I can’t stand to watch

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Icarus continues to drag along.

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I’ve working out why it’s making me batty. The yarn is fine enough that I can’t “feel” what I’m knitting, so even thought the pattern is simple right now, I can’t just zoom while I watch TV or read. I have to watch every stitch to make sure that everything goes as planned. I don’t mind this when there is tons of intrigue in the knitting… like with patterned yarn overs and charts, but it turns out that if all I have to do is watch plain columns develop, I can’t stand it. I’m slogging through this. I think I should download a whole bunch of podcasts to listen to while I work. Take the edge off. Maybe drink heavily. I don’t know. It’s got to be almost to the lace part. It’s got to be.

In an email, Patty asked me how to do the crochet-cast off I suggest in the poncho pattern on the sidebar. I tried to send her an email about it but I’m going to be typing forever, when a picture (or fourteen) is worth a thousand words.

Crochet Cast-Off

Advantages: It takes (get this, you’re going to plotz) NO YARN. Yup, no yarn. You can knit and knit until you are totally out of yarn and then cast off. Suck at guessing how much you need to cast off? Ever run out of yarn while casting off? Ever piss yourself off because that silk was not cheap and you could have done another 3 rows because it didn’t take that much to cast off after all? This is for you.

Disadvantages. It’s a very firm bind-off. If you want it a little looser, you can try knitting the last row onto a bigger needle, but you’re still not going to have something elastic. This is not recommended for the tops of toe up socks unless you have a burning curiosity about gangrene of the human foot caused by poor circulation. On the other hand, for a sweater and stuff, it’s totally awesome, and on a scarf, shawl, wrap, or anything you’re going to fringe, it’s very nice.

1. Begin (and this is sort of important) working AWAY from the end of the working yarn if you are on circs, or, if you are on straights, slip all of your stitches to the other needle so that you can begin at the end opposite the working yarn. (Pardon the untidiness of my swatch. I’m under caffeinated. )

Beginccoff

2. Slip the first two stitches (purlwise) to the crochet hook.

Twoabccoff

3. Pull Stitch “a” through stitch “b”, leaving “a” on the hook.

Pullingtccoff

4. Slip another stitch (the next one would be your best bet) to the crochet hook, and pull that one through.

Halfwayccoff

Repeat all the way along (or around, if you’re on a circular) until you get to the last stitch.

Laststccoff

5. Pull the working yarn through the last stitch. Congratulate yourself for cleverness.

Finishedccoff

While we’re being useful, Vicki’s got a great tutorial on another way to fix a miss-crossed cable. (This way needs scissors.)

Happy 4th of July to American readers, I hope it doesn’t rain on your fireworks. Me? It’s Tuesday. I’ll be spinning.

106 thoughts on “I can’t stand to watch”

  1. I can’t believe I may be the first one here!!! I’ve been a lurker for months and months now… but have not felt worthy enough to post a comment. I am in love with all things Harlot, and just wanted to say hello! 🙂

  2. Oh. My. God. Why did I not know about this before? The ripping I could have saved…..damn. Thanks for the lesson

  3. The long slog on a shawl is always an eternal knitness. I have taken to college courses on CD borrowed from my parents who at nearing eighty are big on self improvement. It might just either calm down your teenage angst in the house or drive them out of it entirely. Besides who doesn’t need to know about the early history of Greek civilisation or the Romans or the Vikings?
    Perhaps your library might choose to get them in for you mine is nice about things like that.

  4. my husband is making mojitos for fourth of july. i think they’re just right for what you’re doing. y’all come on over!

  5. Thanks for the hat links, and for all the rest of the stuff you do. I’ll try to get a couple done while I’m on vacation (holidays), although I’m nowhere near as fast as you. Still waiting for the big announcement about a book signing in Florida (please???)

  6. Hi Stephanie and all of you 🙂
    Just to said about the baby hats, if you don’t have money to buy natural fiber, go on Ebay…really!! I have not a big budget and I bought recently a big box full of real wool yarn etc.. for $10.00 😉
    Have a beautiful day and happy knitting 🙂
    Julie

  7. Is it sad when I, a born and raised American, needs a Canadian to remind her it’s the Fourth of July?
    Huh. I’d take spinning over fireworks any day.
    And I’m not clicking any link that leads to knitting meeting scissors…

  8. Oh. I had considered that one for some damned-near-black alpaca laceweight from KnitPicks.
    Maybe not.
    Le sigh.

