#beginners pattern

[bevanne46]

Fast Four Patch Quilt Pattern is a great one for beginners. FREE Pattern Here: https://www.diaryofaquilter.com/fast-four-patch-quilt-tutorial/

[tj-crochets]

A little flannel cow!

I think her name has to be Dottie

[hychlorions]

TSUM PATTERN!!!

retested it after digitizing to make sure all the seams are in order, and everything's looking fine imo :3 here's a tsum made with this pattern with susato tsum for comparison:

here's the pattern, formatted for A4 size paper :>> guides are for lining the pieces up + ears/limbs placement

if you wanted to be really accurate with printing out the pattern: in my experience, setting the custom scale to 100% in the page setup will get the ruler on the page to be 1:1 with a real life ruler

additionally: if you want the tsum to be as close as possible to official ones, they use non-stretchy fabrics for the underside part of the tsum. i only have minky but ironing on some lightweight fusible before sewing the pieces together made it non-stretchy ^^

it looks to me like they used a very thin faux suede with fusible interfacing for some structure (i could be wrong though as 1) i am not an expert in identifying fabrics and 2) i only took apart klavier tsum and no one else. but everyone else that i own seems to use the same fabric for the underside).

they also have a little bag of filler beads inside that weigh around 14.5g (bag they were in included), and the stuffing was ~8g if you wanna be REALLY accurate. anyway. enjoy!

EDIT: forgot to add that the collar pieces are more of a size/sewing guide so they'd fit onto the tsum in case your character has any clothing with lapels/collars and are meant to be changed according to your design! the smaller piece is the little piece between the face and the underside while the bigger piece is for the "lapels" (so in retrospect i should've named it that but whatever.) here's how they'd look like on the tsums for reference in case i'm not explaining well LOL

[just-a-sketchbook]

First Quilt!

It has been a lot of fun and a lot of trial and error but it's done!!!

It's roughly 1.20 x 1.20m (which is a number of feet I can't be bothered to look up but let's say it's about child sized and it'll be great to chill on the couch).

I want to thank @langdon813 who I've never talked to (sorry if you hate being tagged) but whose gorgeous Drunkard path quilts made me wanna do it too :)

I had never done any quilting before (but I did sew), so here's what I've learned, if any beginner is interested in jumping off the deep end the way I did and wants advice from someone who has freshly acquired experience but will also not use any confusing technical terms (with pictures!) :

Fabric picking : so most advice I read was to go for pre-selected bundles of fabric that already go together, but I'm contrary and like to do my own thing so I used wax fabric (the blue ones on top the pile) I had laying around, which I strongly recommend: it's very easy to cut due to it being waxed, and I added a few fat squares from the shop, plus I also had the orange and blue floral and I based the coulour scheme on it. One thing that's true is it would have been easier to work with fabric of the same thickness, and the floral was givne to me by my ma who got in on trip to Thailand and it was alot thinner than the rest which didn't help.

Cutting: I got a rotary cutter for the occasion and it's great! Do not maybe push too hard on it and give yourself nerve damage the way I did (temporary but still), it's actually ery sharp and easy to use, so long as your template doesn't slip you're fine

Piecing :Yes you can do curved piecing even if you have zero experience, you just gotta make a template and

pin it a lot.

1/4 inch margins is the standard so I rolled with it because I don't like converting, but when you're strictly metric it is kind of annoying but doable because my machine does have a 1/4 inch mark and if you stick a length of tape along it it's pretty easy to follow, even for curved piecing.

Layout: At some point you've got to decide the layout is done, because I've re-arranged the blocks at least 6 times and it's a very good way to go insane. (For rough reference, my plan was to have no repeat fabrics in any of the circle-in-a-square blocks, and I only made one mistake which I clocked too late to change)

Chain piecing!! Meaning you pile your blocks together in a specific order (that I personnaly wrote straight up on each piece with a very sophisticated letter/numbers down/across system) and then just sew them together in a line without having to cut the thread between each pair. Looks a little like a fanion banner and at some point it feels like you'll be forever tangled into it but then it's magic :) It's not that hard actually and will save you a lot of time + there's a lot of online tutorials you can use.

