Knitting Crew!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

It's a totally zen activity once you learn how to do it.

[summersurf 10]

hiya gurls!! well first off, am i allowed to join in and say anythin here since i'm not from the UK?

Oh even if im not allowed i'll just go ahead

I LOVE to crochet!! so we have a thing in common then, right right?

Ummm let see what i've made... a blanky, scarfs, and 2 pair bathing suits (they're not really safe to be worn for swimming since the yarn will be stretched when its wet, but they're perfect for sun bathing), i still need to learn alot since i only know basic crochet.

My cuz introduced me to this girly thing first (you know some people think knitting, crocheting and sewing are gramma's hobbies, lame isnt it??? i dont care anyway), and then learned from youtube and my mom in law gave me this very fancy crocheting book, i learned to make bathing suit from that book. I havent done any crocheting lately, just been lazy i guess.

I'm also into sewing, i havent sewn nothin yet, but i've been fixing my dresses, shirts, jeans.. when i say fixing, means altering, you know

Alrighty... so see you girls around??

Edited June 18, 2010 by summersurf

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Absolutely summer! I tried to start a needlecraft thread in OT but it died. Please share pics of some of your stuff -- love to see your bathing suits! I see patterns for those and think, well, if I lost 15 pounds...

[Jewel-8 21]

hiya gurls!! well first off, am i allowed to join in and say anythin here since i'm not from the UK?

Ummm let see what i've made... a blanky, scarfs, and 2 pair bathing suits (they're not really safe to be worn for swimming since the yarn will be stretched when its wet, but they're perfect for sun bathing), i still need to learn alot since i only know basic crochet.

OMG!! Swimming suits?? If I could do that I could.... conceal exactly the parts I would want to conceal - and in colors that suit me. I never thought of crocheting to be for anything else besides scarves and baby blankets.

Edited June 18, 2010 by Jewel-8

[summersurf 10]

Absolutely summer! I tried to start a needlecraft thread in OT but it died. Please share pics of some of your stuff -- love to see your bathing suits! I see patterns for those and think, well, if I lost 15 pounds...

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Thanks for not makin me a stranger Maven

Alrighty, here are some of my projects, i dont have the blanky photo though, i'll take some later. When i started to crochet the swim suit, i was like, oh my, am i really gonna be able to make this? seemed soooo complicated, the stitches, you have to counted them and this and that, ough! but i did it!! yay!! the 1st one that i made was the white one, i screwed it a little with the size so i had to redid the bottom, the second one was the green one, my favorite, i wore it at the lake when we went to boating with our friends, i got them wet, but i didnt swim, came home and threw em in the washing machine (i shoulda handwashed them but again, too lazy haha, and guess what, they came out from the machine juusssst fine!!! nothin wrong..so yea, its cool ).

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OMG!! Swimming suits?? If I could do that I could.... conceal exactly the parts I would want to conceal - and in colors that suit me. :dance: I never thought of crocheting to be for anything else besides scarves and baby blankets.

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Yea swimming suit gurl!!! I kno right? what we thought we could do with crochet was only Scarves and blankies, and hat in addition;) but actually we could explore moree, depend on us though, are we patient enough to sit and learn and do it? or like me, being hit by laziness so many times

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are the pictures too small? i resized them cause i thought would be hard to upload them here, but actually was pretty easy!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Limita's devil hat is coming along very nicely. I'll take a pic tomorrow of progress and post.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Tracy and Lisa -- what colours do you want your kitty hats to be? I have pink yarn for doing the ear linings, but the hats can be whatever colour you like.

[Fandango 1,439]

Wow you're awesome!

Leopard print

JK!

Black!!!

Edited June 25, 2010 by Happy Bunny

[TracyTN 237]

Hmm. Maybe grey? (Don't want to copy Lisa!)

[Fandango 1,439]

Hmm. Maybe grey? (Don't want to copy Lisa!)

Aww come on, if there's ever a VJ meetup, we could wear our matching hats!

You can have black, if she does mine leopard ;)

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Hey bitches, I'm back. I don't know if I'm up to leopard print! So a black adult kitteh hat for Lisa and a grey baby kitteh hat for Baby TN. Limita's devil hat will be done this weekend; I'm really motoring along with it.

[Fandango 1,439]

Hey bitches, I'm back. I don't know if I'm up to leopard print! So a black adult kitteh hat for Lisa and a grey baby kitteh hat for Baby TN. Limita's devil hat will be done this weekend; I'm really motoring along with it.

w00t!

I was joking about the leopard btw

I need to think of a considerable baked goods platter to send you

[Jewel-8 21]

w00t!

I was joking about the leopard btw

I need to think of a considerable baked goods platter to send you

mmmmm, baked goods.. I'm craving brownies with carmel and nuts. I think I'm going to end up making them this weekend - screw the dieting.

Edited June 25, 2010 by Jewel-8

[AJones 2]

It's a totally zen activity once you learn how to do it.

Oh yay, other knitters! Although I am totally a short-attention-span knitter myself, but it is very zen. Especially if you're doing something like a simple hat on circs, you just zone out and knit and knit and knit and knit and voila, hat!

I also spin my own yarn and dye it... Spinning gets to be even more zen cause you get to stare at the wheel going roundy-roundy-roundy and the next thing you know you're out of fiber or bobbin space. Dyeing is mostly just boiling yarn a lot.

[jennareid 20]

I've got less than a fortnight before I move and I really wish I hadn't thrown out all my yarn in the clearout (well, charity shopped it/given it to a friend). Besides more packing I now have nothing to do for 2 weeks.

I can't wait to get to the States and get my hands on some of that sweet nasty Red Heart and power through the blanket I started making squares for, oh, maybe 3 months ago