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and speaking of th u.k what a mess they've landed themselves in by voting to leave the european union
Hi. I'm left handed and I start from the left side working right. Would I reverse the pattern vertically or leave it as is?
Sandy,
We entirely agree!
Thank you again. Silvertiger,
Oh, yes, this was an item that was made for the purpose of making Barbie (and other) doll clothes! It was called the Apple Pie Knitter. It was basically the same principle as a spool knitter, except instead of the more popular knitting knobbies that only worked on about 4 stitches to make something similar to I-cord, you would make wider tubes that would be the right size for Barbie! This is the box:
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3dxbasZiE78/SJfnCkmzGXI/AAAAAAAACG4/j4xBoIpHHqQ/s1600-h/000applepieknittera+%28Large%29.jpg
I remember making something similar to the yellow/green dress in the lower right hand corner. To make the "armholes," they included a cone-shaped item, perhaps made of cork (don't remember much about that one), and you would stretch out the stitches with it to make armholes.
Aha, here's a page with other pics, plus a better picture of the loom itself and the cone-shaped thing...maybe it's made of wood? I can't tell.
https://www.vintagetoys.com/toys/classified/1379
There was also a "machine," similar to the machines they make today for children...plastic, turn a handle, crank out a knitted tube. It doesn't say it's for Barbie clothes, but they do have instructions for making yo-yos. I own one...found it at a garage sale, priced at $2.
I agree about scarves and panels in flat knitting. I don't remember how thick the loom pieces turned out...why do you think it's thicker? It just seemed like an awful lot of trouble to make something that way than to simply knit by hand.
LOL, you have the same approach I do!
I sometimes jump in and try
things...mixed results, though...most of the time I have to slow
down and try something smaller. Hee hee, really brings me
down to earth to realize I can't just do it all! As for double pointed needles, the biggest thing to watch out for is not to twist the join. It can be done on purpose...but that's another story.
For making a hat it is certainly
unsuitable.Also, there are many tutorials to help you with various things, such as the join having a gap (called a "ladder") when done the traditional way. Whenever I cast on for something in the round, I search for the instructions to make the join without a ladder. There's a way to do it, and I can never remember without looking it up, sigh, but it's something I always do, because otherwise, the join looks terrible.
Here's a site showing how to do it with circular needles, the same as double points for this technique...meh, six of one, half a dozen of the other, a join is a join:
https://www.tata-tatao.to/knit/closeup/e-twocircular.html
This one is called "Casting On (Cross-Over-Join method)." As long as you use a technique like this, your joins will never gap!
The nice thing is today there are plenty of great tutorials to do just about anything you want. I just finished knitting a bird for my friend's birthday. I got to a part with instructions for something called a "W&T" (Wrap & Turn, which is for short rows) and just about lost my mind, as the bird was small and I was working on double pointed needles (not my favorite). It was so hard to work so tiny with fussy, fiddly W&Ts. Finally, I searched for an alternative to W&T, and there were several different techniques. I found the one that I could understand the best...it was a dream!
So if you find there's something you're really not understanding or really not liking, remember, there may be alternatives. Probably not for everything, but certainly for a lot of things!
Anyway, if you'd like to post about your progress with the hat or anything else, I'd love to read it!
It's just as exciting to live
vicariously through other people's knitting projects as it is to
enjoy doing the actual work...LOL, and it's sometimes far less
stressful! 
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