Re: [lace] Re: International Knitting Day

2010-06-13 Thread Sue
For 15 years I haven't bothered to knit anything at all and more years than that since I knitted anything vaguely lacy but recently found some irrisistable colours on sale which I just had to buy, price excellent too:-) I have just finished knitting a cardigan with no lace but a tiny bit of

Re: [lace] Re: International Knitting Day

2010-06-13 Thread martina . dewille
Hello Sue, what a bad thing to have such a bad fall. I did one recently but got away with a few bruises on my face, hands and knees and scratched glasses. Everything is healed and repaired by now. I got into knitting and esp. knitting socks last year again. Finished 12 pairs last year and 1

lrb in Lancaster Pennsylvania [lace] Re: International Knitting Day

2010-06-13 Thread Sue
I must say that my imagination told me that these would be like gloves for toes, with separate toes:-) rather than just a different way of knitting socks. I did knit a couple of pairs but about 20 years ago but they are too small to wear with my plaster cast or my tubigrip, hense the borrowing

Re: lrb in Lancaster Pennsylvania [lace] Re: International Knitting Day

2010-06-13 Thread Clay Blackwell
Sue, there is a pattern for socks with toes! I'm trying to think where I saw it, and it seems to me it's in a book by a Japanese designer... and I think the socks were shown with the traditional Japanese sandal... sorry, I know that's not the right word for it. So keep looking - you may

Re: lrb in Lancaster Pennsylvania [lace] Re: International Knitting Day

2010-06-13 Thread Lesley Blackshaw
Clay Blackwell wrote: Sue, there is a pattern for socks with toes! Here's one http://www.unicornbooks.com/pattern_MWtoesocks-SQL3.asp Lesley in very rainy Cheshire - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write

[lace] Re: International Knitting Day

2010-06-12 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Everybody, don't forget to take your knitting needles and somme wool, silk or what ever out, that we could meet together outside in the park ;- Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

Re: [lace] Re: International Knitting Day

2010-06-12 Thread walker . bev2
I'll join you in the park, with my knitting! I am making a top out of crochet string. It has a lace panel of diamond shapes. :-)) On Jun 12, 2010 5:13am, Ilske Thomsen ilske-peter-thom...@t-online.de wrote: Hello Everybody, don't forget to take your knitting needles and somme wool, silk

Re: [lace] Re: International Knitting Day

2010-06-12 Thread Clay Blackwell
I did do some knitting today! I'm working on the second of a pair of toe-up socks, and they're delightful! Clay On 6/12/2010 11:42 AM, walker.b...@gmail.com wrote: I'll join you in the park, with my knitting! I am making a top out of crochet string. It has a lace panel of diamond shapes.