florence's knitting podcast 30: chunky wool knits for summer
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- ad | some of the yarn in this video was provided free of charge, you can see it marked (sponsored) in the lists below, although I'm not being paid to speak about anything in this video
my instagram: handmade_by_florence (previously handmadebyflorence but my instagram has been disabled so i’m having to move to a new account)
my ravelry: www.ravelry.co...
patterns and yarns mentioned:
I’m wearing the square neck camisole by garnogslikt knitted in knitting for olive merino in soft blue
albertville 1992 sweater: www.ravelry.co...
(sort of sponsored - white was left over from a sponsored test knit) (isager jensen in 100, 0, 11s, 23s, 98, 32s)
if you want to look through all of these designs, you can find a bunch of them here: eu.daleofnorwa...
winnie sweater: by woozybyceline on instagram, currently in testing
(camarose host in 8200 marmor, isager silk mohair in 2s)
cardigan no. 9: www.ravelry.co...
(rauma fivel in 200)
book club cardigan: www.ravelry.co...
(sandnes garn peer gynt in 1035, isager alpaca 1 in e2s, isager 20mm cotton buttons in khaki)
the yarn shops I mention frequently and things I bought:
- my ivory room (london): myivoryroom.co.uk (rauma fivel)
- loop (london): loopknitting.com (camarose host, isager silk mohair, lang jawoll in 226 oyster)
- oxford yarn store (oxford): www.oxfordyarn... (peer gynt, alpaca 1, recycled cotton buttons)
Hi all - the awkward cut at the end is due to me mentioning a yarn which somebody in the comments said is produced unethically. I can't find info to confirm or deny this but I have removed that section of the video anyway and will not use or mention the yarn in question again.
I literally gasped when I saw the thumbnail of that sweater and said out loud," O.M.G". Congrats, its gorgeous and very inspiring.
That jumper is absolutely gorgeous - and a serious triumph for your knitting! Bravo, Florence, a project that will last through generations and be cherished 🥰
The olympics jumper is one of the most beautiful knitted pieces I've ever seen - absolutely gorgeous!
That chuncky jumper looks so nice and cheerful! seeing it in the thumbnail is what made me play the video
Your ski sweater is such a flex omg. Well done Florence
What a gorgeous jumper, Florence. A genuine work of art. Beautiful!,❤❤❤
So happy you're participating in our KAL Florence! I'm exciting to see how your yarn works up as the Book Club Cardigan 🥰
Also excited to see the Cardigan No9 as a finished object, as the description you made of the yarn really sold me on it!
Beautiful finished knitwear Florence! I appreciate your recommendations and details in your videos.
Your Albertville sweater is so majestic, Florence! And so lovely to see your progress on the Winnie, the colour is spot on for you! Thank you for sharing 🤗
That colourwork is stunning. Well done. It suits you so well ❤
Tombo sweater!!! I will be first in line to purchase ^-^ working through my tombo tee right now and loving it. The colorwork sweater looks so lovely and is inspiring me to give colorwork a try!
Love your informative shows, thank you. Very nice the way you are wardrobe building..classic colours etc 🙂
It gets quite hot where I live in the summer but I freeze in the aircon at work! Love my wool cardigans to throw on at work over my otherwise summer outfits 😊. All your knits are gorgeous!!
The Olympic sweater is absolutely gorgeous! Well done!
What a stunning jumper!!! You're a genius, super inspiring and informative as always x
Very beautiful and impressive knitting. Thank you for so much detail and inspiration.
This sweater was designed by the Norwegian yarn company Dale of Norway for the Norwegian Ski troup in the 1992 Albertville(France) Olympics. They have designed sweaters for every Olympic and World championships. Up to our time. My respect for your beautiful work. You nailed that sweater. Seriously from a Norwegian 🇳🇴🇬🇧
It was great catching up and seeing all of your makes! Love a pretty tweed sweater, too 🥰
Aaaah excited for the possible Tombo Sweater! 🔥
The Albertville sweater looks amazing! I am so impressed and inspired to practice my colourwork (which I currently can’t achieve consistent gauge with at all). If you weigh the whole jumper, and then individual leftover balls, you can subtract the weight you used in other colours from the total to get a number for white. That’s a lot of maths though 😅
My worry is that, since the original weights probably varied a bit from exactly 50g, by the time you do that whole calculation the margin of error might be pretty big for the white!
Hi, your Norwegian jumper is beautiful.
