Thank you for another great podcast. I love that you indicate the total cost for each project. All of the colors on your swatch are beautiful- I like the green the best and the white is my second favorite.
I’m casting on some socks while watching - I have always done my cuffs on DPNs and then I knit the rest of the socks on two circulars (it’s like magic loop but easier for me because I don’t have to adjust the loop part). Your Balloon sweater looks great on you! I really like all the colors you swatched with the alpaca but I think my favorites are the green and the off-white, so hard to really pick a favorite. I really enjoyed the False-starts section - I can sympathize as these things have happened to me with one project or another. Looking forward to your video on project plans for this year. 😊
I've not tried the 2 circular method, it seems nice though ! Thank you so much for the kind comment and feedback ! The knitting goals video is exporting just now so will be ready for monday !
Hi Vanissia, I’m a pretty new knitter and just wanted to say how much I love watching your podcasts. I really appreciate how open you are about sharing your thought processes because I feel like I learn so much about all the things I can consider in my own projects. For your color swatch options I feel like you have a lot of neutral sweaters so I love the #1 green for you, but if you want to go more neutral tones then #3 was my favorite of those pairings (:
Such a wonderful and relaxing podcast. You inspire me so much with your knitting! In response to your color choice options, I absolutely love the green pairing (choice #1). Look forward to your next chat with us.
It’s a good plan to keep the neck you are happy with in your Lumme sweater and just up the stitch count by increasing for the next size. Good luck with all your plans and most of all enjoy!
Hi, I love all your knits! You're very talented and inspiring. I also appreciate how generous you are with your knowledge and resources. Thank you! For the Monday Sweater, all the colors are great, but I think I'd pick color #1. Can't wait to see your FO!
You are such a joy to watch! I love your pure delight with your own knitting (and rightfully you should have as you are a beautiful knitter!) and such honesty about things as well! Your live videos are really sweet and showcast your knitwear so well! Keep up the fun podcasts - I'll be watching for sure!!! Oh, btw, I am working on the April Cardigan!
Oooh. The pistachio green color is spring-like. Wishful thinking I guess. It’s nice you can knit your boyfriend socks. My husband ALWAYS puts holes in his. Keep the podcasts coming please.
I'm watching you just now and love the Scottishness coming through your accent. Like all of us in Central Scotland you've dropped your t's. I'm really enjoying the podcast
The breaks in some of your yarn plies reminds me of some moth-eaten yarn which I’ve run into in the past. Unpicking and going back to rejoin the strands is important for good structure. Thanks for putting all the effort into your podcast. I love knitting whilst listening to knitting podcasts.
I just found your channel and I find your videos so comforting! You have such a warm energy. I've been knitting the White Mountains sweater by Midori Hirose in Brooklyn Tweed's Peerie yarn in a burnt orange color. It's a gift knit for my mom's birthday next week and I'll be binge watch all of your old videos while I work to get this done!
Aw thank you so much !! I love the white mountains, it seems like a great project for thicker yarn. Your mum is very lucky !! Good luck with finishing it ♥
Your balloon sweater looks so good! Makes me want to rip back mine and knit it again in a better size. I have been knitting on a cargill cowl while watching your podcast. Thank you for another great episode!
The fade on the swatch looks sooo good! Might be more effort but I would go with all the colours, it really works well with the hand dyed yarn and colours. Would be gorgeous!
I just cast off the Lumme, I didn’t go up a needle size on the sleeves because I didn’t probably need to on the yoke. It’s soaking now so I can’t wait to see it blocked out. I appreciate your honesty regarding your wins and loses!
A lovely podcast. Your sweater is so nice. I live in Glasgow & you sound very Scottish. I like your swatch knitted in local Suri Alpaca. I am knitting a third Sophie scarf for a friend. Thanks 🏴
I really, really loved the False Starts section, and am also a big fan of how you note the cost of each project. This kind of information is so valuable and interesting, along with all of the other details you share in the show notes and on Ravelry. :) I also loved seeing the socks you made for your boyfriend! He is such a good model, haha. Thank you for another wonderful podcast. It always makes my day to see you post! I can't wait for the next one. :D While watching this, I cast off and wove in the ends for a pair of "experimental" socks I'm making to perfect a short row heel (since I use it for colourwork socks and never really love the fit of it). The socks are based on Kate Atherley's custom socks book and the fit turned out perfectly. So comfortable and satisfying!
