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Finally remembered a Finished Object Friday! Here is the Green Man Tam I finished yesterday, probably my favourite thing I've ever knit so far.

Photos pre-blocking except for the first one which is on my plate and bowl setup I am using as a stand to try and block it.

Link to the Ravelry project page here:

Link to the pattern on Ravelry here:

The Green Man stares down at us enigmatically from the capitals and cornices of churches and public buildings across Europe and beyond. Lea

Check out the designer btw, she is amazing and has so many beautiful patterns! This one was so fun to knit and I am not even a huge colourwork fan.

#my knitting

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saintrobot

I finished my first ever felting project!! I love it. Can't wait to make more! The yarn is Fjallalopi from Ìstex and I can't say enough about how much I love this yarn. And it only took a week, which is much more satisfying than the month long projects I've been doing.

#knitting

unshedtearsblog

behold, the cause of my suffering for the past month

This hat has given me so much grief because I keep trying to read fanfics while I knit and then I make stupid mistakes. Honestly, if I wasn’t hoping to sell this I’d probably have given up around the fourth time I had to restart it. Really like how it turned out in the end tho, worth the effort.

#knitting

evvrythingisawesome

Oooooh it's gonna be SO PRETTY when it's dry ❤️❤️❤️❤️

#knitting #colourwork #inspiration

newrider

wamscoastsmoker

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

notsocialphobixanymorelmao-deac

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

wamscoastsmoker

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

pwhyxco

ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june

wamscoastsmoker

get spooky

tshifty

how does this appear every june

honeybeeavenue

@nooowestayandgetcaught

bardstardish

STOP BRINGING THIS BACK EVERY JUNE

marta-bee

… I’ve just queued this up for next June. Because reasons

afewbirds

EVERY JUNE

marta-bee

I nearly forgot this year, but all of you happening froods who reblogged last year’s post didn’t, so here we are.

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Reblog every time you see this post

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bookshelfdreams

Made a sweater :3

Yarn: woolen handspun, Corriedale (beloved <3), 3ply, about 550g total

This ticks off the 'use a technique you've previously attempted without success' (seamed sweater) and the 'try a pattern from a new to you designer' squares on the fibre craft bingo.

The fit could honestly be better but I think it will look a bit nicer once I wear it in. Or well. I hope it will.

Pattern: Margaret Beaufort by Alice Starmore.

#Knitting

bitchs0up

knit by me, not my design

#knitting

tiuhtaviuhta

We need to be talking about wearing PPE while doing textile work. You would never dream of stepping foot inside woodworking studio without goggles and ear protection when using the machines, yet I have never seen respirators or masks available in weaving studios or other textile workshops where we work with materials and machinery that kick up a lot of dust that ends up in our lungs. Allergies develop with prolonged exposure! Cotton lung is a thing!

I've been working mainly with linen for couple of years, unprotected, and every time I get an illness the after-flu cough sticks around a little longer. After a long day of weaving I can feel the itch in my throat that lasts days. Please can we normalise protecting ourselves from long-term exposure to textile dust🙏

battlestar-gasmacktica

“At about this time, observers remembered the weavers’ habit of sucking the thread end through the shuttle and realized that by contaminating a number of shuttles, a single tuberculous weaver could infect a whole weave room.”

https://historicipswich.net/2025/11/23/kiss-of-death/

The weaver, after loading thread into a shuttle, drew the loose end through the hole with her breath. No one connected this habit with the o

cadmium-free

After Gillian Genser began using mussel shells in her work, she started to experience insomnia, vomiting, shaking, sweating and confusion.

She often spent 12 hours at a time in her studio, breathing in the mussel dust. "It would coat my arms. It would coat the piece. And even though I would try to sort of dust off in the venting system, when I would pull my hands out, I was loaded in the dust," she said. "And I would do, of course, what a child would do. I would wipe them all over my shirt and then just carry on."

#not knitting

daftpatience

this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this, which i have only tested at a small scale and not this final version exactly (where i have done such things as further widening the cheeks and finalizing the leg shapes.) i bestow it upon you nice folks now 👐

go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!

daftpatience

woah this got big!! and after another try i have another untested tweak for yall. this should help the weird pinchy side seams out. yey

calltainn

My first attempt! I made the pattern a bit smaller as I wanted it to be able to fit in a pocket, but then (accidentally but perhaps unavoidably) sewed it with a wider seam allowance than the resized pattern indicated, so the face is proportionally a bit too big and I lost some detail in the ear shape. I'm pleased with it though! It was fun to make something and to do some handsewing.

daftpatience

SOO CUTE AND TINIE 😭

chthonink

I tried this pattern a while back to try out some minky and I get no points for making the pattern well but looook at my boyyy

His name is Tofu. Thank you for sharing the pattern I will love him forever

rouge-wall-enthusiast

I made these kitties! They’re so fun to make and so sweet🥰🥰

#not knitting #sewing

eppujensen

An impressive pattern in these wool socks, and supposedly it's not very hard. Not sure I'd dare before some practice. Pattern by Tiina Kaarela, photo by Kristiina Kurronen; found via Kotona. (NB. Finnish only.)

