#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.

[iplaywithstring]

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

[rattvioli]

Made a cubito Quackity pattern :]

Written out pattern:

Cast on 45

Work 7 rows of (K1,P1) to last stitch, K1

Row 8: K1, P1, K1, P1, K37, P1, K1, P1, K1

Row 9 and All Odd Numbered Rows: K1, P1, K1, P1, K1, P35, K1, P1, K1, Р1, К1

Even Rows 10-14: K1, P1, K1, P1, K37, P1, K1, P1, K1

Row 16: K1, P1, K1, P1, K6, P24, K7, P1, K1, P1, K1

Row 18: K1, P1, K1, P1, K6, P1, K22, P1, K7, P1, K1, P1, K1

Even Rows 20-24: K1, P1, K1, P1, K6, P1, K8, P9, K5 P1, K7, P1, K1, P1, K1

Even Rows 26-30: K1, P1, K1, P1, K6, P1, K5, P3, K9, P3, K2, P1, K7, P1, K1, P1, K1

Row 32: K1, P1, K1, P1, K6, P1, K22, P1, K7, P1, K1, P1, K1

Even Rows 34-38: K1, P1, K1, P1, K6, P1, K8, P3, K3, P3, K5, P1, K7, P1, K1, P1, K1

Rows 40 & 42: K1, P1, K1, P1, K6, P1, K22, P1, K7, P1, K1, P1, K1

Even Rows 44-48: K1, P1, K1, P1, K6, P24, K7, P1, K1, P1, K1

Even Rows 50-56: K1, P1, K1, P1, K37, P1, K1, P1, K1

Rows 57-63: Work 7 rows of (K1, P1) to last stitch, K1 Cast off, weave in ends and block.

[explorationsofobsession]

Bookvest - Free Knitting Chart

I made this Bookvest based on the cover of the Penguin Classics – for one of my favourite works, “Hamlet”. It was a total hit when wearing it at a yarn event, and a book event. If you would like to make your own, I figured I would share the chart. I haven’t written down the pattern for the vest, but you can adapt the chart to fit within any of your favourite vest patterns.

[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.

[bowlofmie]

A Project I started this Morning!

It’s either going to be a tank top or a baseball tee (I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it lol). Luckily since I’m working bottom up, i have plenty of time to decide. I’m just making it up as i go, as i typically do (it’s a bit of a bad habit that has me constantly frogging tbh) so there’s no pattern or anything, im just working from my measurements. I was doodling on stitch fiddle last night and ended up with this cute panda that i think would be really cute to put on the front!

I think I’ll put a saddle shoulder type thing on this one. I’m using 3.75mm Susan Bates circular needles and some Cascade cotton i bought from my local secondhand yarn shop for a dollar a skein! I’ve had a half finished project made out of this yarn just sitting in my closet for almost a year, but I just wasn’t very happy with it so finally decided to frog it and use the yarn. Very happy i did! I also split this yarn in half because it was a little chunky for the fabric i have in mind.

I only have white and green in this yarn, so I’m considering either using a different yarn for the motif or trying out natural dyeing for the first time! I did a presentation in my botany class last year about natural dye using local plants, and i didn’t get to actually use any of the knowledge i got from that because my life went to complete chaos. So now could be a fun time to try it out finally! If anyone has any advice or thoughts, I’d love to hear! Thank you for reading :)

[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!

[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!

[ub-sessed]

Another thing I noticed about my swatch was that my diagonal moss doesn't match the photos at all. One of the comments on Ravelry said to follow the chart rather than the written instructions (which I would have done anyway cuz I find it almost impossible to follow written patterns), but the chart doesn't look anything like the photos either:

So I compared the chart to the written instructions, and realized that whoever had created the chart had followed the written instructions as though this was being knit in the round, i.e. as though every row of the instructions is worked from the right side and from right to left. This is a seven-year-old paid pattern! Why wasn't this ever corrected?

Anyway, using the written instructions, I was able to create a new chart that matches the photos:

I am proud that I was able to identify and solve the problem, but cranky that I had to spend so much time fixing such an egregious error in a paid pattern. Like, when there are mistakes in a free pattern I figure you get what you paid for, but I paid for this! I'm also confused that the one person who commented on the error somehow gave the exact opposite of the solution.

ETA: @unexpectedyarns has pointed out to me that the chart might have been made this way ON PURPOSE. Just one more way that knitting has shown me how radically differently people's brains work.

I'm making the Isobel Wrap by OhKayKnits for my boss for Christmas because I love her and she loves scarves.

This is my little swatch:

What I'm noticing is that it's significantly narrower in the middle (knit-purl argyle: 2.3 stitches/cm) than at the ends (moss stitch: 2.1 stitches/cm). Is this because of my knitting or is it just a characteristic of those two stitch patterns? I'm assuming that the designer figured you can block out the difference (the pattern calls for a wool/alpaca blend), but I'm using acrylic yarn (Premier Anti-Pilling Everyday Worsted in Pine Green), so that's not an option. I figure when you're making something as a gift, the recipient shouldn't have to block it every time they wash it just to make it the right shape. So I'm adding a few increases and decreases. 🤞🏻

[twostepsfromtemerant]

Hey look what I finally finished after 9 months and change

[hotcinnamonsunset]

knitting but make it ✨dark academia✨

[thesleepyknitter]

New project alert! I’m doing my best to recreate the blanket in this illustration from Matt Forsythe’s Pokko & the Drum, which has taken up permanent residence in my librarian heart.