I know this is a while ago now but if you're like me and have discovered Fruity Knitting recently (or re-discovered it) there's a chance you'll see this. If you're puzzling over the yoke for the lovely intarsia roses one way to get around "intarsia in the round" is to cheat and actually work it in rows but instead of simply turning and working back and seaming later you "link" the ends/beginnings of the rows into rounds as you go using a short-row technique. Use something like a mother/daughter stitch (I think that is Lucy Neatby's technique?), a wrap-and-turn (not my favourite anymore) or a German short row (my current favourite - I used it to do mitred corners on the border of a shawl and the border stitches seem to flow as continuous stitches as they turn the corner - I also use it to do the short rows for bust shaping on vests worked in the round and it just melts away and doesn't draw attention to itself - which is just what I want there!). There are quite a few other tricks too for working intarsia circularly but when you're working in multi-colour intarsia circularly this cheating method is pretty simple, keeps the knitting single-layer all the way around and always has the ends waiting in the right places when you need them. The ends for each motif can be "woven in" as you introduce them and also as you finish them off before resuming "true" circular knitting in one colour again, thereby reducing the ends to weave in at the end to almost nothing. In addition, the "links between colours" are just as good as they are when worked flat (because they are!). If you have at least one line (i.e. column) for a regular decrease on a yoke like Andrea has in this video then there's a good chance you can incorporate the German short row (or another short row technique) with one of those decrease columns as well - camouflaging the turn/join even more. Experiment on a little swatch to see what method works best for you pattern and the decreases for it. In any event, it will be much flatter and more flexible like the rest of the knitting than a seam stitched afterwards that you'd get from needing to work truly flat. Unless of course you actually do work flat, with no joining technique, and put a selvedge/band at each side on the centre back that operates like a placket closing on the back of a blouse (either with buttons all the way up the short placket or just one at the top depending on what type of garment you're doing - a knitted blouse could probably take just one closure at the top, for example). You would still, of course, have to experiment with where the decreases must go either side of those bands to keep the yoke shaping correct.
Oops - sorry about how hard that is to read. I thought I'd put in some paragraph spacings to break it up into digestible chunks but they didn't show how I expected.
@@nectarinefire2306 I haven't seen any, but there are so many on yt there may well be some. It would help to search for if the technique had a recognised name but I've not seen it listed with one anywhere. Perhaps look up something like "tricks for intarsia in the round"? It's harder to explain than it is to do... I'll have a wee look around searching for likely terms that miht bring it up and if I find one I'll come back and comment to let you know what to search for. :-)
I remember the Ozzie and Harriet series on TV when I was a kid. The Nelsons were a theatrical family and the started that show so they could live in California with their family and not have to move around. TV was a great thing in those days for performing families, it was like having a regular job with with dinner at home and time with their families every night. Ricky became a very popular singer in the late 1950s. That was what David's comment "When does he have time to practice his guitar?" was all about. It was sort of an inside joke, since Ricky had a singing career in real life. It actually started as a gag on the show. They dressed him up and did makeup like Elvis Presley. But instead of just being funny all the girls loved it and he ended up releasing his first album 1958. I remember adoring him on TV back then. I was much too young for him, but little girls love handsome grown up boys. I remember telling my mom I was going to marry Elvis Presley when I was in the first grade. It didn't matter to me. I knew I would grow up and be old enough. It didn't occur to my six year old mind that he would be older, too, and not a handsome teenager anymore. By the time I was old enough , the music scene had changed and I forgot all about that.
Joyce - thanks for the background. I admit I hadn't done any research on the show, and it wasn't a thing in Australia. I think it's cool to see the old shows. They also had some ads which would be fun (we cut it down to about half length so we could fit it in the episode...) Cheers, Andrew.
I really had a good laugh about the boyfriend sweater segment. I was a very young child when it originally aired and had never seen it. I started a sweater for my college boyfriend, and changed boyfriends in the middle of the project! I married my second boyfriend. We’ve been married 55 years, but he never wore the sweater that I finished. I’m afraid that I let t slip out that I had initially started knitting it for another man!
