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t s dress i am cooking up a few new dress plans stay tuned oh btw in case i never said i ll be at the maritime machine knitters seminar in charlottetown pei canada oct 2 3 2015 get ready gfh girlfriend hoodie mao mary anne oger i actually had someone ask me what that meant in msp mfh manfriend hoodie mmkc midwest machine knitters collaborative tlr tuck lace rib posted by mary anne oger at 11 18 am no comments thursday july 23 2015 my plan worked i m ready for you minneapolis and i ve decided that it s tuck lace rib i used the shape from mazatlan kw 45 with vee neck elbow length sleeve and mid hip length for the body because i wanted to add a crochet look hem after the fact i started off with stockinette waste yarn using the ribber comb for the cast on see blogpost wasted not nov 25 2008 so i would have it to hang the weights for double bed work after the ravel cord i knit 2 rows of stockinette and then transferred to the ribbed tuck lace arrangement i needed to have a plain row to be able to rehang the stitches for the hem but found that 1 row was not enough because they were getting moved around and some doubled so 2 plain rows worked much better i used the crochet look look hem from tumbleweed kw 53 but didn t do the rtr in the middle just tucked the alternate needles on the last half and it worked beautifully i used the stockinette bands and buttonholes starting one tension number tighter to make up for this lighter weight yarn from purple purls kw 52 it s gorgeous i don t care how hot and humid it s going to be hope to see you there posted by mary anne oger at 12 48 pm 4 comments labels tlr tuck lace rib tuesday july 7 2015 ribbed tuck lace or tuck lace rib i knocked off that skirt no problem and i m on a roll looked around for something else to do i have a ribber class to do in minneapolis as well as the seaming techniques for the manfriend hoodie which was all single bed so i think i should do a project on the double bed just for a bit of practise oh i know i mentioned after san diego that i would like to use that tuck lace rib stitch that was in the old cover garment tunic from 1994 blogpost cover story may 20 2015 you may have noticed that i have an affinity for cardigans rarely do i make a pullover so it s kind of a given here i like cardigans because they give me more wardrobe options and to be honest i always feel fat in a pullover the illusion of a small waist is easier to maintain with the vertical lines down the centre of the button front open or closed you d think i d get over it one day but it doesn t look like to be happening soon so cardigan it is i want this to be really lightweight msp can be very hot and humid in late july so i ve chosen wool crepe deluxe i have 2 family weddings in september and this could be a good option for at least one of the associated events i made the first swatch and as i was knitting it i remembered one of the problems with this tuck lace is that it tends to lengthen and narrow and as it is wcd that i m using which is usually at 34 to 38 stitches 10 cm that could make more trouble than it s worth i also want the lacy holes to stay open and not get dragged down as the fabric narrows i throw on the tuck every other row option on the ribber and wow what a difference not only takes the stitch gauge from 49 sts 10 cm top swatch to 35 sts 10 cm but adds a flatness and width stability to the fabric a few tweaks to my cast on edge so it s easier to rehang and add one of my favourite trims a variation of 33 xoxo trim from band practise and i have a plan posted by mary anne oger at 9 59 am no comments labels tlr tuck lace rib saturday july 4 2015 dyed and done i opted for the stovetop method of heating 3 gallons of water 1 cup of salt a bottle of the pearl grey dye and the glycine lace sweater it was less than a pound in weight but i used the full bottle even though the label says the bottle is good for 1 kilo of garment my experience in the past says more dye is better than less if you want even coverage and the 3 gallons of water was plenty to swish the garment about nicely and evenly i cooked it for the full 30 minutes recommended and then rinsed it several times in the sink until the water stayed clear after machine washing and drying i do have a beautiful steel grey cardigan that looks perfect with my snow leopard tank i m so happy the buttons are okay but i will probably change them out for something in a tarnished silver or pewter look i did the same thing with the beige girlfriend hoodie using the royal blue dye it weighed almost 700g i followed the same formula but pulled it out of the hot dye at 15 minutes because it looked really dark after drying it was slightly patchy but a really nice colour overall yesterday i went to get another bottle of dye to redo it and went to michael s instead shame on you fabricland mike sells the same thing for 6 95 and gave me a 40 off coupon for next week today i re did the hoodie using 4 gallons