  9. Oops, hit post too quick. I’ve been calling that my backwards cast-off and telling everyone to use a circular and got to the wrong end of the work, slip 2 stitches to the other tip, and slip the first stitch over the second. Just keep slipping one more, and passing the one already there over it. It’s probably so much easier your way, thank you.

  10. That’s my favourite cast off when I need a tight edge – thanks for sharing.
    Icarus is looking lovely – the colourway is beautiful. I know the black hole concept – I can knit something for 10 days and get nowhere. I measure and I still have tons to do – then I knit one more row and that row seems to be 3 inches deep. I can’t figure it out.

  12. That is the neatest thing, good to know about the inelasticness (is that a word) of it though. I have a quick question for you, it won’t require pictures or anything i promise. I’m knitting my grandmother an Odessa hat out of alpaca and was wondering about the best way to block it. Pinning and spritzing or full submersion. Any responses would be appreciated, i can’t quite decide

  13. A treat, as always. But HELP! When I read “3. Pull Stitch “a” through stitch “b”, leaving “b” on the hook.” I keep thinking that “a” will be left on the hook, not “b”. What’s my problem?

  14. Interesting – that’s not what I know as a “crochet cast off”. The version I use is like actually crocheting with yarn in left hand, and everything!

  16. Oh golly. I have no one to blame but myself and maybe good can come of it if I share my new found knowledge here. So here goes: If your local library asks you to teach a knitting class and would you like to place a cap on how many may attend, you should say, “yes. I would like that very much. Perhaps 10 folks learning how to knit for the first time would be plenty.” You Should Not say, rather breezily, “Oh no, the more the merrier. If we get more than 10 I’ll just ask some gals from my Stitch n Bitch to help out.” What happens if you say the latter is that the day before the class, you find out that 75 folks have registered to learn how to knit for the first time and do you have enough needles and yarn? I cried a little, tried to get them to break it up and re-schedule, wiped out the LYS supply of needles and cotton yarn and rather ungraciously importuned on my friends, Donna and Marguerite. Due to a severe storm warning only 60 showed and due to the tornado siren howling at the end, only a handful of first time knitters got corralled into the basement of the library, only to be told that it was no longer a tornado warning, it was now a flash flood warning, so back upstairs please. You think I’m making this up but go ahead and check the Monday weather listings for Cheyenne, Wyoming. However, 60, well honestly 58, there was one kid and one woman who it just didn’t click with, now know how to knit. The moral may be: always be sweet to your knitting friends so they will save your ass with a minimum of grumbling when the time comes. Or: God will punish you with tornadoes and floods if, in your hubris, you do not place some limits on yourself. We’ll see.

  17. Luise, I think you’re right. However stitch “a” then becomes stitch “b” for the next repeat. The problem would be that Stephanie has three daughters at home for summer vacation.
    Stephanie, thank you for pointing out that this doesn’t need any yarn. For some reason that NEVER crossed my mind when thinking about this cast-off.
    *hits ditz switch reset*

  18. That kind of knitting to me needs some intense music to listen to, for the brain to be happy on semi-automatic in the meantime.

  19. Nifty bind-off. Thanks for the info. About the spinning, would it be for Joe’s gansey?

  20. I’m impressed that you haven’t already dropped Icarus for the next thing. It’s not like you to stay so faithful to a project that is giving you so little love in return.
    I’d also recommend a movie sound track to knit by. Something like “The Lord of the Rings.” I like to imagine the movie while listening to the music.

  21. no real celebrations here today except some steaks on the grill later tonight. And probably a few beers and a netflix movie.
    We pulled in the driveway around lunchtime after spending the past 4 days tent camping with our four small kids. Granted, my mom has a camper and it was parked right across the road from our site (yay for indoor plumbing!) And she even kept 3 of our 4 kids in her camper the last two nights so that we weren’t so cramped in the tent. We did wake up this morning to pouring rain and a puddle in the tent.. ugh
    Was fun, but will be the last time I go tent camping until the youngest is potty trained.

  22. That knitting sounds torturous.
    Save the heavy drinking for Abq yo!
    Speaking of drinking I’m supposed to be at my neighbors pool party. But I can’t bring myself to start drinking now. It’s still 8 hours until fireworks. Just how does one drink for 8 hours? I’m too damn old for that.

