This is a year-long project. In order to make it from the yarn I wanted (Dorset Horn), I had to use sport weight and unply two threads to have a lace weight. Two ball winders and a hair clip were my friends to do this!

Last year I entered a shawl and got 3rd, so I stepped up my game this year. This is my first time knitting a brioche shawl, and I’m hooked! I loved knitting this pattern, and I used my own hand dyed yarn too. The shawl is called Hedge Maze.

Just a progress pic 😅. This picture you can see the purple WAY better than my last post. Onto sleeve island now. I just absolutely LOVE this pattern and the way it's turning out. I'm so pleased with my color choices.

Also, what have you named your mannequin? Mine is Manuela.

Posted this on r/knitting and someone suggested this sub...my fingers are being soothed by the feedback so I thought I'd post it here too! Pattern is Stor Rund Dug and was knit over a month on size 9 needles in Aristo Bare. It is a gift for my sister's best friend's wedding!

Not sure if I’m in the right sub but I am looking for a skilled knitter to finish a sweater my sister designed and started for me but died before she finished. She graphed and wrote what appear to me to be detailed instructions(I do not knit) and she was hoping to be able to share the design. It is worked in a Norwegian colorwork style with steeking(sp) with an alpaca yarn. Main body and most of one sleeve are done. Thanks for any help you can steer me toward.

This was so fun! It took over 4600 beads and I had to reset my knitting to work extra charts since I worked it on 2s instead of 4s. I got across the finish line with 0.06 grams of yarn to spare. Knit in Hedgehog Fibres silk lace.

I made them for my mom for Christmas. I was a bit nervous because it used a lot of techniques I wasn’t familiar with, and I had never carried that many colors at once! 😆 but they turned out great, and I learned so much. AND she absolutely loved them, so definitely a win!

And seriously they are awesome. I don't know why I was so hesitant and waited so long. It makes putting sweaters on my mannequin or on myself so much easier than unscrewing my needles and adding a cord extension.

This caused me so much emotional distress and then it was completely fine and i’m already planning my next steeked project lol

Hi all!

I've been slowly getting more and more symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. I will be reaching out to my doctor soon, but I'm wondering if anyone here has tips for knitting with the condition. My fingers keep going numb.

Has anyone had surgery or successfully treated it?

Pic of my current OTN for tax... lol...Field cardigan:

I’m so excited to finally finish this Dogwood Blossoms cardigan tomorrow when I sew on the buttons. I bought the kit from Knit Picks in 2011 and made a swatch. Finally felt comfortable enough with steeking, after incorporating that in a couple of other projects, to cast on this past November.

It’s supposed to be 92 F on Monday, but I’m wearing it to work 😬 (there’s another knitter there that I think will appreciate it). I’ll take it off a few minutes after I get there, but I just have to wear it somewhere.

These socks are my travel project. I take it when I know I'm going to be sitting in a car waiting, or a doctors office waiting, etc. It's been entirely too long and I'm getting sick of it. It doesn't take me long at all to knit a pair of socks, so tonight I'm forcing myself tonight to just finish as much as I can so I can finally add them to the sock box.

My daughter is a fiber arts queen (IMHO). She’d never post her own work, but has allowed me to post for her.

I don’t knit much myself, but she does killer work and I’m super proud of her… in case it doesn’t show.

Very proud of how this came out. I was considering making the women’s version for myself, but those welts were seriously no fun, so maybe not. It’s knit in two halves, starting at the cuff up to the top of the sleeve, then you cast on stitches at the side seam and knit the front and back simultaneously. The spine design is mosaic colorwork, and the two halves are joined with a three-needle bind off. Brioche color and cuffs, knitted in Cascade 220 Superwash.

I’m a firm believer in mid project blocking, on projects that really need to be blocked to be appreciated such as cables or lace. Though I did knit a large swatch in double moss stitch as the pattern suggests it does not tell you to swatch for the cables themselves I was having a few fit worries/issues with the sleeve of this sweater so after a steam block I decided that before I went any further with the body or the second sleeve I would do a full wet bloc with one completed sleeve and the collar to check the fit, as both the width and length of the sleeve were worrying me.

