Yep! Just choose needles that give you a loose, drapey gague. Lace knitters do this a lot, sometimes if you browse projects on Ravelry you can see what needle sizes people chose for different weights. I tend to knit fingering weight with US 6 or 7 for lace, and worsted with, say, US 10 - I haven't actually worked with sport weight yet.
Coworker just gifted me a whole and entire spinning wheel. The tension spring is missing, the tension knob doesn't fit (I think it's an older wheel and the last owner tried to replace the missing knob with a new style knob. Not sure where I'm going to get the old style) and one of the flyer bearings is busted but free spinning wheel!!
I'm desperate for advice on two at a time sock knitting—does anyone have any advice? I have two videos and another article pulled up but it's a fairly dizzying amount of "no THIS is the best way" to go through...any basic steps/suggestions I can start with? ETA: also my audio processing right now is....not great, and the article is super "image with minimal context" heavy
sorry, i've never tried it, as it looks like the kind of thing that needs to be done at a table and not near cats. :P
my goal is to learn it pre-cats so when we eventually get that kitty I'll still be able to churn out socks...but yeah I'm gonna start with a standard sock pattern because Dear God
Blanket! After I bought registry gifts for an upcoming wedding, I was feeling vague silly guilt over 'bluh bluh you should have spent more' and then I remembered that once upon a time I tried to give my close friends something handmade too when they got married, and suddenly, crochet. I bought the yarn for one pattern, started it, hated it (at least with that yarn) and went looking for something interesting to try. The wedding looms and my spoons are erratic, so I wanted something that was a single piece and found the virus blanket tutorial video. I had bulky yarn and was working with variegated colors instead of hard color changes, but I gave it a go, and it worked out well! 2000 yards got me a little smaller than I'd prefer (4'x4') but I'm out of yarn and so is the store, and that's still a decent lap blanket size Spoiler: large, I assume
I think I am getting the hang of this lace pattern. My needles should prob be bigger but I got too confused when I tried that, with everything so open and loose, so smaller and clearer stitches for now it is! I’m working through these for now: https://kcguild.org.uk/sharing-knowledge/lace-knitting/lace-knitting-beginners/ This one is open stole.
I did a ton of little cthulhu amigurumis in college and still have a few sprinkled around my guest room, plus this is a REAL easy pattern and I still have everything but wings memorized, so! I'm going to a first birthday party tomorrow and have board books for the birthday girl, but also this. It's less for her, more for how her parents and I have played several lovecraft board games together, so hopefully they'll get a laugh out of it and I get to lovecraft up the baby's room ever so slightly Spoiler
We have a Cthulu like that a friend made for us! He lives on the game disc stack, lurking at the living room. My sis crocheted him a Christmas hat so he can be festive at the right time of year.
SHE LIIIIIVES! Getting a feel for the thread thickness as I'm drafting is definitely a learning curve compared to spinning on a drop spindle. I know your first is always kind of wonky but hopefully the twist will balance out once I ply it. Now I feel guilty about the half spun pretty starburst colored roving I have sitting on one of my drop spindles, so I'm going to go finish that before I get back to this.
DONE! (with one arm) Also I know how to bind off now. (Pls ignore that the stitches suddenly get tighter halfway down; I refuse to go back and redo it.)
I've been trying to focus on just the one spinning project lately (I've been stressed out by how many fiber wips I have in general) and it's going okay - I just started my third spindleful, I've got a really good rhythm going, and I'm about halfway through the fiber But while doing bedtime spinning, I was really craving something different, so I pulled another spin down from the top of the shelf - a pound of natural grey Finn I'd been spinning from the fold onto my Christmas-gift spindle. It doesn't look as polished, but something about spinning from the fold was apparently just what my brain needed tonight!
that first spindle is SO COOL, i don't even do spindle since i got a wheel but gdi i want one. i never got the hang of spinning from the fold. i understand you gotta if you want fluffy worsted but i could never quite do it.
It's my favorite spindle! It comes with different silicone-bead weights (the white orbs in the whorl) that go in the 3-D printed whorl, which is mounted on a carbon-fiber shaft. This thing is nigh indestructible and unbelievably versatile, and flicks like a dream. I bought it on Etsy here. As for spinning from the fold... I'm not really any good at it, but it's ridiculously fun for some reason. The method I'm using I learned from the video below - I only have drop spindles so far, although I'm saving for a wheel.
my problem is with my grip on the fiber, i can't control my drafting speed when i hold it like that. i tend to let the clinginess of the fiber control the draw speed, if that makes any sense. with a fold, it's all loose, and i either lose the whole wad and make a monstrous nep, or hold it too tight and it gets disconnected from the thread.
