Thank you for the descriptive technique aspects of your wonderful podcasts. I'm so pleased that I've discovered you. I've been knitting for 70 plus years but one is never too old to learn something new.
So often it happens that I start watching one of your Casual Friday videos and realize that it's so chuck full of information that I'm going to have to watch it again (and maybe even, again). This is definitely one of those. Thanks so much for all the effort you put in and for sharing your enthusiasm for all your topics!
I really like the sweater pattern you chose-my kind of styling and features. Loved the way you figured out the pocket construction and your explanation of how to do it your way. Can't wait to see it in action.
Also re vintage patterns, I have been buying them in BULK due to a local craft store closing after almost 40 years. I plan to scan things and upload them digitally for the public, copyright permitting. The variety is overwhelming, and I am super scared I'll miss something good, especially because books are hard to find here in New Zealand, and expensive to buy from overseas. I am saving up currently for a stocking/sock knitting machine, and wow. This is all soooo expensive! Recently I found a few cheap bone tatting shuttles, however, so I am really enjoying figuring out all this tatting stuff right now, but I'd love to find a vintage stocking pattern some time!
@@RoxanneRichardson yep, sounds about right. That said, you need only change 5 - 10% to make different, which is something like gauge + yarn, so hopefully it'll be ok!
Every sentence you utter about your century of sweaters project is fascinating. Thanks again for sharing the details of your process, Roxanne. I also am super interested in your reverse engineering of the favourite sweater with the hole in the elbow and look forward to following along as you get going with it. 🧶
Another enthralling episode. I really appreciated hat experiment and the paper model you created to work out the pocket construction. Creating quick models is a great approach to problem solving and learning for projects of all types.
“An idea, an experiment “ - it is interesting to learn about your hands on process in this segment. As an aside, I liked the larger stitches row- and imagine that some would consider it a design element or interesting detail in contrast to the “plain” stockinette- Beauty and interest live in the eye of the beholder 😀
I was thinking about textile phrases in Spanish and the only one that comes to mind is "no da puntada sin hilo" which is a sewing phrase that translates to "[someone] doesn't sew a single stich without thread" (I don't know if sewing a stitch is correct in English, but I'm sure you get the point). It means that the person never does anything without a reason, most of the times it's an ulterior motive.
Hi! The explanation I heard about "walking in wool stockings" was that there was less risk of slipping on icy roads if you wore wool stockings over your shoes. Engineering Knits has a video about the phenomena.
Saw a cute vintage top pattern on Ebay called “1940's Wartime Spencer Thermal Vests Knitting Pattern Copy.” It isn’t anything like the description, so just check it out. It is something that could easily be worn today.
WOOLLY SAYING: my dad was a “scouser” (from Liverpool, Great Britain). In the scouse vernacular a “wool” or a “woolyback” is someone not from Liverpool but from the surrounding area. Woolybacks would walk to Liverpool carrying wool bales on their backs for transportation from the docks. 🐑
I don't know if this will do more harm than good, but here goes. When designing a sweater, I do everything I can to write down some kind of pattern, working out the math all the while, but there sometimes comes a point where I just can't figure out how to do something I'm picturing in my head. At that point, I just go for it, and begin working on a prototype, and when I get to that point, I take really good guesses, and write down what I did. If it didn't work, I look into why, and fix it. If it did work, I continue working and writing. At the end, there's a sweater. I'm new to the designing aspect, so I'm learning as I'm going. I got into it because during the Quarantine, I wasn't satisfied with the patterns I was finding online; there was always something I would want to change, to make it into something I would be comfortable gifting someone with. I rarely knit for myself; there are so many great people out there who truly appreciate the time and effort involved in the craft. Also during the Quarantine, I found your channel here, and I look forward to Casual Fridays because it's inspiring and encouraging. Thank you for all that you do for us!
Thanks for another fascinating video! I’m absolutely smitten with the non-sporty pullover you showed in the Bear/Bucilla pattern book. I’d love to make that sweater, but can’t imagine that I’m likely to find that particular pattern, alas…
@@RoxanneRichardson True! The patterns from the teens and twenties are much harder to come by than those mid-century patterns. I’m currently knitting a thirties pullover, which I’m a bit stuck on. I miscalculated the width, because I was certain that it would be too small, and now that I have it basted together, I realize that I overshot my estimate, and I have too much seam allowance. Darn those one-size-fits-someone patterns! On the other hand, I’m knitting this project out of leftovers, and did a great job on figuring out how much of each color I’d need. I’m fine with all the color work, and literally just have strands of each yarn remaining!
