Needles and Yarn

Welcome to the knitting world of Tasha. I am a beginner knitter, so small things like beanies, pillows, socks and mittens are all I can make at the moment, but I am learning. My goal is to make at least one sweater by the end of this year. So this blog is fandom and knitting, join in and you'll love it, I promise :)

[knittingcelebs]

Another TV character knitting a crocheted afghan! This time on Frasier.

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Yarn is patient - it will wait until you figure out what it wants to become.

Something beautiful from Reddit user BoldChoices. (via knit1hurl2)

[darklyndsea]

Dad: Batman!

Me (thinking he’s being sarcastic): yeah, you can see the bat right there

Dad: …that is Batman, isn’t it?

No. No, it is not.

Pattern: Wonder Woman Wrap (knit) by Carissa Browning

Project: Wonder Woman Wrap by darklyndsea

[hogwartsknits]

Harry Potter/Hogwarts Afghan by pazscott.

[starr-stitches]

Holy hippogriffs!! How long did that take??

[knicromaniac]

Um, excuse me. This is TOO INCREDIBLE.

[canadianmomcrochets]

Oh my!

[penthesilea1623]

[hogwartsknits]

Hogwarts House Crest Scarf pattern by Meghan Poulter.

[knitforbrains]

Dragon Scale Lace Gloves pattern by Knit For Brains KCL

This pattern creates a lace panel of scales that overlap on the back of the hand, with ribbing for a good amount of stretch in the palm. Good if you’re a dragon keeper like Charlie Weasley, or just showing off your inner Khaleesi.

Happy first day back to Hogwarts! I just published my first pattern on Ravelry! It’s going to be free until 25 September! 

Top down construction, knitted from fingers towards the elbow.

Customisable length, make it as long or short as you like.

Links to Youtube tutorials for different techniques available.

Lace pattern comes in both charted and written.

However, if you’d like to contribute to my Back To School fund, you can purchase the pattern here. All proceeds go to funding my postgraduate education in Neurodevelopmental Science!

[truebluemeandyou]

DIY Knit Book Cover

You could make this DIY Knit Book Cover for journals, calendars, and hard covered notebooks.

This is a free pattern by Designer Martina Behm. The PDF pattern is on Ravelry. You must sign up for Ravelry, but there are so many free patterns.

For more Knitting DIYs go here, and for more Crochet DIYs here.

Find the free Ravelry pattern for this DIY Knit Book Cover by Martina Behm here. (via Knit Hacker)

[everydaymalakia]

[thecraftyliciouscrafter]

[no-rice-panda]

So pretty

[blackmarketwool]

This is beautiful

[deezknitz]

CABLE LOVE!!!!!!

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[abookblog]

TFW you realize you dropped a stitch half a row back and have to fix it

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[redheartyarns]

How to Knit an I-Cord

[yourstrulyknits]

My weekend, summarised in two tweets.

[indizombie]

As far back as the 1960s in Britain, when anti-nuclear protesters - mainly women - set up a peace camp at Greenham Common, they turned an air force fence into a work of art with their knitting and material crafts. In fact, knitting’s association with political dissent goes back hundreds of years - to the grim days of the the French revolution. Women known as les tricoteuses (knitting women) famously sat by the guillotine in Paris during the “reign of terror” - and were later immortalised by Charles Dickens in the sinister character of Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities. They would watch the executions calmly - knitting the symbolic red “liberty cap” between deaths, according to some stories. Those bonnets rouges are a symbol still worn by the figure of Marianne, the embodiment of France. The United States adopted that patriotic-yet-productive spirit during its own revolution, when women knitted clothing for soldiers during the war of independence - a wartime tradition that continued into the twentieth century.

“Pussyhat’ knitters join long tradition of crafty activism’, BBC

[queen-mabs-revenge]

My mom’s always at me to attach a tag to my knitted gifts. I finally found one.