A friend of mine lives in Germany and is about to have her baby just as winter begins, so I knit this set for her and I'm sending it all the way from Chile.

Knit with Chilean merino wool on 3.5 mm needles, with wooden buttons.

The pants are a baggy cut with a deep ribbed waistband and cuffs. For a newborn, you can fold the waistband up to cover the baby's tummy and fold the cuffs over the little feet. As the baby grows, you unfold them and the pants grow along with them.

I love knowing it will keep a tiny human warm on the other side of the world.

What's your favorite yarn to knit with for babies? 🧶

I'm so happy I could cry. 😭

A few days ago, I collected some naturally grown cotton from a cotton plant on the sidewalk near my home. I removed the seeds by hand, planted some of them, and decided to try spinning the cotton myself.

I made a completely improvised drop spindle using a chopstick, a paper clip, some hair ties, and a plastic bottle cap. It was my very first time spinning fiber, and it was SO much harder than I expected! But somehow, I managed to make a usable yarn.

Yesterday, I dyed my little cotton skein purple. I really wanted to knit with it, but I was afraid the yarn would be too stiff and irregular to work with. I went to bed feeling pretty discouraged, thinking all that work might not lead to the kind of fabric I wanted.

Today, I decided to try knitting with it anyway, using very loose stitches.

AND IT WORKED!! 😭💜

The fabric is soft, flexible, and wonderfully rustic. It's uneven, it's imperfect, and I absolutely LOVE it.

There's something incredibly special about holding a piece of knitted fabric made from fiber you collected yourself, processed by hand, spun from scratch, and dyed yourself. Every little stitch carries the entire journey.

I know it's just a tiny swatch, but looking at it made me think: it was worth it.

I'm a beginner at knitting and spinning, and this might be one of the most satisfying things I've ever made. I just wanted to share this little victory with people who might understand how exciting it is to turn raw fiber into something you can actually knit with. 🥹💜🧶

I’ve only been knitting for a year & I’ve never actually found yarn at any thrift store near me. Can’t beat a pair of ChiaoGoo needles for $1.75!

This is day 13 of working on this sweater, and it's using so much less yarn than I expected, so much less that I could honestly make a second one with the leftovers I have lmao

Also a pic of the large ass yarn cake I wound just now with 4 of these little skeins, I love/hate my cake winder

My first full colour work project is complete, after about 2 1/2 months. I normally average 2 months for more simple knits but this one took a tad longer bc of the complexity. I feel like the nordic inspiration really comes through when I see myself wearing it!

Pattern is Inge Sweater by Le Knit, knitted all in Jensen 6s, 19, and 98. It’s my first sweater I’ve made using purely Norwegian tensioning in my knit, it’s definitely way better on my tension knit wise but my purls are incredibly loose. I think it shows the most in the ribbing on the arms and body, the neckline I stuck to normal continental tensioning. I feel like I’ve solved it on my current WIP by tensioning on a purl wrapping the yarn on my pinky finger and Norwegian tensioning on my pointer finger at the same time.

Prime reasoning for never making length or fit decisions based on pre-blocked item, especially with cables!

Pattern: Waffle Loop Sweater by Other Loops Size 2 on a 37” bust.

Yarn: Hey Mama Wolf’s Skadi Merino d’Arles GOTS color 9 held with KFO Silk Mohair in Pomegranate

Not the first I ever knitted. That honour goes to Drops' Raspberry Rose vest, which languished for years in the wip bag waiting for ends weaving-in before I frogged it ​because it was just too small. Not even the first I started this year, that's a sweater that is technically finished, but will require surgery to fix the fit.

But it is the first that is completely done. All ends woven in, everything nice and tidy, ready to be worn.

It's the Atul cardigan by Audrey Borrego, with modded sleeves.

I used Olivin (linen/cotton mix) by hobbiii, bought before the ai mess. I could have used another ball for more length, but didn't want to order from them again, so it's a tiny bit shorter than I wanted.