  23. Love the cast off – I do it casting off from the working yarn side put this is a great alternative…appreciate the no yarn solution.
    Off to a drunkfest 4th of July celebration at a family friends…Do you think they will make fun of me if I bring my Odessa that really needs to be finished by the morning?

  24. Ooh, that’s the same bind-off you use on those loopy potholders that we all made as kids! Thanks for the tutorial, because I remember I always needed a demonstration before being able to do it, even though I made about a million potholders. (No, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer.)

  25. I’m in the knitting vortex with Icarus as well. I’ve committed to an hour with it each day, but I’ve somehow managed to skip the last three. Hmm.. I need some motivation… Just keep thinking about the edging…
    🙂

  26. I know, I know– I can’t “feel” the knitting either. Come to think of it, since the yarn I’m using is so fine and my glasses are MIA, I’m not seeing the knitting so hot. Let’s keep telling ourselves it will pay off eventually…though when its finally done, dry, and unpinned, only your cat/my dog will be around to appreciate it.

  27. Brilliant! I love this cast off. Thank you.
    But if I use it, should I put a crochet edging on the cast ON edge to balance things out (re stretchiness for fringe)?

  28. Today I am casting on for a sweet little tank top (for Moi)using Opal 6ply –> but got side tracked by the lawn sprinkler, two boys, a Beagle & a cold ‘pop’ :O) gotta love summer vacation! hmmm looks like the ‘pop’ needs to be topped off!
    SHELLEY -;)

  29. Happy 4th! It’s cloudy here so there may be no fireworks due to rain. Just gives me more time to pour over the stash looking for potential hat yarn! (even though I ordered $80+ worth this morning, some for socks for DH) *sigh*

  31. For your Icarus shawl, you may want to try putting slide-along-the-needle stitch markers before each place where you’ll need to do an operation. I know it may seem like cheating, but it will help you gain some speed and make the constant watching less necessary.
    Am I the only person who thinks it’s a little weird to name a shawl after the kid who was cocky enough to fly so close to the sun (despite his father’s warnings, mind you) that his wax & feather wings melted causing him to plunge to his death? Not that it’s not a nice shawl . . .

  32. I have just spent a whole afternoon reading archives of YH because apparently I was semi-comatose and didn’t know about you until recently. Now the clouds are gathering and I hope the storm will cancel the cook-out/fireworks so I can read some more. Sick? Or maybe I should just go find some fireworks/cookout knitting since I can’t read on the computer and knit. I can read a book and knit but balancing the laptop…

  33. Maybe you could put on a movie that you’ve seen a number of times, as enough to keep you entertained but not so visually engrossing that you have to watch? That’s what I do for spinning, sometimes.

  34. Who knew???!!!
    LOVE the comment from yesterday about throwing the book from the library. Made me laugh (in empathy, as the mother of a 13 year old who was bored after less than 24 hours – I countered with a list of chores….)

  36. HAppy FOURTH OF JULY to all our American friends .We had a camper in the U.S.A. for a number of years and always had such fun on this weekend. We still miss our camping buddies . As for the shawl , I too am quite surprised that you are sticking to it . We should have a challenge of some sort to get us all to finish up some WIP. I’m up to at least 6 now and they cry at night at me but I don’t hear them in the morning so they just never get done. Thank goodness I didn’t start the icarus— yet .

  37. Thanks for these instructions and the great pictures for it. I have a pattern that calls for this, great timing.

  38. Icarus is so very beautiful, its going to take my breath away when it’s finished, isn’t it (and you *will* finish it). Well, I’ve got to tell you when I started reading about your crochet cast-off that yes, I plotzed, and it was much fun indeed. Yes, what Anne said, I also made a kerjillion of those potholders, which explained why it all seemed so familiar. I vote with books on cd’s, or i-pod, or the movie you really like but have seen it 50 times and you don’t really have to ‘look’ at it, the soundtrack sounded like a great idea, send the girls out on an ‘errand’ that will take an hour or so.
    62 days.

  39. PS I noted on some of the comments from Canada Day, that the sodas were made with sugar…does that mean NO high fructose corn syrup??? and if it does, wow, is this true? That stuff is deadly and is in so much ‘food’ in the US, nasty stuff.

  42. You’re so funny about the shawl. I still have to watch even the simplest of knitting as I go, guess that’s what I get for waiting so long to start. Thanks for the bind off info and the well wishes for the 4th! We probably are getting rain tonight here in FL, but since most people have been setting off their fireworks for the last 2 weeks, I for one am celebrating my day off by making some fabric strip balls to knit with. That’s what I call good fun!

