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I was a little hesitant to post here because this is mostly embroidery!

This is The Starry Sky Sweater by Naomi Tsuda. This is a fully charted pattern from an OOP book. Below is a link to the pattern on Ravelry. You can find my project there. I tried to write down some details on the process there:

https://ravel.me/starry-sky-sweater-

This was made with Harrisville Designs Highland. Highly recommended for heirloom quality items! It is not scratchy at all, it feels like a comfy sweatshirt.

I will be attending NY Sheep and Wool (Rhinebeck), A Woolen Affair, and Indie Untangled this year. So if you see me, feel free to say hello! I'm really looking forward to attending. The Hudson Valley in the fall is gorgeous.

Not going to lie, I'm feeling a bit lost on what to make next. I don't think anything I make will be as cool as this.

Thank you for looking, it has been such an honor to make this sweater. Reviving an almost forgotten pattern.

I'd be happy to answer any questions about the techniques used!

I saw a cute sweater for sale online. The sweater itself did not have good reviews, but I loved the stitch pattern. So I decided to make one myself. I wound up just knitting a vest, and I love how it turned out. I used Plucky Knitter Primo Sport yarn in colorway Haberdasher and KnitPro Symfonie Viva yarn in colorway Party Lights. I did not use a pattern, but I have made quite a few vests in my time so it was easy to make it up as I went.

This is St Kilda Square Shawl by Iaroslava Rud. The yarn is Heirloom Knitting's "Gossamer CashSilk." It's listed as cobweb, but it's so thin I think it might qualify as thread weight. It does fit through a wedding band! All in all, it was a tedious knit but not insanely difficult, and the yarn is stronger than it looks. I blocked this hard enough for the mats to curl, and nothing broke. I still have 2577yds of this stuff since I misread what weight the pattern called for and ordered waaaay too much. Definitely taking a break to work on something else before tackling another cobweb shawl though (and making sure the pattern actually calls for cobweb...)

Greetings. I was asked in r/knitting to post this here, so here I go.

I'm Melissa. I have a background in theatrical costume design, although I work as a jeweler these days.

I have a friend who is a massive Regency nut — and she has costumes of the period. For her birthday this year I am knitting her a pineapple reticule using Franklin Habit's pattern, except instead of using fingering weight silk yarn and US #1 needles, I am instead using reeled silk thread and US #00000 needles.

The thread I am using is pearl-stringing thread in size E hand-dyed with acid dyes to make 8 different hues — two yellows, two browns, and four greens — and I am beading the entire thing with tiny gold-tone brass beads.

This little reticule is not entirely unknown to costume history, either. This specific example hails from c.1800 to 1810, although the beads used were silver-toned, not gold.

Nevertheless — I have finished two pattern rows and am currently working on a third... I will post photo updates as I have the time to.

I intend to line the finished purse with fine silk fabric.

EDIT: Details I forgot to post

1: the silk thread is very slippery and the needles are very pointy. I have used silicone earring backs to tip each unused needle so that I don't have the needles slide straight out of the knitting as they have threatened to do once or twice when I was casting on.

2: I am wearing a pair of Optivisors to knit this; currently using the 4-diopter plate, which is 2x magnification.

3: I chose to use a beaded long-tail cast on instead of beading all 320 cast-on stitches. That actually makes the edge of the "stalk" part curl in a very becoming fashion so I'm pleased I chose to be lazy instead of accurate :p

I've done colourwork on socks before but first time doing it on a sweater.

So proud of how this turned out!

Photos are pre-blocking

Pattern is Skerries by Yuco Sakamoto

Hi everyone!!!
Not sure it it’s worth this sub or if it’s just regular knitting but this is my current work in progress!!!
I'm making the Jester Sweater by knitwear diaries!!
I'm using Sirdar Jewelspun in Midnight Sapphire and it looks so good in my opinion!!!!
Right now I'm almost done with the body even though I don't have a picture of it yet eheh!
I'm making this for next winter to counteract the seasonal depression lol, on the gloomy days I can wear something fun and warm!!!

I'm thrilled to share the pigeon sweater I made for my friend Janet! The design was inspired by @michellelikesknit Pigeon Sweater, and I used the La Rentrée pattern by @sonderyarnco for an oversized fit. The colors were achieved by combining @jarbogarn Junior Raggi and @dropsdesign Fabel yarns. Instead of stranded colorwork, I used the marling technique to create color gradients. I also learned modular knitting to create the scallop patterns on the sleeve. I'm proud of how all the elements came together, and I'm grateful for the online resources shared by generous knitters.

This scarf is double knit, with adjustments so the text is not mirrored like everything else. Each section is based off a scene from Alice in Wonderland. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/wonderland-adventure-scarf This is the pattern I used.

I am knitting the Kronborg by Maria Bach Jensen and I’m just getting to the sleeves. German short rows I have a pretty good handle on, but I am confused at the wording from the instructions. From what I can understand you start on the right side (outside of the sweater) and moss stitch 6 st, do the GRS, turn your work and knit from the “wrong side” back towards M1. Then it asks you to knit 6st past M1, on the other side of the marker (end of round). I don’t understand how you’d be on the “right side” again. Wouldn’t you be knitting past M1 or beginning of round on the wrong side? Is this a typo or by right side does she mean something else I’m not understanding?

Hi Mods, not sure if this is the right flair, I've messaged the designer and probably will continue to reach out to her but it's not been very helpful. It's also my first complicated wearable with shaping and incorporating different stitch patterns.

I've read through the pattern heaps of time, and I am driving myself nuts trying to visualise different parts of the pattern while keeping track of the increases (which changes the rows and stitch counts of each section). I have not started the pattern yet as I want to get a general sense of how the knitting process and finding myself very overwhelmed.

The designer has also taken to shorten subsequent rows after the set up into something like

Row 7: Zig Zag P5, C2L, P6 Diamond P5, C2L, P6, C2R, P5

Basically omitting the additional cables and basket stitches at the start and between each section

I get that because those section instructions doesn't change over a few rows, it's the same stitch but I can't visualize it and I'm trying to see if there's a way to put it into excel so I'm able to tell row by row what I'm doing.

(I've emailed the designer asking which section constitutes a diamond as stated in the pattern and which is Zig zag and she explained it but it took a while before I realized she expected me to understand there are cables and basket stitches between those section)

In addition to that, there are increases that are done into the basket stitches and later on into the Zig Zag patten.

I'm not ranting, I really would appreciate any advice given as to how I can start this as I really want to learn and be better at reading patterns, there are schematics included but they are filled with so many various instructions for different sizing in one page that it's not helpful for me right now.

Do I just cast on, give it a go? I could try putting it into excel so it's easier to see (she gave a picture of the completed work and marked out where the increases are so I can check that as well)

I'm sorry if it's not appropriate or anything, I really tried reading through and understanding and I'm still a little loss. :(

I just finished a hoodie and had some yarn left over. I’m so happy with how I started this hat. I held a strand of each color and did a Twisted German Cast On. The first round I did a plain 1x1 rib. The second round I did the set up row for the brioche. I love doing two color brioche in the round because I don’t even need stitch markers for the round. One color will always be in the front and purled. The other color will always be in the back and knitted.