Thank you so much for this lovely comment, it made my night! And short row heels are not something ive done a lot of, I need to try on different heels as ive gotten too comfortable with my classic flap and gusset. I'll look up this book, as it's always nice be able to experiment with and perfect the fit of our items!
Hello! I am currently knitting Rafa’s Hat by Joji Locatelli from Ravelry. This is the second one as I’m making a few for some of the men in my family. I am new to kitting and am thoroughly enjoying your channel. You are pleasure to watch! I love all the ideas of things I want to try to knit for my next project. ❤️
Hi Vanissia what a lovely name! one of my current projects is the Lighthouse Vest by Drops Design in my own wool from my Zwartbles sheep ! for my son. Your podcasts have given me lots of new projects to add to my Wishlist!
I love your podcasts! :) I need to learn from you and recognize when something isn't working out for me. I have so many languishing WIPs that look at me sadly... should just give that yarn a new life. My favorite combination for your Monday sweater is 2! With 1 and 4 coming closely behind. All the combinations are beautiful, though, so I really don't think you can go wrong. I look forward to following along your Monday sweater progress! And I can't wait to find out which special yarn you decide to use.
So glad I found you! I have a couple of questions but I apologize if you’ve already answered these- I haven’t had time to go watch your back episodes yet. When did you start knitting? What’s the favourite item you’ve made? Which item are you most proud of? What’s your favourite yarn to work with? I was knitting on my cumulus blouse as I watched you:)
Hi Vanissia! I enjoy your podcasts so much, thank you for sharing all your knitting experiences with us! Currently I'm knitting the Port Sweater by Ozetta while watching your episode :)
I like a I cord bind off at the bottom of the sleeves but I found that I had to decrease a few stitches and knit one more row for the I cord doesn't roll on itself, Beautiful work.
Love all your plans. I would choose the white yarn so that all those muted colours in the mohair show up. Love the green but it overpowers the other colours a bit.
Hi Vanessa, just came across your podcast and really loved watching. You kept me company while I redid the ribbing to a vest I wasn't happy with. I love your False Starts section, to normalise the trial and error a bit that is so usual with knitting (: And for the swatch, I kinda love all colours you paired the suri with but my favourite was #1 (the green one).
I love all the colours in the swatch, and I just love fades :D but probably you wouldn't want to do a sweater with a fade (I mean, I would, but we have different styles). So I think my favourites are the off-white and light beige (can't actually see much of a difference between these two)
I love you because you put all the pattern links and materials used that helps me a lot! My question is do you want to be a knitting designer? If you do what designs. Would you like to do ?
It’s funny, but while I was watching your podcast I was searching for my next project. I was thinking I should get away from stockingette, which I love. However, nothing much appealed and I was down to the MFTK No. 18, the Terri vest or Ingrid Sweater. However, I now realise I really prefer plain garments and am going to make the Semper Sweater by the Knit-Purl Girl. So thanks for your help and your great podcasts.
Hi Vanissia! always love your podcasts - especially love how you always include the prices! Currently working on the Ingrid sweater by petite knit :) Regarding the neck edge for the terni slipover, I'd recommend using the surprisingly stretchy bind off (or at least alternating it with a regular cast off) - it will give the neck edge more elasticity and should be fairly invisible seeing as the bind off edge will be inside the sweater. I saw that technique on a handmadebyflorence podcast, and now it's my go to for folded collars! xx
Lovely to see this weeks episode (for extra reasons to my surprise haha). I'll send a DM on instagram about the raffle. Also, from how the camera presents, I like either the pistachio or the off-white when held with the Zakami. And for Q & A video purposes, it would be fun to hear if you have certain designers that you haven't knit a pattern from before that you have been wanting to try and why!
I’ve knit one Erika sock and found my yarn overs where the next stitch is a purl is creating a bigger hole than the yarn over on the other side of the leaf where the next stitch is a knit. I’m going to frog mine as well because I decided to just make a quick pair of shorties in a vanilla pattern though I did the heel and flap from the Oona socks.
