Long time knitter here- when you said you were going to make one sock a night I knew immediately you’d be disappointed- it’s totally normal that small needles and small yarn does take a long time- it would be very unusual if you knit a sock a day! It is slow. Also, get a really tiny crochet hook (like the kind used for lace)- it’s a life saver for catching dropped stitches in knitting.
I had to rewind to make sure I'd heard right at that part 😂 Socks are a practice of patience and I know for a lot of people, they don't often get many wears before they start to become unwearable considering the amount of time each sock takes to make (unless you're a pro sock knitting haha). Still a lovely way to pass the evenings though 😊
Don't feel like you *need* to knit continental (yarn on the left), that's the joy of knitting and the diversity of approaches. Over time your approach will change and redevelop. I'm always really impressed with your determination and desire to learn, you're a real inspiration.
And as you learn new skills things may change! I started with knitting and held yarn on the right then swapped to crochet and held yarn in the left. When I picked knitting back up I started holding it like I do for crochet and it made my knitting faster.
Agreed - fast knitting comes with time and practice, and it doesn't necessarily depend on style. It is great to learn different techniques, and being able to hold yarn in either hand can be a very valuable skill. There shouldn't be any pressure to switch styles, though.
I am sooo looking forward to this series (and to autumn). Summer is nice and all, but I am so glad the 33°C days seem to be behind us now. 🧡 My home was a dark hiding place (curtains closed to keep the heat out) for months. Now it can finally become a home again. 🥰🍁🍂
Also curious about more food storage / waste tips. I'm live alone and am a picky eater so I actually have more light in the fridge than food. But especially when it comes to the darker/colder seasons I tend to prep more stuff (or cook larger portions), so I'm really looking forward to the next video. 🧡
I love this! Also, I am a life-long knitter. I encounter a lot of, for the lack of a better term, snottiness, around how people knit. Further, there is a weird attitude out there that "good" knitters knit "Continental" (holding the yarn in your left hand and scooping the yarn through the stitches). Ignore that. FWIW, I knit "English" style which is what you were doing first--holding the yarn in your right hand and "throwing" the yarn around the needle. That is just fine. It is a technique used by millions of knitters. (Continental is also used by millions of knitters, too). But what I am trying to get at is there is no "best" way or "right" way to do it. In my knitting group, most people knit English-style, with a smattering of folks who do Continental or a mix of the two. And no one cares what other people are doing. The key to knitting is to do what feels best to you and what you enjoy. Also, knitting fast is not the goal unless you are knitting to sell stuff or something. Finally, some of the fastest knitters in the world knit English-style. So, ignore the folks who want to tell you you are doing it wrong or slow or whatever. Also, I knit a ton of socks and I will just throw my personal opinion into the mix: knitting two socks at a time on the same needles (using the magic loop method) makes my brain go crazy. Years ago, I started to do a technique that a person in my knitting group does: she knits two socks at a time, but she uses two sets of needles. So she knits to a point on one sock, and then knits to that point on the other sock. And back and forth. This helps with the age-old challenge of "I just knit one sock and am tired of it and don't want to knit the second sock, " LOL. Or, you might find that you are fine doing one at a time--and that is fine, too. Or, you might love doing two at a time on the same needles and that is awesome, too.
WoW, Immy, has it really been 2 years already?? Crazy how the time flies. Long live nuts in the freezer, and hand knit socks. Yes, to the cozy season and all that comes along with it. AND yes, it is true… as Guy Clark wrote “There’s only two things that money can’t buy, and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.” I love the vibe in this video, and ya just know I look forward to the next one. Thanks for the great content, I really appreciate you!! Ⓜar;y💕
Something that has helped me see food that I have easier so that I waste less is to put a few lazy Susans in my cabinets. Being able to easily spin them to access things has been a game changer because I used to always lose things in the backs of cabinets.
Tip for dropped stitches: Always have a safety pin and crochet hook the size of your knitting needles around (or with you if you knit on the go). With the safety pin you can secure the stitches and it's much easier and faster to redo the dropped stitches with the crochet hook.
