I Failed TWICE This Week (But I Learned What I DON'T Like!)
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- This week was rough! I experimented with weird yarn, and the results . . . weren't what I was hoping for! 😂. I also tried to knit a cool ribbed sock, which you might like?
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all of your videos feel like a coffee/craft chat w a best friend, & as a girl who has no fiber arts friends in real life i appreciate this so much. hope you have the best weekend! ❤
Same here. Agree!!
I agree!
I agree too - thanks for being you!! ❤
Agree!
Try that weird yarn with a stitch pattern to change up the micro stripes, or add in stripes from another color. You might like how that turns out.
“It’s not blowing my dress up”??? You are a hoot!
Hot hubby winds your yarn for you AND brings it to you while you relax on the couch!?! I thought I was watching a sock knitting video, not a romance fantasy movie! 🧶❤️🔥
Art really is subjective. I'm an indie yarn dyer, I don't have a website, I just sell at festivals and such and it's interesting to see a colorway that I just love takes forever to sell but a colorway that I thought was a failure sells out super fast. And, honestly, some yarn does look better in the skein on a shelf than it does knit up.
I adore that "micro" stripe yarn. Exactly what I'd be looking for!! Great demo as I'd never expect that and wouldn't have bought it. Now I need to order it!!
I want it now too! Super cute.
I love it too but 100% merino with no nylon or polyamide to add some strength to the heel and toe makes it a no-go for me.
I 100% love it so much when you present The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Your honesty about your projects, the process, the yarn you use….its real because we’ve all been there and many social media folks like to present just The Good.
I love how genuine you are! The part where your husband wound the yarn cake and presented it you was so queen like! Your skateboarding is super cool!
I learn so much from you! Thank you for explaining your creative process!
I feel we are a lot alike -taking your knitting everywhere! Love, love, love Beasley! ❤️🐶
My husband Paul holds every skein while I hand wind my yarn- it’s great TV time! I wonder if this yarn was meant to be used with a random pooling pattern. Have you ever tried socks with those random pooled flower stitches?
So fun to see Emma's Yarn "in the wild" my LYS is owned by Emma's parents and naturally we have a ton of Emma's Yarn in the store so in my head it's just a local yarn lol. I knit with microstripes for the first time and I really enjoy them! What I love about the knitting community is that we're connected in our love of knitting but each one of us has a different silt and interests, the diversity makes endless possibilities in patterns and yarns.
I’m going to try it with a white cuff……..
I think the Emma's Yarn Lucky Charm colorway would work for an assigned pooling technique, where you do a special stitch when you get to the rainbow. I've seen some very cool shawls and sweaters using assigned pooling but never socks.
I agree with not finishing projects that don’t bring you joy. I usually just frog the thing to salvage the yarn .
“It not blowin my dress up!” I’ve got to use that one. Love the color of the microstriped sock!
I think the microstriped yarn could be wonderful with large blocks of color in the cuff, heel, and toe. But like all yarn and colors, dye techniques, seeing how it will knit up is so helpful when shopping. That why I gravitate towards dyers that will offer a knit swatch because I shop with a project in mind. Also skating boarding! Please share more about your skate boarding!
Yes! Single color pops on cuff, heel, and toe! I like the microstripes with this image.
Ok, it’s at 9:00 and I have ideas for still being able to use this yarn for socks! Cuff/toes on a solid color that matches one of this micro strip colors or alternate your favorite stripe sequence using colors in the micro stripes with this yarn sandwiched between those solid stripes.
Slipped stitch patterns or slipped stitch colorwork is good for those weird skeins because it breaks up the tendency for the colors to pool strangely. I love the chaos of those weird skeins and not knowing what you're going to get! Try the Trompe le Monde pattern from your new book with a weird skein and a contrasting solid color!
This was SO informative!! I hope you make more "Weird Yarn" videos...or least a segment of your videos. It's so eye-opening....we just don't know what our yarn will do. I wish you had a sock machine that could save you the time! Or.....me....I wish I had a sock machine. I meant me. 😏
I finally got my Sock Project book in the mail! It's such a great read. Thanks for all your hard work ❤
What a sweetheart to spin for you
That microstripe yarn would be great for assigned pooling. You knit a specific motif just when you hit that area. Perhaps it's time to design an assigned pooling sock? With a flower or a leaf or something?
Ok , now I'm curious about this drawer of 1 off socks... id love it if you shared. I always feel obligated to finish my socks and to "leave no sock behind"😂
That first one (the micro stripe one) would be great for planned pooling in a sock design, like cute flower clusters or something.
I think so too. It looks to me like it may have been dyed with assigned pooling in mind. My LYS owner makes a lot of assigned pooling yarn. The sock weight works well for shawl patterns that are written for the yarns dyed that way.
