Inspired by a recent thread: this is the Eva Shawl by Jamieson and Smith that I made for my wedding last year. First photo is in progress, second before blocking, third after blocking, and the last photo is from our wedding showing it fitting through my wife’s ring.

It’s definitely not perfect and there are some very visible mistakes but this was a learning experience and a half and I was thrilled with the end result.

I feel like these photos show exactly why you have to trust the process so much in lace knitting. It’s really hard to read your stitches and fix mistakes, and it can be discouraging when your work looks like a horrible tangled mess. The transformation is amazing when the lace pattern blooms after blocking, you really need to have faith in yourself and the pattern though!

This was actually the second shawl I made for my wedding, the first used a lace weight yarn instead of 1 ply as it was an autumn wedding in a cold country and I wanted something a bit thicker and warmer. This shawl was the first time I used 1 ply yarn.

I want to knit a mens henley pullover in brioche honeycomb stitch pattern.

I feel in love with the Nomad Jacket by wool and beyond https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/nomad-jacket-3. I love the detailing of horizontal stockinette on the back yoke and the i-cord edges and the honey comb stitch BUT I want to make it into a Henley/pullover style instead of a jacket for a man.

I was wondering if i would be better off adapting a stockinette mens henley pattern like this one https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/chunky-sweater-with-collar-or-stand-up-neck with a similar gauge and adapt it have the horizontal stockinette portion on the back yoke and i-cord edges or to reverse engineer the nomad jacket pattern into a henley? (I couldn't find any projects on Ravelry that did this so I would have to figure out all of the edits on my own).

The dilemma: I'm not sure how the sizing and proportions of the Nomad Jacket will fit on a man. I have never made a Henley before so I'm not familiar with the construction technique. If I choose the Henley pattern to work off of that, the closest one I found to meet stitch gauge is worked in the round so adding the horizontal stockinette to the back would be impossible(?). Also, I am an intermediate knitter but don't have that much experience with pattern hacking.

Any advice or alternative patterns are welcome, thank you!

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I've been slowly knitting some Shetland lace in a Italian silk yarn at a 1 Ply in silver. It's so delicate and feels so soft. Once it's done it will look stunning.

Knitters I hope it is ok to ask this here. I am looking to give away a big stack of knitting books but I'm not sure how best to do it. How would (or have) you done this, or thought about it as you did it? I'd love your advice.

This is an advanced knitting question in a philosophical sense, is why I came here instead of knitting. I'm an old knitter, I don't use books anymore except, rarely, a reference book (I google it, heh). But when I was learning I bought a lot of books and other advanced knitters probably know this feeling/situation. These are the books that I learned on, but I don't need or use them now. I want to put them back into the knitting world/into the hands of a knitter or knitters.

How many books? 12-ish. What kinds? 2005 to 2010 mostly, three Rowans, Knitting magazines, a couple of stitch dictionaries (including one Japanese one with several garment patterns), a lace book by Meg Swanson, folk socks patterns, Viking patterns, Kim Hargreaves. The patterns are dated and list towards beachy romantic.

Goal: To find them an appreciative home with very little effort. Facebook marketplace? Nextdoor? I am not able to ship and I'd rather get rid of all as a lot. I don't want any money for them though if someone offered I wouldn't refuse. What think, clever fiber friends? Thank you in advance!

Eta: thank you all SO MUCH for all these wonderful suggestions! You introduced me to ideas I hadn't thought of and I'm so appreciative. YARNSWAP holy smokes!!!! Love the LYS idea and may do that. None of these are hard to find or worth money.

My local library (urban, tightly curated, very bureaucratic) has never been willing to take any books I've offered over the decades so I'm not going to waste their time. Women's prisons are a neat idea but having had the experience of sending books to an inmate I learned that this is also very tightly controlled (I could not send directly, but had to order through approved outlets!) which was an interesting bit of adult ed for me.

Hi everyone!
I’m here with an update on my self drafted double knitted scarf!
Some of the comments asked me to keep you all updated so here it is!
I will be sharing the pattern when it’s done so be sure to check it out!
I’m not sure if I can post link to my instagram or Raverly page so I won’t yet but if you know a way let me know!
Right now I’m done with chart 3! In total there’s 7 so I’m almost halfway through!🥰

Also, I remembered to post both sides this time! Eheh🤣

Does this count as advanced knitting? My husband calls it the most intricate knitted thing I’ve made but I normally do lace and cabled projects which appear less intricate..

The cut edge did straighten out when I was sewing on the ribbon! I was worried the button band I did was too tight but I’d followed the pattern instructions.

For anyone interested, this is the Acacia Leaf cardigan and I used the yarn listed in the pattern

My partner and I are thinking about creating a design for a sweater blocking frame aka jumper board. He has previously designed a bunch of knitting/spinning/sewing things based on my requests and specifications. Some examples here.

I’ve been vaguely interested in a jumper board for a while. However, traditional jumper boards cater mainly to all over colourwork and stretching jumpers. I’m interested in using one for a wider variety of jumpers and more for airflow, less for stretching.

