Oh aren't you such a sweetheart? Thanks for being sunshine! You inspired me to start my moby sweater! Although I have other projects, but my moby is my dopamine 🥹 Thanks for being sunshine and an inspiration ❤
Dopamine projects are vital. Whilst every project I knit is at least to some extent a dopamine project, some of them just tick all the boxes. One of my favourite dopamine projects was the Skull Shawl I crocheted for my daughter. A Fibre Spider video just happened to come across my feed. I clicked on it because hey, skulls. All kinds of cool. Every second of that project was pure dopamine and even now, every time my daughter wears it I get a kick out of it. Did she need a shawl? No. Did I have the yarn? No. Do I usually go out to buy yarn for projects I don’t need (or that at least someone needs?) No. Unless it’s for a present. Was it fun? Did I enjoy it? Does my daughter get a lot of wear out of it? Do I intend to make myself one some day? ABSOLUTELY.
I had no idea I was knitting eastern uncrossed until you told me 😂 I’m left handed and my right handed mother taught me to knit. A great challenge that ended with just sitting across from her and mirroring her every move, somehow by almost magic I ended up knitting a square that looked the same as my mum’s square but the way I did it, was alien to everyone who saw me knit, still is to honest😊
@@ZimVader-0017 I think so, in fact i think it’s easier for everyone, I’m a teacher and I teach kids to knit in the lunch break in the school library, they get really quickly this way. 😊
I'm glad you explained how you knit. I've watched you knitting and thought, "Wait, she's knitting in some weird way.... slow down and let me look at that." That's just what you did. Thanks.
Oh my gosh, your sweater turned out beautifully!! I especially love how you striped the lighter yarn throughout, it creates such a fun pattern! And that yarn bowl is PRECIOUS 😍 My Eastern European grandma taught me how to knit, but she taught me continental-style... not sure how that happened 😅 I also have a "bad habit" of only making dopamine projects, and it's only "bad" because I have no clue how to wear anything I make 😂 At least I had fun making it!
I'd say the colours in the yarns you used to knit that top would go with a lot of your wardrobe. While I know not everybody would do it, I'd certainly try that with plain green shorts/pants/a skirt. My dopamine project would have to be elf socks - which has grown into mythical creature socks. There were the angel socks in unbleached white wool and now the surprise sock-along socks in several shades of green, which my friend says look like fae socks, even if they are -regular- large-footed human size along with plans to make a little hank of handspun natural brown in to garden gnome socks!
I was taking a picture of it this morning for instagram, while wearing a bright green dress, and it did occur to me to one day see how it would look together :D
I watched this while fervently practicing a paw print fillet crochet tutorial my mom sent me. In my favorite color yarn, and paw prints are my motif of choice.
What a happy sweater that is! I love it when something makes me giddy because I like it so much, and it looks like this sweater does that for you! I've recently been making several of the Worry Wyrm Dragon by Thalia Evans and that is a good dopamine project. It's super quick, uses up acrylic yarn that I don't want to use for anything else but also don't want to throw away, is great for those weird colors that don't go with anything, and at the end you have a super cute dragon to fiddle with or give away.
Love the happiness this video exudes 😁 Made me smile the whole time. My knitting right now is making me want to squee with excitement every time I pick it up to knit. I’m knitting my long dreamed of sweater with Shetland/alpaca that I finished spinning during Tour de Fleece.
@@MijnWolden it is very lovely even though I spun and plied it with a pretty firm twist to hopefully minimize pilling. And it’s such a lovely heathered grey, with The Shetland being a dark grey and the alpaca is a light silver grey. Looks so beautiful blended together.
I just found your channel today and enjoy your enthusiasm and joy in what you create! I just subscribed, so I’ll be watching for more joy in knitting. I’m just finishing a cardigan sweater for a friend who beat breast cancer and that brings me joy.
I found it! If you know, you know. I might actually be able to knit Eastern uncrossed. English & Continental are both hard for me. Thank you for taking us on your dopamine jaunt!
I woke up and had the same experience this morning. I am making a crochet cardi from sock scraps and my little heart is so happy. Thanks for the encouragement. ❤
I experienced so much happiness just from seeing your new yarn bowl! Your sweater is gorgeous as well 😍 I just got back into crocheting and I made a shawl from yarn scraps. I will probably never wear it because it is too many bright colors for me, but it gave me such a happiness boost!
