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eldergirl
Permanent Resident
USA
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 Posted - 01/01/2009 : 6:40:00 PM
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I would like to get back to Kim's original post on the resolution thing: what challenges in knitting would we like to "resolve" to have a go at?
Mine would be:
* Entrelac- I will try a Knee Rug from some Noro Kochoran in my stash.
* The Forest Path Stole (fear and trembling) from stash yarn bought for it.
* Mittens with a lining of Kidsilk Haze (my own design)
* Kitchener Stitch: over on "Knitting Daily" Sandi posted an alternative way using knitting, not sewing, and I just might remember how to do it with that method.
* The hardest one: knitting a sweater for myself. I was a dressmaker previously, and fitting was one of my specialties. I am a difficult body to fit, and have avoided knitting for myself, despite loads of yarn in my stash for my own sweaters!
* Purling Continental style with my left thumb carrying the yarn to loop over.
What challenges are you all thinking of, like Kim's steek challenge, and mine above?
Anna
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noallatin
Chatty Knitter
257 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2009 : 6:52:38 PM
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I want to finish the sweater I started.
I want to finish the lace scarf I started.
I want to learn how to do wrap and turn short row heels.
Intarsia
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Sticks and String
Permanent Resident
USA
1113 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2009 : 08:35:03 AM
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I want to knit myself an actual sweater. A sweater, not a shrug. That will fit. That I will wear. With buttons, too. A cardigan. For me. Yup, this is what I want to do.
I may revisit Continental style knittng this year. I do use two hands when I knit Fair Isle but still purl with the throw. I'm not worried about speed. I knit fast enough that when I say "...and it works/ed up really fast!" I'm seeing people roll their eyes at me...lol. (I apparently have to stop saying "It's dead easy." and "Anyone can do it." because people just aren't believing me!) I would like an alternate hand position for when my hands get stressed with knitting by throwing. So maybe more practice with Continental...?
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gwtreece
Permanent Resident
USA
7254 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2009 : 10:15:53 AM
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This is year to knit from my stash so I will be doing lots of socks. I have yarn to several stoles, a couple of sweaters, and lots of socks.
Wanda
My Blog
Ravelry - gwtreece
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amazing grace
Chatty Knitter
107 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2009 : 1:08:37 PM
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Learn to knit continental
Learn Fair Isle style knitting
Knit a pair of socks
Finish my Tiger's Eye Shawl
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nwilson02
Chatty Knitter
USA
214 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2009 : 1:33:19 PM
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More Cables.
I did my first cable project in December (still working on it) and really like doing cables. I'd like to learn the more complicated patterns this year if I can find a pattern I like that will fit my body. LOL |
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abt1950
Permanent Resident
3019 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2009 : 4:46:19 PM
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Finishing my UFOs--or at least cutting the number by half.
Fair Isle--I did my first project a week ago & I need to keep the momentum
Knitting down the stash, which is close to STABLE.
Doing the works already in my queue that I have the patterns and yarn for.
Learn some other skill--entrelac might be nice, continental purling (for back and forth fair isle), designing in the round, whatever--something I haven't done before.
Anne in NJ
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Catlover
Gabber Extraordinaire
370 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2009 : 4:52:04 PM
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| Finishing at least a UFO a month and working on my queue of already purchased yarn and patterns. That's enough to last more than a year! |
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yarnlover
Permanent Resident
1729 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2009 : 06:50:33 AM
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Beside the usual - stash use, wips done - I want to actually put together a lot of the bits of info/techniques into some form that I can easily use as a reference. When I start a new project, I have to hunt everywhere for these tips to remind myself. There are so many tips on techniques here in KR and other places that I read, maybe bookmark, then forget about. Gathering information in one place is a goal, and then, I would like to make some samplers of various techniques, also to be used as reference. I think this will save me some time, but maybe more importantly improve my knitting skills as things I want to try would be at hand, not forgotten somewhere.
A few years ago, I organized patterns and such into binders and once I did that, I found it so much easier to find things. That experience gives me a bit of incentive to do this.
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fiddlerbird555
Permanent Resident
USA
1429 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2009 : 07:41:03 AM
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I mentioned it on that thread. Norwegian-style mittens for DH, with distinctly non-Norwegian motifs.
Beyond that, some nice fingerless mitts for myself. If I really feel like a challenge, I'll make a subsequent pair as gloves (i.e. with individual fingers)
Low on the list, try to find a nice soft yarn, and make socks for DD that she will wear. She likes the show-off aspect of "Mommy made these" but doesn't like the way what I've made (so far) feels on her feet. Step one -- invert the stockinette stitch on the sole.
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lella
Permanent Resident
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Posted - 01/03/2009 : 07:48:20 AM
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My only resolution is to learn to make the mittens that RachelKnitter used to make, or maybe still does. I love those things.
The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have.
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Marg in Mirror
Permanent Resident
Canada
3204 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2009 : 11:13:29 AM
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Hmmm...I hadn't thought about 2009 knitting in this way, but yes, there are definitely a few challenges I want to pose myself: - entrelac - I have a washcloth pattern to experiment with;
- get back to Fair Isle, as it's been too long since I've practiced it, and I have a vest I want to do up from "Folk Vests";
- make something with a steek -- eek!
 ; and - get better at spinning and plying (I began just this past fall)
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TLWKOTB
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jtamsn
Permanent Resident
USA
1579 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2009 : 3:41:56 PM
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Some of the challenges that I would like to tackle would be .....
finish the Great American Aran Afghan, fair isle knitting and to do some more lace.
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beltempest
New Pal
USA
31 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2009 : 12:15:27 PM
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fiddlerbird555
Permanent Resident
USA
1429 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2009 : 1:37:26 PM
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Originally posted by beltempest
I want to try my hand at double knitting this year.
Double-knitting is fun! You've got complete freedom over a two-color pattern -- no limits on how many stitches or rows of the same color to do.
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Gelliott
Seriously Hooked
USA
910 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2009 : 4:24:27 PM
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I am hoping that 2009 will be the year I cut my first steek!
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sooterl@msn.com
Warming Up
63 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2009 : 10:21:28 PM
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| Improving my Fair Isle technique. My gauge is tighter when I throw than when I pick. I need to even that out. Once that is done, I will be ready to conquer a steek. |
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dschmidt
Permanent Resident
3920 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2009 : 05:49:12 AM
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I'm going to steek also.
Donna in VA
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minh
Permanent Resident and Destasher Extraordinnaire
USA
3416 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2009 : 3:36:09 PM
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Fair Isle
More sweater knitting
More knitting!!(I spend more time thinking and reading about knitting than actually knitting...) |
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busygirl
Permanent Resident
Australia
1672 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2009 : 12:19:54 PM
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I didn't do as much knitting as I would have liked during 2008,so am hoping to complete more projects this year.
At the moment I am busy knitting socks - I have finished the first sock of the pair I am making and am now busy with the second one,so my 'challenge' is to get my first pair of socks of 2009 finished.
Leslie
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Wen
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