#crocheted cowl

[charliecraftsthings]

Last month, I applied to sell work at the Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library (Centre for Craft) museum shop! This was my first time applying as a vendor, and I was pleasantly surprised at how well it went! The centre accepted eight of my pieces to sell in the shop!

You can find my work under the "Textiles" section, or by searching for "Charlie" :)

(Note: I did not take these product photos.)

[yarnoverhook]

[La Résilience] Cowl

[zosiayarn]

I HAVE DONE IT I HAVE KNIT MY FIRST SOCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OVER THE MOON ABOUT IT !!!!!!

[ezekiellsplayground]

It’s getting there. I’m going to have to do at least 2 more repeats in addition to the pattern instructions so that the whole piece measures nicely square.

[umakmesic]

[nestingtendencies]

Everything. 20%. Off.

… and free UK shipping on everything!

This year to beat the Black Friday madness, we’ve ran a wee sale in our Etsy shop early!

Now the only question is: how long will the items be there?

Click here to check out our Etsy Shop

Reblog to support your friendly neighbourhood crafter~!

[copperhawkthoughts]

Dressed to the Neins - Molly, pt 2

It’s here and it’s everything I ever wanted it to be!

The pattern is available here on Ravelry (it’s free!), and I have a more in-depth tutorial going up on Tiktok (and here) tomorrow!

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Help me decide which pattern would make the best use of this yarn I've spun!

I'm wanting to lean into the Goblincore/Forest Creature vibes it gives off

Here are the 2 cowl patterns that I'm currently considering:

Cowl 1

Cowl 2

My concerns with Cowl 2 start and end with wondering if the yarn is too bombastically colour-changey for the texture to come through like it would with a solid coloured skein.

[woollyrhinocrafts]

MURLOC HOOD MURLOC HOOD

Pattern coming soon (after my pattern tester finishes pattern testing)!

[cutearose]

working on a bunch of my christmas crafts at the same time!! I dont think its more efficient than finishing individual items but its more exciting for my brain and maybe even better for my wrists since I’m alternating between very different motions

[ghcstcd]

I'm starting a knitting/crocheting/sewing/crafting circle. Tell me about your current projects.

[charliecraftsthings]

A snug and pretty neckwarmer. Yarn is Cumulus Sock by cloud9fiberworks in "Haskap", which is a gorgeous deep blue-purple with streaks of warm apricot.

[yarnoverhook]

Paprika [Comet] Cowl

[ezekiellsplayground]

Well, I decided to start this crochet cowl (Scorpio Cowl by Crochet the Highway) because I wanted a relaxed project (which is what crochet is to me) … that is not what happened.

I honestly have never frogged a project more in my life! First, the cowl size as written is massively small, 22”, which barely fits over my tiny 23” head when stretched, let alone over my glasses. Hence I went to increase the starting chain as per instructions, BUT the instructions don’t have any information about how much larger the increase instructions make it or how many stitches are then in the next row (increase instructions add an extra 2” width, formula for next row stitch count is *Foundation rows DC st ct = [2 (starting ch ct - 3) / 2 ] + 2*).

Several experiments later, I had the width needed to fit over my head with correct number of stitches. But I STILL had to frog multiple times because after a few rounds of the pattern, the instructions just failed to work. No matter how many times I frogged, checked the instructions, and re-did helped with an error apparently being on every line of the pattern. So I edited the pattern so the instructions worked, which took 12 straight hours (because I hyperfixated).

At this point I decided to contact the pattern designer … and had the most horrible exchange possible as despite providing great detail about the issues encountered the designer from the outset told me constantly to “just follow the instructions as written” and the reason I was having issues was because I had made edits to the instructions. This was so infuriating because before editing I literally was following the instructions as written and it was only when I, irate at this point, did as instructed and sent a photo to show that following the instructions blatantly didn’t work, did I find out what the error actually was - the written instructions DO NOT specifiy that the second colour has to be joined with directionality, that is only specified/shown in a photo several pages later, a photo that isn’t even referred to in the written instructions! Call me old fashioned, but written pattern instructions need to contain all the same information provided by photos.

I did suggest to the designer that they needed to include the formula I provided them with the pattern instructions for enlarging, and fix the ommission in the main pattern instructions since this causes cascading errors if you join the contrast colour with the wrong directionality. Sadly, the designer doesn’t believe either of these things is necessary.

The cowl is properly under way now, but I am still sour at the 2 weeks I spent after work battling with this pattern, and for the time I spent not crocheting after that because these issues made me hate crocheting.

[palustrine]

been enjoying knitting a lot lately and decided to *finally* commit to making some designs for a zine i've dreamt about making for a while. i'm rlly excited to see how i will grow alongside my art with this project~

[copperhawkthoughts]

Dressed to the Neins - Molly pt 1

He’s here!! Finally! I have been planning and pining for this project for months, and now it is finally Molly Season…

Yarns: Transmutation and Passion from Black Cat Custom Yarn and Okanagan Dye Works, respectively

Pattern: Eyes of Nein cowl, to be released, by me!