Cat Kelly Crafts Ep. 10 // Knitting Podcast // My first year of knits!

[Music] hello hi ariel oh my goodness it's been a while since i've sat down to speak to you all not intentionally we've had um half term before that one child off with covet again and before that another child off the cover the week before that so i think that's why it's just taken me a while to get sitting down to record another podcast now i noticed when i was editing my previous one back in january that i had completely forgotten to even introduce myself or welcome any of you in so i'm going to start with that so hello my name is kat and i am a knitter from northern ireland and this is my youtube channel where i chat about let down yarn anything related to crafts if you're watching this knitting podcast i'm going to assume that you know what a knitting podcast is so you're very very welcome settle yourselves in get your project ready nice cup of hot tea whatever you fancy and come and join me so i have been knitting a year pretty much exactly a year so this podcast episode is not going to be the usual one where i talk you through what i'm working on and what i finished and what plans i've got and what i bought instead i thought i would take you through what i've knitted garment-wise in a year so i'm not gonna include socks or shows or scarves or gifts or anything like that i'm only gonna talk about jumpers basically and tops that i've knitted for myself and i did jump in and knit the garment fairly quickly after i started knitting but it must have been maybe april may last year that i needed my first garment so i'll take you from there right through to this one which is the last one that i finished but i haven't finished it i haven't woven in any ends i haven't sewn up the underarms or anything so this is the gio sweater pullover i think maybe it's called a pullover in the pattern by albina mclaughlin and i really enjoyed knitting this i love the yarn i love the pattern it was really moorish it was really enjoyable to sit down in the evenings and just work on but when i finished it and tried it on it's huge and i think it's maybe i think what i've done is i've chosen the size that's just the size up from what i need i'm also quite short and i had read on a lot of ravelry reviews for this jumper that the arms were very long so i did reduce the cuff size on the ribbing around the bottom and i did reduce the pattern repeats on the body and the arm and it's still too long so i'm going to i've left space here so i can stand up and show you i'll try and show you so there's my arm that's kind of where i would like it to be and when i let it shake it completely covers my hand and this is a heavy this is a heavy fabric so you know it's weighing it down but yeah i shortened the rib on the bottom by two centimeters and the rib on the cuff by two centimeters and then i removed a pattern repeat from both and i think a pattern repeat is more than just one of these little cables it's two of them but yeah i'm good i'm i'm happy with the positive ease on the body but i'm wearing it like this to figure out what i'm gonna do with it because it's knit from the bottom up and i can't think of any other way of dealing with the arms other than going back to where the sleeves were joined in the round and then the yoke was netted and if you're a returning viewer you'll probably know that i don't mind ripping stuff back and starting again especially if i really enjoyed knitting it like i have this one but yeah i'm going to wear it for a little bit before i decide but i think that's probably what i'm going to do of course i've sewn down the neck and everything it's a folded over neckline um but again you know that's i can take that apart and do it of course i ran out of yarn as well and had to do like a little mercy dash to belfast to get more yarn and probably if i knitted the right size i wouldn't have needed to do that i don't think it's my gauge but i need to check that this fabric looks very much like the gauge swatch that i did check before i knitted but that's not to say that i haven't made a mistake in the gauge swatch somewhere after a year of knitting i still find gauge swatching a little bit confusing i think is probably the right it all makes sense in my head and then when i have a gauge swatch in front of me in a pattern and i'm trying to place where my gauges are my swatches are in the gauge of the pattern i can't wait confused i hope that's something that will just come with experience so yeah lovely lovely jumper i'm really the fabric is beautiful i love the color i think this will be a really wearable jumper but i'm possibly not going to get much wear out of it this winter might be autumn 2022 that this gets properly worn because that's quite a bit to ring it but it'll be quite enjoyable to sit and knit on it yeah i mean it's lovely i'm really enjoying wearing it i've worn it this morning and i wore it another day just to get a feel for how big it was i wasn't sure whether i would shorten the body a bit i think i will and definitely the sleeves a lot of people on ravelry said that they just rolled up the cuff but that leaves you because it's a it's kind of like an iron style jumper that leaves you with really quite a thick cuff that for me personally i i don't really like it probably sits in the right place when i do that yeah and the the fold stops it sliding too far over my hands but my gauge for jumpers and whether they're going to be practical for me or not is whether i can get on my rubber gloves and do the washing up without having to take my jumper off or without getting the cuffs wet these would definitely be getting wet and who wants to feel wet cuffs no definitely not so that's what i'm wearing and this is actually my last finished jumper and now i'm going to bring you right back to my first jumper so i'm kind of going back to front here but you'll probably see this one again maybe in the future podcast where it's actually finished and i can show it off properly i'm just going to take a drink because already my throat is getting dry trying to keep it warm with a little lid on it today so my first ever garment which must have been well i'd knitted a coil and a scarf and maybe another coil from my husband and then i bought this beautiful yarn from wooly mammoth and it was one of her mini skin sets i think it was like summer garden or spring garden or something like that and i knitted a ranunculus it's very bright here today so i kind of feel like i need to hide my face for the colors not to blue white so i knitted a ranunculus because um around that time i got into podcasts i haven't really been watching podcasts before that and i find the knitting podcast world and everybody was learning a ranunculus and they were so beautiful but then people were also saying that it was quite a good pattern for beginners especially if you were fairly adventurous i'm definitely at that stage i still had the no fear beginning kind of mentality with knitting so i thought yeah i'm gonna go for it and i remember loving the pattern and knitting it up really well and i'm sure i had to frog back at times or tink back probably more likely because you know with the lace even now i wouldn't always be able to read where i am when i'm looking at lace work i've actually knitted one as a gift net um a couple of weeks ago and i was knitting it going gosh how did i do this when i was a beginner but i think i from what i remember i think i just blindly followed the pattern didn't understand what short rows were because there are some short row um short rows at the back of the neck and a few at the front as well and i had no understanding of that and then there's raglan on the sleeves and i didn't understand still don't fully understand what's going on there but i definitely because i hadn't even knitted a plane jumper i had no idea what i was doing so i think i just blindly followed each row counted at the end of the rows how many stitches i needed to have or at the end of sections i hadn't figured out lifelines yet so i definitely didn't add in anything like that but i was so proud of myself when i finished this i'm like you know what i wore it loads i probably will wear it loads again this spring summer really handy little top to throw on over a t-shirt or a vest and the fabric that it produced is just gorgeous i follow the pattern use the same needles as the pattern suggested i don't think i modified in any way shape or form because let's face it it was my first garment and i wanted to just blindly follow a pattern um the yarn has worn really really well considering how much i wear or i wore this i would normally get bubbling so where my arm meets the bust as well as under the arm and there's just nothing i don't own um anything to de-bubble my jumpers with so i have not debulbed anything don't have a cleaner don't have any de-bobbling machine probably going to have to get one of those aren't i after a year of knitting it's about time um i think i noticed some little bubbles forming under the arm of the scene and that's it so wooly mammoth yarn or fiber company you know it's not the cheapest of yarns but this being a sock set i think it's quite high twist if i'm right and that probably means that it's fairly hard wearing and it's definitely washed and worn beautifully i can and see when i look at it but because it was a mini skin set and i was bringing in different colors as i went i didn't really know what i was doing i'll try and fold this and show you what i'm talking about you can see where i joined in the rind can you see like there's little gaps and holes because i didn't really know what i was doing bringing the yarn in i'm not convinced i know now but i think if you just twist and work with the other yarn you don't get those kind of there's definite holes there but who's going to see that very proud of myself with that one loved wearing it still wear it loads and i have knitted more ranunculus since like many people so it's definitely a pattern i would use again and i love woolly mammoth fiber so highly recommend both the pattern and the yarn the pattern the only thing that i know is an issue with it is that it's one size fits all and we all know that one-size-fits-all does not fit all i think there was a bust modification in the original pattern so you could increase the both size and then um i noticed on midori herosie's um instagram that she'd there was going to be an update to the pattern and i thought oh that'll be good because that's going to be like bigger sizes and then an email came through and i think because maybe ravelry send you an email through when you get an update from a pattern and i think the email said that there were two smaller sizes to the pattern now i haven't gone in and checked that but it did make me go smaller sizes so they're like child sizes i don't know but as far as the pattern goes lovely pattern to make a very moorish pattern but i'm aware that that's an issue with it size-inclusive inclusivity and i think more and more pattern designers are aware that's something they just have to include obviously for obvious reasons so then i think