I don’t hear many people talk about this but at the end of the season I FREEZE my sweaters. I take sealable plastic bags, put a sweater in each bag and then put it in the freezer for 2-3 days. If I am really paranoid…. I freeze it for 3days, take it out for a day and then freeze it again. While I am doing that I wash down my shelves where I store them and then put fresh cedar oil or wood down. We have had a problem with moths. Since starting this I haven’t had any problems.
I'm going to pull out my sewing machine and make a "barry pants " You made me want to. (the pattern is done, I'm waiting for the fabric) It should go perfectly with the traveller.I haven't knitted yet, but it shouldn't be long. I like to watch your podcasts, they are a good English lesson for me. Merci beaucoup Andrea.
Seeing your lovely Weekender today prompted this comment. I just finished knitting my first Weekender and I made it out of a spinning experiment. I used multiple braids of a variety of sheep breeds with a dominant color of red. I spun 1/3 as a traditional 3 ply, 1/3 I blended into batts before spinning my 3 ply, and the last third I blended batts with some natural black wool. Then I knit the garment with the bottom dark, the middle blended and the top was the more clear colors of the traditional 3 ply. Fun! I am very happy with it and plan to knit another after seeing yours today. I have multiple skeins of a cormo, alpaca, silk blend I have been searching for the perfect pattern for. Thanks for the many ways you enrich the fiber community!
I'm going to pull out my sewing machine and make a barry pants You made me want to. (the pattern is done, I'm waiting for the fabric) It should go perfectly with the traveller I haven't knitted yet, but it shouldn't be long. I like to watch your podcasts, they are a good English lesson for me. Merci beaucoup Andrea.
I absolutely love these videos. I'm not "new" to knitting but haven't knitted in years so relearning and expanding. Thank you so much for the tips, they are so helpful.
What a great tip for picking up stitches! It never occurred to me that I could use locking stitch markers to help guide the process, although I do it all the time for certain types of sleeves. My usual process for buttonbands is to start picking up and hope for the best, with the inevitable result of having to do it several times. I've got a cardigan on the needles now that is almost to the buttonband stage, and I admit I've been procrastinating! Also as a further note on caring for handknits: Don't forget your steamer! The heat of the steam will kill moth eggs and larvae.
Thank you for sharing different hobbies! I came for the knitting content and after years of watching your excitement for spinning, I took a spinning class this month and came home with my very own wheel! Im so excited to explore a new fiber craft. Thank you for sharing your passions ☺️
Really appreciated hearing about your less favorite spin results! You inspired me to start spinning 6 months ago and, while many spins have turned out great, there is the occasional disappointment. It’s so reassuring to know it happens to the best of us!
Made By Rae is a fantastic for beginner sewists. I learned how to make clothes by following her patterns. (Now I teach a sewing class for middle schoolers). I’ve never made her pants, but I’ve made most of her tops, and dresses. There are even some neat pattern hack tutorials in her blog.
Re what you were saying about reusing a pattern...I've only ever actually done a fade once, but So Faded is now my go-to sweater recipe pattern! Ive sussed out which size to use for sock yarn and for DK so I have been able to adapt it in so many ways! I will do another fade at some point though haha!
My son and I were sewing on my mother's 1960s machine and just bought a cheap brother at Walmart! We are having a blast with it. I haven't sewed in years! Just quilts, no clothes.... But would love to try it!
Thank you SO much for turning me on to Sew Liberated. I am knitting the Tessellated vest and have been thinking I would love to wear it with a dress, a la Aimee (La Bien Aimee), when I’m done but I couldn’t find the right dress anywhere. UNTIL today! Their Hinterland dress is exactly what I’ve been looking for and I think I have the perfect fabric sitting in my stash. How fun it will be to wear a sweater I knit with a dress I sewed. THANK YOU, THANK YOU THANK YOU! 😃
Just chiming in to say that I never wash multiple knits together ever since the time I ruined my handspun Golden Hour shawl when I washed it along with a superwash bra. Forever destroyed 😢… now I use two small storage tubs that fit into my utility sink. I can fill and cross stack them to soak two at a time, while I process a load of laundry. Once my load of laundry is ready to hang dry, I throw the two separately soaking sweaters into the spin/dry cycle and then lay them flat to dry. Thank you for another great podcast!! ❤
I made my sister a shift cowl for Christmas a few years ago. She loves it so much she requested another cowl in a similar style. So I am going to make her a DRK everyday cowl.
