Knitting

Posting older finished projects to create content here.

These socks were a gift I was in a rush to mail off, so I only took a couple of photos while they were in progress.

Pattern: Inlay from Knitty.com

Yarn used was from an indie dyer in the town I last lived in.

I haven’t met a sock pattern that I love yet. Looking for the perfect fit ;)

Just started this little shawl, hanging out in the hotel tonight. I love travel knitting.

What is your favorite thing to make with sock yarn, other than socks? I enjoy knitting socks, but I don’t enjoy wearing hand-knitted socks (blasphemy, I know!)

Unfortunately, I’m not a big wearer of shawls either, though I will knit one occasionally.

I’m looking for ideas for my sock yarn stash. Ideas, patterns, anything welcome.

Hi all! Here’s a quick knit I made from a chart from the New Knit Stitch Library by Leslie Stanfield. This will eventually be made into a bag! Wanted to make my first knitting community contribution since making the move to lemmy!

Over the past 20 years I’ve acquired (and lost) a lot of circular needles. I did give interchangeables a try at one point, but somehow all that remains is a single matching pair of Denise needles.

For a while I used a big binder full of binder pouches for storage, but it was bulky, so I made this instead. I used handheld pipe cutters to cut lengths of 1 inch PVC pipe, glued them together and hung it on the back of a closet door hook with a cotton cord.

It is not the most visually appealing, but it works for me, and it sounds like a rainstick . The short pipes mostly have 16” and some 20/24”. The longer pipes are mostly 40” (I prefer magic loop, so I’ve got a bunch). Not pictured here are the many needles stuck in unfinished projects, lol.

I'm just trying a new heel construction with a reinforced slip stitch back, a gusset and Up Down Short Row Heel. That's supposed to give a better fit, as the bamboo/cotton yarn is (by far) not as stretchy as conventional sock yarn.

I finally have three patterns written up pretty good (Anomalocaris, goldfish, and squid). I just need to redo what I did for the fins. Yeah, the plastic is perfect for getting the kitties attention, but boy do they shred them up pretty good, heh.

Hmm! Maybe denim? Nah, that'd make them too heavy. Something stiff enough to maintain the fins' shape, but soft and light weight...and I'm not well versed in cloth types, 🤔 . Will just have to walk around the fabric dept of a local store.

I started knitting specifically with this project in mind and was so happy once I was able to make it.

Pattern is: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/owls-9

I'm so slow at knitting socks, but love it anyway. They're the perfect travel project so I've usually got a pair on the go in my little drawstring bag and have got myself into all kinds of conversations with strangers in public as a result.

The ones pictured you might recognise as "Hermione's Everyday Socks", and they were technically the third pair I ever made but the first two were awful and we're not counting those. First proper socks, hurrah!

The yarn was a weird cone of nonsense that I'd picked up from a shop called Yarnia in Portland during a big month-long USA road trip we went on in 2015. Basically you chose your fibres and colours and they'd wind a cone of yarn to that specification.

Or, if you're a wimp like me, you could just buy a pre-wound cone and trust it had the right stuff in it for socks which is exactly what I did.

These babies lasted me until late last year then started to wear through on the ball of the foot, I've kept them safe and can hopefully learn to repair them. Any advice in that area would be very welcome!

Thanks for all the love on my recent post - but I realise I was very unclear about my plans with my blanket - so hopefully this will clarify (and also gave me an excuse to lay out the blanket pieces completed so far in glorious sunshine!)

I’m making the blanket from large squares (about 50cm across) and then I will graft them together (I’m keeping all the stitches live on “scoobies” which are perfect stitch holders!)

The two squares furthest from the camera are grafted - and if you look closely, you’ll see that the join is far from perfect. I’m using “Kitchener” stitch (but since I heard how that stitch got its name, I tend to just say grafting!) if anyone has any tips on keeping the tension even through a very long graft, I’d appreciate it.

Hello world! I am very bad at taking photos of my knitting, but I’m rarely seen without it! This is one of my many wips, and will one day grow up to be a monster blanket!!

This started out as Anna Dalvi's Anubis but three quarters throgh I gave up on counting the mess and finished it off with knit one, make a hole. It still looked good, but I found I am not a mohair person and gifted it to a friend. She is very happy with it.

Thrilled to have found a Lemmy knitting group! I'm a sock obsessive, I just love knitting socks, so I've ended up with an staggering amount of "scrap" yarn. The solution - blankets. This is my second Cosiest Memories project and this time I have a Plan. The first one was truly random, with lots of placement errors. When it was finished I did a dark icord edge, and suddenly it was smart!

So for the second one I'm adding an inner border of that same colour and (eventually) will finish with icord. I might even knit some more socks!

For my intro to the community, thought I'd share one of my more ridiculous newbie projects from back in the day!

A friend of mine expressed a desire for the classic Tom Baker scarf, and his birthday just happened to be coming up. So of course total knitting newbie me spent every second of every day frantically knitting this ridiculous thing.

It had all the classic new knitter tropes. Messy bits where I'd purled instead of knitted.. Yarns of all different fibres in an attempt to get accurate colours, which meant some bits of it felt and draped differently to others. And of course, some bits were significantly wider than others!

All of my hard work was well rewarded though because he loved it and wore it into the ground. Job well done.

Something about my brain is refusing to accept switching sides. I forget which one I'm supposed to do every time. I know practice makes perfect but it's gonna take a lot of practice to make up for my bonkers brain.

Just wanted a bit of a rant. I guess I'll keep making squares and trying my best.

Love how this one turned out. Pattern here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sassafras-pullover

Modified to give it cuffs and bit more of a tighter look.

I started a new pair of TAAT cuff-down thigh high socks, the pattern calls for 10cm ribbing and it’s taking forever 😮‍💨

I started a knitting a jumper an embarrassingly long time ago (over 2 years ago). I've picked it up again and it's looking like I haven't got enough yarn. It's Dooish worsted weight yarn: https://www.skeinsisters.com.au/spinning-yarns-weaving-tales-dooish

Its looking like I'm going to need to buy an additional skein years after the initial lot. I'm hoping for some advice for how to best join a new ball from a new batch number without a glaringly obvious line due to a slightly different colour. I'm knitting neck down on circular needles, and am halfway down the body. Would starting the arms in the new ball look fine?

Help a scared novice knitter out please!

Yarn is worsted weight, pink Vanna's choice and gray Lions Brand Pound of love. Got the pattern from a book I bought at Michaels