tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26685728382587226062023-11-16T05:04:07.256-08:00One Hundred Acressharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-76258913135282666022019-02-06T12:42:00.000-08:002019-02-06T12:42:23.990-08:00the origami slipper and the magic numbers<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sharon’s Origami slipper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">All in one lined slipper. Toddler size done for
demo.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lining stitch size (bulky) 4, Outer slipper
stitch size (bulky) 6.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Start with the lining, beginning with the top of
the vamp.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Hang a slip knot on the center needle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pull one needle into work on the carriage side,
and knit one row. Repeat until you have 15 needles in work- (14
rows)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are using this increase to
make nice big loops for the SAYG at the end,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lining toe: shortrow down to 7 and back to
15</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lining Foot- Pull one needle on carriage side
into work, and knit 1 row. Repeat until there are 29 stitches in work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lining heel: Shortrow down to 7 and back
to 29.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Outer slipper: Change stitch size to 6.
Change yarn If desired.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Outer heel: shortrow down to 7 and back to
29</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Outer foot: Decrease* on the side away
from the carriage, every row, until you are down to 15 needles</span></div>
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<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Outer foot decrease: 3 prong tool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Move 3 outer stitches in, doubling up on two
needles, and leaving two needles empty on the end of the row. Put the
outer needle out of work, leaving the inner empty needle in work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are doing a double decrease, and a
single increase. </span></div>
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Outer toe- Shortrow down to 7 and
back to 15.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Outer Vamp</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Now, put the lining and the outer slipper
together as they hang on the machine, heel in heel, and toe in toe.
Notice that the lining has handy loops on the vamp and foot edges- 7 on
each side of the vamp and 7 on each side of the foot. While the
outer slipper has the same number of foot rows as the lining, we used a
decrease that does not leave a big loop on the edge. Part of our plan to
have a great looking slipper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">On the side away from the carriage, pick up the
(tight) edge stitch that is the second row down from the one on the needle, and
put it on the end needle. Then, add the corresponding lining edge loop
AND the vamp edge loop. Pull this LOADED needle to forward working position,
and pull another needle of two forward for company. Meanwhile,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the carriage side- using 3 prong transfer
tool. Do single decrease, and put the empty needle out of work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knit one row.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Repeat until you are down to 1 needle, The
last two rows are the hardest to get those stitches on the end needle,
Persevere. (Yeah, when you get down to 5 needles, switch to a single
prong transfer- which you could use for the whole thing, but I like the triple
prong transfer.) Pull the yarn end through the last stitch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Alternate strategies for the decrease/SAYG
section: Set your carriage to hold, and put your decrease needle in work position,
but keep the SAYG needle in hold, Knit the row, and then knit the SAYG
needle by hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">And <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">then I wrote this</span>: </span></div>
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<span style="background: #EFF1F3; color: #1d2129; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Here is what I have
discovered: The Craft Council chart for foot size says Women's sizes S-M-L are
8-9-10 inches foot circumference. Whatever your stitch gauge is (and row gauge
changes don't have very much effect because the stitch gauge controls the width
of the slipper, and ALSO CONTROLS HALF OF THE LENGTH. So that theoretically
means that ROW gauge will only have half the effect you would expect. And
that's enough to go ahead and just ignore it. The magic numbers for the
slippers are based on your gauge. Let's take a gauge of 4..5 stitches / inch.
For a small size, 8 x 4.5=34. Round up to neariest number divisible by 4. (That
is key.) And add 1 - (Your starting stitch.) So, 37 is the BIG number, the
number of stitches you turn the heel on. Half of 36 is 18- plus 1 gives us 19
and that is the number for the toe turn. Starting with one stitch, you will add
18 (9 left and 9 right) turn a toe, then add another 18 (9 left and 9 right),
Another example- Let's go standard gauge and say the gauge is 6.5 st/inch. 6.5
x 8 = 50 - Round up to 52. Half of 52 is 26. To add the first stitch to these
numbers, and you will be turning toe on 27 and heel on 53. And you will wind up
with 13 increases or decreases left and right.. I think we have all just
learned to fish! Try some more examples. Every one I have tried so far seems to
work out.</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background: #EFF1F3; color: #1d2129; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Gauge sample with your
outer slipper yarn- I got 5 st/inch on the slipper that came out small= but
would have come out medium at 4.25 st/inch. No need to gauge sample your inner
slipper- it is just a couple numbers tighter than the outer slipper.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">However, the directions below walk you through
how to calculate any size. No charts. You only need foot
circumference. Once you make a couple, it will be second nature.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Depends on your gauge. But <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">formula the same no matter gauge
or size of machine</span>. Bulky example: Take a gauge (only need
stitches per inch) for your outer slipper. Say it comes out 5.5 st
/inch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Multiply that by foot
circumference (Okay, 8=small, 9=medium, 10=large.) Let's pretend medium. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">5.5 x9 is 49.5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Round up to nearest multiple of 4. 52.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Divide 52 by 2 . So 26.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">(Divide 26 by 2 . So 13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the number of decreases (outer
slipper) or increases (inner slipper) on each side in the vamp, and in
the foot..)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Add 1 to each of your results.. So the magic numbers
are 53 and 27. 53<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the
number of stitches you will be knitting on when you turn the heel. Decrease
down to 9 or 11 (around 1/3 of the<u> <b>toe</b></u> number, or maybe a couple
stitches more than 1/3)) for the heel - then back up. 27 is the
number of stitches you will turn the toe on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Decrease down to 7 or 9 (around 1/3 of 27) stitches then back up for
toe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Okay, with liner color, and tension 2 numbers
less than your gauge tension, cast on one stitch, and increase the carriage
side, by pulling a needle into work, until you have 27 stitches, turn a toe,
then continue increasing same way until you have 53 stitches and turn an heel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Admire your work, and notice you have 13 loops
on each side of the vamp and 13 loops on each side of the foot. Fold the
toe, and see how the sets of loops line up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Change to outer slipper color, and change
tension to your gauge tension.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Turn a heel. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Now for the decreases. Decrease down to
27 using the following decrease: On the side away from the carriage,
Transfer the outer 3 stitches in, doubling up the stitches on needles 4 and 5,
You will have two empty needles, 1 needle with one stitch and 2 needles
with double stitches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put the outermost
empty needle out of work. You now have one empty needle, which will pick
up a new stitch when you knit across.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You just decreased 2 stitches, and increased 1 stitch. The loop
for the increase will be smaller and tighter than the increase that you might
make the same way on the carriage side of the row.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is planned, as the outer slipper sayg seam is the one you see
on the finished slipper. Do this decrease every row until there are 27
stitches left.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Turn the toe .</span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">Now,
review what your foot decreases look like, Identify the bar you are going
to pick up for the sayg. Take a contrast thread and run it though the
bars you will be picking up if you think they will be hard to find on the fly.
You are going to pick up 13 bars on each side of the foot in the sayg
part.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Vamp decreases are done on the carriage side,
and sayg happens on the side away from the carriage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">The vamp decrease is just a fashion decrease-
with the 3 prong tool, move three stitches over by one needle, doubling up
stitches 3 and 4 from the edge. put empty needle #1 out of work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When down to 5 stitches- do 1 prong
decrease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">The SAYG on the side away from the carriage.
