#yarn: lion brand mandala

[darsynia]

This happens for crochet and knitting too! I'll love the pattern and then a couple of days in I'll be like, ehh, this isn't that great... and it's THIS:

Your fic is still good, you just built up a tolerance.

i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you've been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you're like "this isn't as cool as i thought :(" but it still is! you just read it too many times

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

Cast on the most boring shawl project I've ever willingly put on the needles twice. The first one turned out so pretty I couldn't resist a larger version. (Ravelry Pattern)

The Original was knit pre this tumblr blog with two different flavours of the 150gram Lion Brand Mandala yarn, the lighter colour being a pastel rainbow and the darker colour was a saturated rainbow. This time I have two of the 300gram Mandala yarns, the lighter is Giant and the darker is Chimera.

I had to gut the Giant to get the colour order mostly similar, but other than that I'm not going to mess with it, if they get wildly off track of eachother I'll just live with it. Hoping since this is mostly mindless knitting (with the regular annoyance that is chevrons) I'll actually like. work on it.

[vshamru]

Genuinely thrilled with how this shawl is working up!

[hubbabubbie]

I never posted my market bag pattern? Huh. The crochet bottom makes it extra sturdy, and you can tuck things into the handle like chapstick or rolled up cash 👍🏻

[dowawitch]

I’ve been awake for over 30 hours and I’m absolutely miserable BUT I finished this baby blanket that I started last year and had to set aside while my back/shoulders were raising hell!

Pattern is Crochet Chevron Blanket by Daisy Farm Crafts with adjustments for the smaller yarn i used

End wedges were filled in via trial and error

Yarn is Lion Brand Mandala Bonus Bundle in Gnome and for this size, took a little more than a skein and a half using a 3.5mm hook

[queerlyloud]

Working on a winter shawl for one of my beloveds and these colors are so lovely (it's Lion Brand Mandala in color Troll; this is the wrong side so you can focus on the colors instead of the lovely pattern [Secret Paths shawl by Mijo Crochet] texture on the right side)

[gentle-stitches]

I'm getting the hang of my circular machine. Blue grey one for me, orange yellow for my partner, and the green orange from the scraps :) used lion brand mandala (DK weight) which I think works better on my machine than worsted weight and gives a more stretchy hat

[sweetgemberry]

My finger is killing me from crocheting these shawls. They're so fun.

[first-full-moon]

Wow, I finished a thing and I took pictures of it???

My Campfire Cardigan made with Lion Brand Mandala Yarn.

More info and rambling below!

I even made myself learn how to edit my pictures for y'all. I'm proud of me 💖

Anyway, here are the deets!

The pattern is super simple to follow! The hardest part is stating your hexagons, from there on it's just granny stitches. Also, this pattern is super flexible/adjustable. Just add additional rows wherever you need them and stop when a part is long enough for you. The only tricky part of trying this thing on as you work is having to secure the shoulder seams before they're . . . seamed. Once that's done its easy to throw on to check the length/width.

The only thing I would do differently if I made this again would be to add more rounds before I joined the halves. It's just a wee bit small across the back and chest. I didn't want it to, I planned this thing to be a quick, throw-on at night when I'm camping. I did the non-tapered sleeve and I love how swooshy they are! 😊

The yarn: I know it's one of the Mandala cakes . . . I just have no earthly clue which one! If you know, let me know so I can add it. Also: I only used one cake for this! 💪I de-caked my cake by cutting each color apart (doing this for the yellows was a nightmare) and then I split each of those sections in half, using one for each hexagon. After the two halves were joined I split my sections in half and then one section in half again. The larger part went into the body and the little sections went on each sleeve.

I also added a knit hem and collar in a 1x1 rib with the white part of my yarn cake. I almost made it with just the cake yarn! I had to finish my last row and bind off with some extra white yarn which is brighter white than the other white and yes it will bother me until the day I die even tho no one else will ever notice.

Blocking info: Oh boy. This was my first "big" piece of clothing I've crocheted and MAN did it grow on the blocking mat! I've also never blocked this yarn before, so that was my first mistake. Pre-block, the sleeves hit perfectly at my wrists and the hem of the ribbing was at my hips. So it grew about an inch? I don't mind, it's actually more comfy and fun to wear now!

This was a really fun project! Glad it's done and ready to be used! Now, onward to my knitting projects!

[hookedatweiss]

I wanna show ya this amazeballs yarn that my bestie @shesanearthgirl gifted me ..... 1,181 yards of pure awesomeness. 😍🧶 I love it sooo much! ❤🧞‍♂️

[emilysidhe]

Since knitting was apparently trending yesterday (?), this is the baby blanket I finished while watching the 2007 BBC Persuasion. It’s for my cousin’s new baby. I still need to weave in the ends and block, but it’s basically done.

The yarn is one skein Lion Brand Mandala Baby in the Neverland color way, two skeins of Bernat Softee Baby in Flannel, and two different white baby yarns that I already had because I ran out of the first one four white stripes from the end. (Technically, this was all yarn that I already had, but only because during the first wave of Covid I knew so many people who had just had babies or were expecting that I panic-bought baby yarn the first day nonessentials businesses reopened so that I’d have enough if we went back into full lockdown. I’m still working through the stash).

People who know entrelac knitting are looking at the pictures going, “How did you get it so that every row has one side triangle instead of alternating rows that have triangles on each side with rows of only rectangles?” And the answer is that I read the instructions wrong and had a wonky base triangle at the very beginning, but I hid it in the crocheted border

No one will ever know.

[xensilverquill]

EFFERVESCENT!! 🐌🔮🌺

some pink palette snails i have planned for a larger photoset in the spring. this pattern was really easy to work up, and Lion Brand Mandala yarn is great for smaller amigurumi like these.

small snail pattern by CraftyIntentions

[gaviicreates]

Yarn: Lion Brand Mandala "Thunderbird" Pattern/Project: Hexi Cardi (I am learning a lot)

granny stichin' away...

[ahollowyear]

Quick Little Tunisian Crochet Purse

I am so stupid proud of this bag. I needed something for my wallet and keys on shopping day, found this pattern, and whipped up something legit from stuff I had lying around. The yarn is Lion Brand mandala yarn in "chi" color way. I'm not psyched with the way mandala works up if you just feed it straight so I like treating them as a three color set and using the Tunisian simple stitch to blend them more subtly. Speaking of, I LOVE TUNISIAN CROCHET. Soft, supple, strong... and supposedly does not unravel when cut. Perfect for garments, blankets, and utility pieces. The button is black plastic, hand painted as a watermelon 🍉 because free Palestine forever, and a Halluci Nation patch is in the mail, winging its way toward me, to be sewn on the back.

I'm so proud because I whipped it up in five days and it's the most functional thing I've made in quite a while that cost me close to zero dollars.

e: it's??? ¿¿¿so fucking cute???

mein gott the fiber arts are completely slept on. a double coated dog and a bone needle are all you need to make something as useful as a bag. probably don't even need the needle, lol. a bunch of reeds are all that is needed to make a basket that can boil water over a fire. straw mats and fishing nets and hats and clothes made of fine bark or hand spun cotton, something from nothing with just your hands and the gifts of God's green earth. shivers.

[g-ashhh]

no way i just remembered the only yarn in my ravelry stash without a label by seeing someone on here using the same brand and type and recognising the label 😭

lion brand mandala ombre in 206 🫶

never throwing out a label again after this lol

[faeish-art]

handmade crochet tie back tank top 👁️ front/back reversible. freehanded, mostly single and half double crochet. large eye & mini mesh ☆*₊˚⊹

lion brand mandala ‘groot’ yarn for the red/orange/yellow