Please don't change your unique voice and style to try to fit into some other 'perfect' format! There are so many knitting channels out there that are virtually the same....same patterns, same designers, same yarn, everything the same. Your unique voice is very interesting and also makes my world bigger by being exposed to other cultural styles. (Also, your English is very, very good! Do I understand correctly that you have a Japanese channel? I've been studying Japanese language on-line for 9 months or so and would love to know if you have a channel that has lessons). I especially enjoyed your comments about size inclusivity....very interesting and reflects definite differences between populations and lifestyles. I thought I would mention Roxanne Richardson's podcast here on TH-cam to you. On Fridays, she does a "Casual Friday" segment and she often explores the history of knitting. There are many, many episodes you could dive into to discover the historical styles of knitting, patterns as well as tools used. It is fascinating. Thank you so much for your very unique channel. Your patterns are lovely!
Thank you! I have a Chinese channel (Chinese is my native language), and I make some tutorials on using Japanese knitting patterns in English (posted in this channel). Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check out Roxanne’s channel!
Love the new, no edit, go with it format. Keep it up! As I said to you in the store, I think it's great you are making podcasts in English to expose us English speakers to Asian inspired knitting, crafting and even recipes. I'd love to try the recipe you showed at the end. I had no idea one could get tofu wraps! RE: double pointed needles. My grandmother and mother taught me to knit. My grandmother came from the northern Netherlands province of Friesland. She knit "english" style with long needles, one always tucked under the armpit, which is how I learned to knit. When she knit in the round she had long, metal double pointed needles. I have her 2mm set of 4 double points kept as a treasure. I still knit english style, even with circulars, with the right needle braced against my body, like I'm looking for a shetland belt. ALSO - you have a point. INclusive sizing should go beyond the American craft council assumption of larger white european sizes. Keep being you and sharing what you love and know. I'm HERE for it!!
Thank you for sharing! It was really interesting hearing the different knitting history around the world. I’m also happy to keep contributing to the variety of knitting podcast here!
Your designs are really beautiful! I'm so glad you are doing English language videos, too! Thank you! I'd love to hear more about what fellow crafters are making in China! Crafting really brings people together. My grandmother was born in 1900. She and the previous generation of knitters in the family used long, thin, steel double pointed needles to knit things like lace bedspreads from cotton thread. The squares of lace started in the center with a circular cast-on. The squares were quite large, so they needed long needles. I think that in the bedspreads I remember they used to graft the squares together as they made them. They had big bunches of those needles, so they could keep stitches live until ready to graft. What patience to do that! Her church group used to knit specially shaped bandages with cotton thread for missionaries who worked with leper colonies. The bandages needed to be very flexible and able to be sterilized. That was before machine made flexible bandages were readily available. I'm sure they knit long fine-gauge stockings with these needles, too. She used shorter double points to knit things like mittens, hats, gloves, and socks. All the sweaters I remember were knit flat and sewn together, but I'm sure she used some dpns for button bands that were picked up after the pieces were sewn together. Some of her thicker dpns were made of bone or cellulose. I wish I knew more about this, too.
Wow thanks for sharing these interesting bits of knitting history! My grandma has bunches of those long steel DPNs too but she didn’t knit lace. She used to knit sweaters and woolly trousers and accessories with them.
I completely enjoy your raw natural episodes! You compare very well to other knitting videos, you are better than many because you teach me things about knitting, you share your Chinese culture and your talent for design. I have no problem understanding your videos, you always bring me a smile and relaxing knitting-along. Looking forward to your new summer design... I tend not to make top patterns that are too 'holey' on the front and back... good thinking. Looking forward to next video... take care.
My husband is a Japanese and I asked about knitting history there, and they have no idea, no one from the family was a knitter, they were just buying knits without asking how it's being done. As for my family (Serbia, ex-Yugoslavia, Europe), every woman both from my father's and mother's side was knitting. My grandma (and her mother and grandma and so on) used to knit sweaters flat, using straight long needles, and then sew the parts together (both front, back and sleeves). Socks, slippers, gloves and mittens they knit with DPN's which were short like today, but all of her needles (long straight and DPNs) had a hook at the tip, because everyone knits continental style and the hook was super handy to catch the yarn. As for hats, they usually knit them flat and sew, but if they were for kids, they used DPNs. :) And your cable design is super beautiful. I would like to test knit it. I've never done test knit before, but the sweater is so beautiful, that i would like to do it. :)
Thank you for sharing your family knitting history! The women in my family usually knit too, but it’s becoming less common for younger generations (except for me 😜). I’m only looking for testers of size 3XL and above for Pine and Fir Sweater. I posted the application form and the measurements info in my last TH-cam community post. Please check it out and see if it suits you. Thank you for supporting my design!
