#yarncraft

[andi-rigby]

The weather is cooling off around here so y'all know what that means.....

[dreamsinombre]

favorite note on a ravelry project in the whole world

petition to make adjustments in our lives to be kinder to our bodies going forward

[moongothic]

MY BLANKET OF DARKNESS HAS BEEN COMPLETED

✨👁️✨ I AM SO COZY NOW ✨👁️✨

So I started working on this blanket around June of 2022. Got like, maybe half-way through the blanket and then the yarn I needed for the blanket went out of stock at my local yarn shop. Now I didn't know the yarn would be completely unavailable for like 6 months (until the stop closed permanently), so I just kept on waiting, hoping for it to come back in stock-- but it never did, so in January I finally looked online if I could find the yarn elsewhere and I did, I got the yarn I needed, and finished the blanket. So it kinda took me 6 months to make this blanket but also not

What made this blanket a truly exciting and fun project for me is that this has been the first blanket I actually made for myself and designed for myself. Like I've enjoyed every single blanket project I've had so far, but having a blanket that's Just For Me is just. It's nice

I originally planned the granny squares out digitally because I wanted to have a fun pattern of different granny squares, something that wouldn't be too busy looking and was carefully planned, and here's what I came up with

I had two versions of the square pattern, one with moon phases right in the middle of it and another without them. I do like how the moon version looked and part of me kinda regrets not making that one, but I'm not sure the moons would have really gone well with the eyes... So I did go with the first version

(Sidenote, it's not on the pattern above but I added extra rows of just black squares at the top and bottom of the blanket, so there's two rows of black instead of just one)

(Sidenote 2, although I knew I wanted the blanket to be mostly black from the begining, I wasn't entirely sure what accent color I wanted to use, it really was depending on what colors the shop had available. Like I used yellow as kind of a default color since it worked nice with the stars and eyes, but I could've gone with some other color too. In the end, because I didn't like the color options for the yarn at the shop I ended up going with a yellow anyways) (Also I tested out a reverse color version with the pastel purple and white base and no eyes, just for funsies, it looks kinda neat)

But yeah, that's how the planning of the blanket went.

The blanket is made of 231 squares in total, 11x21 rows. 186 of the squares are plain black, the rest are patterned. The star squares were the worst to make because of how many strands of yarn I had to weave in, 0/10, would not reccommend.

I used the Cedro 100% wool yarn (reccomended hook size 5, 50g=100m), and it took me about 38 balls of yarn to finish the blanket (including crocheting all the squares together and doing a single round of double crochet around the blanket to finish it off)

This is literally all the yarn I have left from this blanket; one untouched ball of black and three partially used balls.

I gotta admit.

I'm kind of shocked by the size of the blanket. Like I very carefully measured it to make it the exact size to fit my bed, and it fits perfectly. But I'm still kinda shocked how big it is. (Which is why I didn't make the border of the blanket any bigger, even though I could've with the yarn I have)

Also

It's HEAVY

Like, of course it's heavy, it's 100% wool and thick, but MAN I didn't expect it lmao

But that kind of makes it perfect for cold winters especially, it's super warm and the weight makes it cozy- like who needs a weighted blanket when you can have one of these lmao

Now I just need to figure out how to protect the blanket from being covered in my white cat's hair...

[jamiemccanless]

Scrap Along 2026

Nope. I started the crown of the first version but thought "nope" and frogged back to the first stripe. Reknit in narrower, neater stripes, I'm much happier with the result. It's my latest ribbed cap for Scrap Along 2026, knit from four colorways of leftover fingering weight yarn.

[knittynerdy]

I did it. I finally did it. I made one of those elaborate fairy houses that I've had saved on Pinterest forever (back before the amigurumi boards got polluted with ai slop). I saved the images on a board that I originally titled "when i can crochet better" but recently changed the title to "when i have more time to crochet."

All the patterns were in Russian, but I was able to find a tea cosy pattern to base to roof off of, and modified to suit my needs. I mostly improvised. The bugs and mushrooms were free patterns on Ravelry.

This will be auctioned for a school fundraiser.

[sahlosacarver]

Y’all remember my first colourwork swatch that I posted a month or so back?

How’s this for a step up?

Pattern is the Dragon Tale Cowl by Hunt Hand Knits

Yarn: Fiori DK IV: #045 Tibouchina (100% merino wool), and a white DK 100% merino yarn, don’t remember the name off top of my head.

[yarn-over-matter]

Crochet Lamp!

The idea siezed me and I made it in a manic frenzy in a day. In 40 degree celsius weather. I am a mere puddle now but at least my room is pretty.

[nemospecific]

The thing about knitting is that you have to get too much yarn, you HAVE to

If you don’t, you’ll have to go back for more, and the colors won’t match because they’ll be from different lots

And THEN where will you be?