Hi Roxanne. Another great podcast! The way you are recreating this sweater is amazing! I look forward to watching the progression in the coming weeks! I can’t remember who it was that mentioned Cat Bordhi to me maybe 2 months ago. I had never heard of her. I can’t remember either what I was trying to figure out but I went to her website. There I saw her letter telling everyone she was dying. I was stunned and saddened. Here I was just hearing about her and now she was leaving us. Then I was watching your tutorial on Judy’s Magic Cast on and you mentioned how she figured out a way to do it so that all the stitches were correctly positioned on the needles. Then I did here that she had passed away. Very sad. I will read the tribute to her you’ve posted. On a more positive note, it’s great how your girls wanted those hats and they had a mom who could do it! Amazing! In my family it’s just my older sister and I so I can relate. I always thought that’s what my family would be especially since my first child was my daughter. Not so. I had 3 sons after that!! Thanks for another great podcast!
I had the great good fortune of attending two of Cat Bordhi's knitting retreats on San Juan Island, WA, and had enrolled in my third retreat in April, which was cancelled due to Cat's ill health. Her creative approach to knitting was the impetus for my attending my first retreat, but I came away with so much more than I expected, in surprising ways not related to knitting. I thought about knitting in general completely differently after I left that first retreat, something that went beyond technique, and it took me a while to process what had happened. It was moving to see how creative, joyful, playful, compassionate energy works, with knitting as the medium. She brought out the very best in people. Thousands of people have been touched by her gifts, and the world is a better place for it.
I think you are right, it's the cashmere and the age of the garment. When ever I have used a cashmere blend for socks, it doesn't have the structure other yarns have. Could you steek the button holes? I found a sweater recently that was commercially made and was wondering about recreating it. This was perfect timing. When I first learned to knit, I just made up sweaters for myself and family based on the numbers of stitches per inch and their and my measurements. It was the 80's so of course everything was oversized and dropped shouldered so it made it easy. Thanks for a great episode.
The buttonholes on the sweater are essentially steeked, by machine sewing the buttonhole, and then cutting it. I will be playing with options, I'm sure, and swatching, swatching, swatching.
I have 4 or 5 of Cat's books. Socks Soar on Two Circulars taught me 2 at a time toe up & I never looked back. Your reverse engineering is fascinating. I want to do the same to duplicate a cute handknit top I acquired recently. I always learn something useful from you. Thank you.
Interesting video as always. Thanks. Very timely for me, at the final stages of having recreated a cardigan. You really helped me to consolidate my own lessons learned as well as providing additional info. Is there a discussion thread for this in your Ravelry group?
Very interesting to see how to recreate a sweater. I probably wont ever do it I, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy watching the process and celebrating with those who accomplish such a task.....kinda like watching a football game. 😂😊😊
I'm so sorry to hear about Cat. I didn't know. I bought her pattern for the sweet tomato heel quite awhile ago and while I didn't care for the heel, I loved the toe up cast on for the sock and have used it many times when I want a toe up sock. It fits my foot so well with the rounded shape. I have a hard time when I do a cuff down sock finding a toe I like that doesn't produce ladders as I'm decreasing for the toe shape. The wedge shape doesn't work well for me and the toe wears through on the edges of my big toe. I'll look for her books. I'm glad you said something and showed some of her books. Thank you.
You might try the round toe (I have a video on that) and/or you might try using a reinforcing yarn/thread when you knit the toes. Or you could go down in needle size and work the toes at a firmer gauge.
Hi. You are amazing! I love the way you figured all those details out. I wish I lived in a cold climate so I could make lots of sweaters but I’m in Florida as are my family members. I knit a lot of socks, and lighter weight garments.
You could do gray buttons, with red yarn or thread to sew them on. I had a black peacoat, with red stitching like that on the buttonholes and button thread the cuffs were also stitched in red. It looked really nice.
Really looking forward to seeing how your reverse engineered sweater comes out. I may have gotten a little distracted and missed when you said whether or not you were going to put a red Cable in the front. I can imagine the one in the front meeting the one in the back, but that may not be what you have in mind.
There are a lot of things that I have thought, "Oh, I should do this!" and then I realize why it probably won't work. The way the front pockets interact with the cables make knitting any of them red problematic, so I am considering making the ribbing of the pocket tops red, but not any of the actual front cables.
