that I can stop a piece of stockinette stitch knitting from curling?
Yes, I know stockinette curls. And yet I saw a bag on Joann’s pattern finder that was in stockinette and I had to try it, so I decided to do a practice run using the rest of my ‘practice’ yarn so I could finally be rid of the stupid huge skein of Caron pound yarn I’ve had forever. And of course the blasted thing is curling like crazy and now I’m worried about how I’ll sew the edges together when I’m finished knitting it.
Is there anything I can do about this? Anything? Throw some salt over my shoulder, sacrifice a non-knitter, make a voodoo doll? I’m desperate! :hair:
basically, it will curl and there’s not much you can do about it without changing the stitch. BUT, when you seam it up, the curl will probably make the shape really nice.
If I’m interpretting the situation correctly, you don’t need to do anything about the curling because the seams will take care it. It’s like making a sweater with flat knitting in stockinette st-- you don’t do anything to make the edges lie particularly flat, but when you’ve finished sewing up the seams, your problem is solved.
This will not be a felted bag. Really, this is just an exercise to a) practice my bag knitting before I try it out on the real thing, didn’t want to waste any of my good yarn and b) to get rid of the yarn that I can’t stand to look at anymore and if I make another scarf I might vomit so a bag it shall be. Hmm, there’s an idea…maybe I should make a bag to breathe into when knitting frustrates me…it sure would be useful. :mrgreen:
Er, how do you seam something? I’m a brand brand new knitter; have no clue how to do this or what to use to do it [/dunce].
I can learn to knit, I can learn to knit, I can learn to knit…
Do you have any cats??? If not,find some and take that pound of sh–t, leave it in your crafting area (no needles dangling) lay a pattern out,preferably a sock pattern (so that the cat(s) think your making something nice and complicated) add cat (s)…there you have it…problem solved;) cloud9
imrachel, I can’t post a direct link to it because the Joann’s site has some kind of weirdo frames thingy problem, but it’s a pattern for a beginner’s bag using wool ease thick and quick yarn.
I have two cats who “love” to unravel anything on the needles…especially almost finished projects (usually the complicated ones) 2. I do not like the yarn you mentioned (I thought you didn’t either…sorry) 3. Trying to show you the"humorous" side of knitting…we have all been there…done that:hug: Umm, I guess I should of “tackled” the seaming part of the question:?? FYI … I am not even going to comment on the “figure it out for yourself”…I have never seen that comment here before…all of us will help you out!!!Go here, to tutorials and see if this answers your questions…Knitting Pattern Central - Directory of Free, Online Knitting Patterns by Category check out everything else too!!!
If you’re doing them along the right or left edge, you’d use mattress stitch. You can’t even see where it’s seamed together- it’s so cool!
I was working on a project that I had to seam end to end (now I would have cast on provisionally & used a 3 needle bind off- but this was one of my first projects & I didn’t know how) and I found a really cool site with lots of instructions, like an e-book. Since then our computer has crashed and I couldn’t find it for you again! The one at that website is pretty good. ETA it is a loom knitting site apparently- but the seaming is the same! I wanted to send you one that had that end to end seaming too in case that is what you needed.
If you don’t know how to seam, it can be hard to figure out. It isn’t like sewing a hem on fabric- you have to know how to put the stitches together correctly.
If you need any more help- please don’t hesitate to ask. Without the knitters here, there are a lot of us who would not be knitting.
Ah, okay, cheley. I don’t have any cats (allergic to pet dander).
Thanks for the help simply renee. And I’m not offended by people suggesting I look things up. shrug I am brand new at this and trying to learn it without any in-person training so I wouldn’t be surprised if I got some is-she-for-real type of reactions here. I’m extremely thick skinned, and I don’t think the poster who suggested I look it up meant it insultingly anyway. But I appreciate your reassurance.
I know I can look things up and watch videos but at the risk of stepping on some toes, some of the videos aren’t very helpful - either the knitter goes too fast or I find the instructions confusing, so on. So I try to see if I can get a bunch of different people explaining it before I try it myself.
I have a lot going on in my real life and at the rate I’m learning, I’m sure I’ll ask plenty of silly beginner questions here, already have in fact. Someone has to! :mrgreen:
Bumping this topic to ask another bag-related question: I’ve changed my mind about the closure yet again. I’m thinking of doing an i-cord closure (I think that’s what it’s called…when you pull it close with a cord that also doubles as the handle?) I saw a video on youtube about how to knit it using double pointed needles, but I can’t find anything on how you know how long to make the cord or how to attach it to the bag.
