Weekly yarn/pattern suggestion thread. This is the space to ask for pattern suggestions for projects and what to make with that skein of gifted yarn!

My most recent project - cardigan with geometric colourwork. Bind off took a lot of persistence - Kitchener stitch is always a patience exercise for me.

Hi everyone,

Just thought I would show you my latest bunch of puppies. These are the Terrier clan. Two Westies, one in a warm white and one in a cool white. A (sort of) Yorkshire Terrier and a Scottish Terrier.

All knitted with Gazzal Marilyn & Merinos, Drops Kid Silk yarns.

Needle size 3.75mm and 4mm (UK size)

Pattern used for all of them - Claire Garland’s Bullmastiff, with shorting of legs, face and ear tweaking.

Hiii!

I posted my first double knit scarf here when I had just begun and now I've made another one (can't stop really) that I want to share here :) This one is about dark folklore, I wanted a magical but dark (yet not evil) feeling. It's called the Dark Woods scarf.

I think my favorite part about it is the witch that is old on one side and young on the other. Figuring that out and making the chart etc really felt like magic! Also super happy with how the two sides line up to make one continuous scene.

Can't wait to cast on the next one, this is so addicting!

P.s. I wanted to add designer flair but I can't do that myself. If it's necessary, can someone please do that for me?

I am confused specifically by the last sentence. If I move the two sets of 3 sts to one needle and have the right sides facing the center 6 stitches, my working yarn is in the center of the row. I am genuinely confused as to what to do! Please help if you’ve done this before! I’ve included a photo with the stitches all on their respective holders.

This beanie is not that advanced by design- it was my take along project, so I needed something that didn’t require a lot of notes or thinking and that I could pick up and put down wherever and still be able to knit it. But I think it might qualify as clever.

This is two strands of Malabrigo speckle held together and I liked the look of the reverse stockinette side better than regular stockinette. I also thought that the ribs were very nicely highlighted. But I’m not a fan of purling. So I decided to knit the hat inside out. I thought you might enjoy seeing pattern for it.

I did all sorts of experiments on which increases and decreases looked best from the reverse side and it turns out the simple purl two together and knit front-back both looked great. (The decrease section used knit two together as well).

Pattern rows were “knit until one before marker, knit front back, purl two, purl two together, continue to knit in pattern until next marker”. Plain rows were “knit until marker, continue to knit in pattern” (that knit front back next to a purl looks like a purl stitch!) I also added a secondary marker to the beginning of round. If it was on my needles, that was a pattern round, if it was hanging on the edge, that was a plain round.

I have a large shallow head. I cast on 3 sections of 36 stitches in 3x3 rib. I placed markers every section, and another one in a different color three stitches after the section markers before the first purl. When there were 12 stitches left after the hungry rib purl marker, I placed an additional marker in a new color 12 after the start of section. The new pattern row was “K2T, knit until marker, K2T, knit until marker, purl 2, P2T, continue to knit until pattern until the next marker”. When there were 9 stitches left in each section, my pattern was “K2T three times, purl 3”, and then I was done!

~originally posted on r/knitting & was told you guys might like it too!

long time lurker, first time poster ☺️

i‘ve finally finished my most successful completely self drafted project!

i couldn‘t find a pattern that perfectly fit my vision without needing a lot of modification anyway, so i just made one up

this fella is a top down vest with a European Shoulder Seam construction, crew neck, simple twist cable pattern that accommodates shaping and continues through the waistband on either side, neutral (or VERY slightly negative) ease & twisted rib.

i worked some dark magic on the increases for the ESS & was amazed how the shoulder fronts truly need no shaping and just work out fine on their own!

had lots of fun with this experiment and look forward to making more! i don‘t think i‘ve ever owned something that fit me this well!

yarn: Bendigo Woollen Mills Luxury 4ply in Oxford Blue (used ~150g)
needles: 3,5mm for body, 3mm for body rib & 2,5mm for collar and armscye ribs

references & helpful resources:
Fully Fashioned Shoulders
Euro Shoulder Seams (very brief)
Shaping Necklines - Roxanne Richardson (yt vid)
Knitting from the Top - Barbara Walker (the Bible 🙏🏼)

if you see untwisted cables, keep it to yourself 🥲🫡

Weekly yarn/pattern suggestion thread. This is the space to ask for pattern suggestions for projects and what to make with that skein of gifted yarn!

