<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644</id><updated>2011-12-11T14:39:17.550+01:00</updated><category term='pattern'/><category term='tools'/><category term='Technik'/><title type='text'>hyperactive knitting</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>22</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-5293524608674697217</id><published>2011-12-11T14:08:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:37:17.144+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pattern'/><title type='text'>Sponge Bob Pullover</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/68652515/IMG_1599_medium2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/68652515/IMG_1599_medium2.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I owe you all an update about the Sponge Bob pullover, right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1875697565"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/spongebob-pullover.html"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; I posted about starting it out and gave the how-to of making a fun pullover for kids. (Wow, this is long ago!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Well, after knitting and sewing and stitching on the extra details on that pullover, I did put it into hibernation over a long time. Tying in about 100 ends of yarn did really not sound so appealing. Finally I kicked my own behind and finished it up. I also did hand it over to one really happy boy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Here is the photo evidence that I took:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/68652060/IMG_1580_medium2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/68652060/IMG_1580_medium2.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/68652971/spongebob_04_medium2.jpg" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/68652453/IMG_1615_medium2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/68652453/IMG_1615_medium2.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;action approved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-5293524608674697217?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/5293524608674697217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=5293524608674697217&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/5293524608674697217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/5293524608674697217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/12/sponge-bob-pullover.html' title='Sponge Bob Pullover'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-3961680737797885352</id><published>2011-11-15T08:53:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T08:59:04.454+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The mobile profile is active</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;For anyone who checks my blog from mobile devices: Blogger now offers an optimized profile for that and I did activate it. I think it is easier to handle on a smart phone than the regular profil. Please let me know if that feature - or anything else about the blog - is on your mind. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HKF1Z_9z8EQ/TsIbb-Jg-9I/AAAAAAAABMQ/_neOercdOcs/s1600/bird_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" nda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HKF1Z_9z8EQ/TsIbb-Jg-9I/AAAAAAAABMQ/_neOercdOcs/s640/bird_5.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-3961680737797885352?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/3961680737797885352/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=3961680737797885352&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/3961680737797885352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/3961680737797885352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/11/mobile-profile-is-active.html' title='The mobile profile is active'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HKF1Z_9z8EQ/TsIbb-Jg-9I/AAAAAAAABMQ/_neOercdOcs/s72-c/bird_5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-968116976411997119</id><published>2011-10-04T14:32:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-04T14:32:14.612+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Knitting for sale</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;On this trip I found these cute hats. They were sold on the boat out to the outer Westfjords - the wilderness part - and they are called "Grandma cool caps". The price was very high and toursity but happy for the knitter. They were 20 € per hat. But if you are without a hat and going out to the uninhabitated wilderness and you are facing potentially cold, windy, rainy weather - or not - maybe those 20 € are well spent to keep you warm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Psg1D7Cn6Qk/Tm0HsnQQiPI/AAAAAAAAA68/-B4rfywFdr8/s1600/2011_Knit_hats.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Psg1D7Cn6Qk/Tm0HsnQQiPI/AAAAAAAAA68/-B4rfywFdr8/s400/2011_Knit_hats.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;photo is blury, sorry :o)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Auf dieser Reise nach Island habe ich diese süßen Mützen gefunden. Die wurden auf dem Boot in die äußeren Westfjorde verkauft, auf dem Weg in die Wildnis. Sie hießen "Grandma cool caps". Der Preis war sehr touristisch, aber gut für die Strickerin. Sie kosteten 20 € pro Stück. Aber wenn man ohne Mütze auf dem Weg in die unbewohnte Wildnis ist und sich potentiellem kalten, windigen oder regnerischen Wetter gegenübersieht - oder nicht - sollte man überlegen, ob diese 20 € nicht gut angelegt sind.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-968116976411997119?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/968116976411997119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=968116976411997119&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/968116976411997119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/968116976411997119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/10/knitting-for-sale.html' title='Knitting for sale'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Psg1D7Cn6Qk/Tm0HsnQQiPI/AAAAAAAAA68/-B4rfywFdr8/s72-c/2011_Knit_hats.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-5922365045554858268</id><published>2011-09-11T20:45:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-11T20:45:46.885+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Baker</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;On vacation in Iceland 2011, I payed attention to knitting, of course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This baker in the Gamla Bakarid in Isafjordur, Westfjords, was keeping us company for breakfast. I have seen him there for a few years but I finally took a picture of him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;With a lot of creativity and attention to detail, someone made this really cute fellow. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WnKvJt62u08/Tm0AntmL7fI/AAAAAAAAA6g/pk469RsnAuI/s1600/2011_knit_bakarid_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WnKvJt62u08/Tm0AntmL7fI/AAAAAAAAA6g/pk469RsnAuI/s640/2011_knit_bakarid_02.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bqmuxHfHpJg/Tm0A8ctZogI/AAAAAAAAA6k/VinqdjS6rRc/s1600/2011_knit_bakarid_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bqmuxHfHpJg/Tm0A8ctZogI/AAAAAAAAA6k/VinqdjS6rRc/s640/2011_knit_bakarid_01.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Im Island-Urlaub 2011 habe ich natürlich auch auf Gestricktes geachtet.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Dieser Bäcker in der Gamla Bakarid in Isafjördur, Westfjorde, hat uns beim Frühstück Gesellschaft geleistet. I habe ihn schon in den letzten Jahren dort gesehen, aber jetzt habe ich endlich mal Bilder von ihm gemacht. Jemand hat hier mit viel Geschick und Liebe zum Details eine wirklich süße Figur gestrickt!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-5922365045554858268?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/5922365045554858268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=5922365045554858268&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/5922365045554858268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/5922365045554858268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/09/baker.html' title='The Baker'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WnKvJt62u08/Tm0AntmL7fI/AAAAAAAAA6g/pk469RsnAuI/s72-c/2011_knit_bakarid_02.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-1064858262837149411</id><published>2011-09-04T20:57:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-12T12:13:58.749+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pattern'/><title type='text'>Buttercups</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This pattern I designed in July / August 2011 in Iceland during a hiking and backpacking vacation. It is inspired by Icelandic knitting tradition but it is my design, none the less.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The flowers were inspired by nature, the shaping of the crown was inspired by yokes of Icelandic sweaters that you see in the yarn and wool wear shops.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The lines in the crown make the crown fall into ridges that run along the dark lines while the light parts fall into valleys. The top of the hat therefore does not lie flat when it is not under tension. This shaping is done by the centered decreases that alternate in sides so they do not form one fold line but an indentation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/73490527/buttercups_05_medium2_medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" nba="true" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/73490527/buttercups_05_medium2_medium.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I will love to see the hats you make and I am happy about any comments on this pattern or any questions you have about it. Oh, before you wonder: Variations are welcome and I am interested in your ideas about it, as well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;On the facebook page of &lt;a href="http://www.lanade.de/"&gt;Lanade&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;we will hold a knit along (KAL) from the 13th of September 2011 on the topic of buttercups. Join in if you like!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://takenotes.de/buttercups.PDF"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Buttercups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://takenotes.de/buttercups_en.PDF"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Buttercups - English&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dgSLAvgHd5g/TkZjuG-6DQI/AAAAAAAAA4s/aaW93IuspWA/s1600/2011_hornvik_13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" nba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dgSLAvgHd5g/TkZjuG-6DQI/AAAAAAAAA4s/aaW93IuspWA/s640/2011_hornvik_13.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"&gt;Diese Mütze habe ich im Sommerurlaub in Island entwickelt und gestrickt. Sie ist von Island und isländischen Strickstücken inspiriert und trotzdem ganz mein eigenes Design. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/73490562/buttercups_02a_medium2_medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" nba="true" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/73490562/buttercups_02a_medium2_medium.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"&gt;Gestrickt habe ich sie mit Ístex Kambgarn, aber natürlich ist jedes Garn in dieser Art passend. Bei abweichenden Garnstärken kann man über Herausnahme einer Wiederholung oder Änderung der Nadelgröße anpassen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"&gt;Die Blumen waren von der Landschaft inspiriert. Buttercups, also Butterblumen, waren in solchen Mengen vorhanden, dass ich Blumen auf den Rand meiner Mütze gesetzt habe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"&gt;Die Krone der Mütze, einschließlich der Rahmengestaltung ist von isländischen Pullovern inspiriert, die in der Rundpasse oft diese Rautenformen zeigen, die nach oben kleiner werden. Bei dieser Mütze habe ich das dann gesteigert bis zur Mitte hin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"&gt;Die dunklen Linien der Krone heben sich plastisch nach oben ab, weil die gegeneinandergerichteten Abnahmen in der Mitte der Felder sie hineinziehen, ohne selbst eine Kante zu bilden. Diese Berg- und Tallandschaft entspricht auch sehr der isländischen Landschaft. Außerdem sieht die Mütze von oben aus, wie eine Blüte, wenn auch nicht die Blüte einer Butterblume.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/73490587/2011_hornvik_12_medium2_medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" nba="true" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/73490587/2011_hornvik_12_medium2_medium.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Für mich ist diese Mütze ein Souvenir aus dem Urlaub. Vielleicht ist sie für Euch zumindest eine schöne Mütze.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Ich freue mich im Übrigen sehr, dass wir auf facebook auf der Seite von &lt;a href="http://www.lanade.de/"&gt;Lanade&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;ab dem 13.09.2011 einen Knit-A-Long (KAL) starten, der sich mit Buttercups beschäftigt. Wer Lust hat, kann sich dort gern beteiligen!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;* * * * * * *&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alteration:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;With a stitch count of 22 stitches on 10 cm or 4 inches: &lt;br /&gt;Cast on 110 stitches, work ribbing 1 x 1, after base section increase to 120 stitches eavenly. &lt;br /&gt;Work pattern section 10 times instead of 11 times.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;With a stitch count of 20 stitches on 10 cm or 4 inches: &lt;br /&gt;Cast on 96 stitches, work ribbing 1 x 1, after base section increase to 108 stitches eavenly. &lt;br /&gt;Work pattern section 9 times instead of 11 times.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KdcmcxYtAIA/TkZoCWnr3TI/AAAAAAAAA48/wxU6BsKG18Y/s1600/2011_hornvik_15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" nba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KdcmcxYtAIA/TkZoCWnr3TI/AAAAAAAAA48/wxU6BsKG18Y/s640/2011_hornvik_15.