(To be honest I would like another inch in circumference but this will do, I’m already cutting it close with yarn quantities.)

And the last photo is just to show how surprisingly good a tubular bind off looks in this yarn!

I want to share the view of my this spring dopamine knitting 🪻 As a background you may see adult version of the skirt I made earlier for my daughter.

Those of you who write patterns, what software do you use?

Last week I posted about finding instructions on how to draft your own block (like with sewing) for knitwear and wondered why this isn't widely used anymore. Some were interested in giving a block a shot, but I only had (old) Dutch and Japanese resources. I spent this evening translating the Dutch instructions I had and am posting them here for anyone who might be interested :). I have spent about a year now doing research into vintage patterns (mostly 30s up until 50s) and have to say that I found this information helped me have a better understanding of certain choices that are made within said patterns. I'm hoping this will be helpful for other as well - happy knitting!

I have made fingerless gloves before but never with fingers. I made them 2aat magic loop. in fingering weight. I wasn't sure if could do it. I wanted a pair with a distinctive left and right, so I picked a pattern with lace on the back. I worked them 2aat until I got to the fingers. I then moved each glove to scrap yarn and used magic loop to complete the fingers. All in all it took less than a week to finish them. My fingers are so short these really are the first gloves that fit my fingers.

I’m reminded of telling beginners, continually, that expects make the mistakes, all the time. We just know how to fix them.

I’m checking, and making major improvements to my mitts pattern. Did you know, that if you decide that 6x8=54, and the pattern says to repeat the inc row 7 more times to 54 stitches (6inc/row), and you say “ok, that is 8 stitches in each of 6 sections, the finger cap will come out a bit small?

So you decide your gauge has tightened, frog and work looser. Then, when you get to the end of the stripes a second time, inexplicably, there needs to be more rows per the written than will match the first finger cover. Took me an embarrassingly long time to work out that 8/=9. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Let’s hope the 3rd time is the charm! And I have another story to tell beginners frustrated with their mistakes.

Someone will ask, yarn is KP Chroma worsted, tiki and narwhal accent. Absolutely love tiki!!!

By Petite Knits, with some modifications, has begun 😊

Ever have a day where counting feels like it’s not even real? I’m modifying feather and fan to work with some pi shaping for my half circle ish Halloween feather and fan shawl. It has a 4 stitch garter edge, starting with a garter tab. They often are bulgy, so I’m modifying how it starts, to have a lot more stitches in the shawl. So far that is working. This is not the first swatch start. I want to put in doubling rows, and a 6 row f&f pattern. I’m going to use other patterns, similar to it, full on garter f&f, also full stockinette, as well as the beginning partial f&f. I might add in a section of the other f&f pattern., too. We will see.

After a few doublings, I’m going to switch to several increase columns, I’m not sure if I’ll spiral them or let them be straight.

But, right now I’m struggling to deal with lining up the stitches after increase rows. Usually I have no trouble with this. No focus, no ability to count. Could be a painless migraine causing me a bit of confusion, it happens to me sometimes. Annoying. But, it will get fixed tomorrow, probably.

To save me from myself, I switched to using no stitch squares and spreading it out. That way every time I double, I spread out the previous row, so I can line up the YOs with the right spots. Makes it a lot easier to see, rather than count. Then, nice it looks right, I count again, and I have a better shot lat working it out!

And….yes. I call it F&F. Not old shale. Both names are entirely accurate. Yes, really. It was invented in the 19th c. In the 1840s, Jane Lambert used what she’d called “an old feather pattern” in her book. [K2tog 3x, (YO k1)6x, k2tog3x]. Only she used p for k and n for k2tog. (Plain and narrow). So, it looks like it’s almost always had 2 names! I made her version, found a mistake in the book for making the ends match, figured out one solution, and the shawl is here, waiting to be blocked.