Crafting

[nothanksbabes]

I picked up knitting really easily and was making quite complicated things early on. I never got away with crochet but after a lot of perseverance I finally managed to master granny squares. However I cannot follow a pattern, can't remember what the stitches are called and if I don't do it for a few days I forget everything and have to start again! I love knitting soft toys and wish I could do the same with crochet but I get in a muddle increasing and decreasing and working in rounds in crochet. I've tried watching videos on YouTube but I don't learn well that way, I prefer to follow a written instruction/series of pictures. I'd love to properly master crochet as I find it much quicker than knitting and I don't have to watch every stitch.

I'm the same but opposite! I could instantly crochet really complicated patterns, but knitting I am so slow at and I don't know how to fix mistakes (of which there are many) when all the stitches are interdependent on each other. It's like I'm fluent in crochet and knitting is a foreign language.

I much prefer knitting for garments, although I love crochet, I think it can either look a bit twee or too bulky, where you can get really nice draping fabric with knitting. I also love Fair Isle and Shetland knitting but that's a bit of a stretch for someone who can just about knit a dishcloth.

Here's my friend's little lad in the cardi I made him (plenty of room to grow into it!) and a tea cosy I made last night out of scrap yarn. Apparently I'm the only person in the world who wanted to crochet a cylindrical tea cosy so I made up the pattern myself. I really like the 70s colours together.

 

[Lunagooner]

I have been attempting this for the last few months

Each piece is made separately then joined, I've got this far, I find crochet easy but can't knit

 

[Ekkwhine]

I crochet blankets and have just started teaching myself sock knitting

forgot to add my socks. They’re far from perfect but considering I’d never knitted before and literally sat googling stitch for stitch I’m insanely proud of them

Wonky socks:

 

[Aboveallelse]

Hello crafty people. My first love was sewing but I find it quite hard work plus it takes up a lot space and needs a lot of equipment. These days I'm a avid crocheter (learnt 5 years ago) but I've always wanted to learn knitting. It looks so complicated to me, worried it will challenge my brain too much so I'm yet to try it.
Here are some of my lockdown accomplishments hope you like....

 

[What's your point]

Can't remember if i have posted on this thread before but I love crafting! I will try anything and everything but since I taught myself to knit a few years ago that is my favourite thing to do.

I make a lot of cowls mostly fair isle or cable knit as I like a project that I can finish in a few days but have also made a couple of jumpers for my daughter (the Sunday Sweater by petite knits and the Harlequin sweater by the knit stitch - both very well written patterns) I have also just started the Abeline pullover by the Woolbird and I am doing this in a rusty and beige colour (only cast on earlier today so very early stages).

My favourite knitting vlogger is Kutovakika I absolutely love her style of knitting and I am hoping my husband has got me her new book for Christmas.

I will post some pictures tomorrow of some of the things I have made as I keep most of.my knitted items in a vacuum seal bag under my bed.

Having said all this about my love of knitting my favourite project I have EVER made was a rolife miniature kit called Emily's flower shop, it took me ages but honestly enjoyed it so much I have tried a couple of other kits since but never really got into them.

 

[Piff paff puff]

Went to buy a sun hat with the imminent heatwave in mind and they've taken them off the shelves already
So I had an idea to make on from a re usable shopping bag
I just did it freehand and it took most of the day and if you don't look to closely.........
Anyway, I'll try it down at the beach today
I'm quite pleased with it might add the shopping handles to trim at a later date if it holds out

 

[colouredlines]

Bobbles are easy - just working increases and decreases into the same stitch - but tedious. You'll get the hang of them quickly, then swear off them for a looooong time when you finish the project.

Here are some pics from 2 or 3 years ago...I was sewing a lot, mostly cotton dresses in various New Look patterns, and also knitting a lot of cropped cardigans. I still have these, but my style's changed a bit (maybe another reason why I haven't been crafting much lately?). I have a jacket that I started a year ago and is about 80% done, I'll try to finish it this week to give myself a kick up the ass!

