#diy knitting

[gelbeschafe]

i just released my pattern for “go knit yourself”!

this is my double knit art piece depicting a little guy knitting himself up (:

#knitting pattern #double knitting #fiber art #textile art #knit pattern #knitting #my art #diy knitting #diy art

[nbgwen]

Tiny Rolan toe start.

I decide that I'll be knitting from his toes up. K, there's not actual toes, but the start of his foot. I HATE seaming things together, so this pattern will require stitch holders and picking up stitches, cause I can make nothing simple 🤣😭

Though, I may add the infernal markings after with embroidery thread...maybe...maybe knit them in. Ugh. Need to decide before I hit his knees.

The yarn looks kind of yuck cause my daughter's puppy decided it tasted good 🤦‍♀️ I didn't work on it yesterday as I felt a bit deflated. Then realized I can just wash it before I stuff it. Sigh.

For reference, I'm using Loops and Threads Brushed Rainbow yarn and a size 3 (3.125 mm) circular needles.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #holy rolan empire #bg3 rolan #rolan #rolan bg3 #knitting #diy knitting

[iknityounot]

(Long post, sorry y'all)

A little more than two years ago now, my grandmother passed away. She and my grandpa had moved down to my home town a few years before so we could take care of them. I brought them groceries once a week, helped them write checks, fixed tvs, and found lost things. I was really close with my grandma.

In addition to her hilarious personality and dry wit, one of my favorite things about her was that she was a painter and a crafter like me! She used to crochet, and I took her to the craft store a couple of times so she could get more yarn and books on crochet. But her arthritis and the shaking in her hands kept getting worse, so she eventually had to stop.

She kept her most recent project, a granny square blanket, safely packed away in a plastic bin. She told all of us she was going to finish it one day.

Her hands never got better, and when she got sick, and we found out it was cancer, she rapidly deteriorated.

After she passed, I went to work helping my mom clean out my grandparents apartment so we could move my grandpa in with her. In our frantic cleaning, I found that bin again:

DOZENS of granny squares, dozens of half used skeins. I asked my mom what she wanted me to do with it, and she said she didn't care. I set it aside and later took it home.

Maybe a month later, that tumblr post about the Loose Ends Project was going around. It felt like a sign--I was never going to learn to crochet in order to finish my grandmother's blanket. But they might be able to help!

So I filled out the interest form. They got back to me SUPER quick. And maybe 2 weeks later, I was paired with volunteer in my state (only 2 hours away!) and the box of yarn, granny squares, and my grandmother's crochet hook were in the mail. That was at the end of January this year.

Over the next couple of months, my "finisher" emailed me regular updates on her progress, and asked me questions on my preferences for how she constructed the final blanket.

At the end of August, the blanket was done!

I had always intended the blanket to be a gift for my mother. So I cleaned it up, put it in the only bag I had big enough to fit it, and drove to my mom's. I gave the blanket to her and she was gobsmacked. I explained to her all about Loose Ends, and how someone volunteered to finish the piece for us. She was speechless. (I was quite pleased with this, because I am not the best at giving gifts, so this was a pretty exciting reaction!)

She said that it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever been given. She said "your grandma would love this". To which I replied, "yeah, I know she really wanted to finish it a couple of years ago". But that was when my mom dropped the bomb of a century on me--she told me that my grandma had started making those granny squares OVER 30 YEARS AGO. She had started the blanket when my grandpa was staying in the hospital, but that was back when my mom was younger than I am now! My grandma had packed them all away, planning on finishing it, when my grandpa was sent home from the hospital. Then it went from house to house, from condo in Chicago to their apartment in my hometown. All that time and my grandma had wanted to finish it, but couldn't. First because she was busy, then because she forgot how to do it, then because of her arthritis, and then because of the cancer. My mom said she had given up on expecting my grandma to finish it. 

She said I brought a piece of her childhood with her mom out of the past.

And really, all of this is to say, if you have seen or heard about the Loose Ends Project and have an uncompleted project or piece from a loved one who has passed away--these are your people. They were so kind and treated my project with such care. That box probably would have been found by my own grandkids one day if I hadn't heard about Loose Ends.

Five stars, absolutely worth it!

(From what I understand, you can sign up to volunteer too! If you have time to share, it might be worth checking out!)

