Dear Sarah, the colours of the blanket are wonderful. Dont take it out. Your christmas jumper is lovely. I saw a version in Oslo last month. Although Im not a Christmasy theme knitter, on Ravelry, I love the black background with the motifs. Have a lovely Christmas and best wishes for 2025.
I just love your musings Sarah and I want to thank you for all you have shared this year. And your amazing effort with the K2P2 festival. What an amazing connecting time that was. I love the Syli cardigan. It looks great on you. Have a happy Christmas and new year with your lovely family ❤
Thank you for all the lovely projects you shared this year. It’s been a wonderful one. I wish you a lovely Christmas with your family Sarah and will see you again next year. 🎄🎅🏼❤️
Thank you for the lovely videos you produce for us to enjoy. You inspired me to make some wearables, I have crocheted a vest and just started a cardigan. Your words today about wanting to make things because of the excitement of it all and thinking about if we really want it or it suits our needs were good to hear. It is also good to think about what creative habits I want to take with me into the new year and if anything needs to be left behind. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family.
When I first started knitting I made a lot of knits for my family and quickly learned that some loved knitted gifts and some did not. I’ve narrowed the list considerably which has made my life much easier! I start in Jan and tuck the gifts way but this does not mean that I’m not scrambling in Dec to finish. 😎 Thank you for all your podcasts. I really enjoy spending time with you. Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and all your loved one.
Thank you, Sarah, for a year of delightful videos. This is the year I became a knitter! (But, crochet is still my “comfort zone.”) 🎄🥰🧶 Best wishes for a cozy Christmas and a happy New Year.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year , thank you for all your work in doing the podcast I enjoy them it’s like visiting & knitting together even though I live in San Francisco Bay Area CA USA
Have a lovely festive holiday Sarah. I agree we do buy patterns and knit projects that look fun or good on the person. And not us. Teaching ourselves control is hard.😅
I absolutely agree with you about the fit of different shoulder constructions on different body types. For me, it's almost the opposite as for you: I am a small person with rather narrow shoulders and round shoulder yokes or raglans look great on me, dropped shoulder constructions rather less so. Somehow I look stockier in it than I am, or I have to work a kind of A-line to generate enough width at the chest. All over colorwork patterns with dropped shoulder can be found a lot in Linka Neumann's Wilderness pattern books. Sometimes there you can find the same design as a sweater with a round yoke AND as a sweater with dropped shoulder construction AND as a jacket, including the different steeking options.
Sarah I love your new cardigan…that you will wrap with a “belt”. And all your Advent yarns, lined up are inspiring I’m sure. This new year I gifted myself the Farmers Daughter Monthly Sock Club. It is my goal to become a sock knitter in 2025! Happy holidays to you 🎄
Another podcaster named Laura Penrose recently found out that she had broad shoulders as well. She fits her round yoke sweaters by knitting one size upvoted the upper bust and then sizing down after sleeve split
I absolutely love your two colorwork sweaters. What you describe in the fit of the round yoke, the decreases in the yoke might be too often to fit the way it would feel better. In other words, more rows required in between the decrease rows in the yoke. I think going up a size would help and then decrease down to the next size down, when the yoke is finished. Not likely very easy to do with a colorwork sweater. Might be worth trying with a solid sweater as a test but I think it either way would work. Your projects are all beautiful. I just stumbled across your podcast and I’m watching from Nova Scotia, Canada. Have a wonderful holiday season.
Hi Sarah, here are my thoughts on the festive Sweaters and the round yoke issue: 1. Both Sweaters turned out Great👌 2. The overall flower/stars one looks more feminine on you and the one with the christmas trees more sporty. I Like the feminine Version more❤ 3. That brings me to the round yoke problem: It is all about the bust😅. I donˋt think it is the shape of the shoulders but the bust circumference. The downwards growing Circles of a round yoke „overemphasize“ the bust because they have the largest Circle directly above the bust. Round yokes Look great on „flat busted“ persons (See e.g. the Designs by Isabel Krämer). Raglan gives a Little Interruption in the Round Circle, so it Looks better on you (and myself😂). Best fit is actually the dropped shoulder 👍and a V-neck!
