User talk:Honeybee33

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hi, Honeybee, nice to see a fellow knitter on Wikipedia! :)

I noticed some of your excellent knitting edits and also that no one had Talked you yet, so I thought I'd be the first to welcome you here. I hope you have a good time here; I arrived about six months ago and it's been really addicting, and fun. There are a lot of wonderful people here — and, of course, a few tiresome types as well :p We seem to be getting more knitters lately; I just said "hello" to Knittinginthered, who joined a few days ago as well.

If you have any questions, or if I can help somehow, please leave me a message on my Talk page. I still feel a little awkward here, as if everyone knows all the tricks-of-the-trade except me, but I would be glad to help out a fellow knitter if I could. :) See you around! Willow 17:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

P.S. The Help pages are a good place to start — at least they were for me.

[edit] Welcome back! :)

Hi Honeybee,

Welcome back! It is so great to have a fellow knitter here at Wikipedia, especially one who really knows her stuff and wants to collaborate! :) I'll confess that I don't know: when were the last two knitting crazes?

I left you a little note at my own talk page; I usually reply at the same place, so that I can see the whole conversation at a glance. Talk to you soon, Willow 23:13, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Intarsia question

Hi Honeybee,

I'm totally curious — how do you do intarsia in the round? Maybe it involve two strands, some form of double-knitting? I tried to figure it out a while ago because I wanted to make a tubular, candy-striped scarf in which the separate colors would wind helically around the scarf. I did manage to do it on five dpn's but, basically, all I did was back-n-forth, but with a yarn wrap to join the ends. The gradual helical shift (1 st. every row) also helped keep it together. But if you have a better way, please let me know! My way is so slow and frustrating, that I'm tempted to bias-knit each color-helix separately and then graft or braid them together, kind of like the red scarf on the cover of the latest Vogue Knitting. Any help would be much appreciated! :) Willow 04:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC)