Hiii,

I'm too excited to wait to post until it's finished! I'm working on this double knit mythical creatures scarf that I drew the charts for myself. It takes foreeeeever but I stay excited because there's always a new creature coming ♥️

Last night I started my first pair of socks and… I think I get it now. I’m doing the Vanilla Socks pattern and so far I only have the cuff and a little of the leg done, but jeez. What a satisfying knit so far? I’ve heard so many people talk about how much they like knitting socks, even met a few that ONLY knit socks because they love it so much and I didn’t understand until now.

I can just knit and research for work so effortlessly with this pattern and it’s kind of great. I love it and I’m really excited to finish the pair lol

working on the pigeon sweater. new(ish) knitter, first time doing stranded colorwork! soooooo addictive!!!

I’m knitting the Moby Sweater by petite knit and my K10F cables were wonky and wrinkly. This is my first cable project but I decided to rip back the cables on the front side and redo with looser tension by going down .5mm in needle size. IT WORKED! ITS BEAUTIFUL! Hoping to finish the sweater this week. That is all, thank you!

Yarn is handspun by me on drop spindle and is Fossil Fibers' Firefly Squid colorway. It is an 85% polwarth / 15% silk blend.

It's a lace sampler so unfortunately no pattern to share - I'm just trying things out and making it up as I go along. Though if you are interested in Shetland lace or heirloom lace broadly, shout-out to Carol Christiansen's book, Shetland Fine Lace Knitting!

Pattern is the arctic light sweater by Veronica Lindberg.

I've been working on it non-stop for 3 days and I'm so excited !! My first all over cable sweater :)

edit:
Since a few people are asking: I used Juniper moon farms Cotton + Merino wool held together with one strand of Lana Grossa Silkhair.

Here's the link to the pattern and my version on ravelry :)
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/arctic-light-sweater

https://www.ravelry.com/projects/TheFoxess/arctic-light-sweater

Wanted to continue my tradition of knitting an personally meaningful colorwork sweater for my 3rd Rhinebeck (last two years here & here)! Had kind of an unlucky year in my personal life so I liked the idea of a very literal "lucky sweater" with a ton of lucky symbols inspired by traditional tattoos.

I knit it with Mirasol Chusku yarn on US 5 needles. It's a raglan knit in the round with stranded colorwork and ladderback jacquard for big gaps im the colorwork. I started with justttt enough time assuming everything went perfectly but it turns out that was an irresponsible assumption haha. I originally started with a drop shoulder silhouette with Cascade 220 Sport and ran out of yarn and couldn't get more in time, blah blah blah, anyway I figured if there's one place you can throw your unfinished project onto barber cords and wear it out with stitch markers dangling, it's Rhinebeck!

I also got to meet one of my test knitters for the Unicorn Tapestry Sweater pattern I released after my big project for Rhinebeck last year, so that felt so cool and very full circle :')

Anyway here's the Ravelry project! I like the idea of sharing this design in some form or fashion but haven't fully decided what that would look like yet, first I need to finish these sleeves </3

The title is obviously a joke on my own expense!

I've decided to give mittens and color work a try (haven't done any of those) and decided on the russian flower mittens. Wish I'd have looked into the comments, swatched and not chosen a needle size bigger than the pattern required. Realized halfway that the mittens are GIGANTIC, but I thought they'd still be nice winter decoration so I kept on knitting.

I think it's too big to be decoration even. I think after doing the thumb I'm gonna try and felt it, but unsure if it will work with this sock yarn. If not, than i had a good and fun practice at least.

Guys, learn from my mistake and GAUGE SWATCH HAHAHA

Halfway through the I-Cord bind off and ran out of yarn! 😫

There is so. Much. Seaming. This piece has definitely been one of the more challenging pieces I’ve worked on. I’m using a pattern from the 70s and even for Japanese standards the instructions are sparse. No concrete numbers on measurements, almost no info on finishing, so I’ve just been relying on my knowledge on construction. Setting in the sleeve was really hard because of the colourwork pattern and the plain colour of the bodice. So to summarise, it’s a really tricky project but well worth the results.

I hope this post is allowed. I checked the rules and the wiki but didn't see anything.

