Friday stitch and....gripe? Celebrate? Show off your latest project? Hug your kids? Talk about the project you would really like to do but never started?
Posted on 10/21/2005 10:03:29 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum
Friday stitch and....gripe? Celebrate? Show off your latest project? Hug your kids? Talk about the project you would really like to do but never started?
Thank you. I'll look her up on FR.
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Here's a link to see the cross-stitching hanging that I need to start. Right now it's still in the bag unopened sitting in the corner of the room. Right next to my unfinished shell blanket I've been semi-working on.
Things I am celebrating:
I've spent most of my adult life on the heavy side. Probably my average dress size was 20 or 22. About 9 months ago I was starting to move into 26s. Every time I ate anything with a low glycemic index in any real quantity, I would get sleepy. Then I heard my brother had been diagnosed pre-diabetic.
Something in me clicked. I read Dr. Phil's book on dieting, and although I didn't choose to follow his plans, it helped me get real with myself. About 7 months ago I started.
Now I am starting to wear 16 and 16w clothes (I'm still too thick through the waist, but it's coming down. I've lost 11 inches off of my waist, 9 inches off of my hips, and about 8 inches off my abdomen.
I've learned to eat differently, and I don't play the same old games with myself. And I am wearing smaller clothes than I have worn since I was 21.
That is something to celebrate.
link didn't work, but I am anxious to see...
I'll have to look for that for the next project. I have about 30 years worth of magazines and books - every one has at least one thing I want to make! Have you tried any of the soy silk yarns? I've even read about a yarn that is infused with Teflon, so can't be ruined by spilling anything on it.
I am learning to knit, and have gotten to the end of three projects now. The only thing I have left to learn is to cast off to finish each one. How exciting!
Abner, if I can learn to knit, ANYBODY can, LOL! I still think crocheting goes faster and doesn't need as much counting, but the knitting projects have such a lovely texture.
Never mind about the link.
I swear it was working early, until I posted it.
((sigh))
Maybe I'll try after lunch hopefully I can think more clearly then. Otherwise I have no excuse.
Please put me on your ping list. My favorite needle art is needlepoint and bargello, followed by crewel embroidery.
Today I'm not doing nothing. I have a cold and am rather dizzy.
post 27 was meant for you.
LOL--Ping to more fun.
How fantastic for you! I'm so proud of you!
I've been wanting to learn how to knit for some time now. I bought a book (no, I haven't opened it yet) on knitting, but recently a friend of my Mother's came over to visit.
She's a German lady, and was in the middle of knitting a few items during her stay. She claims that there are two different methods for knitting - an English version and a German version (I believe she called it 'picking'). Supposedly Americans switched over to the English version right around WWII for political reasons, but that the German version was much easier to learn and quicker as well.
I know this is a rather broad question, but for someone like myself that has never picked up a knitting needle, what's the best method to learn?
VRWKNC PING!
It is a gloomy, rainy, cold Friday here in northwest/north central Indiana. It would be a perfect day to curl up on the couch with the "Quaker Stocking" (see the last VRWKNC post), put a blanket over my legs, and stitch away!
Man, that visual just about did away with any desire I had to work this afternoon!
Holy cow, that's amazing! Congratulations! Last time my dimensions changed that much, I had a baby! ;-P
That's just...Incredible. I bet you have a good time looking at old pictures.
Teflon in the yarn? Now that would be fun! Would it protect me from tomato sauce? My front is a tomato sauce magnet....
I am so proud of you. Congratulations!
And don't let anyone give you grief about following Dr. Phil's advice. I know there are some on FR who detest the man, but if that was the "kick in the butt" that you needed to get going--what can you say?
I am not working on my needlepoint armorial at the moment but will pick it up again soon. I have forgotten how to crochet even though my grandmother taught me how when I was a child. Can I play even if I am not working on anything at the moment? Winter is coming on and I will have more indoor time to fill.
It's a pattern for a single-stitch scarf, with really nice photograph instructions. Once you finish this, your hands will know what to do (muscle memory), and purling will be a snap to learn, since it's just a backwards knit-stitch.
You are added.
Bargello is really neat. In the 1700s, they called it Irish Stitch and used it a lot to make cushions and wallets and other things...I am supposed to be making a strap for my hubby out of it, but haven't worked on it in a long time, shame on me...
LOL! Mine, too, that's why it caught my eye.
And congrats on the dramatic weight loss! You didn't do that by sitting around and stitching!
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