#yarnover

[ladydragonkiller]

Hey there! The shawl looks absolutely amazing! What kind of yarn did you use to get that delicate spiderweb optic?

Hi! Thanks, I'm amazed at all the positive reactions I've had to it! The yarn I used was originally my mother's and has been sitting in my closet yarn stash for. . .maybe a decade? and in hers for even longer before that. Luckily, it retained the label in this long sleep, so I am actually able to give you an answer (though I'm pretty sure it is not in circulation anymore).

I used needles that were waayyyy too big for the yarn (6.5mm/10.5 US) to make it extremely lacy, and am very happy with the result!

[velvetyaura]

Fairy Set by YarnOver

[crossedwithblue]

got to remember never to knit brioche stitch in public

I'm just teaching myself how and my brain took the 'knit-yarnover-slip' sequence and turned the initials into 'kill. your. self.' and i keep chanting it out loud in a sort of breathy whisper that probably sounds Really sinister.

[dreaming-notsleeping]

I had a disaster with the cardigan last week: I got to the end of a right-side row, full of yarnovers and decreases, to find I had either 8 stitches too many 🙄 or was missing 4 stitches. At the very beginning of the row I had somehow dropped the first four stitches and they had started to unravel. Panic and hyperventilation followed.

Of course I didn't use lifelines. Now I did, but trying to follow the line of yarn was … well, lets call it an adventure. A cross-eyed adventure. Once the lifeline was in I could frog, and that's where I found I had missed a few stitches, which were now unsecured. Oh well.

Thank goodness for blocking mats and pins. Got the thing pinned out over three mats, pins in at one angle to secure the loose stitches, pins at another angle to count the pattern repeats. 171 stitches all accounted for and back on the needle! Only took about 2 1/2 hours. That was how I spent my Friday evening last week 🤷🏽‍♀️

It seemed like it would be a very bad idea to have to start a new ball of yarn in the middle of the lacework, so a couple of rows after the seed-stitch band I changed to a new ball and hoped there would be enough. I can now say that I've finished the lacework, I just need to bind off and I have 6 arm-lengths of yarn left of the current ball. Result!

And I have 1 1/2 balls left for the sleeves.

In the midst of all this eye-wrenching lace knitting, I started another project. This one is as simple as possible, a completely reversible scarf.

[ub-sessed]

Earflaps still curling after washing. For my daughter's hat I'm going to go up a needle size from 8mm to 9mm, so I'm hoping the fabric will be more relaxed. And her braids will be longer, which will provide more weight. Will that be enough to defeat the curl?

The selvages are just stockinette. I used yarnovers in the first increase row to provide holes for the braids. After that I did lifted increases on the purl side because that was prettiest in my swatches.

Pattern is a heavily modified Hecla, by Brenda York. Yarn is Bernat Forever Fleece (100% polyester roving style) in Coal, Patchouli, and Rose Hip.

I am super happy with this hat! (I don't actually mind looking like Fifi Brindacier.) It's just that I don't want the earflaps on my daughter's hat to curl up, and polyester can't be blocked... can it?

[sarahdawnsdesigns]

Gannet Designs has started a wonderful blog series on various stitch constructions!

Here's their look at the construction of a Yarnover!

[coolbeesbro]

The back panel is complete!

Funfact, I had to restart this part of the toddler (3T) cardigan 2 times while I tweaked the lacework pattern I used here. I had a fun little problem of not adding a yarnover in a row that needed one, so it was slowly leaning to the right and the stitches weren't matching up. It took 3 days to complete, but now that everything is fully written down I can hopefully do this quicker next time!

I feel like by the end of this project I'll be playing the game of yarn chicken because I have 1 less skein of this color yarn than I thought I had, and this yarn was not only a bit pricier (bought from a small business on Etsy Evergreen Yarn Studio) but the nature of hand died yarn is that there's always gonna be a degree of color fluctuation between batches, and I bought this almost a year ago.

Regardless! I'm hoping to have this project blocked by the end of this coming Friday!

I'll also be posting this pattern for free on my Ko-Fi as I create it!