@@SeedlingStitch Haha, here also. I am 37, and I have no single friend who knits or wants to do it. I've just checked the application form, I wear size S, so I'll just buy the pattern once it's out :) Keep up the great work!
Athena I am so happy to see a podcast from you. I have missed your videos. I love knitting along with you. Please feel free to be who you are and as you are. You are amazing 💜 Those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. I love your Pine and Fir sweater. All your wips look so incredible.
Thank you for another great podcast, please don’t stop. No need to edit - your English is great. I love your new sweater design - it is beautiful. My grandmother was an avid knitter. She made hundreds is sweaters. She knit everything in pieces and sewed them together. She never used a pattern. She just took our measurements and started knitting. She had over one hundred grand children. Each one of us received a sweater with our high school colors, a sweater with our college colors, and she crocheted us each an afghan when we got our drivers license - to leave in the car in case we ever got stuck in the snow. Thank you for your thoughts on size inclusivity.
Thank you for sharing! My grandma used to knit in the same way - no pattern, just some measurements and then she just knits according to her intuition! It’s amazing how they could do that.
I love your podcast. Don’t get discouraged! I love that you don’t fall into the mold of what most western knitters make! I also love it because you have a unique perspective that I don’t hear often. Love it and I now have this amazing cable design in my queue!! It’s seriously so amazing. I’m from, and live in Seattle, so pine and fir runs in my blood ❤️
Athena thank you for making this english podcast episode! I am just starting to watch but I had to say something! I have exactly the same thoughts when I speak english (I am french canadian). At least I can enjoy content from you because I don’t understand chinese. Yes please try and be comfortable as if with a friend, I absolutely do not mind your accent or mistakes or hesitation from you ❤❤❤ You new design is just stunning!!!
I assure you, you speak English far more fluently than 99.99% of English speakers speak Chinese! You are very brave for making blogs in your second language. You focus on your small grammar mistakes, but the big picture is that you are bringing a unique, cross-cultural perspective to our amazing fiber arts!! Also, trust me, even for native English speakers watching other English knitting podcasts, we can still feel the “compare and despair”, i.e., I don’t knit as fast as her, I don’t pick colors as well as her, I don’t have the budget for boogey yarn as her, etc. So I think many of us sometimes get bummed out watching other knitters lol 😊🎉🧶
Hi Athena, . . . love your "no editing" podcast. Please make more of them. Love your "Pine & Fir Sweater", it is beautiful. So very happy to hear that you are planning to focus on cable designing this year. Cables are my favourite type of knitting. The "Jules Genser" is most lovely!! Your "Vine Tee" is so pretty. I don't like holes across my chest either. It seems like I have caught up viewing your knitting story. I know this isn't the end of the book so I look forward to the next podcast. What an exciting and amazing journey it has already been!!! With appreciation, Sarah
I also took a break from watching knitting podcasts a while ago but for me it was because I was seeing a lot of the same. I encourage you to be yourself and do your best! ☺ It's so easy to get wrapped up in what other knitters (or people on general) are creating, please don't be worried about giving yourself breathing space from it. I appreciate your opinions on size inclusively and the cultural difference you highlighted. A friend of mine struggles to find patterns that they can make as the smallest size would often drown them. I'm glad you are enjoying working at your local yarn storeand gosh I am so excited for your Pine and Fir sweater pattern! 😊
I love the relaxing chat style of video. As someone said above, you are so brave to do these videos in English. Also your new sweater is BEAUTIFUL! My favorite colour is also green 😊so the more green the better!! 😊
Hello from England. I have lots of long (and some very long) double-pointed vintage needles. So I think you're right about it being something people used to use before circular needles became a thing. Never thought of it before though. Really enjoy your videos!
