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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Final #knitting plus size socks segment. The biggest problem with adjusting the toe is decreasing more stitches in roughly the same 2 inches most socks give. You really can't begin the toe further back, without discomfort. The easiest way is to decrease each row instead of every other row.

Close image of the toe of the sock. The background is pale wood. The lowest stripe color is light blue, then a thin stripe of yellow, next is blue-black, next orange, then a thinner stripe of variegated, and light blue. The variegated stripe is made with the other colors except yellow. The toe is knit with a different color from the rest of the sock. It is a black color with spots of grey, blue, and reddish brown.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Another #knitting thread on adjusting a sock for plus size feet. First, I have to say, there's gotta be a flaw in the pattern. I previously knit a similar sock, and had the same thing happen, and chose this sock to see where the problem was. Basically, there's no gusset in the pattern.

The heel and gusset of a striped sock. The heel is a ribbed triangle shaped. The bottom of the picture is the keg of the sock, with variegated yarn. The variegated yarn is made with the other stripe colors in the sock. The next stripe is light blue, followed by yellow, blue-black, and orange. The stripe sequence repeats after that. Near the top, a much thinner stripe of yellow is there, with just the beginning of the blue -black stripe.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A #knitting thread about adjusting a sick pattern to plus size.

A sock leg on cable needles. The cuff is at the bottom of the picture, and there's 5 colors in 10 rows of stripes. The bottom is yellow, next blue-black, 3rd is orange, 4th is a variegated yarn with all the stripe colors except yellow, 5th is light blue. After the 5th stripe the sequence repeats. The sock gets narrower as it progresses towards the needle. There's a pale wood background.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Continuing the example of #knitting plus size socks. Here we can see the decreases at the back of the calf. While I am decreasing 2 stitches every 3rd round, this isn't the only option. You can decrease 4 stitches in a round by having the decreases at the sides of the leg.

A sock cuff and legs on a red cable for magic loop knitting. 7 stripes have been completed. From the bottom of the photo, yellow, blue-black, orange, a variegated stripe with all the other colors, except yellow, light blue, and the sequence starts again, yellow, blue-black.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a follow up to the #knitting thread on making plus sized adjustments to sock patterns, I recommended adding 2 inches to the cast on, and immediately decreasing. I do a full purl round, then decrease the extra stitches in the first rubbing round. There is no ruffling or pointing from this.

A short section of ribbed knitting on a cable. The lowest color is yellow, the next is a very dark blue, almost black, and just one row of orange at the top. The knitting is on a pale wood surface

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The extra stitches out. Don't stress too much about this. Here is a picture of a sock that I am just starting. This will be a vanilla is the new black sock. Here you see the appropriate number of decrease marked out, for 16 stitches. My cuff will be 15 inches wide.

Orange-yellow yarn cast on a red cable for magic loop. The top, one stainless steel knitting needle is visible. Several purple bulb markers are along both halves of the cast on.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#xstitch #crossstitch fail. Two days of trying to get the hoop grime out has failed. I have to say, while I have not focused on xstitch long, I did decades ago as a teenager, and never been plagued with hoop grime before. Because it's not ironed it's hard to see, but it is noticeable in person.

A partially completed cross stitch piece showing a stylized tree using winter motifs. The emerging shape is like a topiary, made out of 2 dimensional representations of both trees and holiday images. The natural parts of the tree are disconnected leafs and branches, in bluish colors. Some leaves seem rounded, and some feather out from branches. A couple of the leaf shapes are in red or light peach to add interest to the color palette. Included as winter motifs are some holly leaves with a red berry. There's a brown roundish shape that might represent a pinecone, and two small branches with red berries separate from the holly leaves. A cartoonish robin with a Santa hat is the main feature of the top of the tree. At the left side of the trunk of the tree is a cartoonish fawn, with a red scarf. On the right there are three stacked presents. The fawn and the presents have the same out of scale nature as the bird. The base of the tree has a smallish ground of grass, and 3 ferns. Barely visible in the photo is the ghost of hoop grime that couldn't be washed away, rendering days of work useless.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Why's this crazy person have so many projects? Look, I make poor choices. I had to work on something else while I try to get the hoop grime stain out of the other, similar project I was working on. This is Hello Holly, part of the same hello trees line from caterpillar cross stitch.

