knitting is queer

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[haydenthewitch]

knitting is supposed to be relaxing but unfortunately my nervous system can't understand the difference between being chased by a fucking bear and transferring stitches from small cables to larger cables 😭😭😭

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Great, Hobbii. Fucking great.

"No one has total control over AI." Well, actually, there is one control you have: using it or not for product photos and pattern photos.

And the fact that you're justifying using it is absolute fucking nonsense.

Do other yarn companies use AI models and rooms these days? Yes. Do they go on linkedin (a space where Hobbii's customer base is not likely to look for info, which is another choice) and talk about how they're gonna go hard on it? No.

What the entire fuck.

Also, I found out by seeing this on a youtube short that Hobbii is also one of the yarn companies who gives fiber artists free yarn, demands x, y, and z in terms of posting the finished project, but does not pay artists for their labor. Which is something other yarn companies also do, too, but also what the fuck x2.

I am so tired.

[annaplexis]

🧶 🍂

Once you’ve learned how to purl, you’ll probably need to weave in your next ends in stocking stitch.

Here’s how to do it.

🧶 Weave in the ends on the wrong side

🧶 Follow the path of the stitches

🧶 Weave in approx 5-7 cm

Find the pattern for Square 03. The Purly One on www.annaplexis.eu or in the book Learn to Knit in 50 Squares.

The Learn-to-Knit Blanket pattern is now available in book form. Learn to Knit in 50 Squares includes the squares you will find on this webs

[knittystitch]

[knittystitch]

Update

[they-see-me-rolling-dice]

JESUS CHRIST

[lovetheirloves]

This applies to so many things! Your first two inches of knitting/crocheting look like fuck-all. Your pile of fabric pieces look like fuck-all. Your first two paragraphs look like fuck-all. Your first nursing class looks like-fuck all. Keep doing the thing until you finish the thing!

[baddywronglegs]

Are lace-makers ever struck by the realisation that all the holes were already there before they started?

[ladytemeraire]

The Yarn Harlot, in one of her older blog posts musing on negative space in art in general, described knitting lace as "putting yarn around important and select parts of air".

I think about that every time I work on a lace project.

[jewish-burrito]

Have you recently finished a work of art or a craft project? There's a bracha for that.

id: Baruch hanotein lanu kisharon litzor yofi v'lehenot mimenu.

Praised be the One who makes us able to create and to enjoy works of beauty./end id

[zorciarkrildrush]

Gives us the skill to create beauty and enjoy it

[madsciencepottery]

Another round o' slab mugs. Trying my new "stitch" technique on the handles, seems to be going okay.

[abutchknits]

The noise that I made when I realised that wasn't actually a knit piece. That's gorgeous OP

[strbutch]

Happy butch appreciation day to...

The working class butches, transmasc butches, transfem butches, butches of colour, baby butches, butch elders, stone butches, he/him butches, nonbinary butches, lesboy butches, butch4femmes, butch4butches, butch boyfriends, butch girlfriends, the list goes on and on and on.

[buttercupyarnart]

I got Charles, my plastic skeleton friend, to help me model the sweater I knit my crush! It's a bit big on him, but I do think he looks quite dashing anyway~

Pattern is Saven by Meghan Babin, yarn is Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in color 59, "Chive".

[buttercupyarnart]

And yes, I did get silly/artsy with the fact that I had a plastic skeleton in a sweater. I'm not a monster.

[buttercupyarnart]

I am extremely proud of this sweater, actually. I think it might be the best thing I've made to date. I am very excited for it to reach its intended home, obviously, but beyond that, I am so proud of having made something this good. This next bit is going to sound self-deprecating but I swear it isn't - it doesn't look like I made it. Everything else I've made, I look at and see all the things I did wrong, all the choices I made that I regret or wish I hadn't. But I don't see that here. I can nitpick till the cows come home if I really want, but I can't bring myself to be dissatisfied with it in any way. I'm just so proud of it. And I know they're going to appreciate it. If they don't, Charles can keep it.

[woundworship]

if you knit, do you like using dpns?

yes!!

no, i find knitting w them annoying/uncomfortable

i dont care abt needle types enough to have an opinion

Voting ended onAug 13, 2025

[freshstitches]

[roarinsaurus]

if you want to learn to knit, learn to knit.

if you keep putting it off because it looks daunting, learn to knit. if you keep telling yourself “well i like how knit looks better but crochet is easier/faster”, learn to knit.

knitting is a different craft. it’s similar to crochet but the engagement and technique is different enough where you WILL itch a different part of your brain and you shouldn’t brush that off for speed or fear.

[ladyshinga]

obsessed w/him actually

[obesecamels]

THIS IS A DIGITAL PATTERN. NOT A PHYSICAL PRODUCT. Please feel free to sell what you make from my patterns. This Very Hungry Caterpillar com

Thanks to @aquatic-equestrian for finding the pattern and posting it in the notes!

[yarn-offical]

yarn<3

[koniknits]

Finally off the needles! Worked on this since last December. Now wait until next December to wear it.

Barchan Pullover pattern by Irina Anikeeva

If you purchase 5 patterns from my

[annaplexis]

Grafting in garter stitch

Grafting in garter stitch is actually easier than in stocking stitch, since you only repeat 2 motions instead of 4.

🧶 Enter the stitch on the front needle knitwise and slip it off, enter the next stitch purlwise. Enter the stitch on the back needle knitwise and slip it off, enter the next stitch on the back needle purlwise. 🧶 Repeat. Think: knit(wise) off, purl(wise).

Everything you need to know about casting off

Regular cast off This is the most basic way to cast off. It normally turns out rather tight though. I like to go up half a needle size to ge

[laurajameskinney]

I don't know what newbie lace knitter needs to hear this but I promise nobody else will notice that mistake you made 10 rows back. "Oh but I will" Not once it's finished and it's been a few weeks I promise. Speaking from experience here. You do NOT have to rip out your progress I promiseeee.

[kandoros]

Watching my mom knit a shawl for the local nursing home ...

I'm helping out, mainly by keeping hold of the ball of yarn so that the dog can't help out by keeping hold of the ball of yarn.

Mom: "I don't know why people think this is so complicated."

Me: "It's black magic"

Mom: " It's just either one of two things" she does something complicated with the needles "this is a knit" she does something complicated with the needles, that she swears is different from the first thing "and that's a purl."

Me: "You're chanting" (calling out the number of knits left to herself) "waving your hands around, and using up a ball of yarn. That's a verbal component, a somatic component, and a material component. Under D&D rules, that's magic."

Mom: "It's not that complicated."

Me: "Five hundred years ago, some man would accuse you of turning him into a newt and you'd be tossed in the local river."

Mom: "Well at least it's not crochet."