thegiddystitcher

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(Please excuse the fuzz and pilling, these are OLD)

Ok these are definitely not the most "impressive" cabling project I've done, but they are by far the most special to me so I'm going with them for cables month! A few reasons I love them so:

  • I won this yarn in a knitting group on Google+ (RIP), about a month after I'd started knitting in 2013. It was my first ever fancy yarn and I was so incredibly excited!

  • Because I was such a new knitter, these gloves were my first ever cables, and also my first time using DPNs. Felt like too many extra hands, I still don't like DPNs to this day!

  • And because I like to jump in at the deep end, when one of them went wrong I decided to drop stitches down and figure out how to rebuild the cables as I picked the stitches back up. Worked pretty flawlessly and I was SO proud of myself!

  • Last but not least, they always remind me of a friend who sadly passed away a year or so later. She helped me a lot with my first few projects, shoutout to Bernie ❤

Pattern is Roundabout Fingerless Gloves, and here's a bonus pic of the other side where the left one is looking weirdly baggy but I swear they do actually fit irl 😄

 

Started a shawl in late January, and it needs to be finished by July. Which, for most people I'm sure that's nothing but I am a very slow knitter, really!

The pattern is lacy and complicated and mistakes will be really visible, so it's no good to work on while watching TV or doing anything else and I'd just not been putting time aside to properly concentrate on it.

The solution: A spreadsheet to keep track of how far behind I am, and a graph so I can watch myself (hopefully) catch up.

There are very few problems in life that can't at least be a bit improved with a spreadsheet, and I reckon that applies to knitting just the same 🤓

 

It’s somehow been three months since @[email protected] and I agreed to take over moderation of this community, and we’ve not really had to do anything other than keep an eye out for reports. It’s not exactly been a taxing job, so firstly thank you stitchers for being so undramatic!

But that all happened while I was still super ill and to be honest most of November and December is like a weird fever dream. So I kind of did not do the one thing I said I’d do at the time: post some prospective community rules.

Basically what I’m thinking is we want to have something written down that we can point to just on the off-chance of misbehaviour, but at the same time we don’t need anything draconian or super specific while we’re so small.

Since I’ve already been through this process with [email protected] and there are even quite a lot of people here who are in there too, I think it makes sense to maybe start off with similar rules to the ones the knitters agreed and then diverge if we need to.

Main concerns over there were:

  • encouraging people to add pattern info to their posts and
  • making sure we have a rule in place to allow removal of ads

On that second point, it was generally agreed that active members of the community should be free to advertise their shops and products in context, but a complete stranger barging in to post a straight-up ad and then leave should be removed. Basically kind of vibe-based, depending on if you look like a spammer or not, which works fine for a small community tbh.

I’d love to hear from community members on this. Are you ok just following the template from /c/knitting for now? Is there something more specific to us you’d also like to see included in the official rules? Or do you maybe disagree with one of those two things above and want us to rethink?

Input very much welcome, thank you!

And for a bit more of a fun thing, we have a random community banner and icon that I guess the original owner just googled on the day and never thought about again. In /c/knitting I made a banner featuring some recent FOs that had been posted by the most active members, and that was pretty popular.

I’d be happy to knock up something similar for here, but also want to throw it open in case anyone else would like to give banner design a go! Maybe we’ll say if nobody else comes up with something by the end of March I’ll go full collage mode with our FOs, that gives time for a few entries if you fancy it?

We'll also need an icon and I did not make the knitting one so am officially looking for ideas of what we could use. Actual images, vague concepts, all assistance welcome!

Thank you for bearing with this wall of text. Now get back to stitching!

 

Everything about this is wrong in every way.

Shame on you, Sainsbury's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thinly cut chips. Fat chips. Crisps.

