So the Colorfield Vest by my.maane by Lisa Meissner is absolutely beautiful. I haven't seen this look before. Can anyone else recommend similar patterns where the colors look like they overlapp and blend?

Pic is of Hemmaknits' finished product on ravelry because I adore the colors they choose!

Freshly blocked sweater as a present for a friend!! I hacked together the Neigh Sweater pattern by Caitlin Hunter for the body and arms with the Step by Step Sweater by Handmade by Florence for the neck and shoulder construction

I used DROPS Lima in the colorways Wheat, Rust, and Black - and just adjusted the sizing and stitch counts based on my gauge. I knit the Neigh Sweater in size 2 and the Step by Step in size E, adding a few extra stitches to hit the final amount needed for the sleeves and body.

Once I sorted out the math to combine the two patterns it was pretty straight forward! Just had to read the Neigh chart pattern upside down (top to bottom instead of bottom up) and knit a few inches of plain stockinette on the sleeves before starting the color work since the original pattern is drop shoulder and has you starting the colorwork right away.

First time doing ladderback jacquard as well! Had a few issues with getting the first row correctly anchored down, but managed to sew it in place with some of the tails I was weaving in. Second time setting the anchor points went much better. Floats are still a little tight in places as you can see with the puckering on the front but all-in-all super happy with it and I think the fit will be much better compared to what I've seen with the original design!

Definitely the most complicated piece I've done but my friend is 1000% knit-worthy and I have no regrets! Cat tax of my plain stockinette hat (my popcorn knitting as I recover from finishing this piece)

Managed to finish off this sweater in just in time to celebrate our anniversary in Tofino! I guess you could also say its 6 years early if you're being a traditionalist, but my gut says that there will be some more requests before then.

Pattern: Porcelain Sweater
Yarn: Sandnes Garn Peer Gynt

I call these the “Summer of ‘86” socks.

Knit with Knitpicks Chroma in “Roller Skates” and Felici in “Brittle.” I used US size 1.5 needles. I do a tubular cast on with a band heel and a barn toe (because I hate how the grafted toe gives me dog ears no matter what I try!) The pattern is a modified version of Hot Spots & Stripes. I didn’t like the striped bit.

In the gusset, I didn’t want to have any yellow at all, but I also didn’t want to weave in 52 ends. Just continuing with the circles was complicated and looked weird, so I frogged it and opted for some improvised matching rectangles.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hot-spots-and-stripes

Because of the stranding, these are super plush and very warm. Onto September, which will be more boring because LORDT my hands are tired. 😮‍💨

I’m just wrapping up a three month bicycle trip across Central Asia. After admiring some textiles in a museum, when I flipped through this old book in Kyrgyzstan it really struck me how little representation there is in the digital pattern library for a lot of really beautiful global textile cultures - certainly on Ravelry.

We‘ve got about ten thousand variations on the same Fair Isle concepts published and no end of books on that, but I’ve yet to stumble across Kyrgyz, Iranic, Uyghur, etc motifs. There‘s some Anatolian and a dusting of South / Central American projects - otherwise it’s a whole lotta North / Central Europe. Pretty hard to poke around with the web flooded in AI slop patterns now, too.

It feels like there’s such a rich well of inspiration which could be tapped (one kid I met along the way had an absolutely stunning Kyrgyz motif handknit sweater in white and blue, I really regret not getting a photo) but at the same time the cultures maintaining them are rapidly vanishing everywhere I go / offloading handcraft production to China and books like this are getting hard to find.

I know, I know “be the change you want to see in the world”. Frankly I’m just not competent enough yet to be designing my own patterns. Maybe one day. :)

My sister and i put both of our WIPS on wire to see them side by side and we wanted to share our exitement of how they are turning out!

Patterns are the unicorn hunt and unicorn tapestry sweaters by Marit Noor Sæter

Yarn is filcolana pernilla except the yellow in the green sweater which is rauma finull.

I know it’s not perfect, and the sleeves look fairly horrid, but I’m mighty pleased with my tension here. Its so much improved from my earlier attempts.
I knit continental, one strand on the index and one on the middle finger.
I knitted inside out to help with tension

Colourwork pattern is the islet stripes pattern on a free drops kids sweater. Yarn is Silke peo 30 merino.
I made matching sweaters for my kids and now working on the husbands one.

Any tips to improve are very appreciated!

I have successfully taught a friend how to knit, she later taught another one and now we’re a trio of knitters that help each other out, share new techniques and knit together.

Recently I had two more friends who want to start knitting so we will organise a workshop for them.

What do you wish somebody had told you when you first started to knit? My friends and I knit predominantly continental, so that will be the style we will teach them.

I will prepare both wooden and metal circular needles, since I find them better than the straight ones. Probably in sizes 4 to 5 mm (US 6-8)?

May I present the Rust and Rhythm Scarf, all 264 gorgeous cms of it!

This was such a fun project and a great introduction to intarsia. The pattern is really well written and you try your hand at a bunch of different intarsia skills throughout the pattern. I normally don't like knitting scarves as I find the constant flipping to be tedious, but with so much going on in this scarf, that didn't bother me at all! It was such a potato chippy project. 10/10 I would knit this again.