My moth solution (I live in London where there are hordes of them...): put the yarn (or garment) in the freezer for up to a week (in a plastic bag). This kills the adult and every other age moth. Then put the wool in a dust mite proof pillow slip. These are 100% cotton and have a zipper. Moths cannot get through the fabric, which is meant to keep dust mites out -- and they are much tinier than moths. Being 100% cotton means that the garment or wool inside the pillow slip can breathe (as opposed to being sealed up in a plastic bag ....). These pillow slips can hold a lot of yarn. I even store wool carpets in the dust mite proof duvet covers. Cottonfresh® Organic Dust Mite Proof Pillow Barrier Cover They are not cheap, but my sweaters, hats, mittens, and wool are all protected in these pillow slips, and I can breathe easy!
I love the idea of adding an offset cable in a different color to the back. Since the front has those pockets, what about doing the brioche button band in red instead of one of the front cables?
Love this lesson on knitting reconfiguring! I've a summer lace top in mind, that I've sadly outgrown, that I'd love to recreate. Maybe something to work on over the long winter! Thanks for your technical wisdom on how it might happen!
Have you thought of doing just the crossing stitches in the red. Not everyone but you could pick and chose. Great sweater and so interesting to see how you come up with the new sweater from the old one! Thanks
That can work well when you have a rope cable with half the sts crossing the other half. In that case, the red sts would cross the gray the first time, then the gray would cross the red, etc. This cable is not structured like that.
Thanks, Roxanne, for explaining this process. I've often wondered if it could be done and if it could, how would it look. Your explanation was very clear. Some day I might try that. ( But not today :)
I used to keep my yarns in an armoire but after 3 years moths got into them and ate through a few even though it was all clean/unused yarn. 😭 I took care of the yarn to kill larvae and eggs, but now I keep them in sealed ziplock bags, within clear plastic totes. I have a HUGE stash so I’d rather have a less “pretty” or easily accessible storage solution than risk dealing with moths and having to treat all the yarn again.
Wonderful video! I often recreated favorite garments for my clients when I was sewing for a living, but it was very different and easier. I have a couple of sweaters I would like to replicate that were purchased. Now I have a starting point to recreate my favorites. thank you agai....
Love the idea of remaking a well loved jumper, I have also done this your way. Are you going to undo the original and reuse the cashmere? You could dye it and make something new.
Could you explain in your next casual Friday the term "sweaters worth of yarn"? Is it based on weight, yardage? I know each person will be a bit different based on their size, but I recently did a raglan sweater without a pattern where I used a calculator to purchase my yarn and I have about 2 3/4 hanks left after knitting my sweater. I do feel I could have knit the sweater a bit longer, but I still would have only needed 7 hanks, whereas the calculator estimated 9.
Funny, I just asked my knitting group about 2 hours ago if anyone ever recreated a sweater they had at home. I have one I want to knit so this was very helpful and interesting
Roxanne, With re: to the difference of "texture" of the cables between the cashmere Aran and worsted yarns, could it be because the Aran yarn is 'braided' vs. worsted is twisted??? You know, similar to 2-ply yarn for lace projects in order for the patterning to lie flat(?). 😳 Just wondering if that's part of the reason. Great episode__I enjoy learning how you work out the logistics of re-engineering projects from ready-made items, it's a great skill to have! 💖🙌🙌🙌😺
I really don't know. I have some chainette yarn that I'm going to experiment with to see what happens when I knit one of these cables using that yarn. My limited experience with chainette yarn has shown that it is nice and round and is great for cables. I'm going to have to take a closer look at the cabled sweater I knit a couple of years ago using chainette yarn and see what those cables look like today.
Roxy, this is a classic video. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I have two sweaters that were commercially made that I want to reverse engineer. Question about your sweater: might you consider mirror image cables so that the front shoulder areas where the vee neck begins, etc. are more symmetrical? Here is my opinion on the red cable placement: the middle cable on the sleeves could be red, and on the front and back, the cable closest to the armscye so that there would be a red "stripe" effect going over the shoulder at the top of the sleeve. If you are going to also make the pocket ribbing red, might you make the neck band red as well? Or, would that be too kitchy? I, too, prefer a set in sleeve because the drop sleeve adds bulk where I do not need it, lol. Once again, thank you so much for this instructional video. I am very much in-line with how you did this, and your video not only broadened my thinking but also my analysis methodology.
