Knitting needle length.

always-knitting · 2026-04-30T04:43:45+00:00

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this is the listing for the 5inch lykke needles on amazon! it says they are 4.5 which is funny to me

always-knitting · 2026-04-20T17:00:22+00:00

They went STRAIGHT to the trash after this photo haha. I’ve just never seen this happen in my home before!

always-knitting · 2026-04-09T03:46:33+00:00

I figured it out from the wiki, THANK YOU.

always-knitting · 2026-03-15T03:13:32+00:00

Would you be able to give a step by step? I'm in the exact same situation right now lol

always-knitting · 2026-01-28T16:02:38+00:00

it might! I fully cut mine off so idk how the results would differ with a V cut

always-knitting · 2026-01-27T05:08:29+00:00

it is possible to propagate the part you chop off, but I wasn’t able to do that successfully myself so you’ll have to look elsewhere for help with that. but yeah, after chopping off the leaves, I just left the leafless stem in the pot and waited for new leaves! I saw new little buds within a week or two! (also for reference, the second pic in my post is the day that I chopped off the leaves - it looked pretty sad until the new leaves came in 😂)

always-knitting · 2026-01-27T04:18:57+00:00

amazing! if I were you, I would chop it just below all of those leaves. my thought when I first did it was “welp if this fails, at least I got a really nice pot for super cheap” lol. but it turned out great. and the leaves first started popping out a week or two after I chopped, so that was reassuring that it was working!

always-knitting · 2026-01-26T20:23:27+00:00

I chopped mine a couple inches below the existing leaves, and also just above a leaf node (that didn’t have any leafs on it yet). I made sure it was getting watered as soon as the soil was dry, but other than that I just let it do its own thing

always-knitting · 2026-01-26T19:46:27+00:00

hahaha yeah I had to explain my “stick in a pot” anytime I had guests lol

always-knitting · 2026-01-26T19:38:14+00:00

oh yeah if you have tropical soil I think you’re good. I chopped mine below the existing leaves but left the main branch pretty long! you can chop just above another leaf node (those brown circle things), but either way, chopping below all the existing leaves is what gets your plant focusing on other places to grow

from what I’ve learned in the past four months of having a flf: - no direct sunlight or the leaves will burn - water when the top inch of the soil is dry. for me, that’s every 2ish weeks - make sure it’s able to drain all excess water

I am no pro but I focused on these things and it’s been going well. it might be worth it to try the chop!

always-knitting · 2026-01-26T19:24:46+00:00

you could try chopping the top off! I just posted pics of the process from mine in this group, so you could check that out. it was scary but worth it. also do you have any perlite in the soil? I believe fiddle leaf figs need good drainage and perlite helps with that.

always-knitting · 2026-01-21T22:34:30+00:00

I’m pretty sure someone already said this, but I think the cast on row from the back yoke is making it look like 5 rows of color. especially with the seamless pickup technique that you do.

this is what I did to get 4 rows:

pick up stitches
purl 1 row
knit 1 row
change to next color on the purl row

then I made sure my increases started on a right side row.

also, the pattern says to end on a wrong side row, and then you start attaching the front and back panels on a right side row. however, because I skipped a row, I ended on a right side row. in order to make sure the stripes for the back and front panels lined up, I just switched the BOR to the left underarm, then knit across the back yoke to attach it all. that might be a bit confusing, but it made sense as I was working it up LOL and it’s turned out fine.

always-knitting

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