48: BOBBLE TIME & LOLLIPOP HEADS : Knitting Podcast : The Crimson Stitchery : Knit & Crochet Vlog

[Music] hello and welcome to the crimson stitchery a video channel about making all things beautiful and useful my name is anushka you can find me elsewhere online as the crimson stitchery i'm on instagram and i also have a ravelry group for this youtube channel this video is coming to you guys courtesy of all of my lovely and wonderful supporters over on patreon who are keeping my youtube channel alive through monthly subscriptions in exchange for a whole bunch of bonus content so if that appeals to you if you enjoy the crimson stitchery or if you just want to explore a bit more do head over to patreon.com forward slash the crimson stitchery to find out more about what's involved and choose the right tier for you i hope that you're well i'm currently recording from a very very soggy and wet july afternoon luckily we haven't experienced the flooding with other people i hear in england have been and i'm sitting here with a pot of coffee in my cafeteria that i'm going to plunge shortly and my coffee cup ready to chat with you guys about all of the projects that i have been working on in the last month let me just put this down somewhere safely it's been raining so much lately being very british i know and talking about the weather and i just had to cut a little rose from my garden it's a very um aphid nibbled rose as usual but it's my bosque belle which is a david austin rose it's coral and it positively glows in the dark normally i cut quite a lot of roses to keep indoors and flowers in general um it smells really nice and um yeah it really is like perfume um i wouldn't know how to describe it like honey and molasses quite light and maybe pear-like but yeah normally i cut lots and lots of flowers to have indoors in my bedroom on the kitchen table here by my couch but this last year i guess what we're spending so much time at home in pandemic hiding away from illness the pestilence i guess i've been able to enjoy the flowers in their natural state on their stems outside as this is a large patio door here so i haven't been cutting them but then i did notice that with all of the torrential downpours that we've been having the flowers are getting quite mashed up and nasty so it's really nice to have made the effort to actually bother to um bring some flowers in in this month's episode i've been yeah i've been busy knitting i've been busy sewing and stitching and also i'm very happy to say that after a very long hiatus lada life is going to be back um because i've been yeah back into back into dabbling around in my kitchen and garden which i did quite a lot of last summer and kind of missed to be honest with you in many ways july has been a very full-on month there's just been a lot going on um outside of crafts um but also i've been quite busy with design work stuff like that has been brewing along in the background but it's really nice to have a few things to share with you now normally i find on these videos that when i say oh this is just going to be a short episode i don't have that much to share that's generally when i tend to go on and on and on and just then when i'm editing i'm like oh my goodness how did that last so long so let's just take it as it comes and i'll show you what i've got in my knitting basket stuff is already falling out last month's episode in the june episode um i had way too many works in progress and i've managed to finish one of them um so this is the framework bralette by jessie may i'm going to put it on that i had nearly finished last month and it's knit out of a cotton dk blend it's like a recycled cotton and recycled synthetic blend that was quite excited about and my plan was to wear it for yoga and yeah i guess i spoke about it a bit last time but i've been wearing it i wore it quite a bit as soon as i um cast it off and there was quite a lot of finishing to do there were a lot of ends to stitch in you know one for every strap and where the join was and all of that kind of business and i mentioned a little while back i think it was at the beginning of the year when i knitted a woolly vest i said oh i'm not quite sure why everyone's so into jessie may patterns um i was just curious you know it wasn't really intended to be a criticism i was just like oh why is everyone so into it especially like knitting wool bras people suggested i did it in cotton and that i had a go for myself and i think having knit one of her patterns i can kind of see why i think it's the way in her pattern writing um she's quite straightforward about the body and about the shape and size of breasts essentially and because you know she does have a bunch of little bras i've only knit one of her patterns um and yeah i think she's just quite frank about it and the way that she encourages you just to go ahead and take your own measurements to try things on and figure it out for yourself and that's definitely an attitude towards the body and making clothing for your own body that i would certainly be happy to promote and encourage really um i've got to say that there were things in the pattern that i you know as someone who has been trained in pattern cutting that i didn't quite 100 agree with um for example her instructions to shape the cups on the front and on the back so that it's just this kind of v-shaped business triangles for the front and the back um