Ohh Sam - Ladybug Loops look pretty - I will be watching this thread with eager anticipation to see how they turn out for you - I love that the one pattern has 8/10/12 ply variations - I have so many bits in my stash that are of the larger plys.
There's a new pattern coming out soon with the yarn weights variations too - Looking Glass Longies by Kelly Brooker. I just knit a test pair for her and it's a fairly good pattern, uses provisional caston to avoid grafting the crotch - I don't mind grafting though (infact I quite like it).
I've done a few pair of longies so far - even though we aren't using them ourselves anymore lol. I really enjoy knitting them, so now I have to just knit them for others.
River we lurve your longies. So, provisional cast-on...does that make things easier than grafting? I'm sure I could get the hang of grafting with some tuition, but it scares me a bit.
Nelle, I was wondering if the longies were fitting the boys this season as planned - now that the nights are starting to get cool again you would be getting them into them?
Grafting is dead easy - best tute is here: knitty.com
Just make sure you don't pull the stitches too tight - I did so on my first graft and it was awful. But that was the only one I've ever stuffed up. I can't seem to graft in rib yet, but I've only tried once and didn't follow the instructions properly (yup, sounds like me LOL).
Provisional Cast on is a total PITB I reakon, but it serves its purpose at times, the 'proper' way of doing it you do it with a crochet hook and crochet around a knitting needle to make the stitches. But a dead easy way of doing it is to just cast on in waste yarn and knit them through with your working yarn. Crochet PCO ends up being easy to undo when you need to rejoin them, because the stitches just pop out with a tug on the yarn, but waste yarn PCO takes you some time to unravel the stitches. I do it with waste yarn even though it takes longer to undo the stitches, I find it easier on the whole.
I'll have to make Miss Ruby a pair of longies for this season won't I? I have a half done pair I am taking short row pics for Cherie on, I might have to Ruby-ize them .
Si's still fit like a dream Riv, he's still about as big as an 8 month old. I love that blue/brown wool the best anyway. Riv's are short, but work just fine. He doesn't often wear them, because it's just a murphy's law thing that it's the wool that gets breakfast/lunch/dinner all over them and they need a wash. So it's mostly the child who's still well behaved that gets to wear the wool.
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