#loose ends #the loose ends project #joy knits #text #long post #knit #knitting #crochet #crocheting #craft #crafting #diy #crochetblr #yarnblr #yarn #knitblr

[cindycintn]

Write Your Own Knitting Patterns? Yes, You Can!

Ever thought about writing and (gasp) publishing your own knitting patterns? Here's my story! #knitting #knittingpatterns #knittingdesign

Inside: My story of how I wrote my first knitting patterns You’ve made lovely hand-knitted sweaters and scarves. You have a go-to blanket pattern etched in your head. You constantly hear, “what pattern is that?” and you sheepishly say, “uh…I just made it up.” Then you hear, “no kidding? You should publish that!” Yes, you should. And with a plethora of self-publishing and crafty platforms…

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#crafting community #crafts #designing knitting patterns #DIY Knitting #handmade designs #knitting #Knitting patterns #New Knitting Books #pattern design #self-publishing knitting patterns #writing patterns

[sosuperawesome]

Frog Outfit Patterns // He Knit

#knit #frog #patterns #diy #etsy

[figdays]

Shrimply the Best socks PDF knitting pattern // StoneKnits

#StoneKnits #pattern #diy #diy pattern #knitting #knitting pattern

[knithacker]

Knit a Stag Beetle Cowl, It's Unusual and Unusually Gorgeous … Great Design By Alexandria Wenninger: 👉 https://buff.ly/3oX05Uw

#knitting #handmade #diy

[vellatra]

You knitted your wedding dress?? That is so cool!

Thank you! I had two main objectives - keeping the cost of our wedding down (so we DIYed a lot), and also simply not wanting to hunt forever for something that fit my tastes. (I'd had enough of the "hunting" experience when I went shopping for a prom dress haha!)

I started in January and finished the whole thing in August, just a few short weeks before the wedding, which was on Labor Day weekend that year. Had a lot of fun with it - learned some new techniques, did lots of little fancy details (like knitting tiny beads into the fabric!), and ended up with something completely unique. :) I'd never want to do it again; there were easily millions of stitches involved. But as a one-time experience, it was pretty cool! :D

#wedding #wedding dress #bride #knitting #DIY #ramblings #thanks for the ask! #sorry for the delayed response! #wanted to find some really good pictures! #lovely soanvalcke

[mamzier]

all of the babushkas and abuelas and nonis and grammys and omas and nanas out there with their shawls are sincerely On To Something

it’s like if a scarf actually kept you warm and was comfy to lay around in

#crochet #crochetblr #knit #knitblr #diy #craftblr #cottagecore #cozy autumn #cozycore #shut up mamz #seriously I’m going to make like ten now #entering my granny era #granny era

[drama-glob]

A friend of mine wanted a bisexual colored hat to go with the scarf I made them, so wish granted. ;) <3<3<3

#bisexual #lgbtqia+ #hat #beanie #knitting #handmade #diy #diy craft #hand knitted #chemo hat #yarn #pretty #soft #squishy #gift #arts and crafts #^_^ #<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 #made with love

[ideartz]

Got around to darning the holes in my sock heels! Now they're ready to wear in my favourite boots next winter too.

Also tried carving avocado pits! I let it dry for a few days, cut it in half and used a crafting knife to carve a lil bird. Nice and soft to sculpt!

#craftsofsiri #mending #fiber arts #knitting #solarpunk #avocado #carving #miniature #crafts #solarpunk crafts #diy crafts #diy