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Abwandlung:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bei einer Maschenprobe von 22 Maschen auf 10 cm: 110 Maschen anschlagen, Bündchen und Basis stricken, dann auf 120 Maschen gleichmäßig zunehmen. &lt;br /&gt;Musterteil dann 10 mal anstelle von 11 stricken.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bei einer Maschenprobe von 20 Maschen auf 10 cm: 96 Maschen anschlagen und dann auf 108 Maschen gleichmäßig zunehmen. &lt;br /&gt;Musterteil dann 9 mal anstelle von 11 stricken.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-45yrD4sSuHI/TkZj4cgJz_I/AAAAAAAAA4w/6s2JvjKFNFk/s1600/2011_hornvik_11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" nba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-45yrD4sSuHI/TkZj4cgJz_I/AAAAAAAAA4w/6s2JvjKFNFk/s640/2011_hornvik_11.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-1064858262837149411?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/1064858262837149411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=1064858262837149411&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/1064858262837149411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/1064858262837149411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/09/buttercups.html' title='Buttercups'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dgSLAvgHd5g/TkZjuG-6DQI/AAAAAAAAA4s/aaW93IuspWA/s72-c/2011_hornvik_13.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-4270460195207526011</id><published>2011-06-19T17:41:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-06-19T17:44:52.266+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technik'/><title type='text'>Wolle Färben</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #999999;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;This post is about &lt;u&gt;wool dying with food colors&lt;/u&gt; - the English post will follow some time soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Neulich habe ich mich selbst mal wieder mit etwas Neuem konfrontiert: Wolle selbst färben. Weil ich erst einmal Erfahrung damit gemacht habe, ist dies hier mehr ein Bericht über ein gelungenes Experiment als eine Anleitung.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Ich hatte diese Anleitung (&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/chantimanou#p/u/13/8U_Dy8HuZrA"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/user/chantimanou#p/u/13/8U_Dy8HuZrA&lt;/a&gt;) gesehen und dachte, ich muss das unbedingt mal selbst probieren.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Hier sind die Videos dazu, die ich Euch unbedingt&amp;nbsp; empfehle:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Teil 1:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U_Dy8HuZrA&amp;amp;feature=mfu_in_order&amp;amp;list=UL"&gt;Chantimanou - Wolle färben, Teil 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;und der Teil 2:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKyyQt8ZxWM&amp;amp;feature=mfu_in_order&amp;amp;list=UL"&gt;Chantimanou - Wolle färben, Teil 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Den Blog von Chantimanou empfehle ich sowieso ganz besonders. Man lernt eine Menge über Garn. Eigentlich geht es hauptsächlich ums Spinnen, aber es kommen auch viele anderen Themen zur Sprache. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Man braucht: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;- Wolle, die Farbe aufnehmen kann. Ich habe es bisher nur mit Karisma von Garnstudio versucht, kann also über anderes Garn nicht berichten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;- Ostereierfarben oder Lebensmittelfarbe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;- Essig&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;- Frischhaltefolie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;- Microwelle oder Backofen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;- Abdeckung für den Arbeitsplatz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;- einen Platz zum Wolle trocknen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Nach langer Suche nach dem richtigen Garn für dieses Experiment bin ich wieder mal bei den Garnen von Drops (Garnstudio) gelandet. Karisma ist reine Wolle und damit schön zu färben. Ich habe 8 Knäuel in Weiß bestellt. (Meine Quelle für Drops-Garne ist übrigens &lt;a href="http://www.lanade.de/"&gt;www.Lanade.de&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Als Färbematerial habe ich Ostereierfarben verwendet. Die sind günstig, in den wesentlichen Farben vorhanden - man kann sie mischen, verdünnen oder verstärken und vor allem: Man kann sich mit ihnen nicht vergiften. Lebensmittelfarben kann ich sogar essen, dann kann ich sie auch auf der Haut tragen oder kleinen Kindern in die Hand geben. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Zusammen mit meiner Schwiegermutter habe ich dann zu Ostern losgelegt. Jede von uns hat 3 Knäuel Karisma zu je einem Strang gewickelt und abgebunden. Wir haben einfach um eine Stuhllehne gewickelt, weil ich keine Haspeln habe. Wir haben je ein Knäuel in Weiß verwahrt, damit wir ggfs. später beim Stricken ein bisschen variieren können.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Die Stränge haben wir dann (je 3 zusammen) in großen Töpfen in dem Essig eingelegt. Das Ganze haben wir ein wenig mit Wasser aufgefüllt, damit die Stränge auch ganz bedeckt waren und haben es zwei Stunden stehen lassen. Die Wolle ist dann gebeizt und kann die Farbe aufnehmen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;In der Zeit haben wir Ostereierfarben angemischt, einfach nach deren Anleitung. Wir haben Tabletten verwendet. Aber es geht natürlich jede Art von Lebensmittelfarbe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CnGNlTlM0nM/Tf4RgTnKCMI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/7S_SaMaXTVE/s1600/yarn10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CnGNlTlM0nM/Tf4RgTnKCMI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/7S_SaMaXTVE/s640/yarn10.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Dann haben wir die Stränge ausgedrückt. Hätten wir mehr Wolle färben wollen, könnte man den restlichen Essig natürlich wiederverwenden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Wir haben unsere Arbeitsfläche mit Frischhaltefolie ausgelegt und die Stränge darauf gelegt. Mit Löffeln haben wir dann die Farblösungen auf den Strängen verteilt. Wir haben jeweils unterschiedliche Farbvarianten gewählt.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bh1wb3CJaTI/Tf4RiVAYtMI/AAAAAAAAAwU/4YNbP0j5ylE/s1600/yarn1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bh1wb3CJaTI/Tf4RiVAYtMI/AAAAAAAAAwU/4YNbP0j5ylE/s640/yarn1.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d2KSNDn4_5k/Tf4RkfSnHiI/AAAAAAAAAwY/aqmiWvR2rbc/s1600/yarn2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d2KSNDn4_5k/Tf4RkfSnHiI/AAAAAAAAAwY/aqmiWvR2rbc/s640/yarn2.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Man kann auch lauter andere Werkzeuge zum Verteilen verwenden, zB Spritzen, Pinsel (für kleine Stellen) und so weiter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Nach dem Verteilen haben wir die Wolle mit Frischhaltefolie bedeckt und als kleine Päckchen zusammengerollt. Die haben wir dann für 5 Minuten bei höchster Stufe in die Microwelle gepackt. Alternativ kann man sie wohl auch im Backofen fixieren, aber damit habe ich keine Erfahrung. &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0cnAqEYhrI&amp;amp;feature=channel_video_title"&gt;Man braucht wohl ca. 45 Min bei60 Grad – ohne Folie!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Nach der Microwelle haben wir die Wolle erst abkühlen lassen. Natürlich haben wir uns trotzdem die Finger verbrannt. Wir konnten ja nicht warten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Anschließend haben wir die Wolle ausgewaschen. Schon beim ersten Spülen kam gar keine Farbe mehr heraus.Ich hätte gedacht, wir hätten hinterher schön bunte Finger.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sfdiBB820j4/Tf4RldtyPlI/AAAAAAAAAwc/ppxseXp0pVU/s1600/yarn3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sfdiBB820j4/Tf4RldtyPlI/AAAAAAAAAwc/ppxseXp0pVU/s640/yarn3.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Die Stränge haben wir dann über einen Besenstil gehängt, bis sie trocken waren. Dann haben wir Knäuele gewickelt. Demnächst werde ich wohl einen Schal oder eine Kinderjacke aus meinen Knäuelen stricken. Ich bin gespannt, was meine Schwiegermutter daraus macht.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;Hier sind dann unsere Resultate:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N-3JGxtCKsI/Tf4RpduPZdI/AAAAAAAAAwg/VSN1aRbXHUE/s1600/yarn4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N-3JGxtCKsI/Tf4RpduPZdI/AAAAAAAAAwg/VSN1aRbXHUE/s640/yarn4.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4Snl5i0jp9c/Tf4RgHvNhOI/AAAAAAAAAwM/Ms6w6dtfmgg/s1600/yarn9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4Snl5i0jp9c/Tf4RgHvNhOI/AAAAAAAAAwM/Ms6w6dtfmgg/s640/yarn9.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iTIe5eg0mHk/Tf4RpaxoEyI/AAAAAAAAAwk/zCee-9MISZ8/s1600/yarn5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="604" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iTIe5eg0mHk/Tf4RpaxoEyI/AAAAAAAAAwk/zCee-9MISZ8/s640/yarn5.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A1N_7E4LBEU/Tf4RdT9s9tI/AAAAAAAAAwI/wb_7Fr3JQ8k/s1600/yarn6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A1N_7E4LBEU/Tf4RdT9s9tI/AAAAAAAAAwI/wb_7Fr3JQ8k/s640/yarn6.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Und im Probelappen sieht es dann bei mir so aus: (mädchenhaft bunt, denke ich. Und ich kenne schon jemanden, die sich einen Schal daraus gewünscht hat):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5mwM6Zok5To/Tf4RcLatS3I/AAAAAAAAAwE/WDpCW7WQOvk/s1600/yarn8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5mwM6Zok5To/Tf4RcLatS3I/AAAAAAAAAwE/WDpCW7WQOvk/s640/yarn8.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: orange; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-4270460195207526011?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/4270460195207526011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=4270460195207526011&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/4270460195207526011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/4270460195207526011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/06/wolle-farben.html' title='Wolle Färben'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CnGNlTlM0nM/Tf4RgTnKCMI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/7S_SaMaXTVE/s72-c/yarn10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-5178337873764761155</id><published>2011-05-01T22:08:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-06T19:42:39.101+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technik'/><title type='text'>Mathe und Dreieckstücher</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Ich habe vor kurzem mein erstes Lace-Dreieckstuch gestrickt. Jetzt bin ich mit dem zweiten beschäftigt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Beide Tücher werden aus der Nackenmitte heraus mit Zunahme von 4 Maschen alle 2 Reihen gestrickt, bis die Gesamtgröße erreicht ist.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/60420242/heartland_shawl__3__medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/60420242/heartland_shawl__3__medium2.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Und beim Stricken habe ich mich jetzt häufiger gefragt, wie weit ich eigentlich bin. Durch die ständige Vergrößerung ist es für einen Anfänger nicht so leicht abzuschätzen, wie weit man schon ist, wie viel noch nötig ist, oder wie viel der verbleibende Rest Garn hergibt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Ich habe mich letzte Woche entschlossen, das Ganze über Mathematik zu lösen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Daraufhin habe ich viel a-quadrat plus b-quadrat gleich c-quadrat vor mich hingemurmelt, bis mein Mann vor lauter Schreck eingeschlafen ist (Zitat geklaut aus &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.de/Glennkill-Ein-Schafskrimi-Leonie-Swann/dp/3442301297"&gt;Glennkill &lt;/a&gt;:o) ). Aber ehrlich? das haut nicht hin. Wurzeln ziehen ist viel zu kompliziert und ob das Tuch wirklich einen rechten Winkel in der Spitze hat? Das bezweifele ich.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Ich habe mir dann nochmal vernünftige Gedanken zum Thema Tuch gemacht und bin zu folgenden Schlüssen gekommen. Vielleicht interessiert es ja jemanden, was ich gerechnet habe und warum und wie man es nachrechnet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/61271127/heartland_lace3_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/61271127/heartland_lace3_medium2.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Die Maschen erstrecken sich über die Fläche des Tuchs. Unter der Voraussetzung dass die Maschendichte und der Garnverbrauch im Verlauf des Tuchs etwa gleich sind, kann man also die Fläche mit dem Garnverbrauch und den Gesamtmaßen vergleichen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Das Tuch zu vermessen bringt nicht sehr viel, weil die Maße meist nach dem Blocken angegeben werden - und die Maße der Anleitung auch nur stimmen, wenn man die richtige MaPro hat (und das prüfe ich gar nicht wirklich nach, bei einem Tuch).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Aber die Reihenzahl, die kennt man ja normalerweise, wenn man das Tuch geplant hat. Die Breite der Maschen und die Höhe der Maschen verändert sich ebenfalls nicht. Für meine Berechnung (die ja nur Verhältnisse angeben wird) habe ich angenommen, dass die Maschen und Reihen gleiche Höhe und Breite haben, dass es also Quadrate ergeben wird.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/60420890/heartland_shawl__11__medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/60420890/heartland_shawl__11__medium2.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Genug der Vorrede.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Ein Tuch mit dieser Konstruktion ist ein gleichschenkliges Dreieck.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Die Fläche eines gleichschenkligen Dreiecks errechnet man durch Basis (die Lange Seite) mal halbe Höhe (die Entfernung zwischen Mitte der Basis (Anschlagpunkt) und Spitze des Tuchs).