On the end needle, hang the bar from the decrease row just on the other
side of the toe- should be one or two rows below where you are. Okay, now
pick up the pair of loops on either side of the liner toe fold and put them on
the same needle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I pull that needle
into upper work position, and add a couple next door needles to keep it
company. Go slow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's a load
on that needle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have a problem
with that, there is an alternate method:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With your machine set to HOLD, Put that sayg needle in hold, knit the
row, and then knit back the sayg stitch by hand. Depending on your yarn,
this can be a faster neater way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In any
event, the first loop added is the outer slipper loop, and then the pair of
liner loops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get it down to 1 stitch,
and break your yarn and draw it through your last stitch.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">things you can fiddle with: make a
longer slipper by using a little looser gauge- ditto for wider.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two dimensions are dynamic in this
pattern.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rule of thumb for foot circumference:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baby/toddler 4 , 4.5, 5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Child 5.5, 6, 6.5, 7, 7.5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Woman 8,9.10, Men 9,10,11, 11.5</span></div>
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<br />sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-90918225198639485552018-06-15T13:56:00.000-07:002018-06-15T13:56:42.334-07:00Breaking All the Rules<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is a Brother Profile 588, fresh from the estate sale. She is missing the small tools, including the wrench to turn the needle selector, and NO HANDLES! She does not have the fold down handles of later models. There is a lace carriage. The needles were in good shape, along with the carriages. I added a used sponge bar and she knitted. DH heard my handle complaints, and came up with some plywood handles, and life got better. I called her Frankie, and set out to sample her capabilities. She knits 'fairisle' using what you might call intarsia- the second color is laid across the needles, and is knit by the selected needles, while the main color is in the feeder and knit by the unselected needles. Also, this machine would allow use of several colors in the same row, with only one pass of the carriage. I also sampled tuck patterns in a second swatch. <br />
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this pic shows my experiment with sponge bar refurbishing today. I tried using 2 lengths of oxygen tubing. The tubing is what is used for concentrators or Oxygen tanks at home. It comes in 40 foot lengths, and says it is crush resistant. It is between 3/16" and 7/32" OD. <div>
Well, 2 lengths was too much. I got the bar in, but it felt like too much friction/resistance. However, ONE length worked very well. I put it on the bar with a hot glue gun. Once in the machine, It held the needles nicely against the bed. I sprayed silicon spray on the bed, thinking that some would get to the needle shanks through the slots- then wiped down the bed. The needles move like butter! Could not be better. Now, I have heard that silicon spray should not be used, but I read the can (Three in One Silicon Spray) and said could be used on all surfaces, metal and non metal, including vinyl. And I want you to know this machine is singing!<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-12377765048732940312016-08-29T17:58:00.000-07:002016-08-29T21:21:02.359-07:00Flip Flop socks on a SuperbaI saw some directions for CSM flipflop socks, and I was not impressed. Between the big toe and the first toe, there were two seams! In addition, the pattern did not take into account that the total of circumference of the big toe plus the circumference of the rest of the toes is 4 or 5 cm more than the circumference of all 5 toes together. Throw in my love for my sock-making superba, and you've got a blog post.<br />
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Flip flop socks should not be a joke or a punchline. Yes, it's an inherently funny look, but only if you are not wearing flipflops. My flipflop loving 'customers' want a season-extending, suitable for public admiration, sock. <br />
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Here's a superba pattern for the serious flipflop sock.<br />
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Sized for women's medium ( shoe size 7 - 8 1/2)<br />
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Written for 8 st and 11 rows to the inch for the stockinet. Check your gauge on both beds.<br />
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Sock yarn- opal, berocco, online, 2/12 or two strands of 2/24.<br />
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Cast on from 32 L to 32 R- I used 2x2 industrial rib. beds at half pitch, Zigzag at 1, circular rows at 3.5, and rib at 4.5. Knit in rib to RC 63. Transfer all stitches to the back bed.<br />
Change tension to 5.5 on both carriages. Put all empty needles out of work. Knit one row. Take the stitches from 0 to 32R off on decker comb, and put them on the left side front bed, from 32L to 0. Lightly weight the web. <br />
Set beds to 'flow combs opposite. Set both carriages to C<br />
Set row counter to 0. Knit 20 rounds plain. Row counter reads 40.<br />
Set front carriage to 0, set back carriage to V.<br />
Turn a shortrow heel on the back bed. Decrease down to 10 center stitches, then back up.<br />
When heel is complete, return to Circular setup. Set Row counter to 0<br />
Foot: Knit circular for 65 rounds, Row counter is 130. If carriages are not on the right, knit across to the right. (for the right sock)<br />
Set row counter to 0.<br />
And now for the tricky part.<br />
Using Decker combs, and working on the left side, the side with the opening in the rib, (because this is the right sock), take 11 stitches off the back bed and 11 stitches off the front. Let the decker combs drop between the beds and take the empty needles out of work. You have 21 stitches on each bed, On the toe side, bring two extra needles into work on both beds. You are going to e-wrap these 4 needles to increase to 23 stitches each bed, over the next two rounds. <br />
Knit to the left (front bed) With carriage on the left, e-wrap the two end needles on the front bed, then e-wrap the two empty needles at the beginning of the backbed row. Raise the two e-wrapped back bed needles to holding position. Knit to the right. Back bed row knitted, and two e-wrapped needles are not yet knitted, and are still in hold postition. With carriage at right, use an eyelet tool to lower the back bed e-wrapped needles to b position. Then, use the eyelet tool to raise the front bed e-wrapped needles. Set the front carriage to knit back the raised needles. Knit to the left. <br />
With carriage at left, raise the two back bed e-wrapped needles again, and this time set the rear carriage to knit back the raised needles. Knit to the right. <br />
RC =4. <br />
Decreases- On the right side, on both the front and back beds, move the outside 3 stitches in by one stitch, doubling up the 3rd and 4 th stitch. Knit 2 rounds. RC = 8. Repeat until RC = 36. <br />
When RC is 36, 40, and 44, set up decreases on both the left and right sides of the both beds. <br />
RC = 48 - take off on waste yarn.<br />
Back to the toe. <br />
RC back to 0<br />
Carriage at right<br />
Put the toe stitches on 11 back bed needles and 11 front bed needles. On the left (should be the inside side) side of the toe, raise 2 more needles on both beds. On these needles, pick up the four e-wrap stitches you added to the first section.<br />
Knit 18 rounds (RC = 36) Decrease 1 stitch, both sides, both beds, and knit 2 rounds-<br />
RC 40 and RC 44, Repeat the decrease round.<br />
RC 48- take off on waste yarn.<br />
Kitchener the toes. Seam the ribbing. <br />
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Make the left sock reversing all shapings. I keep the right sock handy for comparison. Big clue: As the sock is hanging on the machine, the seam side of the ribbing is on the left for the right sock, and on the right for the left sock. The big toe is on the left for the right sock, and on the right for the left sock<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are the toe stitches on decker combs, which will be allowed to drop below the beds</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This shows the 4 e-wrapped stitches for the first toes section</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This shows the stitches for the big toe back on needles,along with <br />
those 4 ewrapped stitches on the inside of the toe.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This shows the 4 stitches addded to the toes, and then picked up for the big toe.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">just need to kitchener and seam.</td></tr>
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. This is how I get through these socks without having to look at my feet!<br />
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If you make two lefts, You may not have to rip back and rehang if you have enough yarn to make two rights. If you make three lefts, you are on your own.<br />
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I hope you will give this a try- When you have done it once, you will be able to put this divided toe onto any sock. <br />
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<br />sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-73964525992300814212015-12-03T07:06:00.000-08:002015-12-03T07:06:18.527-08:00Comic strip quilting!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the 'skateboard' quilt I just finished. I am sure that those quilters of a certain age will recognize a 'hotwheels' quilt. Whatever. (And yes, the backing is starwars blueprints.)<br />
This quilt wound up with a good amount of blank space in them- and like a wall and a box of crayons, ideas come to mind. Here's my comic strip in a 15 frames:<br />
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<br />sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-3093347817033310852015-10-20T20:36:00.000-07:002015-10-20T20:36:33.625-07:00How I altered jeans to fit over a prosthetic legA friend's other half has a new leg. This is good news. However, he has favorite jeans, and they don't fit. That is bad news. <br />
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The LEE jeans arrived in the mail from my friend Linda, along with some extra denim and a 24 inch zipper. Linda tells me that the left leg of the jeans needs to be 23 inches around at a point 9 inches below the crotch, and 24 1/2 inches around at a point 13 1/2 inches from the crotch. <br />
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So the first thing I did was to open both the inseam and the sideseam. These jeans had a lapped seam on the sideseam, and the inseam was a seamed, pressed to one side, and the seam allowance was stitched again. In both cases, rip the lines of stitches in the reverse order in which they were constructed. There will be a lot of thread particles. Press the front and back of the leg flat. I took out the hem completely as well, and when I was putting these pants back together, it was easier to redo the whole hem, <br />
