120428-115502-5739Above is my order no. Please advise when my order will be despatched as its nearly a week since i ordered and paid for the wool, regardsHelen Fritter
I'm having some issues here lately, and technology is NOT always my friend. Quite a lot of the photos that were part of my blog posts have disappeared. Vanished. Cyber-invisible. Where did they go? My DH got a really great song downloaded, but I can't listen to it because his i-dud has a glitch. And, the internet bandwi...
There's a lot on the internet about how to card wool and spin wool; how to start with a commercially prepared Top or the myriad other forms available for purchase. There are many discussions on how to diplomatically let your esty or eBay seller know that your are displeased with the amount of "the Barn" recieved along with the wool or alpaca ...
My DS1 recently read my UFO blog page (rubyintheroughufo.blogspot.com), and got a kick out of the "lurking in the attic fair" reference. Actually, said DS1 has been living in the attic since we finished insulating part of it last year. Which brings up the whole discussion: is HE an Unfinished Object? One of my many...
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Materials: 2 skeins of black purse silk; 2 skeins of scarlet ditto; black jet beads; a steel clasp with chain; a tassel of black beads; 5 steel knitting-needles. This purse is knitted with black and scarlet purse silk, and ornamented with black beads and a black bead tassel. Begin the purse with the black silk in the centre of the bottom part, and...
Here's what I'm knitting right now ... Vintage Elbaite - From Norah Gaughan Vol. 7 - I've been looking at this scarf for quite a while and decided to just go for it when I was browsing in Knitting Etc. while on vacation. I bought three skeins of Berroco Vintage in colorway Chana Dal (pictured below). This color is amazing ... I can't get enough of ...
Materials for 1 pair: 1 ounce of single Berlin wool; 1 yard of narrow pink or blue ribbon; 2 fine steel pins. This sock fits well, and is easy to make. It is knitted upon two pins, backwards and forwards. Cast on 22 stitches and knit 22 rows, but increase once at the end of every other row on the right side of the work, so that there are 33 stitch...
Materials for one pair: 4 ounces white fleecy, 3 ply; 1 ounces light blue fleecy. Knitted Sleeping Sock. These socks are knitted with white and blue wool in a diamond pattern, and in rounds like a stocking. Begin at the upper part of the sock; cast on 103 stitches with blue wool on pretty thick steel knitting-needles, and knit 20 rounds of the dia...
Material: Black Shetland wool. This three-cornered neckerchief is knitted in the following pattern (commencing at the corner). 1st row: slip 1, make 1, knit 2 together, inserting the needle into the back part of the stitch, slip 1, make 1, knit 2 together. 2nd row: Knit 1, purl 1 in the stitch formed by throwing the wool forward in the preceding r...
Has anyone successfully knitted the 1940 cabled jacket(Mercedes) i am having difficulties matching the instruction, is the instruction wrong 'working in pattern'for the back? eva.asante@btinternet.com
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