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Mein Musterdreieck sieht also so aus:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Basis (Lange Seite) = c&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Seitenlängen = a und b dabei ist a = b, aber darauf kommt es gar nicht an&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Höhe (Mitte der langen Seite bis Spitze des Dreiecks) = h&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Wie groß ist die Fläche meines Dreiecks?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;ich brauche die halbe Höhe, also 1/2 h&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;und ich weiß, dass meine Basis doppelt so lang is, wie meine Höhe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;1/2 h = x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;dann ist c = 4 x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Die Fläche meines Dreiecks ist damit&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; c mal 1/2 h&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;= 4 x mal x&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;= 4 x quadrat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Wenn ich also die Hälfte der Reihen gestrickt habe (da war ich in meinem Tuch...) - Wie viel Prozent meines Tuchs habe ich dann gestrickt?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Wenn das 2. Dreieck (das fertige Tuch) also wäre:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;c2 = 2c&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;h2 = 2h&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;dann lautet die Formel:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; c2 mal h2&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;= 2 mal 4x mal 2 mal 1x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;= 8x mal 2x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;= 16 x quadrat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Was heißt das ganze Mathe-Zeug jetzt?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Das heißt: &lt;b&gt;Die Hälfte der Musterrapports ist gestrickt, dann ist damit ein Viertel des gesamten Tuchs gestrickt.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;Ob Euch das jetzt frustriert oder motiviert, das überlasse ich Euch. Ich habe jedenfalls weitergestrickt, um diesen Wert bald zu überschreiten.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xy0hoQZaiBo/Tb2-Ra3fPXI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/TOCMMULcSsI/s1600/heartland_lace4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xy0hoQZaiBo/Tb2-Ra3fPXI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/TOCMMULcSsI/s320/heartland_lace4.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/61270958/heartland_lace2_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-5178337873764761155?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/5178337873764761155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=5178337873764761155&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/5178337873764761155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/5178337873764761155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/05/mathe-und-dreieckstucher.html' title='Mathe und Dreieckstücher'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xy0hoQZaiBo/Tb2-Ra3fPXI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/TOCMMULcSsI/s72-c/heartland_lace4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-7114717312171689172</id><published>2011-03-26T14:59:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-26T15:04:19.326+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tools'/><title type='text'>Der Rosenkranz</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Der Rosenkranz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/02/rosary-der-rosenkranz.html"&gt;Englischer Text hier / English text here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Ich stricke häufiger Muster, bei denen man besser die Reihen zählen sollte. Weil ich Reihenzählen nicht gerne mache, habe ich den Rosenkranz als Hilfsmittel "erfunden". Es ist wohl sicher nicht meine Erfindung und ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass sowas nicht sehr häufig verwendet wird, aber ich habe keine Anleitungen oder Beschreibungen gefunden, also schreibe ich hier selbst eine, um die Idee zu verbreiten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Ich denke, als "Erfindung" meinerseits kann wohl nur dieser Name dafür gelten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;(Anmerkung: Ähnliche Ideen stecken hinter den "Linked Stitch Markers", die man per Google finden kann.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aaaalso, was ist ein Rosenkranz und wozu braucht man ihn?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Wenn es nötig ist, Reihen oder Runden zu zählen, zB bei kompizierteren Einstrickmustern, Zopfmustern, oder einfach im Ärmel, dem Sockenschaft oder sonstwo, dann bekommt man häufig die Empfehlung, einen Reihenzähler zu verwenden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;man kann sich einfach konzentrieren und im Kopf mitzählen - und sich dann dran erinnern, nachdem man die Arbeit weggelegt hat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;man kann die Reihen-/Rundenzahl aufschreiben - und darf nicht vergessen, eine Notiz zu machen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;man kann die Reihen/Runden regelmäßig nachzählen - und darf sich dann nicht (beispielsweise in Spitze) verzählen, sich in glatt rechts nicht zu Tode langweilen und man darf nicht vergessen, überhaupt mal zu zählen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;man kann eine cleveren Reihenzähler verwenden, der auf der Nadel steckt. Man darf nur nicht vergessen, ihn auch weiterzudrehen, wenn es nötig ist. (Und ich werde das vergessen, immer wieder)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;man kann eine Strichliste führen - und Ihr dürft mal raten: ich werde das vergessen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;man kann in seinem Muster die gestrickten Reihen abhaken oder ausstreichen - und ich werde das vergessen, außerdem geht das weniger gut, wenn man das gleich Muster immer wieder strickt. Wie viele verschiedene Methoden oder Farben zum Ausstreichen kann man wohl finden, um den Überblick zu behalten?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;man kann für jede Reihe, die man zählen will, eine Süßigkeit auf den Tisch legen und am Ende jeder Reihe eine davon essen. Das geht so lange gut, wie man sich beherrschen kann und niemand was klaut. Und es geht natürlich nur, wenn man die Süßigkeiten irgendwo auslegen kann, also auf einem Tisch oder so. Und wenn man die Arbeit wegpackt, dann mit den Smarties oder Gummibären? Ich wittere Probleme! Aber süße Idee, ganz sicher.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;man kann sich seine eigene Methode zusammenreimen, die idiotensicher ist - man muss sich schließlich selbst überlisten - die verfügbar ist, kein Vermögen kostet und bei der man nicht einmal Angst haben muss, sie mal zu verlieren. So bin ich zu meinem Rosenkranz gekommen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Den Rosenkranz kann man aus beliebigem Garn machen. Ich nehme gern Sockengarn, jedenfalls Garn, dass sich nicht zu leicht aufspaltet und gleichmäßig stark ist. Es wäre auch gut, wenn es keine filziges oder fusseliges Garn ist.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;In meinem Beispielbilder ist es einmal Sockengarn und einmal Baumwolle. Ich mag es, meinen Rosenkranz in Kontrastfarbe zu meinem Strickstück zu machen, damit man ihn immer gut sieht. Beißen sollten sich die Farben aber besser nicht, wenn es nach mir geht, sonst tun einem ja die Augen weh!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Man schneidet also ein Stück Garn ab. Für einen regulären Rosenkranz schlage ich bei Sockengarn ca. 60-80 cm vor. Dickeres Garn braucht / verbraucht mehr Länge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Das Garnstück legt man doppelt. Oben bildet sich dadurch eine Schlaufe. Diese schließt man jetzt mit einem einfachen Knoten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Ein Stück tiefer macht man jetzt wieder einen Knoten in beiden Garnstränge zugleich, sodass sich ein doppeltliegendes Stück Garn dazwischen bildet, etwa so groß, wie die Schlaufe oben.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Jetzt hat man schon einen 2-Stufen-Rosenkranz. Ich habe ja gesagt, es ist ganz leicht.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Wenn man so fortfährt, bis man 10 geschlossene Abstände hat (die Schlaufe und 9 weitere), hat man einen Standart-Rosenkranz oder einen 10-Stufen-Rosenkranz fertiggeknotet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Wann immer man den Rosenkranz abschließt, hat man unten die beiden Garnenden offen. Diese kann man jetzt auf eine passende Länge schneiden. Man kann den unteren Knoten auch noch markieren, indem man beispielsweise eine weitere Garnfarbe mit hineinknotet, etc. Um den Überblick über die beiden Enden nicht zu verlieren.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hier ist ein Bild eines einfachen 10-Stufen-Rosenkranzes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: orange; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GlFBIJaNIDc/TWZhaPVibhI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/GAcL3Ux3cTw/s1600/IMG_0623.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GlFBIJaNIDc/TWZhaPVibhI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/GAcL3Ux3cTw/s640/IMG_0623.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Der Rosenkranz. Ja, so einfach.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Nein, komplizierter wird es auch nicht mehr.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Beim Stricken schiebt man den Rosenkranz auf die Nadel. Zuerst mit der oberen Schlaufe (Nr. 1) Wenn man in Reihen hin und her strickt, schiebt man ihn natürlich nicht auf das Nadelende, denn dann könnte er herunterfallen. Man schiebt ihn dann hinter die 2. oder 3. Masche, oder so. Wenn man in Runden arbeitet, kann man den Rosenkranz auch als Anfangsmarkierer der Runde verwenden, man darf dann die Arbeit nur nicht genau am Rundenwechsel weglegen - ich arbeite dann meist 1 Masche weniger oder mehr, wenn ich an den Marker komme.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Jedes Mal, wenn man beim Stricken an den Rosenkranz kommt, sticht man mit der rechten Nadeln in den Rosenkranz. Aber man sticht nicht wie beim Maschenmarkierer in diejenige Schlaufe, die auf der Nadel sitzt, sondern man sticht in die Schlaufe darunter. Man arbeitet immer von der Schlaufe zum offenen Ende (Hauptsache immer in die gleiche Richtung!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Reality Check: Jetzt mal ehrlich: Wenn Ihr an eine lange schnur mit Knoten kommt, die in Eurem Strickstück hängt, könnt Ihr dann wirklich vergessen, dass man die jedesmal eine Schlaufe tiefer einsticht? Wirklich? Ich kann das nicht.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Wenn man am Ende ankommt und in die letzte Öffnung sticht, hat man Reihe 10 erreicht. Hat man einen Rosenkranz mit einer anderen Zahl an Schlaufen geknotet, dann eben Reihe x. FÜr Muster mit einem 12 Reihen Mustersatz stricke ich natürlich mit einem 12-Stufen-Rosenkranz, bei 4 Reihen mit einem 4-Stufen-Rosenkranz und so weiter. Jedes Projekt kann seinen perfekten Rosenkranz bekommen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Für die nächste Reihe sticht man dann wieder in die Schlaufe am Anfang ein und beginnt von vorn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Natürlich kann man auch mehr als einen Rosenkranz in ein Projekt einhängen. Je nachdem, was man da zählen muss, macht man für jeden Abschnitt einen eigenen. Kein Problem, beispielsweise bei Zopfmuster mit unterschiedlichen Mustersätzen oder auch bei Projekten mit verkürzten Reihen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Wenn ich einfach nur viele Reihen zählen muss, zB bei 16 Reihen glatt rechts, dann kann ich natürlich auch einfach die Reihen nachzählen, klar. Aber ich kann auch mit einem 10-Stufen-Rosenkranz (den könnte man dann auch Dezimal-Rosenkranz oder Abakus nennen, oder?) arbeiten. Wenn ich bereits weiß, dass ich genau 16 Reihen brauche, beginne ich so, dass ich 6 Reihen stricken kann, bevor ich am Ende des Rosenkranzes ankomme. Dann beginne ich von vorn und bin beim 2. Mal, das ich das Ende erreiche genau in Reihe 16.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Ich kann natürlich auch einen zweiten Rosenkranz nutzen, um die Zahl meiner Wiederholungen des ersten zu messen. Bei dem steche ich dann immer nur dann eine Schlaufe tiefer, wenn ich eine Wiederholung des ersten von vorn beginne. Oder ich merke mir die Zahl der Wiederholungen, oder sie sind offensichtlich (weil es eine so lange Strecke ist), oder ich mache Notizen, oder sonstwas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Wenn man zwischendurch mal die Reihen nachzählen will, kann man ohne Probleme die Schlaufen des Rosenkranzes zählen. Das geht viel schneller, als im Muster die Reihen zu zählen (beispielsweise in Basket-Weave oder Lace verzählt man sich wirklich schnell). Außerdem fühlt man durch die Knoten genau, wie viele Schlaufen man benutzt hat. Man kann also auch zählen, ohne großartig hinzugucken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Wer den Rosenkranz verfeinern will, um bei komplizierten Mustern Schritt zu halten, kann Perlen in einzelne Schlaufen einziehen (kleine bitte, sonst hakt oder kratzt es an der Nadel) und damit bestimmte Schlaufen markiert sind. Viel Spaß beim Experimentieren.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Zum Abschluss ein Bild eines Rosenkranzes in Gebrauch. Das Bild habe ich gemacht, als ich auf einer Zugfahrt eine Socke mit Zopfmuster gestrickt habe. So kann ich ganz einfach wissen, wann es Zeit ist, wieder zu verzopfen: In meinem Beispiel immer dann, wenn ich wieder in Schlaufe 1 einsteche. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: orange; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1DzzNlgZosE/TWZkLuqxufI/AAAAAAAAAZU/xzLmBrQtpiM/s1600/IMG_0603.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1DzzNlgZosE/TWZkLuqxufI/AAAAAAAAAZU/xzLmBrQtpiM/s400/IMG_0603.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Rosenkranz in Gebrauch&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-7114717312171689172?