In the pursuit of not being a perfectionist try to live with it. No one else will likely notice or care, so here’s an opportunity for you to develop peace with imperfection. Focus on recalling the joy of the journey you had in making it. 💗
Thank you! I'm going to wear it this weekend and see how it feels, love that in knitting we have opportunities to re-frame our mistakes and choices too! Thanks again!
Yes please give it a try. Sometimes I find myself focusing on a tiny detail, and after a while I realize it's not as big of a deal as I thought. I myself didn't notice the slant until you pointed it out. Even then, to me, looks lovely.
Your version of the Alpen Glow sweater and the Acorn sweater are inspired! You are definitely a designer and your sense of color and materials is amazing. I also love your down-to-earth way of speaking. I am a great fan. 😊
You're growing on me! Even though I didn't win that lovely give away! Ha! Ha! I just love the way you talk aout your knits and you are fast becoming my top favorite podcaster!
Love the colors of your Alpenglow! It reminds me of a beautiful sunset over the mountains in the desert. If you don't want to swatch your colors, you could take a photo of the colors next to each other and convert it to mono/black and white to see if there is enough contrast.
Your Lento sweater is beautiful! NOTHING wrong with it! Anyone that would notice that the stitches ‘might’ not be straight….don’t need to be in your life! So LOL …. You need to be kinder to yourself🤩🥰
Hi Lily! I found your podcast today and have shamelessly binged your episodes. I've really enjoyed listening to your share more about your projects, work and motivations for knitting. I was excited to see the finished Gr8 Gingham, it looks beautiful! I also live in the Bay Area and have yet to tried yarn from A Verb for Keeping Warm, and after seeing your FO's, I now need to try some. Take care - Maria
I love the sweater and wouldn't even notice it... It's beautiful. All your sweaters are just beautiful, and that yarn is gorgeous!!!! What a very lucky winner!!! very sweet and generous of you. love,hugs,prayers.
What serendipity, when I saw Andrea Mowry's new Sprite sweater I said to myself wouldn't that corrugated ribbing be a nice alternative to the neckline of the Alpenglow? Voila, you have already done it!
For the Lento, all you really need to do is unpick one round at the fold and then graft it back together moving over the number of stitches needed to make it lay better.
Hello! With the lento sweater, all is not lost! Assuming you knit top down and knit the cast on edge together with the visible edge, you don’t have to cut it all out! You can (carefully) make a cut just on the inside edge around one of the first rows you knit (close to the cast on edge), put the remaining collar stitches on hold (the part you didn’t cut), and rip out from where you did cut towards the cast on edge. Once you’ve ripped out the cast on edge, the slanting stitches will no longer be knit together with anything, and your collar won’t be folded as such. Then pick up the collar and knit the amount of rows you ripped out so that it folds correctly, cast off and knit or sew it down to recreate the folded collar. Sorry that wasn’t super clear, hopefully it helps a little and hopefully there is a video somewhere to demonstrate!
YES! I've since found a couple of tutorials and I realize I'm definitely not alone! :) I am gearing up for the surgery lol. Thank you for the kind words!
@@Lily_curatorial_knits good luck! For what it’s worth, I think it looks lovely as is, so if it never makes it onto the operating table it’ll still be beautiful 💕
BTW. Your blue Nutiden on your left in front of the wedding photo is so beautiful and matches your blue eyes, can’t wait to see what you make from those.
I knit a top down sweater that had a neck that I was unhappy with. I finally decided to take the risk and tediously rip it back and re-knit it. And I’m so glad that I did! Your Lento sweater is gorgeous! I appreciate your sharing the challenges along with the successes. We all have the same struggles. Also, I finally mastered armholes. I pick up more stitches than the designer calls for. I make sure that I am picking up extra stitches in the areas the holes occur. I immediately reduce them in the next row. It has resolved any issues with holes. Thanks for sharing your beautiful knits!
Thank you so much, Debbie! It's not ALWAYS sunshine and rainbows, but that's what makes the craft so satisfying too! We are just constantly learning. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
It's a delicate balance, still debating, but the comments seem slightly weighed towards keeping it just 2! Maybe I'll need to make two of them to test it out lol!
Hi I’m an Oakland resident also. I enjoy your color and sweater choices. I love your new Andrea sweater I want one just like it!!! it is absolutely gorgeous. Your color choices are superb. IMHO I think you should just do the Swedish wool sweater in two colors. Although anything you do will be beautiful. I especially love the creamy white top part. The burgundy is such a high contrast to the other soft colors. I think it might pull your eye down to the lower part of the sweater.IDK.But utilizing it throughout would be nice. I think just using two colors, or the soft 3. The tan and cream together are really beautiful.🦊 Your Creative modifications have turned out well. Good intuition.
