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If it helps, dpns in the round are mostly exactly the same as knitting flat. You hold two of the needles in your hands and work your stitches. The other needles are mostly just hanging out and holding your stitches so they don't unravel! The trickiest bit is remembering not to just continue into the next needle's stitches without swapping to the new right hand needle. (still, for me! I've been knitting for a decade and this still happens! C'est la vie!)

But also I highly recommend circular needles for in the round knitting, because that REALLY simplifies things - you literally ARE just using two needles!

.... I also highly recommend circular needles for everything though, honestly.

i have thought as a knitter only about a year in that crochet is the most intimidating and while i do stand by that a bit because one hook vs two needles is hard for me but turns out adding MORE needles is even more intimidating

knitting with dnps in the round is frankly some sort of witchcraft and i worry that those who saw the person who first came up with that form of knitting had the same response

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Please reblog, there are not many lace makers out there and we need to reach the rest of our coven

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Organic yarn holder

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LET THE CROSS STITCH HIT THE FLOOR

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look what i got in the mail today! 😁😁😁😁

It was surprisingly difficult to get my hands on this. I had to import this from Sweden, and it was only available in very short time windows on the one website where my credit card didn't get rejected - currently it's out 9f stock again. But I got it!

And guys. It's so pretty.

This is definitely a very nice adult picture book, lots of photos, outfit recreations, but also, basic stuff like sections on fibre, dye, weave, stitching and of course, a brief overview of bog finds/preserved textiles. I don't want to post too many pictures because of copyright issues, but

There's a section on gendered clothing that I found particularly interesting, and I do so want to make iron age trousers for myself. Overall, I just really enjoy flipping through this thing.

In any case, 10/10 highly recommend 😊

Bog Fashion by Nicole DeRushie

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I can tell youre knitting with no love in your heart i can see the hateful intentions in every stitch.

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“The universality of fibre crafts” we can’t even agree internationally on what the yarn and needle sizes are called

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attention joann's shoppers. there is a freak in the yarn aisle buildinf a nest

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just me and my sock knitting project against the world

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i just invented a cathedral rose window granny square pattern and i feel insane now

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A couple of years ago, I asked this on a knitting forum: if you're knitting a plain, basic, normal sock, and you don't want to think too hard about it, how many stitches do you cast on?

And I was hit with a blast of people who thought that was a nonsensical question; who calculate gauge for every sock they do; probably also swatch (who aside from active designers swatches for socks?!); who Consider the Recipient and the Needle Size and the Phase of the Moon and -- look, I'm not an idiot, obviously I comprehend the concept of socks sometimes being different sizes. I know how gauge works. But here is a ball of, I dunno, Regia 4ply or Drops Fabel or whatever. Or another weight of sock yarn if that is most frequently your jam. Pick up your favourite needles. I don't know if you're a 2mm preferrer or a 3mm preferrer or something in between, and I'm not asking about that. This is your default sock we're talking about - not the only sock you will ever make again.

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I'm thinking of experimenting with creating decorated hair clips as my weekend side project (the main project is crocheting a beanie) but idk what to make, what do you think?

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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.

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NaKniCroMo Day 7 - Favorite Fiber

Merino Wool Will Save The World

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NaKniCroMo Day 6 - Crafty Origins

While my knitting and crochet interests may have skipped two generations (more than one of my great grandmothers did various yarn craft but no one closer generationally than that) My love of handcrafts definitely goes back to my grandmother - She taught me how sew and we used to spend a lot of time making projects and baking together. <3

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NaKniCroMo Day 4 - Toolkits

This is, of course, not ALL of my crafting tools, but they're the primary ones. The Hands Off zip bag is my sock making kit specifically, with all the tools I would typically need for that specific knitting project.

Special love to the yarn and sheep tote given to me by my best friend's mom! And to the pinking shears, safely in their box, which are antiques from probably the 1930s - they used to belong to my great-grandmother, and have her name marked inside the box and on the handle of the shears. <3

(And if you were wondering, yes, that cookie tin was purchased entirely with plans to use it for sewing supplies as soon as it was empty)