#yarn projects

[crochetgobbo]

My projects have like two moods:

I have been working on this sweater for months. You want a progress picture? I worked on this for like four (4) hours, enjoy three more inches of gray.

I thought it’d be cool to replace the broken zipper pulls on my backpack with flowers. You want a progress picture? No, it’s done. Enjoy.

#crochet #knitting #yarn projects #wip #the sweater is neatly on the kitchen table because i decided to bring another project today #the project may be done #but the yarn is still on my bed #and my nightstand #what if i want more flowers?!

[skein-dalous]

it turns out you can use your yarn-powers to make boardgame accessories.

This is forbidden knowledge and I would never have discovered it

#crochet #own #beginner #crafts #homemade #learning #handcrafted #yarn #yarn projects #diy #boardgames

[iknityounot]

(Long post, sorry y'all)

A little more than two years ago now, my grandmother passed away. She and my grandpa had moved down to my home town a few years before so we could take care of them. I brought them groceries once a week, helped them write checks, fixed tvs, and found lost things. I was really close with my grandma.

In addition to her hilarious personality and dry wit, one of my favorite things about her was that she was a painter and a crafter like me! She used to crochet, and I took her to the craft store a couple of times so she could get more yarn and books on crochet. But her arthritis and the shaking in her hands kept getting worse, so she eventually had to stop.

She kept her most recent project, a granny square blanket, safely packed away in a plastic bin. She told all of us she was going to finish it one day.

Her hands never got better, and when she got sick, and we found out it was cancer, she rapidly deteriorated.

After she passed, I went to work helping my mom clean out my grandparents apartment so we could move my grandpa in with her. In our frantic cleaning, I found that bin again:

DOZENS of granny squares, dozens of half used skeins. I asked my mom what she wanted me to do with it, and she said she didn't care. I set it aside and later took it home.

Maybe a month later, that tumblr post about the Loose Ends Project was going around. It felt like a sign--I was never going to learn to crochet in order to finish my grandmother's blanket. But they might be able to help!

So I filled out the interest form. They got back to me SUPER quick. And maybe 2 weeks later, I was paired with volunteer in my state (only 2 hours away!) and the box of yarn, granny squares, and my grandmother's crochet hook were in the mail. That was at the end of January this year.

Over the next couple of months, my "finisher" emailed me regular updates on her progress, and asked me questions on my preferences for how she constructed the final blanket.

At the end of August, the blanket was done!

I had always intended the blanket to be a gift for my mother. So I cleaned it up, put it in the only bag I had big enough to fit it, and drove to my mom's. I gave the blanket to her and she was gobsmacked. I explained to her all about Loose Ends, and how someone volunteered to finish the piece for us. She was speechless. (I was quite pleased with this, because I am not the best at giving gifts, so this was a pretty exciting reaction!)

She said that it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever been given. She said "your grandma would love this". To which I replied, "yeah, I know she really wanted to finish it a couple of years ago". But that was when my mom dropped the bomb of a century on me--she told me that my grandma had started making those granny squares OVER 30 YEARS AGO. She had started the blanket when my grandpa was staying in the hospital, but that was back when my mom was younger than I am now! My grandma had packed them all away, planning on finishing it, when my grandpa was sent home from the hospital. Then it went from house to house, from condo in Chicago to their apartment in my hometown. All that time and my grandma had wanted to finish it, but couldn't. First because she was busy, then because she forgot how to do it, then because of her arthritis, and then because of the cancer. My mom said she had given up on expecting my grandma to finish it. 

She said I brought a piece of her childhood with her mom out of the past.

And really, all of this is to say, if you have seen or heard about the Loose Ends Project and have an uncompleted project or piece from a loved one who has passed away--these are your people. They were so kind and treated my project with such care. That box probably would have been found by my own grandkids one day if I hadn't heard about Loose Ends.

Five stars, absolutely worth it!

(From what I understand, you can sign up to volunteer too! If you have time to share, it might be worth checking out!)

#loose ends #the loose ends project #joy knits #text #long post #knit #knitting #crochet #crocheting #craft #crafting #diy #crochetblr #yarnblr #yarn #knitblr

[butterflyfenix]

First ever crochet project not perfect but also not terrible . Beginner + kit from a company called the Woobles. Comes with everything needed and a video tutorial with stop by step instructions

#crochet #agron #amigurumi #colorful #art #crafts #yarn projects

[myselfnevermore]

Korn - "Love & Meth."

