Congratulations, Roxanne! You've certainly changed the world for this knitter - I learn so much from you, and not just about knitting. Thank you, and long may you wave. 😊 💕
I'd love to see a 1990's stranded colorwork sweater, Fairisle style with many colors would be great. Roxanne you looks really good in that dress, that color really suits you !
Congratulations on your channel goal. Your top is a lovely color, looks great. The 80’s sweater shows why buying quality yarn matters. Not one pill. And the color is still true.
I love your beautiful 80's sweater. It really does represent the style at the time. Thank you for showing us the details and what you have learned since knitting that sweater. We are always in a learning process. I started knitting in the 70's but there were many years in between when I did not knit. Now that I am retired I am knitting socks and sweaters and enjoying it so much. I learn something new every time I watch your videos. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm looking forward to your Fair Isle sweater. I want to try one too so I will be looking to you for tips and suggestions.
Oh yay, I think I’m the person who asked you to talk about your 1980s sweater! Thank you so much for telling us about it here! I’ve seen you wear that one in past videos and I think it’s incredible, I’m such a sucker for florals! It’s also so nice to see that even though there are techniques you’d do differently now, it’s still something you’re proud of. Something that I think paralyzes me is thinking “I want to try this new technique now, but what if I learn a better way to do it in the future and end up regretting how I’d do it here?” so I often end up just not trying, and I learn nothing from it. Your approach to learning is something I deeply admire and want to emulate, and I think that’s why your videos resonate with so many of us! So congratulations on 100k subscribers, and thank you for doing what you do!! 💜
I am a newbie… like I finally figured knit stitch and actually made a dishcloth that looked like a dishcloth lol now I’m trying to figure out how to repair and blah blah I’ve actually been watching you for….. 🤔 much longer than I’ve been knitting. I found the history and stories that you bring forth in your videos interesting. Thank you. I didn’t understand some of what you spoke of but the left decrease I’m glad to know atm for where I am. Many Blessings Rox
100 thousand subscribers is a terrific achievement for you and not hard to figure out why. I started knitting, taught by my Mother when I think I was 7, she was tired of me fiddling with her knitting and decided that I had some of my own, it might fix the situation. I knit until I went Nursing and there were other things like boys to occupy me so knitting was picked up again when I got married but we were in business and time was short so 37 years later I picked it up again and TH-cam was my Bible because some of the terms were new to me and that's where I met you and Thank goodness I did. You taught me most if the knitting stuff I know. I am so grateful for your knowledge and your teaching skills. Thank you again.
Sincerest congratulations to you on your TH-cam milestone. Just today, one of your technique videos helped me to resolve an issue (how to recapture a double stitch having ripped out the needle after the fact). You are very appreciated for your knowledge and clear teaching style. Kxo
Hello and congratulations! In the 90's I was in love with those shaker knit sweaters to wear with penny loafers or sweaters with those polo like collars. I wonder if brioche would give the shaker knit look.
Congratulations on your milestone. That’s fantastic. You have been such a great source of information. I’ve saved so many of your videos showing how to do things. Have a safe trip. Thanks for taking your time to do these videos. 🧶
Amazing milestone! I must admit when I think of the 80's knitting I think of the Vogue Knitting magazines my mother had, mohair sweaters and the Cosby show with their fabulous knits. I come up blank with the 90's as I didn't really knit during that period.
The Norwegian Olympic ski sweaters were big in the 90s and might offer something new to learn with neck zippers and elastic draw cords in the hem. And congrats of all the subscribers. You deserve the recognition!
Congratulations on 100K! Well deserved, you're one of the channels I recommend to knitters when they ask about techniques. Thank you for bringing me so much joy too xx
Fascinating. I lived through these developments in knitting without fully appreciating them. Re your project, yes, fair isle color possibilities are exciting, and challenging! If you do this, I look forward to hearing about it.
Thank you, Roxanne. I think that in the 90s magazines like Knitters (and all xrx books etc), vogue Knitting, and Interweave Knits were the real go-to inspiration for me. I would pour over the pages again and again. There are lots of wonderful choices, and Knitters had theme issues so perhaps one of those.
Congratulations on your 100k subscriber milestone! 🥳 I have 2 questions: 1) how much goes into and how long does it take you to put together your very professional episodes? I really love how much I learn from you. Even if it doesn't speak directly to my knitting life in the moment, I try to squirrel away at least the fact that you talked about the topic, and then I will go back and find the episode when I need it. 😊 2) The self-assigned projects that you engage in are so fascinating! Do you turn these projects into books or published articles anywhere? I would love to read them if you do. If you don't, wow, I really think you should! There may be folks who don't do TH-cam who would love to hear about the things you've learned. Just my humble opinion. 😌 💜
Hi Roxanne, I have this exact same sweater! I was 8 and I picked it out from a catalogue to have my mom's best friend, Marty Hibbard, knit us matching sweaters. I just wore it last week.
Congratulations for reaching such an impressive milestone! I looked through some of my 1990s books and see color work, usually with oversized garments: Knitting in America by Melanie Falick (which you showed) has quite a few; Alice Starmore's In the Hebrides (I've made Roscalie and Rona from this book- MNLynn on Ravelry to see), and The Art of Fair Isle Knitting by Ann Feitelson. There are some color work vests in these collections for an opportunity to avoid sleeves for time's sake. I don't live far from you if you'd like to borrow any. 😊
Congratulations Roxanne on reaching 100K subs. I always enjoy your video content and love learning how to improve my knitting. ❤ I always enjoy the discussion about the history and evolution of knitting. The intarsia work in your 1980's sweater is incredible 😍
Congratuls on reaching your 100k milestone. Your probs are so interesting. The Tidbits segment has lead me to many informative articles and documentaries. We don't have crafting programs as a matter of course on t.v. here in the u.k. Which is a shame. So podcasts like yours, fills that need. Thank you
Congratulations on 100k! You are the reason I joined TKGA and am working through the Master Hand Knitter program. I saw your interview on Fiberchats, sensed you were a kindred spirit regarding history and research, and have been following your channel since. I love the content and the techniques. Here's to the next 100K!