Wow.....I feel extremely lucky and grateful, so much joy coming my way. Your Lento is gorgeous and I think you will know what to do after wearing it, good plan. I'm paralyzed with color choices for the Alpenglow so putting that pattern on pause, love your choices and the "extra" touches! The InspredbyEllenKal has some great creations and yours will join those ranks. To get an idea of contrast, I've taken a picture of the colors side by side in black and white frame to see if it was the contrast "level" I wanted, switching in unsound colorwork.....for me would be a no, just sayin. So glad to have found you and I will check out the new to you podcast as well. Thanks for hanging out!
So excited for you Susie!! What is "unsound" do you not like the red or the light brown? I am still waffling on the color work choices and looking for input LOL :)
@@Lily_curatorial_knits I should have checked my post before I hit post!! Suppose to read swatching in the round in colorwork….weird technology spelling oopsie!?!
Lily, I so enjoy you and your knitting journey. For the Acorn sweater I love the two colors cream and blue. Can’t wait to see what you choose! Love the Alpenglow ♥️..
Love your sweaters! Regarding the Nutiden yarn……did I miss where to purchase it? I live in Santa Cruz. But can easily drive up north to try knitting stores.
Hi Yolanda! Nutiden is made in Sweden and is available to order online. Follow the honor och eir account and I’ve linked their website in the description. For more info I highly recommend the “knitting a good yarn” podcast!
For the lento/fold over collars, I put markers every 20 stitches or so to remind myself to follow the stitch around the fold over neckband to make sure the live stitch is in line with where it’s being knit down. I hope that’s a helpful tip!
Hi!! I just wanted to say that your lento looks great! I would have never known the collar is slanted! it could be a situation where you're just too close to it if that makes sense, obviously do what is right for you and what you want but I don't think its a detail anyone but you will notice when you're wearing it! Maybe take a step back from it for a while so you can revisit it with fresh eyes before you do too much more?
I would do the Nutiden sweater in 2 colours just to make it more timeless and it will still be very interesting. :) And I wouldn't mind the Lento's collar issue, although I do understand if you end up fixing it. :) Thanks for the knitting company! I was knitting Sea haven sweater by JST knitwear designs while watching. :)
Such great points, Annika! I am still hemming and hawing on this color work! I'm super interested in the Sea Haven sweater, and what a delightful name!
Your Lento is stunning! I don’t know if this will help with the current collar issue, but something to try going forward for a fold over collar is to do a provisional cast on to a spare cable needle (it’s much easier than it sounds, I promise!), knit the collar and the knit it together. I used to have that same issue with fold over collars (or they would be too tight) and now I don’t anymore. Hope that helps. Love your knits and podcast!
Love your #inspiredbyellenKal-idea, it is going to be so beautiful! I'm so inspired! This is the best kal ever, I have so many ideas and projects I want to do... Looking forward to see more about your projects. Hope you will prioritize running too.
I just bought mohair today to go with my Lento sweater yarn. After seeing your stripes it’s going to seem so plain. Both my mohair and my primary fingering yarn are a Seaglass-ish color. It is very late I was going to look at the Lento pattern/the collar to see how it is constructed. i’m sure there is somebody out there who can help you with it if you need it. That would bug me too. And it might be a little bit uncomfortable. Reknitting it you might be able to in eliminate the elastic also, which I’m not a big fan of.
I like your ‘blonde’ wheat color ( shows off your hair color) and what you are saying is blue, looks gray on my screen, to me the burgundy is too deep of a color for your acorn sweater.
OK, I think you are 100% right for the burgundy! I just don't think that there would be enough contrast between the blue/grey and and the wheat color, oh decisions, decisions! hah!
From a fellow perfectionist just do it … fix it so that you wear that beauty! I know myself I would not wear it unless it is fixed. Sooner you do it the sooner you can move on.
Oh my gosh! Love love your messaging…. Burn the candle… wear the dress… right!?! I’m on the same boat also aka perfectionist in reality check mode 😂😂 so much fun to be honest. I love your #inspiredbyellen plans. Either one will be fantastic. Pick the one that makes your heart sing. I made a hat as a toe-dip #inspiredbyellen item while I think about what else might hatch. I made a Nordic hat with the peacock pattern in black and white with a multicolor dot in the middle of the colorwork feather (hope that makes sense). So four rows had the three colors to carry. I added a Latvian braid and am contemplating a multicolored tassel. Not sure yet, but giving in to play really makes this fun. Thanks again for chatting and sharing your process.
