exposing all my unfinished knits 👽

[@katecovi]

Watching this while I pick up a nearly abandoned wip of a crochet balloon sleeve cardigan. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has so many projects going at once

[@threestars42]

Love the brown sweater! It's almost always the "boring" projects that gets the most wear.

[@CinemaKnits]

@@threestars42 totally!! Always so hard to admit to myself that I will wear the boring colours & the versatile boring designs the most lol

[@melanie_meanders]

i was just listening to the audio and when you said “this is how i mark my decreases” i was like, how? a fringe of stitch markers like me? hahaha yup!

[@CinemaKnits]

Yessss! I sort of love how the sweater sleeves end up looking once I’ve covered them in stitch markers

[@Michellerosecusack]

Do you knit or crochet before you work on your wips? For some flow the state doesn't come without a warm up first. So, making like a bunch of coasters/granny squares(one every day in the stitch style and needle/hook size of your wip. Or, until you're in a flow state.) before you start your work is a good way to loosen up and stash bust some yarn. After a while you'll have a bunch of warm squares that can become lots of projects. Plus it'll give you a chance to work on/experiment with your sewing skills. Most people skip the pre hand works outs, stretches and warm up wips. They feel boring and a waste of time. But it's these small things that makes you better and more satisfied with you wips end products. Think about it like journal dumping for your hobby.

[@CinemaKnits]

Nice! I do do a form of this, yes! I will often “play” by testing out yarn, making test swatches for future projects, or working on a small “back burner” project before tackling a WIP. For some reason I really hate making granny squares, even though I love the finished objects, but I don’t mind swatching at all :)

[@Michellerosecusack]

@CinemaKnits it's so important. People hurt themselves crafting because they didn't 'work out' before and after breaks of crafting. Then they suffer more mentally cause their craft is often a part of their therapy-and don't realize until they're forced not to craft. When I mean granny squares, you can resupply the word with a "swatch". Pick a shape- and just work on techniques. As you get better with finding flow. The next big thing is make your last square without one 'Nah, it's fine."s. Seek the perfect shape. It's really hard. But the results are worth it.

[@nata6025]

I used to have rowing out issues when purling too, I noticed they disappeared this year because i was purling with the tips of my needles - especially for the stitches on the left needle. Because the needle circumference is smaller at the tip, it's like going down a needle size. It comes with practice, you''ll get there soon!

[@CinemaKnits]

Thank you!

[@rinskeverberg]

For the blue sweater cuffs (keep in mind I'm a chaos agent, I never even swatch, so do this at your own risk): I would pick up stitches on a 'clean' row about five rows below the last one. Then cut off everything above, giving yourself a row (or two) of leeway in between. Then I would unravel from there, just reattach the yarn, and knit up the cuff(s). Good luck! PS. We will not speak of my languishing WIPs, for they are too many.

[@CinemaKnits]

Thank you💙💙💙

[@EriGold-g5l]

One of my loca-ishl yarn shops recently gave a tip for frogging mohair. They suggest popping it in the freezer for a bit before frogging it. I haven't needed to try it myself, but maybe it's worth a try?

[@CinemaKnits]

It works but only for about five minutes after you get it out of the freezer! Sort of worth it but not that effective unless you do it inside one of those industrial deep freezes lol