Alysa Landry in Native Times March 16, 2009 quoted Ron Garnanez a Najajo weaver about the tradition of mistakes in their rug weaving. He said :The traditional teaching of the Navajo weaving is that you have to put a mistake in there. It must be done because only the creator is perfect. We’re not perfect, so we don’t make a perfect rug.” I've heard this tradition since I was a child growing up in the West. I tell myself that's why I make mistakes and leave them in my work. Hahaha. If it's good enough for the beautiful Weaver's of the Navajo Nation it's good enough for me.
The hat instructions sound to me just like a dart in sewing - going from a depth of 0 at the hat band, up to 1/2 inch deep at 1.25 inches and then back down to 0 at 2.5 inches. In this case, I think I might even consider sewing with needle and thread, as yarn and crochet would most likely be visible. Might even consider cutting a felt strip, folding it over the dart and machine sewing through all layers, as that would protect the yarn from the thread rubbing a bit. The felt could be trimmed very close to sewn line.
I agree with everything but using thread and machine. I'd just take yarn and a tapestry needle to create the ditch seam. (In the same way that yarn isn't visible when seaming a sweater together in blanket stitch, it should be visible here unless the stitches are too loose and uneven.
@@Stretch1003 The main reason for the suggestion was that the seam would include 3 or 4 stripes, which means either changing color often or having bits of the yarn show.when it passes through a stripe of a different color.
The only impact this COVID has made on me so far is making me more keenly aware that if I want to pass along my handcrafting to my nieces and their kids, I need to get on it!! I'm middle-aged, single woman with no kids one of the most significant legacies I can leave behind to mark my time on this earth comes from my creativity and ability to figure out how to make concepts in my head into realities in my hands that I can then pass on to my loved ones. It wouldn't even occur to me to change my thought process about my knitting accuracy, because it's exactly where I feel it should be. I have a high degree of attention to details with perfectionist tendencies - if you're going to do something, do it Right! - but not to a degree that it hinders me. I'll absolutely go back a fix a mistake if it's a few rows up, but any further than that and it will depend on the type of mistake and location. And if I notice an error once I've finished a project, I'll frown for a minute while I inspect it, wishing I'd noticed it at the time, but then I'll pull back and celebrate my accomplishment as a whole - a beautiful creation with a unique little quirk!! 😊
My knitting has changed during this time, but not in regards to my perfectionism, I don’t think. I’ve actually had some days where I couldn’t even pick it up. I had no mojo. However, the TH-cam algorithm came through and showed me a channel, I think it’s Daily Art Therapy, where you can draw along with the guy. They are simple geometric designs and the rhythm is so soothing. I’m loving it. That reminds me, thank you for linking to the crafting research (Crafting During Coronavirus)! This is the kind of new twist that I’m keeping track of and submitting.
Thank you for this deeply thoughtful episode. I always learn more from you about how I might think through a new-to-me knitting conundrum. Since the novel virus is new to all of us, your invitation to notice how we are (if we are) responding with adjustments regarding “what matters” and “what we determine is important or acceptable” in our creating is such a welcome inquiry. I was heartened by your decision to allow the miscrossed cable to remain “as is” - almost as a symbolic way of honoring our very real human vulnerabilities. This virus has reminded many of us that we are not in control of as much as we might have imagined ourselves to be...we need each other... Craftsmanship is admirable, as is creating things of beauty; your intentionally keeping the minor error in place is a beautiful decision- one that turns your craft into art...the garment now embued with far greater meaning and adding, rather than decreasing Value ( in my perception, anyway)💗💫take care and be well
My uncle has been gone a long time. He was an anesthesist, so very picky. Had his own sheep and hand spun wool. He would knit sweaters for other hospital staff. One yr he had 2 sweaters w/patch pockets on the needles and the first one done was entered in the state fair taking a blue ribbon. On getting it back home he noticed he had mis-matched the pockets! Maybe the judges thot it was by design? Or they didn't notice?
I had a problem with Paton sock yarn. Purchased 2 balls. Finished one sock and started the second. Same color and dye lot the same. I spent hours trying to get them to match up. Did not happen. I never was able to figure it out. It was almost like it was a different design but all the same colors. I was not happy.
They’re definitely describing a dart and not a tuck, as many people pointed out already below ☺️ they are super easy to make, not sure why they gave those mysterious instructions!
If it's a gift, I'm fussier about my knitting. In the times of COVID, I've noticed my tension is varying. I did tick back part of the colour work yoke of a sweater I was knitting for my husband because the stitches didn't look even enough....I was pleased with myself in that I could #1-read my knitting well enough to do that successfully, and #2-I could correct it so that it actually looked better. But, I always remember what a LYS owner told me once:"It's only knitting!" Puts things in perspective...it's a hobby and an enjoyable pastime, not something to stress about. Stay well, all!
My knitting has definitely changed during this pandemic, and particularly the stay at home order. I used to knit sweaters, and would knit all day (I'm retired}. But every once in a while, I would go to a grocery store, or to Nordstrom or Joanne's, or make bread (which I can't do now because my daughter is on a diet and is home from college). Well now, knitting all day means knitting ALL day. There are no breaks. So I have found my sweaters are not good at this time. I am knitting a lot of small projects (mittens, hats, boot toppers). My Bexley Popover by Pam Powers sits on the couch next to me, and as soon as there are other distractions, I will pick it up again. I can still knit all day (actually, all night, from 4 pm to 2 am), I just need to finish things. I knit that Bexley for a good week and it started to feel like I would be working on it for the rest of my life. I would be stuck inside, knitting this sweater. Well, just until the end of May, I hope.
Liberating and enlightening is my response to you. In reviewing my style of knitting since COVID I see a more gentle approach to mistakes, it is a relief to me to hear I am not the only one.
Just seeing this now....saved it for after the dog walk this morning....I think the tuck runs perpendicular to the direction you think the tuck should run.so from ear point to ear point across the stripes a few inches up from the brim and tapering out to the “ears”.
Just wanted to thank you for the tip about "Mrs. Wilson's Knitting Circle." I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks also for your excellent videos. I've been knitting for just three years now-an after retirement activity- and find your insights and teaching manner very much to my liking. Many thanks!
I had a weird thing happen with a skein of yarn once. Not only was there a knot but the yarn was a different size. Same color but the yarn was noticably bigger. Not sure how that happened but it was really weird. Lucky for me I had another skein and enough to finsh the project.
