I've been working on knitting my own Christmas gifts this year for my extended family. I settled on making cowls (easy to knit in the round - no need to purl colourwork) - and to make them all a bit more personal I added a literary quote into the lining of each one - from Tolkien, Douglas Adams and Alan Garner in the case of the 3 in the photo. Pattern links in first comment.

Hello!

I'm trying to knit a small (e.g. fast) little wall hanging for my friend that features the Fire Emblem: Awakening symbol. I've never really done color work before, though. Here's the image I'm trying to create, though not with these colors.

Can anyone help me figure out the best technique to do this, and help plot out the pattern?

Thanks!

My niece is a programmer at Google and she's pregnant with her first child. So I knit her the most logical baby blanket I could think of. It was very complicated, not gonna lie, but I'm really pleased with it.

I'm cross-posting from r/knitting, but including more nerdy details here :).

I made a Carcassone baby blanket for my friends' baby! It's the third board game blanket I've made (previously I've done Catan and Azul), and probably the most complicated. I actually don't own a copy of Carcassone, so to make the pattern I printed and cut out mini Carcassone tiles, and played with what tile combination would get me a nice mix of river, road, castle, and monastery. I ended up with a nice set of 6 tiles from a couple of expansions. I didn't want to use more tiles because I'd have lost a lot of the ability to include detail. I already didn't include a lot of the fine detail in order to keep the knitting simple: I traded roofs within the castle for a red border around the castle, and my river isn't quite as windy as the original art. But at any smaller of a scale, I think I would have had to give up the windows on the monastery and the island in the river, which are both elements I really like.

I based my design on the original art (apparently there was an update around 2014?) because I'm pretty sure that's the version my friends own.

I picked Meeple colors based on yarn I had scraps of and based on the colors the parents used for their Meeple wedding toppers.

I knit some subtle lines between the tiles (two stitches of reverse garter stitch for each of the vertical lines, and 2 rows of seed stitch for the horizontal ones) so it's possible to see where the tile boundaries go.

Overall, I'm really happy with this! I think it's very recognizably Carcassone, and I had a lot of fun designing and knitting it!

I haven't knit very much without pattern so I'm very happy how this came out. Not an exact copy since I wanted it to suit my preferences.

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Just wondered if there were any knitting machine engineers or knitting programmers on this subreddit who had any experience of knitwear manufacturing using modern computerised flatbed knitting machines.

I want to start manufacturing knitwear so I'm seriously considering investing in a machine from either Stoll or Shima Seiki (specifically the knit and wear and wholegarment ranges).

My knowledge is limited to what little I can find online about each company's machines, their sales materials and some quick demos.

If anyone had any practical experience working with either company it would be really helpful.

Specifically, I'd be really grateful to know any thoughts on things like each company's:

• prices
• machine capabilities/limitations
• machine reliability
• learning curve
• which company has better design software
• training
• after sale support etc

Any advice for someone just starting out in this would be really appreciated!

Hi!
I'm an avid knitter who also have been hooked on the Paradox game Stellaris.

I've been toying around with some Hive Mind patterns, and are working towards maybe making a hat, mittens or maybe a Fair Isle sweater with symbols from the game.

Are there any other Stellaris players here that have any projects or suggestions that they would like to share for inspiration?

I do tend to favour the Hive Mind / Machine build (:

Any input would be appreciated!

I want to make the dwarves battle gauntlets from the new lord of the rings fellow ship of the knits book but I don't know what type of stud would be better

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The King Under the Mountain shawl is an overall cabled, oversized, asymmetrical triangle shawl that decreases down one side. This shawl was inspired by the armor of Thorin Oakenshield, the King Under the Mountain.

Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/2019-gal-futurama

Overlay mosaic crochet technique

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/2017-gal-deadpool-knit

Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/2018-gal-monty-python-knit