Tension is only really a problem if your making clothing, blankets don't really matter if they are a bit bigger or smaller.
If you thread the yarn through your fingers so it loops around one finger I find it is quite easy to get the same tension also if you find your a tight crocheter go up a hook size, if your to loose go down . (Sorry if im teaching your wife to suck eggs @Doghouse Riley thats not what i ment to do, just trying to help.)
Tension is only really a problem if your making clothing, blankets don't really matter if they are a bit bigger or smaller.
If you thread the yarn through your fingers so it loops around one finger I find it is quite easy to get the same tension also if you find your a tight crocheter go up a hook size, if your to loose go down . (Sorry if im teaching your wife to suck eggs @Doghouse Riley thats not what i ment to do, just trying to help.)
No problems.
My wife used to knit a lot with Sirdar yarns. These over time became harder to find as knitting yarn shops closed as imported knitwear was as, "cheap as chips"
She often made up her own patterns. She'd knit a whole back of a jumper and if then she decided the pattern wasn't as she liked it and with a bit of alteration it'd look better, she'd undo it and start again!. She knitted for herself and mostly for our two boys, who liked Fairisle patterns.
Knitting I guess was always a bigger hobby here than in some places. A friend of our son and his wife had a baby twenty years ago and she knitted a lot of layette stuff for it. They shortly after moved to Boston in the USA. The girl wrote to my wife to say that when she took her new baby out in the pram, women stopped her in the street to enquire where they could buy those sort of baby clothes.
Many thanks @Valley Gardener for putting the photos on here. Thank you for all the kind comments folks. I have made so many blankets over the years that I have lost count. Have since made another one in blue for someone's grandson and now started on a pink one for whoever comes up next. I don't even know some of the people I make them for as I just get requests and oblige. Some of the past "babies" are now adults with children of their own. Most of them have been made with wool from Poundland and as you get three balls for the price of two it works out very cheaply and it washes well. @Doghouse Riley I can understand the Americans loving the knitted layettes. Your wife must have the patience of a saint to undo something and start all over again.
Many thanks @Valley Gardener for putting the photos on here. Thank you for all the kind comments folks. I have made so many blankets over the years that I have lost count. Have since made another one in blue for someone's grandson and now started on a pink one for whoever comes up next. I don't even know some of the people I make them for as I just get requests and oblige. Some of the past "babies" are now adults with children of their own. Most of them have been made with wool from Poundland and as you get three balls for the price of two it works out very cheaply and it washes well. @Doghouse Riley I can understand the Americans loving the knitted layettes. Your wife must have the patience of a saint to undo something and start all over again.
She has, but she does have a lot of spare time and like me she likes things to be "right."
I think I posted this earlier in the thread, but this is what she'll knit for a new baby of friends and family.
Some of the posts here (or anywhere on the forum) might feel a bit random or being sent out into the void, but they really do have influence. You have all encouraged me (and I'm sure others too) to get creating and painting and sewing. It's a great reminder in my day to bring me back to things I love - be it roses or crafting. I do love the pull back and I do respond. Sometimes my creations feel pointless (made in the void) but I am reminded that they can have impact too - stones painted for children, cards sent to relatives. On a bad day it feels like random nonsense. But I keep the faith. Thanks for sharing your inspiration.
I used to paint, but haven't for about thirty or more years. My wife put a couple away in a wardrobe a couple of decades ago to stop me chucking them out, but she really likes this one so it's on the wall on hall landing. I used to get a bit bored before completing stuff, so they could be better finished.
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Tension is only really a problem if your making clothing, blankets don't really matter if they are a bit bigger or smaller.
If you thread the yarn through your fingers so it loops around one finger I find it is quite easy to get the same tension
(Sorry if im teaching your wife to suck eggs @Doghouse Riley thats not what i ment to do, just trying to help.)
Failure is always an option.
@Doghouse Riley I can understand the Americans loving the knitted layettes. Your wife must have the patience of a saint to undo something and start all over again.