Oh wow, Julie, that sounds amazing, and now I think I MUST have a third color for the dot, I know just what you mean! Thank you, the inspiration continues!
In the pursuit of not being a perfectionist try to live with it. No one else will likely notice or care, so here’s an opportunity for you to develop peace with imperfection. Focus on recalling the joy of the journey you had in making it. 💗
Thank you! I'm going to wear it this weekend and see how it feels, love that in knitting we have opportunities to re-frame our mistakes and choices too! Thanks again!
Yes please give it a try. Sometimes I find myself focusing on a tiny detail, and after a while I realize it's not as big of a deal as I thought. I myself didn't notice the slant until you pointed it out. Even then, to me, looks lovely.
Your version of the Alpen Glow sweater and the Acorn sweater are inspired! You are definitely a designer and your sense of color and materials is amazing. I also love your down-to-earth way of speaking. I am a great fan. 😊
Oh thank you! I so appreciate your kind words! I love working with color and it's one of my favorite parts of the knitting process!
You're growing on me! Even though I didn't win that lovely give away! Ha! Ha! I just love the way you talk aout your knits and you are fast becoming my top favorite podcaster!
Oh thank you!
Love the colors of your Alpenglow! It reminds me of a beautiful sunset over the mountains in the desert. If you don't want to swatch your colors, you could take a photo of the colors next to each other and convert it to mono/black and white to see if there is enough contrast.
Thank you, Lauren! I think that "sunset" is my favorite color :)
No reason to be devastated, your lento pullover is lovely
Oh, thank you, Tanja! I'm going to wear it around this weekend and see how I feel a bit!
All the wonderful yarn goodness here. The “plate” yarn sounds difficult to get. I will enjoy viewing yours. Thank you so much for today!
Thank YOU, Cindy! I so appreciate your kind words. Check in on my Nutiden love ANY OLD TIME lol!
Gorgeous knits! I vote for just the 2 color option.
Thank you, Joyce! You aren’t alone! 🤗
Your Lento sweater is beautiful! NOTHING wrong with it! Anyone that would notice that the stitches ‘might’ not be straight….don’t need to be in your life! So LOL …. You need to be kinder to yourself🤩🥰
Oh thank you!
Your Alpenglow is going to be so beautiful! I love the yarn colours together! I totally agree with you about Alex, she is so much fun!
Huzzah! Alex fan club!
Hi Lily! I found your podcast today and have shamelessly binged your episodes. I've really enjoyed listening to your share more about your projects, work and motivations for knitting. I was excited to see the finished Gr8 Gingham, it looks beautiful! I also live in the Bay Area and have yet to tried yarn from A Verb for Keeping Warm, and after seeing your FO's, I now need to try some. Take care - Maria
Yay, thank you, Maria! I really appreciate your kind note!
I love the sweater and wouldn't even notice it... It's beautiful. All your sweaters are just beautiful, and that yarn is gorgeous!!!! What a very lucky winner!!! very sweet and generous of you. love,hugs,prayers.
Thank you so much, Barbara! I just love your spirit and really appreciate your thoughtful comment! We have such a lovely communknity!
❤❤❤ your alpenglow - collar is amazing
You are too kind, thank you Penny!
What serendipity, when I saw Andrea Mowry's new Sprite sweater I said to myself wouldn't that corrugated ribbing be a nice alternative to the neckline of the Alpenglow? Voila, you have already done it!
So happy to hear I'm not alone! Let's do it! :)
For the Lento, all you really need to do is unpick one round at the fold and then graft it back together moving over the number of stitches needed to make it lay better.
Thanks, Debi!
Consider just wearing it a few times, neckline looks fine from here and it’s a beautiful sweater love the color combo with the blue
Thanks so much, Heather!
Hello! With the lento sweater, all is not lost! Assuming you knit top down and knit the cast on edge together with the visible edge, you don’t have to cut it all out! You can (carefully) make a cut just on the inside edge around one of the first rows you knit (close to the cast on edge), put the remaining collar stitches on hold (the part you didn’t cut), and rip out from where you did cut towards the cast on edge. Once you’ve ripped out the cast on edge, the slanting stitches will no longer be knit together with anything, and your collar won’t be folded as such. Then pick up the collar and knit the amount of rows you ripped out so that it folds correctly, cast off and knit or sew it down to recreate the folded collar. Sorry that wasn’t super clear, hopefully it helps a little and hopefully there is a video somewhere to demonstrate!
