Comments on: A Day to Keep House

By: Natalie O.

Natalie O. — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:42:18 +0000

If you want to learn to knit, just keep going. Start a garter stitch scarf and just keep going. It will look so much better at the end than it did at the beginning.

Also, if you want to do a hat, look into other methods besides DPNs. A long circular needle, etc. Someone can show you how to do it.

By: debbie

debbie — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:43:27 +0000

I do both knitting and crochet, neither one well. Jack of all trades, master of none, as they say. Luckily, my daughter is so sweet, she will wear all the silly little things I make without complaining. I don’t know why, she complains about everything else. (She’s 13, that’s my excuse for now).

Suzanne, do be careful on that road. We sometimes stay at a cabin in Canada with roads very like yours, only up-graded because in the summer it gets oiled to keep down the dust. In the winter the owner’s have to backpack in from town, across the ice on the lake, so nobody goes down it when it is icy. Don’t think they’d be brave enough to try.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:41:35 +0000

I pulled out my knitting yesterday, amongst many other things I SHOULD be doing! But some knitted wool socks are calling me so other things will have to wait. Good luck! http://www.whatupduck.com

By: Darlene in North Georgia

Darlene in North Georgia — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:30:16 +0000

When I was a child, my mom tried to teach me how to knit. My tension was so tight, I hurt my fingers trying to make the one needle go inside the other to pick up the stitches. So I gave up knitting. I learned to crochet when I was in my late teens and for years I crocheted. Then life happened and I quit. A few years ago, I started crocheting a “leper bandage” to send with a group of friends bandages to a colony of lepers. I found that crocheting now hurts my hands. So I again tried to learn to knit. This time, someone suggested that I use circular needles to learn to knit. See, you don’t have to “circular” knit to use those needles. You can knit flat on them. Just use them like you would a regular set of needles. The only difference, at least for me, is that I don’t feel like my arms are all akimbo (I call it chicken wings). Since the circular needles are shorter, I can work closer to my body.

Then last year, I decided I’d learn to knit socks. I did go onto the web and find videos and a set of instructions for knitting toe up socks. It worked very well, but I kept loosing one of my dpns each time I got to the last 2 or 3 stitches on that needle. So I went online and learned how to do “Magic Loop”. WAY EASIER way to knit in the round and you only need 1 set of needles per size to do any kind of knitting you want to do! I bought a set of “Addi Clicks” and LOVE them. I no longer need to have all the different size/length needles.

So if you REALLY want to learn to knit, stick with it, go online and find videos of HOW to do what you want – or email some of us and we’ll work with you. And like any thing, the more you do it the faster and easier it is to do.

Glad you and the hill struck a bargain and declared a truce.
I’m STILL waiting on the SNOW! It still keeps being forecast and it still comes down as RAIN! Like Georgia needs MORE rain!!! NOT!
(Anybody know where I can get some gopherwood? I’mma thinkin’ I’mma gonna need it! If I remember correctly, a cubit is about 21 inches.)

By: The Retired One

The Retired One — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:59:11 +0000

Your blogpost cracked me up….I too, have knitted and crocheted in the past but haven’t now, for years..I also did needlepoint and embroidery too…I have a trunk of these supplies to prove it.
ha

By: paul young

paul young — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:03:27 +0000

you need to get that new chicken water that holds 2 gal. of water.
The whole thing is made out of plastic an is heated. This is the first year for them. Sure dose bet trying to get the ice out….
Just plug in to a 110 cord.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:36:43 +0000

I learned to knit when I was a kid. I am left handed so it was a little tricky but haven’t kitted in yesrs. When I read your post about learning to knit it made me dig my needles out and I knitted a stack of dishcloths. So I wanted to thank you for renewing my interest in knitting. I have decided to teach myself how to use DPNS now thanks to Mo olelo on the forum and have 1 handwarmer mitt done and am starting on the 2nd. I’m so excited with it. So thank you,thank you Suzanne

By: sheila

sheila — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:09:48 +0000

Oh, I don’t want to even think about my knitting experience. I took lessons, made a couple dishcloths, I just didn’t get it. It was a bad horror movie. Too slow I was all thumbs and I’m pretty good with my hands. I learned crochet from a friend when I was a teenager, we made lots of granny squares. I’ll stick to crochet, I can only think about 1 hook.

By: Mokihana

Mokihana — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:50:30 +0000

Oh man, I totally understand about sliding backwards in the dark! We have a very long steep driveway and when it snows, sometimes even with studded tires we can’t make it past our really steep curve. Fear of sliding backwards is ever on my mind; it terrifies me! I’m glad you got home safe!

By: SuzieQ

SuzieQ — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:43:33 +0000

I’m tired out just reading about your day. Wish I had your energy but as they say “Old age ain’t no place for sissies!!” I learned to knit and my first project was a Christmas stocking for my son that had his name, 2 Santa faces (complete with eyes, nose and ANGORA beard (makes me sneeze just remembering it), crossed candy canes and about 6000, not really, color changes and bobbins hanging from it. A woman I worked with taught me.. It took me years before I learned to crochet..just couldn’t seem to see the stitches as easily. Now I do both, just depends on my mood but with knitting I can improvise while I NEED a pattern for crochet. HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!