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Now here is the great thing about denim: It does not mind being curved. I used the steam iron to curve both seams so that I could see what I needed for a gusset in both seams, The rulers are laid out so that I can be sure I get the leg diameter that I need.<br />
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I traced the opening -<br />
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to make a pattern for the gussets.<br />
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I added an inch all the way around this shape-. Go oversize- you may have to make it bigger, and then you will be glad you have the material to work with. Also, add a couple inches length to each end of the gusset, so you have some flexibility on where to begin and end the zipper. Now the sideseam gusset is a solid piece of denim, but the inseam gusset is made up of two strips of denim joined by a 24"zipper. My gussets had to add 7 inches to the leg- so each one had to be at least 3 1/2 inches plus two seam allowances, at it's widest. The two strips for the inseam gusset each had to be 2 inches plus two seam allowances. I made the strips 29 inches long.<br />
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Here is the zipper gusset for the inseam side. I have laid the gusset flat, and pinned the front and back of the leg to it, folding under the original seam allowance on the original jeans.<br />
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Open the zipper to sew the halves of this gusset. I did this one first, Then, when you do the second gusset, you can leave the zipper open. <br />
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Here are both gussets, and the bottom hem has been redone, too.<br />
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Ready to put on.<br />
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More miscellaneous: I used a 3-step zigzag on most raw edges. I Used FrayCheck on raw edges that I could not reach to zigzag. This is denim, it is going to fray if you don't put up a positive defense. How I found matching denim: I took the pants with me to the thrift store. I found a pair of jeans that were the same weight and manufacturer and a nearly exact color match. One pair of thrift store jeans will gusset four pairs of jeans.sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-22240027243063899102015-09-16T07:34:00.000-07:002015-10-21T05:31:36.690-07:00Chain piecing snowballs!I know that title will only make sense to a quilter. <br />
I made a 'skateboard' quilt for a gkid. Came out terrific. I watched a video on piecing the top, and I was struck by the contrast between the speedy, streamlined assembly for most of the pieces, and the lumbering, fussy contrasting corners on the 'deck' piece. I was inspired by Frog Tape.<br />
If you have painted any walls or woodwork lately, you likely are familiar with Frog Tape. It's a 3M painter's tape that is superb for masking, leaves a very clean line, and comes off easily. It's green. Frog. Well, there is a yellow version that is for delicate surfaces- you can use it on new paint, and it will come off cleanly, with no damage to the new paint. I have a roll by the sewing machine. I have been using it for temporary guides on my sewing deck, and I have used it a few times to hold fabric or batting- especially where I was butting the edges of two pieces. I don't sew through it. It is a 'gentle' hold on fabric. Easy to reposition. It does a great job of coming off fabric clean. It is not as clean coming off batting, but better than everything else.<br />
On fabric, it is reusable three or four times before you need to replace with a new piece.<br />
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Here's the block piece I needed to put 'corners' on:<br />
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Here is how I chain-sew the corner pieces.<br />
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My 'deck' pieces are cut 5" by 10", and the corner squares are 1.5". <br />
I arrange the deck pieces on my cutting mat, lining them up so that each piece is offset by 1.5 inches. I am left-handed- so righties may want to line up the right side of the blocks instead. <br />
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I line up the tape on the diagonal corners of the 1.5" blocks. I add a couple pins in the middle of the stack of blocks. It helps when you are (carefully) carrying the stack to the sewing machine. You could use some more tape, front and back, instead of the pins. I prepare the opposing corners at the same time. Sew! My machine needle is offset .5mm right of center. That's my scant 1/4 inch. So I can use the edge of the tape as a 'center' guide, and my seam is one thread right.</div>
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Trim your seams, and take off the tape. Press before you clip apart. Them repeat this procedure for the remaining corners. I leave the tape strips on my cutting board until they don't have 'life'.</div>
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With the 5" x 10" pieces, I stuck to doing 4 at a time, but with smaller pieces, I am fearless! I can make long strips, and there is no rule about how much frog tape you should use. </div>
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sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-23828924684947607782015-04-07T18:18:00.001-07:002015-04-07T18:18:46.391-07:00Notes for American Crew Socks<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prepared for April 8, 2015 Demo in Lincolnia, VA</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This crew sock features a cuff in 2x2 half-pitch rib which is invisibly seamed on the inside of the leg, a sock body that is knit in the round, and a heel and toe that are done using short rows.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The example that I will knit is done at a gauge of 8 stitches and 11 rows to the inch. The gauge is measured on a swatch that is done in-the-round. You need to get the same gauge on both the ribber and the main bed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This sock is 64 stitches, with a cuff that is 64 rows, a preheel that is 20 rounds, a heel and toe that are based on 32 stitches which is shortrowed down to 10 and back up to 32, and a foot section of 60 rounds. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ribbing stitch size is 4.5 and stockinet stitch size is 5.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A 100 gm ball of sock yarn will be plenty for a sock up to size Men’s 11-12. I usually buy three 50 gm balls to make very tall, size 13 men’s socks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set your ribber bed for half-pitch- needles and posts are offset. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set the row counter to 0.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rack the ribber bed one number (left or right) to set the needles so you will get a zigzag when you cast on. Set your stitch size for the zigzag row- This is usually (on brother machines) 1 or 0. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thread your carriage, tie the end of your yarn to your clamp, make sure that your carriages are set to ‘knit’, move the carriages to the left to make the zigzag row. Hang your cast on comb and weights.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, set your carriages for circular knitting in a clockwise direction. Increase the stitch size to 3. Knit to the left (needles on the back bed knit), and then knit to the right (needles on the front bed knit. ) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, set your carriages to knit in back and forth. Rack the ribber back one number to the original position, so that when you knit, you will have a 2 x 2 rib, and increase the stitch size to your 4.5 (or a stitch size that will give you correct gauge).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knit to the right. Check the knitting, and hand-knit any needles that did not knit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Transfer the ribber stitches to the main bed. Of each pair of stitches transferred, one will fill an empty needle, and one will double up with a main bed stitch. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using either a 40 stitch transfer comb or garter bar, take off the sttiches from 0 - 32R.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the ribber bed, put up the needles from 32L - 0. These are the new home for the stitches you have on the comb. (for the right sock, move the right side stitches, for the left sock, move the left side stitches. When you move stitches from the side that is the end of the row, make sure that the yarn coming from the mast is ON TOP of the needles. Put back into non-work position all needles that you empty. If you moved the end of the row, and not the beginning of the row, you will need to move your carriages to the other side without knitting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Japanese machines: lower the ribber bed and take off the ribber arm and put on the regular mainbed arm. You will be knitting the heel (and toe) on the main bed only.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This heel uses self-wrap on the way down, and ‘2-down, 1-up’ self-wrap on the way up. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the carriage side, pull the end needle all the way forward to hold position. Make sure carriage is set to ‘hold’. Knit across. Repeat until you have pulled 11 needles on one side, and 10 on the other.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Repeat these two rows until you knit all the needles on the left. Then COL, put the 1rst needle on the left in hold position, and put any remaining needles on the right that are in hold in upper work position and knit across. Use a tool to put the left needle in hold back in regular work position with the stitch in the hook. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set up carriages for circular knitting, and knit one round. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set the RC to 0. Knit 60 rounds, which will be 120 on the row counter.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow the directions for the heel</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After you complete the ‘knit one round’ that ends the toe, do one round with ravel cord, then scrap off.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To make larger sizes, Each 4 stitches will add about half an inch to the sock circumference.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">64 stitches makes a sock around 8 inches around. 68 will be 8 ½ inches. Your big guy socks will be on 72 stitches or 76 stitches. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Socks that are the right length from heel to toe are the socks that don’t walk down into your shoe. If a sock heel won’t stay where it belongs, the sock is probably too short. If a sock is too long, you generally see that in too much extra fabric at the toe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you know the foot length is, say 10 ¼ inches, multilply your row gauge (11 rows per inch) by 10.25 : to get 112.75. Round to the nearest whole number : 113. This is the total number of rows for the foot. The total foot rows that are knitted in the heel and toe is equal to ⅔ of the total stitches around. ⅔ of 64 is close to 42 (close is good). subtract 42 from 113, and you will knit 71 rounds in the section of the foot between the heel and the toe to get a total foot length of 10 ¼ inches.</span></div>
