As an American, I promise the colors don't read "commercial American Halloween witch" (IMO they're not nearly garish enough for that!). I would describe them as "lavender field on a cloudy day".
I am an astrophysicist with a phd. I cannot though tell left from right, when I'm driving my husband has to tell me to turn my side of the car (drivers) or his side of the car (codriver). The mind works in mysterious ways! That being said, having a mind that can picture things in 3D is a great gift, not many people have that! I love your cardigan, and it's really nice to see you again!
I struggle with that and I believe I have an undiagnosed minor dyslexia. I very often mis read words and have to reread things so they make sense. I also struggle with numbers but i can recognize patterns and sequences pretty easily. Go figure
I confuse left and right all the time. It was a major issue when I was learning to drive, my mom or grandma or whoever would be flabberghasted when I turned thr car in the opposite direction they told me. Even now when I am driving with my boyfriend and hes giving me directions I frustrate and scare him by turning the wrong way every once in a while.
This may be a problem for a lot of people. I remember in a water aerobics class the instructor said quarter turn right. Her next command was now quarter turn your other right! There were people with Master degrees and nursing licenses in that class.😳
@@joannemcmillan9201 I teach dance (and is getting a masters degree in chemistry) and I do that all the time! It's either left or other "no, the other left". My solution has been to knit myself a mismatched pair of legwarmers so i can refer to directions as the colour legwarmer I wear (as in green side meaning left if if I wear that legwarmer on my left leg (whichever one that is)).
I think Mohn looks like spring colors. Maybe it's the power of your suggestion, but it does look like lavender plant colors to me. I really appreciate what you had to say about being OK with how your own brain works, and how that change over time. And you're right, we'll all be here whenever you post. Your health comes first!
I actually love the colors for your Mohn cardigan. I see Scottish thistles or irises, not Halloween. Halloween is usually a more garish purple and green. And yay for finishing your waistcoat! It looks good on you.
I don’t see Halloween…I see cloudy day in the garden. 😊 Glad you finally had the energy and brain power to make good progress on things! It’s a good feeling, isn’t it?!
I agree. Reading this comment helped reveal why I like those colours. I love cloudy days and the variation of colour on cloudy days is special to me. You see the two strong colours, then you see the purple which means you look for the last colour and it looks nice. Also reminded me to look outside and enjoy the clouds.
I’m autistic, and one of the things I really hate is being asked to do something that appears to be a complete waste of time when the person asking me won’t even explain why I should do it. Your colour scheme reads heather on granite slopes to me - just gorgeous!
The typod tilting slowly down just makes it look like we're gently dozing off while watching you knit! I've been having a deeply frustrating time with my knitting/crochet - one project kept going wong and it had already been in progress for a YEAR, so I was like screw this, I need a win. So I cast on something else that was supposed to be a simple easy win...and wouldn't you know, it went wrong in almost exactly the same way as the first, but with even MORE disastrous consequences! Now I have two cardigans I don't even want to acknowledge the existence of, an enormous amount of sweater surgery to do on the second one (which is also the one i used expensive yarn on because OF COURSE), and a newly developed fear of gauge and buttonbands! Yipee! On top of a personally frustrating week, the fact that my escape from that also went horribly wrong is really doing me in. These videos have helped though, because after having to rip back MOHAIR like 5 times, and cutting something to save time/work and inevitably creating more work, I remembered your blue lace blouse and chevron crochet blanket and was able to feel a little less alone, and laugh at myself a little! Thank you for preventing me from entirely losing my mind and throwing my knitting into my fireplace. Regarding written patterns, I think I've been very lucky in finding patterns that either come with schematics, have very clear instructions (and also say what exactly is being formed or knitted on at each point), have a individual pages of instructuons for each size (no highlighting!) and aren't too bare or too granular. I do prefer wordy patterns because I am a beginner, and i've had a much worse time with instructions that just tell you to do something without telling you how ('do this in pattern', 'do the increases for the arm'...how???).
I'm so sorry your knitting has gone so far ary. And one of my pet hates in knitting patterns is "keeping the pattern correct, cast off/increase/decrease....." But how???? What stitch am I starting on??!
With your vintage patterns, maybe you could scan or photocopy them. Then you could highlighter the crap out of the copy and still keep the original mark free.
What a beautiful pattern. 16:07 I personally don't think it looks anywhere close to Halloween. This beautiful colour scheme makes me think of the English Suffragette Movement✌🏻. Looking forward to the end result. 👌🏻
Halloween?? No way more Suffragettes. Purple for justice, dignity and loyalty to the cause. White for purity. Green for hope. Also, the colours are for International Women's Day on March 8th. Your FO is very cute. Looking forward to seeing the Daisy Blouse become a FO!!! Hope you are having a good day! 🦆🧶❤
Hurray for finishing the waistcoat! It also looks like you've made a lot of progress on the Mohn cardigan, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you win the game of yarn chicken 😃 To me the Mohn colours don't read halloween, they're too muted for that (which might be the camera lying to me). To me it's early spring colours! Can't wait to see the finished cardigan, it already looks great :)
Thank you so much for your videos, especially those about stash busting. I appreciate these aren't scripted video essays. Instead they feel like a good honest natter between friends of an afternoon, which is so precious. I look forward to them with anticipation. I appreciate your honesty, not just the facts of what your disability is and what it does, but how it affects you day to day, the limitations and your efforts to continue your life as best you can. This part gets glossed over so often in disability conversations and leaves people to misunderstand or fill in the gaps with their own experience which, if they don't have the same disability, will be askew or incorrect. I love the way the vest turned out. It's so flattering on you. Congratulations! And I agree with the other comments here that the Mohn colors seem floral, perhaps on a cloudy spring day in the garden. Being in the US I completely understand why you're seeing American Halloween in those colors because yes, that pale green/lavender/grey combo gets used *sigh* alot. But, to be honest, I wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out. As there's no yellow or orange, to me it seems more English Garden in Rain. :) Congratulations on your finish and I can't wait to see whatever video you have for us next. :D
I like the dot colors, and to my eye they read more early spring colors (I was initially very confused about them being referenced to halloween...🤷). I'm glad you like your new waistcoat, and I can't argue with your button choice. You do have some really neat buttons to choose from. The aside about brains and learning was very interesting. I enjoy thinking about those things ever since I recognized my brain isn't quite so normal in a variety of ways. Back in physics and engineering classes, I struggled a lot with learning just from equations in the book because they only tell you what will happen and not why it happens. Once I figure out the why, it is actually fun to see what my brain can do with it. Now that I am a professor, and occasionally teaching, I like to bring that kind of learning into working with students. It's been interesting to see how it resonates with some and doesn't with others. Brains are weird. 🤓 Yay for making progress! Yay for having the freedom to prioritize your health! and Yay for people and dogs that make you happy! 😀Take care!
I use port and starboard for left and right sides. That works for me. Meanwhile, in the stashbusting realm, I have an entire tub of Caron Dazzleaire 2612 Peach in different dye lots (all discontinued). I'm using the dye lots as different shadings in my ongoing project of a queen-size bedspread. The squares are turning out even prettier than if I'd only used one shade, and no single dye lot skeins will be left over. I'm certain I will not be losing yarn roulette. Love the waistcoat. Beautifully done.