My first love, like yours, is knitting. But I have gotten I to so many more crafts in the last couple of years that I feel a day of the week should be designated for each craft. I've already been doing Scrappy Sunday, working on knitting or crocheting my leftover yarns into a couple of blankets I have on the go. But I also started a "I like to move it, move it!" Saturday this year, where every Saturday I pull out languishing wips, or just small projects or kits for which I had great enthusiasm for at one time (and still do but something else always takes precedence). So far I figured out the issue with a sleeve, and finished a short sleeved top, and knit the facing of a zip sweater for hubby and just have to sew in the zipper. This was my unfinished gift to him this past Christmas. I just need to figure how I'm going to fit in the cross stitching, punch needle, and spinning into my Monday to Friday schedule, alongside my knitting.
I absolutely love that you shared about the skeins that you would do differently. We are so often showing our successes but know that there is trial and error in our process. I just so appreciate hearing about your practice and learning. Thank you 🙏 ❤
Omg thank you for the tip on picking up stitches! I feel like I should have been able to figure that out, but here we are. 😆 My last cardigan had a shawl collar, and it took me so many tries to get it right. I'm going to do it your way next time.
I'm just like you. I want to learn everything, & finish fast to see what they look like that I sometimes I forget to enjoy the process. Question for you, what's the best way to untangle yarn this I frogged, sometimes the yarn felts together. Thank you. I watch all your videos & just love you & think your beautiful.
I too love your vidoes! They are loaded with all kinds of info and so helpful and very positive and uplifting as well! You are a gift to us all!!! Thanks for all your hard work!!!!
I love your episodes, I don’t think I’ve ever missed watching them! I find what you say to be so valuable and gets me thinking and learning. I just would like to let you know that I’m currently knitting your DRK everyday sweater for the second time and while I watch your podcast! As you always advise… make it your own… I am making a couple fit adjustments and I’m so excited to see how it is going to turn out. I keep trying it on as I go and I just can’t wait to wear it. ❤ I love the way you write patterns and the video links and tutorials you always include. Thank you so much for getting me interested in learning this craft and for keeping me engaged with your beautiful patterns and the knowledge you share.
When picking up horizontal stitches along a vertical edge … If I wanted to pick up 5:7 (5 stitches for every 7 stitches), wouldn’t I pick up as follows? 1, 2, skip, 1, 2, 3, skip, (repeated over and over). When I wrote down what you suggested (1, 2, skip, 3, 1, 2, 3, skip, 4), I get 7:9 (7 stitches for every 9 stitches). Just checking.
I have a similar expansion of hobbies. Crocheting then knitting and now we're getting an angora rabbit so I can spin yarn. I've promised my husband I will only use a drop spindle ... no wheel allowed.
Oh my gosh, I am so glad I caught this episode. I just finished the Flicker flame (size 5 in sport weight), I am on gauge, and it’s way too short. The method Andrea explains here to fix the hole will help me too. Woohoo. I would have possibly been better off making this in worsted.
I love your patterns in fact you are one designer that I have the most patterns am knitting the drk everyday cowl right now, so as a knitter we thank you! 😊
Andrea I have knit several of your patterns, some accessories, some sweaters and I love every one of them. I am currently working on the DRK Everyday Sweater and just know this will be one of “those” sweaters that I grab EVERYDAY! Thank you for such great patterns!
I love your videos and so feel you on the need to do all the things. I have also told myself that I need a sewing day, spinning day, drawing day, etc. I think I have found that in the moment I want to do whatever I’m hyper focused on so I’m not sure that would ever be realistic for me lol. I love the way your yarns turned out, especially the polwarth and silk! The batt really muted the colors in such a beautiful way. I have found I really enjoy spinning BFL silk, at least the stuff from crafted by locals! The BFL has a nice long staple length which I think may help it draft better with the silk. It spun up like butter. She has some really beautiful colors too!
Loving the traveler cowl so far. I have had to set it aside due to a test knit I am finishing but it is next up in the queue. And I plan to make another pair of the tesselated socks soon. My favorie sock to wear right now!