Congratulations on your new total. Your channel is always full of information and guidance. Thank you. Love your jacket made in the 80's. I have tried to remember what I was knitting in the 90's but can't; possibly because I was doing a lot of cross stitch and patchwork and quilting at that time. 🇬🇧
Again- another fascinating look at sweater construction. I started knitting as an adult in the 80’s and also had kids in the early 90’s. The one thing I do remember was novelty yarn. I made a blockish oversized sweater with big bobbles randomly placed. Again- probably designer sweaters- ie Ralph Lauren etc.. I do remember those men’s sweaters with multiple colors and vertical stripes -Coogi- Bill Cosby sweaters. Those were all the rage. It will be interesting to see what you find.
Oh, remember that beautiful Ralph Lauren pullover sweater--black with the huge pink cabbage roses? The actual sweater was over embroidered, but Richard, a colleague of mine, figured out the colourwork and knit them all in!!!
Congratulations on the milestone! I am a new subscriber and feel like I have learned so much watching your channel. A question for your future video: I would love to know more about the equipment you use to film and if/how that has changed over the years of filming
Congratulations on your milestone! I’d love to see a behind the scenes of your filming setup and how you edit your videos. And I love your idea for your 1990’s sweater, it feels like an appropriate closure to your project.
Congratulations on your new milestone 🏆🎇. I really love fair isle, however I'm fearful Incase I go to the expense of purchasing yarns and land up not completing the item
thanks for introducing the work of Sasha Kagan. when you did in may, I bought 2 books from her and now I just started a similar jacket as yours with acorns in stead of the poppies. congratulations on your 100K-subscriptions!
Elsebeth Lavold’s Viking Patterns for Knitting. Published late 90’s. She was creating continuous cables, celtic knots, closed rings with cables, etc. Fascinating if you love knitting cablea
Yup, I have two of her books, and I've already designed and knit a sweater using those motifs! (One of the reasons I'm thinking of *not* knitting something with cables!)
I found your comments about patterns from the 1980s and 1990s illuminating. I've dipped in and out of knitting over the years, and in doing have noticed the changes. I remember knitting a fair bit in the 1980s - Rowan's first knitting book, which came out in 1986, was a source of several projects (I still have it), but can't remember doing any knitting in the 1990s - I think I was mostly crocheting. However, amongst my motley collection of knitting books is one I picked up one from an opshop, published in 1997 by Lark Books for Classic Elite. I doubt if I'll ever knit anything from it, but the way the patterns are presented is fascinating & sometimes a little weird. If you can find it, you might find it interesting. I think Rowan's knitting books influenced other yarn companies in the way the patterns are presented as a story, and not as a set of separate isolated patterns. Also, I don't know whether they were the only ones to use schematics, but they were using them early on, something I appreciate. I've learned so much from you, but also find myself thinking about my own personal history as a knitter, and my family's history, being a New Zealander with roots in England, Scotland and Norway. Thank you for all the work you do for us knitters.
Congratulations on your milestone TH-cam subscriber #!!! Also, for different reasons, I was not knitting in the 1990’s. I knit a bit in the 1970’s as a child and in the 1980’s as a young career woman. I knit several sweaters that worked with my suits. I found my patterns usually from Bernal and Brunswick in the pattern leaflets sold in yarn stores. By 1990, I was married and was renovating a home with my husband, working lots of hours and did not find time for knitting. All I remember from the 1990’s was women going crazy purchasing what we now call the ugly Christmas sweaters: they would be either cardigans or pullovers, oversized always and with abundant decor from either/or intarsia and embroidery. I picked up my needles again in 2006 when I was getting married again and was clearing a closet to make room for my new husband’s stuff. I found the bucket of yarn, needles, patterns, etc. I agree. By 2006, the availability of patterns increased dramatically between published books and the internet. Anyway, I say knit a sweater for the 1990s that pleases you!
Congratulations on your You Tube milestone! 🎉🎉 The stranded colorwork idea for your finale is splendid. I would suggest watching all of Hazel Tindall videos and interviews you can. She gives several excellent tips on color choices for Fair Isle motifs and how decisions on color order are made. I would also challenge you to investigate using a knitting belt to knit this sweater - not only to be traditional in the sweater's construction but as a flashback to how you learned and placed your needles initially. And can a large garment like a sweater really be knitted on 3 to 5 long DPNs?
I love that sweater. What fabulous intarsia technique. Congrats on your subscribers! As for the 90s, I think you should peruse the issues of Vogue Knitting on Ravelry for ideas. VK always has had the most accurate figer on the pulse of fashion, I think. There's some gorgeous stuff. The first few years of the 90s show they're still making a lot of drop shoulder garments. Later years in the decade started to move back toward set in sleeves. There are some interesting color work projects that are not fair isle but sort of indigenous looking. There's a beautiful intarsia project I just noted in one of the issues, but you probably won't want to do intarsia again. Leafy Springs Turtleneck, Fall 1991. #22. I hate intarsia, but I'm tempted to make it!
Congratulations on your subscriptions! That’s wonderful! I keep coming back to 1930s knitting projects. They’re just so unconventional! Of course, that can cause me a lot of grief, but overall I relish the challenge.
Yes! Do a Fair Isle. I even have a pattern suggestion Roscalie Cardigan from Starmore's "In the Hebrides" in the 2nd colorway. This colorway is based on early Fair Isle's--indigo & madder. Although Campion is long discontinued there are cross references onlone to Spindrift & Jamieson's. I knit this back in the day & loved every minute of it. It's an eat-your-heart-out sweater which was worn to disintegration. Congrats on reaching 100K I hope this comment isn't a duplicate. Though I posted yesterday but can't find it.
I vote Live Stream! If not, I’d love to learn your process for video editing, and how you learned about video production and editing. It has been interesting to see how your videos have advanced tech wise. Also do you write a script for each video, or do you go of a list of talking points, keeping videos more free flowing.
