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Pattern is Ronaldsay by Judy furlong and yarn is Plymouth yarn Galway worsted in red wine

me wondering why my tension is off ….

Okay, so this took a while. I don't quite remember but I think I started this in January, and have been knitting on and off until now, and boy was it bigger than I thought it was going to be😂

I knitted it with two strands of Järbo fin merino held together. I tried to make somewhat of a colour gradient by swapping the colour of only one strand at a time, but I don't know how well that shows to be honest, but I kind of like the stripey chevron effect it got anyway, so I'll call that a win I guess.

Yarn: Järbo fin merino, 2 strands

Pattern: You shawl not pass, from the fellowship of the knits, by Tanis Gray

After finishing my first project (legwarmers) and almost giving up because I was convinced I would never learn how to knit, I finally dared to try my first sweater.

The instructions for the Step by Step Sweater, together with the video tutorial, are fantastic and perfect for beginners. I learned so much and am so happy with the finished result!

For the yarn, I used Drops Nepal in the colour Ocean and needed 10.2 balls of yarn (50 g each) for size S.

I joined Socktober with ZaneteKnits and chose the Auseklis socks. I figured it couldn’t be too bad since they’re shorties. 😂

It’s coming along pretty well so far; I just began the gusset before the heel and I’m hoping it continues smoothly. But I wanted socks for autumn and I’m so tickled as the pattern progresses!

Hello! I was recently gifted some white bulky weight yarn and 3 colours of mohair. I'm still thinking about what to do with it and remembered that I had this sweater (https://www.ravelry.com/projects/craftysoojung/field-sweater) saved because of the technique where the yoke colourwork is just one strand of mohair held double with the MC. I'm unsure as to what to search for to find other examples, so if you have any suggestions or if you've used this technique before, please let me know! I'm also curious if it would work for more detailed colourwork too. Thank you!

I won the creative tea cosy category at my local show! I didn’t even think I’d place because the tea cosies are always amazing so huge ego boost, I will be riding this high for a while 🤣

The overarching theme was orchard-related and I took inspo from the Carmen Miranda tea cosy by iconic cosy-maker Loani Prior, but went off script pretty immediately. I wanted it to look like a pile of fruit on a mossy tree stump, so I added thrums for colour variation and for extra insulation.

The fruits are free patterns from Ravelry (below) and the leaves were just freestyled with increases and decreases because I couldn’t find a shape I liked.

Patterns:
🪵 Main - partially the Carmen Miranda by Loani Prior, from Wild Tea Cosies book
🍎 Apple pattern - Apple of my eye by Abigail Horsfall https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/apple-of-my-eye
🍐 Pear pattern - Pear by Linda Dawkins https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pear-9
🍓 Raspberries pattern - Raspberries by Yun Jeong https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/raspberriesyunique-garden

Yarn:
- Cleckheaton country 8ply (log)
- Merino Magic Medley 8ply (fruit & leaves)
- Sally Ridgway Forest Collection Shetland Wool Sliver (for thrumming)

I made this bear last year and must say I enjoyed the sewingless construction as a little challenge, so I wanted to post it as a recommendation.

I made it with some scrap yarns of roughly the correct weight that someone gifted me, which is the reason he is wearing a t-shirt. I had just enough of the brown yarn to finish him.

The pattern shockingly did not include a tail, so I made another ear and stuffed it. Turned out to be the perfect bear tail. (The ears are the only part that was sewn on).

I named him Benny.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/otso-2

Back in May 2021, right after getting done with my (very uneven) beginner "scarf," I knew I wanted to make a beanie in the demiboy flag colors. However, I wanted something plain and easy to make for a beginner, and every single pattern I could find had cables, ribbing, pompons, lace, GPS, and tinfoil interlining to protect against alien mind reading. Until I found the Midas Hat pattern by Laura Reinbach!

It was a great introduction to knitting in the round, folded hems, and finishing with double-pointed needles. I'm very proud of it; when I show it off, friends sometimes say that it looks industrially-made, and as someone that tends to be very nitpicky with details, I consider that a great success.

I've added some progress shots. I like showing non-knitting friends that one photo with five needles coming to the same point to traumatize them. Also, looking through the progress shots I remembered that needle + bowl contraption I came up with to keep the yarn ball spinning freely to manage tension (it definitely wasn't a center pull ball).

I used 100% cotton 8/4 organic yarn from Søstrene Grene, knit on a 3.25 mm / 40 cm circular needle and a set of five 3 mm / 15 cm DPNs.