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/7114717312171689172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=7114717312171689172&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/7114717312171689172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/7114717312171689172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/03/der-rosenkranz.html' title='Der Rosenkranz'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GlFBIJaNIDc/TWZhaPVibhI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/GAcL3Ux3cTw/s72-c/IMG_0623.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-5034448883046894139</id><published>2011-02-25T00:08:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-26T15:01:13.962+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tools'/><title type='text'>the Rosary - der Rosenkranz</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;The Rosary - &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Der Rosenkranz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/03/der-rosenkranz.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;German text here / Deutscher Text hier.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I  &amp;nbsp;also made&amp;nbsp;a lot of patterns that included counting rows or rounds.  Those made me "invent" the rosary. Well, my invention may not be new.  And maybe you have seen instructions and things alike.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I guess, I do get the credit for the name. If that is all, I am still happy to present an instruction.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;(Note: I have seen similar things called "linked stitch markers", so you may want to google that)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;So why do you need a different marker and what exactly is this rosary?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Well,  when you need to count rounds or rows, for example in a stitch pattern,  there are so many ways to count them… and so many ways to go wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Just keep track in your head – and do not loose concentration or put down your work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Write down the row/round number you are on – and do not forget about it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Re-count  your rows/rounds – and do not get confused in lace or bored to no end  in stochinette stitch, oh, and do not forget to re-count&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Use a smart row counter that sits on your needle – and do not forget to turn it over for every row (I will forget, I know)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Keep a list to check off – guess what, I will forget&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Check  off / cross out the line of the pattern – oh, will I ever forget, and  then the pattern is marked… not so convenient for a repeat that you do  27 times over or anything… how many different ways to check do you want  to invent?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Lay  out a certain number of candies and eat one every time you finish a  row. Then you know where in the thing you are at. – sweet, if you do not  eat too many or have someone steal from you. And you can not do that  unless you have a save place to put those, even if your work is  hybernating. But sweet, I agree.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Find  your own way, make it fool proof - it is you you have to fool! - and  make it accessible and cheap, if possible, make it simpel. - That is how  I made the rosary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;A rosary you  can make from whatever string you like. I like sock yarn or even better,  yarn that does not split anywhere. But the sample I will show in the  picture is a simple piece of cotton. It is easy to show with that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;You cut an end of yarn. To be save I would think, 30 cm / 1 foot, will be good.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;You  lay it double, then make a first knot, leaving a loop open in the top.  Make an plain knot (loop and pull the end through, nothing more).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Then you repeat that a little further down the string, leaving a space between the knots about as wide as the gap in the loop.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;This way you made a 2-step-rosary already. Yes, I said, it is simple, didn't I?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;If you continue this so you have 10 enclosed spaces, you make what I call a &lt;b&gt;standart &lt;/b&gt;or &lt;b&gt;10-step-rosary.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Here is a picture:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GlFBIJaNIDc/TWZhaPVibhI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/GAcL3Ux3cTw/s1600/IMG_0623.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GlFBIJaNIDc/TWZhaPVibhI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/GAcL3Ux3cTw/s640/IMG_0623.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;the rosary - yes, simple, I know.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;And no, it does not get any more complicated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;When  knitting you slide the rosary on the needle, not at the edge of a row,  but a few stitches in (I go in about 2 to 4 stitches, usually). When  working in rounds you can also use it as a round marker and just set it  into that place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Every  time you get to the rosary, you pick it off the left needle with your  right. But unlike a regular stitch marker you do not slide the needle in  next to the other needle, but you slide it in one hole deeper towards  the end of the string. (To make the direction easier to see you can mark  that end by another color yarn you tie in, maybe attach a bead, or just  look closely.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Reality Check: &lt;/i&gt;So  tell me... when you get to this long string of knots... can you forget  to poke in one loop deeper? Can you really? Well, I can not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;And once you get to the end you know you completed a set of your pattern - what ever you were marking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;For every project you can make the perfect custom rosary, if you want:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;make  it 6 loops, if that is your repeat. You can make just 2 loops, if you  want. You can make 25, if you want to handle that... And when you get to  the end, you need to do something special.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;If  I just have to count rows, like 16 rows of stochinette stitch, I am  likely using a 10-set-rosary. I start so that 6 loops are left to do.  Then I do another set of 10 and I am done when I get to the end of it.  The moment you start those 16 rows, you know that you have to do them,  so set the "fraction" first. Then you can not accidentally go too far.  If you need to make multiple repeats of the rosary... well keep notes,  count, guess... do what ever you like to find out if you made 20, 30, 40  or 50 rows... the estimate is not so hard, really. Or use a second  rosary to count your repeats of rosary No.1 &amp;nbsp;only... if you want.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Finally:  A picture of a rosary in use while knitting a sock on a train and  keeping track of a cable repeat without counting and without "looking"  much:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1DzzNlgZosE/TWZkLuqxufI/AAAAAAAAAZU/xzLmBrQtpiM/s1600/IMG_0603.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1DzzNlgZosE/TWZkLuqxufI/AAAAAAAAAZU/xzLmBrQtpiM/s400/IMG_0603.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;rosary in use&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-5034448883046894139?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/5034448883046894139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=5034448883046894139&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/5034448883046894139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/5034448883046894139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/02/rosary-der-rosenkranz.html' title='the Rosary - der Rosenkranz'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GlFBIJaNIDc/TWZhaPVibhI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/GAcL3Ux3cTw/s72-c/IMG_0623.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-7212556116975954494</id><published>2011-02-24T15:00:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-25T00:09:13.086+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tools'/><title type='text'>Stitch Markers</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I used to not like or use stitch markers. But then you do patterns that become incredibly much easier with stitch markers. Some are only possible, really, with markers, and some instructions you do not understand, when you do not use markers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Ich mochte Maschenmarkierer nie. Aber dann beginnt man, mit Mustern zu arbeiten, die mit Maschenmarkierern leichter zu handhaben sind. Die eine oder andere Anleitung kann man nicht einmal wirklich verstehen, wenn man den Angaben für das Setzen der Markierer nicht folgt.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Stitch markers - &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Maschenmarkierer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;So I eventually got into making more than just string loops. But don't back out: simple string loops do the job as well, almost as well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Ich habe also irgendwann angefangen, Maschenmarkierer zu benutzen, und bald auch mehr als einfache Fadenschlingen. Aber auch die sind nicht schlecht: Eine simple Schlaufe mit einem Knoten kann genauso praktisch sein, beinahe jedenfalls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Ich stricke hübsche Sachen, also will ich auch hübsche Werkzeuge dabei verwenden. Also habe ich mir in diesem Jahr ein paar sinnvolle Maschenmarkierer gemacht, die auch noch gut aussehen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I am knitting pretty things, so I want pretty things to be involved into my knitting process. This year I made some really nice and useful stitch markers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;First I want to show a set I got in the mail, yesterday. It is a gift from Clarice at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://clarice39.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;"giftgrün"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;- so I do not take credit for the creation. But they are pretty and neat and useful and brand new to my home, so I want to show them:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Zuerst möchte ich aber ein Set zeigen, das ich gestern abend aus der Post geholt habe. Ich habe in der Valentinsverlosung von Clarice in ihrem &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Blog - giftgrün - gewonnen habe. Dieses wunderhübsche Set war gemeinsam mit meinem Gewinnerherz gestern abend da, als ich nach Hause kam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2dfT3tfPuUI/TWZZvFornnI/AAAAAAAAAZE/P30soe4jeJU/s1600/IMG_0607.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" l6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2dfT3tfPuUI/TWZZvFornnI/AAAAAAAAAZE/P30soe4jeJU/s400/IMG_0607.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;a set of 4+1 stitch markers by clarice39&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;With the green stitch markers you see a set of multiple markers. One of them is different. That one is usually meant to show a very prominent part in the pattern, for example the beginning of the round. The double pearls make a great divider that you recognize when you get to it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.dawanda.com/shop/clarice39"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Clarice sells her stitch markers and other crafty things on DaWanda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Check it out!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Die grünen Maschenmarkierer sind ein Set von mehreren, die zusammengehören. Einer von ihnen ist anders. Durch die Unterscheidbarkeit markiert er in der Regel eine besonders prominente Stelle im Stück, beispielsweise den Beginn einer Runde. Die doppelte Perle übersieht man nicht, wenn man an sie gelangt.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The markers I made this week are for projects with even more detailed information needed, or maybe just for the fun of it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Die Maschenmarkierer, die ich diese Woche gemacht habe, sind für Projekte gedacht, die viel mehr Details verlangen oder in denen diese Dinger einfach gut aussehen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;﻿&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bBPBowuO1ZM/TWZbGYXMDMI/AAAAAAAAAZI/cyNBFZAgARk/s1600/IMG_0617.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" l6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bBPBowuO1ZM/TWZbGYXMDMI/AAAAAAAAAZI/cyNBFZAgARk/s400/IMG_0617.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;set of labled markers by me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Ich habe die Buchstaben&amp;nbsp; A, B, C und D verwendet, als kleine Perlen. (Ja, ich habe das D falsch rum angebracht, ich habe es schon geändert.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I used pearls with letters A, B, C, D (yes, I know I did mount the D wrong. I did fix that by now.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;This way you can mark the spots exactly. For patterns with a lot of need of marking I made the extras with "&amp;amp;" and the smilie. They are great to mark linkes of increase or decrease and so on. And they smile at you. And that is a good thing.﻿ ﻿&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Auf diese Weise kannst Du den Punkt genau bezeichnen. Für Muster, die eine Menge Markierung benötigen, habe ich zusätzlich die "&amp;amp;" und die Smilies gemacht. Die sind großartig, um Zunahme- oder Abnahmelinien zu markieren, oder Ähnliches.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Also, was braucht man für die Markierer?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;So what do you need for markers?