Regarding the question about attitude of perfectionism and I have contemplated this question during covid19 and realized that my stressing out about being perfect has lessened a little and I find myself just a little less stressed
Hi, Rox! Dear me, you had me in stitches (pun intended!) with your story about the yarn fiasco...! I’ve heard that the industry standard for skeins of yarn is 2-3 knots per skein. If you’ve knit so many socks without encountering your “share” of skein knots, it sounds to me like the yarn and sock gods collaborated to get back at you, and they did it in a BIG way...! You should be good to go for a while now, I should think! (I just finished a pair of socks with the exact brand & colorway, and my skein was just fine, by the way. But I don’t really expect perfection in my striped socks. As long as they look like they belong together, I’m happy!). As for fixing mistakes in my knitting, I recently finished the “Rowe Cardigan “ by Michele Wang (just had to have it when I saw it!), and when I was knitting one of the front panels I noticed a miscrossed cable about 6-7 inches down. That sweater was so important to me that I dropped down and knit it back up in order to make it right. And it was probably only the second or third time I’ve dropped down to fix my knitting. It was certainly the first time I have dropped down more than 2-5 rows...! If I’m knitting a gift for someone, I expect it to be perfect. When I knit for myself, however, I generally accept my mistakes if they take more effort to fix than I’m willing to expend. If they’re easy to fix, though, I usually do fix them. Probably because I’m more of a process knitter than a product knitter. And no, the current environment hasn’t changed my attitude about my mistakes. What it seems to have done for me is to make me less focused when working on something. I find myself picking something up, working a few rows, losing interest, picking something else up, etc. And I’m generally a very focused sort of person. So that’s a source of frustration that I’m having to work through right now. Anyway, take care, and keep up with your terrific videos! They certainly do brighten up the days when they pop up in my TH-cam queue...! Thanks, and stay healthy!
I watched a How It's Made TH-cam video about yarn. It wasn't self-striping, but they made the point that if they didn't put knots in it, it would be much more expensive. You could talk to the yarn company, explaining that you want to understand how they make their yarn, and the problem).
My motto has become, if you can't see it from the back of a galloping horse, then let it go. I tend not to let things go and would drive myself crazy fixing and ripping back. It stopped being fun, which was the real reason do do it in the first place. No one else will ever notice it.
On your hat, it sounds like to me they are talking about. A fish eye dart. Fold the hat along the decrease line. So start sewing with back stitching at a point, getting wider till it a half inch in the center and than back to a point. The dart is supposed to be 2 1/2 inches long.
Re: the yarn wound in reverse, the self-striping cakes you find at Joann and Michaels (Lion Brand Mandala, Premier Sweet Rolls, etc) are a total mix of which colors are in the middle and at the ends, and which direction they were wound. I think it's in the process of taking fairly identical, giant skeins out of the dying equipment, and putting them on the factory equivalent of giant swifts to roll them off onto giant bobbins and cones for use in the ball winders that they get flipped. I know on my own swift/ball winder setup, I can pick either end to unwind from. I often try to find cakes that match up, such that the outer color on one leads into the inner color on another (I like center-pull), but I've also, when there weren't enough to choose from, picked ones wound in reverse, and rewound them on my widner, pulling from the outside, one hand a meter above the cake, so it unwound like a cone, and rewound into a reversed cake. I think I've encountered a retied, self-striping yarn, but not with a big section tied back in in reverse! That hardly even makes sense. When the line snaps, they retie the two snapped ends back together, usually. It should be relatively close to the original yarn, just with a knot in it.
Have you tried Arne and Carlos' Pairfect sock yarn? It is engineered in such a way that you get two identical pairs with solid colour heels in the self striping!! there is a yellow lead in the yarn as the cut off. Made in Germany by Regia.
I've knit with several of the Pairfect colorways, including some that were designed by Arne & Carlos (not all of them have been designed by A&C). Part of the fun of self-striping yarn for me is figuring out how to make socks match within the context of whatever the striping pattern is for that yarn, as well as deciding how long to knit the leg, and what sort of heel I would like to use. Those choices are more limited with Pairfect, but for some people, it hits the spot.
Thank you for the link to the NI museum. I come from NI and had a rough idea of the linen industry, but this link educated me even further. Very intersing . ☺👍
I love the wrap you're wearing in this video. I do find myself to be more forgiving (of myself and others) during this time. I think that small things (like knitting errors) don't really matter in the bigger picture. I hope you and your loved ones stay safe and healthy.
I’ve had the same thing happen with yarn- many breaks and reversed stripes. It’s really annoying and would love to have been able to return it. I’ve had this happen a few times with reverse stripe on the Paton’s Kroy. I’m the same way about fixing things. I laddered down a 16 stitch wide antler cable to fix it. I don’t think I’ve changed my perspective on fixing mistakes, I’m still really anal about things being correct. But....I have to say that going back and figuring out how to fix things has made me learn a lot and I think I’ve progressed much faster as a knitter than I would have as far as being able to knit more and more complicated patterns. They’re all learning experiences for me so I don’t get too frustrated when I have to ladder down, tink or frog something
Unless you need to make adjustments in the sock girth as you knit to customize it to the wearer, an afterthought heel is the perfect way to maintain the pattern of a self-striping yarn. While I find the idea of using a provisional cast-on to knit the heel right then to be a viable option, inserting the heel afterward is so easy and Doesn't really take any planning or yarn measuring in the middle and provides the Same exact result, I feel no need to try it. I also tend to have a matchy-matchy drive when it comes to knitting pairs - socks, mittens, gloves - and there again, the afterthought heel is my friend and makes matching socks up super easy (unless there's a hiccup in the yarn).
The measuring of yarn at the heel was because I wanted a particular effect at the split that would also require measuring if I knit it as a standard peasant heel. (I would still have to choose where in the colorway I want to start the heel, even if I do it last.) I could just as easily left the working yarn hanging and joined a contrast yarn or some other section of the yarn ball in order to work the heel, and then returned to the waiting working yarn when I took up knitting the foot again. The PCO I use is the same thing I do when I knit an afterthought heel (with the back of leg sts put on hold and the PCO done to establish the sole, rather than putting instep on hold and PCO for the sole). It's a process that I find makes recapturing the sts to work the heel easier than the snip-and-capture process of a true afterthought heel or the knitted-in waste yarn process of a forethought heel. If those differences aren't an advantage for you, or if you don't care about trying on your sock as you go, then the process this style of heel offers is irrelevant to you. I like the peasant heel, but I have to make modifications for every person I knit for, in order to get a good fit. The plain heel simplifies making those modifications.
