#traditional knitting pattern

[ub-sessed]

Knitters: Do any of you know if this particular knitting pattern has a name?

Mittens are from the Selbu museum.

I'm pretty sure it's a Selbu pattern; I know it's Norwegian. Do the different Selbu patterns have names?

[ddeck]

you know. just like with specific terms and nicknames like clanker or shinie, clones must've come up with unique meanings for their armor paint. like with different meanings assigned to colors of mandalorian armor except since the choice of color is out of their control, all the importance lies in shapes and placement

[mesterspets]

Knitted myself a new autumn cardigan 🍁

[aworldofpattern]

[aspiringhorrorauthor]

So my Dad requested a gansey from me. A very specific style from a very specific town that our family has very strong ties to. No problem I tell him, I look up photos and it’s a little complex but nothing I can’t do.

So next thing I do is look for a pattern. Turns out, no one sells them. Like, at all. But there is a pattern *book*, several in fact, specifically dedicated to Gansey patterns of the North East of England. So fine, I’ll go get one of those.

The books are all about $170. Note that it’s in dollars. And also ridiculously overpriced. But I could borrow it from a library! The closest is in Arizona. Okayyyyy…

so I go to the forums. Everyone posting there lists location for some reason and they’re all from the US or Canada. And they all have the books.

So I can’t get the patterns that are specifically titled as being part of my local history and culture. There’s only one solution: pirate the knitting pattern in the traditional way.

[house-of-mxtakes]

We have planned out the rest of our years craft plans. I drew this up for my journal but i also thought it would be a good idea to share this on here too.

For those who struggle to see, it says that each project starts on the 18th of each month. In order

-May-June is everything green (all projects must be green)

-June-July is thrift only. All supplies possible must only be found during thrift hunting means (such as charity stores, facebook market place, dollar trees etc)

-July to August is finish it or else month. You finish all wips you have before you start anything new. If you don’t finish it, you get rid of it.

-August- September is Monochrome plus one. This means everything must be black/grey/white with ONE colour only per project.

-September to October is a ban on all craft purchases beyond anything needed for a commission. This is destash month.

-October-November is Halloween. All makes must be within the spooky remit.

- November to December is making everything for the holidays.

There are exclusions to the themes, and this means we can break the theme for commissions and gift making. Beyond that, all projects will be within the themes

If anyone wants to take part along side us, we would love you all to. You can take part with any craft or art style you choose, and you can do as many or little projects as you want. Please feel free to tag us in posts so we can reblog all your posts.

[pearl-kite]

rug hooking, hnggg

[stitch-witchery]

My Vanilla Sock Recipe - A Bee In The Bonnet

[sketchy-nick]

Sweater seasons almost back

[ifindus]

Norway in a gender neutral bunad? Embla bunader on tiktok just announced more looks for gender neutral bunads and I think Norway would absolutely rock one

I've seen those! tbh I love the concept but I feel like they're missing out on some aspects of bunads that I really like. Bunads all belong to specific regions, but this new one is just general, and the choice of colours seem a bit odd to me. It's also knitted I think? I love knitted clothing, but it doesn't really scream bunad to me

The gender neutral bunad is the one to the left, and then I had a go at desgining a gender neutral bunad for my region at the right. Maybe I should have gone with the long trousers, but I really love the knee-length ones.

But really, I think I would love the gender neutral bunad so much more if the vest wasn't knitted and the colours were different ✨

[professorpski]

The Nordic Knitting Primer by Kristen Drysdale

You know it is a good book when you mention it to a knitting friend and it turns out they own the book and have already made one of the patterns. The Nordic Knitting Primer leads you into the world of Nordic knitting with gently and then works you up to more complex patterns.

It starts with some tutorials--learning to knit stranded colorwork with two hands--and with some very easy projects--a cowl, a pair of mittens, etc.  The photographs are nice and big and easy to see. The first step of the French knot embroidery which you see here is one of 4 on the over-sized page and you can see it is crystal clear.  (BTW Boo and hiss to small photographs in dark yarns! why ever do editors allow them?). All of the directions are clear, done step-by step, with the information a beginner will need.

The next step is dealing with floats in stranded work, and then more complicated patterns of sweaters, slippers, mittens etc. follow. You can see here how by the end of the book you should be able to work smaller yarns and more complex patterns. The photographs of the garments are all lovely. This book will make you itch to get started.

Find it at your local yarn store, or LYS, or at your local bookstore, or online here where they have both hard copy and ebook:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-nordic-knitting-primer-kristin-drysdale/1137482898?ean=9781645672197

[littleflowerfaith]

The Big Book of Needlecraft

Mrs Annie S. Patterson

[fashionbooksmilano]

Knit like a Latvian

50 knitting patterns for a fresh take on traditional Latvian mittens

Ieva Ozolina

David Charles, Pynes Hill 2018, 127 pages, 23 x 28 cm, ISBN  978-1446306727

euro 27,00

email if you want to buy :booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Knit yourself a pair of stunning Latvian mittens with this collection of traditional Latvian mitten knitting patterns. There are 50 different styles to choose from including simpler variations of the mittens such as fingerless gloves and wrist warmers. So, even if you are an inexperienced knitter you can create a beautiful traditional design. Knitted mittens have always played an important role in traditional Latvian culture: girls are taught to knit at a young age and it is traditional for brides to give mittens as a gift to guests on their wedding day. This collection captures the essence of these stunning folk patterns and shows how you can mix these traditional designs with your contemporary wardrobe.

Ieva Ozolina left her role as Chief Financial Officer at a large company in order to pursue her dream of opening a wool and knitting shop, Hobbywool. The shop is still open in the heart of old town Riga, Latvia, and Hobbywool is a family-run company, with Ieva's husband and children all helping out with the business.

29/10/22

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[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

[gracetheacefromouterspace]

I just bought a bunch of poncho shawls because I’m an adult and I’ve always drawn characters in them and I got a nice one in Hungary and it looked good on me so now I’m entering a new fashion era. I even got one that looks like the one Clint Eastwood wore to be a Little Silly.

And then!!! I bought some thigh high socks. I think the combo may be either Really Cool or Really Bad.

[raven]

im making my second wingspan which is a pattern i think is absolutely beautiful and reading the user projects is SO fucking funny because half of them are like "this pattern is intuitive and great!" and half of them are like "WORST pattern ive ever done, took me a MILLION years and clearly the creator is NOT a knitter because its so unconventional" and i just love it. people who have been knitting for years getting so pissed when something is a little different. i think it's a great pattern and it's super complicated at first but once you get into a rhythm its super intuitive and i love that people just... are so set in their ways that they just somehow cant understand? if you know you know. try out this pattern sometime, if you've been knitting for like, at least a year