I think the Mohn cardigan does still look very garden-y. The darker green does disappear a bit but I think the light green, purple, and whitish color play together in a very tea time in a flower garden type way. Your videos are my favorite knitting and sewing and crafts videos to watch, and I just wanted to say so. And I also wanted to say that your stash-busting series has helped me figure out how to go about trying to tame my own yarn stash in a way that feels more manageable and realistic for my circumstances. Hope you are well.
You're glad that there's still a job for you if you take a month off. Im glad to know that you'll definitely come back if i just wait long enough. Its always such a joy to see you do things 🥰
I’ve been watching your stuff through the years and I love seeing someone actually talk about their disabilities and how they’ve worked around them to accomplish what they love doing, can’t wait for the next video ❤
I love the colors you picked for the cardigan. At first I thought of spring, but then I realized they remind me of wild heather in early autumn, growing on a bed of pale green and white moss, the darker green being the stems of the flowers, and the gray is the rocky hills they grow on.
I never thought about why exactly I struggle so much with written patterns, but it is for exactly the reasons you mentioned! I need to know the "why" and be able to conceptualize it as something like "knit in 2 x 2 rib for 4 inches" (which is how I think of my freehanded projects in my head, and part of why I've never tried to write any of them up for others)
Claud, it was great seeing you knit!! As far as the purple goes, I really like it! It breaks up a bit of a plain group of colors. It is going to be a beautiful garment!!❤❤❤ Your waistcoat is stunning! I would love to have one like it in a soft grey color! Your tripod cracked me up!😂😂😂
I really love digital patterns for the ability to mark them all up without ruining the "original" - if it is a webpage I print it to a PDF and then highlight the heck out of it (or if it's really complex I'll grab my iPad and actually write on it in red). It's been a lifesaver for charts especially.
I really love patterns that include a diagram (with measurements!) of either the finished item or the flat pieces. The only way I learned to knit socks was because Tin Can Knits had a great diagram explaining the construction. Your Mohn Cardigan is looking lovely! Once you mentioned lavender it is all I can see out of that color scheme rather than Halloween.
I'm so glad you've gotten the tuck stitch and tension a bit closer so that the final fit of the cardigan is closer to what you'd like - I think I've got a few updates I'd like to make to the pattern based on your comments, and I so appreciate it! (for example, what if I added the option for each pattern size to be a separate downloadable PDF, so you're not looking at so many numbers all squished together?) I have to second the idea of the colors looking like thistles or lavender, but I fully understand when a color combination doesn't fully turn out how you'd hoped. Also, yay!! for a finished piece, it looks amazing and I can only cheer you on in writing it up as a pattern if that fits into your time/energy/schedule
When you first began this stashbusting project so many aspects of my life were different. My grandmother (who enjoyed watching your videos with me) was still alive, I had no friends, I had no plans for college or moving out of my dad's house. Now, my grandmother has passed, I've made friends who took me in during a dire time, I've moved out of my dad's house, and I have plans for college to be a court reporter or costume designer (I know two very different options but I have thought them over). It's been exciting seeing you progress and now that I'm fully moved out I have plans to start hacking away at my yarn stash. I also found out I have arthritis in my wrist which has affected both work and hobby. Please never stop, you have been a big hope for me. Much love. ❤
I love your videos and your humour openness about neurodiversity and disabilities. We all have our "little quirks" and learning about others is what makes us more nuanced and empathetic humans. Thank you for being part of this! For what it's worth, I really like the colours and don't see Halloween at all. Lovely! Also, a tip: when I have to ladder down to fix a stitch, I use a crochet hook rather than a knitting needle (especially to pick the stitches back up) and I find, for me, it cuts the time and fiddliness down by a factor of ten. :)
I really like your colorway. Absolutely brilliant!!!💚💚💚 Your waistcoat is stunning!!! It will be a warm addition to your fall/winter wardrobe. And by the way, you are the silk in your creations. Do not worry when you do not have the silk thread to sew on a button.💚💚💚
1. I really love your channel, because you’re so calm and true to yourself. 2. I love the colors of your cardigan. And I do not think that they are Halloweenish 😂! 3. I also have difficulties to decide where is left and right. But what has helped me was that when I look on the back of my hands, the hand that forms a L with my index finger and my thumb that is my left hand🤷🏻♀️
The waistcoat looks so cozy! I agree with the other commenters about the cardigan colours, they don't look Halloween-y at all. The green and purple on tacky Halloween stuff is much more saturated, and even then it's probably not going to make people think of Halloween unless it has black and/or bright orange.
In all the hard work you put into your knitting, I think you do it quite well. I know you get quite aggravated when things do not go as exactly as planned, but it is a process. Please enjoy it more as everything in life is an experiment! If we take what is given to us, learn the way we can make sense of that, we are all smarter than we think. May God bless you more and more each and every day! 😃
As an American, our Halloween colors are typically bright orange and black. I don't see what you mean about it looking like Halloween. Looks more like spring to me.
You make me feel so good! Even when I don’t do the things that I should, you make me feel so good. Cause when you make a mistake, you’re never proud and never fake you’ve just made a mistake, and that is something we all can do. So Thankyou Claude, thank you!
lol! As an American with a limited appreciation of Halloween, I love this! I love the purple, green and gray! You’d need orange (Gack) to really channel a US Halloween! I love green and purple together and your workmanship is stellar, as always! It looks great!
I personally love the colors. I can visualize this with a lavender or green tank/top, and a gray skirt or slack. Beautiful. Stop second guessing yourself. Trust your decisions. It's not Halloween!!!! I got a pattern from you for a dress which I love. Thank you again. Stay strong 😊
You and your health is the most important priority. I am disabled and got chronic illness aswell. I've been doing TH-cam as a hobby for a long time. The last few weeks I've been trying to take my videos seriously by doing scripts,doing some research for some doll and book videos I've been planning on doing for a while now. I got 2 Niece's and a baby nephew. Who's 3,2 and 1 month old and their my number one priority. I spend time with them as much as I can due to chronic illness.
Yay, knitting! I completely agree with keeping things under review for your own disabilities. 5 years ago I was working an office job and running all over town every week with a million groups. These days, I'm stuck at home with migraines and fatigue. I cannot work and I can barely go out. That's even different from three years ago when I didn't have the fatigue. It's a roller coaster all the time. I get frustrated when my Adhd brain straight up forgets something I do to make life easier for absolutely no reason and it takes months or even years to remember it and start doing it again.😅
As soon as I saw you had posted something, I was in. Always happy to see what you are up to. Although I don't share your struggles with dyslexia, I can certainly relate to laddering back when I read a pattern wrong! I am working my way through a 35 year old stash, all 80s yarns, and your inventiveness has helped me greatly on this journey. Please keep coming back, at whatever frequency works for you. I love your content.
I really like the. Moan cardigan, and the color is delightful!! I can see this we with a pair of charcoal corduroy high-waisted pants and a lavender mock turtleneck. Nice and cozy for the cold weather to come. And again, I love the colors you picked. ❤
I hate Halloween too and I adore the colours! They also remind me of my wisteria tree - different coloured greens, purple and white flowers. Also team snip all the ends. I collect mine and put them in a bag that ends up as stuffing. The idea of wrangling 5 balls of wool is unpleasant 😂
Sometimes I put a stitch marker on one side to mark a side (Left and right are a struggle for me)and my grandmother sometimes to keep track of where she was connecting things would put a little tag on a safety pin and pin it to where she was marking.
