this is my first time trying knitting! i would love to hear some advice and some things that i should work on to advance my skills as well as the look of knitting
Satellite Shawl by Andrea Mowry
I've been working on this sophie hood since I was able to think coherently after surgery. It's my first project with much nicer needles I got and some yarn I got from a local yarn fair (I'll go find the label if anyone wants the brand). I am *obsessed* with the way these colors are falling together right now.
just knitting up a swatch for sweater 15, pre blocked
not sure if the make it tweed works or whether it just looks odd
overthinking massively aha
EDIT UPDATE: thanks everyone for the replies
feeling a bit more promising now i’ve washed and blocked the swatch
This is how much yarn I had left to make the sweater after doing tubular bind off. I had to spit splice on some of the ends I used to bind off the armholes to get a long enough tail to finish the neck. What a thrill 🤣 can’t believe it only took 200 grams of the main color to make this vest. Now on to duplicate stitch!
pattern is https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/otso-2 !!
A lot more leaves lettre to do :-)
Hello knitters! I recently started a knitting podcast on the ytube and it was suggested to me that I should make some tutorial style videos as well. I’ve been working on a list of some techniques to make videos of, and I wanted to ask what you all thought. What would you add? Is there anything you would remove? Would videos like this even be of interest to you? I am a continental knitter so the tutorials would be continental. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
- Brioche (one color flat, one color in the round, two color flat and in the round, increases and decreases)
- Increases and Decreases (things like M1L/R, k2tog, basically anything you might come across in a standard lace pattern)
- Basic Cables (both with and without a cable needle)
- Raglan Increases (both flat and in the round)
- Shadow Wrap Short Rows
- German Short Rows
- German Twisted CO
- Invisible Join in the Round
- Icelandic BO
- I-Cord BO
- Tensioning for Continental Knitting
- Adjusting Tension for Continental Knitters
This is the Fantasy Hood from Lauren McGoveran on Etsy. Three different yarns here because I ran out of the main one and it's old enough that I wasn't gonna find the same batch again
So I knit for my local craft shop.
Been knitting furiously to have stock to sell.
These were on my to-do list for _me_
For ages.
Delighted at how they turned out 😊
They are a darker greeny blue in real life.
Sock wool:
Hobbii - bought before the AI announcement!
Friends Sock Wool
Cuff, heel and toes- Oat Milk
Main body - Eucalyptus
I used 2 skeins of Cascade Sarasota in 228 Periwinkle. Finished in 2 weeks. I modified it from a cardigan to a boatneck pullover with heart buttons. Just For Mom Cardigan by Bernat Design Studio.
What can I do to improve my ribbing? The knit stitches are turning out with spaces in between each leg, and it’s looking sloppy. When I look at the other side of the fabric, the knit stitches look really neat. This is my first sock. Please help!
Pattern is Frozen River by Heidi Alexander.
I’m a long time crocheter learning how to knit and I cannot find a knit pattern just the crochet one, but I’ve seen a bunch of people knit this!! If anybody can help I’d appreciate it ❤️
So I'm getting ready to make a sweater, and I'm going to be making it in panels and then sewing them together. Is there any reason I can't or shouldn't replace the semi standard ribbing with a long cable (made as a separate piece and then sewn on)? I am aware that ribbing is stretchy, and a cable the way I'm suggesting wouldn't be at all (especially after sewing it along the hem of the main panel), but if I wanted it to hang loose like the bottom of a t shirt anyways is there a reason I shouldn't do it? I can't find any existing examples of what I'm picturing, so I'm wondering if that's because this is a recipe for disaster in a way I'm not thinking of (or that it might be ugly, I think it would look cool but I might just have weird taste). Any input appreciated!
I enjoyed knitting with cotton. But I can see it’s less forgiving of tension inconsistencies! This is paintbox cotton DK.
I’ve been knitting for a few months. My garment knitting experience is limited to two v neck vests and the love letter top. My least favorite thing about knitting is picking up stitches for final finishes (I know it’s a necessary part of knitting for some designs but I’m a lazy knitter). So I thought maybe I can knit a top without having to do that.
I made this top without a pattern. It’s a very simple design but I’m happy with how it turned out. One thing that bothers me is the tip of the V neck. Is there a way to make it look better and not looking that one stitch is stretched?
took longer than expected but his party is sunday and I finished this Friday night! There are some mistakes but he wont be able to fit this forever anyway.
The pattern is Luca by Drops https://ravel.me/s22-42-luca
The yarn is Soft & Sleek by Yarn Bee
I will add that the yarn had random points of a darker color that was not supposed to be there :P lots of snipping it out lol
Let's hope the 3.5mm survive until the end of the project!
I made the Marielle cardigan by Maria Schei Mogenstad in this beautiful pink yarn combination: Ferner Wolle Vielseitige in V46 (sock yarn) and Lana Grossa silkhair in 162. The pattern for the cardigan has you decrease for the sleeves but I liked the look of the wide sleeves from the blouse version so I did 8 pattern repeats around (96 stitches) from start to finish. Love it! This is a size 3 and it’s a bit of an oversized fit on me. I have a skinny torso so I prefer fitted sweaters but decided to make this anyway because I just wanted to so bad lol. I knew going into this that there wouldn’t be any waist shaping so just something I decided to accept.
I'm always paranoid I'll have to frog my projects, so I usually leave the weaving in of ends until the very end. And I didn't carry the repeated colors down the foot as I went because I was worried about how that texture would feel on the bottom of my foot. So here I am with a bunch of ends to weave in before I can call this project finished. Wish me luck!
Pattern is Spring: The Valley Comes Alive by Oakwood Knits