Swatching SUCCESS 🧶✂️ Diving into my SEAGLASS Sweater 🐚🌊 future knit-a-long?
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🧶Join me as I swatch my color selections for the "Seaglass Sweater" by Wool and Pine. I experience trial and error here, all leading to a successful result. Thank you for being here!
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• determining color order via swatching
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• finding the right fiber content for a project
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I live your podcast. Not only do I learn something new, but I LOVE YOUR CALM VOICE! You’ve kept me sane in this loud, crazy world.
You said exactly what I wanted to say. So totally agree with you.
I totally agree too
I agree too! Mark’s voice and presence are so soothing.
I love that you mention “daydreaming about the yarn” as the first step of your project 😊
Thank you for your positive contribution to the world! Much appreciated.
A sea glass knit along sounds great. I would definitely be interested.
I really like your color choice. Seeing all the different options really helped to see what you really like the most. I’m looking forward to see you working it up.
It was so fun going through your swatches with. Beautiful colors! I love love love the the Blue Sky Fibers colors together.
I vote YES for a knit along. I have had this in my pattern collection, also.
Oooooo a Sea Glass knit along would be so much fun!! 🤩
Also, great episode!!! I have never felt more excited to knit a gauge swatch! 🤣
Crocheter who knows she needs to swatch and yet is possessed by hubris every time she starts a garment and doesn’t…and quickly regrets it. The cardigan I swatched for came out fantastic. The projects I don’t get restarted. And yet…
Your swatches are gorgeous. I love your final choice for your Seaglass sweater. 😊
I love hearing your thoughts on the colour order. So it tells me I need to be more thoughtful on order.
Yes, KAL!!!
I really like the rainbow order. Those colors are calling my name. I really want to make an order of Sweet Georgia yarns.
I love the seaglass colors you selected, and the color order!! I agree those were the best choices of the options provided. One thought -- if you want the gold color to blend in more with the other colors, you could just use a shorter band of that color so it doesn't stand out as a large band of gold. It would be be small highlight of a gold color. Thank you for these great videos!
I don't usually do a swatch because I don't do wearable projects. I do more blankets and things that don't get worn.
Thank you for being here. I would love to knit the seaglass with you. Tried it today for hours and gave up. Also the yarn you chose is fantastic and I will purchase same colors like you :) can't wait....🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hi, Mark - yes, I'd love a Seaglass KAL when you're home from your trip! Since I'm in AZ I'll use a couple of lighter/paler colors which I'll pretend don't make me feel so hot. It will be fun! Thanks for this helpful video. You made me acknowledge the need for swatching rather than winging it!
Seaglass KAL?! Sign me up! I have had the Seaglass (tee? sweater? cardigan? crochet?) in me "queue" for a long time and I even have the yarn (48 mini skeins). I KAL would be the inspiration and motivation that I need to do it!
Great video! I had no idea how swatching for gauge, fabric, and color could help me avoid the problems and disappointments I've experienced. Thank you Mark!
Oh no I couldn’t possibly join you for a knit-a-long. I have so many WIPS BUT that would be so much fun I love that pattern and enjoyed hearing about your color journey. Yes I’m in ,can’t wait. Enjoy your podcast so much.
I love your videos. Your voice is so relaxing and calm. And in the evenings when i am crocheting in bed and one of my young boys joins me they calmly fall asleep to your lovely voice and knowing fibre art is for everyone. My 7 year old still can't quite co ordinate the hook to crochet but he keeps giving it a go.
Can't wait to see your tour of the UK and Dublin. And see all the yarn places i can hopefully convince my other half to take me too 😂😂
OMG! I am one of those people who actually LOVES, LOVES, LOVES to swatch! I have often swatched an entire skein before I find the fabric I like 😂 The Yarn shop I work at always gives me the new yarn to make swatches for display 🎉 You should look up swatching in the round without floats! It is genius. I agree with your choice of the Seaglass swatch 👍
Your trip sounds SO exciting! I can't wait - also loving the way you made your choices regarding the wool and it's colors. When you brought out the green and cream I did indeed shout out loud at the screen - YES!!!! And on the Seaglass, I was thinking exactly what you did - your final decision is going to be lovely.