those triangles are shaped exactly the same and obviously that's you know you don't have as i always say you don't have boobs on your back um you've got boobs on your front um if you're a human probably um or maybe you don't have any boobs on your front you know if you've had a mastectomy or whatever um but you definitely don't have them on your back you've got shoulder blades on your back which are a totally different shape and projection and have different mass and so on and so forth um and because you know when you have the breast on the front that's you know the rounding that comes up the fabric has to then grow up and stretch up around it um so basically you need more fabric and shaping at the front than the back so as per usual i did all of my own modifications went off-piste on the pattern i think i followed her instructions for like the double cup height because when i did it when i knitted it first it literally like barely covered my nipple it was it was mental so then i did the double cup height and i don't know she kind of writes on the panel this is more modest but i don't think it's really more modest it's just that you know there wouldn't be much point of wearing wearing it at all basically because i'd essentially be wearing like a pair of braces or um suspenders as you say in in america so that was a bit weird um so then i also decreased more at the back than at the front on the cups on the triangles so there's just um i can't quite remember how i did it i normally just improvise on the needles um but you can see here um hopefully there's just a bit more fabric on one side of things than there is on the other and that just you know allows a bit more fabric to go around the shape of the body and the mass of the body um i did go down several needle sizes to knit the ribbed band but unfortunately it still doesn't you know actually conform to the shape of my body enough she's got this thing in the pattern where she says if you want to wear it as a bra then stitch an elastic channel on to actually have support but i just find that it's just the ribbing is just too floppy it just doesn't suck in enough i guess that could be because it's cotton you know it might be different with wool um but i think it's personally i think it's more to do with the actual fabric construction and like having rib stretching out you know you just wanted to have i think really you needed to have a fabric type that is very inelastic under the bust so that it hugs the rib cage um so this is all of my thoughts about you know pattern cutting engineering body shape and all of that kind of business that i just i just can't help myself um every now and then i you know obviously net other people's patterns and i just find myself feeling really critical about things um and yeah that's that's how it is it's obviously everybody everybody is different but i think that when i'm making stuff i just can't help thinking about movement and sort of how um the movement of the body should be reflected in the movement of fabric and so on and so forth and again as i said i do have a background in pattern cutting um so this is something that i had to think about you know very carefully like previously when i was um doing my bachelor's degree and you know from my old job and stuff like that and i think it's kind of interesting with the world of self-publishing patterns both knitting crochet and sewing is that a lot of people have come to it from a hobby perspective and they're learning from the doing of the craft um as opposed to sort of like studying it formally and so i think that you know when you're coming from different backgrounds you're just bringing quite different things to the patterns that you're creating but also that sometimes you know when you take tips and tricks and methods from a professional work room and you know the sort of more professional ways of doing things that might be a bit more tried and tested and sometimes you know they've got ways of approaching it you know garment construction that you you might not have considered which is why i think that one of the best ways to learn is to you know be very very observant and also to critically analyze other garments from as many different sources as possible not only ones that you've made yourself and you know different hand knitting designers but also shop bought clothing and clothing from different types of stores you know different grades um rummaging through people's wardrobes is a good way of doing that swapping clothes borrowing clothes and really opening everything up and examining and kind of thinking of why is it like this and why is it like that and then trial and error and testing things out um so i'm really glad that i knit the jessie may pattern i can definitely see why she um she's so popular as a designer i really enjoy what she's doing um but would i know another one of hers again probably not just because i can't seem to switch off this you know thinking mind of mine um and what i realized you know well i kind of realized for a little while actually is that the amount of modifications that i make to knitting patterns it just feels like i should just work on writing my own um which is going to take me along to the next project so i wanted to come up with a yolk sweater design actually a couple um and there's one that i can't really talk about very much on youtube at the moment one design project because