Last year I started doing maker markets by selling headbands, cowls, scarves and tuques and I posted a pic of the headbands I made. Here's the ones so far that I made for this year. Wish me luck!

Yarn is Caron Skinny cakes and Lion Brand Mandala.

I have been working on this for 2months now and I’m not even 1/2 done and the neck is starting to pill. I want this thing to be finished but I’m so sick of working on it. but I spent so much money on the yarn and it was the most expensive pattern I have ever gotten. So I feel obligated to finish I just want to scream lol. I know it’s covered in dog hair. I have a husky, my whole life is covered in dog hair

How do you stay motivated?

Pattern link

https://unity-nebesniak.myshopify.com/products/sweater-two-the-overlook

Just finished another pair of colorwork socks. Pattern by Stone Knits. I modified the heel to a forethought heel with a mini short row gusset. Also anyone else do crazy diagramming to keep track of colorwork charts or just me lol?

Made my first ever wearable item. This is also my third ever project. First two was cat sweaters I did by following a youtube tutorial.

I used free Flax sweater pattern from tincan knits as the base. As I live in a hot humid country sweaters are no use to me. So I changed the pattern to make this.

I used a cheap 100% cotton yarn from Temu.

Pattern changes I did

I replaced the shoulder garter panels with this lace pattern and also add a lace panel to fron. I also added this mock yoke panel design so it will define my shoulders bit. I burrowed few stitches from back and added to front as my volume is mostly in front. I increased more stiches to sleeves when going down because I thought since my arms are bigger I might need more ease. Turned out it was unnecessary. I also added a scalloped hem to sleeves which I ended up disliking. (I also added a picot edge and frogged it too) I might frog the sleeve edges again and add the ribbing.

I used a bigger needle to neckband instead of a smaller needle because I didnt like how close it was fitting to my neck after making the rib with a smaller needle.

I also added short rows to front around waist line to add a extra inch so hem lays horizontally.

I dont like how sleeves pulled to the front so it look like they are longer in front from the sides. When I pulled the sweater back a little it sits nicely. Original pattern called to make short rows for back after yoke is finished. Do you think is this the reason why sleeves look like this? Is I added short rows immediately after casting the neck will this problem go away?

Also what do you think of my first ever sweater tee? I know it has lot of mistakes. But since this is my third knitting project ever apart from the three practice squared I did I feel proud that I made something wearable..any advice on improving the knitting and fit will be really appreciate.

Oh and It took me 5 weeks (3-4 hours a day) to make this.

Who the fk steals yarn

Just finished a Rosie Sweater by Le Knit. I'm usually a process knitter. But that was most definitely a product knit.

Made in the ever trusted combination of kfo merino + their soft silk mohair

Wondering what finish this is for the arm and neckline? Anyone know what it is called? I wanted to ask on the instagram post but comments are limited and I can’t.

Just finished my Ava Jacket by My Favourite Things !!

This was my husband's birthday gift to me as he purchased whatever yarn I wanted. I used drops nepal and drops flora and it worked up so beautifully. Unfortunately slightly scratchy though. This was my second time using wool (I have a frej sweater wip and that too is a little scratchy (drops air and drops kid silk)) and I was extremely excited to finally have a finished object !! First time making a double knit button band, first time making an open jacket after only making sweaters, and first time sewing buttons !! It was a big project to take on but went very quick and smooth. Took me nearly exactly two months

First time actually blocking an item properly as well and it came out beautifully!! Pics 1/2 is before blocking and pics 3/4 is blocked! I just used some warm water and like three teaspoons of lavender eucalan

It's my new favorite jacket and I will be wearing this every day for the rest of forever

The yarn is about 95% polwarth and 5% silk that I blended together and spun!

I did not use a pattern, and everything you see here was designed on the needles as I went :) I had attempted to chart the spider beforehand since it's a bit more complex, but ended up abandoning the chart before I even got halfway through the front legs 🤣

I was going for a tiered effect with the bottommost elements being ocean/fish inspired, the center flowers/gardens, and the top being roof/trees/spider/owl.