One hundred thousand. That's a lot of people, congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 In terms of construction, 90s sweaters (if my Google search is not failing me) tend to cardigans with deep V-necks, thin button bands, and drop shoulders. The colors seem to be more muted, in darker earth tones in low contrast (unlike the bright vivid 80s). Sweater *vests* also had a moment, especially in menswear.
Absolutely wonderful video as usual! You definitely deserve a nice shiny play button for all your hard work 😁 For your 90's project, why not look at the Shetland jumpers/ganseys of that time because they certainly would have used motifs passed down from folk but possibly not written, it might tie in nicely as you said. Shetland Wool Week started in the 00's I think.
I just remembered that some older patterns had the knitter pick up half a selvedge stitch on either piece for seaming vertically. I always thought that looked terrible but followed the directions as given.
Yeah, it didn't look great. It is possible to do a mattress stitch seam using half a stitch from each side, and as long as your stockinette selvedges are a decent tension, those seams can look pretty good, but that's not what those old patterns and books were recommending! They also instructed to pick up sts along the top of a sleeve using only half a stitch, which also was not a great look.
I’m sure you know about the revival of Bohus Stickning knitting (there’s a new book out on the technique). And I seem to recall that you really don’t like top down circular yokes, but the colorwork produced is stunning. I’ve been too intimidated to try it so far. You could probably handle it.
I had a Bohus sweater in my Ravelry queue for years! (It might still be there!) I do have a book on Bohus in my knitting library, but it was published in the 2000s. (I want to use references that would have been published in the '80s or '90s.) You're right that while I love the appearance of those sweaters, I'm not too keen on all that fine gauge, solid stockinette knit top down, once the yoke is done!
Congratulations on 100k subscribers! Wow!! As to a sweater project for the 1990s, very selfishly I'd love to see your process for Fair Isle color choices and project choice. I'm lousy at making color combinations and am eager to learn. You once recommended an Alice Starmore book with a chapter about color combinations and I read it but I still stink. Anyway, I so enjoy listening to your self critiques as a learning tool. I learn every single time. Thank you for these videos!
I have a magazine released in March 1990 and there is a picture of a Susan Duckworth design which is one of 8 eight patterns in the Rowan Liberty Book obtainable from Liberty or Rowan yarns stockists ( no online facilities in those days.!). It shows an oversized sweater with bunches of grapes .I think it looks very like your over sized intaria cardigan. Here in the UK , we were wearing tailored suits with padded shoulders or plain cotton sweaters, and although I have been a knitter for all my adult life, I don't remember doing much in the 90s. It was only in the early 2000s that I discovered Elizabeth Zimmerman's books and started looking at the craft with new eyes. I do have several patterns published in that decade and most have lace and cable patterns on the fronts and /or back and sleeves.
All of my books from the 1990s are books on baby sweaters! :-) I remember wearing a lot of oversized sweaters, as for the 1980s, but they were tunic length, and we wore stirrup pants (trousers) with them. I do remember when sweaters got shorter and closer fitting that I realized I liked wearing something that wasn't a giant potato sack!
Kaffe Fassett would fit the bill if I didn't already have my Sasha Kagan oversized intarsia sweater from that era. (I also have a Kaffe Fassett vest that I knit about a year after I learned to knit. It's stored away in a trunk somewhere.)
I think the complexity of the colourwork for Shetland Fair Isle would please you. There are a lot of decisions to be made, yet a lot of "rules" to follow with many established colourways available. I have yet to do anything but read patterns. Ha ha ha. And yes, patterns released for flat/pieced knitting when the original might have been quite different!--remember EZ's outrage at making the cover of a popular women's magazine with one of her yoked in-the-round sweaters, only to have them rewrite the instructions in the mag to change it to sewn pieces (thereby misrepresenting her AND missing the point)! Oh, the 'modern' past!
I think 1990's, I think Friends TV show. I googled it and found a buzzfeed page ranking the top 200 sweaters in Friends - with pictures of course 😁. Might be a useful place to look for some inspiration? ☺️ I love watching your videos and congrats on your 100K subscribers! 👏🎉😁
PS: I should have said: the book is called Knitting today's classes: 65 beautiful sweaters from the studios of Classic Elite, by Kristin Nicholas (although there are patterns from several designers, including Norah Gaughan and Susan Mills, as well as Nicholas).
Thanks! Someone messaged me on Ravelry about this book, and I realized that our Textile Center Library would have quite a few books from the '90s, including that one, since the Knitters Guild was founded in the '80s, and started buying books at that time.
I don't. I sew them on with a thread shank. Sometimes I back the band with grosgrain ribbon, particularly if the buttons are heavy. Most buttons I use are very lightweight.
Although I adore traditional color work, Bohus patterns make me utterly miserable. It’s clear to me that they were designed by non-knitters. The unfortunate women getting paid to knit these pieces, back in the day must have had OPINIONS about this.
Hi Roxanne! Congratulations on your milestone! I would love for you to check out a channel called Little Star. I watched one of their videos that came up in my feed and I was blown away. I thought I knew all of the popular darning techniques but apparently not because this video was amazing. All of the videos are darning videos and her bio says darning is her job and she lives in Hong Kong. The videos are all very short with no speaking. She uses this same method in all the videos using a latch hook and in some videos a tiny little double ended latch hook. She does meticulous work...even repairing holes in pattern. Anyway, I thought you'd be the perfect person to check this out and maybe share it with your audience and possibly break down how it works. I'm curious if you've ever seen this technique before. Thanks Roxanne.
100K, WOW. Good for you. One thing I've always wondered on the cast on. Once the cast on is done, unless the pattern says, how do you know if that first row is the right side row or the wrong side row? I'm thinking when making a sweater in pieces the left front and the right front when the cast on is done, it would seem like the first row on the left front would need to be the wrong side and the first row on the right front would need to be the right side in order to mirror the two fronts. I hope that made sense. I've always just muddled through, but it would be nice to know how to think about this.
