Spice Up Your Knitting

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AbbyM — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:06:29 GMT

I use swatches to try out new stitch patterns and then turn them into bibs or burp cloths for my baby girl. That way, I get to have fun knitting a new design and get something pratical out of it. Because, really, you can't have enough bibs or burp cloths for babies!

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AbbyM — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:06:25 GMT

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Rathanasiou — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:10:29 GMT

On the issue of what we do with all the swatches, I plan on using them as patch squares for blankets for my little girl's dolls.
Rosie A., Greece

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lerikson80 — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:49:25 GMT

***SAVING THE STITCH OF THE DAY*** The SOD is an IMAGE not TEXT. No need to cut and past it to a word program. Just RIGHT CLICK over the image, go to SAVE PICTURE AS, then give it a name (or keep the name that comes in, but that isn't very helpful), and put it in a folder. I created a desktop folder named Stitch of the Day, and each page is there. When I want to see a page, I just open it with my image viewing program (microscoft picture and fax viewer works for me), and I can look at it, print it, whatever. You could divide this folder into subfolders with the names of the 3 different stitch books, and there you have it. No fuss.

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AnnR — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:21:54 GMT

I didn't get a Knitting Daily yesterday-Oct.2

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LMB12480 — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:37:13 GMT

I didn't get a Knitting Daily email yesterday (Oct 2) so I missed the gathered stitch on the Stitch of the Day page. :(

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leiabelle — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:35:56 GMT

I haven't been able to see any of the stitches at all, even with the pop-up blocker turned off. I'm using IE7, if that helps.

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JoyJ — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:25:42 GMT

***reply to Denise W. I have also gotten a similar problem, but this is how I have solved it. I right-click on the picture and choose copy. I then pasted it to Word, and have reduced the size of the picture. As it reduces, the rest of the rows appear at the bottom. My picture is now 9.58inches [height] by 3.13inches(width)

I hope this helps.

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AIRknitter — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:17:17 GMT

Sandi got a great rightup in "Simply Knitting" from the UK. It's on page 82.
WELL DONE KIDDO!!!!
AIR

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denisedebrat@gmail.com — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:22:49 GMT

Well on Monday i could highlight an area on the stitch of the day and print off selection. today i can't do that. when i highlight it takes the whole thing now and won't let me print the selection. pasting it into Word causes it to stop the "picture" at row 17. clicking on the stitch of the day page and choosing print, ONLY gives me to the 23rd row and that wastes two sides of paper with "ads" to get even that. as tuesday's stitch of the day (october 2, Papyrus Lace with no knitting daily post to go with it)is about to disappear, I will try to type up from row 23 so I can finish the stitch. me thinks you still have some bugs in the system. but nice idea. i anxiously await when i won't need to type up the stitch of the day.

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MargaretJ — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:07:08 GMT

I save them all in a basket and frequently go back and fondle them and dream about future projects. I also learned the hard way to label them with the yarn, the needle size and what stitch pattern I used. I just use those little tags on strings which I can tie on to the swatch. And yes, I even save the boring old stockinette gauge swatches. There has been more than once that I've bought a new yarn, thought this is just like that other one - now where is the swatch and what size needle did I use???

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Kimberly@2 — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:34:24 GMT

I used to knit swatches to save in a sort of reference library fashion. That was until the day my daughter objected. She said, "That's too pretty. It has to be something. What is it?". Her son picked it right out of her hands and said, "That is a donkey blanket.", and wrapped it around his favorite stuffie. So now I knit donkey blankets, and as new ones are created the old ones are sneaked back to be recycled into my reference files.

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Casey — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:33:48 GMT

Random swatches? That's how I learned cabling! Shortly after I mastered knit and purl, I bought three of the Walker stitch treasuries and knitted swatch after swatch after swatch of beautiful cables. I'd intended to use them to design a cabled afghan, but drastically changed the design and had a bunch of cable swatches in a bag for years. When I had to do a demonstration on cabling, though, I was very well prepared.

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Minou — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:18:35 GMT

Could you please find some way to include the Stitch of the Day so that the ad pop up blockers don't block it? I run an anti-virus program and two spyware blockers and I don't know where to begin to turn off the pop up blockers.

I enjoy the Knitting Daily posts very much and thank you for the work that goes into preparing them.

Thanks for your consideration!

Minou Shelton
Short Gap, West Virginia
hgtomato@verizon.net

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KristinP — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:13:47 GMT

I often use my "swatches" to make little cozy's for my mp3 player or phone. It's a great way to get the feel for a certain stitch and play around with being creative without having to follow a pattern. My current "swatch" is a moss stitch, with brown and green cotton/tencel blend yarn. It's becomming a cozy for my mp3 player... I may even do some embroidery with it! :D