Knitting

I always thought knitting was more advanced than crochet?
My biggest problem with crochet is keeping a steady tautness, my projects come out lopsided and warped.


I have made 3 baby quilts though. My first was at a workshop with my mother. We were told to pick out three colors of material, dark, medium, light and the pattern was revealed at the retreat. It was called flying cabin, sort of like a log cabin design but with triangles.

The second was a design I made up myself, a simple picky cut with some 3" & 6" squares because I wanted to showcase the beautiful michael miller fabric.

And the last was a tumbling squares, the illusion Qbert looking design. Definitely my favorite.
 
I always thought knitting was more advanced than crochet?
My biggest problem with crochet is keeping a steady tautness, my projects come out lopsided and warped.


I have made 3 baby quilts though. My first was at a workshop with my mother. We were told to pick out three colors of material, dark, medium, light and the pattern was revealed at the retreat. It was called flying cabin, sort of like a log cabin design but with triangles.

The second was a design I made up myself, a simple picky cut with some 3" & 6" squares because I wanted to showcase the beautiful michael miller fabric.

And the last was a tumbling squares, the illusion Qbert looking design. Definitely my favorite.

Crochet might not be so difficult if it weren't written in code. But I've been kicking some gaming quilt ideas around in my head it's just so time consuming.
 
We just got a new book at the library with arm knitting projects. Those look like fun.
 
We just got a new book at the library with arm knitting projects. Those look like fun.

Arm knitting is EXTREME. I always wondered what you did if you needed to do something else, but your arms are all ribboned. As a knitter and a bondage enthusiast my brain wouldn't process that not being unbelievably sexy.
 
http://s1374.photobucket.com/user/jenrocks411/media/IMG_1242_zps6d911778.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1

I think this might work.

Or not. Candi, I tried using the mountain thingy. WTF??

The mountain icon is used for embedding one image at a time. Photobucket can be a bit wonky, but usually if you right click on an image you can "copy image url"

for example : http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag405/jenrocks411/IMG_1242_zps6d911778.jpg

Paste that into the box that the mountain icon brings up and your image will show.

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag405/jenrocks411/IMG_1242_zps6d911778.jpg

Hope that helps. I'll edit my post to take your pic down if you like.

But I love that quilt! Nesting dolls make me happy.


Arm knitting is EXTREME. I always wondered what you did if you needed to do something else, but your arms are all ribboned. As a knitter and a bondage enthusiast my brain wouldn't process that not being unbelievably sexy.

The projects looked like they took a fairly small amount of time with huge yarn, but yeah, if there was some emergency I think there'd be a problem.
 
Thank you, Yossi!!! I will try again. You don't have to remove unless you want to.

The fabric was called matryoshka. I love those dolls, too.
 
Crochet might not be so difficult if it weren't written in code. But I've been kicking some gaming quilt ideas around in my head it's just so time consuming.

hehe, I see. Well, thats how knitting looks to me, alien. :)

Recently I've been seeing some "nerdy" fabric with small patterns perfect for quilting. I tried googling around for material like this a few years ago and there was none to be found, glad someone filled the niche. :)
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https://d2d00szk9na1qq.cloudfront.net/Product/8f3d8a8a-e85d-4882-b426-60b09b8d9c98/Images/Medium_0320690.jpg

https://d2d00szk9na1qq.cloudfront.net/Product/d90f8bf3-8886-42bb-91d1-0e00338a5648/Images/Medium_0337312.jpg

https://d2d00szk9na1qq.cloudfront.net/Product/3d3444d3-a9f8-4f8f-b9d2-5ad3b8cc9a28/Images/Medium_0344498.jpg

https://d2d00szk9na1qq.cloudfront.net/Product/272ad2d8-8c12-4b94-ae3e-f0bf4c5b38f0/Images/Medium_0322294.jpg
 
I'll have to wait until I get home but I'll get some. It's peppermint inspired. I'm going to start on a zelda sweater out of boredom. Or maybe I should do those sprites...

Candi, I will pay you for a kids size Zelda sweater. Seriously.
 
Those are beautiful Jennifer! :)

Aww. Thank you. I am pretty proud of them. Learning from youtube is harder than someone showing you how to do it.

And I agree with Candi-crochetting seems way harder than knitting. So many stitches.
 
Candi, I will pay you for a kids size Zelda sweater. Seriously.

Well this one was just gonna be green with a little tri-force on it where the gator would be on an Izod. Something I could wear to work and still look like an accountant but a nerd client would be like, "oooh, I see what you did there!" But I actually made Bite-Size a tunic and hat via crochet. PM me if you really want me to make something.
 
The mountain icon is used for embedding one image at a time. Photobucket can be a bit wonky, but usually if you right click on an image you can "copy image url"

for example : http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag405/jenrocks411/IMG_1242_zps6d911778.jpg

Paste that into the box that the mountain icon brings up and your image will show.

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag405/jenrocks411/IMG_1242_zps6d911778.jpg

Hope that helps. I'll edit my post to take your pic down if you like.

But I love that quilt! Nesting dolls make me happy.




The projects looked like they took a fairly small amount of time with huge yarn, but yeah, if there was some emergency I think there'd be a problem.

That's cute as hell!
 
I could never quilt. My math sucks and so does my measuring.



I stick with crochet. I finally have my tension down pat, my projects aren't crooked.
 
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