Doing the button and button hole bands on cardigans. If I didn’t have hot flushes, I’d never knit a cardigan again. Trouble is, it’s so much easier to strip off when you are wearing a cardigan.
I hate those so I crochet them. Much quicker and, I think, neater.
The hot flushes DO get a bit better as you get older!!!!!!
Doing the button and button hole bands on cardigans. If I didn’t have hot flushes, I’d never knit a cardigan again. Trouble is, it’s so much easier to strip off when you are wearing a cardigan.
I hate those so I crochet them. Much quicker and, I think, neater.
The hot flushes DO get a bit better as you get older!!!!!!
oooh, think I’ll try crochet next time. Thanks for that tip.
Haven’t got too many pet hates to be honest. Everyone dislikes sewing up cuz it’s the most boring part of a project. I don’t like picking up stitches around an edge cuz I always make a total mess of it and end up with holes! Think I’ll do that casting on and making an edge seperately and sewing it on thing in future!
I also hate when you cast off and at the very last stitch, it never sits neatly and just looks messy when you come to sewing it all up! Sewing in ends of thread is a pain as well but I’m always paranoid that if I don’t and just knot it off and cut it, the whole thing will unravel!
I had a brain wave about that but have yet to try it out - I thought about winding the wool around a toilet roll tube. I’ve had a nightmare with one of the skeins of sock yarn I got. I’ve managed to make some into a ball but the rest of it is so knotted up I had to put it away in a bag to sort out later before I got really upset about it!
Got interrupted by text today, hence messing up a blanket I am doing for my friend who is having her baby any day soon, this is the flamin 3rd time I have started this blanket now, maybe I’ll frog and do something easier! Or not, will try and stick with it to the bitter end!!
As you can see from the time of posting, I should be in bed now, but got engrossed in reading nearly everything on the forum!! Will fall asleep at my daughters sports presentation tomorrow nite at this rate! (bird brain, I mean tonite, its gone midnite!!)
PHONE SOCKS (anyone reading over the last few days will understand.
Seriously, making up is pants If I could afford to pay someone else to do it I would.
sewing bits up is the most annoying thing ever! it take so long and is so boring and plus i never get it to look right (my sewing skills are non existant!) which annoys me even more!
sewing bits up is the most annoying thing ever! it take so long and is so boring and plus i never get it to look right (my sewing skills are non existant!) which annoys me even more!
Have you tried crocheting them together? Makes the seam a little more bulky but you may find it better.
Got interrupted by text today, hence messing up a blanket I am doing for my friend who is having her baby any day soon, this is the flamin 3rd time I have started this blanket now, maybe I’ll frog and do something easier! Or not, will try and stick with it to the bitter end!!
As you can see from the time of posting, I should be in bed now, but got engrossed in reading nearly everything on the forum!! Will fall asleep at my daughters sports presentation tomorrow nite at this rate! (bird brain, I mean tonite, its gone midnite!!)
