It's WOOL TIME!!!!!

**rich** · 15-Jan-09, 16:50

Why doesn't the org start a knitting club? They are really cool these days as a google research will reveal.
Might I add a further suggestion? To get the right celebrity feel to the event you will requite a smooth, handsome, model for your knitwear.
I am prepared to be that model!
I will be in Caithness sometime in the Spring and I am looking forward to my new woolies.
A word of caution: My brother might try and needle his way in to get a freebie sweater.
Have nothing to do with him! He has drawers full of sweaters and I have only a couple of moth-eaten objects from Marks and Spencer. (Are they still in business...?)
So get those needles clacking, folks!

http://www.downtownknitcollective.ca/

**laguna2** · 15-Jan-09, 16:55

A cinema in Glasgow had sessions where people took along their knitting and watched the film ... the lights were turned low, not off, so that they could see their patterns! This was within the last 2 years!

**Shabbychic** · 15-Jan-09, 17:10

A knitting club, where non-knitters could be taught the basics would be a good idea. I remember when I was wee being taught by my Nana, ( in, over, through and off) and believe many youngsters today don't have anyone to teach them.

Think of all the fashion items they could make at less cost, and who knows, there may even be a budding knitwear designer in our mist.

**balto** · 15-Jan-09, 17:15

i would love to learn to knit, but being left handed it looks ackward for someone right handed to teach me, mind my mum trying loads of times when i was younger, but with mum being right handed everything was reversed and no matter how hard she tried, i couldnt pick it up. think there is nothing nicer than seeing a baby in hand knitted cardigans and hats.

**Shabbychic** · 15-Jan-09, 17:31

Originally Posted by balto

i would love to learn to knit, but being left handed it looks ackward for someone right handed to teach me, mind my mum trying loads of times when i was younger, but with mum being right handed everything was reversed and no matter how hard she tried, i couldnt pick it up. think there is nothing nicer than seeing a baby in hand knitted cardigans and hats.

Here is a couple of sites that may help you.

Learn to Knit

The Knitting Site

Being Left Handed

**rich** · 15-Jan-09, 21:41

It is sort of an urban myth, Isuppose, but males are allegedly the most likely members of the family to recieve UGLY pullovers as Xmas gifts.
And, truth to tell, there are some horrors out there - destined to be stuffed away in some drawer of shame.
The thing is you cant give the thing away because the aunt who knitted it so lovingly might be offended to see it worn by the town drunk (although some would say that describes me!) Enough of this introversion! I enclose a sweater picture which is really indescribable, but here goes anyway...The salmon pink colour suggests it might hail from Gnome, Alaska or some such place where the natives patiently knit on bicycle spokes in clouds of barbecue smoke. But what does the brown stripe stand for?
It's a mystery.

http://www.inlandknitwear.com/stripe.htm

**rich** · 15-Jan-09, 21:43

Also the right arm - very strange, it's longer than the left arm and it's an even more sinister colour....

**Alice in Blunderland** · 15-Jan-09, 21:47

Originally Posted by rich

I am prepared to be that model!
So get those needles clacking, folks!

No problem Im up for that. I have dusted off my knitting pins and looked out a lovely shade of blue wool for your new jumper................

One question left...........are you a big boy.......

cant have you new jumper not fitting you now can we.

**changilass** · 15-Jan-09, 21:52

Good question Alice, we need as much detail as possible if we stand any chance of our knitting fitting

**rich** · 15-Jan-09, 22:00

Thank you for the kind offer. I am six feet two, lean and athletic with a devilish smile. Do not listen to anything my brother says. (He is a runtish five foot six)

Have you heard about the CURSE OF THE SWEATER? I would like my sweater to come curse-free if possible.

I just now learned about the sweatrer curse from Wikopedia. Here it is:

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Gifts of sweaters are believed by some knitters to break up relationships.Knitters use the term Sweater Curse or the Curse of the Love Sweater to describe a situation in which a knitter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, who quickly breaks up with the knitter.[1] In an alternative formulation, the relationship will end before the sweater is even completed.[2] The belief is widely discussed in knitting publications and some knitters claim to have experienced the Sweater Curse;[3][4][5] a recent poll indicated that 15% of active knitters say they have experienced the sweater curse firsthand, and 41% consider it a possibility that should be taken seriously.[6]

Despite its name, the Sweater Curse is treated in knitting literature not as a superstition governed by paranormal forces, but rather as a real-world pitfall of knitting that has real-world explanations and solutions.[3][7] Several plausible mechanisms for the sweater curse have been proposed, but it has not been studied systematically.

**Dadie** · 15-Jan-09, 22:16

I am female and I have lurking in my wardrobe some hand knits that are "not to my taste" but knitted with love by mum, I also have some nice knits too

but the jumper that really got me stumped was one that mum knitted when I was in 1st year high school it grew with me and never got bobbled it is only recently (when we moved 18 mths ago) I kinda "lost" it!

**Kenn** · 15-Jan-09, 22:20

But surely the cursing is done during the knitting, when one has dropped a stitch, purled when one should have knitted, cabled right when one should have gone left,joined in the wrong colour or split the wool.
There are many expletives used none of which are printable here!

**lynne duncan** · 15-Jan-09, 23:22

a mum of a hillhead bairn, has organised a school knitting club last august and i volunteered to help, took my mum in too, for extra support, its for p6 and p7's started off with about 15 but a few have dropped by the wayside but the ones that are left are turning out to be good little knitters
they love to yap but still are knitting as they go on
starting to knit mittens this week with them

**Dadie** · 15-Jan-09, 23:27

sounds like new recruits for knitting sewing groups already... gossip is as important as the craft work if not more so! Scary

**dirdyweeker** · 16-Jan-09, 01:53

Originally Posted by Shabbychic

I remember when I was wee being taught by my Nana, ( in, over, through and off) and believe many youngsters today don't have anyone to teach them.

My Uncle taught me to knit many years ago. It was all the rage in the 50's and 60's.
Don't worry about being left handed Balto. I am left handed and don't remember ever having a problem. You will catch up quick.

**airdlass** · 16-Jan-09, 07:31

We used to have knitting classes at school - I can still remember knitting socks and gloves.

My mum knitted a lot and made beautiful shawls for quite a few folk in the village.
Not long after my daughter was born I decided to knit a jumper for her and got stuck so had to phone my mum for help. Makes me smile now picturing myself with the phone in one hand and trying to tell her what I had done and what I should've done and her trying to help. Needless to say the next time she came to visit she finished it for me. It was one of the few baby things I kept.

**Alice in Blunderland** · 16-Jan-09, 19:30

Originally Posted by rich

Thank you for the kind offer. I am six feet two, lean and athletic with a devilish smile.

Wow how could we refuse you anything.............

Now if you could kindly post a piccie just to make sure that we knit you something that would suit you and wont clash with your eyes or haircolouring ( presuming your not bald ) then that would be just fine.