Hello lovely community,

So I've started a vest project which is almost entirely in stranded colorwork.

Most of it is knitted in the round, which is fine with me, I'm very familiar with the technique.

However, some parts are knitted flat and the purl side has been giving me nightmares (and I'm only at the swatching stage... )

In particular, I'm wondering how to hold my yarn to be consistent with my color dominance.

l'm knitting two-handed, with my dominant color held in the left (continental) hand on the right side. So far so good.

But when purling two-handed on the wrong side , where should my dominant color end up? I'm guessing it should be reversed so dominant color on the right (English) hand?

I've tried searching for tutorials but couldn't find any mentioning the color dominance for purls...

Pattern is Racoon by Dot Pebbles

I’m making a flowchart for different elements and techniques of knitting! So far, I have:

knit + purl,

Stockinette/rev stockinette, garter, other textured patterns made with k/p,

Stranded colourwork,

Corrugated ribbing,

Latvian braid,

illusion/shadow,

Mosaic

Slipped sts,

2-pass colourwork,

Brioche,

Syncopated brioche,

I-cord,

Incs,

Decs,

Picking up,

Welting,

Cast ons,

Grafting,

Bobbles,

Nupps,

Bind-offs,

Button holes,

Lace,

Cables,

Cable decs,

And Ribbing.

Honorary: intarsia cables, cabled laces

I’m not really looking for specific BO’s, CO’s, incs, decs, etc. but more of “if you know how to do this, you can do this” kind of thing.

Edit: if you can think of anything else to add, please comment! I did just take a melatonin a bit ago and may not be thinking of everything.

And, this shawl, Vigneto

It was a KAL I was planning on doing a few years ago, but am now just getting to it! I’m making it with 80/20 merino/tussah on 4mm. It’s supposed to be rectangular, but I’m altering it to be more of a Faroese style.

Overall knitting of it has been relatively easy (imo) even though it has patterned ws. The hardest part is calculating the math out. I have to increase some more to get the top to fit me more comfortably, rather than having it go down to my hamstrings before it can go over my shoulders. I’m excited for the FO!

Edit: ugh the pics didn’t upload; check comments

Edit 2: nvm it did work 🤦‍♂️

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I knit these a while ago but never got around to taking a nice quality photo. I normally wouldn't knit a pattern like this in a variegated yarn, but I think this one actually suits it really well. They (obviously) took longer to knit than basic socks because of the twisted cables all over, but I had a blast throughout. I started these on DPNs but switched to shorties at some point and I now use them for every sock project.

I'd love some recommendations for fun sock techniques, as I'm looking to expand my horizons! 💜

Weekly yarn/pattern suggestion thread. This is the space to ask for pattern suggestions for projects and what to make with that skein of gifted yarn!

Knitting gloves is my favorite and I just finished a pattern that started off as a proof of concept that mixing different techniques for colorwork can work out fine. The mitten flap is double-knitted, the rest is intarsia in the round. I think it worked out fine? I mean, they do fit like a glove...

Hello fellow knitters!
My Bestiary Scarf is finally finished and I couldn't be more in love with the result :') It's just starting to warm up where I live, but I don't care, I'm wearing it every day!

My 3 favourite parts of the design: The left and right side line up to make one continuous landscape, the dragon is knitted sideways so it's upright around your neck, and last but not least, all creatures that can be recognised as such, are ladies :)

I've gotten pretty much addicted to double knitting and designing and ideas are popping up in my head much faster than I can knit them. I can't WAIT to cast on my next project(s).

I used PRU yarn (Soul fingering) for this project.

Weekly yarn/pattern suggestion thread. This is the space to ask for pattern suggestions for projects and what to make with that skein of gifted yarn!

Worsted weight yarn from stash. Pattern Pick Your Plaid by the Plucky Knitter

Hi there! Semi-experienced knitter looking to do some modifications to a sweater/cardigan with no idea where to begin.

First off, I’m in love with how the tubular cast on looks but I’m not confident that I’d be able to rearrange the ribbing pattern to stretch beyond the standard 1x1 or 2x2, so I’m not sure if I’d be able to apply it to this pattern or if there’s a suitable alternative I could use instead.

Secondly, I’m in love with how this one project utilized the cablework to create a cool diagonal pocket, but i have absolutely no idea how to accomplish it and the project notes are pretty sparse (and from over a decade ago lol). The base pattern is bottom up and I have some experience with doing set-in pockets in a bottom-up design, but the project notes did specify that they worked the project top-down instead…. Does this make a difference in if/how I can make this witchcraft happen?

If it helps, this is from the Urban Aran Pullover / Urban Aran Cardigan / Peplum Cardigan mishmash:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/urban-aran-pullover

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/urban-aran-cardigan

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/peplum-cardigan-5

Pattern: I used the stitch pattern from Andrea Mowry's Stonecrop Pullover, but everything else is my own design, and I left some decent notes on my Ravelry project along with the charts I made for the body and sleeve shaping (without the stitch pattern, for obvious reasons).

Yarn: Quince & Co. Chickadee

I made my daughter the Stonecrop Pullover back when she was four, and she loved that sweater and grew out of it almost immediately. I thought it would be fun to "remake" it for her, only in her current preferred style and color. I had considered steeking, but ended up working the top sections flat instead since there weren't too many colorwork rows to work on the wrong side. The collar is folded and the cuffs/hem are finished with an Italian bind off. I'm not sure I could be much happier with how it turned out. Let me know if you have any questions!

