fiberandcolor

joined 1 year ago
[–] fiberandcolor 2 points 1 year ago

Love the beard!

[–] fiberandcolor 3 points 1 year ago

Many pets for the wee kid

[–] fiberandcolor 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brioche is new to me but I can say it is fun. How complicated it is to you is going to be a personal thing. For example, I can't really do lace because I cannot memorize the patterns so lace is very, very complicated for me.
This brioche is challenging, but in a good way. And once you truly learn it, that's it. You'll be able to do it moving forward unlike say, lace, where you'd still need to memorize each new pattern for every new project.

I do think Soundwaves is a good first brioche knit project. It's written very clearly and the project itself is direct and pretty simple in what he's having you make. It looks more complex than it is. Plus, it's good practice. And Stephen has good brioche tuts. That all said, I'm going to be moving on to Bixbite before being anywhere near finished Soundwaves because that was my goal from the start. Though now I'm a little nervous because I found an error in my Soundwaves this morning and was really at a loss on how it happened and how to fix it/move on. That is, I did move on but I wound up doing a decrease in order to do so. Don't let me scare you. This all sounds worse than it was.

[–] fiberandcolor 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Brioche Soundwaves

I'm learning brioche knitting by working on Stephen West's "Brioche Soundwaves" so I can make a Bixbite shawl. It's going well!

I'm also working on a Dreyma sweater and an Anthology Throw.

[–] fiberandcolor 1 points 1 year ago

I see now. My app was instant approval. I can understand the frustration of waiting days but then, there are only four mods which is why the delay I suppose. They're pretty caught up now, I understand.

[–] fiberandcolor 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stopping back to say I learned it. It was the Stephen West that did it. I paid for and downloaded his Brioche Soundwaves pattern and used it as my learning tool. It worked.

Now I'm just practicing, still using Soundwaves.

I have two sleeves to finish on my Dreyma and then it's on to Bixbite.

Good luck to you!

[–] fiberandcolor 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was not difficult for me to sign up. I had to give some moments of thought to each step except the form application which I gave a couple moments of thought. I was kind of glad it wasn't instant-simple because I'd prefer thinking people be here.

That prolly sounds smackish but it's just my directness. I really didn't have any problems.

[–] fiberandcolor 3 points 1 year ago

It does get better. Keep at it. There's an app called Smoke Free that did it for me. Icon is a green heart. I'm at 3 years, 3 months, 3 weeks. You got this. Triple Crown

[–] fiberandcolor 1 points 1 year ago

I'm reading a lot more too.

[–] fiberandcolor 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Relay Pro. Stopped going.

[–] fiberandcolor 2 points 1 year ago

I love piano cat. It reminds me of my mother's art and I can imagine whole stories involving piano cat and their buddy field mouse. Very fun. Thanks for being a smile to my face.

[–] fiberandcolor 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I spent part of the morning looking for stuff that made more sense to me. Turns out, Stephen West has some killer resources and two in particular help both you and I.

They are the first two vids in the playlist I'm creating here: Brioche Knitting

Seems to me that increase/decrease video is exactly what you (and I) need. Also turns out, I didn't screw it up yesterday. It just LOOKED screwed up. Too bad I ripped it out hahaha! I'm going to start over.

 

I hate admitting defeat for anything. I loathe it but I just rage quit my test swatch of the Bixbite Shawl because I can't figure out the brioche. Never done brioche before so yeah, that's not helping anything here.

What project kicked your ass?

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Dreyma (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by fiberandcolor to c/creative
 

This is Dreyma by Jenn Steingass. Here is my Ravelry project page: FiberAndColor's Dreyma

The neck is rolling a bit too much and I'm not sure if I will be able to block that out. If you have suggestions, I'm happy to hear them. I'm curious how others got away without that hyper roll or what I did wrong?

The yoke was a challenge for me because it fell in between a 32" and 40" circular but I made it work, sometimes using two circulars in order not to distort the fabric.

I fell in love with this pattern the minute I saw it and love it still. I'd love to make a little kid version of this - it would be adorable!

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