An embroidery hoop with a barely started project. There's a poinsettia in the top of the frame just off center. Across the canvas there are several floss strands held by a plain magnet. The floss strands are coming out of a partially finished Christmas ornament. The Aida canvas is a light sage green color, the Christmas ornament is vertical stripes starting with orange on the right, a blue that looks silver in the contrast, then teal, and in the center pink. From the pink, the colors repeat opposite starting with the teal, next blue, and finally orange, with the left most orange barely started. The top of the hoop stand, clamped to the hoop is visible above the poinsettia.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've been cross stitching. This will be "hello deer" by caterpillar cross stitch. I have other projects going as well, but I'm not sure when I will post anything.

In progress cross stitch project. To the left of a tree trunk is a cutesy fawn with a large round head, and white spots. There is a fern at the base of the tree trunk, and a stack of presents to the tight. There's a red bow and a white and blue box on top, a striped red and blue grey striped box beneath the first, and the last box is a beige, peachy color with a large blue heart. The tree isn't a Christmas tree, though the theme is the winter holiday. At the top of the trunk there is a peach flower with a red and white center partially covered by the hoop. Some unattached leaves and berries in individual motifs begin the base of a circular top of the tree, which is only beginning to take shape.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I've been playing around with a fingering weight version of Margaret Holzmann's "Safe at Home" blanket pattern. I also like how the books have some examples of other projects with the squares.

Two partial knit squares in the style of quilt blocks. Each square has 5 colors, house, windows, door, roof, and sky. The roof colors are striped, one color repeats the door color. The complete square is burgundy, yellow, brown, rose pink, and light teal. The partial square is blue, gold, silver, purple, and hot pink.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

After my post about having to decode my notebook, I thought I would show you all that I did relearn how I survived the gusset while maintaining my short rows. I know I am always "if you can dream it, you can be it" about knitting, but sometimes I think I over do it.

An unfinished sock on long circular needles with a red cable over a notebook with very messy writing. The sock has uneven stripes throughout. The dominant color is bright blue variegated with darker and lighter blue, as well as darker and lighter magenta. The other stripe is a white base speckled with black, blue, green, red, yellow and pink. The speckled parts of the white yarn are very similar to the original highlighter colors from the 80s.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I finally finished my November gnome. In my defense, it just needed the bits sewn on, but I had a fall right before Thanksgiving and just put it on the back burner. This pattern is Gnoel by Sarah Schira, who I recommend for all things related to knit gnomes.

A large hand knit gnome, with winter colorwork. The colors are pea green, fuchsia, dark green, teal, and grey. The main color of the body is the pea green, with a Norwegian star, made of the dark green, with teal in the center, framed with a squiggly line of fuchsia. The star motif repeats around the body. The hat has a repeated motif of evergreens in the dark green, on a grey background, with diamonds at the base in two rows with the dark green closer to the trees and the teal below it, over a background of pea green. Below the diamonds is the hat brim in fuchsia. Above the trees is a zigzag line of the dark green with spots of fuchsia between the points. Top of the hat is squared off with fuchsia. The nose is grey, as well as the beard, which is fringed around the lower edges. The arms are made of pea green for the sleeves and fuchsia mittens.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A few years ago I knit this very large garter stitch shawl. It was called shifting chevrons, by Stephen West I think. It's my only shawl designed by him. I washed it this morning after bringing it out for the cooler weather.

Very large shawl, that doesn't entirely fit in the frame. The shawl is created using 7 colors in 7 wedges, with the stripe pattern shifting by one layer each wedge the first wedge. Unfortunately, I'd couldn't take a picture with all of it visible, as I would need a bigger house and 2 more sets of blocking mats, so it's folded with a wedge and a half on top, each side, and one wrong side wedge in the middle, where several woven in ends can be seen. The colors are silver, a heathered cool redish color, pink, deep purple leaning towards red, dark grey, lavender, and black.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Guess who's finished! Look everyone, the monster and the bride. I'm so happy about them, though not unaware that the monster kinda looks like a green penguin. The silver brackets weren't meant to look like eyes, but they do. Not sure it can be helped. Gotta figure out neck bolts

Side view of hand-knit Frankenstein's monster gnome.The top portion is a dark green, with a flat round top, creating a very cylindrical head. There's a bright green section representing the head, with silver bracket shapes knit with fair isle knitting. There's a large round nose in the bright green, and under the nose is a beard made with the same dark green as the top of the head. The body is made out of a lighter grey-green color, with black feet.

