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From net to knit... (Read 18065 times)

Fritz the Cat Guest	Re: From net to knit... Reply #45 - Mar 29^th, 2006, 2:34pm Thanks, I'm printing out the instuctions from this thread and a picture . I thinkit'll be fun ! 8)
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fi3l2 Descens Nothing is Impossible to a Willing Mind! Posts: 232 Gender:	Re: From net to knit... Reply #46 - Apr 6^th, 2006, 11:34pm bump hey matthias, im actually goin to start to try knitting tonight. Do you have a good site on Continental knitting? ALso any good references on the different stitches? I find that the knitting.about.com site doesnt cover casting on really well.. just a really quick guide... Any tips? Thanks
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Reply #47 - Apr 7^th, 2006, 2:17am

I actually don't *really* cast on for this sling. I use sort of a provisional cast on (with only three stitches, you can get away with just about anything) and then frog a row or two back when I splice the finger loop into the retention cord (how's _that_ for sling/knitting gobbledygook?

) When I do need a real cast one edge, I've been using a wierd looped jobby - it is the same edge you use in a knitting machine, and seems stretchy enough the way I do it. My knitting skills are probably not great for imitating though. I picked it up for a very specific purpose, and I know that the way I hold the needles/manipulate the yarn are non-standard and almost certainly slower than the "proper" methods... I've never met another person who holds a pencil the way I do either...

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Matthias Past Moderator Posts: 1418 Gender:	Re: From net to knit... Reply #48 - Apr 7^th, 2006, 2:23am Oooo... look at that! http://www.wonderful-things.com/newknit1a.htm I use the "single cast on" method (apparently). I was a lace-knitter in a previous life, so maybe there was method to my madness after all. Great memory I have. Matthias
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Taiki Interfector Viris Spurii Don't tell my mom i'm here will you... Posts: 1255 Gender:	Re: From net to knit... Reply #49 - Apr 7^th, 2006, 7:49am gobbledergook ? i only know one word..Bladvak..means picaxe so i'm not about to use it in case they think its a threat...(iReally gotta lay of the harry potter its getting so bad i can quote it )
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winkleried Interfector Viris Spurii Posts: 1510 Gender:	Re: From net to knit... Reply #50 - Dec 14^th, 2006, 3:06pm Bumping thread, Looks good might have to try this style out as well when I get graduated Marc Adkins
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David N. Novicius Shiny! Posts: 2 Gender:	Re: From net to knit... Reply #51 - Dec 17^th, 2006, 5:32pm I've been looking around at various slings and thats one of the best ones so far. nice work. Too bad i dont knit but i have a freind that does.
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Tint Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Posts: 2171 Gender:	Re: From net to knit... Reply #52 - Dec 19^th, 2006, 6:16am David, Welcome to the forum! shiny? Are you a browncoat? (your avatar didn't show on my computer) If you are, we've done the impossible and that make us mighty. Tint
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Dale Interfector Viris Spurii Posts: 1581 Gender:	Re: From net to knit... Reply #53 - Dec 19^th, 2006, 10:01am ? ?
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Tint Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Posts: 2171 Gender:	Re: From net to knit... Reply #54 - Dec 19^th, 2006, 8:38pm Dale, Browncoats are a bunch of people who loved something a little too much to let it go and fought a war that most considered already lost. Didn't mean to keep everyone in the dark. http://www.donetheimpossible.com/ Shiny is a word we like to use .
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Reply #55 - Dec 20^th, 2006, 1:15am

No problem, Tint! I ran into this, right after I'd tried (again) to make some sense of the ... discussion? conversation? jumble of nonsense words? ... over in "New Canadian". Guess I'm just feeling my age; all these things that obviously mean something to somebody, but I have NO clue.

But I am not dead yet, therefore I can learn new things! So did the Firefly fans REALLY talk the "suits" into continuing the show, after they had cancelled it? I have just read enough to get a bare idea of the story (and the story about the story), but I don't know any details.

No, I don't live in a glass house.

"If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."

Context matters! "Nothing but net" is a BAD thing in tennis...

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Reply #56 - Dec 20^th, 2006, 3:09am

firefly is one of the best SF series i've seen (THE best beeing battlestar galactica).
firefly is wierd because you never know what to expect next, not (only) in terms of story-line, but more like: one show is hilarious, the one after is depressing, then follow the 2 grimm episodes, and than again one light hearted, but it did not seem -out-of-place- to me, it kinda functions ok.
only negative side i can remember is it beeing too short.

battlestar galactica (the new series) is my favourite, because it's more serious than any other, it does not favour any side, there is no good guys and bad guys, there are just warring sides, each with it's own best and worst.

while firefly is an SF western ( Tongue

), battlestar has more epic touch to it, with a strong focus on individuals and their lives. AND it has more episodes than firefly, and it does not seem they will stop any time soon (and by the third season it has still not shown any signs of over-exploatation)

serenity is not as good as firefly series to mee, but it's ok, considering the productional uncertanty...

p.s. it's early in the morning, that's why i'm so long-winded. lips sealed

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Willeke Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Give me some string and I know what to do. Posts: 2070 Gender:	Re: From net to knit... Reply #57 - Feb 25^th, 2007, 7:02am Bring to the top, (again,) because someone asked about a knitted sling. Willeke
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Mordechaj Funditor I love Slinging.org! Posts: 576 Gender:	Re: From net to knit... Reply #58 - Feb 25^th, 2007, 7:44am and i hoped someone will ocntinue the SF series line
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Masiakasaurus Slinging.org Moderator mah-SEE-a-kah-SOR-us Posts: 4920 Gender:	Re: From net to knit... Reply #59 - Apr 2^nd, 2009, 9:57pm How well do the knit slings wear-in? Do they last long, or is there a problem with age and use? P.S. Fox RUINED Firefly . Down with the Alliance! Sorry for reviving a dead post, but I had to know.
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