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icterid-rubus · 1 year

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Elve Slippers in Léttlopi. Honestly, I can’t believe a tube with a slit opening fit so well. I would have sworn these would pinch the backs of my ankles, but no, they’re a dream!

#knitblr #knit slippers #slipper knitting #52 weeks of socks #colorwork #stranded knitting #fair isle #léttlopi #lettlopi #my crafts

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miss-tea-eyed · 1 month

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i finally finished it, my first adult-size sweater. this has been a ongoing project since last summer. march is giving us a couple more chilly days rn, so i will have a chance to wear this before the weather warms up :)

#fiber crafts #knitting #sweater #fiber arts #lettlopi #slow fashion #wool

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toropiski · 1 year

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142. neule, kymmenen vuotta sitten ja Lett Lopista karhu... 💙 Paksu ja karhumainen koko - niin mikä... Ei oikeastaan paita, mutta kumminkin 😁🐑☕🐏 142. knit, ten years ago and the bear 🐻 of Lett Lopi... 💙 Chunky and bear like - whatever it is: not really a sweater, but anyway 😁🐑☕🐏 ....................................................... #knit365 #neule365 #knitwear #neuleet #lettlopi #bear #wool #villa#chunkyknit https://www.instagram.com/p/Coo02ersZGX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#knit365 #neule365 #knitwear #neuleet #lettlopi #bear #wool #villa #chunkyknit

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milkweedman · 8 months

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I hate being responsible in yarn stores. Unfair

#i only bought. one thing of yarn #which was some lettlopi for nalbinding #but then also some tiny stitch markers and some eucalyn finally #its probably for the best that nowhere sells wool for spinning too #that would be my downfall

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calligraphy-and-colour · 6 months

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Wovember Day 1: A Beginning

My first ever project knitted with wool was a lace dragon wings shawl. This one is made with Icelandic Lopi Einband which I love. The colour range is really good, and I love the way that the natural variation in the yarn comes through even after dyeing - it has a nice visual texture. A lot of yarns with completely even colour look a bit flat to me, although they might be better in designs with lots of colourwork. In designs with large blocks of colour, it's nice to have a bit of variation

#i have plans to use more Lopi in the future #there's a skirt pattern I'm wanting to make with Lettlopi soon #knitting #wool #wovember2023 #dragon shawls are my favourite

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harvest--sprite · 1 year

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Woodland Lopi Mitts by Waysofwoodfolk

#knitted myself some new mittens :-)#the yarn is studio donegal aran and lopi lettlopi #knitting

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foxcassius · 9 months

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i ordered da yarn

#i bought plotulopi to make matching shawls for jiwon's mom and i as well as a cardigan for his dad #and then lettlopi to make jiwon and i matching colorwork sweaters #i had to buy like 5 colors of lettlopi. but the sweaters are going to rule #they'll be mostly dark red with the colorwork in pine green + bright yellow + light light sky blue + some white #internet says plotulopi is almost as soft as nutiden and much stronger and a bit thicker #i might add a mohair or alpaca laceweight to jiwon's dad's sweater to get gauge and make it a bit softer #but i think i will do the shawls single stranded....since the end size of them doesn't matter as much #i will have to learn to knit MUCH looser over these next 5 months #plotulopi will just break if you knit too tight I Guess so i will start with jiwon's mom's shawl to get the hang of it #(i would start with my own shawl to make all the mistakes but i want to ensure his parents' stuff is ready before we go to the us in dec)#t

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mappsiemakesthings · 2 days

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Nålbinding Bottle Cozy

I finished a thing!

Yarn: Lettlopi, colourways 1705 (lambagras) and 0005 (hærusvartur) and Catania leftovers (probably 105, 208, 398) and Catania Color (233).

The body is nålbinding, no pattern.

The flowers are crochet, following patterns from RaffaMusaDesigns (they're super easy, just 2 rounds basically!).

The drawstrings I made with a lucet.

So like, a cross crafts project! ^_^

I love it and most importantly, kid 1 for whom this was made, loves it too ^_^

#nålbinding #mappsie nålbinds #crochet #mappsie crochets #started 2024 #finished 2024 #lucet #drawstring bag #bottle cozy

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makinguselessthings · 3 months

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Once upon a time I was going to knit myself some mittens. For reasons well ignored the mittens were far to large... so I switched up my game plan and made some leg warmers instead!

Knit these cuties up in Lettlopi wool. The color work pattern is from Alterknit by Andrea Rangel

#leg warmers #cute #knit wear #knitting #handmade #wool

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bdsmsub67 · 9 months

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#mens style #menswear #wool #wool sweater #men in jumpers #jumper #wool jumper #island #mens jumper #mens wool sweater #wool crewneck sweater #knitting #knitwear

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icterid-rubus · 6 months

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The Autumn League Pullover is finished! I first knit it years ago and absolutely hated the fit. Finally decided to attempt the pattern again with some new yarn and tailoring mods to pull it in a bit after the bust and around the waist. I cannot believe how much I love it already and I’m so excited for the snow to arrive. This is going to get a lot of use.

