I forgot this existed… So I am posting questions here.
Does this pattern look ok for a beginner? Could I make this using circle needles?
… is this a dumb pattern?
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@Meowkins I think you forgot the pattern link?
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Oh hey that might help.
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This is nice, too. But I am scared.
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This is a simple pattern. You just need to be able to knit and purl. You could use circular needles for this. And I think it’s a great texture.
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I really like this one but I’d start with the other one. This one involves cabling, which isn’t rocket science, but requires rearranging stitches. I’d practice cabling on some sample swatches to get a feel for it first before starting this pattern.
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Thank you! Do you think I can use any yarn as long as the weight is the same?
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I like the pebble rib pattern, it looks nice and would be a good beginner project!
And yep, any yarn would pretty much be fine as long as it’s roughly the same weight. The pattern is written for a cotton yarn, so it would look a little different in a different fiber, but either way you’d get a good scarf.
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Yeah, some people love cables (me!), some people hate them. I’d wait to commit to a whole cable project until you do some small sample swatches to figure out if you like it.
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yes, and you could go up or down in weight very easily without negative impact - DK or Aran would be fine with this as well as worsted.
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Thank you all so much 
I’ve been learning (via youtube) to knit over the past month-ish. Today I finished a thing! There are many mistakes, but it mostly resembles a hat. Now I’ll just have to wait about 7 months to wear it.
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YOU DID IT!! I am learning to knit too! I have only made my child a scarf. Just in time for spring.
At least come fall we will have marvellous things to wear.
Do you have a certain item you really want to knit?
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One is a hat, to replace the hat I’ve been wearing for the past 15 years. This isn’t it, but it was good practice.
I very much want to make socks. Rather, I very much want to have socks and I’m no longer in contact with my previous source of hand-knit socks. The ones I have are getting to be beyond repair, so I need to learn to make replacements.
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Socks are also my goal. Not going so well but I am trying 
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Congrats! It definitely is a hat. That’s a great first project.
Sock knitting is extra exciting because then you can buy all the wacky colored random skeins of yarn, if that’s your jam.
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of course I do that claiming I’ll make socks, and then they stay in the stash because they are Too Nice.
I am making a textured aran weight sweater https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/nurtured - I’m not fully sure what convinced me to give Andrea Mowry even more money and cast it on. But I do have two sleeves and the ribbing done for the body. I had been planning https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/felix-pullover or https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/big-love-5 or even something like https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/claret-4
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I don’t have any pictures of my WIP, but I do have a knitting terminology question, especially for any British knitters.
Is “Fair Isle” ever a type of yarn?
Is “tubular needles” a legitimate term (I’m assuming it means the same thing as circular needles)?
I’m trying to give the author the benefit of the doubt but I have a feeling that no knitter beta read this book set in a yarn store…
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There’s a company called Fair Isle that makes yarn, though it’s definitely not the primary use for that term in the yarnworld by a loooong shot. I had to look it up to see if there was a brand.
If they’re calling for “size 8 tubular needles” or whatever I would assume circulars. I’ve never heard of anything else.
And yep. That ish was NOT beta read.
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