The assumption is usually that Row 1 is the RS, unless the pattern states otherwise. Different CO methods produce different edges, and some will cause the fabric to produce 1 row more or 1 row less than other CO methods. In most cases, as long as the pieces all match up properly, being off 1 row more or less than "intended" isn't an issue.
Alice Staremore’s more recent books use traditional techniques, but beautiful range of designs- fairisle, Aran , fisherman’s gansey, ( the Eriskay gansey is a FEAST of textured motifs. ) Her book Fisherman’s Sweaters is worth a look, as well as the second incarnation of Tudor Roses, if you fancy a challenge!
I'm a 90s child, and the knitwear I remember my mother and older sister wearing back then was bulky, very wide, and often had big cartoon character on them. I had a tintin sweater that I loathed (I'm sensitive to wool but my mother didn't believe that was a thing) and my mum had one with Mickey Mouse.
Congratulations on the 100,000 subscribers milestone. The color you are wearing today is lovely on you. I have a couple questions, first, is the Nancy Zimmerman you talk about all the time the same Nancy Zimmerman who did the show, Love Of Quilting? That is the only woman I know and she was very important in the Quilting world. I just find it unlikely that in two different crafting areas there would be people with the same name. Second, how does making money on You Tube work? Why do some videos play with no video interruptions, like yours thank you, while others seem to be interrupted every two to three minutes?
@@RoxanneRichardson ok thanks. I didn't realize until your response that their first names are different, for some reason I thought they were the same. Guess I had a brain hiccup. 😁 thanks for ask the information you give us. I learn a lot.
Congratulations on reaching the 100K mark. I follow your videos diligently. Re. your proposed video on mechanics of uploading YT Videos & running the channel - I am curious to know the geographic demographics of your subscribers/ viewers
If you Google ‘knitting magazines 1990’ you will get the cover shots of many to look at which is my idea. If I might go off subject, I have a question about something I remember my mother having when I was little back in the ‘60’s-a sweater stretcher. It was made out of thin metal tubing in a sort of two piece square shape with horizontal arms that inserted into each other, had springs inside, and holes along their width that little nubs would pop through when you stretched it sideways much like you see on vacuum attachments. It had a hook on top to hang for drying and was a royal pain which is probably why I’ve never seen one since but have you ever seen this? I’d be really interested to know. Thanks.
As Lisa said, they are usually for Shetland sweaters. Shetland wool had (has?) a tendency to want to shrink down, apparently, so the stretcher maintained the sweater's size as it dried.
@@RoxanneRichardson thank you for responding to this. We lived in Montreal at the time and I’m thinking my father had probably brought it home from grandmother’s since mom wasn’t a knitter. Do you think a better made version of it would be a handy tool in today’s knitting culture?
Great video thanks. And 1990s think: *Sweatervest, perhaps oversized *Hounds tooth or argyle or one color with 2nd color stip at v-neck and long cuff * v-neck Have fun and show us ...
I'm curious whether the designs from the 90s with lots of negative ease were really what the creator intended, or whether their design skills weren't advanced enough to execute what they had in mind. As the internet did in so many areas of our lives, it created something of a free-for-all, where anytime could publish a design. There wasn't necessarily any tech editing involved or consistency that comes with designing for a large company. I remember reading that Elizabeth Zimmerman designed a seamless sweater and the publisher converted it to a flat knitted-in-pieces format because that was their standard (completely destroying the purpose of EZ's design). One other thing: isn't your pleated Victorian sweater from the 1880's? Why isn't it part of your "century of knitting"?
It was the early 2000s where all that negative ease was used -- you could see it in the early days of Ravelry, around 2007-2008. People were choosing to knit things based on finished size, and *wanting* a large amount of negative ease, thinking hand knit sweaters would stretch as much as commercially manufactured stretchy tops.
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Congratulations, Roxanne! You've certainly changed the world for this knitter - I learn so much from you, and not just about knitting. Thank you, and long may you wave. 😊 💕
A joy to watch as always! The 100k milestone is no coincidence, you spread the joy of learning in a unique way, thank you!
I'd love to see a 1990's stranded colorwork sweater, Fairisle style with many colors would be great. Roxanne you looks really good in that dress, that color really suits you !
I came to say the same thing. That top is really cute!
Congratulations on your channel goal. Your top is a lovely color, looks great.
The 80’s sweater shows why buying quality yarn matters. Not one pill. And the color is still true.
I love your beautiful 80's sweater. It really does represent the style at the time. Thank you for showing us the details and what you have learned since knitting that sweater. We are always in a learning process. I started knitting in the 70's but there were many years in between when I did not knit. Now that I am retired I am knitting socks and sweaters and enjoying it so much. I learn something new every time I watch your videos. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm looking forward to your Fair Isle sweater. I want to try one too so I will be looking to you for tips and suggestions.
Congratulations on your milestone! Your 1980's sweater is beautiful!
Oh yay, I think I’m the person who asked you to talk about your 1980s sweater! Thank you so much for telling us about it here! I’ve seen you wear that one in past videos and I think it’s incredible, I’m such a sucker for florals! It’s also so nice to see that even though there are techniques you’d do differently now, it’s still something you’re proud of. Something that I think paralyzes me is thinking “I want to try this new technique now, but what if I learn a better way to do it in the future and end up regretting how I’d do it here?” so I often end up just not trying, and I learn nothing from it.
Your approach to learning is something I deeply admire and want to emulate, and I think that’s why your videos resonate with so many of us! So congratulations on 100k subscribers, and thank you for doing what you do!! 💜
You deserve lots of kudos for an exceptionally high quality video presentation. I look forward to them because there is always something interesting.❤
I am a newbie… like I finally figured knit stitch and actually made a dishcloth that looked like a dishcloth lol now I’m trying to figure out how to repair and blah blah
I’ve actually been watching you for….. 🤔 much longer than I’ve been knitting. I found the history and stories that you bring forth in your videos interesting. Thank you. I didn’t understand some of what you spoke of but the left decrease I’m glad to know atm for where I am.
