Thanks! It was a lot of fun to work; I'll be sure to post any others of the proposed flock of eldritch angelic entities ^-^
Guys I super need help I REALLY REALLY REALLY like knitting mittens/gloves/etc but I have NO IDEA HOW TO SIZE and like...I could probably follow the standard guides of a pattern but !?!?!?!?!? What measurements do I need?? How do I work out how many stitches I need for each measurement?? oh, my gosh //flops over
IME trial & error & lots of frogging? There's probably a better way involving swatches and maths, though.
Yeah, swatching would be my suggestion, using your specific needles and yarn and stitch. Measure how many stitches/rows in X in^2 or cm^2 or whatever your preferred measurement is, then take measurements of your hand to determine how many stitches/rows/etc.
thank you SO MUCH are there any Definitive Measurements I need? I'm making them for someone whose hands are like 3x my size
The general sizes I see in glove instructions (... I almost said recipes, haha) is kind of what's shown in this diagram: You want to know the diameter of fingers, how long you want the fingers to be, the width of the palm (probably plus a little bit to account for the fact that it's a 3d shape), distance between fingers and thumb, and diameter of wrist. If someone more experienced with knitting than me wants to weigh in, that would be good too! I also really like this pattern, because it's very forgiving (as long as you're using the recommended weight yarn, and not worsted weight. I made that mistake once.) Whoops, I just realized I assumed you were making fingerless gloves! Well, in the case of regular, you'd want to also know the length of the fingers. And for mittens, hmm... They'd probably be about the same as palm width, but with a bit more shaping near the tip? I haven't made mittens before, so I'm not too sure about that.
Sewed some geckos onto a pair of jeans for mum's birthday! :) (I bought the flowers, but the geckos were entirely embroidered from scratch :3)
Finished a Bandana Cowl using a wool/alpaca blend, now i'm crocheting a hat with front post stitches, using Royal Alpaca :3 eeeeeee so soft, a good and worthwhile purchase. ive made this pattern before, and with this yarn last year, but i made the crown too big previously. No pic because i'm on my phone which apparently just makes images Huge
Greetings, fellow threadpeeps! I'm looking to get started with spinning, but it's very daunting. All these fibers and wheels and such. Could anyone help me sort out what I should be getting, good starting places, etc? For my own specs, I'm a knitter, so yarn that will be good to knit with is a must as a final product. I'm not adverse to putting in extra work to save money, so at least in theory I'm down to start from a raw fleece. And I'm likely going to be getting an angora rabbit or two relatively soon, for the express purpose of fiber (and snuggles!)
start with a relatively longhaired, crimpy wool like corriedale. it's fairly cheap and is sold for felting in lots of colors, so that's a good opportunity to experiment with blending and suchlike. longer fibers give you more space to work with before it starts pulling apart, and crimpy fibers hold together better. it's not a super soft wool, so the resulting yarn is best for outerwear or furnishings, but it's hard-wearing too. very good carpet and pillow wool. expect your first attempt to be completely unusable. you'll probably spin a full skein of lumpy, knotty barf before you get something you can knit with. that's fine! it's a small price to pay for a lifelong skill, and hey, you can ball it up for the core of needle-felting projects. once you've got the hang of making a relatively even yarn with the crimpy wool, practice plying. wind a center-pull ball and pull from both ends of the ball as you ply. the ball is a panicky little animal. controlling it is a whole nother skill. after that, move on to finer, shorter fibers if you like. angora rabbit is well down the list, the staple (fiber length) is less than an inch and it's slippery. absolutely do not start with it, you'll get nothing but a headache and a dent in your floor from dropping the spindle. silk 'hankies' are a good intermediate level project, the fiber is extremely fine and slippery but it's continuous, the hankies are made by stretching a whole cocoon over a frame, so it's not going to keep parting on you. good way to learn to spin laceweight. personally, i really enjoy spinning vast quantities of very dense, durable yarn for carpets and blankets; if you find yourself feeling the same, look into mill ends and surplus fleece and rovings, which are very cheap, get good at dyeing, and learn to navajo-ply. instead of plying a two-strand from the end of the ball, you ply a three-strand by making continuous loops in your single. it's tricky, but makes a super durable yarn -- like you use in navajo rugs, funnily enough! -- and allows you to do long color changes simply by mixing your wools rather than having to dye a long piece of yarn. most of all, have fun! screwing up is part of the process!
*enable enable enable* it IS fun, you can keep your hands busy while watching cartoons, get fluffs all over everything, and make yarns!
I just got some roving and a drop spindle at the ren fair last weekend, so I'm going to try! :D Carpets and blankets are totally my bag. I'm valiantly resisting the urge to make a loom.
hey, if you get into navajo style, you don't even need a loom, just two broomsticks and a bit of rope!
i mean you want some way to hold those bars in place but you could use a doorframe, porch railing, whatever. you essentially sew your warp onto two poles, then tension those two poles by attaching them with rope to something rigid. for a small project, you could attach one end to a doorknob and the other to your waist.
Spoiler: BIRDS I am making fat crocheted birds. The big chicken needs wings and feet, but these are three I am making for my grandma! :3