it's currently a secret but if you are a patron then i am blogging about this quite frankly and openly i have permission from the person i'm collaborating with um so i'm blogging about the whole process of designing this secret sweater really from beginning to end from the very first conversation um about the project all the way through to the finished piece i'm currently you know maybe around halfway through the process so we'll see just take this moment to plunge my coffee so there's a secret yolk project going on in the background and i'm not talking about on youtube but there's also another yolk project which i will be documenting um which is this textured yolk so since we last caught up i've managed to whip up quite a lot of a sweater so it's a top down yoke currently attached to everything and yeah i've got pretty far over the last couple of weeks i think it was like a week to crunch the numbers a week to do the yolk then the body and the sleeves came down and as you can see it's a cropped sweater and it's pretty loose it's got a really nice bubbly wobbly texture and it's got quite a lot of shaping into it so it's going to have nice unusual sleeves and the whole idea about this sweater was that it would be loose and comfortable and almost boxy but without actually being a box so i was able to put into practice all of the kind of thoughts that i've been having about shaping and sweater construction and sweater shapes and body shapes and so on and so forth and then i'm just going to pull myself some coffee and then rather than um you know altering other people's patterns and getting annoyed about the fact that we don't have boobs on our back you know just put all of that stuff into practice on my own sweater and because it was a top-down yolk sweater or it is and that's the construction shape i'm able to try it on as i go and i don't know what it is about me you know i'm a confident person but i just kept trying it on and then feeling surprised that things worked out or feeling surprised that they did work out as i intended them to be and i think i mentioned this a couple of episodes ago about my pink sweater that i'm designing that is currently you know lost in the depths of um number quenching and grading and computer work it's not at an exciting point at all right now that coffee is really hot and really yummy yeah so i don't know why i'm being surprised that like i'm trying it on and it's working um but there you go i am um maybe i'm just sharing that with you just as a way of kind of demonstrating that you know sometimes our confidence level ebbs and flows you know i'm not always so egocentric as to be like oh my way is always right but actually i try and stay quite open to failure and change unfortunate fortunately very fortunately knitting is also amenable and open to failure and change because you can always just rip it out you can do alterations afterwards do a little bit of surgery if you if ripping it out isn't appropriate at that moment um and that's you know totally fine i'm totally up for it so um when it comes to typical yolk sweater construction they they kind of assume that you the top half of your body is like a cone a traffic cone but a comb with a kind of slower slope so you know it is still a cone but it's kind of rather than completely like the angle goes all the way down you know there is a bit of a curve to the comb but still very much a cone also there's a weird assumption a lot of the time that um your head is you know like a lollipop on a stick just kind of you know hovering at the top of the traffic cone sometimes there's the assumption that your arms are sausages um sometimes they're shaping in the sleeve not always sometimes they're shaping in the body not always but that's not true and basically one of the you know easiest ways to modify your yoke sweater is to add neck shaping so often you get you get all well i say you get i add short row shaping up the back neck here because your neck sits lower at the front of your body then on the back you know this your clavicle here that's the base of your neck at the front and the base of your neck at the back is at the top bone of the spine here so you can see there's a slope so you need to add that slope to your necklines of your jumpers um you know that's just human anatomy and sometimes i've seen in patterns like they'll add short rows um to the back of the yolk here and the idea is that oh it pushes the yolk up here but it's also adding a wedge of fabric here um and hopefully you know you don't have you know like ah the distorted you know spine here hopefully if you do have you know a small hump in your spine then yeah sure add it there but i you know for the sort of um i'm trying not to say the word hunchback i guess but it just strikes me as really odd that would add a wedge of extra fabric here when you know we don't have a huge mound of you know extra flesh bone and muscle shaping there but what we do have is more height at the back of our neck so like the shaping should be there so there's just stuff like that that i'm playing around with and you know another thing that you often see on sleeve sleeve patterns and this is something that i talked about quite a bit in my video about tracking increases and decreases there's a neat little tutorial there about reading your knitting so do check that one out if you haven't done already but i talk about sleeve shaping and the