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[bubosquared]

Buggrit. Apparently, neither circular nor double-pointed needles seem to come in the size I need for the long hat. Which means I either fabricate my own, look for a miracle, or alter the pattern for the long hat so I can do it with normal needles. I think I can manage the latter, actually. *ponders*

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[mousewrites.livejournal.com]

Ah, knitting!

This is why I have the Boye Needlemaster (http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer03/FEATdenise.html) (acutally, that article is about another set, but...) set. I'll try tip after tip until I can hit gague. And I always, always have to go down a size or two because of how I knit. So if it says, size 8, I use size 6. This makes me happy.

Of course, double pointeds are from the devil.

Which hat are you knitting?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at this one, with HP colours. I kinda like knitting with straights, actually, but that Needlemaster thing sounds like a good thing to try for circulars. And I've found a website that has a trick for using two circular needles instead of double-pointed ones for the smaller circumference, which is good, cause ... gah, double-pointed.

[mousewrites.livejournal.com]

I love stocking caps, but i get so *bored* doing them. SO. bored.

I like the two circ's method... also, if you have a long, long, circ, you can pull a 'loop' of wire out between two stitches and keep going that way...

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oooh, good idea on the loop thing. I'll keep that in mind.

I kinda like doing projects that involve a lot of the same stuff over and over, like the scarves. It's easy to do at work while on the phones, without the risk of screwing up.

Oh! Question, do you know of a good website to learn things like how to knit patterns in colours? Like, if I wanted to knit a Weasley jumper with a letter on front, how would I go about switching colours? Do I just er ... switch colours, and then thread in a lot of loose ends? Help? Linky? Good resources?

[mousewrites.livejournal.com]

Wow, I suck. Took me forever to get back to this!

There are two techniques for working colors into your knitting (besides striping, which is easy and I know you know that.)

The first is 'Stranded' or 'Fair Isle' type, in which you carry both yarns around, using them as needed. It only works well with two colors a row. As you can imagine, the color that isn't being used for a stich will leave a 'strand' behind the knitting. This is fine if you're doing small, repeating patterns, but if you have large areas of solid colors (like a letter) or more than 2 colors in a row, this is a problem.

The other method is called "Intarsia" (I have no idea how to pronouce that, by the way) and is... not harder, just different.

Video of Intarsia, with narration (http://www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/videos/adv-tech/intarsia-rds.mpg) That's from www.knittinghelp.com, a cool site. There's also www.stitchguide.com.

More info on intarsia: About.intersia (http://knitting.about.com/cs/intarsia/)

Hope that helps. It's really not that hard...

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links, that's very helpful. :D