When's the best time to try your hand at pullovers of your very own design for the very first time, when it's the very first time you're knitting a pullover for an adult ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! I really want to make a cardigan for my dad (since the only thing I've ever made him was an extremely last minute day before Christmas simple ribbed hat and I had made my mom a sweater that I finished months in advance), but I can't find any patterns that really just stick out to me and that I could totally picture my dad wearing. I ( Read more... )

Okay, I have a lot of projects on the go right now, and I am focusing on finishing them before I start working on anything else, but in the meantime there is a shawl that I would like to have in my Rav queue for when I'm ready to start working on new stuff. The problem is, I can't find it anywhereThe shawl I am thinking of was designed by a man, ( Read more... )

I want to knit the DNA Scarf...only as a hat. My BIL is going to med school and he's not likely to wear a scarf, but would wear a hat. Anyways, I was looking through projects and saw this one and they said that they got the pattern from some one here on LJ ( Read more... )

A few recent FOs, a new pattern, and hand dyeing yarns! (:

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My boyfriend wanted a scarf, and we found the patterns for four Final Fantasy characters here: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=24547.0However, she knit hers flat, and with cabling. I chose to knit the entirety of the scarf on circulars and then duplicate stitch the images and blocks on. While time-consuming, this project was ( Read more... )

I finished knitting my first pair of socks!

Socks should be easy. And the pattern I picked out was. But then I kinda geeked out. First, I used a fingering yarn, 4 ply cotton/bamboo/nylon. Panda Cotton Print by Crystal Palace Yarns. Purchased at Depth of Field Yarn in Minneapolis.

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( My Gauntlet Pattern )