I have made socks using the micro stripping yarn. The way this yarn is dyed I like to put purl bumps on the coloured portion of the yarn. Adding the purl bumps will add some interest.
Hey Summer, this is David. I’m at the kitchen bar watching with my wife. Sometimes her knitting RUclips videos are painful to watch. You are a very good communicator and even I followed along on this one. I think the blue in the sock that you just knitted was too washed out and that was the reason that you called it a failure. by the way, my wife just purchased your book, maybe I’ll get some really neat socks in the future. Keep up the good work.
Very sweet of your husband to help you!!
Ok a husband who winds the yarn, brings home pizza AND takes his shoes off outside!,,, WOW a keeper lol
You’ve got to be kidding me, your husband winds your yarn for you? You’re definitely blessed. 🥰. Love your new book. It’s fabulous!
Right?! And he’s very foxy too!
I love that silly microstriping sock cuff/cake of yarn!! It could make a fun giveaway prize... Heehee :)
I love the “micro stripes”. Really pretty!!! Now I need to get some weird yarn!!! LOL
I look forward to Fridays and a sit down to watch your process. It's the same with all of us. Nobody hits a home run each time they cast something on. If they did, there would be no joy in a fab finished object. They'd all be the same. How boring would that be? Love that you are honest enough to share your mehs creations as well as the wows! Keep moving on.
I actually like the look of the first sock attempt with the micro stipes. Reminds of a candy look. But, I'm actually like that with books. If it doesn't grab me with the first few chapters, it's gone.
I'm sorry you feel like the vintage ice cream sock is meh, but I AM IN LOVE. I must knit a pair of socks like that asap
I actually loved the micro stripe! We all really need to know how different yarns knit up into socks, so I hope you will try knitting up another one of your indie dyed mystery yarn hanks again.
Learned something new today. I love micro-stripes! I see soccer socks! ❤ I feel the excitement even though I don’t knit yet 😂 I’ve truly enjoyed hanging out with you.
As you were holding up the sea-green & orange yarns snd describing your plans Ibsaix to myself "she's going to hate it at the end". I think it needed some other color stripes to liven it up? Anyway, I appreciate the passion you have for imagining and trying!
Love your honesty about your making journey, the yarn and pattern don't always make a baby.
I also love the fact that you skateboard!! I'm a 40 something lady and I board with my 12 yr old son. We sure get looks, imagine if i was knitting while boarding down the path?! Thanks for sharing your humor and creative processes with us.
I think the skein from Emma's Yarn looks like what is used for assigned pooling.
I personally loved that yarn but I totally agree, if you dislike a yarn for sure don't keep going with it!
I ordered yarn with a project in mind but by the time it gets here I have forgotten what it was. 😢
I think that yarn would make an interesting hat. Changing how many stitches are in a round will change how it stripes up. 🤔
I’m a process knitter too. Like right now, I’m working on knitting up your pattern from your book, Trompe le Monde. The pattern is busy (as opposed to plain old stockinette) and I’m LOVING it!
Maybe using the orange on the toe would make it better for you. I love those colors together and would totally wear them!
Thank you for showing us the design process. 😊
This is an AMAZING concept for a video series!
I like that yarn you call weird. I cannot knit cuff down anymore even though I was taught this way as a child. I started knitting taat toe up and now is the only way for me. I can check the fit all along the way to get the proper fit and there’s no concern with the cast off toe. If you are afraid of running out of yarn you can make the cuff shorter and cast off anytime. Too many pluses for me to do it any other way.
Summer, I'm not a big fan of variegated yarns for that very reason. HOWEVER, I do love those micro stripes! I was wondering how you might like that yarn alternating with solid stripes. It could be so cool.
Ahhh that yarn looks like the “unicorn farts” technique lol. There was a blog post about it when I first started knitting!
Omg! I saw this yarn and had the same question! Idea: this sparked an idea about doing an assigned pooling design for socks! You could partner with Dawn Barker from Barker Wool!
At least it wasn’t horrific flashing 😅 That’s what I was worried it would look like! I’ll try to dye a skein like that now though
I’m totally knitting a ballband dishcloth with that exact blue and orange and it’s making me so happy 😂
Lee. Have a look at assigned pooling. I find the 100% merino is better suited to a scarf…a full skein after blocking gives a shawlette with flowers. Dawn Baker has some great instructional videos and patterns . My little scarf has been useful on cooler days inside a jacket or to use in the summer when in restaurants and walk on the beach after dinner. Love to watch the show from Down Under. Joh
I think having a drawer of experiments is a lovely tribute to trying.
