#knitted jumper

[drakharisfrstname]

Finished my v first sweater!!!! Pattern is the Monster Sweater by KnitStitchRepeat on IG. Made with various acrylic scrap yarn so the weaving process will be v v tedious, but that’s for future Kharis to cry about!

[perpetualspinach]

a garfield jumper i knit for my friend! overall i'm very happy with it, although the sleeves are a bit long (which is a recurring problem, but easy to fix).

[ID1: a light purple knitted jumper, with garfield's face on the front.

ID2: a close-up of garfield's face. most of the colourwork is intarsia, although some details are emrboidered on. end ID]

[katiecraftsstuff]

Children's jumper pattern finished 🙂

[irenes-art-blog]

i've discovered an amazing thing - knitting

[n4rut0runn3r]

Step-by-step Sweater

I finished knitting my first sweater! This has been a long adventure, and I wanted to share some highlights.

This sweater was originally crocheted and finished on November 14, 2021. 5 hours later, a historic flood had come and destroyed my childhood home with 6-10 feet of water inside my house and our shop. The water moved with tremendous speed and I had lost all of my possessions. The sweater was thrown into a wet garbage bag with the rest of the clothes we thought could be salvaged, as the flood was from the river overflowing through dairy farms and from an asbestos tainted mountain run off. It was washed by some volunteers who I am very grateful for. Unfortunately it never fit right afterwards.

I was going to throw it away, but on November 28, 2022 I decided I should at least salvage the yarn.

This yarn has been so many places. I worked on the crocheted version in Washington DC, and New York. It even accompanied me on the NY subway in all its grimy sticky glory. This yarn has gone on every road trip the past 2 years. This yarn came with me on a cruise and I made so many nice rich old lady friends. I even got a nice handful of cough drops for showing a lady how to do the increase I was working on.

I decided to learn how to knit because I read on a forum that knit garments use less yarn and are less heavy, and that was my original complaint with the first one, was that it was too heavy.

I frogged and restarted so may times, questioned my ability to count, but I kept going. Here are some things I learned:

-Knitting is very fun, I would just want to come home and sit in my chair and spend all day working on it

-Frogging knit is alot harder than frogging crochet

-The absolute hardest part of the whole thing was weaving in the ends. Why is it so much harder with knit!?!

-The nicer knitting needles are worth the investment. I knit alot faster with cooperative needles and cables. The bamboo ones also don't squeak like the metal ones

-I learned how to hold yarn tension in my right hand! I'm so used to holding it in my left hand, that it took a solid 6 months of practice to get it! I still can't do it when I purl though.

This is how much yarn was left over. All the yarn I had to use came only from unraveling the crocheted sweater panels, all of my yarn had been lost otherwise, so I didn't have any extra skeins on hand at all. This is how much more yarn was used to crochet vs knit. That's why the first one was so heavy!

This is me washing and blocking the sweater, I laid down some towels to help keep my table from being soggy for days. I washed and rinsed with wool light delicate. All of the yarn had already been machine washed, but I just wanted to be gentle since this project took so long.

I'm glad to be done! I'm already starting a second one, and I'm being sure to document the whole process. I'm attempting some more techniques in my second sweater. The sweater was completed on December 22, 2023. Here are some final pictures of the sweater!

The pattern I used was amazing. I also followed along with the YouTube guide. I highly suggest this pattern/video if anyone wants to try knitting for the first time. Video link posted below.

[booatlantis]

As someone who mostly wears dark/muted colours I have been drawn to bright yarn lately ✨️🧶

Originally posted to my ig: atlantis.knits

[junkologistsgoods]

Vintage Eddie Bauer Pink Snowflake Wool Blend Sweater Size XL

[croechethead]

We have an arm!!!! I’m very impressed that I’ve managed to get this far and not gotten bored of it and started a new project already 🙈 I need to finish this for my daughter now though

#knitting #learningtoknit #knittedsweater #knittersofinstagram #circularknitting #beginnerknitter #beautifulyarn #hobbiiyarn

[gaygraviturgist]

realising how much yarn it takes to make anything

[perpetualspinach]

my "neigh" jumper (pattern by boyland knitworks), knit in rowan moordale yarn.

[ID: a deep pinkish-red jumper, with light grey horses rearing up around the body, light grey crosses on the sleeves, and dark purple ribbing on the neck, hem, and cuffs. end ID]

my next knitting projects will be focused on using up the yarn i already have, because my yarn drawer is full and im also spinning more...

[dgb06]

[irenes-art-blog]

knitting weekdays

[hookednbusy]

I’m a fiber artist…

[venturahandmadeshop]

Done ✔ and already passed to the addressee. Jumper fits. She loves it ❤ and it makes me feel so happy 😊

[whizpurr]

[boozinon]

I was recently talking about my mother on my Facebook page; and I wanted to share a humorous trait she possesses; but I couldn't do it there because I have too many family members following me.

Good bless her...but she is lovingly vindictive.

The most recent incident involved a second cousin of mine that professes to be a seamstress. Having told my mother, she (Mom) decided she'd like to have her make something.... a jumper.

This woman drove from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, took my mother's measurements, went home and spent 2 months making this jumper.

Mom complained to me for 2 months that it shouldn't have taken that long; and to this day, you cannot convince her that she didn't shame said second cousin into finishing it.

.... but I digress....

She finally finished it and sent it to Mom via mail. Mom got it, and it DID NOT FIT. It looked like she was wearing a baby blue potato sack.

My mother called me over to her house, made me take pictures of her in it, have the pictures developed, and SENT THE JUMPER BACK TO MY COUSIN with a postcard that said "This shit didn't fit". No apologies. No sorry. No thank yous. Just that one sentence.

I'll probably never hear from my cousin again. 🤷

Oh, here's what the jumper looked like: