Cool to see knitting discussed on SciShow today! youtu.be/iTLvD6-X8WQ?...

I'm planning an Ask Me Anything video soon on my YouTube channel. What knitting questions would you like to see answered? #knitting 🧶

For this week's #showmeyourknits theme of yellow, I had to go back to July 2006 to find a sock I had knit for my mother (whose favorite color was yellow). I took this photo before I wove in the yarn tail at the toe. Pretty Petals sock pattern by Jeannie Townsend. Yarn is Koigu KPPPM #knitting 🧶

Cardigan almost complete. Just need to knit the zipper facing and sew in the zipper. Will probably take an inch off of the neck to end with the right total length for the zipper I ordered. Yarn is from a lamb fleece I chose from @getbentzfarm.bsky.social farm last fall. #knitting 🧶

#showmeyourknits #knitting This blanket was a baby gift for Max the dog trainer. Max recognized Herbie the first time we went to the dog park. He had prevented the dog rescue from euthanizing Herbie for aggression. Herbie wasn't aggressive, just misunderstood. They adored each other. 🧶

This week's Technique Tuesday features the double pick up. A beautiful finish for button bands and neckbands (especially nice around a steeked edge). Looks beautiful on the RS and WS! #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/F9uMiVDkuiA

Really irritated with a paid pattern from a designer who has been publishing since 2014 and has over 200 patterns in his Ravelry store. The design is lovely, but the pattern reads like a first draft from someone who has never written a pattern before.

Finally finished my first handspun sweater (I dyed the gradient, too). I knit it a year ago, but the shoulders were too wide, so I reknit from shoulders to underarms, removed the bands and collar, cut it apart and grafted it together again (then reknit the bands and collar). #handspun #knitting 🧶

I'm a fiber volunteer at Gale Woods Farm. A few of their Finn ewes decided to have their babies now, instead of the predicted next week or two. I'm in love with the little peanut on the right. Two sets of twins, one set of triplets, and a set of quads so far! #handspinning #knitting #lambingseason 🧶

#showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶 Knits for babies! Over-the-knee stockings with built in Mary Jane shoes for my grandniece. From a vintage 1940s pattern

#showmeyourknits Colorwork 🧶 I don't do much colorwork, because I prefer texture. When I do, it's often intarsia. The pattern is Harlequin, from Stitchcraft issue 184, April 1949. It was part of my long term project to knit a sweater from each decade from 1890s-1990s.

This week's Technique Tuesday video: the easiest cast on for top down hats or center-out circular projects. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/zR6Ot6rwEw0

#showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶 Green! Christmas stocking I knit for my daughter's fiance. I've made these for my nieces and nephews, their spouses and kids. I used motifs I picked up from several stocking patterns as well as stitch dictionaries. Lined with wool felt to keep it from stretching.

I start TWO new top down seamless sweaters with set-in sleeves that use two different construction methods, and I discuss why designers might get something wrong in their patterns, but if you follow their instructions, you'll end up with the right result. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/xQYZhs5089s

I had the great pleasure of completing this shawl for @thelooseendsproject on behalf of a knitter whose health made it difficult to finish something this complex. The knitter turned out to be a neighbor who lived just two blocks from me! She is full of creativity, and her surroundings reflect that.

#showmeyourknits 🧶 I won this yarn (BT Quarry) at a retreat last year. Color was Pumice (light gray). I have so many gray sweaters, so I dyed it Berry Crush. I can be SEEN in this sweater. Woolen spun yarn weighs nothing. Pattern is Bellows and buttons are vintage coat buttons, all different. ❤️ it.

This special episode of the Casual Friday podcast is a video montage of all the items finished or fixed by viewers who posted photos in my Ravelry group. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/dpSbivEB_0A

This week's Technique Tuesday video demonstrates the method of cabling without a cable needle that I find most efficient when knitting traveling twisted stitch patterns. youtu.be/ouQ6eLtVvSA #knitting 🧶

Got this braid of 100% Falkland from @knittinglizard.bsky.social Sunday at Crafters Gotta Craft. I wondered if the OOAK in OOAK BLUE reflected the way Minnesotans say "oak," until a friend told me that it means "one of a kind." Ha! Started spinning it this afternoon, till tragedy struck.

