Hoping this goes as planned!💋❤️

GOBLIN WEEK NO.4: Two teeny tiny bobbin-goblins, or ‘Globobblins’, who have founded a brand new teeny tiny goblin kingdom out of someone’s sewing supply. The kingdom is growing very quickly, it currently has, oh, Two members! Observe their ceremonial Yarn-Armour (‘Yarmour’) and expressions of perpetual surprise. They are married, and they will stick pins in your legs if you annoy them. Defi-‘Knit’-ly my favourite gobbos

thecakethatknits:

Getting so close to finishing these socks. I can’t wait for them to be done since it feels like they are taking forever.

Sock yarn is discontinued Knit Picks Felici sock yarn in Steamertrunk (I think?)

Pattern is Blueberry Waffle on Ravelry

cinder-fallsover:

I love using knitting needles. I can make a hat, I can make a scarf, I can kill someone, I can make socks, I can make mittens, etc.

marauders70s:

yaoyaoartblog:

Dumbledore’s down time

STOP THIS IS THE CUTEST FAN ART OF ALL TIME

lazy-vegetarian:

Sugar Mountain by Amy Christoffers on Ravelry

Here goes nothing…

I’ve been knitting consistently for about three years now. In that time I made one pair of worsted weight socks. They turned out ok, but I wasn’t super impressed with socks. TBH, I’m still not. Given that I can buy perfectly good wool socks from Costco in a pack of four for the same price or less than a skein of sock yarn, making my own seems silly when I could be making sweaters.

That said, several factors have encouraged me to reexamine socks:

1. I really love working on my tiny DPNs

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Socks are probably less fiddly than toys which I enjoy making

2. It is easier to get souvenir yarn in 100 g fingering weight quantities than anything else

3. Not all fingering weight yarn is appropriate for shawls and scarves

And so, I’ve cast on a sock. We’ll see how this goes…

lazy-vegetarian:

Only Ocean by Sylvia McFadden on Ravelry

lazy-vegetarian:

Abrazos by Lisa K Ross (free on Ravelry through December 14, 2017)

I’m seriously considering to buy a blow-up sex doll for blocking.

yarnaddiction:

mrknaogan:

marybegone:

akhuna:

marybegone:

recentlyfolded:

marybegone:

lenkalost:

akhuna:

marybegone:

Blocking a sweater made on the round turns out to be a bit difficult. If I had a blow-up doll, I could just dress her in the sweater and blow her up to the required proportions. Hmmm… Any other ideas?

The problem I see with this is that I am not sure how proportional a blow-up doll would be. When blocking a sweater, you have to consider several measurements, chest size, shoulders, hips, arm-width, etc … Is it possible to buy a sex doll that has enough air vents to adjust this?

I can’t knit but two ideas were coming to my mind.

1) A mannequin. Those you see in the shopwindows. As far as I know you can fasten and unfasten the arms and the head and maybe you could get a cheap one when a shop closes or anything? (I don’t have the slightest clue what a blow-up doll would cost, so…)

2) A tailor’s dummy. I guess what works for tailors could works for knitters, too?

Sorry if this were stupid ideas but maybe they were somewhat useful? (BTW I’d LOVE to see a sweater on a blow up doll ;))

Good ideas, but mannequins tend to be quite slender and you cannot vary the sizes AFAIK, whereas tailor’s dummies have no arms at all, I believe?

If I buy one, I’ll make sure to post her photo! ;-D

Why not simply make a corrugated cardboard cutout of the required dimensions if you don’t want to block your sweaters flat? That’s the way we fold them up, so the light creases it would leave wouldn’t stand out as something odd. It’s like sock-blockers, which are flat blockers for something that is worn on a round limb.

Thank you for your input! You know that we don’t have any sock blockers over here?! I never knew socks could or should be blocked. From the needle on the foot it is here. Yeah, it’s too late anyway for the yellow sweater. I’m blocking it flat already, but it’s not ideal.

My thoughts on this would be … wouldn’t the cardboard soak through pretty fast? I mean, sure, you roll the stuff in a towel and trample on it (that’s what I do), but I don’t know if that would work well with cardboard … Just my 2 cents, though.

(about the sock blockers – they look nice, but, imho, are a waste of money. No shame on those who want to buy them and/or love them though! You’re totally justified, I just think it’s unneccessary)

Yeah, that’s right, it would soak through (although I even tumble for a bit *shhh*), so one had to waterproof the cardboard somehow. Too much work. I’ll try balloons next time, if I can find oval ones.

http://www.camillavalleyfarm.com/knit/woolyboard.htm

I think something like this is what is traditionally used.

i imagine the cardboard could be waterproofed with something like polyurethane (it’s clear and you use it to seal wood)?

I have never made one myself, but you can make a cast of your torso and use that to make a personalized dress form. Here’s one of the tutorials I found: https://www.google.com/amp/s/jezebel.com/5803791/how-to-make-a-custom-dress-form-part-one/amp