#fibercrafts

new project on the loom

Close-ups on a handspun, hand-knit infinity scarf I made recently! The wool fiber came in five 1oz colorways that I spun individually and then knit in stripes. Very autumnal. Very powerful.

i realised recently i never posted this guy finished. his name is Edward (effervescent) and i once edited him from discord emojis . he's been done for like a year

Not knitting nor crochet but a secret third thing

This silly idea turned out SO CUTE it's worth the fluff that now covers every inch of my bedroom floor :D

usual catalogue post to follow ^v^

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Beautiful reel that crossed my dash today. Credit to @applecreekmerinos on instagram.

Lovely caption. I wonder what the community note is?

I designed two different hexes, one honeycomb and one flower.

The most important criteria I set for myself with the design was that the blanket should be totally reversible, with no right or wrong side. Both types are knitted from the outside in, starting with a border of moss stitch and decorative yarn overs.

For the honeycomb hex, I made them reversible by using twisted rib. (Twisted because my untwisted rib always looks bad, for reasons I don't understand). The ribs pull together so the result is that on both sides, it's only really the knit stitches that are visible.

The most challenging part was figuring out how to make the decreases look neat from both sides. It involves a lot of reordering stitches on the needles so that the knits always end up on the front.

The flower hexes are my proudest achievement. I made them reversible using a combination of garter stitch for the background, and double knitting for the petals. Each complete flower hex shows a pink flower on one side and a white flower on the other side.

It's worked in alternating rows of pink and white. On white rows, only the white stitches are worked facing one direction, while the pink stitches are slipped on the other side. Then vice versa on pink rows.

The double knitting section on these was really unpleasant to work. The stitches feel weirdly tight because they're all bunched up together, but nothing you can do will actually loosen them, because they're not even part of the same strand of yarn?? Doing the decreases involved reordering entire groups of tiny tight stitches, almost every row had a new difficult thing to do.

Technical editor @cassolotl reported "the pattern is so horrible".

But I regret nothing. Because! reversible flowers!! I'm so proud of this design. I am going to write up the pattern to publish, and also possibly warn people against knitting it.