This tutorial possibly explains your speed of knitting... That Eastern uncrossed style looks very efficient and ergonomic. After having hand surgery a few years ago, I have to be careful of pain. Thanks! My dopamine project was during the pandemic. I bought horrible cheap acrylic yarn... Because it was a garishly bright rainbow color!! I knitted a whole self drafted sweater without a pattern. It is warm, bright, easy care, and ugly. Perfect for curling up alone on the weekend, but I would never wear it in public.
I absolutely love everything about this project!! Especially the colour of those yarns together. You absolutely glow!! (I have been watching a lot of colour analysis videos lately.) I knit a lot of dopamine projects during covid. I just didn't know that's what they were. Now I do 🌶🧠😜 And now I'm trying to alter them to fit in with my wardrobe, because I have never been a crop top person. Ah well. Crop tops are quick to knit!! 🤷🏻♀️
@MijnWolden l have a long torso. Why I thought I could knit multiple tops extra short, I do not know. Performing surgery on all of them with whatever yarn I had left, or similar, has been a looooong process. And it still isn't completely done because it contains 0 dopamine and lots of focus. Gah!!
Hi, Polish/Dutch person here, and the way I learned to knit from my Polish mum, was continental combined, aka Russian knitting. The knit stitches are mounted the same way your knit stitches are, but I wrap the yarn the other way around, so in the regular continental way. That means that you have to uncross/untwist them in the purl row, by knitting through the front loop, but wrapping the yarn in the opposite direction from regular continental purling (clockwise, instead of anti-clockwise) which is actually a much easier and more comfortable way of purling. It's an easier and faster way of knitting overall, and generally makes for a much more even fabric. There is only one problem though: continental combined does not work when knitted in the round, since there is no purl round to untwist the stiches. But the way you knit, by wrapping the yarn the other way around, solves that problem. This is super interesting, and I'm definitely going to give this a try!
"Make a little project for the dopamine!" Instructions unclear, surrounded by ~10 unfinished projects 😆 For real, though-- that top looks lovely!!! I adore the colors :D and that yarn bowl is darling!!!
Oh I just LOVED this video and I LOVE the top you made! (also love the Papapaparam song, btw). Thank you so much! Yes, I should definitely do a dopamine project soon again - I have been spinning a bit, but all I see right now is GIFT KNITTING FOR CHRISTMAS and it's already piling up and ... yap. Dopamine knitting is in order. Definitely.
I just cast on the Sailor Swift Top by Kutovakika which has been in my queue for AGES. I didn't swatched and just paired together two yarns that are close enough. It is making the most beautiful fabric and the knit is the best kind of mindless. A good reminder that knitting is fun!
I just watched this episode straight after watching the one on solar dyeing, and noticed when you were modelling your exquisite top, at timestamp 11.15, what appear to be mirabilis jalapa (?) plants (with the pink flowers), or what we call 4 O’clock plants her in Australia. As a fibre artist who makes bilums (the traditional bags made by the ladies in Papua, New Guinea), I know they use the seeds (tiny black, ball-shaped, about 5mm across) of this plant to produce a very vibrant pink dye for their plant-based fibres. I have not experimented with this on mordanted wool, but I am almost sure it would yield a good result. I may be wrong about the plant species, but it looks very much like the plant we grow here Down Under (which is also listed as a weed here in Northern Australia where I live). Congratulations on a beautiful garment. I shall now go and create some of my own dopamine … 😁
It is a mirabilis jalapa indeed!!! oh oh oh the seeds you say! Now I must collect them. I have tried once with the flowers, but they're honestly too pretty for dyeing.
You explaining how you knit in a goblin style. Me knitting my shawl in the exact same way, in the same time. I did not know that my knitting style had a name, but now I know what my issues are with my increases and decreases. Thank you.
I'm currently using a drop spindle and can't seem to get any kind of consistency. I did a few perfect and fluffy skeins, but the last 2 seem overspun. I love watching your content because you are such a positive force. I start to feel anxious about what I can use my yarn for (as its fluffy, then not fluffy and dull), but then you tell me to use it anyway 😂 it's a great kick up the backside! I don't suppose you can point me towards any of your videos that use inconsistent yarn for small projects? 😊 thanks, kristina.
