[Nfb-krafters-korner] dropped stitches

[Annette Carr]

I do not work with sock yarn and tiny needles, but I do use a toe-up sock
formula for knitting slipper socks or bed slippers.

Annette


-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of River Woman
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:40 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] dropped stitches

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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