Vintage Spider Sweater: A Chaotic & Wonderfully spooky knit
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- With less than a week to go to Halloween I decided to knit a Vintage spider sweater (with an extra surprise!). It was a bit chaotic and the fit is off, but it is still cute!
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Have you ever tried to add a little glow-in-the-dark to your projects?
** Spider Sweater **
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Procrasticrafting you say? A mood after my own heart
Procraftinating 😅
It totally should be a real word!
The glow-in-the-dark accent was the perfect touch to this cute sweater! For a procrastinator, you are super quick! Even with a machine, I could never finish a knitting project in that amount of time. Well done!
Howdy from Oakland!
Your spider sweater is enchanting, and I’m really impressed with how well the patched-in spider motif worked. I think I’d have used duplicate stitch, because the thought of integrating a patched piece of knitting over a hole fills me with terror. But hey, it’s a Halloween sweater, so the process is supposed to be scary, right? 🕸🕷🕸
I, too, thought that duplicate stitch might be a viable alternative. Also, it would have added a little dimensionality, which could have been quite effective. (Although, perhaps a bit creepy; but, hey, isn't that the point of a Halloween spider sweater?)
I like how much you're using your knitting machine in the last few videos! So few people have one but I think they're definitely becoming more popular again :~)
Shame about the size, but it's still really cute and I love that it glows in the dark! :D
The date stills fits, since today is All Hallows day, and many countries celebrate people who have past. I love the sweater, both you and RetroClaude are the reason I decided to pick up knitting again after 4 years
It looks fantastic. You could do a spiderweb lace at the bottom to make it a little longer. And "Procrasticrafting" is a brilliant word to describe what I do regularly 😁
Oh, yes, lace at the bottom would look great ❤
Scary knitting thing: your 3 year old daughter finding your project without you noticing and then you see her playing with the needle(s)
Or your 3 year old daughter finding any of your yarn
I’ll let you figure out the endings
I'm not sure if anyone else would be interested, but could you maybe explain exactly how punch cards work for patterning on the knitting machine?
A very short answer. The punchcard instructs the machine to move needles between to positions. In Position 1 color 1 is knit. In position 2 color 2 is knit. You can also do this by hand but, it's very cumbersome. The electronic knitting machines work the same way but, your not restricted to patter the size of a punchcard. Your "card" can be the whole width of the machine bed.
The glow in dark twist was such a great idea! The sweater turned out great. I myself would have made the front just like the back and embroidered the spider to it, there's a way to do it where it looks like a knit stitch but I don't know if it would have been any faster. I really like how that style of sweater with the motive on the top portion all the way around looks like I should give it a try
On the hem, purl one row where you want your hem to fold up. Your hem will fold much flatter.
What a novel idea to use glow in the dark yarn details for the Halloween sweater! Love the spider! Spiders are mascots to knitters, weaver's and especially lace makers, like us!
Yaaaay glow in the dark! It looks so great, that style of side seam turned out a well-shaped shirt.
I love that Nutella was peaking up from under the machine. ♥️
I would love to see you do this again using a punchcard. The glow in the dark thread was brilliant.
Will you be making a video for this half-snood? If not, could you tell me what pattern you used?
"Pulling on the wrong needle in a DPN set"
15 seconds in and I've already been called out 🤣
Yeah, I've done that, too. Twice in ten minutes, actually. Not my best day...
@@sidmelucci3675 I recently did it *a few times* on *the same sock*. You'd think that I would have learned....
Adorable , Clever Girl! Maybe add sparky eyes to the Spider!
your ingenuity and problem-solving skills never cease to amaze me. Congratulations!!!
This turned out so cute!! I probably would have just done the spider in duplicate stitch, but this method was interesting to see.
Beautiful work! Here’s a little tip: If you’re casting on with waste yarn, there is a much faster method than e-wrap: bring every other needle out into knit position (you should have a comb-tool with your machine, if not get one), knit one row, bring the rest out and knit. I’m working at my very first sweater with my machine right now. Wish me luck :-)
Oh that’s supper cute. And that glow in the dark yarn was fabulous. And I love the snood.
