#magic loop knitting

[claudscraftsthings]

I finally got round to learning the magic loop method!

It was supposed to be a lazy attempt to avoid knitting sleeves flat (ew sewing) but ended up being 2 hours of “where are these extra loops coming from?!?!”

But I’ve figured it out and it’s working well! Also making me knit a bit looser, so my hands are hurting less, win win ✨

[uncanny-tranny]

Something that amuses me between knitters and crocheters is this... almost humble nature each craft has about the other. I couldn't imagine how one would knit, and I know some of the basics - and yet, I have met so many knitters who say crochet is impossible, and yet I find it to be so simple. There's just something charming about when one recognizes just how much skill, effort, patience, and care go into a craft, and to be humbled by just how incredible human ingenuity and creativity are

[femmeknitted]

out of curiosity...

Adding pictures in case anyone doesn't know what something is or if it's called something else where you're from:

Reblog for a bigger sample size <;3 (if you want)

[the-fiction-will-knit-the-real]

OK, so I've been knitting since 2010, and I just learned 2 things.

[1] Magic loop was invented around 2002

[2] Circular needles were invented in the 1910s

That means that, if you were knitting as recently as just over 100 years ago, you either were knitting with straight needles or with double points

??????????????

I fucking hate straight needles, and I fucking despise double points [personally, I know not everyone does]

I like to imagine knitting as this craft that goes back hundreds of years and connects me to history and all that. And in some ways it is

But then I find out that I've been ALIVE longer than the magic loop method? If my grandmother had been able to teach me to knit [she died around the time I was born but was apparently a very experienced knitter], she wouldn't have even known what magic loop was???????

I also wonder if I would have even liked knitting at all If I was stuck with straight needles and double points

Idk my mind is blown over this and I guess I just need to remember that my knitting is a modern craft that is only in some ways related to historical knitting

[siriscrafts]

I finished the reversible double-knitted mittens! The symbol on them is from Skyrim. It's the fiery hand of destruction, symbol for the destruction school of magic! I've taken to calling these "the mittens of resist frost".

Pattern was improvised on the go. It was easy because I made these with magic loop, ie. two at the same time on one long circular needle. (Lots of untangling on the go was also required... I also had both ends of one ball of yarn going into each mitten.)

[elisela]

calling these my popsicle socks

[strawberrum]

[explode-this]

I would just like to apologize to crochet for being a knitting snob for so many years

[starlightcleric]

Past me already wove in all the ends of the stripes in the body of this sweater! Thanks, past me!

[binarybird]

Alright, I think I have everything I need to start my first sweater. German short rows and picking up the sleeves terrifies me though, but I'm pretty sure I'm just over thinking it.

[overelegantstranger]

the other other thing. is that socks are easy to memorise. now do i enjoy making socks not really. but each time i memorise a new thing, my brain goes. we could just make a sock without a pattern! and so true bestie. we could.

[brittlikestoknit]

when you tell yourself you aren’t going to start anymore projects until you finish a few of current wips but you have zero self control and cast on a new pair of socks that is really gonna be like 8 actual socks that you can mix and match

[cyclicalaberration]

I can't sleep I'm thinking about socks.

[gilly-laughs]

Who has owned these circular needles for a year? Who forgot how to cast on? Who is learning magic loop at 4 am?

(points thumb at self) This girl.

I really did have to refresh myself on how to cast on (I've been crocheting for the last year and half) but once I got the pattern it all came back to me. I'm not knitting to a pattern, just learning how to knit in the round and magic loop for now.

[mostlyonthefloor]

I've changed my mind knitting is no longer a good hobby. I am instead going to be taking up like ... tax returns. Or stabbing myself in the foot