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<br />sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-82858407326541418122015-02-26T21:42:00.000-08:002015-02-27T09:00:18.511-08:00The things you do for love, and the birdfoot heel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I decided to use up the leftovers in a couple pairs of socks. These are always the socks that I experiment with, and some of my best, and worst, ideas have been tried out in leftovers.<br />
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My socks are knit in the round, on a superba double bed. Recently, I was using my CSM in the comfy company of several CSM people, and I took a few minutes to expound on why I like the double bed knitting machine for socks more ;than the CSM. It all comes down to flexiblilty. I can have more or less stitches whenever I want. It made me think.<br />
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I want to make socks that have more room around the heel and the arch of my foot- where things get stretched out the most when I wear my socks. I mean, I want there to be more stitches around the sock in that area,<br />
I also wanted to try out a couple of modifications to the short-row heel. I wanted the heel to actually use MORE THAN HALF of the stitches. I think I have figured out how to do that. I also wanted to use a short-row that put all the needles back into work at one time, instead of one at a time. Okay, then.<br />
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I managed to get these experiments into the socks, and I am pretty satisfied. <br />
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I started out by knitting 3 x 2 rib over 72 stitches- so 90 actual stitches in the ribbing- . (see my recent blog entry for all the details on this. ) <br />
Then, I set up the rest of the sock in the round, 36 stitches on each bed. I knit 4 rounds and increased 1 stitch on each side on both beds, by moving out the outer 2 stitches by one needle, and filling the empty needle with a crossbar from the row below. Then I **knit 8 rounds, increased 4 stitches** two times.<br />
Now I had a total of 84 stitches, 42 on each bed. I knit 8 more rows after the last increase row.<br />
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Now for the heel- I wanted a heel that used a total of 48 stitches, so I would be shortrowing the 42 needles on the back bed, along with 3 needles on both ends of the front bed. <br />
Here's how that works. With carriage on right, set up your carriages to knit the back bed, but pass the front bed.<br />
Before you knit across the back bed on the first row of the heel, I handknit the three rightmost stitches on the front bed, wrap the yarn in the hook of the next stitch, then handknit the three rightmost stitches again to get back to the edge. Now, I knit the back bed- moving the carriages to the left side, where I hand knit the 3 leftmost sttiches on the front bed, wrap in the hook of the next needle, and handknit back to the end. For the next two rows, I handknit 2 stitches,wrap, handknit back, on both ends, and for the net two rows, that's right! handknit i stitch, wrap, handknit back on both ends. <br />
Now, carriages on right- wrap the yarn in the hook of that rightmost needle on the front bed, and set my back carriage to hold position. On the first row, pull the end needles on both the left and right ends. On each row, pull both the right and left next needles into hold position until there are 12 stitches left in the middle, and the carriage is on the right. (You have knit 12 rows of the heel). <br />
For the next row, on the left side, I put all but the end needle back in work position, and knit to the right.<br />
For the next row, on the left, pull the next (2nd) needle into hold position, and on the right, I put all the needles except the end needle back in work position and knit across.<br />
Now, the carriage is on the right, and I pulled the end needles to hold position on both ends every row until there are 12 or 13 (I forget, lol- something close to that) needles left and carriage is back on left. I put all the right side needles back in work position and knit to the right. <br />
I set up the carriages for circular knitting. I make sure that the carriages are no longer set for hold position. I put the needles that are still in hold position on the left side of the back bed back into regular working position. I used a transfer tool to put the stitches back in the hooks, and the hooks lined up in regular working position, ready for the carriage.<br />
I knit the first circular row- first right to left across the front bed, then left to right across the back bed. <br />
I was now done with this heel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This stripe really allows you to see how the heel is done. By the way- this short row heel is very smooth on the inside- no ridge. And no holes.</td></tr>
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Now, it was time to reduce the number of stitches, so I knit 4 rounds and decreased by moving the outer two stitches in one needle, doubling up the 2nd and 3rd stitches from the ends, on both beds and both sides. **Knit 8 rounds and repeat the decrease** until back to a total of 36 stitches on each bed.<br />
Then I completed the sock, making the toe by shortrowing on the back bed only on 36 stitches down to 12, and back up, using a self wrap on the on the way down, and 1 up, 2 down on the way back to 36 stitches.<br />
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So, how do I like them? Well, the fit is exactly what I was after. My socks, going forward, will have a wide load section. My feet will be happy for it.<br />
As for the birdfoot heel, I like how smooth it is. Also, since the fussier part, for me, of knitting the heel is putting the stitches back into work, this heel simplifies that part. I find I do not need to move around the weights as often as with a conventional shortrow up and shortrow down heel. The birdfoot heel using more that 50% of the stitches, has the effect of moving the pivot point for the heel higher up the ankle, and more forward. This, combined with the additional stitches, means that the front of the sock over the arch doesn't need to stretch quite as much. Now for some wear testing.sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-77190336462499393672015-02-26T16:50:00.000-08:002015-04-29T21:48:29.598-07:00Gretzsky's shawl finished!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Came out very cozy.</td></tr>
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I finished the edge with a wrap-a-round knit-on plain edge. I cast on 9 stitches, and on every second row, I put one edge stitch on the 5th needle. Tension was tighter than the original shawl- around 4 on the Bulky. Started at one corner, and grafted the stitches when I got all the way around. The edging curled around both sides, making for a a very neat finish on both sides. I buried a lot of ends under the curl on both sides. <br />
Here are a couple closeups of the purl side and the knit side.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">purl side of gretzsky's shawl</td></tr>
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And here are more complete updated directions for the shawl:<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First things first- You need a foundation to start</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cast on with waste yarn- a multiple of 9 stitches. Each 9 needle section will make a foundation triangle.) Knit 10 or 12 rows of waste yarn, ending COL, then knit 1 row ravel cord ending COR. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you want closed cast-on, then e-wrap and knit each needle. If you don’t mind open cast-on, just knit row 1 with your garment yarn. This row needs to be at a loose tension, I used T7.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set your carriage for holding position. Set tension for 6 or 7.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set up for the first triangle. On the carriage side, leave 9 needles in work position, and move the rest of the needles to hold position. The 9 needles in work position are the base of the first triangle. You might need a small claw weight to help, and to move up as you knit the triangle. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Now put the right most needle of these 9 into hold position, and Knit 2 rows. Put the right most of the 8 needles and Knit 2 rows….until there is only one needle left. Knit 2 rows on that one needle. Now put the other 8 back into work position (total of 9 in work position) and knit to the right. Now, put those 9 needles into hold position. All the needles are now in hold position. Move the carriage to the left past all the needles in hold. ** </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Put the second set of 9 needles into work position and follow the directions from * to **. Put each subsequent set of 9 needles into work position and follow the directions from * to **.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When all the triangles are made, move the carriage back to the left side, and again taking each set of 9 needles into work position, take each triangle off on waste yarn separately.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The individual entrelac block</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ( for this pattern) is 9 stitches by 17 rows. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The stitches for the blocks of the first row will be picked up from the long edge of the triangle, and will incorporate the open stitches of the next triangle. One of the triangles has it’s open stitches on the end of the piece. This is the triangle you will start the row with. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With purl side out, hang the long edge of triangle on 9 stitches. Your carriage will be on the side of the triangle’s open stitches. Again, use a small claw weight and move up as needed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, locate the nearest open stitch on the next triangle and put it on the 9th needle. Knit 2 rows. Put the next open stitch on the 9th needle, and knit 2 rows. Repeat until you are down to the last open stitch. Put the last open stitch on the 9th needle (go for the part of the stitch that ‘wraps around’), and knit 1 row. (17 rows knit). You can now pull out the waste yarn that held the stitches that you have transferred to the 9th needle, and use it to take the 9 stitches of the last row of the block off on waste yarn. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One block down. Now finish the row.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The second row will be knitted in the opposite direction. If your knitted left-to-right on the first row, you will knit right-to-left on the second, and all even rows. You will be able to knit from block to block without breaking the yarn, except for when you end one row of blocks and begin another.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To knit the shawl</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, The first row of blocks will be 23 blocks. You will need three sections of foundation. Each section will be 72 stitches, making 8 triangles each. Make sure they are all knitted in the same direction. The sections will be joined by the blocks of the first row.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each subsequent row of blocks will be have one block fewer than the row before. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Double-idiot-roll edge: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Cast on 9 stitches on waste yarn, knit a few rows, knit a ravel cord row, and begin with garment yarn and a tension that is tighter that the garment tension. I used T 4.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On every other row, pick up an edge stitch and put it on needle 5. When you have knitted around, graft the last row to the first row.</span>sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-68288738914934582992015-02-19T14:18:00.000-08:002015-02-19T14:28:36.447-08:00Entrelac Shawl needs a border!Okay, we got this far finally. <br />