Dear Summer, i very like your strong way of your creating. Sure failures are one of the things. But your minty socks look fine to me. With the second sock in the opposite colorway ... May be... You gave me an inspiration... Not only one. Thank you and enjoy every step.. like you already do... 😊
The lucky charm kind of matched your necklace 😂. Thanks for showing this, I liked the yarn a lot and now I know what skeins of micro stripe look like, I had always wondered and was never brave enough to buy a skein like that. Learning from your failures is cool, letting others learn from them is brilliant!! Thanks!
I love your spirit of fun! I learn do much from you!!! I do love it when they crank a tube or make a swatch with those pretty yarns! I’m with you it’s a lot of money!
Okay, you view your Aqua blue w/orange stripes as a failure, which is okay! But please knit the second sock and pass them on to someone who'll love or need a pair of socks. Then I think you'll love them because they made someone joyful, and your heart will do a "Happy Dance".
Emma’s yarn totally has a strangle hold on my heart but like you I struggled wondering how the heck it would knit up. Now seeing this video I decided I need the fingering weight because I am loving the result! I have the dk so maybe I could whip up some dk socks and see if it’s the same micro striping. Nothing wrong with trying something and not liking it! Props for trying in the first place!!
The calendar spread is quite interesting. Since playing cards are still so new to me I'm happy to be able to get familiar with it using your tarot version of it. Thanks!
I don’t think I would’ve purchased this yarn thinking it would be big blobs of color but I am a fan of the micro stripes … we don’t always like the same yarn but we all love the making
Some weeks are like this! With knitting you don't know what you are going to get until you cast on and knit. I love that you can show us your disappointments.
thanks so much for sharing the process...that first yarn, is up my alley so I really appreciate seeing it knit. The second sock, I am searching my vintage colors to make my own - your failures are my inspiration this week. (you have no failures in my book)...I am going camping soon and taking my yarns and we'll see what I come up with - it's all good right, knitting is a process of love and how about that sweetheart who winds your cakes! And brings home the pizza...he was walking too fast, did you knit his socks? Wishing you a great day and how cool are you to be a skateboarding Mom .... giving you a big high five from California
I liked the microstripes but I didn't care for it on the bare base. I think I would like those color pops on maybe a natural grey base or neon microstripes on an otherwise black yarn would be cool. Thanks for sharing your process when you don't like the result. Its nice to hear someone say "hey it's okay not to finish it or make the second sock if you don't like it" because I think we often feel guilty for not following through and completing the project.
I think this sock would be really nice as an ankle sock the same pattern and colors but only up to the ankle bone .
I actually LOVE the micro stripes!!
“Weird” Yarn, I get what you are saying. I did though love how you took the challenge on. Would be great to see some more like this. I did though think it might look different knit up in a hat 🤔
Even tho I knew what that yarn was gonna do, I loved watching this so much!
It's very much how I live my life in general. Remove the shame in all things and life gets so much better. So much more interesting and fun 💜
I personally love a micro stripe in a solid/semi solid stripe sequence. So I would knit a few rounds in that orange you had, then find a darker shade of that blue green you had and maybe a royal blue or Indigo then add in the microstripe.
🌈 thank you for a great video!
I love how you have your husband "trained"! (I need to work on mine.....)🤣
I have that Lucky charms yarn in her perfect sock base.. ...so fin. I'm knitting a Musselburgh hat!
I loved seeing the Emma’s Yarn knitted up. I wouldn’t have bought yarn dyed for assigned pooling because I don’t love any of the patterns I’ve seen where you have the special stitches randomly placed throughout a project. I DID though really like it in that sock! It’s great to be able to celebrate our differences rather than letting them come between us - even when it comes to the yarn we love to use. :)
Thanks for sharing your creative process this week even though it didn't result in a sock you loved!
omg the microstripe rainbows would be BEAUTIFUL pride socks
I know you don't like musicals...but chitty chitty bang bang has a song in it about failure😂 in the song they say "every failure brings you closer to success" I've carried that with me for a long time. Thank you for sharing that it's ok to not knit the 2nd sock. I didn't knit the 2nd sock on a pair I had started b/c my tension was all over the place and the 2nd skein was so weird(self patterning) that even making shorties I couldn't match them🙄 On the sock I'm knitting now, I realized I'm an anxious knitter and getting 10sts/in they're not big enough. Still deciding if I will finish it and block it to see if that changes the fabric enough, but either way I'm learning 🎉 for now I'm gonna take a break and go read more of your fabulous book😁
I would use that yarn for scrappy projects 😊
When I'm not sure what a yarn is going to look like knit up, I check ravelry to see if the yarn and colorway are listed under "Yarns". You can then see any projects that were knit with that yarn, if its listed. Many indie dyers may not be listed but you never know.
