knitting

alluneedisluv5

I've recently gotten really into knitting and was wondering if there are any other PJ knitters out there.....let me know!

Deadlee74

alluneedisluv5 wrote:

I've recently gotten really into knitting and was wondering if there are any other PJ knitters out there.....let me know!

Well not knitting, but i was crocheting for awhile...i did want to crochet a stick figure guy,but i'd have to figure out a pattern and i just got too busy.
It's interesting your probably going to knit something PJ...

pearlmutt

i like to knit

i've heard crocheting is easier

a little poetry yarn, inspired by this thread


somedays,
after pacing the floor
the needles just won't work
or is it me?
i'm trying to save the world,
with a scarf?
or maybe just some money
or time
or the lost art
of saving time and money
by spending it with kids
knitting something that will last
longer than their attention spans.

they've proven that theirs
is longer than mine.
maybe they've got better thread
or nimbler fingers
maybe they've figured out
the lost art
of saving time and money
by teaching it to me.

these kids
make cool a strange adjective
that only they understand
i really thought
elderly grandmas were only "cool"
in yarns from pearl jam
but i've found that kids
have reinvented the past time
of old rockers;
they all say it too
last year my grandma,
when i was little my grandma,
during that last snow storm my grandma,
taught me how to knit

so now they're teaching me,
and it's not quite oral tradition,
i guess it's more like muscle memories.

alluneedisluv5

I like the poem:) I would love to knit something related to pj too but i'm not quite ready to start creating my own patterns. I'll be sure to post a pic when i do eventually figure something out. I just learned how to "purl" and was thinking of the jammers. In fact, I think there's even a pj reference in the "Stitch and Bitch" book in the purling section....

pearlmutt

pics would be great

purl jam, cute, i didn't even think of it while writing the poem . . . rewrite!

Deadlee74

knit 1 purl jam 2....lol

pacifier

I like knitting when ever I get around to it (which isn't often) but I couldn't knit much more than a scarf. I once knitted a book mark with call colours, then sewed on it with wool their name and a flower pattern and put a little fringe on it. As a selfproclaimed dag, I thought it was cool I also bought myself the stich n bitch book, but haven't got around to knitting since then and that was about two years ago!!!

Loved the Knitting poem. GREAT!!!

Ms. Haiku

I had to rip out 10 rows of a baby blanket this weekend. It was a frustrating experience that's for sure. The yarn I use (and I should know this by now) is sold as one ball, but it usually contains a few pieces. I knitted one of the knots into the blanket, and then I acidentally unknotted it which ruined 3 rows. Then, because I'm a tight knitter, when I used my needle to latch back on I would just tighten an earlier stitch. However, as a needlepointer for 27 years I figured something out. I stitched in a random thread of yarn throughout the free stitches, and then when I put the needle back in they didn't drop because of the barrier.

I was really moving on that blanket. What a drag. I decided to continue a needlepoint project I had been working on, but I'll get back to the blanket in no time. Talk about art with colors - there's so much potential with knitting.

Yeah for poetry about knitting!

burtschips

knit me some love. granny taught my how to knit, like a knit twit I forgot how to do it. booooo.

Ms. Haiku

burtschips wrote:

knit me some love. granny taught my how to knit, like a knit twit I forgot how to do it. booooo.

Do you really want to learn? Is there a way to webcast on this thing?

Ms. Haiku

One of the VPs of where I work holds a knitting circle in her office once a week. I just emailed her if we could webcast it for someone way over there in England where, of course, no one could teach you.

Wouldn't it be funny if we could?

Ms. Haiku

She brought up a good point that there are many online tutorials, and someone in England should be able to teach you, burtschips. Well, you never know until you try, eh?

Ms. Haiku

So, I brought up how creative I was with my tapestry needle and scrap yarn to my VP's knitting group, and people were piping up, "Oh yeah, I've done that, you can also do . . ." or "You can try a coat hanger . . ." I felt like such a beginner . . . It just goes to show that necessity is the foundation of invention or however that goes.

burtschips

What is a VP Ms Haiku?? just a very person??

I have no real desire to knit anymore but I imagine it is relaxing; much like strumming on a geeetar. Although I do like the sound of this webcast thing.... A virtual knitter, but the time difference would difficult to overcome.

Ms. Haiku

burtschips wrote:

What is a VP Ms Haiku?? just a very person??

I have no real desire to knit anymore but I imagine it is relaxing; much like strumming on a geeetar. Although I do like the sound of this webcast thing.... A virtual knitter, but the time difference would difficult to overcome.

Vice President, but very much a person, too That would be cool to have a virtual knitting group. That would be very cool, actually. Do you think Pearl Jam would be ultra-trendsetters of the music scene, and endorse a virtual knitting group? . . . oh my my I just made myself laugh

burtschips

I am sure they all sit around talking about free-stitching, street-stitching, pipe-stitching, the whole lot. They are right out there on the edge, inspiring, pioneers..... do you think??

Ms. Haiku

I don't know what you just said - I only know knit purl and dropped stitch

burtschips

I don't know what you just said either. but i imagine you have solid base from which to improve and grow in stature amongst the knitters of NJ. a knitting guru you will be.... how about a knitting mantra..... A better knitter I will be, every day in every way, you will see, a better knitter I will be.

Near DC? t thought it was NJ