Many Blessings Rox
Congratulations! Beautiful sweater and I love the colors. It looks brand new! Blessings
100 thousand subscribers is a terrific achievement for you and not hard to figure out why. I started knitting, taught by my Mother when I think I was 7, she was tired of me fiddling with her knitting and decided that I had some of my own, it might fix the situation. I knit until I went Nursing and there were other things like boys to occupy me so knitting was picked up again when I got married but we were in business and time was short so 37 years later I picked it up again and TH-cam was my Bible because some of the terms were new to me and that's where I met you and Thank goodness I did. You taught me most if the knitting stuff I know. I am so grateful for your knowledge and your teaching skills. Thank you again.
Sincerest congratulations to you on your TH-cam milestone. Just today, one of your technique videos helped me to resolve an issue (how to recapture a double stitch having ripped out the needle after the fact). You are very appreciated for your knowledge and clear teaching style. Kxo
I LOVE your 1980s sweater! My favorite colors!
Amazing milestone, well deserved, you have so much great content, look forward to the Q&A
Hello and congratulations! In the 90's I was in love with those shaker knit sweaters to wear with penny loafers or sweaters with those polo like collars. I wonder if brioche would give the shaker knit look.
How beautifully you’ve kept your pieces. I was so careless with my mother’s cable and houndstooth sweaters.
Congratulations on your milestone. That’s fantastic. You have been such a great source of information. I’ve saved so many of your videos showing how to do things. Have a safe trip. Thanks for taking your time to do these videos. 🧶
Amazing milestone! I must admit when I think of the 80's knitting I think of the Vogue Knitting magazines my mother had, mohair sweaters and the Cosby show with their fabulous knits. I come up blank with the 90's as I didn't really knit during that period.
The Norwegian Olympic ski sweaters were big in the 90s and might offer something new to learn with neck zippers and elastic draw cords in the hem. And congrats of all the subscribers. You deserve the recognition!
Congratulations on 100K! Well deserved, you're one of the channels I recommend to knitters when they ask about techniques. Thank you for bringing me so much joy too xx
You are so kind to share all of your knowledge. I am intrigued by a "90s" fair Isle sweater. Can't wait to see what you decide on.
Congratulations Roxanne! There is no such thing as coincidence , you were meant to find the sweater kit, how cool! Love it!
REALLY, REALLY enjoyed this video! Thank you and congratulations. 👍
Fascinating. I lived through these developments in knitting without fully appreciating them. Re your project, yes, fair isle color possibilities are exciting, and challenging! If you do this, I look forward to hearing about it.
Congratulations on 100k subscribers! Well deserved. For 90's sweaters to maybe mosaic knitting or a fairisle. Happy knitting!
Thank you, Roxanne. I think that in the 90s magazines like Knitters (and all xrx books etc), vogue Knitting, and Interweave Knits were the real go-to inspiration for me. I would pour over the pages again and again. There are lots of wonderful choices, and Knitters had theme issues so perhaps one of those.
Congratulations on your subscribers, and the gorgeous sweater which you showed in this episode. A work of art. ❤
Congratulations on your 100k subscriber milestone! 🥳 I have 2 questions: 1) how much goes into and how long does it take you to put together your very professional episodes? I really love how much I learn from you. Even if it doesn't speak directly to my knitting life in the moment, I try to squirrel away at least the fact that you talked about the topic, and then I will go back and find the episode when I need it. 😊 2) The self-assigned projects that you engage in are so fascinating! Do you turn these projects into books or published articles anywhere? I would love to read them if you do. If you don't, wow, I really think you should! There may be folks who don't do TH-cam who would love to hear about the things you've learned. Just my humble opinion. 😌 💜
Congratulations on reaching 100k.
I have learned so much from you!
Enjoyed your experiences of the past knits. I would love to knit that navy blue floral jacket. Thank you for sharing.
Congrats on your milestone, 100k!
I like your idea for your 1990’s sweater being traditional
Congratulations on having 100K subscribers! Your content is so encouraging and educational- a real blessing to all of us knitters! ❤
Congratulations!
I really enjoy watching your videos, they are always so informative :3
Hi Roxanne, I have this exact same sweater! I was 8 and I picked it out from a catalogue to have my mom's best friend, Marty Hibbard, knit us matching sweaters. I just wore it last week.
Congratulations for reaching such an impressive milestone! I looked through some of my 1990s books and see color work, usually with oversized garments: Knitting in America by Melanie Falick (which you showed) has quite a few; Alice Starmore's In the Hebrides (I've made Roscalie and Rona from this book- MNLynn on Ravelry to see), and The Art of Fair Isle Knitting by Ann Feitelson. There are some color work vests in these collections for an opportunity to avoid sleeves for time's sake. I don't live far from you if you'd like to borrow any. 😊
You are a fabulous teacher. I’ve learned so much from you! I am very proud to one of the 100,000!
Congratulations!! It is a pleasure to watch your videos.
Congratulations!
Congratulations Roxanne on reaching 100K subs. I always enjoy your video content and love learning how to improve my knitting. ❤ I always enjoy the discussion about the history and evolution of knitting. The intarsia work in your 1980's sweater is incredible 😍
Congratuls on reaching your 100k milestone. Your probs are so interesting. The Tidbits segment has lead me to many informative articles and documentaries. We don't have crafting programs as a matter of course on t.v. here in the u.k. Which is a shame. So podcasts like yours, fills that need. Thank you
Congratulations on 100k! You are the reason I joined TKGA and am working through the Master Hand Knitter program. I saw your interview on Fiberchats, sensed you were a kindred spirit regarding history and research, and have been following your channel since. I love the content and the techniques. Here's to the next 100K!
Congratulations on your new total. Your channel is always full of information and guidance. Thank you. Love your jacket made in the 80's. I have tried to remember what I was knitting in the 90's but can't; possibly because I was doing a lot of cross stitch and patchwork and quilting at that time. 🇬🇧
Again- another fascinating look at sweater construction. I started knitting as an adult in the 80’s and also had kids in the early 90’s. The one thing I do remember was novelty yarn. I made a blockish oversized sweater with big bobbles randomly placed. Again- probably designer sweaters- ie Ralph Lauren etc.. I do remember those men’s sweaters with multiple colors and vertical stripes -Coogi- Bill Cosby sweaters. Those were all the rage. It will be interesting to see what you find.
