A colorful afghan, halfway finished, with multiple balls of yarn attached.
#ShowMeYourKnits: color work
I'm making up this instarta-ish scrap C2C as I go along. I was originally just going to do rows but wanted something a little more engaging so now it's... Blobs?
#showmeyourknits colourwork
This is the very first colourwork I did many decades ago. (Time flies…). It was bright green & dark brown colour but they are faded to pale colours. 🧶 #knitsky
Three views of the Eat the Rich toque in teal and white with a white pom pom
Bee Creative Mitts (fingerless mittens) in green, yellow and cream.
Mary Maxim moose sweater knit as a vest.
Cat Nouveau Mitts in black, cream and grey. Fingerless mittens
Colourwork for #showmeyourknits
Tried to post some things not posted before or for a while.
Eat the Rich toque (seems appropriate)
Bee Creative Mittens
Mary Maxim Moose sweater knit as a vest (finished for a friend’s elderly mum)
Cat Nouveau Mitts
Color work for #showmeyourknits ? That’s my jam! After learning how to fair isle knit, I thought I’d never want to do anything else. It was the same after learning to cable too, though. 😂
#KnitSky #ShowMeYourKnits #Shawl #MenWhoKnit
The shawl pinned out. Approximately 2 m by 1 m. Now to let it dry. Then it gets wrapped up as a birthday present for my SIL.
I have 9 colours of that yarn. So I will knit something for myself with the rest, an Adult Surprise Jacket. Should be fun.
Blue and gray colorwork socks being knit - toe and about two inches complete so far.
#showmeyourknits this week is colorwork, of which I havent done a lot (possibly excepting two color brioche).🧶 However, I did cast on colorwork socks yesterday! #knitsky
A hand knitted top down cardigan using hand dyed yarns.
I can't quite remember which plants I used for the dyes but there's a real mixture of flowers, berries, bark, roots and funghi. It's certainly colourful! #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitting
WIP: gestreifter Sideways Bobble Hat by Woolly Wormhead
Alice Stole und Sofie in Streifen
Two Colour Brioche Mütze - ohne Mustervorlage improvisiert
WIP - Step-By-Step Sweater by "handmade by Florence" mit meinem ersten Versuch eines lettischen Zopfes, der aber eigentlich nicht Teil des Musters ist...
this week's #showmeyourknits 🧶 is colourwork...
Tja... äääääääääh, zählen krausrechte Streifen, Two Colour Brioche und ein rumpeliger Erstversuch eines 'lettischen Zopfes?
TiaTeva by Carol Sunday which I started 5 years ago in a cotton/wool blend. Must get this one done. Light grey background with navy fair isle colourwork inserts using short rows and striped body.
An Ceàrdach by Kate Davies. I changed this to a topdown fingering weight sweater, in light grey background alternating the colourwork rectangular motifs in dark grey and rust coloured.
Outcrop by Rachel Illsley. I am knitting this with Kat's Riverside Studio yarn in Hunter (dark green) and Trail (beige speckled yarn). Another topdown fingering weight pattern.
Fleur by Marie Wallin. Love the bright spring-like colours of Mondim. Cream background with gold, orange, light blue, mid-blue, and green colourwork diamond motifs.
This week's #showmeyourknits is colourwork. My absolute favourite kind of knitting. These are a just a few of my WIPs, many more lurking about because I can't stop casting on for new projects. Pattern names in the alt description. 🧶 #knitsky #knitting #colourwork #strandedknitting
Two knitted mice. One with pink ears and one with lilac ears. The mouse on the left is wearing trousers (self striping red, orange, pink and purple yarn). The one on the right is wearing a white and blue checkered skirt and an apron in red, pink and purple.
Look closely and see a little bit of colourwork in the skirt.
#ShowMeYourKnits
Pattern is from the ‘Het Muizenhuis Breiboek’ by @karinaschaapman.bsky.social
🧶 #ShowMeYourKnits Continuing along with this project. I had to stop and look at it for a few days when I reached the first end of a ball after separating sleeves, because I couldn’t decide whether to continue with the body or knit the arms first. In the end I decided on the body. #KnitSky
Blue green gold and cream knitted scarf. Lord of the rings themed, it has a dragon, trees, rings, sword, axe and bow.
Blue green gold and cream knitted scarf. Lord of the rings themed, it has a dragon, trees, rings, sword, axe and bow.
Color work you say? My favorite! Here is a LOTR inspired scarf WIP I’m making for my husband. #knitsky #knitting #showmeyourknits
This is the back of a cardigan/jacket: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/aran-garter-stitch-cardigan From bottom: bought madder powder, madder over indigo, cherry tree bark, hollyhock blossoms, madder 2nd dip, onion skins, avocado skins/pits, onion skins, homegrown madder root.
