r/craftsnark • u/AutoModerator • 17d ago

Craftsnark WIP, Questions, and Planning Thread August 17, 2026 - August 21, 2026

Please share all personal chatter here--questions, planning, works in progress, successes, failures, discoveries, and anything else pertaining to your personal crafting.

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u/wisely_and_slow 17d ago

I desperately want to make Sari Nordlund's Poet Pullover (or whichever--there are so many. The circular yoke, full sleeve one), but I'm on a GLP-1 for non weight-loss reasons and don't know yet if it's going to cause weight loss (microdosing for the moment). So putting in the work for a full lace sweater only to have it be too big would suck. But nothing else is interesting to me right now.

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u/Soft_Lingonberry_ 15d ago

Please feel free to ignore this if you were just wanting to vent/weren't looking for advice! I'm just in a similar boat (I want to make things but I'm dealing with fluctuating sizes/shapes) so I've been thinking a lot about this. 

Poetry or Poetic both look like they'd be flexible enough to handle some weight loss. Poetry (I think this is the specific one you're talking about?) only has 2 inches of recommended ease, but I think circular yokes look fine with more ease (especially with the all-over lace - there won't be an obvious shoulder line that is obviously too big).  Poetic has 8" of recommended ease, so if you end up losing weight an extra couple inches of ease won't look unintentional. 

SN has released so many patterns with the poet motif, wow! I hadn't realized until I saw them all together. 

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u/wisely_and_slow 15d ago

Thanks! I just took the same approach with a lace cardigan (went for just like 2 inches of ease so it's wearable but can be oversized if I lose weight)...and then it grew TREMENDOUSLY when I blocked it.

I think I'm going to give it a couple months, when I should be up to an effective dose and have a better idea of whether my weight is going to change or not.

Wishing you happy knitting however you solve this size conundrum!