# Whatcha working on, crafty Dopers?, part bazillion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130 "2009-03-11T21:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/21 "2009-03-16T23:55:20Z")
Currently I’m trying to put together [this](http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/3156/03373/index.html)guy. I think I’m going to be doing the [cheetah](http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/3157/03390/index.html)next. Also, in theory I’m building a model of the biblical Tabernacle out of toothpicks. I haven’t really done much, though. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/22 "2009-03-16T23:59:05Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > K, [here](http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9797/rasberrybasketswatch.jpg)’s a scan of this stitch I’ve been developing. Anyone know if it has another name? Wow, that’s beautiful! Can you spell out the directions? ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/23 "2009-03-17T00:10:30Z")
I’m in the home stretch of a sweater I’m making for my mother’s birthday next month. On the bad sign, I ran out of yarn. On the plus side, it’s Caron no-dyelot yarn so I could order some more to finish it. I hope it comes in this week, I still have to finish the sleeves, sew the thing together, and work the collar. Next up is a cotton/linen blend sleeveless top for my daughter. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/24 "2009-03-17T00:17:59Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Wow, that’s beautiful! Can you spell out the directions? Um, I did that hat almost a year ago; I just finally worked up the nerve to tackle what will be at least a 150-hour sweater. If this isn’t clear, I’ll try it again after I start the project, hopefully soon. It’s basically a single-stitch cable, with two stitches of reverse-stockinette in between. The cables alternate right/left for left\right, for the woven effect. And the knitted stitches, the cables, are worked in one color, while the rev-stock stitches, the betweens, are worked in another. Again, if that’s not clear, I’ll try to work out a blow by blow after I start the project. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/25 "2009-03-17T00:21:25Z")
[This](http://thewalkertreasury.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/traveling-rib-pattern/) is close, although it’s a 6-stitch pattern, while mine is 4; and the cables don’t alternate directions for the woven effect. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/26 "2009-03-17T01:41:22Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > K, [here](http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9797/rasberrybasketswatch.jpg)’s a scan of this stitch I’ve been developing. Anyone know if it has another name? No clue–not that I resemble an expert–but that’s really nifty. I couldn’t quite visualize it when you described it, but that’s neat. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/27 "2009-03-17T16:00:36Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Currently I’m trying to put together [this](http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/3156/03373/index.html)guy. I think I’m going to be doing the [cheetah](http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/3157/03390/index.html)next. Cool! ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/28 "2009-03-17T17:37:34Z")
\*\*Malleus, Incus, Stapes!, \*\*my daughter was so distraught at not being able to have pets at college that she made a beagle from a site like that. It’s nearly life-size. **EJsGirl** – how do you work on those Knifty Knitters without getting it too tight? I get so frustrated that I can’t work my hook under after a few stitches. I am making jewelry – right now making buttons/badges from vintage comic books. Everyone needs a brightly colored button with a Batman-style POW! or BLAM! on it. And it’s amazing how …interesting some of the word/thought bubbles become when they are taken out of context. My current favorite says, “And YOU! I tire of your mocking!” ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/29 "2009-03-17T17:39:54Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Um, I did that hat almost a year ago; I just finally worked up the nerve to tackle what will be at least a 150-hour sweater. > > If this isn’t clear, I’ll try it again after I start the project, hopefully soon. > > It’s basically a single-stitch cable, with two stitches of reverse-stockinette in between. The cables alternate right/left for left\right, for the woven effect. And the knitted stitches, the cables, are worked in one color, while the rev-stock stitches, the betweens, are worked in another. > > Again, if that’s not clear, I’ll try to work out a blow by blow after I start the project. Sounds a bit like a variation on a corrugated rib (k1, p2) with cables instead of knit stitches from that description. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/30 "2009-03-17T18:04:19Z")
I’m now bottling this season’s batch of home-grown wine. “Audry 2” produced 170lbs of grapes this year, and I’ll have about 120 bottles total this season. She’s a white muscat…it tastes a bit green and immature right now, but I expect it to be a good year. Last year’s batch turned out amazing, but we had a very harsh summer and only got 24 bottles. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/31 "2009-03-17T18:19:30Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Better you than me – knitting for me is about something to do with my hands while I’m doing something else, so I can’t handle anything that requires lots of counting or paying attention. This is me, usually. Right now I’m knitting a sampler afghan in 12’’ squares to practice all the stuff like openwork and cables that I don’t know how to do. I figured it would hurt less to abandon a square that I screw up than to ruin a whole sweater or something. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/32 "2009-03-17T18:54:52Z")
