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Jill B said:
Is that yarn Malabrigo? I've knitted with it before and I love the subtle variation from the hand-dying.
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No, it’s just a big standard sock yarn. I dyed it myself.
 
Betsy said:
Are you knitting it on circular needles? You brave thing. Never could get on with those! To me circular needles are the thing of the Devil! :gd:
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I only started knitting at the end of 2019 and have only ever used circulars, seeing as it's only socks and jumpers I've made so far.

Here's my last creation!

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Question for the sewers - what would you do to keep this from unravelling? I've tied it off on the wrong side but I don't necessarily want to do it here, seeing as it's an outside seam?

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Edit - for reference, the same area from the other bear

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HeatherW said:
I only started knitting at the end of 2019 and have only ever used circulars, seeing as it's only socks and jumpers I've made so far.

Here's my last creation!

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I love the colourwork! I've only used more than one colour in stripes up to now. Maybe I should stretch myself next time.....
 
Lorcan said:
Question for the sewers - what would you do to keep this from unravelling? I've tied it off on the wrong side but I don't necessarily want to do it here, seeing as it's an outside seam?

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Do you mean the handstitching is coming undone or the material is fraying?
If it's the material fraying a zigzag stitch should stop it.

If it's the stitching-either straight stitch backwards on top of the first line to make it neat. Then you can cut it off really tight to the material.
(hand or machine stitching this works for, I also start straight stitching by going backwards a few stitches on a machine too).

Or stitch the top thread down to come out of the underside of the material out of sight, if you have a very fine needle you can stitch backwards through the previous stitching & it shouldn't unravel (keeps it neat too)?

I'm not great at sewing but I get by with the basics. X
 
GPTV said:
Do you mean the handstitching is coming undone or the material is fraying?
If it's the material fraying a zigzag stitch should stop it.

If it's the stitching-either straight stitch backwards on top of the first line to make it neat. Then you can cut it off really tight to the material.
(hand or machine stitching this works for, I also start straight stitching by going backwards a few stitches on a machine too).

Or stitch the top thread down to come out of the underside of the material out of sight, if you have a very fine needle you can stitch backwards through the previous stitching & it shouldn't unravel (keeps it neat too)?

I'm not great at sewing but I get by with the basics. X
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Yeah I went with backstitch in the end, I was just wondering if anyone else would've done it differently - I'm still very new to this haha. On the internal stitches I can leave the tails long enough to tie them off but I don't like doing that with the outside threads. However my machine decided to pitch a fit five minutes ago and now I have a reinforcement like that's been back and normal stitched 4 times over and I don't dare unpick it. Weird looking reinforcement ftw.

zigzag stitching requires a foot for the machine that I'm not sure I even have. I should look into that.
 
@Lorcan The foot I've used in the past for zigzag stitching looks like a normal foot with a straight slit in the middle going left to right. I used it for both zigzag and straight stitches on an old Elna machine. X

... Will try and take a pic when I get home
 
I was going to say I use an overcast foot for woven fabrics to stop the fabric from fraying and then just lockstitch to reinforce
 
Lorcan said:
Yeah I went with backstitch in the end, I was just wondering if anyone else would've done it differently - I'm still very new to this haha. On the internal stitches I can leave the tails long enough to tie them off but I don't like doing that with the outside threads. However my machine decided to pitch a fit five minutes ago and now I have a reinforcement like that's been back and normal stitched 4 times over and I don't dare unpick it. Weird looking reinforcement ftw.

zigzag stitching requires a foot for the machine that I'm not sure I even have. I should look into that.
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I use my regular foot for zig zag stitching too.
I have a load of special ones for stuff like zippers and embroidery (that one's never been out of the box!), but the normal foot should cover a lot of the basic stitches.
 
My options:

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I know one of those is a zipper foot. But this machine won't do much beyond straight and zigzag anyway.
 
Lorcan said:
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I know one of those is a zipper foot. But this machine won't do much beyond straight and zigzag anyway.
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Wow - great machine. I have my mother in laws 60 year old Jones machine and I love it!
It literally does 3 things but it does them really well and is indestructible!

I would say that the foot you have on the machine is the straight stitch, the one at the front (bigger and wider) is for zig zag and the one at the back (smaller and narrower) is the zipper foot.
The machine looks like a VX 807 (os somewhere there about).
Do you have the manual?
 
Swissgreys said:
Wow - great machine. I have my mother in laws 60 year old Jones machine and I love it!
It literally does 3 things but it does them really well and is indestructible!