I am finding this too actually ! But I'm gonna try not to let it bother me, and see how they fare after blocking anyways. And yes I'm also using the Oona heel for the erika actually !! such a good one
I found the purl hole arose because the yarn sits higher up behind the curve of the needle because of how we naturally hold the yarn when we purl. Tugging it harder does not help. Instead I kind of flick my right index finger down and apply some gentle downward pressure to it while scooching the knot of the stitch to the very underside of the curve of the needle using my index finger of my left hand. I’m an English style knitter but I flick the yarn with my right index finger rather than dropping and lifting it each time, so it is easy for me to use my index finger to apply that gentle downwards pressure. I’m not sure how this would work for continental or standard English knitters. I think just the scooching with the left index finger alone might be enough. Hope this makes sense x
@@verylikecheryl - I finished the shortie pair of socks and still had enough yarn to make the second Erika sock so I started it and I am so impressed that my ladders on either side of the cuff ribbing is not so bad and the lace pattern is working up well, yay! Looks like I won’t have to frog my first sock after all, it’s not perfect yet my feet don’t care and I doubt other people will be examining them closely either. I’m stoked!
Currently doing yarn swatch of some new tweed super bullky yarn I got I want to cast the Fall Bluff raglan sweater going to be following the tutorial of Ashley Lilis as I not tried knitting top down items yet.
I really like that Stephen King yarn. So if I were to knit a Lento with it, for example in size S, would I need two skeins of 4 ply or DK weight? And then pair it with a mohair? I am always so overwhelmed by calculating the amount of yarn, especially since I've never purchased skeins/hanks (?) before. 😅
Hiya, yes I'm fairly sure you'd need 2 skeins of the 4-ply fingering weight sock yarn, and then some mohair ! The pattern gives the yardage, so just divide that amount by the meters in a skein of mohair, and round up and ta daa, you know how many skeins But keep in mind it might be harder to make modifications to the sweater, like longer sleeves or longer body!
Hi Vanissia, I really enjoy your podcasts, they're so informative and engaging. I love listening to your accent too, every so often you sound Scottish! Im currently unpicking my colour work as I watch and listen. It's a gorgeous pattern, Red Cedar by Jessica McDonald. Some time ago I was knitting a shawl ( Vertices Unite) and the wool kept breaking, I think it had been eaten by Moths, so frustrating! Maybe that's what happened to your wool? The wool Your Parents gave you for christmas is beautiful. Questions for the Q and A. What do you do for a day Job, why did you moved to Scotland? Have you knitted a jumper for your Boyfriend :)
thanks for the questions and the lovely compliments :D. I hope it wasn't moths, I'll keep an eye on everything just to be sure ... And the Red Cedar is gorgeous !!
Loving your podcasts. With your Lumme sweater look out for what I think is an error in the pattern- the chart shows that all of the increases are to be done in the contrast colour but when you look at the pattern photos it seems that some should be done in the main colour. I wrote to the designer when I was knitting my version of Lumme sweater but disappointingly got no response.
Thank you! Yes I did notice, thankfully the squares in the chart were in main colour so that's what I followed intuitively, but you're right, the legend says otherwise. I wonder if Sari corrected the charted squares but forgot to change what the text says? Anyways, a lot of people mentioned it on ravelry !
I am finally getting on board with mt lento in a lovely pale blue by quince & Co, such a fast knit. Really good joyed this episode too. I like the green swatch . Where in Belgium are you from , I lived in Antwerp for a short time and loved it.
Hi! Interesting what you say about sweaterno18 because it's on my Ravelry list. I'm watching today while cross stitching because I didn't have the right needle size to cast on my project. Which leads me to, what needles do you like to use (metal/wood and which tip length - 3.5" 4" 5" etc and brand?). Thanks!
Thanks for the question! I'll answer here quickly, I use chiaogoo interchangeables metal needles with the 3.5inch tips and I wouldnt use anything else! The only thing is I wish I had more cables and needles because I have too many projects and keep having to steal needles from WIPS haha :P
@@thewoollyworker Thank you so much! Actually I just bought some 4" chiaogoo before I saw this so this is good to hear. A few people had recommended 5" but I went with 4" as I currently have 4" bamboo so I'm used to them and they seem more versatile. I'm nervous about metal but so many people said chaiogoo are the best.
The news about the colorway charts in “Knitting from fair isle” is a real disappointment… I also have this book and love it, but I also wrote to the designer because I found that the yarn quantities were sometimes totally mistyped, and never heard back!
That Terni slipover looks like it would possibly suit a man's body better. It looks very shapeless and unflattering on a female body. See if it fits your partner? As for the swatch... I'll admit, I really like the fade. Any chance you could just stripe things randomly as you go?
What a pity you are frogging so many socks, did you do swatches. Perhaps you could use them as swatches for future reference, or at least take notes of what happened. Don't be disheartened, its a good learning curve.