YES! I've since found a couple of tutorials and I realize I'm definitely not alone! :) I am gearing up for the surgery lol. Thank you for the kind words!
@@Lily_curatorial_knits good luck! For what it’s worth, I think it looks lovely as is, so if it never makes it onto the operating table it’ll still be beautiful 💕
BTW. Your blue Nutiden on your left in front of the wedding photo is so beautiful and matches your blue eyes, can’t wait to see what you make from those.
Oh thank you! I'm planning a cardigan of some kind for that darker blue, suffusions more than welcome!
Your lento sweater looks great! I wouldn’t bother with “fixing” it.
Awwww, thanks, Stef! 🤗
I knit a top down sweater that had a neck that I was unhappy with. I finally decided to take the risk and tediously rip it back and re-knit it. And I’m so glad that I did! Your Lento sweater is gorgeous! I appreciate your sharing the challenges along with the successes. We all have the same struggles. Also, I finally mastered armholes. I pick up more stitches than the designer calls for. I make sure that I am picking up extra stitches in the areas the holes occur. I immediately reduce them in the next row. It has resolved any issues with holes. Thanks for sharing your beautiful knits!
Thank you so much, Debbie! It's not ALWAYS sunshine and rainbows, but that's what makes the craft so satisfying too! We are just constantly learning. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
I definitely vote for just the 2 colors. But then again I always prefer simplicity. I think it will be more elegant. But that’s just my opinion. 😊
It's a delicate balance, still debating, but the comments seem slightly weighed towards keeping it just 2! Maybe I'll need to make two of them to test it out lol!
For the inspired by Ellen kal I love the white, blue and red together! So wintery!!
Yes, feels a bit seasonal, in a good way :)
Your Gingham sweater...GoRg!!
Oh thank you, Paula! I love it too hehe!
I’m planning a lento using MCN and suri silk which feels “extra” to me too so I’ve been referring to it as my Luxury Lento 😂
Melinda, that is BRILLIANT! Love it :) Lux Lentos 4eva!!!
Hi I’m an Oakland resident also. I enjoy your color and sweater choices. I love your new Andrea sweater I want one just like it!!! it is absolutely gorgeous. Your color choices are superb. IMHO I think you should just do the Swedish wool sweater in two colors. Although anything you do will be beautiful. I especially love the creamy white top part. The burgundy is such a high contrast to the other soft colors. I think it might pull your eye down to the lower part of the sweater.IDK.But utilizing it throughout would be nice. I think just using two colors, or the soft 3. The tan and cream together are really beautiful.🦊
Your Creative modifications have turned out well. Good intuition.
Ohhhh the tan and the cream, what a great thought! Thank you so much for your kind words, really appreciate it! Love our East Bay knits crew!
Wow.....I feel extremely lucky and grateful, so much joy coming my way. Your Lento is gorgeous and I think you will know what to do after wearing it, good plan. I'm paralyzed with color choices for the Alpenglow so putting that pattern on pause, love your choices and the "extra" touches! The InspredbyEllenKal has some great creations and yours will join those ranks. To get an idea of contrast, I've taken a picture of the colors side by side in black and white frame to see if it was the contrast "level" I wanted, switching in unsound colorwork.....for me would be a no, just sayin. So glad to have found you and I will check out the new to you podcast as well. Thanks for hanging out!
So excited for you Susie!! What is "unsound" do you not like the red or the light brown? I am still waffling on the color work choices and looking for input LOL :)
@@Lily_curatorial_knits I should have checked my post before I hit post!! Suppose to read swatching in the round in colorwork….weird technology spelling oopsie!?!
Lily, I so enjoy you and your knitting journey. For the Acorn sweater I love the two colors cream and blue. Can’t wait to see what you choose! Love the Alpenglow ♥️..
Thank you so much!
Would love to see the sweater in just the blue and white. I think the red is pretty but may be too much with the pretty neckline
A wise and considered point, Barbara!
Love your sweaters! Regarding the Nutiden yarn……did I miss where to purchase it? I live in Santa Cruz. But can easily drive up north to try knitting stores.
Hi Yolanda! Nutiden is made in Sweden and is available to order online. Follow the honor och eir account and I’ve linked their website in the description. For more info I highly recommend the “knitting a good yarn” podcast!
For the lento/fold over collars, I put markers every 20 stitches or so to remind myself to follow the stitch around the fold over neckband to make sure the live stitch is in line with where it’s being knit down. I hope that’s a helpful tip!
Oh, Casey, that's a brilliant idea! Will do next time for sure. Thanks!
