General Chat

apparently?

cos of the credit crunch?

wot ya think?

any experts about? yeh i bet?

I remember my mother knitting me a swimming costume, when i came out of the water it was round my waist,! gill

ssshhhhhhhh not on here................

passes slip stitch over -

whats a pearl?

i knit and crochet though not as much since i got the puter lol

what's a pearl set? or a "twin set"?

my mum used to knit us kids jumpers and all, it was big in the 70's to wear knitted gear!

Rita - I fully endorse what you have said, you have beet me to it. I too have knitted and crochet almost all my life. Your lucky to find a wool shop these days, and they won't sell you a pattern unless you buy the wool from them.
I bought some last week to do a cowel necked sweater, and it cost me £31. 94p. Not cheap.
On the otherside, I picked up two cardi/jacket types with a crochet frill down the front from those where Jamies does his cooking, and I couldn't have made them for the price I paid.
I just think it is a fashion fad come round again.
Julia in Derbyshire

I cant knit well just about....but I can crochet and did my baby shawl, and a dresses and stuff but nothing to big mainly baby stuff..

your local seamans mission will always be grateful for knitted bobble hats etc for the sailors that come in to port
you dont have to put the bobble on they're ok without

I can do bobbles...have a little trouble with fringes ..

My Mum and her partner are both in their 80's. A few years ago, Dave appeared in a nice, thick, cream-coloured cricket pullover. Mum said, 'Haven't seen that before, is it new?' To which he replied, 'My Mum knitted this for me in 1946'!! Made to last, obviously, lol!

Please read this post within the context it is meant to be, and with humour.
I have gone back to knitting, after several years break, for many reasons. The gardening season is almost over, failing eyesight (old age creeping on) precludes embrodery and counted cross stitch. Frequent hospital visits (they just love my bowels at the Derby Infirmary), means I need something I can pack up quickly until I come home again. And because of that, can't do baking, because I can't eat it.
However, having only been on Genes for about 18mths, I have recently become disheartened, as has many others. I only have one missing, and very elusive relative to find. So, instead of keep trawling away trying to find her,and getting very frustrated into the bargain, I thought I'd have a break from it, push the laptop to oneside, and get out the knitting.

Now, and this is a big now, I am not trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, and I am certainly not advocating that everyone should follow suit, but it is possible that if a little time was spent away from the computer, and the mind occupied with something else, then peace, if only of a sorts, would reign.

I do not belong to Facebook, and only just know what a blog is. But, I can only begin to think about what is happening on there, and do not want any part of it. It is not for me.

Please, please I do not mean any of this in a patroninsing way. I pay my subs. the same as everybody else. I just think we are all adults and should get over it all.

Just think of the little home knitted things you could make between now and Christmas to pop in someones stocking. You will enjoy it.

Julia in Derbyshire

I was taught to knit when I was four (i'm now almost four with an nasty 0) by my mum.I've knitted as a child with lots of holes,as a teenager with less holes and as a so called adult(no holes).And I've taught my three daughter's,neice's and nephew's, two goddaughter's and one god son how to knit.It is a very expensive hobby but the sense of achievement when they give you the scarf they have slaved over (nice and holey)that you see in their faces is worth it.Although must admit knitting for babies is my favourite. I've got 2 new addition's next month and one next june, my needles have been clacking away non stop...beautiful lacy shawls take ages but they are so worth it.So no, it has nothing to do with the so called credit crunch....when it gets that bad us knitters will be will be hard at work unpicking all those nasty cheap jumpers..............and making them nice and new again :0)

My great-nan taught me to knit when I was about 10. The first thing I knitted was my very own Leeds United scarf. I then went on to knit fingerless gloves.
They were all the rage in the 80's, and classmates at school would ask me to knit them. They would give me 50g of DK in any colour except black and I would supply them 4 days later. I charged a quid.

Sadly the only wool shop in town has temporarily closed courtesy of the lap-dancing club that burnt down in the summer.

Joanne

Not so good at knitting but I like sewing...again cheaper to buy mostly..

Hello Rita - Yes, I remember two things that were very similar. Up to about 20yrs ago, we had a factory in the town that sold fabric off the roll. Very handy for us dressmakers. Also, they sold 'Quilting' bags for about £2., where you got a black plastic bin liner full of off-cuts. However, and this was the big plus, the pieces were quite large, and sufficient of each pattern to get full blouses out of them. You just had to join two together to make the back. It was like Vyella fabric, and very nice, but too big and good quality to cut up for quilting.
They also had, what around here are called swatch books, sample books. The pieces were about 6"x8".
so you could cut these up into shapes. I still have a collection of quilts I made using the various patterns eg, Cathedral Windows,Suffolk Punch,Log Cabin, Pineapple, and Squares.
This is another dying art,the same as knitting,crocheting,embroidery,and cross stitch, etc
Julia in Derbyshire

The only thing I can knit is very, very, very long wooly scarves!. I can start off but casting off and anything other than straight lines of plain and purl are way beyond me!

Hi Sally, my Mum used to cast me off and I'd then go onto knit something that would resemble a scarf, although it ended up very long and wider at one end then the other:) She was a good knitter. When she died, my cousin asked if she could have all of her knitting needles, patterns and stuff because she enjoys knitting. At least it all stayed in the family:)