I really like that 1980s/40s waistcoat! It's a style I've considered making before and I might have to actually make it now. With patterns, I hightlight the size needed on digital patterns as well, and use the sticky notes feature on pdfs to add my own notes, like changes to needle size to make gauge, so that I don't forget what I was doing if I use the needles for something else or pause making it for a while and then return. It's actually really helpful for me in finding the actual stitch count in all of the numbers for different sizes, so I hope it also works for you and makes things easier! I also need to know why I'm doing something in order to be able to do it. I'm autistic and having the context makes the instructions actually understandable because I know what the end result is supposed to be and it's easier to keep track of where I am and spot any errors.
That's a brilliant idea. That's the thing with technology, it's wonderful if you know how to make the most of it 😅 I'll look up how to do sticky notes!
@@RetroClaude At least with pdfs in adobe, you can click on a thing you've highlighted, underlined, or crossed out, and an option for 'add sticky note' comes up. You can also find them in the menu bar at the top next to the highlighter pen and cursor style options (or, if you don't have the window taking up all of your screen, it might be in a drop-down menu that's available once you click on the cursor style in the menu bar). You can also click on highlights to change their colour, so you can have one colour for 'make this size!' and another for 'this is where you're at in the pattern'. I also use sticky notes to keep track of which repeat I'm on if the pattern calls for repeating a set of rows a certain number of times.
I honestly think the dots are lovely, but the gradient is not clear. I think it's very soft winter vibes, maybe witchy but more muted rainy day. The vest is so wearable too, very ready for autumn!
You perfectly described my issues with an otherwise lovely crocheting pattern! It is a relatively complicated pattern that is obviously written for beginners (lowest common denominator - love to see patterns that help beginners grow) that, as an experienced crocheter, has tripped me up several times because I can't see the picture for the pixels (forest for the trees, etc). It's been great seeing your cardigan grow! I am always impressed with your willingness to ladder back, especially as I now know your aren't using a crochet hook to do so!
I love the colour palette for the cardigan! It reminds me of an English style garden. Beautiful flowers growing against a grey stone wall. Every time you held it up my mind jumper to a quaint English row of houses with pretty gardens. Can't wait to see it finished! And I have good feelings about the yardage of yarn left.
I'm not dyslexic, but I always struggled to translate pattern abbreviations in real time, and it took years before I even attempted working from a pattern. I could only do it by writing out the bits I need in my own terms. Sometimes I also want to write on the pattern, without messing up the original. So I slip it into a clear dry erase pocket. I can write on that, erase it, do it again, and take the clean pattern out when I'm done. The only damage to the pattern is that I might have to fold the pages open backwards to get them inside. As for your projects, I LOVE the purple and green. They're beautiful colors together and you've picked such lovely shades. I do also love Halloween, but I wasn't getting Halloween vibes from this. It could be played up that way if you wanted, but that's not where my brain goes with it. And the waistcoat is so fun. 80s sweaters are my favorite, and I especially love the whole genre of 70s and 80s knitting (and sewing) patterns emulating earlier vintage styles. It's like a snapshot of the history of history-bounding before history-bounding was a thing.
The waist coat looks great! It’s perfect when the weather is playing games! You’re doing amazing on everything in your life. Yes I know you try and present a positive face. I tell everyone that I don’t go out much cause I can’t pretend to be human for long. I guess we can only do as much as we can! Your videos are really wonderful and a joy to watch even when things aren’t going the way you want. Reminds me that we all have our struggles I’ve been unhappy to discover things changing. I’m losing sight words and my writing is going down hill. I really thought that most of my dyslexia was contained. Thankfully there’s a lot more audio books so I can still get my fill of stories!
I am loving this conversation here about knitting pattern design so very much. I have many similar instances as you with patterns and have struggled to a point of setting the projects aside and off my list, the same way you did previously. There’s no one way to write a pattern, but I do think it would be helpful to know that we process information differently depending on our learning style (visual, reading & writing, auditory, and kinetic - can you believe I remember that from being a barista trainer 😅) and depending on if there’s a disability on top of that. It’s a lot to take in, so I don’t expect every designer to do that, but I appreciate the ones that do.
The waistcoat looks so cute, congratulations on the finish. For me the color of the other cardigan reminds my more of the transition from winter into spring. All gray and dark in the winter and than the first flowers with some beautiful fresh greens and purple are popping through the snow... greetings from Belgium
I've started rewriting my crochet patterns with added notes so that I can better understand them. Patterns are very hard for me, I am a visual/hands on learner. I also discovered if i take a picture on my phone of where I am in a difficult repeat, and mark it digitally, I have a better record of where I am if i lose my way so to speak lol. Taking a picture of your vintage pattern on a tablet or putting it onto your computer would allow you to make notations digitally without damaging the original. I love the purple, and I can't wait to see your version of this adorable sweater!! 💜
Well done for finishing that cardigan! It looks really good 😊 I too am mostly just whittling away at my projects rather than having any big wins or finishing things but I've been enjoying the slower pace
I really like the colour choices you've made on the dots cardigan. I think they go really well together. And I love your waistcoat. PS (whispering, too): I finished something tonight, too! Yay!
I love the colors on the Mohn sweater! It makes me think of a cozy little cottage. Husband walked in as I was writing my comment and I asked him as well. It doesn't read as Halloween to either of us. Not that our opinion matters over your personal opinion on whether you're going to wear it or not, lol! I think it's lovely!
I think the color sets are SO pretty! I know you're unsure about the purple, but I think it's lovely. ♥ Also if it helps you can try putting a pattern into a plastic sleeve and marking on that, or you can take a scan/do a photocopy of a pattern and draw on that. Sometimes I have rewritten patterns tho!
Yeah I definitely prefer diagrams or photos of what a specific step is, because I have aphantasia which means I can't visualize things. So I often skip patterns without diagrams. Unless I already know from making something how to do that thing.
Hahaha. Black, orange and white are Halloween for me in Michigan US. I was taught to knit at a young age and could not seem to get the hang of it. I lost stitches and couldn't pick them up, etc. I tried knitting again but I have the same problem and majorly arthritic hands. So knitting is just not going to happen in this lifetime. I am disabled as well and spend quite a bit of time in bed but watch videos so I appreciate you doing what I can't. Thanks.
I heard you place your knitting needles on the table and I immediately started looking around my room for where I'd dropped a set of needles before I realized it was the video 😅this is the chaos I live in
Oh my gosh I LOVE the waistcoat Claude! It looks so Katherine Hepburn styled with those wide leg trousers and collared button-up shirt! I'm so proud of you for continuing to work through your stash and facing your pattern challenges head on. Best of luck with the Mohn cardigan -- the French Lavender is my favourite of all the contrast colours and I hope when the garment is finished everything blends really nicely and you're satisfied with the end result 💜
As an American, I can say that your mohn sweater is definitely not garish enough for Commercial Halloween! I love the colors, they remind me of spring!