 

Current theme: 🧶 CABLES 🧶

If there's one design feature that is quintessentially knitting, it's got to be cables! Chonky ones, intricate ones, symmetrical ones or weird ones, almost every knitter has tried them and found out the biggest secret of our craft: cables are a lot easier than they look 🤫


If you're entering a finished project please remember to format your post titles like so to help me easily keep track:

[CABLES] This is an example post title

Thanks 😄


Upcoming themes:

Date Theme
Mar Cables
Apr TBD
May TBD

Previous winners:

Theme Winner
Knitting fail Kurobita's accidental moebius
Socks QTpi's string theory socks
Baby + Toddler Weirdsquid's toddler cowl
Halloween TheGiddyStitcher's long-awaited Halloween socks (ugh)
New technique Kurobita's pastel bubble hat
Homewares QTpi's kiddie washcloths
Summer knits Catsdoingcatstuff's Criss Cross Top

More info:

  • The active theme will change every month
  • Themes could be anything from "shawls" to "cotton yarn" to "new-to-you techniques" and basically whatever I can think of (suggestions welcome in the comments!)
  • You can check current and upcoming themes both here in the sticky thread and also in the sidebar
  • Most upvoted project will be declared "winner" and added to the sidebar for the duration of the next round

FAQ

Do the projects need to be old?

Nope they just need to be fully finished

What counts as “fully finished”?

Weave in your ends, slacker!

Can I still post my normal everyday knitting and questions and memes and stuff?

Yes of course, this is just a fun bonus activity

What if a project fits multiple themes?

Honestly, use your judgement. I’ll put a list of the next few upcoming themes in the community sidebar so you can decide where it fits best, or if you’ve not posted it in a while feel free to enter it again! Maybe include different photo angles or a new tip you’ve thought of since last time. I think we have a ways to go before the rate of new posts becomes spammy, at which time we’ll rethink.

Can I enter more than one thing for the same theme?

Absolutely! But please make them separate posts 😊

Do projects that are only partially knitted still count?

As long as there’s some knitting somewhere in there, I for one want to see it!

 

Knitting friends! Since makers tend to make more than one sort of thing, and we crafters need to stick together, here's a list of fellow creative communities for your navigation pleasure.

For each craft I'll include the current most active community first as well as alternatives, and add each with their full URL as well as local links for Lemmy and Kbin users respectively.

I hope it's useful!

3D PRINTING

BOOKBINDING

COSPLAY

CROCHET

CROSS STITCH & EMBROIDERY

DICEMAKING

KNITTING

LASER CUTTING

LEATHERCRAFT

MODELS & MINIATURES

POTTERY

SEWING & QUILTING

SOAPMAKING

TATTING

WOODWORKING

MISC

Suggestions welcome, and I'll do my best to keep this updated as I find more relevant groups / smaller groups merge etc.

Craft on, people. Craft on 🙂

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Stitchy friends! Since makers tend to make more than one sort of thing, and we crafters need to stick together, here's a list of fellow creative communities for your navigation pleasure.

For each craft I'll include the current most active community first as well as alternatives, and add each with their full URL as well as local links for Lemmy and Kbin users respectively.

3D PRINTING

Bookbinding

COSPLAY

CROCHET

CROSS STITCH & EMBROIDERY

DICEMAKING

KNITTING

LASER CUTTING

LEATHERCRAFT

MODELS & MINIATURES

POTTERY

SEWING & QUILTING

SOAPMAKING

TATTING

WOODWORKING

MISC

Posted with mod permission & I'll keep it updated as I find more relevant groups / smaller groups merge etc.

Craft on, people. Craft on 🙂

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Greetings leathercrafters! Since makers tend to make more than one sort of thing, and we crafters need to stick together, here's a list of fellow creative communities for your navigation pleasure.

For each craft I'll include the current most active community first as well as alternatives, and add each with their full URL as well as local links for Lemmy and Kbin users respectively.

3D PRINTING

Bookbinding

COSPLAY

CROCHET

CROSS STITCH & EMBROIDERY

DICEMAKING

KNITTING

LASER CUTTING

MODELS & MINIATURES

POTTERY

SEWING & QUILTING

SOAPMAKING

TATTING

WOODWORKING

MISC

Posted with mod permission & I'll keep it updated as I find more relevant groups / smaller groups merge etc.

Craft on, people. Craft on 🙂