  43. We had hot, unbearable sunshine for the 4th parade… and now we have torrential rain… I hope it clears up a bit later so I can blow things up.

  44. I feel your pain on the summer/teenagers mix. We have a girl-12 and a boy-15 who actually live here, but each morning I count heads to find out how many extras spent the night and do my best to estimate the day’s grocery shopping needs. I’m never right. And all the kiddos (extras included) know that I don’t believe in “bored”. If I hear that word I start passing out jobs — all the ones I don’t want to do (which means there’s a never-ending list.) Shuts ’em right up.

  45. I knew there was such a thing as crochet bind-off, but never knew what you did with the last loop. Silly, silly me, the solution is so simple. (If I must be foolish I can get a little fun out of being alliterative too.)
    That Vicki has nerves (as well as needles) of steel.

  46. i was just wondering what yarn you’re using for Icarus… it’s so pretty! thanks!

  48. Help – I was browsing on the weekend and found the most amazing felted tea cozy. I thought I had clicked on a link somewhere within this site, but can no longer find any trace of it. Please point me in the right direction if you know what I’m talking about. Thanks!

  49. Excellent pointers on the crochet cast off… grazi!and if only it would rain on the 4th of July… (I don’t know about the rest of the country, but I have a healthy respect of fire season and an unhealthy fear of rednecks with gunpowder… in my part of the world that makes for a very uncomfortable day…)

  50. Have you tried books on tape…I shouldn’t ask that, I know you have. What I mean to ask is have you tried downloaded books on tape…Audible.com right onto my ipod. Love it.
    Will go buy yarn for the baby hats this weekend (will of course check stash, but anything suitable for baby’s would be traditional blue and pinks), try to pump them out.

  51. I love having a way to bind off that doesn’t use yarn. I didn’t know what this was called, but I’ve done it in a pinch before.
    I spent today shopping for and then grilling dinner for my 80 year old parents. My father drove me to the store and my mom supervised my cooking….The fun never stops around here!

  53. I am in Icarus Hades to.
    I just had to frog 10 rows pulling out each stitch by hand because stupid bint me didn’t put in a life line at the begining of the chart repeat. I missed one yarn over.

  56. I am mildly surprised to read you refer to those of us from the USA as “Americans” as separate from Canadians. I was sternly rebuked for doing this when I visited Canada for the first time (I went to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival while in college). The person reminded me that Canadians are technically Americans too. I had never thought about that before or realized this could offend anyone, so I’ve been very careful ever since. Since you and even “Joe the Canadian” refer to us as “Americans,” should I not be so obsessive about this? Did I just run into someone who was having a really bad day serving us ignorant US tourists?

  57. RE: #7 of your last post, this worked for me and my teens during summer. I threatened and was very willing to follow through with this also. “Get a job, or I will find you a job. AND, if I find you a job and you don’t like it, you may not quit it; you must work until the end of the summer OR until you find a job you like.” It worked like a charm for all 3 daughters. Good Luck!

  58. I was thinking of making that alternate cable fix suggestion too, but didn’t get around to it. Also, with dropping the cable stitches, I’m pretty sure you can get by with just dropping down the stitches from half the cable, reversing the twist, then knitting back up.

  59. I’ve never looked at the poncho, but I like it! The crochet cast off is also very wonderful, why did I not think of that?
    Unfortunately, it is raining here in Murray, KY. We started our fireworks and the heavens opened!

  60. Dear Dear Sara. You made my day for the whole week. Caps are good. Yessiree bob.
    You can try using a supply of chopsticks in case the issue comes up again. I use the ‘harden it in the oven’ type of modeling clay on the ends. Quick fix, good for kids projects. Too bad I’m not in Colorado anymore. That just sounded like too much fun. Honestly, I would have come up to help out a fellow knitter in THAT much trouble. Glad you survived.
    Cable fixing with scissors. Umm. Scary. I’ll take the 60 new knitters.
    Everyone have a nice 4th.

  61. Stephanie, it’s like free knitting lessons. I don’t even think that one’s on the Elizabeth Zimmerman DVD I got for Christmas. It’s especially good for those of us who want to be frugal and use up every inch
    til we run out.

  62. Hey, even I can do that! I think that’s the cast off Lara suggested for the log cabin squares to make them easier to sew together. I’m being pulled into the squares project. See january one.

