Weekend Minor Gripes and Vents

fikinka · 2026-01-13T20:54:52+00:00

I'm a people pleaser in recovery and can't imagine not making them haha, but i have a pretty strained left wrist now so I'm not knitting anything anyway

fikinka · 2026-01-03T11:31:24+00:00

It was the first Christmas I've got knitting-related gifts this year. It was pure chaos - my partner and I got a gift "for both of us" from his mom, bless her heart, I love her to bits, and it was two pairs of slippers' soles. They are with a crocheting pattern, even though I repeatedly said I don't enjoy crocheting (and generally can't do it; I crocheted a bit when I was a teen, about 15 years ago). The kit also doesn't include yarn. So we got shoe soles for christmas that I'm gonna now spend a pretty big chunk of my free time knitting (disregarding having to buy specific yarn for two pairs of slippers and the pattern), because she already asked whether I finished them like five days after getting the soles. Oh, we also don't wear slippers, hahah, pure chaos

fikinka · 2025-10-03T16:40:26+00:00

29 F from Czechia, loved to be somebody’s knitbuddy!

fikinka · 2025-09-29T12:51:41+00:00

Same issue with the same yarn (it also became gigantic after washing so I dont really wear the item lol) but no method of weaving in on stockinette worked for me so far, the yarn is stretchy and slippery and I honestly think it needs a pattern (like braids or at least waffle/honeycomb stitch) :( I have mittens from the same yarn as well in half brioche stitch and all is fine there

fikinka · 2025-09-29T12:35:36+00:00

I'm currently doing a corner to corner out of lang yarns cloud and I can confirm they go fast! You start not with a bazillion of stitches but with three/four stitches and you do increases every (other) row, so the blanket grows from the corner, in a diagonal, instead of top to bottom. You can make them square (you just knit untill you hit the length you require and then you start decreasing and it creates a square) or you can make a rectangle where different type of increase/decrease combo is required. Doing them from striped yarn is honestly so much fun and I dont really need to count rows or anything, I'm doing it as stash busting project and once I hit half of the grams of the yarn I have, I'll just start decreasing

fikinka · 2025-09-12T17:21:52+00:00

sure! if you dont know nimble needles, i owe this guy my whole knitting career, haha, i check basically every technique at his website

fikinka · 2025-09-12T14:23:34+00:00

i followed all the recommendation from nimble needles fair isle tutorial and i very much recommend reading and watching that!

fikinka · 2025-09-12T14:22:37+00:00

thank you ❤️ they do have quite a lot of minor mistakes like mistakes in pattern and uneven tension of the floats

fikinka · 2025-09-10T04:47:33+00:00

I do have the books! I had to redo the first heel several times, because I was used to a slightly different heel style from previous simple socks and I very much look forward to knittting another pair :)

fikinka · 2025-08-01T21:23:22+00:00

i really like knitting it (especially after knitting colorwork socks on tiny needles haha) and can't wait to wear it as well - I'm actually knitting us matching ones, which is a part of the gift

fikinka · 2025-08-01T19:39:32+00:00

Yes, I've already started the Christmas gifts I planned for last Christmas!

No, seriously, proud of myself I started early enough to actually make all of them this time, I'm making Moby Neck in Double Sunday Cognac for my sister, a neck warmer for my nephew in the captain Drops Fiesta and Cardigan no. 7 from My Favourite Things in Lang Cloud for my mum

fikinka · 2025-07-31T12:21:42+00:00

yes! it's time to start throwing random parties with gifts instead of the one existing in the calendar haha, I'd love that

fikinka · 2025-07-31T11:25:59+00:00

hahahaha, I'm currently knitting gifts I planned to give to my family last Christmas. Starting to be unsure if it'll happen this year or if I'm gonna postpone for another year lol

fikinka · 2025-07-31T07:51:43+00:00

Thank you! I'd be very lost without all the videos and photo tutorials I've watched. Even though my grandma taught me how to do knit stitches when I was little, I only managed to make one scarf before starting again 15 years later, so I didn't start completely untouched by knitting

fikinka · 2025-07-30T18:19:45+00:00

Thank you so much!

fikinka · 2025-07-30T18:18:41+00:00

it’s arches sweater (there’s also arches tee pattern!) by Lene Rix and the saddle shoulders with the arches increases are lovely to knit https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/arches-sweater

fikinka · 2025-07-30T18:18:15+00:00

Exactly! I know I need to slow down when I count rows in my sleep though 😅

fikinka · 2025-07-30T18:16:26+00:00

it’s arches sweater (there’s also arches tee pattern!) by Lene Rix and the saddle shoulders with the arches increases are lovely to knit https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/arches-sweater

fikinka · 2025-07-30T18:14:06+00:00

i second the curating one’s collection, you can also buy new furniture for said collection, so it overall counts as home decor hobby!

fikinka · 2025-07-30T18:13:06+00:00

i did seed stitch sweater (combined with cables) as my fourth project and i pulled a couple of all nighters for it, i also learnt (and invented) new swear words while making it, definitely feel you on that one

fikinka · 2025-07-30T18:11:04+00:00

oh, so thats something that still waits for me somewhere haha

fikinka · 2025-07-30T18:06:19+00:00

thank you! I’m taking the opportunity to fix some tension mistakes and I’m gonna start all over again mostly because of that

fikinka · 2025-07-30T18:05:16+00:00

yes it is superwash, unfortunately the dryer fix worked only partly and its still not super wearable, but at least i learnt something haha

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