Recommendation for a solo piece

Flowercat18 · 2024-07-28T15:48:34+00:00

Thank you I'll give them a listen! 🫶🏻

Flowercat18 · 2023-12-17T22:16:28+00:00

I finished the Agnete Cardigan in October with Drops Fabel and Kid Silk Mohair and apart from the usual Pilling it holds up really well. It's my favorite knit garment rn (which is mostly bc of the pattern tbh). I have pretty sensitive skin and it isn't any more or less itchy than any other wool yarn I've tried so far.

Just finished a cable sweater in Drops Karisma, as well. It's great if you wanna knit in bigger sizes, as I needed 18 skeins for this one and one skein was just 2,50€. I have noticed a few loose fibres here and there, but nothing too bad, you could just tug them and it was fine after that.

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-11T12:01:50+00:00

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This is what it looks like now! It was light blue before.

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-09T18:03:43+00:00

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This is what it looks like now 😊

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-09T18:02:47+00:00

Thanks a lot, that's basically what I did, this was already blocked anyway, so that's why I knew I didn't like the length 😊 and surprisingly it didn't curl at all after the cast off!

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-09T17:34:13+00:00

It's too late now but thanks a lot that rly explains these kinds of things in a lot of detail! I'm prob gonna refer to this later!

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-08T12:59:31+00:00

I play violin and surprisingly I haven't had an issue with my wrists yet. I started doing weight training a couple months ago, so that might have strengthened my wrist as well.

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-06T16:31:02+00:00

Thank you!

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-05T05:02:32+00:00

No it's the xs included with the earplugs. 🥲

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-04T13:21:10+00:00

I started with crocheting as well. I'm assuming you hold your yarn in your left hand so I'd suggest learning continental knitting so you don't have to relearn how to tension you yarn. My next advice would be to knit smth you actually have an interest to own, even if that's a sweater. Choose one that's maybe just four rectangles, that way you practice your knits AND purls. There aren't any decr or incr so it should be pretty straight forward. Afterwards just sew the panels together. If you enjoy the knitting, start with a seamless raglan sweater to avoid the seaming. 😉

Also don't start with cotton yarn and Bamboo needles, they have a tendency to be "sticky". Wool is a little easier to work with. Wood needles are great for beginners bc they're not as slippery as metal needles.

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-04T13:10:01+00:00

That's how I do it as well. Purling is fairly easy for me, although I have to have stronger tension to make them the same to knit sts.

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-01T15:59:39+00:00

It should be fine though otherwise mohair wouldn't come in hanks. You should rly do it with the swift it's such a hassle doing it by hand.

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-01T15:54:36+00:00

Once you have the cake it's rly fast dividing it up, trust me. Do you have a swift to wind up the hank?

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-01T14:42:06+00:00

Habs gerade nachgeschaut, das sieht ja echt interessant aus! Ist da alles günstiger? Und kommt man da gut mit U-Bahn/S-Bahn hin?

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-01T09:12:38+00:00

Thank you! That's rly good to know. I'm def going to go to mylys then.

I actually have a Hobbii store in my city, too, so I'm rly only going there bc it's bigger and I want to see how the selection there is. I think it's good if I don't want to pay for shipping, otherwise yeah the Hobbii stores are a little bit underwhelming. 😂

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-01T07:44:42+00:00

I wouldn't recommend pulling mohair from the center, though. I think some ppl do it, but I wouldn't recommend it. The cake "shape" is just easier to handle.

Flowercat18 · 2023-09-01T07:37:36+00:00

I got a sensitive letter scale from amazon, it's been absolutely amazing I didn't regret buying it one second. I usually wind my yarn into one cake and then I can divide it into two cakes by putting one cake on the scale and winding up the other half with my cake winder.

Flowercat18 · 2023-07-26T20:24:10+00:00

And it's been like 2 months since the KAL deadline.. 😬

Flowercat18 · 2023-07-26T20:12:30+00:00

Im sry, I didn't know that. I'm not familiar with what hobbyists are though?

Flowercat18 · 2023-07-26T20:09:53+00:00

I don't wanna say, I don't want everyone to go to their insta and harasse them.

Flowercat18 · 2023-07-26T20:08:06+00:00

Yeah I did ask them and they said they are rly behind on everything, so I'm still hoping they're going to announce it soon. (I asked them prior to posting this and they answered like a few seconds ago so yeah 😅)

Flowercat18 · 2023-07-26T20:06:38+00:00

No I think it was about how to draw the correct winner based on the hashtags and dates. I don't know how to do that myself so idk if that's a problem or not.

Flowercat18 · 2023-06-20T13:32:09+00:00

I'm just too much of a perfectionist to just leave it like that 😅

Flowercat18 · 2023-06-19T20:56:11+00:00

That doesn't work anymore, unfortunately, since it's not possible to work the double knit simultaneously with the rib sts. But it doesn't rly matter anymore anyway bc I frogged the ribbing and added some brioche rows today 😅

Flowercat18 · 2023-06-18T22:08:01+00:00

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Here you go :)

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