fact that you know your arm i'm not talking and again i'm not talking about people who are extremely extremely slender or who have very very developed muscles or whatever whatever you know different scenarios but really just the middle of the road like from your you know around your top arm through your bicep to your elbow that gets slightly smaller but then from your elbow to your wrist you have a big decrease in the circumference so why is it that sleeve patterns in a lot of knitted garments you know evenly stagger the decreases across the whole sleeve that does not reflect the anatomy of a human arm and you know when you get sewing patterns for a sleeve you know you always cut the sleeve relatively you know wide around the top and then it quickly narrows down towards the cuff or maybe it doesn't because it's going to be gathered up into into a cuff you know on a shirt or a blouse or something like that anyway so just lots of stuff like that that i'm playing around with alongside playing around shaping detail texture um and this garment is um going to be released under the crimson stitchery so as i said the idea is that it's boxy but not a box so even though you know it's very wide you know there is some waste shaping because you know you know the way that the the fat and the body mass is distributed you know there is narrowing because the rib cage narrows down from the fullness of the chest even if you have a belly you know generally you're gonna narrow a bit here i realize that i'm wearing this 1950s dress which exaggerates the narrowing of the rib edge but there's still so yeah i don't know why knitting patterns assume that we're all just a bunch of you know cylinders um cones and sticks and lollipop heads i think that you can get away with quite a lot with positive ease and negative ease because of the stretch of the fabric but you can still have a nice loose sweater but incorporate some shaping so that it's flattering and hangs and falls on the body really really carefully whilst taking into account drape i think a good example is that um you know often asian clothing is cited when we think about clothing that isn't shaped with tailoring and darts and so on and so forth but i once i tried to cut a kimono using rectangles because i'd read in a book that it was all formed out of rectangles because japanese cloth is woven on very narrow looms and they just whipped together a bunch of rectangles and it looked really stiff and awkward and then i had a vintage one had a vintage kimono that was falling apart so i looked at the pieces of it and actually had shaping all around the collar and i think that was partly cut in and that was partly down to just wear and tear like the cloth had shaped itself around the body and actually molded slightly sort of a mixture of the two um similarly to that with 1920s dresses as you know in fashion history you read that everything was caught on the straight because it was you know emphasizing a sort of boyishness with the hip you know the straight line from the shoulder to the hip as opposed to nipping in for the waist with femininity and so 1920s pattern cutting is meant to be all squares and so on but again i've deconstructed 1920s garments and they all had shaping and when i tried to recreate it in you know newer stiffer fabrics because it didn't have the drape and the wear around the body it just didn't hang in the same way i realized that i'm kind of glossing over quite a lot of stuff about period pattern cutting fashion history and historical dress and um well fashion history in general this is my background for any new viewers i'm a dress specialist academically so i i always love to put it into practice because ultimately clothes are not divorced from our experience of the world well the rain's just stopped and the sun's coming in and out of the clouds so prepare for lighting to become a bit strange i was just um thinking about my thoughts again about shaping and the kind of oversimplification of the human body when it comes to garments and i actually recast my thoughts because i thought actually when it comes to making maybe the experience of the creation takes over and the shaping of garments becomes deliberately simplified and oversimplified almost as if not to put people off especially if people are beginners um or maybe it's just that within knitting as opposed to you know fashion design if you like um maybe the focus has just been much much more on the fabric surface and kind of fabric qualities as opposed to the shape around the body um but part of me feels more inclined to say that when it comes to hand knitting it's sort of about being able to just knit almost without thinking about too much about shape as if shape would be something that puts people off i guess i'm thinking about like encouraging people to make garments by saying it's not that difficult because you don't want to intimidate people i'm thinking about elizabeth zimmerman and her sort of percentage systems of garment construction which i haven't explored that much um i think i borrowed one of her books um is it knitting in plain english or was it the other one knitting without tears one of them from the library ages ago i enjoyed it and i don't have my own copy i also really enjoyed maggie rigetti who gets talked about a little bit less than elizabeth zimmerman these days but i loved her very no-nonsense approach to knitting as well and