It turned out so cute, even if it is a bit small! Love the glow in the dark surprise!!
❤ your spider sweater is 100% adorable and the fact that it glows in the dark makes it 200% cooler! You are so talented!
Hi, this is the first video of yours I've seen since the algorithm recommended you and this was fascinating to watch. I've never seen a knitting machine like this one before so that was really cool to see. Besides that I really liked the glow-in-the-dark twist. Overall this was a very fun and informative video, good job!
I love this sweater. One of my goals for 2023, and one of my treats for graduating, will be knitting myself a Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas sweater. I love this time of year and I would love to be able to celebrate it with crafty goodness. This spider sweater is now my favorite for the Halloween sweater.
Love this, so fascinating! Your videos and knitting process are really inspirational. 🧶💖
The spookiest things you could tell us about knitting?!!? I've made ALL those spooky mistakes! LOL! Yet we keep on knitting. Thanks for your charming videos. I soooo enjoy the content.
Turned out so lovely, and I'm so inspired! I usually bring out the knitting machine near the end of the year to make gifts for folks, might have to make a gift for myself!
A suggestion for the hems, for the last row before moving from the scratch yarn to the actual working yarn, use a slick nylon thread, I have some fishing thread, and you can just pull it out without any cutting! I use the same scratch yarn all the time thanks to this trick!
For basic colourwork, you might also be able to use different needle positions and changing settings on the carrige so that some use the black thread, some use the white. It would just mean only moving the needle positions as you work! It would give you the floats that you mentioned not wanted to deal with though. If you're machine can do punch card colour work, it's probably got this feature.
That is so fun!! I had no idea that glow in the dark thread was available. Will have to look into this for next year. My grandson will be very impressed if I can make him something that glow in the dark!
I love it! Turned out very well on camera despite the issues you had with the process. I love the addition of glow in the dark thread! That's so genius
I was not expecting glow in the dark thread! That's a fun detail
It's adorable and looks great on you, even though it's too small!
So spooky 👻
That glow-in-the-dark thread is so cool. This turned out great (if a little small). I'm sorry you felt rushed, though. I hate that feeling when crafting.
Wednesday Addams comes out on Netflix in November so spooky season is extended this year 🦇😁🦇
SOOOOOOO cute and completely worth the wait!
The glow in the dark feature is definitely "the bomb"! 💖🙌😺
Spooky season continues! You did great work! Glow thread was a spooky touch. I hope you do finish the rest of the web. I'm more and more convinced to get a machine, I just need a fixed space for it.
Love your idea for knitting the spider.
Your videos really make me want to get a knitting machine, something i don't have place or money for xD
You make beautiful things!
I LOVE it!!!
Can you do a video of the half snood procrastination project as well
I would love that snood pattern
I'd love to see a pattern and/or video for the half-snood in the future!
Very cool!
Super cute! 🕸🕷
Not even two minutes in... I am terrified and impressed that you CHOSE you use more black in a pattern then needed🤯. I would've uses a purple or something for the background, you are faaaar braver then I.
I suppose using a machine makes it a bit less scary.
Hee hee, this was a fun project before it was glow in the dark,now it's just awesome! I love how these come together, I gave up on knitting years ago so I'm always impressed when there's more than a colour change, even crocheting I don't have a great concept of how to do colourwork...
Omg so freaking adorable
I enjoy your videos so much! Your sweater turned out great!so cute!❤
I love everything about this! And your eye makeup with the spider is spot on
Diff you check "intarsia# on machine explains how to add motif or design using hold position of needles so spider would have knitted at same time xxxx
Scary stories... I dropped a stitch in the ribbing of the back piece of a jumper I made. And I didn't notice until I finished the whole jumper and put it on (the back piece was the first thing I did)
Super Cute! Another option might have been to duplicate stitch the spider? Anyway, I love it!
I love these videos, please keep them coming, I like the vintage knitting videos☺️☺️☺️❤️❤️❤️
I know it’s dominantly because you are using the machine, but I am still very impressed you finish sweaters so quickly!
This is so interesting! I love watching you use the knitting machine, I hope we get to see it again 🖤✨
Love this pattern! I wish I could knit haha! I just don't have the patience.
