#yarnover

[ub-sessed]

My other knitting is going disastrously, so I decided to do some double knitting because that's something I know how to do. Managed to yarn over the first stitch on the first row, and didn't notice until I got to the end of the row. So I started to tink all the way back because I don't trust myself to be able to fix it properly in the way back:

Then I realized it would be faster just to frog the whole thing and redo the cast on:

Knitting is like the one thing that I let myself be bad at, and lemme tell ya, these days I am really bad at it.

[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!

[sinni-ok-sessi]

spending the rest of the evening seething because I fucked up my knitting like four inches back and now I have 15 fewer stitches than I should

[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.

[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.

[ub-sessed]

Toe-up sock knitters:

What's your favourite increase for knitting the toe?

[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.

[yarnandink]

Turns out that today marked the ninth anniversary of my learning how to knit!

Nine years ago today, I successfully cast on by myself, and managed to knit flat stockinette stitch without accidentally adding stitches!

I've come a long way since that project, with some ambitious finished objects, some even more ambitious WIPs and a to-do project list and stash that'll probably last me at least another nine years!

Longer and slightly maudlin retrospective below the cut. CW for parent death.

Nine years ago wasn't the first time I'd tried to learn how to knit - Mum tried to teach me in my teens. It... didn't go well.

Between my untreated anxiety and perfectionism demanding that I be perfect immediately or abandon all attempts as a permanent failure, and Mum's seeming inability to find ways to help me learn how to hold yarn to maintain tension or - more crucially - relax tension, it became an unmitigated disaster which led to me rage-quitting and flouncing off to feel sorry for myself.

She never did get to try to teach me again, later.

And then, ten years ago I picked up fabric, embroidery floss, hoops and needles and hyperfixated on cross-stitch embroidery. I stitched on public transport, in pubs, basically anywhere I could. And somehow in that year my fingers finally learnt to feel when the thread had reached the right tension - enough to pull the stitches taut without warping the fabric.

And after a year of that, I saw a video on arm knitting, assumed I'd be able to do it (I was wrong) and then bought chunky needles to match the chunky yarn, so as not to let the yarn go to waste.

And suddenly, FINALLY, something clicked and I managed to knit. Clumsily at first, but I wasn't pulling the yarn so tightly that I couldn't even insert a needle into the stitches on the return row. My fingers had learnt when to stop.

First I learnt knit and purl. Then I dove straight into basic lace (yarnovers and knit-two-togethers). I figured out my own overcomplicated way of holding and tensioning my yarn. From there, I played once with DPNs, then abandoned the "grumpy hedgehog" for magic loop on circular needles and never looked back.

I began adding changes and personal touches to patterns, then began developing my own patterns. Some of which I've even written down!

I discovered luxury yarns and independent dyers, met fellow knitters and made friends. I once knit on public transport in full Halloween costume (as a punk mermaid), to the fascination and amusement of many fellow passengers.

I learnt how to undo mistakes - how to forgive myself for making them, how to mitigate, or undo them. How to know when a mistake was fixable and when it would be easier to start all over again. And - more crucially - I learnt to let myself embrace that, how to let the mistakes be okay, to forgive myself for making them and focus on fixing them and learning from them, instead of beating myself up for making them.

I stopped biting my fingernails, a habit I'd had since age 2, which I'd previously thought was unbreakable. I discovered that when I could knit, I was less anxious, less depressed and more settled and centred.

I inherited a bunch of Mum's yarn stash which my sister had been keeping safe, and used some of it to make a big drapey-sleeved shrug, which I describe as being like wearing a hug from Mum.

I've now knit blankets and jumpers and fingerless gloves and hats and intricate lace shawls.

This year I plan to finally try to master custom-fit socks. Though I have a baby blanket to make first, for a colleague.

I wish I could show Mum how far I've progressed as a knitter - I wish I could show her that I'm carrying on a traditional craft into a third generation (her own mother was also an excellent knitter) - that I know of.

I can't, of course. But that's okay. I've also learnt how to be proud of myself, enough for the both of us!

[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

[stuff4me2023]

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

[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"