I have found the same thing with circular yoke sweaters; my shoulders do not slope much from my neck to the shoulder point. I'm thinking a circular yoke that has faster increases from the neck would fit square shoulders better. Maybe we need more stitches increased sooner from the neck, while not having more stitches overall at the widest point of the sweater, because we don't have broad shoulders that require a larger size sweater overall. I've been liking raglan sweaters, but because I like colorwork, I want to figure this out! I agree with you that because you are so close to the knitting, you agonize over color compatibility, but if you stand back from the knitting, it is more harmonious. No one else will ever be as close to the stitches as you were when you knitted it.
there are also yoke sweater with a little part of raglan decreases near the armpit. There would be less of these folds between sleeves and body. I love to wear yoke sweaters and I’ve broad shoulders, too. It took a while, to figure out the right shape for my body. I knit the yoke fitted, but add some stitches at the body, starting some cm below the armpit, and maybe 3 times after a few cm again, to give it a little A-shape - so the pullover won’t stay up there, when I raise and drop my arms in movements. I add the stitches at both sides, but not directly at the edge, maybe 10-15 stitches before and after the edge. There’s much, I learned from sewing for the shaping. Good luck! 🍀
Merry chrismas to you and your Family! Thank you for sharing all your crafty adventures with us. Today I can share my own experiences with you. I love all the wonderfull sweaters with a round yoke and lovely colorwork too. I love to knit them, but the fit and the look is also not the best for me. I knitted an oversized sweater with a round yoke and colorwork on 2.5mm needles. Very beautiful but a mess to wear it - „please don‘t move“! I am a lucky one, because I love oversized sweaters my whole life long. But it is also not easy, to find a construction, that fits me best. I think, the secret is always a very good and interesting construction. (I Don‘t want to wear a „potato sack“.) I think, we have to have the courage to mix our favorite patterns to make our own piece of knitwear and to create our own look.
So many hours crafting with you sarah and watching you crafty adventures from tasmania. you've inspired me to alter my knitting to have lower necklines, as I think we have the same type of body and a lower bustline. I find my few garments by andrea mowrey are like this. I wonder if you are just using short rows in the back to do this? or is there something else you do as well to lower a neckline.
I think you should add the other green yarn ball, that you had in hands, just right after the cold grey. It will correct what you see as incorrect, as a balance between colors. Your Syli cardigan is wonderful, and belt is the word you needed in case you’d be willing to close it !
You know maybe if you went out and tried on a number of round yoke sweaters in a variety of sizes you would learn something. You didn’t mention this but short rows will make a difference with the neckline-I feel you already know this. ❤
Oh Sara you make me smile I think it is the design of the round yoke sweater not your body shape but May help to knit a larger size rather than a close fitting sweater. Happy Christmas 🎄Have you seen Steven West is doing a year of sock making 2025 with one pair a month 🤔
Sarah, I wouldn't be too upset about your gift knitting this year. I think the K2P2 Festival just took up all your time and brain space in 2024 and that's why your gift basket is sparse. I think it is a lovely system. Maybe this next year you can pick out specific sock skeins for each person and toss them in the basket to work on as you can, but then you'll know exactly who you're giving them to and it won't feel so random. For this year what if you give your husband and son the two Christmas pairs of socks and the other two pairs of socks to your girls and then the two hats to the significant others? And just enjoy being with your beautiful family at this special time.❤🧶😊
I totally understand where you are about knitting for others and what do you make and being all over the place. I feel, often, that I’m knitting for the sake of knitting, and I don’t like that. I end up with a bunch of things and what to do with it all so I end up donating them. That’s not a bad thing as there is always people in need. My nephew was talking babies so I ran with that idea which was fun for a while and then I had to stop and realize it’s time to slow down. Baby/children knitting is just fun. But, I feel like I don’t know what I should be doing. I’m going to switch back to my cross stitch throw that has been sitting well too long.
Round yokes take a bit of fussing to get right on me. I have broad, square shoulders, a smaller upper bust and, well, the actual breasts are quite a large cup size. So I’m always trying to fix round yokes. What I’ve found is that doing a less deep yoke, down one size from that recommended for my actual bust measurement is a start. Then I have to add some raglan shaping to grow the body quickly.Also, look to the shaping of men’s round yokes vs. women’s and incorporate that into the design. Men tend to have broader, less sloped shoulders than women. Too many round yoke sweaters are shaped more like a cone. Those really don’t work for broad shouldered people. You need one shaped more like an actual half circle (not quite, but you get the idea). I hope this makes sense. The idea is to grow the circle faster til the shoulder drops off, and then less quickly once the sweater falls past the shoulder. As for where your long cardigan falls, if you don’t want to say “butt” you can also call it your “backside” or your “bum.” 😂 The item that holds it close is a belt.