Wow I loved hearing about the spread sheet. I would love to see how you make a spreadsheet like this. I hate written instructions, love charts - I am very visual. A spreadsheet like this would help me so much. How do you do it?
She has explained in one of her video's. Can you search with 'spreadsheet' on TH-cam? I think it will pop-up ( interesting ik indeed, I use a format of my own now a days).
Hi, thanks for the podcast! On your reconstruction sweater....."have you thought of having the cable come out of the pocket? So the ribbing would be simple and then the pocket would be plain. You could then have your cable where you want it just move the pocket. Just a thought! Thanks for all the teaching you do it is so interesting!
G’day lass!!! Love your videos...just subscribed in fact!!! What do you recon is the best way to work out the ply (weight) of a yarn please??? Can you tell I’m in Australia lass????? TIA!!! Zhas!!!
Have you considered the tubular bindoff for your double knitting 'cuff/brim' test? Im intrigued by this experiment and have done it once on a hat amd have yet to finish tje bindoff on a set of fingerless mitts. (Black alpaca yarn, fingering weight, and size 3 needles... cant get excited!)
A knitted hem usually has a turning round consisting of one (sometimes two) rounds of purls. The function is to produce a flat turn rather than a rounded turn, which is what you'd get without a turning round (i.e. maintaining stockinette for the folding turn). The goal for working the hat top down was to create a hemmed hat that didn't require sewing the BO edge to the WS *and* which still had that turning round functionality. A tubular BO would act as a standard stockinette graft, and wouldn't provide that flat turn function. So, to answer your question: no, I did not consider the tubular BO, because it wouldn't do what I was wanting to do.
That pocket looks like one I tried to knit on a sweater jacket but couldn’t figure out, asked guild members, a yarn store owner, sent email to designer but I just knit it as well as I could. The yarn shop owner came back later & she had consulted a clothing designer who said the pocket bottom was below the bottom edge of opening. I wonder if yours is the same?
This might be a silly question, but when you say you have a sweaters worth of yarn, is that just something you know from experience? Like, hey it's usually this many grams of DK weight yarn to make a jumper in my size, or is there something else to it? I can never tell if I'm playing yarn chicken or if I have enough I could make the garment twice over.
I can knit a fairly plain sweater with 5 100g/200m/220yd skeins of worsted weight yarn. Like, *just* knit it, with no leftovers. If I want cables, or a bit of length, or a shawl collar, etc., I will need more. If I don't have a plan for the yarn, I will usually buy enough to knit a heavily cabled sweater, which may take 50% more sts. I also don't mind an extra skein or two. So, it is experience, but it's experienced based on keeping track of how much yarn I used when I knit various sweaters and recording it in my Ravelry project page, so that when I was in a situation where I wanted to buy enough yarn to knit a sweater, I had a way to figure out what that amount would be. If I'm knitting a vintage pattern, or designing my own sweater, I use my spreadsheet to calculate total sts, and then I can compare that with other sweaters with similar stitch counts. I can then see how many sts I am getting out of each of the first couple of skeins, to confirm my yarn qty is enough.
@@RoxanneRichardson thank you, you've really been making me think about tracking more carefully how my knitting goes, perhaps considering a much more basic spreadsheet type thing, but this comment really could be the one that convinces me it is worth putting the effort into. Thanks again for the info and inspiration
I'm always tickled to hear my name in your podcasts! Yes, the shoulder pad section interested me. Erika, a guest on my show, employed ribbon in the shoulders of her vintage sweater -- an interesting technique seen here: th-cam.com/video/BUQoEOFRhyA/w-d-xo.html
I always include a link to my Ravelry project page for any knitted item I wear down in the video description. You'll be able to find links to the pattern page and yarn page from my project page.
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Thank you for the descriptive technique aspects of your wonderful podcasts. I'm so pleased that I've discovered you. I've been knitting for 70 plus years but one is never too old to learn something new.
So often it happens that I start watching one of your Casual Friday videos and realize that it's so chuck full of information that I'm going to have to watch it again (and maybe even, again). This is definitely one of those. Thanks so much for all the effort you put in and for sharing your enthusiasm for all your topics!
I love that paper representation of the pocket for the 50s sweater.
Thank you for sharing your pocket technique. You are a technique wizard!
I really like the sweater pattern you chose-my kind of styling and features. Loved the way you figured out the pocket construction and your explanation of how to do it your way. Can't wait to see it in action.