@VultureSkins I've seen them, but what I like is that Jente feels the fear and does it anyway. She doesn't let her anxieties stop her. 🥰 I like to see that she is inconsistent at times and makes mistakes, but uses her yarn anyway. I'm one of those people that will fixate on getting something 'perfect', but this chanel brings me back to earth. 😊
I think stockinette stitch looks wonderful with uneven rustic yarns. So depending on how much yarn you have, try and find something that will make that shine. My immediate thoughts are fingerless mittens or a headband. But I can't think of videos, except my own mental health sweater knit, but that's not a small project ;)
Have a done a project simply to make me happy, yup...pretty much all of them. Some of the highlights are a cowl with a dragon scale pattern on it, a vest I'm currently working on, and some silly stuffed animals.
Oh you've gotta love a dopamine project! Beautiful summer tee, I love it. I thoroughly enjoyed your explanation of your knitting style. very informative.. thank you muchly 😃
Working on a dopamine knit right now - I'm knitting socks for myself in the most obnoxiously bright green (radium glass UV glow levels) yarn, and I'm obsessed!
Hey. Lovely project. I was considering the ghost whisperer before but decided it's just to unpractical for my lifestyle. And i have to many unpractical dopamin knits already. Especially dresses. Hafe a great day
I'm so happy I found your channel during the Tour de Fleece. I think that sweater turned out very nice and is making me want to pull mine out and finish it! I just wish it was in happy colors like yours, but maybe the next one will be!
I loved the explanation! I used to knit a mix as I was purling in the esterm way/ sp my stitches ended up woth the right leg in the back but knitting in the western / right leg in the front
I prefer to knit combination and your explanation of Eastern makes sense to me! I have a hard time doing complex lace in that style because all the decreases are executed differently and I'm never sure whether I'm doing double decreases right. Maybe I should be looking into how Eastern knitters do lace since on the knit rounds I'm knitting into Eastern mounted stitches.
This turned out great, and the color looks nice on you as well. I need this sort of project after a few less than satisfactory knits this year... I will check my stash to find something inspiring! Currently waiting for the library copy of Dopamine Nation, coincidentally.
My current dopamine project is the Joinery top by Yumiko Alexander. I'm not 100% happy with the color (blah baby blue and white - so blah), but it should be very wearable. I would have preferred a charcoal color, but my LYS didn't have that color in stock, and I had to start NOW! Well, before I went on vacation. I'm back now, didn't knit much while gone. Actually, the color is growing on me. It's more of a pale aqua than pale blue. And my other dopamine project is weaving with some of my handspun singles that were dyed in patches of neon colors. My warp is white cotton, and the weft is making really great stripes. This is going to end up as a summer top, or maybe a summer dress, depending on how much fabric I end up with. It is so fun to weave - I wish I hadn't procrastinated on getting the warp on the loom - now I'll have to wait until next summer to wear whatever it ends up being!
Most of my projects in the past are little dopamine hits. Lately, though, I haven't. Had to finish a sweater for my husband because i told him i would. Next I've got to finish a lace wrap for my sister and her wedding. Then I'm making 2 vests for me and her friend that is also in her wedding party. I really need to get a dopamine project soon. 😩
That turned out very cute! Maybe I should make another sweater for my stuffed bear. He got stained pink from the red shirt he came with. So now I'm making hom different clothes since naked isn't really sn option anymore lol.
Yarn: a ball of very fine, finer than laceweight, 2 ply handspun from the thrift store, natural white. It had been wound around a newspaper in 1974 and is very over twisted. The years of being in a ball have set the twist and once knitted, it makes a passable utility fabric.
Last year I knit a pair of leg-warmers in self-striping sock yarn using Victorian stocking pattern instructions. I was going through a really rough patch and just wanted something repetitive to do & this fit the bill exactly. Am I the only person I know who wears stripy woolen leg warmers? Yes, yes I am. Do they fulfill all my warm-legged witchy clad desires - absolutely. No regrets.