Have fun on your trip. You are going to love Scotland, England, and Ireland. If you are also going to Northern Ireland, be sure to go to Giant’s Causeway. One of the best natural wonders I have visited. Again, have fun. Eat scones and clotted cream. 😊
I like your final choice. 😊
I think you made the right color choice. I found your process interesting. I'm a plain Jane knitter. I just like simple. I use knitting as more of a meditation. So I don't do any complicated knits. Although I love the look. You have made some really stunning sweaters. I enjoy your podcasts. Thanks for sharing. Love from Toni in Tucson.
Yes, Mark, I was shouting at the screen, “stick with your first choice!” LOL I have never made a garment. Thought I might like to start with something “simple” like a tee, tank or vest. The thought scares me. I still can’t read patterns well yet. Seems Greek to me. I don’t know how you learned so much in such a short amount of time. Bam, sweaters, bam color work. Wow! Looking forward to your next posts!
I have been wanting to make the Seaglass sweater for a long time now. I would totally join in for a knitalong! 😊
I love the swatch you picked. It was my favorite.
This is the first time I’ve viewed your podcast. Your voice is relaxing. I would love a seaglass knit along. It has been on my knitting list.
I was so happy when when you said you are leaning towards Megan's color order. As soon as you showed that swatch I thought it was amazing, the colors flow together but doesn't look overly structured. Never done a knit sweater/cardi before but I just might have to participate in the fall. Just hoping I can stash dive colors that work as well together.
Agree 100%
Hello there Mark, I am a Big fan of the podcast been watching since episode 1.....WOndering if you and your husband might be planning a trip to upstate ny..in october for the rhinebeck sheep and wool festival... its such an incredible fiber weekend...satellite events begin friday and sheep and woll fetival is saturday and sunday....I'm sure you'd have a blast and get to meet fans and other podcasters...and grow your fiber community even more...just a thought.. .if not this year maybe next ???
Another excellent video, very informative. Thank you.
yes on the knit along please.
This was such an interesting process to watch. I admire your patience and persistence! And I’m so glad it gave you the answers you wanted. I have slowly learned to appreciate swatching for exactly these reasons… although I do not know if I could muster up your perseverance with the different Color swatches 😅. Cannot wait to see more!
Hi Mark! Sorry I’ve not been around for the last few videos, have moved house, and then had fairly major surgery two weeks ago. Been watching everything tho, just didn’t have the brain space to comment 😂. Feeling a bit better today, and love, love, love the swatches for the sea glass sweater! Really like the one you decided to go for, I have some very similar colours in my stash, so super excited to join in your knit along ❤️❤️❤️. Take care and sending love as always xxx Pippa
A mother excellent video. I must take doing a swatch more seriously.
I love your colors for you Sea Glass sweater. My favorite yarn arrangement is the complimentary color swatch.
When I swatch in the round, my carried yarns are very long .I can block the swatch and have the yarns intact but positioned around the swatch and not under it as I measure. The other thing I have done is to knit some or all of a sleeve as a gauge swatch. Best wishes!
Love your rainbow swatch! I would love to be part of a Seaglass KAL. I will be winging it with DK scraps coupled with John Arbon DK in a cherry red as the main colour. Thanks for the podcast.
Lefty... Hope you are having a fun day.
I do swatch for color work now. I can’t tell you how many disasters I had by not doing so. I thought they looked great in the arrangement I had picked But when I worked on it in the actually sweater I was like What Was I thinking and they ended up in a WIP never ever to be seen again. I loved your first choice best with the rainbow. It 👀 more cohesive. Another awesome video 😊
Thanks I’d love a knit a long.
Oh, I love those colors you picked for Seaglass. That is on my radar as a knit as well so I would likely join in if you do a knit-a-long.
Definitely would love a Seaglass knit along! Maybe include the cardi, pullover, and tee? I have personally been eyeing the pullover
Definitely commented before finishing the video where you include all of the above 😂 The mention of a KAL got me too excited!!
