# Hey, knitters, whatcha up to?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-knitters-whatcha-up-to/320658>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 8, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-knitters-whatcha-up-to/320658 "2005-09-08T14:50:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-knitters-whatcha-up-to/320658/61 "2005-09-15T20:18:48Z")

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Started a new ball of my “hopefully enough yarn to finish it” sweater, and it’s unusable. Every few yards, it’s cut, or partially cut (2 of the 4 plies is sliced through), or knotted, or twisted badly, or just generally unusable. I was hoping it was just at the beginning of the skein, so I unravelled it. The whole way through, it’s like someone took a razor and just made random slashes through already badly spun yarn.

I really wanted this sweater, now, I’m afraid it may end up unfinished. I’m a bit disappointed at the moment.

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**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-knitters-whatcha-up-to/320658/62 "2005-09-15T20:26:48Z")

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I’ve decided I want to learn all the stitches for lovely lacy things, so my next project is this: [http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring05/PATTbranchingout.html](http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring05/PATTbranchingout.html)

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-knitters-whatcha-up-to/320658/63 "2005-09-15T20:38:14Z")

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> [@Corii](#):
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> I’ve decided I want to learn all the stitches for lovely lacy things, so my next project is this: [http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring05/PATTbranchingout.html](http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring05/PATTbranchingout.html)

Ooh! Branching Out is definitely on my to-knit list…

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**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-knitters-whatcha-up-to/320658/64 "2005-09-15T20:41:19Z")

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I’m still working on **The Ugliest. Blanket. Evar.[sup]TM[/sup]** Nothing matches, I can’t crochet so I have no idea how I’m going to get the squares (that aren’t quite uniform in size) attached to each other … but man, is that sucker gonna be comfy when I get finished. 🙂

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