I saw Stella's post where she mentioned her knitting,
I do a lot of knitting and other crafts too Stella.
What are you knitting?
I have various projects on the go, I get distracted and start something else, but I'm currently trying to finish a blue crocheted blanket.
I have a huge collection of knitting and crochet patterns, yes its an obsession
I wrote the history of knitting for wikipedia, and I would love to upload some of my patterns online one day for others to see, I have some very old ones.
Oh Amy, its a Fair Isle pully and matching hat with big pom-poms!
(I got the pattern as a .pdf from the Lyon Brand web site)
I'd hoped to get in a few rows this evening, but my hands are a bit sore from where I got bleach on them today from not wearing gloves when I ought. :roll:
I'll send you a picture when its finished, which I expect'll be around the same time the cows cow home!
Stella
I look forward to seeing it, I might try to get some pictures of some things I've made online.
Moo Quack.
I like machine knitting. I have three knitting machines. I use them much because my husband has so much junk in our "computer" room that he can't even use his computer there. I can't knit there either.
I like crocheting too. I prefer the magazines with the diagrams rather than word by word instructions. I like my instructions as visual as possible.
I am the opposite, I am not visual and find the pictures really confusing.
The written instructions are very easy for me to follow. Its kind of like a mathematical code.
I find written patterns ok, but not the picture ones.
I used to crochet little drawstring bags too. My daughter liked them, and I made some for xmas presents. I would put some nice soap inside, as they were the right size.
I made one for my friend a few years ago. She was blind and could smell the soap and feel the texture of the bag.
She used to knit when she was younger and would tell me about the things she used to make. She was 97. She died a little while later. Haven't had a friend since then.
I will be your friend Amy.
Thank you, I did mean in real life. I do have friends online, its good to have people online to talk to. Thats one reason why our chatrooms are good. :smile:
I live too far away.
I used to have about a dozen penpals when I was student. I did end up meeting some of them but most of them were far away.
Some people seem to have lots of friends. Usually their friends are for different purposes: the friend they go shopping with, the friend they talk to about their boyfriend, the friend they go clubbing with etc. Most friendships are somewhat superficial.
I used to get told that I was so easy to talk to about problems. Only when someone tells you all their problems, you are supposed to keep secrets. I could never really understand what was supposed to be secret or why people wouldn't want anyone else knowing what they told me. Therefore, I would lose friends. Usually most of my former friends had some mental or emotional problems and no one else much wanted to be their friend anyway.
My husband doesn't want me to go to chatrooms. I have a few live friends of my own otherwise it is all couples that my husband likes. I don't phone friends to chat because I don't really know if they like me and usually they say they are busy. As well, my husband gets angry if I say the wrong thing to them. So I don't bother anymore. I find I really don't need too many friends. So why feel sorry for myself?
Don't feel sad about friends.
I dont feel sad about it, but it has bothered me when I was younger.
Our autism chat network is nothing like a regular chatroom, if your husband is worried about people being forward with you.
My husband isn't trying to keep me from having friends, he is only trying to protect me from predators. He lets me go to forums except I can't give out my real name and phone number etc.
I can't tell if someone is saying they are busy because they are busy or because they don't want to talk to me. If I phone someone and leave a message about two or three times, I don't keep calling back. I have been told to not call again in that situation otherwise people will say I am harrassing them.
There are rules about when to call, how often to call that I don't really understand. Usually I don't think it is proper to call early in the morning or late at night. If they work full time, they don't have any time to talk because they are cooking or putting their children to bed. If I call on the weekend, they are out. I leave a message and they don't call back. So why bother?
Strange how this thread started about knitting and now drifted towards phone conversation rules.
I am not knitting anything right now. I am crochetting a mat for my kitchen out of thick cotton. It is just with all odds and ends. I have bins and bins of yarn and fabric. My husband is hoping one day I will use it all up. I don't allow myself to buy any more fabric or yarn.
I have so much wool and fabric too, it looks so pretty and tempting in the shop, and its hard to remember how much I already have at home.
Do you ever have trouble visualizing your finished project? For example, if I buy a sewing pattern and it shows the dress in yellow print fabric. I don't like yellow so I buy a different colour fabric. When I finish sewing the dress it just doesn't look right when I wear it. Sometimes it is my ability to fit the dress properly but usually because I have a hard time seeing the dress in the pattern photo with my fabric.
I find it very hard to plan, so I usually get out a pattern, or put something together myself, with soem fabric I just bought or from my stash.
So I don't think that much about it beforehand.
If I try and plan too much I get too perfectionist and it ends never being made.