Hello I have started my first project ever in knitting and it’s the Sophie hood can you tell that it’s my first project? And does it look good so far? I crochet so I kinda understand and I’m getting the knack for it after a few frogs 😂 but I think it’s looking good I even dealt with undoing some stitches and accidentally dropping my loops off the needle because I don’t know how to hold it haha

I think you can tell where I was starting off and then where it sort of clicked

Christmas sock gift pair 6/9 finished! I’m fighting the urge to cast on a Halloween pair now.

I know it’ll still be a race to the finish line.

Yarn and pattern details in the comments.

So my mum taught me to knit when I was about 7, did it for years (just about age 7-12) and then taught myself to crochet and have mostly been doing that for the last 15 years (I'm not even 30 yet and it feels so odd to say that I haven't touched knitting in 15 years). Alas I came to the realization that crochet lace just doesn't look how I want it to, so I needed to take a wack at knitting again. For 15 years away, I think I did pretty well on this heart lace. You can see the hearts, so that's a win in my books lol.

Gallon ziplock bag it?
I’m in sleeve hell 😩

There are a couple tips that are new to me that I must try - they are so neat looking. Norman with Nimble Needles is one of the best! Here's a link to the tutorial: https://youtu.be/uoIrD8YSosA?is=Tk05DK5LnzoIRe1O

Hi! I’m looking to reconstruct a very beautiful fair isle sweater I’ve seen pictures of. I’m looking for someone that can help me find the charts for the bands of motifs. I’m not very familiar with fair isle charts and their history and I know there must be people that know a lot about it! I am an experienced knitter though so I can construct the sweater easily. Hoping someone can look at the photos and recognise certain motifs and help me build my own pattern to recreate the sweater 😊 the motifs are probably from around 1920-1930.

I wanted to introduce everyone to Lord Blorp of the Swamp. He only eats the finest French flies, organic bog water, and sleeps on cypress-aged moss. He's quite a fancy lad right now in his festive Hallowe'en sweater.

Frogs bring me joy.

Details: Pattern is Frog by Claire Garland, yarn is by Ricorumi knit on US size 2 needles.

Y’all, what is happening out there?! At the moment, 8.5 of the cover images in the top 20 “hot” patterns on Ravelry are beige / cream sweaters. (The .5 sweater has stripes, so I didn’t think it should count as a whole beige sweater. And, fear not, one of the other 8 is indeed Ranunculus. 😂)

I swear, no judgement to all our beautiful, neutral-colored sweater fam. Really, whatever crisps your bacon is good with me, but I still think this is a sign that it’s time for a little good-natured manipulation of the algorithm.

Especially when The Garment is already so tantalizingly close to breaking the top 20! Its vibe is understated kooky, which is really hard to pull off, and it’s sort of a beige sweater, even. If you squint.

Who’s with me?! If so, please share your favorite Ravelry patterns that are as far away from Minimalist Beige Sweater as humanly possible. (See earlier threads in this vein for inspiration.)

Sure, sure, I am looking for some chuckles here, but I also have an ulterior motive. The last time I played along with this game, it also opened up a whole world of new-to-me knitting textures. This led me to designers like Olga Buraya-Kefelian whose work is really art masquerading as craft. I cannot exaggerate how much I learned from the wild assortment of patterns this community can pull together when we are looking to engage in a little innocent mischief.

So, whatcha got for me, dear internet strangers? Hopefully, I won’t regret asking for something that makes The Garment look positively mainstream. 😜

EDIT: Well, The Garment has made it a hair’s breadth from the top ten, but we didn’t manage to weird up Hot Right Now nearly as effectively as we have in the past. I see a few designs we are definitely responsible for like Joinery, Hands, and maybe Herding Piggies. But no Desperate Housefrau, Fresh Fruit, Chicken Hat Headpiece, Snow Fooling Ski Mask, or HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA. Ah, well. You can’t win ‘em all.

Either way, I really enjoyed seeing what everyone came up with and my favorites list is has an excellent new dose of kookiness now. Thanks so much, all!

EDIT Part 2: Went away for a little while and came back to a somewhat more spicy “Hot Right Now”. While the hegemony of Ranunculus & the Minimalist Beige Sweaters has not been toppled, it is gratifying to see some other parts of the fiber arts spectrum represented. Thanks again everyone!

This year was my first time entering my knitting in any endeavor that involves judging and I actually won a ribbon. I entered my Cara Sweater (pattern by LE Knit) in the Washington State Fair this year and took home the 2nd place ribbon for adult pullover sweaters. Whaaa?! My gobs have been sufficiently smacked. Anyway… I’m super stoked about it and just wanted to share a fun update on a Friday. :)