Dyeing to Knit
We are two graphic design majors who are falling in love with knitting. We always have a project to talk about and stories from school or jobs. We have expanded our knitting to dyeing as well and want to share our experiences. Enjoy!
DTK: Episode 6
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News- School starts in a week!!! We are hoping to podcast again furing the first day of school
Cast Off-
Patty-Nothing : (
Abby-Endpaper Mits
Cast On-
Patty-Nothing I am staying monogamous to my other works in progress!
Abby-Plain Vanilla Socks
Check This Out
http://cards.cafepress.com/knitting?page=5
This is a link to an assortment of knitting goodies journals, greeting cards, ect.
A few of my favorite quotes on this site include but are not limited to:
“I am a junkie, I don’t share needles.”
“Just keeping knitting….” (brings me back to Finding Nemo)
“Opps, I knit it again”
“No skien, no gain”
“I am a sheep trapped in a human body”
“Old knitters never die, they just drop their stitches”
“Knitting Territory next exit” (highway sign)
“I sent my kid to college so I could store yarn in her room”
“Well I’ll be darned!”
“What do people who say they are to busy to knit do at the doctors….
read magazines from five years ago?”
“Drop stitches not bombs”
“Yarned and Dangerous!”
“I only knit on days ending in y”
“An hour a day keeps the psychiatrist away”
“Being a good knitter is 3% talent and 97% not being distracted by the internet”
Last week there was a discussion on the worlds fastest knitter and which style she knits in and she is a women from Scotland. I could not find her knitting style online however she did have some impressive stats. “Hazel Tindall retained her title of World’s fastest knitter after completing 262 stitches in three minutes in a needle match in the United States.” (That’s just over 87 stitches per minute) Now more shocking was this quote given by Tindall, ““The future doesn’t bode well for hand-knitting. There are some still doing it, but I think the average age is about 70. Anyone under 50 hasn’t grown up with the ethos that you shouldn’t sit hand-idle.”
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Hey girls--
You live on campus, right? Are you able to hang anything on the walls or on the backs of doors? I'm thinking you could use your yarn as art if you hang them on the wall. Especially if they are long hanks or twisted skeins.
Here are some ideas:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20123458
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70108912
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60095321
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80107969
(side note: i almost moved to nashua, nh to go to chester, but made last minute changes, so it's nice to hear from people in that area)
Hey!
We dont live on campus but off campus near our school. But thanks for the idea it sounds like a cool way to display our yarn!