I had originally considered mirroring the cables on the front, because that is something I am accustomed to doing, but the back of the sweater is five cables, all alike, and no good way to mirror them: what do you do about the center cable? As for the cables closest to the sleeve -- the pocket ends 3 sts short of spanning the entire cable. Every change creates a cascade of additional problems! But it's a lot of fun to think about, isn't it?
@@RoxanneRichardson Yes, it is so much fun. Perhaps you could use a different cable design for the center back cable and use the new cable design for the center cable in the sleeve, too, for "continuity," lol. I am also going to mimic a Baja hoodie that I own because it is on its last legs. I thought that I would crochet it sideways as one piece, sleeves and all. Fun!
Have you ever frogged a commercial sweater and reclaimed the yarn? I have a sweater that's ancient but I love the feel and color of the yarn and was thinking about frogging it, cleaning the yarn and using it in a different pattern. It's easy to frog something hand-knit (I've been losing weight so I've amassing experience at frogging and reknitting my own past projects), but I'm wondering how hard it might be to frog something machine knit.
I have not, but I bought some cashmere yarn a few years ago from a woman who would take apart fine-gauge 2-ply cashmere sweaters, then cable ply several of the 2-ply strands together, and then overdye the resulting yarn. I loved that yarn. The main trick to frogging commercial sweaters is to make sure they weren't constructed using cut-and-sew techniques.
omg I had sent Cat Bordhi an email in April because I was trying to knit one of her sock patterns uaing ADDI flexi flips and wanted suggestions on how to situate the stitches. She commented that she had never used them. I had no idea she was ill, I am so sorry.
Once you've figured out how to "reverse" and knit this, do you think you could then go on a publish it as your own pattern? I think it is a lovely design.
Got to the end and saw you answered this question. That being said, I can't wait to see how this is resolved. I've been thinking about doing this with a child's sweater that was purchased a few years ago. It has a very interesting design.
To some extent, the big fun is in just taking a close look at how things were done, and seeing what techniques are done differently in commercial knitwear vs hand knits, and then learning from that.
I did not have a moth problem for years. But suddenly a moth problem appeared here ... with some hanks of wool being delivered here, which I ordered through internet. When making balls out of them, I remarked some weak spots ... and then in the next one ... moth larvae! Immediately I put all of that wool in my freezer, to kill any moth larva that might be there. Later on I found out that some of these hanks (of pure natural wool) were fairly old, the one I saw the moth larvae in was from 2019. It had been in storage for over a year. As far as I know moths like to lay their eggs on wool in quiet places, where no people are around. I warned the seller of this wool to control all of her wools and put them in a freezer too if possible. One of the things I do to prevent moths and other bugs in my house is: lavender. Each year when the lavender blooms, I cut the flowers and hang small bunches of lavender flowers all over the house. And of course I have some of those special cedar wood blocks too.
Just a heads up to everyone, crickets and cockroaches can do just as much damage as moths when it comes to clothing/yarn, but typically only if there's already an infestation.
Love the sweater & video. You said the sweater was knit with Aran weight yarn & you were going to use Worsted weight yarn. You also said you were going to have to use more stitches...... I thought Aran wt. was smaller than worsted weight. I thought Aran wt. was light worsted weight and you would need less stitches with the worsted weight. Help!
Cobweb, lace weight, fingering, sport, DK, worsted, Aran, bulky, super bulky the progression. Aran is sometimes called heavy worsted weight; DK is sometimes called light worsted weight. You can learn more about yarn weight categories here: www.craftyarncouncil.com/standards/yarn-weight-system
That is an enormous topic that can be relatively simple to horrendously complex, depending on what you mean by flipping the pattern. Bottom up doesn't necessarily mean flat and seamed; top down doesn't necessarily mean in the round and seamless. Sleeve/shoulder construction can be straightforward when flipped, or incredibly complex. (Are you imagining flipping a raglan sweater, for example, or one with set-in sleeves?) Conversion of stitch patterns is another complication. Some patterns are difficult to achieve when worked in the opposite direction. Stitch patterns that are knit flat also have conversions necessary to work in the round, unless they are charted.