That tutorial in knitting with two colours is the best I've seen. I had floats on the back of one of my projects and it was laboursome. This has made the thought of doing something like this so much easier and the tutorials are the best. Thank you so much, Andrea.
Your sweater is amazing! Such beautiful work! Your adjustments to the pattern are such an improvement to an already gorgeous design. Andrea-you are so talented!!
Ozzie and Harriet was one of my favorite television shows when I was a child in the 50's. It is very nostalgic for me to watch. Thanks for sharing. FYI: Ricky went on to become a famous singer. I still enjoy his music.
That is an absolutely sensational jumper. I've seen you wearing this in later episodes so it was most interesting to hear about your process in creating it. Thank you. And it was worth the effort - it is lovely on you.
You’re the most amazing knitter, with a “ finisher’s” attitude, which I like and appreciate. Bless you darling for always going to the limits of patterns and techniques. But I am so sorry that, because of my age, “juice” isn’t really available for every project. Fifty years ago, when I first started knitting, I was up for anything! Now I’m knitting again and having to choose designs I need to WEAR right away! So that’s why I appreciate the occasional easy-peasy knit, which goes faster, though I always choose premium yarn. And your special teachings are wonderful! Thanks. Hope you’re still getting messages.😊
Im not crazy about tinking, but you are so right that the sweater is gorgeous and deserves your best effort and you will use it for years. I agree with Andrew, that perhaps doing a practice swatch of the large roses to learn how it was going to be to deal with all those different strands of yarn. Thank you for sharing all this because it is really helpful as I think about future projects. Your experiences help me!
Brilliant, thank you for showing your Technique for handling fair isle threads. The videos of your participants were so cute. I would of loved to taken that beautiful walk with you and your daughter and puppy.
Hi Kimberly. The KAL videos were great - I love it. They were both small groups so it was still manageable. I think it's great of people to put themselves out and to show their work. And I love the accents from around the world (-; Cheers, Andrew.
Oh my gosh; this episode just jam packed with fun! Loved the 20 second videos so much, thoroughly enjoyed Extreme Knitting and a blast from the past with Ozzie and Harriet which my parents watched when I was a girl! Love, love, love you two and all you do!
Thank you for the two-handed fair isle tutorial. I learned it years ago with the Philosopher's Wool book and their VHS tape, but that tape is long gone as is the outdated player. You've really inspired me to take up stranded knitwork again, and this method came right back to me after seeing your well done demo. You are a terrific instructor. Your fearlessness and commitment to excellence are contagious. Thank you for sharing them. ♡ Denelle in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
I really love it that you want to knit the yolk over again. You are such an amazing knitter. Someone else would just let it go the way it is. I really admire you!
That was a wonderful combination of entertainment, education and eye candy. The small video clips from the KALs were great, The Boyfriend Curse was hilarious and I am looking forward to trying the fair isle technique. Thanks Andrew and Andrea for another quality episode.
Just watching your progress on the Blossoms sweater has driven me mad with admiration and desire. I wear a large size so I hesitate to even consider knitting the Blossoms sweater but I did get the yarn for my birthday and I've found a way to obtain the pattern - I believe from Marie Wallin herself - in which you can buy a personally printed recreation of the book it appeared in. Please keep flashing that sweater. It brings me joy to see how beautifully you work it and how beautifully you wear it!
I noticed that a lot of the sweatesr from the KAL were quite short. I know that's the style, but I just wanted to give a fitting tip. Knit the main part of the sweater to the waist, if that's the length you like. Make the ribbing below the waist, but don't increase the size. The ribbing will pull in slightly and not have that wavy look. When you wear it, it will have just enough ease to drape nicely. The ribbing will come up to the waist, but not higher because that's your smallest part. So, even when you raise your arms, the sweater won't ride up. Actually, if you lock at the sweaters in the Ozzie & Harriet clips, that's how they are fitted. It eliminates that boxy look.
