This may be a dumb question... ETA another question(please help)

[Mama Rophe]

here it goes anyway...

After knitting a wool soaker do you lanolize it?

[Mama Rophe]

I guess my first question was too dumb for anyone to answer. I have another question though. I am using this pattern... http://community.livejournal.com/punk_knitters/110889.html

When I get to the end and need to weave the sts together how do I do this?

If you can't tell I'm really new to knitting.

[JessicaTX]

:scratch

If I could help, I totally would.Do we have any cheerleader smilies?
:danced <- She's close. WTG mama! It'll turn out great I'm sure!!

[LauraK]

I don't knit but I was thinking that maybe you would get more responses to your question in the cloth diaper forum.

[Moon]

Not a dumb question! I would have answered this when it first came up if I knew it existed. I rarely check in here though.

You can probably get a couple uses out of it without lanolizing it, but if you need it to be a workhorse right away you should lanolize it first.


To weave the ends in, get a big darning needle, like the kind used in plastic canvas stuff. Thread the tail into the needle, and on the wrong side of the soaker weave the needle gently through the tops of some stitches for an inch or two, and cut off the rest.

[UltraMother]

Not sure what you mean by "lanolize", but I like this stuff http://www.eucalan.com/

And here's a tutorial on weaving in ends
http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall04/FEATfall04TT.html

[Tengokujin]

There is weaving in ends.....


and then there is Kitchener stitch, which is what you use to join together to live rows of knitting. In this pattern, which I have done, you have worked in the round for the upper part of back and front, working down. Then you placed stitches on a holder, and continued doing shaping for the rest of the diaper, which forms the lower back , the crotch, and up to the lower front. Now you use kitchener stitch to in effect knit together these two live, uncast off rows. You use a needle and yarn to do this and it is not hard but you have to stay alert!

There are some tutorials online. I will look around for some and post again.

On lanolizing, it depends on your yarn. As you wash it and the yarn "blooms" (gets fuzzier and fills in the air spaces between the yarn) it gets better. Lanolizing it would probably help though too, but I find that wool covers get better with use.

Off to look for tutorials for you....

[Tengokujin]

http://www.knitty.com/issuesummer04/FEATtheresasum04.html

This is a good article with pictures and explanations of kitchener stitch. I highly recommend waiting until children are asleep before doing this for the first time.

You will feel like a super hero when you do this!

[Mama Rophe]

Thank you. I got it figured out now.