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Fishermen Knitting Faster
For anyone that is interested in knitting fishermen faster, see my blog at
http://gansey.blogspot.com/. Better knitting through better tools! Aaron (Last night, my wife reminded me that her mother knitted 4 or 5 children's sweaters a year and only owned 3 pairs of knitting needles in the12 years that she knitted for her kids.) |
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Fishermen Knitting Faster
wrote: For anyone that is interested in knitting fishermen faster, see my blog at http://gansey.blogspot.com/. Better knitting through better tools! Aaron (Last night, my wife reminded me that her mother knitted 4 or 5 children's sweaters a year and only owned 3 pairs of knitting needles in the12 years that she knitted for her kids.) Hi Aaron, Thanks, I've enjoyed your blog and would never have thought of the apron. My Mom was like your MIL, only had a very few pairs of knitting needles. Now, I have some of all sizes, but all straight ones, don't like dpn's or circulars. In fact one of these days I'll have to go through them since I don't knit that much now and see if I can find a good home for the extras. Hugs, Nora |
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Fishermen Knitting Faster
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. com... For anyone that is interested in knitting fishermen faster, see my blog at http://gansey.blogspot.com/. Better knitting through better tools! Aaron (Last night, my wife reminded me that her mother knitted 4 or 5 children's sweaters a year and only owned 3 pairs of knitting needles in the12 years that she knitted for her kids.) Why re-invent the wheel? http://www.manorhouse.clara.net/knitwear/woolkits.htm stocks a full line of traditional 5 ply gansey wool, and the steel double point needles with which to knit a gansey. I knitted a gansey with Wendy 5 ply, just be careful not to stretch the yarn to much, it lacks the elasticity to spring back into the proper shape. If you look at pictures in the printed matter relating to ganseys, you will notice that the sleeves and ribbing are not close fitting. DA |
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DA wrote: wrote in message .com... For anyone that is interested in knitting fishermen faster, see my blog at http://gansey.blogspot.com/. Better knitting through better tools! Why re-invent the wheel? Because it's more fun? =Tamar |
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Fishermen Knitting Faster
How about teaching some local kids to knit and giving them a starter stash?
I would ask at the local school, "Anyone want to learn to knit?" Aaron "norabalcer" wrote in message ups.com... wrote: For anyone that is interested in knitting fishermen faster, see my blog at http://gansey.blogspot.com/. Better knitting through better tools! Aaron (Last night, my wife reminded me that her mother knitted 4 or 5 children's sweaters a year and only owned 3 pairs of knitting needles in the12 years that she knitted for her kids.) Hi Aaron, Thanks, I've enjoyed your blog and would never have thought of the apron. My Mom was like your MIL, only had a very few pairs of knitting needles. Now, I have some of all sizes, but all straight ones, don't like dpn's or circulars. In fact one of these days I'll have to go through them since I don't knit that much now and see if I can find a good home for the extras. Hugs, Nora |
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Fishermen Knitting Faster
"norabalcer" wrote in message ups.com... wrote: For anyone that is interested in knitting fishermen faster, see my blog at http://gansey.blogspot.com/. Better knitting through better tools! Aaron (Last night, my wife reminded me that her mother knitted 4 or 5 children's sweaters a year and only owned 3 pairs of knitting needles in the12 years that she knitted for her kids.) Hi Aaron, Thanks, I've enjoyed your blog and would never have thought of the apron. My Mom was like your MIL, only had a very few pairs of knitting needles. Now, I have some of all sizes, but all straight ones, don't like dpn's or circulars. In fact one of these days I'll have to go through them since I don't knit that much now and see if I can find a good home for the extras. Hugs, Nora PERK~~ extras????? whatchoogot, Nora? First dibbs!!!! Hugs, Noreen |
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Fishermen Knitting Faster
Hi Aaron,
Oh, the local senior center has received some size 8's and 9's that they use to teach the kids in the school next door. Hugs, Nora |
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Fishermen Knitting Faster
I am not "reinventing the wheel", I am restoring an old wheel.