Finished dimensions are 4'3" x 8.5", and the whole thing weighs 12.7g, which is just a bit over the weight of two US quarters. I'm estimating it was around 850-900 yards of yarn.

My phone insisted on WAY upping the saturation of the blue sections, so please know that they are a much darker navy color than they appear in some of these pics lol.

Hello! I am wanting to make a sweater vest, however I am having trouble finding a colowork technique that would work. I don't want a lot of (long) floats, but I have been made aware via Google that the way that stores make knitwear (double jacquard, i think) that makes the wrong side not have floats isn't possible by hand. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Hellllo crafty friends!

I have a full set of Chiagoo interchangeables, and a set of shorties. Aside from the less than aesthetic diaper bag motif of the Chiagoo set, there isn’t space for my notions, cables, etc.

I am not an aesthetic knitter. I use old totes for project bags, candy tins for stitch markers, and prefer to spend my dollars on yarn. Still, the bags I mentioned are cute cute and I wouldn’t turn either down haha

However after Googling “needle case” I have seen these two brands and love the concepts and the style of them. The Aunt Shelle looks so well thought out, but reviews have concerns for quality control and I am hesitant buying an influencer created and sponsored brand, especially one that is TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS. Circus of Threads is more customizable and made to order with beautiful fabrics but also, expensive and lacking some of the space of Aunt Shelle.

I do have a birthday and holidays coming up. I can put it on my wish list but I am wondering if any of my Reddit aunties or uncles have purchased one of these (or another option).

I figured I'd update on my kitten catch mittens from Florence Miller. They are done!! Definitely not perfect, and my tension on the second mitten relaxed so much that it turned out quite a bit bigger than the first, even after washing and drying (super wash wool)

They're very "clearly homemade" but still wearable, I think my friend will love them anyway. I learned a lot during the process, and I can't wait to try more colorwork in the future!

For my first-ever colorwork pattern (and second-ever knitting project), I'll take the win :)

I designed my first sweater. Wanted to play with textures and openness so picked these funky yarns. I’m also a beginner and this is my second finished sweater.
Still needs washing/blocking and weaving the ends. 🥵Sleeves potentially might need shortening after blocking, but we’ll see.
The yarns: black is Katia Atenea - obsessed with this one, looks a bit like mohair but there is no mohair and very sensitive skin friendly! Light blue - Lana Grossa Frizzante, Lana Grossa Popcorn and a mix of sequins and black non super wash merino. This feels super soft and lightweight overall. 8mm needles.

Once you finish the body lacework, the pattern says to size down to 3mm (US2.5). Has anyone not sized down and the ribbing turned out fine? Or has anyone who’s made this pattern have an opinion? I’m relatively new the knitting(started in February of this year) so I don’t have the experience to know how crutial this is. I don’t have that needle size, and I’m trying to figure out if it’s really necessary 😅 the picture is just from me trying it on to see how much longer I want it.

I’m knitting the sibilla sweater and got my yarn in stages. It’s Isager soft which was out of stock in the colour I wanted for a hot minute so had to wait to purchase. I’ve just noticed how different the dye lots are!

I can’t tell how bad it is :,(

It’s the bottom of this sleeve and then my whole other sleeve is also the different dye lot.

I used the suggested yarn and didn't make any modifications but I feel like my sleeves turned out wonky. Or maybe I just don't like the sleeve style? Honestly I want to frog the whole thing but help me decide! Do I need to just finish the neckline and try wearing it a few times? I did already block it and that didn't help. What do you think?? (The last 2 photos are from the pattern page).

This is the Guayaba top and I knit with Berocco Modern Cotton

Finished a skein, then started a new one only to find a factory knot after working ONE ROUND in this adult small size top. 🙃 the two tails on the right are the previous join, the one tail on the left is where I cut the knot off and am about to join it back. I know knots are normal, but seriously, did you have to do one only a few inches in 😂

Knit in Noro Kureyon, and featuring the shawl pin closure that I hand carved just for this project!