I have also unraveled sometimes up to a thousand stitches (a blanket where have way through a row I turned and went the other way and didn't find it for over 10 rows) and now when I made a mistake on a sock and had just done the heel (top down) I just decided to do the same on the other sock so they matched.... Only I know what I did.
I learn so much from your podcasts. I especially like to hear your discussions about the 1940's pattern books and your knitting of some of them. The constructions you show are fascinating. (But if you do wear that new 40's era hat in public, especially with sunglasses and a mask, people will stay the required 6 feet away...or more. No worries! :)
During this time I have slowed down to evaluate my knitting. Especially in the types of yarn and the colors I choose. The weight of the yarn into relation to what the finished object is. What I like my sweater to be, firm or flimsy. Same with shawl and scarf and other things I knit. So I guess I have become more aware because I have slowed down.
To me, my goal isn't to create something that looks like it came off a machine. The little imperfections don't bother me at all because the pure joy of creating something is the ultimate goal. If a mistake causes fit issues, of course it must be corrected. But a mistake in one stitch just adds to the charm.
Also I love that scarf, I just bought the pattern. I don't know if my kitting has changed, because I have only been knitting since the beginning of last year, but I have learnt so much in that time, I am beginning not to care if what I do isn't the same as the pattern. I actually like making changes. Im my last project I ran out of yarn needing 6 more rows of a collar/front band and decided to do it in a colour very close to it that was in the main project. It looks great. I nearly put it aside and was going to wait until I ordered more of the main colour. But when it comes to quality, I have standards. I'd want my socks to be the same.
I had some sock yarn that had breaks and colour reversal that baffled me, I even bought a second ball and that didn't match either. It was really long colour changes too more like colour blocking rather than striped. I complained to the company who said they allow up to 5 joins in a ball before it is classed as a second. They did send me a free ball of yarn in a different colour but it was enough to make me abandon my first attempt at socks. That was several years ago and I knit may first socks on your KAL and they fit and match! I think the hat has a dart like in sewing with the apex at the brim, though why didn't they decrease the stitches out in the pattern?
The tuck is along the line of decreases (there are decreases every row on either side of the midpoint). It's a really unusual instruction and construction element, but it's probably the easiest/most efficient way to get the desired result -- once you understand what it is they want you to do!
Rox, I enjoy listening to you. “Won’t you be my neighbor?” Your cowl or shawl is gorgeous. I am guessing you made it. A closeup would be nice. I fix my mistakes when I feel they are important. If not obvious or glaring I leave them now. I used to correct no matter what. I really related to you when you stated in a previous podcast that you found yourself staring out the window. I said “that is me”. It is impossible to tell how the tuck was applied to the hat from the picture. Gosh, now I am really curious as to how you are going to do it! Your podcasts are so informative I find myself relaxing into them. Thank you!
I think you had it right on the hat, but I would just use a needle and do as if sewing. In regard to the yarn on your sock I go in moods. When using acrylic yarn years ago I never came across joins. Now it happens even in some "designer" yarns. I don't get too upset now but I used to. It depends on the project or my mood I guess as to ripping down almost a whole body of a sweater or other projects because of a mistake or a dropped stitch.(Sometimes if a count is wrong I just adjust it and go, but if I did that and find a dropped stitch, I will rip it all out.)
I feel your frustration with that ball of mismatched strips. I’m currently knitting a pair of socks and so far the ball of 100gm yarn has had 3 knots. 😩 I did once work in a commercial knitting mill so understand some of the spinning process, but not the dye stamping. The “balls” of yarn I saw were dyed a single color they weighed about 3 tons each.
The very first pair of socks that I knit had a knot on the second sock half way down the foot. I was so eager to make the match but it was on the foot and no one would see it so I didn't get too much. As my teacher and good friend would say, "It's just a sock. " I do try to make my socks match but if they don't, it's not the end of the world. Isn't it the Amish or Quakers who leave mistakes in their work to represent that only God is perfect.
The tuck is actually a dart as you showed. Suggest you follow instructions on sewing a bust dart. The middle of the dart woukd be 1/2 inch deep and the dart is 2.5 inch long. Try just a running stitch. Hope it works. I have the same books and always fancied this fun hat.
I think "tuck" is probably the more accurate term here, particularly since this is a knitted item. Darts in knitting are accomplished in a very different way. There is a "tuck dart" in sewing, which seems to be more similar to what is going on here.
@@RoxanneRichardson That is good to know as I come from sewing and have known that pinching in of fabric as a dart. My Mum used to sew such shapings with back stitch and used these patterns in the 40's but it could get bulky. Could you show us the difference between a tuck and a dart ? By the way I really enjoy your videos. Thank you
My Master dressmaking teacher called those kinds of mistakes "Designer's Choice" or if they can see it, they're too close to you. I like your reasoning as well and will add it to my possible responses. Perfection is sometimes overrated. HUgs from a distance.
About mistakes, I generally don’t want to take the time to fix things that have nothing to do with fit or won’t mess up something’s wearability. I know for sure that nothing’s perfect and I don’t want to take my handknits too seriously. These days, though, I feel so unrushed that I really don’t mind stopping and re-knitting or laddering back or whatever. I feel so anxious about a lot of things, but relaxed about all my crafting. Go figure!🤷♀️
I find that my attempts at perfection are determined by how I am feeling, physically, at the time. They also are determined by whether the item will be a gift. As a beginning quilter I was taught that one should give her best effort, but to expect perfection is an affront to God. You can be sure that none of my work ever approaches that state of perfection. I am knitting or quilting for the joy and satisfaction of the work.
@@RoxanneRichardson I have two online afghan KAL's going and one pair of socks. Over the past two months I have knit two hats. One was for the Indianapolis Pacers Nothing but Knit campaign to knit blue and gold caps for volunteers who will work at the NBA Allstar game in Indy in 2021. Oh how I hope that happens!
I will have to try this heel. I have a bigger heel angle even though I have a low arch. My heel goes out in the back more and the top of my foot angles up high so I think this might really help for the sock not to be so tight .
I think you are looking at inserting the dart in the hat in the wrong direction. Turn it through 90 degrees and it will go along the line from point to point for a length of 2.5 inches and a depth of 0.5 inches centre. I would sew it in with yarn as in dressmaking. Does this help? Thank you for all your videos.
Hi I love these videos from across the pond, thank you for taking the time to share. I have discovered Tunisian crochet and wonder if you have tried this and could share your thoughts?
