The Master Of Socks

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[kapteeni-virkkuukoukku]

Auringonkukka-neule II

Sunflower jumper II

English below

Tälläkin kerralla tuntuu siltä, että valmis villapaita ansaitsee ihan oman postauksensa. Vaihekuvia kiinnostuneille löytyy täältä ja aiemmin samalla ohjeella eri väreissä ja koossa tekemäni villapaita täältä. Paita on ylhäältä alas neulottava kaarrokevillapaita. Näissä otoksissa seikkalee allekirjoittanut itse, koska villapaitakin on ihan ittelle!

Pääntie olisi voinut olla kokoa pienempikin ja siksi vähän lörppö, mutta siitä huolimatta paita on tosi mukava päällä. Tällä kertaa muistin laittaa isommat puikot kirjoneuleeseen joten siltä osin ei kiristä. Hihoihin ja helmaan tein erilaiset resorit kuin viimeksi (1o kiertäen, 1n) jotka taitoin vielä kaksinkertaiseksi koko resorin matkalta ja kiinnitin neulomalla samalla päätellen. Tietysti tämä idea syntyi vasta lankojen ostamisen jälkeen joten toista hihaa tehdessäni lanka loppui kesken. Jouduin hankkimaan vielä yhden kerän keltaista, mutta onneksi samaa värierää oli vielä varastossa niin ei tarvinnut stressata kerien yhteensopivuutta.

Tekninen blaa-blaa:

Ohje: Auringonkukka-neule, suunnitellut Anna Johanna. Julkaistu lehdessä Rakkaat kuviot (2022).

Koko: L1

Lanka: Sandnes Garn Sunday, värit 2013, 7723, 4604, 8236, 2573 ja 2745. 100% merinovillaa. Pääväriä eli keltaista kului vajaat 6x50g kerää. Muita värejä kului kutakin alle 50g, en ole punninnut tarkkaa määrää.

Puikot: 2,5mm resoreihin, 3mm sileään neuleeseen ja 3,5mm kirjoneuleeseen.

Valokuvauspaikka: Suomenlinna, Helsinki. Kuvat on julkaistu valokuvaajan luvalla.

English

Again, I feel like the finished jumper deserves its own post. If you wish to see more, progress pictures can be found here and the same pattern knit in different colours and size here. The jumper is knit top down and features a stranded colourwork yoke. Jumper is for me, hence me modeling it in the pictures!

The neckline could have been a size smaller as I find it too loose, but regardless of that the jumper is really comfortable to wear. This time I remembered to switch to a larger needle for the colourwork so the tension isn't overly tight there. The sleeves and hem have a different ribbing than the previous jumper (k1 through the back loop, p1) folded double and attached on the inside while casting off. Of course I only had the idea of changing the ribbing after having purchased the yarn, which caused me to run out while knitting the second sleeve. I had to buy one more skein but luckily there was more of the same dye lot in stock, so I didn't have any colour matching issues.

Technical blah blah:

Pattern: Auringonkukka-neule, designed by Anna Johanna. Published in magazine Rakkaat kuviot (2022). Pattern is available in Finnish only.

Size: L1

Yarn: Sandnes Garn Sunday, colourways 2013, 7723, 4604, 8236, 2573 and 2745. 100% merino wool. I used up little under 6x50g of the main colour. Other colours less than 50g each, but I haven't weighed how much exactly.

Needles: 2.5mm for ribbing, 3mm for stockinette, 3.5mm for colourwork

Photo location: Suomenlinna, Helsinki. Photos published with permission from photographer.

[thedoctorknits]

I won yarn long tail cast on chicken yesssss

[laurajameskinney]

was crawling around on the floor for like 2 hours blocking my dress #mydress and chat. my back. it hurts.

[laurajameskinney]

anyways. look at this.

[laurajameskinney]

ok great job looking everybody. now this.

[kapteeni-virkkuukoukku]

[kapteeni-virkkuukoukku]

Hyviä uutisia! Puolen vuoden odottelun jälkeen lähetin bugiraportin (postaus ollut koko sen ajan "In content label review") ja tää postaus pääsi vihdoin eroon aikuissisältövarotuksesta.

