This monstrous beast has taken over my studio and is driving me crazy.
I spent several hours last night trying to figure out how to even cast on, today I at least got that far and did produce a few scraps that at least resemble knitting. Sort of.
Here’s some nice, tweedy, hand knit garter stitch. Ahh, that’s better.
Wow! So many name suggestions for the rabbit, I don’t think I’ve ever had so many comments on one post before. Somehow though the absolutely right name hasn’t struck me yet, so if you have any more suggestions I’d love to read them. Consider the tagline contest closed though, I don’t think I’m going to bother with one.
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The bunny looks like a Jemima to me.
I agree about knitting machines…not as much fun as knitting by hand.
Ahh, you got a knitting machine. I have a Brother too, sitting in the box unused for 15 years. I did have quite a little flurry of activity with it though when I got it. My ultimate assessment was the action was more like weaving than knitting and the look a little too even. But I am thinking of digging it out again because I have spun a lot of fingering weight yarn and I don’t want to take as long to knit it up as I took to spin it.
How about Percival for the rabbit?
And I have a knitting question for you. I’m a fairly new knitter. I’m knitting a vest with ribbing around the bottom. After knitting about 2 inches of the ribbing on the front, I noticed that half the … columns … on my needle had fewer stitches than did the other half. I mean that part of what I had knit had, say, 11 rows and part of it had 9 rows. I figured I must have started knitting onto the wrong needle after picking the piece back up mid-row, but I couldn’t figure out how to do this on purpose (to correct the problem) without making a hole in the knitting. I finally fixed it by accident, and now I’m wondering what exactly happened! And how I’d fix it if it happens again. Any ideas?
I really enjoy your blog and seeing your knitting. It’s inspiring.
Knitting maching must be cool to knit large, simple outfit, but for the rest, anything is better that to do by hand!
Well, i saw all the comments on your last post and i though: “well, i will not add one more, she had enough to read now”.
But, i saw your lovely rabbit and said: “Prosper”, i need to explain that all the tiny cute animals i saw i call them Prosper, my dog used to be called like that, then a snail, my favorite lamb from the school’s farm now, well i don’t know but i love to give that name…i might be just silly…
I liked the idea of the “Bunn of Y” but you’re still the boss Ysolda! Good luck to choose!
Wait, why not “Opal”?
Okay so more names. Amari, Nia, Malcolm, Jordan, Carrie, Imani, Xavier and Jayda. I also like Sade, Naomi, Martin, Felix, Felicity and Sam (as in short for Samantha or Samuel). Oh and Turquoise, I love color names. =)
For a name for the bunny what about Mr.Huggle Bunny
I’m sure with all these suggestions, you’ll end up coming up with a name on your own. But here’s mine anyhow…Matilda. Good luck!
have you checked the sponge bar? and do you want me to come and have a go at it with you? my brother is the chunky, but it can’t be that different.
i’ve probably got a spare book you can borrow as well. oh indeed i do, i bought the brother book of the knitter, but later bought it on cd as well with the book of the ribber.
happy to play… er I mean help!
For a boy, I thought of Franklin. For a girl, I’d suggest Minnie. It’s a very cute bunny.
How about Marie, Fleur, Maia, Cleo or Genevieve?
for the rabbit, “elza”
Marguerite or Gertrude? Something slightly fussy/endearing and like an old lady seems right!
I saw your first picture and my first thought was, “oh dear.” Good luck with that machine!
For the bunny, Prudence, Hon. Rosie (for Honorable), Mariel, or Martin, Basil, and Luke.
I have an LK-150 and I don’t care for the way cast ons and bind offs look on it. I generally work a few extra rows at the start and end, rip them out and use it to bind off both ends by hand. I just prefer the results.
The only cast on I would do on the machine is the tubular ribbed cast on outlined in the manual for my machine. However, it involves latching up every other column of stitches, to get the purl ribs, so it’s not exactly efficient, but it is lovely. :)
Personally, I believe that the rabbit is a girl and she strikes me as someone with a name beginning with A. The most important part of a name is the meaning though. Some of my favorites are: Agatha (virtuous, good), Adena (noble, delicate), Anita (gracious, merciful), or Arista (best).
However, if you would like an androgynous name better, I like Artemis.
Well I’m not sure if someone already suggested this as I’m not plowing through all those comments…but Elsie came to mind.
Iphigenia. She has a tragic past, I feel.
Good luck with the knitting machine. I have a 9yo Brother that has never even left it’s box. Every time I consider giving it a try I find myself too daunted to go for it. As for the bunny name, I was thinking Lyra or Alyssa.
The rabbit’s name is Anton for me
i think the rabbits name is ninny! rabbit is called ‘kanin’ in swedish, and then i thought about ‘ninis’, and in a more english style it have to be ninny! or ninnie, maybe …
it’s so much fun to read all the name sugestions, i think i have to knit a little army with stuffed animals and give them nice names :)
Clover?
i think colin. or if she’s a girl, calliope.
I really can’t decide if your bunny is a boy or a girl, I guess a girl since I can think of more girl names than boy names: Opal, Iris or Isa (pronounced Eee-sa). Basil if it is boy.
Hi Ysolda.
How about Hazel ?
Hazel is the main character in the book (and film) Watership Down – which is probably a wee bit before your time but marked my childhood.
Hazel the character was actually a boy but I think if people kintted their own Hazel they could think of it as a boy or a girl couldn’t they?
Anyway. I enjoy reading your blog so thanks for working so hard to keep it up.
I think the rabbit is called Miffle.
I think Miffle is a tomboy-ish girl.
:-)
Like so many others, I seem to have your rabbit on the brain. I have been thinking about rabbits in litterature and they seem to be few and far between. I just remembered Hester from the His Dark Materials series (Lee Scoresby’s daemon but was she a hare?). Hester is a good name I think. Also Hestia, who is the Goddess of the Hearth. Another good name. I will now think about something else!
Ohh, I like Hester! My suggestion was going to be Miranda, if no one’s beaten me to it.
I quite like Humphrey. Although it does give me the urge to find a rabbit to put a top hat on…
Hi ysolda if you need any help with your knitting machine let me know i’ve got four… too many i know. Once your get started it’s fanytasticaly easy to create new stitches and you can make a garment in about a day, including designing on them. I did a degree in knitwear at leicester and we hardly did any hand knitting at all it was all done on the machine
Hey, did you ever figure out how to use your knitting machine? I just got a brother 940/compuknit iv knitking and can’t figure out how to cast on… have been looking online for some clues, but not luck… the instructions on the booklet are pretty confusing… well, I am super ADD too… :-(
the lazy knitter
http://easyknittingpatterns.blogspot.com
Cast on using a cord, or cast on bar, or ‘e’ wrap. Easiest is cast on bar first, using waste yarn a contrast yarn used to cast on then disgard. Knit one row at tension around 6 for 4 ply. Hook cast on bar, metal over yarn between sinker hooks (the metal spkiey rail at front) and pull down firmly. Then knit slowly arcross all needles. Do this for about ten rows. Now if this isn’t working the needle sponge bar may be worn, the sponge can lose its bounce and you will just keep dropping stitiches and its extremely frustrating. I have taught kntting for 15 years but its very difficult to explain hre, try looking a ‘you tube’ for some fantastic beginners videos, to get you started.