Athena, I'm really happy that you uploaded this english podcast. I really love watching you. You are so creativ and refreshing. Your green pullover is gorgeous! ❤ I just had to look at this longer strand of hair on your right side and wanted to put it back in place 😂
Amazing episode! Your English is great and you shouldn’t compare yourself with native English speakers because this is a forum to share your creativity, that’s all it matters. I look forward to seeing your progress on the Pica pau animals as I plan to make some of these too sometime this year (I hope😂)
I loved this episode! That polar bear is adorable. 😁 It's totally up to you whether or not you want to keep making your podcasts in English, as I don't think you should do something that causes you a lot of stress. But I want to say, your English is amazing! I only speak one language fluently, so you far surpass me (and many others) in the language department. I don't notice your "mistakes", and I know exactly what you're saying. I hope you'll keep doing these, but if they cause too much stress, do what's best for you! ❤
Thank you for the kind words! After the enjoyable experience of filming this episode and the positive feedback from you and other viewers, I’m very motivated to make more unedited podcast like this!😺
I enjoy your videos very much and would like you to continue - make it as relax for you as only possible. I think you provide an interesting window and a bridge into different perspectives - which is very valuable, even if it is less (financially) rewarding.
Hi! It's my first time finding your channel. Thank you for mentioning size inclusivity for small people. I'm on the XS is just a little too big side of the spectrum for a lot of commercial clothes, so I really appreciate it! And childrens' cuts are definitely still different for the chest area than adult clothes, so sizing is a constant struggle. I'm american chinese, so actually I want to go look for your chinese language podcasts to practice my chinese. Thank you for introducing that style of video to the chinese knitting community!!
You could totally make Chinese knitting podcast, as long as there’s subtitle 😊 I really like your content regardless of the language you use. Go Athena❤ I haven’t found many Chinese knitting channels (in fact you are the only one). I see a bunch of Korean ones. If you know any good Chinese knitting channels, I’d like to know too!
Thank you! I do have a Chinese knitting channel (it’s linked in the homepage of this channel). Unfortunately I don’t have time to make subtitles for those because it takes too much time and TH-cam doesn’t generate autosubs for Chinese language. :( TH-cam is also banned in China so most Chinese content creators use a Chinese video platform called “Bilibili” ( I do that too). That probably explains why there aren’t many Chinese knitting channels on TH-cam!
Interesting points in this video! I also find English pattern sizes to be on the larger side. I've had to knit XS for some popular patterns, and I'm definitely not small for an East-Asian person. Nearly every friend of mine is smaller than me, so if it's them knitting, they'd all look like children wearing adult clothes... I mean It's not a surprise that American-centric sizes may not be inclusive enough for every other community in the world. In the end, designers are all just trying to fit as many people under the bell curve, and it could take some experience to find a good range for your specific audience.
Yes it’s no surprise! I just think the voice of the petite-sized population should also be heard in this discourse of size inclusivity. It’s a good trend to be more inclusive in the knitting community!
How interesting! I love your podcast, and I really enjoyed the non edited format! the little salad wraps looked very good! What is the name of the sauce if I would ask for it at T&T ?
It’s delicious and vegan and nutritious! The sauce is called 香其酱 (“Xiang Qi” Sauce). I put a picture of the sauce in the last few minutes of the podcast when I said you can find it in T&T. It’s really cheap like a couple of dollars per bag. Please give it a try!
Oh and you can also buy the bean curd sheet at T&T. It’s usually sold at the tofu section labeled “干豆腐”. It’s a large sheet. You boil it and then slice them into smaller squares. :)
I like your videos. I follow a lot of knitting podcasters who don't have english as their first language (it's my second language). You actually got me so interested in chinese yarn that I ordered some from aliexpress. It's very unreliable for yarn weight and fiber content (I think some of the problem is in the translation chinese-english), but I got some nice and cheap cashmere and silk (I think, it could be viscose, but I think it's silk because of the weight (heavy)), both very thin. Less successful orders: cotton blend yarns appeared very thick and "cotton cashmere" extremely thin without cashmere. Do you know of any better/more reliable/easier to use online stores available for european (norwegian) knitters? I'm curious to try different yarn fibers, but can't afford the western prices. The pirating issue was unfamiliar with me (sadly not surprising), thanks for letting us know!
I’m glad to hear you are trying out Chinese yarn because of me! There are a huge variety of Chinese yarn available and it can be hard to find the good quality ones. I have access to Chinese social media to learn which brands are good but unfortunately these platforms are in Chinese… I can tell you a few reliable brands to try though: Lotus Yarn, they have a Etsy shop called “YarnAve” (they’ve mailed some yarn sample to me and I think the quality it pretty good. I’ll share these in my next video too). “LifeYarn” is sister brand of LoveYarn which does more oversea business than the latter. I personally bought many LoveYarn yarns and I enjoyed them. I’ll continue to report good Chinese yarn brands in this channel as I try more Chinese yarn!