Your rose colored hair net is amazing!! Do you have a tutorial for that? The sweater is gorgeous!!
Extremely cute! Pressed for time like you were, I would have just knit the front fully on the machine in the black and white stripes, embroidered the legs just like the webs, and needle felted the spider motif on there (either roving or attaching a crochet motif). That flap was a clever solution in the moment, though!
I also just got a standard guage knitting machine that I've been learning about, and I'm also having trouble getting guage! Seems like the garment comes out smaller than my guage swatch says! I've even left my guage swatches to rest off the machine for 24 hours to let it relax after being weighted, which helped, but didn't 100% solve my problem.
I do really like your solution for the spider, though. Clever work around for your short time! 👏
Procrastacrafting definitely sounds familiar. Also procrastacleaning.
I’d love a video about this form of hem-I’ve never made a sweater without ribbing. Is this a style that can be done by hand?
Was it Elizabeth Zimmerman who said to measure your favorite fitting sweater and use those for knitting new one. That way you can tell how much ease you are comfortable in. I like loose especially the upper arms. And got to take into account the amount of stretch too. Very cute spider sweater.
Very cute! Have you tried duplicate stitch? I feel like that would have worked fine for your spider and you wouldn't have had to leave out that section.
...Does your clock say WTF on the front?? If so, that is hilarious (and if not, I guess it's hilarious that I thought that)
I love the glow in the dark thread! I was wondering why you didn't try duplicate stitch for the spider? I think it would be a pretty neat way to get around the problem.
If I only had a knitting machine, I don’t think I would have as many WIP’s… 🤔 Maybe not
KnitFactoryImpl has some great tutorials and patterns for machine knitting, she recreated a sweater Bill Gates wore in i think the 80s. Also wonderful video! I like your reveals, and your outcomes always look so professional.
As someone who's also so Ng practice garments on my knitting machine, I've heard you need a very large swatch and then get your gauge from the middle of the work. Also, it seems intarsia would have been a better choice or embroidering the spider on with duplicate stitches. That hole was terrifying for me.
Your knitting machine is so cool. I was given a very obscure one and no manual, so I don't even know if I have all the pieces I need to make it work. Hopefully at some point I can concentrate on it to see if I can figure it out. Isn't the gauge pretty limited on the machine?
yknow what girl youre so fucking valid time is an illusion
did you ever try knitting both sleeves at the same time or is your knitting machine not having enough stitches?! i have an oldie knitting machine myself too, i love seeing you working with it as well ;) go girl !!!!
hello from Italy and thank you for a lovely video! so interesting seeing your work process, it would also be super nice if you could walk us through how you turn a hand knit pattern into something that can be worked on the machine!
I have a question about the machine knitting- i have a piece that i just got off the knitting machine that is also finished with the waste yarn, and i now have to remove the waste yarn and somehow cast it off and being a beginner i have no idea what to do... also, it's a gauge 7 machine and i used two very thin yarns together, i'm afraid it will completely unravel on me... can you tell how you did it on your second sleeve?
either way, thank you for being here, i find your videos super inspiring and your energy to be so positive and uplifting to see (:
I'm getting inspired to get my machines out again! Details Please! What machine are you working on? I have a Brother 260 with ribber (bulky, 9mm) and Brother 970 with ribber (standard, 4.5mm).
The sweater looks wonderful. I had a knitting machine like that, but hardly used it. The knit pieces are very beautiful, though. Just asking, why did you not embroider the spider afterwards? Why knitting it in? Now you had to patch it in with all it’s difficulty? In Dutch we call it a ‘maassteek’ which translates into mesh stitch but I do not know if that’s the just name. It is embroidering on the allready knit piece by following the V’s from the stockinette stitch. Quite a lot quicker than knitting it in in a seperate patch…..but that’s me.
How did you choose which knitting machine to buy? Or did you inherit one?
I nearly bought some glow in the dark embroidery floss last week in the sale, but didn't know what I'd use it for. Oh well. Looks fun in the dark on your jumper :)
dear God, please send someone like hear
That turned out so cool!