#showmeyourknits is asking for color work? Yes, I know you don't mean boring old stripes but this is my best effort. I hope I get some ⭐for having handspun all this wool on a dropspindle & dyed it all with plants.
BAD WITCH - GOOD WITCH This is a hat against framing and for feminism. The Bad Witch hat is a reversible beanie. When worn inside out it becomes “Good Witch.” CHOOSE your side to wear - let’s not BE chosen. Let’s not be called. By the way, the English word witch is gender‑neutral, and the hat comes in five sizes! Diversity rules!
BAD WITCH - GOOD WITCH This is a hat against framing and for feminism. The Bad Witch hat is a reversible beanie. When worn inside out it becomes “Good Witch.” CHOOSE your side to wear - let’s not BE chosen. Let’s not be called. By the way, the English word witch is gender‑neutral, and the hat comes in five sizes! Diversity rules!
Minster Cowl Cowl with an architectural pattern inspired by the north transept of Westminster Abbey. This cowl is best suited for a tighter knit, which gives it more structure and enhances the design. One size fits all. The floats have a maximum of 7 stitches, but are usually 5 or less.
Insa Socks One width, 72 sts, it can be varied by the needle size and yarn used. Suggested yarn All sock knitting yarns with a yardage of 360 - 425 m/100 g will work fine. Up to size EU 40 / US 9 I recommend yarn with a length of 420m/100g, from size EU 41 / US 10 onwards use yarn with a length of 400m/100grams.
Week 87 for #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 and @livrunsfast.bsky.social wants to see Colourwork.
Well. Sure. Yes. Mostly stranded. That is, what I do.
Here is a wild variety.
#Knitting 🧶 #knitsky
Full transparency: it is my own pattern, and I’m promoting it here ogy.de/BriallenFair
A jumper for a small child is lying flat on a dark green mohair shawl. The jumper has set-in sleeves and a collar (it also buttons at the back neck). It is mostly a sky blue, with a white stripe in the ribbing bands and in the collar - the collar is quite wonky. Across the body are 3 ballerinas - the middle one has a long ‘romantic’ tutu, white trimmed with yellow at the hem and neckline, she is en pointe in 5th position, arms at Demi second. To either side are ballerinas wearing classic tutus in yellow trimmed with white - legs are in passé (standing on one leg- on pointe - other foot at the knee of the standing leg, the bent knee out to the side …) arms - one out to the side, the other up over the head. All ballerinas have yellow pointe shoes and nice red hair - centre parted for the classic tutu wearers, side part with flowers for the ballerina with the romantic tutu. The ballerinas are on the back too - with a yellow tutu in the middle of 2 white romantic tutus … The ballerinas are worked in intarsia - with lots of duplicate stitch to smooth lines out - and embroidery for the details. I knitted this over 40 years ago - I used a vintage pattern for the shape but I charted the ballerinas myself. The blue yarn was 5ply and cheap …
A close up of one of the ballerinas - see the Alt Text of the first photo for more info but this is one of the ballerinas wearing a classic tutu in yellow trimmed with white. Her legs are in passé (standing on one leg- on pointe - other foot at the knee of the standing leg, the bent knee out to the side …) arms - one out to the side, the other up over the head. She has yellow pointe shoes and nice red hair - centre parted. The background knitting is in a sky blue ( we can see some of another ballerina to her left) This was worked in intarsia - with lots of duplicate stitch to smooth lines out - and embroidery for the details. I knitted this over 40 years ago - I used a vintage pattern for the shape but I charted the ballerinas myself. The blue yarn was 5ply and cheap …
A close up of one of the ballerinas - see the Alt Text of the first photo for more info but this ballerina is wearing a long ‘romantic’ tutu, white, trimmed with yellow at the hem and neckline, she is en pointe in 5th position, arms at Demi second. She has yellow pointe shoes and nice red hair - side parted - and she has flowers in her hair. The background knitting is in a sky blue ( we can see some of the other ballerinas to either side and the ribbing of the hip band goes across the bottom of the photo - there is a white stripe in the band. ) This ballerina was worked in intarsia - with lots of duplicate stitch to smooth lines out - and embroidery for the details.
#showmeyourknits - this week the theme is colour-work. Here is a jumper I made my daughter way back in 1984 when she was only 4yrs old and I was a relatively beginner knitter without the budget for good yarn or patterns. She loved it and wore it a lot! #knitsky #handknit #ballerina
Sweater in burnt umber and teal (even though you can't tell!) made with three ply Järbo Svensk Ull.
A still unblocked yoke sweater, a Novita design called Lärka. Knitted in 2 shades of Drops Nepal and a grey Patons yarn, held with various Rowan kidsilk haze.
