#KNITTING

[arnaerr]

Just knitted my first sock! 🥹 It's wonky and the stitches are uneven but I love it and feel very proud

[lebakasmadl]

Damn dude I’m zooming

- Me whenever I knit stockinette in the round instead of flat

[annaplexis]

Here’s a couple of tips for sewing buttons in knitwear:

The button should not be too close to the fabric to allow for the extra layer when buttoned.

You can place a toothpick between the button and the fabric, when sewing the button, to keep a distance of a couple of mm.

Wind the yarn a couple of times around the “stalk” of the button, before securing the thread.

You can sew a smaller button on the wrong side to avoid pulling and tearing the knitted fabric.

[haerdoepfu]

[ID: Threatening image of a skeleton warrior with glowing red eyes and a bloody axe leaning in close, so that only his skull and part of his torso ate visible. Above the skeleton, in a standard meme format, a text in all caps reads, "Did you just call my knitting crochet?". The bottom meme text, still in all caps, continues: "That's alright it's a simple mistakes people make sometimes

Actually knitting has two needles and"

[luhvxal]

keeper of yarns

[poorlittlegreenie13]

if anybody wants life advice… making things for yourself is so important. Like I started making myself blankets last year, & they have helped my mental health so much! For many reasons. First off it gives you something to do that isn’t doom scrolling, so whatever you like doing, like knitting, crocheting, baking, painting, etc. if you dedicate time to that it’ll help your brain. Secondly, it has helped me love myself more in a weird way, bc it’s like, I want this blanket that I’m picturing in my head, and only I can make it for myself, & with every stitch I am reminded that I love my future self enough to make her a blanket. & they really help me see a future for myself because as I make them, I imagine future apartments, living rooms, road trips, friends, lovers, pets—just spaces & people I will one day share my creations with. They’re like my insurance policy for a good future. I keep making blankets because I know one day, I’ll have so many wonderful occasions to use them. And it also contrastingly reminds me that I don’t have to wait to make/have nice things, I can make my living space beautiful now even though I don’t love it all the time. It’s just helped me so much. I think more people should do it.

[aloof-cold-hands]

🎠Nigel and Jareth possible art doll things🎠 (plus Cole in the back with his new sweater)

[knithacker]

Ready for the Tao of Wool? Knit Yourself a Pair of YinYang Kitty Ankle Socks - FREE Pattern! 👉 https://buff.ly/3nbQ4lO 😻🧶

[walrudel]

I have learned how to knit!🎉 And as my first project I chose Ernie and Bert socks, now I can wear the muppet husbands on my feet

[shadow13dickpistons]

I NEED IT

I’ve been knitting my way through this book by making friends gifts of hats they want. Its been great.

[chroniccraftywitch]

Beginners mistakes, knitting with your cast on tail

Knit by me

[knitposting]

[ludicrouscheeseburger]

Turn your Cold Boys into Warm Boys with this one weird trick!!!

The C(r)ozier Cowl (with pattern!)

I FINALLY DID IT, and I'm so incredibly pleased with how it turned out (it's also maybe the warmest scarf I've ever knit, the Terror costume design people knew what they were doing)

Details and pattern below the cut, along with more pics!

Details:

This infinite loop cowl is a knit recreation of the scarf/cowl worn by Captain Francis Crozier in the first season of the tv show The Terror (2018).

The choice of yarn is, in my opinion, very important to the accuracy of the result. The pattern is quite simple, so getting the right yarn makes a big impact. My suggested yarn is below.

This is knitted in seed stitch at a very tight gauge, using a worsted weight yarn on size 4 needles. This produces a gauge consistent with the scarf from the show (did I measure Jared Harris’ eye and use it to calculate gauge from a photo of Crozier wearing the scarf? MAYBE SO). It makes the knitting a little hard on the hands, but the resulting fabric is DELIGHTFUL—super dense, and since the cowl is knit as a tube it's double thick and, in my experience, nearly entirely windproof. THIS IS A VERY WARM COWL!

After looking at too many screenshots, I ultimately determined that the article in the show is in fact a scarf (you can see the edge VERY briefly in one shot). However, I have designed my version as a tube cowl, as it more easily reproduces the look of the article as worn in the show (doubled over and in a continuous loop around the neck with no edges visible). You could produce a scarf instead by knitting this flat instead of in the round—cast on the same number of stitches with a long tail cast on, and then only knit/repeat row 1 (consider adding a seldvege edge).

If you have questions or want tips, or just want to show me what you made, hit me up!! I’d love to chat.

Materials:

3 skeins (approx. 660 yards) Cascade 220 Heathers in color 2445 Shire (google it to find purchasing options, or ask your local yarn store to order it!)

Size 4 needles; either 16 inch circulars or double-pointed

Stitch marker

Yarn needle

Instructions:

Provisional CO 72 stitches on size 4 16-inch circular (or double pointed) needles to work in the round. Place marker.

Row 1: k1 p1

Row 2: p1 k1

Repeat until cowl measures approximately 54 inches (4.5 feet; 137 cm) or desired length.

Unpick provisional cast-on, placing live stitches on any spare circular needles or dpns. Kitchener stitch ends together (tutorial for doing so in pattern here).

Wear as a single or double loop.

Now go have some glorious homoerotic tension with your second in command!

[wyrmiesknits]

New year, new sweater for Stinky to steal

[dkmbookworm]

Crafter’s delusion: when you know exactly how much time and materials will go into a single project but still manage to think “yeah I could make that for myself pretty quickly”