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This shawl is made from a shrug that I finished and frogged. The yarn is some walmart 1 ply synthetic, that has a big tendency to collect static and while the color transition really works well in this entrelac, it did not do the same in the shrug. <br />
However, now I need a border and No, it won't be worm, i cord, piecrust. It needs to be at least as wide as the blocks are: 9 stitches, and it will be knit as you go, so 2 rows for every stitch. Probably plain stockinet around 15 rows ( to allow some curl and still have some width) would be just fine. Maybe 16 or 17 stitches with a needle or two out of work in the middle. I'll let you know.<br />
Here are some close ups of the purl side and the stockinet side.<br />
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There are also quite a few loose ends, mostly on the edges, so I will be able to take care of them as I do the border.<br />
If someone needs the details, here they are:<br />
Brother 260, tension 6. (This technique will work on any midgauge or bulky, I am sure. )<br />
The entrelac block is 9 stitches wide and 17 rows long. Each new block is picked up from the side of a block on the row before. If you have never done this technique, I recommend <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9rOkIqNbHw">Dianne Sullivan's You Tube intro to Entrelac</a>.<br />
The foundation row of triangles to set up this project had to be done as three 72 stitch strips. Once the foundation triangles are done, the first row of blocks links them together, and you are off- completing rows that are each one block shorter than the one before. Each block takes (after all that practice!) around 3 minutes.<br />
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Entrelac is a great handknitting technique that can easily be adapted to many knitting devices. You can, of course, use a flatbed knitting machine. I'm pretty sure you can use a circular sock machine (getting a vision of how you could do that, and will report here with pics when I try it out.) You can use knitting combs, all kinds of peg knitters and knitting looms.sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0Chester, VA, USA37.3568157 -77.4416504999999837.2558337 -77.603011999999978 37.4577977 -77.280288999999982tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-42447986430341103172015-02-11T13:08:00.000-08:002015-02-11T13:08:54.843-08:003 x 2 industrial rib: How I do it and Why I bother<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3 x 2 half-pitch ribbing- using racked cast-on</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have always been a fan of what the old ribber manuals refer to as ‘industrial rib’- which is a 2x2 rib set up half-pitch, such that you use 2 out of every 3 needles on both beds, and the beds are offset so that you get a very deep, 2x2 rib. The rib uses 33% more needles and yarn than a conventional 2x2 rib (Full pitch, 2 needles in, 2 needles out of work across both beds).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lately, I have been using a 3x2 rib, based on the industrial rib set-up, for a lot of socks. It’s a bit of a yarn saver for me, as this rib only incorporates 25% more needles and yarn than the stockinet rows. I does involve one more step than the 2x2 industrial setup.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's my zigzag row.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's what it will look like when you have transferred the stitches.</td></tr>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ae7f592e-7a5a-8476-efc3-7e6d7d62ccd1"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. Tension 4.5. carriages both set to knit. Knit your ribbing.</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ae7f592e-7a5a-d714-5e71-4f4e21817f42"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For bigger combinations (3x3, 3x4) the racked cast-on doesn’t work in most applications. You have to rack 2 spaces, and that tightens the edge too much for many applications. You can cast on 1x1 or FNR, but then you have to transfer a lot of stitches to set up your rib. You can always ewrap, but I have not been happy with ewrap on the top edge of a sock. </span></span></div>
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This is my cheat-sheet for the 3 x 2 rib cast-on</h3>
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sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-83630464973373878562014-11-16T17:34:00.000-08:002014-11-16T17:34:52.912-08:00Better, Neater, Faster, Easier.My friend Linda W., up there on Tug Hill, offered me some sound critique on the hem-top socks. She told me that her husband would find the hem messy. She wants to make something with a neater top. Well, Linda was right. I was immediately not happy with the hem. I had used the eon e-wrap for the hem for maximum elasticity. But that leaves really big floppy loops of yarn on the inside of the hem. I know they feel okay, but it looked crappy.<br />
On the next pair of socks, I did my knitted e-wrap cast-on on every needle.<br />
When I hung the hem, I still only hung every other bar (the bars between the e-wraps). The hem is just as elastic as the eon cast-on, and looks so much better. That aside, the every-needle cast-on solved a couple problems I didn't know I had. Let me count them out for you.<br />
1. Your waste yarn cast-on can be full-needle, instead of 1x1- Simply set up your rib pattern on both beds, set the beds to 1/2 pitch (needles staggered), rack 1 (left or right) to get your zigzag row, and after you have done 2 circular passes, set to full pitch (needles opposite) and rack back 1 so your back bed needles face your front bed needles. You are now done fiddling with needle setup.<br />
2. The knitted on e-wrap may be a bit snugger on every needle than on eon. If so, then manually raise the needles on the first bed to knit, and knit them back with the carriage, then do the same on the 2nd bed to knit. Nicer cast on row.<br />
3. The bars, when you hang the hem are still easy to see, and no big loops in your way when you knit the first row after the hem.<br />
4. This cast-on is faster to do than the old one. Mostly, I think, because it does not combine changing to the rib pattern while doing the cast on rows.<br />
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I made a couple pairs, and played around with different mock-rib intervals. I got a little obsessive-compulsive over having my rib pattern be symmetrical, and centered front and back, and having a rib on each side to bridge between front and back beds. I also obsessed over sock size as it is affected by the ratio between the total needles for the pattern and the net number of needles that actually are in work. omg!<br />
Turns out, you have to worry about <b>that</b> if your princess can feel the pea under the mattress.sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-44310948939574802242014-10-31T11:44:00.000-07:002014-10-31T11:44:23.041-07:00notes on the cadillac socks<b id="docs-internal-guid-9523b136-6782-b845-e536-144c2c04b54d" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I use the actual foot circumference, along with my stitch gauge, to determine the number of stitches, then round up or down to a multiple of 4. (I break that rule whenever it is convenient- such as when using a multiple of 3 because I am using a 2-1 rib.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I use the sock height measurement that I like, rather than the sock height on the chart- to Sort- of decide how much ribbing I will make. I like to have an inch or two of plain knitting between the ribbing and the heel shaping, so that is also part of the sock height, as well as half of the heel shaping. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I use the actual foot length to determine how many rows the foot will be. I subtract 4.5 to 5 inches from the actual foot length (because the heel and toe shaping will take up that much of the length) and multiply what's left by my row gauge to tell me how many rows of foot to knit between the heel and the toe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now for the machine knitting. I use 4 ply sock yarn. 2 ends of 2/24 work, too. But the sock yarns are superwash and nylon and they wash in the washing machine and dry in the dryer. The superwash/nylon sock yarns also wear like iron. The wearer will have them for years.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So- the basic instructions for my cadillac socks :</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If my gauge is, for example, 8 st and 11 rows per inch in stockinet in the round, and I want to make a medium woman's crew sock, then I want the sock to be 68 stitches around, for 8 1/2 inches. The industrial rib will actually have 30% more stitches, but the stockinet part will be 68 stitches throughout.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cast on in industrial rib on both beds from 34 L to 34 R. Tension one click less than stockinet tension. K 68 rows.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transfer stitches to the main bed, and set up for in-the-round stockinet. See the notes for this. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heel: Shortrow on main bed only- down to 11 - approximately one third of 34. then shortrow back up. Please see the notes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THE NOTES:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I like to use industrial rib- it stands up nice and does not bind or cut. It does use more yarn. People with skinny ankles don't need industrial rib- you can just use 1x1 or 2x2.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On your main bed, pull forward the number of needles indicated by your foot circumference. Push back every 3rd needle. On your ribber, set to half pitch, and pull up two needles in the space of each out of work needle on your main bed. Now rack your ribber bed by one click, either left or right, so that you can see that when you knit the first row, you will get a nice zigzag. You can add a needle on one end or the other to make it work. Now go to your ribber manual and use the racked circular caston. Remember which way you racked to set up, so you can rack back to that setup when you are finished casting on.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, when you are finished casting on, transfer the stitch on each end needle out to a new needle, and put the original end needle out of work. You may want those end needles both on the main bed. I don't mind where they are, but I'm on a fixed double bed. The purpose of this move is to put some extra yarn in near the end stitches, which will be ever so handy later when you are seaming up the ribbing. