#I actually just made a draft of a colorwork pattern

[cauldroncreations]

Few lampshades I have knit btw. Tan was first green was last, I think you can see improvement as I went on

[inevitablies]

hi! totally fine if you weren’t wanting to share this, but for the snoopy sweater you made, what was the base sweater pattern? (and the colorwork chart if that’s okay?)

hi! omg no problem at all, i love sharing my fiber arts stuff!

for my detective snoopy sweater, i was feeling too lazy to self-draft and wanted something with a cozy oversized vibe, so i used this free pattern (The Crown Sweater by knitrowan.com) and just completely ignored the stripes/design. you can basically use any sweater pattern as long as it's knit from the bottom-up on straight needles. i used medium/worsted-weight yarn and size 7 needles.

i made the detective snoopy colorwork chart myself, and i'll post a few versions here:

if anyone's interested in the actual editable pixel art file, shoot me a dm and i'd be happy to give that out as well!

you have to do a little math with your gauge (specifically, # of stitches per inch vertically) to know how many inches/rows from the bottom you want to start the design so it sits in the middle of your sweater. additionally, you'll need to do some more math in order to center the design horizontally. the pattern is 70x97, so the formula is:

[# of st on your needle when you start the colorwork] - 70 / 2 = [# of st you need before you can start knitting the chart]

keep in mind that there are background-color stitches that are part of the design and you still have to account for those before you change yarn colors!

i knit the colorwork using a combination of fair isle and intarsia. this was my first big intarsia project and it went very smoothly!

it was a very fun knit and the colorwork came together much faster than i was anticipating! if you end up trying it i'd love to know, and if you or anyone else has further questions feel free to reach out, i'm always happy to help! :)

[myriad-rainbows]

time to revive ask culture! what fiber arts do you do and what do you like about each of them?

HELLO YES I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THIS.

I am most prolifically a knitter nowadays. While my first yarn craft was crochet, I eventually got jealous of the stuff you can do with knitting and liked the fact that it looks more symmetrical and generally uses less yarn per area (cost savings!) Now I know half a dozen different ways to do short rows and three types of colorwork. The wildest things I have knitted are: a baby chameleon (lots of short rows in that one!); a stuffed mail truck complete with a hollow back and knitted boxes to go in it; and a miniature replica of Girl With a Pearl Earring (my first and only intarsia project, because it's annoying; it was a favor to a friend doing GISHWHES.) One of my favorite things about knitting (which also applies to crochet) is that if I'm experimenting and don't like how something is turning out, I can just take it apart and reuse the yarn with minimal if any waste.

I still crochet occasionally. I tried thread crochet for the heck of it and made a doily (black, because I like to make things arbitrarily difficult for myself that was the color I happened to have.) Crochet is also, in my opinion, better for bags than knitting generally is, because it's less stretchy and the loops tend to stay put better.

I occasionally go through spurts of sewing (both garments and home goods, with the former being variable degrees of well fitted.) Mostly what I like about sewing are the planning phase (I tend to draft my own patterns, finding it less frustrating than adapting existing ones to actually fit, even though my figure isn't particularly unusual) and the bit where it's finished and people shower me in compliments.

Spinning (on a drop spindle, haven't made the opportunity to try a wheel yet.) Drop spindle spinning is very portable, and quite soothing except the times when it falls apart.

A little bit of embroidery, both cross-stitch and free embroidery. Decorating things is nice sometimes.

Tiny bit of weaving on a lap loom, which I'm glad I've done but don't feel terribly drawn to doing again. (Though if I did I would want to weave plaid fabric!)

Oh! And knotwork both practical and decorative. I enjoy being able to fasten things to other things.