Roxanne Richardson I’ve actually successfully done this once on a circular yoke pullover. Luckily, the bind off numbers were provided in the pattern. So I started there and increased when it said to decrease or vice versa. It worked like a charm. It had horizontal cables on the yoke an across the bottom and I managed to pull those off as well. The trick was to keep close track of right vs wrong side. Other than that, I did fine. The rest of the sweater was in Stockinette so that was really easy. I’ve tried other patterns though and have not been so lucky. I just wondered if you had done this with any success and if you had any tips. I absolutely abhor knitting bottom up. I love the advantage of being able to try on a sweater as I go and then adjust if need be.
Do you think so? The last crossings occur before the V neck begins, so it's all stockinette that the neck decreases are eating into. If I were to continue the crossings in some way as the cable width decreased, that would create an issue, but as it is, I'm not so sure. Still contemplating!
I was thinking the same thing and wanted to ask Rox if she would consider making the two fronts symetrical... I would... but again - everyone is different.
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Hi Roxanne. Another great podcast! The way you are recreating this sweater is amazing! I look forward to watching the progression in the coming weeks! I can’t remember who it was that mentioned Cat Bordhi to me maybe 2 months ago. I had never heard of her. I can’t remember either what I was trying to figure out but I went to her website. There I saw her letter telling everyone she was dying. I was stunned and saddened. Here I was just hearing about her and now she was leaving us. Then I was watching your tutorial on Judy’s Magic Cast on and you mentioned how she figured out a way to do it so that all the stitches were correctly positioned on the needles. Then I did here that she had passed away. Very sad. I will read the tribute to her you’ve posted. On a more positive note, it’s great how your girls wanted those hats and they had a mom who could do it! Amazing! In my family it’s just my older sister and I so I can relate. I always thought that’s what my family would be especially since my first child was my daughter. Not so. I had 3 sons after that!! Thanks for another great podcast!
You made my inner math nerd explode with this video!!! I love it!!!! I can't wait to reverse engineer my hubbys vest now.
I had the great good fortune of attending two of Cat Bordhi's knitting retreats on San Juan Island, WA, and had enrolled in my third retreat in April, which was cancelled due to Cat's ill health. Her creative approach to knitting was the impetus for my attending my first retreat, but I came away with so much more than I expected, in surprising ways not related to knitting. I thought about knitting in general completely differently after I left that first retreat, something that went beyond technique, and it took me a while to process what had happened. It was moving to see how creative, joyful, playful, compassionate energy works, with knitting as the medium. She brought out the very best in people. Thousands of people have been touched by her gifts, and the world is a better place for it.
Hi there
I think you are right, it's the cashmere and the age of the garment. When ever I have used a cashmere blend for socks, it doesn't have the structure other yarns have. Could you steek the button holes? I found a sweater recently that was commercially made and was wondering about recreating it. This was perfect timing. When I first learned to knit, I just made up sweaters for myself and family based on the numbers of stitches per inch and their and my measurements. It was the 80's so of course everything was oversized and dropped shouldered so it made it easy. Thanks for a great episode.
The buttonholes on the sweater are essentially steeked, by machine sewing the buttonhole, and then cutting it. I will be playing with options, I'm sure, and swatching, swatching, swatching.
I have 4 or 5 of Cat's books. Socks Soar on Two Circulars taught me 2 at a time toe up & I never looked back. Your reverse engineering is fascinating. I want to do the same to duplicate a cute handknit top I acquired recently. I always learn something useful from you. Thank you.
Interesting video as always. Thanks. Very timely for me, at the final stages of having recreated a cardigan. You really helped me to consolidate my own lessons learned as well as providing additional info. Is there a discussion thread for this in your Ravelry group?
Very interesting to see how to recreate a sweater. I probably wont ever do it I, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy watching the process and celebrating with those who accomplish such a task.....kinda like watching a football game. 😂😊😊
I'm so sorry to hear about Cat. I didn't know. I bought her pattern for the sweet tomato heel quite awhile ago and while I didn't care for the heel, I loved the toe up cast on for the sock and have used it many times when I want a toe up sock. It fits my foot so well with the rounded shape. I have a hard time when I do a cuff down sock finding a toe I like that doesn't produce ladders as I'm decreasing for the toe shape. The wedge shape doesn't work well for me and the toe wears through on the edges of my big toe. I'll look for her books. I'm glad you said something and showed some of her books. Thank you.