Your cardigan doesn't remind me of Halloween. When I first saw the colors together I immediately thought of a lavender field and this is still what I see 🥰 Hope you are doing fine, get well soon ❤
Yay! I was so excited to see the title of this. I am dyslexic (had to check the spelling...) and hearing your talk about how your brain works and the comments from other people has really helped to not feel like its just me. I have found changing up my diet has really helped with my brain fog - shout out to the Glucose Goddess! So lovely to see your cardigan progress, i was getting heather and heathland vibes. Love a long video and great to see you again! x
I think the colours are lovely on the Mohn cardigan and not garish and Halloweeny at all. I feel they are very subtle and remind me of highland moors with all the heather and grey/green scrub. I also like the grey modern waistcoat and it’s been very interesting to hear you discuss how you are overcoming all the difficulties with modern patterns. I hope you can manage your health better even though of course I’ll be sad to have less videos from you as they are always a treat and I’ll always look forward to anything you do. ❤
I love watching you. After watching several videos and hearing you talk about pacing it gave me some ideas for myself. I don't share your disability, but I do have a very busy life where I may only get a few minutes to devote to my crocheting. When I know I don't have time to tuck into doing a project I find myself at odds on what to do. Now I take those moments and set up my project bag/basket with the yarn, needle, and project. I also put a sticky note on each to let me know what the project is. I haven't gotten to where future me appreciates this yet, but it makes present me feel more useful and less frustrated. Take your time posting. We're here when you get back when you need to take a break. You got this up the first full week of August so not too past your goal. I call that a win. I love the sweater and the colors. Keep up the great work! And thank you for sharing, teaching, and being you.
yaaay! (To the chronological playlist this goes!) I really like the Mohn cardigan colour scheme! It does remind of the lavender and in combination with grey it gives either stormy afternoon or a late autumn morning in Provence vibes. The connection with halloween doesn't click for me at all.
I JUST thrifted a 1980s wool crossover vest similar to the one you made here. I was so excited to see your version! And for what it's worth, I think the grey-green-lilac in your cardigan is charming, and not at all Halloween-y.
congrats on the finished object! it looks so chic, especially how you styled it in the end. thank you for continuing to speak so openly about your struggles with deciphering patterns. i have adhd, probably autism and a touch of dyslexia so i can relate to a lot of what you experience. the things that have helped with patterns are: printing them out, using highlighters to colour-code instructions that always trip me up (especially in charts, ex: left vs. right increases/cables, wrong side vs. right side), and writing notes whenever i change something or need it rephrased for clarity. i also always try to track projects in ravelry with at least the yarn, pattern & size, needles used, gauge, and any planned modifications. this has saved me multiple times after forgetting about a project and finding it again on a stitch holder without any needles attached. the highlighters come in especially in handy with lace/cable charts because i can't easily track what goes where just by glancing at the page... unless there are colours because it's much harder for me to confuse two colours compared to two slanty lines or squiggles going in opposite directions. i also use washi tape on charts to track which row i'm supposed to be working (this is also the only way i can work on a lace project, put it down, and have even a little bit of confidence i can pick it back up at some point in the future :P ) going through a pattern and marking it up before i get started actually gets me excited to work on it now because it's become a little craft of its own for me. and i finally get to use all the highlighters i've bought over the years haha. plus, having printed patterns means my modifications and colour coding is still there the next time i use a pattern. i have a vest pattern i've used to make gifts for just about everyone i love and it's so cute to pick up the pattern again and see each version has its own size highlighted. it's a bit of an extra material history to go along with the garments i make, which i really adore. sorry for the ramble! i just love talking about accessibility in crafting!
Woot woot! Lying in bed in pain happy to see you…Aug. 3, 2024. ❤ A lot of times it’s just a section or two…I only rewrite those sections…sometimes actually rewriting in my own knit/crochet language. I’m doing a 1970’s crochet kit right now. They used to many words to describe a thing. I pared it down to unjumble the instruction. The project had been sitting aside since November. In the last two days of gotten 3/4’s done. I think we all struggle, at times, for different reasons. We might not notice what the struggle is until we hear someone else describe their struggles. I use many different strategies depending on the type of pattern and struggle. 🌈🌈🦋🦋 The colors remind me of early spring in Oregon.
I think the colours look like nature to me. Like a woodland with lavender and snow drops. I love it!!! ❤ I might steal your colours for a striped sweater. In fact I’m going yarn shopping right now.
Always lovely to see you! These may be my favorite videos you do! I've been on medical leave from work to get a handle on probable ME so having you to watch and relate to is really comforting. :) You processing and problem solving really helps me reframe when I'm having a rough day. I have a weird thing about right and left while driving, it turns out that I use the car turning mechanic to sort out which is which. So either the close turn (right) or far turn (left) but as I'm American when my partner and I were in Scotland and rented a car I had to work hard to remember the reverse (with partner's help!) THEN on landing back in the states and getting in the car to drive home I was mentally backwards again! (Also I have my internal compass set on "closeness to ocean" for East/West and when I visit home on the West coast it messes me up in my new home on the East coast...)
I’m sorry you’ve had a bit of a rough time. For me the British weather absolutely kills me. 28 one day 14 the next messes with my pain levels terribly. I love your finished item it looks so comfortable and will be great for summer or as a layer in the winter. Take care ❤
As an American, I promise the colors don't read "commercial American Halloween witch" (IMO they're not nearly garish enough for that!). I would describe them as "lavender field on a cloudy day".
I am an astrophysicist with a phd. I cannot though tell left from right, when I'm driving my husband has to tell me to turn my side of the car (drivers) or his side of the car (codriver). The mind works in mysterious ways! That being said, having a mind that can picture things in 3D is a great gift, not many people have that! I love your cardigan, and it's really nice to see you again!
I always picture my hands making an L shape before I commit to saying left or right, so I have to say that I am in a similar boat 😂
I struggle with that and I believe I have an undiagnosed minor dyslexia. I very often mis read words and have to reread things so they make sense. I also struggle with numbers but i can recognize patterns and sequences pretty easily. Go figure
I confuse left and right all the time. It was a major issue when I was learning to drive, my mom or grandma or whoever would be flabberghasted when I turned thr car in the opposite direction they told me. Even now when I am driving with my boyfriend and hes giving me directions I frustrate and scare him by turning the wrong way every once in a while.
This may be a problem for a lot of people. I remember in a water aerobics class the instructor said quarter turn right. Her next command was now quarter turn your other right! There were people with Master degrees and nursing licenses in that class.😳
@@joannemcmillan9201 I teach dance (and is getting a masters degree in chemistry) and I do that all the time! It's either left or other "no, the other left". My solution has been to knit myself a mismatched pair of legwarmers so i can refer to directions as the colour legwarmer I wear (as in green side meaning left if if I wear that legwarmer on my left leg (whichever one that is)).
let’s just pretend the tripod giving up on life is actually just a nice layer of cinematic movement for your knitting segments 😂🧶
Just that! I believe it's called in the biz 'a pan' 🤣
For your Tripod Fund (or whatever you need!) Thanks for the great insights!
Thank you so much! 🥰
I think Mohn looks like spring colors. Maybe it's the power of your suggestion, but it does look like lavender plant colors to me. I really appreciate what you had to say about being OK with how your own brain works, and how that change over time.
And you're right, we'll all be here whenever you post. Your health comes first!
I agree I think it looks like spring colours love both projects.
