Wow Clair - your stripey cardigan is beautiful. I'm so envious that you can knit and crochet so well. By the way, what are dpns? Assume this is a knitting term? I was trying to work out how you nearly poked your eye out carrying out this operation....although once I have knitting needles out every form of stabbing anywhere is possible!

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Yeah, DPNS are double pins, double ended knitting needles. They look like cable needles but are longer and they usually come in sets of 4 or 5. You work with your stitches divided over 3 or 4 needles and use the spare one to knit onto. You can use them to knit anything circular such as socks, gloves or sleeves if you don't like sewing seams. It can be pretty tricky using that many needles and because they are open on both ends it is all too easy to drop stitches!

Clair

Mrs Flowerpot

I love your stripey cardigan. I am hoping to work my way up to that one-day. Starting with hats first though

Please kee posting pictures - i think it really motivates me.

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Proud to be a wooligan!

I love the cardigan, I wish I could knit like that too! I love seeing photos of what people have done, thanks

I've finished the little crochet cardie. I inherited a load of cones of 4ply acrylic from my late MIL. Amongst them was the cutest white yarn with glittery bits in it so I used it for this cardie.



I'm doing a FTC jumper next using up more of my inherited 4ply. I'm not patient enough to knit with 4ply though so I'm knitting 2 strand together. I'm halfway up the back already.



Clair

Beautiful cari i love to crochet but so far can only do squares maybe i'll master a pattern some day . off to do some knitting now caroline

Lovely crochet cardigan well done and posting pictures too,thats beyond me.Love seeing everything though it does motivate you.

Hi Clair

What a beautiful cardigan. I am trying to learn to crochet but not very successful at the moment. I will keep on trying and maybe eventually I will be able to produce something as lovely as your cardigan.

Molly

Looks absolutely brilliant well done , am also a square blanket person but hope to progress to cardigan when a get the hang of reading the patterns..

Sheenie66 wrote:

my mum taught me how to do invisible seam stitching by giving me this wee tip........... knit your 1st and last stitch on EVERY row, it gives you a knit stitch at the end of the rows so you can pick up and stitch together easier. Hope this makes sense.

I tried this today on a hat. Hope I did it right. Will be trying it on a preemie cardi I am knitting.

Maybe this is a stupid question but when you are knitting a jumper and you split the front for the v-neck you don't do a knit stitch at the neck edge on each row do you?

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Ilona

I do, yes. Makes it easier to pick up the stitches for the neck then as you can count the markers each knit at end of row leaves.

I knit my 1st and last stitch on every row on everything I do apart from bands on cardigans. I only do it on the side that is being stitched to the cardigan.

Hope this makes sense.

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Ilona