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I knit soft ribbing. It is knit at a tension that is only once click down from my stockinet tension, which is used on the rest of the sock. I am thinking that on a brother, I would be ribbing at 4.2(both carriages) and knitting stockinet at 5.1. You will need to be sure that your ribber knits at the same tension in stockinet as your main bed- do your tension gauge in-th-round, so you will know if you need to set one looser or tighter than the other.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When you have knit all the rows of ribbing, transfer the ribber stitches to the main bed- in each set of two ribber stitches, one will fill the empty needle between two sets of 2 on the main bed, and the other will transfer to a needle that already has a stitch on it. Move the end stitches in, as well. You should have the correct number of stitches for the body of the sock. If I am plus 1 stitch at this point, I leave it that way right now, and after the next transfer operation is completed, I transfer that extra stitch to the last stitch on the opposite bed. That's just me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set your carriage for stockinet and knit one row.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I like the rib seam on the inside of the ankle. So I make a left and a right sock. I always make the left first- so on the first sock, I will be transferring the right half of the stitches . Take the weights off your knitting- put on a claw weight at center left. Put the stitches from R0 to Rwhatever on a garter bar- the first needle must be on the left end prong of the garter bar. This left end prong will stay close to where it is, and the right end of the garter bar will go down between the beds and then up under the left hand half of the stitches. You will have folded your knitting in half. Have your ribber needles raised with the latches open, and carefully drop the garter bar onto the hooks. You will get very fast at this. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set up your beds, weight the ribber side of the sock with a claw weight. Check your carriages settings and tensions. Beds will be at full pitch (needles opposite) Knit in the round (RC counts 2 for each round- I write down my end number so I don't confuse myself). Knit that inch or two of preheel. Drop the ribber bed down one notch, so you can do the heel on the main bed. change your sinker place. change from circular to stockinet</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heel (and Toe) are both short row. If you have 34 stitches on the main bed, then you are going to shortrow down to 11 - approximately one third of 34. then shortrow back up. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Going down: Set for holding position. and stockinet. On the carriage side, pull one needle out to hold position and knit across. Repeat until there are 12 stitches left in the middle. You will need to weight (or hold down with your fingers as you knit across) because as you get more stitches in hold, your live knitting will be wanting to climb up and make getting a good stitch difficult. I use claw weights but hang them on the back of the live work by just one or two prongs. I also use my fingers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When there are 12 stitches left, pull out one needle on the carriage side, and on the other side, put 2 needles back in upper work position and knit across. Repeat this row until all the stitches are back in work. This 1 up-2 down does a self wrap that matches the self wrap on the way down. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When the heel is knitted, some folks swap the end stitches on the main bed with the end stitches on the ribber. I don't. If I think I will have a hole, I wrap into the end ribber needle hook when the end needle on the main bed is the last needle in hold. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Body of sock- set up to return to circular. Knit the number of rows you calculated for the main body. Then make the toe the same way you made the heel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When the toe is complete, return to circular, and knit one complete circular row with main yarn, then one complete row with ravel cord then 5 or 6 full rows of waste yarn and take off the machine.(make you ravel cord and waste yarn a color that contrasts with your main yarn.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kitchener close the toe. (I do this on the purl side.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Side seam: With a double pointed needle (size 2 or 1 is good) pick up the side of the every other edge stitch of your ribbing. If you knit 50 rows of rib, you should have around 25 on each side. With your cast on yarn, and a blunt tapestry needle (I like an 18) take alternate stitches off the needles from the top of the cuff down. When you get to the bottom of the opening, stretch the cuff so that the seam is not pulled, then run your yarn back up the seam part way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How many ways will you go wrong? The common rookie mistakes involve getting ahead of yourself , or forgetting a step.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will forget to take off the ribber arm when you change to just the main bed for the heel and the toe. You will forget to change from the regular arm back to the ribber arm when you go back to circular knitting. You will forget to set your carriages correctly for circular knitting when you change back and forth. You will forget to set your main bed carriage to hold position when it is needed. You will forget to take weights off and you will forget to put weights on. You will forget to check the tension setting. You will forget to rack back your ribber bed after you cast on. You will forget to change to full pitch when you set up for circular.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These are a lot the mistakes that we make. Even as we read the directions carefully, and look at what we are doing- </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My advice is to write the directions out in steps that YOU can follow. Use a sharpie, and hang them on your yarn mast where they are visible as you are working, because I know you will NOT get up and get those directions. No, you will forget a step, and then, you will go get them. </span></div>
<br />sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-46143347640532078172014-10-26T08:20:00.001-07:002014-10-26T08:22:48.938-07:00The Not-Automatic Knit-in-the-round, mock-rib hem-top sock for the double bed knitting machine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can also do this on the japanese machines with a ribber attached, but I worked on a superba.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, CSM crankers will recognize this sock- many make a version like this all the time, as it is a classy sock, and it does not involve using the Circular sock machine ribber.</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;">These directions are for a women's medium sock. It is based on a 6 needle repeat, so add or remove 'ribs' in pairs to make huge or tiny socks. </b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beds are full pitch: set with needles opposite, and stay this way throughout the sock. On the front bed, starting at L18, raise every other needle into working position to, and including, R17. Do the same on the back bed, except go from L17 to R18. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBoFaiqcgSoo2nAzrOHxesIbpzoxXd6poZ4RY2IKxBHKJeJuQcChlGBu9o_eW3LD-FM_U5hdUFTOjKgcQxScYLXp86DLJyMpkHSIa5zvZVcVk6IwuTxcXb40jPSMbsBYVuJZgyLlnjZks/s1600/DSCN3645.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBoFaiqcgSoo2nAzrOHxesIbpzoxXd6poZ4RY2IKxBHKJeJuQcChlGBu9o_eW3LD-FM_U5hdUFTOjKgcQxScYLXp86DLJyMpkHSIa5zvZVcVk6IwuTxcXb40jPSMbsBYVuJZgyLlnjZks/s1600/DSCN3645.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What the mock rib looks like</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, closed caston for top of sock- (This edge will be knitted to the inside of the sock to make the hem top.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thread the main yarn in the tensions and pull down yarn so that you a couple yards of yarn to work with and the yarn is slack.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working by hand, from right to left across the front bed,using e-wrap in the hooks, raise each needle so that the ravel cord stitch is below the latch, e-wrap in the hook, and pull the e-wrap through the ravel cord stitch. Make the new stitches loose. Then, work the same left to right across the back bed,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, on both beds, pull up into working position the rest of the empty needles to make the circular mock rib set-up. On the back bed,starting from the left, the set up is two needles in work, one out, then 5 in work with one out of work across the bed, ending with 3 needles in work. On the front bed, it is reversed- with a set of 3 needles in work on the left, and a set of 2 needles in work on the right. All the way around, you have 5 needles in work and one needle out of work,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thread the work yarn through the carriage yarn feeder and pull the slack yarn back through the tensions, See that your carriages are set to knit circular, Set the tension on both carriages to your garment tension- (I used 5.1on both dials)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set RC to 0.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knit to RC 60 (that is 30 rows). should end carriage on right.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div>
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I have pushed up the e-wrap cast on row with my fingers.<br />
You can see the nice big loops that will make the knit in hem.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turn heel on the back bed. Set front bed carriage to (0) and back bed carriage to V. Pull out to non working position one needle on the carriage side each row for 23 rows. On row 24, pull out one needle on the carriage side, and push the inner two hold position needles back into work. Repeat row 24 until all needles are back in work. When you no longer have two needles to push back into work position, manually place the remaining needle back to regular work position and put the stitch back in the hook. If you have to make another row on the back bed to get back to circular knitting, you can loop the working yarn into the hook of the left front bed needle before knitting across, to help close the hole. (Fudge note: I don’t count rows. When there are no longer 2 needles out of work on either side, If carriage is on right, I put the needles back in work position and resume circular knitting. If carriage is on left, and there is a needle still out of work on left, I put the working yarn in the left end needle hook on the front bed before knitting to the right on the last heel row, and with carriage on right, set up to resume circular.) </span></div>
