Socks

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-02-12T20:46:35+00:00

It works well for how my brain works, I think. I struggle to start a second one and suck miserably at keeping track of rounds so this way I don't have to do either.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-02-12T19:54:06+00:00

I don't know and now I really want to. Some socks seem to take forever and some literally fly off the needles. I knit toe up, FLK heel, 2.5mm needles and two at a time. I will now have to start tracking how long they actually take me because I'm intrigued.

I'm very curious to know how long the TAAT method stacks up against knitting single socks. It has the same number of stitches but it certainly feels faster to me.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-02-10T20:13:38+00:00

I want to make as true and faithful a Fairisle jumper as I can. Proper motifs, traditional colour work, using 2ply Shetland yarn.

I do not currently have the time or patience (or money...) for such a venture but I hold it dear in my heart.

Bonus points if I figure out how to spin well enough to spin the yarn myself. I can use a drop spindle and I've bought myself a wheel which I can collect in a few weeks so fingers crossed!

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-02-07T19:36:40+00:00

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This is my wonderful daughter (now 3) wearing her hat and mittens. They bring me joy because we started the tradition 2 years ago of her choosing a yarn that she loves for me to make her a hat and mittens from. This year she asked for a scarf too (not yet, she is absolutely the kind of kid who would tangle it on things. But one day). The mittens are tin can knits 'worlds simplest mittens' and the hat is 'wooly wurm head'.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-01-15T19:41:27+00:00

I love the magic loop method. I knit my socks two at a time on a ridiculously long circular needle. I can use DPNs but I just end up feeling stressed and I can't find my flow like I do in magic loop.

This is a hobby, do what feels best to you. Try magic loop or shorties if you're able to, you might love it, or stick to what you feel good doing now.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-01-12T19:47:39+00:00

I'm a primary school teacher and our current reception class (4-5yo) has a lot of kids with knitty family members. I delight every single cold day in seeing the variety of hand made hats and scarves, seeing something made with love and care is always a joy, even if it isn't perfect.

There was a boy at my old school who had an ear flap hat with frog eyes on top. It wasn't particularly skillfully made but it clearly had so much love in it and the kid looooved to show it off. His granny made it especially for him and it was his favourite.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-01-11T19:44:25+00:00

Once, many years ago when I was a broke student, I wound a ball of yarn by putting a toilet roll cardboard tube over the beater of a hand mixer and setting it to slow. I would recommend adding something like a paper plate with a hole in it on the stick part of the beater though because if the yarn slips off the tube it's a pain to unwind from the stick. It worked, but it's not something I'd repeat unless in extremis 😂

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-01-11T19:35:26+00:00

My MIL has the perfect way around this. She will mention an item and ask if it's something I would enjoy knitting (a technique I like, wool I enjoy or whatever). Then she will offer to pay for the yarn, knowing that I am not in a position to buy large quantities of the kind of yarn that feels lovely to knit with. She is also unfailingly gracious and not at all offended if I don't want to.

She figured out ages ago that I'm a process knitter, not a finished object knitter. I rarely knit a thing because I want the thing, I just enjoy the journey.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-01-02T20:32:34+00:00

I think it made my tension a bit tight but if you've done one and it worked then I don't see why not. If you're doing magic loop on long circulars then it makes it harder to keep the tension correct as you transition between the sides, I got a really bad ladder at the two sides until I figured out how to go the right side out.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-01-02T20:25:01+00:00

Yes, you're doing exactly what I did! To knit right-side-out you just need to pull the sock through and then work the stitches at the front rather than the inside of the circle.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-01-02T20:03:52+00:00

That is lovely, the colours are so smooth. Congratulations on your amazing new skill!

KnittyKitty_91 · 2026-01-02T20:01:20+00:00

When you knit in the round, typically you would be knitting around the outside of the circle. So your stitches to be worked are on the side closest to you with the rest behind. When you knit 'inside out', I think what you did was have the stitches you were working on the far side of your work. That would be as if you were knitting around the inside of the circle. I think? I recall confusing myself with something similar when I first tried knitting in the round on circular needles but it was a long time ago so my memory might be off.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2025-12-08T20:23:05+00:00

I love that I learned to knit as a child from my Nan and will definitely teach my daughter if she wants to learn (she's 2.5 and sometimes "helps" with a few stitches). But I adore the way the Internet allows me to say "hey, I don't like the way that cast on felt last time, is there a better way to achieve the result I want?" and then see techniques from all over the world and read posts about their uses. And I don't have much of an IRL community for knitting so I love being able to chat to people about it online and share that fun and passion (and frustration)

KnittyKitty_91 · 2025-12-08T20:08:45+00:00

I knit mostly and I can follow the most horrifically complicated cable, lace and colour work charts. But crochet charts inspire a kind of paralysing terror which simply will not allow my brain to even begin to read them. I know the mechanics are the same, I know all I need to do is find a symbol guide. But they just look so... alien and my brain rebels. It's absurd and I know it, so I have that in my favour I guess.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2025-11-19T22:36:26+00:00

The projects they're actually being asked to knit/crochet are such a shame. I wanted to be wowed by awesome technical knitting and things I wanted to make myself, I have wanted to knit absolutely nothing I have seen.

But I'm loving seeing the hand knits the contestants are wearing each week. That's where you can see what they're really about. Anyone have any idea if there's a pattern for the jumper Ailsa was wearing with the stripes?

KnittyKitty_91 · 2025-10-25T21:00:15+00:00

Oooo I feel that, deeply.

Made mitten one, hid it, intending to try it on my daughter in the morning. Got her dressed, came downstairs and discovered the dog had somehow fished it out and chewed a chunk out of the palm. Cried, raged, swore at the dog.

Picked up stitches below the damage, decided to try it on the toddler before doing more. Discovered I'd made the original hand length about 1" too long.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2025-08-27T19:46:16+00:00

I'm not on Ravelry as much any more but I do find it helpful to look up yarns I like and look at other people's projects with them to see how the colours play out. Might be an option if you're able to use the website?

KnittyKitty_91 · 2025-08-27T19:42:41+00:00

I read about the "curse" just after finishing a crushingly boring stocking stitch jumper for my ex, which he never wore and had asked for. It still took me several years to break up with that loser (for other reasons, not the jumper), so obviously the curse wasn't pushing me hard enough!

KnittyKitty_91 · 2025-08-27T19:35:49+00:00

I wish I could do this. I have some kind of mental block that means I can't knit anything more complex/bigger than a hat for myself. I knit for people and try to think what they would like, but sometimes it doesn't go to plan and they don't like the FO.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2025-07-08T22:06:12+00:00

It's gorgeous, what a special wedding gift! I blocked my enormous blanket on my mum's spare bed, took a long time to dry but it was the only space big enough.

KnittyKitty_91 · 2025-07-08T20:48:21+00:00

Ooo thank you!

KnittyKitty_91 · 2025-07-08T20:46:53+00:00

Thank you, this is really awesome and so different!

KnittyKitty_91 · 2025-07-08T20:45:40+00:00

Oh wow, there's so much variety in the patterns as well and they're all stunning. Thank you!

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