#knitblr

[monsterfrills]

So I think I forgot to post about it here but I'm knitting my own wedding dress.

Edit to add materials: I'm using suri silk alpaca (apparently I'm slightly allergic to mohair?), and glass beads for the silvery and pearl beads.

[annaplexis]

How to weave in ends in ribbing

Generally, I weave in ends diagonally or with duplicate stitch, so as not to limit the stretchiness of the fabric. But ribbing is mostly stretchy horizontally, so weaving in the end into a knit stitch column is a good solution.

[ninalanfer]

One side done, one to go. Kuutar Top 2024 edition.

(Sari Nordlund)

[flowbish]

Embrace Octopus Sweater, completed in march 2023

this was the pattern that got me into knitting sweaters, and the pattern that got me into knitting color work. it took years and several sweaters, shirts, and other color work projects to work my skills up to the point I felt comfortable with this, but for a while this was what was guiding my knitting journey. now that I'm on the other side, I do feel a bit lost. it's really fun having something that consumes you like this—I feel like I'm always chasing something that can be that light, that can answer questions about what to do next, that can give me a metric to measure against. until I find that again, I'll just be making what feels right in the moment

also, wearing this sweater feels like you're getting a big, warm hug from a tentacled beast, which I'm sure some of you freaks are into

[craftingcreature]

Still un-blocked, but all the ends are all woven in and the weather was perfect to go out at lunch for some photos. This is my first attempt at an adult sweater in about 12 years, and I think I achieved the fit I wanted! (I hope it doesn’t grow in length too much with blocking because the length of the body is really good as-is.)

Pattern is Honeycomb Aran by Gayle Bunn, and the yarn is KnitPicks Simply Wool Worsted in color “Winnie.” I only used about 6.5 skeins for size S.

[seaprincess-selkie]

I knit this sweater from this vintage Beatrix Potter knitting book (and made it my size because all the fun patterns are made for kids)

[ace-louis]

I need a little advice from the knitting community on here about how to proceed with my jumper.

The vision was to knit a black jumper with different coloured stripes in green, yellow and blue using leftover yarn from socks I knitted previously.

When knitting the blue stripe I realised that the blue colour wasn't contrasting enough with the black to really pop. All three sock yarns have a nice little gradient going which looks really nice for green and yellow but the blue yarn has some really dark bits in it that don't contrast much against the black. So I undid it and used some red yarn that I had left over. Unfortunately this doesn't have a gradient, so I am not convinced it really works. I am a bit torn about what to do now.

[motorharp]

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?

[shroomiwoomi]

ok so I'm knitting this scarf right. it's a basic knit, just the knit stitch. and I can't decide how long to make it.

so for every note I'll knit a couple rows. do your worst

[hookednbusy]

I can’t wait to develop and grow even more🤞🏾

[annaplexis]

Knitting colourwork with the wrong side out works wonders for the tension of the floats. However, many people get confused by the concept and think you have to purl instead or knit the wrong way.

But no, all you have to do is to turn the wrong side out, so that you are knitting on the inside of the circle and the floats are on the outside.

True, it is a bit annoying that you cannot admire the pattern while knitting, but you will be lavishly rewarded for this little inconvenience when you see how even your knitting looks!

Shown here is the cuff of the StripesNFlowers Mitts. Pattern available on Ravelry.

[hotcinnamonsunset]

a whale of a good time🐋

[blog-of-frontiers]

knitting/chrocheting while hanging out with friends is so funny like everyone shut up for a few minutes i have to count to 115. twice

[craftingcreature]

Currently in turtleneck status, but the collar is supposed to be folded in half inward and sewn down. I’m working on figuring out the best technique for that.

[iknityounot]

(Long post, sorry y'all)

A little more than two years ago now, my grandmother passed away. She and my grandpa had moved down to my home town a few years before so we could take care of them. I brought them groceries once a week, helped them write checks, fixed tvs, and found lost things. I was really close with my grandma.

In addition to her hilarious personality and dry wit, one of my favorite things about her was that she was a painter and a crafter like me! She used to crochet, and I took her to the craft store a couple of times so she could get more yarn and books on crochet. But her arthritis and the shaking in her hands kept getting worse, so she eventually had to stop.

She kept her most recent project, a granny square blanket, safely packed away in a plastic bin. She told all of us she was going to finish it one day.

Her hands never got better, and when she got sick, and we found out it was cancer, she rapidly deteriorated.

After she passed, I went to work helping my mom clean out my grandparents apartment so we could move my grandpa in with her. In our frantic cleaning, I found that bin again:

DOZENS of granny squares, dozens of half used skeins. I asked my mom what she wanted me to do with it, and she said she didn't care. I set it aside and later took it home.

Maybe a month later, that tumblr post about the Loose Ends Project was going around. It felt like a sign--I was never going to learn to crochet in order to finish my grandmother's blanket. But they might be able to help!

So I filled out the interest form. They got back to me SUPER quick. And maybe 2 weeks later, I was paired with volunteer in my state (only 2 hours away!) and the box of yarn, granny squares, and my grandmother's crochet hook were in the mail. That was at the end of January this year.

Over the next couple of months, my "finisher" emailed me regular updates on her progress, and asked me questions on my preferences for how she constructed the final blanket.

At the end of August, the blanket was done!

I had always intended the blanket to be a gift for my mother. So I cleaned it up, put it in the only bag I had big enough to fit it, and drove to my mom's. I gave the blanket to her and she was gobsmacked. I explained to her all about Loose Ends, and how someone volunteered to finish the piece for us. She was speechless. (I was quite pleased with this, because I am not the best at giving gifts, so this was a pretty exciting reaction!)

She said that it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever been given. She said "your grandma would love this". To which I replied, "yeah, I know she really wanted to finish it a couple of years ago". But that was when my mom dropped the bomb of a century on me--she told me that my grandma had started making those granny squares OVER 30 YEARS AGO. She had started the blanket when my grandpa was staying in the hospital, but that was back when my mom was younger than I am now! My grandma had packed them all away, planning on finishing it, when my grandpa was sent home from the hospital. Then it went from house to house, from condo in Chicago to their apartment in my hometown. All that time and my grandma had wanted to finish it, but couldn't. First because she was busy, then because she forgot how to do it, then because of her arthritis, and then because of the cancer. My mom said she had given up on expecting my grandma to finish it. 

She said I brought a piece of her childhood with her mom out of the past.

And really, all of this is to say, if you have seen or heard about the Loose Ends Project and have an uncompleted project or piece from a loved one who has passed away--these are your people. They were so kind and treated my project with such care. That box probably would have been found by my own grandkids one day if I hadn't heard about Loose Ends.

Five stars, absolutely worth it!

(From what I understand, you can sign up to volunteer too! If you have time to share, it might be worth checking out!)