i guess that i have my own no-nonsense approach when it comes to shape and very frank attitude towards the body um which is something that i've explored in this channel with my video making clothing to embrace the body that you have [Music] yeah i'd be really interested to get your thoughts on this matter i can feel my thinking mind as i as i keep saying really coming into action and i suspect that's because i'm actually on a summer break from my phd i got to a point with it um earlier this year where i was just quite happy never to i was about to say i was happy never to step into an academic building ever again but they were all closed because of the pandemic um but now that i've had a rest i can really feel like that's done me the world of good because i'm starting to think about all of this stuff quite naturally and enjoy it um whereas before honestly i was quite ready to just i don't know i guess it's just a point that you get to within a phd um hopefully soon i'll go back in the autumn term and hopefully i'll be ready to start writing up fingers crossed with any luck um and then that will be like the last year and a half or so i'm on for phd so yeah now what else did i want to say oh i thought i'd mention the yarn i haven't mentioned the yarn it's a debbie bliss um it's like a cashmere tweed i think it's five percent cashmere and it's four ply and it's really really nice it's really light i've knit all of this from two balls i know it's a cropped small sweater but even so it's so light the fabric texture is really light and i love how it you know it folds up to barely anything at all you can just imagine one more fold when there's a second sleeve the sleeves are going to be dramatic so yeah it's going to be a bit more fabric really and the tweed is really nice colors so i've got my a perfect shade of dark red we've got bright crimson um moss green navy blue bright blue um tweed flecks and i think there's a bit of dark dark gray almost black so really perfect pairing because i feel like sometimes with the tweed nap sometimes the color is a bit weird but this is really good and it feels just really nice and and soft and it's a single ply so it's got it's got yeah it's got that kind of homespun appearance almost because there's a bit of thick and thin going on um with the single ply and the tweed um but it's it's very very soft like totally able to wear it next to skin without getting worried um so yeah next up is my crochet granny square bag now i'm showing this to you because i'm really proud that i've woven in the ends of one side as anyone who's made a crochet granny square from leftovers before will know you just get stuck with all of the ends and it's not that fun so i've got i think i've done about half of the other side so yeah i'm gonna do that and then i'm gonna cut a lining out of a very thin woven fabric so that the bag doesn't stretch out so there's quite some work um to go on this still especially as i may put a pocket into the lining i'll probably do a red lining and then i'll do a handle so yeah quite a bit of stuff to go on this still but i absolutely love it i can't wait to you know go to the shops with this even though it's going to be a little bit heavy heavier than just a plastic bag i absolutely love it let's let's go through all the squares one more time for your viewing pleasure all with scraps i haven't touched any of my other projects apart from what i've shown you because i got very preoccupied with the designing but it's been nice to have this on the go i can't wait to finish more things kind of nice to have a few products that i i'm sort of at a good point where i can finish them and then i can feel all the finished objects coming through sewing i haven't talked about sewing for ages because i haven't done any sewing in absolutely ages but i had a big birthday in july big birthday came up and we had a big party um with big jugs of cocktails it was very worse for wear after that and the theme was you must wear gold um i wore gold everyone else wore gold my partner was upset because he didn't have anything gold already um so i whipped up him a little vest out of some leftover fabric because i had this gold um lurex jersey with like a purple um one of the threads in it somewhere is purple it's a machine knit i'm not quite sure how they've put it together it looks quite complicated and if i look up close the fabric construction looks really complicated and i don't know a lot about machine knitted and machine woven fabrics to be honest with you but it's sparkly golden purple and it's just a little vest um i did fish this out of the laundry pile so it's a bit crumbled but that's that really it's using a vest pattern that i have used for him quite a lot of times before which is just traced around a shop bought vest so he wore that looked very sweet um and then because i had the sewing machine out i found that i had a couple of half-made masks that i'd cut out much earlier in the year so i decided to stitch those up which are here so this is from a leftover dress i made my grandma for her oh gosh i think i made it for i think i made it for her to wear it to a cousin's wedding and i think i was 19 or 20. so 10 years ago oh my goodness so that lovely dress with a nice little salmon lining and i went for the ear straps and then i had also cut out a plain pink mask just because i really liked this fabric at home oh the sun's gone