Size inclusivity is not that straithforward thing. Big sizes require different darts and shortrows to make a garment fit properly (sometimes even a small sizes need those!!). I wonder how many ppl are willing to buy and read such technically difficult patterns and knit xxxxl size in fingering weight yarns! So, I guess a designer need to design smth exclusively for big sizes in thick yarns. Or-machine knitting is another solution.
Yeah! I now understand grading for various sizes is a whole new skill set than designing/pattern writing. It’s too much to ask a designer to write a pattern for 11 sizes. Not all designs are customizable to 11 sizes without compromising its original design element.
@@SeedlingStitch btw, I just came across a designer on ravelry, she is also an editor there, You can find her by name "Vilnonis". She has some interesting knit-tech blog posts you might find interesting.
I've only edited out less than 3 minutes of footage (mostly voice breaking or running around to grab yarn) - be very proud of me!😜
Please don't change your unique voice and style to try to fit into some other 'perfect' format! There are so many knitting channels out there that are virtually the same....same patterns, same designers, same yarn, everything the same. Your unique voice is very interesting and also makes my world bigger by being exposed to other cultural styles. (Also, your English is very, very good! Do I understand correctly that you have a Japanese channel? I've been studying Japanese language on-line for 9 months or so and would love to know if you have a channel that has lessons).
I especially enjoyed your comments about size inclusivity....very interesting and reflects definite differences between populations and lifestyles.
I thought I would mention Roxanne Richardson's podcast here on TH-cam to you. On Fridays, she does a "Casual Friday" segment and she often explores the history of knitting. There are many, many episodes you could dive into to discover the historical styles of knitting, patterns as well as tools used. It is fascinating.
Thank you so much for your very unique channel. Your patterns are lovely!
Thank you! I have a Chinese channel (Chinese is my native language), and I make some tutorials on using Japanese knitting patterns in English (posted in this channel).
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check out Roxanne’s channel!
I've only just started to watch the video, but I must tell you, that cable sweater is gorgeous! 😍
Thank you 💚
Love the new, no edit, go with it format. Keep it up! As I said to you in the store, I think it's great you are making podcasts in English to expose us English speakers to Asian inspired knitting, crafting and even recipes. I'd love to try the recipe you showed at the end. I had no idea one could get tofu wraps! RE: double pointed needles. My grandmother and mother taught me to knit. My grandmother came from the northern Netherlands province of Friesland. She knit "english" style with long needles, one always tucked under the armpit, which is how I learned to knit. When she knit in the round she had long, metal double pointed needles. I have her 2mm set of 4 double points kept as a treasure. I still knit english style, even with circulars, with the right needle braced against my body, like I'm looking for a shetland belt. ALSO - you have a point. INclusive sizing should go beyond the American craft council assumption of larger white european sizes. Keep being you and sharing what you love and know. I'm HERE for it!!
Thank you for sharing! It was really interesting hearing the different knitting history around the world. I’m also happy to keep contributing to the variety of knitting podcast here!
Your designs are really beautiful! I'm so glad you are doing English language videos, too! Thank you! I'd love to hear more about what fellow crafters are making in China! Crafting really brings people together.
My grandmother was born in 1900. She and the previous generation of knitters in the family used long, thin, steel double pointed needles to knit things like lace bedspreads from cotton thread. The squares of lace started in the center with a circular cast-on. The squares were quite large, so they needed long needles. I think that in the bedspreads I remember they used to graft the squares together as they made them. They had big bunches of those needles, so they could keep stitches live until ready to graft. What patience to do that!
Her church group used to knit specially shaped bandages with cotton thread for missionaries who worked with leper colonies. The bandages needed to be very flexible and able to be sterilized. That was before machine made flexible bandages were readily available. I'm sure they knit long fine-gauge stockings with these needles, too.
She used shorter double points to knit things like mittens, hats, gloves, and socks. All the sweaters I remember were knit flat and sewn together, but I'm sure she used some dpns for button bands that were picked up after the pieces were sewn together. Some of her thicker dpns were made of bone or cellulose. I wish I knew more about this, too.
