Knitting 🧶 (also crocheting and etc)

[froglet]

I’m not sure I’ve seen stranded colourwork with garter stitch, is it your own design or are you following a pattern?

If it’s a tea cosy there’s probably less need to catch ypur floats as it won’t be moved around much. Alternatively if it works maybe you could change the design to have a stitch of the other colour in the gaps?

[bunique]

Pattern but i think I was just over complicating it assuming I needed to sort the floats out. Now I’ve given up on doing that it’s going much better thanks for working me through my meltdown both!

[whiterussian]

@Cristaltips

It’s interesting that you’ve knit it separately - i have only ever knit lace edgings by turning sideways and applying as you knit. Knitting it the way you have may make it more stable, like a knit on button band on a cardigan.

For me it’s probably a lot easier to keep track of this way as well — I still end up going in the wrong direction or with the wrong amount of stitches every so often

But it is just 8 little rows over and over and over, so I’m definitely getting very comfortable with the technique, which is great. It was in the back of this book of baby knit patterns that I have, as one of several possible decorations to add to different sorts of things. Happy to post it of course if anyone else wants to try it, it’s much easier than I thought it would be.

Have also bought two other knitting pattern books which I’ll show you tomorrow, have already gone to bed now. They were both on sale and I’d had my eye on them so I basially had NO CHOICE. One month ago I owned zero knitting books, for reference.

[Isa]

I think I’m a lil bit confused by your description just because I’ve never really heard of colour work done with garter stitch. Got a link to the pattern?

[Isa]

I love knitting with bamboo, it’s so silky and has really nice stitch definition however it doesn’t have the elasticity of wool.
The other option is pure acrylic? https://www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/yarn/king-cole-party-glitz-4ply-all-colours this is nice and glitzy

[bunique]

I don’t know if it counts as colour work given it’s just very basic stripes. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/traditional-teacosy The pattern doesn’t actually say anything about the floats but when I was reading up on changing colours everywhere talked about securing them every few stitches so I thought I needed to. It seems to be working up fine without though I’m not entirely sure I’m handling the colour changes properly. I don’t even drink tea

[Cristaltips]

Those traditional tea cosies are literally the only example I can think of colourwork in garter stitch.

The kind of thing where you definitely need to catch floats is this https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/papa Because of the large number of stitches when you only use one colour. Probably far less float catching required on this traditional fair isle tank top because of the small pattern repeats https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fair-isle-vest-5

Does that make sense? A decent pattern will explain when you need to do it.

[bunique]

It does, thank you!

[whiterussian]

Back in the city and finally got more yarn for all of the things I have started and then had to wait to finish

[whiterussian]

Also this is one of those books I bought on sale

[Scout]

First thing I’ve crocheted (hope that’s allowed here)

Really love the colours for making it feel cosy in my living room (bonus points for it only taking a week when it probably would have been a month with my knitting speed)

[Isa]

That’s lovely!

[Isa]

I’ve offered to teach some knitting/crochet via zoom for people at work as a relaxation technique. I am already regretting it

[Scout]

Can anyone give me crochet help?

Basically doing a granny square for the first time but the pattern implies to keep going into the next space but the photos seem to skip a few stitches. Why can’t I see that in the pattern?!

Round 2…

What it should look like (The inner circle becomes like a cross)

When I followed instructions it just kept going consecutively making all those inner pinky areas one strip with no gaps splitting it into 4. Does a ‘space’ mean something more than I think it does?

Hate when the pattern isn’t on youtube.

@meowington you’re crochet queen…?

[meowington]

So you’ve got the first inner round done okay, right?

on those pink corners you’re chaining 3 up to step you up to the next level

then 2 x double crochet into the corner of the round below where you just did a chain 2 to make a corner of the green wool (blue circle)…then once you’ve double crocheted twice into that corner you chain 2 again to make the upper corner and then you do 3 x double crochet back into that same space you just double crocheted into…then chain 2 to get across to the next corner (where the white wool will sit in the next round) and same again…3 double crochet into the next corner, chain 2 to make the upper corner for the next round, then 3 double crochet back into that same corner

This might not help but may…chain up, 2 dc, chain across, 2 dc back into same gap.

[meowington]

so on the first round you’re double crocheting into the ring…the second round your double crocheting into the corners…then 3rd round you’re double crocheting into the corners then you’re double crocheting into the gap here where you just did a chain 2 to get across to the next corner

[Scout]

OH GOD, MY BRAIN

Thank you. I’ll get my head around this eventually!

[meowington]

lol
once you get it…ooh boy you’ll be churning them out! I don’t really do small squares, I just keep going bigger and bigger so it’s essentially one big square

I think I just think of it as when you’re crocheting into a “space” with granny squares, you’re basically just covering up the chains on the previous round

or you can do granny ripple - these colours!!

[Scout]

I think I didn’t understand that ch-space was the spaces created with ch stitch in the previous row and thought I just worked into any space. I get it now (I think)

[Scout]

Where did you get the visual pattern from? That’s really helped me but there isn’t one on the pattern I have