Hi, I agree with your assessment of the ‘cone’ shape, having knit a couple of round yoke pullovers recently that ‘look’ ok but pull slightly around the shoulders, making them feel uncomfortable as Sarah describes. (I’m square shouldered and very small busted.) As you say, increases earlier on may help, though it may be difficult to incorporate into a colourwork pattern. Thanks for your tip to seek out men’s patterns! For plain sweaters a contiguous shoulder construction is fab for squarer shoulders.
I think, if you just knit socks, it would be nice for donating- but, if you knit a specific pattern for a dear person, you pour all the love for this person into the knitting ❤ you think of them, while knitting, imagine them wearing this socks with joy … and this feeling and connection might not be there, if you designate the socks or hats afterwards…
Maybe "influencers" have made us more the same than different. So are we becoming more conformist, even though knitting and making make it possible to be unique?
merry Christmas We silly Americans actually buy ugly holiday sweaters and having parties to determine who found the ugliest sweater . Sometimes there are prizes
Dear Sarah, the colours of the blanket are wonderful. Dont take it out. Your christmas jumper is lovely. I saw a version in Oslo last month. Although Im not a Christmasy theme knitter, on Ravelry, I love the black background with the motifs. Have a lovely Christmas and best wishes for 2025.
I think the green adds a sense of nature. It adds to the beauty and the flow of the blanket.
Interesting ...
I can only knit with happiness in my hands or the unhappiness shows in my knitting. 😊
Sarah, your scrappy blanket is lovely. Keep going! I always enjoy your musings.
I just love your musings Sarah and I want to thank you for all you have shared this year. And your amazing effort with the K2P2 festival. What an amazing connecting time that was. I love the Syli cardigan. It looks great on you. Have a happy Christmas and new year with your lovely family ❤
Have a great holiday. Thank you for sharing your knitting and heart jumping moments!
Thank you for all the lovely projects you shared this year. It’s been a wonderful one. I wish you a lovely Christmas with your family Sarah and will see you again next year. 🎄🎅🏼❤️
LOVE that Christmas sweater.❤❤
Thank you for the lovely videos you produce for us to enjoy. You inspired me to make some wearables, I have crocheted a vest and just started a cardigan. Your words today about wanting to make things because of the excitement of it all and thinking about if we really want it or it suits our needs were good to hear. It is also good to think about what creative habits I want to take with me into the new year and if anything needs to be left behind. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family.
When I first started knitting I made a lot of knits for my family and quickly learned that some loved knitted gifts and some did not. I’ve narrowed the list considerably which has made my life much easier! I start in Jan and tuck the gifts way but this does not mean that I’m not scrambling in Dec to finish. 😎 Thank you for all your podcasts. I really enjoy spending time with you. Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and all your loved one.
Have a very Merry Christmas 🎄! Happy New Year 🎊! Happy knitting 💚🧶🩷
Your Christmas socks are so fun!!
Thank you, Sarah, for a year of delightful videos. This is the year I became a knitter! (But, crochet is still my “comfort zone.”) 🎄🥰🧶 Best wishes for a cozy Christmas and a happy New Year.
Perhaps the flower is poinsettia 😊
Thank you for all your videos this year. With every best wish for Christmas and 2025. 🇬🇧
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year , thank you for all your work in doing the podcast I enjoy them it’s like visiting & knitting together even though I live in San Francisco Bay Area CA USA
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family!
Good point about the scrappy blanket and not hyper focusing on one small part.
Happy holidays!
Have a lovely festive holiday Sarah. I agree we do buy patterns and knit projects that look fun or good on the person. And not us. Teaching ourselves control is hard.😅
Your jumpers are superb! 🙂
Love your evergreen tree 🌲 socks Sarah Fabulous!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you and your family Sarah
I wouldn’t worry about your darker colored blanket having some yarns that feel a little heavier. It looks beautiful.
Thank you for a wonderful year filled with inspiration. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family, Sarah! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🧑🎄🤶🏻🎅🏻
Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas, Sarah, and your family
Merry Christmas to you and your family and all the best for the New Year. Sarah.❤🙏
I absolutely agree with you about the fit of different shoulder constructions on different body types. For me, it's almost the opposite as for you: I am a small person with rather narrow shoulders and round shoulder yokes or raglans look great on me, dropped shoulder constructions rather less so. Somehow I look stockier in it than I am, or I have to work a kind of A-line to generate enough width at the chest.