I’ve been looking at the weekender and the weekender crew a lot the past week or so. I have yarn that’s arriving today and Monday and I’m gonna make the crew! I can’t wait! This will be my first sweater to knit! Your Nightshift shawl was my first knit shawl as I’ve only been knitting since the beginning of November! I love all your patterns they’re so pretty! I can’t wait to get started on my weekender crew! 🥰
I enjoy your weekly videos so much. You always leave me with a smile on my face and food for thought. I’ve never spun yarn but I recently purchased a topper for a project and now I’m thinking I could use that to dip my toes into spinning. You are wholly responsible for inspiring me to do that.
I just began colorwork knitting in November inspired by your patterns. I made the flame stitch hat as a practice colorwork. Jumped right into my first sweater, the Throwover. It is finished and I love it! Thanks for all the tips you share! I just wish there were more hours in a day to knit, or maybe I just need to knit faster. =)
I am curious when the term for someone that sews went from seamstress to sewest? I have been sewing for years and so has my mom but have never heard that.
I"m half way down the first sleeve on my Weekender Crew and its going along great! Lovely to see you wearing yours. I'm planning on having pockets too - I knitted them as my swatch so they're all ready to go. Your advice on picking up stitches is really helpful - I fudged it a little on my first sleeve but I don't think anyone would be able to tell! I really enjoy your weekly episodes, thank you. I think I might have to make the Traveller Cowl now - it looks so cosy. Have a great weekend .
I don’t hear many people talk about this but at the end of the season I FREEZE my sweaters. I take sealable plastic bags, put a sweater in each bag and then put it in the freezer for 2-3 days. If I am really paranoid…. I freeze it for 3days, take it out for a day and then freeze it again. While I am doing that I wash down my shelves where I store them and then put fresh cedar oil or wood down. We have had a problem with moths. Since starting this I haven’t had any problems.
I'm going to pull out my sewing machine and make a "barry pants "
You made me want to. (the pattern is done, I'm waiting for the fabric)
It should go perfectly with the traveller.I haven't knitted yet, but it shouldn't be long.
I like to watch your podcasts, they are a good English lesson for me.
Merci beaucoup Andrea.
So next you're gonna own the sheep!
Seeing your lovely Weekender today prompted this comment. I just finished knitting my first Weekender and I made it out of a spinning experiment. I used multiple braids of a variety of sheep breeds with a dominant color of red. I spun 1/3 as a traditional 3 ply, 1/3 I blended into batts before spinning my 3 ply, and the last third I blended batts with some natural black wool. Then I knit the garment with the bottom dark, the middle blended and the top was the more clear colors of the traditional 3 ply. Fun! I am very happy with it and plan to knit another after seeing yours today. I have multiple skeins of a cormo, alpaca, silk blend I have been searching for the perfect pattern for. Thanks for the many ways you enrich the fiber community!
I'm going to pull out my sewing machine and make a barry pants
You made me want to. (the pattern is done, I'm waiting for the fabric)
It should go perfectly with the traveller I haven't knitted yet, but it shouldn't be long.
I like to watch your podcasts, they are a good English lesson for me.
Merci beaucoup Andrea.
As always ❤❤❤❤❤
Sleeping beauty has the wheel! My favorite Disney movie😊😊
This podcast always brings joy to my week. Thank you!
I love the look of the weekender and the traveler shawl together.
Thanks!
I like to keep a shift cowl going as my dessert knitting 😂 I’m on my 3rd🤓
Thanks
Thank you so much!! ❤️❤️
I absolutely love these videos. I'm not "new" to knitting but haven't knitted in years so relearning and expanding. Thank you so much for the tips, they are so helpful.
What a great tip for picking up stitches! It never occurred to me that I could use locking stitch markers to help guide the process, although I do it all the time for certain types of sleeves. My usual process for buttonbands is to start picking up and hope for the best, with the inevitable result of having to do it several times. I've got a cardigan on the needles now that is almost to the buttonband stage, and I admit I've been procrastinating!
Also as a further note on caring for handknits: Don't forget your steamer! The heat of the steam will kill moth eggs and larvae.
Thank you for sharing different hobbies! I came for the knitting content and after years of watching your excitement for spinning, I took a spinning class this month and came home with my very own wheel! Im so excited to explore a new fiber craft. Thank you for sharing your passions ☺️
Have a great weekend with your loved ones.
Really appreciated hearing about your less favorite spin results! You inspired me to start spinning 6 months ago and, while many spins have turned out great, there is the occasional disappointment. It’s so reassuring to know it happens to the best of us!