#2, for your swatch. So much knitting! I am impressed by the amount of knits you have finished and on your needles!
Thank you so much! And yeah it can be a lot sometimes aha
Thank you for another great podcast. I love that you indicate the total cost for each project.
All of the colors on your swatch are beautiful- I like the green the best and the white is my second favorite.
You are so welcome! And yeah green seems to be popular aha !
#1 and #5 are my favorites, I love that pistachio the best!
I’m casting on some socks while watching - I have always done my cuffs on DPNs and then I knit the rest of the socks on two circulars (it’s like magic loop but easier for me because I don’t have to adjust the loop part). Your Balloon sweater looks great on you! I really like all the colors you swatched with the alpaca but I think my favorites are the green and the off-white, so hard to really pick a favorite. I really enjoyed the False-starts section - I can sympathize as these things have happened to me with one project or another. Looking forward to your video on project plans for this year. 😊
I've not tried the 2 circular method, it seems nice though ! Thank you so much for the kind comment and feedback ! The knitting goals video is exporting just now so will be ready for monday !
Hi Vanissia,
I’m a pretty new knitter and just wanted to say how much I love watching your podcasts. I really appreciate how open you are about sharing your thought processes because I feel like I learn so much about all the things I can consider in my own projects. For your color swatch options I feel like you have a lot of neutral sweaters so I love the #1 green for you, but if you want to go more neutral tones then #3 was my favorite of those pairings (:
Thank you so much! That is such a thoughtful comment. Thanks for the suggestion too !
Such a wonderful and relaxing podcast. You inspire me so much with your knitting! In response to your color choice options, I absolutely love the green pairing (choice #1). Look forward to your next chat with us.
Oh thank you! Glad you like it :D
For your Monday sweater I love #2!! I think it's the contrast of the grey with the warmer tones (yellow/green/orange)
Thanks!
It’s a good plan to keep the neck you are happy with in your Lumme sweater and just up the stitch count by increasing for the next size. Good luck with all your plans and most of all enjoy!
thank you!
I am knitting the „Winter Stroll Socks“!
Hi, I love all your knits! You're very talented and inspiring. I also appreciate how generous you are with your knowledge and resources. Thank you! For the Monday Sweater, all the colors are great, but I think I'd pick color #1. Can't wait to see your FO!
Thank you so much! That means a lot!
You are such a joy to watch! I love your pure delight with your own knitting (and rightfully you should have as you are a beautiful knitter!) and such honesty about things as well! Your live videos are really sweet and showcast your knitwear so well! Keep up the fun podcasts - I'll be watching for sure!!! Oh, btw, I am working on the April Cardigan!
Aw thank you, that made my evening!! And yay, can't wait to cast my April cardigan on, hope you're enjoying yours !! ♥
Love the black and white colorwork sweater! It’s going to be so nice when it’s done 😍
Thanks Sam! Yes I can't wait !!
Oooh. The pistachio green color is spring-like. Wishful thinking I guess.
It’s nice you can knit your boyfriend socks. My husband ALWAYS puts holes in his.
Keep the podcasts coming please.
Oh no! I hope mine doesn't get holes too soon, but if it happens, he'll get more :P
Glad you enjoy the podcast !
I'm watching you just now and love the Scottishness coming through your accent. Like all of us in Central Scotland you've dropped your t's. I'm really enjoying the podcast
haha, guilty! Glad you like it :D
The breaks in some of your yarn plies reminds me of some moth-eaten yarn which I’ve run into in the past. Unpicking and going back to rejoin the strands is important for good structure. Thanks for putting all the effort into your podcast. I love knitting whilst listening to knitting podcasts.
Oh wow! Never even thought of that. I di keep them in bags but maybe ill be more vigilant. Glad you enjoyed listening!
I just found your channel and I find your videos so comforting! You have such a warm energy. I've been knitting the White Mountains sweater by Midori Hirose in Brooklyn Tweed's Peerie yarn in a burnt orange color. It's a gift knit for my mom's birthday next week and I'll be binge watch all of your old videos while I work to get this done!
Aw thank you so much !! I love the white mountains, it seems like a great project for thicker yarn. Your mum is very lucky !! Good luck with finishing it ♥
Your balloon sweater looks so good! Makes me want to rip back mine and knit it again in a better size. I have been knitting on a cargill cowl while watching your podcast. Thank you for another great episode!