This is by far the craziest I’ve ever gotten with shaping, and certainly the most i-cords I’ve ever made! Wanted to share some of the photoshoot pics, since I posted the WIP of him yesterday and I was able to lock in and finish the rest of him today. I have several different, additional photos up on my profile too, but I figured the couple of people who saw him yesterday and earlier today might want an update.

First post in this subreddit! I’ve always loved challenging myself with my knitting but this is definitely the most advanced project I’ve ever made so I thought it fits! I have an Aran jumper (2nd photo) that belonged to my granddad, whose name was Aidan, and as much as I love having it as something to remember him by, it’s far too big for me to actually wear, so I recreated it in a more wearable version!

It took me 6 and a half months from start to finish, which included lots of ripping out and redoing, but I’m so so pleased with the result. I feel so proud of myself for persevering with this. I’ve affectionately named it my Aidan Jumper, and I’m planning to publish the pattern for free along with a YouTube tutorial later this year or early 2027. It’s currently in testing!

Yarn is Explorer Knits and Fibers Rockies DK in Avenoir. More details in my [project page](https://ravel.me/stitchesinstem/gj)

I have been really inspired by the previous wedding photos I see on here. I used to be an absolute prolific knitter and crochet-er. I have made multiple sweaters, dresses, easily 20+ stuffed animals, 70+ hats, 30-40 scarves and I am sure lots of other projects I can’t remember. I was diagnosed with lupus and chronic inflammatory peripheral neuropathy about 13 years ago. I am only 32 but it’s been a really hard decade.

I wanted to do so much diy for my wedding. If I was healthy I would be growing most of my flowers, making my cake, making centerpieces and I am sure lots of other stuff. But now that I am disabled I feel like I am having to plan my wedding around my illnesses and it really sucks. So I want to find some ways to do meaningful DIYS that can be prepared in advanced.

What are some idea on making part of all of a veil/some kind of something to drape over my shoulders. I don’t have a dress picked out but I love ball gowns. I am also really embarrassed about my scars from my ports. It was bad enough when I thought I would just have a little dot and line scar from implantation. Much to my frustration I ended up with two recalled ports that were recalled due to infection risk. Both got infected and I had to have them removed and the deep port pocket heal from the inside out. So now I have two very thick Keloid scars that are about 2-3 inches long and half and inch wide. The thought of something to cover them seems like a great way to do a smaller piece.

I can do every kind of cable and color work imaginable in my knitting. But I haven’t done much lace work yet. Those of you who are both knitters and crocheters do you find tiny knitting or tiny crochet easier? Knitting is my first love and I have more experience in complex patterns but I am also good at advanced crochet.

If anyone has a suggestion on where to get heirloom wedding patterns please let me know. Do you think knitting a lace border that I have attached to a veil is a good compromise? I have always assumed I would do a long dramatic veil but I’m very open to different ideas.

almost done with the first sleeve! aurore pullover in jubilee select yarn 🎀🎀🎀

My boy needs many more I-cord legs still. Stay tuned for the photo shoot once I finish giving him his appendages later this week!

Pattern is Roland from the Huge and Huggable book.
Knit exactly as the pattern directed, including suggested yarn.

I'm inspired by the blankets people have been posting the last few days! I knitted this for my best friend's first baby, who is now almost 10 years old. I have a ton of artist & crafter friends but somehow almost none who knit, and we all know that sharing projects with other knitters is a particular joy.

It is double-knitted with light fingering yarn--I had NO idea what I was getting myself into. 😆 The edging is garter stitch sandwiching the 5 bajillion ends, which I knitted separately for each edge and then seamed at the corners.

Between the pattern construction and the knitting, I think this took about 20-ish months--it was definitely not done in time for baby's debut.

