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!

TLDR: how do I know when I can call myself an advanced knitter? I’m been crocheting and knitting for over 6 years consistently after learning as a child from my grandmother. Since picking it back up, I have made it a point to learn a new skill with every project and be open to new techniques. I’ve done socks, cables and started my first colorwork sweater a couple weeks ago but I don’t know at what point I can confidently call myself advanced. It’s also hard to gauge because I feel like either a lot of these new skills come pretty naturally or maybe the patterns I’m picking aren’t that complex? But idk just was thinking about this. Anyone else felt a similar way about their crafting?

I've called it my leprechaun beanie, because there's a leprachaun hidden among all the shamrocks. Roll on St. Patrick's Day!

Knit using Holstgarn Supersoft in clover leaf, pea green, almond, jasper and a little bit of burnt orange to give the details a pop.

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I am knitting Leif the Lucky by Sweet Paprika Designs. This is the second one. This innocuous hat with ear flaps looks easy, but has a few advanced techniques: provisional cast on, double knitting and those beautiful Latvian braids. There are four braids, each one with hundreds of stitches. Do any of you have any tips to manage the inevitable twisting of yarn? It makes me inS A N E by the time I am nearing the end of a round with that much twisting.

Hello everyone!

I’m currently sewing the ribbons in a cardigan to hide the steeks but I’m struggling with making the stitches straight and evenly spaced. How can I improve this with the little sewing experience I have?

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!

Hey everyone,

I've lately been venturing into self drafting patterns with good success. I made a sweater for my partner that fit really well, but masculine bodies are less complicated.

I am currently working on a sweater for myself, I am very busty with quite a narrow ribcage therefore I have a lot of volume at the front of my body compared to back and sides. I have been doing a lot of reading from both sewing and knitting resources. The solution I came to for a sweater knit bottom up in pieces with negative ease was to have 10% more of the stitches for my full chest circumference at the front compared to the back.

This means to get to my cross back measurement on the back piece I actually have to increase stitches. This gives me an armscye that is curved at the front but straight at the back. Does this seem like a good idea? This then poses a problem for drafting the cap as all the resources I have found are for symmetrical armscye as this is the convention in knitting.

I would really appreciate any advice or pointers to resources!

Thanks in advance

I feel inclined to start by saying this is not meant to be a gatekeepy post about what should or shouldn’t qualify as “advanced”, and would preferably like to keep it that way. Everyone will have different criteria and that’s a good thing! I’m curious about personal experiences and what made people feel like they’d leveled up!

Scrolling through this sub I thought to myself 15 years ago I probably would have felt like a fraud participating here. I’m sure feeling advanced happens more gradually over time for most people, it did for me too. But I started thinking about all the times I felt really proud or excited about some of the skills gained and projects completed along the way (I recommend doing this periodically anyway, it really improved my mood!).

I think for me it was discovering a mistake in a difficult lace sweater, and having the ability and confidence to attempt surgery on it, it really made me feel like I’d leveled up. It wasn’t even anything to do with actually being able to fix it, but the fact that I’d even considered it a good option and wanted to attempt it without worry made me realize I kind of do know what I’m doing! The ability to ladder down to fix mistakes more complicated than stockinette and garter without help was a big step up for me too, but did not lead to my knitting renaissance in the same way that lace sweater surgery did. I would love to hear others’ stories! Consider this a formal invitation to brag about yourself!!

I’m knitting a skirt for my kid and I ran out of yarn halfway. I’m thinking about fading in another yarn I have to finish it up.

I started with:

Loops & Threads Flecks 79% acrylic, 21% polyester

I want to fade in:

Cascade Heritage (held double) 75% Superwash Merino 25% Nylon

Not sure what I’m worried about exactly. I already machine washed the first yarn in cold, and it was fine. Going forward I’ll probably just hand wash anyway. The yarns clearly look different so I’m not worried about matching colors or anything. It’s for a kid’s garment that I’m whipping out in a few days so it’s not particularly precious or long lasting.