again and restrictions have eased or relaxed or ended who knows for now in england um but it was quite nice to have a couple of fresh masks we still have to use them on public transport here in london and to be honest with you a lot of shops ask that you still wear them especially small like small little boutiques or independent shops um yeah which i'm more than happy to do and just when it's kind of crowded around like in bars and stuff like that i'm still wearing them so it's quite nice to have a couple of fresh ones and i really enjoyed having my sewing machine out um doing doing the sewing making verse making the was such a nice thing to do and yeah just um as i mentioned having sort of had some downtime and time off in the early summer it feels really good to be able to reconnect to the things that i like to do and actually enjoy doing them i was very very burnt out this year i alluded to it i've alluded to it on the podcast i'm not going to go into any more details because it's not really appropriate but um yeah suffice it to to save things not always as they seem on the internet and that one's real life is filled with complexity [Laughter] lot of life so one thing that happens when i'm happy is that i find myself just naturally doing things that are better for me like exercise and cooking for myself and i finally started another batch of sourdough starter so i got really into this and then at one point i think it got too hot in last autumn and the starter died and i and then over the winter it was too cold indoors i don't know i didn't manage to keep on alive but i've managed to start a new brand new one from scratch and i've made i think three loaves so far and they've all been really good just back to normal and back to trying to think of what to do the starter and i'm using a mix of plain flour and like a whole grain very rough kind of spelt kind of thing and that's like almost greenish and very dry and the starter really likes that so i'm doing a mix of the two got back into lacto-fermentation i've got my carrots on the go which is really good and yeah just sort of making things again which is really really nice so let me put that back down i don't have a conversational threads topic with you today but i think we really got into it in the knitting basket section and talking about garment shaping in the body so please do weigh in down below in the comments um with what your possible thoughts and theories might be about body shaping and the lack thereof and why and how and wherefore um one last little thing that i do want to share um just because it relates to some stuff that i've shared in the past on the channel where in the past i've been you know concerned about social media addiction and phone and screen addiction and overuse because it's a real thing and especially has been through increased screen time and zoom time through the pandemic and then recently you may have seen the breaking news story about the a new phone hacking um scandal and we don't know what you want to call it a plot um yeah don't know what you want to call it um which affects like apple phones and whatsapp and in the uk or at least in the circles that i move in and everyone that i know um whatsapp is pretty commonly used for messaging and you end up in a lot of groups and so on and so forth so the idea that um yeah they could access everything on your phone and your contact list and so on just by not even like making you click on a fraudulent link but just because you have whatsapp installed on your phone i'm going to leave the news article about this in the down bar here on youtube i'm not making this up i'm paraphrasing the news article and so that really really spooked me and there had already been like a data leak kind of scandal or worry about what's up last year so i deleted it from my phone and i was quite aware that this would probably irritate a lot of people because it's like oh you have to send me a normal text message or an email and i never check my emails sorry to anyone that emails me like i check them a couple of times a week and i'm so loathe to do that because it's full of junk mail that i can't seem to get rid of and you know it is a real shame about contacting friends who live um abroad don't live in the same country as me friends and family but if i really need to i can send them an email um and what i found that just by merit of um not being on whatsapp and not having so many groups suddenly i was actually finally able to curb this phone addiction thing you know this like constantly looking for the phone and checking it and looking looking at it all the time and picking it up to see if you had any new messages or notifications um actually more than switching you know i'd already switched off um a lot of notifications and so on and so forth but i just just decided to delete that app and it's made a really big difference and i feel that my life is much quieter and calmer and i can be much more focused on things like reading knitting doing tasks without going to the phone because you don't constantly have nonsense popping up especially when you're in group chats even if you've switched off notifications um so i just thought i'd share that little anecdote um i think that in another life i must have been someone like living in a very self-sufficient manner but somehow not in a rural setting like it definitely i'm a i'm a towny though i like being by the