I wish you'd sell your one sock and the rest of the yarn so that I could make the other sock because I love that color combo! Plus, it would be a thrill to some of us if we could wear a sock that you knitted.
That blue tshirt looks amazing on you!
Coming into winter here in Australia. I knit socks all year round
Hi, I think it’s fascinating watching all the different colours interesting isn’t it to see what happens with colour play. I just love very bright colours that’s why I love socks. I pre-ordered your sock book and forgotten I done that ,I’m in the UK a lovely surprise when it arrived .I’ve started this the flea stitch socks and I’m on the third selection of colour choices which I now love neon pink orange and neon yellow for the cuffs! My previous choices, I just didn’t love.
Thank you for testing beautiful odd yarns. Because of seeing how it knits in a vanilla sock pattern gave me ideas how it will look using various stitch textures. 100% wool, no nylon has me questioning if its appropriate for socks.
Thanks for sharing the less successful parts of the creative process! I used to be afraid of failure, but am slowly getting better at accepting it-so I really appreciate your fearless embrace of things that just don’t work. Hope next week goes better for you!
What a great and honest vlog. Question…. Do you ever go back to your drawer of failures and take a second look to see if you feel differently about a project? I know my feelings can be very fickle and I change my mind frequently so I wonder if you are the same. Or if it’s done forever once it hits the failure drawer. Thanks for the yarny content! I always enjoy watching. ❤️
I love the microstripes!
Love this… and as one who does like micro stripes but never knew how to select a skein to give me that….thank you!!! Now I know 😊
I loved your video. I like your micro stripe yarn, and a different color cuff heel and toe would have been nice on it. The other sock, I liked the colors, but it looked like a school sock. Your lake is lovely. Yes you can’t knit something perfect always. I don’t read books I start if I can’t get into them! Not enough time
Oooh! That first skein would be really beautiful for color pooling! I would LOVE to see what you could come up with in a color pooled sock! Im all in to see that happen!
I totally get that you might be OVER the micro-stripe yarn, but I'm kinda curious about how it would look in your Mermaid sock pattern 🤔 or mixed in with bolder stripes of bright colors. Would love to see you come at it again as a design challenge
I love Emma’s yarn, so irresistible! I love what your share and you have inspired me to make more socks this summer
I love the weird yarn
I think your first sock matches your necklace perfectly!
Hahaha if we lived close I would trade you some solids for that yarn lol! I understand it's not your thing but I love it ❤ Also when they aren't my fav...those a gift lol I knit 2 at a time though so I would gift them
You are so authentic about your approach to failures! I too love the process part but am not nearly as forgiving of myself when I don’t like the end result - what we picture and what we end up with can be very different. I’ve learned to listen to the little voice that says “this is not going well” and stop. Start something new. And there is always something new, isn’t there! Love your weekly vlog.❤
Love this idea. I’ve got many of those impulse skeins so looking forward to this series. 😃
😮That Emma's Yarn with the rainbow micro stripes is fantastic. Now I want some! 😀
But, I get it. I love hand-dyed sock yarn, but it's more reassuring to buy it when the dyer also shows a little sample swatch, so you know what you're getting into.
Lucky Charm is totally an assigned pooling yarn. 1/4 to 1/3 of the skein is the pop and the rest is a “background”. Definitely a specialty Indy dye technique.
love emmas yarn-would have never bought that fruit loops but seeing you knit it up-what a fun pair of socks it makes-not your vibe-but very cool
Hi. I love the socks, but then again i love what us different. Lol
we all have our loves and dislikes, and that’s allowed :). i have a black yarn with little colored stripes, just like the white yarn that you used for the first sock. having looked at your patterns, it seems that you prefer when you make the design, as opposed to when the dyer makes the design. that’s why you’re a designer! and a talented one at that. ps - your home is just beautiful!
Would love a tour of the socks you didn't finish! Because I loved both if the ones you didn't like hahaha
I really like the micro stripes!! Thanks so much for sharing this.
LOL. Micro Stripes. I hate them as well. I gifted a $400.00 sweater to my sister because after knitting it and never wearing it I gave it to someone who loved it.
Personally I LOVE the micro stripes! But I totally get having a yarn dying preference.
I have been knitting from your book so much! Thank you for highlighting the 2x1 rib cuff, it’s my new fav!
Love your honesty! Perhaps you should auction all your odd “fails” or take them to the thrift store. Lots of folk find great pleasure in wearing odd socks! Linda, UK 💕🧶🧦
I love that sock! And love how your husband winds your yarn. He did a good job! I love your videos and look forward to watching! And yes, I agree I would take your first sock and make the second…
You inspired me to buy the Emma's Yarn!