Knitting

Being modeled by my dog:

😘Ein Buch mit Nebenwirkungen: Leserin Edith Kudlovic hat diese wunderschöne Flickendecke entworfen und angefertigt, nachdem sie meinen Jugendroman "Eine Tüte grüner Wind" gelesen hatte.

Designed by Sara Elizabeth Kellner:

Some hand warmes with an owl cable stitch I finished recently. I didn’t have much of a pattern, so I hope this post is still allowed.

Can you tell which one was made first?

This is my progress on the Pierre Shawl (ravelry link). I'm posting this to say goodbye to it and gain the strength to unravel the many many hours of work it took me to get here. I got all the way to section 8 of 10 on this, and it is by far the largest and most involved piece I've ever attempted to knit.

Deuxième paires de Chaussettes de l’année ! Je suis bien productive là ! Je peux pas vous dire grand chose sur le patron [https://ravel.me/woodland-walk-socks] parce que j’ai suivi uniquement la grille de dentelle. Mais j’ai beaucoup aimé cette dentelle, elle est très facile à retenir. Ça donne un bel effet pour peu d’effort je dirai. J’ai utilisé la laine Cachemire luxury socks de Rico Design.

"Seems like a good time to share this free knitting pattern for the This Is Fine Sweater by Yu Jie 玉杰 inspired by the meme by KC Green (and with Green's permission). Amazing sweater on my knitting bucket list! Link on my novelty sweater pattern post https://intheloopknitting.com/novelty-sweater-knitting-patterns.php #knitting #memes"

Pattern: Sugar Frost Socks

You can find the free pattern here.

@knitting@a.gup.pe it’s done!

https://www.ravelry.com/people/KnottyLorri/new_library?volume_id=483676270

I bought this kit from Aliexpress. I’m not very picky about my needles, but I do have have the Chiaogoo red ones. I wanted a set to travel with and these seem good so far, which is kind of surprising.

Just in time to start my mystery knit along, I finished both yip yips. The knit eyes worked out really well. I’ve never laughed so much while knitting something, these were a really fun project

Remember those “Martians” from Sesame Street? A friend asked me to make a couple of these for their kid. My first one is on the left and the pattern photo is on the right. I’m going to try to knit some eye balls instead of using ping pongs, we’ll see how that goes

https://www.ravelry.com/projects/MxRemyWay/whats-this

I don’t get much knitting done in the summer, so I thought I’d share someone else’s project. Saw him in the stands tonight watching the men’s doubles final and it looks like he’s already cast on something else.

*What makes a cardigan, Mr. Lebowski? *

I have no idea how to do this. Sometimes I pick up the yarn and it runs nicely, sometimes I end up with, say, 1 inch of length that just keeps getting shorter the more stitches I make and I must manually pull more from the ball instead of me just getting more yarn from the ball naturally with each stitch. ("1 inch" was just made up for this example, never actually measured it.) I have no idea what is affecting this. But the tension is awful and my practice piece looks like this. Please help me!

I have no idea how to do this. Sometimes I pick up the yarn and it runs nicely, sometimes I end up with, say, 1 inch of length that just keeps getting shorter the more stitches I make and I must manually pull more from the ball instead of me just getting more yarn from the ball naturally with each stitch. ("1 inch" was just made up for this example, never actually measured it.) I have no idea what is affecting this. But the tension is awful and my practice piece looks like this. Please help me!

Is this actually a widespread thing? I'd never heard of it (sorry if this doesn'tfit the sub)

Just have to vent, because I’m struggling to finish this sweater. The body was knit with US 17s (12mm). Now I’m doing the sleeves on US 19s (16mm) because my gauge was too tight with the 17s. I have discovered I don’t like knitting with these size needles. They’re uncomfortable for me to hold and knitting with them feels like a chore.

The pattern is free on Ravelry- 198 Yards of Heaven. I used Madeline Tosh Vintage in Fatal Attraction (1 skein). I'll have to post it after it's dry because this picture doesn't do the color justice.

Caveat: when the article mentions the "dominant hand" and "non-dominant hand" they really just mean "right hand" and "left hand". These knitting styles do not adjust to your personal handedness. So I guess you can read it as written if you're right-handed, but if you're left-handed this was not written with you in mind.

One day I might finally cave and buy a real yarn swift & winder, but for now this shall suffice

Seems to be put together with images from The 4-H Knitting Handbook.

Slow but steady progress on my socks

Needed a new car knitting project as my Kelowna sweater is too big now to work on comfortably. So I cast on some socks for me.

Decided to get sleeve island out of the way. I’m worried I won’t have enough yarn even though I’m on gauge. I am using different yarn than the pattern and it’s definitely not the bulkiest bulky yarn I’ve ever used.

The socks with my first ever fish lips kiss heel are done! They even got a spin through the washer and dryer because our dog spilled milk on them (yes our dog lol).

Just finished this. Took about a month. The pattern is free!

This week got away from me, I spent most of today thinking it was Wednesday. I started this sweater on Saturday. Thankfully we were in a city visiting family, as I’d overlooked the fact that this pattern uses 12mm needles for the body (the largest I have is 8mm). I was able to run to the store and pick some up right away.

The pattern is this one! https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-bear-hat-8

*(Please excuse the fuzz and pilling, these are OLD)*

Started a shawl in late January, and it needs to be finished by July. Which, for most people I'm sure that's nothing but I am a very slow knitter, really!

I just finished this cardigan and because it was a gift I tried really hard to make it look tidy.

First attempt at the fish lips kiss heel. I got stalled on these socks for a couple weeks because no matter how many times I read the instructions it didn’t make any sense to me. Plus I don’t get much time to knit most days, usually just 10-15 minutes while I’m waiting for my kid to get out of school.

Basic ranglan sweater. I used a cake of self-striping yarn for the body and finished off the sleeves with a spare skein in mustard. The pattern was very fun and easy to follow, I'm looking forward to knit more kid's projects because they're so quick xD

I’m knitting an Andrea Mowry shawl and I love the buttons she uses for this pattern. I just don’t know the name/style of these particular buttons.

Spotted in the wild

All balled up:

Ok I wasn't sure what to post as a knitting fail. Tbh, there've been a lot, because that's how you learn!

Slow progress, as per, but it'll do.

Just finished the video, which is crap, buuuut is good enough, heh.

I've been saving this one. It was my first attempt at knitting in the round and I totally twisted my stitches 😂

Garnspecialisten offers surplus yarn from the fashion industry at a reduced price and seems to have a range of type, quality and price points.

I got this cake for Christmas and looking for some way to use it I thought I'd try my first kid sweater. The pattern is a very simple raglan sweater, but the self-striping yarn makes it look way more interesting. I'm gonna need to get a matching yarn to finish off the sleeves, but I'm kinda getting why people love knitting for kids so much, it's so fast!