sea but there's so much when it comes to that sort of switching off you know idea that really really appeals to me and obviously with all of the home crafts and all of the hand making and so on like there's so much that interests me when it that actually relates to that kind of like self-sufficiency living in the world sort of thing but you know look at me i [Laughter] also love color and pattern and and living in a city or near a large city and a multicultural place is extremely important to me and whenever i've lived in places that are not multicultural you know as a minority ethnic person i have felt very very very uncomfortable and often been made to feel very unwelcome so um yeah just not really trying to go anywhere with this thought but it's just sort of laughing because you have the sort of image of like what it means to live off the land or have this like self-sufficiency ideal um and often it's very like american living in the countryside being really cut off having your pantry in all of your pickle jars and carving and wooden spoons which viewers from last year will remember that i very much enjoyed trying out um i don't know making your own baskets pickling your own eggs who knows what not and that just looks so far far far away from you know me and what i'm actually interested in but there's so much of it that is um appealing and doesn't necessarily yeah need to reflect it doesn't necessarily need to reflect one lifestyle or another but really what it's about at its core is skills and giving individuals skills that will empower them to be self-reliant and also um you know just be able to cope with life in general so all of that from my decision to delete what's up um link to the scary news article down below currently becoming attached to all of the knitting needles and starting to rain again so i think that's a good point to wrap up this month's video thank you so much for watching if you've enjoyed this video please do hit the thumbs up button down below and drop me a comment and feel free to respond to any of these thoughts um remember that we do have a ravelry group for the crimson stitchery and i also write a monthly newsletter and i post on instagram around once a week or once a fortnight so just trying to find ways to you know connect with people through this exciting digital world that then all the rain doesn't like allow the kind of digital surveillance world that we're in you know to sort of take over i'm trying to find my way through it and you know let me know how it's going for you as well and another huge absolutely massive thank you to all of my supporters over on patreon for continuing to support the crimson stitchery through your monthly membership subscriptions if that is something that tickles your fancy do head over to patreon.com forward slash the crimson stitchery and a shout out to my patrons who've joined at the crimson queens tear thank you so much for your support at the highest level over the last month thank you to shelly jamie peng and thank you angie through your support through your financial contributions i am really keeping this alive and i've been finding ways this year to make it something that i will be doing long term and it's really very much thanks to you guys so my gratitude extends to you a lot of that is because since i've been doing much more designing under my own name and label the crimson stitchery you know that is a lot of unphotogenic screen time spent sorting stuff out and the necessary admin of running this small studio business um and so having people around that are interested in what i'm doing and getting glimpse of glimpses of the things that are going on behind the scenes before they're 100 ready to launch has just been absolutely wonderful wonderful and a such a great experience and i hope that you guys are enjoying it as much as i have been design wise there is going to be a new design coming out in august i have a shawl pattern um and there is actually a little sneaky preview on the video um screen like the uh what's it called the thumbnail the youtube video thumbnail you'll have seen a red shull that is that is the design i very quietly just placed that there and very subtly didn't really reply to people that asked me where they could get that person because it's up and coming um so i'm really excited about launching that and continuing to work on things in the background so signing off for now i hope very very much that wherever you are in this late july august um 2021 that you are doing well and that you are finding things to bring you happiness and calm despite everything that continues to go on and all of that uncertainty that we have been you know learning to deal with um all around the world okay thanks so much for watching take care bye [Music]

Channel: The Crimson Stitchery

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Keywords: knitting, craft, making, mending, podcast, knit, yarn, DIY, UK knitting podcast, knitting podcast, London knitter, London knitters, knitting vlog, knitting vlogger, how to knit, ravelry, sock knitting, sewing, how to sew, visible mending, handmade wardrobe, voolenvine, skeindeer knits, stranded podcast, the gentle knitter, fat squirrel speaks, grocery girls, jessie mae, crochet granny square, crochet podcast, marina skua, kristy glass knits

Id: YeabuSOBU3A

Length: 41min 16sec (2476 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021