#knitted garment

[uncertainturquoise]

3rd knitting project, first "real" garment!

This is Maker Maker’s See My Vest pattern in Gepard’s upcycling Puno yarn. This pattern is easy enough to follow, and it taught me basics about garment construction.

The weather here in Paris is a wee bit warm for a knitted vest now lol, but I'm still excited to wear it!

[elucubrare]

i need to start a collection of Takes About Alienation From The Material Conditions Of Production That Only Make Sense If You Yourself Are Alienated From The Material Conditions Of Production

[re-dracula]

How is Jonathan spending this month in Castle Dracula? Wrong answers only.

[icterid-rubus]

Lydia Morrow has come out with my dream cardigan! It has optional bust and hip shaping, as well as a crop version, with button band or icord closure options. As with all her patterns, there is also a sliding pay scale to make it accessible for all who wish to knit it.

Lydia works really hard to make sure she’s putting out patterns that prioritize fat people—not just fat afab! Her husband tries on all her designs and they’re made so one can have a little, a lot, or no bust room. The project language reflects that, and it is described neutrally.

If you’d like to support her work without even buying anything, follow the ravelry link to the project to help it trend!

If ravelry is inaccessible for you, the pattern is available on her website as well.

[magic-mayhem-mischief]

I knitted a thing!!

Yes I will be wearing it E V E R Y W H E R E for the foreseeable ☺️

[warpedwings]

Misha Collins - Cardigans, Part One

For @just-misha-and-castiel, thank you for the request! Many posts about his cardigans, sweaters, and jackets to come.

📷: HeatherMarie MonicaDPhoto HillywoodShow

Part Two

[skeksis98]

making progress last night, hoping these floats are decent i’m still new to colourwork…

[e-b-reads]

Step 0: Think to myself "I should try taking up a fiber art in my increasingly rare free time"

Step 1: Get how-to books out of the library

Step 2: Ask tumblr which I should try (first - no guarantees I don't switch/do both!)

Additional info, if it is useful:

I learned the basics of both knitting and crocheting when I was much younger but didn't take either up regularly

I have access to lots of (low-quality) yarn to practice on but would probably need to buy needles/hook (unless I find some at work and/or my parents' house at some point)

I like tying knots! for practical purposes and things like making bracelets, making mats out of ropes, etc. So I figure this could be an extension of that

[strawberrum]

thinking about how I had a few folks at my last market suggest to me (kindly and with good intentions) that I make and sell some versions of the hand knit cardigan I was wearing because people would "totally pay $300 for that!"

I appreciated the sentiment, but people don't understand what goes into handmade clothes! I don't use a knitting machine. Every stitch in that garment is created by hand on needles, and the sleeves were brioche. Even using inexpensive acrylic yarn for the whole project, and accounting for the HUGE sleeve stitches (saving me time making the sleeves)—the material cost was $55 and the labor was well beyond that.

Let's conservatively estimate the cardigan took me 30 hours to create. Currently, when pressed to put a dollar amount to my time, I use the living wage as a baseline and then go up from there $1/hour for every year I have been actively practicing that particular skill. In the case of knitting that would be 11 years, and the current living wage in my area is approximately $23/hour. Setting aside the fact that this is calculated based on a 40 hour work week and I don't believe that is ethical or sustainable, we'll just leave it at $34/hour. That would make labor alone $1,020.

This brings the "production cost" to $1,075.

Items are not sold at production cost because that would leave your profit margin at 0%. This is not sustainable because it costs money to run a business (think things like paying for computer repairs, buying tools, the tablecloth you use at markets, paying for a website, etc.). Realistically to cover business costs and still come out with a 7% "net" profit margin, which is just a number pulled from averages in the clothing retail business...

... I'd have to sell that cardigan for $1,350.

So yeah! Something to think about when you see the price of clothes that are handmade. :o)

[wiyldefire]

Grandma: Oh, what are you knitting? Me: Scarf :) G: Are you following a pattern? How many stitches per row? Me: It's a scarf! I cast on, knit, and cast off. G: ...how relaxing. I could never do that, I would be counting my rows all the time. Me: Yeah :)

[uncertainturquoise]

3rd knitting project, first "real" garment!

This is Maker Maker’s See My Vest pattern in Gepard’s upcycling Puno yarn. This pattern is easy enough to follow, and it taught me basics about garment construction.

The weather here in Paris is a wee bit warm for a knitted vest now lol, but I'm still excited to wear it!

[mintbees]

Finished a sweater today so I get the joy of putting it in my bathroom sink to create Soup

^ soup

[foragedberries]

if i post my crochet work on here will ppl actually engage with it bc i want PRAISE i want FEEDBACK i want INSPIRATION but no one gives that on instagram

[angelmush]

my oversized starry blue sweater is coming along (modeled by snoopy)

[baravaggio]

It’s actually starting to look like clothes this is crazyyy