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Love your podcast! I always take away something new from every one. I can see that beautiful over sized cabled sweater with a tight fitting black maxi skirt and boots. Would look so classy on you. Can’t wait to see your latest WIPs! Thanks for taking the time to share what you are doing and learning.

Love your sweater, I agree it’s perfect & it looks great on you. I could see the sweater with a cute tartan skirt, black tights & boots. What I love about your garments, which I’ve commented on before, is they’re just the right size on you & even your over-sized isn’t too big. I’m looking forwards to seeing your WiPs! Best wishes to you & Lady 😺🧶

Wow, your sweater looks so comfy! Fantastic job! I'm working on my 1st sweater now, hopefully many more to come. Love your channel. My husband and I are planning on retiring to Washington St. to be closer to some good friends. I can't wait for more cold weather! I'm so over the TN heat lol

Hello Charlotte. I just wanted to say that I really love your personality. You are so upfront and not afraid to say what you think. That is a fantastic sweater you made. It suits you. Yes, with jeans. Thoughts and Prayers.Thank you for sharing. Love and Blessings to you and Lady. Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘

Oh, Happy podcast anniversary! Yes, like the others, I have been here since your beginning - love your presentation style, projects, aesthetic, honesty and authenticity. Thanks Charlotte for sharing ✌😊

Hey Charlotte. Loved your podcast as usual. Great knitting on your sweater - yep 4 weeks ha, a mission to complete that knit I would say. Love the top you are wearing also - you look great in it. Your Lady is my ideal dog - her colourings are beautiful aren't they? she looks a completely devoted buddy to you and you to her. With your "9-5" does she stay at home or go with you?? So just doing an Italian bind off on sleeves as I watch your podcast. Can't beat the look - professional 🥰. Loved your end blurb.....focus on positivity is always the best I agree. ❤

I love your sweater, I think it would look great with a mini skirt, maybe even knitted in the same yarn. Thanks for making this episode, it was fun to watch

It looks great on you😊

I love seeing others knit, seeing what they’re making, seeing what they’ve made, hearing their opinions on different yarns, different needles, different patterns, etc. and this is what I get from you, something that is much appreciated. On the opposite side of things, I’ve dropped several podcasters because it seems to me they’ve become little more than running advertisements for whatever company is “gifting” them products on a regular basis. I tune in to enjoy creativity, not to find more commercialism. That cabled sweater is gorgeous, you did such a good job, and I’d wait until the real cold weather hits before passing judgement on how too warm it is, lol. Keep up the good work and I’ll keep tuning in.😊

Four weeks would be stressful, but it's beautiful. I have been here from the beginning and love your authenticity.

It may not be your style, but I think you could def lean into the oversized more grunge look with how you style it! More oversized pants, half tucked into short boots, maybe a hat!

Your sweater looks amazing! 😊💕

Love your podcast and sweater! I think it would look great with leather/pleather pants or some wool winter white pants of the same-ish color. I like your idea too of a mini skirt.

Lovely cables! I made a Bore sweater by Tonja Hodne with 100% alpaca - it's slightly oversize and the drape of alpaca compliments it, I think. Would definitely recommend!

Beautiful sweater Charlotte! Yes yes yes for the short skirt with boots this fall/winter to compliment it. Love your podcast and I have been here since the beginning. Happy 1year and wishing many more!

I've been here since your very first podcast, without missing a single one. I love your vibe and esthetics. Thank you so much for taking the time to record and talk about your projects and share your thoughts!

Thanks for the great video. FYI: Espace Tricot patterns are no longer free. The new owners of the shop (in Montreal) have made changes. Some will still be free, I think, but some not.

76° F is a cool spring/fall day down here in the Brazilian southwest 😅

Hi yes I’m enjoy your channel too but the music is too loud and it’s hard to follow you. Not sure if and how you can turn it down or off. Thx!

Thank you for sharing these patterns . I’m a newer knitter working on my first sweater and can’t wait to make more.❤

Just found your podcast. I live in Puyallup and work in Seattle. 😊

2 to 4 inches positive ease my best and most comfortable for pullovers. 4" to 8" for cardigan depending on pattern.

Live in the SW Montana mountains and it snowed yesterday used to live in Washington over in Mukilteo and the weather is omg different like 80s is high here and it snows and is windy and colddddd like -45 is winter average

Also-when knitting shawls I use gauge more of an idea of size than something necessary, unlike clothing. But that’s just me.

It’s Tuesday June 18. I’m in NW Ohio and we are under a heat dome for this week.. highs are in the upper 90’s, humid and awful! I’m staying inside knitting a silk/merino cross shawl Etta.

I think 76 sounds wonderful. I am from Tx. so it is currently 90 degrees. Summer is 100 plus. I am currently making a pair of socks, a sweater, and a blanket. I find my having several projects does not let me get too bored. Thanks for recommending Wacky yarns. I am always looking for a deal.

Hullo from the southern hemisphere (Tasmania) where it’s 10c (52 F). Our winters have been really mild the last few years with little snow on the mountains… I enjoy your podcast because you make garments that fit nicely & that aren’t oversized. I’m not a fan of excess positive ease with drop shoulders that have the shoulder seam half way down the arm. I’m a newby knitter so will be diving into the world of “finished measurements” before long & I take inspiration from your beautifully fitting garments! Love your style too. Best wishes to you & Lady 🧶

I absolutely love the cloud sweater you knit. The color is amazing! The length is perfect .

102! It was 85 yesterday with rain and felt like April weather. I’m on NM.