As an American, wrong shades of green and purple for Halloween witch
I agree. I also thought it read lavender fields more than Halloween
I was thinking spring/easter too.
I thought of thistles and love the color combination
I actually love the colors for your Mohn cardigan. I see Scottish thistles or irises, not Halloween. Halloween is usually a more garish purple and green. And yay for finishing your waistcoat! It looks good on you.
Funnily enough, Halloween was originally associated with Scottish thistles!
The color dots are given me a Iris flower vibe. Very pretty.
I agree, or even Lavender stalks. It is very pretty and not US Halloween at all!
I wholeheartedly agree
@@deniseyoung3738Same! The Halloween colors are more vibrant and would definitely have orange somewhere.
Something about the slowly dropping frame was just so funny & cute. It made me giggle every time
Me too 😄
It felt really artistic and deliberate! Having a specialist "pan down" tripod is going to be useful.
I agree! It was such a wonderful moment each time
I don’t see Halloween…I see cloudy day in the garden. 😊 Glad you finally had the energy and brain power to make good progress on things! It’s a good feeling, isn’t it?!
I agree. Reading this comment helped reveal why I like those colours. I love cloudy days and the variation of colour on cloudy days is special to me. You see the two strong colours, then you see the purple which means you look for the last colour and it looks nice. Also reminded me to look outside and enjoy the clouds.
I’m autistic, and one of the things I really hate is being asked to do something that appears to be a complete waste of time when the person asking me won’t even explain why I should do it.
Your colour scheme reads heather on granite slopes to me - just gorgeous!
Me too. I really need to know the why, to understand a thing, in order to follow instructions. Otherwise, I WILL do it wrong.🤷♀️
The typod tilting slowly down just makes it look like we're gently dozing off while watching you knit!
I've been having a deeply frustrating time with my knitting/crochet - one project kept going wong and it had already been in progress for a YEAR, so I was like screw this, I need a win. So I cast on something else that was supposed to be a simple easy win...and wouldn't you know, it went wrong in almost exactly the same way as the first, but with even MORE disastrous consequences!
Now I have two cardigans I don't even want to acknowledge the existence of, an enormous amount of sweater surgery to do on the second one (which is also the one i used expensive yarn on because OF COURSE), and a newly developed fear of gauge and buttonbands! Yipee!
On top of a personally frustrating week, the fact that my escape from that also went horribly wrong is really doing me in. These videos have helped though, because after having to rip back MOHAIR like 5 times, and cutting something to save time/work and inevitably creating more work, I remembered your blue lace blouse and chevron crochet blanket and was able to feel a little less alone, and laugh at myself a little! Thank you for preventing me from entirely losing my mind and throwing my knitting into my fireplace.
Regarding written patterns, I think I've been very lucky in finding patterns that either come with schematics, have very clear instructions (and also say what exactly is being formed or knitted on at each point), have a individual pages of instructuons for each size (no highlighting!) and aren't too bare or too granular. I do prefer wordy patterns because I am a beginner, and i've had a much worse time with instructions that just tell you to do something without telling you how ('do this in pattern', 'do the increases for the arm'...how???).
I'm so sorry your knitting has gone so far ary. And one of my pet hates in knitting patterns is "keeping the pattern correct, cast off/increase/decrease....." But how???? What stitch am I starting on??!
With your vintage patterns, maybe you could scan or photocopy them. Then you could highlighter the crap out of the copy and still keep the original mark free.
I like the color scheme - it reads "dark/rainy spring day" to me
What a beautiful pattern. 16:07 I personally don't think it looks anywhere close to Halloween. This beautiful colour scheme makes me think of the English Suffragette Movement✌🏻. Looking forward to the end result. 👌🏻
white, purple, and green makes me think of the suffragists too!
It so is! In 1910 you'd have been spotted as an ally by those in the know
The tripod just really wanted some directorial input 😂 “I think we ought to pan down here…”
The waistcoat looks so cozy! Congrats on a new FO 😊
Halloween?? No way more Suffragettes. Purple for justice, dignity and loyalty to the cause. White for purity. Green for hope. Also, the colours are for International Women's Day on March 8th. Your FO is very cute. Looking forward to seeing the Daisy Blouse become a FO!!! Hope you are having a good day! 🦆🧶❤
Hurray for finishing the waistcoat! It also looks like you've made a lot of progress on the Mohn cardigan, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you win the game of yarn chicken 😃 To me the Mohn colours don't read halloween, they're too muted for that (which might be the camera lying to me). To me it's early spring colours! Can't wait to see the finished cardigan, it already looks great :)
Thank you so much for your videos, especially those about stash busting. I appreciate these aren't scripted video essays. Instead they feel like a good honest natter between friends of an afternoon, which is so precious. I look forward to them with anticipation.
I appreciate your honesty, not just the facts of what your disability is and what it does, but how it affects you day to day, the limitations and your efforts to continue your life as best you can. This part gets glossed over so often in disability conversations and leaves people to misunderstand or fill in the gaps with their own experience which, if they don't have the same disability, will be askew or incorrect.
I love the way the vest turned out. It's so flattering on you. Congratulations! And I agree with the other comments here that the Mohn colors seem floral, perhaps on a cloudy spring day in the garden. Being in the US I completely understand why you're seeing American Halloween in those colors because yes, that pale green/lavender/grey combo gets used *sigh* alot. But, to be honest, I wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out. As there's no yellow or orange, to me it seems more English Garden in Rain. :)
Congratulations on your finish and I can't wait to see whatever video you have for us next. :D
I like the dot colors, and to my eye they read more early spring colors (I was initially very confused about them being referenced to halloween...🤷). I'm glad you like your new waistcoat, and I can't argue with your button choice. You do have some really neat buttons to choose from. The aside about brains and learning was very interesting. I enjoy thinking about those things ever since I recognized my brain isn't quite so normal in a variety of ways. Back in physics and engineering classes, I struggled a lot with learning just from equations in the book because they only tell you what will happen and not why it happens. Once I figure out the why, it is actually fun to see what my brain can do with it. Now that I am a professor, and occasionally teaching, I like to bring that kind of learning into working with students. It's been interesting to see how it resonates with some and doesn't with others. Brains are weird. 🤓 Yay for making progress! Yay for having the freedom to prioritize your health! and Yay for people and dogs that make you happy! 😀Take care!
I use port and starboard for left and right sides. That works for me.
Meanwhile, in the stashbusting realm, I have an entire tub of Caron Dazzleaire 2612 Peach in different dye lots (all discontinued). I'm using the dye lots as different shadings in my ongoing project of a queen-size bedspread. The squares are turning out even prettier than if I'd only used one shade, and no single dye lot skeins will be left over. I'm certain I will not be losing yarn roulette.
Love the waistcoat. Beautifully done.
I think the Mohn cardigan does still look very garden-y. The darker green does disappear a bit but I think the light green, purple, and whitish color play together in a very tea time in a flower garden type way.
Your videos are my favorite knitting and sewing and crafts videos to watch, and I just wanted to say so. And I also wanted to say that your stash-busting series has helped me figure out how to go about trying to tame my own yarn stash in a way that feels more manageable and realistic for my circumstances. Hope you are well.