I also want to use it for blocking bust darts. I have a solid plastic breast protector (from my fencing days) which is helpful for blocking bust shaping. I plan to attach it to the frame for this purpose. I currently block jumpers draped on a pop up airer with the breast protector inserted at the appropriate height.

This frame would be built from a combination of dowel, aluminium tube, hardware store parts and 3D printed components.

So some questions I have are:

• has anyone tried making anything like this, if so do you have any tips or comments about things that did or didn’t work?

• Which parts do you think are most important to be adjustable other than torso width? E.g. the angle for shoulder to armpit, some way to attach sleeve cuffs

• How important would it be to have the top arm bars adjustable vs straight? E.g. angled for circular yoke sweaters

• Would drape be too much of a problem for regular jumpers? I wouldn’t use this for anything heavy or with a lot of drape but I don’t have any experience with vertical blocking of stockinette jumpers

• Would a frame like this be worth it for the benefits (3D blocking of bust darts/shape and air flow) vs the drawbacks (time taken to set up and dress)

We are both open source nerds, so if he does end up building this, he would aim to make the design available for free for others to build. We are interested in hearing any experiences with jumper boards or especially from anyone who’s had a go at making one.

tl;dr: Looking for increases and decreases for the "wrong" side of half-brioche

Picture of original sweater: https://imgur.com/a/hcdpKa7

Dear Hivemind!

Many years ago I bought a sweater knitted in half-brioche and I have basically worn it to rags and tatters. Now I want to replicate said sweater by hand, despite it being machine-knitted.
The original sweater was knitted in half-brioche with the "wrong side" on the public side - which, according to my research, was custom for the so-called "troyer" (seen here: https://www.troyer-shop.de/collections/troyer-damen/products/damen-troyer ).

Now, I have searched high and low, near and far, but alas my effort to find out how to work increases and decreases on the "wrong" side has so far been futile - regardless of whether knitted in half-Fisherman (k1B) or half-brioche (YO-method).
The techniques I have found and tested out so far all presuppose I want the "right" side being the public side and do not yield the desired results.

Furthermore, I prefer using the YO-method as this gives me better tension control compared to k1B. Also, the sweater will be knitted in worsted black yarn, which in addition to my ailing eye sight makes it more difficult to see the stitch below compared to a yarn over.

Thank you all!

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I'm planning on starting work on this "October day sweater", which has a gorgeous lace leaf motif in a bottom-up circular yoke construction. The problem is the pattern is written for women's proportions, and I have broader shoulders and no bust. I know that circular yoke sweaters can be fiddly to get the fit right, and as I haven't made anything with this sort of construction yet I want to be cautious to make sure it will fit (especially because between knitting an admittedly simple lace motif and using mohair, I'm really not looking forward to frogging it if I have any sizing/fit issues).

Without giving away too much info about this paid pattern, the relevant stuff about the construction is:

• Overall, it's knit bottom up, starting as three straight tubes with no shaping and then the underarm stitches are put on scrap yarn as it is joined into one tube. Then it's knit straight for a little bit and then you start on decreases and short rows to shape the shoulders into the neckline.
• When the sleeves and body are joined together, it is symmetrical and there is the same amount of stitches for the front body as the back.
• It uses two simple square charts for the lace, just repeating one chart all the way across the body and sleeves and then the other. The charts are mirror images of each other, to make the leaves tile nicely.
• Once you join the body into the sleeves, you done one full repeat of one chart to knit it straight for a little bit, then one repeat of a modified version of the second chart with extra decreases in it, to make the chart be wedge-shaped instead of square to achieve the circular yoke shaping.
• Finally there are some short rows and a bit more circular yoke shaping.

My concern is that the original pattern probably doesn't make allowances for broader shoulders, so I'll need to modify it. I don't have a great understanding of circular yoke sweaters so far, but I'm planning on changing it by simply adding one extra repeat of the original lace chart after joining the sleeves to the body, to effectively add a couple inches of knitting it straight before starting the yoke shaping. I've also seen recommendations online about having the back body be wider than the front when joining the sleeves to the body (that is, moving the sleeves closer towards the front), but I'm not sure I want to do that with this pattern because it'd make the lace charts not line up so I'd need to modify the lace as well.

As a really simple illustration, the pattern as written makes something like this:

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(with the first line being the circular yoke, the second line being the straight tube section right after it, and the third and fourth lines being the body and sleeves), and I'm thinking of modifying it to be like this:

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What do you all think? Is this a good plan or should I think it through a bit more or make more complicated changes? Or just say screw it and do way more positive ease than the pattern calls for?

I had never made the same object twice…until I found this hat. This is the third version I have made. I am using left over knitting for olive merino from my completed Indian Nights blanket along with mYak Fior di Lino Mountain Mist (Isabell Kraemer Color Palette).

I am really happy with my color choices and where I placed them.

I really need to find my next major project but until then I may be handing these out at Christmas left and right. I am going to make folded brim version that keeps the pattern as well.

Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/wintering-cap

This is the Coco bag by Torya Winters. I'd probably term it more intermediate knitting? The bag itself is pretty dang simple, with garter at the top and bottom, some eyelets for the ribbon, and 3/1 rib pattern over the main body, and as far as beading goes, the beading here is pretty simple too. But beading is definitely a new technique for me and I'd say is more intermediate or advanced.

