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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!

I am making the Windswept Sweater by Tin Can Knits. I just finished the left and right sides of the collar (two lace panels of 66 rows each, and now I'm starting the pickup. The pattern says I should be picking up 132 stitches, evenly spaced, which to me would indicate one pickup stitch for each garter ridge. However, that isn't enough stitches (it would be 66, which is one stitch for every two rows, or 33 per panel).

1. Should I be picking up stitches in between the garter ridges? I'm not entirely sure how to do that without making it look wonky/uneven, but if that's the goal, I'll do it.

2. Did I misunderstand the panel rows (left/right side of collar and they should actually be twice as long)?

3. Did I miss a step entirely?

(For reference, I'm making the size 3X and I'm using the book Handmade in the UK.)

I’m knitting the Anker tee by petite knit, my first non scarf project 😄. I’m on the 1x1 rib neck part. I think I ‘just’ dropped a stitch but I don’t understand from where to pick it back up. The top two strands are so confusing to me… help!

Working on a shirt with a broken rib pattern. A couple of rows ago I clearly wasn’t paying attention and did the purl one stitch late. Is this possible to fix without frogging all the way back? If not, I’ll just accept it as a sign it’s handmade and move on with my life. 🤣

Hello! I started to make the Copenhagen cardigan and completed the German shorts rows and was working through the raglan increases but my stitch count is off so I was planning on placing a lifeline and unravelling to the end of the shorts rows (I counted stitches after finishing the shorts rows and I had the correct number)

I’m now having trouble working out where the shorts rows and and getting my head around placing a lifeline, I tried working backwards through the steps of the pattern and I can’t work it out. I don’t know exactly how many rows I did between finishing the shorts rows and now, I think it was about 16

Any help would be appreciated!

I am a fairly basic knitter. Beginner I would say. Have knitted off and on for years since childhood, just basic dub projects. Looking to spend some more time on it now. Anyway, I saw this in a film today and just love it, but I am not sure what technique this even is: it doesn't look like crochet, is it knit? Or is this this some unusual weaving? I love it! May want to work towards this.

Doing the step by step sweater and have just got to the hem ribbing (was doing sooo well and I think I got cocky) - the rib ain’t ribbing. I did a set up round of stockinette on smaller needles like a did for the collar and then K and P alternate stitches for the ribbing. When I got to the end of the first rib round I knit into the knit stitches and purled into the purl stitches. I thought it looked stretched out so am putting it on shorter cables but it looks nothing like the neck ribbing. What have I done wrong?? Argh. Will it be easy to unravel it back to the beginning of the rib if needed? I was doing SO WELL.

Advice please 🙏 for those familiar with the Olga pattern by petit knits.

I’m at the very start. Not sure how I did this wrong but the LHS only has one stitch to form the ‘side’ , whereas the RHS was two and looks way better and finished. (Aka correct 🤣)

Do I need to frog or will this be okay when I come to join it to the sleeve (?).

Thanks

I’ve been knitting the dagmar jacket, and was about to start the body ribbing but noticed a yarn end had come undone where I had joined for the body. I think I’d left the end too short.

In my search for the end, many stitches came undone and I have absolutely no idea how to knit these back up and ensure I secure them.

I’ve attached a pic for reference. I was able to pick up the stitches in the right orientation. It looks like those 7 sts have come undone and there maybe 1-2 rows in between them that I need to knit up to fill the gap. But i have no idea how to do this.

I really don’t want to frog because it’s taken me a month to get to where I am. The dagmar jacket is a fun knit but also so tedious at times! I can accept that this little section of my work won’t be neat, so just want to fill the gap and secure that end.

Hiii!!, i hope anyone who has knitted this top can help me because i know i got it wrong but i don't fully understand where or how i made the mistake, thank you in advance 🙂‍↕️

Please delete if not allowed I’m new here.

Hey I recently inherited my grandmother’s knitting needles from my mother after her passing I found some mystery items and was wondering if anyone knew their use particularly the wooden open bottom bell shaped piece.

I crochet I don’t knit yet but am learning and I’m at a loss after looking all over the internet of what these might be.

hello!

so i consider myself an adequate knitter, have a lot of smaller project under the belt, understand what im doing usually. Sweater construction adequate, colourwork is improving.

i got myself 30 skeins of merino (10 each colour) and i want to make my husband and kids (1 and 3) matching sweaters, Scandinavian style. i would rotate the colours. cute idea right! Will make the kids sweaters larger because obviously they grow like cabbages and summer is around the corner.

now to pick a pattern. I couldnt find any i liked which is ‘family friendly’, so I thought to adapt a pattern I do like.

does anyone have any tips or do/dont?

i realised i cant pick a deep colourwork yoke for converting it to kids, and for husband I pick the size with the best bust+yoke depth and then just lengthen as needed for the body and sleeves?

right now I am thinking of one of these patterns, but recommendations are welcome too!

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/islet-stripes-sweater

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/marnie-11

any help is welcome! Where I live there arent many knitters that do more than scarves.

I am making the Hanni cardigan by knitters and friends, and for once I was really making sure I was hitting the right gauge. When I came to pick up stitches for the left arm, I could only manage to pick up like ~80 stitches, when it should be 85+, but I thought it would be ok. but its not! It looks super bulky and curled up and I don’t know what I did wrong? Do you see anything off in my pictures?

I was on Ravelry and found a cute sweater pattern that I would love to make, but the pattern is only available in Danish. I'm thinking of buying the pattern in Danish and using a translating website to translate the pattern into English, but I am not sure if this will work or if the translation will be correct due to possible abbreviations in the pattern. I was wondering if anyone has experience with translating a pattern into English and did it work? Thanks!

Hi! I wanted to borrow some wisdom from this subreddit. I found this hole while knitting stockinette in the round, but it doesn’t look like a dropped stitch. Does anyone have any ideas on what this is and how to fix it?

What does “every next repeat mean”? Every other? So rounds 2, 4 and 6? I am so confused lol

This is maybe my 4th pair of socks, and this is the first time the ankle has turned out wrinkley. Should I restart? Why did this happen? Is this something that can be fixed by blocking? I have never blocked anything before.

I'm knitting the Vilma Top by Gregoria Fibres. I'm using Drops Nepal on 4mm needles. The pattern asks for 21 stitches per 4 inches/ 10 cms.

The pattern repeat is 24 stitches. I have knit a garter border with an additional stitch of stockinette on either side to account for any distortion caused by the garter stitch and to make it easier to see where my pattern begins. 32 stitches cast on (3 garter, 1 stockinette, 24 pattern, 1 stockinette, 3 garter).

I have already looked up how to do this but wanted to run this by some extra eyes just in case! Sometimes I'm so confidently wrong in my maths.

So the pattern measures 4.5 inches, sometimes ever so slightly more.

So is it 24÷4.5 = 5.33 stitches per inch, then × 4 = 21.3?

When I do it in cms its 11.5 cms. So 24÷11.5=2.08 × 10= 20.8 stitches per 10 cms.

So either 21.3 stiches per 4 inches or 20.8 stitches per 10cms.

My two questions I guess are: is my maths correct and this is how you calculate gauge with lace? And is this hitting gauge?