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this is so beautiful im actually crying!!!!!

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'Hello Gorgeous' ... Spectacular Knitted Glass By Carol Milne, That Color! 👉 https://buff.ly/3nu1kKQ

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1 Knitter, 10 Sweaters, 100 years of Knitting Evolution // Casual Friday S05E34

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Yarn Types and Feelings:

Worsted: Nothing to see here. This is the archetype of yarniness and I am the archetype of knitting. Stable. Secure. Can pass off hobby as casual if need be. 

Bulky: I am a WIZARD and I am making VAST amounts of cloth appear by MAGIC. You get a hat! And you get a hat! Everybody gets a hat! Also my scarf is now 18 ft long but that’s just…you know. For fun. 

Baby/Sport: I am making littol things. Every stitch represents tender love. Yes I did listen only to horror podcasts while making this but what does that matter? There’s a lace flower but a baby’s existence is all about showing off what you can make, just because I’m not a parent doesn’t mean I can’t be part of that.

Sock/Fingering: Completely unhinged. Every project is the building of an obsession-washed edifice, that will never, ever, ever be done. Time ceases to exist. Worse podcasts must be found, worse movies must be found, because the most important parts of the brain must serve THE PATTERN.

Lace/Thread: [content locked until level 32]

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Every knitting pattern ever: Make sure you do the gauge first!

Me:

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Mending the nets, 1881, Winslow Homer

Medium: gouache,graphite,watercolor,paper

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You know you have a yarn addiction when….

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Drifloon Hat Pattern

“Wandering souls gathered together to form this Pokémon. When trying to make friends with children, Drifloon grabs them by the hand.”

Halloween is approaching so it seemed like a good time to knit a cute hat inspired by a ghost-type Pokémon! This hat makes a good last-minute costume and will keep you warm while trick-or-treating or fighting in the halloween raids on Pokémon GO.

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This is adorable! Art by Nathan W. Pyle! 🤣😂💗

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11.4.19 - I've just finished my first knitting project in years! I'm terribly proud of it, and I'm glad that despite being sick as a dog today I was able to be productive!

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I started with 20 sitiches and somehow I got to 40. Oops

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Let’s talk about sweaters

It took me quite awhile before I felt comfortable enough to knit a sweater, mostly because I had a lot of foundational work I felt like I needed to do before I could approach it. So, for a while I just neve knit them assuming it was too hard.

One day I just really wanted something to show for all of my swatches and practices and experiments, so I decided to just jump in.

My first sweater was a riff off of a basic pattern, I felt like the pattern could hold my hand while I felt free to be a little more creative and try things out.

This sweater was the first result. I was proud I finished a garment but the variegated yarn pooled completely different than I thought. My rainbow sleeve didn’t quite have the effect I wanted and my COLLAR WAS ALL WRONG. I realized how many things I wanted to just redo myself, and I felt a couple tweaks would be able to get that perfect sweater. This was called the “Sunburst sweater” because of the ombré on the collar. Maybe one day I’ll revisit this to get a more effective outcome.

So for the first time I decided to try at it all my own. This was the result. I took my sisters measurements and decided to try and knit a sweater in her favorite color. I thought I got my gauge right and I wanted the gut area slightly bigger so that you could wear it on a full stomach— I failed to realize that I was unintentionally creating an A line. I gave the sweater too much ease for a bulky weight yarn. I felt better about the collar but man did this look and feel weird. I’ll admit I was pretty discouraged after this. This sweater is in my frogging pile ready for when I’m ready to tackle it again. (I have ideas) This was going to be called “lavender fields” but I’ll reserve that for when this is reincarnated

This is my third design! I was pretty discouraged from doing something out on my own, and I had this red yarn in my stash for a specific project in mind. That was a lopapeysa sweater, and I had a pattern just for that. I was going stick to the pattern and everything was going go perfectly. Except it didn’t. The yarn was too variegated for multicolor stranded work and I slowly realized that as I knit bottom up. So midway through I just decided to riff. I threw away the pattern and went forward with designing the shape and faire isle motif by my self. I crafted the collar (my favorite of all three) by myself. I call this “Red Herring” because I started going down one line of inquiry and it ended up being completely outside of that realm. I also cheekily made sure every motif was a chevron or herringbone related pattern. 🙃 gosh there’s so much to this sweater I love it.

Y’all I am so proud of that sweater you don’t even know. So proud that I want to grade it and release it as a pattern. But what I really want to say here is

I would have never have gotten to that sweater if it wasn’t for the first two.

things aren’t going work out perfectly

But that’s okay. What I love about knitting is that every stitch is a learning experience. You learn something new about your craft with every project and that informs your next one. So please don’t be discouraged. Don’t feel like you’re a failure when things don’t work out the way you planned, be that your first granny square, scarf or any other attempts you make in life. Mistakes will be made but you can love yourself and your work at every step of the way. The fact that you could have done better doesn’t have to be destructive. You can let that push you forward into the next thing and you will do better.

You can keep growing and growing but remember when you look back at that first thing. You did that with all the same intention, work, and passion that you have now.

You just got better.

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Good morning!! I finished my miniature sweater/show sample and I’m so happy about how it turned out! Should I make one in my size? Lol! I’m not sure it works like that, but who knows! I’ll be releasing these three colors on Friday as part of my new Fall Frolic Collection. These are, from left to right: Oak, Aspen, and Maple. 🍂🍁🧡🖤🍂🎃🍁🧡🖤👻☠️🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧛🏽‍♂️ #yarncafecreations #knittersofinstagram #crochetersofinstagram #indiedyersofinstagram #dyersofinstagram #yarnspinnersofinstagram #knitting #yarnpornofinstagram #yarnporn #knittingaddict #yarnaddict #knittedsweater #knittedshawl #knittedsocks #knittedhat #knittedmittens #earthycollection #maple #autumnvibes🍁 #autumn #autumnyarn #fallfrolic #maple #mapleleaves https://www.instagram.com/p/B1HCKhKpaIT/?igshid=wy7rtnpsyhzb