I've just recently found you and I find your voice very soothing to listen to ☺️☺️ I am new to knitting and I would love to join in on your kal!
I love the colors you landed on. I would personally do the rainbow order, cause I’m like that, but the order you and Megan initially came up with is lovely, more like sea glass. I would love to crochet along, but I’ll be in Japan and I hurt my elbow! We’ll see if I heal though. Have fun on your trip!
Also, I bought a bunch of mini-skeins at a fiber show last year. I decided to do a stash buster project. I am crocheting granny hexes. Haven't decided what I'm going to do with them lol. I don't have enough to make anything large. I went to my local yarn shop to find something to go with the skeins. Well... my skeins are fall colors and it is not fall lol! I am soooooo bummed!!!! The very nice employee who helped me counseled patience. Ugh... I am not good at patience haha!
I’m in, I might not be a very good knitter but I’m in love with this cardigan and I think I know enough to muddle through a knit along….
The first time I saw someone swatching in the round, I was amazed. I do swatch for all person-specific wearables but not for caps, scarves, and other one-size-fits-most items. I learned by swatching that I am a loose knitter and have to adjust either needle/hook size or follow the pattern for the next smaller size, or both. Today I am making beanies for teens in foster care. The bad part is that they all want solid black. The little kids enjoy color but the teens just want to fit in. So black it is.
Hi Mark love your swatch. I'm currently knitting a Wool and Pine pattern "Plumeria" and enjoying the lace pattern. Look forward to knitting the "Seaglass sweater" with you this Fall.
Love the rainbow color that you picked would like to do one too!
Doing the same pairs of colors in multiple rows can make the sweater look striped. I mixed my 7 colors in different combinations throughout for my first sweater (I had removed yellow and white as too extreme). The next time I made seaglass, I used 24 colors and mixed them all up.
thanks for sharing your swatch adventure I love the way your Seaglass sweater swatch turned out my favorite was the first rainbow one its the right balance and I love your extra color you put into your collection. you will find something perfect for your alpaca but seeing the results I agree it's not quite it.... I am just relearning how to knit but I would be all over a knit along with you that would be so much fun maybe by fall ill be brave enough for color work.... Marcia
I want to hear your duets In London. Please record some music for your music/knitting fans!
Oh my gosh! I've been collecting wool for the Seaglass Sweater! (lots of green shades.) I've been meaning to start it soon but I haven't started a swatch yet. You made lots of pretty swatches, great to get ideas and see how yours went. I like the yarn combo you went with - best to go with the color mix that excites you.
Your Seaglass swatch looks beautiful! Personally, I like the gold, but I wonder if color dominance might help recede the gold yarn a bit if you’re not sure about keeping it in. Idk how you do colorwork, but if using two hands, holding the gold yarn in the right hand/on top might help it blend in a bit better as it’ll become the background color. Or use it on just one row, instead of 2 consecutive rows (although that will break the pattern), but looking at the top of your swatch where there’s only one row of gold and it seems to blend in better/not look so much like a stripe. Looking forward to seeing the final results, I have some fingering yarn I bought years ago that I had no idea what to do with, and I think you might convinced me to make a Seaglass Cardigan if your fingering version ends up alright!
Roxanne Richardson also has a tutorial on how to swatch in the round without having all those strands in the back if anyone is interested
I loved all the combinations! Probably the third option the most if pressed to choose. Totally in for a knit along! Have been talking with a friend I knit with about this sweater and your channel. Fun, fun!
I swatch begrudgingly, with little patience, and only once. If the gauge is close enough I just cast on and figure I can block to size later. If it is not close enough i adjust one needle size and cast on, again figuring I can block to size later. I certainly do not have the patience to block my swatches. This method has generally worked well for me, and in worst case scenarios, if the sweater does not fit, I find someone who it will fit and give it to them. :)
This is me!😂
i have been thinking about the seaglass sweater for soo long now, the knit a long might just be the thing to make me knit it.
Awww. I would love to knit along sea glass. I need motivation for that one. All the ends scare me.
Great video
So... I adore that brass color. I think it breaks up the other colors which are a lot darker. I like the brass, red, green and blue the most.