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Most things that you need you find in the jewlery department of craft stores.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;You can make a lot of different style markers, beginning with little loops made from yarn in a contrast color (or more than 1 color). Rings with a second eyelet make great markers, since the loop goes onto the needle and you attach the beads or whatever you use to the second opening. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Rings with a hole in the side provide a similar option.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;But with every ring you have to have a propper size for the needles you use, a ring alone does the trick but does not balance as easily, a ring with attachments has all those fixings again...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Rings, though, can stretch the strand between the stitches. And split rings can get stuck in the yarn, so they are partially not very useful. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Die meisten Sachen findet man in der Schmuckabteilung der Bastelläden. man kann jede Menge verschiedener Markierer machen, angefangen mit Schlaufen in kontrastfarbenem Garn oder mehreren Garnfarben. Ringe mit zweiter Schlaufe sind optimal, in der zweiten Schlaufe / Öse kann man die Perlen oder Anhänger befestigen, während der erste auf der Nadel sitzt. Ringe mit einem Loch in der Ringwand sind fast genauso einzusetzen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Leider bietet jeder Ring aber nur eine begrenzte Größe für Nadeln, denn der Umfang ist genau und undehnbar für eine maximale Nadelgröße einsetzbar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Auch ein RIng allein ist nützlich, aber er ist nicht so ausballanciert wie ein Ring mit Anhänger.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Außerdem ist bei einem Ring immer die Gefahr, dass der Maschenzwischenraum gedehnt wird. Es ist immer eine Gratwanderung bei der Auswahl des Ringes. Ringe mit einem offenen Anschluss verhaken sich gelegentlich im Garn und sind daher nur begrenzt einsetzbar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;You can use string or rubber cord for jewlery. That works and is gentle even on the most sensitive needles. But large pearls are rare and partially unpractical.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;What I used for my set - and what Clarice used for hers - is jewlery wire. It forms a nice open loop, is thin enough to go through the smaller beads and openings and is durable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;For attatching and securing I used the little squeese pearls from the jewlery shop.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Man kann Faden, Schnur oder Kunststoffbänder verwenden. Diese Materialien funktionieren, sind sanft zu den Nadeln und können gut verwendet werden. Bei dickerem Material ist aber die Auswahl von Perlen mit so großer Durchführung ist begrenzt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Zur Befestitgung benutze ich in der Regel Quetschperlen aus dem Schmuckbedarf.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Für die Marker oben habe ich Schmuckdraht verwendet - ebenso wie Clarice bei ihren Markern. Der ist leicht zu verarbeiten, dünn und bietet flexible, größere Schlaufen, ohne die Maschen zu dehnen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The tools you need are a set of small plyers, a wire cutting tool (the plyers or sturdy scissors) and patience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Have fun designing your own markers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;These here I love for the beginning-of-the-round&lt;/span&gt;-markers:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Die Werkzeuge, die man braucht, sind leicht zu finden: Eine Zange mit feinen Greifflächen, ein Werkzeug, um&amp;nbsp; den Draht zu schneiden - also eine Zange oder eine kräftige Schere, deren Schneide nicht leidet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Viel Spaß beim Designen von eigenen Markern.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Diese hier mag ich übrigens als Rundenmarkierer. Wieder eine Runde abgeschlossen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YjHMJs2XzaM/TWZdywxzubI/AAAAAAAAAZM/hGx4mEheS_E/s1600/IMG_0620.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" l6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YjHMJs2XzaM/TWZdywxzubI/AAAAAAAAAZM/hGx4mEheS_E/s400/IMG_0620.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-7212556116975954494?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/7212556116975954494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=7212556116975954494&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/7212556116975954494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/7212556116975954494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/02/stitch-markers-and-rosary.html' title='Stitch Markers'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2dfT3tfPuUI/TWZZvFornnI/AAAAAAAAAZE/P30soe4jeJU/s72-c/IMG_0607.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-1281401688993070450</id><published>2011-02-07T23:50:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T18:04:33.407+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tools'/><title type='text'>Old knitting tools</title><content type='html'>A while ago I came across the knitting belt. I want to share that information with you here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the Shetland Islands women used to knit while doing other work and chores. Yes, that sounds like a dream. But how do you knit and work at the same time? You need two hands for knitting and how do you want to do your other work?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, they sometimes used a knitting belt.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.oldandinteresting.com/images/knitting%20belt.jpg"&gt;Here is a picture of this belt.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That belt held one needle in a leather cussion that had holes to poke the needle into and that way only one needles needed to be moved and held.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not want to claim that I know a lot about the knitting belt, but I am curious about it and hope for comments of any of you who can add some information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One other tool was a knitting sheath, shown on the sight Old &amp;amp; Interesting, linked below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also found this fellow blogger, who shows the work with a selfmade sheath in a video. His blog you find here: &lt;a href="http://gansey.blogspot.com/"&gt;A Fisherman Knits&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://gansey.blogspot.com/2008/03/video-clip-of-better-way-to-knit.html"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; is here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google helped me to find some more information on the topic. Look here: &lt;a href="http://www.oldandinteresting.com/knitting-sheaths.aspx"&gt;Old &amp;amp; Interesting&lt;/a&gt; and here &lt;a href="http://pineconelodge.blogspot.com/2006/05/knitting-made-easier-kind-of.html"&gt;Pine Cone Lodge&lt;/a&gt; and many more places.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The information is of historic value, right. And it is - for some people - the way that knitting is done. But what good is that for everyone else to know?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I guess, knowing more about the different types of knitting and the methods people have come up with, help us to understand more about knitting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know several knitters, acutally, who claim that they move one needle only and the other is just held in position (with long needles: clamped under the arm) and that works perfectly fine. It is not much different than working with a sheath, really.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These methods can also be really practical when you suffer from some kind of problem and are looking for a way to knit anyways, because if you are a knitter than you really want to knit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know with a lot of people that especially when they knit a lot or knit bigger pieces they have pain in their shoulders or neck and often have pain in the wrists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am pretty sure, a lot of that painful condition can be cured by using a knitting belt or sheath or something simmilar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me, personally, I work with circular needles instead of long straight needles. They make the knitting rest in my lap easier and there is not as much leverage. But that is not the cure for everybody. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was also this report of that boy who inveted a knitting frame or cradle of some sort for his grandmother but google just fails me and I can not find it again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do want to stress that I do not know the two sights I linked above. I do not know the owners of the pages and I do not have background knowledge to back or question the information there. I just want to collect information here and if you know anything else or find other sights with information: let everybody know!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also want to stress that I only collected links to the pages. I do not claim that any of their content was mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I do want to draw your attetion to that blog I linked above: &lt;a href="http://gansey.blogspot.com/"&gt;A Fisherman Knits&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;That man has collected and worded so much technical knowledge that I got lost browsing his blog. One final link here:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://gansey.blogspot.com/2010/02/wood-for-knitting-sheaths.html"&gt;Wood for knitting sheath&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;because that fits the topic. And then I strongly recommend to search out more information on his blog!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-1281401688993070450?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/1281401688993070450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=1281401688993070450&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/1281401688993070450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/1281401688993070450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/02/old-knitting-tools.html' title='Old knitting tools'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-6312074141317579587</id><published>2011-01-29T21:23:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T13:52:54.690+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Charity knitting for preemies - Frühchenaktion bei Drops, Ravelry</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I have joined a charity knit-along on Ravelry. The German Drops group on Ravelry has called for the event since the beginning of the year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;We are producing big amounts of preemie outfits. Socks, hats, blankets and sleeping bags, all made out of sock yarn - because it is washable hot enough and does stand the desinfection process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The pieces will be given to several hospitals in Germany.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I happily joined the KAL and have had a lot of fun, making a bunch of very cute outfits. Mostly I make sets of hats and socks in different sizes. The small pieces give me a great chance to try new things or work with yarns that I would usually not use. Especially the very colorful sock yarns would usually not end up in my shopping basket. But they are fun for a change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The project in itself is very satisfying and makes me feel gut. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Ich habe mich bei Ravelry dem Frühchen-Charity-Knit-Along angeschlossen, den die deutschsprachige Dropsgruppe seit Jahresanfang veranstaltet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Wir stricken gemeinsam eine Menge Frühchen-Outfits, die wir dann an verschiedene Krankenhäuser spenden. Socken, Mützen, Decken, Strampelsäcke (Pucksäcke). Wir stricken aus Sockengarn, weil das heißer gewaschen werden kann und der Desinfektion standhält. Ich komme mal dazu, mit sehr bunten Garnen zu arbeiten, die normalerweise nicht in meinem Einkaufskorb landen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Die kleinen Stücke geben mir die Gelegenheit, Dinge auszuprobieren und zu experimentieren. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; 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Now I used a Kint-A-Long on Ravelry as an excuse to start or as a reason to not have excuses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used the Filz-It yarn by G-B, in white. And added some accents in light and middle green, using Drops yarn Eskimo. My needles were No. 10&lt;br /&gt;The instruction I worked by is by Garnstudio / Drops as well: &lt;a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/104-4-felted-slippers-in-eskimo"&gt;104-4_felted_slippers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My progress I can present as follows. Today is a Sunday and I really wanted to get these shoes done. So I started a little before 1 pm and they went into the washing machine at 4 pm, so really, it was a very fast projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46836837/Filz_01_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46836837/Filz_01_medium2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;starting out&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46837015/Filz_02_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46837015/Filz_02_medium2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;starting out&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46837079/Filz_03_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46837079/Filz_03_medium2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;knitting this weird cloth&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46837198/Filz_04_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46837198/Filz_04_medium2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;very lose stitches&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46837945/Filz_05_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46837945/Filz_05_medium2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;mid-knitting&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46838009/Filz_06_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46838009/Filz_06_medium2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;sewn up the first shoe&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46838158/Filz_07_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46838158/Filz_07_medium2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This puffin just had to crawl in&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46838224/Filz_08_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="260" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46838224/Filz_08_medium2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;wow, 2 feet fit into one shoe before felting&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46838335/Filz_09_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46838335/Filz_09_medium2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;they go in! Just 3 hours after the first stitch is cast on&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46861230/Filz_11_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="302" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46861230/Filz_11_medium2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;fresh out of the wash, round 2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here is the final outcome:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46859795/Filz_10_medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="284" src="http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/hyperactive/46859795/Filz_10_medium2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;ready to wear&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I knit them up to size, sewed them up and instead of a border in a different color I croched a border around the opening in the same color (single crochets) and then I stitched around the top edge with the 2 colors of Eskimo (keeping the light and the dark to opposing sides on both so that either both outsides or both insides are light).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I put them into the machine alone with powder detergent on a quick-cicle at 40 degree C. I did not think of putting a tennis ball into the machine with it until later. Maybe that would have helped some.&lt;br /&gt;After the cicle the shoes had started to felt some but they were far from done. So I put them into a ful cicle with detergent again, upping the temperature to 50 degree C. This time they came out great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I took them out - still wet of course - they were slightly smaller than my feet and I could pull them into shape.&lt;br /&gt;There only is one issue on them, that I will have to fix: in one of them, a part of the tip got turned towards the inside and the rest felted over the tip. That looks great and even identical to the other shoe from the outside. But on the inside there is a lump I will have to work away (maybe by cutting).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best idea I had for shaping was to put the shoes on my feet and pull them a little to make them fit right snug. So it may be more problematic to make a fitting shoe for someone with a different shoe size if the person does not help with that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But of course you can always re-wet the shoes later to shape them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My result to machine felting: It is easier than I thought. You actually have more influence on the outcome than I thought by stepping up temperature and cicle length.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By putting a tennisball or something alike into the machine with the shoes, you create more motion which helps the felting. I did not do this on either cicle but I may do this next time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will soon make more shoes, just because it is fun and quick and useful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An idea I had was to only make a sole for a warm sock and start knitting up from there. That makes a sturdy warm sole with a comfortable sock on top.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-2106625137353242070?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/2106625137353242070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=2106625137353242070&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/2106625137353242070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/2106625137353242070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/12/felting-my-first-project.html' title='Felting - My first project'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-2002235748075610758</id><published>2010-10-02T17:17:00.011+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-17T20:29:47.907+02:00</updated><title type='text'>I don't believe in scarfs - cabled hat and scarf with pattern</title><content type='html'>Last spring I made this hat and scarf for my husband. Right now I am writing the pattern down for it. &lt;br /&gt;The pattern you find here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.takenotes.de/believe_scarf_hat.PDF"&gt;Pattern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TKdfIr7Q5EI/AAAAAAAAABw/bArY3LezqmE/s1600/cabled-scarf3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TKdfIr7Q5EI/AAAAAAAAABw/bArY3LezqmE/s640/cabled-scarf3.jpg" width="425" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TKdfA0f3RVI/AAAAAAAAABs/7p9x7EyvdiM/s1600/cabled-scarf4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TKdfA0f3RVI/AAAAAAAAABs/7p9x7EyvdiM/s640/cabled-scarf4.jpg" width="425" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TLs3HqT3ChI/AAAAAAAAACE/vlcuPqY1iu8/s640/cabled-scarf5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="425" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;on the beach in northern Germany, Fall 2010&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TLs3HqT3ChI/AAAAAAAAACE/vlcuPqY1iu8/s1600/cabled-scarf5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"&gt;I would like to say "Thank You" - almost 450 views / downloads of the  actual pattern PDF in less than 2 weeks after posting. That seems like a  lot to me&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;and I am happy about this sucess!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TKdfVvTCuLI/AAAAAAAAAB4/sCTa58pH4g0/s1600/cabled-scarf1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TKdfVvTCuLI/AAAAAAAAAB4/sCTa58pH4g0/s640/cabled-scarf1.jpg" width="425" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-2002235748075610758?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/2002235748075610758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=2002235748075610758&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/2002235748075610758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/2002235748075610758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-dont-believe-in-scarfs-cabled-hat-and.html' title='I don&apos;t believe in scarfs - cabled hat and scarf with pattern'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TKdfIr7Q5EI/AAAAAAAAABw/bArY3LezqmE/s72-c/cabled-scarf3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-7775892592894839828</id><published>2010-09-30T09:20:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2010-12-05T11:03:39.322+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Stranding - Color work with woven inside</title><content type='html'>When knitting with more than one color there are different techniques how to make the inside look more or less nice. Stranding and intarsia are the most known. Fair Isle is a special method within stranding and the term sometimes seems to be used for all stranding work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I work with 2 or 3 colors in stranding, I weave in the yarn that I carry on the inside. One example you see here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSXPC58rwI/AAAAAAAAAAk/RwTkBLrvp4Y/s400/Neckwarmer1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSXPC58rwI/AAAAAAAAAAk/RwTkBLrvp4Y/s320/Neckwarmer1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSYhIjLKnI/AAAAAAAAAA8/wPIgDccrf_k/s320/Neckwarmer4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSYhIjLKnI/AAAAAAAAAA8/wPIgDccrf_k/s320/Neckwarmer4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/neckwarmer-drops-116-10.html"&gt;http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/neckwarmer-drops-116-10.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And another one here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TI1Mye1FTwI/AAAAAAAAAAc/UWNVbApsDpA/s1600/Bild016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="222" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TI1Mye1FTwI/AAAAAAAAAAc/UWNVbApsDpA/s320/Bild016.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/spongebob-pullover.html"&gt;http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/spongebob-pullover.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The advantages are: &lt;br /&gt;- a better look of the inside&lt;br /&gt;- a better feel of the fabric&lt;br /&gt;- a more equal thickness of the fabric (makes gloves or mittens or socks feel less like they are warm only in some spots)&lt;br /&gt;- less chance to get stuck (especially important for garment, not so much for stuffed animals). Fingers (e.g. on gloves and sleeves) and toes get stuck on long loopy sections for adults and kids and especially for babies. Buttons on shirts have a tendency to get cought up in the strands, as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, how do you do it?&lt;br /&gt;There are multiple ways of handling this problem so I made 2 videos of how I handle it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The knit stitch (RS):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;on youtube:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cE4FMl7R4"&gt;Stranded Knitting - Knit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The purl stitch (WS):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;on youtube:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i1jgQoJoA"&gt;Stranded Knitting - Purl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you think that that was too fast... here is the &lt;span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ultra slow-motion version&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of my knitting (knit and purl side):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main color is white, the contrast color is dark gray.&amp;nbsp; I am just knitting a sample with chess board pattern here and the video is made with actual slow-motion technique. I hope you can see how the weaving is done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hold the main color regularly on my index finger and the contrast color on the same finger but towards the front. When working the stitches I take the working yarn once over and once under the other yarn. To make that happen I do seperate the yarns with my fingers (without dropping my yarnholding). I mainly use my right index finger to slide in between the yarns and pulling one over or one under as needed. But I use other fingers, as well. It is much easier to see than to read. So here is the video without text, but 3.5 times slower than real life - and I did work slowly. I also took a colored background to make both colors very visible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw7R-bPZNgk"&gt;Stranded Knitting - Slow-Mo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are able to knit both Continental Style and English Style there is a really neat instruction at Philosopher's wool but since I can not do English Style so I stick with my method.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.philosopherswool.com/Pages/Twohandedvideo.htm"&gt;Philosopher's Wool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those, who knit English style there is a video to achieve the same effect:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsbQ1kKltCo"&gt;English Style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A video for the 2-handed method with German text I found here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://strickpraxis.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/141/?"&gt;http://strickpraxis.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/141/?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For any questions please ask here or on youtube or send me an e-mail.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-7775892592894839828?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/7775892592894839828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=7775892592894839828&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/7775892592894839828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/7775892592894839828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/stranding-color-work-with-woven-inside.html' title='Stranding - Color work with woven inside'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSXPC58rwI/AAAAAAAAAAk/RwTkBLrvp4Y/s72-c/Neckwarmer1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-4857140429933196803</id><published>2010-09-23T20:53:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-25T12:03:42.046+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Hemming on knitting</title><content type='html'>Stochinette stitch does curl. But we don't usually like it to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been working on a technique that bases on "one color double knitting" to keep stochinette from curling on my projects. And on the "nicest open side knitting" I could find for projects like cardigans and scarfs. My result is "Hemmed knitting" that comes from a combination of straight knitting, tubular knitting, double knitting and such. I do not know if this has been done but I have not seen it in explanations and &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what I achive (in a sample of 3 stages that I will explain).