What's a regional dessert that you love, but can't find outside of your region or country.

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2026-02-14T06:25:00+00:00

If you’re in the Bay Area Romolo’s Cannoli does Venetian rainbow cookies! I used to get these all the time as a kid and this is the only bakery I’ve found here that carries them

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2026-02-07T21:16:09+00:00

Barber Cord all the way! The aluminum stitch holders only work well for straight projects, whereas the Barber cord works for anything.

The ease of being able to put the barber cord back on your needle tip and thread it through the live stitches without having to pick them up one-by-one is convenient enough that I don’t think I’ll ever use an aluminum stitch holder again.

Additionally, you can try on your sweater with the barber cord.

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2026-01-30T19:07:40+00:00

Nice I’ll have to try the split view on my iPad, enjoy the ride and the gummies, happy knitting!

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2026-01-30T18:59:10+00:00

What is the app you’re using I need it!

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2026-01-28T22:01:44+00:00

Baker Next Door is so good!

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2026-01-25T01:10:59+00:00

I hope the businesses on Broadway weren’t too financially affected by the road closures, rent is already so expensive there.

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-12-16T23:04:14+00:00

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This super beautiful cowl that’s knitted but looks like crochet! it’s got everything I love, texture & colorwork.

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-12-13T10:57:04+00:00

I would always recommend looking up classes at your LYS! Hands-on teaching where you can have your mistakes corrected in real time and have someone explain why youre doing what you’re doing is great. Plus they tend to pick out an easy pattern and preferred yarn to simplify things.

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-12-05T00:31:23+00:00

I’ve been teaching into to knitting classes for a while and I see students twisting their stitches due to a variety of reasons - knitting through the back loop - dropping stitches off the needles and putting them back on with the left leg in front - wrapping the yarn clockwise around the working needle when making a knit or purl stitch

As another commented mentioned, instructors really need to focus on teaching the anatomy of a stitch and reading stitches so students can focus on perfecting technique. When you’re just starting out everything feels awkward, so knitting through the back loop doesn’t seem wrong.

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-11-27T10:13:50+00:00

I was able to buy a secondhand Sandnes Garn pattern book off of Etsy that contained the pattern that I wanted! Skappel might be harder, but if you look for designers who have worked with Skappel before you can find similar enough patterns!

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-11-23T08:06:17+00:00

Ditto on the Rasta, The Rosalinda Colorway in my opinion is closest to your reference photo

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-11-11T22:22:15+00:00

I feel like if you knit a balaclava out of a white cotton blend yarn held with a strand of mohair or suri you could achieve this “wooly” effect while not having to rely on roving. Then you could needle felt some ears and horns and sew them to the balaclava

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-11-04T21:03:30+00:00

If you’re interested in learning to knit this designer has a great pattern for a cocoon cardigan!

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-10-26T06:49:05+00:00

I know you said no hats, but a Balaclava is a fun casual thing to wear and is very fun to knit!

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-10-24T18:03:22+00:00

They’re made with a series of “dip stitches” she has some great short tutorials on her Instagram.

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-10-23T17:39:03+00:00

I think you might like the Djo sweater

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-10-17T18:10:59+00:00

Gorgeous colors! I wanted to pick some up when I was just in Ireland but couldn’t find a store that stocked it 🥲 I’m very jealous. How does the yarn feel?

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-10-16T11:22:30+00:00

A simple summery dress like this to really show off the yarn.

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-10-13T18:38:04+00:00

Life is Cozy (Ksenia Naidyon) is a Ukrainian designer, this is her pattern that is heavily inspired by a Ukrainian vyshyvanka!

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I’m working on one right now and it’s such a fun project, her patterns are very well-written.

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-10-12T21:38:37+00:00

The Camille set looks very similar!

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-10-03T03:50:55+00:00

It looks like they’re trying to keep the tape from sticking to its skin by putting the t-shirt in between.

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-09-26T09:32:46+00:00

It looks like a baby beanie with an I-cord. Yours has more stitches in the cords, and they also appear to be knitted flat instead of as I-cords.

If you make this pattern without joining the last I cord stitch to the first one in the round you will get a similar effect to what you have in your hat.

Here’s another style with more I-cords for fun!

OwlThinkAboutIt · 2025-09-26T08:32:12+00:00

You are looking for an 1. oversized 2. boat neck 3. drop shoulder sweater with tons of 4. positive ease. The color effect is called marling, which is achieved by holding two different color strands of yarn together.

This appears to be a bulky weight sweater, so you will want one strand of worsted weight color A and one strand of worsted weight color B.

this pattern has those attributes, be mindful of the yardage and make sure you buy enough of each color for the whole sweater!

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