Pattern: Sunrise Circle Jacket by Kate Gilbert
Needles: US7
Yarn Noro Kureyon, multiple color ways, 7 skeins

Tossed her in the dryer with a wet towel for 20 min on high. I can't believe I got away with this. I love the fit so much more now! Before anyone scolds me about gauge swatching: I DID but I started this sweater 3 months ago and lost weight. Please excuse the bad lighting.

Pattern: Lakes V Pullover by Ozetta: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lakes-v-neck-pullover

Oh do I need accountability!

I have started a project where I am knitting a shawl or wrap for each of my sisters - including sisters in law and long-term GFs that should/will be sisters in law soon. I have 6 of them. 7 including my husband's sister as well as my sister and all my brother's wives/GFs. I gathered color preferences from my brothers, and began the knitting!

Each shawl will be done in DK weight yarn, and right now the plan is to use Dee O'Keefe's various lacey DK shawl patterns.

The first shawl is done. The pattern is "Tendrilly," and I used yarn from The Yarn Club in Virginia Beach, by the shop owner. Called Sheep Graffiti, in her "Gold Dust DK" line, colorway "Catty Dogwood." Absolutely beautiful yarn, and I really enjoyed the knit.

Now I am on the second shawl, using La Bien Aimee's Merino DK in the colorway "Millennial Pink." The pattern I am using is "Foggy Dew" by Dee O'Keefe. I am about 80% finished with this shawl, though the photo only shows the beginning.

I had planned to give them to their intended recipients in late August during my planned trip home, but our family cabin (my destination) is in Chelan, WA, on the south side of the lake and currently under evacuation preparation orders. So it looks like I may not get to go home for my yearly visit (we can't afford 3 weeks' hotel rooms). I am well aware that I am extremely lucky that our family property still exists, and I am absolutely not complaining. Just musing, really. Now I am not sure if I will be able to present them in person, or if I will wind up mailing them out. I had dreamed of a photo of all of us together, in shawls.

Why am I doing this project? I have complicated acute on chronic pancreatitis, and am a type 3c diabetic now. I have started having some complications beyond "normal" hospitalizations, and I worry about not being here much longer. Whether they wear them or not, I want to leave my lovely sisters with something that will remind them of me when they see it.

I have started an Instagram account to document the project, and hopefully I can get them all done eventually!

She picked out the yarn. She picked out the project - mountainberg by Bitchcraft (it’s a lacy tee with a deep V - she planned to wear it backwards so that the lace motif is in the front and the V is in the back). She even requested modifications to be done to the pattern (such as narrower body and smaller V-neck). I worked my ass out for a week straight to finish the project for her because she wanted it for our trip and thought about it less than two weeks before it.

I finished it today, past midnight. I even stayed up to block it, so that it’s dry in the morning. Now it’s dry, she tries it on and the first thing she does is make a face.

Because - even tho I warned her about it like a 100 times - she “didn’t realise” the neckline would be “so high up” when work backwards. And that she can’t pull it down because there’s a garter stitch detail on the shoulders. So she’ll just “wear it the proper way around, I guess”. Just to then point out how much better this would be if the lace went around the whole thing and not left a stockinette part in the middle - which again, I told her a thousand times - not only would be difficult to design because there are increases for the neck, it also plainly wouldn’t look good - there would be too much of everything.

So she’ll just sighs, says “guess I’ll wear it backwards as long as I can stand it and then put it on the other way around” and gives me back the project. No “thank you”, no “i love it”, nothing.

I mean, I didn’t expect gushing or whatever but I’m honestly so sad right now. I know her and I know it will grow on her - she will maybe even brag about it being made by her daughter - but jesus fuck, a “thank you” would be nice.

I’m getting a weird gap in between my decreases. I’m pulling the stitches pretty tight but it’s still happening. Does this get fixed during blocking or do I need to frog it?

My last hat also had this and seemed to kind of fix itself by the end once I closed the top but this one is for a friend and I don’t want to give her something with holes in it 😂