September and the start of school always seems like a restart of the year. Time for fall clothes, new backpacks and protractors. Well, maybe not so much backpacks and protractors but more new yarn and projects.
What are you knitting or crocheting? What new items are you thinking of?
Whatcha' Knitting? September, 2024
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I am going to knit a modular vest. The pattern is in the ebook “Modular Knitting Made Easy” by Andra Knight Bowman.
I am knitting it with Red Heart roll with it Melange. It has a very pretty range of purple shades that will look nice with a long sleeve sweater I have. I am going to try to match up the color changes so the different modules look like mirror images.
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I’m one eyed at the moment having just had a cataract op. With glasses, one eyed as the new eye hates my specs, without specs, one eyed as my old eye can’t do without them. On that note, I am just doing the sleeves on a small person’s Flax top down jumper by Tin Can knits. It really is my favourite pattern, all sizes, different weight yarns and I can do it one eyed. I was trying to learn to crochet but that’s on hold until I get my other eye done. Happy September everyone.
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I love the flax sweater. Have done one in worsted. Plan to do one in DK and maybe fingering.
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Still working on the blanket I posted last month. 3 more skeins to go. Have to take breaks from it, the bulky yarn makes my hand hurt and it’s just been too hot.
Started a mosaic colorwork project. The shawl is https://ravel.me/etude-no-6 etude and I am using Cascade 220 Superwash
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I’m glad you can still knit. It is a good advertisement for the Flax that it can be knitted under all conditions 
I’ve been trying to learn to crochet too but haven’t made much progress.
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Hey congratulations on your eye op! And welcome to your “new” eye!
I hope it isn’t long before you get some suitable glasses but sounds like you are mastering the one-eyed knit while you wait.
I love the feeling of crocheting, the way it’s a single hook, that nothing can drop or fall off, and that you can change direction so easily. To me it all feels just lovely and fluid… but the truth is everything I have ever crocheted looks horrendous. I see a delicate pattern looking all lacey and lovely in a pic and then I make and it looks like an old dish cloth or just a bu ch if raggedy knots. It’s a thing safer in my fantasy world.
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I love that mosaic pattern. This has made me rethink my next project. I was thinking intarsia or stranded colour work but perhaps I need to find a mosaic pattern, I’ve never done it before.
Thanks for the idea.
Lovely knitting
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Hmmmm I can’t seem to get yarn hold right. My knitting is so even, but crochet? Nope. Simply cannot get a way to hold it that makes it feel under control. Watched lots of videos but I think it’s a personal thing. Naybe one moment it will click. Second eye being done on Sunday so that will be good!
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Sunday! Wow, brilliant! I’ll be thinking of you!
I had some spine and neck procedures today, waiting is the hard part for me, it’s never soon enough. It’s great you just have a few more days to go. Counting down.
I crochet with the yarn in my left hand but knit with it in my right hand unless I’m using 2 + colours then I hold in both hands. I learned both at roughly the same time when I was a kid, just basic stuff but I must have had enough practise to make it comfortable. Shame I can make anything nice!
My husband was amazed at the color difference after cataract removal. You can really appreciate it when one eye has been operated on while the other hasn’t.
Holding the yarn for crochet and getting the tension right comes down to practice. My sister is a fairly recent crocheter and she agrees that it just suddenly clicks.
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Thanks, I agree, colours absolutely pop. I wasn’t expecting that or a huge improvement in vision in the new eye. On the crochet front, practice practice practice. Unfortunately I’m the kind of person who buys Gucci mountain boots and sets off for Everest the next day. 
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Yes that’s me. I bet you are being harsh with yourself. I wanted to start because I saw the most fabulous blanket, the colour combos are outstanding. Boho Rainbow blanket by Kaz at Insomnia Crochet. I’ll get there one day. Dear mods sorry i seem to have hijacked the thread. 
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This a great looking project to aim for.
It will be dazzling with your new, improved, full colour vision, you might need sun glasses!
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Hi. Mosaic is easier than it looks. Only 1 color per row and the pattern is achieved with slipped stitches.
I think you will like it.
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Yes, I understand the general idea, I think it might have done a few rows once, way back, not nough to really say hve ghvennit a go though. Good to be reminded and I quite fancy having a go on a project. I have been half thinking about sleeves, either arm warmers or bolero or very cropped sweater type item which is all about the sleeves either to wear under a slipover/vest or as arm warmers when I read in bed. I was just thinking it could be a combo of the sleeve idea and working a mosaic pattern in one project. I’m pondering as I knit my current project.
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I’m knitting Anne Hanson (Knitspot)’s “Chanelle”; it’s a scarf, and is such a pretty pattern - I’d started and abandoned it in favour of Mouche & Friends animals (a squirrel and a mouse and a bear), but have returned to it and am very happy to be more or less in a comfort zone again! At least, compared to 3-D animals, although I really enjoyed knitting the teeny little sweaters for my squirrel and bear, and a dress for the mouse. But Chanelle is great; I’m using Undercover Otter’s Eventide in a colour called “The Keep”, it’s a merino/silk/yak mix and has a lovely sheen. And I’m getting a bit more confident about cabling without a cable needle - it’s only a four-stitch cable, so pretty easy, not sure how well I’d do with a very huge cable!
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I’m doing 6 st cables without a cable needle. I think three stitches waiting to be picked up again is likely my limit. More than that will require a cable needle.
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Yes, I think that’s my problem too. I should make a few small things that don’t have to come out a particular size (or even the same size), like face washers, so I can get the yarn flowing.
I also struggle with “where to insert the hook”, although I did find an article that dealt extensively with that topic. Hope I bookmarked it!
With knitting, you almost always put your needle into the next stitch, no thought required. But in crochet it seems you might put it under the front strand of a previous stitch, back strand, both, or into a hole … or you might make a chain and then do all that or something else. Argh!
It’s so pretty though that I still want to do it. And it can be sturdy too, for rugs or bags.
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