You do, actually. But they're not very expensive--I think I paid something like $4 for my double-pointed needle sets and $6 for my circulars?
Oh man, weaving in the ends is sooooo boring. I knitted a really fabulous Hufflepuff scarf a few weeks ago for the Harry Potter movie midnight showing I went to a while back, and I ended up leaving all the ends for last because I was trying to do so much at once and because I was knitting it in the form of a tube that I sewed shut at the end with the tassels later. I ended up turning it inside out to get all the tails and it was the most tedious thing ever.
I have joined Ravelry--and, erm, gotten rather addicted to looking at patterns, as it happens. (I'm Sciatrix there too!) I catalogued all the yarn I have bought, but I haven't gone through and put up the Gift Stash in, partly because I am unsure I will ever use it. Much of it is kind of hideous or has a godawful texture.
Nah, I'm more looking for history books--I tend to get into phases where I want to learn everything about a given topic, and right now I kind of want to read stuff like--how yarn is made, what different fibers are better for different tasks, Interesting Knitted and Crocheted Things Through the Ages, that sort of thing.
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Date: 2011-07-30 02:20 am (UTC)Oh man, weaving in the ends is sooooo boring. I knitted a really fabulous Hufflepuff scarf a few weeks ago for the Harry Potter movie midnight showing I went to a while back, and I ended up leaving all the ends for last because I was trying to do so much at once and because I was knitting it in the form of a tube that I sewed shut at the end with the tassels later. I ended up turning it inside out to get all the tails and it was the most tedious thing ever.
I have joined Ravelry--and, erm, gotten rather addicted to looking at patterns, as it happens. (I'm Sciatrix there too!) I catalogued all the yarn I have bought, but I haven't gone through and put up the Gift Stash in, partly because I am unsure I will ever use it. Much of it is kind of hideous or has a godawful texture.
Nah, I'm more looking for history books--I tend to get into phases where I want to learn everything about a given topic, and right now I kind of want to read stuff like--how yarn is made, what different fibers are better for different tasks, Interesting Knitted and Crocheted Things Through the Ages, that sort of thing.