The Sontag Story or Following a Pattern from 1860
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- I decided to finally sit down and knit the project I had been planning for a few years. Sadly, the yarn is no longer available, but it was wool which my friend and I dyed with onion skins and walnut husks.
The pattern is available here: 4.bp.blogspot.c...
Here is the translated version: www.raggedsoldi...
Here are the knitting tutorials I used:
For picking up stitches on the side- • Picking Up Sts Along a...
Knitting the border- • How to Knit an Applied...
Here are links to the actual shawls from Little Women, which I might make in the future, I really like Beth’s and think it would look great in some walnut, madder and onion skin:
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There are lots of ways to knit up this pattern. Everyone that I have talked to has modified it a little to fit them and their needs. I hope you found this useful and good luck with your projects!
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Just incase you're interested Zephyr is not a colour but a kind of wool. It was the German name for what the English imported as "Berlin wool". Double Zephyr refers to the thickness of the yarn and that would be about equal to today's Double Knit yarn. : Lovely Video by the way.
Thank you, I am very interested! That makes a lot more sense.
The colors look very Gryffindor on my phone, in the best way. Great video, relaxing to watch!
Thank you!
Great video! I’ve been making a kind of Sontag shawl but a simplified version which is basically just a triangle - I’m very interested to see how it will turn out
That's great! Best of luck on it!
I like it. Yellow is my favorite color, and the brown looks really nice with it. Loved the knitting montages, they made me smile. Thank you.
Thank you! 😊
i've been trying to get my head around this project and your video really helped. I'm going to go get started!
Glad I could help, good luck with it!
This was super helpful! I'm wanting to make this sontag as well, and it looks like my beginner self may be able to handle it!
I admire the fact that you just jumped in and made the sontag. It is really beautiful!!
lzo, I just found your channel and subscribed. I taught 1840 life skills cor about 20 years so it's wonderful to see a young woman carrying on the living history!!
Just subscribed I have tried to teach myself to knit can't do it good Lord you build, you sew ,knit what else can you do can you teach a knitting class ?you are blessed with so many talents!!!
Hi. I love Sontags. I’m happy to have found your channel today and I subscribed. Thank you so much!!!
I'm so glad you found me!
Thank You 🥰 great job
Thanks for the inspiration. I'm self taught and always feel that my projects are less because of that. Learned some new tricks today!!
This came up recommended for me...I've been trying to work out a crochet version. You inspired me to keep going! I knit forever and took my needles and wool sox everywhere I went! But my arthritic hands have let me down. Now I can only crochet. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing your journey! It was fun to watch!!!! Love the basketweave stitch! I want to make a Sontag now too.
I'm glad you enjoyed!
That’s very nice for a first try on a shawl. I crochet and knitting seems so very complicated that I don’t think I can learn it without in person direction. Great work and patience on your part.
Well done figuring that all out 🧶
This is great!!! Thanks, so now we know the right name for the Outlander "rent shawl." Sontag... love that. Excellent video, thanks for the instructions.
Great Job
Thank You 💕
That's really coming along nicely, especially for a not terribly simple project. Well done. Getting a color match with natural dyes is pretty tricky. You might have better luck coming up with a creative solution using the materials you already have. How might the 1850s knitter have approached the same problem? Two possible solutions come to mind, if you'd rather not put the project in time out for the rest of the year. You could finish the border in onion (depending on the impression you do at the museum, a super thrifty working class woman might have made use of every last scrap of materials she had). Or you could pull out the walnut border from the inside neckline, use that yarn to finish the outer border and redo the inside all in yellow. If you've come up with a solution to that weird ridge problem that came up on the one side, this would also give you the chance to fix that.
Those are some great ideas! I do have a tiny bit from the first one that I started that was too loose too. Maybe with that and the bit from the neck I can patch some together. Also, since it is worn crossed over, I could cross the onion skins part under and it wouldn't be noticeable. But since I don't think I will really be going anywhere this year, I think I will wait for walnuts to ripen and try that first. I know I won't be able to get an exact match, but I am just hoping for something in the realm of not glaringly obvious.
Enjoyed your video. I’m currently knitting a Sontag. It’s variegated merino that I have washed, dyed, carded then spun . I’m in Australia
Lovely wee film, thank you for the instructions, I shall have a bash at making one, kind regards Helen .
Thank you for your inspirational video and comments...!!! I have subscribed... And truly hope to have more of this historical instructions in the near future... Keep it up... You are extremely good at doing this and wish you the best...!!! You know, it gives a vision of shawls or capes to warm any kind of people, even children, on wheelchairs... Not so troublesome or confining... Allowing movement of arms and I can even see them on women cooking by a gas stove or minding children... Without risking a fire, getting caught on something and falling, or flapping a precious cut-glass vase to the floor... The shape is great to warm us doing anything really, around the house, specially in winter when the head of the household decides by himself to turn down the thermostat and it is freezing...
Thank you! I really appreciated your comment. I am working on a few videos right now. I am not sure if any will be out this month, but I will have a few coming in August and they should be more regular after that.
It is a good point about how practical this design is. I have often wanted to wear shawls but have felt like they get caught on things. I am excited to finish this sontag this fall and then wear it in the day to day this winter.
Hey this is the first video I've seen of yours and I just want to say how much I enjoyed it. Thank you!👏👏
Great video! I love your fearless attitude!
Currently researching how to knit a sontag and this was awesome and informative...I loved you just count to 5 description it totally demystified the secret alien code I felt like I have been reading. Thank you so much
Glad it was helpful! When I looked at the pattern it seemed so much harder than it was when I worked on it. Good luck!
