u/girlwateringcan

so i have been a knitter, primarily a lace knitter, for like half my life and now i am having issues while knitting. i’m looking for something more low impact on my hands, my mind is mostly going to bobbin lace but idk all the forms! i have done tatting before (needle) and enjoyed it but im not sure if i wanna get back into it. very fine knit lace and bobbin lace are my favorites and now that knitting is getting very hard i’m freaking out inside a little and looking for alternatives ! my issue mostly comes from gripping. holding the needle for more than 10-15 mins is now not my friend, bobbin lace looks like it could be way easier on your hands since you’re not holding two objects the entire time. including a pic of an edge i made on vibes the other day before my body fell apart !

visually finer than my rambouillet that’s half the weight but i spun this polwarth more worsted and it’s plied, singles somewhere around 75-80yd/g! cant wait to finish up this braid and make something preddy, getting ready to start on the greens!

the bobbin is what’s leftover from the 1000yds i finished, there’s also another 200 i finished a few days ago for my sample. i have so much of this 😭 it took around 1/3rd maybe slightly more of the bobbin for this 1000yds

i’m gonna spin by color and play with the layout of them for a shawl when i finish!!! also my rambouillet cobweb!!! i finished the bobbin there’s 30-40 grams or so on there i cant remember. several large chunks of top around 7g and then another oz of rolags (trying things to figure out my wheel and see what i like!)

i should’ve taken a picture before i took it off the niddy noddy. 1 wrap around mine is 38” i did 190 wraps, i bundled by 10 to keep count! the pic of the niddy noddy i had ~30 yards wound on it then

balanced diamonds with eyelids and steeks in the middle, a beaded cross dead center (hard to see here), and strawberries but worked every row with extra berries that will end kinda in a wave on top instead of straight across! it’s fun to see the strong pull to the right from my yarn (i think it’ll block fine when i stretch it everything looks more normal)

size 4 needle for reference! working on a scarf in my first finished cobweb that was half wheel half spindle spun and a bit thicker

i think the yarn is adorable especially how tiny the balls are. roughly 750 yards in 24 grams! knitting this on 1.5mm needles and i like how airy it is

i fucking love spinning oh my god

made a diy lace bobbin bc i didn’t have one and i need to learn, switched to a thin drive band, 30wt cotton crochet thread i beeswaxed to hell, & now i can control the take up significantly better and im able to do this now without a headache. i will be a spider within 5 years i hope. im using the 15:1 ratio since its the fastest i have currently and im forward drafting a fauxlag with the tiniest bit of twist in the drafting triangle to help consistency, if i draft more than about an inch every 8 treadles it falls apart LOL but its nicer than spinning this fine on my support spindle, im using the fauxlags i made for spinning on that (rambouillet)

this thing is so insanely fast compared to a spindle LOL
my first ever try on a wheel last night was PIGTAIL HELL but i’m figuring out take up i think … i got to try so many. this one, (matchless), a majacraft suzie, kromski mazurka, ashford traveler, and a kromski fantasia and a little traveling spinolution wheel!! all in double drive except the majacraft, i found scotch super touchy. majacraft treadles are absolute magic, but i like the beast that is the matchless tbh. the woman who owns those wheels is genuinely the coolest person ive ever met in my life

idk what to flair this. this is my sobriety shawl (kinda lol)

i moved halfway across the country to somewhere i’d never been and got sober cold turkey after using from 12-23 and this …. got me through those first few months. it isn’t knit well, it’s full of mistakes from me shaking and dropping stitches, and i lost count of the repeats and don’t even know exactly where i am and it’s a headache to figure out lol. it makes me very happy every time i see it for what it did for me, it sort of gave me a connection with myself from before that period of my life when i first started knitting out of this book, it’s the triangular scarf in leaf pattern from knitted lace of estonia (boring name) i was doing in alpaca lace on size 2s. first time picking my needles back up in a couple years due to … life being life. i like to look back on where i was while i was knitting this and see how far i’ve grown as a person since then. i credit this shawl to keeping me sane and busy enough to get through to the other side and i might frame it lol. it’s been sitting on a shelf for almost 3 years but every couple days i go dig it out just to remind myself how far i’ve come in every aspect of my life

the big skein was spun on my 35g drop spindle and the small was spun and plied on my 14g!! i get to try a wheel tomorrow for the first time and it’s also my wheel now …… !!!! i’m so excited

the border is lace border 8 from knitted lace of estonia/triinu magazine originally, i’m framing the center pattern with the blueberry stitch and the lace through the center is a pattern i made that’s worked on both sides ! the ssps are annoying but so worth it, i did all of the left leaning decreases in the border a k2togl instead of a sk1p like estonian lace is and i … love it tbh. cant wait to get this finished so i can wear it!!!!

so the pattern i’m working from is one i made, i’m trying to figure out something fun and geometric for a scarf lol

so, the decreases i’m using here are k2tog, k2togL, sl2k1p, p2tog, ssp, and im curious as to why one side of the yo paired with the sl2k1p is different than the other? i don’t fully understand the relationship between open and closed yarn overs but creating my own patterns has been helping me understand things more and im tired of using already made patterns LOL. i can send a picture of the chart, it has mistakes in it that i know are there and can ignore, thats why i didn’t post it since i feel like it would distract from my actual question

but yeah the row with that is k4, yo, k2togl, yo, sl2k1p, k2tog, yo, k4

following purl row p3, yo, p2tog, yo, p2tog, p1, ssp, yo, ssp, yo, p3

that’s the central part of this where i’m noticing two different yarn overs even though they’re paired with the same decrease

(i think, i work off charts, always have, written instructions confuse me sometimes which is why im a chart person LOL)