Halloween❌️
Suffragette movement✅️
You're glad that there's still a job for you if you take a month off. Im glad to know that you'll definitely come back if i just wait long enough. Its always such a joy to see you do things 🥰
I’ve been watching your stuff through the years and I love seeing someone actually talk about their disabilities and how they’ve worked around them to accomplish what they love doing, can’t wait for the next video ❤
I love the colors you picked for the cardigan. At first I thought of spring, but then I realized they remind me of wild heather in early autumn, growing on a bed of pale green and white moss, the darker green being the stems of the flowers, and the gray is the rocky hills they grow on.
I never thought about why exactly I struggle so much with written patterns, but it is for exactly the reasons you mentioned! I need to know the "why" and be able to conceptualize it as something like "knit in 2 x 2 rib for 4 inches" (which is how I think of my freehanded projects in my head, and part of why I've never tried to write any of them up for others)
Same here. I mean, I knew it already, but it's exactly this.
Claud, it was great seeing you knit!! As far as the purple goes, I really like it! It breaks up a bit of a plain group of colors. It is going to be a beautiful garment!!❤❤❤ Your waistcoat is stunning! I would love to have one like it in a soft grey color! Your tripod cracked me up!😂😂😂
I agree with purple breaking the other colours
I really love digital patterns for the ability to mark them all up without ruining the "original" - if it is a webpage I print it to a PDF and then highlight the heck out of it (or if it's really complex I'll grab my iPad and actually write on it in red). It's been a lifesaver for charts especially.
I really love patterns that include a diagram (with measurements!) of either the finished item or the flat pieces. The only way I learned to knit socks was because Tin Can Knits had a great diagram explaining the construction.
Your Mohn Cardigan is looking lovely! Once you mentioned lavender it is all I can see out of that color scheme rather than Halloween.
Suffragette colours looking wonderful.
I'm so glad you've gotten the tuck stitch and tension a bit closer so that the final fit of the cardigan is closer to what you'd like - I think I've got a few updates I'd like to make to the pattern based on your comments, and I so appreciate it! (for example, what if I added the option for each pattern size to be a separate downloadable PDF, so you're not looking at so many numbers all squished together?) I have to second the idea of the colors looking like thistles or lavender, but I fully understand when a color combination doesn't fully turn out how you'd hoped. Also, yay!! for a finished piece, it looks amazing and I can only cheer you on in writing it up as a pattern if that fits into your time/energy/schedule
When you first began this stashbusting project so many aspects of my life were different. My grandmother (who enjoyed watching your videos with me) was still alive, I had no friends, I had no plans for college or moving out of my dad's house. Now, my grandmother has passed, I've made friends who took me in during a dire time, I've moved out of my dad's house, and I have plans for college to be a court reporter or costume designer (I know two very different options but I have thought them over). It's been exciting seeing you progress and now that I'm fully moved out I have plans to start hacking away at my yarn stash. I also found out I have arthritis in my wrist which has affected both work and hobby. Please never stop, you have been a big hope for me. Much love. ❤
I love your videos and your humour openness about neurodiversity and disabilities. We all have our "little quirks" and learning about others is what makes us more nuanced and empathetic humans. Thank you for being part of this!
For what it's worth, I really like the colours and don't see Halloween at all. Lovely!
Also, a tip: when I have to ladder down to fix a stitch, I use a crochet hook rather than a knitting needle (especially to pick the stitches back up) and I find, for me, it cuts the time and fiddliness down by a factor of ten. :)
I really like your colorway. Absolutely brilliant!!!💚💚💚 Your waistcoat is stunning!!! It will be a warm addition to your fall/winter wardrobe. And by the way, you are the silk in your creations. Do not worry when you do not have the silk thread to sew on a button.💚💚💚
1. I really love your channel, because you’re so calm and true to yourself.
2. I love the colors of your cardigan. And I do not think that they are Halloweenish 😂!
3. I also have difficulties to decide where is left and right. But what has helped me was that when I look on the back of my hands, the hand that forms a L with my index finger and my thumb that is my left hand🤷🏻♀️
You must have the patience of a saint to do all that laddering back. I would have frogged it and started again in frustration more than anything!
The waistcoat looks so cozy!
I agree with the other commenters about the cardigan colours, they don't look Halloween-y at all. The green and purple on tacky Halloween stuff is much more saturated, and even then it's probably not going to make people think of Halloween unless it has black and/or bright orange.
In all the hard work you put into your knitting, I think you do it quite well. I know you get quite aggravated when things do not go as exactly as planned, but it is a process. Please enjoy it more as everything in life is an experiment! If we take what is given to us, learn the way we can make sense of that, we are all smarter than we think. May God bless you more and more each and every day! 😃
The Mohn coulor palette you chose reminds me of Provence. Lavender, sage, thyme and Rosemary. 🌿
I agree with a lot of people, as an American this reminds me of spring…..nothing Halloweeny about it. It’s beautiful!! ❤❤❤
As an American, our Halloween colors are typically bright orange and black. I don't see what you mean about it looking like Halloween. Looks more like spring to me.
You make me feel so good! Even when I don’t do the things that I should, you make me feel so good. Cause when you make a mistake, you’re never proud and never fake you’ve just made a mistake, and that is something we all can do. So Thankyou Claude, thank you!
lol! As an American with a limited appreciation of Halloween, I love this! I love the purple, green and gray! You’d need orange (Gack) to really channel a US Halloween! I love green and purple together and your workmanship is stellar, as always! It looks great!
Right, Halloween in the US needs orange 🎃
I personally love the colors. I can visualize this with a lavender or green tank/top, and a gray skirt or slack. Beautiful. Stop second guessing yourself. Trust your decisions. It's not Halloween!!!! I got a pattern from you for a dress which I love. Thank you again. Stay strong 😊
You and your health is the most important priority. I am disabled and got chronic illness aswell. I've been doing TH-cam as a hobby for a long time. The last few weeks I've been trying to take my videos seriously by doing scripts,doing some research for some doll and book videos I've been planning on doing for a while now. I got 2 Niece's and a baby nephew. Who's 3,2 and 1 month old and their my number one priority. I spend time with them as much as I can due to chronic illness.
Colourwise I see Wimbledon rather than Halloween. It’s lovely either way.
Knew the colours reminded me of something 😊
Yay, knitting! I completely agree with keeping things under review for your own disabilities. 5 years ago I was working an office job and running all over town every week with a million groups. These days, I'm stuck at home with migraines and fatigue. I cannot work and I can barely go out. That's even different from three years ago when I didn't have the fatigue. It's a roller coaster all the time. I get frustrated when my Adhd brain straight up forgets something I do to make life easier for absolutely no reason and it takes months or even years to remember it and start doing it again.😅
As soon as I saw you had posted something, I was in. Always happy to see what you are up to. Although I don't share your struggles with dyslexia, I can certainly relate to laddering back when I read a pattern wrong! I am working my way through a 35 year old stash, all 80s yarns, and your inventiveness has helped me greatly on this journey. Please keep coming back, at whatever frequency works for you. I love your content.
I really like the. Moan cardigan, and the color is delightful!! I can see this we with a pair of charcoal corduroy high-waisted pants and a lavender mock turtleneck. Nice and cozy for the cold weather to come. And again, I love the colors you picked. ❤
I always admire how intentional you are with your knitting & yarn quantities! 🥰
I hate Halloween too and I adore the colours! They also remind me of my wisteria tree - different coloured greens, purple and white flowers.