This is the first explanation of purling fair isle that I have seen that makes sense. Relishing going through FK from the beginning - enjoying each one! Will try to see if I can become a Patreon later this year. You're my faves!
The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriet was way before my time, but I used to watch old episodes in syndication as a kid in the 80s. For anyone curious, the family in the show were a family in real life (Ozzy and Harriet Nelson were famous before the show), and Rick might be familiar to more people as the famous singer Ricky Nelson.
Thanks. I have to mention that I translated Catullus when I was in school. My language interest really started with Latin, and it was only much later that I got to study living languages properly. (-; Cheers, Andrew.
Oh, that's awesome! 85 was my favorite of his epigrams (You are literally the first person I've come across on the internet who knew what it meant and commented on it, and I've used that handle since the 90s!) I was a Latin major in college and minored in ancient Greek! I'm a bit ashamed to say that I never studied a living language other than my native one of English, but I've recently had the desire to learn German :)
I just reviewed a lesson on intarsia a online class I purchased through Craftsy with Sally Melville and she mentioned the curse of the boyfriends sweater amusing topic.
Baaaaahhhhaaaaa! I had so much fun watching this, and the end of the "boyfriend sweater." Oh... if life was truly that simple. While you're on vacation I've been watching all of your podcasts.
Great show!! When I knit intarsia using vintage patterns I knit on the flat and twist the wool behind each strand about 3 stitches before I use the different colour and 3 stitches after or how many stitches I need for the next row so I always work that different colour and twist before I use thar colour, it avoids holes. If I do have any gaps I just darn reverse to close the gap. This works well for my Mary Maxim graph designs.
Thank you so much for the color work tutorials- I've been wanting to try color work for a while but it just wasn't sinking in. You explained it perfectly! Also, the Ozzie and Harriet episode was hilarious. Happy holidays 🎄
Thanks, Denise. Be brave, and maybe start with a smaller project. The Baa-ble Hat by Donna Smith is really popular and a good small project to start with.
Andrea, respect! The jumper is allready beautiful, but to frogg it back to a certain point while beatiful, wow! But you are right, if you don't , you will allways look at the jumper and will be not satisfied. So go for it! In the end, you must be totally satisfied!
I can sure feel where Andrea is coming from on her Intarsia sections. Andrea, I am just like you. I feel the same about knitting, I want it done right so I am happy with the final outcome. I will rip something out ten times until I am happy with it. I actually love it when a project challenges me that way. I look at it as an opportunity to grow and increase my knitting skills and knowledge. Well done, it is a beautiful sweater.
Wow - the Dutch lady in this episode has such a great aesthetic!! Now I'm lost in Kim Hargreaves-land...:) Thank you so much for another wonderful episode, Andrew and Andrea. I'm watching all your videos back to back at the moment, and I dread the moment they'll run out!
Thanks, Sharon. Andrea learnt some of this - at least - from Ann Bourgeois from the Philosopher's Wool Company. They put out a DVD some time ago which was great.
Thank you for Ricky Nelson who I would have loved to knit a jumper for. Did you watch The Nelson's? The perfect family of course. I absolutely love your beautiful Marie Wallin jumper you don't let anything get in the way of making your work perfect. Your attitude that you learn from doing something different also flows over to produce a great helpful tutorial. Thank you Andrea, Andrew, Madeleine and of course your beautiful boy Jack.
I dodged the boyfriend sweater curse. I made my now-husband (who never wears sweaters) a cabled sweater using bulky acrylic yarn. The raglan shaping was so short that it cut off the circulation to his arms. We'll be celebrating our 40th anniversary next month, and we still have the sweater. 😂
what a great video. Brilliant tutorial for fair isle! I'll be coming back to this a lot. Just started learning to knit fair isle, so this is very helpful, THANK YOU~
Hi Paula, Andrew will put them up on the Patron page along with a third tutorial on how I deal with the intarsia section of the Amaryllis. It should show up under the posts in the next couple of days.