Before you showed the eastern uncrossed - your style, I was feeling slightly envious because I throw my yarn, and your way seems so much smoother…. Maybe I’ll try the eastern uncrossed way 😅
or you could try continental? Then you don't have to reverse all of your thinking, just the hand in which you hold your yarn? Carrie Craftgeek has some interesting videos on different knitting styles if you want to learn more :D
@@MijnWolden How do you like them? I’m considering Chiaogoo as I like metal crochet hooks, and am finding my Knit Picks wooden needles are losing their finish!
since you knit through the back loop, does that mean, when you want to un-knit, you pick the stitch from the back to the front or is it still from front to back? :)
i taught myself how to knit from books and i taught myself to knit through the back loop and knit that way for YEARS until i noticed my ribbing looked different than everyone else's (the stitches were twisted because i purled through the front loop)
I knit the same way but my stitches are on the right had needle. I knit through the back of the loop. Im a left handed and mirror image eastern knitter? I purl the way as you too only opposite.
@@MijnWolden I love it! It's also a historical type of clothing I think from Hungry or somewhere similar. I read a novel years ago, and women and men both wore them, especially for riding!
I made a little bear for the *dopamine* and now I get to knit him little sweaters for different seasons! And little hats and bags and shoes!
Oh that sounds so cuuuute!
I make sweaters for one of my bears too!! Love that you're dressing him up.
Oh aren't you such a sweetheart? Thanks for being sunshine! You inspired me to start my moby sweater! Although I have other projects, but my moby is my dopamine 🥹
Thanks for being sunshine and an inspiration ❤
Have fun :D
Dopamine projects are vital. Whilst every project I knit is at least to some extent a dopamine project, some of them just tick all the boxes.
One of my favourite dopamine projects was the Skull Shawl I crocheted for my daughter. A Fibre Spider video just happened to come across my feed. I clicked on it because hey, skulls. All kinds of cool. Every second of that project was pure dopamine and even now, every time my daughter wears it I get a kick out of it.
Did she need a shawl?
No.
Did I have the yarn?
No.
Do I usually go out to buy yarn for projects I don’t need (or that at least someone needs?)
No. Unless it’s for a present.
Was it fun? Did I enjoy it? Does my daughter get a lot of wear out of it? Do I intend to make myself one some day?
ABSOLUTELY.
That sounds like a lot of fun :D
I had no idea I was knitting eastern uncrossed until you told me 😂 I’m left handed and my right handed mother taught me to knit. A great challenge that ended with just sitting across from her and mirroring her every move, somehow by almost magic I ended up knitting a square that looked the same as my mum’s square but the way I did it, was alien to everyone who saw me knit, still is to honest😊
There we go, another coincidental eastern uncrossed knitter :D
Ooh! Is it easier for left-handed people? I've been trying to learn how to knit for a while, but it's been difficult.
@@ZimVader-0017 I think so, in fact i think it’s easier for everyone, I’m a teacher and I teach kids to knit in the lunch break in the school library, they get really quickly this way. 😊
I just think you are the best ❤
Awh
I'm glad you explained how you knit. I've watched you knitting and thought, "Wait, she's knitting in some weird way.... slow down and let me look at that." That's just what you did. Thanks.
Isn't it just fitting to knit in a weird way? :D
Best yarn Bowl EVER😍. Have a fabulous today, Steph
RIGHT?!?
Oh my gosh, your sweater turned out beautifully!! I especially love how you striped the lighter yarn throughout, it creates such a fun pattern! And that yarn bowl is PRECIOUS 😍
My Eastern European grandma taught me how to knit, but she taught me continental-style... not sure how that happened 😅 I also have a "bad habit" of only making dopamine projects, and it's only "bad" because I have no clue how to wear anything I make 😂 At least I had fun making it!
How dare your grandma teach you something else than what a lot of Eastern Europeans call "grandma style" (jk)
@@AndreaAlexander An Andrea out in the wild!
Oh this way of knitting makes a lot of sense actually... Also I love the sweater, it's so cute and cheerful!
It makes heaps of sense when you're also a crocheter
"Or sleep will not come" Sooooooo me 🤣🤣
High five team my brain is so loud it won't let me sleep
I'd say the colours in the yarns you used to knit that top would go with a lot of your wardrobe. While I know not everybody would do it, I'd certainly try that with plain green shorts/pants/a skirt.