Thank you ♥ I don't think I've ever ripped back an entire projects, that'd be very brave !
Vanilla socks for a resident at the nursing home I work at. That's what I'm working on. Love the sweater
Sounds great! That's very kind of you!
The fade on the swatch looks sooo good! Might be more effort but I would go with all the colours, it really works well with the hand dyed yarn and colours. Would be gorgeous!
I totally agree! it's made me want to. But I think it'll be too much of a headache, so maybe a project for the future !
Currently knitting scrappy sock snake will become a pair of socks!
Great!
I just cast off the Lumme, I didn’t go up a needle size on the sleeves because I didn’t probably need to on the yoke. It’s soaking now so I can’t wait to see it blocked out. I appreciate your honesty regarding your wins and loses!
Glad to know im not the only one who doesnt size up ! Congrats on finishing yours, hope you like it !
A lovely podcast. Your sweater is so nice. I live in Glasgow & you sound very Scottish. I like your swatch knitted in local Suri Alpaca. I am knitting a third Sophie scarf for a friend. Thanks 🏴
Oh thank you! And wow, lucky friend !
I really, really loved the False Starts section, and am also a big fan of how you note the cost of each project. This kind of information is so valuable and interesting, along with all of the other details you share in the show notes and on Ravelry. :) I also loved seeing the socks you made for your boyfriend! He is such a good model, haha. Thank you for another wonderful podcast. It always makes my day to see you post! I can't wait for the next one. :D
While watching this, I cast off and wove in the ends for a pair of "experimental" socks I'm making to perfect a short row heel (since I use it for colourwork socks and never really love the fit of it). The socks are based on Kate Atherley's custom socks book and the fit turned out perfectly. So comfortable and satisfying!
Thank you so much for this lovely comment, it made my night! And short row heels are not something ive done a lot of, I need to try on different heels as ive gotten too comfortable with my classic flap and gusset. I'll look up this book, as it's always nice be able to experiment with and perfect the fit of our items!
I like the light beige. Number 6. so pretty all them. You can't go wrong with any of them.
Thank you! And yes, I feel no matter what I end up with, i'll love it!
Hello! I am currently knitting Rafa’s Hat by Joji Locatelli from Ravelry. This is the second one as I’m making a few for some of the men in my family. I am new to kitting and am thoroughly enjoying your channel. You are pleasure to watch! I love all the ideas of things I want to try to knit for my next project. ❤️
Wonderful! Ill add this to my list for the men in my life. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos ♥
Hi Vanissia what a lovely name! one of my current projects is the Lighthouse Vest by Drops Design in my own wool from my Zwartbles sheep ! for my son. Your podcasts have given me lots of new projects to add to my Wishlist!
Wonderful! Having your own wool must be such an incredible feel aha. You have a lucky son! Happy you got some inspiration :D
I like number 4 for the monday sweater 😊
Thank you!
I love your podcasts! :)
I need to learn from you and recognize when something isn't working out for me. I have so many languishing WIPs that look at me sadly... should just give that yarn a new life.
My favorite combination for your Monday sweater is 2! With 1 and 4 coming closely behind. All the combinations are beautiful, though, so I really don't think you can go wrong. I look forward to following along your Monday sweater progress! And I can't wait to find out which special yarn you decide to use.
You can do it! I ripped them all back yesterday and it was very liberating
And thanks for suggestion!
So glad I found you! I have a couple of questions but I apologize if you’ve already answered these- I haven’t had time to go watch your back episodes yet. When did you start knitting? What’s the favourite item you’ve made? Which item are you most proud of? What’s your favourite yarn to work with?
I was knitting on my cumulus blouse as I watched you:)
Thanks for all the questions! And the cumulus blouse is such a gorgeous pattern!
Hi Vanissia! I enjoy your podcasts so much, thank you for sharing all your knitting experiences with us! Currently I'm knitting the Port Sweater by Ozetta while watching your episode :)
Wonderful! And that's a lovely pattern in my queue, i love anything by ozetta !
I like a I cord bind off at the bottom of the sleeves but I found that I had to decrease a few stitches and knit one more row for the I cord doesn't roll on itself, Beautiful work.
thanks, will keep that in mind!