I love to sew! My favourite sweat pants pattern is the Hudson pants by True Bias. They actually are a family favourite using both woven and knits
Made By Rae is a fantastic for beginner sewists. I learned how to make clothes by following her patterns. (Now I teach a sewing class for middle schoolers). I’ve never made her pants, but I’ve made most of her tops, and dresses. There are even some neat pattern hack tutorials in her blog.
Re what you were saying about reusing a pattern...I've only ever actually done a fade once, but So Faded is now my go-to sweater recipe pattern! Ive sussed out which size to use for sock yarn and for DK so I have been able to adapt it in so many ways! I will do another fade at some point though haha!
My son and I were sewing on my mother's 1960s machine and just bought a cheap brother at Walmart! We are having a blast with it. I haven't sewed in years! Just quilts, no clothes.... But would love to try it!
Thank you SO much for turning me on to Sew Liberated. I am knitting the Tessellated vest and have been thinking I would love to wear it with a dress, a la Aimee (La Bien Aimee), when I’m done but I couldn’t find the right dress anywhere. UNTIL today! Their Hinterland dress is exactly what I’ve been looking for and I think I have the perfect fabric sitting in my stash. How fun it will be to wear a sweater I knit with a dress I sewed. THANK YOU, THANK YOU THANK YOU! 😃
Just chiming in to say that I never wash multiple knits together ever since the time I ruined my handspun Golden Hour shawl when I washed it along with a superwash bra. Forever destroyed 😢… now I use two small storage tubs that fit into my utility sink. I can fill and cross stack them to soak two at a time, while I process a load of laundry. Once my load of laundry is ready to hang dry, I throw the two separately soaking sweaters into the spin/dry cycle and then lay them flat to dry. Thank you for another great podcast!! ❤
I made my sister a shift cowl for Christmas a few years ago. She loves it so much she requested another cowl in a similar style. So I am going to make her a DRK everyday cowl.
Great podcast thank you 🧶☕️😊
My first love, like yours, is knitting. But I have gotten I to so many more crafts in the last couple of years that I feel a day of the week should be designated for each craft. I've already been doing Scrappy Sunday, working on knitting or crocheting my leftover yarns into a couple of blankets I have on the go. But I also started a "I like to move it, move it!" Saturday this year, where every Saturday I pull out languishing wips, or just small projects or kits for which I had great enthusiasm for at one time (and still do but something else always takes precedence). So far I figured out the issue with a sleeve, and finished a short sleeved top, and knit the facing of a zip sweater for hubby and just have to sew in the zipper. This was my unfinished gift to him this past Christmas. I just need to figure how I'm going to fit in the cross stitching, punch needle, and spinning into my Monday to Friday schedule, alongside my knitting.
Lovely chatty vlog. Great to see your creative journey.
You’re contagious, my friend!!
I absolutely love that you shared about the skeins that you would do differently. We are so often showing our successes but know that there is trial and error in our process. I just so appreciate hearing about your practice and learning. Thank you 🙏 ❤
Omg thank you for the tip on picking up stitches! I feel like I should have been able to figure that out, but here we are. 😆 My last cardigan had a shawl collar, and it took me so many tries to get it right. I'm going to do it your way next time.
I'm just like you. I want to learn everything, & finish fast to see what they look like that I sometimes I forget to enjoy the process.
Question for you, what's the best way to untangle yarn this I frogged, sometimes the yarn felts together. Thank you. I watch all your videos & just love you & think your beautiful.
I too love your vidoes! They are loaded with all kinds of info and so helpful and very positive and uplifting as well! You are a gift to us all!!! Thanks for all your hard work!!!!
I love your episodes, I don’t think I’ve ever missed watching them! I find what you say to be so valuable and gets me thinking and learning. I just would like to let you know that I’m currently knitting your DRK everyday sweater for the second time and while I watch your podcast! As you always advise… make it your own… I am making a couple fit adjustments and I’m so excited to see how it is going to turn out. I keep trying it on as I go and I just can’t wait to wear it. ❤ I love the way you write patterns and the video links and tutorials you always include. Thank you so much for getting me interested in learning this craft and for keeping me engaged with your beautiful patterns and the knowledge you share.