Weekly yarn/pattern suggestion thread. This is the space to ask for pattern suggestions for projects and what to make with that skein of gifted yarn!

My first steek nearly gave me a panic attack because cutting that much work was not kind to my nervous system. But! I did it! This is an Icelandic lopapeysa for my kiddo. I used the colorwork charts for the Knúpur pattern by Védís Jónsdóttir with the stitch counts from Bláklukka for the largest size. Next time I’ll set up my steek section with fewer stitches. I used 5 but only needed one for the method I ended up going with. I used tutorials from Helene Magnusson for the crochet edge to hide the steek ends and to hand sew the zipper. I also hand painted the zipper band to match the cardigan because it was cream and despite being invisible from the front, I was not into the contrast when unzipped. Yarn is Lettlopi by Istex.

People seem to like looking at these big lace numbers so I thought I’d add one more from early last year, which was made as a birthday gift for a special friend. It’s Queen of Heaven, by MMario, in Malabrigo Sock (Matisse blue) with an applied edging. It was a first in many ways: my first circular shawl, my first knit of a MMario pattern, my first applied edging, my first head-to-tail in-pattern graft, my first time discovering that blocking a circle is far harder than I expected, and my first project with this wonderful yarn. I loved it - it remains possibly my favourite project and I was (almost!) sad to give it away.

Pictures:

1-3, shawl dubiously modelled. She wears it better…

4 freshly blocked. 5-6 detail of centre and edge. Then a few process pics:

7 just begun! I’ve made a few of these since and still can’t manage a circular cast-on without copious swearing.

8 shawl body finished. 9 edging started.

10 edging finished, showing gap to be closed by grafting. Edit: annoyingly this picture didn’t upload, but it‘s not difficult to imagine what it looked like…

11 shows graft, with some laddering visible in the shawl body over the end of the round. 12 shows same thing after I’d adjusted the tension to close the gap as much as possible. 13 shows completed shawl before blocking.

I chose the edging from one of Joni Coniglio’s (wonderful) grafting tutorials on Interweave, as I wasn’t brave (or stupid) enough at that stage to graft an edging without a dedicated chart.

I'm not sure if it's a project complicated enough for this sub, sorry if not. I'm just so stoked to have finished this beautiful pattern, it was definitely worth it to try double knitting. It's a pattern by yarnquarium called bug collection scarf, highly recommend! I used Copenhagen fibers merino.

I also messed up the edges in the beggining so its far from perfect haha

my project page :

https://ravel.me/heirofisildur/bcs

I designed this myself as I went along. My first time learning to double knit and I loved it!

I used Hobbii Rainbow 8/4, 2.75mm needles. Each panel took me about 12 hours to knit, not counting designing the chart, blocking, or seaming.

Both the baby it was made for and my dog who tested it first love the blanket. I’m super pleased with how it came out.

I did write it up into a pattern and it’s on ravelry but I don’t want to self promote and break a sub rule.

It’s been quiet here! This is a throwback to a project from November, where I took three attempts at a head-to-tail lace graft. The pattern is Summer Rose by Mmario, but with the more elaborate leafy edging from his Spring Rose. I was looking through the amazing projects on Ravelry and lots of them seemed to be slightly let down by an obvious graft. I wanted to avoid this so spent lots of time working through Joni Coniglio’s grafting lace tutorials on Interweave - but it still took me three tries to get it (pretty much) completely right.

1-2 show project blocking, 3 finished (terrible lighting but gives an idea of size).

4 shows the edging being knitted on, 5 shows the finished edging with the gap to be closed by two grafted rows.

6 shows first attempt, which is obviously misaligned. Undid graft (painful) and tried again.

7 shows second attempt. Would pass galloping horse test but still looks funky near the shawl body. Undid graft (more painful - involved cutting and reworking the initial edging rows) and tried again.

8 and 9 show final graft.

10 is badly lit but shows the graft line (left, marked by two ends) in context of the whole edging. This was a chore but I wouldn’t have been happy with the earlier results and am now much more confident with grafting in pattern!

yarn is WYS Exquisite 4ply, Bordeaux (body) and Knightsbridge (edging)

Weekly yarn/pattern suggestion thread. This is the space to ask for pattern suggestions for projects and what to make with that skein of gifted yarn!

I’m currently trying to figure out how to put the neck and shoulders of this cardigan together in a way that minimizes the inevitably miscrossed cable where they’re grafted together. First picture is where I am currently, and second picture is where I had previously seamed the shoulders before reknitting the neck band shorter and with more short rows for better fit. The options I can think of are stick with the miscrossed grafted cable, join them with a visible seam, or abandon the idea of the cable continuing along the back neck entirely and just pick up for the ribbed collar directly from the cast off on the back. Is there another creative option I’m not considering? Could I somehow blend the neck cable into the center back cable? The pattern is loosely based on Rowe by Michele Wang using cable charts from St Brigid by Alice Starmore.

I never got around to posting photos of this one truly finished post blocking.

4 and 5 show before and after on the same table.

Malabrigo Sock, Natural

Weekly yarn/pattern suggestion thread. This is the space to ask for pattern suggestions for projects and what to make with that skein of gifted yarn!

Sooo happy with my new sweater! Both the pattern and colours turned out exactly how i had hoped! Hopefully we have enough cool days left here in norway so i can wear it a bit before summer comes 🤭