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Thought I’d share a current WIP as my first explore into knitblr 🥰

A little pumpkin baby blanket for a friend of mine due in October. The brief was ‘neutral, autumnal, pumpkins, Halloween’ so I picked up some Sirdar Snuggly DK in Squirrel & purchased the pattern from DoodlePipMakes on Etsy.

Knitting this has me SO ready for autumn lemme tell you 🍂

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Pumpkins!

When I started learning about the different loom knitting stitches, I decided to make some practice things, but making swatches felt boring and I wouldn't know what to do with them, so instead I made tubes and turned them into pumpkins, with i-cord stems.

All of these knitted pumpkins have been made with the same 24 pegs loom. The larger one is made with chenille yarn while the other four are made with the same yarn. As you will notice, the size difference between stitches can be quite dramatic.

After gathering the bottom, stuffing, gathering the top and adding the stems, I used running stitches to cinch and shape them, which made the size difference slightly less dramatic but I think it's still quite evident. It might also be my phone camera lens not helping because I think it looks more obvious IRL.

Flat knit stitch, u knit stitch, and e-wrap are basic stitches. At first I thought I would also make a purl stitch pumpkin but it takes much more effort compared to other stitches. It's a very useful stitch, and it's essential to make ribbing, and also when you alternate it with a knit stitch, it will makes panels that lie flat, rather than curling on themselves which is what happens when you use all knit stitches.

But I recently learned about the owl eye stitch, which was created by Deborah Shaw and it lies flat and it's much faster than purling and I am in love. I also dislike very much how garter stitch look, and while owl eye does look different from classic knit stitches, I find it much prettier so I think I'm going to use it a lot.