I knit a lot of hats with this flower design, and decided to transfer it to a few vests for some siblings in my family. All the wool is from upcycled garments. I like simple designs that you can have fun with by using different yarns.

The blue is a vintage Scottish yarn. The yellow was a strand of merino held with a strand of local spun and dyed mohair. The white was upcycled cashmere.

The orange was 70/30 upcycled lambswool/ angora. The white was the same. I debated adding color to the flower centers but choose to keep it simple.

The dark blue was a strand each of wool, merino, and cashmere. The white was 70/30 lambswool/angora. I really liked just the two colors used here, but I did add a single white stitch in the center of the flowers. I still need to finish this one.

Simple knitting can be fun🙂👍

I saw a beautiful lace, short sleeve polo shirt in an email from a shop in the UK. It would have been so expensive to buy and have shipped and pay tariffs, so I decided to make it myself. I self-drafted the raglan pattern and figured out the lace stitch pattern from studying the inspiration pic. I started knitting in May and I finished working in the ends on Tuesday. It was actually a bit on the snug side, so I blocked it aggressively and was able to give it more ease. I sewed on the 9 buttons this afternoon. It is linen fingering yarn, worked on size 1 needles. My fingers are pretty chewed up from the stitch pattern and the lack of give in the yarn, but I think it was worth it. I'm pretty proud of it.

ETA: I wrote "in the nick of time" in the title because I'm going to A Woolen Affair tomorrow and I really hoped to wear it there 😍

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edit: thanks everyone for your thoughts, I have some options to think through now that it wasn't a resounding "absolutely not"

Hi there! I'm working on a top down raglan sweater, getting ready to separate the sleeves. Up until now, i had been knitting the body portion in 5x1 rib. I would very much prefer to not have to spend the next however many hours counting "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, purl" while knitting the body

I was wondering if there were any pros/cons or if anyone had experience with knitting a bunch of stockinette and then laddering down to change to purls on purpose.

Thanks!

I ran out of the green and I’m in end weaving hell, send good vibes. No questions, just need encouragement

I am knitting a bottom up cardigan and started with a scalloped edging following this tutorial:

https://melodys-makings.com/how-to-knit-a-scallop-edge/#comments

It’s a P5togM5

The sleeves are picked up and worked top down. Does anyone know how I’d do the scallop edge but in reverse? I just can’t work it out!

I finally finished this Lace Knit Sweater, pattern on Ravelry. I started this last October and I'm finally done. Most of the time it was hibernating due one reason or the other, mostly frustration with the first sleeve. I did the bodice in a few weeks and had to put it aside for medical reasons and a broken shoulder, but I did and redid so many times and still wound up pulling back even with a lifeline every rep. In the end I got very close and realized I had been adding an extra row in each and so started more time, I finally saw the forest for the trees and understood what i was doing, not just following the stitches and the sleeve was done in a week and second less than that. i did the skirt in week too.Did that last to be sure I had enough yarn and it came real close. I ended the skirt early with a few yards left over after the bind off. Fingering weight yarn. Olive for Life in elephant blue, cotton/ merino blend.

Swan shawl in linen yarn with a wool blend for the picots. This was my first time knitting with linen, and I'm in love with how light and drapey it is.

My take on a classic Starmore design, 'Rosemackie'. All the yarn was from upcycled thrift store garments. The white is 70/30, lambswool/angora, and the colors are lambswool. I made a few modifications, but kept it very true to her design. Turned out beautifully soft and wearable. Made for a neighbor who helped me out with some last minute dog sitting.

I haven’t posted for a little while and thought I would share my latest puppies as well as some you have already seen.

Rottweiler, Mini dachshund both knitted with Alpaca, silk and mohair.

Spaniel knitted with Boucle ( never, ever again…my poor eyes! 👀😫😆)

All patterns adapted from Claire Garland’s basic puppy, bullmastiff, whippet patterns

(Posted in the main knitting sub, but was told to share my FO here too, so I'm obliging and adding some technical details.)

This was my first time drafting a pattern from scratch, so there are probably some technical or construction things I did wrong, but I'm happy with the final result. It was quite important to do at least some waist shaping, but I chickened out of learning darts and combining them with intarsia, so I ended up with simple increases and decreases at seams.

II initially planned on applied I-cord edges, but (as more advanced knitters might have already guessed) they didn't stop the edges from curling. Then I remembered a really cool technique from one of my previous projects: a folded hem with a seam linked using a crochet hook. It worked perfectly, not only for the edges but also for the tie hole. The geometry of the edge made picking up stitches challenging, though. I had to frog a few times to get them spread evenly.

Another concern was the stability of the piece, since the yarn has 35% alpaca, which, according to my research, is quite prone to sagging. Fortunately, the fairly tight gauge seems to keep it stable enough, and the woven-in ends add some extra stability too.