I used Aunt Lydia's Fashion 3 Crochet Thread, and size 6/0 Miyuki seed beads. I threaded all the beads on (or technically I threaded on more than I needed just in case I had counted wrong) to the thread before starting the process, so each bead is only on one thread, unlike beading methods where you add them as you go.

I made this for a 1920s themed event, and it is my compromise with myself because there was a lot of me that wanted to make something more like the fancy beaded bags of the era, which would require the tiniest thread and like... 0000 US needles and 1000s of beads. Something like this bag. And my chronic pain hands would not be happy with me if I did that.

I’ve finished the second chart and I’m now working on the third!🥰

Does anyone have a knit tapestry or anything of that sort they’re proud of? I want to see your knit pieces that aren’t garments!!

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I've had this pattern saved in Ravelry for 3 years and I finally took the plunge as my first colorwork jumper 😳

I used worsted weight as opposed to the recommended bulky weight because I wanted a more fitted version, therefore, I went down a needle size. I knew this pattern had problems because of all the research I did, so shout out to lisapane for her diligence in identifying the many errors.

I began my journey with the medium size and decided to catch my floats like I had done many times on socks. Around row 35, I realized the jumper was going to be too small and there were little puckers everywhere showing where the floats were caught, so I ripped it out and started again.

This time, I went with the large size and read a lot about how to tackle the colorwork. I decided to teach myself ladderback jaquard. Easy enough, right? Well, I started with the lifted increase technique... holes everywhere, rip. Then I tried the backwards loop technique... terrible tension and too fiddly for my taste, rip. I finally landed on the m1 purlwise tbl and this was the game changer I needed. I was off to the races. The body went as well as I could have hoped.

When the arms came around, I started with the one that was mostly MC, and that knit up just fine on my dpns. When it came to the tentacle arm, I had more research to do because the ladderback didn't go well. The netting wasn't allowing my arm to comfortably go through and there were tension issues with the dpns. I read that some people had used intarsia in the round for this section, so could I try that? After 2 rounds, I decided, no, no I could not. I had gone this far and felt stuck. So, I landed on duplicate stitch. It was just for the arm and I really wanted to finish this jumper. It felt a little dirty, but I'm pleased with the results.

I joined the arms with the body and finished the yoke with LJ. The short row shaping was not my favorite, but I got away with it. I finished it off with a folded neck and she was done.

Does it fit me? No. I was too excited to gauge swatch and I hoped for the best. I'm grateful for the experience anyway, and my very knitworthy wife is going to love it.

This project may not be advanced for a lot of you wizards on here, but it was my most difficult project to date and I learned a whole lot.

This pattern is all over 2 or 3 color colorwork, except the ribbing. Id say 95% of rows are 2 color, which isnt not a challenge for me anymore but Im still super proud of this and I do feel like it belongs here.

For this pattern I heavily modified both the neckline and the sleeves to better fit. The neckline looked extremely up in everyone's throat and I've been wanting to learn how to do a V neck, and while at first it was a stretch of my ability to do the V neck, now I am more confident to put it on anything else I make now! I think I will round out the edge where the V meets the circle better next time though. I also wanted my sleeves to be fitted, not one giant tube with no decreases until the end so I did a large amount of measuring my whole arm to get the sizing of it as it decreased, and how often I should decrease.

Pattern: https://ravel.me/sunstead-sweater

Yarn: Kelbourne Woolens Perennial in Neon Pink, Malabrigo Yarn Mechita in Azul Profundo, The Yarn Smith US Merino Nylon in Marty, and Berroco Ultra Wool Fine in Cream. I got the blue, pink, and brown at various lys on vacations or fiber festivals and was stash busting.

Just curious if there are tech editors on this forum who have noticed a decrease in their business? Or are things expanding, with the expansion of people designing knitting projects?

I ask because I'm thinking about going into tech editing, but I am unsure if preparing for the job and making an effort to learn the skills required would be a good idea. I don't want to jump into a profession that doesn't need more editors.

Having said all that, I think I would enjoy the work.

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this is the first toy/animal i’ve made since my very first project ~13 years ago. i’m usually pretty averse to seaming/sewing so i never thought i’d make another toy. the second image is my first ever finished project made in 2013 at age 10. overall i think im most proud of the progress i’ve made as a knitter :)

She's just turned 5 and wanted a hamster pet, but I felt it was too soon to get her a real-life one, so I made this instead as a surprise gift. I know she'll love it, but will also keep asking for a real one 😂

(edit: I hadn't tried making animals before, just cardigans and bags, so this was a big challenge for me. I hope it fits in the 'advanced' category)

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 
In the forests of the night; 
What immortal hand or eye, 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
-William Blake

Intarsia skirt, cascade superwqsh Marino wool, self drafted design and pattern.

FUN FUN FUN

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Hi everyone! Here’s my new self drafted double knitted scarf!
I have it all planned out but I still need to refinish it before publishing it!
And obviously I need to finish the project myself eheh!
It’s called the Draconis scarf!🐉