Also team snip all the ends. I collect mine and put them in a bag that ends up as stuffing. The idea of wrangling 5 balls of wool is unpleasant 😂
Thank yoi for talking about how your brain is processing the patterns... makes me feel validated in my experience! It's nice knowing I am not alone
Sometimes I put a stitch marker on one side to mark a side (Left and right are a struggle for me)and my grandmother sometimes to keep track of where she was connecting things would put a little tag on a safety pin and pin it to where she was marking.
I really like that 1980s/40s waistcoat! It's a style I've considered making before and I might have to actually make it now.
With patterns, I hightlight the size needed on digital patterns as well, and use the sticky notes feature on pdfs to add my own notes, like changes to needle size to make gauge, so that I don't forget what I was doing if I use the needles for something else or pause making it for a while and then return. It's actually really helpful for me in finding the actual stitch count in all of the numbers for different sizes, so I hope it also works for you and makes things easier! I also need to know why I'm doing something in order to be able to do it. I'm autistic and having the context makes the instructions actually understandable because I know what the end result is supposed to be and it's easier to keep track of where I am and spot any errors.
That's a brilliant idea. That's the thing with technology, it's wonderful if you know how to make the most of it 😅 I'll look up how to do sticky notes!
@@RetroClaude At least with pdfs in adobe, you can click on a thing you've highlighted, underlined, or crossed out, and an option for 'add sticky note' comes up. You can also find them in the menu bar at the top next to the highlighter pen and cursor style options (or, if you don't have the window taking up all of your screen, it might be in a drop-down menu that's available once you click on the cursor style in the menu bar).
You can also click on highlights to change their colour, so you can have one colour for 'make this size!' and another for 'this is where you're at in the pattern'. I also use sticky notes to keep track of which repeat I'm on if the pattern calls for repeating a set of rows a certain number of times.
I honestly think the dots are lovely, but the gradient is not clear. I think it's very soft winter vibes, maybe witchy but more muted rainy day. The vest is so wearable too, very ready for autumn!
Thank you for that! I can see the wintery day more now 😁 I'm sure with time (and cold weather) it'll grow on me!
The green buttons on the waistcoat were such a good call! Sooo cute!!
I just wish I could hit “like” every time Claude makes me smile!!
Tripod fund!
Thank you so much! 😊
You perfectly described my issues with an otherwise lovely crocheting pattern! It is a relatively complicated pattern that is obviously written for beginners (lowest common denominator - love to see patterns that help beginners grow) that, as an experienced crocheter, has tripped me up several times because I can't see the picture for the pixels (forest for the trees, etc). It's been great seeing your cardigan grow! I am always impressed with your willingness to ladder back, especially as I now know your aren't using a crochet hook to do so!
I love the colour palette for the cardigan! It reminds me of an English style garden. Beautiful flowers growing against a grey stone wall. Every time you held it up my mind jumper to a quaint English row of houses with pretty gardens. Can't wait to see it finished! And I have good feelings about the yardage of yarn left.
I'm not dyslexic, but I always struggled to translate pattern abbreviations in real time, and it took years before I even attempted working from a pattern. I could only do it by writing out the bits I need in my own terms.
Sometimes I also want to write on the pattern, without messing up the original. So I slip it into a clear dry erase pocket. I can write on that, erase it, do it again, and take the clean pattern out when I'm done. The only damage to the pattern is that I might have to fold the pages open backwards to get them inside.
As for your projects, I LOVE the purple and green. They're beautiful colors together and you've picked such lovely shades. I do also love Halloween, but I wasn't getting Halloween vibes from this. It could be played up that way if you wanted, but that's not where my brain goes with it.
And the waistcoat is so fun. 80s sweaters are my favorite, and I especially love the whole genre of 70s and 80s knitting (and sewing) patterns emulating earlier vintage styles. It's like a snapshot of the history of history-bounding before history-bounding was a thing.
I love love the colour scheme of your Mohn cardigan. The waistcoat is lovely and may have snuck its way into my queue.
The waist coat looks great! It’s perfect when the weather is playing games!
You’re doing amazing on everything in your life. Yes I know you try and present a positive face. I tell everyone that I don’t go out much cause I can’t pretend to be human for long. I guess we can only do as much as we can! Your videos are really wonderful and a joy to watch even when things aren’t going the way you want. Reminds me that we all have our struggles
I’ve been unhappy to discover things changing. I’m losing sight words and my writing is going down hill. I really thought that most of my dyslexia was contained. Thankfully there’s a lot more audio books so I can still get my fill of stories!
It's always fun crocheting to your videos!
I am loving this conversation here about knitting pattern design so very much. I have many similar instances as you with patterns and have struggled to a point of setting the projects aside and off my list, the same way you did previously. There’s no one way to write a pattern, but I do think it would be helpful to know that we process information differently depending on our learning style (visual, reading & writing, auditory, and kinetic - can you believe I remember that from being a barista trainer 😅) and depending on if there’s a disability on top of that.
It’s a lot to take in, so I don’t expect every designer to do that, but I appreciate the ones that do.
I love the colours of your cardigan...and they go well together! Had a giggle with your tripod drooping!😂
I love the spring lavender look of the dots! So pretty ❤
The waistcoat looks so cute, congratulations on the finish.
For me the color of the other cardigan reminds my more of the transition from winter into spring. All gray and dark in the winter and than the first flowers with some beautiful fresh greens and purple are popping through the snow... greetings from Belgium
Yay! New Claude video!
I've started rewriting my crochet patterns with added notes so that I can better understand them. Patterns are very hard for me, I am a visual/hands on learner. I also discovered if i take a picture on my phone of where I am in a difficult repeat, and mark it digitally, I have a better record of where I am if i lose my way so to speak lol. Taking a picture of your vintage pattern on a tablet or putting it onto your computer would allow you to make notations digitally without damaging the original. I love the purple, and I can't wait to see your version of this adorable sweater!! 💜
That waistcoat turned out wonderfully! I really like that!!!
Well done for finishing that cardigan! It looks really good 😊 I too am mostly just whittling away at my projects rather than having any big wins or finishing things but I've been enjoying the slower pace
Sometimes long projects can drag but they can also be very rewarding when they're done!
I really like the colour choices you've made on the dots cardigan. I think they go really well together. And I love your waistcoat. PS (whispering, too): I finished something tonight, too! Yay!
The waistcoat turned out amazing! Love love love those buttons.
I gasped when you pulled out the green buttons and told the screen “those ones!” Hahaha good choice! It looks lovely on you, well done!
I love the colors on the Mohn sweater! It makes me think of a cozy little cottage. Husband walked in as I was writing my comment and I asked him as well. It doesn't read as Halloween to either of us. Not that our opinion matters over your personal opinion on whether you're going to wear it or not, lol! I think it's lovely!
It's lovely to see you getting the benefit of the sunshine. The tropical print dress looks well on you.
Birdy
I think the color sets are SO pretty! I know you're unsure about the purple, but I think it's lovely. ♥ Also if it helps you can try putting a pattern into a plastic sleeve and marking on that, or you can take a scan/do a photocopy of a pattern and draw on that. Sometimes I have rewritten patterns tho!
