Shelbys Knit Knacks

[romanvelvet]

My mom is making me a granny square afghan and these are some of the squares she’s made!

[ramboknits]

During my lunch break at work today I found a website called stitchfiddle.com that lets you make colourwork knitting or crochet charts.

I couldn’t quite get the row numbers to make sense (They seem to be backwards with no. 1 at the bottom right instead of top left) and it had some other settings for adjusting the chart for gauge etc that I didn’t bother with but I still managed to knock up this little chart for some socks I might make later in the year.

It would be good for fancy patterns too.

Ignore my scribbles down the bottom, I was just brainstorming.

[wheremystitchesatt]

… Not all colourwork charts start at the bottom right?

[ramboknits]

For top down socks, I wanted the chart to begin at the top.

But as the pattern I made was only over rows of 16 stitches it …row numbers weren’t totally necessary. Its a tiny motif, easy to do without correctly numbered charts lol

[wheremystitchesatt]

That makes more sense! Everything I’ve done has always started bottom up.

[ramboknits]

Bottom up…or more specifically, toe up sock patterns, unnerve me with the pointy toe thing that happens. 

Also, I can only turn a heel by like, the heel flap way. 

HOW DO YOU HEEL FLAP IF YOU’RE KNITTING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION???

[wheremystitchesatt]

Oh man, I find it waayyyy easier to turn a heel going toe up because I don’t have to pick up stitches that way. You just do your gusset increases on your second needle (or needles 3 and 4 if you do DPNs) and then the rest is all short rows with stitches knit together and purled together until you’re back at your original number of stitches.

[ramboknits]

[knatalieknits]

Here is how I deal with color work’s skipped stitches! I use this technique for everything, not just polka dots. It can be done on a flat project, but the purling version takes some time to master!

Check out my Ravelry for patterns you can use this with! (also on Etsy)

[knittinginclination]

Genius!

[enfiber-deactivated20170817]

I have a weird love affair going on with Iceland.  Seriously, it’s like one of the strangest places in the world.  Like so strange that they actually had a court case get to their Supreme Court to divert the construction of a road to protect the habitat of elves.  Yep.  Elves.  Only happened a couple of years ago.  I think I could fit in pretty well in any place that strange.

So let’s visit the land of elven based court cases and see what kind of knitting they do.

Strokkur 

Riddari  

Iðunn

Léttlopavesti

Gamaldags

Vormorgun Létt-Lopavesti

[makinguselessthings]

What’s On, What’s Off #6

Hop on over to Making Useless Things to check out what I have been up to recently! 

www.makinguselessthings.com 

[valtsv]

concept: a knitwear collection inspired by the patterns of 80s arcade carpeting

[valtsv]

thats what im talkin about!!!

[mercurialmilk]

[skeinyarns]

Just what I needed, a new knitting basket. Well done K-Mart 👍🏻

[greenhedgie]

With these pictures from vanity Fair coming out, i might as well share what I’ve been knitting up for the past 6 months 😆

I written up the pattern and it took me like 5 times of knitting up and ripping back to get them right. I kinda want to redo the black in the arm but then that mean more work so i might not.

[woolintheforest]

Instagram

[lazy-vegetarian]

Snap by tincanknits on Ravelry

[woolintheforest]

Instagram

[gentle-stitches]

Best part about knitting (or any craft I’m assuming) is when you’re making something and it’s going really well and you’re extra happy because YOU made it and YOU made it incredible and YOU turned these basic materials into something really amazing

[machine-dove]

An oversized wrap scarf created from 4 different yarns and a variety of textural stitches, ends grafted to form an infinity Meobius loop.

SOMEBODY’S DONE MADE A PATTERN, HELL YES!

[machine-dove]

#knitters are such nerds is2g#THIS MOVIE GAME OUT THREE SECONDS AGO#HOW??? 

So, a little further investigation, and this is the actual knitter of the actual movie scarf, so it’s guaranteed to be accurate.  AMAZE, and I’m so freaking delighted that they’re sharing it with the world FOR FREE.

[iknituknot]

THIS IS EVEN BETTER I LOVE IT

[theseancequeen]

@headhotel

[tygermama]

ATTENTION ALL KNITTERS!!!!

EDITED TO ADD

IT’S FREE!!!!

[concertconfetti]

Someone 👏 teach 👏 me 👏 too 👏 knit

[thelegendofclarke]

@jeeno2

[esthermarquis-blog]

27.132 pattern writing

[janeyis]

Knitting problems

[knittingfromthevoids]

made this absolutely delicious new colour combo of my fave hat and it looks GORGEOUS. i’ve made a few; listed one of them on my etsy and am keeping the other for myself because i love iiiittt!! buy it here in my shop