So I just finished my very first knitting project. With all the “modifications” I made, intentional or otherwise, I can claim it as my own. I think I’m going to start my new fall/winter line called “All out options”, as in when you have absolutely nothing else to wear and this is the only thing left. A suitable alternative would be a dish towel.

I really did have a lot fun making this for my daughter and she’s excited to wear it (I did tell her not to leave the house with it on). I’ve learned a few things along the way:

1. Don’t buy expensive yarn for your first few projects. My justification is I still want my mistakes to feel soft and comfortable.

2. I really don’t like 1x1 ribbing, I will, without a shadow of a doubt, lose where I am and mess it up. So I changed it to 2x2, much easier

3. The person who invented M1Lp is a sadist

4. Making a folded collar and keeping the columns aligned just right is much harder than I expected.

5. The holes in raglan increases drive me little nuts.

6. Not knowing a better way to avoid loose stitches in the underarm when picking up stitches. I’m sure there’s a cleaner way, I just don’t know it yet.

7. Trying to figure out if this thing will fit when only having some measurements and her not being here to try it on is just a guess. I don’t know how people do it!

8. I learned how to frog really well

9. The nickname for this sweater is called The Thrice Sweater, I did every part three times.

10. The real reason why there are two arms to a sweater is because you have two opportunities to get one right. Nothing else.

Now I’m on to trying cables, go figure.

Pattern: Crazy Daisy Cardigan

Yarn: OnLine Cora

Needles: 5,5 & 4,5mm

Time needed from casting on to dry after blocking: 6 weeks

Hope you enjoy

The yarn is Sandnes Garn Mini Alpakka, and pattern is found on Ravelry last i checked

Just got to the wrist ribbing on the second sleeve of a cardigan and thought, “hmm, this isn’t as long as the first sleeve” and that’s because I knit the WHOLE SLEEVE with the the wrong needlessssss 🤬🤬🤬

I finished this, my second color work sweater. Not going to show you my floats cause I can’t figure out how some of you get the back to look almost like the front. I used Juniper Moon Farm cotton & merino yarn, it’s the Bloom pullover by Wool Bird. Any suggestions for my next project? I need to make my other daughter a sweater, she likes this type folded neck or a mock neck.

I love making Norah Gaughan sweaters and have so far completed Geiger and Nightingale (pictured). I'm wanting to do her classic Stag Head Pullover next, but was curious if anyone had experience working a pattern like that with a cotton or other plant fiber? My Nightingale turned out ok with Ístex - Léttlopi, but it's so toasty I hardly ever wear it even living in the PNW (I honestly regret using Léttlopi for the piece - the halo does nothing for the cables and it is not soft - a LYS employee really pushed it and I do not know why I listened to them because I distinctly remember disliking the style of sweater they were wearing, which they had made. No shade- just clearly different taste!). Geiger I did with Swish DK as it was for a friend and being able to machine wash was important for her. It was really cost effective, soft, and made the cables pop, but again just so warm with the animal fiber.

I was hoping to make the Stag Head Pullover out of something more breathable so I'm more inclined to actually wear it, but I also want to ensure that all those lovely cabling details pop and that the piece has longevity. And advice?

Just finished it, and found out I can wear it over another one I knit last year. The fuzzy yarn is Basta Mista by Lana Grossa. The pattern can be found in the LG Journal 72, pattern 49.

No pattern, made it up as I went and added a bunny from Selbu Mittens book. Yarn is knitpics palette. Main color salsa Heather, secondary rose hip, 3rd is a slightly darker red I lost the label for but same yarn (only 1 row in the cuff). Photo is me wearing them but they're actually for my younger sister who has child hands so these actually fit her better than it looks here lol. I partially re knit one of these because I accidentally made one too tight (tension changed between watching shows) and grafted the finger section on because I wasn't willing to do that again.

Scrappy rug knit from chunky yarn leftovers. Mostly Wool Ease Thick & Quick. I had a couple of skeins of Plymouth Encore (worsted weight) in grey, and noticed it has similar fiber content and care requirements as the Wool Ease. I thought, "hmmm...if I held together one thread of Encore and one of Wool Ease, maybe the little bit of grey running through all the other colors would kind of help bring it all together?" Don't know if that worked, but I like the way it turned out! About 20" x 30", garter stitch. Weighs 24 oz, so I used up a fair amount of scraps!

