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Koigu shawl is done

Jaya Srikrishnan All Messages By This Member #221 I took it with me to India which was good and bad. It was good travel knitting as it was just plain garter stitch and I had a lot of travel time on trains, planes, buses and cars on this trip. It was not good travel knitting as it involved multiple balls of yarn and became quite heavy and large by the end. I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. I used the silk on the two ends and then did 2 sections with the pale blue silk/mohair and the center 3 sections with the olive green silk/mohair. I could have probably done one more section with each color and skipped the silk but I think would have been rather dull if I had done that.? -- Jaya
Anmiryam Budner All Messages By This Member #222 开云体育 Jaya, It’s lovely! Anmiryam? toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Feb 22, 2020, at 12:27 PM, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote: I took it with me to India which was good and bad. It was good travel knitting as it was just plain garter stitch and I had a lot of travel time on trains, planes, buses and cars on this trip. It was not good travel knitting as it involved multiple balls of yarn and became quite heavy and large by the end. I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. I used the silk on the two ends and then did 2 sections with the pale blue silk/mohair and the center 3 sections with the olive green silk/mohair. I could have probably done one more section with each color and skipped the silk but I think would have been rather dull if I had done that.? -- Jaya
Ann McManus All Messages By This Member #223 开云体育 It’s lovely! ? Ann in PA ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jaya Srikrishnan Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 12:28 PM To: yarnmongers <[email protected]> Subject: [yarnmongers] Koigu shawl is done ? I took it with me to India which was good and bad. It was good travel knitting as it was just plain garter stitch and I had a lot of travel time on trains, planes, buses and cars on this trip. It was not good travel knitting as it involved multiple balls of yarn and became quite heavy and large by the end. ? I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. I used the silk on the two ends and then did 2 sections with the pale blue silk/mohair and the center 3 sections with the olive green silk/mohair. I could have probably done one more section with each color and skipped the silk but I think would have been rather dull if I had done that.? ? -- Jaya
Nilda All Messages By This Member #224 So very pretty! Congrats! Nilda toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 6:38 PM Ann McManus <mcmanusab@...> wrote: It’s lovely! ? Ann in PA ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jaya Srikrishnan Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 12:28 PM To: yarnmongers <[email protected]> Subject: [yarnmongers] Koigu shawl is done ? I took it with me to India which was good and bad. It was good travel knitting as it was just plain garter stitch and I had a lot of travel time on trains, planes, buses and cars on this trip. It was not good travel knitting as it involved multiple balls of yarn and became quite heavy and large by the end. ? I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. I used the silk on the two ends and then did 2 sections with the pale blue silk/mohair and the center 3 sections with the olive green silk/mohair. I could have probably done one more section with each color and skipped the silk but I think would have been rather dull if I had done that.? ? -- Jaya
Jaya Srikrishnan All Messages By This Member #225 Thank you all!? I had an interesting experience in India. The weaving studio that I taught basic spinning at last year wanted me to come back and teach making ‘fancy yarns’. The people there want to spin to do Saori style weaving with art yarns. Now, I’ve spun a few art yarn samples - enough to teach myself the techniques. But I’ve never done a lot of it as it isn’t my style of yarn.? I also didn’t know how much spinning the students knew. Some of the art yarns require you to do a bunch of different things with your hands and you need to be able to draft well and control twist to get good results.? Anyway I loaded up my iPad with Jacey Boggs videos (Interweave and Craftsy) and the art yarn ebooks I had and watched and read them as we traveled. I had no time to actually spin to refresh my hands. So I watched the videos multiple times and took notes and drew up a class outline with simple stuff at the beginning and then progressing to harder stuff.? We started by just making art batts and spinning them which made them all happy. They could all do it. Unfortunately they had 1 drum carder, 1 blending board and hand cards. So we had 1 big batt, one small batt and one teeny-weeny batt.? I got through most of the content and was pleased that my hands seemed to remember what to do. One student came from Delhi! She flew to Chennai and stayed in a hotel for 3 days to attend! I ended up demonstrating some stuff because there wasn’t enough time or already spun yarn to let people do more than sample the technique.? It was fun and now I want to corespun 2 batts I bought at a Tour de Fleece a couple of years ago. And make coils! Maybe this will be the year of art yarn! toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 1:17 PM Nilda <nildamesa@...> wrote: So very pretty! Congrats! Nilda On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 6:38 PM Ann McManus <mcmanusab@...> wrote: It’s lovely! ? Ann in PA ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jaya Srikrishnan Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 12:28 PM To: yarnmongers <[email protected]> Subject: [yarnmongers] Koigu shawl is done ? I took it with me to India which was good and bad. It was good travel knitting as it was just plain garter stitch and I had a lot of travel time on trains, planes, buses and cars on this trip. It was not good travel knitting as it involved multiple balls of yarn and became quite heavy and large by the end. ? I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. I used the silk on the two ends and then did 2 sections with the pale blue silk/mohair and the center 3 sections with the olive green silk/mohair. I could have probably done one more section with each color and skipped the silk but I think would have been rather dull if I had done that.? ? -- Jaya -- Jaya
mary_007usa All Messages By This Member #226 Jaya,? it looks lovely.? The Kidsilk Haze unified everything beautifully.? Now, on to read about your adventures. Mary.
mary_007usa All Messages By This Member #227 I love that you forged ahead without being certain of all the variables for the workshop.? Everyone, including you, were "all in" and it looks like it was a great experience for all.? They need to post their results on Instagram! The Soho Cashmere Ombre Wrap is on the home stretch.? I'm on the next to the last color.? Peruvian Knitting is perfect for seen stitch.? Easy Knit/Purl transitions.? I've loved the calm of knitting this. Mary.
