knitting

It’s summer in the southern hemisphere. Perfect time to knit a pair of wool socks!! This is a toe up, 3x1 rib sock with fish lips short row heel. Probably too bulky to go in shoes, but I can wear them around the house when it’s cooler out....

Hello everyone! Just here to say that I am truly blown away by the difference having nice needles makes! I am a crocheter branching into knitting, so I got a silly little cheap pair of needles to see if knitting was something I’d like. I enjoyed it but there was something frustrating about it that I couldn’t quite identify....

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Wanted to post more socks this month but between illness, lemm.ee breaking (hai this is @thegiddystitcher alt account), my hard drive breaking, and general holiday nonsense I have failed to do so....

Last night I cast on Wanderwillows. I bought the yarn 10 years ago 🫣😱. Confession is good for the soul. 🤣

About 25% into a 130g skein. So easy! www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/knospe

I don’t know anyone irl who might be vaguely interested so I thought I’d post here! I’m making this hat for my MIL when I see her in a few weeks. It’s a free pattern and you can find it here.

afterthought heel...

Terribly Simple www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/terribly-simpleFinally used the skein of Tosh Pashmina that I’ve had for years.

The title makes a bold claim, I admit. But go with me here....

My mom had this yarn in her stash for goodness knows how long, she mentioned she initially got it because she wanted to knit a tee with it. I got her a pattern from Ravelry to fit her preferred style (flat knitting) but she had some trouble with the lace pattern (abbreviations like k2tog and ssk are new to her, at least in name...

Thesesocks are knit from the heel out, grafted together to make a tube, and then the toe and cuff are picked up and knit. No one believed me when they saw my project when I told them it was a sock. I felt the urge to sacrifice a chicken before grafting because I wasn’t sure it was going to work....

My 7yo daughter I want to finger knit. Ok, I go downstairs to the craft room for the yarn I bought her. No, I need thick yarn. I think about that… probably right. We go downstairs and pick out some bulky yarn. Sit down to start and my 7yo son says he wants to finger knit too. I give him a choice of colors and go downstairs for...

My first pair of socks, weee! I had way more fun doing this than anticipated when I first read the written instructions but it was very easy once I watched the matching video tutorial (I had to do 1/2 of the stitches mentioned in the video since I was doing fingering held double)....

These are the two skeins of my TAAT-sleeves. Both were fresh skeins, only used for the sleeves. But one of them has twice as much yarn left than the other. I’m not amused....

The brown sock is my first ever. What is wrong with the picture? Yes, the sock is inside out. I could not figure out how to kitchener the toe, so I just cobbled it together. The lightbulb moment came when I was knitting my second pair of socks. No wonder the kitchener stitch didn’t work! [Edit: the photo is in the comments....

Behold the socks that created my obsession! These were actually the third pair I knitted but the first ones that made me understand why knitted socks are so great....

Ok so I finally took the plunge and I’m knitting my first pair of socks. Ever. I’m doing fingering held double because less stitches 😂...

It’s happening, people! The theme for the month of December is officially 🧦 SOCKS! 🧦...

Curious what got people started.

I’m trying my hand at the Handsome Chris Pullover after successfully (nearly) completing a colourwork jumper....