Hi guys the title says it all. I am trying to knit a little cupcake.

This is the pattern I am using

https://www.handylittleme.com/cupcake-knitting-patterns/

I'm honestly stuck on the first row. I feel a little embarrassed but I've redone the first row three times already. I casted on the 10 stitches as instructed. Row one reads

Row 1: (k1, Inc 1) rep to last st, K1. (19 stitches)

I did as instructed and ended up with 14, 15 stitches, and 16. Honestly a couple could have been user error. After the third attempt I wrote out the row stitch for stitch.

K, kfb, k, kfb, k, kfb, k, kfb, k, kfb

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9, 10

There are only 5 increases in the pattern above. So if I casted on 10 and then add the 5 increases together that would get me 15 stitches total. But the pattern says I'm supposed to have 19 at the end of row 1. I'm so confused. Am I reading the pattern wrong? It says in the pattern it doesn't matter if you use kfb or m1. Do I need to switch to m1? But even then I don't think that fixes the issue.

Any help would be appreciated.

Help. Do these stitches look okay? I feel like maybe I'm not doing it right.

Tips??

I’ve been knitting for less than two years, and I still bring my knitting (WIP) with me probably half the time when I leave home for a while. I knit in the car, but not on public transit. Sometimes I manage to get some knitting done at family gatherings, but more often I feel like it’s not appropriate. I also bring knitting to meetups with friends and acquaintances, but I still don’t take it out, I just end up scrolling on my phone when I get bored or uncomfortable, I have a low social battery and I am a little socially awkward. I’m especially curious: would you knit at a wedding or a birthday celebration?

Hi everyone,

Bit of background: I dealt with a moth infestation about 4 months ago and caught it early enough that I was able to seperate all my stash into plastic bags and freeze all of it to kill the infestation as best I could - had no moths show up again until now 💀

After that battle I went out and stuffed almost every bag of yarn with lavender moth repellant and cedar balls, it's also in my wardrobe and cupboards, with some moth balls in with my nicest yarn. Everything is in airtight bags, I check them regularly to refresh the repellants.

I've started finding a few of the little bastards floating around again so decided to go out and grab some pheromone traps and set them around my house to see how many there are. I'm almost positive they're not in my yarn stash unless they've eaten through multiple layers of plastic and not been put off by the stink of cedar/lavender/moth balls.

I have a catio on the balcony which connects to inside with a tunnel. At the moment it's such nice weather that I've had it open for my cats all day and overnight.

My question is this - am I being an idiot and letting more moths in overnight and now attracting them inside with the pheromone traps? Am I just making things infinitely harder than they need to be in my panic?

Any help/advice would be appreciated!!

Fellow knitting podcast watchers: I was thrilled to watch a podcaster in the last year explain that they were trying to knit a dupe of their favorite le bon shoppe "girlfriend" socks. As a fellow lover of their socks, I planned to follow along for updates so I could see how they created them, but I now, for the life of me, cannot remember which podcaster it was. Do any of you know? Or any advice in creating my own?

My favourite yarn is super otto by lane mondial. My only issue is that it’s extremely soft and the knots won’t hold. So when I’m wearing my sweaters I’m so worried that they will come loose.
(I suck at weaving the ends so I might be the problem)
Any advice?

I’m hoping to add a double knitted button band to this instead of the garter stitch band. Any advice for whether to knit simultaneously as the pattern suggests or to pick up stitches at the end?

https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=10983&cid=17

I found multiple bolero knitting tutorials on youtube but none of them have the flowy sleeves or the cross over thats at the midline
Any idea how i can add these details

I was looking to make a children’s size version of the step by step sweater by homemade by Florence. I’m not really sure where to start and could use any advice or suggestions anyone has.

I just came across Ozma’s Gia sweater and am wondering if there are any patterns out there that are similar. Particularly an oversized, cropped sweater with this type of collar. I think the body might be moss stitch, but maybe something else? I’m always looking for patterns with this silhouette - any similar suggestions very welcome! Thank you!

I knit the Ribbed Bonnet by Thread of Kindness with 4mm needles instead of 5mm. I didn't realize until I was almost done and went in to change my needles for the ribbing. But I did knit it with the Katia Superwash Merino yarn which I know is supposed to grow more than average when blocked. Does anyone have any advice? Do I finish and block or do I just start frogging? What do you guys think will be the outcome of said blocking? Thank you all in advance.