As a teen, I had a crush on David (Ricky was the super popular one, but I preferred the brother). It was quite popular when I was growing up. So glad to catch these bits.
Thank you for another great episode!! I think Jacky filmed the outdoor knitting segment in Hoorn, which is a lovely little city to the north of the Netherlands, definitely check it out if you come to Amsterdam =D
I just had a thought on the Marie Wallin you are knitting. Perhaps if you knit the roses flat you could leave the back portion open and add a little button at the neck line.
This show was a staple of my childhood. In real life David married a woman named June and Ricky married Kris Harmon (sister of Mark, for you NCIS fans), and both women were then added to the show, playing themselves. Kind of avant garde, decades before reality TV got all trendy.
Hi. It is a work of art! (-; It did look beautiful then, but it looks a lot better now. The rough edges weren't clear from a distance. Thanks for watching - A + A.
I particularly liked the music during the visit to the fancy part of Frankfurt. I checked the three pieces on the credit page but I don't think it was there. Can you help? What is the name of the piece?
Hi! Love your podcast! Would you sometime talk about the way you guys are holding your knitting. It sometimes looks like the technique where you hold the right one like a pencil. Is that it, and what is it called?
Yes, that is right. I don't think it has a name but it is a form of English style. My Grandmother was English and she taught my mother and I, so it probably originates there.
This is such a fun episode! Will you post your excellent fair isle tutorial at your website? Or here on RUclips? Have seen this demonstrated before but find yours the best!
Our Jackie is from Leipzig - we say he's East German. His father is actually a champion from the Czech Republic. We had two trips to Leipzig on the train to be checked out by the breeders - which is good. At that time we didn't have a car, so we brought him home on the train too - all a big operation with a little puppy. He's a great dog for us - loves the outdoors, and it is a great size. But he is totally silly - a real little boy.
I have taken sweaters apart many times until I'm happy with them. If I didn't, I'd think about the part I didn't like every time I wore it --- if I wore it at all.
May as well be happy, it's not a race. Being prepared to pull it apart and start again opens you up to lots of projects which otherwise wouldn't be possible. Thanks for watching, Suzanne!
I know this is a while ago now but if you're like me and have discovered Fruity Knitting recently (or re-discovered it) there's a chance you'll see this. If you're puzzling over the yoke for the lovely intarsia roses one way to get around "intarsia in the round" is to cheat and actually work it in rows but instead of simply turning and working back and seaming later you "link" the ends/beginnings of the rows into rounds as you go using a short-row technique. Use something like a mother/daughter stitch (I think that is Lucy Neatby's technique?), a wrap-and-turn (not my favourite anymore) or a German short row (my current favourite - I used it to do mitred corners on the border of a shawl and the border stitches seem to flow as continuous stitches as they turn the corner - I also use it to do the short rows for bust shaping on vests worked in the round and it just melts away and doesn't draw attention to itself - which is just what I want there!).
There are quite a few other tricks too for working intarsia circularly but when you're working in multi-colour intarsia circularly this cheating method is pretty simple, keeps the knitting single-layer all the way around and always has the ends waiting in the right places when you need them. The ends for each motif can be "woven in" as you introduce them and also as you finish them off before resuming "true" circular knitting in one colour again, thereby reducing the ends to weave in at the end to almost nothing. In addition, the "links between colours" are just as good as they are when worked flat (because they are!).
If you have at least one line (i.e. column) for a regular decrease on a yoke like Andrea has in this video then there's a good chance you can incorporate the German short row (or another short row technique) with one of those decrease columns as well - camouflaging the turn/join even more. Experiment on a little swatch to see what method works best for you pattern and the decreases for it. In any event, it will be much flatter and more flexible like the rest of the knitting than a seam stitched afterwards that you'd get from needing to work truly flat.
Unless of course you actually do work flat, with no joining technique, and put a selvedge/band at each side on the centre back that operates like a placket closing on the back of a blouse (either with buttons all the way up the short placket or just one at the top depending on what type of garment you're doing - a knitted blouse could probably take just one closure at the top, for example). You would still, of course, have to experiment with where the decreases must go either side of those bands to keep the yoke shaping correct.