I'm impressed with your perseverance! But I suppose it's the only way forward. I love the density of stocking stitch too. But I'm a dpn girl, it's my comfort. Knitting socks is my go to this season, top down always! Loving your videos, you seem relaxed. Hope you had a good time back here in England x PS. I loved Yellowface!
My feeling is that knitting takes time! Of course if you are 70 and have been knitting your whole life things go fast but like an new amateur like you I am in tye same boat, it takes time. I finished one pair of socks in 2 weeks because I did them for a friends birthday but I sat several hours the night before her birthday 😂
Love the yarn! For socks or mittens, which you make on double pointed needles, I found it valuable to take an in-person class. Local yarn stores often have them. Having someone to actually touch your hands while you're figuring out how to hold the yarn and the different ways to do this is so helpful. Also a great way to meet fun people locally!
i made my first pair of socks earlier this year. i redid each sock multiple times. and after each time they turned out better and im now giving them to my great grand mother soon.
Thank you for the Craftsy. I signed up! I've been meaning to sign up and this will give me the motivation to get back to knitting. I've wanted to learn socks and sweaters.
Just visited Colorado Springs, Aurora, and Boulder (my first time in CO from NY)! I see why you love Colorado ❤ Thanks for making this content, it’s really nice to slow down and it feels like a conversation.
I've had similar comments made to me. I crochet and hold my hook like a butter knife (which is the 2cd most used way to hold it), I am aware that holding it like a fork unlocks a speed of crocheting that ends up being a lot faster, but like you, I prefer the way I am used to holding my tool because it gives me the perfect tension. Does it take me longer to make my projects? YES Do I care? NO Do my projects have BEAUTIFUL tension? OH YES! Honestly, you do you, the thing that matters most about our tools/techniques is honestly to work in a way that doesn't hurt you in the long run!! (Please keep a good posture, get pillows under them elbows, use the best chair in your home, get tools that are long enough for your entire hand so you don't strain your fingers, take breaks and look at good stretching exercises online specific to your craft.) Learning takes time, but if it didn't, everyone would be able to make that craft from day one and it wouldn't feel special once you get the hang of it. You got this!! The reward is soooooo worth it! ^^
Was literally typing “do you have any resources of how to properly store food?” 😅 then you mentioned your book. Will definitely get it! Really struggle with food waste and I hate it
Your makeup is so dramatic and lovely. The eyeshadow, especially, matches your skin tone beautifully. But you are lovely without any makeup on ❤ Knitting, sewing, etc are wonderful ways to learn slow living, patience, creativity, and so much more. I wish more people would find joy in such things but I suppose we must be thankful there are so many different people in the world with various strengths and weaknesses. Once again, a joy to watch your video. With love, Hannah
You’ve had great success with your tomatoes! It wasn’t quite hot enough up here so while we have a couple dozen tomatoes on the vine.. they’re all green 😢
Immy!!! Thanks for all you do, for this cozy video, and for the intro and link to Craftsy. I signed up immediately, like as soon as you mentioned it, and am learning so much. Happy knitting!
Congratulations on the book🎉🎉🎉 I said 'yes thank you' out loud when you decided to put the dishes in the corner cabinet. 😂 Kudos on making socks! I want to make a kettle dangling cover.
I'm so here for cozy season! Here in Germany this last week the weather has been so nice and crisp! We've had one hot day again last week Saturday, when it shot back up to 30°, but after that the temperature dropped to 20° and now even below that. I moved to the most humid part of Germany and I really can't deal with 30°+ weather with over 80% humidity and tropical nights (the definition for that being that the temp doesn't fall below 25°) anymore. I'll have to get a mobile a/c unit just so I can cool down the place for an hour or two in the evening, so I can get some sleep again. Summer is just horrid. Always humid, always sweaty, shitty sleep and bad food habits, because even cooking pasta on the hob for 10 minutes makes living unbearable and you'd need to shower afterwards. So I'm more than ready to embrace autumn with it's crisp fresh air and good nights of sleep and warm drinks and yummy foods. 😅 you can tell, to me the only two nice things about summer are longer days and being able to hang the washing outside. Otherwise autumn, spring and winter are the nicer seasons imho.