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

After a reply on my petty weaving-in-ends post, I have realized you all need to know about the glory of

~~~~TECHknitting~~~~

What, a blogspot site, in this, our year of 2022? Yes.

Look, are you just getting into knitting, and you've followed a couple of patterns or tutorials, but you don't really get why things go a certain way? Or are you an advanced knitter looking for refined techniques, ways to smooth some things out? Perhaps, like me, you want a clear explainer of a certain cast on/bind off, so you can clearly see how it works while you do it, and you can't stand learning things from a video you have to keep pausing, the fast forwarding, then going back to that one part you needed to see again?

TECHknitting is for you. The writer is a very experienced knitter, and better, a curious one, who develops and improves techniques, and makes the best, clearest, color-coded diagrams of the hows and whys and which ways of knitting. An archive of articles 16 years deep, each as good as the last. There's even an index by subject.

A taste:

Here is an exhaustive explanation of my favorite all-purpose cast on, with diagrams of what to do with your hands, tips for variations/improvements, and links to other relevant posts.

A thorough exploration of why your stockinette scarf curls, while garter/ribbing/seed stitch don't, due to the nature of the stitches & their relation to each other. A multi-part series, with solutions that don't work and why, and ways to modify patterns & existing items to fix it. Like do you wanna really understand the fabric you're creating, & why it behave the way it does? This is the shit.

A whole series on knitting better bands & cuffs

Posts about how to pick up stitches properly, where "properly" means "so it'll look the way you want", ie not just bc the knitting gods said so, but how and why it'll affect the fabric you're making, so you can choose the outcome you want.

Basic crochet for knitters, and how crochet techniques can be used to improve your knitting.

A favorite (complicated) bind off, and a way to fake it. And, as usual, why/when you'd want to choose one technique over the other, and technical details on how and why the two bind offs act the way they do.

Different ways to match your cast on to your bind off.

I could go on; in fact I'm having to force myself not to just keep reading these all afternoon. Seriously, it's so good.

#techknitting #techknitter #knitting resources #knitting #fiber arts #diy #needlework

[nbgwen]

I can't draw, well, maybe a little when I try, but this is just a basic mock-up so I can visualize it. Doing up a rough (very) draft of measurements for a potential Rolan project. Even got the hubs seal of approval (it's been rough irl so I need a distraction). Should I be focusing on work? Yes. Am I focusing on Rolan instead? Also, yes. Don't worry, the horns will absolutely be there.

Now to figure out gauge. Am I making it to scale? Yes. 1:4 I think. So Rolan is 6'2" (according to some), so his likeness will be about 18.5". Should I do that in metric as a Canadian? Yeah, but...I have nothing. When knitting everything is inches, I don't know why. He'll probably have an inner wire skeleton to keep form better. I've made goats, bears, Dory, wolves, dogs, etc. This should be fun!

This is going to take me a long time...especially this time of year as I'm normally into full garden/yard work mode. I usually save this stuff for Fall/Winter. Eek!

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 rolan #holy rolan empire #rolan brainrot #rolan bg3 #rolan empire #rolan #project #knitting #diy knitting #doll

[iknityounot]

I am going to make this a separate post, since the other one got so long.

So, like I mentioned there, I sent my grandma's granny squares off to my Loose Ends "finisher" with the intent of giving my mother the blanket when it was complete. I had NO thoughts in my head at all for saving something for myself.

When I received the box in August with the completed blanket, it had two additional things in it. It had a letter and a bag. The bag had two and a half skeins of left over yarn (please peep the picture of all they yarn I sent this lady, I was SO surprised she was able to use so much of it!) my grandmother's crochet hook, and a single granny square. In the letter, my finisher, Katherine, wrote that she set aside one of the original squares my grandma made--she specifically said the one she guessed may have been one of the first--in order to put it in a central place in the finished blanket. But then she forgot about it when she went to put the blank together, so now there was one left over. She said she sent it along with the blanket, hoping it would still find a home.

So, like I said in my last post, I gathered up the blanket and brought it to my mom....but I kept that lone granny square for myself. I immediately knew what I wanted to do with it:

I bought this little shadow box on Amazon, pinned in the granny square, and added my grandma's hook. I plan on hanging it in my little crafting zone in my apartment ❤️

Just another reason why the Loose Ends Project has my heart in a chokehold. There was so much thought and kindness that went into what Katherine did--for both me and my mom.

#joy knits #text #loose ends #the loose ends project #knit #knitting #knitblr #craft #crafting #craftblr #yarn #yarnblr #crochet #crocheting #crochetblr #diy #granny square #i cant not shill for them now #i just wish i was good/consistent enough to volunteer?

[sosuperawesome]

Sweater Pattern // Wool Barrow Yarns

#knit #patterns #diy #fashion #etsy

[figdays]

baby lamb cuffs knitting pattern // TinyOwlKnitsPatterns

#TinyOwlKnitsPatterns #pattern #knitting #knitting pattern #diy #diy pattern