Great question! I totally forgot to mention this in the video. Yes, I did alternate skeins to avoid any potential pooling issues. In general, I always make sure to alternate skeins whenever I am knitting with either hand dyed yarns or variegated yarns.
You're very welcome! I'm glad to hear that the tips were helpful for you. I think I am going to make a separate video all about knitting with all natural sock yarns soon.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! You're right, I do tend to gravitate towards marled/heathered yarns. I guess I really enjoy the depth of color it creates. That's probably also why I love naturally dyed yarns so much. Natural dyes seem to create this effect just naturally.
Its nice to see another episode from you. I enjoy your calm energy and creativity with yarns. So excited to see your further project with the special yarn that you have mentioned. Scheepjes becoming one of my favourite brands 🤍
Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Evgeniya! Scheepjes is an awesome brand with great yarns, I agreee! Unfortunately they do offer quite a number of synthetic yarn/yarn blends which isn't something I would personally use. But Sunkissed is for sure a wonderful cotton yarn!
@@AnnikaScheer I really love Metropolis from them, its an extrafine merino, increddibly soft! But as you said, it has 25% poliamide and I also wish they would offer a 100% of such wonderful merino. Maybe in the future 🤞
Dear Annika, WAUW what a challenge to make the dress, but already beautiful 😍😍 I hope that your friends in Texas are safe now, with all the hurricanes 😞😞 Thank you for the lovely episode again 👍🏻 Greetings Anita
Vintage patterns are written for what was available in knitting at the time. They were all knit flat and seamed because of only having access to long needles which were straight single pointed. My MIL is in her 70's and she was telling me that she remembers her mom knitting all kinds of different parts of things and would take them to someone and have them seamed together, ends woven, all the ribbing and finishes done. She would just knit intricate lace and all types of things. It blew my mind! (This was also an extremely wealthy woman living in the US, may not have been this way for everyone...)
Thank you so much for your insightful and knowledgeable comment! You are absolutely right, it was just a different time back then and we shouldn't compare the way knitting patterns were written with our pattern standards today. My particular vintage pattern from the 1970s does mention circular needles, though. So apparently, knitting with circulars was already common at that time. How interesting that it was possible to knit the separate pieces and then have them seamed and finished by someone else. This reminds me a bit of the quilting process when you send in your quilt top and someone does the quilting part for you... :)
@@Kera.S. "The quilting process by debit card." 😂😂 I like quilting as well but have only done a couple of simple baby quilts so far. Sometime in the future, I would love to do a quilt with English paper piecing.
Did you need to alternate skeins of the scheepjes yarn for the dress or can you use 1 at a time ? (Pooling )
Great question! I totally forgot to mention this in the video.
Yes, I did alternate skeins to avoid any potential pooling issues. In general, I always make sure to alternate skeins whenever I am knitting with either hand dyed yarns or variegated yarns.
Thank you so much for the tips regarding knitting socks with all-natural fibers.
You're very welcome! I'm glad to hear that the tips were helpful for you. I think I am going to make a separate video all about knitting with all natural sock yarns soon.
I love the marled effect of many of your projects! Thank you for this engaging episode! It was nice to see your own yarn that you naturally dyed.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! You're right, I do tend to gravitate towards marled/heathered yarns. I guess I really enjoy the depth of color it creates. That's probably also why I love naturally dyed yarns so much. Natural dyes seem to create this effect just naturally.
I hope you will do a podcast on using all natural wool, no nylon or super wash yarn.
Thank you so much for your comment! If this is helpful to you, I will make a separate video all about knitting with all natural sock yarns soon.
Would you like to hear about knitting with all natural sock yarn specifically or knitting with natural, non-superwash yarns in general?
Its nice to see another episode from you. I enjoy your calm energy and creativity with yarns. So excited to see your further project with the special yarn that you have mentioned. Scheepjes becoming one of my favourite brands 🤍
Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Evgeniya!
Scheepjes is an awesome brand with great yarns, I agreee! Unfortunately they do offer quite a number of synthetic yarn/yarn blends which isn't something I would personally use. But Sunkissed is for sure a wonderful cotton yarn!
@@AnnikaScheer I really love Metropolis from them, its an extrafine merino, increddibly soft! But as you said, it has 25% poliamide and I also wish they would offer a 100% of such wonderful merino. Maybe in the future 🤞
Dear Annika, WAUW what a challenge to make the dress, but already beautiful 😍😍 I hope that your friends in Texas are safe now, with all the hurricanes 😞😞 Thank you for the lovely episode again 👍🏻 Greetings Anita
Hi Anita, Thank you for your kind words!
Our friends are fortunately fine, thank you so much for asking! ❤
Another lovely episode. I'd love to hear the tips you have on socks knit on natural yarn.
Thanks so much for your lovely comment! I‘ll make sure to record a video about knitting with natural sockyarn in the near future!
Vintage patterns are written for what was available in knitting at the time. They were all knit flat and seamed because of only having access to long needles which were straight single pointed. My MIL is in her 70's and she was telling me that she remembers her mom knitting all kinds of different parts of things and would take them to someone and have them seamed together, ends woven, all the ribbing and finishes done. She would just knit intricate lace and all types of things. It blew my mind! (This was also an extremely wealthy woman living in the US, may not have been this way for everyone...)
Thank you so much for your insightful and knowledgeable comment! You are absolutely right, it was just a different time back then and we shouldn't compare the way knitting patterns were written with our pattern standards today.
My particular vintage pattern from the 1970s does mention circular needles, though. So apparently, knitting with circulars was already common at that time.
How interesting that it was possible to knit the separate pieces and then have them seamed and finished by someone else. This reminds me a bit of the quilting process when you send in your quilt top and someone does the quilting part for you... :)
@@AnnikaScheer That's what I said to her because I like to make quilt tops but prefer to do the quilting process by debit card lol
@@Kera.S. "The quilting process by debit card." 😂😂
I like quilting as well but have only done a couple of simple baby quilts so far. Sometime in the future, I would love to do a quilt with English paper piecing.
@@AnnikaScheer you definitely should. I think you would like EPP. 💙
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