All over colorwork patterns with dropped shoulder can be found a lot in Linka Neumann's Wilderness pattern books. Sometimes there you can find the same design as a sweater with a round yoke AND as a sweater with dropped shoulder construction AND as a jacket, including the different steeking options.
Sarah I love your new cardigan…that you will wrap with a “belt”. And all your Advent yarns, lined up are inspiring I’m sure.
This new year I gifted myself the Farmers Daughter Monthly Sock Club. It is my goal to become a sock knitter in 2025!
Happy holidays to you 🎄
Love your almost finished cardigan. I want one!
Your long cardigan is gorgeous 😃
Another podcaster named Laura Penrose recently found out that she had broad shoulders as well. She fits her round yoke sweaters by knitting one size upvoted the upper bust and then sizing down after sleeve split
I absolutely love your two colorwork sweaters. What you describe in the fit of the round yoke, the decreases in the yoke might be too often to fit the way it would feel better. In other words, more rows required in between the decrease rows in the yoke. I think going up a size would help and then decrease down to the next size down, when the yoke is finished. Not likely very easy to do with a colorwork sweater. Might be worth trying with a solid sweater as a test but I think it either way would work. Your projects are all beautiful. I just stumbled across your podcast and I’m watching from Nova Scotia, Canada. Have a wonderful holiday season.
Hi Sarah, here are my thoughts on the festive Sweaters and the round yoke issue:
1. Both Sweaters turned out Great👌
2. The overall flower/stars one looks more feminine on you and the one with the christmas trees more sporty. I Like the feminine Version more❤
3. That brings me to the round yoke problem: It is all about the bust😅. I donˋt think it is the shape of the shoulders but the bust circumference. The downwards growing Circles of a round yoke „overemphasize“ the bust because they have the largest Circle directly above the bust. Round yokes Look great on „flat busted“ persons (See e.g. the Designs by Isabel Krämer). Raglan gives a Little Interruption in the Round Circle, so it Looks better on you (and myself😂). Best fit is actually the dropped shoulder 👍and a V-neck!
I have found the same thing with circular yoke sweaters; my shoulders do not slope much from my neck to the shoulder point. I'm thinking a circular yoke that has faster increases from the neck would fit square shoulders better. Maybe we need more stitches increased sooner from the neck, while not having more stitches overall at the widest point of the sweater, because we don't have broad shoulders that require a larger size sweater overall. I've been liking raglan sweaters, but because I like colorwork, I want to figure this out!
I agree with you that because you are so close to the knitting, you agonize over color compatibility, but if you stand back from the knitting, it is more harmonious. No one else will ever be as close to the stitches as you were when you knitted it.
there are also yoke sweater with a little part of raglan decreases near the armpit. There would be less of these folds between sleeves and body. I love to wear yoke sweaters and I’ve broad shoulders, too. It took a while, to figure out the right shape for my body. I knit the yoke fitted, but add some stitches at the body, starting some cm below the armpit, and maybe 3 times after a few cm again, to give it a little A-shape - so the pullover won’t stay up there, when I raise and drop my arms in movements. I add the stitches at both sides, but not directly at the edge, maybe 10-15 stitches before and after the edge. There’s much, I learned from sewing for the shaping. Good luck! 🍀
Merry chrismas to you and your Family! Thank you for sharing all your crafty adventures with us. Today I can share my own experiences with you. I love all the wonderfull sweaters with a round yoke and lovely colorwork too. I love to knit them, but the fit and the look is also not the best for me. I knitted an oversized sweater with a round yoke and colorwork on 2.5mm needles. Very beautiful but a mess to wear it - „please don‘t move“! I am a lucky one, because I love oversized sweaters my whole life long. But it is also not easy, to find a construction, that fits me best. I think, the secret is always a very good and interesting construction. (I Don‘t want to wear a „potato sack“.) I think, we have to have the courage to mix our favorite patterns to make our own piece of knitwear and to create our own look.
I have broad shoulders I tend to make set in sleeve and drop sleeve sweaters and yes to fitted in the areas you like
So many hours crafting with you sarah and watching you crafty adventures from tasmania. you've inspired me to alter my knitting to have lower necklines, as I think we have the same type of body and a lower bustline. I find my few garments by andrea mowrey are like this. I wonder if you are just using short rows in the back to do this? or is there something else you do as well to lower a neckline.
I think you should add the other green yarn ball, that you had in hands, just right after the cold grey. It will correct what you see as incorrect, as a balance between colors. Your Syli cardigan is wonderful, and belt is the word you needed in case you’d be willing to close it !