#showmeyourknits Socks. These are my most recently completed socks, the first project I've knit that started with raw fleece and went through processing, spinning, design to finished project. The dark color makes it hard to see the spiraling design. #knitting 🧶

Well, I finished *something* for Finish it February. That, plus tidbits and other things in this week's Casual Friday podcast. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/TqJ_43RXKfk

This week's Technique Tuesday video explains how determine the direction of knitting in complex fabrics made with cables, color work, or lace. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/dOyQ6-PMnZs

This week's Casual Friday podcast includes progress on Finish it February projects (along with a new project), some new-to-me vintage sock booklets, and a spinning update. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/eNLui2q0XSU

Thank god for @jrabb4.bsky.social's obsession (and instructions) for grafting, or I would be going insane trying to graft this sweater back together in pattern. I can now graft a st off the needle as a purl, while simultaneously turning the grafting thread into a knit. I feel like a magician.🧶 #knit

In this bonus Casual Friday podcast, I have three tidbits, and I tell the story of how my latest pair of socks started with a visit to a fiber festival in 2019 and ended with a pair of hand spun, hand dyed, self-designed, hand knit socks. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/851MOTfMEUM

One of my YT viewers went to her local Friends of the Library sale and came across five books that she instinctively knew I would love. She bought them (for the shockingly low price of $1 apiece) and shipped them to me! I could not be more thrilled. There are three -- THREE -- Jane Gaugain books!

This week's Technique Tuesday demonstrates how to add in a forgotten kfb increase on the next round or next right side row. youtu.be/EjzOOINy_Jc #knitting 🧶

Today was one of those days where I had to watch one of my own videos in order to remember how to do a technique (modified Dutch heel). To be fair, I hadn't done it since mid-2019.

For this week's stripes prompt, I have a pair of toe-up socks knit in self-striping yarn, with short rows forming the wedge toe. The effect is both really cool, and kinda creepy. Pattern is Tipsey Toes by Sybil R #showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶

It's the 1st day of Finish it February, and I had two events to go to (Knitting History Forum via Zoom, starting at 5:15 am my time), and our guild's monthly gathering at a local brewery. My FiF projects require full focus and a quiet room. So how did I start FiF? I cast on for a new pair of socks!

This week's Casual Friday podcast kicks off Finish it February 2025. In addition, I go behind the scenes of @getbentzfarm.bsky.social 's yarn mill, I finished spinning a skein of gorgeous handspun, and I get some fabulous gifts from viewers. youtu.be/z3VbP2Mfkw0

A package I've been waiting for arrived at the post office last night, and yet they are telling me I might have to wait until 9 pm for it to show up in my PO Box. Why would it take more than 24 hours to move from one part of the PO to another? I want it noooowwwww.

Are you ready for Finish it February (or Fix it February)? What items are you going to Finish, Fix, or Mend? I put two sweaters in time out last summer, knowing I would pull them out in February to deal with them. (Both were "finished" but I didn't like how they turned out.) 🧶 #FiF2025

Early start on Finish it (or Fix it) February so that I don't start a new project. Almost finished reknitting the first sleeve of my traditional Danish Night Sweater. Originally knit the sleeves using a skein in a different dye lot . Keeping the cuff dark because I don't have enough of the MC.

A newer knitter asked how to distinguish the CO edge from the BO edge. Edges can fool you (there are matching CO/BO pairs amongst the most common techniques). Better to determine the direction of knitting. That's the topic of this week's Technique Tuesday video. youtu.be/iFTEhR8rxcE

I've had a lot of questions about what the difference is between woolen spun yarn and worsted spun yarns, so I recorded a Technique Tuesday video on my YT channel to explain it. youtu.be/nv-F8LRhWk8?... #knitting #yarn 🧶🧶🧶

Hello, world. I'm a giant knitting nerd, seeking to learn something new about knitting every day(ish).