Jaya Srikrishnan All Messages By This Member #228 Mary, Can't wait to see the wrap. I wish we had Feel-o-vision. I bet it feels like a dream. What is Peruvian knitting?? The workshop student base was very interesting - besides the woman from Delhi, I had one of the first graduates of the Fashion Institute of Technology in India. She is a very well-known textile designer. Then two experienced (as in decades of experience) weavers who are studio assistants. They help clients set up their looms and teach them to weave. And lastly the owner of the studio, who had done some of this when he was at Ashford's in NZ, also was a part-time student and full-time coach. Some of what I taught was new to him, some he had done before. It was a lot of fun.? They took a lot of photos and videos but I am not sure if they post on IG. I'll have to look. They put stuff in their newsletter. toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 8:26 AM mary_007usa via Groups.Io <sewgood5=[email protected]> wrote: I love that you forged ahead without being certain of all the variables for the workshop.? Everyone, including you, were "all in" and it looks like it was a great experience for all.? They need to post their results on Instagram! The Soho Cashmere Ombre Wrap is on the home stretch.? I'm on the next to the last color.? Peruvian Knitting is perfect for seen stitch.? Easy Knit/Purl transitions.? I've loved the calm of knitting this. Mary. -- Jaya
mary_007usa All Messages By This Member #229 Love those energizing experiences! In Peruvian knitting the yarn is tensioned through a knitting pin affixed to the left shoulder (for a right hander). In turkey or Greece, the yarn is usually tensioned around the neck.? One of the benefits is even tension between knit and purl. Purling is easier that knitting with this method.? I often do garter stitch by just purling every row, b/c required very little movement of the fingers and hands. Andrea Wong, a proponent of the method demonstrates at around 1:35 min into this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzfYS9_t27k One of the physical benefits from an occupational therapist's perspective is that the knitter never has to let go of the needles, which reduces stress on the hands and arms.? Both needles are always fully supported by the arms and shoulders.? If a knitter has a repetitive stress injury and is an English thrower, they must release the right needle to throw the yarn around the left needle and even that little bit of added weight and stress can prevent healing. Mary.
Melisande R. Wolf All Messages By This Member #230 开云体育 I’m fascinated by this and need to watch the video.? I find that purling requires more movement from me than knitting since I purl with my thumb and knit with my finger (I am a Continental picker unless I’m doing stranded knitting, which is with two hands and bothers my shoulder a fair bit because of all the movement).? ? I will also confess that I purl much more loosely than I knit. ? Of course, I’m already imagining a dog getting tangled up in my knitting if I tension the yarn around my neck, especially Tzeelah, who prefers to spend my late evening knitting with as much of her in my lap as I can be persuaded to permit. ? Melisande ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of mary_007usa via Groups.Io Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 1:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Koigu shawl is done ? Love those energizing experiences! In Peruvian knitting the yarn is tensioned through a knitting pin affixed to the left shoulder (for a right hander). In turkey or Greece, the yarn is usually tensioned around the neck.? One of the benefits is even tension between knit and purl. Purling is easier that knitting with this method.? I often do garter stitch by just purling every row, b/c required very little movement of the fingers and hands. Andrea Wong, a proponent of the method demonstrates at around 1:35 min into this video: One of the physical benefits from an occupational therapist's perspective is that the knitter never has to let go of the needles, which reduces stress on the hands and arms.? Both needles are always fully supported by the arms and shoulders.? If a knitter has a repetitive stress injury and is an English thrower, they must release the right needle to throw the yarn around the left needle and even that little bit of added weight and stress can prevent healing. Mary.
PATTERSON, ELISABETH #231 开云体育 Some years back in the Knitting Circle at my office (this is ATT and the club is called Fiber to the World) we had a Portuguese-American knitter who tensioned around her neck (she’d learned from relatives on a summer visit). She was blindingly fast and her tension was perfect. It was impressive and a bit intimidating at the same time. ? Lise in NJ ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Melisande R. Wolf via Groups.Io Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 1:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Koigu shawl is done ? I’m fascinated by this and need to watch the video.? I find that purling requires more movement from me than knitting since I purl with my thumb and knit with my finger (I am a Continental picker unless I’m doing stranded knitting, which is with two hands and bothers my shoulder a fair bit because of all the movement).? ? I will also confess that I purl much more loosely than I knit. ? Of course, I’m already imagining a dog getting tangled up in my knitting if I tension the yarn around my neck, especially Tzeelah, who prefers to spend my late evening knitting with as much of her in my lap as I can be persuaded to permit. ? Melisande ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of mary_007usa via Groups.Io Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 1:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Koigu shawl is done ? Love those energizing experiences! In Peruvian knitting the yarn is tensioned through a knitting pin affixed to the left shoulder (for a right hander). In turkey or Greece, the yarn is usually tensioned around the neck.? One of the benefits is even tension between knit and purl. Purling is easier that knitting with this method.? I often do garter stitch by just purling every row, b/c required very little movement of the fingers and hands. Andrea Wong, a proponent of the method demonstrates at around 1:35 min into this video: One of the physical benefits from an occupational therapist's perspective is that the knitter never has to let go of the needles, which reduces stress on the hands and arms.? Both needles are always fully supported by the arms and shoulders.? If a knitter has a repetitive stress injury and is an English thrower, they must release the right needle to throw the yarn around the left needle and even that little bit of added weight and stress can prevent healing. Mary.

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