Oh, remember that beautiful Ralph Lauren pullover sweater--black with the huge pink cabbage roses? The actual sweater was over embroidered, but Richard, a colleague of mine, figured out the colourwork and knit them all in!!!
My husband's family was really into the Coogi sweaters when I met him in the early '90s. Those were all machine knit, and impossible to do by hand!
I was going to say that too. Novelty yarn was everywhere!
Congratulations on 100k you are a great teacher!
Great episode and congratulations! Your consistency and openness with your viewers is remarkable. I’d love to learn more about the partner program.
Congratulations! 🥂
I regret not keeping any of my 1980s sweaters when I moved! Great knitting. I also a child of the 80s knitter!
Congratulations!!
Congratulations on the milestone! I am a new subscriber and feel like I have learned so much watching your channel.
A question for your future video: I would love to know more about the equipment you use to film and if/how that has changed over the years of filming
Well done Roxanne, well deserved! Everything you post is so interesting ❤️
Congratulations on your milestone! I’d love to see a behind the scenes of your filming setup and how you edit your videos. And I love your idea for your 1990’s sweater, it feels like an appropriate closure to your project.
Congratulations on 100k, that is a milestone. Well done.
Congratulations on your new milestone 🏆🎇. I really love fair isle, however I'm fearful Incase I go to the expense of purchasing yarns and land up not completing the item
thanks for introducing the work of Sasha Kagan. when you did in may, I bought 2 books from her and now I just started a similar jacket as yours with acorns in stead of the poppies. congratulations on your 100K-subscriptions!
Elsebeth Lavold’s Viking Patterns for Knitting. Published late 90’s. She was creating continuous cables, celtic knots, closed rings with cables, etc. Fascinating if you love knitting cablea
Yup, I have two of her books, and I've already designed and knit a sweater using those motifs! (One of the reasons I'm thinking of *not* knitting something with cables!)
I found your comments about patterns from the 1980s and 1990s illuminating. I've dipped in and out of knitting over the years, and in doing have noticed the changes. I remember knitting a fair bit in the 1980s - Rowan's first knitting book, which came out in 1986, was a source of several projects (I still have it), but can't remember doing any knitting in the 1990s - I think I was mostly crocheting. However, amongst my motley collection of knitting books is one I picked up one from an opshop, published in 1997 by Lark Books for Classic Elite. I doubt if I'll ever knit anything from it, but the way the patterns are presented is fascinating & sometimes a little weird. If you can find it, you might find it interesting. I think Rowan's knitting books influenced other yarn companies in the way the patterns are presented as a story, and not as a set of separate isolated patterns. Also, I don't know whether they were the only ones to use schematics, but they were using them early on, something I appreciate. I've learned so much from you, but also find myself thinking about my own personal history as a knitter, and my family's history, being a New Zealander with roots in England, Scotland and Norway. Thank you for all the work you do for us knitters.
Congrats again, Roxanne! ❤
Congratulations on your milestone TH-cam subscriber #!!! Also, for different reasons, I was not knitting in the 1990’s. I knit a bit in the 1970’s as a child and in the 1980’s as a young career woman. I knit several sweaters that worked with my suits. I found my patterns usually from Bernal and Brunswick in the pattern leaflets sold in yarn stores. By 1990, I was married and was renovating a home with my husband, working lots of hours and did not find time for knitting. All I remember from the 1990’s was women going crazy purchasing what we now call the ugly Christmas sweaters: they would be either cardigans or pullovers, oversized always and with abundant decor from either/or intarsia and embroidery. I picked up my needles again in 2006 when I was getting married again and was clearing a closet to make room for my new husband’s stuff. I found the bucket of yarn, needles, patterns, etc. I agree. By 2006, the availability of patterns increased dramatically between published books and the internet. Anyway, I say knit a sweater for the 1990s that pleases you!
Congratulations, Roxanne!
Congratulations on your You Tube milestone! 🎉🎉
The stranded colorwork idea for your finale is splendid. I would suggest watching all of Hazel Tindall videos and interviews you can. She gives several excellent tips on color choices for Fair Isle motifs and how decisions on color order are made. I would also challenge you to investigate using a knitting belt to knit this sweater - not only to be traditional in the sweater's construction but as a flashback to how you learned and placed your needles initially.
And can a large garment like a sweater really be knitted on 3 to 5 long DPNs?
I love that sweater. What fabulous intarsia technique. Congrats on your subscribers!
As for the 90s, I think you should peruse the issues of Vogue Knitting on Ravelry for ideas. VK always has had the most accurate figer on the pulse of fashion, I think. There's some gorgeous stuff. The first few years of the 90s show they're still making a lot of drop shoulder garments. Later years in the decade started to move back toward set in sleeves. There are some interesting color work projects that are not fair isle but sort of indigenous looking. There's a beautiful intarsia project I just noted in one of the issues, but you probably won't want to do intarsia again. Leafy Springs Turtleneck, Fall 1991. #22. I hate intarsia, but I'm tempted to make it!
Yeah, I'm not so keen on doing another intarsia sweater! :-)
Congratulations on reaching 100K subscribers!
Thank you!
Congratulations on your subscriptions! That’s wonderful!
I keep coming back to 1930s knitting projects. They’re just so unconventional! Of course, that can cause me a lot of grief, but overall I relish the challenge.
My 1930s sweater was one of my favorites, from the ingenious construction standpoint!
Yes! Do a Fair Isle. I even have a pattern suggestion Roscalie Cardigan from Starmore's "In the Hebrides" in the 2nd colorway. This colorway is based on early Fair Isle's--indigo & madder. Although Campion is long discontinued there are cross references onlone to Spindrift & Jamieson's. I knit this back in the day & loved every minute of it. It's an eat-your-heart-out sweater which was worn to disintegration.
Congrats on reaching 100K
I hope this comment isn't a duplicate. Though I posted yesterday but can't find it.
