Posts by Sarah

sock needles are usually pretty tiny gauge- you should probably go get a set of #8 DPNs ... or you could get a second "too long" circular needle (the same size as the one you have) and learn the technique to knit in the round...

If I was gonna make iceberg lettuce- I think I would like to custom dye the yarn so that it shaded from white to dark green. I'd make a ball- and start with the white end. Then after the ball was complete- I'd pick up stitches in 3...

Does she specify to use cotton yarn in the pattern? When I have blocked cotton in the past- it got bigger- not smaller. You say the pattern expects that the stitch count will go up... so that fabric will shrink a little after washing? ...

well... what yarn are you using and what kind of gauge are you getting with it? I don't know how you want us to help you. Are you saying you want to do this project on your 8's or you are just mentioning that's what you have used in...

lol... sometimes I feel like Elizabeth Taylor talking about "the Pi"

Eepster- it sounds like she'd be right up your alley- you get set on a concept -for example- the geometry of PI in terms of your increasing in the PI shawl... and then- you can do whatever you want with the knitting within that very...

OK- I just pulled some EZ crap on Molly... http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=773440 She asks a reasonable question and I basicly say- what the heck- appreciate the structure and do the math. Liberate yourself from a...

measure the size of the kid's head... and multiply your gauge per inch by that number.... I don't think that pattern (maybe I'm wrong) is much more than a springboard on a form... can't you just wing it at the gauge you have? Isn't...

There is a basic "surface tension" in stockinette- it curls like a pringle- frontwise in the vertical direction and backwise in the side to side direction. The typical "anti curling" stitches do not dissipate the...

Why don't you just do a cable RIGHT NOW on a swatch and stop worrying about it- you will know just how "hard it is in about 5 minutes. You don't even need a cable needle- you can do it with a DPN (ssshhh... the secret is that...