Show Us Yer Knitters!!

Where To · 04-02-2013 11:29PM #1

When I was at primary school we learned to knit and sew (I'd actually been taught by my granny beforehand but that's another matter), just as we learned arithmetic and how to go to the toilet in pigeon-Irish. It was not until later years that I realised that not everybody was blessed with the knowledge to repair their own clothes, and it surprised me a bit to be honest.

So, can you knit, or do you not know your cashmere from your angora?

HTML5! · 04-02-2013 11:32PM

I vaguely remember learning how to knit in first class.

I could knit, but I couldn't form a pattern or anything. Basically I'd just end up with a lump of string tacked together.

1ZRed · 04-02-2013 11:35PM

Some things are just too gay for me even

Where To · 04-02-2013 11:36PM

HTML5! wrote: »

I vaguely remember learning how to knit in first class.

I could knit, but I couldn't form a pattern or anything. Basically I'd just end up with a lump of string tacked together.

There's your problem right there.:pac:

Ihatecuddles-old · 04-02-2013 11:37PM

I can indeed, didn't learn in school though.

Where To · 04-02-2013 11:38PM

1ZRed wrote: »

Some things are just too gay for me even

Ahh now, sewing and knitting are very important for the survival of the species. Just between you and me, I think it should be a man's job meself, but there'd be outcry here if I said that publicly, so just keep it to yourself.:)

Banjo String · 04-02-2013 11:38PM

I can't knit, no.

I could de-horn Bullocks from I was seven though.

Mint Sauce · 04-02-2013 11:39PM

What kinda school you go to OP. The Girls School?

kfallon · 04-02-2013 11:39PM

Can't knit for ****!

Where To · 04-02-2013 11:41PM

SamHall wrote: »

I can't knit, no.

I could de-horn Bullocks from was I was seven though.

I squeezed my first bullcalf when I was eight. I didn't think much of it then, don't think I could do it now though.

LoonyLovegood · 04-02-2013 11:41PM

I can knit, sew and embroider...I'm such a girl.

1ZRed · 04-02-2013 11:41PM

Where To wrote: »

Ahh now, sewing and knitting are very important for the survival of the species. Just between you and me, I think it should be a man's job meself, but there'd be outcry here if I said that publicly, so just keep it to yourself.:)

In fairness we were taught in 1st and 2nd class, and again in 5th and 6th, but I was hopeless and got my mom to do it for me.

I got nothin against you for it brah :pac:

f140 · 04-02-2013 11:41PM

we learned to knit in second class. used to get my granny to do some of it at home. i could knit once the first line was started off but had to get someone to do the last line aswell to finish it off.

Ihatecuddles-old · 04-02-2013 11:42PM

CTYIgirl wrote: »

I can knit, sew and embroider...I'm such a girl.

Embroidery is my favourite. Probably the only girly thing about me. Apart from the obvious

Super-Rush · 04-02-2013 11:42PM

We were taught to knit in school.

I made loads of headbands and scarves.

Where To · 04-02-2013 11:43PM

irish-stew wrote: »

What kinda school you go to OP. The Girls School?

You wouldn't be laughing if you think how much you could save on boxers if you didn't have to burn them as soon as your willy started hanging out of them.:p

Ihatecuddles-old · 04-02-2013 11:44PM

Where To wrote: »

You wouldn't be laughing if you think how much you could save on boxers if you didn't have to burn them as soon as your willy started hanging out of them.:p

That hole's there for a reason...

Where To · 04-02-2013 11:46PM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

That hole's there for a reason...

Is it? I only pee naked to avoid spalshback.

04-02-2013 11:47PM

I started again recently.
It is so calming. Creative fidgeting.
Who needed adderall back then.

January · 04-02-2013 11:50PM

Was never taught in primary... studied Home Ec. in secondary and never learned either (funnily enough I never learned to sew either... I just wasn't into it. I wanted to do Science but it filled up and I was too far down the list. Childcare project for the Junior Cert FTW!!)

