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Heās rather splendid.
Carinthia. xx
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Isnāt he just a gorgeous wee spare mousie
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Apparently today is National Crochet Day.
I havenāt taken part.
Not sure that my fingers will do it any more.
Carinthia. xx
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Well, I suppose he is less rotund than the fieldmouse.
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Have just bin struck by genius.
Pass the arnica, and also if an Fish or an Sparrer could mention Murder Hat during business hoursā¦
Why no, little spybot, this is perfectly normal discourse. Return to base for your Normal to be recalibrated. Donāt be a big baby: it will hardly hurt at all.
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I knew summat like this would happenā¦
Sigh
Carinthia. xx
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Dare one ask about what genius has struck the limpet?
And why is it wishing for arnica to treat the genius*?
And a murder hat?
Why?
- limpets are known for being hard to bruise on account of the shellā¦
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Iām reasonably sure I know, but I am not telling.
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In no particular order:
Yon Fish found a knitting stitch which I thought might answer a question regarding the hitherto baffling construction of the hat in question.
Mine, naturally.
Had it not occurred to you that I might have bin struck from below? As it happens, having retired for the night to the privacy of me scrape, I had slipped me shell off.
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I see
I am easily confused and the poppy juice pills donāt help
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I am attempting to calculate stitches needed for a 24" circumference hat
Tension says 12 stitches to 4"
So I multiplied 12 by 6 to get whaat should have been the right number of stitches
It was huge easily 36"
Help
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The only way to be sure to get it right is to knit a swatch. This is a pain but at least you can re-use the wool.
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I have decided to cheat and use a knitting loom which is the right size for a hat and the extra chunky wool
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I am being a bit silent on this thread because Sudden Daughter made a Sudden Request when I saw her back in September ā well, not so much a request as a wistful remark about nice cotton bedspreads. The end result was that I went hunting about on the internet for 4-ply cotton yarn in as many colours of blue and green and in between as I could find, and after taking them to show her and her wife for their approval embarked on making 15cm squares for this project.
I shall need 224 at least, possibly 240, and so far I have made 34.
As well as all the different colours (I found 52 on the first pass) I have also been hunting for different interesting stitches, so that each square is different from all the others; no colour is to have the same stitches for the three squares that come out of a ball, and no stitch is to be repeated in the same colour. So far I have sixty-two interesting-to-knit stitches that either are completely reversible, or give an interesting pattern on each side.
This may take a while!
A Bad Naughty Confederate is taking photos of the squares as they are finished, and has offered to put up here ones which I am particularly pleased with, plus the name of the stitch and the brand and colour of the yarn, if anyone is interested.
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And the yarns, for those who feel an urge to go and have a look at the colours, are
Scheepjes Cotton 8 - Pastel Blue, Petrol, Sea Green, Turquoise, Jeans Blue, Light Blue Green, Bright Blue, Cobalt, Navy, Dark Green
King Cole Giza 4 Ply - Navy, Turquoise, Bluebell, Olive, Sage, Royal, Teal
Scheepjes Catona 4 Ply - Ultramarine, Light Navy, Electric Blue, Sage Green, Bluebird, Powder Blue, Deep Ocean Green, Forest Green, Sky Blue, Cornflower, Emerald, Midnight, Spruce, Capri Blue, Apple Green, Petrol Blue, Dark Teal, Apple Granny,Jade
DMC Natura - Electric Blue, Green Valley, Blue Jeans, Star Light, Prussian, Jade
Drops Safran - Sage Green, Denim Blue, Navy Blue, Petrol, Sea Green, Cobalt Blue
Rowan Summerlite 4 Ply - High Tide, Aqua, Sea Green
And for a grace-note Scheepjes Catona 4 Ply - Yellow Gold
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Bloody Ell, Fishy. It will be an Heirloom piece.
It will all be interesting to me.
The colours are fabulous.
How are you going to set them out to put together - onnan big white sheet spread onnan big bed, or is there an fancy pants Pooter programme for this?
How are you going to put them together - sewing, or crochet?
So many questionsā¦
Carinthia. xx
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I donāt yet know about putting them together, but I do have a worn sheet on which they can be pinned; or I might ask Feral Techie to start me off with a programme, and then tweak. I was thinking of crochet to put them together because it wastes less yarn on joining them; and of course I have to decide what colour yarn for the joins, which will certainly show. Iāll consult with Sudden Daughter about that.
And there will be another post now.
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The squares that have had their pictures taken so far are at quilt-photos
and their colours are
1 Garter Stitch; Scheepjes Cotton 8, Cobalt
2 Farrow Rib Stitch; Scheepjes Cotton 8, Cobalt
3 Box Stitch; Scheepjes Cotton 8, Cobalt
4 Close Check Stitch; Scheepjes Catona, Midnight
5 Bumpy Stitch; Scheepjes Catona, Midnight
6 Waved Welt Stitch; Scheepjes Catona, Midnight
7 Flying Geese; Scheepjes Catona, Midnight
8 Grid Stitch; Scheepjes Catona, Midnight
9 Mistake Rib; Scheepjes Catona, Electric Blue
10 Pythagorean; Scheepjes Catona, Electric Blue
11 Shadow Chevron; King Cole Giza, Royal
12 American Moss Stitch; King Cole Giza, Royal
13 Labyrinth Stitch; King Cole Giza, Royal
14 Parallelogram Stitch; King Cole Giza, Royal
15 Waffle Stitch; Drops Safran, Cobalt (front)
15A Waffle Stitch; Drops Safran, Cobalt (back)
16 Left Slanting Diagonal Rib; Drops Safran, Cobalt
17 Double Basket Pattern; Drops Safran, Cobalt
18 Right Slanting Diagonal Rib; Catona, Powder Blue
19 Tumbling Moss Blocks; Catona, Powder Blue
20 Bamboo Stitch; DMC Natura, Blue Jeans (front)
21 Diagonal Rib; DMC Natura, Blue Jeans
22 Seed Stitch; DMC Natura, Blue Jeans
23 Cut Diagonals; Scheepjes Cotton 8, Jeans Blue
24 Diagonal Chevron Zigzag Stitch; Scheepjes Cotton 8, Jeans Blue
25 Beaded Rib Stitch; Scheepjes Cotton 8, Jeans Blue (one side)
25A Beaded Rib Stitch; Scheepjes Cotton 8, Jeans Blue (other side)
26 Long Raindrops Stitch; Drops Safran, Denim Blue
27 Bamboo Stitch; Drops Safran, Denim Blue (back)
28 Chevron Rib Stitch; Drops Safran, Denim Blue
29 Garter Slip Stitch; Catona, Jade
from which you can see that I am doing one ball of yarn at a time and avoiding the many-many all confused together that would ensue if I did it any other way!
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