Wow thanks for sharing these interesting bits of knitting history! My grandma has bunches of those long steel DPNs too but she didn’t knit lace. She used to knit sweaters and woolly trousers and accessories with them.
I like the continuity of your neck bands in both of your newest designs. I agree that there aren't many designs like that.
I completely enjoy your raw natural episodes! You compare very well to other knitting videos, you are better than many because you teach me things about knitting, you share your Chinese culture and your talent for design. I have no problem understanding your videos, you always bring me a smile and relaxing knitting-along. Looking forward to your new summer design... I tend not to make top patterns that are too 'holey' on the front and back... good thinking. Looking forward to next video... take care.
Thank you! I enjoyed staying relaxed while making this episode. I’ll keep it this way ☺️
My husband is a Japanese and I asked about knitting history there, and they have no idea, no one from the family was a knitter, they were just buying knits without asking how it's being done.
As for my family (Serbia, ex-Yugoslavia, Europe), every woman both from my father's and mother's side was knitting. My grandma (and her mother and grandma and so on) used to knit sweaters flat, using straight long needles, and then sew the parts together (both front, back and sleeves). Socks, slippers, gloves and mittens they knit with DPN's which were short like today, but all of her needles (long straight and DPNs) had a hook at the tip, because everyone knits continental style and the hook was super handy to catch the yarn.
As for hats, they usually knit them flat and sew, but if they were for kids, they used DPNs. :)
And your cable design is super beautiful.
I would like to test knit it. I've never done test knit before, but the sweater is so beautiful, that i would like to do it. :)
Thank you for sharing your family knitting history! The women in my family usually knit too, but it’s becoming less common for younger generations (except for me 😜).
I’m only looking for testers of size 3XL and above for Pine and Fir Sweater. I posted the application form and the measurements info in my last TH-cam community post. Please check it out and see if it suits you. Thank you for supporting my design!
@@SeedlingStitch Haha, here also. I am 37, and I have no single friend who knits or wants to do it.
I've just checked the application form, I wear size S, so I'll just buy the pattern once it's out :)
Keep up the great work!
Athena I am so happy to see a podcast from you. I have missed your videos. I love knitting along with you. Please feel free to be who you are and as you are. You are amazing 💜 Those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. I love your Pine and Fir sweater. All your wips look so incredible.
That’s so well said. I’ll remember that when I feel unmotivated!
@@SeedlingStitch the amazing quote is from Dr. Seuss 💜
Thank you for another great podcast, please don’t stop. No need to edit - your English is great.
I love your new sweater design - it is beautiful.
My grandmother was an avid knitter. She made hundreds is sweaters. She knit everything in pieces and sewed them together. She never used a pattern. She just took our measurements and started knitting.
She had over one hundred grand children. Each one of us received a sweater with our high school colors, a sweater with our college colors, and she crocheted us each an afghan when we got our drivers license - to leave in the car in case we ever got stuck in the snow.
Thank you for your thoughts on size inclusivity.
Thank you for sharing! My grandma used to knit in the same way - no pattern, just some measurements and then she just knits according to her intuition! It’s amazing how they could do that.
I love your podcast. Don’t get discouraged! I love that you don’t fall into the mold of what most western knitters make! I also love it because you have a unique perspective that I don’t hear often. Love it and I now have this amazing cable design in my queue!! It’s seriously so amazing. I’m from, and live in Seattle, so pine and fir runs in my blood ❤️
Thank you neighbour across the border! ❤
Athena thank you for making this english podcast episode! I am just starting to watch but I had to say something! I have exactly the same thoughts when I speak english (I am french canadian). At least I can enjoy content from you because I don’t understand chinese. Yes please try and be comfortable as if with a friend, I absolutely do not mind your accent or mistakes or hesitation from you ❤❤❤ You new design is just stunning!!!