You might try the round toe (I have a video on that) and/or you might try using a reinforcing yarn/thread when you knit the toes. Or you could go down in needle size and work the toes at a firmer gauge.
Hi. You are amazing! I love the way you figured all those details out. I wish I lived in a cold climate so I could make lots of sweaters but I’m in Florida as are my family members. I knit a lot of socks, and lighter weight garments.
You could do gray buttons, with red yarn or thread to sew them on. I had a black peacoat, with red stitching like that on the buttonholes and button thread the cuffs were also stitched in red. It looked really nice.
Ah, great idea. Thanks!
Really looking forward to seeing how your reverse engineered sweater comes out. I may have gotten a little distracted and missed when you said whether or not you were going to put a red Cable in the front. I can imagine the one in the front meeting the one in the back, but that may not be what you have in mind.
There are a lot of things that I have thought, "Oh, I should do this!" and then I realize why it probably won't work. The way the front pockets interact with the cables make knitting any of them red problematic, so I am considering making the ribbing of the pocket tops red, but not any of the actual front cables.
My moth solution (I live in London where there are hordes of them...): put the yarn (or garment) in the freezer for up to a week (in a plastic bag). This kills the adult and every other age moth. Then put the wool in a dust mite proof pillow slip. These are 100% cotton and have a zipper. Moths cannot get through the fabric, which is meant to keep dust mites out -- and they are much tinier than moths. Being 100% cotton means that the garment or wool inside the pillow slip can breathe (as opposed to being sealed up in a plastic bag ....). These pillow slips can hold a lot of yarn. I even store wool carpets in the dust mite proof duvet covers. Cottonfresh® Organic Dust Mite Proof Pillow Barrier Cover They are not cheap, but my sweaters, hats, mittens, and wool are all protected in these pillow slips, and I can breathe easy!
You are so diplomatic, Roxanne. 😉
You can still publish the pattern in one size. It would be a great starting point for anyone who wanted it. Thanks for such an informative tutorial!
This was amazing 😍. It was fascinating watching you decipher the sweater. Hope to see you get along with it.
That was exactly what I needed Roxanne. Thanks a lot for making this video and your contemplations about the cardigan. It's so very helpfull.
I love the idea of adding an offset cable in a different color to the back. Since the front has those pockets, what about doing the brioche button band in red instead of one of the front cables?
Love this lesson on knitting reconfiguring! I've a summer lace top in mind, that I've sadly outgrown, that I'd love to recreate. Maybe something to work on over the long winter! Thanks for your technical wisdom on how it might happen!
You are so welcome!
Thanks so much for documenting your process. So interesting!!🥰
Have you thought of doing just the crossing stitches in the red. Not everyone but you could pick and chose. Great sweater and so interesting to see how you come up with the new sweater from the old one! Thanks
That can work well when you have a rope cable with half the sts crossing the other half. In that case, the red sts would cross the gray the first time, then the gray would cross the red, etc. This cable is not structured like that.
Thanks, Roxanne, for explaining this process. I've often wondered if it could be done and if it could, how would it look. Your explanation was very clear. Some day I might try that. ( But not today :)
Great as usual. Very interesting to hear the process. Looking forward to seeing the journey of this sweater. Thanks for sharing 😁.
Thanks for watching!
I LOVED this episode. It was so interesting to me. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I used to keep my yarns in an armoire but after 3 years moths got into them and ate through a few even though it was all clean/unused yarn. 😭 I took care of the yarn to kill larvae and eggs, but now I keep them in sealed ziplock bags, within clear plastic totes. I have a HUGE stash so I’d rather have a less “pretty” or easily accessible storage solution than risk dealing with moths and having to treat all the yarn again.
Wonderful video! I often recreated favorite garments for my clients when I was sewing for a living, but it was very different and easier. I have a couple of sweaters I would like to replicate that were purchased. Now I have a starting point to recreate my favorites. thank you agai....
You are so welcome!
Awesome video. Thanks🤙🏻
Love the idea of remaking a well loved jumper, I have also done this your way. Are you going to undo the original and reuse the cashmere? You could dye it and make something new.