I'm definitely in on the knit-a-long and excited because I asked the question in your Patreon! The Sea Glass sweater in any iteration is a perfect project for a KAL and it will be so much fun to see all of the finished projects! I like Megan's color order best!
I bought some of that wonderful yarn at ATTY when I was in Shaker last month. Still trying to decide on the project.
Wow! Gorgeous. Just gorgeous. Your Seaglass looks like stained glass.
Another great episode. I love swatching.
I liked the third swatch with Megan's assistance. I plan to make the Seaglass tshirt so I'd be interested in the KAL info 😊 I bought the pattern and got stuck on the same issue you had: do I use leftover yarn in the pantry or do I start fresh? I'm leaning toward the former but we shall see!
(And I'm working on completing some gift knits: two hats and one shawl). Thanks for the swatch demo. I don't generally do them, but I've been lucky in my size results for the most part with garments. But I'm slowly coming around to the idea of doing a swatch more often, so thank you.
An option of trying colors is getting graph paper and colored pencils and using the blocks as stitches, start coloring the “rows” and you get an idea of what it will look like! Faster and easier than swatching numerous times!
I'm looking at the Seaglass Cardi, but using leftovers from the many socks I've made. I cannot start this though for another month. Being on a fixed budget can be a bummer like that. Thank you for the inspiration.
If you only use the Brass for one row, it won’t be as prominent. My Sea Glass has some brights, but they’re muted down when only used for one row.
Love the Megan order, would love a knit a long,
I love both of the Rainbow versions but I think the dithered version (not the smooth gradient of the ROYGBIV) is the best because it lets the individual colours shine more with the contrast. Idk if I'd say the pure rainbow gradient would be too on-the-nose even if it is, y'know 🌈🏳🌈💅.
I'm sure there's some mathematical way of arranging 7 colours so that each pair of two is in the pattern once and only once with no repeats which would be 21 different colour combos (not counting order) but I'm not certain how it would be done, and it would be a lot to keep track of.
I'm excited about the prospect of a knit along! Looking at the colors you chose, you mentioned the yellow band sort of sticking out too much. What if you took the yellow out and just kept the same pattern with the other 6?
The colors are beautiful!
Excellent video! I’m terrible at swatching so I’m gonna give it a go 😄
As a fellow leftie, I noticed you knit right handed? Inquiring minds want to know 🤔🤔😄😄🧶🐾
Hi Mark. Love your videos! Could you leave the name of the first sweater? I’m trying to find the pattern on Ravelry.
Thank you!
www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kerr-sweater
Thanks for being here!!
Thank you!
Hi, I want to make a fingering weight seaglass. What needles did you use to obtain gauge? Thank you
I discovered this method of swatching for in the round and I recommend it to everyone! It’s a much better method without all those strands along the back!!
ruclips.net/video/Gv3lMDkFRMo/видео.html
I also do garter for the first few rows and the first and last few stitches of every row so it doesn’t curl.
PS that yarn is glorious, alpaca is my favorite!
How amazing is that? I've never seen that technique before! Thank you (times a million) for sharing it with me :)
@@MakerMarkKnits You’re welcome. I found it so much better especially since I’ve sometimes pulled the loop too tight on the back then the swatch doesn’t lay flat.
Do you buy a single ball of yarn to swat ch before you commit to a sweater quantity?
If so, and you like your swatch but then want to get a sweater quantity how do you manage colour lot numbers as these purchases will be made at different times?
I feel like most people will buy the sweaters quantity ( for the dye lot reason you mentioned) and if they don’t get gauge, they’ll either adjust needle size or adjust the size of sweater to fit the gauge. If neither work, they’ll find a new pattern to fit that gauge.
Hi. Great video again. I highly recommend to read or see about gauge swatch in Principles of Knitting and Patty Lions book. Very important is to simulate the gravitation and hang the swatch with a bit of weight. This is specially convenient for fibres as alpaca, superwash yarn, linen, cotton.
Recommend also Roxanne Richardson tutorial for fake swatching in the round
ruclips.net/video/DVFXJuOUNAI/видео.htmlsi=1FpmV7VFdY899Dya