Crocheting and Knitting

Generally, it's called a knot. It may, however, be a spinning error -- a slub.

Hi,

To understand Top Dyed yarns, its necessary to know about Melange yarns first.

A melage yarn is the yarn which is produced with various combinations of Raw White & Dyed Cottons or dyed fibres.

For example, if we produce a yarn with 100% Cotton, then it will call as normal "Raw White" yarn, or Grey yarn or Natural colored yarn or acru yarn.

Now if we mix 99% Raw White Cotton & 1% dyed Cotton (of any color), then it will called "Melange" yarn.

Similarly, we can generate hundreds & hundreds of shades by mixing various % of Cottons with various ratios.

All the formed yarns in same method will called "Cotton Melange Yarns".

Now lets consider the following combinations

99% Raw White Cotton + 1% Black Polyester

98% Raw White Cotton + 2% Black Polyester

95% Raw White Cotton + 5% Black Polyester

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can generate many many shades with different ratios of dyed polyester & in different colors.

AND THE YARNS PRODUCED THROUGH THIS TECHNICES ARE CALLED AS "POLYESTER MELANGE YARNS", OR "HEATHER GREY YARNS" OR ALSO "TOP DYED" YARNS.

Therefore, generally the melange yarns of dyed Polyester combinations are to be referred as "Top Dyed" yarns.

But we cannot fix this definition specifically for "Top Dyed" also because there are many customers in Far-East countries, who has fixed the term "Top Dyed" for all kinds of Melange yarns. They never mention that whether these are Cotton Melanges or Polyester Melanges !!!

Just for additional informations, Melange yarns can also be produced with other fibres too like Viscose, Rayon, Bamboo, Modal, Coolmax, Tancel, Soyabean, Cashmere, etc. Hope it will help. In addition to above answer, please also note that fabrics produced with Melange yarns (either from Cotton melange, heather grey, or else) are not dyed further usually to make garments and fabric is used as it is.

I would say most likely that means "slip stitch."

To purchase a s crochet hook you should visit your local craft store, look in the knitting/crochet section. The hooks should be in order by their size. If you cannot find what you are looking for, ask a staff member, customer service or look it up online.

the spinning frame

yes you can do this and there is actually a book specifically made for doing this

You start with a slip knot to secure your yarn to the needle. This is followed up by a process called casting on. There are a few different methods used to cast on stitches. Experiment to find which one works best for you. The KnittingHelp web site has some step by step directions to a couple of methods as well as videos. See the related link below.

Yarn

Acrylic yarn 100% synthetic and is essentially plastic. Because plastic in itself is cheap, it makes for an inexpensive yarn. While natural fiber yarns such as wool or cotton are spun, acrylic yarns are long incredibly thin pieces of plastic that are wrapped together.

Acrylic yarn is good to craft with when creating for someone with extensive allergies. It is never recommended for projects that will be near extreme heat, such as potholders. Because it is inexpensive, it is great for the beginner crocheter or knitter.

Though it is unsure where exactly knitting originated, it is probable that it began in the Middle East, the result of shepherds who invented it as a good way to use the wool from their sheep to produce clothes, since it could be done anywhere, without a big awkward loom like weaving.

It is likely that knitting began as the job of men, while women spun the wool.

It would then have spread to Europe through trading routes, and from there to the rest of the world eventually.

The oldest known samples of knitting were found in Egypt, however, dating between the 11th and 14th centuries.

In Europe, it became the art of women, and was soon a well-developed skill that was taught to most ladies.

Knitting moved to America with the European colonies.

It means Knit Off.

Could that possibly be r n d? Meaning "round"? The r and n placed side-by-side in some fonts does look like an "m".

Uh . . . green . . .

Seriously, a "Demisemiquaver" is a 1/32nd note in music. A "Hemidemisemiquaver" is a 1/64th note.

I think that the afghan/blanket overall pattern isn't the most important to you--it is the Cowboy "star" that is the most important, correct?

I have found a graphed cowboy star, that you could incorporate into any afghan or blanket pattern.

It's just the way it turns out, and it can be really annoying when you are trying to make something straight like a scarf, or anything really. The same goes for Stockinette Stitch, which has the tendency to curve around the edges.

The easiest way to find the inside tail of a big, one pound yard skein in its original form is to reach into the center of the skein and pull. You will remove the yarn from the center, which will include its tail.

It would be very difficult to fit an entire alphabet in a corner. You are limited by the size of the stitches for making the shapes. An individual letter would be more doable, and the easiest way is to use Swiss embroidery, that is to use a contrasting yarn to cover each part of the relevant stitches. You can use graph paper to work out the necessary shape.

A skein of wool can come in different weights. There is not a specific amount of wool needed in a skein.

You may be thinking of the word skein.

Choose a yarn that felts, ie an animal fiber that has not been mercerized (turned into "superwash") and is not blended with much of a fiber other than animal hair. For example, too much acrylic will prevent a wool blend from felting. Knit or crochet the project using needles about three sizes larger than you would ordinarily use with yarn of that thickness. If there isn't enough space between the stitches it will not felt well. Try felting a test swatch before committing to a large project.

When the project (or swatch) is ready to felt, put it in a zippered pillowcase and into the clothes washer along with two or three pairs of jeans and a dash of detergent. Set the controls to maximum heat and maximum aggitation (the setting for extra dirt will have the most aggitation). Check in about five minutes to see if the project is starting to shrink yet. Keep setting the cycle back to the beginning when you check so that it never reaches the spin cycle. Different yarns in different colors, projects, and washing machines will felt at different rates. So check every five minutes until it starts to shrink. Once it starts it will progress quickly, so check more often. When the project is the desired size and/or texture, stop. If in doubt, stop. You can always felt more, but you cannot unfelt if you go too far.

Squeeze out the excess water and shape to dry. If it's a purse, stuff it with towels or a small box wrapped in plastic wrap so it will dry in a pleasing shape. For a hat, cover your head in plastic wrap and wear the hat until dry for a perfect fit.

There are many different scales of hook size. Here is a link to a conversion chart:http://www.crochetmagazine.com/hook_sizes.php

In crochet, the abbreviation, sk chs, is an instruction to skip (sk) chains (chs).

In a pattern you might see it written: sk 3ch. Which would translate into: skip stitching into the next 3 chain stitches (you would then follow then next instructions to find out what to do then).

This truly is a matter of opinion.

One could argue that crocheting is easier than knitting because there is only one needle/hook, as opposed to the two needles in knitting.

However, knitting is simpler (there is a difference between "simple" and "easy") than crocheting, having fewer basic stitches and an easier-to-understand material.

The basic stitches in crochet are easier to learn, but are also easy to mess up. The basic knitting stitches are harder to master, but once learned, are more difficult to mess up.

In all, I would recommend that younger children learn to knit, and anyone over the age of 10 to do either, though crocheting might have the advantage, since it usually takes less time to do.

"Cont as established" reads continue as established; it means to follow the directions without change. The pattern may be established in the first several rows/rounds. In which case "cont(inue) as established" means to work the same pattern repeats for the required length.

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