  63. I had a good 4th of July which, as always, involved spinning. In hot weather (this last week has been over 100 every day) I go outside on to the patio each morning with my dog, as soon as I have the animals fed, and sit in the shade for an hour or two, spinning. This morning was no different.
    I love the shawl. Although I knit a lot of shawls, I have never made such a lightweight, lacy one. My shawls are knit from homespun yarns that are a little heavier than sport-weight but lighter than worsted. Over the shoulder area they are knit in garter stitch for warmth, then they have a wide band of some lace type stitch. They are knit for warmth and I wear them all winter instead of sweaters or jackets, obviously it doesn’t get horribly cold here in S. California. I’m going to have to try one of those beautiful, light ones though.
    To Joy – I understand what those Canadians mean. Of course, Canadians are North Americans too. But next time ask them what they would like us to call people from the U.S. USians just doesn’t sound right.

  64. Thanks… I’d always wondered about doing something like this. The normal cast-off is just like doing a row and this at the same time… I’d always wondered why you couldn’t JUST do this. Now I know I should’ve just followed my instincts.

  65. Have you thought of putting in markers at each YO point? That way you’d know when to YO by touch. If you’ve got to skip a few more stitches each row, you’d be able to remember that it would go in 4,4,4, column,… 5,5,5, column. Or have I totally missed the plot on the pattern?
    BTW, the yarn makes me think of a good, stiff brandy or whiskey. Not entirely sure what that says about me but it probably says more about how cold Wagga is at the moment!

  66. Thanks for the birthday greetings for the U.S. And belated greetings to your fair country too! Can’t wait to see you in Chicago in a couple of weeks!! What treats can I bring you that are uniquely Chicago? I have a store here that sells Coffee Crisp (yay!), so if you need a fix, let me know and I’ll bring some.

  67. It didn’t rain. The fireworks were lovely. We see them over a nice lake just a mile from home. I love not having to drive very far. A Great Day. Even impressed a 12 year old motorcycle riding daredevil with the fact that I was knitting a sock. Yes, I’m still on the floor from that one! He really thought it was cool. My sock went to see motorcycles races around and around.
    Great technique. It even made sense and I’m drinking a G & T! Hmmm. I’ll check back tomorrow and see if that’s still the case. Happy Fourth!

  68. Hi Stephanie,
    Audiobooks can save you from sloggy knitting! Check out online stores, like audible.com. Recent favorites of mine include “A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry, and “My Year of Meats” by Ruth Ozecki. My happy place is between my earbuds, with sticks and yarn in hand. As the mother of a 4yo boy, I don’t get there nearly often enough!

  69. Thanks so much for the instructions, Stephanie! I wasn’t expecting the information so quickly. Very well done and over summer holidays (for your children) no less!
    I agree – these would have been too much for an email. The pictures are ideal. Now I know two ways to cast/bind off – what a repertoire (sp?) I’m developing!

  70. Where were you a couple of weeks ago when I had to keep adding scrap yarn to have enough to bind off?! This is a great tip! Question: Do you, personally, use this bind off on all your sweaters, etc., or only when you’re short on yarn?

  71. Hello from vacationland – Ann Arbor, Michigan. Stopped in to see if you are still kicking. All looks fine… will be back to my regularly scheduled comments next week. xox

  72. i’m having the same issue with my current shawl project. it’s not boring me or putting me to sleep, but i’m having trouble feeling the yarn (douceur et soie—i know, poor me!). it is my WKC challenge piece (and a wedding gift) so that is keeping me motivated!

  73. Hold Fast, Harlot! Icarus DOES get better once you hit the lace. I can’t wait to see when you’re finished!

  74. I wish I’d have seen this post -before- I just cast off the final orange dishcloth for my niece. I ran short of yarn in the middle of the cast-off .. eeek! Luckily, I had a scrap of extra from the key lime colorway, and just used a bit of that .. it’s a dishcloth, after all.

  75. I can attest to the non-elastic qualities of the crochet bindoff. I used it on a sweater…the neck part. It wouldn’t go over my head. So I un-bound off, re-crocheted (with a bigger hook) and, although it’s not perfect, it’s better. And I still have a very nice looking sweater. Which, now that I think of it, I have no idea where that sweater is. Hmm. :-S

  76. What a good cast off method when you find out you don’t have enough yarn for a more conventional method. Other than not being done stitch by stitch as you knit the last row (so that you can loosen each stitch for elasticity), isn’t it actually very simular to the more common way to cast off?