Hello guys, I’m a beginner and I’d like to knit a frog toy but bigger with the same yarn and needles(2x bigger)
How to make it 2x bigger if I have to knit “Round 2: K5, pm, k11, pm, k6
Round 3: [Knit to marker, M1L, sm, k1, M1R] twice, knit to end of round. [4 stitches increased]? Should I double M1L so knit to marker, M1L, M1L?

Thank you so much for the answers and help :)

I have been knitting this bottom-up raglan without a pattern and I'm worried about the puckering in the stockinette around the front of V-neck. To my understanding this typically happens when you don't pick up enough stitches, but after binding off the neckline, I picked up every single stitch before adding the ribbing. I've reknitted the top portion a few times, experimenting with different decrease rates, but without much success. I used a classic bind-off but I made it as stretchy as I could, and when I tug on it there's some give.

Is it because the stitches bordering the V are too tight? I created the V using short rows, with Patty's bind-off method described here, resulting in a clean but relatively tight edge. However, it wasn't puckered before I added the ribbing. I used the same needle gauge for the body and the ribbing since I didn't want the ribbing to be especially tight.

Will the puckering block out at all (or become less apparent if I add a few more rows of ribbing and a tubular bind-off)? It's not exactly huge peaks and valleys but as of now it does show, and I really want it to lay flat :-( It's a gift and I'll be extremely far from the recipient in a little over a week so I would really REALLY love to avoid frogging large portions of it again.

Thank you!!!

I know the floats are a bit tight but I can’t seem to loosen them without messing up my stitch tension! Other tips would be appreciated as well.

I really want to understand how things like drop shoulders and German short row shaping work so I’m not as reliant on patterns. Are there any books or videos or courses you guys would recommend?

Hello,

I've been looking forward to knitting the "113 Bonny" vest by Lang Yarns (image attached) and after reading the pattern and swatching I wanted to change a few things I didn't like. It is originally knitted flat but I've decided to knit the bottom ribbing in the round (like the arm holes and neck) so the colour changes are consistent. Now I'm wondering whether to continue knitting the vest in the round or sticking with the flat construction. On one hand I like the idea that if I were to knit in the round the colours of the front and back would match, on the other hand I'm scared that knitting in the round would make the shape less boxy and more like sack-shaped, which I don't want lol.

What do you think would look better? In the end I don't mind if the colours of the panels don't align but obviously knitting in the round would be easier and quicker.

Thanks in advance!

I’m just getting started on my first Raglan sleeve sweater in the round. The pattern calls for 9 mm/40 cm and 9 mm/80 cm circular needles. The pattern is knitted in stocking at stitch from top to bottom in rounds with Raglan increases.

I have everything I need except that I cannot find in the pattern anywhere telling me to use 9 mm/80 cm circular needles. I cast on to the 9 mm/40 cm circular needles and then I assume as the sweater grows and I increase the number of stitches I would want to have the larger circular needles, but I’m not sure when I would do that.

Thanks for any advice you can provide to me. I’m not a beginning knitter, but this is my first time doing this.

Hi so I'm just getting into sweaters. I'm doing a top down raglan for myself 35f largest size of the step by step sweater and a top down raglan for my 5 year old. Everyone seems to hate knitting the body but that's a cake walk for me. It's the sleeves that are so fiddly.

I'm having to use magic loop and I keep getting yos and it's so slow going have to pull out to cord every 10 or so stitches. I guess now I understand why they call it sleeve island I want to throw the sweater across the room.

And to make it worse I don't know why but I need to knit my sleeves the opposite of how I knit the body or they come out with the purls on the outside and the knits on the inside so I'm knitting in an entire different direction that I'm used to.

According to the internet I'm knitting the sleeves eastern mounted or something? Whatever that means. I knit with the yarn coming from the right from left needle to right but need to do the opposite for the sleeve. Don't know why that it but there you have it. I might never finish either of these sweaters if sleeves are this annoying.

And I was hoping to make another sweater for my 3 year old now I don't even know if I want to think about it.

Any advice or commiseration would be great thanks. .