Good news! After waiting for half a year for content label review, I sent a bug report and this post is finally free of the mature content label.

[stahsm]

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

[thatisuseful]

Damn, that's useful

[fluidstatick]

Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!

[mothyknits]

I forgot to post these finished Memento Mori Socks I knit a few months ago! I finally sewed in the ends and am ready to gift them to who they’re made for

[naomichimarufuji]

I present skelly lace!

Pattern: Postmortem by Ann Wanamaker

Thread: WeCrochet Curio #10 thread

Hook: 1.25mm

Notes: fun pattern! bitch to block!

For real though, the pattern is very fun and well written. I did learn a few lessons with this one. The first one is to not switch to a brand new hook with a different handle shape right towards the end. I also learned that if you are running a hair dryer over the lace to dry it and there just so happens to be pins? Don't touch the fucking pins.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

I guess it’s because it’s slower or something.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

Some people even make rugs.

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

I feel like part of it might be casual people are generally aware of the existence of crochet and knitting, even if they don’t know very much about either, but have never heard of nalbinding

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.

It seems like the sort of thing that would be popular even if not as popular as crocheting and knitting, considering the low barrier of entry.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.

Maybe the lack of accessories also makes it unpopular idk. People do like collecting things in their nests.

[the-color-of-sound-is-space]

I've been wanting to do so, I cannot find anyone who can teach me, and any books I can find on it are Ass in the Visual Learning department. Otherwise I'd be making the hell outta some nalbinded fabric

[what-even-is-thiss]

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

Happy Needlebinding

I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve

[what-even-is-thiss]

I thought this would be kind of a niche post to make but I was quickly reminded that I’m on tumblr, the website full of gay people with one billion hobbies.

[what-even-is-thiss]

So my bone needle actually came this evening (yay!) and I’ve started trying this for real. It clicks in my brain way easier than crochet does. I’ve gotta work up the muscle memory but I think I can do this.

The downside as a beginner is that undoing mistakes is more time consuming than with knitting or crochet. You’ve gotta like sew your mistakes out backwards. Disadvantages of making a really sturdy fabric I guess.

I like the feel of this bone needle though and don’t think I’ll be trying the wooden or metal ones.

Also I think I’m gonna have to get good at doing Russian joining if I decide to get good at nalbinding because I don’t have wool yarn and the ends won’t felt together if it’s not at least 50% wool. A small price to pay for using big bone needle though.

Anyways curse of new fiber craft be upon ye.

[kapteeni-virkkuukoukku]

Auringonkukka-neule

Sunflower jumper

English below

Laitoinkin jo vähän aika sitten vaihekuvaa tästä villapaidasta keskeneräsenä, valmis versio kuitenkin ansaitsee mun mielestä oman postauksensa. Paita meni mun siskolle joka on saanut sitä pitää jo jonkun aikaa, mutta ehti ottaa kuvia vasta nyt. Ihan ymmärrettävää, raukalla oli yo-kokeet.

Tän postauksen otsikko on hämäävästi Auringonkukka-neule koska se oli ohjeen nimi jota käytin. Kirkkaankeltasen päävärin sijasta mun sisko valitsi paitaan ittelleen sopivammat, vähän rauhallisemmat värit.

Oon ihan tosi tyytyväinen siihen miten hyvin tää onnistu ja teen itelleni tällä hetkellä samanlaista mutta ihan eri tyylisissä väreissä. Toi lanka on hirmu miellyttävää työstää (100% merinoa) ja kuviossa oli kivasti haastetta. Osan kuviosta lisäsin jälkikäteen silmukoimalla, että ei tarvinnut käyttää neljää väriä samalla kerroksella. Puikkojen ja koon valintakin onnistu ihan nappiin, paita istuu hyvin siskon päälle. Ainoo mikä harmittaa on että kirjoneuleosio on vähän kireempi verrattuna muuhun neuleeseen langanjuoksujen takia, yleensä teen puolta kokoa isommalla puikolla kirjoneuleet mutta nyt unohdin vaihtaa puikkoja. Noh tekevälle sattuu. Tekninen blaablaa vielä tässä:

Ohje: Auringonkukka-neule, suunnitellut Anna Johanna. Julkaistu lehdessä Rakkaat kuviot (2022).