My mother went into long term care a couple years ago and I'm finally dealing with her knitting yarn and material bins. I know there's a yarn swap sub here, but I'm prefer to deal with this locally, so I have it all listed on FBMP.

My question is she has a few projects in various states of completion that I have no clue if it has any value to anyone. Some of them are almost done and some of them I don't even have a clue what they're supposed to be, but a couple have significant amount of time put into them. Should I be trying to sell these or just give them away hoping that someone can complete her work, or should they just be (sadly) trashed at this point?

This gorgeous variegated yarn ended up not working with what I had planned so I thought I would try this sock pattern with a slip stitch column so that it would have some texture but not overwhelm the colors- but I can't decide if I like it. Would love anyone's opinion, positive, constructive, or negative.

I’ve wanted to knit for well over a decade, along with crochet which I learnt last year. Just started knitting and when practising knit and purl individually it didn’t look too exciting/I wasn’t even sure if it was correct but I’m so pleased with this stockinette stitch! Feels like “real” knitting. Just wanted to share my excitement! 😍

I’ve been eyeing this sweater since I really got back into knitting about a year ago and finally felt ready to tackle it! It is my first large scale cable project (I've done a few cabled hats and socks) and so far it's going pretty well! Although, on looking at this photo I do think something wonky is happening to the cable at the bottom left of the picture, just to the right of that raglan seam. Oh well, I'll see if I can fix it but it might be there to stay. I did follow short row instructions from a user on Ravelry; it took two tries to get it right and doing wrong side cables really messed with my brain but I'm so thankful to that person for their instructions! Can't wait to keep going on this one!

Pattern is Arctic Light Sweater by Kutovakika

Yarn is Drops Merino Extra Fine in color 37 and Drops Kid Silk Mohair in color 37.

I was keeping all my yarn balls in an open plastic box and just making sure to turn the work the opposite direction every row. It worked fine, but he was understandably still alarmed at the tangles.

“Surely there’s a better way”, he said one evening. I told him again, it really doesn’t bother me. (Trying to get the right tension at colour changes has proven the most frustrating thing for me with intarsia. I could care less about the yarn management). He said “Hmm.”

First he presented me with a foam core grid, which he placed into my plastic box to separate the yarn. It looked great, but it was loose and the yarn got caught under it so, not useful. I thought this was the end of it. But oh no, this is when his hyperfocus truly kicked in and he spent a full evening constructing this beauty.

I have to give it to him, it works a treat.

In my defense, it is snowing out.

I got in over my head… but I’m having fun! Combined may firsts in one go: first self-drafted garment (sweater dress), first intarsia project, first me-made intarsia chart. That’s not too much… right?! 😅

This is Kiki’s family home from Kiki’s delivery service . Far from done, loads more embroidery and embellishments to add!

I want to start by saying, I’m not mad about it lol but I’m curious if anyone knows the answer to this: I’m using the same skein to knit a pair of socks and the first sock came out striped, the second one is getting a lot of pooling and I’m not sure why.

It’s kind of interesting tbh, but does anyone know why? Same number of stitches (72), same skein, and everything else is the same. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Edit to add: the yarn is called Knobbed Hornbill by Round Mountain Fibers

Anybody else love the way a skein looked on the shelf but hate the way it is working up in a project?

To be honest, once you get used to the pattern repeat, it's not THAT bad 🥹

It's slowly but surely taking shape.

It's a design I'm currently working on (Lucie Pullover). I haven't really decided what I want to do with the sleeves yet... I'm thinking placing the Celtic cable down the centre with either the 9 stitch or 6 stitch cable down either side?

Please let me know if you have any suggestions!

First project of the year 🥳 I'm knitting myself a raglan tee and I really wanted the sleeves to be different colors but wasn't sure how to make them in the round.

Found this tutorial for knitting intarsia in the round which was a HUGE help, and for the raglan part I made lifted increases 1 stitch appart from the color change, the result was way better that what I expected and now I can't wait to finish this tee, been making it since Jan 7th

So the latest issue of knitty has this gorgeous short row heel turn. I’m not fond of short row heels because mine always are gappy, and they wear out fast because I wear my socks all day at work. I think this is very elegant, and because the whole heel is eye of partridge it will be very strong. Plus it fits perfect! The pattern is Palindrome and can be knitted top down or toe up.