[Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting questions

[Annette Carr]

I've heard that it is recommended that a scarf should be as long as the
person is tall.  I try it on and base it on whether I can wrap it around my
neck, get it to comfortably stay in place, and of course look good.  

I do not know what the pompom yarn is, but I saw a really neat scarf someone
at work made with balls hanging off of the yarn that looked like eyeballs.
She knitted very thick long lengths of I-cord from the eyeball yarn and some
black yarn.  She laid the i-cords next to each other in a pattern that
alternated between the 2 types of i-cord, black and eyeball.  The ends of
the i-cord were not even.  She randomly tacked the I-cords together.  It was
very fashionable for Halloween.  If I remember correctly, the yarn part of
the eyeball yarn was shades of read, pink and orange.  Think biology class
and human body diagrams.

Annette


Annette


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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting questions


What is an average length for a scarf?

I am using home spun yarn, so what is that thread like tecture, my needle
keeps getting caught on?  It feals sort of like a thread of nilon going
through my yarn.

I saw some yarn for sale, they clamed it to be, Christmas yarn.  Some had
like a chord then a fuzzy ball, then chord then a fuzzy ball.  What kind of
yarn is that and what in the world could you make with it.  Do you actually
knit with the chord and then have fuzzy bumps, through out your work, how
strange!

Terry P.


Theresa L. Powers (Terry)
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