Hey everybody! I’m a newby (and a guy at that) to this forum and also to knitting. Had started to learn knitting from KnittingHelp.com and now (3 1/2 weeks after that) I’ve been visiting a Stitch N Bitch session regularly and am now working through Knitting for Dummies.
Until now, I’ve finished 2 scarves. One for myself and one for my bf…here they are (the red-green-Christmas is for my bf, while the salt-and-pepper one’s mine):
I’ve got the pattern for the one above from this blog.
As for this scarf, I’ve used a 5 mm/US 8 circular needles with 100 cm in length. Casting on 220 stitches (or until you find it long enough), I knitted lengthwise in garter stitches.
Used up 4 balls (finges included) of ‘Lana Grossa: Bingo Print’ #310.
I’ve a new scarf on the needles right now that I’ve just started, so I’ll wait a bit for it to grow before taking a photo and posting it here.
Thank you! Well, it took me about 5 days of perseverance for each scarf…I hope that I will get faster and better. There are some minor mistakes in both scarves.
OMG! Thank you so much for the replies and the comments!!! I’m feeling very welcomed now!
Anyhow, got some vouchers for Christmas and just went a bit mad on yarns and needles today. Am going to try tackle a pair of socks soon. Didn’t get around to my new scarf that much yet yesterday due to my doodling with practicing patterns - got some basketweave done as well as twists and a knitted plaid - So, no photos just yet…I can’t wait to try out the dpns (my first time) and making socks! (Gotta learn increases/decreases, etc. for it still)
So, that’s the next scarf I’m making for myself. The colour of the stripes is from left to right, i.e. charcoal, mocca, white. I’m doing it in Fisherman’s Rib, which makes the scarf extremely soft! The only downside is that the Fisherman’s Rib is a yarn-eater! I’m not even finished with my first stripe and my first ball of yarn had been knitted more than half already! O.o I’ve for each colour only two balls, I think I’ll need to get one more ball for each colour.
Material:
approx. three 50 g balls each of ‘Lana Grossa Bingo’ in the following colours: Charcoal # 04, Mocca # 68 and White # 23
4.5 mm/US 7
Here’s the pattern (no gauge, as this is a scarf):
Cast on 40 stitches (I used a double/long tail/continental cast-on - whatever you call it).
Row 1: Purl
Row 2: *P1, knit next st in the row below, allowing old stitch to drop from needle; rep from *, end p2
Repeat Row 2 only
Change the colour when you find the block at your desired length.
Anyhow, the new scarf is being put on hold…now I’m working on my new iPod-Sock with cables! After I’ve done two lots of cables and found the middle patch of garter stitches too boring, I started to twist the stitches in the middle into a cross right twisted stitch! What do you guys think?
So, no photos just yet…I can’t wait to try out the dpns (my first time) and making socks! (Gotta learn increases/decreases, etc. for it still)