Oops - sorry about how hard that is to read. I thought I'd put in some paragraph spacings to break it up into digestible chunks but they didn't show how I expected.
@@nectarinefire2306 I haven't seen any, but there are so many on yt there may well be some. It would help to search for if the technique had a recognised name but I've not seen it listed with one anywhere. Perhaps look up something like "tricks for intarsia in the round"? It's harder to explain than it is to do... I'll have a wee look around searching for likely terms that miht bring it up and if I find one I'll come back and comment to let you know what to search for. :-)
I remember the Ozzie and Harriet series on TV when I was a kid. The Nelsons were a theatrical family and the started that show so they could live in California with their family and not have to move around. TV was a great thing in those days for performing families, it was like having a regular job with with dinner at home and time with their families every night.
Ricky became a very popular singer in the late 1950s. That was what David's comment "When does he have time to practice his guitar?" was all about. It was sort of an inside joke, since Ricky had a singing career in real life. It actually started as a gag on the show. They dressed him up and did makeup like Elvis Presley. But instead of just being funny all the girls loved it and he ended up releasing his first album 1958.
I remember adoring him on TV back then. I was much too young for him, but little girls love handsome grown up boys. I remember telling my mom I was going to marry Elvis Presley when I was in the first grade. It didn't matter to me. I knew I would grow up and be old enough. It didn't occur to my six year old mind that he would be older, too, and not a handsome teenager anymore. By the time I was old enough , the music scene had changed and I forgot all about that.
Joyce - thanks for the background. I admit I hadn't done any research on the show, and it wasn't a thing in Australia. I think it's cool to see the old shows. They also had some ads which would be fun (we cut it down to about half length so we could fit it in the episode...) Cheers, Andrew.
I really had a good laugh about the boyfriend sweater segment. I was a very young child when it originally aired and had never seen it. I started a sweater for my college boyfriend, and changed boyfriends in the middle of the project! I married my second boyfriend. We’ve been married 55 years, but he never wore the sweater that I finished. I’m afraid that I let t slip out that I had initially started knitting it for another man!
That tutorial in knitting with two colours is the best I've seen. I had floats on the back of one of my projects and it was laboursome. This has made the thought of doing something like this so much easier and the tutorials are the best. Thank you so much, Andrea.
Your sweater is amazing! Such beautiful work! Your adjustments to the pattern are such an improvement to an already gorgeous design.
Andrea-you are so talented!!
Ozzie and Harriet was one of my favorite television shows when I was a child in the 50's. It is very nostalgic for me to watch. Thanks for sharing. FYI: Ricky went on to become a famous singer. I still enjoy his music.
Going to look him up. (-;
I watched Ozzie and Harriet when I was young too and LOVED Ricky Nelson. Back then you were either a Ricky Nelson girl or an Elvis girl!
That Blossoms sweater needs to be in a museum! It is amazing!! ❤️❤️
Thanks, Dog! I also think it's a work of art.
That is an absolutely sensational jumper. I've seen you wearing this in later episodes so it was most interesting to hear about your process in creating it. Thank you. And it was worth the effort - it is lovely on you.
Thank you, Karen.
You’re the most amazing knitter, with a “ finisher’s” attitude, which I like and appreciate. Bless you darling for always going to the limits of patterns and techniques. But I am so sorry that, because of my age, “juice” isn’t really available for every project. Fifty years ago, when I first started knitting, I was up for anything! Now I’m knitting again and having to choose designs I need to WEAR right away! So that’s why I appreciate the occasional easy-peasy knit, which goes faster, though I always choose premium yarn. And your special teachings are wonderful! Thanks. Hope you’re still getting messages.😊
Im not crazy about tinking, but you are so right that the sweater is gorgeous and deserves your best effort and you will use it for years. I agree with Andrew, that perhaps doing a practice swatch of the large roses to learn how it was going to be to deal with all those different strands of yarn. Thank you for sharing all this because it is really helpful as I think about future projects. Your experiences help me!