Hi there! Its been awhile. I finally have my lace weight yarn that I want to use to make Edwardian socks or stockings. But I find, that the patterns I like are..interesting to translate in this day and age knitting jargon. So I was wondering if you have ever made these, and if not if you'd be interested in doing a video kal or even revelry kal for a pair of Edwardian socks or stockings.
Kitten WAW has it. You are making a dart. Fold fabric . Use a piece of yarn and do a backstitch down the line where you would sew the dart. Imagine a line drawn from the maximum width to 0 width and sew along it.
I've used this brand many, many times, and this particular line of sock yarn in many different colorways. I see it as an anomaly, and will continue to use their yarns.
Roxanne Richardson good to hear. I realized that I can no longer remember the brand - so I probably still use it lol. Like you I knit a lot of socks. It was a self patterning like yours, and I did the same thing and fooled around with rewinding to try and get it to match. Thank you so much for your podcasts. They are fascinating.
Thank you for another interesting episode! Love watching! Where can I find directions for the peasant or plain heel? I've heard you refer to so many times and would love to try it out. Thank you so much for providing the knitting community with great information.
I would like the instructions as well. I’m working on my first contrast heel sock using slip stitch heel and don’t like the look. This heel would be perfect
Just for future viewers, she did upload a video showing how this heel works, and you can find it by going to her TH-cam page and searching for 'plain heel'.
The 2.5 inches is along the width and the .5 inch is the length. You can crochet it using crochet 2 together, or you can sew it. It's to make the 2 points to 'stand up' more. It's kind of like making a 2.5" by 0.5" dart in a sewing project.
First, What are the odds that you have two breaks in your yarn?! Maybe you should buy a lottery ticket! I just finished a yoke sweater, and I did notice a mistake in the color work on the shoulder of my sleeve after I had finished binding off the cuff. I decided not to redo the entire sleeve, because it would be a reminder of when I was knitting this sweater. I was completely overwhelmed by the thought of learning how to teach kindergarten remotely and knitting this sweater grounded me through those first few weeks. The yarn for it was the last purchase I made before my local yarn shop closed, and it actually has become a favorite sweater of mine to wear. Thank you for your videos. I look forward to watching and learning from you.
The V&A museum has digitised most of its collection. If you go to www.vam.ac.uk and look under collections materials and techniques there is whole section just on knitting through the ages.
The second way you have the hat on the mannequin head - note that you can see your hat's brim all the way around, but in the image of the woman, the brim is folded under in front, all the way to the point. I think what they meant was to tuck the hat brim under at the back about a half inch, for about 2.5" (out from center, or either side of center?), and then follow it around the sides, tucking it under, but less and less so, until right when you get to the point, you're not tucking in anything any more ("tapering off toward the ends"). The directions don't *really* read exactly that way, but when I see how it looks on her head (and I was huge into origami as a kid!), that's what it looks like she's doing. Then you can use your hands to crease down into the space between the beanie part on the head, and the ears, and finally push the ears flat against the sides of the head, to get those owl-like ears in the second pic. At least, I *think* that's what's going on. It's a puzzle! I think it looks cool the way you had, it, too, though :) Such a versatile shape.
Since you're not going to wear the hat anyway is there a possibility you could felt it a little. It would be a little stiffer a little smaller. Most will hats are felted right? End of problem!
Roxanne: I tried to follow what you were saying about making that stripe fall properly on your daughter's sock, but I was a little lost. Would love if you could do a video showing that -- the perfectionist in me wants to understand and apply it (oh no ... not much hope for me letting go of perfectionism, but I see it more as making sure the art composition is the best it can be.
Question re sock heel: could you do a round heel decreasing in the same way as the round toe? If you know how many rounds per inch then you should be able to figure out how many decrease rounds and plain rounds based on the depth you want the heel, correct?
Look at Kay Jones "Umbrella Socks" pattern on Ravelry. She worked on designing an all-around decrease in the heel based upon (yet slightly different) her Umbrella Toe, called the Umbrella Heel. Kay is one of the Bakery Bears, and has a podcast on TH-cam as well. It's a very nice heel, more rounded!
That happened to me with Abe once! I ended up with double copies of everything, for no real reason! Some of them I gave away but others are just chilling on my bookshelf. So if anyone wants a copy of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, hit me up ;)
I think that because it says tapering off to the endS that they mean for the tuck to be parallel to the band1/2 inch deep at the center - The center line of decreases. (perpendicular to the line of decreases) Also, the photo doesn't appear to show any disruption of the stripes Also your hat looks like it might have a little bit of fabric bulging over the brim (at 22:30) - That might be the fabric that needs tucking. Just a thought.
I am certainly questioning my tendency towards trying to achieve perfection. Can I let it go? Not sure yet, but think I want to try (if that makes any sense).
I think that "wanting to try to let it go" is letting it go...brava...give yourself a hug...it reminds me of something a dear friend told me long ago..."I think the fact that I want to please god pleases him"
@@fredquinn3919 Hi Fred. You sound very wise. I've been a perfectionist for so long, not sure I can change, but like Roxanne said, you can aim for perfection on some things and accept something less on others. Really liked the final part of your advice about wanting to please God and that that pleases God. I do hope you are right because I seem to mess up a fair bit :)
It sounds like a dart to me. It is supposed to be .5" at the edge from the fold to where the sides meet. Tapering would be from the edge to the end of the dart towards the ears. I would just slip stitch on the wrong side.
Tuck is a technical sewing term. In those days, everyone knew how to sew. Look at what you have made as fabric. It sounds like a dart (another technical sewing term).
Alysa Landry in Native Times March 16, 2009 quoted Ron Garnanez a Najajo weaver about the tradition of mistakes in their rug weaving. He said :The traditional teaching of the Navajo weaving is that you have to put a mistake in there. It must be done because only the creator is perfect. We’re not perfect, so we don’t make a perfect rug.”
I've heard this tradition since I was a child growing up in the West. I tell myself that's why I make mistakes and leave them in my work. Hahaha. If it's good enough for the beautiful Weaver's of the Navajo Nation it's good enough for me.
The hat instructions sound to me just like a dart in sewing - going from a depth of 0 at the hat band, up to 1/2 inch deep at 1.25 inches and then back down to 0 at 2.5 inches. In this case, I think I might even consider sewing with needle and thread, as yarn and crochet would most likely be visible. Might even consider cutting a felt strip, folding it over the dart and machine sewing through all layers, as that would protect the yarn from the thread rubbing a bit. The felt could be trimmed very close to sewn line.
I agree with this. I think try basting it with some yarn and see how it looks?
