Loom knit star.
It's basically 5 time a sock heel, using 8 pegs and german short rows. Two additional rows on the shortest length (2 legs) to make it more pointy. I think I did the decreases right but I'm not sure I did the increases right.
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Yesterday I bought the Mini Socks pattern by Faye Kennington. It's for a little toe-up stocking tree ornament.
The toe increases are backward loop cast-ons. I've never knit socks before. Is that normal? I've never seen a cast-on as an increase in the middle of a pattern (as opposed to at an edge).
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2023 Craft Roundup
4 Weird Blankets
7 Silly Little Jumpers
12 Christmas stockings
14 Christmas ornaments
2 sets of bunting
1 pair of mittens
1 amigurumi octopus.
I’m also about a third of the way through another blanket and 50% of the way through a large cross stitch piece. Number Three Son’s fair isle jumper is just waiting on seams and a collar, and the list of ornaments continues apace.
For 2024 I am aiming to only knit jumpers for my boys, everyone else will get lap blankets for their birthday gifts this year. I would also like to get in some knitting for myself as it’s been a while since I kept anything I made. If I think the time allows I might try for a few more bunting sets for the Mother’s Day raffle hampers but we shall see.
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my mum is making personalised tiny sweaters!!!
get one here!
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I love your bat and want to make one. Help?
hi! I don’t have a pattern because I was simply winging it and hoping it would turn out well, but essentially what I did was knit a sphere without closing it off and then knit the same sphere with more stockinette rows in the middle to make it into an oblong, and then the ears are just wrap + turn knit/wrap + turn purl short rows over 7 stitches. I know there are a ton of free knitted ball patterns out there on the internet, and any of those should work perfectly fine to make the head + body! and of course the wings are just felt cutouts
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No posts doesn’t mean I’m not still working! I'm sewing several more Twelve Days Ornaments for my mother and grandmother, the french hen pieces are pictured here. You can see last year's turtle dove here.
I'm also knitting a Meadowland Baby Blanket for my dear friend who is due in February. You can see my Ravelry page with my notes here.
It's been nice to have two projects to go between, one for desk work and one for chilling on the couch
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I knit this little mini sweater to put on my tree. (I knit the blue ornament last year)
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christmas ornaments for 2023!
freehand (tiny!) raglan sweater, surface crochet, hot glued felt applique
mostly acrylic yarn, plus some scrap wool
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I'm thinking of using Christmas as an excuse to learn how to knit socks by knitting little tiny stocking ornaments like these:
The problem with the pattern above is that it's a "choose your own heel" pattern, which is not appropriate for a beginner like me: I want every step spelled out. Hit me up with your favourite short-row mini-sock patterns, the tinier and the easier the better.
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I went to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival yesterday (it was raining and VERY muddy). I came home with all this, plus 3 tomato plants, 8 cotton plants, and 2 nasturiums.
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