[Nfb-krafters-korner] How are the new knitters doing?

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Gee Whiz, I love going to Webs!!!  I live in CT and Webs is like  hmmmmm 
less then 2 hour drive.  My girl friend and I usually take a ride up  
there[she drives] and of course we have to go to Yankee Candle Factory first and  
then Webs on the way back.  What a joy to walk thru Webs and their  warehouse 
and touch all that yarn.  
 
Hey it is free shipping when you drive up there!lol 
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 1/30/2013 9:31:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
deimucc at verizon.net writes:

I took  the beginner's knitting class and it kept me motivated to learn
knitting.  It's time intensive and has just about taken precedence over all
my other  projects. I bound off the swatch I was working on with 13 wooden
needles  and a 4 ply yarn, and if I hadn't ripped it out so many times, and
had just  asked someone to correct it for me, I would have had a very nice
scarf out  of it. Now I am using a set of old circular plastic 7 needles a
neighbor  gave me and a thin acrylic yarn. The needles feel like even the
shaft of  the needle bends and they are the nicest needles I've ever had my
hands on.  They  make the work very easy; the Knit Picks set I bought are  
too
slippery for me at this point, even the metal ones.  Some days I  can do a
row or two of 66 stitches (not changing hands) without dropping a  stitch,
but invariably after awhile I do drop a stitch or two and need to  have
someone repair it. The fabric is pastel and multi colored, very  beautiful I
hear (even though I'm not a fan of acrylic fiber) so the errors  aren't
easily visible.  Some days my fingers and hands work well and  other days I
make many errors very quickly. That happens when my fingertips  go num. You
can't knit when your thumb or other finger tips are numb. That  luckily does
not always happen, and I need to just put the needles down  when that does
happen. I'm hoping in time I will drop stitches less and  less and that I
won't split stitches ever (hah!) or I won't accidentally  pearl a stitch 
when
I mean to knit it. 
Today I am going  down to Webs to check out different close out
yarns, and yarn in general.  For example, I want to feel what they mean when
they say linen fiber is  stiff and hard to handle.  I'm going with a
experienced fiber art  neighbor/teacher who says there are some less than
reputable tricks of the  industry I need to be forewarned about and that
things aren't always as  good as they sound on radio or in advertisements.
For example yardage might  be skimpy and the needles called for are bigger
than they need to be so  that the "product" winds up being bigger. I think
this might be a bit  analogous to how the food industry over time has shrunk
the size of candy  bars but you wind up being charged more anyway.
Anyway I  haven't been in  Web's for decades so this should be fun. 

Deidre


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