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Feijoanna
Chatty Knitter
New Zealand
140 Posts |
 Posted - 10/05/2004 : 2:32:07 PM
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Hi,
The 'just another prejudiced knitter' thread got me thinking.
Do you have any knitting beliefs that you know don't make any sense, but that you stick to anyway?
Mine are: Knitting with cotton. Sometimes I think of trying it, but there's this resistance, and I just can't work up the motivation.
Acrylic - wouldn't even be able to bring myself to buy it. I know it's got its advantages, and is great for all kinds of projects, but my mother was always telling people off for dressing their kids in acrylic. She'd wag her finger and go "There's no warmth in that!" I'd always feel slightly guilty if I used it, and be looking over my shoulder waiting for the scolding. Fortunately, I love wool and can't get enough.
And the one idea that I have that is completely senseless and irrational is my belief that reverse stocking stitch is more trouble to do than normal stocking stitch. I know it's crazy, but just can't shake it.
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lakeviwa
Gabber Extraordinaire
569 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2004 : 3:25:50 PM
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I have a couple. One is weaving in the ends. I tend to leave a foot long piece and weave it all mainly because I fear that if I don't the whole knitted object will fall apart or unravel. Another has to do with fringe. The thought of having to "cut" my yarn into pieces scares me. I guess because I feel it is going to waste so to speak. And if one day (very unlikely to happen) I decide to frog my knitting, all the fringe would basically be wasted. And if I do bite my lip and make fringe, I have to knot each strand of yarn at the ends so as to not cause it to unravel.
Tess - Timeless Endings Soar Skyward
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Lelani
Permanent Resident
USA
2005 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2004 : 6:17:11 PM
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lakeviwa, i know what you mean about those long pieces to weave in. Im so glad Im not the only one. Lately I have been trying to cut the end down before I even start to weave it in so I feel like Ive woven the whole piece!
Lelani
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." White |
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Cameellie
Honorary Angel
USA
900 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2004 : 7:30:56 PM
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I'm prejudiced against raglan sweaters made in pieces when raglan shaping is so suited to circular knitting. What are those designers thinking?
Cameellie
Remember, everybody is somebody else's weirdo. |
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sallyjo
Permanent Resident
USA
2401 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2004 : 7:35:28 PM
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Does my long-held suspicion that cabling was actually some sort of voodoo count?
"as if God had shrugged his shoulders (and) presently our civilization will once again belong to the misshapen, the moonstruck, and the damned" Woolcott Gibbs |
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Dagny
Chatty Knitter
USA
178 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 05:20:48 AM
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Mine is knots.... I still make them, each and every time. Never had anyone notice them, even on fair blue ribbon items and stuff I've sold.
Dagny in Maine
yarn blog |
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dragonmom
Seriously Hooked
USA
956 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 07:37:46 AM
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dagny, i tie knots as well. i don't mind acrylic, it's the first thing i worked with, only started working with other fibers once i got here (you evil enablers you!)(my daughter has an acrylic sweater i made for her that she doesn't wear because she says it's too warm!). i don't like purling. don't know why, just don't like it. and weaving ends in SUCKS! however, i did see a book where you wove the ends in as you knit. now if i could only remember the book! gah!
Minnie
the world is knitted from one beautifully variegated skein and it's up to us not to drop a stitch. |
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Lissa
Permanent Resident
USA
4942 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 08:22:30 AM
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Steeks. Not gonna do it.
Lissa
Hey - I MEANT to do that! |
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Wovenflame
Seriously Hooked
Canada
812 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 08:29:37 AM
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I am just getting over a "mother induced" predjudice FOR knitting acrylics. My mother was/is allergic to wool (or perhaps just sensitve to the scratchy wools) and always sung the merits of acrylic (still does!). It wasn't until I came here that I even considered using wool. And even then, it took a delicious, high quality merino to have me "switch sides". Now I don't know if I will be able to finish one of my acrylic WIPs.
I STILL think that babies and small children are better off with machine washable clothing.....well, at least their MOTHERS are.
-Marlene-
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jjones0194@aol.com
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Posted - 10/06/2004 : 09:11:32 AM
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| I have to agree with Lissa about the steeks, that is something I am going to stay very very far away from. My other one is working with chenille, I just don't care for it. |
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SusanT
Seriously Hooked
950 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 09:18:01 AM
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| I can't stand eyelash and have no desire to do steeks. I don't knot because every single one I've ever done works it's way to the front. |
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achrisvet
Permanent Resident
USA
5986 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 09:21:29 AM
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My prejudices seem to be slowly falling one by one. I thought I couldn't wear wool because I had only tried commercial sweaters of scratchy wool. Then I discovered merino and some other soft wools. I said I would never even try entrelac, then one day I got out a book and some junk yarn and made myself learn it. I don't think I'll ever make anything with it but now I know I can. I was terrified of steeks, but now I think I will do it someday. I thought I would never do Fair Isle, but now I am intrigued by it.
I still have no intention of getting into spinning!
Anita
See my completed projects!
http://www.picturetrail.com/achrisvet |
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GFTC
Permanent Resident
USA
6331 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 12:22:27 PM
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Originally posted by lakeviwa
Another has to do with fringe. The thought of having to "cut" my yarn into pieces scares me. I guess because I feel it is going to waste so to speak. And if one day (very unlikely to happen) I decide to frog my knitting, all the fringe would basically be wasted.
I second this one wholeheartedly! I don't like doing things that are soooo final! |
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Elizabeth
Permanent Resident
USA
1557 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 12:36:19 PM
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Crochet. I avoid all patterns that ask me to do it.
I also have a thing against knitting machines, even though I've never actually ever seen one in action.
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible." --Soren Kierkegaard |
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mamid
Permanent Resident
Canada
1568 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 1:13:24 PM
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| Jealousy over wool. I am allergic to it and I can't knit with it and the stuff is beautiful and I want to and..... *cry* |
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sallyjo
Permanent Resident
USA
2401 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 3:22:44 PM
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I'm glad someone else mentioned entrelac.
"as if God had shrugged his shoulders (and) presently our civilization will once again belong to the misshapen, the moonstruck, and the damned" Woolcott Gibbs |
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jrwhiskey
Gabber Extraordinaire
373 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 4:28:52 PM
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I have (so far) totally avoided ever seaming! I'm just the opposite of Lissa and a few others ... I steek, steek, steek 
I've often wondered why I don't have this fear of cutting... I have only been knitting for 3 years 
Julie in central MD |
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KAC
Gabber Extraordinaire
USA
443 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 4:34:06 PM
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Patterns that involve massive amounts of seams. If it has a front, back and 2 sleeves, I don't want to do it - it's in the round or nothing. And eyelash yarns - you can't make me! :-)
Kim
http://sanityknit.blogspot.com/
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Atavistic
Permanent Resident
6604 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 5:02:52 PM
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Socks. I don't see putting that effort into something that's going to go on my feet. And please, don't extoll the virtues of "perfectly fitting socks." I have wide, flat feet but I don't seem to have the problem with store-bought socks that others do.
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches." Ray Bradbury |
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lakeviwa
Gabber Extraordinaire
569 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 5:16:12 PM
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I agree with biodb8er on socks. The needles are way too small and then I'd be putting them on my feet. Soon it will get a hole and render them useless.
Tess - Timeless Endings Soar Skyward
http://autumnsnowdust.blogspot.com/ |
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GFTC
Permanent Resident
USA
6331 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 5:42:34 PM
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re: socks
It's not the fit, it's the feel. |
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