https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hop-top

It’s finally done! I cast on the Indian Nights Blanket in mid-October 2024, and 644 days later — 1 year and 9 months — I’m calling it finished.

I knit this in a custom colorway I put together using Knitting for Olive Merino, rather than the palette called for in the pattern. Choosing and balancing the colors was a project in itself, but I love how the combination came out.

For those who’ve followed my progress posts, the last big hurdle was the finishing. I covered the steeks with a “steek sandwich,” worked with two very long needles that ran around the entire perimeter of the blanket. I also added a folded picot hem of my own design, which gave the edges a clean, polished finish I’m really happy with. The edge was probably the most painstaking part of the project, but I feel like it really elevates the blanket with that doubled fabric making a frame.

This project pushed me on colorwork, steeking, and finishing techniques, and I learned something new at nearly every stage. Happy to answer questions about the colorway, the steek sandwich, the picot hem, or anything else.

Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/indian-nights-blanket
My project page: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Phishery/indian-nights-blanket

Previous updates:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/s/VubK8Nciz0\](https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/s/VubK8Nciz0) [https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/s/RHI8OHtFW6\](https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/s/RHI8OHtFW6)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/QyoM8jtetI\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/QyoM8jtetI)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/1UfWMgHx44\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/1UfWMgHx44)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/rqAX7QxZQQ\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/rqAX7QxZQQ)

Tin Can Knits - Flax Sweater with short sleeves.
Yarn is Kramer Yarns - Perfection Worsted - color way is Grape.
I’ve knit this pattern for babies before, so decided to make one for myself. Not perfect, because… you know…. I never swatch. Sleeves are odd but it’s mine and it’s finished!

I'm in love with these. Pattern by Jaana Etula, the Norwegian name for the pattern is "Woohoo, hattifnatter." Yarn is DROPS Fabel (the pink) and Sandnes Sisu (all other colors). I started this project while travelling in Finland and visiting Moomin Valley in Naantali. The pattern calls for some aggressive decreases going down the cuff, but my gauge was off because of my yarn being too light/thin, so I just kept all the stitches and created some striping in the back. These will be a gift for my childhood friend, we used to watch Moomin all the time, and we were terrified of the Hattifatteners 😅

I started knitting 6 weeks ago, a few beanies and scarfs and have just completed a Novice Sweater by Petite Knit using Cardiff prime lace weight and double Sunday 8ply. So happy!!

sadly my wrists (and fingers) have betrayed me (or maybe i betrayed them by knitting too much on holiday, jury’s still out) and currently hurt so badly that i’m taking time off knitting. BUT knitting is my hyperfixation so please please give me any ideas you have about how to satisfy that while not actually knitting 😭

i’ve read a couple of books on like the history of knitting/fabric (this golden fleece by esther rutter, the golden thread by kassia st clair) but would love more recommendations for those (i’m trying to avoid print books too because that also hurts, but e-books are ok). and any other ideas on knitting-adjacent activities would be great!

thanks in advance 🥲

I finally finished my first knitted object and colourwork garment! I've started other jumpers before but never really finished them. I had to rip this all out half way through and start again because I chose the wrong size but I'm very happy with the result.

The pattern is the Astraeus Sweater by Meghan Regan in sock weight yarn and I chose to try and do a gradient effect with the yarn that I had. Pretty happy with how it ended up looking.

Pattern: https://ravel.me/astraeus

Yarn: https://www.pixieyarn.co.uk/collections/sock/products/ill-be-your-mermaid-fade-sock-dk-100-50-and-20g

And I'm pretty sure it was this one

https://www.pixieyarn.co.uk/collections/sock/products/lapis-fingering-weight-sock

I guess many of you guys went or still go through a heat wave. And like instead of some other people who use some heat friendly yarn, I’m knitting with wool… I have to say, how great the combination of sweat and wool is while knitting. And even better I’m just too stubborn to put it by side and go through the pain by pulling more and more, because my yarn does not want to glide over my “sweaty” finger.

Whatsoever here is my new knitted sweater the jenny sweater by petiteknit. A bottom-up raglan with a beautiful smock pattern. The worst part for me was and will be forever to cast on over 200 stitches for the body and do the counting at the same time. I don’t want to recall how many times I recounted my stitches, because I don’t trust my counting skills. :)

For this one I used drops flora and kid-silk (my favorite yarn brand) in the color dark navy with 4.0mm and 3.5mm needles.

There is also a “newer/another” version called the jenny blouse by petiteknit. The only differences are the top-down construction and some drop sleeves.

At the end it’s an incredible sweater with a lovely pattern design in my opinion.

PS: The only ick I got after blocking the sweater is, that the body and the sleeves are a bit too long for my preference. And I skipped a whole pattern section in the body to make it a bit shorter.