I wanted to learn to make socks too! I was researching that just a couple of weeks ago and then immediately gave up, but you're giving me a new boost of motivation :)
I keep a list on my phone of what food i have in my cupboard & freezer, so that when I meal plan or go shopping its easy to know what know what I have and not over buy
I can't knit (I've tried so many times!) I'm ALWAYS messing up my tension! (I prefer crochet). But I know this much - Knit The Way YOU Are Comfortable Knitting! Afterall, you are not a machine and it's "supposed" to be enjoyable for you! I'm actually in awe of what you've already made and I think you are a wonderful knitter! Well done you!
I also just started knitting socks for the first time! I found Crazy Sock Lady's vanilla sock tutorial SO helpful as a beginner to make just a basic and easy sock.
I've been following your channel for years, and I love it more and more all the time! Autumn is my favorite season, and I love seeing how you're embracing its arrival. Food waste and organization is a constant struggle, I feel you, and especially tricky when it comes to more perishable items. On the other side of things, though, what are your thoughts on keeping an extra store of foods on hand that have a longer shelf life and could tide you over in the rare event of an extended power outage or the next pandemic? You could buy extra of the foods you normally eat anyway if you find them on sale somewhere (do grocery stores have significant sales in the US?) and then keep track of the expiration dates and rotate through the supplies over time. Kind of an overwhelming level of organization, but I've recently been thinking I should figure out a system like that.
Just wanted to say thank you very much for sharing the info on that crafty app I just joined could not beat the price for sure and look forward to learning some new things this season as well thank you so much from Nashua New Hampshire in the United States
I love autumn, it is usually my time for new projects, learning or diving deeper into my hobby, so I am starting soon with that. I really like that I come from a house, where we try to use all the food before it goes bad. That leads sometimes to interesting combinations (some never repeat), but we rarely throw food.
Look into yarn shops, some have classes or even just meet ups with other knitters. In my town we have one that does a coffee talk and I have learned a lot of these lady even with 30 years knitting and crochet. I started when I was seven.
Loved this , I knit mostly socks easy and portable but not quick . I was interesting what you said about food waste we have an awful corner cupboard and I’m sure there food in there we don’t know about ! On a completely random note , I thought your make up looked great today , enjoy your knitting I’m off to clean my cupboards.
I'm just at 04:03 so I might state the obvious, but for knitting with yarn on the left - it's more streamlined, but only when you finally find your own preferred way to wrap the yarn around yor fingers to control the tension. It's one of those things where there is no right way, you just meander the yarn between your finger as you find comfortable. I myself find the "default" way to wrap the yarn in my left hand absolutely unusable, it's too loose and my fingers do not cooperate. I loop it a couple more times up and down around other fingers and it provides necessary friction without me getting cramps in fingers from trying to stop the yarn from slipping out... once I got my "wrap", it's intuitive and just muscle memory. Plus - you might need to adjust the method (and resulting tension) to the material of your needles - I like woden needles because the provide even more friction for my overly loose stitches, while metal needles being slippery require more tension control from me to not knit too losely. In general, I can knit much tighter on wooden needles.
I discovered your channel in 2020 and it has been an absolute pleasure to watch you grow! I also started to knit differently in an attempt to doing it faster and it's so satisfying when you actually get it! You mentioned fermenting ... Have you tried fermented beans-natto!?
That craftsy offer is amazing! I usually end up buying patterns for like $5-$10 a piece on etsy when I can't find a free resource, so very excited to use Craftsy as an alternative. Just signed up!
If you find the plates and bowls too cumbersome in the corner cabinet and you go back to storing food there I'd recommend a lazy susan, that way things are more accessible and then you could put extras to the side, maybe on a riser so you have some stuff below the riser and some on top of it, that would help with keeping more overview as you wont stick all things behind each other.
So excited you have a new book coming out! I live in Denver if you decide to do a book signing at any point in this state please keep us updated! I am a long time follower/fan of yours and I know it would be a very cherished moment to meet you.
Many people say knitting continental is faster and honestly, knitting how you feel most comfortable is fastest. It might be worth learning continental for knitting with hand fatigue or colourwork later on, but knit the way you love best. ❤ If you’d like a good tutorial for knitting socks I can link a good one I used from bmandarine’s channel? It’s one at a time though. Two at a time is handy for getting “second sock syndrome” 😂 When you don’t finish the other one.