You don’t have to knit something to check contrast, I would just take a picture of the yarn and then make the picture black and white!
Yes! Love that!
Hi!! I just wanted to say that your lento looks great! I would have never known the collar is slanted! it could be a situation where you're just too close to it if that makes sense, obviously do what is right for you and what you want but I don't think its a detail anyone but you will notice when you're wearing it! Maybe take a step back from it for a while so you can revisit it with fresh eyes before you do too much more?
Thank you so much!! I'm going to try to wear it this weekend if it cools off and see how I feel. Really appreciate the feedback, Kaylie!
I would do the Nutiden sweater in 2 colours just to make it more timeless and it will still be very interesting. :) And I wouldn't mind the Lento's collar issue, although I do understand if you end up fixing it. :) Thanks for the knitting company! I was knitting Sea haven sweater by JST knitwear designs while watching. :)
Such great points, Annika! I am still hemming and hawing on this color work! I'm super interested in the Sea Haven sweater, and what a delightful name!
Your Lento is stunning! I don’t know if this will help with the current collar issue, but something to try going forward for a fold over collar is to do a provisional cast on to a spare cable needle (it’s much easier than it sounds, I promise!), knit the collar and the knit it together. I used to have that same issue with fold over collars (or they would be too tight) and now I don’t anymore. Hope that helps. Love your knits and podcast!
Thanks for the tip! Looking at it as I was editing I didn't hate it quite so much lol. Thank you also for the kind words, I love sharing!
Love your #inspiredbyellenKal-idea, it is going to be so beautiful! I'm so inspired! This is the best kal ever, I have so many ideas and projects I want to do... Looking forward to see more about your projects. Hope you will prioritize running too.
Yay! Thank you! It's all about balance! :)
You should call it the Alpen Glow-up!
Oh yes! I love it! lol
I just bought mohair today to go with my Lento sweater yarn. After seeing your stripes it’s going to seem so plain. Both my mohair and my primary fingering yarn are a Seaglass-ish color. It is very late I was going to look at the Lento pattern/the collar to see how it is constructed. i’m sure there is somebody out there who can help you with it if you need it. That would bug me too. And it might be a little bit uncomfortable. Reknitting it you might be able to in eliminate the elastic also, which I’m not a big fan of.
Great points! Thanks so much, and a seaglass colored lento sounds just stunning! Love it!
Hey Lily! Is all the blue in your Alpenglow LBA Helix in the winterfell color way? Thank you!
Yes, it is! Winterfell Helix held with Eyrie in Mohair :)
@@Lily_curatorial_knits thank you so much. Who makes the eyrie. I really love your color combo. And everything you make. :)
Hi, Is the eyrie mohair from LaBien Aimee? Thank you!
Yes! 🤗 It is and it’s gorgeous 💙 💚
Wow so nice 🌹🌹❤❤
Thanks 🤗 So appreciate you! Thanks for watching!
Next step, designing your own knitwear??
You're the sweetest, Lindsey! Probably not in the cards for me! I just love picking colors hehe!
@@Lily_curatorial_knits same 😊
Take your kids crayons and fill in the square of your pattern with your color choices and see if you like it, it will give you a pretty good idea.
Great tip, Sylvie!
I like your ‘blonde’ wheat color ( shows off your hair color) and what you are saying is blue, looks gray on my screen, to me the burgundy is too deep of a color for your acorn sweater.
OK, I think you are 100% right for the burgundy! I just don't think that there would be enough contrast between the blue/grey and and the wheat color, oh decisions, decisions! hah!
From a fellow perfectionist just do it … fix it so that you wear that beauty! I know myself I would not wear it unless it is fixed. Sooner you do it the sooner you can move on.
Such a good reminder! Thanks! 🤗
Oh my gosh! Love love your messaging…. Burn the candle… wear the dress… right!?! I’m on the same boat also aka perfectionist in reality check mode 😂😂 so much fun to be honest. I love your #inspiredbyellen plans. Either one will be fantastic. Pick the one that makes your heart sing. I made a hat as a toe-dip #inspiredbyellen item while I think about what else might hatch. I made a Nordic hat with the peacock pattern in black and white with a multicolor dot in the middle of the colorwork feather (hope that makes sense). So four rows had the three colors to carry. I added a Latvian braid and am contemplating a multicolored tassel. Not sure yet, but giving in to play really makes this fun. Thanks again for chatting and sharing your process.
Oh wow, Julie, that sounds amazing, and now I think I MUST have a third color for the dot, I know just what you mean! Thank you, the inspiration continues!