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Hello! So I’m working on the Baa-ble hat and I put my work down for a bit and came back to the working yarn on the left side. I decided to weave the working yarn in which seems like a mistake but now when I started using new yarns the tails are ending up on the outside. I knit a few stitches and it seems like the whole project turned backwards. Is there anything I can do to get back on track? Also my floats are way too long I realize now but I don’t think that’s why my work has flipped

Hello all!

By the act of some benevolent (or perhaps malicious) god, on my first of a pair of fingerless gloves, I managed to accidentally create a striped pattern. This was seriously dumb luck but now I need to make the second one and it would be cool if the striping pattern returned. I’m using a 1x1 tubular cast on if that’s important.

Is there any way I can determine where to start the cast on in the color changing yarn to recreate what I did? I also included a pic of the first setup row for the cast on of the first glove and the yarn I’m using if thats helpful.

Alternatively, should I just say fuck it and let the yarn do as it will? It would lose its stripes after the increases anyways. I think it’ll be pretty regardless and maybe I’m overthinking this.

Thanks in advance!

I am knitting my first sweater with this amazing yarn I found second hand and may have bound off too early (following the step by step pattern and she said to knit the body to 28cm from the arm holes but I went to 24cm bc I have a short torso and it sooo short and I am praying this will grow with blocking but not sure if I should just add more length - any advice would be appreciated!!

Hi dear knitters,

I made a blanket last year and one of the sections look like this, but I can't for the life of me find the pattern or the name, I have been looking online for days and it's driving me crazy. So, now I am trying to tap into your expertise to try and save my sanity. Does anyone recognize it?

Pattern calls for 17 stitches in 4 inches and I have 19 (if I counted correctly.) But I think that’s okay for this hood, right? Since it’s just knit flat and stitched together?

Also - I want to frog this swatch I think. To keep the yarn. What’s the easiest way?? I don’t think it’ll come apart if I just pull, will it? Are there different methods of frogging?

These are the Hibernal socks by Summer Lee using West Yorkshire Spinners sock yarn. I’ve knitted a decent number of socks and have never run into this before. I feel like they fit decently otherwise. I looked at a few pages of projects on ravelry and don’t see others with this issue. Anyone know what is causing this?

I am attempting to swatch for the Slatter Mens T-shirt. The swatch is meant to be 4x4inches at 26 stitches, and 35 rows. My swatch is currently 5inches x 3 inches.

This picture is after steam blocking.

Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/slatter---tee

Using fingering weight yarn with 56 sts on US 2 9 inch circular needles. No matter how many times I cast on and redo the foundation row I get a bunch of messy, twisted stitches that I can barely work my needle into. Should I go up a needle size if it’s a matter of tension? Just feeling kind of frustrated 💔

Edit: Forgot to specify that I did a long tail cast on.

Edit 2: I figured out what went wrong !! after taking some time to cast on again and watching some videos on how to purl, realized I was purling incorrectly. I was wrapping the yarn around the needle from the underside, not over. My stitches are sitting much neater on the needle now and I can actually work into them just fine. I read everyone’s comments and took good advice from some of you 🩷✨ Thank you

I’m knitting my first pair of mittens (the holding hands mittens by crochetedbybogusia) and ended up with a hole near the base of the thumb. I’m afraid it’s too late to go back now, but is there anything I can do to prevent this on the second hand? The instructions said to only pick up 1 st from the base of the thumb to add to the sts on hold.

The mittens also have flaps on the palms and thumb so you can open the mittens up for easy access, but the first stitches of these openings are extremely big/loose. Any tips for avoiding that too? Would love to figure this out for the right hand and then maybe I’ll end up re-knitting the left anyways

What kind of stich combination is the one that gives that (kind of) raised stockinette border? Is it a cable?

I've finally seriously started to learn how to knit! Being new to the craft, I KNOW there's things I don't see that will make me cringe in a few months, but since I'll be adding ribbing to a project I REALLY want to put my best into, I figured I'd ask for all the help I can get.

