Knitting stuff
24 Apr 2026 14:57Figured I'd put it here rather than in a comment, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
camelsamba!
Anyhow, I decided I wanted some felted coasters. So I checked to see how I could knit and then felt them. Found a few places that discuss the process or imply that it can be done:
Instructables
Not free pattern from Ravelry with size info.
Circular, free, but not felted
I of course asked my knitting buddy CoPilot. Yeah, AI, but the damn thing helped me figure out so much when I was knitting my slightly complicated beanie, and translated the 'on the round' instructions to flat so I could practice. And it helped decode the knitting instructions which were confusing to me, as a novice. Anyhow I take nothing at 100% face value but. CoPilot sez...
So yeah. I'm pretty much experimenting. I think I'll go for square ones on this first trial.
But. Yarn.
It has to be wool and cannot be 'superwash' because, duh, I want it to felt. As someone who does not have a stash, that meant buying some. I got some Cascade 220 in a shade called 'brueberry (sic) heather'. It's quite pretty.
We shall see. I am planning on double knitting, something one of the sites somewhere suggested. Or I'll try both ways, single and double strand and see.
Aside from that I was looking at yarn to make myself a simple sweater, and OMG, who can afford to knit?
Note: funny thing about CoPilot: not my fave and I pretty much don't use it for anything aside from knitting stuff. But if they'd called it "Cortana", my beloved digital assistant when I had a Windows Phone which was superior to POS Android in all ways, I'd have been all over it. Ah well. Missed opportunity there, Microsoft. CoPilot is stupid. Cortana would have been brilliant. ETA. Oh yeah. First thing I'm going to have to do is make balls with the twisty of yarn. I remember having to sit there helping my grandmother with that.
camelsamba!
Anyhow, I decided I wanted some felted coasters. So I checked to see how I could knit and then felt them. Found a few places that discuss the process or imply that it can be done:
Instructables
Not free pattern from Ravelry with size info.
Circular, free, but not felted
I of course asked my knitting buddy CoPilot. Yeah, AI, but the damn thing helped me figure out so much when I was knitting my slightly complicated beanie, and translated the 'on the round' instructions to flat so I could practice. And it helped decode the knitting instructions which were confusing to me, as a novice. Anyhow I take nothing at 100% face value but. CoPilot sez...
So yeah. I'm pretty much experimenting. I think I'll go for square ones on this first trial.
But. Yarn.
It has to be wool and cannot be 'superwash' because, duh, I want it to felt. As someone who does not have a stash, that meant buying some. I got some Cascade 220 in a shade called 'brueberry (sic) heather'. It's quite pretty.
We shall see. I am planning on double knitting, something one of the sites somewhere suggested. Or I'll try both ways, single and double strand and see.
Aside from that I was looking at yarn to make myself a simple sweater, and OMG, who can afford to knit?
Note: funny thing about CoPilot: not my fave and I pretty much don't use it for anything aside from knitting stuff. But if they'd called it "Cortana", my beloved digital assistant when I had a Windows Phone which was superior to POS Android in all ways, I'd have been all over it. Ah well. Missed opportunity there, Microsoft. CoPilot is stupid. Cortana would have been brilliant. ETA. Oh yeah. First thing I'm going to have to do is make balls with the twisty of yarn. I remember having to sit there helping my grandmother with that.
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