Just what I was thinking, sounds like a dart.
I'd say use backstitch and yarn. That was pretty common in knitwear then.
I agree with everything but using thread and machine. I'd just take yarn and a tapestry needle to create the ditch seam. (In the same way that yarn isn't visible when seaming a sweater together in blanket stitch, it should be visible here unless the stitches are too loose and uneven.
@@Stretch1003 The main reason for the suggestion was that the seam would include 3 or 4 stripes, which means either changing color often or having bits of the yarn show.when it passes through a stripe of a different color.
The only impact this COVID has made on me so far is making me more keenly aware that if I want to pass along my handcrafting to my nieces and their kids, I need to get on it!! I'm middle-aged, single woman with no kids one of the most significant legacies I can leave behind to mark my time on this earth comes from my creativity and ability to figure out how to make concepts in my head into realities in my hands that I can then pass on to my loved ones.
It wouldn't even occur to me to change my thought process about my knitting accuracy, because it's exactly where I feel it should be. I have a high degree of attention to details with perfectionist tendencies - if you're going to do something, do it Right! - but not to a degree that it hinders me. I'll absolutely go back a fix a mistake if it's a few rows up, but any further than that and it will depend on the type of mistake and location. And if I notice an error once I've finished a project, I'll frown for a minute while I inspect it, wishing I'd noticed it at the time, but then I'll pull back and celebrate my accomplishment as a whole - a beautiful creation with a unique little quirk!! 😊
My knitting has changed during this time, but not in regards to my perfectionism, I don’t think. I’ve actually had some days where I couldn’t even pick it up. I had no mojo. However, the TH-cam algorithm came through and showed me a channel, I think it’s Daily Art Therapy, where you can draw along with the guy. They are simple geometric designs and the rhythm is so soothing. I’m loving it.
That reminds me, thank you for linking to the crafting research (Crafting During Coronavirus)! This is the kind of new twist that I’m keeping track of and submitting.
Thank you for this deeply thoughtful episode. I always learn more from you about how I might think through a new-to-me knitting conundrum. Since the novel virus is new to all of us, your invitation to notice how we are (if we are) responding with adjustments regarding “what matters” and “what we determine is important or acceptable” in our creating is such a welcome inquiry. I was heartened by your decision to allow the miscrossed cable to remain “as is” - almost as a symbolic way of honoring our very real human vulnerabilities. This virus has reminded many of us that we are not in control of as much as we might have imagined ourselves to be...we need each other... Craftsmanship is admirable, as is creating things of beauty; your intentionally keeping the minor error in place is a beautiful decision- one that turns your craft into art...the garment now embued with far greater meaning and adding, rather than decreasing Value ( in my perception, anyway)💗💫take care and be well
My uncle has been gone a long time. He was an anesthesist, so very picky. Had his own sheep and hand spun wool. He would knit sweaters for other hospital staff. One yr he had 2 sweaters w/patch pockets on the needles and the first one done was entered in the state fair taking a blue ribbon. On getting it back home he noticed he had mis-matched the pockets! Maybe the judges thot it was by design? Or they didn't notice?
I had a problem with Paton sock yarn. Purchased 2 balls. Finished one sock and started the second. Same color and dye lot the same. I spent hours trying to get them to match up. Did not happen. I never was able to figure it out. It was almost like it was a different design but all the same colors. I was not happy.
Sheri Thurber I don't try to match socks when I knit with Paton's: you would need to buy 3 balls to try to achieve matching pair.
They’re definitely describing a dart and not a tuck, as many people pointed out already below ☺️ they are super easy to make, not sure why they gave those mysterious instructions!
If it's a gift, I'm fussier about my knitting. In the times of COVID, I've noticed my tension is varying. I did tick back part of the colour work yoke of a sweater I was knitting for my husband because the stitches didn't look even enough....I was pleased with myself in that I could #1-read my knitting well enough to do that successfully, and #2-I could correct it so that it actually looked better.
But, I always remember what a LYS owner told me once:"It's only knitting!" Puts things in perspective...it's a hobby and an enjoyable pastime, not something to stress about. Stay well, all!
My knitting has definitely changed during this pandemic, and particularly the stay at home order. I used to knit sweaters, and would knit all day (I'm retired}. But every once in a while, I would go to a grocery store, or to Nordstrom or Joanne's, or make bread (which I can't do now because my daughter is on a diet and is home from college). Well now, knitting all day means knitting ALL day. There are no breaks. So I have found my sweaters are not good at this time. I am knitting a lot of small projects (mittens, hats, boot toppers). My Bexley Popover by Pam Powers sits on the couch next to me, and as soon as there are other distractions, I will pick it up again. I can still knit all day (actually, all night, from 4 pm to 2 am), I just need to finish things. I knit that Bexley for a good week and it started to feel like I would be working on it for the rest of my life. I would be stuck inside, knitting this sweater. Well, just until the end of May, I hope.
I had plenty of time to knit before the stay at home order. Having more time seems to be resulting in less knitting!
Liberating and enlightening is my response to you. In reviewing my style of knitting since COVID I see a more gentle approach to mistakes, it is a relief to me to hear I am not the only one.
You made me smile. Will be watching for the heel technique vids. Thanks for always explaining not only, the how.......but WHY .
Just seeing this now....saved it for after the dog walk this morning....I think the tuck runs perpendicular to the direction you think the tuck should run.so from ear point to ear point across the stripes a few inches up from the brim and tapering out to the “ears”.
Non-matchy striped sock makers? Yep. That's me. I embrace the chaos 😄
Just wanted to thank you for the tip about "Mrs. Wilson's Knitting Circle." I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks also for your excellent videos. I've been knitting for just three years now-an after retirement activity- and find your insights and teaching manner very much to my liking. Many thanks!
I had a weird thing happen with a skein of yarn once. Not only was there a knot but the yarn was a different size. Same color but the yarn was noticably bigger. Not sure how that happened but it was really weird. Lucky for me I had another skein and enough to finsh the project.
