It took some digging to find the stitch because of ambiguous naming (criss cross and woven, both being used by the pattern author). Here’s a blog post about the stitch.
I’m enjoying the themes but then I’ve been knitting for 22 years (I started in college, I’m not a granny 🥴) so I have a lot of work to pick from.
I think the longer time frame might be an enhancement.
A theme idea that might be encouraging to newer knitters is “knit fail”, “oops” or “TIL”. The idea being that people share a mistake or lesson learned the hard way and what was learned. It would be a keeping it real moment (not all projects go well) and a learning experience. We might learn that we are not the only ones on our embarrassing “I was x days old when I learned…”
Hah, yep, there are a surprising amount of DW-themed knitting patterns out there once you start looking! Including this freebie that may be of particular interest…
Since babies are a whole other terrifying world to me but we’re currently waiting to hear on the hopefully safe arrival of our friend’s today, I need to ask: if they’re just regular socks but scaled down, is there some kind of guideline as to sizing? I will be looking for many tiny easy things to knit up for their Christmas gift hamper 😄
Also, what age do they develop such things as a favourite colour?
That’s a lovely idea! All the best to your friend, I hope everything works out as smooth and uneventful as possible ❤️
But I gotta admit I’m far from a children expert as well lol. He was about two at the time, pretty talkative and running around like a madman. So my part was pretty easy, I did a quick internet research for average foot sizes per age and knitted them a tiny bit bigger, so he could grow into them. And the rest he literally just told me 😄
Though I’m pretty sure for actual babies tube socks (without heel) are more a thing. Once because they grow so fast but also because they do completely other stuff with their feet than us walking people. Makes sizing way easier as well.
Also for favourite things: It’s more an educated guess, but I’d say as soon as comprehension for those things kicks in there’s almost immediately a favourite. There’s always that one pencil, toy, shirt, person they just like more than others.
Thank you for this! And sorry for the somewhat belated reply, been a bit of a fraught couple of days but I’m happy to report that as of last night baby has (finally) arrived safe and sound.
Definitely going to look into these no-heel sock things, they’re a completely new one on me but it makes a lot of sense. Everything my friend has prepped for her new daughter is wildly pink, so I’m going to assume sod’s law kicks in and her fave colour will end up being black or something. We shall see!
I’m a recent knitter so I don’t have much of a backlog of projects to share, and everything I’ve done has been shared here already
I think maybe a longer timescale, like a month would work? So if people (I) don’t have anything with that theme we (ahem I) can use the prompt to knit something small during that time to post :)
Hah, oh no please don’t start knitting for the theme that just sounds stressful! 😂
But I’m thinking you and @Flughoernchen are right, longer makes more sense to capture more entries. And also it means I need to think of less themes, so they can also be broader and easier to find a project for.
And that way, fate has spoken and we will end up with a whole month of socks as previously threatened!
It’s not a problem at all. I love prompts, they help me when I don’t know what to knit/draw/whatever. In this case, it’ll be the perfect nudge for me to finally try knitting some dang socks 😅
The face on that pattern (that’s incredible that you found the original!) Reads cute clown, not creepy clown. I think you’ll rock it. If you’re doubting yourself, know that people find baby proportions cute, which means bigger eyes, slightly further apart and further down on the head (I know, it sounds like I’m kinda describing pennywise from the most recent IT films but trust me).
I believe you! That’s why I like safety eyes with silly little u-shaped smiles. But the stitching will definitely last a lot longer (and repair easier if needed).
I like to put pins where I think the eyes should go before I either stitch or safety eyes so that I can move them around until they look right
Great to hear about the doll again! I was thinking about it the other day (Is that creepy? Thinking about internet strangers’ knitting projects?). You’re doing great and it’s most probably doable until next week, depending on what else you have on your plate. And as long as the baby hasn’t watched certain horror films yet, the “creepiness” shouldn’t be a problem either :)
It’s definitely doable, honestly the thing is so tiny the only reason it’s taken this long is I had Halloween stuff to do first. This is also round two because the first pink I bought was too light (the pink is by request, it’s not a colour I generally own).
Slightly dreading the part where I have to make a face that doesn’t look like it’s staring into the very depth of the owner’s soul, but I’ll do my best!
As someone with crocheting, but no knitting experience, would you recommend this project to me? I really want to make socks now seeing how awesome your socks came out!
I took some advice from that thread, and my first project was a hat, just to get used to knitting. It’s all loops in loops, you’ll get it quickly. I think it’s good to do something else first because socks come in a pair and I don’t think my second would have come as close to matching my first if I had dove in with them to start.
I think the best advice I got was to look up continental style knitting, since it tensions the yarn in your left hand. I hold my yarn the same for crochet and knitting.
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