any knitters in here? (no not nutters knitters!)

[Knikitta]

I am also on Ravelry, your projects are Amazing Julie!

[Ana Quay]

I'm a knitter too I also crochet, spin, dye and make felt. I've been knitting since I was a child, after being taught by my mum (it was so long ago that we did it in school too). I learned to crochet a few years ago. I'd been trying to teach myself for years and one day I was visiting a friend who runs a sheltered accommodation scheme and one of the little old ladies offered to teach me. It took 20 minutes and off I went. I've since come to realise what a wasted resource little old ladies are (and old gentlemen). I now help run The Knitting Tent, which travels to festivals and gives free knitting and crochet workshops, as I believe they are both skills which need to be passed on

At the moment I'm knitting/crocheting squares and rectangles, ready for a knitting graffiti art installation I'm helping with in August.

[Mo]

I used to knit strippy vests for missionaries (well, for babies in mission hospitals). If I got a seat on the tube I'd knit on the way to school. There were times when i had to change trains half way through a line - I didn't always go the right way when I picked it up again.

Talking of little old ladies - at college a friend and I used to visit an old lady. She was a knitter. She made a pair of socks for my friend's father. But when she decided to knit for me either her eyes or mind had deteriorated. I kept that sock for years - it had 2 toes and several half-turned heels, I think my sister (a lay-preacher) took it to use on a sermon (about needing a pattern to follow in life).

[julie62]

Last time my mum was in hospital there was a very frail lady on the ward with dementia .. she used to sit quietly in her chair and her hands were constantly going knitting with invisible wool and needles, your story reminded me of her Mo, it was like the knitting was one of the last things she was holding on to - I found it very touching .

[bluebell]

Julie you have some beautiful items on ravelry (Ive just joined), I LUUUUURRRRVVVE your canine model - I was sitting smiling to myself looking at your piccies.

[julie62]

That's my longsuffering Molly - the chickens wont sit still long enough!

[Effie]

My current project is a green and white Chrismas stocking with red toe, heel and cuff. I don't get on ravelry much but will go back to look.

I learnt to tat with my gran when was a teenager, something I want to pick up again.

[LittleBrownFrog]

I've just finished a cardigan for myself & a lap-blanket for my Grandma. I'm starting a shawl next as a knit-a-long on another forum

[Knikitta]

I have just started a project for myself, I think it is the first time i have made something for myself instead of others or for selling!



I am going to try and adapt it by stopping under the bust and adding extra stitches at that point to give it flare to fit my growing bump and make it a long jumper/top instead of a dress.

[wendy]

Wow. Show us the finished product, please.
Just joined ravelry, will have a good look later.