Marling Magically Makes the Yarn You Need!
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- Do you have a stash full of yarn, but never seem to have the right one for your new knitting or crochet project? Happens to me A LOT. Turns out that you probably DO have that yarn on hand - you just don't know it yet! Join me for this Tip Jar Tutorial why you want Marling in your yarny tool box.
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Show notes:
What I'm wearing: Blume by Julie Hoover
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Making Marls
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Caligraphy Cardi by Norah Gaughan
www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
MDK Field Guide #9 - Revolution
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Bias Before and After Scarf by Churchmouse
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Marlogram Scarf by Ceclia Campochiaro
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Love Note by Tin Can Knits
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Striped Marl Hat by Cecelia Campochiaro
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Library Blanket by Purl Soho
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Ten Stitch Blanket by Frankie Brown
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00:00 Introduction
00:43 What is Marling?
02:19 Why Should You Marl?
07:52 Mini Color Theory Tutorial
20:03 The Rest of the Projects 
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Hi, You have just become one of my favorite new podcastors! Wonderful mix of excitement, knitting information and just plain teaching! Love it!
Wow, thank you! It’s great to have you here 😊
I like marling a solid and a variegated yarn for hats. Love the subtle look of the two blues together.
"organic" in the homemade marl. love it!
On your sweater dilemma, wear in the fall over a long sleeved shirt or t-shirt. Here in Florida, that is a winter outfit.
Super good points, thank you for bringing it up! I’m 50+ years knitter, that now for 3 years spin and teach spinning. I ADVICE every knitter to own basic spindle and use it to ply yarns. It does matter.
You can ply without spindle - just put rubber band on yarn ball and twirl it, then repeat on another yard of yarn. (Spindle is better and faster)
I often add or remove twist on store yarns to obtain effect I need and make unusual yarn.
Best thing, you don’t even need to know how to spin! Just own cheap spindle and try
Love this! I’m feeling a strong urge to experiment now 😋😁
You know I am not a huge fan of high contrast marls but you may have made me a believer on mixing tonal and similarly colored yarns.
Yay! 😁
Yes, marling is a great stashbuster. I combine yarns to make hats for charity.
Thanks for the great video!💜🧶
OMG, I love Oscar, what a ham! I also love marled knitting to get through my stash but have no colour sense. Thanks for the cute technique of mini swatches. That heavy cotton sweater would be great on chilly nights with a white or mustard coloured tank top underneath. It would be such a shame to get rid of it, in my opinion. Thanks again for a very informative podcast.
Thanks for your thoughts about the sweater 😊 I’ll let Oscar know he’s got another fan 😋
I bought the book and love it too! I used the micro swatches to decide what colors to marl for a Penguono cardigan by Stephen West and it worked so well. Endless possibilities for sure.
I love marling. I have THE marling book you talked about and love it. i have read it all the way through.
Fantastic! I have not read it all the way through, but I NEED to! 😋
Your summer cardigan is gorgeous! You could wear it over a classic white button down shirt in the spring when the weather is still chilly and you need a pop of color after a dark winter.
Love this idea! 🥰
You're dangerous! The first of your videos I watched was Sequence Knitting. I was so taken with the idea and so excited about the book that I tried every library system in my area but none had it. So I bought it -- I really really don't need more books!
I justified it by saying that my vacation project was going to be trying out a bunch of the sequences in the book.
Now I'm watching this video and it's another beautiful book by the same author. But this time, I won't give in to temptation! (I can't afford another book of this expense and don't have the room for another book of this size). But the color charts are extremely appealing.
Ha ha! My apologies 😋 Maybe put the marling book on a wishlist for a birthday or something? 😉
Love your magic wand! Wish I had one! I'd use it to clean my house so I'd have more time to knit! Love you!
Ha ha ha! If I can get mine to that, I’ll clone it and send you one 😉😋
I just finished the simple something sweater and used 4 fingering weight sock yarns in a green yrloe to dark green fade held with a cream coloured fingering weight wool yarn. I love how the cream mutes the other colours and makes the whole more cohesive. A good way to use those single skeins of sock yarn when both yourvsovk drawer and your husbands sock drawer are full. Ps also oniy my husband a granny stripe blanket with a cone of natural and all of my tiny sock left overs. My 80 + husband that gets cold uses it almost everyday.