PS I had fallen over running not long before these photos were taken, hence the scabby knee!

 

[JoanieDee]

I’m addicted to sewing and knitting. I’ve been knitting for a year now but I’m very new to sewing. Below are a few of my knitting projects. I’ve just finished sewing a gorgeous top over the weekend using Merchant and Mills gingham. (Will post a picture when I have one, I’m so proud of it! ) The gingham trousers in the photo below are also Merchant and Mills.

 

[Piff paff puff]

Pleased as punch with this cobbled together various bits n pieces I found behind the shed whilst tidying planter

 

[nothanksbabes]

My best friend loves the 70s, saw one of her little one's friends in a crochet cardigan and asked for me to make one.

 

[JoyceDivision]

I’m a (very novice) calligrapher and also a wax seal enthusiast

 

[Professor Slop]

Of the ones that I can find (some are in my mam's loft from my teenage/early 20s stitching).

Did this for my mam, it's on her wall. My grandad was a miner and it reminds her of him.

This one I did for my grandad a few years before he died as a christmas present. Was on his wall, now on my mam's wall too.

This is in my front room, one of the Chinese immortals. Terrible pic but OH is asleep on the sofa so can't take a clearer one right now!

This is what I'm working on at the moment in breaks from the gigantic Afremov piece. These are artworks by Stephanie Pui Min Law, left to right these are Spring, Autumn and Winter. Working on Summer at the moment then I think I might frame them separately and display them going up the stairs. Open for suggestions though!

 

[TheStrawberryThief]

If you are beginning any craft, do not beat yourself up If it takes time to get the results you want. Some people are amazing from the get go, others take more time.

When I first started I saw someone on reddit say something I found incredibly helpful, you don't have to be good at your hobbies, you just have to enjoy doing them. I try and remember this when I am getting annoyed at myself for the way my work looks ( it doesn't always work, the pattern nearly had me crying last week until I realised how silly I was being and put it away for the night)

I have been crocheting for just under 2 years. Each time I finish something I think it the peak of what I can do, and then the next thing blows it out of the water. I am proud of how far I have came from my first scrappy and uneven Granny squares, but I have still far to go on a journey that might take years but that is okay.

 

[Bwidge]

Oooh hello there! I'm doing bookbinding today. I found a kit online and I'm loving it so far

 

[Piff paff puff]

This has to be one of my favourite project, so easy to do and very relaxing. Bought a large planter cheaply from home bargains and used some leftover interior decorating paints. A bit of imagination et voila! Definitely going to do many more.

 

[Powershower]

Hello all! I cross stitch and knit ( to a fashion) bit have decided I might quite like to get into sewing and have bought myself a Tilly and the buttons book so fingers crossed it all makes sense and I haven’t just spent £100 on a sewing machine for no reason! So if anyone has any recommendations for getting started please let me know. I’m looking forward to seeing what you all create this year

 

[pixxyy]

My first card in forever with my Hunky Dory goody box items. I dont usually layer as I always get worried about it being straight.
I think I just need to go for it as they look so much better with backing card/papers

 

[nothanksbabes]

I agree about over-buying. I have yarn from when I first started crocheting that I'll likely never use and should give away or to charity, and now I only buy for specific projects or if I know for certain I can make something with the yarn.

My last big projects were the Jamie Crow Persian tiles blanket in the eastern jewels colourway (I've done the original colours before) and a granny square blanket in 70s orange and peach type colours for my friend's baby. I'm chuffed I've managed to use almost all the leftover stash on another Jamie Crow pattern (magical lanterns), I've done 110 of 157 pieces, although I'll probably have to buy yarn to join them with.

Pictures of my most recent finished projects...

 

[ElectricDreams]

That's so cool! I love the attention to detail.

I know, that's what I love about them too. The books have text inside them, the jars have "food," I've got a miniature sewing room with mini cotton spools made with real cotton. They think of absolutely everything! Here are 2 more, with some closer up detail.

 

[Piff paff puff]

Some hat pins using swan and pheasant feathers that they had left behind.