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[butchcrafts]

Finally finished: field sweater!

I'm so happy this is done! This was my first time knitting a top-down sweater as well as using mohair. The top-down construction I'm a big fan of, the armholes and arm decreases look a lot neater. Not sure about the mohair yet, it is very nice and fluffy but I think the sweater would have also come out just as nice without it. I changed many parts of this pattern to make it fit better for me. The needle size, the body-to-arm stitch distribution, the neckline, the short rows, the sleeve decreases and pattern... but it was nice to add all these little tweaks to make it more for me!

After I did the yoke I started researching more about tension and decided to tighten my tension by quite a lot, which isn't great to do halfway throughout a project ':) the rest of the sweater came out a lot smaller compared to the yoke! But nothing some half-and-half blocking magic couldn't fix luckily :)

#knitblr #knitting #crafts #fibre arts

[flowbish]

I knit a shirt with a pretty cool pattern!!

#knitting #fiber arts #yarn #knitblr #handmade

[elessarwanderer]

I have a long way to go with knitting before I get to functional clothing, but as someone who doesn’t fit into probably any if not most of the patterns out there, how do I like… do it myself?

#knitting #knitblr

[rannadylin]

My plan to knit a LOTR themed hat & cowl to go with the red coat and Star Wars themed purse I got last winter is going great! I finished the hat...just in time for the weather to be like 80-some degrees out. :-D

Anyway, it's a lovely hat and the cowl is going nicely too, and at least I will have them done in plenty of time* for next winter.

*or maybe I won't. extreme project delay HAS been known to occur, after all! But at least I have a very pretty hat. XD

Noble Maiden Hat and One Ring Cowl, both from The Fellowship of the Knits and both in Knit Picks Gloss DK, which is lovely and soft and smooshable! The white yarn is Bare but the gold/brown is Harvest which is not currently available - hopefully just seasonal and not discontinued, but who knows. (And hopefully I don't run out now!)

#knitting #knitblr #fellowship of the knits #lotr crafts #lotr #ranna knits

[annaplexis]

To get a clean fold when making a 1/1 rib folded neck or cuff, you work a double knitting round, i.e. slip the purl stitches with the yarn in front and knit the knit stitches.

#knitting #knitblr #fiber art #crafts

[chanceofraine]

Should I be finishing the cardigan? Yes. Did I have extra yarn and a need for seed stitch? Also yes.

#this post brought to you in part by magic loop #wip #knit picks #wool of the andes #knitblr #beanie

[unraveledandfrayed]

Hey y'all! Long time, no post. I've made some projects that I just honestly hated and didn't feel like sharing and I also haven't been knitting or crocheting as much because of school.

But I'm finally back with a finished project. This is a self drafted tank top inspired by something I saw on Pinterest. The yarn I used was awesome, it's cascade pandemonium and I highly recommend it as a summer fiber, it's very light, soft, and breathable and not ropey at all.

#knitting project #knitted #handmade #yarn #fiberartist #knitting #knitblr #knitters of tumblr #finished #summer knitting

[onlytiktoks]

#tiktok #knitblr #knitters of tumblr #knitwear #knitting #knit #craftblr #crafts #airplane

[shroomiwoomi]

ok so I'm knitting this scarf right. it's a basic knit, just the knit stitch. and I can't decide how long to make it.

so for every note I'll knit a couple rows. do your worst

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[hookednbusy]

I can’t wait to develop and grow even more🤞🏾

#fiber art #fibre arts #knitblr #knitting #hand knitted #knitters of tumblr #hand knit #handmade #crochet artist #crochet art #more crochet stuff coming soon too don’t worry

[hotcinnamonsunset]

a whale of a good time🐋

#knitting #wip #knitblr #pattern is Melville on Ravelry😊 #let me tell you…this sweater is my white whale (even if the whale is blue ofc). I’ve been dreaming and scheming of designing her for years. #and at last! she’s here! and she’s full of silly fun details! #like Morse code along the raglan shaping spelling out SOS. waves on the sleeves spaced out according to the Fibonacci sequence. #and a fucking colorwork whale! she’s got it all. #moby dick #whale weekly

[blog-of-frontiers]

knitting/chrocheting while hanging out with friends is so funny like everyone shut up for a few minutes i have to count to 115. twice

#knitblr #crochet #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

[rannadylin]

Ooooh I know what motif I want on the double-knit gloves I'm planning to go with my One Ring Cowl and Noble Maiden hat! How about a White Tree of Gondor?

For reference, this is the hat and the just-barely-begun cowl:

And these are the double-knit glove prototypes I made a while ago with a fleur-de-lys chart I borrowed from here:

And this is what I've got so far for the Tree of Gondor gloves! I adapted a tree chart from here to make it fit in the panel for the backs of the gloves where the original set has the fleur-de-lys.

Still need to work on the left panel (which will be the palm); I don't know if I'll keep the little mini-crosses (they do match the stars above the White Tree motif, after all); if so I will probably get rid of the border at the bottom since I didn't have room for it on the tree panel and just keep the stars going that far down. Or maybe some other small LOTR-themed motif across the palm?

#knitting #knitblr #ranna knits #lotr #lotr crafts #tree of gondor gloves #double knitting #double-knit gloves #that prototype pair of double knit gloves has been the best pair of gloves i ever knit #double knit = does not wear out holes in the fingers as fast! is very warm and cozy! #is also very easy to do colorwork without worrying about length of floats like in stranded colorwork!

[annaplexis]

How I join skeins

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[vaguegrant]

The sardonic, reductionist headline here could be "Scientists finally figured out why you get more colds in winter: bEcAuSe iT's CoLd!"—but the actual science involved here is both interesting, and potentially very relevant to everyday life and especially the immunocompromised:

It turns out the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the nose. [...] In fact, reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils, according to the study published Tuesday in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. “Cold air is associated with increased viral infection because you’ve essentially lost half of your immunity just by that small drop in temperature,” said rhinologist Dr. Benjamin Bleier, director of otolaryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Want to avoid catching or spreading respiratory viruses like CoVid-19, RSV, influenza, or a common cold? Mask up, please, but also bundle up! Wrap up in a scarf, wear a balaclava, and just generally keep your face warm. There's no single magic solution, but that's not a reason to do nothing. Rather, it's a reason to take several simple precautions that help avoid the spread of disease and protect those around you. (I can't tell you how much "this isn't 100% effective so I shouldn't do it at all" frustrates me.)

Oh, and #knitblr? This is your time to shine.

#covid 19 #rsv #respiratory illness #science #immunocompromised #face masks #masks work #knitblr #knitting #crochet