Knitting with cotton yarn -- sweater patterns you'll LOVE to wear
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Knitting with cotton yarn -- sweater patterns you'll love to wear! In this live I'll talk about what it is about cotton yarn that makes it a challenge to knit. But knitting with cotton is really great because the sweaters you make are great all year round. I'll share some of the cotton sweaters I've knit and some of the patterns I love from this season and timeless sweater patterns from previous seasons. Lots of cotton yarn knitting projects
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Twist by Martin Storey
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Mocha by Quail Studio
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Ronnie by Lisa Richardson
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As someone who is highly allergic to wool, I have no choice but to use cotton. And the only yarn store in my small city has a very limited selection of wool. I did buy a wool blend for my husband's socks, 25%wool 75%acrylic from Turkey. He loves it! The off side is that it takes me a month to knit his socks, as I can only knit 10 minutes at a time before my hands become red and swollen. He's worth it.
I did find a 90% cotton 10% angora yarn that I can wear. I can't wear it during summer, but 9 months of the year I can.
So glad you found something that works for you!
Your show popped up as a suggestion, and I'm really glad I watched it!. I, too, disliked working with cotton and some blends because they turned out really stiff and not cardboardy. Now I know why. I've saved this video and subscribed to your channel. Thanks for a really interesting and entertaining video. I love the scoop-necked sweater you have on your mannikin. That will be my first cotton project. Thank you again!!
Awwww 😊thank you!! There’s cotton and then there’s cotton! You’ll have to let me know how your first cotton sweater goes!
I learned to knit baby sweaters in cotton!! I was able to knit a baby sweater in less than a week! (In the 80’s) I think you should do a presentation on washing all of the knitted garments and show lots of pictures, sadly I don’t know how to do this…..
I like juniper moon cummulus for baby blankets. Busy moms want washable items. Cummulus directs " hand wash" but before I gift the blanket I wash it in a laundry bag on gentle cycle. I dry it on medium. It comes out beautiful. Very soft. I also knit simple patterns.
Yes , indeed! For a soft as it is, Cumulus is pretty sturdy stuff
I love wool but it itches me. I also spin cotton and make my own yarn. I find Pima and Sea Island the best to spin with and makes a soft yarn. It is also long stappled.
Great work!
I love working with cotton. It has never bothered my hands though. Sadly, I feel it doesn't keep its shape well enough to make a good hat. Hats are my favorite project, bc in the round 💕.
You are absolutely right. Cotton does not make a great hat. It just doesn’t have enough elasticity.
I was enjoying your video and the fine way it’s presented. Great job. I don’t know if a smoke detector was constantly beeping. That makes me not enjoy as much and I feel for you and your dog. Please get that fixed and I’ll gladly try to watch more.
Ooh I’m sorry about that. It was a window alarm. It’s fixed. 😀
I carry the yarn in my left hand. I’m not crazy about working with cotton but when you live in Florida you gotta embrace it on some level
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I have tried a few. Berroco Pima is very nice. Berroco Modern not so much (didn’t like how it looked finished) Cotton blends are kinda fun. Juniper Moon “Zoey” makes a beautiful fabric but I find myself pulling and tugging it a lot (it’s a thick and thin yarn) but once you get used to the change in tension required I sort of like pulling at it! It’s just a totally different experience from say a smooth squishy wool 😊
Right now I want to try Quince & Co. Willet. Beautiful colors!
I’m a huge fan of Rowan Creative Linen, which is a 50-50 blend of cotton linen. I sell a ton of it at my shop. It’s worsted weight an absolutely beautiful where is like iron and nice to knit with. But if you want to know, a secret, my favorite summer yarn of all time is Queen City Coleman. It’s a beautiful blend of silk and Linen. Truly amazing to knit and to wear.
www.crazyforewe.com/products/queen-city-coleman
thanks so much for the video, cant alway watch live, but great to take a peek at this. i love all plant based yarns. some are easier to knit than others. currently loving cotton lace weight held double. seems to really really help even out my tension. if you know more about this, please make a video on it. does it always do that for everyone?