of water and left it in the full half hour omg it s gorgeous a lovely cobalt blue one thing funny though the beige thread i used took the dye but the beige zipper tape stayed pretty beige i don t mind really but just saying if you are going to dye a zipper to match something start with a white one the pink hoodie is all ready for the minneapolis seminar buoyed by the thought of using my stolen headlamp again i m going to work on that black tiers of joy skirt re do from last year oh man time flies when you procrastinate i looked it up and that was actually sep 13 2013 talk about putting something on the back burner posted by mary anne oger at 11 47 am 1 comment thursday july 2 2015 dyeing for a change i mentioned earlier that i intended to dye my beige girlfriend hoodie so here s the story finally located some fabric dyes at the local fabricland it was much easier when my neighbourhood safeways used to have a whole section seemed much cheaper then too i had a couple of projects in mind first taking a white silver teeth zipper and dyeing it for the watermelon girl hoodie they had a small powder packet of cerise on sale for 3 what a deal and it worked perfect added just enough pink to the tape so when the garment is open it will go well enough with this pattern when the zipper is closed you really only see the teeth and of course the pull tab i had a lace standard gauge remake of a knitstyle design lace waves january 2014 april 2014 that i had used yeoman yarns cannele in glycine an odd lilac light blue ish shade that i didn t really feel was my colour i decided to transform it because i have never really worn it put it on several times and took it off and tried it with something else and took it off again you know how it is when you just don t feel right and i always blamed it on the colour i chose a bottle of pearl grey and one of royal blue i tested a small amount of each dye a couple of drops diluted in a tablespoon of water on the corners of swatches of the same garment colours to see which would work better both garments are 100 mercerised cotton i thought the pearl grey would work nicely with the glycine lace i m looking for a blue grey tone and the royal blue should alter the beige to an mao friendly shade of denimy blue the grey on the beige looked rather dull and dirty rats i forgot to buy salt tell you more later posted by mary anne oger at 2 22 pm 1 comment tuesday june 30 2015 newest must have accessory for mk ers i was sitting here last night about 7 30 watching the fall really good bbc program on netflix and the power went out do you realize how many things you cannot do when there is no power back in the day you could at least phone in and see what the problem is or report it but not now phone doesn t even work and i don t have a cell phone couldn t make a cup of tea it wasn t really storming just a bit of rain but was sort of dark ish too dark to read too early to go to bed i played a bit of candy crush on my ipad mini but got to the end of that level and i have to wait 24 hours for the next one oh i know i don t need power to knit went to my machine and figured i could make the bands for the watermelon hoodie well couldn t really see good enough for picking up then i remembered i have sister janet s headlamp in my backpack i didn t really steal it it was just there when i got home from europe and she probably hasn t even missed it i strap it on my forehead and wow this is brilliant heh heh no pun intended you can adjust the angle of the light and it points right where you re working why didn t i think of this when i was making that navy one got 2 bands done before the lights came back on and there wasn t anyone here to see how ridiculous i looked posted by mary anne oger at 8 45 am 1 comment monday june 29 2015 follow up i am just finishing up making the pieces of my fourth hoodie the navy one pictured here is for my friend vickie s hubby get better soon big guy and the watermelon hot pink one is for her i couldn t talk them into matchy match ones i needed to make a couple more for my demos at the founder s fest seminar in minneapolis july 25 26 2015 http www midwestmachineknitters org events foundersfest i will be showing seaming and finishing on the machine and as an extra class sewing in the zipper dee said she d bring a sewing machine just for this so the navy one is all done with the zipper pinned in place ready for the sewing i thought i d show it here because i wasted time looking for a navy zipper the right length and after a couple of weeks of finding nothing in navy that wasn t plastic decided to opt for this black tape zipper with bronze teeth i think it looks great and elevates the jacket from plain old to wow where did you get the nice hoodie i already knew i wasn t going to be able to find a good match for the watermelon colour so i ll keep you posted on my solution a grey with silver teeth or white with silver teeth posted by mary anne oger at 2 18 pm no comments labels girlfriend hoodie