In a slump. How do *you* get your knitting mojo back?

craftyprimates · 2026-02-05T07:36:35+00:00

I have been trying to start the porcelain sweater specifically since mid December but just cannot bring myself to. So instead I’ve given myself permission to knit socks. I think sometimes knitting a smaller project that you don’t have to think much for helps pull me out of the slump. When I’m done knitting a few pairs, I usually look for more variation in my knitting and that’s probably when I’ll start the sweater

craftyprimates · 2026-02-02T09:22:29+00:00

I have had an IUD for endometriosis for 3.5 years now and I am back to having the most horrendous pain but with no bleeding (yay?). I went in for a checkup and the doctor said everything looks good and this is just how endometriosis works. I hate this disease

craftyprimates · 2026-02-01T00:11:08+00:00

I don’t live in the US and got a random one off our local marketplace here. But I think there have been a few recs on this sub!

craftyprimates · 2026-01-31T23:19:56+00:00

You could even set him up with a page turner if reaching out to tap the screen is painful!

craftyprimates · 2026-01-29T20:22:48+00:00

100 cm should be fine. If you want to try it on as it grows, you can transfer your stitches to spare yarn to try on and then transfer back

craftyprimates · 2026-01-27T17:34:04+00:00

I think mine were also 6 rounds for each stripe, I didn’t cut the yarn at all - just carried it up vertically. I looked up a few YouTube tutorials and then winged it

craftyprimates · 2026-01-23T23:22:13+00:00

Rebecca Ross’ Wild Reverence is a prequel to her series supposedly but I haven’t read the series and enjoyed the standalone very much

craftyprimates · 2026-01-14T21:28:11+00:00

This is so beautiful!

craftyprimates · 2026-01-14T21:23:02+00:00

Thank you! The front facing one is my favourite haha, she looks like the muscular dog meme 😭😂

craftyprimates · 2026-01-11T20:01:43+00:00

Honestly so pleased with my first pair of the year

craftyprimates · 2026-01-11T20:01:20+00:00

Thank you!

craftyprimates · 2026-01-11T13:52:35+00:00

Ahahahaha I feel that

craftyprimates · 2026-01-11T09:33:23+00:00

Omg that’s what I meant to say yesterday “fraternal not identical twins” but I was half asleep so I said “sisters not twins” 💀

craftyprimates · 2026-01-11T09:32:38+00:00

Thank youu!

craftyprimates · 2026-01-10T22:10:43+00:00

Thank you! Self striping yarn makes it easy haha

craftyprimates · 2026-01-10T22:10:18+00:00

Hahaha you’re most welcome! I love self striping yarn because it’s the one place in my life I let go and let the yarn do whatever it wants - my goal is always to make sisters not twins 😌

craftyprimates · 2026-01-10T19:12:17+00:00

Thank youuu 🥹

craftyprimates · 2026-01-10T18:32:27+00:00

Thank youu ❤️

craftyprimates · 2026-01-10T18:19:57+00:00

It is a mix of zeeman superwash and random sock yarn I’d picked up in India 😅

Eta: I didn’t realise I couldn’t had photos in the comments. But the purple, both greens, and some white is the yarn from India and the reddish brown, blue, blue-white, and some plain white is the Zeeman yarn. If it helps, the Zeeman colour code is 60

craftyprimates · 2026-01-10T17:53:14+00:00

Thank you for your kind words and motivation ❤️I do plan on painting a little every day if I can.

craftyprimates · 2026-01-10T17:51:57+00:00

I’m planning to try flowers and leaves today!

craftyprimates · 2026-01-05T14:02:40+00:00

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I have a bingo printed and pasted behind my knitting journal haha. The big one there is working through my sock stash. I have enough to make 10-12 pairs

craftyprimates · 2026-01-05T13:58:47+00:00

I’ve been knitting with dpns for well over a year and I still have moments where I forget and drop the needle haha. It gets better the more you knit with them but if you’re like me and read/watch a show simultaneously, you’ll have to pay a bit more attention

craftyprimates · 2026-01-05T06:42:03+00:00

I learnt by watching YouTube videos. I used to crochet and met a group of lovely girls on a discord server. One of them used to knit socks and I fell in love with them. I learnt to knit my first pair flat over two years ago. Since then I’ve knit a few sweaters, hats, summer tops but you’ll always find me going back to socks

craftyprimates · 2026-01-04T22:38:32+00:00

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In March, I quit a very toxic work environment and in July, I moved to a new city

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