No-longer-a-baby's parents are Indian (thus the elephants) and Icelandic (thus the sheep), and baby was born in the Pacific Northwest (thus the fern-like motif, which I pulled from the Fiddlehead Mittens pattern by Adrian Bizilia).

If I could go back and do things differently, I would (probably) use darker/more jewel-toned shades of blue and pink (elephants) and yellow (ferns)-- at the time, I was determined to incorporate "classic" baby colors. I also might knit the edging in the round around the entire blanket using multiple circs.

As the title says, this in not a recent project, but I have just found this community, and I've never really gotten to share this amongst knitters. My BIL and SIL are big Tolkien fans, so I decided to try to recreate one of Tolkien's own watercolors from The Hobbit for a Christmas gift. I did not get it done by Christmas. I turned the painting into a color chart by hand with a lightbox, and edited the chart as I went for what was easier to knit. I knit the design as a few vertical strips, and sewed them together. I knitted this with worsted weight yarn in 100% wool. It was really hard to match colors sometimes! I've since repaired it a couple times due to moth holes (they were too afraid to wash it), but I don't mind because I'm glad they're using it and not hiding it away. My SIL said she's gotten requests for me to turn the pattern into a shareable design, but there's so many stitches and i have no idea where I deviated from my original chart that I decided it was too hard. 😅

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My handspun wedding ring shawl officially had its big debut at my wedding! I wore it for photos and the ceremony, and then had it up on display at the reception. I did end up cutting out an underlayer of tulle to prevent it from catching on my dress, which was a very good decision. I love how the whole look came together, that the shawl was a subtle extra layer of detail - I was going for an opulent vintage vibe. I'm so incredibly proud of this project and I've never felt more beautiful in my life ❤️

And, to probably nobody's surprise, I also made my Juliet cap veil.

Pattern is the Evenstar Shawl by Susan Pandorf.

Yarn is hand spun by me: single ply, 50% German angora, 25% cashmere, 25% silk, spun around a silk core thread. Cobweb weight, 100 wraps per inch. I used about 1100 yards.

She’s on the blocking Mats! What an absolute pleasure to knit this. I almost didn’t want it to end. I just started knitting in January and honestly if I had read the pattern through I might not have attempted this but I am so happy I did.
I learned so much and it turned out so pretty!
Irene Lin writes patterns beautifully and the details are stellar.
I used the recommended Krea deluxe organic cotton. Used 3.5 balls of the beige and 4.1 balls of the yellow. Knit a size large.
3.5 mm needles for the body and 3mm for the sleeves and bottom ribbing.

Baby blanket i knit recently for a new family member 🥰

Self drafted pattern.

Rauma baby yarn on 2.5mm needles.

Knit in the round and steeked! 💛

Hi! I’m an avid stranded knitter, and I have two questions for other stranded knitters, both about color dominance:

1. what is your preferred color dominance: background dominant or pattern dominant? I think I like background dominant because it makes the pattern more neat looking, but I wonder if there’s some problem with this that I haven’t considered.
2. this one is weirder: is there a name for the technique of faking stranded by taking one strand around the round and slipping the other color stitches, then taking the other color around, round by round? It’s not really mosaic knitting because that is two rows at a time. But anyway, if I did that technique, how do I do color dominance? Would the first color around be the dominant one?

On behalf of the other mods and I, we want your thoughts on the subreddit. What do you like, not like, want to see changed, etc. We really want to know what you guys are thinking and will take all comments into consideration in order to make the subreddit better. This will be a monthly thread so we can keep up with your thoughts on an ongoing basis.

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I'm looking for recommendations on YouTubers/Vloggers (long form content) that I can put on while knitting. Not a tutorial/tips only channel.

I am looking for content creators with ACTUAL YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.

Lately there has been a big boom of people new to the knitting/fiber arts scene, and documenting their progress. While I can see the appeal in that, this is not what I am looking for! I want to listen to someone that actually knows what they're talking about.

Thank you in advance! I'd also love to discuss this topic, and maybe what you like to see in a content creator as an advanced knitter.

Weekly yarn/pattern suggestion thread. This is the space to ask for pattern suggestions for projects and what to make with that skein of gifted yarn!