seedling knits

knitting for now, so much more for later // reestablishing a knitting presence on tumblr // cute niche @needlecraftswithsnacks

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psst

*clears throat*

I SAID

PSSSSSSST!

I’m doing the thing again

:) :) :)

[lazy-vegetarian]

Speckled Shrug by Lion Brand Yarn (free pattern on Ravelry)

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Guys! Big news!

Remember that thing I said I was going to finish a really long ago???

I still haven’t finished it!!!!! :) :) :)

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***UPDATE***

It’s still in the pile of tangled yarn on the living room floor.

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Guys! Big news!

Remember that thing I said I was going to finish a really long ago???

I still haven’t finished it!!!!! :) :) :)

[iknituknot]

My mom and I went to Ikea for the first time the other day (that was An Experience™), and I bought myself a knitted blanket in my favorite color for 25 dollars. And she got mad at me, saying “You could have made that!”

And she’s right. It’s a very simple garter stitch blanket. And I’m all for slow, self-reliant art. I could have made it - if I went out and bought the right sized circular needles, and then 40-50 dollars worth of yarn on the cheap end, and maybe not found the exact color I wanted to keep it in budget, and then spent weeks and weeks working on it (because I’m a lazy bum, you see).

I definitely could have done all that. But sometimes you just want a blanket, you know?

[tjwock]

Man I have, off the top of my head, NINE unfinished knit blanket projects. Nine. That shit takes an unholy amount of time, and even the cheap yarn is way too expensive. Blankets are basically a more boring version of the sweater curse.

Like… you either: do a really boring stitch and it takes forever because it’s BORING; do one very long horizontal row that takes forever because it TAKES A LONG TIME to go through 150-200 stitches; do several columns that take a long time because they have to then be meticulously sewn up (I hate sewing knitwork. I just hate it.); or you do an interesting pattern or set of blocks that take a long time because they’re complicated.

Or I could just buy a blanket and spend my time on…literally any other project that I would not find boring.

[hobby-hobbit]

The Knitter’s Curse is feeling bad about buying literally any knit item

[tjwock]

TRUTH.

[iknituknot]

I knit and crochet, but I crochet much faster than I knit. I’m more than willing to spend time crocheting myself a blanket. But taking 4893243289 years to knit one? Nah fam you can keep that and watch me give Ikea my hard earned cash

[threadworks]

You cant even buy the yarn to knit/crochet a blanket for what a machine-knit blanket costs…even with really cheap yarn

[yarnaddiction]

We Don’t Talk About my unfinished blanket projects.

And I still buy blankets

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Weekend swatch of a thing to figure out as I go

[spookytorosaurus]

knitting pattern: use hand-spun all natural alpaca wool dyed using the berries of this rare tree you’ve never heard of for best results

me: yeah i’ve got some bright blue acrylic yarn i bought from joann fabrics

[theapartmentfarmer]

container garden gettin’ rowdy

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Hey hey hey,

If any of you like plants and want to follow this year’s gardening adventures and ongoing houseplant life, come on over to @theapartmentfarmer.

(((Squash and cabbage and sage, oh my!)))

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[sosuperawesome]

Hand Embroidered Moss Art, by Nikitina on Etsy

See our ‘embroidery’ tag

[imawitchywitch]

THESE ARE AMAZING

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This isn’t meant as a humblebrag, but I’m kind of dumbfounded at how this blog keeps amassing followers. Hello and welcome!

I want to get at least another repeat done on the blanket today, but photos of that could get pretty...repetitive. (It’s also really hard to get decent photos of it; they’re always grainy or otherwise meh.)

I really want to start some figuring-out work on a set of things I want to make for three sisters as hopeful Eid gifts. Bonus motivation for getting a plan together and getting to work = having a WIP I can actually post photos of 👍🏻

[shelcrafts]

Wip 4/14/18

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Where better to knit a blanket than an ice rink? Combine with hot coffee or tea to attack the accumulated three-hour freeze from both sides.

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An easy-stitching but slow-going experiment in progress, and something small to ease me back into the blanket with 40-minute triple-stitched 4-row repeats.

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I came to post that I knit today for the first time in forever five-ever, and somehow without having knit a thing during my most recent absence from tumblr, I have accumulated 500 of you?? Golly gee, hello and welcome!

And I started a thing!

It’s a hat!

I wanted something small as a transportable project, and also needed a project appetizer (see below) if I am ever going to be able to work on the other – some very much bigger – projects again.

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Do any of you do a “project appetizer” type of thing to get going? – like you know you need to get a lot of work done on one WIP that day, but you have to start with another project first?