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJugF01u7mI/AAAAAAAAABM/evzG0F6RKu8/s1600/hemming2_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJugF01u7mI/AAAAAAAAABM/evzG0F6RKu8/s640/hemming2_web.jpg" width="428" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJugCP0EvFI/AAAAAAAAABE/eGTja3YEIyQ/s1600/hemming1_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="428" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJugCP0EvFI/AAAAAAAAABE/eGTja3YEIyQ/s640/hemming1_web.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if this technique has a name, please let me know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is how I do it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Side hems&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;cast on your stitches for the front side. Cast on as many stitches as you want for your back hems (e.g. 3 extra for each side). For a project of&amp;nbsp; 10 stitches in stochinette and 3 stitches hemming on each side that will be 16 stitches to cast on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you do it as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(all slipping of stitches goes purl wise)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RS row:&lt;br /&gt;*k 1, with yarn in front slip 1* (repeat between * 2 more times), knit to the other hem: last 7 stitches work as follows: **k1, with yarn in front slip 1 ** (repeat between ** 2 more times), k1 tbl (through the back loop)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;turn your work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WS row:&lt;br /&gt;***with yarn in back slip 1, knit 1***&amp;nbsp; (repeat between *** 2 more times) purl to the other hem then work the stitches at the end as follows: ****with yarn in back slip 1, knit 1****&amp;nbsp; (repeat between **** 2 more times) slip the last stitch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;turn your work, repeat RS row and WS row for as much as you want to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to cast off:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;knit the 1st stitch, purl the second stitch, knit the 3rd stitch. then lift the 1st and 2nd stitch over the 3rd stitch together. Keep doing this with all the stitches of the double work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To explain it in other words: the hems are worked in the round on straight needles (the knitting and slipping purlwise with yarn in front would lead to a big tube if done with all stitches). The difference is that here you work a flat piece in the middle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By working the last stitch of the RS through the back loop the side becomes flat and turns on the edge stitch. Almost the same I get when slipping the last stitch on the WS rows and knitting it as first stitch of the RS row.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When working these edges the edge stitches get worked only half as often as the middle stitches. If the middle is plain stochinette stitch this will lead to the edges being a little shorter than the middle. If you make a narrow piece with just one hemmed side it will curve with the hem being in the inside of the curve. So I recommend doing the hem only on wider pieces or on both sides. You can also work one or more middle ridges near that edge to balance the tension.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Middle ridges:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sample piece has a middle ridge as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is worked by knitting 1 stitch, slipping the next purlwise with yarn in front. The ridge will be as wide as the number of slipped stitches. Since these stitches will not make the piece wider, you need that many extra stitches. This is the change you need to make for adjusting a scarf or pattern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Step 1 / 2 / 3:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sample picture No. 1 shows the red (1), blue (2) and green (3) line. The areas beneath these lines are different stages of the swatch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the red (1): the swatch is only hemmed on the right side (seen from the RS of the fabric). The fabric curves to the right a bit (because of the different tension and the narrow strip)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the blue (2) section I cast on additional stitches and made the middle ridge (some stochinette stitch being to its right still). This kept the piece mostly straight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the green section (3) there is a left hem, a middle ridge and a right hem keeping the piece straight and smooth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Look and use:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The backside looks almost like ribbing in this piece because the hems and the middle ridge (that are not spaced evenly here) create different appearance of right side and wrong side stochinette. The difference to regular ribbing is that the front is all stochinette and the back is doubled up with an extra layer. The fabric actually is double thick there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the way these features are worked the fabric is not only double layered in parts but these hems and ridges are also tubes. They could be worked with open cast on or cast off and hold a string - like the strap for a hood on a sweater or the like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I might make a video for the technique and link it here, but I think this description explains it pretty well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For any questions please leave a comment or write me an email. I will do my best to help on!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Further technique:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if you want the bottom of the sections to be open, there are different ways to achive that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example here is a blog I got refered to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lost-arts.blogspot.com/2007/03/double-knitting-knit-along-open-tube.html"&gt;Lost Arts Blogspot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is more web-info:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/klymyshyndesign?section_id=5120832"&gt;http://www.etsy.com/shop/klymyshyndesign?section_id=5120832&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-4857140429933196803?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/4857140429933196803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=4857140429933196803&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/4857140429933196803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/4857140429933196803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/hemming-on-knitting.html' title='Hemming on knitting'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJugF01u7mI/AAAAAAAAABM/evzG0F6RKu8/s72-c/hemming2_web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-3154315705944048628</id><published>2010-09-18T12:48:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-12-28T17:48:53.066+01:00</updated><title type='text'>neckwarmer Drops 116-10</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSYECUrV_I/AAAAAAAAAA0/e93isoxfHWg/s1600/Neckwarmer3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSYECUrV_I/AAAAAAAAAA0/e93isoxfHWg/s320/Neckwarmer3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made this neckwarmer I had been looking at for a while.&lt;br /&gt;It took me 2 train rides across the country of 6 hours each. My total work time may have been near 10 hours or so, maybe a little over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The yarn is Merino Extra Fine by Drops (not Karisma as it called for)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://garnstudio.com/lang/de/visoppskrift.php?d_nr=116&amp;amp;d_id=10&amp;amp;lang=de&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;here is my result:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSXPC58rwI/AAAAAAAAAAk/RwTkBLrvp4Y/s1600/Neckwarmer1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSXPC58rwI/AAAAAAAAAAk/RwTkBLrvp4Y/s400/Neckwarmer1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSXitF0VEI/AAAAAAAAAAs/A73DH_-jIZg/s1600/Neckwarmer2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSXitF0VEI/AAAAAAAAAAs/A73DH_-jIZg/s400/Neckwarmer2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSYhIjLKnI/AAAAAAAAAA8/wPIgDccrf_k/s1600/Neckwarmer4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSYhIjLKnI/AAAAAAAAAA8/wPIgDccrf_k/s320/Neckwarmer4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;inside with strands cought every second stitch&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;presented by my trusty hedgehog Meckie:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSYECUrV_I/AAAAAAAAAA0/e93isoxfHWg/s1600/Neckwarmer3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJSYECUrV_I/AAAAAAAAAA0/e93isoxfHWg/s640/Neckwarmer3.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Addition: I have meanwhile made 2 videos about how to knit while weaving in the yarn on the inside and I want to link them here for further reference:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The Knit Side: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cE4FMl7R4"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cE4FMl7R4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The Purl Side: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i1jgQoJoA"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i1jgQoJoA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;By the way: This is how I look with the whole winter set I made, just in case you wondered:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images4.ravelry.com/uploads/hyperactive/48716747/snowflake_set1_medium2_medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TI1Mye1FTwI/AAAAAAAAAAc/UWNVbApsDpA/s1600/Bild016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TI1Mye1FTwI/AAAAAAAAAAc/UWNVbApsDpA/s320/Bild016.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The Sponge has taken shape. I am done with knitting both the sides and have done most of the stitching of lines on it. Once that is finished up I will sew it up and do the cuffs on neck and sleeveholes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-679710275033817893?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/679710275033817893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=679710275033817893&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/679710275033817893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/679710275033817893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/spongebob-progress.html' title='Spongebob - Progress'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TI1Mye1FTwI/AAAAAAAAAAc/UWNVbApsDpA/s72-c/Bild016.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-6667576753414249392</id><published>2010-09-10T15:13:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-10T15:13:31.416+02:00</updated><title type='text'>my background pictures</title><content type='html'>I still battle with the blog to get my background picture to look just like I want it. Once I have that done I will change it from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;Mainly my background pictures are not knitting related (exceptions may happen, who knows) but photo related since I do have other hobbies as well :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-6667576753414249392?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/6667576753414249392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=6667576753414249392&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/6667576753414249392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/6667576753414249392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-background-pictures.html' title='my background pictures'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-1404669395551623072</id><published>2010-09-09T22:56:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:39:17.589+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Spongebob Pullover</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;someone, 8-years old, likes Spongebob Square Pants a lot. And I wanted to knit him a pullover. And there was the idea...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I talked about my plan to make a Spongebob pullover in the forum of knittinghelp.com, so I want to let you take part in my attempt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;my basic models are these 2:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.janusch.de/Images3/SpongeBobLogo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="http://www.janusch.de/Images3/SpongeBobLogo.gif" width="257" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://loyalkng.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Spongebob-spongebob-squarepants-1uncenssored.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" ox="true" src="http://loyalkng.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Spongebob-spongebob-squarepants-1uncenssored.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;one side smiles, one side grumps &lt;img alt="" border="0" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.knittinghelp.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;(I use the top right face for the backside and the bottom right face for the front side)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;idea:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I want to make a sleeveless pullover that basically is the shape and appearance of Spongebob. It is for my godson who is 8 years-old now. He LOVES the idea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;project:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;so, there was my task. I did not find a propper sample of a NICE boys pullover without sleeves that served the purpose. It is supposed to be straight but not endlessly bulky and so on. So I just made my own pattern. We will see how it works.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;My idea is to make a pullover that has 2 front sides (both sides being the same) and 2 different facial expressions on it, so it can be worn either side around. (everything the same, except the face itself).