My dopamine project would have to be elf socks - which has grown into mythical creature socks. There were the angel socks in unbleached white wool and now the surprise sock-along socks in several shades of green, which my friend says look like fae socks, even if they are -regular- large-footed human size along with plans to make a little hank of handspun natural brown in to garden gnome socks!
I was taking a picture of it this morning for instagram, while wearing a bright green dress, and it did occur to me to one day see how it would look together :D
Dopamine is life !
It is :D
Strawberries and cream top. Looks delicious. 🍓🍓🍓🍨🍨🍨
Your jumper is adorable and your joy in the project is just what i needed today thank you!
Thank you :D
I watched this while fervently practicing a paw print fillet crochet tutorial my mom sent me. In my favorite color yarn, and paw prints are my motif of choice.
Paw prints are always a good idea :D
What a happy sweater that is! I love it when something makes me giddy because I like it so much, and it looks like this sweater does that for you!
I've recently been making several of the Worry Wyrm Dragon by Thalia Evans and that is a good dopamine project. It's super quick, uses up acrylic yarn that I don't want to use for anything else but also don't want to throw away, is great for those weird colors that don't go with anything, and at the end you have a super cute dragon to fiddle with or give away.
I have a crochet friend that adores dragons, I might need to forward that pattern tho them ASAP
@@MijnWolden It's such a quick and easy pattern! I'm not really a crochet-er but I really like this one. I hope your friend enjoys it too!
Eastern uncrossed team for the win on those tubular cast offs!
High five!
This video was pure dopamine ❤❤❤❤❤😊
Thank you :D
Love the happiness this video exudes 😁 Made me smile the whole time. My knitting right now is making me want to squee with excitement every time I pick it up to knit. I’m knitting my long dreamed of sweater with Shetland/alpaca that I finished spinning during Tour de Fleece.
Oooh Shetland AND alpaca. That sounds like a fluffy soft dream!
@@MijnWolden it is very lovely even though I spun and plied it with a pretty firm twist to hopefully minimize pilling. And it’s such a lovely heathered grey, with The Shetland being a dark grey and the alpaca is a light silver grey. Looks so beautiful blended together.
So much fun to see your excitement and joy knitting and wearing your new top! It’s fabulous on you! harpingJanet
Thank you :D
The top turned out great and your excitement was contagious! Love it!
I like this kind of contagion :D
oh thats a precious sweater and its so you! Beautiful yarn too! thank u friend for all u do! 🌺💓
Thank you :D
You are so fun ! I love how the top turned out and how much joy it brought you ! 🎉
I just found your channel today and enjoy your enthusiasm and joy in what you create! I just subscribed, so I’ll be watching for more joy in knitting.
I’m just finishing a cardigan sweater for a friend who beat breast cancer and that brings me joy.
What a lovely gift for your friend!
You knit exactly the way I do Eastern uncrossed.
high five!
Unexpected Sabaton reference!🎉
Yes :D
I found it! If you know, you know. I might actually be able to knit Eastern uncrossed. English & Continental are both hard for me. Thank you for taking us on your dopamine jaunt!
Hope it works out!
I woke up and had the same experience this morning. I am making a crochet cardi from sock scraps and my little heart is so happy. Thanks for the encouragement. ❤
Yes!!! Have fun :D
Ohhhh! So cool! This blouse was next on my to do list! Thank you for this video! 😊
Oh, have fun with it!
OMG I forgot about the sheep bowl!!! so adorable!! :D
RIGHT?!?!
Oh gosh! This video is radiating so much happiness! And it's exactly what I needed today! Thank you!!
Thank you :D
That came out super cute!
Thank you :D
I experienced so much happiness just from seeing your new yarn bowl! Your sweater is gorgeous as well 😍
I just got back into crocheting and I made a shawl from yarn scraps. I will probably never wear it because it is too many bright colors for me, but it gave me such a happiness boost!
Maybe someone around you will want to wear it and then you have a double happiness boost?
This tutorial possibly explains your speed of knitting... That Eastern uncrossed style looks very efficient and ergonomic. After having hand surgery a few years ago, I have to be careful of pain. Thanks!
My dopamine project was during the pandemic. I bought horrible cheap acrylic yarn... Because it was a garishly bright rainbow color!! I knitted a whole self drafted sweater without a pattern. It is warm, bright, easy care, and ugly. Perfect for curling up alone on the weekend, but I would never wear it in public.