You know maybe if you went out and tried on a number of round yoke sweaters in a variety of sizes you would learn something. You didn’t mention this but short rows will make a difference with the neckline-I feel you already know this. ❤
The urge to have created Christmas knits is the strongest a few weeks before Christmas, 😂. Wishing you and your family a wonderful MerryChristmas. ❤
Festive yoke is great, maybe cozy is the way it feels?💙💚
I love your TH-cam channel! You have knitted so many wonderful garments, but is there one that’s you love the most and wear on heavy rotation? 😙
Oh Sara you make me smile I think it is the design of the round yoke sweater not your body shape but May help to knit a larger size rather than a close fitting sweater. Happy Christmas 🎄Have you seen Steven West is doing a year of sock making 2025 with one pair a month 🤔
Sarah, I wouldn't be too upset about your gift knitting this year. I think the K2P2 Festival just took up all your time and brain space in 2024 and that's why your gift basket is sparse. I think it is a lovely system. Maybe this next year you can pick out specific sock skeins for each person and toss them in the basket to work on as you can, but then you'll know exactly who you're giving them to and it won't feel so random. For this year what if you give your husband and son the two Christmas pairs of socks and the other two pairs of socks to your girls and then the two hats to the significant others? And just enjoy being with your beautiful family at this special time.❤🧶😊
I totally understand where you are about knitting for others and what do you make and being all over the place. I feel, often, that I’m knitting for the sake of knitting, and I don’t like that. I end up with a bunch of things and what to do with it all so I end up donating them. That’s not a bad thing as there is always people in need. My nephew was talking babies so I ran with that idea which was fun for a while and then I had to stop and realize it’s time to slow down. Baby/children knitting is just fun. But, I feel like I don’t know what I should be doing. I’m going to switch back to my cross stitch throw that has been sitting well too long.
Make the yoke one Size bigger than the rest of the sweater to fit your body better! Laura Penrose had a video about this problem
Round yokes take a bit of fussing to get right on me. I have broad, square shoulders, a smaller upper bust and, well, the actual breasts are quite a large cup size. So I’m always trying to fix round yokes. What I’ve found is that doing a less deep yoke, down one size from that recommended for my actual bust measurement is a start. Then I have to add some raglan shaping to grow the body quickly.Also, look to the shaping of men’s round yokes vs. women’s and incorporate that into the design. Men tend to have broader, less sloped shoulders than women. Too many round yoke sweaters are shaped more like a cone. Those really don’t work for broad shouldered people. You need one shaped more like an actual half circle (not quite, but you get the idea). I hope this makes sense. The idea is to grow the circle faster til the shoulder drops off, and then less quickly once the sweater falls past the shoulder.
As for where your long cardigan falls, if you don’t want to say “butt” you can also call it your “backside” or your “bum.” 😂 The item that holds it close is a belt.
Hi, I agree with your assessment of the ‘cone’ shape, having knit a couple of round yoke pullovers recently that ‘look’ ok but pull slightly around the shoulders, making them feel uncomfortable as Sarah describes. (I’m square shouldered and very small busted.) As you say, increases earlier on may help, though it may be difficult to incorporate into a colourwork pattern. Thanks for your tip to seek out men’s patterns! For plain sweaters a contiguous shoulder construction is fab for squarer shoulders.
There is a pattern for tube socks so you don’t always have to put a heel in a sock.
Is the long cardigan pattern available in english? Pattern and designer/ thank you. Have wonderful celebrations.
I believe she has linked the pattern in the show notes. At least I assume so since she always does. :)
Happy holidays to you and your family, see you in 2025.🎅🛷🎄👏👏👏
I think, if you just knit socks, it would be nice for donating- but, if you knit a specific pattern for a dear person, you pour all the love for this person into the knitting ❤ you think of them, while knitting, imagine them wearing this socks with joy … and this feeling and connection might not be there, if you designate the socks or hats afterwards…
Maybe "influencers" have made us more the same than different. So are we becoming more conformist, even though knitting and making make it possible to be unique?
Weleens aan schouder-vullingen gedacht? Die kun je er ev. inzaaien, bij afhangende schouders
I know some knitters exchange yarns with one another. Perhaps you have friends you could exchange yarns with Sarah
merry Christmas We silly Americans actually buy ugly
holiday sweaters and having parties to determine who found the ugliest sweater . Sometimes there are prizes
I would not buy or wear an ugly Christmas sweater either Sarah.