Thank you! I enjoyed filming this episode and I think I’ll make more like this I the future ☺️
I assure you, you speak English far more fluently than 99.99% of English speakers speak Chinese! You are very brave for making blogs in your second language. You focus on your small grammar mistakes, but the big picture is that you are bringing a unique, cross-cultural perspective to our amazing fiber arts!! Also, trust me, even for native English speakers watching other English knitting podcasts, we can still feel the “compare and despair”, i.e., I don’t knit as fast as her, I don’t pick colors as well as her, I don’t have the budget for boogey yarn as her, etc. So I think many of us sometimes get bummed out watching other knitters lol 😊🎉🧶
That’s so true! I have “compare and despair” on the knitting aspect too! I need to learn to control it 😅
Hi Athena, . . . love your "no editing" podcast. Please make more of them. Love your "Pine & Fir Sweater", it is beautiful. So very happy to hear that you are planning to focus on cable designing this year. Cables are my favourite type of knitting. The "Jules Genser" is most lovely!! Your "Vine Tee" is so pretty. I don't like holes across my chest either. It seems like I have caught up viewing your knitting story. I know this isn't the end of the book so I look forward to the next podcast. What an exciting and amazing journey it has already been!!! With appreciation, Sarah
You have all caught up! 😄 It’s probably time for me to make another episode lol.
I also took a break from watching knitting podcasts a while ago but for me it was because I was seeing a lot of the same. I encourage you to be yourself and do your best! ☺ It's so easy to get wrapped up in what other knitters (or people on general) are creating, please don't be worried about giving yourself breathing space from it. I appreciate your opinions on size inclusively and the cultural difference you highlighted. A friend of mine struggles to find patterns that they can make as the smallest size would often drown them. I'm glad you are enjoying working at your local yarn storeand gosh I am so excited for your Pine and Fir sweater pattern! 😊
Thank you for the encouragement! It makes me more motivated to make these type of videos :)
all will work out in the end, your a good and honest person and i applaud your for it. you are also a beautiful designer i love your newest design.
Thank you!
This is gorgeous. I look forward to the pattern being released!
Thank you!
Love the Vine Tee, looking forward for the pattern 😊. Your English ist perfect 👍
Thank you!
I love the relaxing chat style of video. As someone said above, you are so brave to do these videos in English. Also your new sweater is BEAUTIFUL! My favorite colour is also green 😊so the more green the better!! 😊
Haha thank you 💚 💚 !
Love the Vine tee too ❤
Love your sweater. The neckline is fabulous ❤
Thank you! 💚
Hello from England. I have lots of long (and some very long) double-pointed vintage needles. So I think you're right about it being something people used to use before circular needles became a thing. Never thought of it before though. Really enjoy your videos!
Thanks for sharing!
Athena, I'm really happy that you uploaded this english podcast. I really love watching you. You are so creativ and refreshing. Your green pullover is gorgeous! ❤
I just had to look at this longer strand of hair on your right side and wanted to put it back in place 😂
Oh I wish I had discovered that strand of hair before filming! 😂 It bothered me as well when I’m rewatching!
@@SeedlingStitch I did not notice any misplaced strand!?!
@@anciify Once you see it, you cannot un-see it. Maybe it’s better not to see it 😂
Amazing episode! Your English is great and you shouldn’t compare yourself with native English speakers because this is a forum to share your creativity, that’s all it matters. I look forward to seeing your progress on the Pica pau animals as I plan to make some of these too sometime this year (I hope😂)
Lol hopefully we’ll make all the Pica Pau animals as planned this year!
I loved this episode! That polar bear is adorable. 😁 It's totally up to you whether or not you want to keep making your podcasts in English, as I don't think you should do something that causes you a lot of stress. But I want to say, your English is amazing! I only speak one language fluently, so you far surpass me (and many others) in the language department. I don't notice your "mistakes", and I know exactly what you're saying. I hope you'll keep doing these, but if they cause too much stress, do what's best for you! ❤
Thank you for the kind words! After the enjoyable experience of filming this episode and the positive feedback from you and other viewers, I’m very motivated to make more unedited podcast like this!😺
I enjoy your videos very much and would like you to continue - make it as relax for you as only possible. I think you provide an interesting window and a bridge into different perspectives - which is very valuable, even if it is less (financially) rewarding.
Thank you! I’ll continue like this!
Hi! It's my first time finding your channel. Thank you for mentioning size inclusivity for small people. I'm on the XS is just a little too big side of the spectrum for a lot of commercial clothes, so I really appreciate it! And childrens' cuts are definitely still different for the chest area than adult clothes, so sizing is a constant struggle. I'm american chinese, so actually I want to go look for your chinese language podcasts to practice my chinese. Thank you for introducing that style of video to the chinese knitting community!!
Thank you! My Chinese channel is featured on my TH-cam homepage. Happy to be able to help with your Chinese!