On the note of knitting socks the same length. I would check to make sure your feet are the same size. I have to knit the foot of my sock a couple centimeters longer 😅
Hey, I just got married 2 weeks ago and my husband and I have started renting our first place together in the UK. We did not have an opportunity before the wedding to organize and declutter our personal stuff. We have also received a lot of gifts from our wedding which I am very grateful for. As we start the journey of organizing and decluttering I was wondering if you have any advice on what to do with things that were gifts but we just don't use (I don't want them to feel bad I am getting rid of it, especially if they put a lot of time and effort into it) and what to do with like gifts from your parents (family heirlooms) that you are just not gonna use?
Please make sure you take breaks when knitting and frequently stretch your hands and arms. I know of too many people who did too much on one project and have to deal with that injury in every project for the rest of their lives
A lazy Susan for corner cupboards is life changing!
Long time knitter here- when you said you were going to make one sock a night I knew immediately you’d be disappointed- it’s totally normal that small needles and small yarn does take a long time- it would be very unusual if you knit a sock a day! It is slow. Also, get a really tiny crochet hook (like the kind used for lace)- it’s a life saver for catching dropped stitches in knitting.
I had to rewind to make sure I'd heard right at that part 😂 Socks are a practice of patience and I know for a lot of people, they don't often get many wears before they start to become unwearable considering the amount of time each sock takes to make (unless you're a pro sock knitting haha). Still a lovely way to pass the evenings though 😊
Please make an ASMR channel! Your voice is so calming and delicate. Love your content for years now
Don't feel like you *need* to knit continental (yarn on the left), that's the joy of knitting and the diversity of approaches. Over time your approach will change and redevelop. I'm always really impressed with your determination and desire to learn, you're a real inspiration.
And as you learn new skills things may change! I started with knitting and held yarn on the right then swapped to crochet and held yarn in the left. When I picked knitting back up I started holding it like I do for crochet and it made my knitting faster.
@@FennecTheRabbit 100% it's all about muscle memory and ease of motion! I actually knit Irish Cottage style, iirc.
Agreed - fast knitting comes with time and practice, and it doesn't necessarily depend on style. It is great to learn different techniques, and being able to hold yarn in either hand can be a very valuable skill. There shouldn't be any pressure to switch styles, though.
Came to say the exact same thing. Do what’s comfortable and speed will come.
I am sooo looking forward to this series (and to autumn). Summer is nice and all, but I am so glad the 33°C days seem to be behind us now. 🧡 My home was a dark hiding place (curtains closed to keep the heat out) for months. Now it can finally become a home again. 🥰🍁🍂
Also curious about more food storage / waste tips. I'm live alone and am a picky eater so I actually have more light in the fridge than food. But especially when it comes to the darker/colder seasons I tend to prep more stuff (or cook larger portions), so I'm really looking forward to the next video. 🧡
I love this! Also, I am a life-long knitter. I encounter a lot of, for the lack of a better term, snottiness, around how people knit. Further, there is a weird attitude out there that "good" knitters knit "Continental" (holding the yarn in your left hand and scooping the yarn through the stitches). Ignore that. FWIW, I knit "English" style which is what you were doing first--holding the yarn in your right hand and "throwing" the yarn around the needle. That is just fine. It is a technique used by millions of knitters. (Continental is also used by millions of knitters, too). But what I am trying to get at is there is no "best" way or "right" way to do it. In my knitting group, most people knit English-style, with a smattering of folks who do Continental or a mix of the two. And no one cares what other people are doing. The key to knitting is to do what feels best to you and what you enjoy. Also, knitting fast is not the goal unless you are knitting to sell stuff or something. Finally, some of the fastest knitters in the world knit English-style. So, ignore the folks who want to tell you you are doing it wrong or slow or whatever.
Also, I knit a ton of socks and I will just throw my personal opinion into the mix: knitting two socks at a time on the same needles (using the magic loop method) makes my brain go crazy. Years ago, I started to do a technique that a person in my knitting group does: she knits two socks at a time, but she uses two sets of needles. So she knits to a point on one sock, and then knits to that point on the other sock. And back and forth. This helps with the age-old challenge of "I just knit one sock and am tired of it and don't want to knit the second sock, " LOL. Or, you might find that you are fine doing one at a time--and that is fine, too. Or, you might love doing two at a time on the same needles and that is awesome, too.