It is rather ergonomic yes :)
I absolutely love everything about this project!! Especially the colour of those yarns together. You absolutely glow!! (I have been watching a lot of colour analysis videos lately.)
I knit a lot of dopamine projects during covid. I just didn't know that's what they were. Now I do 🌶🧠😜 And now I'm trying to alter them to fit in with my wardrobe, because I have never been a crop top person. Ah well. Crop tops are quick to knit!! 🤷🏻♀️
They are :D I also knit a lot of my sweaters cropped
@MijnWolden l have a long torso. Why I thought I could knit multiple tops extra short, I do not know. Performing surgery on all of them with whatever yarn I had left, or similar, has been a looooong process. And it still isn't completely done because it contains 0 dopamine and lots of focus. Gah!!
Such a joy to watch your you tube channel 😊
Thank you :D
Hi, Polish/Dutch person here, and the way I learned to knit from my Polish mum, was continental combined, aka Russian knitting. The knit stitches are mounted the same way your knit stitches are, but I wrap the yarn the other way around, so in the regular continental way. That means that you have to uncross/untwist them in the purl row, by knitting through the front loop, but wrapping the yarn in the opposite direction from regular continental purling (clockwise, instead of anti-clockwise) which is actually a much easier and more comfortable way of purling. It's an easier and faster way of knitting overall, and generally makes for a much more even fabric.
There is only one problem though: continental combined does not work when knitted in the round, since there is no purl round to untwist the stiches. But the way you knit, by wrapping the yarn the other way around, solves that problem. This is super interesting, and I'm definitely going to give this a try!
Hm, interesting. I thought the twisting occured because of not matching knits and purls, and thus wouldn't be a thing when knitting in the round...
I'm glad you found a spontaneous project to make you happy ❤
The yarn and top are beautiful!
Thank you :D
"Make a little project for the dopamine!" Instructions unclear, surrounded by ~10 unfinished projects 😆
For real, though-- that top looks lovely!!! I adore the colors :D and that yarn bowl is darling!!!
But did the unfinished projects give you dopamine???
@@MijnWolden they absolutely did and continue to… though they probably will provide even more when they’re finished!
Oh I just LOVED this video and I LOVE the top you made! (also love the Papapaparam song, btw). Thank you so much! Yes, I should definitely do a dopamine project soon again - I have been spinning a bit, but all I see right now is GIFT KNITTING FOR CHRISTMAS and it's already piling up and ... yap. Dopamine knitting is in order. Definitely.
Don't worry about christmas yet ;)
I just cast on the Sailor Swift Top by Kutovakika which has been in my queue for AGES. I didn't swatched and just paired together two yarns that are close enough. It is making the most beautiful fabric and the knit is the best kind of mindless. A good reminder that knitting is fun!
Knitting IS fun :D
I just watched this episode straight after watching the one on solar dyeing, and noticed when you were modelling your exquisite top, at timestamp 11.15, what appear to be mirabilis jalapa (?) plants (with the pink flowers), or what we call 4 O’clock plants her in Australia. As a fibre artist who makes bilums (the traditional bags made by the ladies in Papua, New Guinea), I know they use the seeds (tiny black, ball-shaped, about 5mm across) of this plant to produce a very vibrant pink dye for their plant-based fibres. I have not experimented with this on mordanted wool, but I am almost sure it would yield a good result. I may be wrong about the plant species, but it looks very much like the plant we grow here Down Under (which is also listed as a weed here in Northern Australia where I live). Congratulations on a beautiful garment. I shall now go and create some of my own dopamine … 😁
It is a mirabilis jalapa indeed!!! oh oh oh the seeds you say! Now I must collect them. I have tried once with the flowers, but they're honestly too pretty for dyeing.
@@MijnWolden Yes, they grind them up. I am pretty sure there is a short clip about bilums on TH-cam showing how they do it.
I love your style ❤️
You explaining how you knit in a goblin style. Me knitting my shawl in the exact same way, in the same time.
I did not know that my knitting style had a name, but now I know what my issues are with my increases and decreases. Thank you.
Eastern Uncrossed, also known as Goblin Style from now on
“A little fashion girly” cute ❤
:D I know right
Very cute!
Thank you!