Brilliant, thank you for showing your Technique for handling fair isle threads. The videos of your participants were so cute. I would of loved to taken that beautiful walk with you and your daughter and puppy.
Hi Kimberly. The KAL videos were great - I love it. They were both small groups so it was still manageable. I think it's great of people to put themselves out and to show their work. And I love the accents from around the world (-; Cheers, Andrew.
Oh my gosh; this episode just jam packed with fun! Loved the 20 second videos so much, thoroughly enjoyed Extreme Knitting and a blast from the past with Ozzie and Harriet which my parents watched when I was a girl! Love, love, love you two and all you do!
Working up the Holly Sweater with your tips for catching floats(every third stitch in each color). Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Love the retro clip! And Andrea, your sweater is going to be beautiful!!! Thank you for the tutorials
Thank you for the two-handed fair isle tutorial. I learned it years ago with the Philosopher's Wool book and their VHS tape, but that tape is long gone as is the outdated player. You've really inspired me to take up stranded knitwork again, and this method came right back to me after seeing your well done demo. You are a terrific instructor. Your fearlessness and commitment to excellence are contagious. Thank you for sharing them.
♡ Denelle in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Thanks, Denelle, and greetings to Tennessee!
The jumper is absolutely beautiful, I have always loved the design but seeing it nearly finished is amazing!
I really love it that you want to knit the yolk over again. You are such an amazing knitter. Someone else would just let it go the way it is. I really admire you!
That was a wonderful combination of entertainment, education and eye candy. The small video clips from the KALs were great, The Boyfriend Curse was hilarious and I am looking forward to trying the fair isle technique. Thanks Andrew and Andrea for another quality episode.
Just watching your progress on the Blossoms sweater has driven me mad with admiration and desire. I wear a large size so I hesitate to even consider knitting the Blossoms sweater but I did get the yarn for my birthday and I've found a way to obtain the pattern - I believe from Marie Wallin herself - in which you can buy a personally printed recreation of the book it appeared in. Please keep flashing that sweater. It brings me joy to see how beautifully you work it and how beautifully you wear it!
I noticed that a lot of the sweatesr from the KAL were quite short. I know that's the style, but I just wanted to give a fitting tip. Knit the main part of the sweater to the waist, if that's the length you like. Make the ribbing below the waist, but don't increase the size. The ribbing will pull in slightly and not have that wavy look. When you wear it, it will have just enough ease to drape nicely. The ribbing will come up to the waist, but not higher because that's your smallest part. So, even when you raise your arms, the sweater won't ride up.
Actually, if you lock at the sweaters in the Ozzie & Harriet clips, that's how they are fitted. It eliminates that boxy look.
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I agree Joyce Fischer, very serendipitous that Ricky's girlfriend is also called Joyce. Happy Knitting.
Loved this podcast. Especially the clip from Ozzie and Harriett show. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Bev.
The best two handed fair isle knitting tutorial on the net! Thank you ♥
Thanks, Arianna.
Thank you for the visit of that lovely village. I got startled myself when poor little Jacky got startled at 1:08:56
Thanks for another podcast. Also thank you for the tutorials. They will be of such help.
This is the first explanation of purling fair isle that I have seen that makes sense. Relishing going through FK from the beginning - enjoying each one! Will try to see if I can become a Patreon later this year. You're my faves!
The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriet was way before my time, but I used to watch old episodes in syndication as a kid in the 80s. For anyone curious, the family in the show were a family in real life (Ozzy and Harriet Nelson were famous before the show), and Rick might be familiar to more people as the famous singer Ricky Nelson.
Thanks. I have to mention that I translated Catullus when I was in school. My language interest really started with Latin, and it was only much later that I got to study living languages properly. (-; Cheers, Andrew.