Love your long tail cast on tip. Those bumps have been annoying me as well so pleased to see a solution.
Hi! I’d love to know more about how monetization works. Does watching the full ad help you make more money?
Thank you!!!
I vote Live Stream!
If not, I’d love to learn your process for video editing, and how you learned about video production and editing. It has been interesting to see how your videos have advanced tech wise.
Also do you write a script for each video, or do you go of a list of talking points, keeping videos more free flowing.
One hundred thousand. That's a lot of people, congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
In terms of construction, 90s sweaters (if my Google search is not failing me) tend to cardigans with deep V-necks, thin button bands, and drop shoulders. The colors seem to be more muted, in darker earth tones in low contrast (unlike the bright vivid 80s). Sweater *vests* also had a moment, especially in menswear.
Absolutely wonderful video as usual! You definitely deserve a nice shiny play button for all your hard work 😁
For your 90's project, why not look at the Shetland jumpers/ganseys of that time because they certainly would have used motifs passed down from folk but possibly not written, it might tie in nicely as you said. Shetland Wool Week started in the 00's I think.
Congratulations 100K
You’re amazing
My first thought on 90s sweater fashion would be a hoodie
Congrats on 100K!
I just remembered that some older patterns had the knitter pick up half a selvedge stitch on either piece for seaming vertically. I always thought that looked terrible but followed the directions as given.
Yeah, it didn't look great. It is possible to do a mattress stitch seam using half a stitch from each side, and as long as your stockinette selvedges are a decent tension, those seams can look pretty good, but that's not what those old patterns and books were recommending! They also instructed to pick up sts along the top of a sleeve using only half a stitch, which also was not a great look.
Congratulations! I love your channel. I am curious whether you have consider doing videos on other platforms or social media.
Which platforms did you have in mind?
I’m sure you know about the revival of Bohus Stickning knitting (there’s a new book out on the technique). And I seem to recall that you really don’t like top down circular yokes, but the colorwork produced is stunning. I’ve been too intimidated to try it so far. You could probably handle it.
I had a Bohus sweater in my Ravelry queue for years! (It might still be there!) I do have a book on Bohus in my knitting library, but it was published in the 2000s. (I want to use references that would have been published in the '80s or '90s.) You're right that while I love the appearance of those sweaters, I'm not too keen on all that fine gauge, solid stockinette knit top down, once the yoke is done!
Congratulations on 100k subscribers! Wow!! As to a sweater project for the 1990s, very selfishly I'd love to see your process for Fair Isle color choices and project choice. I'm lousy at making color combinations and am eager to learn. You once recommended an Alice Starmore book with a chapter about color combinations and I read it but I still stink. Anyway, I so enjoy listening to your self critiques as a learning tool. I learn every single time. Thank you for these videos!
🎉 congratulations on the 100k subscribers. 🎉
I have a magazine released in March 1990 and there is a picture of a Susan Duckworth design which is one of 8 eight patterns in the Rowan Liberty Book obtainable from Liberty or Rowan yarns stockists ( no online facilities in those days.!). It shows an oversized sweater with bunches of grapes .I think it looks very like your over sized intaria cardigan. Here in the UK , we were wearing tailored suits with padded shoulders or plain cotton sweaters, and although I have been a knitter for all my adult life, I don't remember doing much in the 90s. It was only in the early 2000s that I discovered Elizabeth Zimmerman's books and started looking at the craft with new eyes. I do have several patterns published in that decade and most have lace and cable patterns on the fronts and /or back and sleeves.
All of my books from the 1990s are books on baby sweaters! :-) I remember wearing a lot of oversized sweaters, as for the 1980s, but they were tunic length, and we wore stirrup pants (trousers) with them. I do remember when sweaters got shorter and closer fitting that I realized I liked wearing something that wasn't a giant potato sack!
Would a Kaffe Fasset sweater fit the bill? Very 90s. It is cool that he is still with us & working, tho his work has changed.
Kaffe Fassett would fit the bill if I didn't already have my Sasha Kagan oversized intarsia sweater from that era. (I also have a Kaffe Fassett vest that I knit about a year after I learned to knit. It's stored away in a trunk somewhere.)
Funny, i "saw" the Sasha Kagan sweater as a different animal! Whatever you choose, I'm sure you will pick the perfect thing.
I think the complexity of the colourwork for Shetland Fair Isle would please you. There are a lot of decisions to be made, yet a lot of "rules" to follow with many established colourways available. I have yet to do anything but read patterns. Ha ha ha.
And yes, patterns released for flat/pieced knitting when the original might have been quite different!--remember EZ's outrage at making the cover of a popular women's magazine with one of her yoked in-the-round sweaters, only to have them rewrite the instructions in the mag to change it to sewn pieces (thereby misrepresenting her AND missing the point)! Oh, the 'modern' past!
I think 1990's, I think Friends TV show. I googled it and found a buzzfeed page ranking the top 200 sweaters in Friends - with pictures of course 😁. Might be a useful place to look for some inspiration? ☺️ I love watching your videos and congrats on your 100K subscribers! 👏🎉😁
Congratulations on hitting 100k!🎉
PS: I should have said: the book is called Knitting today's classes: 65 beautiful sweaters from the studios of Classic Elite, by Kristin Nicholas (although there are patterns from several designers, including Norah Gaughan and Susan Mills, as well as Nicholas).
Thanks! Someone messaged me on Ravelry about this book, and I realized that our Textile Center Library would have quite a few books from the '90s, including that one, since the Knitters Guild was founded in the '80s, and started buying books at that time.
When sewing buttons on do you back your sewing with a small circle of felt for added security?
I don't. I sew them on with a thread shank. Sometimes I back the band with grosgrain ribbon, particularly if the buttons are heavy. Most buttons I use are very lightweight.
Awesome as always! Bohus Stickning revival?
Although I adore traditional color work, Bohus patterns make me utterly miserable. It’s clear to me that they were designed by non-knitters. The unfortunate women getting paid to knit these pieces, back in the day must have had OPINIONS about this.
