Friday, June 01, 2007

What Kind of Knitting Do You Do?


This sounded kind of interesting and a way to evaluate the knitting I have done and might like to do.
Here are the directions:

Bold the things you have done.

Use italics for things you plan to do one day.

Use normal typeface for things you are not planning on doing.


American/English knitting


Bobbles


Button holes


Cable stitch patterns (incl. Aran)


Continental knitting


Domino knitting (modular knitting)


Double knitting


Drop stitch patterns


Entrelac


Fair Isle knitting


Freeform knitting


Fulling/feltingGarter stitch


Garterlac (what is this?)


I-cord


Intarsia


Kitchener


BO


Knitting with circular needles


Knitting with DPNs


Knitting and purling backwards


Knitting smocking


Knitting small tubular items on two circulars


Knitting a circular item using the Magic Loop


Lace patterns


Long Tail CO


Moebius band knitting


Norwegian knitting


Provisional CO


Short rows


Slip Stitch patterns


Steeks


Stockinette stitch


Swatching


Textured knitting


Swiss Darning or Duplicate stitch


Thrummed knitting


Tubular CO


Twisted stitch patterns


Two end knitting


Knitting with alpaca


Knitting with bamboo yarn


Knitting with banana fiber yarn


Knitting with beads


Knitting with camel yarn


Knitting with cashmere


Knitting with cotton


Knitting with dog/cat hair


Knitting with linen


Knitting with metal wire


Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn


Knitting with silkKnitting with soy yarn


Knitting with synthetic yarn


Knitting with self-patterning/self-striping/variegating yarn


Knitting with wool


Knitting with your own handspun yarn


Knitting with someone else's handspun yarn


Afghan/Blanket


Baby items


Cuffs/Fingerless mitts/Arm warmers


Gloves


Hair accessories


Hat


Household items


Jewelry


Mittens: Cuff-up


Mittens:Tip-down


Pillows Working on one right now...


Purses/bags


Rug


Scarf


Shawl


Shrug/Bolero/Poncho


Slippers


Socks: top-down


Socks: toe-up


Stuffed toys


SweaterToy/Doll clothing


Charity knitting


Designing knitted garments


Dyeing yarn with plant colors


Dyeing yarn with acid dyes


Dyeing yarn with kool-ade and other food colorings


Graffiti knitting (knitting items on, or to be left on the street) Sounds intriguing but no...


Holiday-related knitting


Knitting art


Knitting a gift


Knitting for a living


Knitting on a loom-Well I have done spool knitting so maybe?


Knitting to make money


Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine


Knitting for pets


Knitting for preemies


Knitting in public


Knitting items for a wedding


Machine knitting


Olympic knitting


Participating in a KAL


Publishing a knitting book


Resizing patterns


Spinning on a drop spindle


Spinning with a spinning wheel


Teaching a male how to knit


Teaching knitting classes


Writing a pattern





WOW!! I guess I have done a lot of knitting in my time-I've been knitting since I was a little girl. And you know it never gets old. Our friend Mary M. was reading to us yesterday at Craft Center about the Zen of Knitting and the author had it right. We may knit for many different reasons but in the long run it soothes our souls. Plus we get nice things from the effort.

Hope Michele P. is having a great time at TNNA-I am missing her already!
Lynda
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I AM having a great time, seeing lots of stuff,,,,,,,,,to busy to blog, but not too busy to read yours! Michele

Lynda said...

Glad you are out there! Hope you are enjoying TNNA and will come back with tons of new ideas and material.