I am all about good fit too

Hi Charlotte. Loved your podcast. totally agree with the need for patterns with garment shaping and options, as opposed to the less technical plain versions. I guess it is where we are at wrt knitting journey??? initially plain is good as we learn and conquer techniques. As we progress, we wish for more challenges and being taught in patterns, new ways to create a garment that suits us. Winter here in New Zealand. Today, sunny outside, fire on inside this am. 14 degrees C now, 10am. Knitting on PetiteKnit Cloud sweater and loving it. Made some mods, as you talk about, to customise to my body. Just learning new tricks and wanting to learn more! Love it❤ Beautiful knitting of yours as usual. 🥰 Sharon

Always enjoy watching your knits. All your projects are beautiful Charlotte. Thank you for sharing.

For the charts, it depends if the pattern is to be knitted in the round or knitted flat. For patterns knitted in the round, every row is read from right to left. Your shawl pattern is typical for something knitted flat -odd rows (RS) read right to left, even rows (WS) read left to right. Some shawls can be knitted in the round and then steeked.

I used to live up in the PNW in Portland and summers were always the best. I live in the high desert in the southwest now and summers are usually in the 80s, but it’s our rainy season so most days a thunderstorm rolls through in the afternoon and cools everything down. Then the clouds part just in time for sunset and rainbows! We’re heading into rainbow season now. 🌈 Also my friend just finished the Aloft Shawl too and she had the same issue with the side I cord being tight, so it might not be all you knitting too tightly.

Rupert, ID 85-95 degrees

I just found your podcast, enjoying it so much. Great job on your knitting, looks like you have years of experience. I am on opposite side of our USA, born and raised in New Hampshire. I started knitting at age 18, am now 78 years young. Looking forward to seeing more of your podcasts.

You look so classy and beautiful in the top you're wearing! Love it! Here in Germany usually the summer temperature is around 82-85 degrees Fahrenheit which is 28-30 Celsius. But this year up until now it seems as if summer is a no-show. Spring was cold and gardening is difficult, much to my dismay. But the one good thing about it is that it grants much time and mojo for knitting, I'm currently working on a two-color brioche shawl (Flame On by Patrick Donohue) which is my first deep-dive into brioche. I had a hard time with it in the beginning although it is a very well made pattern but in the meantime I got used to it and love it, looks so great. I very much enjoyed spending time with you today, as I always do, being here from episode one. Greetings from overseas.

What a beautiful dog 💗💗 while watching i'm working on my first ever test knit also, kind of the same experience you had and I'm so happy that I was actually picked not having Instagram or any type of followers! but I do use ravelry.

Here is Sammamish and weather is lovely. I agree on the excessive amount of patterns with too much positive ease. Another great podcaster that has brought up this issue is NEKnits. A little positive ease is great but when you cannot knit the smallest size, then that is nuts. I always wonder am I the only person that washes dishes and needs to push up their sleeves? 🙃

Hey, I totally agree with you re: alpaca! It's often just too drapey and lacks structure. My probably biggest "miss" of a project is a Kutovakika Darling Cardigan that I made this year, I used the Sandnes Garn Borstet Alpakka and it's just... a huge, super floppy cardigan lol. I even sized down from my suggested size, and it's still massive and grew even worse by blocking. I have no idea what I'm going to do with that cardigan, I can't really see myself wearing it as it is... Your Harju is beautiful, those cables are so intricate and the fabric your 2 yarns make looks super cosy 🥰 I think the Tukuwool colourway name Manna comes from the Finnish word for semolina. And that shawl is just amazing, I am not really a shawl person but I fell in love with yours the second I saw it!

Hi from India. We are just starting to see the end of a very fierce summer the began in March. The high temperature of 100 to 110 continued relentlessly for 2 whole months. With the rains coming, it is over now. I like the top you are wearing. The shawl and the test knit are beautiful too. Happy knitting

My default solution to getting a good tension for the edges of shawls like this is to add a YO (or even 2) every other row right where you need the extra stretch, and dropping that YO in the very next row. Another way of achieving the same thing, if you're doing M1 increases at the border, is to create the YO in the row prior to when you make the M1, and then you increase into that YO directly.

I live in Seattle area also and mid 70’s is just about perfect summer weather for me. You knit beautifully. Are you going to the Flock Fiber Festival in Seattle in August?

Your workmanship is excellent!

Hi from Chicago!! It's in the 80s today. Don't like temps above this!

Always love your videos! Knitting flat with charts definitely takes some getting used to, since you reverse everything on the way back. I have had my fair share of restarting many projects with charts! 😂 Beautiful knits! Can’t wait to see your finished sweater. Going to be beautiful. 😍

Hi from Vancouver, BC. Still sweater weather here most days 🙄 The Harju sweater looks amazing! I agree, 100% alpaca in a heavier weight is not good on its own. Best to hold it with something that gives it a bit more structure. I have knit the cardigan No.8 twice. For that one I like it very oversized. Heaving said that, I fall into the range of small but knit the x-small. The cardigan no.9 is a different style and that one I knit with less positive ease. I think it totally depends on the style and how you intend to wear. Yarn/fabric too. Some fabrics will just look too big while others can handle more positive ease.

For the charts: yes, that is the way you would read all chart patterns. Think of it as a piece of knitted fabric. It is showing you exactly what your knitting would look like. Your shawl is gorgeous!

Jacksonville, Florida here & it’s 89 degrees at 1:30 pm which is not bad except it’s very humid today, no breeze. The Aloft shawl is gorgeous but I’ve knitted 2 shawls in another pattern that I love already and that’s about the limit for me use-wise. I want to knit one out of cotton to be a beach coverup but I have so much difficulty knitting with cotton probably because, like you, I’m a tight knitter, that I’ve not had the energy to try again. Maybe if just the right color comes along. I don’t think gauge is all that important with shawls. If you’re happy with the fabric being produced, you just keep going until it’s the size you like and yes, the chart zigzags left to right, right to left on all FLAT patterns.😊