I really enjoyed working with Briggs and Little Tuffy, and regret not buying a suitcase full while in Canada. Luckily, it looks pretty spiffy when paired with Lettlopi.

#knitblr #my crafts #autumn league pullover #lettlopi #tuffy #Briggs and little #knit sweater #sweater knitting #knitting #it took my forever to figure out how to use the new camera lol

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miss-tea-eyed · 5 months

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I am in the home stretch with my sweater. I hope to have it done by New Year :)

#fiber crafts #knitting #sweater #wool #lettlopi #this yarn is from an icelandic company called Álafoss and this is the lettlopi variety

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toropiski · 1 year

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128. neule marjapuuronpunaista Lett Lopia - simppeli, resoria siellä täällä, raglan ja napit. Näissä basic malleissa yksittäisen viehätys perustuu usein väriin... 😏🐑🐏 128. knit of lingonberry porridge red Lett Lopi - simple, ribbing a bit here and there, raglan and buttons. In these basic models the charm of one piece often is based on colour... 😏🐑🐏 .......................................................... #knit365 #neule365 #knitwear #neuleet #lettlopi #marjapuuronpunainen #cardigan #villatakki #ribbing https://www.instagram.com/p/CoEyfzfsS0u/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#knit365 #neule365 #knitwear #neuleet #lettlopi #marjapuuronpunainen #cardigan #villatakki #ribbing

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ninalanfer · 1 year

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Last button sewed on and last end woven in! I can't be happier about this make. I knit it back and forth, no steek. And it actually turned out perfectly fine. As a bonus I can now comfortably throw with my left hand. Three colors over one round was definitely a challenge. But slow and steady wins the race. Pattern: Vintersol by @knit.love.wool Yarn: Lettlopi and Järbo 3-tr and some handspun. About 1k meters all in all. (most of it bought at @garnhyllan) Thanks @garnharvan (#ghdrömmenkal) for making me finally start this project! Ps. Hopefully one of these days I'll take some prettier project pictures... #knitting #knittersofinstagram #instaknit #knitblr #sweaterknitting #useyourhandspun #användhandspunnet #colorwork https://www.instagram.com/p/CqApNXnIMa9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#ghdrömmenkal #knitting #knittersofinstagram #instaknit #knitblr #sweaterknitting #useyourhandspun #användhandspunnet #colorwork

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xensilverquill · 1 year

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made a wall decoration i plan to frame at some point from a gift of Istex Lettlopi yarn i got from @the-scrappy-stinger! 🧶

mosaic crochet pattern by LacyLizbeth!

#crochet #knitting #crochetblr #craftblr #cottagecore

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moongothic · 8 months

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So here's a stupid ass project I probably shouldn't have done

So I had this leftover yarn from my mom that I didn't really know what to do with because of its color, until I realized I could maybe make a blanket out of it for my aunt as a Christmas present. Problem is that I didn't have enough yarn to make a blanket out of it.

Now I wasn't entirely sure what yarn it was but after some guessing I figured it might be Istex's Lettlopi yarn. But I wasn't sure. And I didn't want to risk buying any of that yarn for the blanket if I wasn't sure it was the right yarn.

And then I remembered that for a while now I had thought it could be fun for me to try to cross stitch/tuft(/punch needle without a needle punch) a moon plushie. But if I wanted to make that, I'd need yarn for it. So I figured I could buy one ball of white Lettlopi, to confirm if it was the same yarn my mom had left me with. If it was, I'd know I could buy more of it, and if it wasn't I'd still use it for the moon plush.

I was right, it was the same yarn! And while I could've just gone off and buy the yarn I'd need for the blanket, I figured I didn't want to do that yet (because I was still in Knitting Jail at the time and didn't want to start any LARGE projects). But I figured, I had the yarn, and I was sick and tired of knitting. So let's just go do plushie.

It was easier said than done

Started by just drawing a moon shape onto some paper that I could then draw twice onto my scrap cross stitch fabric. I did use some other (purple) yarn (that my cat had stolen, played and chewed on so it was gross, covered in dust and went into the bin) just to test the stitch I wanted to use for the plush before jumping into it

But I jumped into it, began doing simple X stitches (and soon after cut the fabric piece once I felt like it'd work out and could Commit To It)

And yeah, it was slow

Also, I realized I fucked up. See, while I did test the stitch before jumping into it, the yarn I used was indeed an entirely different one, much softer and squishier than the Lopi and possibly a smidge thinner too. So when I did my test, the Xs were very soft and bouncy

But with the Lopi, they were dense as fucking hell

And like. I told myself it'd be fine and to not worry about it, because by the time I realized it was a mistake I just thought it'd be more effort to try to undo my work and start all over.