Regarding the question about attitude of perfectionism and I have contemplated this question during covid19 and realized that my stressing out about being perfect has lessened a little and I find myself just a little less stressed
Hi, Rox! Dear me, you had me in stitches (pun intended!) with your story about the yarn fiasco...! I’ve heard that the industry standard for skeins of yarn is 2-3 knots per skein. If you’ve knit so many socks without encountering your “share” of skein knots, it sounds to me like the yarn and sock gods collaborated to get back at you, and they did it in a BIG way...! You should be good to go for a while now, I should think! (I just finished a pair of socks with the exact brand & colorway, and my skein was just fine, by the way. But I don’t really expect perfection in my striped socks. As long as they look like they belong together, I’m happy!). As for fixing mistakes in my knitting, I recently finished the “Rowe Cardigan “ by Michele Wang (just had to have it when I saw it!), and when I was knitting one of the front panels I noticed a miscrossed cable about 6-7 inches down. That sweater was so important to me that I dropped down and knit it back up in order to make it right. And it was probably only the second or third time I’ve dropped down to fix my knitting. It was certainly the first time I have dropped down more than 2-5 rows...! If I’m knitting a gift for someone, I expect it to be perfect. When I knit for myself, however, I generally accept my mistakes if they take more effort to fix than I’m willing to expend. If they’re easy to fix, though, I usually do fix them. Probably because I’m more of a process knitter than a product knitter. And no, the current environment hasn’t changed my attitude about my mistakes. What it seems to have done for me is to make me less focused when working on something. I find myself picking something up, working a few rows, losing interest, picking something else up, etc. And I’m generally a very focused sort of person. So that’s a source of frustration that I’m having to work through right now. Anyway, take care, and keep up with your terrific videos! They certainly do brighten up the days when they pop up in my TH-cam queue...! Thanks, and stay healthy!
I watched a How It's Made TH-cam video about yarn. It wasn't self-striping, but they made the point that if they didn't put knots in it, it would be much more expensive. You could talk to the yarn company, explaining that you want to understand how they make their yarn, and the problem).
I sent a message to the yarn company last week with an FYI about the knots and reversals. No response.
My motto has become, if you can't see it from the back of a galloping horse, then let it go. I tend not to let things go and would drive myself crazy fixing and ripping back. It stopped being fun, which was the real reason do do it in the first place. No one else will ever notice it.
On your hat, it sounds like to me they are talking about. A fish eye dart. Fold the hat along the decrease line. So start sewing with back stitching at a point, getting wider till it a half inch in the center and than back to a point. The dart is supposed to be 2 1/2 inches long.
Yes, I was trying to remember the name of the two-pointed dart!
Re: the yarn wound in reverse, the self-striping cakes you find at Joann and Michaels (Lion Brand Mandala, Premier Sweet Rolls, etc) are a total mix of which colors are in the middle and at the ends, and which direction they were wound. I think it's in the process of taking fairly identical, giant skeins out of the dying equipment, and putting them on the factory equivalent of giant swifts to roll them off onto giant bobbins and cones for use in the ball winders that they get flipped. I know on my own swift/ball winder setup, I can pick either end to unwind from. I often try to find cakes that match up, such that the outer color on one leads into the inner color on another (I like center-pull), but I've also, when there weren't enough to choose from, picked ones wound in reverse, and rewound them on my widner, pulling from the outside, one hand a meter above the cake, so it unwound like a cone, and rewound into a reversed cake. I think I've encountered a retied, self-striping yarn, but not with a big section tied back in in reverse! That hardly even makes sense. When the line snaps, they retie the two snapped ends back together, usually. It should be relatively close to the original yarn, just with a knot in it.
Have you tried Arne and Carlos' Pairfect sock yarn? It is engineered in such a way that you get two identical pairs with solid colour heels in the self striping!! there is a yellow lead in the yarn as the cut off. Made in Germany by Regia.
I've knit with several of the Pairfect colorways, including some that were designed by Arne & Carlos (not all of them have been designed by A&C). Part of the fun of self-striping yarn for me is figuring out how to make socks match within the context of whatever the striping pattern is for that yarn, as well as deciding how long to knit the leg, and what sort of heel I would like to use. Those choices are more limited with Pairfect, but for some people, it hits the spot.
I find I am more forgiving of myself, really enjoyed this! Thank you
Thanks for the suggestion about the knitting history meeting suggestion. I learned a lot.
Thank you for the link to the NI museum. I come from NI and had a rough idea of the linen industry, but this link educated me even further. Very intersing . ☺👍
I love the wrap you're wearing in this video. I do find myself to be more forgiving (of myself and others) during this time. I think that small things (like knitting errors) don't really matter in the bigger picture. I hope you and your loved ones stay safe and healthy.
I’ve had the same thing happen with yarn- many breaks and reversed stripes. It’s really annoying and would love to have been able to return it. I’ve had this happen a few times with reverse stripe on the Paton’s Kroy. I’m the same way about fixing things. I laddered down a 16 stitch wide antler cable to fix it. I don’t think I’ve changed my perspective on fixing mistakes, I’m still really anal about things being correct. But....I have to say that going back and figuring out how to fix things has made me learn a lot and I think I’ve progressed much faster as a knitter than I would have as far as being able to knit more and more complicated patterns. They’re all learning experiences for me so I don’t get too frustrated when I have to ladder down, tink or frog something
Unless you need to make adjustments in the sock girth as you knit to customize it to the wearer, an afterthought heel is the perfect way to maintain the pattern of a self-striping yarn. While I find the idea of using a provisional cast-on to knit the heel right then to be a viable option, inserting the heel afterward is so easy and Doesn't really take any planning or yarn measuring in the middle and provides the Same exact result, I feel no need to try it. I also tend to have a matchy-matchy drive when it comes to knitting pairs - socks, mittens, gloves - and there again, the afterthought heel is my friend and makes matching socks up super easy (unless there's a hiccup in the yarn).
The measuring of yarn at the heel was because I wanted a particular effect at the split that would also require measuring if I knit it as a standard peasant heel. (I would still have to choose where in the colorway I want to start the heel, even if I do it last.) I could just as easily left the working yarn hanging and joined a contrast yarn or some other section of the yarn ball in order to work the heel, and then returned to the waiting working yarn when I took up knitting the foot again. The PCO I use is the same thing I do when I knit an afterthought heel (with the back of leg sts put on hold and the PCO done to establish the sole, rather than putting instep on hold and PCO for the sole). It's a process that I find makes recapturing the sts to work the heel easier than the snip-and-capture process of a true afterthought heel or the knitted-in waste yarn process of a forethought heel. If those differences aren't an advantage for you, or if you don't care about trying on your sock as you go, then the process this style of heel offers is irrelevant to you. I like the peasant heel, but I have to make modifications for every person I knit for, in order to get a good fit. The plain heel simplifies making those modifications.
I have also unraveled sometimes up to a thousand stitches (a blanket where have way through a row I turned and went the other way and didn't find it for over 10 rows) and now when I made a mistake on a sock and had just done the heel (top down) I just decided to do the same on the other sock so they matched.... Only I know what I did.