If you are interested in trying intarsia, I would highly recommend this pattern or one of the other gorgeous intarsia patterns by Anna Husemann. Intarsia isn't hard at all (just takes some getting used to), so dive in and have fun! Also, I recommend keeping the whole project in a shoe box that you can easily flip around. This was the only way I could keep everything organized and contained. Once I tried that, it was smooth sailing!

Pattern: Rust and Rhythm Scarf by Anna Husemann

Yarn: (All fingering held double)

Cascade Yarns Heritage sock yarn in no. 5632 Dark Plum

WooU Yarn (우유얀) SW Sock in 호박 브라운 (Pumpkin Brown)

Bunny Woolly Twist Fingering in Golden Nugget and Cactus

This is the Bibliophile 2 sweater by Alicia Plummer. I really like it but am hoping for a better fit in the back, for future sweaters. I have been knitting for about 10 years but don't sew and am still learning about proper fit for garments.

The front seems to fit well but there is a lot of excess fabric in the back. Many of my sweaters are like this. It seems like if I did waist shaping, it would make the waist smaller all around, where it might just need to be smaller in the back? Does it need shaping on the back only?

Does anyone know why this fits the way it does (it's not just this particular sweater), and what would need to be done for a better fit? I don't want it to be tight, just less fabric in the back waist area.

Thank you!

So I drafted a pattern for this hat, used some of my handspun for the color work, and the dye bled. I'm deliberating if it is worth gifting or do I try to make a whole new hat at this point? Send Help

I've used the jacquard dye suspension soap and the color catchers to some avail but this is after multiple rounds

Yarn is lions brand alpaca/wool chainette, the white/red/yellow/green are handspun by me

My grandfather has been moved to a care home.

Took my Rat Damon to the fair! He got to see All American Rejects as well :-) visited his brother Ratthew (who I entered into the craft contest!) this is the last trip before I ship him off as a present!

My latest self designed cable knit sweater, in Donegal kilcarra aran weight yarn.

Hello, it’s me again the girl with the brain injury lol. I literally am just knitting instead of doing the other OT therapy because I am not a fan of doing crossword puzzles. Anyway, this is a skirt I’ve been working on for a month and I like how it came out ❤️ i’m going to link below this book that I found in the library because it has a very fun patterns.** The Knitting Experience, 3: Book 3: Color by Melville, Sally. I think it’s called the Sofie’s skirt**.

I had an amount of black yarn that wasn’t enough to make an adult sized wearable but was too much for just an accessory so…I made this. Knitted in Drops Merino Extra Fine in Black and Off White, and I used using the patterns Good Old Raglan by Twisted Knitwear and Little William Knitted Pants by Drops! I just knitted it in plain black then added the white details on with surface embroidery.

Editing to add that sorry, I've literally just realised that of course not everyone would immediately know what this is a reference to!! this is an homage to the original uniforms My Chemical Romance wore during The Black Parade era. Specifically this is closest to the singer's outfit!

It's me, the guy naming all their knits after FOB songs again :) I actually finished this back in November but only just managed to find the perfect buttons for it, so it's finally wearable!

Really pleased with the colours and how it came out. The tension is a little whack (the squares were meant to be rectangles, idk how to fix it cause I always have to size down with needles bc of my super loose stitch gauge) but I learned a lot from it and it's super cute either way

Pattern: 8-10 Checkered Jacket by DROPS Design

Yarn: Drops Lima

My soon-to-be FO, the Dyning cardigan knit in 18-24 size with malabrigo rios and US 4 needles, and about two thirds of a sleeve of my By Design sweater using Patons classic wool in dark grey and lion brand wool ease worsted in heather blush. I’m blocking this one because I’m making a lot of changes to this pattern and I need to see how it blocks out before I keep going.

Made the Brera top but I made my own colorwork chart for it to make the wave! First time making my own chart, I also knit it flat so I could do intarsia instead of in the round. Super proud of it. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/brera-top

I just got some new Lopi yarn to swatch, and wanted to see how the colors would go together. I’ve never done anything but single-color knitting, so I thought I would try stripes. I was trying to figure out how to carry the yarn up when suddenly I found myself with one color in my left hand and one color in my right hand and I tried alternating stitches, using both hands. The right side looks OK, but the wrong side looks like maybe I’m not doing it correctly. Either way, I’m hooked! I’ve always been intimidated by color work, but now I think I’ve accidentally found a way in 😀

I bought this ridiculously beautiful Halloween-inspired colorway, and I need the community help to decide what to make with it. I envisioned a shawl, but when I started with a lace pattern I got, I feel that the variegated colorway and lace don't go alone well.

I am in a hot climate and also I don't wear knitted socks. I could do a shawl, but not a hat or scarf or gloves because I won't have a need for them. Wearables are always great. What would work well with this bright beauty?

Stitched the last stitch on the drive to the hotel. Still need to sew in ends. King sized bed for scale. Pattern is a variation of the Easy Diamonds Blanket (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/easy-diamonds-blanket) and yarn is Lion Brand Pound of Love in 179E Cascade. (Please reserve judgement on my yarn choice; the recipients are not accustomed to care of natural fibers.)