I'm knitting on a loom, and the yarn is very delicate (they call it "boa" yarn - link w/ pic is below). Should felting be attempted with this (or anything that would close the stitches in a bit)? I am afraid of ruining the color or texture of it, but it would be nice not to have such a "fragile" scarf which I'm afraid will catch on EVERYTHING. I ( Read more... )

Hello!  I'm a very, very new knitter, seeking advice on yarn.

( The Explanation of Why I Want To Buy Sock Yarn but Don't Know What to Look For )

So, yesterday I posted this with an example of the first thing I ever knit myself. I'd picked up many stitches (almost three times what I started with!!) and it had holes in it, but I was still pretty chuffed with myself. Today, I've done another little patch.

( Click for pictures and a little question... )

I'm Clouds, from London in the UK. I've been lurking here since the community was featured. I learned to knit on a rainy July day in 2007, and have taken up the needles again as a sort of stress relief/distraction from my Masters degree. I am still very much a novice, as the pictures under the cut will show. (Thanks to rice_dream_girl for prompting me to post ( Read more... )

Hi! I'm Emma, and I'm a final year French student at the University of Manchester, England. I got my Christmas request from my boyfriend this year: a ball of yarn (acrylic, as I'm vegan!) and some needles to get me started. I vaguely remember having briefly attempted knitting about 10 years ago, but I couldn't cast on or off, and I got very ( Read more... )

I decided to start learning to knit this last Halloween, and I've been more or less "crocheting" for a few years. I suck at patterns and I'm clumsy and impatient.

With the help of a few knitting books, I've learned to more or less knit, purl, do a rib stitch and bind off. My first project, because I'm impatient and I like to run before I crawl, I ( Read more... )