Love all your plans. I would choose the white yarn so that all those muted colours in the mohair show up. Love the green but it overpowers the other colours a bit.
thank you! I agree :)
Hi Vanessa, just came across your podcast and really loved watching. You kept me company while I redid the ribbing to a vest I wasn't happy with. I love your False Starts section, to normalise the trial and error a bit that is so usual with knitting (: And for the swatch, I kinda love all colours you paired the suri with but my favourite was #1 (the green one).
Thank you so much ! Always better to redo if we're not happy. Green seems to be a popular choice !
I love all the colours in the swatch, and I just love fades :D but probably you wouldn't want to do a sweater with a fade (I mean, I would, but we have different styles). So I think my favourites are the off-white and light beige (can't actually see much of a difference between these two)
thanks for your opinion ! It really made me wonder if i wanted a fade, even though i never thought it'd be my style. So I'm not writing the idea off !
Loved ur knits
Thank you x
I love you because you put all the pattern links and materials used that helps me a lot!
My question is do you want to be a knitting designer? If you do what designs. Would you like to do ?
You're welcome ! And thanks for the question :)
I'm knitting on a placement for a wood table for under some plants. It is a random self striping yarn I didn't know what to do with.
Good idea ! I have some plants too and some random yarn that could always get used in a quick project :)
It’s funny, but while I was watching your podcast I was searching for my next project. I was thinking I should get away from stockingette, which I love. However, nothing much appealed and I was down to the MFTK No. 18, the Terri vest or Ingrid Sweater. However, I now realise I really prefer plain garments and am going to make the Semper Sweater by the Knit-Purl Girl. So thanks for your help and your great podcasts.
Go for it! Sometimes plain can be very effective and wearable for sure. Thanks for the comment :D
Hi Vanissia! always love your podcasts - especially love how you always include the prices! Currently working on the Ingrid sweater by petite knit :) Regarding the neck edge for the terni slipover, I'd recommend using the surprisingly stretchy bind off (or at least alternating it with a regular cast off) - it will give the neck edge more elasticity and should be fairly invisible seeing as the bind off edge will be inside the sweater. I saw that technique on a handmadebyflorence podcast, and now it's my go to for folded collars! xx
Thank you! Love the ingrid sweater ♥ And that's good advice, I'll definitely look into that ! x
Lovely to see this weeks episode (for extra reasons to my surprise haha). I'll send a DM on instagram about the raffle. Also, from how the camera presents, I like either the pistachio or the off-white when held with the Zakami. And for Q & A video purposes, it would be fun to hear if you have certain designers that you haven't knit a pattern from before that you have been wanting to try and why!
Congrats again !! Thanks for the question :)
I’ve knit one Erika sock and found my yarn overs where the next stitch is a purl is creating a bigger hole than the yarn over on the other side of the leaf where the next stitch is a knit. I’m going to frog mine as well because I decided to just make a quick pair of shorties in a vanilla pattern though I did the heel and flap from the Oona socks.
I am finding this too actually ! But I'm gonna try not to let it bother me, and see how they fare after blocking anyways. And yes I'm also using the Oona heel for the erika actually !! such a good one
I found the purl hole arose because the yarn sits higher up behind the curve of the needle because of how we naturally hold the yarn when we purl. Tugging it harder does not help. Instead I kind of flick my right index finger down and apply some gentle downward pressure to it while scooching the knot of the stitch to the very underside of the curve of the needle using my index finger of my left hand. I’m an English style knitter but I flick the yarn with my right index finger rather than dropping and lifting it each time, so it is easy for me to use my index finger to apply that gentle downwards pressure. I’m not sure how this would work for continental or standard English knitters. I think just the scooching with the left index finger alone might be enough. Hope this makes sense x
@@verylikecheryl - that makes a lot of sense, thank you.
@@verylikecheryl - I finished the shortie pair of socks and still had enough yarn to make the second Erika sock so I started it and I am so impressed that my ladders on either side of the cuff ribbing is not so bad and the lace pattern is working up well, yay! Looks like I won’t have to frog my first sock after all, it’s not perfect yet my feet don’t care and I doubt other people will be examining them closely either. I’m stoked!
@@debbieward9732 Yayyy! I bet they look beautiful. 🤓
Colour 1 pistachio or colour 5 the carmelly one 😊
I’m knitting on socks!
Currently doing yarn swatch of some new tweed super bullky yarn I got I want to cast the Fall Bluff raglan sweater going to be following the tutorial of Ashley Lilis as I not tried knitting top down items yet.
Ooh sounds lovely ! I could never go back to seaming or doing bottom up, i love top down too much now !