Hi Roxanne! Congratulations on your milestone! I would love for you to check out a channel called Little Star. I watched one of their videos that came up in my feed and I was blown away. I thought I knew all of the popular darning techniques but apparently not because this video was amazing. All of the videos are darning videos and her bio says darning is her job and she lives in Hong Kong. The videos are all very short with no speaking. She uses this same method in all the videos using a latch hook and in some videos a tiny little double ended latch hook. She does meticulous work...even repairing holes in pattern. Anyway, I thought you'd be the perfect person to check this out and maybe share it with your audience and possibly break down how it works. I'm curious if you've ever seen this technique before. Thanks Roxanne.
100K, WOW. Good for you. One thing I've always wondered on the cast on. Once the cast on is done, unless the pattern says, how do you know if that first row is the right side row or the wrong side row? I'm thinking when making a sweater in pieces the left front and the right front when the cast on is done, it would seem like the first row on the left front would need to be the wrong side and the first row on the right front would need to be the right side in order to mirror the two fronts. I hope that made sense. I've always just muddled through, but it would be nice to know how to think about this.
The assumption is usually that Row 1 is the RS, unless the pattern states otherwise. Different CO methods produce different edges, and some will cause the fabric to produce 1 row more or 1 row less than other CO methods. In most cases, as long as the pieces all match up properly, being off 1 row more or less than "intended" isn't an issue.
Alice Staremore’s more recent books use traditional techniques, but beautiful range of designs- fairisle, Aran , fisherman’s gansey, ( the Eriskay gansey is a FEAST of textured motifs. ) Her book Fisherman’s Sweaters is worth a look, as well as the second incarnation of Tudor Roses, if you fancy a challenge!
I'm a 90s child, and the knitwear I remember my mother and older sister wearing back then was bulky, very wide, and often had big cartoon character on them. I had a tintin sweater that I loathed (I'm sensitive to wool but my mother didn't believe that was a thing) and my mum had one with Mickey Mouse.
Congrats on the 100k subs.
Congratulations on the 100,000 subscribers milestone. The color you are wearing today is lovely on you.
I have a couple questions, first, is the Nancy Zimmerman you talk about all the time the same Nancy Zimmerman who did the show, Love Of Quilting? That is the only woman I know and she was very important in the Quilting world. I just find it unlikely that in two different crafting areas there would be people with the same name.
Second, how does making money on You Tube work? Why do some videos play with no video interruptions, like yours thank you, while others seem to be interrupted every two to three minutes?
Elizabeth Zimmermann is the woman who wrote Knitting Without Tears, so...different person! She did have a TV show or two on PBS back in the day. :-)
@@RoxanneRichardson ok thanks. I didn't realize until your response that their first names are different, for some reason I thought they were the same. Guess I had a brain hiccup. 😁 thanks for ask the information you give us. I learn a lot.
Congratulations on reaching the 100K mark. I follow your videos diligently.
Re. your proposed video on mechanics of uploading YT Videos & running the channel - I am curious to know the geographic demographics of your subscribers/ viewers
Awesome
Where was this posted again?
I love your work. Beautiful
If you Google ‘knitting magazines 1990’ you will get the cover shots of many to look at which is my idea. If I might go off subject, I have a question about something I remember my mother having when I was little back in the ‘60’s-a sweater stretcher. It was made out of thin metal tubing in a sort of two piece square shape with horizontal arms that inserted into each other, had springs inside, and holes along their width that little nubs would pop through when you stretched it sideways much like you see on vacuum attachments. It had a hook on top to hang for drying and was a royal pain which is probably why I’ve never seen one since but have you ever seen this? I’d be really interested to know. Thanks.
I have seen photos of these, used by traditional Shetland knitters @Maureen Williford. (You have a very vivid visual memory!)
@@lisascenic Thanks. You’re the first person who’s recognized what I’m talking about.
As Lisa said, they are usually for Shetland sweaters. Shetland wool had (has?) a tendency to want to shrink down, apparently, so the stretcher maintained the sweater's size as it dried.
@@RoxanneRichardson thank you for responding to this. We lived in Montreal at the time and I’m thinking my father had probably brought it home from grandmother’s since mom wasn’t a knitter. Do you think a better made version of it would be a handy tool in today’s knitting culture?
@@maureenwilliford8985 The pictures I have seen have been made of wood.This link explains them more www.hazeltindall.com/jumper-boards
Look up Drops design patterns on ravelry, they have many patterns from the 90ies :)
PS. Fisherman’s Sweaters was published in 1993- perfect!
Great video thanks. And 1990s think:
*Sweatervest, perhaps oversized
*Hounds tooth or argyle or one color with 2nd color stip at v-neck and long cuff
* v-neck
Have fun and show us ...
Also I love cardigan (jacket)1989 I'd wear that today be fun to knit it wonder if there is a pattern around?
The pattern appeared in Sasha Kagan's Big and Little Sweaters. You'd have to get a used copy of the book.
I'm curious whether the designs from the 90s with lots of negative ease were really what the creator intended, or whether their design skills weren't advanced enough to execute what they had in mind. As the internet did in so many areas of our lives, it created something of a free-for-all, where anytime could publish a design. There wasn't necessarily any tech editing involved or consistency that comes with designing for a large company.
I remember reading that Elizabeth Zimmerman designed a seamless sweater and the publisher converted it to a flat knitted-in-pieces format because that was their standard (completely destroying the purpose of EZ's design).
One other thing: isn't your pleated Victorian sweater from the 1880's? Why isn't it part of your "century of knitting"?
It was the early 2000s where all that negative ease was used -- you could see it in the early days of Ravelry, around 2007-2008. People were choosing to knit things based on finished size, and *wanting* a large amount of negative ease, thinking hand knit sweaters would stretch as much as commercially manufactured stretchy tops.
@@RoxanneRichardson I wish hand knit socks would stretch as much as commercially knit socks. Would make it a lot easier to knit for other people. 😀
Love your hot pink polka-dot top. Color is very becomming.
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