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Tattoo plus the og reference:)

Hi everyone! After a month of crying over calculating colowork pattern (damn Stitch Fiddle), fighting with my floats (managed to fix it) and a lot amount of coffee I can proudly say that this piece is finished!

I modified the Stockholm Slipover by PetiteKnit by adding colowork and skipping some steps, using 4,5mm needles (3,5 mm for ribbing) - yarn that I used was Sunday by Sandnes Garn & Alpaca by Drops.

Since this is my second colorwork project, any future tips amd tricks will be helpful!

Thoroughly influenced by Knitting For Olive's white merino and coloured soft silk mohair swatch posts on instagram, I bought merino in Cloud and soft silk mohair in Buttercup and knit them together to make this vest. It's far from perfect but I'm happy with the result and happy with the decisions I made along the way.

The pattern I used is called men's basketweave vest and it's free on Ravelry. As you may be able to tell, I didn't do a basketweave pattern, just stockinette the whole way.

Soooo... when I started this cute bonnet for my little one, I envisioned knitting it, and then duplicating the slipped stitches to make the detail pop

But now, I don't know anymore

So I’ve made this pattern five or six times and customized it and rewrote it for my own purposes. This is the front of a Raglan sleeve sweater.

When you get to the part where you split the front for the neck, you’re supposed to do short rows on one side, and put the remaining stitches ON A HOLDER.

Well, I got lazy and thought well shoot, I always use circular needles. I’ll just push the stitches down and knit on the ones I need for the short rows. Got that done, and then when I went to do the other side… I forgot to slip the middle stitches onto a holder! I mindlessly knit the other side without even looking at my work.

I am a 72-year-old experienced knitter, having learned from my knitting instructor mom when I was six years old.

Just to tell you… No matter how long you knit, you will still screw up, laugh at yourself…. and fix it.

Im knitting this sweater for my niece but im having trouble figuring out what they mean in the gauge. Ive added a picture of what its suppose to look like.

Now, the gauge says “in main pattern” so i would assume that means the main body chart. But thats not 34 stitches wide. And how that chart is set up, it doesnt seem like i could do like 1.5 or so repeats of it cause of the cables. I also added a picture of the start of the pattern cause maybe theres something in there that is considered the “main pattern”.

I think this is my first like more advanced pattern cause usually it just tells me to do the swatch in garter or stockinette so im super confused.

I have searched through ravelry, searched the pattern online to see if there was maybe a reddit thread or something, and tried to find an email to send to the original creator but have yet to have any luck.

Thank you !

Got addicted to knitting Mouche & his friends by cinthia vallet. I love that they’re just slightly off 😂 working on my rats sweater now. Nanna & Mouche are complete!

I posted yesterday about the unintentional short vest I knitted, which was my first ever clothing item!

https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/s/nFwox5iPwL

I blocked it and it added a little length (thank you all for the recommendations!)

Another issue I ran into is that I cast off the neck and my head wouldn’t fit through the hole! Which was another laugh/cry situation. So I had to undo the bind off, and do it again half stretchy bind off and half regular. Super great learning experience!

Thank you all for your words of encouragement, I actually wore the vest to brunch today :)

It’s nothing fancy, but it was really tricky and I’m really proud of how tidy it came out. It’s the petiteknit terrazzo hat.

Looking to see if i am doing this correctly! im a crocheter so i think I'm holding the needles a little funny...

tips and tricks are appreciated!

Loved knitting this sweater. It taught me four different lace stitches.

Pattern: Cancun Boxy Lace Top

Happy Sunday, everyone :)

Pattern: Songbird mittens by Erica Heusser

Yarn: Dream in Color Yarn Smooshy - Rain on Me 079 and Tiny Blue 934

My friend requested some mittens that "kinda" matched her favorite scarf (second picture).

No real pattern here or anything resembling a plan. Size 2 needles, remnants from my yarn stash. Primarily an acrylic end, sport weight.

Yes, I still need to finish the top and add the accent yellow to the one section. My thought process went something like, OH! I should totally do Latvian braids on all color changes. But now I'm tired of Latvian Braids. Nupps are textured, right? Let's add some nupps!

Maybe I should just call these my adhd mittens and be done.

My first sock with alpaca yarn, and first time working with alpaca ever. These are meant to be house socks only. This yarn is 100% local to me alpaca purchased directly from the small farm!

I think it looks much better in person than photos. I've found alpaca to be tricky to work with. It's so gorgeous and fuzzy and warm but is sooo pliable and willing to gap or form to literally anything. What have your experiences been working with alpaca and advice? I think going forward I would only use alpaca for scarves and sweaters.