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Image 1 — colourwork bunching up between pattern repeats
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▲ 5 r/knittinghelp

colourwork bunching up between pattern repeats

this is my first time doing colourwork of any kind. i knit continental and i’m holding both yarns in my left hand, if that makes a difference. i’m also stretching out the stitches on my right needle every time i insert into a stitch where i’m changing colour, and i switched to knitting inside out after the purple repeat in case that helped. i also tried switching to a smaller needle for the two rows in between the colour repeats, because it seemed like maybe the stitches in those rows were slightly bigger and bunching because of that.

nothing i’ve tried seems to have helped - i’m still getting these bunched up vertical grooves (they go inwards when seen from the right side) between pattern repeats. any advice? i’m catching floats every 5-6 stitches as suggested in the pattern, and shifting where i catch them (last image is part of the pattern, with black dots to show where i’m catching floats). (it’s a scarf that will be seamed together, which is why the floats are on the long side as they’ll be fully hidden anyway)

thanks in advance!

u/edgyusername99 — 2 days ago
▲ 5 r/ibs

IBS-D and stress/anxiety

hi all, i’ve been dealing with a horrendous flareup of IBS-D since over 1.5 years ago. i’ve cut out caffeine, alcohol, vaping etc, did the low fodmap diet (i still avoid the very high fodmap foods like pulses, mushrooms and garlic and onion) and nothing has helped. even being super careful about what i eat and taking an antispasmodic before eating i have symptoms most days.

i’ve been off work for 3 weeks now because of this and autistic burnout, and the second week my symptoms eased a lot - i’ve been working very hard on not giving myself too much to do, resting tons etc, and it felt like it really paid off because i had 5 days of no symptoms at all. i even started thinking about trying some of the foods i’ve been avoiding again. then for the weekend i went to my partner’s (i’d spent a little time there before but never a full weekend), and everything got really bad again. the travel there was very stressful, then we went to the pool because we’d booked tickets (another new environment and it was fairly overwhelming), and by the time we got back to my partner’s i was really suffering. i had symptoms off and on the whole rest of the weekend.

since then i’ve hoped to be able to get back to that better situation, but even though i’ve had the world’s least taxing week (doing very little each day, resting lots, definitely no irritating foods) i’m still having symptoms almost every day. a lot of the time i start getting ready to go out and for example go to the supermarket, and while i’m getting ready i start cramping and then i have horrible diarrhoea and ongoing cramps for hours, so i don’t end up going.

i feel so powerless at this point. i guess i’m just wondering if anyone identifies with any of this, and if you’ve found your IBS to be mainly stress/anxiety-related whether you’ve tried anything that helps. thanks in advance 🫠

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u/edgyusername99 — 11 days ago
▲ 412 r/Brochet

my cat momo kept going for my wool projects (apparently cats love lanolin), so i used some of my leftover stash to make her a (mostly) woolen blanket!

i adapted the color cascade knitted blanket pattern by sonia savoulian to be crocheted - i wanted it to work up quickly and wanted a crochet project to switch to when i need a break from knitting. also adapted to be more of a baby blanket size, so i did 69 stitches across and 11 rows.

last photo is after blocking and cat tax - didn’t think about how the mustard and green would block differently because they’re mostly acrylic with 25% wool (the rest is wool and alpaca mix), so it looks a little uneven, but it was a stash busting project anyway. yarn is drops nepal for everything except mustard and green, those are wendy aran with wool 75/25.

6.5mm hook and moss stitch throughout, there’s a couple stitches at the bottom that are uneven because i had to trial-and-error it to find the neatest way to switch the colours but i’m happy with the end result!

u/edgyusername99 — 23 days ago