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Fun Fur Scarf; Knitting Project
Topic Started: Feb 25 2005, 02:45 PM (389 Views)
Heathertee
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Heather-Central Connecticut
This wonderful scarf takes only two or three hours to knit. I haven't knitted anything in 20 years, and I made this in one afternoon. Giving it to my niece for her birthday.

You need two balls of Fun Fur or "Eyelash" yarn.
Size 13 needles
Using two strands of yarn, cast on 11 sts.
Knit each row until the yarn is almost goen. Be sure to knit both strands each st.; it is easy to miss one. After a few rows it becomes second nature.
Bind off very loosely, please!

This is an unbelievably soft and warm scarf. Very feminine.
If you like, for the second strand you can use regular yarn of a matching color instead of the eyelash, but the scarf won't be as luxurious.

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mychrissy
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Chrissy
Heather,
Another one of your many talents. :clap: :clap: :clap:
Chrissy

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Trailblazer
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That's really pretty. I like fuzzy sweaters and scarves. I used to know how to knit, but it's been so long, I've forgotten.

We met a couple in the Grand Isle campground who owned a knitting machine, in their 5th wheel. The husband was hoping when he bought it that his wife would make clothes and sell them. The two sweaters she had made looked really nice. I told them she probably could sell them on Ebay.

Remember the toy, Little Red Spinning Wheel? I didn't have one, but we made spools with nails or tacks, and wove or knit on them, just like the little spinning wheel. I taught that to the kids, and we all had fun picking out pretty multi-colored yarn.

:blah: :blah:

Must learn how to knit someday...
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Heathertee
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Joanne and Chrissy, I learned when my kids were small; learned from a book. Crochet too. Any library will have a book about knitting; all you need for this is how to cast on, knit, and cast off. I made mistakes, but this Fun Fur hides a multitude of sins! :P
I didn't knit for years because I had carpal tunnel Syndrome in my RH. Got it taken care of and I can knit again! :yahoo:
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Little Kopit
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Heather,

I swear that knitting keeps me from getting carpel tunnel. Of course, I pick my stitches, European style, I grip and move the needles with my 4th and 5th fingers. The others are for just positioning the yarn. I knit 2x a day, when dogs are eating. & again when the washing machine needs tending.

I have been on the computer for long stretches and felt it and gone of an knitted a row of a circular caridigan (all around me) and fixed the finger stress. Granted I've never really tried to convince medical people of this, by I'm sure of it. Best help is kniting with wool. The way I knit strenthens fingers, but rests those tissues stressed by 'mousing'.

:)
Lynne
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Trailblazer
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Great idea about the library books!

Glad to hear your carpal tunnel is better and you can knit again! :)
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Heathertee
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Joanne, thanks. :)
Lynne, who taught you how to knit that way? Never heard of it.
Do you suppose that's the method Mme. DeFarge used, as she knit in the Square, watching the beheadings during the French Revolution? ;)
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Little Kopit
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Heather,

Mme. DeFarge. Probably.

I had this job as a receptionist. A person I worked with, who was 70, had been taught by her father, who was injured in WWI, who was taught by a nurse in France.

When I did it the throw your stitch way, I would use my entire hand the throw the stitch. So, she thought I might like to try.

You use your right 4th and 5th finger to push the needle through the stitch and pick up the yarn which is being held in place by your left hand. I put the yarn over index finger, between 4th and 5th and hold some tension with index finger.

Easier to show someone. The yarn goes over the needle opposite the way it does with thrown stitches. So, you have to see a picture of a stitch pattern. You wind up doing stuff like s1, k1, psso as k2 tog. & the k2 tog as k1 pass next st. back over the k stitch.

It helps to like figuring things out.

Ok. Clear as mud?

:)
Lynne
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Heathertee
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Lynne....yup. I have a tough time making a mental picture; might have to watch it done.
Too bad you aren't going to the Northeast Rally....but then, I doubt there'll be any time for knitting.
:floorrollin:

You obviously are a MUCH more accomplished knitter than I ever have been.
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passinthru
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John - Gainesville, FL
Heather
Cheryl makes those scarves and sells them at a local beauty salon akong with beaded earrings, bracelets, and necklaces. Keeps her busy. :)
Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money...
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Heathertee
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Keeps her busy


Uh-huh, John, as if she needed something else to keep her busy!
She does beautiful work. I wish everybody here could see her jewelry!
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sylley2000
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That's a very pretty scarf--looks like it would be warm and lightweight too. My daughter knits beautiful winter sweaters on round needles, but she hasn't knitted one for more than ten years. Too busy with her career and very active life. No one ever forgets how to do such things--expect she'll do them again when there is room in her life. Her skill in knitting may morph into something else that draws on those talents.

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Little Kopit
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Heather,

In Rally or RVing vs. Garden, Garden will always be first, even Alaska trip will be timed to have garden!!!

In this part of the world, May is time for hauling primary nutrition. There is competition for the best 'stuff'. :floorrollin: Black gold, maid, black gold.

It helps if one is challenged to knit something for others or gets encouragement at the outset, or has reason to want to do 'something' to occupy oneself for its and bits of time. For me that is when dogs eat. I rarely spend even 10 minutes at a time knitting. Yet, I knock off from 2-4 sweaters a year.

What happens is that I sit between two dogs when they eat. My presence makes it a 'social' occasion for them and keeps dominant one from hogging it, teaches manners, habits..... & yes, it's fun to watch them, but not every meal. So, I took up knitting while I sit between them. Usually, it's less than 50 stitches done at any one food session. How come, not they're thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat fast at gobbling up, but that I try to do something with some kind of pattern to make it interesting. (Lacy sweaters of crochet cotton in summer).

I might try a hunt for a European tome on such. Maybe we should ask Kees to bring a European book. Josie is from Yorkshire.

:tiphat:
Lynne
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Heathertee
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I have never attempted a sweater. I did do some beautiful mittens and hats, back in the '60s and '70's. Problem with the larger pieces; I daydream and lose count. The thought of going back and counting hundreds of sts. is discouraging. So I stick to the smaller things.
I learned to crochet and prefer it to knitting really, since it's impossible to drop a stitch. I did some really beautiful ponchos and baby blankets; my preference is the shell stitch.
Hmmm...I wonder how a shell st. would look in this Fun Fur....?
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Little Kopit
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Smaller things are not my cuppa

I have a thing against seams. So I do all on double points or circulars

I never count while casting on. Never thought that would be the way to go. I count after casting on. Count 2x, if different, count again, 3, 6, 9, 12 --60, move stitches, 63, 66, --- 90, move stitches. You should try putting on over 300 for crochet cotton sweater.

Once you get set up this is lots easier than picky little things. I think I made a sock and a half, once. I have done a couple of scarves for over the head, but not suited to where I have to shovel snow. I might have tried mitts. But I don't use them.

No two of us the same.............

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Lynne
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