Front view of hand-knit Frankenstein's monster gnome. The head is made of a dark green with a flat top and cylinder shape. There are silver brackets knit in fair isle where the dark green transitions to the bright green of the face. The large round nose is knit in the bright green. Under the nose is a beard knit in the dark green in garter stitch. The arms are I-cords with the lower part out of the bright green. The rest of the arms and body are knit using a grey green. There are 2 black shoes also knit.

Frankenstein's monster gnome and the bride gnome together. Both hand knit. The monster is on the left and the bride is on the right. Both gnomes are about the same height. The monster has a flat dark green cylindrical shape in top, and the bride has a charcoal colored conical shape, with white streaks in chain stitching barely visible on both sides. They both have bright green noses, with the monster having a band of the same bright green for the lower part of the head. There are also silver brackets knit into the transition of dark green to bright green using fair isle knitting. The monster's body is knit in a light grey-green, and the bride's is white, with grey chain stitching in lines to represent the flowing gown. Both have I-cord arms, that match the body color, except for the lower part, in the bright green, to represent the hands. The monster has black shoes, also hand knit, but the bride has no visible feet.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I promised you all a bride of Frankenstein gnome, and here's the proof I've been working on it. Also, tomorrow I should have pictures of the monster. Because the Bride demands a companion. Here's some pics.

A hand knit gnome knit in the style of the 30s Bride of Frankenstein. The top is a conical grey with a small amount of white showing on the top right. The bottom is knit in white, with grey details to give reference to the flowing shrowd or gown worn in the classic film. The nose and hands are bright green. Background is a wood grain surface with a blank canvas behind the gnome.

The bride of Frankenstein gnome seen from the side. Going up the conical gray top, there is a white line of chain stitching to represent the white streaks in the Bride's hair. The bottom is the hand knit white, with grey chain stich details. The bright green nose is seen to the left, where the top grey and bottom white meet. The background is a wood grain surface and a plain piece of canvas behind the gnome.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

So, I've been working on a pink a long and am fairly close to finished. The pattern is Cocoknits Flynn, to which I added a lot of hip shaping. I made a couple of zipper facings in a much tighter gauge to sew in later. Yarn is two strands of bubbly boucle from the place I am irritated with.

Hand knit vest made in fluffy yarn laid out on a blocking mat with a grid. The yarn is a bright fuchsia. Two strips of knit fabric are visible in the top left, to be sewn in later as a zipper facing. Lower left corner has a small swatch for a different project visible in bright pink and pea green.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

So, in an attempt to get me to focus on this project, I started blocking. I have the first piece, which already had ends woven in on the boards. With a combination of knitteing on the 4th piece, and weaving in the ends of pieces 2 and 3, I hope to finish the bulk of the knitting in 4 or 5 days.

One half of back if a T-shirt, pinned to measure on gridded blocking boards. The piece is knitted with a modular garter stitch construction, that creates a diagonal zigzag. The sleeve is built into the piece and continues the design without change. The colors are deep purple and pea green, and the garter stitch texture changes orientation with the color changes.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

So, what am I doing that's pattern free today? a modular T-shirt. Here's some of the pieces already done, then I'll explain the process.

Two back pieces of a hand knit modular T-shirt. The stitches created a zigzag Chevron pattern, which continues into the sleeves out of a deep purple, and pea green yarn. Background is just a sage green bedsheet, that really doesn't honor the palette of the garment pieces.

