Re: [lace] Manos lace weight yarn
You can also use post it notes on a chart. Recently I bought myself a small magnetic board and made a long magnet from fridge magnets. I now use this for working charts. Unlike the stickies, it never needs replacing. Nita in Calgary on a warm and windy day On 18-Dec-11, at 2:31 PM, Clay Blackwell wrote: In my note to Mary Carey, I failed to mention that the single best tool I have found to help with charts is a roll of sticky-tape made in see-through colors which is like post it notes in that the tape can be pulled up and repositioned numerous times. I always use a strip of this to inderline the line of the graph that I am currently knitting. It saves a world of headaches! Usually the knitting shops carry this - it's a must-have for graphs. It's also used by people who do counted cross-stitch, so try there if you LYS (LKS) doesn't have it. Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA. USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Manos lace weight yarn
I am currently knitting a lace pattern shawl in this ( Manos pattern annabelle) in natural colour. I started a year or so ago and then had to take on a burst as daughter announced she was expecting next March. The yarn knits up a treat and the pattern is lovely unless you drop a stitch in the lace area. It is one of those make 3 in one row and then knit together so dropping a stitch is a disaster. I did rip out and start again early on. Lace has had to go by the board for a while. Hopefully I'm nearly there now. It's been slow going as I'm struggling with my double vision but I saw the consultant on Friday and hope for surgery in the New Year. I have the 'misfortune' to work next door to the yarn shop and the owner came in with the yarn samples and pattern to show me. Baby cardigans to make as soon as I get the shawl made. Lynne Baldock, North Herts, UK where there is a nice rime of frost this morning and the thermometer reads -1C - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
RE: [lace] Manos lace weight yarn
Hi All, Treated my eldest daughter - lives in Windsor, Ontario - to some credit at a local knitting store for her birthday and Christmas - and she is already knitting a shawl. She asked me questions I could not answer about knitting from a graph. Have worked from a graph on lots of occasions for crochet and tatting but not knitting. Yes, I knit but not from a graph. Did tatting lessons with her once - we both had a copy to the same book and was able to ask her to refer to a specific page, and it was before Skype too. I hope to make a baby shawl for another daughter's baby (due April) but I will dust off my knitting machine for that. I also have a large spool of pink cotton to try lace knitting - a machine has an amazing range of possibilities if one cares to explore them. If anyone can help with a simple explanation, please email me privately. Mary Carey Campbelltown, NSW, Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
RE: [lace] Manos lace weight yarn
Please could any replies come to the list? The charts for knitting are a mystery to me as well. Margery. margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Herts, UK -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of mary carey Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 8:41 PM To: pigscanfl...@ntlworld.com; lace@arachne.com Subject: RE: [lace] Manos lace weight yarn Hi All, snip Have worked from a graph on lots of occasions for crochet and tatting but not knitting. Yes, I knit but not from a graph. snip If anyone can help with a simple explanation, please email me privately. Mary Carey Campbelltown, NSW, Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
RE: [lace] Manos lace weight yarn
Dear Mary Carey - I have knitted for decades, although I admit that my obcession with bobbin lace sharply cut into my knitting time for about ten years. But between the time I stopped, and the time I started again, the knitting world had embraced graphs, and after following them (or diagrams) for bobbin lace for so long, knitting from them was second nature. I would strongly encourage her to learn to work from graphs, as they are so much easier to follow (in my experience), and therefore you work faster. I have a couple of pointers... 1. You work the chart from the bottom up. Row 1 is the first row you knit in the pattern, and it's read (and worked) from right to left. 2. Just like other graphs, the symbols used for particular stitches may be different from one designer to another, so it's very important to study the chart that is always provided to identify what each symbol means. 3. Since she is working a shawl, she would work the second row reading the graph from left to right... although she is still working right to left. I know this sounds confusing, but with a little practice, she'll get used to it. And, in a shawl, it is entirely possible that the pattern is the same from either direction, so she could check that to be sure. I'd also encourage her to find a friendly LKS... local knitting shop... where she can get lots of expert advice. If she chances on the oddball place which is unfriendly because she didn't buy her supplies from them, then tell her to move on they're not worth her custom. A good shop will encourage and help her regardless, because they know she'll come back to them lfor the supplies for her next project! I hope she finds joy and relaxation in her knitting! Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA. USA mary carey d...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, Treated my eldest daughter - lives in Windsor, Ontario - to some credit at a local knitting store for her birthday and Christmas - and she is already knitting a shawl. She asked me questions I could not answer about knitting from a graph. Have worked from a graph on lots of occasions for crochet and tatting but not knitting. Yes, I knit but not from a graph. Did tatting lessons with her once - we both had a copy to the same book and was able to ask her to refer to a specific page, and it was before Skype too. I hope to make a baby shawl for another daughter's baby (due April) but I will dust off my knitting machine for that. I also have a large spool of pink cotton to try lace knitting - a machine has an amazing range of possibilities if one cares to explore them. If anyone can help with a simple explanation, please email me privately. Mary Carey Campbelltown, NSW, Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
RE: [lace] Manos lace weight yarn
In my note to Mary Carey, I failed to mention that the single best tool I have found to help with charts is a roll of sticky-tape made in see-through colors which is like post it notes in that the tape can be pulled up and repositioned numerous times. I always use a strip of this to inderline the line of the graph that I am currently knitting. It saves a world of headaches! Usually the knitting shops carry this - it's a must-have for graphs. It's also used by people who do counted cross-stitch, so try there if you LYS (LKS) doesn't have it. Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA. USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Manos lace weight yarn
Hi All My 'ten-pennorth' (Old Yorkshire Saying) is that when you are 'reading the chart' you have to imagine which way the yarn moves on each row right to left on odd rows, and left to right on even rows, just as Clay has stated. Now the way I always remember it is that you always have to imagine the knitting with the smooth side facing you, now it's easy to work out which way the yarn moves Get my drift?? Sue in East Yorkshire On 18 Dec 2011, at 21:20, Clay Blackwell wrote: I would strongly encourage her to learn to work from graphs, as they are so much easier to follow (in my experience), and therefore you work faster. I have a couple of pointers... 1. You work the chart from the bottom up. Row 1 is the first row you knit in the pattern, and it's read (and worked) from right to left. 2. Just like other graphs, the symbols used for particular stitches may be different from one designer to another, so it's very important to study the chart that is always provided to identify what each symbol means. 3. Since she is working a shawl, she would work the second row reading the graph from left to right... although she is still working right to left. I know this sounds confusing, but with a little practice, she'll get used to it. And, in a shawl, it is entirely possible that the pattern is the same from either direction, so she could check that to be sure. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Manos lace weight yarn
I use one of the cross-stitch embroidery metal boards and magnets to follow the pattern when using a graph. The magnet covers up the row above the one I am working. This way I can see what stitches I should be working into what stiches on the row below. Sue sueba...@comcast.net -Original Message- From: Clay Blackwell In my note to Mary Carey, I failed to mention that the single best tool I have found to help with charts is a roll of sticky-tape made in see-through colors which is like post it notes in that the tape can be pulled up and repositioned numerous times. I always use a strip of this to inderline the line of the graph that I am currently knitting. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Manos lace weight yarn
Hello Mary and everyone To add to the good advice so far - especially the row-reading, I use replaceable arrow 'stickies' to mark the row I'm on, or the stitch block if I'm interrupted during a row. It is also a good idea to get used to reading one's knitting against the graph to eliminate that feeling of flying blind. Some use a 'lifeline,' a spare thread worked along with the knitting yarn into the row temporarily, and do this every once in a while, then if a mistake is found, one need only work back to the row with the lifeline (there are good videos at YouTube that show this, better than I can explain). If the graph just seems to be a mess of symbols, use coloured felt pens to mark at least some of the symbols until used to reading them. If all else fails, the chart can be re-written in longhand to suit the knitter although this can be time-consuming. (I really like following knitting charts!) Hope this might be of help. On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:40 PM, mary carey d...@hotmail.com wrote: knitting a shawl. She asked me questions I could not answer about knitting from a graph. Have worked from a graph on lots of occasions for crochet a -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