The vine tee is beautiful! I’d love to test knit it!
Thank you! Keep an eye on the test call soon !
You could totally make Chinese knitting podcast, as long as there’s subtitle 😊
I really like your content regardless of the language you use. Go Athena❤
I haven’t found many Chinese knitting channels (in fact you are the only one). I see a bunch of Korean ones. If you know any good Chinese knitting channels, I’d like to know too!
Thank you! I do have a Chinese knitting channel (it’s linked in the homepage of this channel). Unfortunately I don’t have time to make subtitles for those because it takes too much time and TH-cam doesn’t generate autosubs for Chinese language. :( TH-cam is also banned in China so most Chinese content creators use a Chinese video platform called “Bilibili” ( I do that too). That probably explains why there aren’t many Chinese knitting channels on TH-cam!
Just be yourself and I love your english poidcasts ! Don't have to do so much edits.
Yes I’ll keep reminding myself that!
Interesting points in this video! I also find English pattern sizes to be on the larger side. I've had to knit XS for some popular patterns, and I'm definitely not small for an East-Asian person. Nearly every friend of mine is smaller than me, so if it's them knitting, they'd all look like children wearing adult clothes... I mean It's not a surprise that American-centric sizes may not be inclusive enough for every other community in the world. In the end, designers are all just trying to fit as many people under the bell curve, and it could take some experience to find a good range for your specific audience.
Yes it’s no surprise! I just think the voice of the petite-sized population should also be heard in this discourse of size inclusivity. It’s a good trend to be more inclusive in the knitting community!
How interesting! I love your podcast, and I really enjoyed the non edited format! the little salad wraps looked very good! What is the name of the sauce if I would ask for it at T&T ?
It’s delicious and vegan and nutritious! The sauce is called 香其酱 (“Xiang Qi” Sauce). I put a picture of the sauce in the last few minutes of the podcast when I said you can find it in T&T. It’s really cheap like a couple of dollars per bag. Please give it a try!
Oh and you can also buy the bean curd sheet at T&T. It’s usually sold at the tofu section labeled “干豆腐”. It’s a large sheet. You boil it and then slice them into smaller squares. :)
I like your videos. I follow a lot of knitting podcasters who don't have english as their first language (it's my second language). You actually got me so interested in chinese yarn that I ordered some from aliexpress. It's very unreliable for yarn weight and fiber content (I think some of the problem is in the translation chinese-english), but I got some nice and cheap cashmere and silk (I think, it could be viscose, but I think it's silk because of the weight (heavy)), both very thin. Less successful orders: cotton blend yarns appeared very thick and "cotton cashmere" extremely thin without cashmere. Do you know of any better/more reliable/easier to use online stores available for european (norwegian) knitters? I'm curious to try different yarn fibers, but can't afford the western prices.
The pirating issue was unfamiliar with me (sadly not surprising), thanks for letting us know!
I’m glad to hear you are trying out Chinese yarn because of me! There are a huge variety of Chinese yarn available and it can be hard to find the good quality ones. I have access to Chinese social media to learn which brands are good but unfortunately these platforms are in Chinese… I can tell you a few reliable brands to try though: Lotus Yarn, they have a Etsy shop called “YarnAve” (they’ve mailed some yarn sample to me and I think the quality it pretty good. I’ll share these in my next video too). “LifeYarn” is sister brand of LoveYarn which does more oversea business than the latter. I personally bought many LoveYarn yarns and I enjoyed them. I’ll continue to report good Chinese yarn brands in this channel as I try more Chinese yarn!
Shininess of the yarn, or just the yarn has shine or is shiny!
Thanks for the English tip!
Size inclusivity is not that straithforward thing. Big sizes require different darts and shortrows to make a garment fit properly (sometimes even a small sizes need those!!). I wonder how many ppl are willing to buy and read such technically difficult patterns and knit xxxxl size in fingering weight yarns! So, I guess a designer need to design smth exclusively for big sizes in thick yarns. Or-machine knitting is another solution.
Yeah! I now understand grading for various sizes is a whole new skill set than designing/pattern writing. It’s too much to ask a designer to write a pattern for 11 sizes. Not all designs are customizable to 11 sizes without compromising its original design element.
@@SeedlingStitch btw, I just came across a designer on ravelry, she is also an editor there, You can find her by name "Vilnonis". She has some interesting knit-tech blog posts you might find interesting.