Also re vintage patterns, I have been buying them in BULK due to a local craft store closing after almost 40 years. I plan to scan things and upload them digitally for the public, copyright permitting. The variety is overwhelming, and I am super scared I'll miss something good, especially because books are hard to find here in New Zealand, and expensive to buy from overseas. I am saving up currently for a stocking/sock knitting machine, and wow. This is all soooo expensive! Recently I found a few cheap bone tatting shuttles, however, so I am really enjoying figuring out all this tatting stuff right now, but I'd love to find a vintage stocking pattern some time!
If your copyright laws are the same/similar to the UK, anything after about 1940ish may very well still be under copyright.
@@RoxanneRichardson yep, sounds about right. That said, you need only change 5 - 10% to make different, which is something like gauge + yarn, so hopefully it'll be ok!
I love your sweater…. And I’m fascinated by your bookshelf… maybe someday, you could take us on a tour of what’s on your shelf.
I have a small collection of darning eggs! I look forward to your show each week! Thanks for making the time to teach!
Every sentence you utter about your century of sweaters project is fascinating. Thanks again for sharing the details of your process, Roxanne. I also am super interested in your reverse engineering of the favourite sweater with the hole in the elbow and look forward to following along as you get going with it. 🧶
Another enthralling episode. I really appreciated hat experiment and the paper model you created to work out the pocket construction. Creating quick models is a great approach to problem solving and learning for projects of all types.
“An idea, an experiment “ - it is interesting to learn about your hands on process in this segment. As an aside, I liked the larger stitches row- and imagine that some would consider it a design element or interesting detail in contrast to the “plain” stockinette- Beauty and interest live in the eye of the beholder 😀
Ooo- and the paper model was a neat way to approach understanding and showing the pocket sweater’s construction instructions 💫
I love the "Casual Fridays" and today this gorgeous darning mushroom is my favourite.
I was thinking about textile phrases in Spanish and the only one that comes to mind is "no da puntada sin hilo" which is a sewing phrase that translates to "[someone] doesn't sew a single stich without thread" (I don't know if sewing a stitch is correct in English, but I'm sure you get the point). It means that the person never does anything without a reason, most of the times it's an ulterior motive.
Hi! The explanation I heard about "walking in wool stockings" was that there was less risk of slipping on icy roads if you wore wool stockings over your shoes. Engineering Knits has a video about the phenomena.
I believe 3/4 length sleeves were intended to be worn with longer gloves, thinking back to movies of the fifties.
Tonight dressed to the nines was a clue on Jeopardy. lol!
Saw a cute vintage top pattern on Ebay called “1940's Wartime Spencer Thermal Vests Knitting Pattern Copy.” It isn’t anything like the description, so just check it out. It is something that could easily be worn today.
WOOLLY SAYING: my dad was a “scouser” (from Liverpool, Great Britain). In the scouse vernacular a “wool” or a “woolyback” is someone not from Liverpool but from the surrounding area. Woolybacks would walk to Liverpool carrying wool bales on their backs for transportation from the docks. 🐑
I live 1/2 North of Liverpool. That was a new one for me…thanks!
Good luck!🤗
I don't know if this will do more harm than good, but here goes. When designing a sweater, I do everything I can to write down some kind of pattern, working out the math all the while, but there sometimes comes a point where I just can't figure out how to do something I'm picturing in my head. At that point, I just go for it, and begin working on a prototype, and when I get to that point, I take really good guesses, and write down what I did. If it didn't work, I look into why, and fix it. If it did work, I continue working and writing. At the end, there's a sweater. I'm new to the designing aspect, so I'm learning as I'm going. I got into it because during the Quarantine, I wasn't satisfied with the patterns I was finding online; there was always something I would want to change, to make it into something I would be comfortable gifting someone with. I rarely knit for myself; there are so many great people out there who truly appreciate the time and effort involved in the craft. Also during the Quarantine, I found your channel here, and I look forward to Casual Fridays because it's inspiring and encouraging. Thank you for all that you do for us!
Thanks for another fascinating video!
I’m absolutely smitten with the non-sporty pullover you showed in the Bear/Bucilla pattern book. I’d love to make that sweater, but can’t imagine that I’m likely to find that particular pattern, alas…
It's often not that hard to find used copies of mid-century pattern books.
@@RoxanneRichardson True! The patterns from the teens and twenties are much harder to come by than those mid-century patterns.