  81. Is that multicolored lace yarn you’re using? I thought you said you didn’t like doing lace with that? Well we know how fickle you are! =)

  82. *giggles*… am I really the only one who finds this a bit ironic… you 🙂 the goddess of knitting that you are, the one that nearly caused me to require abdominal surgery from your side splitting laments about the Bird Jacket (that name might not be right) way back when only a few thousand of us understood and waiting with bated breath for your next installment to the Knitlist. That you… teaching a CROCHET technique? Not, mind you that it isn’t an extremely handy and well presented technique but dear Harlot, that’s a crochet hook in your hand. 🙂

  83. I listen to a lot of podcasts while I knit. I haven’t seen what the CBC has to offer, but some of my NPR/PRI favorites:
    Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me (I think you’d love this one)
    Science Friday
    Living on Earth
    On the Media
    There’s also the daily BBC Radio Newspod, which is a roundup of BBC radio news. I also love This American Life, which you can listen to through your computer, but isn’t podcast (you can get a file, but it’s not free).

  84. I’ve gotten myself addicted to audible books because of projects like that. Unfortunately my husband now refers to my pda as the boyfriend 😉

  85. Isn’t that amazing! I would never in a million years have thought of that, but when you see it in action, it is so easy! Thanks so much for the tutorial.

  86. Your cleverness and knowledge have me cross-eyed with amzement! For a split-second I thought, “she could write a book,” but of course before the thought was complete I recalled that you have written 3! and are (I think) working on the 4th. I heart you and thanks by the way for responding to my question. That (baby hats) will be a fun project(s) for me to begin swatching tonight while watching re-runs on TV.

  87. Well that is good to know. There have been times when i have ran out of yarn on the cast-off row and had to rip back (but who hasn’t had that happened to them?) so that will be useful info for the future.

  89. I tried this a while back and love it – the neatness of it, the economy – everything. It is such a cool trick. I can’t remember where I picked it up though.

  90. Joy, that’s about the third or fourth time I’ve heard an American say that “we’re all Americans”, but I swear to you I have never, ever heard a Canadian say that. “American” always refers to our neighbours to the south. Does anyone really ever call Mexicans or Columbians “American”? Maybe it’s a regional thing or was common at one time. I don’t think it is now. (Although we do often say “we” and then make reference to trends or statistics from the US – there are enough similiarities there)

  91. Oh, it’s what you do to finish off one of those potholders your kids make! Why didn’t I ever think of applying that to knitting?! I’m starting Icarus. I hope I’m not crazy.

  92. Isn’t that just a kick in the pants?! I must try that and soon. Thanks for giving me something else to want to try, knowing now I will want to start something new just so I can.
    🙂

  93. I’ve been a lurker for a while but just wanted to say thank you so much for posting the crochet cast off. I am horrendous at guessing how much yarn I need so this is perfect for me. And with great pics too, I actually understand (am a new knitter a long way from any advice).

  94. Thanks for posting the crochet cast off! Tried it last night on my umpteenth Mason Dixon BallBand washcloth and it looks great! Love the cute little chain edge.

  95. so, um, what cast off should I use for toe up socks? And while I’m delurking, might going down from a size one needle to a zero help with the stupid holes in my toe up short row heels? (I’ve finally figured out how to wrap according to the rules, but they still look, well, holey!)

  96. Honestly, it never occured to be to cast-off any other way… I’ve been crocheting for years and just kept on casting off like I did for crochted things (as best as I could manage it on a knitted item). Man, I feel clever now!

  97. i am a huge fan of the yarnharlot and the book made both me and my mother cry (tears of laughter). i am a newer knitter who has a tendancy to forget about knitting (or, in other words leave half done projects in the corner hopeing they somehow learn how to knit themselfs) but whenever i re-read the book or ur blog i get the incredible urge to knit. thank u for all ur inspiration. (dont understand why you like socks so much as they seem scary to us. but i’ll be content to bask in ur knitting superiority.)

  99. Hi there ,
    Good Job….
    I am from India , i got this beautiful yarn , but i am really confused to answer my customers query .
    i got a yarn i dont know what number crochet hook i need to use for it .
    Any experts out there , if u want a pic of my yarn plz do e-mail me zaarucrafts@gmail.com
    Regards
    ALI

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