What type of wool is best for the 8 x 8 squares?

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Permalink Reply by P. Jeanne Haessler on July 13, 2009 at 8:00am

Most of us are using acrylic yarns at the moment. Some have made baby hats in fingering weight, even the baby blanket squares in finer weight yarns. I've done squares in everything from sport to worsted to bulky. Many people are using the DK yarn, or double knitting weight yarn, it looks to be about the same as North American sport yarn in weight. So long as the square is warm and comfy, the kids will love it. Sending a bunch the same yarn weight will help the ladies at the other end match them up easier to sew into blankets. Hope this helped. :)

Permalink Reply by Kathy Holdsworth on July 13, 2009 at 8:03am

Thanks Jeanne, just wondering because the wool my mum(shes a keen knitter) uses is double knitting.

I was just wondering if that was OK to use.

Thanks for the info.

Permalink Reply by P. Jeanne Haessler on July 13, 2009 at 8:14am

Oh DK's great stuff. Some people are using double strands for some garments and hats. Personal choice I think, there's discussions around KAS about yarn weights.

My mum was a keen knitter too. She learnt when 15 and sitting on the bus during WW2 going to work. She'd knit herself cardigans and jumpers, whatever she needed. By the time I was 20 she could knit a fancy lace pattern cardi for a baby, talk and watch tv all at the same time and never miss a stitch. She did, however, threaten me with bodily harm if I ever asked her to make me another Christmas vest! It had the usual charted pattern to follow (a French Horn with holly and ribbons) and you used tons of small balls of various coloured wools to make the picture, rather than carrying the yarn across, and they kept tangling up every five seconds oh her, lol. It's a great vest and a great memory of her determination to get the danged thing finished! :)

Permalink Reply by Kathy Holdsworth on July 13, 2009 at 8:21am

I wouldnt say that I was a keen knitter!!! I dont have a clue about all the knitting 'stuff'!

The only thing I have done is the squares that I done ages ago(dont think i can send them because I havent a piece on it after casting off, read on the KAS site that you need to a leave a 2 metre piece!!)

This is such a shame as there is 15!!

Mum has recently been knitting a clown for a child in the family and she has got me in the mood for knitting and starting to do the squares again lol!!!

I have also been looking through her knitting pattern books!!!

Permalink Reply by kyla on July 17, 2009 at 3:57pm

a family friend taught me to knit when I was about five years old, but I never really took to it. I taught myself all over again when I was 17, knitting baby hats for a charity called 'caps to the capital,' then I moved from one charity to the next, and settled in KAS for the long haul in February. and I could easily see it becoming a life-long long haul.