Need Help?Ready to Knit a Sweater? - Replay Live Archive
The weather has cooled off, the kids are back to school, the holidays are right around the corner.. It's time to GET KNITTING!
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Links mentioned in the Meeting
Blog: Pattern Formats
Knit it Now Practice patterns
Classroom: Ease classroom: Swatching is Not optional
Tutorial: Wet Blocking
Sweater success checklist
Glossary: Get Acquainted Swatch
| Doris H Thank you Sue! |
| Sue J thanks everyone for joining. Happy knitting! |
| Suzanne L Enjoy! |
| Maurie H Thanks, will get on the machine and finish my sweater. |
| Tina B Good to have you back. Have a nice time |
| Liz K Thanks Sue |
| Marie-Jo C I think I'm not courageous enough to knit many swatches before knitting ... but I know I had better! |
| Darlene S thanks so much Sue, always good to be here!!! |
| Christopher F Gonna go play yarn chicken... |
| Jan L OK going to dust off my machine and restart. |
| Christopher F Have s great week, everyone :) |
| Jodi M Thank you, Sue for all you do for us. Have a beautiful day. |
| Jan L May need to buy extra yarn for swatching |
| Liz K I like the binder idea for swatches |
| Jan L Binder with the pattern and yarn swatch |
| Christopher F Yay!!! |
| Christopher F separate binder for yarn types (acrylic, cotton, wool) |
| Maurie H I might be able to make it this time. |
| Jodi M :( I will miss this one |
| Marjorie M Then how do we long term LEARN from swatches? |
| Tina B the swatch for nice pattern i have it in my inspiration box |
| Christopher F I put mine in a 3-ring binder... I'll post it in the community |
| Tina B If not knowing the yarn, i make small swatches in different tensions, and stap it inside the cone. If holding |
| Christopher F Just finished a 3-color Fair Isle hat on the LK-150... :) |
| Marjorie M How do you store/ organize your swatches? |
| Liz K Measure something that is approximately the same yarn size as the yarn you will be using. |
| Christopher F Not yet... I've done it, not named it... LOL |
| Christopher F Hahaha...Yarn Chicken! Love it. |
| Christopher F yep, bad splitting on Coboo... |
| Maurie H and it takes years to dry, |
| Tina B for difficult yarn, tuc stitch, thin mohair, you HAVE TO make an extra big swatch, |
| Christopher F LOL, Tina |
| Tina B practice til i can not get it wrong.....that would take me forever, lol |
| Christopher F I have to sacrifice a chicken every time I approach my machine :) |
| Tina B somewhere on your site you have a relly useful checklist. love that. |
| Marie-Jo C So do I, Maurie! |
| Christopher F That would have been nice... |
| Maurie H I rehang all my sweaters to finish the neck. |
| Marie-Jo C To me, the best way to finish a V collar is to put it back on the knitting machine .. and find a beautiful edge! |
| Christopher F yay, Tina! |
| Tina B remember the correcting typer |
| Jodi M Sure do! |
| Christopher F Never quite matched, though... |
| Christopher F Yes!!! |
| Christopher F Welcome, Joette |
| Christopher F Carbon paper!!! LOL |
| Joette Z Welcome back,Joette from Pittsburgh |
| Marjorie M If you werenât a proficient touch typist, it is easy to understand why they used abbreviations. It was even worse if you had to use carbon paper for duplicates. Our technology, when it works, is a game changer. |
| Christopher F Sue is a long-form texter, too :) |
| Christopher F bless you |
| Christopher F seconded :) |
| Tina B modern handknit patterns in the round are even worse than the vintage patterns. |
| Christopher F OMG |
| Darlene S hi from Toronto Canada |
| Christopher F That was hell... |
| Jenny M B Would it be rude to say you're now big, Sue?! |
| Maurie H Yes we can see you |
| Elaine R I can see you |
| Christopher F yes |
| Liz K Yes we can see you now! |
| Jan L HI from Athens, GA |
| Elaine R Elaine, from North Dakota USA |
| Christopher F We just love you, Sue... |
| Tina B Hei, Tina from Norway again |
| Suzanne L HI from Bethany, Ontario |
| Maurie H Bonjour Marie-Jo C |
| Mary Ann B Just got a tiny picture of you. |
| Christopher F Missouri, here |
| Christopher F :) |
| Marie-Jo C It's nice to be there! Hello from Marie-Jo, France.... |
| Christopher F I was just going to mention that, Joy... |
| Matthew F looks great |
| Katherine H Hi from Indiana |
| Joy G Sue you are only small in the corner of the screen |
| Christopher F Ready-set-go :) |
| Mary Ann B Love seeing you again! |
| Matthew F Hi everyone... we are all set and ready to get going soon... we hvae about 6 minutes before 1pm EST |
| Mary Ann B Hi from sunny Minnesota. |
| Liz K Hello from Nebraska |
| Christopher F It's the caffeine... |
| Christopher F Yep :) |
| Christopher F Hi, Jenny! |
| Donna B We're in central NC so impact was minor for us - but golly did the western part of NC get demolished..... |
| Jenny M B Greetings to all from North Wales! |
| Matthew F I hope everyone is safe... |
| Christopher F Woohoo!!! |
| Joy G Donna B hope you and your family are OK... ð¤ |
| Matthew F you are all getting behind the seens... |
| Christopher F Howdy there! |
| Matthew F again... this is just a testllll Hi all |
| Jane A hi from Toronto |
| Karin R We hear you :-) |
| Doris H Hi, from Bantry Ireland |
| Matthew F Hey again... we are just testing this |
| Donna B Signing in from hard hit NC! |
| Cathy R Good morning Sue, and all |
| Karin R Hi from Germany! |
| Joy G I gathered that lol... ð¤ |
| Maurie H Hope it all goes well. |
| Carol L hey joy we are just testing things |
| Joy G Hi Sue ðð |
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