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sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-26831255765422465032014-02-17T08:46:00.001-08:002014-02-17T08:46:49.290-08:00Freedon Wright's wife and her spinning wheel, part deuxLast year was too busy- among other endeavors, I moved to Virginia. I had to weed out the homestead, as it would not all fit in the new one. <br />
I still had the spinning wheel that was part of the Freedom Wright household. I did not think that it belonged in Virginia, and I (fortunately) had not got around to 'restoring' it to a working state. It now resides at the Lewis County Historical Society. <br />
I felt an obligation because most spinning wheels do not have this kind of provenance. We usually cannot know who made them, or who used them. It was a privilege to own the wheel for a time, and a privilege to put it where its provenance can be appreciated and expanded.<br />
Remind yourself what this wheel looked like by going to the old post in 2011.<br />
<br />sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-87680049919864839842014-02-17T07:57:00.000-08:002014-02-17T07:57:58.715-08:00Okay, it's been a while.... Really.Okay- it's been a while. And if not for those pesky New Year Resolutions, I would not be back here yet.<br />
Here is a quilt top I've worked out, along with some pics to illustrate a few of the 'tricks' I used to make it.<br />
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Seeing Stars</div>
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This looks more structurally complicated than it is. The single block that makes up this top is a 10 1/2"x 5 1/2" rectangle with it's lower left corner quarter in a contrast. You make the light rectangles with a dark corner, and the dark rectangles with a light corner. Then join a dark and a light (mostly) along their un-cornered sides, and you have 10 1/2" squares. Pinwheel four squares around a common color center, and you have a 20 1/2" star block. When you line up the star blocks, other stars will form between them, along with diagonal rows of 4 color squares.<br />
I worked this variation out in two sets of colors: Dark and light green, and Purple and very light tan. You can see that my variation does not 'line up' like the one that inspired it. (<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/husqvarnavikingquilters/photos/albums/1666048877/lightbox/161819480</span>) All of my Dark green rectangles have the light green corner, all my light green rectangles have the dark green corner. Same with the other two colors- so there are four 'bricks' here-<br />
This was constructed by cutting 5 1/2 inch wof strips. For each set of 4 20 1/2" star blocks, you will need 4 each of 16 inch strips and 6 inch strips of all 4 colors. <br />
Mark the center line of the 5 1/2 inch square that is 1/4 inch inside the 6 inch side of the small patches.<br />
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This is how I did them.<br />
Then I pinned all the patches and chain sewed the 1/2 squares.<br />
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Here's how I kept the patches centered while pinning.</div>
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Make sure that all your diagonal center lines travel in the same direction!!!</div>
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You need all you blocks to have the same corner- no mirror twins!!!</div>
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Then it's cut the diagonals, and press. I took care pressing those bias seams.</div>
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Then I worked from my cartoon to assemble my blocks.</div>
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Now I have the quilt top's 12 blocks to serve as my cartoon. Well, that was fun. Except for the number of times that I twisted one of the 10 1/2 inch sub-blocks the wrong way somehow, and had to rip and resew. It was a testament to making the same mistake over and over again. Apparently, I practice what I know.</div>
sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-91746024704014806892012-06-27T10:10:00.002-07:002012-06-27T10:11:09.634-07:00Have you ever seen a maidenhair fern in bloom?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They look like little white crowns!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Table is 29 inches tall- Around 40 inches from top of pot to floor.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Have you EVER seen a maidenhair fern BLOOM? </span><br />
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Until today, me neither!</div>
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I'm making note of all factors in this post- I have no idea what prompted Miss Fern to bloom, but my assumption is that she is very, very happy.</div>
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She is 4 years old. At 2 years, I divided her and repotted. (People who "divide" maidenhair ferns are laughing as they read this. The rest of you need to know that you need an axe to divide the rootball.) She lives between two north windows, and next to a hot air duct. She's probably rootbound. We are a week after the summer solstice. </div>
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The blooms are clusters on spikes off mature stems. Each bloom is about 1/8 inch across. It has 6 curled-back petals, one each behind 6 gold-pollen tipped anthers. The blooms on this one are all near the top of the pot, so if you hang your fern, you will miss the blooms, probably. </div>sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-65747167161653151862012-01-31T09:39:00.000-08:002012-01-31T09:40:18.249-08:00KoolAid to the Rescue<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bargains. I love 'em. They engender a feeling of contentment in me. Like I deserved them. There are some iconic fiber-related bargains that have really made me warm and fuzzy for years. The $10 Lendrum wheel. The $5 Singer 155. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A more recent bargain was a box full of wonderful cone yarn (fingering weight) that is 50-50 wool and cashmere. Yup. I scored cashmere. For around $10 a pound. Warm and Fuzzy. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have several colors that are very nice. I have a couple colors that will come back around in 5 years, and I'll still have this yarn, so it's safe to wait. I have two full cones of pink. Hot pink. Saturated hot pink. Even if hot pink comes back around, I won't be wearing it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to work out some socks and take down some tension numbers so that I can whip up a right sized pair of cashmere socks at any time downstream from now, with no need for future swatching. Naturally, I reach for the hot pink. I can spare it. I would off a couple of 50g skeins. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I spied the bag of koolaid packages in the drawer. Well, why not.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what you get with 6 cups of water, 4 packs of electric blue lemonade, and 100 g. of hot pink.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not the evenest dye job, but a color I can live with.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I am feeling warm and fuzzy. </span>sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-44043914621049387432011-10-15T09:01:00.000-07:002011-10-15T09:03:52.570-07:00Quilt Camp with the Tug Hill Quilters<br />
DC K and I spent the week at Quilt Camp. We had a wonderful time. We met, over the week, around 90 quilters, and we are lucky to remember our own names, nevermind their names.<br />
Monday through Thursday, we talked, quilted, ate and laughed. DCK came with several projects ready to sew, and I did not get a picture of any of them! That probably works for her, as surely one of them is a Christmas present for someone, and she won't want them to see it here!<br />
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DCK gave me a darling pattern, with a kit of 5 fat quarters, to make a christmas tree hanging, and I have the fancy part done. I'll post the picture when it's done. Meanwhile, here are pictures to inspire you.<br />
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Thanks, everyone, for the best time!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Headed for the Church craft bazaar</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The quilters work and wander</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quilt-as-you-go strip quilt</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the cutting table</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quilter GD's dye project with her daughter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">destined for the VA hospital</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hot colors and cut and sew triangle blocks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful hand applique</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are some of the material from the Ninja Yardsale adventure.</td></tr>
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<br /></div>sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-32471105805894253682011-09-17T16:42:00.000-07:002011-09-17T19:59:21.780-07:00The Boomerang Scarf at Blue Mountain Lake Fiber Festival<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sharon's preferred, asymetrical style wrap</td></tr>
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Note: the scarf in the pic is an early version. When you follow<br />
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</tbody></table>I had a great time today at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. It was Fiber Festival day, and the yarn bombers had visited the museum! There were knitting and crocheting (and felting, quilting, rug hooking, and on and on...) explosions all over the place. <br />
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I brought the boomerang to share with the other knitters, and I just enjoyed the knitting and sharing and meeting people. <br />