But no, not restarting was the bigger mistake. But alas, I was stubborn and committed to doing it the way I originally wanted to, like a dumbass

And after many, many, many, many hours I did complete the first side of the moon

(I did leave the edges unstitched because I figured it'd help with sewing later on)

But with the first side done, it was time for the other side. Now full disclosure, I can't remember if this was my plan from the begining or if I decided to do this after the first side went so bad, but I did decide I wanted to try to kinda tuft the other ("front") side of the plush to make it squishier

I did a very small test of how it'd feel if I did lots of these loops on the fabric and I did like how it felt, so I just got to it

Once again, this was a mistake

Like it might not be very obvious from this photo, but the loops were actually REALLY DENSE. I didn't realize it when I did my TINY TINY test, but after doing this much I realized that because I did a loop in every single hole of the fabric, the loops were too close to each other. So the loops actually lost their squish and were forcing the fabric to curl so they could spread out slightly

But once again, I was a stubborn idiot, and thought it'd be more effort for me to restart than to just continue on. So I just continued on. Like a fool.

But eventually I did finish the second side too

(Just for funsies, here's how the reverse sides of the two pieces looked)

With that done though, I should attach the two moon pieces together by their inner curve. Now I'm no seamstress but I figured that I just put these two pieces together and showed stuffing inside, I'd end up with a slightly thick moon-shaped yarn pancake. Like it'd just be flat. And I wanted it to be more 3D, and to do that I'd have to add a third piece to the outer curve of the moon. And in my mind it felt like it'd be easier for me to figure out how big etc that piece would have to be once I had the inner curve like sewn together

So yeah, onto the sewing, starting with simply attaching the two pieces (inside out)

And I just used more Lopi to do the sewing by hand, figured it'd just blend in the best

Turned the thing inside out and here's how it was looking

Definitely a mess but surely it'd still be workable

Still I figured I should do the tips of the moon too before anything else, so I first trimmed the excess fabric from the tips (to make it easier to get a nice point when turning it inside out)

And I finished stitching the tips, adding the tufting (since I hadn't gone all the way to the edges yet), since it'd just get harder to do later

And while I was at it I also finished stitching the inner curve too, letting the tufting reach the backside

But with that done, it was time to finally do the final piece of the plushie, the part I'd hope would add like dimension to it

Only problem is that I did not know anything about sewing something like this, but you'll get to enjoy the results of my poor 3D imagining skills later

Anyway I figured that this part of the plush would end up being "the bottom" so it wouldn't ever really be visible, so I thought doing just a simple stitch would be good enough, no point in doing the loops. (Also didn't bother doing Xs, I had learned my lesson by this point and did not care)

Finished the stitching and cut the piece to size

I sewed the bottom piece to the front of the plushie, and filled out the empty part of the fabric with more loops since it was convenient to do it now

With it sewn on, the plushie was starting to get... 3D but also very wonky. This is when I realized I should've made that bottom piece much longer. But alas, it was too late for that. All I could do was pray that once the plushie was stuffed it'd look better

Speaking of stuffing

I have a fuck ton of upholstery foam for various reasons, and more importantly, a ton of small scrap pieces that I had hoarded for no good reason.

I figured, instead of buying some stuffing for the plush, I could just cut up those awkward tiny foam pieces and use that as stuffing instead- not like I had much else I could do with them anyways

This is not even all of foam pieces I ended up using, I just cut more and more as I crammed more in until the plush felt consistently filled

With the moon filled though, it was time to sew that hole shut

And to finish things off, do some stitching across the seam so you couldn't see the original fabric anymore

And boom, we have a wonky little moon plushie

Or as I like to call it, my fucked up little yarn croissant

It is misshapen and wonky as hell, holy fuck

Truly, I was not blessed with an understanding for sewing

Also, I regret doing the entire bottom piece in the simple stitch because it looks really strange when you look at the backside of the plushie, like, I should've done half of it with loops so it would've matched the front better

But it is what it is

Like, not gonna lie, I am really disappointed with how this turned out and regret most of my decisions with it, especially because of how fucking long this plushie actually took to make. Like, me taking multiple week long breaks aside, this genuinely took me from May to August to finish. (I just couldn't be bothered to post about it until now)

I know I shouldn't beat myself up about it, since it was my first plushie etc, you learn from your mistakes and I would genuinely be able to do a better job if I made another one. But it is still annoying

I don't know if it's good news or bad news though, but my cat has taken a great liking to this plushie. Like I kept it on my bed for a weeks as cute little decor until one morning I found it on the kitchen floor, and my cat has ever since tried to steal it so she could rip it to shreds. I even have to try to fix some loops she pulled out and clean dust off of it because because she dragged it around the house I literally have it hidden in my yarn cabinet to keep her from getting to it

Like it's cute she likes it but also that is a pure wool moon plush I spent multiple months painstakingly making one stitch at a time, I do not wish to have food crumbs on it Honey

#Moon posting #Yarncraft Diary #Moral of the story is that if I ever want to try needle punching ever again I should just buy a fucking punch needle #Doing it with a regular needle sucked ass alright #Though I don't think it'd be worth the effort + I'm always afraid of hairy things collecting dust...#Not helped by how Insta has been showing me this account of a person who makes toys out of felt #And they are extremely cute #I do not need another hobby jesus christ #But boy howdy are the felt plushies cute #And felt would be easy to work with since it doesn't fray #God damn

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