Koko: M1

Lanka: Sandnes Garn Sunday, värit 2573, 1012, 9564, 4304 ja 2745. 100% merinovillaa. Menekkiä en voi laskea tarkasti koska en omista vaakaa, mutta pääväriä ostin 5x50g kerää ja kuviovärejä kerän kutakin. Jokaista väriä jäi yli vajaa kerä.

Puikot: 2,5mm resoreihin ja 3mm muuten. Kirjoneuleeseen olisi kannattanut ottaa 3,5mm puikot.

Valokuvauspaikat: Tähtitorninmäki ja Aleksanterinkatu 13, Helsinki. Kuvat on julkaistu kuvaajan ja mallin luvalla.

English

I posted in-progress pictures of this knit recently, but I feel the finished garment deserves its own post. The jumper was for my sister who has been wearing it for a while now, but only now had time to take pictures of it. Fair enough, poor thing had some big exams.

The title of this post is Sunflower jumper since that is the name of the pattern I used. However instead of the bright yellow main colour the pattern suggested, my sister chose these less bright colours that suit her better.

I'm very pleased with how this jumper turned out. I'm currently making one for myself but in a very different colour palette. The yarn was pleasant to work (100% merino wool) and the colourwork was a nice challenge. I added some details of the colorwork afterward, because I didn't want to make stranded colourwork with 4 colours at once. I chose the perfect size and needles for the piece as well, the jumper fits my sister nicely. The only issue I had with the piece was the stranded colourwork being a tad tighter tension than the rest. Usually I go up 0.5mm in needle size for colourwork but I forgot to switch my needles for this. Oh well, it happens. Here's the technical blah blah:

Pattern: Auringonkukka-neule, designed by Anna Johanna. Published in magazine Rakkaat kuviot (2022). Pattern is available in Finnish only.

Size: M1

Yarn: Sandnes Garn Sunday, colourways 2573, 1012, 9564, 4304 and 2745. 100% merino wool. I don't know exact amounts because I don't own a scale to measure how much yarn was left, but I bought 5x50g of the main colour and one skein of the other colours. I have less than 50g left of each.

Needles: 2.5mm for ribbing, 3mm for rest. Should have used 3.5mm for colourwork.

Photo locations: Tähtitorninmäki and Aleksanterinkatu 13, Helsinki. Photos published with permission from photographer and model.

[kapteeni-virkkuukoukku]

English below!

Pieni mutta tärkee pikku virkkuutyö: lappuhaalari siskon kissapehmolle (jonka se on tehnyt itse). Materiaalit: 2mm koukku, kirpparilta ostettu puuvillalanka, siskon tekemä harjoittelupala virkkausta josta jatkoin tän asun.

Small but important little crochet piece: Outfit for my sister's cat plushie (of her own make). Materials: 2mm hook, thrifted cotton thread, a practice swatch of crochet that my sister made and I picked up to finish into this outfit.

[kapteeni-virkkuukoukku]

Jokanen keskustelu sen jälkeen kun tein mun siskolle villapaidan.

[art-of-a-velociraptor-deactivat]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from knitting it’s that if you’re too tense about things it’ll come back to bite you in the ass. This applies to life in general but mostly to herringbone stitch

[heathcliffgirl1847]

KING SALMON SWEATER DONE I WILL EAT CELEBRATORY SALMON IN IT FOR DINNER #SALMONLIFE

modifications:

folded collar

seperated sleeves immediately after colourwork

dk yarn

a little cropped

[prettiestpear]

[knit-by-daylight]

Badgers!

[lengthy-artery]

wool is so good. shoutout to wool

[gweu]

i realised i never posted my Country Goose Sweater! Pattern is by Carol Huber, knitted on 4.0mm and 5.0mm needles with Drops Nepal yarn