Sure, Manorhouse offers 16" needles. For my current project, 12" needles are long enough, and ever so much easier and faster to work. It took me an hour to make the shorter needles (and $2 in materials). In the course of this one project, the shorter needles will save me hours and hours of work and frustration. Then, I am going to knit a similar gansey for my wife. I only learned the advantages of the shorter needles by trying longer needles and then trying shorter needles. If I only had the long Manorhouse needles, then in the course of these two projects, I would waste days! And, days wasted are the difference between FOs and UFOs! If a really fat person wants a gansey, I still have that set of 18" needles that will hold a round of 500 stitches. Talk about wasted days! Better to spend a few days talking the fat one into losing weight! I tried different shaped tips. And, it turns out that different shaped tips have advantages for different yarns. It was very traditional, for knitters to regrind the tips of their knitting needles on a regular basis. Now, I have more understanding of the how and WHY. I am not reinventing, I am understanding tradition, and writing it down. Since much of this is experimental, I am putting some of my work up for peer review. The colors of the Manorhouse yarns are close to boring. Yarns by other suppliers have wonderful colors, but may be a slightly different weight that will require a different needle size to produce a traditional gansey fabric. I merely remind friends that is possible to inexpensively make knitters tools, and that for some projects, those inexpensive homemade tools will be better than expensive commercial products. I also try to remember the advantages of modern commercial products. For example, circular needles are much safer. You could not stand on a crowded train and knit with my 12" steel needles. I am not sure that I would even use those needles in any environment where there were small kids. And, in a damp fisherman's cottage, the rust problem would be huge. I really admire those mothers knitting for their fishermen. Aaron "DA" wrote in message ... wrote in message . com... For anyone that is interested in knitting fishermen faster, see my blog at http://gansey.blogspot.com/. Better knitting through better tools! Aaron (Last night, my wife reminded me that her mother knitted 4 or 5 children's sweaters a year and only owned 3 pairs of knitting needles in the12 years that she knitted for her kids.) Why re-invent the wheel? http://www.manorhouse.clara.net/knitwear/woolkits.htm stocks a full line of traditional 5 ply gansey wool, and the steel double point needles with which to knit a gansey. I knitted a gansey with Wendy 5 ply, just be careful not to stretch the yarn to much, it lacks the elasticity to spring back into the proper shape. If you look at pictures in the printed matter relating to ganseys, you will notice that the sleeves and ribbing are not close fitting. DA |
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Fishermen Knitting Faster
The colors of the Manorhouse yarns are close to boring. Yarns by other suppliers have wonderful colors, but may be a slightly different weight that will require a different needle size to produce a traditional gansey fabric. I merely remind friends that is possible to inexpensively make knitters tools, and that for some projects, those inexpensive homemade tools will be better than expensive commercial products. 5 ply is traditional gansey yarn. The yarn from Manorhouse is spun from sheep found in Yorkshire, and the colors they offer are traditional colors. The lifesaving museum in Portsmout,UK has a wonderful collection of orginal ganseys. DA |
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Fishermen Knitting Faster
The Yorshire 5-ply was serviceable and inexpensive. It really was a great
value. It was the right weight for a garment to wear every day. Yorshire 5-ply became commercially dominate -- therefore traditional. The colors offered today, are from the inexpensive synthetic dyes developed after 1870. These colors dominated because fishermen's wives are ever so thrifty. However, that does not make the ganseys knit for the various fishing fleets any less traditional, when those ganseys were knit from wool grown near the fleet's home and/or home-spun, and/or home-dyed with vegetable colors. And, if those fishing fleets could use other wools to produce a traditional gansey, than I can do the same. I am going to put scores of hours into knittng a traditional gansey. Do I pick a yarn that is traditional because it was serviceable, inexpensive, and fishermen's wives were thrifty? What if that yarn is no longer inexpensive? High cost destroys the very reason that the yarn was traditional! Or, do I pick a yarn that I really like? When we were in GB, I touched and felt theYorkshire wools, but never bought any. I am glad to know about the gansey collection at Portsmout. Aaron "DA" wrote in message ... The colors of the Manorhouse yarns are close to boring. Yarns by other suppliers have wonderful colors, but may be a slightly different weight that will require a different needle size to produce a traditional gansey fabric. I merely remind friends that is possible to inexpensively make knitters tools, and that for some projects, those inexpensive homemade tools will be better than expensive commercial products. 5 ply is traditional gansey yarn. The yarn from Manorhouse is spun from sheep found in Yorkshire, and the colors they offer are traditional colors. The lifesaving museum in Portsmout,UK has a wonderful collection of orginal ganseys. DA |
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