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Title: Knitting
Post by: that_punk_guy on August 10, 2004, 06:19:07 PM

I think I'm going to learn to knit.

Does anyone else here knit?

Title: Re: Knitting
Post by: T_Bone on August 10, 2004, 06:40:19 PM

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that_punk_guy wrote:
I think I'm going to learn to knit.

Does anyone else here knit?

Yep, but I haven't done it since I was really young sitting with my grandmother on the porch in her rocking chair. I wouldn't know how to do anything other than the stitching, and I couldn't even make a blanket nowdays as I don't know how to finish the edges.

Not that I'd ever find myself ever knitting again anyways...  :-P

Title: Re: Knitting
Post by: that_punk_guy on August 10, 2004, 07:21:23 PM

Heh heh... :lol:

Cool. Wait, was that porch/rocking-chair part romantic embellishment? (Did she have a shotgun too?) ;-)

It's supposed to be relaxing once you know what you're doing. I guess it'll be frustrating until then. But I'm itching to make random crap for some reason, and I really enjoy making people uncomfortable with the gender identity issues. :-)

Title: Re: Knitting
Post by: T_Bone on August 10, 2004, 07:31:14 PM

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that_punk_guy wrote:
Heh heh... :lol:

Cool. Wait, was that porch/rocking-chair part romantic embellishment? (Did she have a shotgun too?) ;-)

It's supposed to be relaxing once you know what you're doing. I guess it'll be frustrating until then. But I'm itching to make random crap for some reason, and I really enjoy making people uncomfortable with the gender identity issues. :-)

 :lol:

Title: Re: Knitting
Post by: blobrana on August 10, 2004, 07:35:45 PM

@that_punk_guy
hehe, cool !

Though i prefer to weave, (er, less stressful), or frag aliens...

Title: Re: Knitting
Post by: FluffyMcDeath on August 10, 2004, 07:53:06 PM

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that_punk_guy wrote:
I think I'm going to learn to knit.

Does anyone else here knit?

I never learned to cast on, nor cast off. That is why my one only ever knitting project is a scarf that is still on the needles somewhere in a box. A really looooooooooong scarf, of many colours, and constantly varying width.

Title: Re: Knitting
Post by: X-ray on August 10, 2004, 07:54:44 PM

When I was 14 I was the fastest knitter (or knittist?) on the block. Yep, nobody could beat me, I was that quick. Only trouble was, if I was knitting a scarf, the final result was usually triangular and not even Dr Seuss would let one of his cats wear it  :lol:

These days, of course, I'm far too macho to knit.

Title: Re: Knitting
Post by: cecilia on August 10, 2004, 10:18:39 PM

i have done some knitting and can crochet.
the trick is to keep the string loose. but not too loose.

it's not hard.

Title: Re: Knitting
Post by: Cyberus on August 11, 2004, 02:29:24 PM

I had a go when I was a kid, and didn't get on with it at all.

Funnily enough, my mum used to look after a guy who served in the Paras in WWII, and he was meant to be {bleep}hot at knitting   - he told my mum that a lot of the guys used to do it, to pass the time :lol:

Title: Re: Knitting
Post by: The_Editor on August 11, 2004, 05:55:38 PM

My Missus is a right Knit !!

Edit chick rattles em off as though she is a machine !!

The Cardigan she's wearing in our photo on your site TPG is one she made herself.  She has also made a few full length knitted dresses.

Atm she is making baby cardigans for my brothers expectant wife.