Oh, that's awesome! 85 was my favorite of his epigrams (You are literally the first person I've come across on the internet who knew what it meant and commented on it, and I've used that handle since the 90s!) I was a Latin major in college and minored in ancient Greek! I'm a bit ashamed to say that I never studied a living language other than my native one of English, but I've recently had the desire to learn German :)
I just reviewed a lesson on intarsia a online class I purchased through Craftsy with Sally Melville and she mentioned the curse of the boyfriends sweater amusing topic.
Love to see some knitting for the fuller bust figure!! Thanks Jacky!
Baaaaahhhhaaaaa! I had so much fun watching this, and the end of the "boyfriend sweater." Oh... if life was truly that simple. While you're on vacation I've been watching all of your podcasts.
Great show!! When I knit intarsia using vintage patterns I knit on the flat and twist the wool behind each strand about 3 stitches before I use the different colour and 3 stitches after or how many stitches I need for the next row so I always work that different colour and twist before I use thar colour, it avoids holes. If I do have any gaps I just darn reverse to close the gap. This works well for my Mary Maxim graph designs.
Love the KAL bits. Thanks one and all
Thank you so much for the color work tutorials- I've been wanting to try color work for a while but it just wasn't sinking in. You explained it perfectly! Also, the Ozzie and Harriet episode was hilarious. Happy holidays 🎄
Thanks, Denise. Be brave, and maybe start with a smaller project. The Baa-ble Hat by Donna Smith is really popular and a good small project to start with.
Andrea, respect! The jumper is allready beautiful, but to frogg it back to a certain point while beatiful, wow! But you are right, if you don't , you will allways look at the jumper and will be not satisfied. So go for it! In the end, you must be totally satisfied!
Thank you! I’ve been teaching myself to fair isle with both hands and this explains it beautifully....I’m ready for the next step.
Good luck with it, Susan!
I can sure feel where Andrea is coming from on her Intarsia sections. Andrea, I am just like you. I feel the same about knitting, I want it done right so I am happy with the final outcome. I will rip something out ten times until I am happy with it. I actually love it when a project challenges me that way. I look at it as an opportunity to grow and increase my knitting skills and knowledge. Well done, it is a beautiful sweater.
there’s a bit of a real honesty here. Kinda love it. It’s a bit cheeky ;)
Thank you Dutch Jacky you make me homesick. I would love to be present at your knitting circles.
Wow - the Dutch lady in this episode has such a great aesthetic!! Now I'm lost in Kim Hargreaves-land...:) Thank you so much for another wonderful episode, Andrew and Andrea. I'm watching all your videos back to back at the moment, and I dread the moment they'll run out!
So glad you are enjoying them. Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for the tutorial. You are so generous with your talent.
Thanks, Sharon. Andrea learnt some of this - at least - from Ann Bourgeois from the Philosopher's Wool Company. They put out a DVD some time ago which was great.
and I loved the Ozzie and Harriet episode. I watched the originals in the 50s and had such a crush on Rickie Nelson
Yes, I agree... that's a lovely comment and observation. Thank you 😊
Thank you for Ricky Nelson who I would have loved to knit a jumper for. Did you watch The Nelson's? The perfect family of course.
I absolutely love your beautiful Marie Wallin jumper you don't let anything get in the way of making your work perfect. Your attitude that you learn from doing something different also flows over to produce a great helpful tutorial.
Thank you Andrea, Andrew, Madeleine and of course your beautiful boy Jack.
I dodged the boyfriend sweater curse. I made my now-husband (who never wears sweaters) a cabled sweater using bulky acrylic yarn. The raglan shaping was so short that it cut off the circulation to his arms. We'll be celebrating our 40th anniversary next month, and we still have the sweater. 😂
I always enjoy your podcast just love it. Thank you
Thank you, Godelieve. Always good to hear!
That was an awesome podcast. I remember that show. WOW brings back memories and sweater knitting. Thanks also for the great tips.
Thanks, Rowena - good to hear that you enjoyed it.
what a great video. Brilliant tutorial for fair isle! I'll be coming back to this a lot. Just started learning to knit fair isle, so this is very helpful, THANK YOU~
Thanks, Aiste.
