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The back of the Delineator magazine from November 1918 published by Butterick. Instructions for knitting two socks at the same time on the same needles.

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Blocking this doily was an experience! It took a little over three hours and a bit of my sanity. I’ve told myself I’ll never do this again, but I feel as if that might be a lie..

Photos of the doily are of it while being blocked. I totally forgot to get any pics after I took all the pins out. The finished size was 51 inches in diameter.

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Work in progress Wednesday. Yantar glove pattern by Anna Zhuravleva used to make fingerless gloves.

The instructions say to pick up extra stitches between the fingers, but I’m still getting holes or gaps when I do that. Anybody know how to fix that?

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I went to my first Oktoberfest last September (buuut it’s Oktob….?) and came home determined to make myself a dirndl.

Burdastyle is a German pattern company and I knew they had patterns. And then I saw this lovely gothy one! But where to find fabric? I designed some! But I’m not quite ready to post about it…

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Knitting backwards

This is so convenient for bobbles, entrelac and short rows. It’s one of my favourite techniques, because I don’t have to break the flow of my knitting to turn back and forth 🧶

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Bear sewing caddies and spool holders (c. 1880’s)

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I realized some time after making the pom pom that when the instructions said “measure out 50 yards and double it”, it meant fold the yarn in half so you have a double strand of 25 yards, not measure 50 yards, then do that again for a total of 100. 🤦🏻‍♀️

It was impossible to thread that much yarn through the cardboard circles and I had quite a bit left over. So I didn’t have to agonize over which yarn to add in to make it a full 100 yards after all.

I estimate this hat could be made with just one skein of Madeline Tosh DK and nothing else.

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Did spoonflower get rid of the swatch sampler option? I can't find it anywhere. I know I can digitally proof my designs, but I want to see them on the fabric, and the fill-a-yard option would mean I'd have to order 2 yards, and I don't want to do that. Any help is appreciated.

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Mostly just posting this so I can see them side by side and maybe that will help me make a decision?

Oh, and I found out pompon is the original French for pompom, and it’s slowly fading from use. https://grammarist.com/spelling/pompom-pompon-pom-pom/

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I have so many vintage patterns I can’t remember where I got this one. My cousin gave me a ton, but I’ve also been collecting them over the years. It’s a 1940s mail order one sent out by Hoard’s Dairyman. Other mail order vendors included Anne Adams and Marian Martin.

I was hoping the pattern would be one of the tops or the slip set, but it turns out…

…it’s a really cute apron. that’s not even on the back. I’ve been trying to do some surface pattern designing, and I thought it would be neat to make a “cut and sew” design. But what do I put on it? Apples and pears like the drawing? Cowgirls to match my kitchen? Flowers with a matching tea towel? This is the hardest part of surface design - besides the actual drawing, arranging stuff, and making repeats that don’t make weird patterns themselves.

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https://www.gcv.org/historic-pattern-database/

This museum just posted a whole bunch of corset patterns for free from their collection!

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I bought a faux fur pom pom, but wasn’t sure about it, so found some same-weight dark blue yarn in my stash and used that for the missing yardage. Now I “just” have to get this nest of yarn tidied up into this ring until the middle is completely filled.

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So I finished the knitting part of my hat. But apparently the remaining yarn is 50 yards short of how much is needed to make the “pon pom”.

Do I make a less dense pom pom, or get one of those faux fur ones? Or dig into my stash that’s under a ton of other crap which I don’t want to do and add in another dk yarn?

The yarn is Madeline Tosh DK, and I had another skein in a darker blue, but actually threw it out because there were so many breaks and missing dye spots in it. 😑

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by threadhandedjill

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I realized the pattern was different than what I thought so I had to rip out back to the cuff. Now back to where I’ve used up all the unraveled yarn.