I'm currently using a drop spindle and can't seem to get any kind of consistency. I did a few perfect and fluffy skeins, but the last 2 seem overspun. I love watching your content because you are such a positive force. I start to feel anxious about what I can use my yarn for (as its fluffy, then not fluffy and dull), but then you tell me to use it anyway 😂 it's a great kick up the backside! I don't suppose you can point me towards any of your videos that use inconsistent yarn for small projects? 😊 thanks, kristina.
Jillianeve has a lot of helpful videos, if you haven’t seen any of them yet :)
@VultureSkins I've seen them, but what I like is that Jente feels the fear and does it anyway. She doesn't let her anxieties stop her. 🥰 I like to see that she is inconsistent at times and makes mistakes, but uses her yarn anyway. I'm one of those people that will fixate on getting something 'perfect', but this chanel brings me back to earth. 😊
I think stockinette stitch looks wonderful with uneven rustic yarns. So depending on how much yarn you have, try and find something that will make that shine. My immediate thoughts are fingerless mittens or a headband. But I can't think of videos, except my own mental health sweater knit, but that's not a small project ;)
Have a done a project simply to make me happy, yup...pretty much all of them. Some of the highlights are a cowl with a dragon scale pattern on it, a vest I'm currently working on, and some silly stuffed animals.
Silly stuffed animals are the definition of dopamine projects
Loved this!
Oh you've gotta love a dopamine project! Beautiful summer tee, I love it. I thoroughly enjoyed your explanation of your knitting style. very informative.. thank you muchly 😃
I'm happy you enjoyed it :)
Working on a dopamine knit right now - I'm knitting socks for myself in the most obnoxiously bright green (radium glass UV glow levels) yarn, and I'm obsessed!
Now I want obnoxious green socks. With purple toes.
@@MijnWolden dooooo iiiiit :D
Hey. Lovely project. I was considering the ghost whisperer before but decided it's just to unpractical for my lifestyle. And i have to many unpractical dopamin knits already. Especially dresses.
Hafe a great day
It might be a bit too much to have a piece that always needs a bottom layer if you're traveling around so much!
I'm so happy I found your channel during the Tour de Fleece. I think that sweater turned out very nice and is making me want to pull mine out and finish it! I just wish it was in happy colors like yours, but maybe the next one will be!
Have fun finishing your sweater :D
My present dopamine project is a 1,000 gram ball of yarn I found at the store that I am turning into a simple chunky blanket
ooooooh a kilo of happiness!
I loved the explanation! I used to knit a mix as I was purling in the esterm way/ sp my stitches ended up woth the right leg in the back but knitting in the western / right leg in the front
And you manage to keep your stitched untwisted? neat.
I prefer to knit combination and your explanation of Eastern makes sense to me! I have a hard time doing complex lace in that style because all the decreases are executed differently and I'm never sure whether I'm doing double decreases right. Maybe I should be looking into how Eastern knitters do lace since on the knit rounds I'm knitting into Eastern mounted stitches.
It might be worth a shot indeed
This turned out great, and the color looks nice on you as well. I need this sort of project after a few less than satisfactory knits this year... I will check my stash to find something inspiring! Currently waiting for the library copy of Dopamine Nation, coincidentally.
That is a coincident indeed!
It would look great over the pink cotton dress that you over dyed.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing! (but I didn't have it at hand when filming the end of the video)
looks good
Thank you!
My current dopamine project is the Joinery top by Yumiko Alexander. I'm not 100% happy with the color (blah baby blue and white - so blah), but it should be very wearable. I would have preferred a charcoal color, but my LYS didn't have that color in stock, and I had to start NOW! Well, before I went on vacation. I'm back now, didn't knit much while gone. Actually, the color is growing on me. It's more of a pale aqua than pale blue. And my other dopamine project is weaving with some of my handspun singles that were dyed in patches of neon colors. My warp is white cotton, and the weft is making really great stripes. This is going to end up as a summer top, or maybe a summer dress, depending on how much fabric I end up with. It is so fun to weave - I wish I hadn't procrastinated on getting the warp on the loom - now I'll have to wait until next summer to wear whatever it ends up being!
Most of my projects in the past are little dopamine hits. Lately, though, I haven't. Had to finish a sweater for my husband because i told him i would. Next I've got to finish a lace wrap for my sister and her wedding. Then I'm making 2 vests for me and her friend that is also in her wedding party.