The plan is to make kitten blankets for animal shelters. It's nothing to write home about but I'm proud of it and my fingers hurt from working on this for 32 hours so far. (4 hrs days, 8 days so far).

1yr kitten for scale

Edit: WOW thank you so much for all of the sweet responses! My wife and I are blown away by all the love!

Took 5.5 months to complete. The top is knitted and has beads hand knitted in every other row (the picture of just the corset shows just HOW MANY beads went into the top). The bottom is crochet.
I have the patterns I used linked in my ravelry post: https://ravel.me/Megs915/wdt

The yarn was Aunt Lydias. The top was held double with the regular white lace yarn and pearlescent yarn for extra glow. The skirt is just the regular white lace yarn.

Could you write here your best knitting advice, but in a short sentence like a credo or mantra? Thank you!

Hi everyone. Its been a while since I posted. I've been working with this yarn for different projects. I just started this current one last week. I think I'm going to make this into a sweater. Its just an easy yarn to work with. 100% cotton.

What do you think? I've included a picture of the yarn label & the next yarn ball I am using. Sorry the photos are upside down. My phone has a mind of its own

I made these a while ago and though they’re not perfect, they sure are cute.

From Ravelry

My third garment i’ve knitted - i’ve made a Step by Step sweater and a Copenhagen Cardigan so far.
I am so so happy with how this summer top turned out, fits exactly how i wanted it to.
It’s knitted in Sandnes Garn Tynn Line in 9062 Olive Green with 3mm needles. The yarn really evened out the stitches after blocking. I didn’t meet gauge but i did a combination of the second and third sizes to figure it out. I’m so excited to wear it out!

I posted on here for help a few months ago when I first started this and was struggling. I was told I was doing it wrong, I was “rowing out massively,” it was too advanced for a beginner, to start over, to get the basics down first, etc. I want to show off that despite the kind of negative feedback I got originally, I still did it! It’s not perfect, there are definitely mistakes (like a twisted row on the sleeve), but I don’t think it’s too bad for my first project! Feels so good to be finally done, yay!

Hi! First time poster here!!! Just wanted to share my progress on the Step by Step sweater. I’ve been knitting now for a few months after my grandmother taught me and got bored of scarves so this is my first project in the round and I am so pleased with it already. I even attempted German short rows because I felt brave and they turned out great (?!?!)

Knitting has been so beneficial to my life already and I am having so so much fun :-) I can’t wait to see how it turns out

Yarn is Lang Cloud merino shade 12

Wanted to crowd-source some ideas, because I'm struggling and am that 🤏🏻 close to snapping and picking up a WIP again.

What I've tried so far:

Sewing – scratches that creative itch, but it's too much stop and go for me, I need longer stretches of mindless movements.

Video games – nice, but the computer mouse hurts my wrist, too, and I don't want to invest in a console.

Beading – creative and fairly monotonous, but feels useless, since I don't need that much jewelry or decor

Embroidery – same as beading; embroidering fabric hurts my wrist, too, so clothes enhancement is out of the question.

I feel like I'm going crazy here, please help :') What are your go-to enrichment activities, when your wrist is out of order?

I’m knitting a striped sweater anyway! Would it be that hard? The ladies at the yarn store said it would be really hard to switch colors. I believe them but I tried to crochet this sweater for literally 6 months! Redoing every crochet and measuring everything it was so impossible to crochet.

hiii I'm not knowledgeable about knitting at all, so I would really appreciate any help ... what are the ways to save the sweater with holes such as those? (⁠ㆁ⁠ω⁠ㆁ⁠)

So I did something wrong with one of my german short row stitches... so ahem why not drop it and just fix it right? So I dropped two but now I don't know how to fix it!! I'm very confused why there appears to be two loops over the same stitch since there should be one for each of the stitches I dropped. Also I'm a bit confused why my actual stitches at the collar are very loose (it's hard to tell in the picture). Help would be well appreciated.

I finished 1 out of 2 beanies (for myself and my sister) with the team logos and numbers for Shane and Ilya in Heated Rivalry. Might have to make “matching” scarves next year with the centaurs logo.

I love dc comics a lot and I knew I wanted to do make something to wear for the new supergirl movie. I knit the top supergirl wears in the Bruce Timms DCAU out of merino and crocheted the logo out of scraps. As a 20 something year old mess of a woman who just really loves her dogs, supergirl has become one of my favorite characters.

I’ve started a James c Brett pattern for my kid and I’m shaping the shoulders and honestly I’m confused.

I’m reading this as I need to decrease alternative rows for 21 rows total (so 1st, 3rd, 5th etc) but that would mean all decreased are on one side.

My mum (who uses the leaflets more than me) said it’s every row for 21 rows.

But the alt wording is confusing me.

Can I get some clarity please?

Thank you

Edit: sorted thanks to everyone who read/commented.