#knitting chart

[ub-sessed]

One of my big accomplishments today was creating a double-knitting chart for a chickadee:

Hopefully someday I'll get around to knitting it!

You are welcome to use it if you want, as long as you credit me.

Remember that the stitches in double knitting are wider than they are high, so if you try to use this chart for a different technique you will end up with an unusually tall chickadee.

[koniknits]

Had some fun drawing kitten mittens on stitchfiddle.

[iplaywithstring]

Formal request for knitting chart makers to include numbers for blocks of one colour/stitch longer than 5

[david-box-art]

I forgot to post my finished gloves! Selbu style mittens I cobbled together myself with leftover patons kroy socks yarn :-) These are made in linen and black colorways because I couldn't find white when I bought the yarn.

Hard to photograph but I managed to continue the palm pattern into the back of the thumb >:-) muahahaah.

Definitely feel like I've leveled up as a knitter because the combination of a knit gusset AND like 10 fucking stitches casted on over the loop (and then decreasing half of those later), one fucked up practice mitten I had to undo, combining these motifs in a way that fit my glove base (which I also had to change), plus figuring out how to chart all of it including 3 drafts. The pattern's under the cut but I've never made one before so I apologize if they don't made sense.

The first pattern is blurry because it's tiny in ms paint. Zoom in or open it there and turn on the grid. I'm like 90% certain that grey part in the middle where you decrease some of the stitches is supposed to go up to the top and there's Maybe a row missing Somewhere where the ribbing comes before a CC line but I can't fucking tell right now lmaoo. Have fun everyone and hope you enjoy.

[fallowhearth]

Apropos of nothing, I found this fingerless mitt knitting pattern I drafted a few years ago and figured I may as well share it? The colourwork motifs can be applied to any pattern base, I wouldn't recommend knitting this exactly as written anyway as they aren't a great fit. I was a bit lazy about drafting the mitts themselves. But! The pattern is fun.

[safranknits]

Finished socks!  I wanted autumn appropriate socks for myself, and this is the result. I'm very happy with the fit and pattern.

I don't like knitting colorwork very much, but I finally figured out how to comfortably hold both strands in one hand, which is great.

Feel free to use the colorwork pattern for your own projects!

[rainbowspoopingunicorns]

Had to make this for a friend because I couldn't find one anywhere on the internet, and figured I should share. So here, have a SasuNaru symbol pattern. I hope you enjoy.

[theknittinggoblin]

Here's the chart!

The bobble instructions ended up too long and it wouldn't let me add them, so I'll put them here instead:

MB5(7): Knit into the stitch, but don’t pull off of the left needle. YO + knit into the same stitch 2(3) times (you should have 5(7) stitches for the bobble). Drop the worked st from the left needle. Turn the work, purl 5(7). Turn, knit 5(7). Repeat the last two rows one more time. To finish the bobble, pass the second st on the right needle over the first st 4(6) times. This will produce a tilted bobble. Press the center inward to form the pupil.

This is my first time making a chart that isn't for my own use, so please do let me know if I've made any errors or if something needs clarification!

Prototype Eye Cables!!

I think this one's my favourite

[digital-seraphim]

person looking through blinds sweater

[exercise-of-trust]

i don't generally bother posting the stuff i knit exactly from existing patterns but i finally wove in the ends on a couple frankensteined socks and figured i might as well throw them up here? they're very dumb but i'm fond of them.

for the first pair i made up a colorwork pattern for the feanorian heraldic symbol, and slapped it together with the pisqu sock structure and toe pattern, and a snippet of a mitten for the sole halves. the yarn is 100g of jamieson's of shetland that i got on the high street of fort william, as a treat after walking 100 miles from glasgow to get there, and i had... maybe 10 yards total left over? i had to cut off the long tail from my cast-on and use it to graft the toe closed on the last sock; it was nerve-wracking. if i did this pattern again, i'd probably put the toe motif in between the two heraldic lozenges, but the first time through i wasn't sure how the math would work out so i frontloaded them. ah well!

the second pair is the structure of an existing sock i've forgotten the name of (worked in the round from the tip of the heel to a hat-like shape with six sides; two opposite ones are grafted together to form the instep and the other sets of two open into the cuff and close into the toe), with the colorwork pattern from the gogink sweater yoke. i thiiiink you could do this with basically any colorwork sweater yoke, but i've only tried it with this one. if i did it again i'd add some short rows to the front side of the cuff; the construction sort of pulls it down so that the heel side of the cuff is higher than the front, and a couple short row rounds would probably level it back out. i like these because they neatly smash the cuff-down/toe-up binary and make everybody mad, and i am at all times an imp of the perverse.

[woollyrhinocrafts]

Yowza! I'm sort of glad that I borked my blog formatting when I changed the layout because I'm realizing that there's so much stuff my goldfish brain forgot to share! I AM UPDATING ALL THE THINGS!

[crafi]

[Image ID: a photo of a piece of knitting, showing colourwork creating a gradient from green to blue. End ID.]

The leg of my Dither socks! Having fun doing some subtle stranded colourwork

[eaglehorn]

Rough pattern: in the green, cast on a multiple of 14, join in the round. Knit for a while.

Switch to your white/yellow: knit five rows. Switch to your red: knit seven rows.

Then do the chart. Good luck with the parts where you’re dealing with three colors at once.

The reverse that (seven rows red, five rows white, yellow, green for… a while.

Repeat until it’s the length you want. If going for a cowl, do some sort of invisible join (like Kitchener stitch).

Finally finished this beast. Not happy with Past Me for thinking I’d be able to keep decent tension while wrangling three different colors of yarn, but overall very happy with how it turned out.

[twostepsfromtemerant]

Hey look what I finally finished after 9 months and change

[mrvelocipede]

A (probably inevitable) follow-up to my weekend of charting diamond-shaped lace motifs: the Cool S, as rendered in knitted lace. I really hope somebody can figure out a use for this.

WAIT

RETCON

Use this version instead, it’s much better! And slightly easier to knit.

[hotcinnamonsunset]

knitting but make it ✨dark academia✨