I learn so much from your podcasts. I especially like to hear your discussions about the 1940's pattern books and your knitting of some of them. The constructions you show are fascinating. (But if you do wear that new 40's era hat in public, especially with sunglasses and a mask, people will stay the required 6 feet away...or more. No worries! :)
During this time I have slowed down to evaluate my knitting. Especially in the types of yarn and the colors I choose. The weight of the yarn into relation to what the finished object is. What I like my sweater to be, firm or flimsy. Same with shawl and scarf and other things I knit. So I guess I have become more aware because I have slowed down.
To me, my goal isn't to create something that looks like it came off a machine. The little imperfections don't bother me at all because the pure joy of creating something is the ultimate goal. If a mistake causes fit issues, of course it must be corrected. But a mistake in one stitch just adds to the charm.
Also I love that scarf, I just bought the pattern. I don't know if my kitting has changed, because I have only been knitting since the beginning of last year, but I have learnt so much in that time, I am beginning not to care if what I do isn't the same as the pattern. I actually like making changes. Im my last project I ran out of yarn needing 6 more rows of a collar/front band and decided to do it in a colour very close to it that was in the main project. It looks great. I nearly put it aside and was going to wait until I ordered more of the main colour. But when it comes to quality, I have standards. I'd want my socks to be the same.
I had some sock yarn that had breaks and colour reversal that baffled me, I even bought a second ball and that didn't match either. It was really long colour changes too more like colour blocking rather than striped. I complained to the company who said they allow up to 5 joins in a ball before it is classed as a second. They did send me a free ball of yarn in a different colour but it was enough to make me abandon my first attempt at socks. That was several years ago and I knit may first socks on your KAL and they fit and match!
I think the hat has a dart like in sewing with the apex at the brim, though why didn't they decrease the stitches out in the pattern?
The tuck is along the line of decreases (there are decreases every row on either side of the midpoint). It's a really unusual instruction and construction element, but it's probably the easiest/most efficient way to get the desired result -- once you understand what it is they want you to do!
Rox, I enjoy listening to you. “Won’t you be my neighbor?” Your cowl or shawl is gorgeous. I am guessing you made it. A closeup would be nice. I fix my mistakes when I feel they are important. If not obvious or glaring I leave them now. I used to correct no matter what. I really related to you when you stated in a previous podcast that you found yourself staring out the window. I said “that is me”. It is impossible to tell how the tuck was applied to the hat from the picture. Gosh, now I am really curious as to how you are going to do it! Your podcasts are so informative I find myself relaxing into them. Thank you!
I think you had it right on the hat, but I would just use a needle and do as if sewing. In regard to the yarn on your sock I go in moods. When using acrylic yarn years ago I never came across joins. Now it happens even in some "designer" yarns. I don't get too upset now but I used to. It depends on the project or my mood I guess as to ripping down almost a whole body of a sweater or other projects because of a mistake or a dropped stitch.(Sometimes if a count is wrong I just adjust it and go, but if I did that and find a dropped stitch, I will rip it all out.)
I feel your frustration with that ball of mismatched strips. I’m currently knitting a pair of socks and so far the ball of 100gm yarn has had 3 knots. 😩 I did once work in a commercial knitting mill so understand some of the spinning process, but not the dye stamping. The “balls” of yarn I saw were dyed a single color they weighed about 3 tons each.
The very first pair of socks that I knit had a knot on the second sock half way down the foot. I was so eager to make the match but it was on the foot and no one would see it so I didn't get too much. As my teacher and good friend would say, "It's just a sock. " I do try to make my socks match but if they don't, it's not the end of the world. Isn't it the Amish or Quakers who leave mistakes in their work to represent that only God is perfect.
Sounds like your brain got a good workout with that sock yarn debacle!
The tuck is actually a dart as you showed. Suggest you follow instructions on sewing a bust dart. The middle of the dart woukd be 1/2 inch deep and the dart is 2.5 inch long. Try just a running stitch. Hope it works. I have the same books and always fancied this fun hat.
I think "tuck" is probably the more accurate term here, particularly since this is a knitted item. Darts in knitting are accomplished in a very different way. There is a "tuck dart" in sewing, which seems to be more similar to what is going on here.
@@RoxanneRichardson That is good to know as I come from sewing and have known that pinching in of fabric as a dart. My Mum used to sew such shapings with back stitch and used these patterns in the 40's but it could get bulky. Could you show us the difference between a tuck and a dart ? By the way I really enjoy your videos. Thank you
My Master dressmaking teacher called those kinds of mistakes "Designer's Choice" or if they can see it, they're too close to you. I like your reasoning as well and will add it to my possible responses. Perfection is sometimes overrated. HUgs from a distance.
About mistakes, I generally don’t want to take the time to fix things that have nothing to do with fit or won’t mess up something’s wearability. I know for sure that nothing’s perfect and I don’t want to take my handknits too seriously. These days, though, I feel so unrushed that I really don’t mind stopping and re-knitting or laddering back or whatever. I feel so anxious about a lot of things, but relaxed about all my crafting. Go figure!🤷♀️
Oh I have to match the stripes in my socks. I would contact the company
I find that my attempts at perfection are determined by how I am feeling, physically, at the time. They also are determined by whether the item will be a gift. As a beginning quilter I was taught that one should give her best effort, but to expect perfection is an affront to God. You can be sure that none of my work ever approaches that state of perfection. I am knitting or quilting for the joy and satisfaction of the work.
I'm much more distracted, as well. That's why I decided I had to have multiple projects going.
@@RoxanneRichardson I have two online afghan KAL's going and one pair of socks. Over the past two months I have knit two hats. One was for the Indianapolis Pacers Nothing but Knit campaign to knit blue and gold caps for volunteers who will work at the NBA Allstar game in Indy in 2021. Oh how I hope that happens!
I will have to try this heel. I have a bigger heel angle even though I have a low arch. My heel goes out in the back more and the top of my foot angles up high so I think this might really help for the sock not to be so tight .
I think you are looking at inserting the dart in the hat in the wrong direction. Turn it through 90 degrees and it will go along the line from point to point for a length of 2.5 inches and a depth of 0.5 inches centre. I would sew it in with yarn as in dressmaking. Does this help?
Thank you for all your videos.
I would not be able to knit or wear striped socks that don't match! It would drive me bonkers! 🤪
Hi I love these videos from across the pond, thank you for taking the time to share. I have discovered Tunisian crochet and wonder if you have tried this and could share your thoughts?