Yeah I definitely prefer diagrams or photos of what a specific step is, because I have aphantasia which means I can't visualize things. So I often skip patterns without diagrams. Unless I already know from making something how to do that thing.
and let me add I LOVE the waistcoat! The green buttons were a great choice.
Hahaha. Black, orange and white are Halloween for me in Michigan US. I was taught to knit at a young age and could not seem to get the hang of it. I lost stitches and couldn't pick them up, etc. I tried knitting again but I have the same problem and majorly arthritic hands. So knitting is just not going to happen in this lifetime. I am disabled as well and spend quite a bit of time in bed but watch videos so I appreciate you doing what I can't. Thanks.
I heard you place your knitting needles on the table and I immediately started looking around my room for where I'd dropped a set of needles before I realized it was the video 😅this is the chaos I live in
I love your Waistcoat, it looks great on you! ❤️ I can't wait to see your finished Mohn, I really like the colors!
Oh my gosh I LOVE the waistcoat Claude! It looks so Katherine Hepburn styled with those wide leg trousers and collared button-up shirt! I'm so proud of you for continuing to work through your stash and facing your pattern challenges head on. Best of luck with the Mohn cardigan -- the French Lavender is my favourite of all the contrast colours and I hope when the garment is finished everything blends really nicely and you're satisfied with the end result 💜
Oh my thanks for the Katherine Hepburn comparison! Just what I was going for! 🥰
As an American, I can say that your mohn sweater is definitely not garish enough for Commercial Halloween! I love the colors, they remind me of spring!
Your cardigan doesn't remind me of Halloween. When I first saw the colors together I immediately thought of a lavender field and this is still what I see 🥰
Hope you are doing fine, get well soon ❤
Yay! I was so excited to see the title of this. I am dyslexic (had to check the spelling...) and hearing your talk about how your brain works and the comments from other people has really helped to not feel like its just me. I have found changing up my diet has really helped with my brain fog - shout out to the Glucose Goddess! So lovely to see your cardigan progress, i was getting heather and heathland vibes. Love a long video and great to see you again! x
I think the colours are lovely on the Mohn cardigan and not garish and Halloweeny at all. I feel they are very subtle and remind me of highland moors with all the heather and grey/green scrub. I also like the grey modern waistcoat and it’s been very interesting to hear you discuss how you are overcoming all the difficulties with modern patterns.
I hope you can manage your health better even though of course I’ll be sad to have less videos from you as they are always a treat and I’ll always look forward to anything you do. ❤
It’s wonderful to see how excited you are about the finished waistcoat! It looks so cozy!
I love watching you. After watching several videos and hearing you talk about pacing it gave me some ideas for myself. I don't share your disability, but I do have a very busy life where I may only get a few minutes to devote to my crocheting. When I know I don't have time to tuck into doing a project I find myself at odds on what to do. Now I take those moments and set up my project bag/basket with the yarn, needle, and project. I also put a sticky note on each to let me know what the project is. I haven't gotten to where future me appreciates this yet, but it makes present me feel more useful and less frustrated.
Take your time posting. We're here when you get back when you need to take a break. You got this up the first full week of August so not too past your goal. I call that a win. I love the sweater and the colors. Keep up the great work! And thank you for sharing, teaching, and being you.
yaaay!
(To the chronological playlist this goes!)
I really like the Mohn cardigan colour scheme! It does remind of the lavender and in combination with grey it gives either stormy afternoon or a late autumn morning in Provence vibes. The connection with halloween doesn't click for me at all.
I love your Mohn cardigan color choices. It reads moody English garden, or stormy lavender fields.
The waistcoat looks amazing! I never considered making one, but this looks so cozy, I want one!
I JUST thrifted a 1980s wool crossover vest similar to the one you made here. I was so excited to see your version!
And for what it's worth, I think the grey-green-lilac in your cardigan is charming, and not at all Halloween-y.
Hurray! I was literally searching for an update from your channel yesterday. Also, the colors of the dots remind me of spring flowers, like wisteria!!
congrats on the finished object! it looks so chic, especially how you styled it in the end. thank you for continuing to speak so openly about your struggles with deciphering patterns. i have adhd, probably autism and a touch of dyslexia so i can relate to a lot of what you experience.
the things that have helped with patterns are: printing them out, using highlighters to colour-code instructions that always trip me up (especially in charts, ex: left vs. right increases/cables, wrong side vs. right side), and writing notes whenever i change something or need it rephrased for clarity. i also always try to track projects in ravelry with at least the yarn, pattern & size, needles used, gauge, and any planned modifications. this has saved me multiple times after forgetting about a project and finding it again on a stitch holder without any needles attached.
the highlighters come in especially in handy with lace/cable charts because i can't easily track what goes where just by glancing at the page... unless there are colours because it's much harder for me to confuse two colours compared to two slanty lines or squiggles going in opposite directions.
i also use washi tape on charts to track which row i'm supposed to be working (this is also the only way i can work on a lace project, put it down, and have even a little bit of confidence i can pick it back up at some point in the future :P )
going through a pattern and marking it up before i get started actually gets me excited to work on it now because it's become a little craft of its own for me. and i finally get to use all the highlighters i've bought over the years haha. plus, having printed patterns means my modifications and colour coding is still there the next time i use a pattern. i have a vest pattern i've used to make gifts for just about everyone i love and it's so cute to pick up the pattern again and see each version has its own size highlighted. it's a bit of an extra material history to go along with the garments i make, which i really adore.
sorry for the ramble! i just love talking about accessibility in crafting!
Woot woot! Lying in bed in pain happy to see you…Aug. 3, 2024. ❤ A lot of times it’s just a section or two…I only rewrite those sections…sometimes actually rewriting in my own knit/crochet language. I’m doing a 1970’s crochet kit right now. They used to many words to describe a thing. I pared it down to unjumble the instruction. The project had been sitting aside since November. In the last two days of gotten 3/4’s done. I think we all struggle, at times, for different reasons. We might not notice what the struggle is until we hear someone else describe their struggles. I use many different strategies depending on the type of pattern and struggle. 🌈🌈🦋🦋 The colors remind me of early spring in Oregon.
I think the colours look like nature to me. Like a woodland with lavender and snow drops. I love it!!! ❤ I might steal your colours for a striped sweater. In fact I’m going yarn shopping right now.
Adding an embroidered lazy daisy flower in the gray dots would make them pop more. And give a nod to your daisy sweater. Love your videos!
Absolutely love your waistcoat and retro music ❤
Always lovely to see you! These may be my favorite videos you do! I've been on medical leave from work to get a handle on probable ME so having you to watch and relate to is really comforting. :) You processing and problem solving really helps me reframe when I'm having a rough day.
I have a weird thing about right and left while driving, it turns out that I use the car turning mechanic to sort out which is which. So either the close turn (right) or far turn (left) but as I'm American when my partner and I were in Scotland and rented a car I had to work hard to remember the reverse (with partner's help!) THEN on landing back in the states and getting in the car to drive home I was mentally backwards again! (Also I have my internal compass set on "closeness to ocean" for East/West and when I visit home on the West coast it messes me up in my new home on the East coast...)
I’m sorry you’ve had a bit of a rough time. For me the British weather absolutely kills me. 28 one day 14 the next messes with my pain levels terribly.
I love your finished item it looks so comfortable and will be great for summer or as a layer in the winter.
Take care ❤