I used Red Heart Super Saver yarn with 3.5mm needles for a tighter ribbing, thumb twist cast on and regular bind off, testing stripe thicknesses before moving onto the yarn I'll use on my project. Seeing this, what jumps out at you that I should watch out for, or practice more? Are there any bad habits you can already see forming?

Also, I did my color-changing two ways: first by doing what I usually do in crochet, which is looping the new yarn into the new row and knitting from there while keeping the tension in the new yarn (a lot more slippery than I'm used to, not satisfied with how it looks) and second by trying the new yarn to the old one before knitting (too lumpy on the edges in my opinion). With all the different ways to change yarns, what technique would YOU do use for striped ribbing?

Things I've noted already:

- my cast on is too loose, I'll be practicing long tail cast on instead

- my bind off method isn't stretchy enough for ribbing, I'll be practicing a few different kinds to see what works best

- my ends arent weaved in as well as I'd like

- I split the fibers a few times, decided to keep it as to have a visual as to how it looks if I decide to be lazy and not correct it in future projects.

Thank you all for your time!!

Absentmindedly knit instead of purled in st st ahead of the intarsia yarn change. then absentmindedly tinked a stitch knitwise to try and solve - and it did this. Absolutely cannot understand how to solve. (I tinked the rest of the stitches I had knit purlwise and they were fine, then purled back along the row in the faint hopes I’d magically undersrabd what I had done, it didn’t work!) would really love to not have to frog the whole project. My first intarsia effort. Can anyone help me rebuild this stitch?

Hi, so I’m a brand new knitter and I wanted to try and make Bryan’s hat (The Baa-Ble Hat) from the new resident evil movie. I’m right at minute 12:10 of FruityKnitting’s video on how to make the hat and this is when you connect both ends of the brim together and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. The pictures are of what I’ve been doing over and the result I keep ending up with. How am I supposed to do it correctly? Again, I’m brand new to knitting (this is my first project and I know it will probably be difficult but I really want to try). If anyone could tell me how to do what she’s doing correctly that would be incredible. Here’s the video link: https://youtu.be/Wlb9YYbGPkY?si=Zhzf5SWrrT6OT2NN

This is my second real project, and I’m trying to make socks! Obviously something went wrong when initially closing the loop but I’m not sure what. Should I restart or just keep at it? Can you tell what went wrong?

I found multiple bolero knitting tutorials on youtube but none of them have the flowy sleeves or the cross over thats at the midline
Any idea how i can add these details

Hi, my decreases are looking a bit strange here. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Hi all. I'm working on the Quest Vest pattern and it has RL1 and LL1 for increases, which I've never used before. I'm finding the RL1 works fine and creates a nice "edge" but the LL1 ... I don't know if I'm just losing tension or what, but it looks sooo sloppy! And It's def NOT an "invisible" increase ... It looks awful with a "holey" appearance. 😕

I'm going to tink back the front panel to the shoulder (I haven't gone that far yet) because the LL1 increases are going to be so visible; I know it'll bother me a lot. Is there any reason to not switch up the increases to M1L? I've been looking online and the examples I find don't seem to look very different from each other ... 🤔🤷 Would appreciate some feedback from knitter's who've worked with both stitches. Thank you!

I am confused how to approach binding off both sides of the neckline. The pattern is the Lillehammer 1994 olympic sweater. Link: https://v.imgi.no/houseofyarn-5666503-355-127-02_dsa_lillehammer_94_genser_oppskrift_en_rev2

The pattern first calls for binding off 19 stitches in middle which I have already done. However, when binding off stitches on each side for every row, will I just be basically cutting yarn after every row?

I have done one repeat where I bound off 4 stitches, cut my yarn, skipped the 19 stitched gap, picked up new yarn, bound off 4 stitches on the other side of the gap, and then continued knitting around.

However, I saw some others saying they started knitting on the WS at this point. I have not seen anyone described how they approached these specific decreases. I have tried searching reddit, Youtube and Ravelry notes but it seems I am the only one confused by this part of the pattern.