WoW, Immy, has it really been 2 years already?? Crazy how the time flies. Long live nuts in the freezer, and hand knit socks. Yes, to the cozy season and all that comes along with it. AND yes, it is true… as Guy Clark wrote “There’s only two things that money can’t buy, and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.” I love the vibe in this video, and ya just know I look forward to the next one. Thanks for the great content, I really appreciate you!! Ⓜar;y💕
Something that has helped me see food that I have easier so that I waste less is to put a few lazy Susans in my cabinets. Being able to easily spin them to access things has been a game changer because I used to always lose things in the backs of cabinets.
I agree! As a small person it's hard for me to see the items on upper shelves. A lazy susan in the refrigerator helps me alot.
Tip for dropped stitches: Always have a safety pin and crochet hook the size of your knitting needles around (or with you if you knit on the go). With the safety pin you can secure the stitches and it's much easier and faster to redo the dropped stitches with the crochet hook.
I’m honestly very impressed
Ι admire your willingness and your determination to learn new things! You have a great ability to learn new skills!
I got the premium membership for $1.49. That is SUCH an amazing offer, thanks so much for sharing and good luck with your socks!
I'm impressed with your perseverance! But I suppose it's the only way forward. I love the density of stocking stitch too. But I'm a dpn girl, it's my comfort. Knitting socks is my go to this season, top down always! Loving your videos, you seem relaxed. Hope you had a good time back here in England x PS. I loved Yellowface!
immy! i love your varied haircolors! So elegant and beautiful!
Excited for the fall cooking vids! ❤
My feeling is that knitting takes time! Of course if you are 70 and have been knitting your whole life things go fast but like an new amateur like you I am in tye same boat, it takes time. I finished one pair of socks in 2 weeks because I did them for a friends birthday but I sat several hours the night before her birthday 😂
Love the yarn! For socks or mittens, which you make on double pointed needles, I found it valuable to take an in-person class. Local yarn stores often have them. Having someone to actually touch your hands while you're figuring out how to hold the yarn and the different ways to do this is so helpful. Also a great way to meet fun people locally!
and yes, the price of food here now is a scandal. Greed, greed, greed--and not on the part of the farmers.
i made my first pair of socks earlier this year. i redid each sock multiple times. and after each time they turned out better and im now giving them to my great grand mother soon.
Thank you for the Craftsy. I signed up! I've been meaning to sign up and this will give me the motivation to get back to knitting. I've wanted to learn socks and sweaters.
Just visited Colorado Springs, Aurora, and Boulder (my first time in CO from NY)! I see why you love Colorado ❤ Thanks for making this content, it’s really nice to slow down and it feels like a conversation.
J'aime beaucoup l'ambiance de tes vidéos, hâte de voir les prochaines !
Merci beaucoup!!
I've had similar comments made to me. I crochet and hold my hook like a butter knife (which is the 2cd most used way to hold it), I am aware that holding it like a fork unlocks a speed of crocheting that ends up being a lot faster, but like you, I prefer the way I am used to holding my tool because it gives me the perfect tension. Does it take me longer to make my projects? YES Do I care? NO Do my projects have BEAUTIFUL tension? OH YES! Honestly, you do you, the thing that matters most about our tools/techniques is honestly to work in a way that doesn't hurt you in the long run!! (Please keep a good posture, get pillows under them elbows, use the best chair in your home, get tools that are long enough for your entire hand so you don't strain your fingers, take breaks and look at good stretching exercises online specific to your craft.) Learning takes time, but if it didn't, everyone would be able to make that craft from day one and it wouldn't feel special once you get the hang of it. You got this!! The reward is soooooo worth it! ^^
I wish I could grow tomatoes, they must taste amazing when they're homegrown!