When picking up horizontal stitches along a vertical edge … If I wanted to pick up 5:7 (5 stitches for every 7 stitches), wouldn’t I pick up as follows? 1, 2, skip, 1, 2, 3, skip, (repeated over and over). When I wrote down what you suggested (1, 2, skip, 3, 1, 2, 3, skip, 4), I get 7:9 (7 stitches for every 9 stitches). Just checking.
You also look great in toffee ❤
I am on my fourth Nightshift. I love to knit this pattern!
I'm like you. Not enough time for all the crafts. I knit, crochet, sew, spin, paint, diamond dots and whatever else I get influenced to do.
I'm making my first week-ender sweater. Almost finished with the first sleeve, Love the pattern!
I have a similar expansion of hobbies. Crocheting then knitting and now we're getting an angora rabbit so I can spin yarn. I've promised my husband I will only use a drop spindle ... no wheel allowed.
I love your podcasts and I learn so much, you are very inspiring ❤❤😊😊
21:16 How about sewing an apron! Then you’ll want to wear it😉
Oh my gosh, I am so glad I caught this episode.
I just finished the Flicker flame (size 5 in sport weight), I am on gauge, and it’s way too short. The method Andrea explains here to fix the hole will help me too. Woohoo.
I would have possibly been better off making this in worsted.
I enjoy each episode so much ❤
This cowl looks so lovely on you. I’m just wondering what size you made for yourself.
I love your patterns in fact you are one designer that I have the most patterns am knitting the drk everyday cowl right now, so as a knitter we thank you! 😊
Moths and light, wow who knew thanks
Andrea I have knit several of your patterns, some accessories, some sweaters and I love every one of them. I am currently working on the DRK Everyday Sweater and just know this will be one of “those” sweaters that I grab EVERYDAY! Thank you for such great patterns!
I love your videos and so feel you on the need to do all the things. I have also told myself that I need a sewing day, spinning day, drawing day, etc. I think I have found that in the moment I want to do whatever I’m hyper focused on so I’m not sure that would ever be realistic for me lol.
I love the way your yarns turned out, especially the polwarth and silk! The batt really muted the colors in such a beautiful way. I have found I really enjoy spinning BFL silk, at least the stuff from crafted by locals! The BFL has a nice long staple length which I think may help it draft better with the silk. It spun up like butter. She has some really beautiful colors too!
Thanks. You make my weekend.
Loving the traveler cowl so far. I have had to set it aside due to a test knit I am finishing but it is next up in the queue. And I plan to make another pair of the tesselated socks soon. My favorie sock to wear right now!
I’ve been looking at the weekender and the weekender crew a lot the past week or so. I have yarn that’s arriving today and Monday and I’m gonna make the crew! I can’t wait! This will be my first sweater to knit! Your Nightshift shawl was my first knit shawl as I’ve only been knitting since the beginning of November! I love all your patterns they’re so pretty! I can’t wait to get started on my weekender crew! 🥰
I enjoy your weekly videos so much. You always leave me with a smile on my face and food for thought. I’ve never spun yarn but I recently purchased a topper for a project and now I’m thinking I could use that to dip my toes into spinning. You are wholly responsible for inspiring me to do that.
I just began colorwork knitting in November inspired by your patterns. I made the flame stitch hat as a practice colorwork. Jumped right into my first sweater, the Throwover. It is finished and I love it! Thanks for all the tips you share! I just wish there were more hours in a day to knit, or maybe I just need to knit faster. =)
Sometimes I pick up more and reduce immediately, it can reduce holes.
I am curious when the term for someone that sews went from seamstress to sewest? I have been sewing for years and so has my mom but have never heard that.
I"m half way down the first sleeve on my Weekender Crew and its going along great! Lovely to see you wearing yours. I'm planning on having pockets too - I knitted them as my swatch so they're all ready to go. Your advice on picking up stitches is really helpful - I fudged it a little on my first sleeve but I don't think anyone would be able to tell! I really enjoy your weekly episodes, thank you. I think I might have to make the Traveller Cowl now - it looks so cosy. Have a great weekend .
This was wonderful and really helped me get through the rest of my ribbing!🤣♥ Thank you, Andrea!
Is that pick up 5 in every 7 or 7 in every 9? Or are they the same thing?
I have made the shift cowl at least 9 times
And plan on making traveler cowl asap
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same!!! I am not built for commercial sweatpants. And now they make them skinny legged. Ewww