Thank you so much - I’m trying to crochet a Victorian sontag and it was not making much sense - I’m going to preserver now but I think it’s going to be child size cause the adapting from the patter to modern Australian wool and crochet hook sizes was not easy and the seller is in the USA and the pattern is 1800’s UK - 🤯
Great video! I love the montages and the cute dog that is trying eat your knitting needles :)
He loves sticks!
I love this so much. I'm looking forward to the yarn dye process video later this year!
I'm glad you enjoyed. I just harvested some walnuts last weekend, so it will be coming!
Wow, this video was really interesting following your journey with the Sontag. It looks amazing, the colors are so nice and I'm sad that you couldn't finish it, I hope you will be able to do it now (it's September when I write this comment :P). I would love to see a video where you dye yarn with walnuts, I have never tried it but I'm in love with the color that you got from them. The knitting montages was so funny and cool, you definitely need to make more of them ;)
Thanks! I collected some English Walnuts the other day so will be making a video about it for sure.
R🌹..it’s gorgeous and you got humor..lovely video..and it’s very Gryffindor look-a-like neo classic shawl...👍
Oh thank you!
Very helpful ! I will start knitting a similar one soon !
Good luck!
I luv this - at this time I only crochet - do you have any ideas or patterns for that? This is so neat that you show patterns from ages ago - - - NICE
You did very well
Thank you!
Loved your video on knitting a Sontag, going to try this.
Also love the area you live it, just wondering where that is.
Good luck! I live in the Puget Sound.
If you are knitting the first row without perl when you are changing the color then it will look even nicer. 👵💖🥰
That's a great tip! Do you think it would throw off the basket weave design much?
I do not think it will throw off the basket weave at all. It will only be so that the double colored purls will not be there, and then it will look even nicer.
Well, next time I knit something I will do that for sure! I am still very much a beginner knitter so I feel like I have a lot to learn still.
@@VtorHunter I am a grandma and I have been knitting since I was 5. Glad if I could be to any help. I am impressed to see all you are doing, and I can see all you are doing you are doing very good. I am sure you won’t have any problems by knitting either. 👍👵💖
I found this pattern just a week ago and started knitting it. wish I had natural dyed yarns to work with. it would make it more authentic. as for the finishing, why don't you use the leftover yellow, no one said it had to be symmetrical. you could cross over the yellow and it won't be so prominent.
I could use the yellow, but fall isn't too far off now, and I am not going to any reenactments so I will try dyeing more first. Plus it will be a fun video to make. If it doesn't work, I will move some brown from the neck and take the little bit from the first attempt.
I hope yours turned out well!
Ooooh you lost the game of Yarn chicken. (In my 20 years or so of knitting I haven't got any better at guessing this. )
I really did!
I was going to knit this one, but then I found a crochet one on Ravelry (I think), so I made that one as it was faster to make up. I had it done in a weekend and the 2017 Little Women on the tv. I love the colors on yours. reminds me of a bee :D
The crocheted version sounds so much faster! I also haven't heard of the 2017 version, I'll have to look it up.
Can you share the link?
@@katelynminer2957 retrospectsewing.blogspot.com/2016/02/crocheted-sontag-pattern.html
@@katelynminer2957 It wasn't Ravelry lol
Very good and well-informed video. I recently received my Summer 2020 Spin Off which had this pattern in it and am making a first attempt to knit it using my handspun of 90% MerinoxCorriedale and 10% silk. You're very disciplined in being able to wait to complete your project because once I put things down, they sometimes don't get picked back up. That is my excuse for my number of WIPs in bags around the house. My bad. . . :-(
I hope yours works out well! I have never heard of Spin Off before, but it sounds interesting. What a coincidence that they have this pattern in the current issue!
Vtor Hunter spin Off is a magazine aimed towards hand spinners of all types of fibers (wool, mohair, angora, etc.). Also focuses on specific breeds of sheep. This issue was merino.
I was checking out their site and found a free guide on processing wool, which I am very excited about. We recently got our sheep sheared and now I have a Jacob fleece that I am going to try and spin. First I need to wash and card it. I really haven't done much of this before!
Vtor Hunter good for you. Jacob is a very nice fleece. I always found it interesting how the spots on their fleece so easily separated from the main color. Have fun!
Looks really good, and your self-dyed yard is lovely. I am rather late viewing this video, just wondering if you did, in fact, gather more walnuts to dye more wool last fall, and complete your project with more brown wool?
Thanks! I did collect some walnuts to make some more dye but then I lost them for a bit and have still not put them in water to ferment. I really should get on that.
I would love to see the crochet sontag. I can not knit .
I do not crochet so you will have to find someone else to show you. I am sure you can find some using ye olde google though.
Did you ever finish the Sontag? It is so pretty.
I haven't! I did get some more wool and I collected few walnuts. I need to throw them in some water to ferment them and dye the yarn so I can!
I knitted this shawl last year. It’s not bad to wear. BUT you didn’t actually follow the pattern did you? Neither did I; I made it larger and all garter stitch.
I didn't? I just made a few adjustments so it would fit my body, as one does with any pattern.
May I ask where you found an 1860's knitting pattern?
The pattern is from Godey's Lady's Book which was a popular magazine from 1830-1878. It has patterns in it (the one I used is linked in the description). It and several other ones from the era, such as Peterson's Magazine are digitized and available for free in various places online.
I am so lost
Are you trying to knit a sontag?