I would say that the foot you have on the machine is the straight stitch, the one at the front (bigger and wider) is for zig zag and the one at the back (smaller and narrower) is the zipper foot.
The machine looks like a VX 807 (os somewhere there about).
Do you have the manual?
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Yup, it's a VX807. My mum bought it sometime in the 80s, at least before I was born. She now has like, 7? She'd said I'd want to get a better one eventually but that it would more than do the job and honestly, I quite like it. As for the manual, it shares the manual with another modelo and I got a pdf version of that. The 810, I think.

Yup, just checked. The Brother VX810.
 
HeatherW said:
I only started knitting at the end of 2019 and have only ever used circulars, seeing as it's only socks and jumpers I've made so far.

Here's my last creation!

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That’s so pretty! What weight yarn did you use? I’ll be knitting a cardigan with simple colourwork soon - mainly maroon with yellow and cream stripes. I like knitting jumpers as well, and socks now. I’ve only ever knit contiguous and raglan sleeves though. Don’t know if round yoke would suit me…
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So, there might be another one.

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Cute! Is this your first or second attempt? Looking good whatever the case. 👍🏾
 
Siikibam said:
That’s so pretty! What weight yarn did you use? I’ll be knitting a cardigan with simple colourwork soon - mainly maroon with yellow and cream stripes. I like knitting jumpers as well, and socks now. I’ve only ever knit contiguous and raglan sleeves though. Don’t know if round yoke would suit me…

Cute! Is this your first or second attempt? Looking good whatever the case. 👍🏾
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It was. Better luck on the nose and face this time, but I'm still unhappy with the seams. They'll hold, but they're not right. Thank you though!
 
Siikibam said:
That’s so pretty! What weight yarn did you use? I’ll be knitting a cardigan with simple colourwork soon - mainly maroon with yellow and cream stripes. I like knitting jumpers as well, and socks now. I’ve only ever knit contiguous and raglan sleeves though. Don’t know if round yoke would suit me…

Cute! Is this your first or second attempt? Looking good whatever the case. 👍🏾
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It was King Cole Big Value Baby 4ply in Pink, Fuschia, Cream and Pebble. :)
 
Lorcan said:
It was. Better luck on the nose and face this time, but I'm still unhappy with the seams. They'll hold, but they're not right. Thank you though!
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I don’t know why I skipped half that first sentence, but it was the second attempt. I'm debating starting the third.
 
Seeing as it's raining here today I thought I'd get the sewing machine out, made a little pouch thing that I found a pattern and material for in a magazine I appear to have bought a while ago!
Quite pleased seeing as I'm a bit out of practice.
Not quite big enough for my daughter to steal it for her new make-up but good handbag size for tissues etc.
 

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So I appear to be able to use a sewing machine but I cannot for the life of me work out how to crochet ! 🤔
I can make the initial chain but what do I do after that? How do I make a row?
We have a book and I've tried following what it says but I just can't seem to get it 🤦‍♀️🤯
 
Spaghetti & Noodles said:
So I appear to be able to use a sewing machine but I cannot for the life of me work out how to crochet ! 🤔
I can make the initial chain but what do I do after that? How do I make a row?
We have a book and I've tried following what it says but I just can't seem to get it 🤦‍♀️🤯
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I recommend Bella Coco on YouTube. I found it impossible trying to learn stitches in rows. I learnt her solid granny square first and then moved on from there
 
Lady Kelly said:
I recommend Bella Coco on YouTube. I found it impossible trying to learn stitches in rows. I learnt her solid granny square first and then moved on from there
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Have just looked that up so will have another look tomorrow, head no longer working tonight!
Thank you 😊
 
Spaghetti & Noodles said:
So I appear to be able to use a sewing machine but I cannot for the life of me work out how to crochet ! 🤔
I can make the initial chain but what do I do after that? How do I make a row?
We have a book and I've tried following what it says but I just can't seem to get it 🤦‍♀️🤯
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Depending on what stitch you're making next, some of those chains will form the "height" for your next row. Say your pattern needs to be 30 stitches wide, and the first stitch of the first row (i.e. after the foundation row which is your string of chain stitches) is a single crochet, you will need to make 32 chain stitches.

Once you've made 32 chain stitches, you need to make the single crochet in the third chain from your hook (not including the loop on your hook; you never count those). It might feel like you're going back on yourself. :)

I don't know if I've explained it any better, but maybe this video will help? The part which would interest you starts at 6 mins. :)

 
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