A New Convert
She is not a convert to knitting, she has been doing that for a while, and her mom is a wonderful knitter too... But I showed her my blog a while back and she has been bitten by the desire to show her knitters life online. This is Kathleen...a new friend here in Ballina...she lives across the street and our kids get on great, so it is a wonderful excuse for an afternoon here and there of knitting. (okay...many afternoons, lol! and sometimes we even look up to see what the kids are doing!)
I decided to knit myself something! After our visit in Limerick to meet Debbie Bliss, who spent a generous amount of time actually putting on us many of the sweaters from her latest books, I fell in love with this sweater from her newest line of dreamy soft "pure cotton" yarn. She was sooooooo nice and spent a lot of time talking to us, very cool!! Of course, I bought two books and 18 balls of Pure Cotton, lol, to make this sweater.
Barbara generously sent me a lovely Tilda stitchery this week, and I have dived into the world of redwork, well....pinkwork... How do you stitchers out there do the small curves for lettering and such...outline and stem stitch don't seem to be easy around tight corners. I used backstitch, but is there another good stitch out there???My next quilt is definitely a quilt for Aisling as she is nearing 3 and need her own quilt from momma!! I also plan to make more name pillows in the next few weeks...
More soon, but go over and say hi to Kathleen, she is a knitter, but I can feel her weakening towards fabric...might get her quilting soon, she already has a start on a pillow for her son Daniel...
posted by Cathi at 3:38 PM
12 Comments:
You knitters who share your yarn on quilt blogs are getting to me. I knitted a tiny bit years ago and would love to take a course or two so that I can join in. Meanwhile, lovely sweater.
The sweater is quite gorgeous!! Makes me wish I knew how to do cables!
How wonderful that you have found someone who lives so close to you that shares your interests. What a wonderful friendship!
I love those cables, Cathi---fishermen knit Aran style are my fav things to knit. I just dont like sewing the sections together so anyone can actually every wear them, LOL.
On the tight turns and small places, do like a lazy daisy stitch (detached chain stitch actually) which is just a loop that you couch with one stitch. This site might help http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/chain-detach.html
The cardigan is lovely! It's going to be amazing. How wonderful that you've got someone close by to share your hobbies with.
Gorgeous sweater. I did find an embroidery stitch site, but can't remember where I put the URL. Will have a rummage and PM it to you.
Me again. I have found it and thought I would post it here rather than PM it to you.
http://www.embroiderersguild.org.uk/stitch/stitches/index.html
Hope it doesn't wrap!
Lovely to meet your friend! I think fiber lovers in time eventually come to love all fibers, be it yarn, cloth, etc. Such fun you got to meet Debbie Bliss! Your cardigan will be wonderful--look forward to seeing it when it's finished. The pinkwork is marvelous, such a fresh take on redwork! And the Tilda design looks good enough to eat--LOL! As for doing letter & such in embroidery, for curved areas, I use stem stitch & back stitch, too, but I keep the stitches rather small--and not in the curves only, gives a good look over all keeping the stitches small. You are a mutli-talented wonder, Cathi!
Enjoy your new friendship!
Happy Valentine's Day!
Love the knitting. Just something that I am unable to master or even get past the casting on! How do you get the pictures of your quilts in the sidebars? I also would love to know how to make my banner/heading unique. Can you help?
lovely to hear from you and see what you are up to, what a wonderful neighbor/friend to find.
The sweater will be really great for your climate, and look good, too. It's nice that you can share with someone right across the street. I'm jealous. =)
The stitcher is darling. I use the outline and stem stitch, but take very, very tiny stitches. If something doesn't want to stay in line where it should, I do a very small couching stitch over it to make it stay.
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