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The Boomerang scarf is an easy, warm and stylish scarf. It is all garter stitch, so it wraps like a dream, and wants to hold onto your coat! Knit it in wool, or a wool-silk blend. Wool-alpaca would also work, and the alpaca will lend its drapiness as well. Handspun yarn works well with this pattern. Gauge is not critical. Make it as small, or as big as you want (or as your ball of yarn dictates.) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">You can knit this at bigger gauges for a softer, less structured knit. It will 'collapse' on your neck better at bigger gauge, and it will 'stand up' better at the tighter gauges.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;">Boomerang Scarf<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;">Yarn- About 200 yards <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;">Needles to knit at about 5 stitches to the inch ( for knitting worsted weight yarn) or 6 stitches to the inch ( for sport weight yarn). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;">Cast on 2 stitches.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;">Row 1 (and all odd rows) Yarn Over, then knit to the end of the row. (increase of<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;"> one stitch)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;">Row 2 YO, knit to end of row. (one stitch increased)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;">Row 4 Same as row 2<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;">Row 6 Bind off 4 stitches, knit to end of row.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;">Row 1 (and all odd rows) YO, K1, YO, knit to end of row (2 stitches increased)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;">Row 2, 4, and 6 as before.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;">Repeat these 6 rows to make sawteeth and bind off the open stitches. If you run short of yarn before sawteeth are done, bind off the rest of the open stitches without making sawteeth. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: 'AR CENA'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span>sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-6851447831739862502011-09-14T07:06:00.000-07:002011-09-14T07:06:47.627-07:00Knitting in Denver! AND another shrug pattern!<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I gave the LK 140 to myy DDIL, who is not yet a machine knitter, a couple years ago. (Give her time.) I was visiting her (and the new, 4th, baby) to help out for a bit, and I dug out the machine to entertain myself.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I started with the free Lion Brand pattern (<a href="http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/90687AD.html?noImages=">http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/90687AD.html?noImages=</a>) for the simple shrug- I ran a gauge sample and got 4.5 s x 6 r/ inch,and translated the pattern for the machine, using the pattern dimensions given in the pattern. The 34 inch wide panel was too wide for the machine, so made it up in two half-width panels, which I joined by raveling the edge stitch on each piece and drawing 2 loops through two loops. (I set this up by leaving one needle out of work before the last needle, on the left side of piece one, and on the right side of piece 2. This makes the loops you will get by ravelling down the edge stitch a bit bigger. ) This put the mock braid detail up the back of the shrug. I knit the panels with open caston, and later, I picked up the open stitches and hand knit 2x2 rib on top and bottom of the joined panels. I used the Joann’s sensations Kashmiri, and i must say this lively 10-ply wool worked up great, and the machine loved it. (fYI, takes less than 4 full skeins, and kashmiri is 284 yards/100 gm)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Okay, let's review.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You will make two panels, each one 17 inches wide by 34 inches long. Do a gauge sample to get your stitches for 17 inches and your rows for 34 inches. On panel #1, leave a needle out of work inside of the left edge stitch- and on panel #2, leave that needle out of work inside of the right edge stitch. (You could also just move the edge stitch over, but the extra width caused by the ravelled edge stitch more than made up for the loss of one stitch in the width. ) Cast on with waste yarn, and when you start the first garment yarn row, do not use a closed cast on with your main yarn- just knit. When it is the right length, take it off on waste yarn. I collect the open top stitches and the open bottom stitches on a couple of circular needles, leaving off the edge stitch that you are going to ravel, so that you can run it down, a couple rows at a time, while you join up the panels. When the panels are joined you have this great looking 34" x 34" square. Now knit 2 inches of 2x2 rib on the top edge, and on the botttom edge. I used a size 4 needle, shooting for a rib to take full advantage of this yarn's springiness. When you cast off these ribs, you have a square that is 34 " wide, and 38" long. Fold it in half lengthwise- sew up the sides starting from the ribbing, stopping about 8 inches from the top fold. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">To wear, put your arms through the armholes, and arrange the ribbing a a shawl collar on your neck, down the front and around the bottom/back of the shrug. </span><br />
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I like my houseplants BIG. Thus, when faced with having to repot, or divide, the conflict is always how big a plant I can save. Well, D-day arrived for the begonia. This is my darling Dotty, a full 30 inches of danging jungle. <br />
If you read the books, you are supposed to take small cuttings, and start new 'babies'. Then, in three years, you can have THIS! I prefer to root large cuttings and have dangling jungle by winter. So, the pots, the hose, the bag of potting soil, me and Dotty , and an hour, and we now have...<br />
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</tbody></table>This. Dotty's daughters need a few days to rearrange their leaves so they are all facing out- they will look just fine then. However, I now need space for three pots, instead of one. I've got some ideas.<br />
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I also chopped up and repotted a variegated philodendron. Just an 'after' picture here, but you can use your imagination.<br />
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Also three more pots. Anybody need a philodendron?sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-69838981819586165292011-07-27T04:51:00.000-07:002011-07-27T04:53:17.784-07:00So That's a Knitomat!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwAy_YnnyTqtawgwgR6WE_5G-D1-wmbKB-q0XVSAuJG7uXTTc-qoJIBZZmgC35ozzMEG8NiQXrPz7AEEOqlHIsKMIHzg1sRJ_BJdIptm0mPBHkWPZt60EM03VKa4NmvJQpUTv8-dJ85BY/s1600/knitomat_03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwAy_YnnyTqtawgwgR6WE_5G-D1-wmbKB-q0XVSAuJG7uXTTc-qoJIBZZmgC35ozzMEG8NiQXrPz7AEEOqlHIsKMIHzg1sRJ_BJdIptm0mPBHkWPZt60EM03VKa4NmvJQpUTv8-dJ85BY/s400/knitomat_03.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>There's a new pony in the corral, a Knitomat 160. It arrived today, and it's up and knitting already.<br />
You lay the yarn across stationary latch needles, and then slide the carriage, which pushes the knitting forward , closing the latches and the new stitches are in the hooks. Then you push (manually) the knitting back behind the needle latches, which opens the latches again, and lay the yarn in the latches....<br />
It actually goes pretty fast. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">People who like intarsia, or hand manipulated lace, would like this machine. It's 5mm pitch, so passap and superba tools work with it. You could also knit two separate pieces, with two separate yarns, at the same time. Hmm. What comes in pairs? (I know! Socks!) Seriously, You could knit both fronts of a baby sweater, mirroring the shaping, at the same time. Who wouldn't want to do that?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Okay- I saw an episode of Hoarders, and I'm Never watching that again. And knitting machines are NOT cats. But I have avoided counting them (the knitting machines, that is.) It might be time to count.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">Today, I will review the earliest (20's through 50's) machines: There's the knitomat, the Custom 131, the twinmatic, and the Fleischer Fast Knitter (not really a machine, but not really a knitting loom, either.) I probably need to include the AutoKnitter here. A Steber, too.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You have to go to the auction when it's next door. Otherwise, the neighbors will talk. We went, in search of entertainment and gossip. We found both, and a couple of things to buy, as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The auction was a two day affair, liquidating an antiques business that has occupied the old Freedom Wright Inn for the last 45 years. The wheel in the picture was always marked 'not for sale' in the shop, as it was original with the old house, said to have belonged to Freedom Wright's wife, and marked with her initials, A.W. The wheel was nearly complete, with the foot treadle and pitman lacking, and the top part of the distaff gone, as well. The bobbin and flyer are complete, and the drive wheel is true. It shows both the correct age and wear for a spinning wheel from 1800-1810. There is a bit of linen thread still on the bobbin, so it's a good bet AW was the last person to use it. At some point (1960's I'm guessing) it received a coat of varnish, but fortunately, they did not sand it first.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table> I bought the wheel for $65. I could not believe my good luck. I'll post more pictures when she is up and running. She needs new leathers and a drive belt. Getting out the cotton twine, now.<br />
Freedom Wright built the inn in 1800. He does not show up in the 1800 census, but is there in 1810, and gone in 1820. The census records of the time only recorded the head of the household, so I do not know her name. <br />
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I will poke around until I learn more about AW. DH suggested that I start by getting the description of the land from the County records, as that would record all the owners. <br />
If you have any suggestions for me and AW's Wheel, post a comment.sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668572838258722606.post-43546019381959677292011-07-05T07:30:00.000-07:002011-07-05T07:30:59.698-07:00Zwanzigstein Fest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRw94u8augSOiPxLrIVgQ14P4Ua4v1Yqdwx7I-TotuaIIrak_uPB77CRpkbg-xjUeUhYuRZ9Q2517TIzzBb4jnECq9D9DAqXBTVA1UxNCDhhBVswsHGJi3lSUFfHQ9JiYNMb_9AQXveng/s1600/redwtandteal_28.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRw94u8augSOiPxLrIVgQ14P4Ua4v1Yqdwx7I-TotuaIIrak_uPB77CRpkbg-xjUeUhYuRZ9Q2517TIzzBb4jnECq9D9DAqXBTVA1UxNCDhhBVswsHGJi3lSUFfHQ9JiYNMb_9AQXveng/s400/redwtandteal_28.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</tbody></table>"Grandma, this does NOT look like a festival." My non-rural grandchildren have urban festival notions. We are walking from the car, through a field, toward some farm buildings. My GS and GD are carrying baskets full of spinning supplies, and I am carrying a wheel. I am coming to the Mennonite Heritage Farm, near Croghan, NY, to help out by demonstrating handspinning.<br />
"Well, let's see how things work out," I tell my GS. <br />
Zwanzigstein is an annual gathering of the descendants of the 20 families who first settled here in the mid 1800's. They have acquired National Historic Site status, and are faithfully restoring the buildings and the house. In the house basement, you unexpectedly re-enter the 21rst century, as they are finishing state-or-the-art, climate controlled space for their archives. <br />
The kids had a wonderful time. There were plenty of kid-friendly activities. My GD claims to have climbed the rock wall eleven times. She also rode the wagon, drawn by a couple of picture-perfect Belgians, but she lost count. The GS acquired a bill cap, and flirted with bidding on a John Deere collector's edition toy tractor. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My wheel is on the left, as a young demonstrator prepares to make butter.<br />
It went great with the homemade bread.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I had a great time with the kids, and a great time spinning. In the shade of the narrow front porch, I talked to lots of people, and met friends old and new.<br />
The food (homemade icecream, homemade rootbeer and sassparilla, brats as thick as your wrist, corn chowder, and turker dinner!!) was great. <br />
It's always great to get an upclose look at the old ways, and talk to people who know about those ways.<br />
On our way home, the kids told me it was a pretty good festival.sharonwuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01372571328727233885noreply@blogger.com0