I’m somewhere in between. I have no great desire to acquire an afghan, and less desire to dedicate that much time and energy to one endeavor, so I may never knit an afghan. And after knitting sweaters for my nieces at Christmas, I’m in no hurry to tackle an adult-sized sweater either. But I liked the spider sock I linked to above because it stretched my knitting skills and my brain. On the other hand, last night I was knitting a simple baby bib with a cable up one side and seedstitch across the rest. This was appropriate for knitting while chatting–what’s the worst that will happen? The cable crosses are more irregularly spaced than they are supposed to be? (Well, and I had issues a couple of times when I inexplicably purled the second half of the cable rather than knitting it. That I had to fix). So I’m not opposed to challenge, just in moderate doses-- I’m not real big on endurance contests. ---
**Author:** ![Solfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Solfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solfy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/33 "2009-03-17T19:07:40Z")
I just finished Eunny Jang’s “Autumn Rose” sweater (just in time for it to warm up outside!) and last week I made the “Ice Queen” cowl from Knitty Winter 07. (time to put that away, too) I want to start a cardigan out of my handspun merino, or spin the silk roving I got last month, but first I must smock my daughters’ Easter Dresses. I love smocking, but this is the last Vogue smocking pattern I can find that I haven’t done. If I can’t find a dress I like in the smocking magazine, this might be one of the last years I get to do smocked dresses for them. Plus I don’t know how much longer they’ll consent to being all girlied up. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/34 "2009-03-17T19:49:16Z")
I put aside the Teresa Wentzler cross stitch piece I was working on so I can work on a square for a baby quilt. It has a Chinese Zodiac theme and I got the “ox” square. I think I’ll make it blue, even if she did have a girl! (Although a pink ox would be fun. Hmmm.) Edit: Oh, and I also learned how to tablet weave so I’ll probably be doing more of that as well. If the cats allow it, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/35 "2009-03-17T20:02:17Z")
More purses. I just finished one a few weeks ago and I’ve had fun carrying it around, so now it’s time to make another one. 🙂 I’ll be modifying the pattern I made for the previous bag, making it deeper and adding an adjustable strap. I’m making a spring dress for a friend’s little girl from a vintage pillow case. it’s not your standard pillow case dress. This one won’t still look like a pillowcase when it’s done. I also am at the point where I need to make on decision on Easter dresses. I love doing them, but the closet is already packed with dresses. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/36 "2009-03-18T00:12:56Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Um, I did that hat almost a year ago; I just finally worked up the nerve to tackle what will be at least a 150-hour sweater. > > If this isn’t clear, I’ll try it again after I start the project, hopefully soon. > > It’s basically a single-stitch cable, with two stitches of reverse-stockinette in between. The cables alternate right/left for left\right, for the woven effect. And the knitted stitches, the cables, are worked in one color, while the rev-stock stitches, the betweens, are worked in another. > > Again, if that’s not clear, I’ll try to work out a blow by blow after I start the project. So you carry the yarn across the back of the work, like Fair Isle? ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/37 "2009-03-18T00:48:59Z")
I’m improvising a scarf. The pattern is in my head. I’m still sorting out the details. Does anyone know a simple way to do a 1-stitch border? I was thinking of doing a yarn over at the beginning and end of each row, then knitting it together with the first stitch, would that work? ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/38 "2009-03-19T19:21:25Z")
Well, the shawl self-destructed during blocking. But I have completed my first three steeks. And they are good. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/39 "2009-03-19T19:29:31Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > > [@Malleus](#): > > > > Currently I’m trying to put together this guy. I think I’m going to be doing the cheetah next. > > Cool! Actually, come to think of it, that turtle looks awseome. I think I’m going to make that, and then four elephants… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130/40 "2009-03-20T20:16:30Z")
I just completed my first baby sweater, marking my first departure from scarves and hats (I picked up knitting in my downtime this winter.) [Here it is](http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2595/124/61/503153776/n503153776_1518550_7261896.jpg). I still need to block it, but otherwise, it’s pretty much finished. Learned so many new techniques on this one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-working-on-crafty-dopers-part-bazillion/489130.md?page=3)