Saturday 7 February 2009

Knitting Lists

Why are lists so compulsive? Why are we drawn to notch up what we have done and compare notes on what we haven't? This is my third list related posting of the year, and I may change my online ID to 'List Fiend'.



This is from Kai's blog -

So, you need to mark with bold the things you have done, mark the ones you plan to do sometime in italics, and leave the rest.

Afghan
American/English knitting
Baby items
Bobbles
Buttonholes
Cable stitch patterns
Cardigan
Charity knitting
Combination knitting - I don't even know what this is.
Continental knitting - A Dark Art
Cuffs/fingerless mits/arm-warmers
Darning - My Mam taught me this as Christmas and saved five pairs of socks... a valuable and necessary skills for all sock knitters.
Designing knitted garments
Domino knitting Drop stitch patterns Dyeing spinning fibre Dyeing with plant colours Dyeing yarn Entrelac
Fair Isle knitting
Free-form knitting
Fulling/felting
Garter stitch
Gloves
Graffiti knitting
Hair accessories
Hats: Cuff-up
Hats: Top-down
Holiday related knitting
Household items
I-cord
Intarsia
Jewellery
Kitchener stitch
Knitted flowers
Knitting a gift
Knitting a pattern from an on-line knitting magazine - and then some!
Knitting and purling backwards
Knitting art
Knitting for a living
Knitting for pets
Knitting for preemies
Knitting in public
Knitting items for a wedding
Knitting on a loom
Knitting smocking
Knitting socks (or other small tubular items) on one or two circulars
Knitting to make money
Knitting two socks on two circulars simultaneously
Knitting with alpaca
Knitting with bamboo yarn
Knitting with banana fiber yarn
Knitting with beads
Knitting with camel yarn
Knitting with cashmere
Knitting with circular needles
Knitting with cotton
Knitting with dog/cat hair
Knitting with dpns
Knitting with linen
Knitting with metal wire
Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
Knitting with self patterning/self striping/variegated yarn
Knitting with silk
Knitting with someone else’s hand-spun yarn
Knitting with soy yarn
Knitting with synthetic yarn
Knitting with wool
Knitting with your own hand-spun yarn
Lace patterns
Long Tail CO
Machine knitting
Mittens: Cuff-up
Mittens: Tip-down
Moebius band knitting
Norwegian knitting
Participate in an exchange
Participating in a KAL
Pillows
Publishing a knitting book
Purses/bags
Rug
Scarf
Shawl
Short rows
Shrug/bolero/poncho
Slip stitch patterns
Slippers
Socks: toe-up
Socks: top-down
Steeks
Stockinette stitch
Stuffed toys
Swatching
Sweater
Tassels
Teaching a child to knit
Teaching a male how to knit
Textured knitting
Thrummed knitting - Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Toy/doll clothing
Tubular CO
Twisted stitch patterns
Two end knitting - Once more, with feeling, qu'est-ce que c'est?
Writing a pattern

2 comments:

Kai said...

I didn't get the two ended knitting either... will have to google it when i can be bothered! :)

Lists are definitely compulsive.. and i find that they're good blog-post-fillers when i can't be bothered blogging something big.

Cinders said...

I never realied there were so many varieties of knitting around! Very interesting