Clutter bug on TH-cam talks about different styles of how we organize. I found that vacuuming yarn and then vacuum sealing yarn helps with moths
Could you explain in your next casual Friday the term "sweaters worth of yarn"? Is it based on weight, yardage? I know each person will be a bit different based on their size, but I recently did a raglan sweater without a pattern where I used a calculator to purchase my yarn and I have about 2 3/4 hanks left after knitting my sweater. I do feel I could have knit the sweater a bit longer, but I still would have only needed 7 hanks, whereas the calculator estimated 9.
Funny, I just asked my knitting group about 2 hours ago if anyone ever recreated a sweater they had at home. I have one I want to knit so this was very helpful and interesting
Hi there
Roxanne,
With re: to the difference of "texture" of the cables between the cashmere Aran and worsted yarns, could it be because the Aran yarn is 'braided' vs. worsted is twisted??? You know, similar to 2-ply yarn for lace projects in order for the patterning to lie flat(?). 😳
Just wondering if that's part of the reason.
Great episode__I enjoy learning how you work out the logistics of re-engineering projects from ready-made items, it's a great skill to have!
💖🙌🙌🙌😺
I really don't know. I have some chainette yarn that I'm going to experiment with to see what happens when I knit one of these cables using that yarn. My limited experience with chainette yarn has shown that it is nice and round and is great for cables. I'm going to have to take a closer look at the cabled sweater I knit a couple of years ago using chainette yarn and see what those cables look like today.
Roxy, this is a classic video. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I have two sweaters that were commercially made that I want to reverse engineer. Question about your sweater: might you consider mirror image cables so that the front shoulder areas where the vee neck begins, etc. are more symmetrical? Here is my opinion on the red cable placement: the middle cable on the sleeves could be red, and on the front and back, the cable closest to the armscye so that there would be a red "stripe" effect going over the shoulder at the top of the sleeve. If you are going to also make the pocket ribbing red, might you make the neck band red as well? Or, would that be too kitchy? I, too, prefer a set in sleeve because the drop sleeve adds bulk where I do not need it, lol. Once again, thank you so much for this instructional video. I am very much in-line with how you did this, and your video not only broadened my thinking but also my analysis methodology.
I had originally considered mirroring the cables on the front, because that is something I am accustomed to doing, but the back of the sweater is five cables, all alike, and no good way to mirror them: what do you do about the center cable? As for the cables closest to the sleeve -- the pocket ends 3 sts short of spanning the entire cable. Every change creates a cascade of additional problems! But it's a lot of fun to think about, isn't it?
@@RoxanneRichardson Yes, it is so much fun. Perhaps you could use a different cable design for the center back cable and use the new cable design for the center cable in the sleeve, too, for "continuity," lol. I am also going to mimic a Baja hoodie that I own because it is on its last legs. I thought that I would crochet it sideways as one piece, sleeves and all. Fun!
This is going to be a beautiful sweater! I love (scarlet) red and gray together...but I'm an Ohio State grad. ;)
Ha! Go Blue! (Michigan grad here)
@@RoxanneRichardson I know, you mentioned it a few videos back, LOL! :)
Have you ever frogged a commercial sweater and reclaimed the yarn? I have a sweater that's ancient but I love the feel and color of the yarn and was thinking about frogging it, cleaning the yarn and using it in a different pattern. It's easy to frog something hand-knit (I've been losing weight so I've amassing experience at frogging and reknitting my own past projects), but I'm wondering how hard it might be to frog something machine knit.
I have not, but I bought some cashmere yarn a few years ago from a woman who would take apart fine-gauge 2-ply cashmere sweaters, then cable ply several of the 2-ply strands together, and then overdye the resulting yarn. I loved that yarn. The main trick to frogging commercial sweaters is to make sure they weren't constructed using cut-and-sew techniques.
@@RoxanneRichardson I'm impressed!
omg I had sent Cat Bordhi an email in April because I was trying to knit one of her sock patterns uaing ADDI flexi flips and wanted suggestions on how to situate the stitches. She commented that she had never used them. I had no idea she was ill, I am so sorry.
Once you've figured out how to "reverse" and knit this, do you think you could then go on a publish it as your own pattern? I think it is a lovely design.
Got to the end and saw you answered this question. That being said, I can't wait to see how this is resolved. I've been thinking about doing this with a child's sweater that was purchased a few years ago. It has a very interesting design.
