r/casualknitting

I started crocheting in December 2024 and challenged myself to pick up knitting this year. I'm using a simple/cheap acrylic for this practice sweater. I added a lifeline below the ribbing in case I goofed the yoke up.

I complained about all the yarn tangles with intarsia earlier. I now finished the first half of the shawl and it looks great. I even tortured myself with doing intarsia on the small white dots to keep the back neat. The pattern calls for stranded knitting on the small dots. It's all going to be worth it in the end.

I'm not sure how I'm going to block it when it's done though, it's huge already. I need more blocking mats 😅

I have 1½ months to do the other half if I'm going to give it to my grandma when I see her. Otherwise I have to mail it to her later. I have vacation time coming up so it's not impossible to get it done on time, but I won't stress to much if I won't make the deadline

This is the first time I have ever knitted so this is just learning stitches and practice not making anything. I am learning Garter stitch and stocking stitch. My mother in law is teaching me and she says I am doing amazing as I only started like a few days ago. But I want an unbiased opinion, what do you think?

Ask the title said I decided to make a sock with a small amount of yarn and a smaller size for practice. Turned out pretty decent I think though I had troubles with the hill and connecting it back to the main body. Overall not a bad first try

I just need to finish the straps, and then it will be complete. 💕🏡

i’m very new to knitting and doing my second project ever! i’m working on Nimble Needles’ beginners beanie pattern and i can’t figure out how to make this 1x1 rib look neat! i’m not sure if maybe the tension will even out as i add more rows? or am i kinda cooked and need to start over for the 7th time? i’m doing my purls through the back loop and tightening after every purl. first pic is the right side second pic is the wrong side

What do you think of this pattern? ⛓️‍💥⛓️

I now have some beautiful summer knits and I'm worried about keeping them in good shape with washing.

What detergent do y'all use? And for what kinds of fibers? And how? I'm most worried about KFO pure silk.

Help me live my coastal auntie dreams. Thank you!

Top left: the beach side crew (Jennifer Shiels Toland) in de rerum natura Antigone

Top right: tide loop top (other loops) in one strand isager hor organic and one strand trio 1

Bottom right: self draft in knitting for olive pure silk double stranded

Bottom left: Cumulus tee (petiteknit) in knitting for olive pure silk

I am knitting a sweater with DK City Tweed yarn from knit picks and the specks within the yarn are not intertwined very well so they are just coming off. Does anyone recommend a way to go through and kind of restitch these speckles back in?

Please reference the two photos to see how the speckles look on the knitted body. Half or more of the speckles are barely hanging on

I just had to share this insane photo I took in Paris 😭 Finished knitting this top just in time for my trip.

Knit with Bamboo Pop - Universal Yarn on US 6 circular needles. The pattern is the Soléne top by Auguste Knit on ravelry. There is also a matching skirt pattern!!

Here are some more pics! This is what I mean by “filling in the back with short rows.” The pooling across the back is my favorite part. No, I’m not using a pattern. I’m glad Salem didn’t know I was going to take pictures, otherwise he’d be on my left shoulder again!

ETA: My favorite part is the way it pooled across the back and I’ll end up hiding that if I add a hood. 😬

Hi all! I’m knitting the back panel of this cardigan and wanted to see if anyone could notice the ‘yarns’ are from two different lots/batches? The middle section looks so me like it’s a bit more pink? toned and the rest is a bit more yellow toned. Is this noticeable to anyone else or do you think I could get away with it?

Update: thanks for all your thoughts! I’m probably going to leave it as is for now… staring at it is making me feel like my eyes are seeing things. Since majority of the comments say it’s not too too noticeable I think I might be able to get away with it and considering it’s the back panel hopefully my hair cover it partially. Worst case I’ll unravel after I’ve finished the rest of the panels if it’s too different from the front and the sleeves 😵‍💫

Basically what the title says. I’m knitting an ugly sweater and this is the body of it. Just need to know if I should ignore this or attempt a fix.

Here's a picture of my finished hat. It was an experience. I had to frog and do at least half of what I had already done at that point over again. And I had to frog at least another four or five times most of which was because of the decreases. Since I didn't know how to ladder the decreases I pretty much had to frog them. I don't mind frogging I mind that I can never get my needle back in without doing them one by one and nearly having the ladder every single stitch back onto my needle.

Either way I'm happy it's my cleanest piece and the one I feel the most comfortable wearing out in public. The decreases are definitely not the cleanest but part of that is just not knowing how to read the pattern correctly. I learned knit the knit and purl the purls does not mean start the ribbing pattern over again as you did for the first thousand rows.

Not sure what the next project is maybe socks I'm not ready to do something big like a sweater or a shirt yet.

But Salem has other plans

ETA: I’m not using a pattern. I made a hoodie a couple of years ago that I rarely wore because it was so oversized and shapeless that I frogged it to make it into something I knew I’d wear. I’ve been constructing it in a way that I know will affect the pooling effects. I didn’t know how it would pool but I knew it would. It made a really awesome effect across the back panel for the sleeves. I mean, for real, the way it pooled is so cool! I can’t wait to finish this though so I can wash it and get rid of all the distracting crinkles! I can’t wait to find out what mistakes I’ve made and just couldn’t see them. LOL

ETA2: The yarn is something I got at Joann’s (may she rest in peace since she was so brutalized while she was alive) and is 100% cotton. I have another colorway in the same yarn and I really like working with it.