[Nfb-krafters-korner] dropped stitches

[River Woman]

If you want to learn, you can begin by knitting slipper socks with a large 
needle size with bulky yarn. Joyce taught a class in that a few years ago -
Lynda ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deidre Muccio" <deimucc at verizon.net>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] dropped stitches


> What stories! No way I can knit with a little or highly polished smooth
> needle. 7's are ok. It will be awhile.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On
> Behalf Of River Woman
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:59 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] dropped stitches
>
> Diedra,
>
> Needles will depend on the yarn you use, and the pattern you choose.
>
> With the Cherry Tree Hill yarn, size 5 is called for and that is what i 
> have
> used.
>
> But with the Schachenmayr Nomotto, size 6 or 7 is called for. The label 
> will
> give you suggested needle size on the yarns.
>
> Since I am working from my UFOs I just found another container (or 
> actually
> 2 of them) with sock yarn and needles - and one of the containers has one
> finished sock in it!  One of the containers has a skein of superwash 
> Colori
> in it - with the needle range on the label that says size 2, 3, or 4.
>
> I also have a lot of sock yarn in my stash - way too much to count. All
> kinds of sock yarns there, even some silk ones, and some by the designer
> Kaffe Fasset - which is so colorful.
>
>
> The other container, with one finished sock, has Schoeller Stahl 
> Fortissima
> Socka yarn in it. that one has size 1 or 2 needles listed on the label.  I
> had size 1 needles in that container so I must have made the finished sock
> out of the size 1 needle. That sock is very fine and it is a lace pattern 
> on
> it.
>
> So they are all different according to the yarn you are using. You can get 
> a
> pattern you like, then find the right size yarn to make it with - it 
> should
> tell you all that on the pattern.
>
> I do the opposite - I buy the yarn I fall in love with, then I go on a 
> hunt
> to find the pattern it will work best in. I am just crazy about sock 
> yarns -
> they are so soft and beautiful.
>
> I have not yet bought any Opal sock yarn, but I have heard that is it so
> wonderful I had an opportunity to buy some in Germany, but somehow went
> brain dead and passed it up. It was, of all places, at a carnival that was
> set up in a village - yes, a vendor had a barrel of Opal yarns for sale
> there. I was busy with my 9 year old great granddaughter that afternoon in
> Rothenburg, and it was beginning to rain, so I did not pause long enough 
> to
> buy some - I will always regret that.
>
>
> Lynda
>
>
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