Hello from Northern Minnesota in the USA! I just had to tell you that your dress is just so beautiful and it looks so very nice on you as well! I have enjoyed all your episodes and thank you for sharing your makes with us!
Thanks so much for the lovely compliments on the dress and for letting me know you are enjoying the episodes. I really appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. :)
Your dress is so lovely Tash! I vote the darker blue for your second hat. You’re needles 🤭😳🤣 it looks like organised chaos! Love the FOs from the vault. Whenever I think I might be low on yarn for finishing something, I will stretch from one fingertip to the other and see how many stitches I can knit with that length. Then I roll the amount off that I might need (x arm lengths) roll it up put a pin in it and let it hang. It saves getting out scales which sometimes are not always accurate or a tape measure which is inconvenient. I might have to call myself the lazy knitter, always looking for the shortest shortcut 🤣🤣 I’m also a repeat knitter, I get excited too! Thanks for the fun.
Thanks so much for the comments, Karen. I am definitely going to go with the darker blue for the hat - I think it will be a nice contrast. Yeah - the needles are a bit nuts. They definitely dont look beautiful. But I have found i am better at putting them away, generally... I love your tip for estimating how much yardage will be taken up. That is a great method where you dont need any tools handy. Thanks for watching and for taking the to comment. :)
Hi Renata, I agree - I think the Wish will be a better contrast. I'll definitely use that. Thanks for much for watching and for leaving a comment. I am really glad you are enjoying the podcast. :)
Tash the Ilha dress looks great on you look good in the colour. The Musselburgh colour is great. The second Musselburgh choose the darker yarn. Love the colour your socks.
Thanks so much Rosemary. I am definitely going with the darker contrast for the Musselburgh hat. That seems to be the best match. Thanks so much for leaving a comment. :)
LOVE the Sorrel jumpers. I am off to WonderWool (annual yarn festival in Wales, UK) this weekend and will definitely be choosing some yarn while I’m there to knit this ❤😍❤️
Have a wonderful time this weekend. I really like speckles underneath the mohair in this sweater. They really pop and look beautiful in the stitch pattern near the neck. Thanks so much taking the time to leave a comment. :)
Hi Tash, my name is Jan from London, England. Really enjoying your podcasts. I'm taking notes, also purchased your recommendations. Thank you and enjoying your format
I love the way you use left overs in your garments, as you have shown us with your Sorrel garments. I assume that these different yarns are all the same weight, and I mean exactly the same weight eg. 400m and 100gr. Otherwise it just wouldn’t work? Or are you able to get away with mixing yarns that are a similar but not exact weight? Thank you Tash….your podcasts are so interesting and I am learning a lot. Regards, Elizabeth from Hobart😊
Thank you so much Elizabeth. All the yarns are fingering weight and about the same yardage. If i wasnt knitting with mohair, i would usually prefer to use exactly the same base if using leftovers. There is a little more flexibility if adding mohair but generally, as long as they are the same weight and roughly the same yardage, it will work. :)
It's lovely to watch a fellow aussie and you are a similar size to me which is helpful too. If you were to make the Ilha or the Rununculus, which do you like best for a small frame?
I like both very much. They have very different gauges. Ilha is 21sts and Ranunculus is 14sts. My Ilha is quite fitted as I had a tighter gauge but if you are in gauge, you would get a nice oversize sweater knitting the smallest size which is about 39” I would only knit Ranunculus if your gauge was closer to 16sts or tighter or it could be just too bulky voluminous. So I would say you could pick either depending on your gauge. I hope that helps. :)
That helps a great deal :) Thankyou Tash. I was wondering how to get a suitable Ranunculus guage! It's always tricky to pick patterns because there are too many nice ones but your vlog helps 😊
Hello Tash, total beginner here. Do you have a tutorial for working with 2 circular needles instead of magic loop or double pointed needles? Im knitting my first hat and the 40cm is getting too big now after 2 rounds of reductions
Hi Wendy I’m sorry I don’t already have a tutorial on this but that is a good idea. I hope you find one that helps you in the meantime but I am happy to do one on this soon. School holidays almost here so I will have more time for tutorials. :)
Hi Lynn. I do a lot of weighing of yarn and consider the number of stitches I have on the sleeves. For example, if i had 180 sts on the body and 90 sts on the two sleeves combined, then i need half of the weight used on the body saved for the sleeves. So if i used 50g of one ball on the body, i need to save 25 grams for the sleeves. Another way of thinking of it is that i can allow two thirds of the yarn for the body and that would save one third for the sleeves. I might not need ALL that yarn from my skein, but that is the most i can use. Those numbers for body and sleeves are nice and round and give good fractions but the formula is arrived at Body yarn allowed = (body stitches)/(body stitches +total sleeve sts for both sleeves). That is the fraction of the yarn i have that i can use for the body. Sleeve yarn i need to save = (total sleeve sts for both sleeves)/(body sts + total sleeve sts for both sleeves). I hope that makes sense and is helpful. If not, let me know and I can do a video on it using paper and pen and run through it more clearly.
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Hello from Northern Minnesota in the USA! I just had to tell you that your dress is just so beautiful and it looks so very nice on you as well! I have enjoyed all your episodes and thank you for sharing your makes with us!