i moved on to the outlying tank by jessie may and i knitted this in a yarn called um hooked someone and in the avocado colorway now i think i chose the wrong yarn for this i'm gonna hold it up and you'll maybe see why i love the wee design detail that was so much fun to make it kind of hides away in the straps but you can really see it at the front and under the arms and sides but can you see how mine swings away to one side and i think that's partly something that the linen content in this yarn would do anyway but i also chose a dk weight yarn for what is a fingering weight pattern so yeah i think that just didn't help love the pattern definitely want to knit myself another one of these i'd maybe go down a size and i find that it kind of falls off where the brass strap sits and slides down a bit too far at the front so it's maybe better under like a little crop top or something in the summer but i can't really wear crop tops i need something a bit more substantial so i'll maybe try knitting it again this summer in a fingering weight yarn um and i'd like it to be a plot fiber because you know they're a bit cooler in the summer but yeah really enjoyed the pattern um it was a bit more involved i felt in terms of construction than the ranunculus so it was a bit more challenging i guess um but really fun with that sort of drop stitch so you don't do that until the very end and there were lots of lovely um reels on instagram with people dropping their stitches which if you eat it in a fingering weight yarn was very satisfying it sort of stuck a little on the dk weight yarn so yeah that was the first of my summer tops so i don't know you guys thinking about summer tops yet if you're in the northern hemisphere maybe if you're in the southern hemisphere you're already thinking about winter tops and you've done all your summer tops for the year i'm gonna selfishly enjoy doing this because it'll get me thinking about what i need or want to make this summer um i think i quite like this sort of t-shirt style tops more than the strappy kind of tops actually jessie may has a t-shirt version of the outline tank that has these details but in a t-shirt version and i think i'd probably try that one quicker than i tried this one again just because best tops for me are probably not the most practical even though my next object is another vest top so this again is another jessie may so jessie made designs is her design name and this one was a pattern where i bought the yarn first a bit like my first ranunculus bought the yarn because it was gorgeous and then i had to find something that i would knit with it so this is i'm holding up the summer tops i'll maybe try on some of the winter jumpers so you can actually see what they look like on but it's cold i'm not trying on these so you can go back in my podcast episodes and get more in depth about this and yeah i'm trying to sort of tell you how the fabric is worn and things like that too which i can't really tell you for this one because i haven't worn a huge amount i don't know how linen wears probably gets softer and more enjoyable the more you wear it so i could probably do it being worn and washed a few more times um so this is the breeze racerback by jessie may and it is in gideon yarns they're rock pool colorway which i still absolutely adore it's the colors and are just beautiful it's these little pops of green i don't know if that'll come out or other if i hide my face it might so little pops of bright green in with these lovely blues and yellows and i just love it um and i've worn this one quite a lot i think i wore this one more um i just put a vest top under it because it's like a halter neck then you can have your vest top straps and the halter neck straps separate and it has it was quite a detailed construction for me because i wanted to use the full skin of yarn so i started from the bottom work my way up then [Music] what i do like some sort of provisional cast off and then i provisional cast on and wanted to use wanted to knit all of this because it was knitted bottom up i wanted to get all this finished and then join in so that i used up all the yarn and then i got some pulling along here that actually worked out well because i was able to unravel it when i was joining them together to get the right length but it's not that complicated a pattern if i just knit it straight it would have been fine it was a lovely pattern and again interesting construction i think it's three needle bind off up here and yeah wore this plenty and again it's worn really well there's no bubbling i don't know whether that's partly as well because in the summer you've got less layers on so you know you'll get suppose there's less wear on the yarn and i love that design and i think one of my daughters would quite like one of those designs one of these knit four this summer if she decides on a colorway i think the jessie may patterns are quite current and um they're very size inclusive and they're they appear deceptively simple but are actually quite interesting so i really enjoy them um they can nearly be described as staples but there's always a little edge to them that makes them more interesting than just a staple so highly recommend that love the gideon yarns and that was one of their sock bases and their website has so much choice on it it's amazing and there's lots of different bases that you can try i'm really keen to try and i think it's their highland sock base that they have that is no nylon and i know there's new colors coming out in that soon so i'll be looking out for that one