@@thewoollyworker Have you thought about doing a Marie Wallin Knit along?
That's a wonderful idea! I might think about that ! Would have to be a very long one aha
I really like that Stephen King yarn. So if I were to knit a Lento with it, for example in size S, would I need two skeins of 4 ply or DK weight? And then pair it with a mohair? I am always so overwhelmed by calculating the amount of yarn, especially since I've never purchased skeins/hanks (?) before. 😅
Hiya, yes I'm fairly sure you'd need 2 skeins of the 4-ply fingering weight sock yarn, and then some mohair ! The pattern gives the yardage, so just divide that amount by the meters in a skein of mohair, and round up and ta daa, you know how many skeins
But keep in mind it might be harder to make modifications to the sweater, like longer sleeves or longer body!
Hi Vanissia, I really enjoy your podcasts, they're so informative and engaging. I love listening to your accent too, every so often you sound Scottish! Im currently unpicking my colour work as I watch and listen. It's a gorgeous pattern, Red Cedar by Jessica McDonald. Some time ago I was knitting a shawl ( Vertices Unite) and the wool kept breaking, I think it had been eaten by Moths, so frustrating! Maybe that's what happened to your wool? The wool Your Parents gave you for christmas is beautiful. Questions for the Q and A. What do you do for a day Job, why did you moved to Scotland? Have you knitted a jumper for your Boyfriend :)
thanks for the questions and the lovely compliments :D. I hope it wasn't moths, I'll keep an eye on everything just to be sure ... And the Red Cedar is gorgeous !!
I am about to bind off the body on my FIRST ever sweater! Please everyone send me good vibes bc I’ve heard of this thing called “sleeve island” 😅😂
Good luck !! Well done for taking the plunge aha
congratulation.
Loving your podcasts.
With your Lumme sweater look out for what I think is an error in the pattern- the chart shows that all of the increases are to be done in the contrast colour but when you look at the pattern photos it seems that some should be done in the main colour. I wrote to the designer when I was knitting my version of Lumme sweater but disappointingly got no response.
Thank you! Yes I did notice, thankfully the squares in the chart were in main colour so that's what I followed intuitively, but you're right, the legend says otherwise. I wonder if Sari corrected the charted squares but forgot to change what the text says? Anyways, a lot of people mentioned it on ravelry !
I am finally getting on board with mt lento in a lovely pale blue by quince & Co, such a fast knit.
Really good joyed this episode too.
I like the green swatch .
Where in Belgium are you from , I lived in Antwerp for a short time and loved it.
Sounds great! And I'm from the south, near luxembourg. I don't think ive ever been to antwerp actually :)
Hi! Interesting what you say about sweaterno18 because it's on my Ravelry list. I'm watching today while cross stitching because I didn't have the right needle size to cast on my project. Which leads me to, what needles do you like to use (metal/wood and which tip length - 3.5" 4" 5" etc and brand?). Thanks!
Thanks for the question! I'll answer here quickly, I use chiaogoo interchangeables metal needles with the 3.5inch tips and I wouldnt use anything else! The only thing is I wish I had more cables and needles because I have too many projects and keep having to steal needles from WIPS haha :P
@@thewoollyworker Thank you so much! Actually I just bought some 4" chiaogoo before I saw this so this is good to hear. A few people had recommended 5" but I went with 4" as I currently have 4" bamboo so I'm used to them and they seem more versatile. I'm nervous about metal but so many people said chaiogoo are the best.
The news about the colorway charts in “Knitting from fair isle” is a real disappointment… I also have this book and love it, but I also wrote to the designer because I found that the yarn quantities were sometimes totally mistyped, and never heard back!
Yes i noticed that as well for yarn quantities ! Definitely disappointing when they don't get back in touch with us
What is the story of how you learned to knit and how your knitting journey progressed through the years?
thanks for the questions!
That Terni slipover looks like it would possibly suit a man's body better. It looks very shapeless and unflattering on a female body. See if it fits your partner? As for the swatch... I'll admit, I really like the fade. Any chance you could just stripe things randomly as you go?
Doesn't really fit my partner either, so i might reclaim the yarn another time! And ive decided to go for off white in the end :)
What a pity you are frogging so many socks, did you do swatches. Perhaps you could use them as swatches for future reference, or at least take notes of what happened. Don't be disheartened, its a good learning curve.
I know, but it's fine they didn't take long ! definitely taking notes so not all for nothing