I wanted to thank you for your cardigan video-I have used your button hole technique to knit my first double knitted button band .😊
Your winter Olympic sweater looks SO good!!😍 And I'm so glad you joined and are enjoying our Book Club Cardigan KAL!!
Florence, your olympics jumper is a master piece and even though you say it's not that difficult to knit it absolutely looks like it actually is ❤!
I am from Germany and have knitted with "Jawoll" a few pair of socks. I really like that yarn and also think it is quite soft for sock yarn. Btw, your pronounciation was pergect 😊
Please keep making your lovely podcasts I am a huge fan since the very first video ;-)
That jumper is a Masterpiece 💙
Hi Florence,
It's nice that you're knitting what you want to and not feeling obliged to knit summer knits.
I liked hearing about your plans and your comments on yarn. I'm not crazy about silk mohair and would like to find substitutes for bulking things up. Here in Vancouver there's a yarn shop that stocks a lot of those Danish yarns.
I've had my eye on that Book Club cardigan too. Maybe I'll consider joining that knit along.
Thanks for posting.
I love this jumper so much!!!
Beautiful work. Your stranded color work is very well done….
I love your colour work sweater. I think it’s Epic!
OMG your Albertville sweater looks amazing! I love the boxy fit.
I thought about applying to test the Winnie sweater as I really like the look of it but I have no social media or ravelry presence and a very common size so I never get picked for test knits. I will buy the pattern once it comes out.
And I just finished the Cardigan No. 9! It's not fully dry yet but I am already in love with it. I will make another one for sure.
Ah I feel you, I often get rejected from test knits and I have a fairly large following, I’m just usually the most popular size! Hope you enjoy the Winnie sweater as much as I am enjoying it :)
How did you access the Dale of Norway pattern?
Beautiful sweater!!❤ I have yet to try colour work 😳
Ok well now I want a jumper exactly like that. So so gorgeous! Will you put all of the modifications you made on your Ravelry post for it?
That’s a good idea - I will try to do that!
Helsinki in the summer is like UK or Stockholm. It can be +15 or +30, so I guess weather forecast is the best help. At the moment we are hitting +30 degrees (rare for May tho).
Super helpful, thank you!!
„Jawoll“ is pronounced correctly. It means „yes for certain“ - you could also interpret it as „ja“ meaning „yes“ and „woll“ as a short for „wolle“ meaning „wool“. (I‘m German 😅)
Instead of cable extender tubes there are connectors that connect two cable together. Unfortunately it only works for exchangeable needles
I have some! I should probably use them lol thank you for the reminder
“Økologisk” does mean organic (at least in Norwegian, I assume it’s the same in danish!)
Danish here. Can confirm it does mean organic:)
So excited for the book club cardigan! Do you think that going up the half needle size would use more or less yarn?
I guess it depends on whether you change the size you’re knitting to compensate for the gauge difference! I expect to use between the yarn consumption for the size I knit (off-gauge) and the size I should be knitting if my gauge was correct
Honestly though it’s a super interesting question, i’m often very unsure of whether my needle size change will increase/decrease yarn consumption
I've also knitted the pattern you're wearing, I like it very much but I do have a question, how can I modify it so the straps don't fall off? Please help, I've knitted it with a different yarn it is a cotton bamboo blend, I think maybe I could add an elastic or maybe fold the edges so it keeps its rectangular shape
I haven’t had any issues with this! I wonder if the straps a too long? Also definitely sounds like a slippery yarn - the elastic might be good to try!
Thanks!!! I'll give it a try
Hi Florence ! I am about o be steeking a Norwegian sweater with many floats in the back of the fabric … did you find the floats would catch on the feed dogs on your sewing machine? I am scared it will all caught up and wreck the sweater … please help ..! Thanks
I don’t even know enough about sewing machines to be scared of this! I just shoved it through and it sewed beautifully. I do catch my floats pretty often though so they were fairly short
@@handmadebyflorence alright… I will be strong and do it … lol
@@handmadebyflorencedid you block your sweater before steeking and picking up stitches ? This is the last question promise lol thanks
Yes I did!
Some more and see how it goes
What is the spelling of the designer for your top you're wearing? I def want to look them up. Thank you. :)
ah sorry I forgot to add it to the description! I will do it now
it’s the square neck camisole by garnogslikt
Why oh why would you say New Zealand wool isn't the best?
It’s nice! Just generally better to get stuff that’s more local - if I was in New Zealand I’d be a huge fan!!
