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Try knitting/Crochet for your local Hospital special care baby unit. I'm about to deliver four full carrier bags to our Stevenage unit. (Hats) all sizes (Angel pockets) all sizes (for babies that don't make it from 20 weeks gestation) (Blankets) all sizes Cardies....matinee coats ...teenie. Booties ...teenie. Sleep suits. Lots of patterns on the internet but be careful of US abbreviations.
The angel pockets are so easy....one and a half granny squares joining together and decorated with fan stitch. Then thread a little ribbon through. Vey effective and beautiful.

Gerri x

julia
i know and agree about magazines,
i must confess ive been known to open one in smiths,
and look inside, to see if anythings good,
but most of time i find it full of sock patterns,
and im not into that,
id like to ave a go,
but just cant get the inclination to make pair of socks, on 4 needles each,

i member mam kniting with phildar now you mention it,
she always had pair of needles in her hands

I still have my old Phildar pattern books which I bought nearly 30 years ago!!
I loved the Phildar yarns although they were a bit pricey. The company were French I think, and some of the patterns suffered in translation so you had to know what you were doing. There are some lovely designs in them though.
Dig out your old patterns ladies - the retro look is definitely back! My friend is currently knitting her teenage son a fair-isle waistcoat - at his request!

Julia, I agree about the knitting magazines, and when you take the cellophane off there is very little inside!Many years ago there used to be a lovely magazine called(I think) Home sewing and knitting. It included chrochet and machine knitting and was good value for money. I still have a few copies left, very tattered and torn. I also have a wartime knitting book, when all the patterns were for what now seems very small women!

Julie Ann, not many I would be interested in either, but I did fancy the crochet cover-up in a coffee coloured yarn, and the bunny. Last issue was of more interest to me.
I despair of knitting mags on the market at the moment. They are usually about £5.99, and are in a celephane packet, so you cannot see the contents. I have stopped buying most of them
Julia in Derbyshire

i noticed this mag today

the last issue was packed with patterns,
but this one didnt have any i would be interested in doing,
tho that bunny one looked cute

I have so much 1 and 2 ply machine knitting wool that I find it hard to justify buying thicker wool to hand knit!So I am doing neither at the moment! Knitting wool doesnt always crochet well. Must look out for that womans weekly book.

Try this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRsGeVk073w

Knitting, needlework craft work I can do, crochet, no, can just about do a chain!!!

Daff's cats will be fine as her son is looking after them.

Sally, get yourself a book, and try again. As you say, all the crochet things were in fashion in the 70's. I had had two girls by then, and it was fashinable to put them inlittle knitted and crochet dresses. So, when i went into the nursing home to have my third, I packed a ball of wool, a hook, and a teach yourself book.
I managed to teach myself, and guess what. I had a boy.LOLOL
I love crochet, and often do it as a change to knitting. But it has to be a garment. I am not into Crimoline ladies covering toilet rolls, though the pattern I was referring to in the Woman's Weekly, is for storing disposable nappies in. It is a rabbit, wearing a dress that has an opening down the front to put the nappies into. I think I am going to have a go at it, as it would sit nicely on a basketry container I have in my downstairs loo.
Try it, have a go. And be patient.LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

Oh Julia, how I wish I could crochet......bought a book once......tried it and one side was straight and the other just came in......couldn't get the hang of it.....

In the 70's, crochet tops, baby clothes and pram covers were the rage, and I found a pattern for a lovely little plain jacket in white with silver edging for my Daughter's christening outfit and my Mum found a friend who made it for me........I wish I had kept it now, but I have the photos....

Got all the knitting, sewing, embroidery, even smocking skills......but can't crochet for peanuts.......such a shame as I have seen some brilliant stuff in patterns.......oh well, just grateful I can use my hands I suppose.....

Good on you who can do it, I envy you....

Janice, thanks you so much for the patterns. I will print them off later, and study.
Ann, yes, it is marvellous, isn't it. I have downloaded them and will look at them later only because, I have been cooking all morning, and want to have some 'me' time in the greenhouse, whilst the dog is asleep. She can barely walk, and is in alot of pain. She recently had (very costly) treatment at the vet's for a form of deratitis on her soles of the paws. The trouble is, she will not let OH bathe them for her. So, it is the pain killers that are keeping her going until she is in the vets on Wednesday.
The thing is, if she hears me go out, she will want to come with me, and she is in alot of pain. We treat our animals like children. I hope that Daffy's cats are being well looked after, or she will be beside herself for leaving them.
Take care now
Julia in Derbyshire

Mission accomplished!
Have fun!
Janice

Just shows how useful this site is doesn't it, even knitting patterns.... marvellous

Janice, many thanks. Finally got a look at the pictures, as I am not very computer literate, and anything different to what I am used to, usually has me foxed. Yes please, could I have the instructions for No.1 and No.4
Thank you so much, for going to all this trouble
Julia in Derbyshire

E-mail 2 on its way!

Have e-mailed you.

Hi Janice, just plain I think, so that I get used to the method, but don't mind textured if not.


Rita, many thanks for all your time.

Julia in Derbyshire

Hi Julia,
Do you want a textured pattern, or one with cable on it, or just something completely plain?
Janice

Janice, many,many thanks. I just want a pattern for a pair of woman's gloves, not mittens, knitted in double knit, on four needles. It is years since I have knitted on four needles, and just fancied having a go,for the experience.
Again, many,many thanks
Julia in Derbyshire