#showmeyourknits this week is #colourwork. These are two of my more recent examples. My phone can't do the colours justice, though, so I've added a pic from the maker's website to show the blue...that's actually teal!
The back of a cowl being worked in mosaic stitch using 2 yarns. One is a gradient, color changing yarn with purples and greens and the other is a solid mulberry color. You can see a stitch marker at the top of the image and the work is still on the needles.
A recent Musselburgh hat designed by Ysolda Teague with a poem worked in stranded Knitting. The hat is a mulberry color. The letters are gray. You can’t see the whole poem because it is knitted in the round onto a hat, but you can see a few words here it says: ( reading from the top left and across as if reading down a page): river runs fabric wheel light ancient shape
Another project on the needles: this is another Musselburgh hat by Ysolda Teague. Made in a sport weight, purple, greens, grays with a floral motif that includes flowers in pink and in gray and leaves in two shades of green.
colour work for #showmeyourknits
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Woman wearing a knitted woollen jumper, standing in front of a mud brick wall. The jumper has a patterned yoke that looks like drops falling downwards. The main body of the jumper is knitted in dark red, contrasting with the orange wool used for the yoke pattern. Pattern is Stilla, the newly released pattern from Natasja Hornby aka Moonstruck Knits. Main colour yarn is Harvest Hues by John Arbon in pomegranate, contrast colour is Navigator yarn from @piratepurlyarns in Cajun Relish colour.
For #showmeyourknits colourwork week I have a hot off the needles recently completed test knit - details in Alt text. 🧶
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#showmeyourknits #knitsky Last week was green, this week is color work. I just finished this LOTR sweater last night. Wizard's hat and staff for Gandalf, beer steins on the sleeves for the Hobbits, Axes and Arrows crossed for Legolas and Gimli, and of course a long sword for Aragorn.
Thanks to Liv Ross @livrunsfast.bsky.social for thinking this up back in the "invite only" beta phase, and her marvelous capacity for variety in choosing the knitting theme each week.
A Saturday morning, a cuppa Joe, and this week's #ShowMeYourKnits theme. [Le sigh]
Huzzah, Liv! 🎉 🧶
Teal Barley Fingerless Mitts with speckled yarn color work. Pattern by Hillary Grant.
A thick cowl in progress with green, pinks, and yellow color work. Pattern by Andrea Mowry
A mosaic color work cowl knit with a solid and a color shifting yarn. Pattern by Andrea Mowry
#showmeyourknits is asking for color work? Yeah. I have a bit of that. It’s so much fun to watch the pattern come together as the fabric is being made.
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Done and dusted - waiting for approval. 83.4 g for the socks. #knitsky #showmeyourknits #sockmadness #prettyprivilegesocks #yarn #knitting
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That Girl
@elared.bsky.social
· 22d
#showmeyourknits lace. I think this may be my first lace piece. I haven’t done many because it took me a long time to learn to read my knitting and lace was practically Klingon. #knitsky #knitting
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That Girl
@elared.bsky.social
· 22d
#showmeyourknits lace. I think this may be my first lace piece. I haven’t done many because it took me a long time to learn to read my knitting and lace was practically Klingon. #knitsky #knitting
Colorwork for #showmeyourknits you say? “Hold my beer”…
Starting off with my Egyptian wings sweater - oldie but goldie 🧶🤩
#knittingdesign #colorwayknits
Snowflake Mitts - being a pair of mitts worked with one strand of white yarn and one strand slowly transitioning through teal, purple, pink and blue. The left mitt lies palm-down to show the 8-pointed star on the back, the right one palm-up to show the palm pattern of alternating single stitches of the two strands.
Sweet Heart Socks - being knit with neon pink hearts of various sizes against a black background. Toes, heels and ribbing are black.
Teal Lampwork Mittens - mittens patterned in zigzags of black, white and teal. Wrist ribbing and thumbs are teal, as is the inner cuff displayed on the left mitten, which has its top and thumbtip pulled back to expose my fingertips. Right mitten is closed to show the full effect of the pattern, and is lying empty beside my left hand because my right hand was required to take the photo.
Dragon bag - barrel-shaped knit bag is mostly black, though the base has concentric rings of yellow, green, turquoise, purple, pink, and magenta, alternating with black. Drawstring at the top made of turquoise I-cord. Cabling faintly visible in the central section. Around the top just below the drawstring is a pattern of two dragons facing each other with a peace sign between them, worked in the same rainbow of colors seen in the bottom rings. I used to carry this bag as a purse on a daily basis, from 2006 until it wore out.
This week's #ShowMeYourKnits theme is colorwork. Oh what a lot of projects I have to choose from... 🧶🧦🧤