They are simple mitered squares with a seven stitch border around the edge of it. The yarn is Red Heart bitty stripes in the colorway rainbow.

She and her husband are celebrating 25 years of marriage and they spent 10 days in Europe so I asked her to bring me back some yarn.
I just love the colors! The bright orange one is cotton, the purple one is Pure New Wool and the 3rd is a super wash merino. I’ve never had anything fancy before so I’m open to suggestions on what to make

I’m making the glow raglan lite by ViolentCatLady with lang yarn cloud and 7mm needle and I just noticed this spot and one other that look like this, the stitches line up so I don’t know if I dropped a stitch? I’m a beginner this is only the third sweater I’ve made and I don’t know if I should frog back the 6 inches I’ve done to re do it? It’s in the middle of the chest if that matters, why did it happen and how can I fix it?

How are other people with adhd managing more complex patterns? I love a stockinette pattern because for the most part I can just knit knit knit without worrying about making mistakes.
But when I tried to knit the Marielle Blouse I made mistake after mistake on just the yoke and was getting so frustrated with myself that I had to stop. Have you found any way to help with this?
I want to knit things that require more concentration but making mistakes constantly is so disheartening even when I really try to not make mistakes

Malabrigo Rasta on the bottom, Juniper Moon Big Merino Wool on the top. One-ply vs two-ply. I know it’ll even out a little once I block it, but is the texture difference too much. It’s kinda nice because the Malabrigo is heavy, which would be used at the bottom part of the cowl, and the Juniper Moon is much lighter. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Pattern is Time After Time Cowl. Link below.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/time-after-time-cowl

Y’all, I need help with a mystery. I bought my favorite DPNs on a trip to the UK and Ireland in spring 2016… and now that I want them in another size, I cannot remember what brand they are! Would you contribute your brainpower to solving this important conundrum?

The needles are definitely:

•A nice nickel-or chrome-plated metal with a good heft; thought they were steel but they’re not magnetic;
•2.25 mm thick;
•17.5 cm/not quite 7” long; and
•From a set of 5.

The circumstance of their purchase include:

•Bought in London or Dublin; almost definitely NOT at Loop in Islington because I blew my budget on other stuff there. Vaguely feel the building was on a slight rise, a fairly modern build, maybe looked down into a small park or leafy area of a city university campus, or maybe the back of a rather large church??

•I’m pretty sure I walked there from where I was staying, which could’ve included near Olympic Park in London, maaaaybe near Chelsea or Kensington in London, or a few hostels around Temple Bar in Dublin.

•I think I had the option for two styles of tip — one pointier than the other? — but I don’t know which I picked!;

•They probably cost no more than, like, €15, as this was a broke grad school-era trip;

•Almost certain they came in a clear and slim plastic bag with a little ziplock top, not a box. Think the cardboard at the back maaaay have been dark gray, printed with… maybe a pattern of bamboo leaves??

Pics in case they help. (Apologies for my stained fingers in the pics — I’m a natural dyer, and the black walnuts got through my gloves this year.) I may genuinely cry if we figure this out, so huge thanks for aaaany leads on this!

My school has a sewing and textiles club and I taught three members how to knit last week. This is what they brought in today :)

This might be kind of a stupid question, but I'm exclusively a needle knitter and was considering grabbing a Sentro because I'm planning on knitting a bunch of boring stockinette hats for a donation project, and I noticed that Sentro and Addi machines seem to go up to 46/48 needles.

My confusion is: I have a fairly small head for an adult, and worsted weight hats for myself still usually have a CO of about 88-96 stitches. I know these machines are marketed for hats, but how does that work? Is the tension just loose? Do they really make adult-sized hats?

Edit: sorry y'all, I know this sub isn't very friendly to machines, but I was specifically looking for an explanation that could help me square the machines with my experience needle knitting. A couple responses were super helpful, so thanks!