At least I can mope around at home with Covid in my newly finished sweater. It has a little lid for my watch because I might need a watch again sometime in the future 🙃
📝 Librarian by Skeindeer
🧶 Hearthside by Wild Atlantic Yarns
@venite@knitting@knitting mooi ontwerp, mooi uitgevoerd, dus mijn hersens feesten op diverse manieren 🤹🤸🕺🛀 alleen al door het bekijken van de foto .
Kortweg: naiaiaiss.
I’m pretty pleased with my progress as I (finally) dedicate time to learn the continental knitting style. Knitting is picking up speed but I have a really tough time maintaining proper tension in the yarn in my left hand when I do the Norwegian purl stitch. Any advice? I loop the yarn over my middle finger and feed it in over my forefinger.
On a side note, its been funny to watch my right hand forefinger reach out towards the yarn whenever I get confused! 😆
I had trouble with this too when I was learning, I think everyone does. I got better after experimenting with holding and wrapping the yarn and finding a way that was comfortable and easy to control. For me, I wrap the yarn around my pinky, curl my ring finger over the yarn, and then loop it over my middle finger. This gives me full control while also still letting the yarn slide through easily enough.
Tldr, keep experimenting with your holds until you find The One.
Given how much I enjoy knitting socks, encourage others to try knitting socks, and basically never stop talking about knitting socks, I thought you might all appreciate the project notes from my first ever socks.
@meggied90 has perfect advice (the others are great too, but that’s the one that resonated with me).
Make sure you’re good with knitting (and purling) first. If you’ve never done it before DON’T start with a sock. Do something like a scarf - it’s much simpler, you can do it much faster, and you can still turn out something that you like and will use. If you want to go even more simple, pot holders / hot pads are “fast” and easy.
I may or may not have a pair of socks that I dived into with fingering weight in 2019 that’s still mocking me. Though I did do two more rows when I saw this post out of shame.
Haha, you can TOTALLY do it, go go complete those socks! Just think how amazing it’ll feel to have that weight off your shoulders! And you never know they might even fit and be comfy 😆
Last #FallFinishAlong bound off just before lunch was served, I wasn’t allowed to take it back home for a final block (“don’t be silly, I can do that myself”), mum put it on immediately 🥰
So true! I’ve felted a couple of wool items over the past two years because I wasn’t paying attention… And modern acrylics are so soft! I went through my mom’s abandoned stash today and the acrylic yarns she had from the eighties. Were. So. Rough.
(To be clear: mom’s fine, just not knitting any more)
Blocking time for my second #FallFinishAlong#FallFinishAlong_FOs! Greemy booties for my coworker who requested rainbows for her baby who’s due in November.
This is my main WIP and my number one FFA goal. A trans flag blanket (Ironically the pattern is called Lars and the Real Girl - trans humor is so fun). I need it finished before my son's top surgery date in Oct, but sooner is better!
(reminder to leave off the three groups if you reply!)
@thegiddystitcher haha, I knew I was posting to the lemmy group but don't fully understand how it works, lmao. I probably should look into it.
I'm 7/23 repeats in. I started it 10 days ago. So, it's doable, I think? I've been on vacation, and not getting as much done as I could, and I go back in 5 days. I'd like to try and have 7 more repeats by then.
Getting a head start on the #FallFinishAlong with these socks that have been languishing in my work basket for almost a year because the pattern annoyed me so much. Really happy to pass them along to their new owner :)
🧶 wys 4ply in Flamingo and Milk Bottle
📝 variation on Raspberry Trifle by Elly Doyle
LOTS of bus travel for me today, so naturally I brought my sock project. Forgot I needed to frog the start of sock two and cast on again though. In public. Uhoh, pressure.
Well it is my pleasure to inform you that this morning I successfully remembered how to do a figure 8 cast on without looking up the instructions, for the first time ever 😎
@innervisioner@knitting Thanks! It's actually a free pattern called "Double Eyelet Rib Toe-up Socks" by Wendy D. Johnson that seems to have been discontinued since I knitted it the first time!
They do look fairly similar. Only so many different things you can do with basic eyelet lace, I guess 😀
Two of my best friends both gave birth within an month and I try to be SCRUPULOUSLY FAIR in providing them with knitwear. But duplicates are boring! So I’m knitting their Christmas jumpers two at a time.