and 5 pm (latest). See you later.

HELP! My new scarf's cursed!

While I was knitting yesterday, I pulled the yarn out from the ball and found a knot tying two ends of yarn together...FROM THE BALL!!! (I'm going to complain to Lana Grossa...unless you guys can tell me that such a thing is normal). I pulled on it to see whether it's stable enough, which it was and knitted it in (it was on the side). Three rows afterwards, the damn bloody knot untied itself!

HELP!!! I haven't done anything with it since and am bringing it along. Nicky or somebody else more experienced: I'm begging you to help me on this. I need you to insert the needle in the row below that knot so that I can unravel it up to the knot and then felt the yarns together (instead of just tying them together). The thing is because I've done the scarf in Fisherman's Rib (p1, k1 in the row below...or 'Vollpatent'), I don't know where to insert the needles! *sobs*

Yes, one does encounter these knots from time to time. My mother taught me never to trust them. It's best to unpick back to the end of the row to get a reasonable length of yarn between the knitting and the knot and then use whichever method you prefer for starting with the new end of yarn from the ball. I don't think you'll get far complaining about one knot, but if this happens more than once in a ball then I think you could certainly take it back to the shop. See you later. Don't understand the bit about inserting needles - I just take the knitting off the needles, unravel and insert the needles again. Not sure how that works with cable, but I'm sure we'll get it fixed. Cheer up!

I thought Tb does not open until 5

There's been some confusion about the opening times of TB - should be earlier than 5 pm winter-time - but let's get it clarified with TB today and post a fixed time. Thanks for the reminder, Perdido.

We opened 40 minutes ago. We are opening at 15:00 on Sunday, unless we have a reservation for 20 or more for brunch.

See you kids in a bit.

Hey guys! Was a really nice evening yestereday...

Guess what? I came home and continued knitting my scarf...Happily knitting away and...I pulled out another knot from another ball of yarn! *Grrrrr* I didn't leave it like that this time and proceeded to cut out the joints and felted it together. Now, the felted joints just look absolutely fantabulously out of place...*sigh* I just hope that at the end, this scarf's not going to be fubarred.

And as to the term I used yesterday: FROGGING

I'm still in Australia. I'll post a pic when I get back in a couple days.

@Alala -
Thanks for the response about how to fix my sweater. I haven't done anything with it yet except go to Karstadt and buy a little bit of yarn to fix it. Then I will check out your instructions on how to do the crotchet thing and will post it back on once I've fixed it (if I can).

Thanks again!

Anybody interested in helping with a new product idea? I need around 20 samples knitted. Really small articles and not very much work. Am willing to pay you for your time of course.

Please PM me if interested.

@ nuwoman: Why don't you come along to Stitch and Bitch next Sunday and show us exactly what you need!

@ Nuwoman: Nicky's right. Just come along on Sunday and talk to us. I mean, last Sunday we were already giving advice to someone on how to fix her glove!

Yes, and thanks very much for that advice. Fixed it last night and it's good as new!

@Cinzia: Glad to hear that and glad that we could've been of help!

Hey Dory! Kate just drew my attention to this post, so I just wanted to let you know that I wasn't ignoring you! I just missed it. I guess you've spoken to her now, though. Sorry. I miss you, too!!!

Took a break from my yarn-eating-Fisherman's-Rib Scarf and dedicated myself to my new iPod-Sock which was finished this morning! *Yay!* Perfect kitchener stitches work sewn up on one side while the pieces were lying flat beside each other...after that...well, didn't turn out so tidy anymore with the kitchener stitches.

Lo and behold the front side:

[img]http://static.flickr.com/38/85175453_72d22ef860_m.jpg[/img]

And here's the back:

[img]http://static.flickr.com/36/85175454_8b704170cc_m.jpg[/img]

Oh my Goodness - that is so cute!!! I want one!!!

@kitkat64: hahaha, thanks! Should I start taking order now?

Lawdy, this thread's going down-under!

I'm getting extremely bored with my scarf. It's not growing at all. In the mean time, I've started working on my mum's hat and started a practice sock with a ball of yarn I picked up out of the discount last-ball basket at Wollkorb...thing is, I'm actually liking the sock, even though it's just about 5 cm from the top down at the moment. I'll need to go and find the same yarn today...and 4.5 cm dpns for it, since I'm using 5 cm dpns at the moment and I'll actually need those to decrease the hat. Gosh, two first-time circ knitting projects at once!

Here's the proof (the scarf, the hat in blue and the sock in brown):

[img]http://static.flickr.com/36/86364792_c51c08a2fc.jpg[/img]

Well, see you guys tomorrow at TB!

What time's everyone coming? I was thinking between 4 and 5 pm? I'll make an effort to be earlier tomorrow . Cappucino was good last week. Elemmaciltur can soon start a shop!

I still haven't made it past the tiny piece of a scarf that I was working on several weeks ago but I would like to stick with my knitting! I'm not sure if I can make it but would like to and hopefully see you all tomorrow.

Hi, I'd love to join the group tomorrow. I happened to pass this wonderful wool shop today (great colours and types of yarn, and prices to match ) behind Viktualienmarkt and considered it a sign that I should give it a go. I'm a beginner, although I once knitted a scarf with the help of my grandmother. I'm attempting to make a start tonight, but I suspect I will need some help with the stitching tomorrow (should be right with the bitching though ). Amie