I have started to crochet though!

Mint Sauce · 04-02-2013 11:51PM

Where To wrote: »

You wouldn't be laughing if you think how much you could save on boxers if you didn't have to burn them as soon as your willy started hanging out of them.:p

At least I dont get an itch down there.

sunbeam · 04-02-2013 11:53PM

We were taught knitting, crochet and sewing from first to sixth class in the 80s (both boys and girls). The boys were spared embroidery in sixth and instead learned the more manly art of weaving. The girls could have a go as well if they wanted.

im invisible · 05-02-2013 12:05AM

in the little bunny-hole, round the big tree, out the little bunny-hole, and off goes she...

HTML5! · 05-02-2013 12:10AM

CTYIgirl wrote: »

I can knit, sew and embroider...I'm such a girl.

Good girl yourself!

Queen-Mise · 05-02-2013 12:18AM

im invisible wrote: »

in the little bunny-hole, round the big tree, out the little bunny-hole, and off goes she...

Thank you for that little rhyme. I am teaching my 7 year old how to knit at the moment and I think that rhyme will really help. I have never heard of it before.

I learnt to knit in primary school. My mother was a serious knitter. I started knitting again a few months after 20 odd years. I enjoy it.

Although I am the same kind of knitter as I am a reader - I am knitting four things at the moment, I think I have a fear of completing things

im invisible · 05-02-2013 12:23AM

don't trust me on the wording tho' i've never knitted anything in my life, only remember that rhyme from when my sisters used knit nearly 20 years ago..

Chucken · 05-02-2013 12:46AM

I was taught how to knit in national school and I hated it. The amount of "scarves" I knitted was unreal. All of them starting out at one width and ending up about 3 inches narrower at the other end

My brother could knit socks! Yes ladies and gents..it took 4 needles. :eek:

When I went into 1st year we had to make a blouse! That lump of material went in and out of the biscuit tin (thats where we kept our sewing) for 3 solid years until I left school.
I hadn't a clue what I was supposed to be doing with it. I had never been shown how to use a sewing machine, it was a given that we somehow "knew"!?!

My cousin who was blessed with the same name as me, found it and continued the tradition of taking it in and out of the biscuit tin for another few years

Years later I was taking a night class at the school and lo and behold, there was the feckin tin looking down at me from a shelf. I took it home and finally put it where it should have gone a long time before..The Bin.

Where To · 05-02-2013 01:51AM

Chucken wrote: »

I was taught how to knit in national school and I hated it. The amount of "scarves" I knitted was unreal. All of them starting out at one width and ending up about 3 inches narrower at the other end

My brother could knit socks! Yes ladies and gents..it took 4 needles. :eek:

When I went into 1st year we had to make a blouse! That lump of material went in and out of the biscuit tin (thats where we kept our sewing) for 3 solid years until I left school.
I hadn't a clue what I was supposed to be doing with it. I had never been shown how to use a sewing machine, it was a given that we somehow "knew"!?!

My cousin who was blessed with the same name as me, found it and continued the tradition of taking it in and out of the biscuit tin for another few years

Years later I was taking a night class at the school and lo and behold, there was the feckin tin looking down at me from a shelf. I took it home and finally put it where it should have gone a long time before..The Bin.

I am surprised and somewhat saddened by this post, you see I have a pair of socks that need darned, and what with you being the oldest person on boards I thought you could help me.

Alas it seems not.:(

humbert · 05-02-2013 02:30AM

Can sew but can't knit. Sewing is sometimes useful but I don't see myself weaving my own geansaí.

swiftman · 05-02-2013 03:21AM

thought the title of the thread was 'show us yer knickers' not knitters. ah sure its late in the night. disappointed

mud · 05-02-2013 03:51AM

I'm trying to learn crocheting from the web. It's very frustrating though. I'm an absolute beginner and I no unnerstand da lingo

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