I knew this day would come, but I kinda hoped it would not. Angorafibers are cruel, I know some claim they are well kept and so on, but if one knows just a little about these animals one knows it's not possible to have "kind" yarn coming from rabbits when the production scale is so big it can be sold. These animals suffer so much in cages, not being able to live together and run free. And many are plucking the rabbits causing so much harm. And that is why Angora was banned by most yarn producers. But alas, people always want what they can't have with little or no thought on where it comes from and what harm it went through before it ends up on our knitting needles. I beg all knitters, do not use Angora. There is a huge risk that animal is suffering a lot. The chance that it's suffering is bigger than it's not suffering.
I deleted my response because I wanted to try to phrase it better.
I don’t think it’s fair to say I never consider the ethics of the materials I use, and I had previously read some information about this company and how they source their wool and it seemed reasonable enough. With that being said, I don’t know a huge amount about yarn manufacturing, so all I really do is check companies seem to place an emphasis on animal welfare and generally adhere to some standards. I also try to stick to buying from well known brands.
If I made a mistake this time I am very sorry about that, and I am happy to make corrections to my content or go back on things if I did say them in error. I have removed the section of the video where I mention the yarn (although this change may take some time to process) and will pin a comment.
I completely understand the sentiment, but also think this is a broad generalization. I’ve found brands in the past, such as Fonty, who work with heritage breeders and are certified to be cruelty free. I guess it just depends
@@handmadebyflorence Hi again. First let me point out, I never said you never consider the ethics and so on. I don't know you but the little I know of you through this channel is that you do care. And I did not point out this company in particular. What I tried to say, clearly not very good, is that when it comes to yarn made from Angora the chances are bigger that the yarn is not produces in a good way. That's why most yarn producers stopped selling yarn with Angora in it. Because the risk is too big. You get so little fiber from one rabbit, so you need lots of them to make enough fiber to make yarn. And the more animals there are the worse the welfare is. And the yarn you bought was once produced in UK with rabbits living in UK. but he could not manage so he moved the animals and the production to China. He visited once, announced, and he said it looked wonderful and now he is selling it as an ethical yarn. I know you will have to look far and wide to find animals in china from a big farm that are treated good. Same goes for USA and more. -to be continued. oduces in a good way. That's why most yarn producers stopped selling yarn with Angora in it. Because the risk is too big. You get so little fiber from one rabbit, so you need lots of them to make enough fiber to make yarn. And the more animals there are the worse the welfare is. And the yarn you bought was once produced in UK with rabbits living in UK. but he could not manage so he moved the animals and the production to China. He visited once, announced, and he said it looked wonderful and now he is selling it as an ethical yarn. I know you will have to look far and wide to find animals in china from a big farm that are treated good. Same goes for USA and more. -to be continued.
@@handmadebyflorence continuing: When a yarn claims it is ethically produced it is a yarn that have few chemicals used in production and the animals are not suffering from mulesing. In my book a yarn that is ethically produced would be a yarn where the farm has no more animals than he can look after ( remembering each and every sheep is a good way of knowing) It's a yarn where the sheep are treated well when sheared ( in big countries like Australia, New Zealand. China, USA and so on they are mostly not. It's so horrible to look at that you are left crying after watching it. The shearer earns very little and they have to work fast to earn anything at all. They are kicking and beating the animals and often breaking their neck. It's brutal. The earth is destroyed because there are hundreds of animals going in the same area day out and day in. Not good for the environment either. The wool comes from one place. being shipped to another country to get sorted and washed, then another country to get spun, another to get dyed and so on. Not very ethical either. I could go on and on, because this is something I have a lot of knowledge about. The green washing is huge in the textile industry. But back to the Angora. People has poor memory and we get easily tempted when we see others use fibers etc. So even if the yarn you buy is super duper in every way, it will lead people to buy Angora again. And if we are at all concerned about the welfare of these animals, we really should avoid it. Because it's near to impossible to create harm free Angora yarn when you manage to produce and sell yarn. If you have one Angora at home or two and treat them well, that´s something else. But you need many rabbits to have enough fibers to make a sweater. Same as cashmere. U need 4 goats to make one sweater. While 1 sheep produce enough yarn to make 4 sweaters. And they do not turn the earth into desert as the goats do. I hope this is a bit clearer. All the best. Kirvil.
I did remove the relevant section of the video, so I’m not too sure what else I can do!