#Yarn Projects #Youtube

[jordanmunoz1999]

#yarn projects

[robbinscrafts]

#crochet #crochet pattern #free crochet pattern #crocheting #scrap yarn #yarn projects

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

The Evenstar is finally finished! This project has been a really fun time but I'm also SO glad it's over.

The knitted on edging took. Literally half a year. Not because it was difficult but simply because it was SO BORING. It looks so good and was so easy to block but I'm not sure I'll ever have the Willpower to knit this edging ever again.

My shawl also turned out significantly smaller than the pattern says. It's supposed to be 60 inches and mine is closer to 48 inches. This is probably because of the yarn I used? (Cobweb instead of lace weight) I also chose to knit under gauge because I didn't like the way the fabric looked at gauge. Thankfully it doesn't bother me.

#knitting #knitblr #lace rot #lace knitting #project: shawl 14 #i still have a cone and a half of this yarn. this shawl only took 84 grams total #I'm going to be knitting pale pink cashmere shawls for the rest of my life. the opposite of a problem #tho since the pink is so light i could probably easily over dye it

[uncanny-tranny]

Fiber artist challenge of the day: weave in those damn ends

#art #fiber art #crochet #knitting #i actually enjoy weaving my ends in so far. it feels like that snake game #don't ask what i'm doing up so late (was crocheting and now my brain feels fuzzy) #had to switch cakes of yarn and that meant i wove in two ends just for this one small project. it was. fun :) #i like thinking about where to weave the ends in so that they're flush with the stitch itself. strategizing harder than the military rn #i watched somebody who said they never wove in their ends when they first started knitting and 😨😨😨

[scribblesandknots]

DNA Pullover

It's done!!

I love how it came out - I made SO many modifications to the fit. The sweater was written for a boxy, typically-male silhouette, and I am Not That. I shortened the arms and regraded their shaping, widened the body, and moved the shoulders in by a few inches to fit my frame.

The shoulders fit bang-on on top of my actual shoulder, which is so exciting, and the sleeve cap fit perfectly into the shoulder, too. I put a lifeline in when I knit the first shoulder cap to make sure I could rip it back out if it didn't fit, but I didn't need to!

Overall, absolutely happy with this sweater. It's super comfy, and the yarn (High Desert Worsted from KnitPicks) is suuuuper soft and cozy.

#knitting #yarn #fiber arts #knitblr #scribbles' knots #finished projects

[moongothic]

MY BLANKET OF DARKNESS HAS BEEN COMPLETED

✨👁️✨ I AM SO COZY NOW ✨👁️✨

So I started working on this blanket around June of 2022. Got like, maybe half-way through the blanket and then the yarn I needed for the blanket went out of stock at my local yarn shop. Now I didn't know the yarn would be completely unavailable for like 6 months (until the stop closed permanently), so I just kept on waiting, hoping for it to come back in stock-- but it never did, so in January I finally looked online if I could find the yarn elsewhere and I did, I got the yarn I needed, and finished the blanket. So it kinda took me 6 months to make this blanket but also not

What made this blanket a truly exciting and fun project for me is that this has been the first blanket I actually made for myself and designed for myself. Like I've enjoyed every single blanket project I've had so far, but having a blanket that's Just For Me is just. It's nice

I originally planned the granny squares out digitally because I wanted to have a fun pattern of different granny squares, something that wouldn't be too busy looking and was carefully planned, and here's what I came up with

I had two versions of the square pattern, one with moon phases right in the middle of it and another without them. I do like how the moon version looked and part of me kinda regrets not making that one, but I'm not sure the moons would have really gone well with the eyes... So I did go with the first version

(Sidenote, it's not on the pattern above but I added extra rows of just black squares at the top and bottom of the blanket, so there's two rows of black instead of just one)

(Sidenote 2, although I knew I wanted the blanket to be mostly black from the begining, I wasn't entirely sure what accent color I wanted to use, it really was depending on what colors the shop had available. Like I used yellow as kind of a default color since it worked nice with the stars and eyes, but I could've gone with some other color too. In the end, because I didn't like the color options for the yarn at the shop I ended up going with a yellow anyways) (Also I tested out a reverse color version with the pastel purple and white base and no eyes, just for funsies, it looks kinda neat)

But yeah, that's how the planning of the blanket went.

The blanket is made of 231 squares in total, 11x21 rows. 186 of the squares are plain black, the rest are patterned. The star squares were the worst to make because of how many strands of yarn I had to weave in, 0/10, would not reccommend.

I used the Cedro 100% wool yarn (reccomended hook size 5, 50g=100m), and it took me about 38 balls of yarn to finish the blanket (including crocheting all the squares together and doing a single round of double crochet around the blanket to finish it off)

This is literally all the yarn I have left from this blanket; one untouched ball of black and three partially used balls.