I have rudimentary crochet skills, at best. I am a knitter. :-)
Hi there! Its been awhile. I finally have my lace weight yarn that I want to use to make Edwardian socks or stockings. But I find, that the patterns I like are..interesting to translate in this day and age knitting jargon. So I was wondering if you have ever made these, and if not if you'd be interested in doing a video kal or even revelry kal for a pair of Edwardian socks or stockings.
Kitten WAW has it. You are making a dart. Fold fabric . Use a piece of yarn and do a backstitch down the line where you would sew the dart. Imagine a line drawn from the maximum width to 0 width and sew along it.
That sock color reversal happened to me, too. I was very cranky. I won’t use that brand any more - I wonder if you’re using the same brand.
I've used this brand many, many times, and this particular line of sock yarn in many different colorways. I see it as an anomaly, and will continue to use their yarns.
Roxanne Richardson good to hear. I realized that I can no longer remember the brand - so I probably still use it lol. Like you I knit a lot of socks. It was a self patterning like yours, and I did the same thing and fooled around with rewinding to try and get it to match. Thank you so much for your podcasts. They are fascinating.
Hat is bonkers.
Thank you for another interesting episode! Love watching! Where can I find directions for the peasant or plain heel? I've heard you refer to so many times and would love to try it out. Thank you so much for providing the knitting community with great information.
I would like the instructions as well. I’m working on my first contrast heel sock using slip stitch heel and don’t like the look. This heel would be perfect
Just for future viewers, she did upload a video showing how this heel works, and you can find it by going to her TH-cam page and searching for 'plain heel'.
The 2.5 inches is along the width and the .5 inch is the length. You can crochet it using crochet 2 together, or you can sew it. It's to make the 2 points to 'stand up' more. It's kind of like making a 2.5" by 0.5" dart in a sewing project.
I agree, it sounds like a dart.
Did I hear correctly that you are planning to do a video on how you did the heel?
First, What are the odds that you have two breaks in your yarn?! Maybe you should buy a lottery ticket! I just finished a yoke sweater, and I did notice a mistake in the color work on the shoulder of my sleeve after I had finished binding off the cuff. I decided not to redo the entire sleeve, because it would be a reminder of when I was knitting this sweater. I was completely overwhelmed by the thought of learning how to teach kindergarten remotely and knitting this sweater grounded me through those first few weeks. The yarn for it was the last purchase I made before my local yarn shop closed, and it actually has become a favorite sweater of mine to wear. Thank you for your videos. I look forward to watching and learning from you.
The V&A museum has digitised most of its collection. If you go to www.vam.ac.uk and look under collections materials and techniques there is whole section just on knitting through the ages.
The second way you have the hat on the mannequin head - note that you can see your hat's brim all the way around, but in the image of the woman, the brim is folded under in front, all the way to the point. I think what they meant was to tuck the hat brim under at the back about a half inch, for about 2.5" (out from center, or either side of center?), and then follow it around the sides, tucking it under, but less and less so, until right when you get to the point, you're not tucking in anything any more ("tapering off toward the ends"). The directions don't *really* read exactly that way, but when I see how it looks on her head (and I was huge into origami as a kid!), that's what it looks like she's doing. Then you can use your hands to crease down into the space between the beanie part on the head, and the ears, and finally push the ears flat against the sides of the head, to get those owl-like ears in the second pic. At least, I *think* that's what's going on. It's a puzzle! I think it looks cool the way you had, it, too, though :) Such a versatile shape.
I think it does mean that you make sure that the tuck has less fabric in it towards the end so the tuck is tapering to the end of the tuck.
Since you're not going to wear the hat anyway is there a possibility you could felt it a little. It would be a little stiffer a little smaller. Most will hats are felted right? End of problem!
The yarn is fingering weight sock yarn, so they are all made from superwash wool/nylon. No felting possible!
Roxanne: I tried to follow what you were saying about making that stripe fall properly on your daughter's sock, but I was a little lost. Would love if you could do a video showing that -- the perfectionist in me wants to understand and apply it (oh no ... not much hope for me letting go of perfectionism, but I see it more as making sure the art composition is the best it can be.
Question re sock heel: could you do a round heel decreasing in the same way as the round toe? If you know how many rounds per inch then you should be able to figure out how many decrease rounds and plain rounds based on the depth you want the heel, correct?
Look at Kay Jones "Umbrella Socks" pattern on Ravelry. She worked on designing an all-around decrease in the heel based upon (yet slightly different) her Umbrella Toe, called the Umbrella Heel. Kay is one of the Bakery Bears, and has a podcast on TH-cam as well. It's a very nice heel, more rounded!
That happened to me with Abe once! I ended up with double copies of everything, for no real reason! Some of them I gave away but others are just chilling on my bookshelf. So if anyone wants a copy of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, hit me up ;)
I think that because it says tapering off to the endS that they mean for the tuck to be parallel to the band1/2 inch deep at the center - The center line of decreases. (perpendicular to the line of decreases) Also, the photo doesn't appear to show any disruption of the stripes
Also your hat looks like it might have a little bit of fabric bulging over the brim (at 22:30) - That might be the fabric that needs tucking.
Just a thought.
I am certainly questioning my tendency towards trying to achieve perfection. Can I let it go? Not sure yet, but think I want to try (if that makes any sense).
I think that "wanting to try to let it go" is letting it go...brava...give yourself a hug...it reminds me of something a dear friend told me long ago..."I think the fact that I want to please god pleases him"
@@fredquinn3919 Hi Fred. You sound very wise. I've been a perfectionist for so long, not sure I can change, but like Roxanne said, you can aim for perfection on some things and accept something less on others. Really liked the final part of your advice about wanting to please God and that that pleases God. I do hope you are right because I seem to mess up a fair bit :)
@@maryalgar8779 haha....yes...I really need for that to be true as well
Is it like a "dart" in sewing? I'm confused too
When the yarn color sequence reversed, couldn't you just work in reverse stockinette? Sorry, bad joke.
It sounds like a dart to me. It is supposed to be .5" at the edge from the fold to where the sides meet. Tapering would be from the edge to the end of the dart towards the ears. I would just slip stitch on the wrong side.
A dart like those used in sewing (I don't know if you sew). The half inch would take an inch of fabric.
Tuck is a technical sewing term. In those days, everyone knew how to sew. Look at what you have made as fabric. It sounds like a dart (another technical sewing term).
I don't think the tuck goes along the seam in the direction of the V, more across the other way from point to point of the ears.