To some extent, the big fun is in just taking a close look at how things were done, and seeing what techniques are done differently in commercial knitwear vs hand knits, and then learning from that.
I did not have a moth problem for years. But suddenly a moth problem appeared here ... with some hanks of wool being delivered here, which I ordered through internet. When making balls out of them, I remarked some weak spots ... and then in the next one ... moth larvae! Immediately I put all of that wool in my freezer, to kill any moth larva that might be there.
Later on I found out that some of these hanks (of pure natural wool) were fairly old, the one I saw the moth larvae in was from 2019. It had been in storage for over a year. As far as I know moths like to lay their eggs on wool in quiet places, where no people are around.
I warned the seller of this wool to control all of her wools and put them in a freezer too if possible.
One of the things I do to prevent moths and other bugs in my house is: lavender. Each year when the lavender blooms, I cut the flowers and hang small bunches of lavender flowers all over the house. And of course I have some of those special cedar wood blocks too.
Hi there
Just a heads up to everyone, crickets and cockroaches can do just as much damage as moths when it comes to clothing/yarn, but typically only if there's already an infestation.
Don't know what happened in this video, Roxanne, but I only have sound in my left earphone. Your other videos work just fine.
Hmm. I get sound from both sides. Not sure what's happening!
Shocking news about Cat! 😭
Love the sweater & video. You said the sweater was knit with Aran weight yarn & you were going to use Worsted weight yarn. You also said you were going to have to use more stitches...... I thought Aran wt. was smaller than worsted weight. I thought Aran wt. was light worsted weight and you would need less stitches with the worsted weight. Help!
Cobweb, lace weight, fingering, sport, DK, worsted, Aran, bulky, super bulky the progression. Aran is sometimes called heavy worsted weight; DK is sometimes called light worsted weight. You can learn more about yarn weight categories here: www.craftyarncouncil.com/standards/yarn-weight-system
I would have just removed the sleeves and knit in a similar or even contrasting yarn in order to save a favorite sweater.
Can you do a tutorial on flipping a bottom up pattern to a top down pattern?
I should have specified in my previous post, I am talking about a bottom up sweater to a top down sweater.
That is an enormous topic that can be relatively simple to horrendously complex, depending on what you mean by flipping the pattern. Bottom up doesn't necessarily mean flat and seamed; top down doesn't necessarily mean in the round and seamless. Sleeve/shoulder construction can be straightforward when flipped, or incredibly complex. (Are you imagining flipping a raglan sweater, for example, or one with set-in sleeves?) Conversion of stitch patterns is another complication. Some patterns are difficult to achieve when worked in the opposite direction. Stitch patterns that are knit flat also have conversions necessary to work in the round, unless they are charted.
Roxanne Richardson I’ve actually successfully done this once on a circular yoke pullover. Luckily, the bind off numbers were provided in the pattern. So I started there and increased when it said to decrease or vice versa. It worked like a charm. It had horizontal cables on the yoke an across the bottom and I managed to pull those off as well. The trick was to keep close track of right vs wrong side. Other than that, I did fine. The rest of the sweater was in Stockinette so that was really easy. I’ve tried other patterns though and have not been so lucky. I just wondered if you had done this with any success and if you had any tips. I absolutely abhor knitting bottom up. I love the advantage of being able to try on a sweater as I go and then adjust if need be.
Thanks for your speedy response by the way!
What would me drive bonkers is, that with the cables all leaning to one side, it looks very different on both sides of the V-neck...
Do you think so? The last crossings occur before the V neck begins, so it's all stockinette that the neck decreases are eating into. If I were to continue the crossings in some way as the cable width decreased, that would create an issue, but as it is, I'm not so sure. Still contemplating!
@@RoxanneRichardson I probably wouldn't have bothered on the storebought version, but when I'm re-inventing, I tend to overthink things ;)
I was thinking the same thing and wanted to ask Rox if she would consider making the two fronts symetrical... I would... but again - everyone is different.
115 stitches plus 2 for selvage =117/5 stitches per inch = 23.4 inches, not 20.5
The cable gauge is not the same as the stockinette gauge.
Moths prefer dark, undisturbed areas along with “dirty” wool.
Жаль 😭😭😭 субтитров нет по- руссски.
Интересно было бы послушать о чём говорят..
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