One piece of the T-shirt front. It is in the same stitch pattern of zig zag, which will form a Chevron pattern when the other piece is complete. There's a v-neck beginning with the deep purple beginning the piece. Same unfortunate sage green background as the first picture.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I don't jump into the crochet pool very often, as it's more difficult for me, but the love is there. The cozy is adapted from a soda can cozy in the book "Dark and Dramatic crochet" by Alexis Sixel. I honestly not sure if I adapted a crochet pattern before, but had a much bigger jar to cover

A large jar with a cozy made of a tonal black yarn at the bottom and a slimy yellow green at the top, worked to look like it is oozing out. The jar is on a white shelf over too packs of loose leaf paper, one with orange print on the label, and one wth blue. To the right there is a fabric basket with tan fabric in the lower half and white on the upper.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Well, everyone, the tee-shirt I knit based on patterns in the cocoknits sweater workshop is done. Now, there is a fairly similar cocoknits pattern on the website for 8 dollars. It is before they started taking size inclusivity seriously, and the gauge isn't an exact match, but

A blue tee-shirt pinned to gridded blocking boards. In the lower left, there's an open box of blocking combs with some out pinning down the tee-shirt.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I'm probably not going to finish this tee shirt today. I'm having hand problems. But when I say I am painfully close to finishing it, I'm not making it up.

A close shot of blue knitting, with the purl side out. A row of stitch markers on the left are used to mark progress. The markers are from the top green, 2 red, and orange. The needle cable is red. The knit side of the garment is visible at the bottom of the shot, showing where the front and back were separated from the bottom, indicating half the garment has been finished, and only a few rows are left on the other side.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Today, the knitting hanger started yesterday is off the needles, blocked and stitched up. As mentioned yesterday, I began at the bottom, with 2 sets of 4 row vertical buttonholes, above that is 3 sets of 2 row buttonholes, and above that is 10 sets of eyelets. I folded the piece with wrong side

A beige narrow strip of knitting with slits and eyelets. At the bottom of the picture a row of purl stitches creates a ridge which marks a change to plain knit stitches. Knit piece is pinned out to gridded blocking boards.

The second half of the knitting is shown, with the same beige yarn. At the top, we see the first ridge of purl stitches, that was at the bottom of the first photo. After a section of plain knitting, there is another ridge of purl stitches. Beneath that ridge is a section of plain knitting matching the length of the first section of knitting containing the slots from the first photo. Piece is pinned to gridded blocking boards.

Third picture shows the knitting removed from the blocking board. The piece was folded in half and sewed together, with only the slotted side showing. It curves slightly on a wood grain background.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Hello everyone. I decided to give an example of living without patterns. I decided to get some fixed circular needles after years of using interchangeable needles. This is because I have had very bad luck with wooden and bamboo interchangeable, and I'm starting to not want to fight with twisting

The beginning of a knitting project, in a pale barige yarn. It is on a dark blue background for contrast, with a small amount of wood grain visible at the left side of the image. The stitch pattern is in stockinette, with buttonholes evenly spaced throughout.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I recently finished another pair of socks, and am a bit hyper focused on socks at the moment. I think this is stroll yarn from knit picks, but not entirely sure. The picture doesn't do the heathered yarn justice, though working with a single color yarn was a little boring. They are worked

Deep green heathered hand knit socks on a wood grain background.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Believe it or not, this sock post will also turn to a knitting hot take. I didn't use a pattern, and used patons kroy sock yarn. I lost the label, but you should be able to find it from the picture

A striped sock with the colors purple, grey, light blue, blue leaning towards teal, and a blue green, with a cream color between each stripe.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Someone has thoughts about the vet saying she has to lose weight.

Small dog, with a lot of Chihuahua in her intently looking at person holding camera. She's a black and tan, with a lovely pale pink stripe in going vertically down the front of her nose. The right side of photo, shows a little teeth from her lip being naturally higher on that side.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This is Gnolan, from the Sarah Schira book, The Gnomes of Grimblewood. I used Knit Picks Pallette yarn, and have to say it's much more pleasant to work with than superwash. Believe it or not, I'm working on more than Gnomes, but really enjoy them. This is my January gnome for the KAL

A knit gnome, with a curled hat pictured on a gridded blocking mat. The gnome stands about 10 inches, and has a cylindrical body. The hat is stripped with 5 colors, the lighter colors of periwinkle, lavender, silver creating a soft blending effect, rather than distinctly standing out, and the darker color is a false black created by dark heather yarns with heavy blue undertones. The dominant color of the body is the darker yarn from the hat, with thin stripes of the periwinkle and lavender in alternating stitches. The alternating stitches are not really noticeable. The beard is knit from the silver yarn and is hooked on the gnomes left arm. The nose is in a tan color. The gnome has no visible eyes.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I did the cocoknits Milli kerchief, in stroll rainforest heather. I used a bit under 100 grams, and still got more scarf than expected. This is almost a shawl. The instructions are pretty relaxed, so you can customize size by weight. I used size 5 needles. It's a very fun knit.