I gotta admit.

I'm kind of shocked by the size of the blanket. Like I very carefully measured it to make it the exact size to fit my bed, and it fits perfectly. But I'm still kinda shocked how big it is. (Which is why I didn't make the border of the blanket any bigger, even though I could've with the yarn I have)

Also

It's HEAVY

Like, of course it's heavy, it's 100% wool and thick, but MAN I didn't expect it lmao

But that kind of makes it perfect for cold winters especially, it's super warm and the weight makes it cozy- like who needs a weighted blanket when you can have one of these lmao

Now I just need to figure out how to protect the blanket from being covered in my white cat's hair...

#Yarncraft Diary #Yarncraft #Crochet #Crochetblr #Yarnblr #Emotionally I classify this as a 2022 project even though I didn't finish it until this year #No I did not block the squares before putting the blanket together #I was planning on just ironing the squares to flatten them out but I noticed last minute that... #...the yarn doesn't reccommend it be ironed so. I didn't want to risk ruining it #And I don't really have a blocking board or anything so I just had to let it go #I could probably just hang the blanket on the clothesline in the shower and the weight of it... #...on top of whatever moisture there might be in the air would probably straighten the blanket out a bit #So it wouldn't ''buckle'' the way it does now #But ehhh it's fine #I don't mind it really

[iknityounot]

I am going to make this a separate post, since the other one got so long.

So, like I mentioned there, I sent my grandma's granny squares off to my Loose Ends "finisher" with the intent of giving my mother the blanket when it was complete. I had NO thoughts in my head at all for saving something for myself.

When I received the box in August with the completed blanket, it had two additional things in it. It had a letter and a bag. The bag had two and a half skeins of left over yarn (please peep the picture of all they yarn I sent this lady, I was SO surprised she was able to use so much of it!) my grandmother's crochet hook, and a single granny square. In the letter, my finisher, Katherine, wrote that she set aside one of the original squares my grandma made--she specifically said the one she guessed may have been one of the first--in order to put it in a central place in the finished blanket. But then she forgot about it when she went to put the blank together, so now there was one left over. She said she sent it along with the blanket, hoping it would still find a home.

So, like I said in my last post, I gathered up the blanket and brought it to my mom....but I kept that lone granny square for myself. I immediately knew what I wanted to do with it:

I bought this little shadow box on Amazon, pinned in the granny square, and added my grandma's hook. I plan on hanging it in my little crafting zone in my apartment ❤️

Just another reason why the Loose Ends Project has my heart in a chokehold. There was so much thought and kindness that went into what Katherine did--for both me and my mom.

#joy knits #text #loose ends #the loose ends project #knit #knitting #knitblr #craft #crafting #craftblr #yarn #yarnblr #crochet #crocheting #crochetblr #diy #granny square #i cant not shill for them now #i just wish i was good/consistent enough to volunteer?

[somnambulant-seraphim]

Some more crochet blanket progress. I got some cool textured yarns from the thrift store recently too! <|:-]

#crochet #crocheting #crochet project #my post #my crafts #my photos #crochet wip #crochet blanket #sewing #handmade #handsewn #hand sewing #yarn crafts #fiber crafts #yarn #fiber art #fiber work #fibre arts #crowcore #gremlincore #forestcore #mosscore #fairycore #cottagecore #cottage aesthetic #cottage core #cottage witch #goblincore #goblin aesthetic #cryptidcore

[shittycollagen]

the good thing about black yarn is that it hides your mistakes. the bad thing about black yarn is that it makes you make mistakes.

#yarn #knitting #crochet #i dont think i've made any mistakes in this project #YET #but i can feel that i will. it is i n e v i t a b l e

[tj-crochets]

Rug update: it has yellow now!!!

It’s about 12” by about 21”

#the person behind the yarn #handmade #fabric #scrap management #though I freely admit I am no longer just using scraps #and am now ripping strips off of stash fabric to use in this #which I guess is still a kind of scrap management? #I can’t even begin to estimate how many hours I’ve already spent making this #or how many more it’ll take #but I am loving how it’s turning out #also I genuinely thought this would be like a two hour project tops when I started #I was very wrong lol

[notalvautonoe]

I made a sweater vest! 🧶 This was my first time knitting a bigger garment like this, and the first time since probably middle school properly knitting altogether, but it was fun getting back into it!

The pattern is the Thea Top by @/paulastrict!

#knitting #crafts #yarn crafts #fiber crafts #knit #hand knitted #warm and comfy #clothes #fall project #winter project