manfriend hoodie zipper tuesday june 2 2015 manfriend hoodie pattern the pattern is ready a comfy wearable durable zip front hoodie for the man in your life and a bonus pattern girlfriend hoodie for the girls the yarn is bonita from knitcraft 500g 1850 yd mercerised cotton the man pattern has 5 sizes finished chest 44 47 50 54 57 in third size takes 750g the girl pattern a line 3 inches larger in hip finished bust 38 41 44 47 50 in third size takes 650g i got the two beige hoodies out of 3 cones of yarn i have the yarn in stock so if you can t find it from your regular supplier i do mail order email me privately for cost and colours available and it s not like i m saying make matching hoodies for you and yours i did it planning to dye one or both to see what happens the pattern is written for the advanced beginner level with lots of info on using shortrowing for decreasing like the curve of the underarm the neckline and the top of the sleeve cap all the seaming is done on the machine with outside seams on shoulder neckline and sleeve cap to add a little extra design the front patch pocket is made first and attached as you knit lots of detail for stabilizing the front edge and sewing in the zipper using the sewing machine when you re finished this project you can move up to intermediate oh it s all just stockinette so can be made on any standard gauge machine order here now just click the add to cart button under manfriend hoodie at the top right side of this blog thanks and talk to you soon p s thanks to tom the machine knitting guy for testing this pattern for me he did a great job posted by mary anne oger at 1 53 pm 2 comments labels girlfriend hoodie manfriend hoodie sunday may 31 2015 fusion knitting the process or result of joining two or more patterns together to form a single entity the san diego photo taker did send me one photo that i can show you of my denim lace hoodie see previous posting notice i only gave you the back view and my own photo of a flat shot i did promise to tell you what i did to come up with this starting off with the idea to make myself a spring jacket i had visions of a denim jacket hoodie i had this nice big cone of cotton denim boucle that my friend gave me last year i had used that yarn in several garments and am very sad that it is no longer available if you have some be nice to it anyway my favourite garments blogpost update june 27 2012 in that yarn were a long lace skirt and my prototype for two way serial stuff 4 another lace effort the yarn is cotton boucle with a nylon binder that makes it shrink up and become quite stretchy as well as thick so knitting it quite loosely t9 in lace thins it out so that it doesn t become too bulky i used the border lace pattern from lace it up kw 37 used the a line shape hood and the full needle rib hems from lacey in red kw 40 for the front bands because of the shrinkage factor i knew that the fnr horizontal bands wouldn t work i did try a swatch of stockinette bands a ripply disaster then i remembered making a vertical fnr band where i knit it from the top down so that the first buttonhole could be made at the beginning of the band then make a bunch evenly spaced knit more plain band than you know you ll need and take it off on waste forever in blue kw 28 assemble the garment except for the front bands toss it bands and all in the washer and dryer to shrink it all and then put the front bands on that s the whole story oh today i found a new reason to be obsessive about hanging yarn marks every 10 cm at the edges of my knitting i use them primarily for seaming makes it go much more precisely when you can match up the marks well i was happily knitting away on the front of another manfriend hoodie and at rc140 thinking wow this is totally easy zone out knitting with nothing to do until the underarm and it suddenly dawned on me i blew right by attaching the top of the pocket at rc090 arrrggghhh no worries i pulled it all off the needles unravelled it down to rc082 2 rows above rc080 for the exact row to rehang and reset the row counter exactly no guessing and trying to count up from the bottom posted by mary anne oger at 12 39 pm no comments wednesday may 20 2015 cover story the san diego seminar was fun i showed them a blast from the past and my latest and newest i had a brand new denim lace hoodie to show that i hadn t even mentioned to anyone or blogged about i explained to the group that it was sometimes difficult to get a decent picture because i live alone and even if someone capable of taking a picture comes by i may not always be having a good hair day but after seeing the photos posted on the guild website i probably won t be so picky the assigned photo taker asked me ahead of time if it was okay to take photos that she would post on their website and i said alright so long as you don t put up a whole lot of me gesturing wildy with my mouth open and eyes closed man i never knew i was so un photogenic but there s the proof fortunately i m over it or...