Knitting Needles etc.

1. "And make thy Holy Spirit, Lord, wind quills…"
2. "Then mine apparel shall display before ye…"
3."My Conversation make to be thy Reel…"
4. "Then weave the Web thyself. The yarn is fine."

From http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/rhetoric.html

Parallelism can be employed in many different ways. One spin is inversion or chiasmus, in which parallel elements are carefully reversed for emphasis. A famous example comes from President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address (1961):

Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

Inversion often gains power by focusing attention on the ends of sentences, where readers and listeners naturally pause. Kennedy’s example shows this, as does the next example, from a 19th-century religious leader defending his honesty despite his change of religion:

I have changed in many things: in this I have not.

By putting the prepositional phrase in this at the beginning of the second clause, the speaker is able to end on that emphatic final not.
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Of the choices, #3 appears to be a sort of inversion, taking conversation, usually casual talk, and inverting it into talk that draws others to God.

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Cheers,
Bruce

I have a few sewing patterns that I would like to use knit fabrics on. I am concerned about how the fit will be with a knit vs a woven. I have tried to find patterns for knits but cant find anything that I really like for my little girl. Anyone have any suggestions or experience doing this.

You can use knits when the pattern calls for woven, but not visa versa.

You can usually go down one size.

You need to stabilize the shoulder, pocket openings and waist if you are making pants.. You can use twill tape or a strip of the selvage from the fabric you are using.

Use a ball-point needle to help eliminate the possibility of piercing a hole in the knit.

Morehouse Farm is a company that sells knitting patterns and kits. I have bought a pattern for a scarf and mittens. Me being dumb, forgot to look up that piece of information!!

So Do any knitters know if they send their patterns by mail or email?

Morehouse Farm patterns have come by mail; at least they did three years ago when I bought a Dragon Scarf kit.

According to their shipping information page
( http://www.morehousefarm.com/Shopping/ ), the only things they ship for free are gift certificates and knitting patterns if sent standard delivery. If you ordered anything else, there will be a charge based on the value of the merchandise. You should have received a confirmation email which will show the shipping charges.

For knitting with the knifty knitter (long loom), if I buy a smaller loom (10") will my scarf knits be titer? I don’t like it so loose.

If you use a thicker yarn, the knitting will be tighter. Also, the stitch you use affects the tightness of the knit fabric. The directions tell you to wrap the pegs in a curlicue fashion, going past the peg then wrapping around the peg so the yarn crosses over itself before going to the peg on the other side of the board. Wrap the loom in a zig zag manner instead, following the same order of the pegs. This will give you a tighter stitch, which will also result in a narrower scarf.

Another way to get a tighter knit is to use a loom with smaller diameter pegs, pegs that are closer together, and/or boards that are closer together.

An Afghan is a blanket, wrap, or shawl of colored wool, knitted or crocheted in geometric shapes.

In terms of etymology, it’s likely that the wraps or shawls that came to be called afghans were originally patterned after textiles from the Afghanistan region. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, afghan "wrap, shawl" dates from 1833.

I want to make a tote style bag using ‘Fancy Kntting Yarn’ and then Felt it. Is this possible seeing as the yarn is 100% Polyester? Will it look much different from one felted in wool yarn?
What stitch would be best to use?

Polyester will not felt. The only yarns that will felt are both a.) at least 80% wool, alpaca, angora, cashmere, llama &/or mohair, and b.) not labeled "superwash" or "machine-washable." Every yarn felts differently, and different colors of the same yarn may felt differently. (Some light colors will not felt as a result of the bleaching process.)

Also, knitting shrinks more lengthwise than widthwise when felted. So always knit a swatch (small sample square), measure it, felt it, then measure it again to calculate what dimensions you’ll need to knit in order to make the desired size felted tote.

Here are some good articles about felting:
http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter02/FEATfelting.html
http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter03/FEATfelthis.html

All stitch definition is lost when felted. So plain old stockinette stitch or garter stitch is fine.

There are lots of free knitting patterns for felted items at
http://www.knittingpatterncentral.com/directory/felted_items.php
http://www.knittychick.com/freebiepatterns.htm

okay so i have a bely ring but i dont have aneedle …will it work if i use a sewing needle or a safety pin? please dont leave any comments telling me not to do this

Well technically yeah…if you stick a safety pin or a needle through your skin it’s going to leave a hole…it’s just far more prone to infection, improper placement, and a whole mess of other unwanted results. But I suppose if all risk is irrelevant to you and you’d rather pierce it yourself than go to a professional, then yes, a sewing needle will still pierce you. Good luck, please don’t get tetanus.

I want to knit or crochet a afghan for a friend of mine. Problem is, I don’t knit or crochet. My grandmother taught me a loooong time ago, but I’ve forgotten it all. I know they sell kits, but can’t seem to find any kits that give me everything I’ll need. I just want to knit or crochet a simple afghan. One color is fine, and just a simple pattern.

My questions

1- which is easier to learn to make the afghan, knitting or crocheting?
2- does anyone know a website that I can find a kit or something that will give me everything I need to make this?

Any help anyone can give me will be much appreciated. I’m moving out of the country in Jan or Feb of 2010, so I need to get started on this right away!

Thanks for any help anyone can give me =)

Crochet works up much more quickly than knitting, so I would go for that for an afghan.
Have you tried Ravelry? It’s a knitting and crochet community online that is free to join and it’s wonderful. Lots of groups, forums and free patterns galore.
To learn basic crochet stitches, try YouTube. You can’t beat someone showing you how to do it, and this is the next best thing if you don’t know anyone who can crochet. Do you live near a yarn store? It could me worth asking there and they might be able to put a kit together for you.

I want to knit or crochet a afghan for a friend of mine. Problem is, I don’t knit or crochet. My grandmother taught me a loooong time ago, but I’ve forgotten it all. I know they sell kits, but can’t seem to find any kits that give me everything I’ll need. I just want to knit or crochet a simple afghan. One color is fine, and just a simple pattern.

My questions

1- which is easier to learn to make the afghan, knitting or crocheting?
2- does anyone know a website that I can find a kit or something that will give me everything I need to make this?

Any help anyone can give me will be much appreciated. I’m moving out of the country in Jan or Feb of 2010, so I need to get started on this right away!

Thanks for any help anyone can give me =)

Crochet works up much more quickly than knitting, so I would go for that for an afghan.
Have you tried Ravelry? It’s a knitting and crochet community online that is free to join and it’s wonderful. Lots of groups, forums and free patterns galore.
To learn basic crochet stitches, try YouTube. You can’t beat someone showing you how to do it, and this is the next best thing if you don’t know anyone who can crochet. Do you live near a yarn store? It could me worth asking there and they might be able to put a kit together for you.

Does bubble fabric paint do the trick? Or is there a commercial product available? I would like to use hand knit socks as house slippers, but they are ever so slick………

yea, just put some kind of glue or paint in like a small dome, and when it dries, it should be good to go