Let's Knit Magazine - Your knitting, your style

knitternicky - 04 April 2008 12:42 PM

KnittingOma - 03 April 2008 11:24 PM

Just trying to get a picture on...don’t know if this will work this time...lets see

WOW Oma she is beautiful. I can see why you spoil her she looks adoreable.

Thank you Nicky...in that picture she looked very much the little madam....and her papa’s girl.. She is adorable and her grandpa and I miss her so much in between our visits to Holland.  If you have pics of those adorable rascals of yours I would love to see them…

Oma I will do my best to oblige next week when I have time to sit and cry (with frustrtion) whilst trying. Also when you get your pc back from the doctors.

opurple - 04 April 2008 12:04 AM

That’s excellent! Love the scarf too well done on getting the pics uploaded!!

Aw ta, pics took til midnight but I got there.  Good thing there was a friendly tutorial Such a wealth of knowledge you guys are! That is such a clear pic and the scarf looks so bright, it was a glorious day but rather windy n cold.  Can’t believe it was over a year ago!

knitternicky - 04 April 2008 12:55 PM

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Handsome man, lucky you.

Cheers!  He loved that comment

knitternicky - 04 April 2008 12:39 PM

You’ve loads of time left, I had my first two very young but Zakk and Max didn’t come along until I was 31 and then 33. I’m almost 37 and still would love more, it’s only that we have no more room left I’m not pregnant again! My SIL had her fourth last year and she was 40.

Awwwwww you are such a sweetie this made me smile a lot, yeah it’s a shame they grow so big and are expensive commodities x

I suppose we are women and can do anything we set our minds to and our bodies usually oblige.  Except aerobics.  My body draws the line there for some reason…

the first thing I knitted will have been when i was about 8 at school. We were all taught to knit squares in garter stitch, and I struggled and struggled with it. My little hands were hot and sweaty and i’m sure the yarn became very very grubby. The squares were joined together to make a blanket to send to an african orphanage and I can only assume the teacher frogged mine and reknit it, because it looked quite good at that stage.

A few years later( at about 14) my gran taught me to knit. my hnds were less sticky and I managed to do it but without much enjoyment.

When i was about 19 a magazine in weekly parts came out and I got the first few issues and relearnt kniiting and crochet and I made a hot-water bottle cover and pan holders for the kitchen,then I got bored and put the stuff away.

A couple of years ago my daughter got a teddy bear from the bear factory and wanted some extra clothes for it so I cadged some needles and oddments of wool from my MIL and sort of made a loose jacket for it,

but then the bug really caught last year when Lets knit came out. I’d been getting Lets make cards and the company offered me a low cost trial ( 3 issues for a £1) and I was hooked ( or stitched, if you prefer). Now I see the point of knitting and almost regret the lost years.

I hope the african orphanage benefitted from my first awful attempt!

well done on getting the photos loaded Nessa, Maya looks gorgeous!

The first thing I knitted was a mess. It was when I was a child in hosoital with asthma and my Nan tried to help me pass the time by teaching me to knit. I was so bad at it that I can’t even remember what it was she was trying to get me to knot - possibly just a straight line but I couldn’t even get that right.

Never mind Vicky you are making up for lost time now!!  GILLxx

my first attempt was when I was bout 6 my gran taught me to knit. I knitted a scarf.
It was a mulitued of colours (all my grans leftover bits)

I started with 150 stitches, it was full of holes from all the dropped stitches. It was 5 feet long, and I ended up with just 24 stitches left lol.

I am a LITTLE better these days, but have only recently taken up knitting and learnt to do it properly.

Hey guys,
This thread is such fascinating proof of the fact that knitters have to learn that patience, persistance and faith will win the day in the end.  We are all such resilient beings, even if sometimes we only prove it to ourselves through the glorious persuit of yarn nirvana and warm relatives knitting is so life afirming and I am proud to be among you all.  YAAAAAAAAAY!

.....the first thing i knitted was a scarf....,then toys, socks, a cusion....now i can’t stop!  i have taackled cable, dpns, and circular, intarsia, yarn overs.....there is still so much more to learn though, and i have only been knitting 15 months!

Wow, you put me to shame finnyfig!  That all sounds amazing and I love the pic!

MMM I don’t think i remember my first knitted item but I am 101% certain is was rubbish.....hehehe
I love the pictures. Always wanted to have a go at an Alan dart pattern, ever since the Nomes, but somehow my heart is never in it just as I begin the project. so i just admire from affar

BE CAREFULL SILVI!!!!! Alan Dart is VEEERRRYYY addictive! Those little fellas take over GILLxx