A triangle scarf with extended ties creating a curved top pinned out on grided blocking mats, with mostly empty purple containers of blocking combs in the lower right corner. The color is a deep heathered green, with jeweled undertones when the light is right.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Here is the finished Gnana's. She was a lot of fun to knit, though I got impatient spreading the knitting out over so long. I am considering doing the year of gnomes for 2025.

A knit gnome with a purple and red cloak. The body is mostly peach, with purple and red slipped stitches in a mostly stripped and dotted design. Bottom of the gnome is red, with purple slipped stitches creating a motif that is kind of like a letter T. She has long white braids and is holding a snowflake charm, and wears wire framed glasses with no eyes

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

These are the gnomes and trees I've knit over the last couple weeks. They are Gnoddy and Gnorri from the Gnomes of Grimblewood by Sarah Schira. I really love these gnomes. The trees are Wee Trees by Sarah Schira, pattern on Ravelry.

From right to left, a small cone shaped green-blue tree with a spiral, a bit behind that a larger one with the same color, a gnome with a speckled hat with a dark brim with ear flaps wearing a chartreuse sweater, and a gnome with an orange and green striped hat, with orange pockets in it's beard and a green body. 2nd gnome has little feet.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Okay, maybe I'm emotionally stable enough to venture from toys, but socks are still a mental health project. No pattern, using Regia sock yarn. I'm not sure the color way, but it's part of the Arne and Carlos line, and the dominant color is purple.

Beginning of a tie up sock, with ribbing on the top of the foot. The yarn is self stripping, with purple, blue, white, and pink visible. Background gridded blocking mat.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I never posted Agi with her finished vest. Here you go.

Knit anthropomorphized sheep, wearing a very loopy vest. Under the vest is a white dress with a brown grid. You can just see a small textured white bag under the vest on the right. Background is the gridded blocking mat.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is Gnoddy, her pattern is in The Gnomes of Grimblewood by Sarah Schira. I admit I've been hyper focused on cute things this last week. Yarn is from my stash.

A knit gnome with a white hat, speckled with black and green, and a black brim. The gnome is wearing a yellow-green sweater, and has a black base. The beard is loopy, and the hands and nose are made with peach yarn.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I received my kit from the Gnome Mkal by Sarah Schira called Gnana's Visit. I got the yarn from KelliInTheMiddle on Etsy.

Stack of four mini skins of fingering weight yarn, red, purple, orange, and white, tied together. Secured to the yarn is a small plastic bag with a tiny pair of wire frame glasses. Background is a grided blocking mat.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I finished Agi the sheep. Her loopy vest and bag are drying.

Hand knit stuffed sheep wearing a pinafore style dress with brown grid pattern. The sheep is propped up on a white blanket with pink floral pattern.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Need some whimsy today. Pattern from Mouche & Friends by Cynthia Vallet

The head and shoulders of a small knit sheep, with the start of an arm on double pointed needles. In the background there is the edge of a pattern book over a pink multi pen, and a small tin. There is a green fabric background.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Hurting way too much to be working on things today, but am playing around with a faux popcorn garland with some leftover patons classic worsted.

A short garland of crocheted bobbles separated with chain stitches to resemble a string of popcorn and cranberries, laying on a green background.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Been stuck in swatch mode today. Working with leftover patons classic wool and lion brand's fisherman's wool.

A messy photo, cluttered with balls of yarn, and a buried pair of scissors is near a light blue ball in the upper left. There's a hexagon swatch in the front, made with yellow, cream, brown, teal, and blue yarn in Tunisian crochet.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I knit this a couple years ago, but am just now demanding the space needed to block it. It's from a pattern in a book I found at a thrift store called Victorian Lace Today, by Jane Sowerby

Nutmeg color, lace, circle shawl, with cape style opening, made of mohair yarn, which has a fuzzy halo.

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