[mouseknitter]

So excited about my yarn from Yarnover that I caked it right away. I had a plan going in, I wanted a brown, a teal and something to go with my pink yarn. I got the brown, but I need to swatch it with the other yarn to see if there is enough contrast. The rest was all impulse colors. I have a black to go with the rainbow and I’m not sure about the watermelon one yet and the orange is going to be a cute pumpkin.

[jamiemccanless]

Firmament Wrap

Hello. Take a look at my Firmament Wrap. It’s two feet wide by six feet long (61 x 183 cm) so there is plenty to wrap up in. Broad bands of fiery suns and deep space are separated by eyelet asteroid belts.

I said that I was inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope, and that’s true, but I’ve also been wanting to use my version of this disc pattern stitch for some time. It’s not difficult to do. As long as you can work yarnover, knit two together, and ssk stitches, you can do it!

I’ve designed it with a different colorway for the suns at each end and a main color in between.

Thanks for watching!

Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/firmament-wrap LoveChttps://www.lovecrafts.com/en-us/p/firmament-wrap-knitting-pattern-by-jamie-mccanless

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

Y'all ever see a sweater that you instantly become Totally Normal about and then realize it's a 2.5K USD designer piece

I'm completely in love with this sweater. I swatched out the open work and got pretty close to the original (my double yarnover holes are more round than square but I'm ok with that. I also think they're slipping one of the vertical stitches in the decrease columns because I have one more stitch than they do for every repeat) I've never knit a saddle shoulder construction sweater tho so I would have to figure out the most optimal way to go about it.

This is certainly going on my "one day" project list mainly because I really would want to knit it in a similar colourway (or navy or dark brown) and fingering weight yarn. Which the only solid colour I have even remotely near of right now is a yellow and I'm pretty sure that still wouldn't be enough.

This isn't the first designer knit item I've ever looked at and said to myself "I could make that" but it is the first one that I've ever wanted to make. I'm not a sweater guy in either wearing nor making but I think this would be a good layering piece for formal wear which I just don't have right now. So even if I don't wear it often it would still have a use.

[patrokleos]

So I have been knitting for years and have never liked flat stockinette - it never looks quite right to me on the purl side unless I knit through the back loop, which I do, but it annoyed me that it didn't look like people said. Mostly I just stuck to socks (and didn't do flap heels).

Then I was watching knitting videos to help me figure out my next project, and I have discovered something: I purl backwards. Or, rather, I yarnover for the purl from the underside, instead of over, which results in a different twist to the stitch. Which is probably why I have to ktbl to get it to look right.

SONOFA...

[stuff4me2023]

How to Fix Holes in Knitting (3 scenarios) · Nourish and Nestle

[defibrinationsyndrome]

doing a faggotted rib rn, its working out after getting the yarnover wrong like 5 times. anyways i have GOT to make faggotted arm warmers

[mor-and-more]

Sooooo I finished the shawl

The binding off row was torturous and I won't do picot bind-off on another thing till the memory of it disappears completely

And I even weaved in the tails! Didn't cut them though - out of fear they'll somehow untangle, I guess

But also I.. started a new thing :)

A scarf

That feels like clouds

In cotton candy colours

With the kinda-pattern I made up couple days ago (and then forgot and then fucked it up in the first row by accidentally including 4 extra stitches, but also Oh Well.. I simply added them as YOs in the end of the row and will continue as if nothing happened, lmao)

The new project is already turning out WIDE

But given that there'll be cables, I'm sure that's not the final width

Even if I'm going to do the life hack of "do yarnovers between all stitches on WS right before crossing the cables, then drop the YOs as you go about knitting the RS"

[stitchnknit]

You know I wonder if having a mistake in it so your soul could escape would prevent this. Like just always cast on the wrong number of stitches or add a yarnover k2t in the first couple rows where it doesn't belong. That way if you don't finish the project you won't get stuck wandering the earth....

[exculis]

one thing i learned from doing this sock pattern is that apparently i have been doing my yarnovers backwards. for years. 😬