so let's take another drink so that was definitely you know it was clearly summer time and i wasn't going to be knitting big woolly jumpers but i think um i must have realized some point in the summer i need to knit a big wheelie jumper if i want one in the winter because they're going to take a lot longer to knit than the summer tops so my first winter jumper was um the sugarplum by fable knitwear and you know what i'm going to try this one on so the idea being that i'll try these on and then cut out all the bits of me actually trying them on so you can see me wearing them and that saves me i'm going to put other videos in instead so i initially knitted the sugarplum jumper with the high roll neck and it was too much it was too bulky and i'm not really a roll neck kind of person anyway so i eventually got right into taking it out and doing like a crew neck instead which i really like you can see the lovely raglan this one's knitted and bottom up as well so that was the first time i've done like a bottom-up and sweater where you're like dealing with sleeves coming in on the bulk of that so i remember that being quite awkward but the pattern was great and really enjoyed it got fabulous look at these i love how these sleeves look i'll start off so you can see the bottom as well and the iron i used for this is lana grosser felt true in i can't remember there was like navy blue or petrol blue or something color way um i have not i haven't even washed and blocked this jumper and i have not washed it yet i actually haven't worn it that much either but i haven't washed it because i'm slightly scared that it will felt really easily it being called felt true yarn you mean that's clearly what it's designed to do um and i kind of thought to myself oh what am i going to do if it felts then i was even thinking well you know i could cut it up and like make slippers out of it or something if it really felt badly but i actually haven't worn it very much so i haven't had to wash it yet um and the reason why i haven't worn it much is because these sleeves while i love them i love how they look i think it looks really nice with high-waisted jeans it would probably also look lovely over like a pleated skirt or i don't know you guys are probably better with fashion than i am you know it would look lovely over the top of dresses skirts jeans but i just find these arms a bit impractical and i feel like it's the kind of jumper that you need to wear on its own and not need to throw on a coat to go outside if you've got it on so i think this one might come into its own for like a few weeks in northern ireland a few weeks in the spring and a few weeks in the autumn where you can get away with heading outside with a wool jumper on but not need a coat on top of it and the wheel jumper not be too warm then in the summer i don't know maybe this summer i'll find that i do wear it i think i had finished it by it was actually june that i finished this so i must have what did i think of it but knitting this i'm getting my timeline all mixed up with this one can't remember i can't remember when i did it anyway it didn't get worn much we'll see if i wear any more this spring summer autumn it's definitely not a winter jumper for me unless i try and get myself into the habit of wearing it you know when i come in and i'm putting on my pajamas and i want something warmer on top that would work i could try that we'll see so i can't really tell you how the fabric has held up i imagine it's gonna pill like crazy because it's um it's nearly like an unspun very fat pencil of wool so i kind of imagine you can see a little bit of pilling going on there that it's going to if you were wearing it loads it would start to really ball i get up there and i don't see any comment yet um yeah it's nice nice one to wear though i don't think it was terribly expensive i think i bought it from love crafts um so it's maybe a good one to look at if you're looking for something that's easy to use it'll be easier to handle than a pluto loopy and you would need to hold it double in the way that you would for a pluto lobby for many patterns and kind of gives the same effect but much less rustic it's a much smoother look to it but it has a similar feel but it's heavier so yes maybe not that similar at all when i think about it it's got a similar scratch factor to pluto loopy for me so yeah this one we'll have to see whether it gets worn much more who knows and the next one i think i'll try on the next one as well so bear with this one is another of the favorites that gets worn all the time so this one and the ranunculus then i first met the short slave ranunculus i kind of feel like they're in the same way nice although this one's lighter because it was knit on a much bigger needle so it's a looser gauge and obviously the color work here makes this one a little bit warmer so this got a lot of wear in the autumn i didn't have it in the spring i think i finished it sometime in the summer and it was probably too warm to wear it initially and then it got loads of wear in the autumn and was probably one of the last sort of not winter items are closed we put away um it's got the short sleeves i'll stand up and let you see the rest of it you have to excuse all the wrinkling i think it's just been thrown somewhere i actually was thrown in my little craft area because um i've done a few duplicate stitches i can't see whether they're somewhere here where i've tried to just make the line between this darker purple and the lighter purple a lot less obvious these were leftover bits of the