So I'm quitting soaker knitting.....

[SuefromGEC]

ok, well I'm not totally quitting soaker knitting, but drastically reducing my output to do other stuff. I feel soooo liberated! So I'm looking for a non-diaper related knitting oriented message board, and I'm told you all will talk to me about stuff like sweaters and lace and cables and silk and other fine fibers that are not wool. And I won't get lost in a kajillion posters....so can I really come play here but not about wool?

[meritodd1221]

of course you can! :D

[IrishBaby]

Hi Sue! Welcome back! :)

[blazfglori]

I haven't knit a soaker in about 3 years, but I still love to come here and chat.

There's more to knitting than diapering stuff. ;)

[615bride]

I lurk but don't post on the Knitter's Review Forums. Lots of boards over there - all knitting related!

[dandelions2]

I haven't done a soaker in a few months - let's knit socks and sweaters and hats and gloves! :)

[RufusBeans]

yup I hardly ever think about soakers or diapers, but I love it here!

[pamelamama]

It's funny, many of us who have been here for a couple of years (gosh it's been that long??? Eli is almost four, so yeah, maybe almost four years??) -- we started out talking soakers are now kind of done with them for our own kids! So, our demographic is kind of changing...

We'll talk about any kind of knitting over here.

I'm playing with socks and lace right now, and tempting myself to buy some crazy expensive silk yarn. This here (http://www.dreamweaveryarns.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1339).

Was someone talking about a knitalong??

[dandelions2]

OMG! I so want to make that for myself, but I so don't want to spend that kind of money on it. lol Help me find a pretty sub!

[cozystitches]

If I had a decent body, I'd think about knitting that....I don't so the point is moot (my boobs are bigger than that twig's arms... :P )

But anyway....I don't knit soakers (I've only knit ONE and I was testing the pattern for someone)...I used to hooker (I love saying that) soakers, but since my kids don't use them I felt weird selling them....

But I'm still here for the wooly goodness...

Hugs,
tammy

[mhurst]

Yeah I started a few soakers lately but haven't finished them (one got ripped out). Meredith is mostly in disposibles (it really isn't worth the fighting with DH about cloth anymore, I'm tired). She still wears her wool pants.:sunshine

I am on a lace and sock kick!

[crinklemama]

My new love is socks......I'm having so much fun knitting them! If I can ever get the growing list of things that need to be done before this babe comes done, I'm going to make myself some pretty socks!

I bought the pattern for SKB......I want to make one!!!!!

[SuefromGEC]

I have some lace weight cashmere that I'm dying to make into a lacey scarf. Oh and that Henry's Attic silk that is destined to be lacey shawls; I have patterns from Two Old Bags that I got anticipating this quitting soaker knitting moment. I have even thought of making socks which I swore I would never do again after making my brother socks years and years ago - but the yarn is so pretty!

[pmcgary]

You know I signed up here in the beginning and 'applied to work' for Pamelamama in part b/c she offered her soaker patterns as a benefit of the job.....

I made one pair of wonder shorts and my DD started to use the potty!

I knit soakers for friends or fun---but it never really was my full time knitting passion. (Well maybe a bit when Ds was little- and the only patterns out there were those early freegbies on Born 2 Love) I didn't have a computer or know about the Wool soaker/CD community......

I have always loved being here and talking knitting, parenting, soakering/cding etc.....

[susanjp]

I know you! :wave

My kids potty trained YEARS ago (Well except for dd overnight - that's another story), I wanna stay around here too - PLEASE! :)

Sue, you'll love it here, the Mamas here are great! :)

[Inspired Mama]

I am 4 months pregnant but I am just not getting into the soaker knitting mood yet. I have knit one and have one on the needles, but I am so much more interested in hats and scarves and gloves, etc. I am going to knit up some cute little baby socks though :) And I'm sure the soaker/longie bug will catch me soon...

[ravingcutie]

i hardley ever knit soakers and pants now. I think I'm all soakered out. I've been doing lots of socks!

I got that lovely fitted bodice pattern too, but I refuse to use Tili Thomas yarns due to their "keystone" price fixing policies. They'll drop any retailer if they sell their yarns below their MSRP, rather than letting the retailers decide their own price. Ashland Bay makes a really nice substitute yarn - 50% merino and 50% silk that's less expensive. I'm going to kettle dye some skeins scarlet and then just hand string the beads for the decorative stitch patterns. Plus, I think a sweater made from 50% merino will have a much better fit. Oh, and the Windsor yarn is less expensive than the original calls for too! ;)

[imonion]

soakers are so passe!! LOL

I am retired from knitting soakers, too. It is really liberating to be more creative in other ways!

[dandelions2]

i hardley ever knit soakers and pants now. I think I'm all soakered out. I've been doing lots of socks!

I got that lovely fitted bodice pattern too, but I refuse to use Tili Thomas yarns due to their "keystone" price fixing policies. They'll drop any retailer if they sell their yarns below their MSRP, rather than letting the retailers decide their own price. Ashland Bay makes a really nice substitute yarn - 50% merino and 50% silk that's less expensive. I'm going to kettle dye some skeins scarlet and then just hand string the beads for the decorative stitch patterns. Plus, I think a sweater made from 50% merino will have a much better fit. Oh, and the Windsor yarn is less expensive than the original calls for too! ;)

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