I really need to get a dopamine project soon. 😩
(the sweater I'm making for my husband is watching judgingly while I knit other things)
That turned out very cute! Maybe I should make another sweater for my stuffed bear. He got stained pink from the red shirt he came with. So now I'm making hom different clothes since naked isn't really sn option anymore lol.
sweaters for stuffed bears have my heart
I am knitting covers for my ceramic flute and it's aging case. The flute has its, now the case needs one so it can't break open.
Yarn: a ball of very fine, finer than laceweight, 2 ply handspun from the thrift store, natural white. It had been wound around a newspaper in 1974 and is very over twisted. The years of being in a ball have set the twist and once knitted, it makes a passable utility fabric.
Oh that sounds so precious
I’m going to think about a project that will fill the dopamine pot…thanks for the idea!
Yes, do it!
Last year I knit a pair of leg-warmers in self-striping sock yarn using Victorian stocking pattern instructions. I was going through a really rough patch and just wanted something repetitive to do & this fit the bill exactly. Am I the only person I know who wears stripy woolen leg warmers? Yes, yes I am. Do they fulfill all my warm-legged witchy clad desires - absolutely. No regrets.
I want to be the person that still wears legwarmers. But I don't have legwarmers.
Yet.
@@MijnWolden mwahahahaha my evil influence of leg-warmer goodness spreads
Before you showed the eastern uncrossed - your style, I was feeling slightly envious because I throw my yarn, and your way seems so much smoother…. Maybe I’ll try the eastern uncrossed way 😅
or you could try continental? Then you don't have to reverse all of your thinking, just the hand in which you hold your yarn? Carrie Craftgeek has some interesting videos on different knitting styles if you want to learn more :D
@@MijnWolden I shall inquire!
May I ask what job you have? I imagine you being a museum guide or so, also because your English is so good 😋
I'm a communications specialist for a non-profit/social profit organisation :) but museum guide is genuinely a dreamjob for me, or librarian.
That yarn bowl?!?!?! Tis peak
It is :D
DOPAMINE PROJECTS!!!!
Also: what interchangeable knitting needles are you using? May be in the market for a new set.
KnitPro (also called Knitters Pride) Ginger set. It was a gift from my mom :)
@@MijnWolden How do you like them? I’m considering Chiaogoo as I like metal crochet hooks, and am finding my Knit Picks wooden needles are losing their finish!
@@TJtheBee I like them. But I have no comparison point other than really cheap all metal circular needles (yes, the cable was metal too).
The dopamine project I cast on today is a cashmere/silk cowl 💛
Man that sounds like dopamine with every touch!
@@MijnWolden It absolutely is! The kicker is, in my climate I'll only be able to wear it two or three times a year xD
since you knit through the back loop, does that mean, when you want to un-knit, you pick the stitch from the back to the front or is it still from front to back? :)
back to front yes :D
Dressing Miss Maggie Rabbit in ALL the clothes - knitting and sewing
Yes!
Hip? Sure. Girly? Okay. ❤ Trendy? Nooooo, never, please!
Hahahahahaha :D only trendy in the goblin world ;)
i taught myself how to knit from books and i taught myself to knit through the back loop and knit that way for YEARS until i noticed my ribbing looked different than everyone else's (the stitches were twisted because i purled through the front loop)
But if you make the fabric you want, then who actually cares? :D
I knit the same way but my stitches are on the right had needle. I knit through the back of the loop. Im a left handed and mirror image eastern knitter? I purl the way as you too only opposite.
Oh cool!
I'm like :elmoburn: over someone else knitting Eastern uncrossed. It's so comfortable!
It is!
😊
9:05 might be a bit of a sweeping generalization lol
Yes well, but not entirely wrong? (except for hedonism)
None of the knitting explanations made sense, but whatever floats your boat is what is best for you! As long as it works ❤
You make no sense ;)
Is that a split skirt??!?!!?
Yeah, sorta kinda? I saw Morgan Donner make her split skirt by sewing tow circle skirts together and I did that as well :)
@@MijnWolden I love it! It's also a historical type of clothing I think from Hungry or somewhere similar. I read a novel years ago, and women and men both wore them, especially for riding!