Two strand knitting question

Is there a link for all the single initials used on these forums. Sometimes I struggle to work them out. ?? e.g. ITS AIM ???

I have just finished a jumper knitted using a chunky pattern using 2 dk together, straight off the ball. It has worked out fine

There are some on Ebay - at a price!

Yes, beehives! What a shame they’re not available any more.

Bathsheba I have looked for those, they looked like little beehives. In fact, I had one years ago.
They are 'vintage', on ebay I think and very expensive!

Just found this on Amazon , which would work well.
Lalang Knitting Yarn Storage Bag Wool Holder Storage Basket (Small) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B076HKQG59/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_iRmwCb1DGKRHD?tag=gransnetforum-21

You used to be able to buy little plastic containers, holding one ball of yarn which fed through a hole in the top. Two of them would be perfect for keeping the balls under control and not twisting round each other. I wonder if they’re still available?

I made a hat using two balls of wool and found they kept getting twisted round each other and I had to keep stopping to untangle them, not happy! I've just done another one and this time I stretched a wide rubber band over the two balls of wool, so that the band just sat loosely round the two strands of wool. (I hope this makes sense, it's hard to describe.) It worked very well - they didn't get twisted... and I didn't get cross!

I just wonder if it would be a bit hard on old fingers and rather painful thumbs?

I wouldn't. Don't think there is any need. Would be concerned you end up with one yarn longer than the other as some vary slightly in thickness and also stretch differently.

Extreme knitting is back Fountain for huge scarves which have no ends, I think they call them infinity scarves. I knitted two for dil and hated it, can't get a proper flow on huge needles, would rather knit in 2 ply!

There is a picture somewhere of a knitted fence bordering a garden. Very lacy and lovely using some kind of string, I think.

What a lovely read. It’s ages since I’ve done some knitting but used to knit for a wool shop in the 80s being paid 1 penny a gram !!!!

My mum had Orange and Brown tea pot paper on the kitchen wall ?

I might have to get the needles out again.

Goodness me FountainPen, that extreme knitting is, well.... just a bit too extreme!!! Rachel Johns must have been exhausted after that, but I have to say the result looked gorgeous.
I wish I could remember the name of the knitting needles I used in the 60s - they were a huge fad at the time, and there were lots of patterns for them. They were called 'something' pins, and I'm sure the 'something' began with a T, but I just can't recall it.
And oh yes, the nylon sheets! I used to wear brushed nylon nighties in those days - I can only imagine the resulting static if I'd also slept in nylon sheets

PS Bathsheba I remember the orange and brown decor that was popular in the 70s. DH and I decorated our first flat in those colours. I still have the orange Brentwood Nylons bedsheets that someone gave us as a wedding present. Hard to believe we used to sleep on them. Oh, the static!

They now live in the garden shed and come in useful for all kinds of messy outdoor tasks. Short of setting fire to them, I think they must be indestructible.

Bathsheba

A few years ago there was a trend for extreme knitting on giant needles. I foolishly offered to demo it at a craft show for a friend whose woodturner husband made the needles. All I got was wrist ache!

Rachel Johns of Extreme Textile broke records by kniting with 1000 strands simultaneously. I love watching the yarn being prepped in this video but the actual knitting looks very hard work.

bit.ly/2RAmvdG

Jalima Knitting the slipped stitches on the next row creates an i-cord edge. Mine looks like this.

Fingering is a sock weight yarn suitable for shawls, lacework and stranded colourwork too, items that you would usually work on 3.5mm needles or smaller.

We had orange and brown wallpaper in the 60s
Haha, in the 70s we painted our living room gold with one ‘accent’ wall in brown. And we painted our white wood kitchen cupboards orange. Oh my days!!!

If you have a 'stash' of left-over yarn, which you are unlikely to need, why not knit blankets for animal rescue centres..dogs and cats are always in need of fresh blankets. Cats protection will even take the balls of yarn so that their members can knit blankets.

ps orange was very fashionable!
We had orange and brown wallpaper in the 60s!

It sounds delightful

I'm laughing until I'm choking Bathsheba

In the 60s I knitted a dress using 6 strands of DK yarn together. I cannot remember the specific size of the needles, only that they were something approaching an inch in diameter. I knitted the dress in an evening, tried it on, and it was so hideous I immediately unravelled it all. Now THAT was a challenge, rewinding 6 individual balls of wall as the knitting unravelled ?
It was bright orange, nylon yarn. What was I thinking? ??

knit to last three stitches which you slip with yarn forward.

That's the bit I didn't get sl3 wyif - I can see how to do that but what happens when you come back on the next row - does it form a kind of loop?
I haven't tried it yet.

FountainPen some of those weights would have to be translated - what is 'fingering' please?

Witzend. I'm also making another Stephen West stashbuster - a Penguono jacket (also on Ravelry) where the sizing is achieved through the thickness of the yarn.

1 strand chunky weight or
1 strand worsted weight + 1 strand fingering
or lace weight or
2 strands DK weight or
3 strands fingering weight or
1 strand DK weight + 2 strands fingering or
lace weight

I'm also winding a whole ball into smaller balls for economy.

It's an interesting construction which can be made as conservative or as wacky as you like. Some of the best examples I've seen use fashion textured yarns from yesteryear - eyelash yarn for example.

I've used two strands for a Debbie Bliss baby blanket - I just used them as I would for one strand, except that there were 2, IYSWIM.
And for the lesser used colours, I had to unwind a whole ball and rewind into 2, to save buying 2 and wasting half.

Only other thing with that one - squares of different colours - was that there were twice as many pesky ends to sew/weave in later.