It'd be great to have the two short weaving-in tutorials available for quick reference in your tutorial section!
Hi Paula, Andrew will put them up on the Patron page along with a third tutorial on how I deal with the intarsia section of the Amaryllis. It should show up under the posts in the next couple of days.
Excellent! Thanks for another enjoyable and educational episode!
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Ricky and Dave Nelson, The Nelson Brothers, heart throbs until the Beatles came along.
As a teen, I had a crush on David (Ricky was the super popular one, but I preferred the brother). It was quite popular when I was growing up. So glad to catch these bits.
Thank you for another great episode!! I think Jacky filmed the outdoor knitting segment in Hoorn, which is a lovely little city to the north of the Netherlands, definitely check it out if you come to Amsterdam =D
Hi Valerie. It is Hoorn - well spotted! We must come to Amsterdam sometime - it's a manageable drive from Frankfurt. Cheers, A + A.
Andrea, I totally forgot that you based in Frankfurt! Would you recommend a LYS from Frankfurt? I may be coming over mid-Dec for a short visit.
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Ricky Nelson, my first crush! Thank you!
I just had a thought on the Marie Wallin you are knitting. Perhaps if you knit the roses flat you could leave the back portion open and add a little button at the neck line.
This show was a staple of my childhood. In real life David married a woman named June and Ricky married Kris Harmon (sister of Mark, for you NCIS fans), and both women were then added to the show, playing themselves. Kind of avant garde, decades before reality TV got all trendy.
Ricky Nelson was too good looking. Brings back memories. lol
Jessica Jones I'd forgotten how beautiful he was! ;)
Lovely dutch bits...
I LOVED the Ricky Nelson clips.....too funny
great job you two
Thank you, Amanda!
I want the Rose sweater. That is a work of art. It looked fine to me just he way it was.
Hi. It is a work of art! (-; It did look beautiful then, but it looks a lot better now. The rough edges weren't clear from a distance. Thanks for watching - A + A.
Linda Evans (“Krystle Carrington”) in Ozzie and Harriet! Love it 💜
I particularly liked the music during the visit to the fancy part of Frankfurt. I checked the three pieces on the credit page but I don't think it was there. Can you help? What is the name of the piece?
Hi! Love your podcast! Would you sometime talk about the way you guys are holding your knitting. It sometimes looks like the technique where you hold the right one like a pencil. Is that it, and what is it called?
Yes, that is right. I don't think it has a name but it is a form of English style. My Grandmother was English and she taught my mother and I, so it probably originates there.
Thank you for the most excellent tutorial!
This is such a fun episode! Will you post your excellent fair isle tutorial at your website? Or here on RUclips? Have seen this demonstrated before but find yours the best!
Can I ask where you found the video of Joyce and the boyfriend sweater pleasexx
i love the blosson sweater😍 is there a patron of this sweater?
Could you do the flowers in duplicate stitch?
We did consider that option, but Andrea wasn't keen on the weaving in... Wait for the update!
I had a poodle the same color as yours. Her name was Ruby, and she lived to the ripe old age of 18 years!
Brenda Bloomfield i am a miniature poodle mom also
Our Jackie is from Leipzig - we say he's East German. His father is actually a champion from the Czech Republic. We had two trips to Leipzig on the train to be checked out by the breeders - which is good. At that time we didn't have a car, so we brought him home on the train too - all a big operation with a little puppy. He's a great dog for us - loves the outdoors, and it is a great size. But he is totally silly - a real little boy.
Why straight needles
I have taken sweaters apart many times until I'm happy with them. If I didn't, I'd think about the part I didn't like every time I wore it --- if I wore it at all.
May as well be happy, it's not a race. Being prepared to pull it apart and start again opens you up to lots of projects which otherwise wouldn't be possible. Thanks for watching, Suzanne!
Beautiful sweater
Honoured. You are welcome.
Hi I'm a new watcher/subscriber and I don't have a clue what KAL means.
Love it.
Thanks Deb!