Basting! (which it took me while to understand is the part where you attach the backing, the fluff and the quilt top together) : you need more safety pins. Safety pins will save you from the wrinkles and the unfortunate oopsies of realising you've caught your backing double folded into your quilting stitch, which I did a good three times and was not fun to undo. Also, I forgot to tape the backing to the floor and it probably would have helped with the wrinkling...

Backing : I used an old linen table cloth I got for 10€ at a charity shop, and I've still got about 2/3 of it left, so I recommend that, it's sturdy but soft enough, doesn't thread easily and can be washed at very high temps, if that's a thing you do.

Quilting! Well, my machine came with a quilting foot for free motion quilting (which means you're the one moving the fabric along in whichever direction and you can sort of draw with your stitches) and it seemed fun so I did that, and here's what I learned : curves are hard but doable, also my machine doesn't like to go back (kept skipping sitiches for some reason) so it involves a lot of shifting the quilt around, which isn't easy considering the bulk. And also, drawing the quilting pattern you want so you can follow it while quilting actually does help, I used an iron/heat-erasable pen and it worked just fine. Check your stitch tension, mine was too loose and I realised too late so there's spots where I could pull on the thread and it looped, had to stitch back over that.

Quilitng pattern : I wasn't sure what to do, supposedly your batting (aka: the fluff) comes with instructions on how tight you should quilt to avoid it coming apart through use but I got mine cut at the fabric shop and forgot to ask so I just rolled with a rough 10cm maximum distance in between stitching lines but tried to do less in most places. According to many blogs : the tighter your lines the stiffer your quilt, so I kept it loose for comfort. (Picture is halfway done, I added a smaller square/circle inside each square/circle and if you look at it you'll see it's actually diagonal lines form one end of the fabric to the other.)

Binding is boring, and there's nothing to it. I got a length of pre-cut bias binding, machine-sewed it front to front to the quilt top side of the quilt and the folded it back and secured it by hand to the back with a ladder stitch. Took me roughly and entire rewatch of the Last Of Us. There's a trick to doing the corners that's fairly simple but I've lost the tutorial...

Overall : I got myself a quilting book with techinques and such and it helped, but there's a ton of stuff online, and once you get over the very Christian American mum vibe of most of the blogs, it's all very helpful (and gorgeous!) (no offense meant to Christian American mums, it's just a bit of a culture shock from where I'm standing).

[doraminatook]

I would describe my crochet abilities as "intermediate"...

...but BOY OH BOY the joy and pride I felt at finishing this little friend. 🐍❤️😎🪽

Yes (flips hair) I painted the eyes myself.

Snake pattern HERE

[carfuckerlynch]

I do love how I got a halfway decent handle on how cable knitting is supposed to work and immediately jumped into the most complicated cables I could find

[thehaberdasheress]

🦞babe wake up, it's lobster time 🦞

I have a new embroidery patch up for sale on Etsy!

(I have been strongly informed that "Lobster Time" is much more SEO-friendly, not to mention less of a pain for everyone I work with who has to learn my system, than "The Freshwater Hungarian Crustacean Sensation." I have to acknowledge the truth and justice of those arguments. But it'll always be my little Crusty to me.)

[kid-blinks-eyepatch]

EVERYONE

i need to share what i have created

Spot Froglon

[samanthalanetextiles]

pretty pink floral cross stitch <3

you can buy this beginner friendly pattern on my etsy shop here >

[ribbononline]

Dachsbun/Lopunny line fusionsss

[space-batzz]

Art Fright 2024

smoke and mirrors prompt + foggy forest color palette with (an aged up version of) Carrie Krueger from tawog

[the-mighty-merrick]

say hello to my very first pattern release!! i make these all the time and they're super quick and easy! hope you all enjoy the free pattern :) happy pokéball making!!

you can find the video tutorial here!

[poplarlabs]

"I love you more than the ocean."

"How heartwarming."

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[uncertainturquoise]

3rd knitting project, first "real" garment!

