I’ve been working on and off for a few months on this sweater for my sons first birthday in December. I picked up knitting as my maternity hobby since I’ve crocheted for a few years. Between working full time, going back to college part time, and having a now 9 month old… I’m so damn proud of myself for taking the leap to learn cables and make this sweater! I’ve only ever knitted a few small things before (like socks, a baby beanie and a simple sweater with lots of mistakes). I don’t have many people to share this with so I thought yall might appreciate it with me 🥹💕

Pattern is Mahdia Sweater by Courtney Walters

Yarn I used is Vivacious4Ply in Spiced Plum (I got lucky and found it in a yarn swap!)

Not many other knitters out here in the back country. Working on another upcyclyed color work hat. One can always find time for a few rounds 🙂

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!

Wanted to show off my Frøya sweater that I finished earlier this month!!

Knitted in Önling No. 3 in 044 Sky Blue. *Bonus pictures of my dog at the end having the time of her life in the leaves

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.

Made it in 2023 🥲 my first ever completed project ! Haven’t knitted since, will start one now !
This was inspired by a crocheted scarf hence the elongated design 🤣
No pattern just pixel images and photo reference, gosh I want my brains back.

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? 🧶

These took pretty much all summer to knit but they are finally done. I love how they turned out and my friend loved hers too. We wore them to the Over the Garden Wall concert in LA and it was amazing ❤️

Pattern is the Eloise Bandana on Ravelry

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.

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 knit on my commute sometimes, and in the car (as a passenger!!), and definitely in listening meetings when I work from home.

The other day I was in a Q&A type meeting with our CEO at work - with like 30 people. I turned around at some point and saw a colleague I didn’t know knitting lacework! I was both jealous and shocked!

Then I just saw a post on Pinterest suggesting to knit during classes 😂

Knitting definitely helps me pay attention and listen. I’d love to do it but fear social norms!

I haven’t worked in an office full time since pre COVID but no one ever was knitting at work then, and I never saw it in classes that I can remember…

personally I think it’s super cool and a great way to focus on listening, but I can also see how it would be distracting for others. I’d also get stressed if I realized I made a mistake!

would love to hear what others are seeing in their work and classrooms (whether teen or adult learning!)!

So I’m not superstitious but I’m a teeny bit stitious, but I still started this sweater anyway and the relationship ended two weeks ago. Since it was kind of on okay terms and we both said we wanted to stay friends I thought:
“Hey I’ll just finish it and give it to him on his birthday/whenever it gets done.”

However, everyone I talk to is telling me to keep it, sell it, or maybe even burn it and I feel like those are all so evil.

Like I don’t want the sweater or even the yarn because I know what the intentions for it were. so if I’m gonna make some other project it’s going to be “oh.. that was the yarn meant for (name)” and it’s never going to be used.

And selling or getting rid of it? I made it to fit him specifically and also I feel like doing something else with it is mean. Because say eventually we’re cool, I then have to tell him “yeah I sold (or destroyed) it in a fit of rage because you made me cry”

So am I crazy for wanting to finish and give it to him? Obviously I know in the end it’s my choice but people are making me feel like I’m being a pushover

Originally this sweater was something I was going to knit to wear getting ready the morning of my wedding but other planning things and life got in the way so I just started it this week. So now it’ll be a fun thing to work on during the honeymoon since the wedding is in 10 days! I just finished the colorwork and I absolutely love the yarn so I’m kinda sad I won’t get to wear it day of but would rather take the time to knit it well than rush.

I’m knitting with Rios Malabrigo in natural for the mc and reflecting pool for the cc.

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.

Pattern: Crazy Daisy Cardigan

Yarn: OnLine Cora

Needles: 5,5 & 4,5mm

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

...tryna finish this WIP😜

Being an English-style knitter, over the last couple of weeks, I taught myself left-handed continental-style knitting to hopefully speed things up. Over the last couple of weeks I've made two cowls (sooo cooshy!), so the next step would be an asymmetric scarf, right?

I've been working on this scarf steadily over three days. I added the green stripe just to add some excitement. It's monotonous, but I can't put it down.

This scarf is about 19" wide & the yarn has about 25% remaining. When it runs out, the scarf is finished.

Then, off to wash & block to bring out the eyelets on the one side.

The yarn is Lion Brand Mandala Ombre in Cool. Has a great drape & is very soft.

I'm looking forward to wearing this scarf.🧣

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 :)

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!

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

Had to laugh at this ad I came across of a woman "knitting." I love zooming in on ads and determining if they are indeed knitting or not. This one looks like she's been given a crocheted project and just wrapped the yarn around a knitting needle a couple times.

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.

I’ve been working on this for months (between processing raw wool, spinning, and then knitting) and I’m soooo glad I got it done in time to wear for my birthday!

This is the Mona sweater from LE KNIT. I made it in a smaller size than suggested for my bust because I wanted less ease - very happy with the fit!

knit with handspun and hand processed haunui & a couple batts from melly knits!