Fabulous creativity! Thanks for sharing 😊
I just spun a marled yarn using a solid single with a gradient single to make more of the yarn to be able to knit something with it ... do not know yet... but love it all the same.....to marl two separate yarns I would bobbin each separately and then ply two together to get the store bought look
Thanks for the tip!
i did my first marled project a few weeks ago. i knit a marled faded pair of socks, using 2 strands of fingering held double. each colour used about 10 grams so it was a great way to use up small scraps.
Excellent! Love the sock idea 🥰
LOVE the color of the frame on this video!!!!
Me too 😊
Hi :) About this summer sweater - it's so great! 🥰 and it's in fantastic colour! Aboslutely adorable! Maybe you could wear it on a long sleeve dark shirt or a "basic" long sleeve shirt in the autumn or winter. Or - maybe - you could just knit long sleeves to it and make it "SUCH a sweater":) . Anyway - it's too great just to stay in the closed - that's for sure :) Marling is GREAT - it gives something like a third colour. And sometimes when a colour is beautiful but too "strong", marling can make it "milder".
Great enthusiasm! ❤️ I’ll try pairing it with a few things and see how that goes 😋
I love marling but dislike the look of marled fabric. I discovered that if I marl two yarns together and then overdye the FO then it looks truly beautiful. Then I discovered that if I soak the FO in nappy soaker and heat it then it pulls some dye out of the yarn. If I then add vinegar the dye sets back into the yarn and the whole garment ends up a blended colour of the two yarns. If the yarns have different fibres then the fabric this produces is truly stunning and amazing for using up scraps.
Wow! So creative. I can imagine how amazing that finished fabric would look. Well done 🤩
@@Knicoleknits it's really nice. Takes away the flat look of commercially dyed yarn when marled with a cobweb weight cash silk
Maybe you could rip back the sleeves of the shortsleeve cardi and make a vest-style/tank top, or rip them back and then make a contrasting color sleeves as a cardigan for fall? Or a complementary color.
Great thoughts! The “sleeves” are just a continuation of a circular yoke, so they can’t be unraveled to the shoulder. I do like the idea of a tank style though. 😊
Lovely visit. I started a marled coat. Mixed a multi-color with a solid. Not good colors on their own but made a lovely combo. Took so long to make it, I gained weight. Never finished.
Aw, dang. I hate when that happens. Good job on the color blending, though! 😊
I marled a silvery gray 100% bamboo with Sandness Garn lavender mohair. The mohair grabbed the bamboo and helped with tension. The color it made is gorgeous. I made the Sheer-v sweater by Jessie Maed and dropped the bamboo for the V. I love the sweater.
Wow! That sounds phenomenal. You’ve got some yarn blending chops 🤩
Another good episode, and so many lovely projects! I especially loved your gradient marls. But what would you do if Oscar didn't have your back? He deserves a cashmere dog bed for all of his technical assistance. 🤣 The sequence knitting book is great, I'll have to check out her marls book. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about it!
I'm with you on texture against the skin sensitivity. I love Purl Soho's Linen Quill (wool, alpaca, linen), and made a Half-and-Half Wrap with it. No problem! So I ordered two sweater quantities. I knit a pullover with it (as have so many others, apparently without issues) and ended up frogging it because I could not wear it against my skin. Yes, it felt like a bunch of biting ants! I reknit it into a Hitofude Cardigan, but will have to make sure to have sleeves covering my arms when I wear it. Sigh.
Oh man…you got me so excited there for a minute about the Linen Quill 😋😂
Oscar can be very helpful, if slightly snarky at times. The jury is still out on the cashmere dog bed, though. 😉
I’ve used marling to use up my stash. Including the Ranunculus. Like you, my skin cannot tolerate fuzzy fibers, and am definitely allergic to mohair. (Itchy watery eyes, sneezing,…) so I have yet to do the Love Note.
I’m always on the lookout for mohair substitutes. As I find them, I’ll definitely share them on my channel 😋😊
To “spin” 2 yarns together, you first have to establish how each yarn was originally PLYED (and you’ll need both yarns PLYED the same way!)
The most commonest PLYING is “S”
(Look at the strand, you can overlay the letter S…it has the bar of the PLY in the same direction as the bar of the letter S)
Now, you need to undo that ply, so spin in the Z direction (the opposite to S).
Do this to both balls of yarn, then re-ply in the S.
I do this when making thicker yarns (incorporating more than one stand), as it avoids one of the strands becoming the “leader” in your knitting (and thus resulting in pooling).
