#knitting problems

[stitchingaroundthebend]

My toxic knitting trait is that I have made a lot of sweaters, and so I have a pretty good idea of how certain types of construction will fit my body, and if I pick up your pattern and it is not the construction I prefer, most of the time I will strip it for parts and bastardize your invention into a frankensweater made the same way as all of my other favorites.

[bumblebee-bea]

Crafting iceberg

How many (mostly fiber) crafts can you do?

Note: The chart isn't ranked by difficulty. The order is how many people can do it / got first introduced to (imo of course).

For simplification I put only headlines (embroidery= satin stich, cross stich etc) there.

[pricklypearknits]

This knitting slump has been very long. I promised people I love several elaborate projects and saw them as a barrier I had to get past before I could knit anything for myself—the result was I lost the inspiration and I didn’t knit anything at all for over a year. Bit by bit I’m getting back into it. The first step was finishing something just for me I abandoned long ago. Thanks to people on my previous post for suggesting exactly this.

I found this cable chart somewhere and came up with a headband pattern that gives it a nice I-cord edge, finally flipping inside out and knitting stitches together with the cast-on edge while binding off. It’s very easy and I hope to type it up as a proper little pattern soon. As nice as they look I’m really not a big fan of twisted headbands and this is just right for me. Fits well, love the color, it’s fully mine and it feels great to be knitting again.

[meyershire]

For ages I’ve had this bottle crate sitting around doing nothing, and simultaneously wanting to organize my knitting needles in such a way that they are actually organized, and yesterday my old brain finally put the two things together. Ta-da!

[keyblademermaiden]

ravelry is so dangerous.....I'm getting excited about patterns i only just found while there's two unfinished shawls sitting on my desk

[downtowonderland]

read pattern then buy yarn read pattern THEN buy yarn READ PATTERN THEN BUY YARN

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

the main problem with making things is finishing the projects you start

[cavesalamander]

So it turns out when you do the criss-cross method on a loop that isn't designed for that sort of use, going back and forth across the middle bit adds a lot of width to the blanket!

I knew it was going to be longer than 3 feet, but I wasn't expecting.... this:

Salotl for scale, depicted here as a 5'3 human sized person!