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;yarn:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Saturday I bought the yarn. I did not get to chose the yarn I was intending because it wasn't there in the color range I needed, so I went for 2 yarns by Lana Grossa that had the same meters (160m) per 50 g and look similar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I needed yellow, off-yellow-to greenish, white, brown, black and red (for the tie and some pieces)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I swatched and came out with 20 stitches and 27 rows on 10 by 10 cm on a needle size 4.5mm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;size:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I decided to make the pullover 42 cm wide (approx a size 134 in German sizes and thereby a little big just now to grow into) and 46 cm high. It will be a little longer at first but he can grow within it. If I make all that efford, I want it to fit longer than just a few month. Kids that age grow taller faster than wider and he always is a skinny one anyways. So there will be some time in that piece.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;shape:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I will do arm holes with some cast off alonge the edge and will make a relatively wide neck opening. I came up with approx. figures for that shaping already by consulting other patterns and books but I will wing it, mostly as I get to it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;knitted features:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;the pullover is knitted in stochinette stitch (mostly) and has intarsia as well as stranding patterns in it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;bottom edge:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;now, since it is a pullover to grow into, I did not want a cuff on the bottom that sits more or less tight on the hips. I wanted a straight edge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I used needles size 3.5mm and cast on my 85 stitches (42,5 cm with 20st to the 10cm) with a provisional cast on (crochet on with contrast yarn).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;after 15 rows of st st I undid the cast on, then purled the 2 sides of my seam line together stitch by stitch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;therefore I now have a tubular seam on the bottom that makes the pullover hang nice and straight but non-curling and with some weight to keep it straight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;design:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;spongebob wears square pants, as we all know.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;so the bottom edge is brown, then gets 4 rectangles near the end of the pants section in black (the belt behind the loops). I used stranding technique, twisting the yarns after each stitch so there are no floats.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;stranding:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;For that I used both yarns on my left hand (continetal knitter as I am) over the index finger, but my contrast color (black) runs over that finger reversed therefore hangs in the front. I then knit "over and under" alternatingly... I used to be really good at this, years ago, but I am rusty and need to practice again. the knits are fine, but the purls with the MC get me hard... I will keep trying)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;small sections in black:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;..like the corners of the shirt on spongebob: I used 2 yarn ends, 90 cm each, one for each corner of the shirt's collar. I started the first 2 stitches in the middle of that string and used either end for the edges running up to the collar line. like this I needed no stranding of black behind white ( I want to have as little string traveling the back as possible and also think, black behind white might show..)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;this I will have to use again for the mouth and maybe around the eyes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;But I do reserve some lines of the desgin to embroidery after the fact. Not everything gets knit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;special feature:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Spongebob wears a tie. I made the tie (seed stitch) in a small piece, then, from the top of the pants, worked it into the knitting itself. So the tie is "part of" the shirt, but over the pants now, flapping. I will need to crochet and embroider some black around it to make the look better. By now the shape is not yet quite right, but then it will be sweet. The "knot part" of the tie is in garter stitch to change structure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;my knitting charts:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJ3vQVh6UdI/AAAAAAAAABU/VFKBX7Qw3BM/s1600/sponge_back_smile_GRID+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJ3vQVh6UdI/AAAAAAAAABU/VFKBX7Qw3BM/s320/sponge_back_smile_GRID+copy.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJ3vgAOJzfI/AAAAAAAAABY/eHTJJim2M4g/s1600/sponge_front_smile_GRID+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJ3vgAOJzfI/AAAAAAAAABY/eHTJJim2M4g/s320/sponge_front_smile_GRID+copy.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Each box in the grid was 5 stitches and 5 rows for me. If you make a pullover approximately the same size, you can stick with that. You can always make the yellow a little wider or smaller. If you make a pretty different size, you can estimate the boxes to be 4 stitches and 4 rows for a smaller pullover or 6 stitches and 6 rows for a bigger pullover and so forth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The pictures are already stretched out so that the stitch-ratio of knitting stitches being higher than wide is taken into account.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Estimate the positions of all motives. I just eyeballed things as I went and it did work out. Just about getting teeth and eyes centered in the picture and getting the tie centered I recommend exact placement of the middle stitches.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;material:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I bought too much yarn, by the way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;For the front side I used one ball of yellow in addition to all the other colors. So I will have to return some yellow to the shop. No big problem, though. They take it back or exchange it for something else as long as it is unused.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am currently working on the back side of the pullover. The pictures I have up to now are just bad photo quality but they give a first impression of the front side. There still is a lot of the embroidery missing that is giving Spongebob his features. I will keep you posted on my progress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TIlJJ7O8qiI/AAAAAAAAAAU/TdxcEN7lkws/s1600/Bild005_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TIlJJ7O8qiI/AAAAAAAAAAU/TdxcEN7lkws/s320/Bild005_b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;front side of side No. 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TIlH8HIXivI/AAAAAAAAAAM/tsL6tPR4sBU/s1600/Bild003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TIlH8HIXivI/AAAAAAAAAAM/tsL6tPR4sBU/s320/Bild003.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;back side of side No. 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Addition: I have meanwhile made 2 videos about how to knit while weaving in the yarn on the inside and I want to link them here for further reference:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The Knit Side: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cE4FMl7R4"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cE4FMl7R4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The Purl Side: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i1jgQoJoA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i1jgQoJoA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="background-color: orange; clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;EDIT:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="background-color: orange; clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;I finally posted the photos of the finished result:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="background-color: orange; clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange; color: #666666; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2011/12/sponge-bob-pullover.html"&gt;Sponge Bob Pullover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-1404669395551623072?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/1404669395551623072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=1404669395551623072&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/1404669395551623072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/1404669395551623072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/spongebob-pullover.html' title='Spongebob Pullover'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TJ3vQVh6UdI/AAAAAAAAABU/VFKBX7Qw3BM/s72-c/sponge_back_smile_GRID+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-540187310919838764</id><published>2010-09-09T22:35:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-10T19:15:24.303+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Frog Prince</title><content type='html'>Lately I made The Frog Prince. Then I made the pattern and that is why I want to share it here. It also is available through my raverly page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/Frogprince_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/Frogprince_2.jpg" width="372" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The pattern link you find here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;English: &lt;a href="http://www.takenotes.de/the_frog_prince.PDF"&gt;The Frogprince&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;German / Deutsch: &lt;a href="http://www.takenotes.de/der_froschprinz.PDF"&gt;Der Froschprinz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/Frogprince_hand2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/Frogprince_hand2.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/Frogprince_Prince_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/Frogprince_Prince_1.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It can be worked from almost any yarn. It just will need to make a relatively tight fabric with the needles you use. This is the perfect stash user project and quick gift.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;I got the idea when working this pattern by Susan B. Anderson, published on Ravelry under the name of the&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mini-reversible-duck-to-bunny"&gt;mini-reversible duck-to-bunny&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;my sample, just from cheap stash yarn looked like this:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/rabit_duck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="207" ox="true" src="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/rabit_duck.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/Frogprince_hand3.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/Frogprince_Prince_cape.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/Frogprince_Prince_cape.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/Frogprince_flip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://hyperactive2.jalbum.net/Knitting-in-different-shapes/slides/Frogprince_flip.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I then wanted to make sure I made a bigger size toy that fitted the hands of kids nicely but also serves a purpose of decoration for me in my home. The quest for a good motive brought me to The Frog Prince.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope there will be many frogs and princes popping up everywhere. Let me know if you make one. If I get to see a picture I would love it, of course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to develope a few more charakters and figures but since the request for frog princes is big right now I just do not get to it next to all my other knitting projects and the rest of life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have fun with the little guy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-540187310919838764?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/540187310919838764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=540187310919838764&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/540187310919838764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/540187310919838764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/frog-prince.html' title='The Frog Prince'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845523300738000644.post-2577779322498256462</id><published>2010-09-08T10:09:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-08T10:56:57.863+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Hyperactive Knitting</title><content type='html'>I start blogging. I never thought I would. But here I am, writing about knitting and some things around it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you join me for some posts and I will try to make this site interesting to read.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/845523300738000644-2577779322498256462?l=hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/feeds/2577779322498256462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845523300738000644&amp;postID=2577779322498256462&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/2577779322498256462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/845523300738000644/posts/default/2577779322498256462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hyperactiveknitting.blogspot.com/2010/09/hyperactive-knitting.html' title='Hyperactive Knitting'/><author><name>hyperactive</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13186220402022314016</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bxW-QKHKoBE/TRHOhFOKvKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/tzp0xR9QJxE/s1600-R/Frogprince_1_medium2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