#knitting #patterns

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mudsnipe

3 OF THEM… and reverse side cuz i don’t think ive shared what the back looks like. i just finished the first page of the chart!!!

#knitting

vinceaddams

"Stained glass" faille jacket by Freda Blackwood, 1970's or early 80's, via Kerry Taylor Auctions.

vinceaddams

There's more of them!!

morticiafattymshasabeard

Look under the cut, omg LOOK UNDER THE CUT.

*ahem* @gothiccharmschool would enjoy these immensely

#not knitting #sewing #inspiration

ancientknitter

finished and blocked !

overall an enjoyable and easy knit, I was playing yarn chicken in a very serious way. pattern is the ilana sweater, yarn is lamana como in 57 marmor. I really liked working with this yarn and def would use it again.

ihavethemangoes

As promised, MY VERY FIRST KNIT SWEATER!! I will still be redoing the bind off for the body because my mother has hips and the pattern designer clearly does not because for some reason there’s a row of just knit stitches and it’s the least stretchy thing ever.

I learned SO much including how to actually make a gauge swatch properly and knitting both sleeves at the same time. Also it fully grew like 2-3 inches after blocking which is great because I was so worried it was going to be too short.

I posted wips on Ravelry as well and was very entertained to see 4+ people who liked the colors my mother picked SO MUCH that they copied it.

#the colour choice is amazing #and I'm not particularly a fan of wearing blue #knitting

Finished knitting this beautiful hat! Pattern is Three Hares Tam by Cathy Dobson. I ended up felting it very lightly as it turned out slightly too big, this also greatly improved the texture for a hat, in my opinion.

The three hares motif is common in art and architecture and I recommend you read up on it as it is fascinating.

Yarn was YarnHome New Zealand fingering. Not the softest yarn, very rustic, but not usually a problem for me. I might line the sides of the hat with fabric in the future as I am a bit weird about hats though.

The three hares motif is an ancient symbol which has been used for centuries as an auspicious talisman. It is characterised by the hares ea

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interlockingpatches

Some animal squares (all the patterns in here somewhere)

#not knitting #crochet

invisible-goats

Knitters

ktbl, throw

ktbl, pick

ktfl, throw

ktfl, pick

(eggman voice) what are you FUCKING talking about?

Voting ended onFeb 10

epersonae

Per @frommybookbook

Also knitting thru the back loop WILL fuck up your gauge!

pusheenthenerdcat

some styles of knitting from other places in the world have different stitch mount so additionally this advice may be backwards depending on who you learnt to knit from and thats not confusing at all yes siree.

just make sure the stitches are V shaped not Y shaped

("who cares if its twisted?" you when your thing doesnt fit because twisted stitches dont stretch right)

invisible-goats

I knit through the back and have never had an issue with twisted stitches or it messing up my gauge. best guess is since i cast on like that it's what the fabric's set up for?

the-fibre-stuff

I think you might be defining "through the back loop" differently, because I thought that you pretty much always needed to work through the front loop. The different ways of putting your needle in regionally are because of stitch mount. (i.e. the motion to go through the front of the stitch looks the same as going through the back of the stitch for other knitters).

invisible-goats

Ok now I'm confused. What I do (left) vs what I've seen people do (right)

mirielvairenen

I think if you always knit through the back loop (which I do), you’re fine in the round, but if you go to purl, you also need to purl through the front loop to avoid twisted stitches. I still have to make a conscious effort to purl through the front loop (I guess back loop is default?) but you may not have noticed!

trainsandpains

No, whether you need to knit through the front of back loop depends on which way you wrap your yarn. If you're always knitting through the back loop while wrapping the yarn anticlockwise you are twisting your stitches. And it sounds like you're twisting your purls, because unless you wrap your yarn around differently for knits and purls (as in combination knitting), you purl and knit through the same loop.

The best way I can explain it is that you don't knit through the front or back loop, you knit (and purl) through the leg of the stitch closest to the side of your needles. This could be either the front or the back (closest or furthest away from you) depending on which way you're wrapping your yarn, but as long as it's the leg closest to the tip of the needles you're fine. This is important to understand also because if you drop stitches and pick them up, or tink back stitches, often they might not be the same way around on your needles, so you need to knit/purl through the leg closest to the tip of your needles for untwisted stitches no matter which leg that is.

This is why in western knitting you ssk for a left leaning decrease. Slipping the stitches (knitwise) reorients them, meaning when you knit through the back loop to make a left leaning decrease, you'll be knitting them untwisted as the back loop will now be closer to the tips of the needles. If you're knitting eastern style you will need to slip slip when decreasing through the front loop for right leaning decreases. Decreasing through the front loop (closest to you) makes a right leaning decrease, and through the back loop (furthest away from you) it makes a left leaning decrease. If you want your stitches to be untwisted you need to reorient them until the loop you will be decreasing through is also the one closest to the tips of the needles.

Here is a handy diagram I just drew:

It helps if you pull on your knitting downwards to stretch it out and pull on the yarn towards your right. This helps you see how your stitches are oriented. You need to remember to knit/purl in a way that will open up the stitch.

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