#finished yarns

[ezekiellsplayground]

I finally measured all the skeins that I completed over the last few months during school term time. There is a lot of yardage here.

[yarntails]

Blocking this doily was an experience! It took a little over three hours and a bit of my sanity. I’ve told myself I’ll never do this again, but I feel as if that might be a lie..

Photos of the doily are of it while being blocked. I totally forgot to get any pics after I took all the pins out. The finished size was 51 inches in diameter.

[kaysoncoffee]

Behold! The rare finished object! Features include woven in ends

[mirith]

Mallorn by jbeckert -- what a fun knit! Great pattern, highly recommend!

I was debating whether or not to do another 26 row repeat. I did have enough yarn, but I'm actually glad I didn't. This shawl is huge, which was my intention, but I think any bigger would make it impractical.

I did the crescent variant with five pattern repeats. I don't think I made any modifications, which is rare for me.

I did learn how to mirror knit, which was a huge timesaver for casting off! The cast off is so clever and delightful, by the way.

Here's the flying saucer blocking photo:

[brownbuttercookies]

it’s finished!!! rainbow scarf, yarn by bona yarns and pattern is the terra maris lace shawl on ravelry. no modeling shots till it’s done blocking but it’s too beautiful to not share 😸

[unraveledandfrayed]

Here is my finished and blocked ophelia blouse! I am absolutely in love with this piece and I'm so proud of it!

The pattern is the Ophelia Blouse by starcrossed knits, it is worked up in Knitting for Olive pure silk in the colorway coal. This project only took me a week to make!

[hotcinnamonsunset]

a knitting pattern you don’t want to chicken out on😉🐓

[cecilyacat]

"Do you have any high intensity hobbies?" well you see i play a mean game of yarn chicken sometimes 😬

[gornwen]

Please admire my giant baby blanket for Handsome's very tiny niece.

And all the ends I had to weave in.

Pattern: Fly Away Blanket from Tin Can Knits

Yarn: Knit Picks Comfy Worsted and Comfy Color Mist

[scribblesandknots]

DNA Pullover

It's done!!

I love how it came out - I made SO many modifications to the fit. The sweater was written for a boxy, typically-male silhouette, and I am Not That. I shortened the arms and regraded their shaping, widened the body, and moved the shoulders in by a few inches to fit my frame.

The shoulders fit bang-on on top of my actual shoulder, which is so exciting, and the sleeve cap fit perfectly into the shoulder, too. I put a lifeline in when I knit the first shoulder cap to make sure I could rip it back out if it didn't fit, but I didn't need to!

Overall, absolutely happy with this sweater. It's super comfy, and the yarn (High Desert Worsted from KnitPicks) is suuuuper soft and cozy.

[sergle]

I think I'm going to make a temperature blanket this year

[larrylimericks]

15Jun24

Some your-names said Louis’s a slag; In Mexico, gave him a shag. Ten or more touched the sky! He sparked up to reply: Fuck your rumors and also jet lag.

[moongothic]

MY BLANKET OF DARKNESS HAS BEEN COMPLETED

✨👁️✨ I AM SO COZY NOW ✨👁️✨

So I started working on this blanket around June of 2022. Got like, maybe half-way through the blanket and then the yarn I needed for the blanket went out of stock at my local yarn shop. Now I didn't know the yarn would be completely unavailable for like 6 months (until the stop closed permanently), so I just kept on waiting, hoping for it to come back in stock-- but it never did, so in January I finally looked online if I could find the yarn elsewhere and I did, I got the yarn I needed, and finished the blanket. So it kinda took me 6 months to make this blanket but also not

What made this blanket a truly exciting and fun project for me is that this has been the first blanket I actually made for myself and designed for myself. Like I've enjoyed every single blanket project I've had so far, but having a blanket that's Just For Me is just. It's nice

I originally planned the granny squares out digitally because I wanted to have a fun pattern of different granny squares, something that wouldn't be too busy looking and was carefully planned, and here's what I came up with

I had two versions of the square pattern, one with moon phases right in the middle of it and another without them. I do like how the moon version looked and part of me kinda regrets not making that one, but I'm not sure the moons would have really gone well with the eyes... So I did go with the first version

(Sidenote, it's not on the pattern above but I added extra rows of just black squares at the top and bottom of the blanket, so there's two rows of black instead of just one)

(Sidenote 2, although I knew I wanted the blanket to be mostly black from the begining, I wasn't entirely sure what accent color I wanted to use, it really was depending on what colors the shop had available. Like I used yellow as kind of a default color since it worked nice with the stars and eyes, but I could've gone with some other color too. In the end, because I didn't like the color options for the yarn at the shop I ended up going with a yellow anyways) (Also I tested out a reverse color version with the pastel purple and white base and no eyes, just for funsies, it looks kinda neat)

But yeah, that's how the planning of the blanket went.

The blanket is made of 231 squares in total, 11x21 rows. 186 of the squares are plain black, the rest are patterned. The star squares were the worst to make because of how many strands of yarn I had to weave in, 0/10, would not reccommend.

I used the Cedro 100% wool yarn (reccomended hook size 5, 50g=100m), and it took me about 38 balls of yarn to finish the blanket (including crocheting all the squares together and doing a single round of double crochet around the blanket to finish it off)

This is literally all the yarn I have left from this blanket; one untouched ball of black and three partially used balls.

I gotta admit.

I'm kind of shocked by the size of the blanket. Like I very carefully measured it to make it the exact size to fit my bed, and it fits perfectly. But I'm still kinda shocked how big it is. (Which is why I didn't make the border of the blanket any bigger, even though I could've with the yarn I have)

Also

It's HEAVY

Like, of course it's heavy, it's 100% wool and thick, but MAN I didn't expect it lmao

But that kind of makes it perfect for cold winters especially, it's super warm and the weight makes it cozy- like who needs a weighted blanket when you can have one of these lmao

Now I just need to figure out how to protect the blanket from being covered in my white cat's hair...

[crabbarts]

(WIP) This has to be one of the most enjoyable projects I've made in awhile! I've never knit a polo before, and this is my first time working a button-up collar.

The pattern is the Winona Polo by Emily Y Chen and I'm using stash Holst Supersoft yarn.

[fyresnow]

it's all done! (well I still need to wash it...) SO hyped omg it's GORGEOUS!!! The colors are so vibrant and the rainbow gradient is so cool. It ended up being just over 500 yards of lace/light fingering yarn (~20 WPI). After washing this really 🌸bloomed🌸 and it's so light and springy and buttery aaah (the above pics are before washing)

See the plying ball here and the single filling up the bobbin here and the plied yarn on the bobbin here; The wool is an electric rainbow in rambouillet from SpinningSiren on etsy

I wasn't sure what to make with it at first, I figured a lot of my spinning projects would end up as colorwork sweaters since that's what I would wear most. But I really want to see ALL of the gradient in the yarn. I want to see all the color changes and fading and everything else. So I think I'm doing a shawl with it. So please leave a comment if you have any pattern recs! (I present mostly masculine, but I'm open to some lightly feminine accessories)

Currently leaning towards the My Precious shawl from By the Lily Pond. But to bead or not to bead, that is the question. (I've never done a beaded knitting project before)

[unraveledandfrayed]

I knitted this triceratops over the weekend. It's a free pattern by Claire Garland/Dot Pebbles. I think it turned out pretty cute!