#Knit

[knitsandnonsense]

I was winding yarn for hats and this colour combo is speaking to me!

[mothyandthesquid]

Harlequin Toad was December’s Froggy Rainbow Club yarn and the last one for 2024. There are a few available on sock and DK in store. This year we are creating a rainbow of beautiful tropical fish, and so long as you sign up by the end of January you will be able to collect them all if you choose to. Mothyandthesquid.com

[themandolinscrimblo]

I have so much Stobotnik brainrot, I've made patterns for a knit cardigan.

Edit: I had to delete the OG post since I made the poll on a whim, not realizing I didn't have enough yarn for a crochet cardigan. I'm so sorry for the confusion!

[whitecablesfan]

[bluentired]

@ somepocketfluff on insta

volume on for the best experience!

i made a collage and was feeling nostalgic, so i created this!

it took me way too long to figure this out and find all of these sound effects. i even used one from purble place!

I'm aware it isn't super accurate, and it's sorta hard to read. i just had an ipad and a dream. i hope someone else can appreciate this!

xoxo

[smirli]

It is coming along so nicely!!!

I realized halfway through knitting this sweater that i dont have enough yarn, so I improvised a color gradient with some leftover yarn in blue. Hopefully it will turn out nice in full size as well!

[fiberfantasies]

Fiber arts is just Math in sheep's clothing

[knithacker]

Hey Library Kids & Book Lovers, This Knit Vest Pattern Is For You - It's A Borrowing Card! 👉 https://buff.ly/4fTAIOm 📚

[happylittlekiller]

And breath symbol is done!

Yes the project still lives! I took a break from it for a while and then slowly worked on this over several months.

HOMESTUCK BLANKET KNITTING PROJECT!!!!

I am so excited to post about this!! I have decided to post about a thing I've wanted to make for a really long time now-!

I have been a knitter for pretty much my whole life, ever since I was practically a baby.

I've also been a Homestuck ever since I was a young teenager fumbling around on the internet.

I have finally decided to mash both of these interests together and create my very own Homestuck Themed Double Knitted Patchwork Blanket.

Below you will see the current plan for the layout of all the symbols I'm going to include, each patch having one. I may or may not include the "Homestuck" and "413" as I'm still unsure about those--

Here is a picture of the first batch of yarn for this project!!

This yarn arrived two days ago, on the 30th of July.

I will be using this post to document my progress, as far as I'm able to remember to do so!!

It'll be an exciting journey!!!

[iknityounot]

(Long post, sorry y'all)

A little more than two years ago now, my grandmother passed away. She and my grandpa had moved down to my home town a few years before so we could take care of them. I brought them groceries once a week, helped them write checks, fixed tvs, and found lost things. I was really close with my grandma.

In addition to her hilarious personality and dry wit, one of my favorite things about her was that she was a painter and a crafter like me! She used to crochet, and I took her to the craft store a couple of times so she could get more yarn and books on crochet. But her arthritis and the shaking in her hands kept getting worse, so she eventually had to stop.

She kept her most recent project, a granny square blanket, safely packed away in a plastic bin. She told all of us she was going to finish it one day.

Her hands never got better, and when she got sick, and we found out it was cancer, she rapidly deteriorated.

After she passed, I went to work helping my mom clean out my grandparents apartment so we could move my grandpa in with her. In our frantic cleaning, I found that bin again:

DOZENS of granny squares, dozens of half used skeins. I asked my mom what she wanted me to do with it, and she said she didn't care. I set it aside and later took it home.

Maybe a month later, that tumblr post about the Loose Ends Project was going around. It felt like a sign--I was never going to learn to crochet in order to finish my grandmother's blanket. But they might be able to help!

So I filled out the interest form. They got back to me SUPER quick. And maybe 2 weeks later, I was paired with volunteer in my state (only 2 hours away!) and the box of yarn, granny squares, and my grandmother's crochet hook were in the mail. That was at the end of January this year.

Over the next couple of months, my "finisher" emailed me regular updates on her progress, and asked me questions on my preferences for how she constructed the final blanket.

At the end of August, the blanket was done!

I had always intended the blanket to be a gift for my mother. So I cleaned it up, put it in the only bag I had big enough to fit it, and drove to my mom's. I gave the blanket to her and she was gobsmacked. I explained to her all about Loose Ends, and how someone volunteered to finish the piece for us. She was speechless. (I was quite pleased with this, because I am not the best at giving gifts, so this was a pretty exciting reaction!)

She said that it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever been given. She said "your grandma would love this". To which I replied, "yeah, I know she really wanted to finish it a couple of years ago". But that was when my mom dropped the bomb of a century on me--she told me that my grandma had started making those granny squares OVER 30 YEARS AGO. She had started the blanket when my grandpa was staying in the hospital, but that was back when my mom was younger than I am now! My grandma had packed them all away, planning on finishing it, when my grandpa was sent home from the hospital. Then it went from house to house, from condo in Chicago to their apartment in my hometown. All that time and my grandma had wanted to finish it, but couldn't. First because she was busy, then because she forgot how to do it, then because of her arthritis, and then because of the cancer. My mom said she had given up on expecting my grandma to finish it. 

She said I brought a piece of her childhood with her mom out of the past.

And really, all of this is to say, if you have seen or heard about the Loose Ends Project and have an uncompleted project or piece from a loved one who has passed away--these are your people. They were so kind and treated my project with such care. That box probably would have been found by my own grandkids one day if I hadn't heard about Loose Ends.

Five stars, absolutely worth it!

(From what I understand, you can sign up to volunteer too! If you have time to share, it might be worth checking out!)

[mothyandthesquid]

Bengal Cat on merino/pima cotton. It’s a lovely mix of black, brown, reddish caramel, ginger, gold, and champagne. Because the cotton does not take up the dye it remains white and creates a wonderful visual effect reminiscent of fur. The texture is velvety and yearns to be stroked. Mothyandthesquid.com

[noirandchocolate]

Several weeks ago one of my coworkers called me over into her cubicle and gave me a very unexpected gift. Her mother passed away recently, and she'd been packing stuff up at her condo to give to relatives and sell, so the home could be sold. The mother was an avid knitter and crocheter, and when my coworker came upon her stash of equipment, she told me, she "immediately thought of me as someone who might get some use out of it."

So, I have inherited a varied collection of knitting needles and crochet hooks, cable needles, sewing needles, and, best of all, now-out-of-print pattern books, mostly for blankets, because that was what this lady loved to make most. Plus, I also have a bunch of gauge swatches she made, pinned to little bits of card covered in perfect schoolteacher handwriting setting out the patterns they were made to test.

And also...

My coworker brought another bag, full of yarn and...knitted blanket squares. Her mother's last started project, before she got too sick to continue. And she asked if there was anything I could do with it.

It turned out, there are twelve completed squares, and I quickly located the pattern book they are from amid those given to me. It's a book of 60 patterns, meant to be put together however the maker wishes into blankets of 20 squares. I figured out which of the numbered patterns were already made, and selected eight more that I thought might go well with them.

So now! I am working on completing! My coworker's mother's last knitting project!

And I really am feeling very good about doing it.

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The Forest Angel Chart (Knitting) by Melanie Nordberg

[whitecablesfan]