Was literally typing “do you have any resources of how to properly store food?” 😅 then you mentioned your book. Will definitely get it! Really struggle with food waste and I hate it
Your makeup is so dramatic and lovely. The eyeshadow, especially, matches your skin tone beautifully. But you are lovely without any makeup on ❤ Knitting, sewing, etc are wonderful ways to learn slow living, patience, creativity, and so much more. I wish more people would find joy in such things but I suppose we must be thankful there are so many different people in the world with various strengths and weaknesses. Once again, a joy to watch your video.
With love,
Hannah
You’ve had great success with your tomatoes! It wasn’t quite hot enough up here so while we have a couple dozen tomatoes on the vine.. they’re all green 😢
Put them in a brown paper bag and they'll ripen eventually!!
Immy!!! Thanks for all you do, for this cozy video, and for the intro and link to Craftsy. I signed up immediately, like as soon as you mentioned it, and am learning so much. Happy knitting!
Congratulations on the book🎉🎉🎉 I said 'yes thank you' out loud when you decided to put the dishes in the corner cabinet. 😂 Kudos on making socks! I want to make a kettle dangling cover.
I'm so here for cozy season! Here in Germany this last week the weather has been so nice and crisp! We've had one hot day again last week Saturday, when it shot back up to 30°, but after that the temperature dropped to 20° and now even below that.
I moved to the most humid part of Germany and I really can't deal with 30°+ weather with over 80% humidity and tropical nights (the definition for that being that the temp doesn't fall below 25°) anymore. I'll have to get a mobile a/c unit just so I can cool down the place for an hour or two in the evening, so I can get some sleep again.
Summer is just horrid. Always humid, always sweaty, shitty sleep and bad food habits, because even cooking pasta on the hob for 10 minutes makes living unbearable and you'd need to shower afterwards.
So I'm more than ready to embrace autumn with it's crisp fresh air and good nights of sleep and warm drinks and yummy foods.
😅 you can tell, to me the only two nice things about summer are longer days and being able to hang the washing outside.
Otherwise autumn, spring and winter are the nicer seasons imho.
Hi from Hamburg 🤗 where in Germany are you?
@@pinkhope84 oh hi! Rhein-Neckar Metropolregion
@@CarinaCoffee beautiful area!
I wanted to learn to make socks too! I was researching that just a couple of weeks ago and then immediately gave up, but you're giving me a new boost of motivation :)
I keep a list on my phone of what food i have in my cupboard & freezer, so that when I meal plan or go shopping its easy to know what know what I have and not over buy
I can't knit (I've tried so many times!) I'm ALWAYS messing up my tension! (I prefer crochet). But I know this much - Knit The Way YOU Are Comfortable Knitting! Afterall, you are not a machine and it's "supposed" to be enjoyable for you! I'm actually in awe of what you've already made and I think you are a wonderful knitter! Well done you!
I also just started knitting socks for the first time! I found Crazy Sock Lady's vanilla sock tutorial SO helpful as a beginner to make just a basic and easy sock.
I've been following your channel for years, and I love it more and more all the time! Autumn is my favorite season, and I love seeing how you're embracing its arrival. Food waste and organization is a constant struggle, I feel you, and especially tricky when it comes to more perishable items. On the other side of things, though, what are your thoughts on keeping an extra store of foods on hand that have a longer shelf life and could tide you over in the rare event of an extended power outage or the next pandemic? You could buy extra of the foods you normally eat anyway if you find them on sale somewhere (do grocery stores have significant sales in the US?) and then keep track of the expiration dates and rotate through the supplies over time. Kind of an overwhelming level of organization, but I've recently been thinking I should figure out a system like that.
Oh my God Immy?! A book?! ….that’s so fantastic. I can’t wait to purchase it, all the best!✌️🌱
Just wanted to say thank you very much for sharing the info on that crafty app I just joined could not beat the price for sure and look forward to learning some new things this season as well thank you so much from Nashua New Hampshire in the United States
I love autumn, it is usually my time for new projects, learning or diving deeper into my hobby, so I am starting soon with that.
I really like that I come from a house, where we try to use all the food before it goes bad. That leads sometimes to interesting combinations (some never repeat), but we rarely throw food.
I cant knit to save my life,but love to crochet
❤ happy fall!
