Getting knitty with it

[ailbhe]

Those of you who have been knitting since the early days of Now All-New, All-Trendy Knitting - or even earlier than that - will no doubt already have discovered this, but it's new to me and it's changing my life.

When knitting with two colours, put each ball of yarn in a small plastic bag within the knitting bag, so they don't tangle together and the correct one unrolls tidily when tugged.

Linnea's winter coat is begun. Stocking stitch, 3 ply acrylic on 3mm needles, to be lined with polyester fleece. This ought to be washable and warm and fairly Linnea-proof, I think. I hope. It's planning to be red and yellow stripes, if the yarn holds out. Other colours if it doesn't. The original patches plan didn't work as it was too fiddly and I started to dread the sewing.

3 inches done. Another 10 or so to do - and then the front and sleeves... but they're going to be smaller.

Oh - I have no pattern. I'm planning on using the "all clothing is rectangular" method of creation. Anyone want to place bets on whether I'm going to finish the project?

Comments

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Are you using center-pull balls/skeins? I find that helps immensely.