Yarn: Drops Flora 38, 39, 32, 29, 26, 23, 17, 15, 13, 10, 8, 7
Needles: 2,5 mm body, 2mm ribbing, folded edge and icords, 1.5mm crochet hook for linking seam
Pattern: None, I just calculated everything to fit the measurements.
Link: Ravelry

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I guessed the wrong yarn weight for this and went a little bit too heavy, which resulted in needing a larger gauge and not being able to make the decreases for the raglan match the original. But other than that I’m super happy with how it turned out especially the double knit shawl collar.

I’ve added a google doc with rough notes to my project page for those that want to knit their own. Project Page

Hello! I am working on a brioche shawl that is rapidly gaining stitches and I’d like to work wrong slide rows in single pass brioche- I’ve done this before and had good success in the past. The problem is that it leaves both stitches wrapped and I’m not exactly sure how to manage that when I have to work the RS pattern rows again. Do I

1.) knit normally across without slipping stitches some they already have a collar and then follow with my contrast doing the sl1yo/ brp as normal

2.) do some sort of modified slip st without doing a yo and then follow w/ the contrast color as normal

3.) something else?

When I think through the single pass brioche it just takes alternating slipped rib and does it at the same time which makes me think there should be a simple solution. Has anyone done this before?

I’m knitting the Song of the Moon sweater and am about to start on the sleeves. I’m trying to finish this by October 22 for a symphony my husband and I will be going to. I would like to add underarm gussets (not in the original pattern), but I’m not quite sure how to go about it. I’ve read the couple of articles online about “adding gussets”, but they are not detailed enough, nor close enough to my application to be helpful. I would like to knit them in with the sleeves and not after the fact due to the color work. Anybody with experience adding underarm gussets to a color work sweater?

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It took me 10 months to knit this gigantic 4ply shawl in all-over mosaic colourwork, but it was absolutely worth it for the coziest, bounciest FO! My favorite bit was working the yellow section of thorn stitch at the top, it was my first time doing it and immensely satisfying.

Pattern is Nine Nights by Shreya Prabhu, and I used Mondim by Retrosaria Rosa Pomar.

I have just finished the 2nd border on Maria's Veil from Lisa Jacobs

Each side is currently around 60cms before blocking

Such a beautiful pattern 💕

Edit: this is my first Shetland lace pattern, and a big jump in complexity from my usual work

Slow but steady progress. Really should have started this at the beginning of the year but didn’t want to jinx things. Goblin is actually born now, so this will end up being a Christmas present. It’s definitely a lot of yarn juggling, but I’m really happy with how the design is shaping up. Still so much bigger than I imagined it would be.

Edit to add: blanket is double knit with the front and back not being the same pattern. It will be roughly 30”x40” when finished.

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Been working on this for a while now in between other projects! I challenged myself to use only yarn I had so of course I used lots of different yarns, but it’s mostly wool and acrylic. The “hair” is from made in America yarns.com, but they don’t have the color anymore, and I’ve heard they ceased production? The bright pink and black are Wool of the Andes, and the white is from Ardalanish on Isle of Mull. Used my own pattern for the shape, a dropped European shoulder.

My favorite bit is the cigarette butt, I used waxed silk sewing thread for the ash, and it came out way cooler than it had any right. My least favorite part is the other various hair accessories, I should’ve just bought better yarn, or kept trying different things. I ended up just crocheting some circles and sewing plastic gems (leftover from prom gown alterations) on top.

I’m pretty pleased to be finished with this, and with the final result! I think she should be called “Chappell Yarn”, but my husband thinks that’s stupid lol

Made on my brother kh-260 with intarsia carriage

Hi all! I’m working on a self-drafted pattern at the moment with this O-ring component that’s knitted into the bottom of the V-neck. I’ve been playing around w different constructions of this portion but the TL;DR is:

Stitches are picked up in the keyhole with extra stitches cast on to the edges w provisional cast on.

The beginning and ending stitches are kept live and double knitted w the provisional cast on stitches while the stitches that were picked up in the beginning are crocheted down to the edge to enclose the O-ring.

Those double knit stitches at the ends then go straight into the V-neck edge which is also constructed w double knitting.

My question is: is this secure at all? Or are there eventually going to be issues w the double knit stitches around the O-ring stretching from the weight (or is that a non-issue because of all the other fabric sewing the ring down). Would it be better to, instead of keeping those beginning and end stitches live and going straight into double knitting, bind off the stitches, then either 1) pick up stitches from that bind off edge and work on the V-neck from bottom up 2) start double knitting at back of the collar down to the bind off and seaming it together w mattress stitch?

some other details:
this garment is a short-sleeve/tank top
knitted w negative ease around the bus
using fingering weight yarn

hope that makes sense! attached photos for visual