Last year I promised everyone handknit socks for Christmas. They were very well received, but never again. I was still sewing in ends Christmas eve 🤣
Socks are my favourite knitting project! Especially two at a time, toe up socks. I hope you enjoy knitting them 😊😊
Look into yarn shops, some have classes or even just meet ups with other knitters. In my town we have one that does a coffee talk and I have learned a lot of these lady even with 30 years knitting and crochet. I started when I was seven.
Loved this , I knit mostly socks easy and portable but not quick . I was interesting what you said about food waste we have an awful corner cupboard and I’m sure there food in there we don’t know about !
On a completely random note , I thought your make up looked great today , enjoy your knitting I’m off to clean my cupboards.
You have way more patients than I do 😊. I an always sad when your video is over 😢. Another good one !
I'm just at 04:03 so I might state the obvious, but for knitting with yarn on the left - it's more streamlined, but only when you finally find your own preferred way to wrap the yarn around yor fingers to control the tension. It's one of those things where there is no right way, you just meander the yarn between your finger as you find comfortable. I myself find the "default" way to wrap the yarn in my left hand absolutely unusable, it's too loose and my fingers do not cooperate. I loop it a couple more times up and down around other fingers and it provides necessary friction without me getting cramps in fingers from trying to stop the yarn from slipping out... once I got my "wrap", it's intuitive and just muscle memory. Plus - you might need to adjust the method (and resulting tension) to the material of your needles - I like woden needles because the provide even more friction for my overly loose stitches, while metal needles being slippery require more tension control from me to not knit too losely. In general, I can knit much tighter on wooden needles.
I discovered your channel in 2020 and it has been an absolute pleasure to watch you grow!
I also started to knit differently in an attempt to doing it faster and it's so satisfying when you actually get it!
You mentioned fermenting ... Have you tried fermented beans-natto!?
That craftsy offer is amazing! I usually end up buying patterns for like $5-$10 a piece on etsy when I can't find a free resource, so very excited to use Craftsy as an alternative. Just signed up!
If you find the plates and bowls too cumbersome in the corner cabinet and you go back to storing food there I'd recommend a lazy susan, that way things are more accessible and then you could put extras to the side, maybe on a riser so you have some stuff below the riser and some on top of it, that would help with keeping more overview as you wont stick all things behind each other.
Got the craftsy subscription. Thank you!
So excited you have a new book coming out! I live in Denver if you decide to do a book signing at any point in this state please keep us updated! I am a long time follower/fan of yours and I know it would be a very cherished moment to meet you.
Socks are hard! Mine are in time out again!😂😂😂
I'm sorry that you had to frog your sock! I would love to learn how to knit two socks at a time.
Many people say knitting continental is faster and honestly, knitting how you feel most comfortable is fastest. It might be worth learning continental for knitting with hand fatigue or colourwork later on, but knit the way you love best. ❤ If you’d like a good tutorial for knitting socks I can link a good one I used from bmandarine’s channel? It’s one at a time though. Two at a time is handy for getting “second sock syndrome” 😂 When you don’t finish the other one.
On the note of knitting socks the same length. I would check to make sure your feet are the same size. I have to knit the foot of my sock a couple centimeters longer 😅
Also you can use stitch markers to count rows to help ensure the socks match
Hey, I just got married 2 weeks ago and my husband and I have started renting our first place together in the UK. We did not have an opportunity before the wedding to organize and declutter our personal stuff. We have also received a lot of gifts from our wedding which I am very grateful for. As we start the journey of organizing and decluttering I was wondering if you have any advice on what to do with things that were gifts but we just don't use (I don't want them to feel bad I am getting rid of it, especially if they put a lot of time and effort into it) and what to do with like gifts from your parents (family heirlooms) that you are just not gonna use?
Any recommendation for vegan yarns? What are you using here?
Why do you think food is higher in the US? Also I love how you use up things!
Did you know that you can put unripe tomatos into paperbags put them in a cupboard. And the will rippen that way.
Interesting i knit my socks with 4 needles and i beginn at the top, not on the bottom, never saw it that way.
Can you make a video on how to start a youtube channel?
Please make sure you take breaks when knitting and frequently stretch your hands and arms. I know of too many people who did too much on one project and have to deal with that injury in every project for the rest of their lives
But you learned from the first attempt so it was not a total waste