I would love to make a video on this. Can you tell me exactly what the situation is? Are you having trouble getting an even tension with cotton or lease with Yarn or what exactly?
@@CrazyForEwe hi!! Soooo because I live in a very warm climate, plant based yarns are really my only option but every little tension issue seems to be magnified without any elasticity. My work does not look even, it looks ‘craftsy’. Washing and wearing helps a lot but still. This also limits my confidence to try color or cables etc. Somewhere along my watching or reading, I came across a comment about using 2 strands making your. Work ‘springy-er’. I wondered if that would help my work. Because of the climate again fingering is really my best option. From crochet I have a bit of la e weight yarn. I tried it. Knitting with the two strands is a lot better for me and I wondered if this could help others and if it’s a known thing. Also wonder if non mercerized cotton is better? Chainette construction I think would help too? Your take on this would be great. You are so insightful and generous with your knitting tips. Looking forward to watching you on this.
Thank you for clearing this up for me, Emma. Let me take some time to work up a few swatches with double strand and see what I think about whether it increases, bounce and elasticity. It intuitively makes sense, since you are technically plying the yarn and twist adds bounce. Let me look into it! Thanks so much for your input.
I love the definition of cotton. I didn't like the fadeing from the lilly cotton yarn, but that is not yarn I'd use for garment. It is way better for plushies than dishies because of the water & color fading. I have since used merchanized cotton and also pima. Very different yarns. I like the shine in merchanized but it's going to be a weighty T-shirt. It was called for yarn, but I accidently got the bigger one. Im not sure the thinner one held double would be less weighty, so I'm going to finish it and wear it. Weighty can be good. It just might have particular purposes to wear it. I haven't used pima for me yet, but my dog loves his bandana. I ordered more to make a tank top. It is an enigma to me that is soft and fluffy but still has a stitch definition.
What is you favorite cotton?
I haven't worn any yet. The pima is fun to touch while knitting, but since it's loose, I think it looks a bit twisted and sloppy. I like the merchanized better even though it's harder on my hands. Bamboo needles help. I definitely won't go any smaller than this size 3 needle. I suspect I would really like cotton cashmere. Cashmere is so weak. I have holes in my elbows of my rtw cardigan. If I spent time knitting cashmere, I would want it to be stronger.
I love wearing cotton, or cotton blend sweaters, but I find knitting with cotton to be hard on my hands. Rowan used to make a lovely cotton acrylic blend called Calmer about 10, or 12 years ago, which was so soft and quite stretchy and I still miss that yarn!
I loved Calmer and still wish it was around!
You guys would both love Rowan Softyak DK. It’s wonderful stuff. I always say that it’s the cotton that it’s like wool. I sell quite a bit of it in my shop.
www.crazyforewe.com/products/softyak-dk
I prefer cotton blends unless I am knitting something that is very lacy and low yardage because I find knitted cotton garments are heavy. It also dryes slowly so another point in favour of lacy tops or cotton mixes !
You would probably also like Coleman!
www.crazyforewe.com/products/queen-city-coleman
I would like you to show us how to join cotton in a raglan sweater so it’s secure and the join doesn’t show
Thank you for the video on knitting with cotton! I didn't know that going down one or more needle sizes is a normal thing with cotton. Thanks also for your tips on blocking and drying. (As an aside, I hope you got my email from 5/5, it may have ended up in spam!) Happy knitting 🧶
Hi there! You are so welcome! Let me check and see about your email from 5/5. I respond to every email, so it may have been lost in spam land. 😀
Does it make a difference if you use the cotton yarn from the centre or the outside of the ball, I would be interested to know what others think xxx
I used to pull the yarn from the center of the ball, but now I pull it from the outside. I think it puts less twist into the yarn.