Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
It conjures up Madame Larfarge played by Joan Crawford updated and reset in Los Angeles...sorry, a mad image, but I can't shift it.
Bitchin about Stitchin
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gaijingirl
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RubyToogood said:
Recently it's been more like knit and quit for me..
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Oh no!
gaijingirl
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Mrs Magpie said:
I got Joan Crawford confused with Joan Rivers.... now that would be entertaining.... not to mention bitchy..
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Here's my current bitch: people keep guilt-tripping me to knit stuff for them and it's starting to do my head in. I've got projects backed up till about February as it is, and now everyone's starting to demand stuff off me because winter's coming. And what really pisses me off is that they seem to think if you've knitted it yourself it's somehow free - er no actually, knitting wool is far from free, specially the decent stuff. They don't just randomly buy me presents worth £10-20 a throw, so why should I? My sister wants a pair of cardigans for her twins, for which the wool would cost me an arm and a leg by the time I'd done two, not to mention the time, and the sheer boredom of knitting the same thing twice.
Aargh...
Aargh...
butterfly child
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RubyToogood said:
I really do think you're entitled to say "yes, I'll knit you a jumper if you get the pattern and the wool... oh, and I've got a few things to finish before I can start them".
To just think you'll pay for everything is out of order, even for family.
butterfly child
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moose said:Indeed. And they always offer to pay for the wool then have a fit when they find out what it costs.
I've got a woman lined up to knit something for me... I've got patterns, and I'll buy the wool, and then pay her to make it.
I offered to pay her an hourly rate (thinking she would get more money that way) and she refused.
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wobbly
RubyToogood said:
yep, i will make random pressies for friends or for non immediate family, but i don't take requests. I'll make what i want to make, decide it's not for me, then gift it to the person who it suits. i made a wool purse that ent to one friend to keep her i pod in, i'm making a beaded bag atm, pain in the arse of a job to knit, but i know already it will be for a friend, i'll make something less rainbow coloured for myself later.
What i don't like is being asked to make stuff for people who don't understand the ammount of time and effort and expense that goes into knitting. The only people i will take requests from are my kids and my partner. thety know how much effort goes into stuff because they watch me make it. So they tend to ask for accessories, mainly hats. something quick and easy that can be made form leftovers.
Emma Herself
let me be your office boy
That sucks, Ruby. I'm with butterfly child, get them to buy the wool etc and then you can make it. BY the time they've realised how much the wool will cost, hey, she might just opt for the one cardigan!
I'm trying to felt a bag I just made for my mum today, out of this mental wool I got from morrocco, but it's a stubborn little fucker and is refusing to felt. It's kinda half felted. I started off doing it by hand and had a bit of luck but not much, so then I boiled it over the hob (have no idea if yr meant to do that), and now it's in the washing machine with some jeans, so it'll probably just be completely useless by the time it's finished! Ah well.
BTW - is the craft club thing still going? I never made it to one but really want to!
I'm trying to felt a bag I just made for my mum today, out of this mental wool I got from morrocco, but it's a stubborn little fucker and is refusing to felt. It's kinda half felted. I started off doing it by hand and had a bit of luck but not much, so then I boiled it over the hob (have no idea if yr meant to do that), and now it's in the washing machine with some jeans, so it'll probably just be completely useless by the time it's finished! Ah well.
BTW - is the craft club thing still going? I never made it to one but really want to!
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Kitty Schmitty
...of Canterbury City
New knitter here also! 
Whilst reading this thread, I have been in the process of finishing off the back of a red camisole. It's going well and I've been really enjoying my projects so far, but like so many people on this thread I have become dangerously anti-social as a result.
Whilst reading this thread, I have been in the process of finishing off the back of a red camisole. It's going well and I've been really enjoying my projects so far, but like so many people on this thread I have become dangerously anti-social as a result.
Emma Herself
let me be your office boy
Lol
Well the felting never really totally worked, but it's looking pretty good and I'm doing some embroidery on the bag now, it looks a bit like some kinda mermaid costume
Well the felting never really totally worked, but it's looking pretty good and I'm doing some embroidery on the bag now, it looks a bit like some kinda mermaid costume
Emma Herself
let me be your office boy
Yum yum yum... have just bought some felting needles and purpley merino roving off eBay... come on mr postie...
badly drawn cat
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I've never been much of a knitter but have long been a sewaholic. My stash of stuff to use takes up nearly a whole room (ashamed), fabric, patterns, buttons, trim, beads, thread, ribbon, braind, bits waiting to be remade, the list is endless.... Now I've been given 2 knitting machines and stacks of wool, pattern books, knitting needles, various twiddly bits of wire, brushes and what look like baby instruments of torture, plus a table to hook it all up. It's going to be a long Winter I think.
A while ago I was given a tshirt with a logo that proclaimed I was a member of - The ladies home sewing circle and anarchist society - I'd love to join the local WI just to wear it to a meeting
A while ago I was given a tshirt with a logo that proclaimed I was a member of - The ladies home sewing circle and anarchist society - I'd love to join the local WI just to wear it to a meeting
Emma Herself
let me be your office boy
badly drawn cat said:
Cool!!! Can I come to your house?
I'll keep you guys posted on the felting fun.
Emma Herself
let me be your office boy
I'm not entirely sure as I haven't tried them out yet, but I think you can use them to embelish felted projects. You take a scrap of yarn and fluff it up and lay it on the project you want to felt it onto, and then stab the needle through it lots of times and it makes the yarn felt into the backing. I think they have little barbs on them to make the fibres bond with each other.
I'll let you know how it goes, and if I ever get my sorry ass down to craft club I'll bring them along!
I'll let you know how it goes, and if I ever get my sorry ass down to craft club I'll bring them along!
badly drawn cat
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Zoë Herself said:Cool!!! Can I come to your house?
I'll keep you guys posted on the felting fun.
Felting is something I'd love to try one day, I seem to find it easy to felt really expensive jumpers though
. My 2 new knitting machines & bits are actually in bits - all the carriages and attachments are jumbled together and there are no instructions, it's going to take an age just to sort them all out let alone learn how to use them, it's been years since I used a knitting machine.
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