Thank you! You answered the very question I was going to ask.
Wow! Crash course in spinning 😁 I knew I could count on you! 🤩
Curious: Why not add a little S twist to each yarn and then ply them Z?
@@sleepydrJ you could…
I’m coming from a technical spinning perspective 🥺
(You end up with a softer, more uniform yarn doing it s)
Do an experiment on a piece of yarn using your finger to twist (first in clockwise direction Z, then in anticlockwise direction S], then after each, allow to ply back on itself. You’ll definitely see the difference. UN-plying [from s] brings all the strands back into alignment, whereas doing more z it still keeps each yarn in its own identity even when plyed.
My opinion! 🤣
EDIT: some crocheter’s say that S plyed yarn often unplys when working (some yarns are designated “Z” ply specifically for crochet). HOWEVER, it would be interesting to hear whether a left-handed crocheter had this happen (that is, whether the S ply yarn unplys as with a right handed person) 🤔🤔🤔
If you’re worried about being too heavy and warm, just ask your doctor for thyroid problems. I am cold all the time now I can remember when I was one of those hot natured people but now I wear sweaters sweatshirts I didn’t even put away my winter clothes this year and today it’s June 1.
Thanks for the thoughts. I have had my thyroid checked and it’s fine. This getting hot business is more related to being a woman of a certain age 😉
You might be able to find a vintage Daruma yarn twister or the modern equivalent from kriskrafter.
Thanks! I’ll check that out 😁
Fantastic inspiration thank you. Just wondering what size your Library Blanket ended up?
Excellent question! It never occurred to me to measure it. It’s 38”x58”
Now I need to go put that in my Ravelry notes before I forget! 😁
Do you consider holding mohair or suri alpaca with another yarn to be "not really marling" just because there's so often a close color match and (as you already said) it's more for texture? I am guessing that mohair/suri alpaca with high contrast/of a very different color to a second yarn would be more along the lines of a classic marl? It sounds like yes, just curious! Thanks for the comprehensive rundown.
Yes, that's exactly right. My understanding is that a true marl would allow you to see both distinct colors. While many of the fingering/mohair pairings are not the exact same color, they do tend to blend together enough that they "read" as a sold color 😊
@@Knicoleknits Thanks for the swift response! That all makes sense.
Use dissolvable interfacing, then spray glue, then I would baste it with matching thread and cut out to make large lace in the motif- maybe
Oh, wow! That never would have occurred to me. Fascinating idea 🤔🥰
@@Knicoleknits would it be smug to say I fascinated myself when the thought hit me? LOL
@@Kimber_Lee_Enlow 🤣🤣🤣
On that sweater that you stole the buttons off of, open up them sleeves, and I would knit the sleeves longer. Turn it into a lightweight jacket.
Hmm…I’m getting visions of possibilities from this…thanks! 😁
I have heard about dehaired alpaca yarn and it supposed to be quite comfortable on the skin. Have not knit with it.
Really??? I need to look into that asap! Thank you 😁
Remove the sleeves and make it a vest?
That would be perfect, but it’s a circular yoke, which makes that extra tricky 😉
Another very informative podcast.
If that was my sweater I would frog it and use the yarn for something else.
Yeah, that may very well be the outcome. 😊
Interesting……. I’ve always heard that 2 different yarns shouldn’t be wound together because they won’t/don’t come off the ball evenly.
I’ve been told that, too. Haven’t tried it either way, though.
Interesting. I’ve never heard that and it has never been an issue for me…so far! 😋😁
You can't marl it with a machine, when the stretch is very different like cotton and wool for example. This combination is better done manually. But doing it by hand you can combine all sorts of material. Manually just meaning letting the balls unwind separatly while knitting.
I have had trouble with ysrn if I wind it together. I love marling but I hold each yarn together as I knit. Never wind them together becsuse of tangling problems I have had in the past. @@nancyborgeson440
I guess the most obvious if you have enough yarn, lengthen the sleeves???
Great suggestion! Sadly, a no go in the more yarn department 😋
@@Knicoleknits Bummer....
LoL that book is 65$ usd
I know. It’s a lot. That’s what makes the MDK Field guide such a deal 😊
@@Knicoleknits I'm back to recommend NEONS & NEUTRALS pattern book. Marling on many patterns and a sequence pattern as well
I recall quickly browsing the patterns in this book, but clearly I need to go take a closer look! Thank you 😊