Phoenix Rising!

[fiberaddict]

I have a photo! It's not a complete sock - yet - but it will be TODAY. (or early tomorrow. I'm flexible!)



I'm working the "flame picot hem"..sort of. I tried it the way the Tsarina wanted...and I simply could NOT get it to look right. So I'm doing my own thing - she wants you to use a specific cast on (the knitted on one), then you immediately bind them off...I'm using the backwards loop CO. It works for *me*. And I think it looks like her pictures, so...we're good. I hope....:lol:

Can you see the bird????? I can - but I knit the silly things. It'll pop once I do the embroidery on them - the kit came with some yellow (SCREAMING yellow!) yarn to embroider with, and, yeah - it makes the bird POP. it also came with some glass beads for the eyes - although Herself doesn't like the color - says it's not *red* enough. :shrug: Her socks, her choice. She's got beads that will be perfect, or so she says. :lol:

Herself is all atwitter over this - she can't wait for me to finish it so she can "try it on". (Like she hasn't tried it on numerous times already! :lol:)

It's almost lunchtime - laters!

Comments

~ali

[(Anonymous)]

amazing - you may never see her toes again..

[(Anonymous)]

Gorgeous socks!

I has knit envy.

Oh, my niece wants to learn to knit/crochet. Ideas?

PS thank you for soaps :D

H

~ali

[(Anonymous)]

For me crochet is easy - pattern? what pattern? I can follow a pattern or not.. I saw this lady advertised for knitting - (the video shows her method between the 0:30 mark and the 1:00 mark) - she is selling her method..and her voice makes me sleep...throwing the yarn? is that what she is doing?
http://youtu.be/ht-jWS8OQBU

Re: ~ali

[(Anonymous)]

PS after the minute mark it is just her unpacking a box of expensive stuff that she intends to sell for such a deal! meh.

Re: ~ali

[fiberaddict]

Yeah, she's knitting English, flicking. I knit similar, but hold the needles differently and actually let go of the right needle to make a stitch (throwing). It works for me - oh, and I don't tension the yarn at all until the stitch is made.

Fast? Not really - but it works and causes very little/no pain in my wrists. (Define fast, too...::lol:)

There's as many ways to knit as there are knitters. Crochet is faster, but I don't "get" it.