I’m currently knitting a thirties pullover, which I’m a bit stuck on. I miscalculated the width, because I was certain that it would be too small, and now that I have it basted together, I realize that I overshot my estimate, and I have too much seam allowance. Darn those one-size-fits-someone patterns!
On the other hand, I’m knitting this project out of leftovers, and did a great job on figuring out how much of each color I’d need. I’m fine with all the color work, and literally just have strands of each yarn remaining!
Wow I loved hearing about the spread sheet. I would love to see how you make a spreadsheet like this. I hate written instructions, love charts - I am very visual. A spreadsheet like this would help me so much. How do you do it?
She has explained in one of her video's. Can you search with 'spreadsheet' on TH-cam? I think it will pop-up ( interesting ik indeed, I use a format of my own now a days).
Hi, thanks for the podcast! On your reconstruction sweater....."have you thought of having the cable come out of the pocket? So the ribbing would be simple and then the pocket would be plain. You could then have your cable where you want it just move the pocket. Just a thought! Thanks for all the teaching you do it is so interesting!
I had the same thought!
G’day lass!!! Love your videos...just subscribed in fact!!! What do you recon is the best way to work out the ply (weight) of a yarn please??? Can you tell I’m in Australia lass????? TIA!!! Zhas!!!
Have you considered the tubular bindoff for your double knitting 'cuff/brim' test? Im intrigued by this experiment and have done it once on a hat amd have yet to finish tje bindoff on a set of fingerless mitts. (Black alpaca yarn, fingering weight, and size 3 needles... cant get excited!)
A knitted hem usually has a turning round consisting of one (sometimes two) rounds of purls. The function is to produce a flat turn rather than a rounded turn, which is what you'd get without a turning round (i.e. maintaining stockinette for the folding turn). The goal for working the hat top down was to create a hemmed hat that didn't require sewing the BO edge to the WS *and* which still had that turning round functionality. A tubular BO would act as a standard stockinette graft, and wouldn't provide that flat turn function. So, to answer your question: no, I did not consider the tubular BO, because it wouldn't do what I was wanting to do.
I have this same vintage knitting pattern book your cousin sent you!
That pocket looks like one I tried to knit on a sweater jacket but couldn’t figure out, asked guild members, a yarn store owner, sent email to designer but I just knit it as well as I could. The yarn shop owner came back later & she had consulted a clothing designer who said the pocket bottom was below the bottom edge of opening. I wonder if yours is the same?
You’re so gleeful about going to a cemetery. LOL.
I know, lol. When we were driving cross country through rural areas, I kept exclaiming, "Oh, look! A cemetery!"
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This might be a silly question, but when you say you have a sweaters worth of yarn, is that just something you know from experience? Like, hey it's usually this many grams of DK weight yarn to make a jumper in my size, or is there something else to it? I can never tell if I'm playing yarn chicken or if I have enough I could make the garment twice over.
I can knit a fairly plain sweater with 5 100g/200m/220yd skeins of worsted weight yarn. Like, *just* knit it, with no leftovers. If I want cables, or a bit of length, or a shawl collar, etc., I will need more. If I don't have a plan for the yarn, I will usually buy enough to knit a heavily cabled sweater, which may take 50% more sts. I also don't mind an extra skein or two. So, it is experience, but it's experienced based on keeping track of how much yarn I used when I knit various sweaters and recording it in my Ravelry project page, so that when I was in a situation where I wanted to buy enough yarn to knit a sweater, I had a way to figure out what that amount would be. If I'm knitting a vintage pattern, or designing my own sweater, I use my spreadsheet to calculate total sts, and then I can compare that with other sweaters with similar stitch counts. I can then see how many sts I am getting out of each of the first couple of skeins, to confirm my yarn qty is enough.
@@RoxanneRichardson thank you, you've really been making me think about tracking more carefully how my knitting goes, perhaps considering a much more basic spreadsheet type thing, but this comment really could be the one that convinces me it is worth putting the effort into. Thanks again for the info and inspiration
Is the mushroom darner Bakelite?
I don't think so.
I'm always tickled to hear my name in your podcasts! Yes, the shoulder pad section interested me. Erika, a guest on my show, employed ribbon in the shoulders of her vintage sweater -- an interesting technique seen here: th-cam.com/video/BUQoEOFRhyA/w-d-xo.html
Your jumper is beautiful. Did you make it? If so, do you know what the pattern is called? Thanks :)
I always include a link to my Ravelry project page for any knitted item I wear down in the video description. You'll be able to find links to the pattern page and yarn page from my project page.