Thanks so much for the lovely compliments on the dress and for letting me know you are enjoying the episodes. I really appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. :)
Your dress is so lovely Tash! I vote the darker blue for your second hat. You’re needles 🤭😳🤣 it looks like organised chaos! Love the FOs from the vault. Whenever I think I might be low on yarn for finishing something, I will stretch from one fingertip to the other and see how many stitches I can knit with that length. Then I roll the amount off that I might need (x arm lengths) roll it up put a pin in it and let it hang. It saves getting out scales which sometimes are not always accurate or a tape measure which is inconvenient. I might have to call myself the lazy knitter, always looking for the shortest shortcut 🤣🤣 I’m also a repeat knitter, I get excited too! Thanks for the fun.
Thanks so much for the comments, Karen. I am definitely going to go with the darker blue for the hat - I think it will be a nice contrast. Yeah - the needles are a bit nuts. They definitely dont look beautiful. But I have found i am better at putting them away, generally... I love your tip for estimating how much yardage will be taken up. That is a great method where you dont need any tools handy. Thanks for watching and for taking the to comment. :)
sweet photo of your dad 🤍love the dress, this shape of dress really suits you! your enthusiasm for the Sorrel is contagious! I will check it out!
Thank you so much!! :)
The Wish solid dark looks good. Really enjoying your knitting experiences and projects. I'm growing a list of what to knit next .
Hi Renata, I agree - I think the Wish will be a better contrast. I'll definitely use that. Thanks for much for watching and for leaving a comment. I am really glad you are enjoying the podcast. :)
Tash the Ilha dress looks great on you look good in the colour. The Musselburgh colour is great. The second Musselburgh choose the darker yarn. Love the colour your socks.
Thanks so much Rosemary. I am definitely going with the darker contrast for the Musselburgh hat. That seems to be the best match. Thanks so much for leaving a comment. :)
Hi Tash, I love your dress so much and I love the color wish for your musselburgh hat.I am loving your podcasts so much. I live in California.
Thank you so much! My husband is in California now. Wish i was there with him! :)
LOVE the Sorrel jumpers. I am off to WonderWool (annual yarn festival in Wales, UK) this weekend and will definitely be choosing some yarn while I’m there to knit this ❤😍❤️
Have a wonderful time this weekend. I really like speckles underneath the mohair in this sweater. They really pop and look beautiful in the stitch pattern near the neck. Thanks so much taking the time to leave a comment. :)
Hi Tash, my name is Jan from London, England. Really enjoying your podcasts. I'm taking notes, also purchased your recommendations. Thank you and enjoying your format
Hi Jan, I am so happy you are liking the podcast. Thanks so much for leaving a comment and I am glad the format is enjoyable for you. :)
Yes the wish
I love the way you use left overs in your garments, as you have shown us with your Sorrel garments. I assume that these different yarns are all the same weight, and I mean exactly the same weight eg. 400m and 100gr. Otherwise it just wouldn’t work? Or are you able to get away with mixing yarns that are a similar but not exact weight? Thank you Tash….your podcasts are so interesting and I am learning a lot. Regards, Elizabeth from Hobart😊
Thank you so much Elizabeth. All the yarns are fingering weight and about the same yardage. If i wasnt knitting with mohair, i would usually prefer to use exactly the same base if using leftovers. There is a little more flexibility if adding mohair but generally, as long as they are the same weight and roughly the same yardage, it will work. :)
@ thank you so much for your reply Tash, I understand.
It's lovely to watch a fellow aussie and you are a similar size to me which is helpful too. If you were to make the Ilha or the Rununculus, which do you like best for a small frame?
I like both very much. They have very different gauges. Ilha is 21sts and Ranunculus is 14sts.
My Ilha is quite fitted as I had a tighter gauge but if you are in gauge, you would get a nice oversize sweater knitting the smallest size which is about 39”
I would only knit Ranunculus if your gauge was closer to 16sts or tighter or it could be just too bulky voluminous.
So I would say you could pick either depending on your gauge.
I hope that helps.
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That helps a great deal :) Thankyou Tash. I was wondering how to get a suitable Ranunculus guage! It's always tricky to pick patterns because there are too many nice ones but your vlog helps 😊
Hello Tash, total beginner here. Do you have a tutorial for working with 2 circular needles instead of magic loop or double pointed needles? Im knitting my first hat and the 40cm is getting too big now after 2 rounds of reductions
Hi Wendy
I’m sorry I don’t already have a tutorial on this but that is a good idea. I hope you find one that helps you in the meantime but I am happy to do one on this soon. School holidays almost here so I will have more time for tutorials. :)
Hi Tash! I’m doing a Sorrel with 3 colors. How do I know how much to save for the sleeves? Thanks
Hi Lynn. I do a lot of weighing of yarn and consider the number of stitches I have on the sleeves. For example, if i had 180 sts on the body and 90 sts on the two sleeves combined, then i need half of the weight used on the body saved for the sleeves. So if i used 50g of one ball on the body, i need to save 25 grams for the sleeves.
Another way of thinking of it is that i can allow two thirds of the yarn for the body and that would save one third for the sleeves. I might not need ALL that yarn from my skein, but that is the most i can use.
Those numbers for body and sleeves are nice and round and give good fractions but the formula is arrived at
Body yarn allowed = (body stitches)/(body stitches +total sleeve sts for both sleeves). That is the fraction of the yarn i have that i can use for the body.
Sleeve yarn i need to save = (total sleeve sts for both sleeves)/(body sts + total sleeve sts for both sleeves).
I hope that makes sense and is helpful. If not, let me know and I can do a video on it using paper and pen and run through it more clearly.
@@mostlyknitting thank you for this. I weighed my yarn so hopefully I’ll be okay. I enjoy your podcast 😊