// After a whole day of mattress stitch, I finally finished my Slytherin scarf…//
Pictures to come! :D (once it gets a bit sunnier. haha)
I will now be known as “that person with the too-long Slytherin scarf” at college. Bwaha.
Needles used: 3.25mm
A test swatch for a Loki scarf somehow became a knitted bracelet today because I wanted to pledge my allegiance to Loki because he’ll be taking over the world this May keep it.
It’s frooping amazing.
The pattern I used was a simple houndstooth chart I found off ravelry. I basically just knitted it and smacked a buttonhole near the end. xD If any of you are keen on horizontal buttonholes, here’s a nifty tutorial. :)
cecesaurus asked: Do you prefer knitting in the round with DPNs or with a circular needle?
Personally, I’ve never tried DPNs. I don’t trust myself with small bits at all. xD (thinks of the countless times I lost and found and lost my darning needle) So I have to say circs, they’re so amazingly versatile. I have two sets of circs for each size I buy them in, so I can knit very big in-the-round projects, very small in-the-round projects and even just knit straight on them. c: It’s a shame they’re a little on the pricey side. >w<
Pattern: Fingerstache |Pattern| |Ravelry|
Difficulty: Easy
Needles used: 3.25mm bamboo
I’m probably one of the very last to jump onto the moustache bandwagon (me being the incredibly outdated person I am xD). I knitted this up real quick the night before last and had a ball of a time rampaging around college the very next day “I moustache you a question!” “Indeed!” “Like a sir”
This was knitted with a provisional cast on and finished off with kitchener stitch, which was a first for me. Also, as I am still somewhat traumatised by the Merc’s Pride Scarf, I did this in fair-isle rather than intarsia. The floats went across quite a few stitches, but it’s a small project and multiple bobbins would just overcomplicate it. xD (I’ve included links to various video tutorials so you guys know what I’m talking about. >w<)
All in all, a quick, easy and rewarding project. :) I highly recommend it to all you aspiring sirs out there. haha
Until next time, cheerio!
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floe239 asked: Hey! Your blog is really interesting! I'm a beginning knitter and I know the "basic" stitch, if that's even what you call the stitch you first learn. I just wanted to know if you had any recommendations for stitches I should learn next since I'm a beginner.
Hi, I’m glad you like my knitting blog. ^^
If the “basic” stitch is the knit stitch, you’re about halfway there, actually. The world of knitting is made up of two entities: the “knit” and the “purl”. Any other stitch is just a variation of the two. :) (also, the purl is actually the opposite of a knit. If you purl all in a row, they look like knits on the other side)
By ‘variation’, I mean abbreviation stitches like “k2tog” (knit two together) and “skp” (slip one knitwise, knit the next one and pass the slipped stitch over) and etc. Usually in a pattern, they’ll tell you what these abbreviations mean, so I don’t find a need to memorise all of them. Anyway, even if it’s not explained in the pattern, or you’re not sure what it means exactly, just key in the stitch name into YouTube. Definitely, someone must’ve posted up a video of them making that stitch. :)
So yes, all you need is the “knit” and the “purl” and you’re set. :D
If you meant what sort of pattern stitches you should learn next, I’d say, stockinette (knit all in one row, purl all in one row, repeat), moss stitch (knit 1, purl 1 to the end, then purl when you see knits and knit when you see purls) and rib stitch (knit 1, purl 1, to the end, purl when you see purl and knit when you see knit). They’re the most common.
I hope I helped. ^^ Feel free to message me if you have any more questions.
Happy knitting. :)
Pattern: Crochet Origami Motif |Right-handed| |Left-handed|
Hook size: 4mm
Spent my Christmas learning how to crochet.
I was actually close to giving up because I just couldn’t get it. My tension was atrocious and pulling the loops through always ended up in the loop slipping off and the project unravelling. But yesterday, I tried left handed crochet.
This was the result. :)
Really easy and informative pattern-video. Highly recommended. I made this flower-thing without any crochet knowledge or history whatsoever, so even a potato could do it. lol
Don’t worry, guys. I’m still dominantly a knitter.
roerish asked: so im trying to make a baby blanket for one of my teachers and im having a real hard time just knitting that large amount of stitches. im supposed to cast on 130 and i keep messing up and having to start over on the 1 row of actual knitting. the most ive done before was like 40 and that was a pain. if you have anytips that would be very helpful :) thank you
How exactly did you mess up? I assume holes were forming and 130 stitches magically became 140 stitches? (that happened to me tons when I started out knitting)
Well, even if that wasn’t the problem, I’d say you should take it slow and pay attention to how you knit, step-by-step. (eg. needle goes through here, makes an ‘X’, yarn wrap counter-clockwise etc etc.) That really helped reduce my mistakes. Don’t worry too much if you think you’re going too slow. Best to get your foundation super strong, so you can knit really fast later on. =) Eventually, it becomes muscle-memory and some can even do it without looking. (I have yet to reach this stage. lollol)
Also, if it’s going far too slow and you’re afraid the baby will outgrow the blanket faster than the blanket’s being knit, you could always consider using thicker yarn and bigger needles?
I hope that helped and good luck on the blanket. ^^ Feel free to drop me an ask if you have any more questions. =D
// I think I might have to unravel my hat…//
This is what I get for trying to be smart and modifying the pattern.
30 Day Knitting Challenge
Day 11: Do you have a “Knitter Hero” or someone that is just way too awesome for their own good? Do share!
One of them would definitely be Eunny Jang. I came across a video of her explaining how to manage colourwork and almost immediately, she became one of my favourite online knitters.
Another Knitting Hero would be hands-down, elsteffo on YouTube. Eight years ago, I was only taught the knit stitch. Abbreviations like ”k2tog, psso, slk, yo” etc were like an alien language to me. While knitting my first lace project, elsteffo was the knitter that helped me out the most. Her video is clear, she is clear, she demonstrates well and I could understand what she was doing after the first playthrough.
// My knitting has been throwing off my sleeping patterns…//
On another note, I managed to edit my blog’s css. :D Everything is no longer in all-caps. Thank God… lol
Because everybody needs a little bit of stardust :)