This is Maker Maker’s See My Vest pattern in Gepard’s upcycling Puno yarn. This pattern is easy enough to follow, and it taught me basics about garment construction.

The weather here in Paris is a wee bit warm for a knitted vest now lol, but I'm still excited to wear it!

[carlos-in-glasses]

Cig Knits: A Rananculus

The Rananculus is one of the most popular patterns on Ravelry, so I thought I'd check it out for myself as a beginner who wanted to try lacework. Although it's notoriously oversized, I somehow managed to make myself the world's tightest version lol - despite getting gauge with my swatch?! But that might be because of the yarn I chose (for the colour vs. how it would behave because I'm a sucker for a good green and also an idiot). Or maybe I was knitting more tightly when I felt more pressure? Idk. Anyway, I went for Rowan Sock in Emerald. It's lovely and has still made for a wearable garment that fits - I just think if I knitted this again (which I want to!) I'd go for a DK wool and go up a size or two. Make an actual cosy jumper out of it.

The yoke was exactly as engaging as everyone says, and then it's just stockinette in the round while watching Lone Star (a requirement). This is the first project I didn't have to frog at all?! But I put that down to following the tutorials on Youtube by Sundragon Tips and Tricks - I couldn't have done it without her. I loved this project for teaching me the logic of lace, and it's definitely made me a more confident knitter. (Tbh I've been stupidly confident from the start - far more than I have any right to be, but still, feel like I've earned some stripes with this!)

So, while I want to knit this again, what I really want to do is try my hand at more complex things. I'm currently knitting up my first cardigan - which is patchwork! I'll be tackling a button band, and that's extra fun because I get to choose buttons when I'm done! Can't wait!

[fibernati]

crochet hook case [part 1]

I decided to exercise my independence and choose an project to do outside the classes. I decided for this crochet hook case, and honestly, I was planning just follow the tutorial, but something happened in the middle of the process.

First of all, I noticed why and how tension is something very important in crochet. Also, now I think crochet is a mix of technique and self-knowledge.

When I posted these pictures at crochet community, talking about the difference in hook size, someone told me that most of the projects indicates the hook size we should use, and this is tottaly true BUT according to my two cents' worth of experience (I've only been learning to crochet for a week), it means absolutely nothing if I don't know how my own crochet works.

What I mean is: when people are creating a tutorial, they will use what suits them, the way they are used to crocheting. But, obviously, we're different people and I'm going to have a different tension, so I'll need to adjust the materials I use.

If my stitches are too tight, I'll naturally need a bigger hook; if they're too loose, a smaller hook. And if I don't know that, my work will be fan-shaped or curled up.

Yes, that's a complaint. I followed everything perfectly, undid and redid it several times because the base wouldn't stay straight at all, until I realized that the problem was that I wasn't paying attention at my own crochet and my tension was too lose. I didn't take pictures, because I was SO FRUSTRATED, but the solution was just undo everything and redo with a smaller hook!

After that, look at this magic:

Of course isn't THAT straight, but so much better than the fan-shape it had before.

I passed the whole day yesterday just working on these 46 rows, redoing and undoing. For real, I finished all of them while I was working, but then I had another problem.

It was the wrong shape AGAIN.

Can you see how I just forgot to follow the straight line on the sides? At least now I know how to make those waveforms, even if I didn't mean to. At first, I thought I could finish the 46 rows and after that, just splice a chain and make more stitches, it would get wider, but that would be better than undoing the whole thing. And, I tried, but I just couldn't do it and I couldn't find any tutorials on it.

My only solution was undo everything AGAIN. This gave me a little ball of yarn, which, thinking about the number of stitches I had made on the sides, was more than enough to finish.

And, I only finished it this morning, still with a few defects and more crooked than I would have liked, but for my first project I think it's okay. I didn't take pictures (again!) but I sent a video to my friend, to show her the defects and I'll post it here tomorrow, when I'm going to post about the border, because I did something completely different from the original idea and thanks to my boyfriend's idea, it is going to also finish in something that suits more my personality.