But somehow it feels wildly wrong! Is there actually a concern I’m forgetting here or do I need to get over my mental block?

Looking for input from more experienced knitters.

Why aren't there more sweater patterns done in brioche?

I've found lots in a fisherman's rib or half fisherman's rib, but not it straight knit brioche.

Am I missing some issue with brioche knit that makes it a problem for sweaters?

I completed my first ever stranded knit sweater! Based on some posts I read recently, I was worried this style might not fit well since I have broader shoulders, but after blocking it for great! I’m so happy I finally made a wearable I want to wear! I usually end up giving them away. The pattern is Goldwing by Jenn Steingass. The yarn is Berocco Ultra Alpaca (50% super fine alpaca/50% Peruvian wool).

this is the voyage sweater by wool & pine. I am at the wet block stage before the steek stage. it is a cardigan. So the unevenness right in the middle is where it will be steeked. It also has arm hole steeks. it's January here in Michigan. And a balmy 19° out. However, that is 30° warmer than it was three days ago. It is a sunny day and I do have two fans on this. Will it be steeked this weekend? I don't know. 🤞 now I'm gonna do something really basic like maybe some socks for the rest of the day lol.

Making my own design work 😊

Hello all my lovely crafters!

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Finished my first sweater of the year

So I spend a lot of time looking at vintage knitwear patterns and I have seen a good amount of times (mainly in 40s and 50s patterns) the mention of sewing darts. I'm not proficient at sewing so I've set aside some of these pattern for the future -- however, it just came to me that I could replace these with short rows and so I was wondering if anyone had experience with doing this or some suggestions on how to go about this? Here is a link (page) to the pattern I'm currently looking at (it's in French). The pattern tells you to sew a horizontal bust dart at the front with a depth of 1.5 cm and length of 11 cm.

My take on this would be to essentially do the same as what you'd do with a german short row heel. For the total number of short rows I would use the number of rows in the depth of the bust dart and adjust that number to be divisible by 4, so that the short rows are balanced. Then for the number of stitches I would increase/decrease each short row with, I would use the number of stitches in the length of the dart divided by 1/4 of the total number of short rows.

Does anyone think this would work out? Or am I missing a detail?

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Hi all, I need to pick up my 14 underarm stitches to continue the colorwork pattern (first time having colorwork below the yoke!) How do I pick them up in pattern? Do I need to pick them up using both colors of yarn in the right stitch spot? I think it sounds obvious now that I say it, but is that correct? Noomi cardigan by Sophie Ochera.

Morning r/advancedknitting, I wonder if you can help. I’ve been working on a modified Fossil Frenzy pullover (DK weight) on-and-off for a while. The floats are not my best work: they’re on the loose side and unevenly trapped. I’ve got about ten rows of the chart left so I’m reluctant to frog, especially as a small child is wildly overexcited to wear it.

I’m familiar with trapping floats on subsequent rows, as well as LBJ and STUART techniques. These are all done at some point during the actual knitting process. What I’m looking for is a method of trapping floats after the item is finished. I’m wondering if some brilliant mind has already come up with a way to do so, such as crocheting a chain over the floats at regular intervals.

In the past, I’ve used lightweight fusible interfacing to cover the back of stranded colourwork (another small child had a chronic picking habit). This worked really well so that’s my plan B. Thanks in advance for any tips! 💕

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!

so I just discovered this. proportion is correct. The part on the right side is incorrect. Of course this is the left side of the sweater. it's going to be very obvious once I steek it that one side is different from the other. Do you think I can just do a duplicate stitch with the correct colors? Honestly, I don't know how I managed to do this. but more importantly, how did I do it and not catch it? siiiigh. really don't want to drop down to fix this because of all of the other patterns. all advice welcome! TIA!

Just cheering myself on at each milestone making my niece’s christening shawl - and I’ve only spilled my pot of seed beads once (so far…)

Yarn is Lang Yarns Jawoll silk

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