mini skein set that admitted this ranunculus and then the rest of it is also woolly mammoth yarn um it's some of her nettle dyed yarn so uh this is boiling networks is that caitlyn hunter is not um if not i'll write it down below because no doubt i'm getting it wrong um and it was a really lovely pattern i really enjoyed it because it had everything in it so you can see there's lace work and the cables continue down then you've got the color work of the floor and even the body i went with the little pearl i think you'd do eyelets or pearls and i went with the pearls um and as far as i can remember i didn't have to modify this pattern very much it's quite high neck and it's one of those ones i can feel on my neck there and just like the binoculars in woolly mammoth there's no sign of pilling at all i love how this yarn washes up um it just constantly feels gorgeous i don't know what it is about it i can't quite describe why i love wooly mouth yarns so much but i just do they they keep like a slight um woolly scent that i love but it's not strong so probably you're the only person who feels it there's very little itch to them i know that now because i can wear plotalopie and it's definitely rustic and itchy and makes woolly mammoth feel like you're wearing silk um yeah i i just wax lyrical about the yarn i'm afraid um love the pattern would actually love a lot of the um pattern photos were much darker colors and a darker contrast which i loved um this is definitely a pattern i would think about knitting again it was really enjoyable not much more to say about it i wear all the time i enjoyed making it good this one's a good one and um yeah must have been really into winter then and so i went for another ranunculus i'll try this one on too although i think i've done i've tried all these on podcasts so there's like a whistle stop tour isn't it so bear with me again i'm just going to show you can i block it out i'm trying to block out the bad word because i don't know if you can see that but those are one of the uh kylie in the machine labels that i got from young mama and i just love having that on it i've also got one that said uh made with love and swears or something like that lots of swears i'm a sweary person it suits me to have labels like that anyway so yes my second ranunculus um decided to go for the kind of long sleeved i also did the high the smaller narrower neckline in this pattern and i've knitted this using a woolly knit cone in light gray i think so you hold it double because it's like four ply really quite fine um yarn and it really changes when you hold a double it turn really does turn into a beautiful yeah soft squishy yarn and you know if you can afford the initial outlay of a cone it's really good value um i've used it i'm on my third project with the same cone of yarn um and i think i'll still have some left over afterwards so obviously i love the ranunculus pattern it was nice to do a winter version i think i modified the sleeves to my own kind of desire i wanted it to have a rib similar to the bottom of the jumper and i kept the sleeves quite short which i love it suits me down to the ground in the house because it's never in the way if i'm doing some housework cleaning or you know laundry or whatever long sleeves and cuffs get in the way and i'm again like i've said i'm quite sure it's all quite short arm so this is where knitting comes into its own because you can modify anything to fetch you the way you like it and it's just joyous so yeah not much to say um i've worn this loads this is probably one of my most worn items in fact it definitely is there's two items that i wore all the time this winter and this is one of them so there is little bits of pilling but i would say if you had a d bubbler you just run that over it and i don't know might stop after a while i don't know are you somebody who's bothered by pilling because i think i think i'm quite a sort of disheveled kind of person anyway and i never looked terribly groomed and smooth and sleek so to me having a few pills in my jumper i know it gets to a stage where it looks i don't know like it's a hat me down from your great-grandparents or something and you know it just doesn't look right but that wouldn't bother me i have a feeling it might bother some people though so yeah the willy nit it's 100 will it's british wool um i think you're probably right to expect it to pill a little bit um and then i knitted this work to death and then knitted my next most worn over the winter well not made any sense did it anyway i'll try on the next one and show you so i hope in the little close up there you can see there's me embroidered flowers that i think had i knitted in a peeler color they'd stand out more because the shadowing would help them stand out um i also this is floataloopy and i think i did write down the colorway spruce green heather so it's a lovely green color with like little rusty flex see if i can hold up a bit for you and hide my face so i don't know if you can see that but it's like this kind of green heather color with there's occasional little like orange rusty flecks and i held it held it double to knit this and i also held a strand of love story which is um the lace weight lambswool that you can buy on icelandic knitters which is where i bought the lobby and uh it's in a really peel blue colorway and so that gives it this nice or heathered marley sort of rustic look to it and frankly i love this jumper i maybe wouldn't choose it based on how it looks but i love how it feels and i'm pretty sure i said in some of my covert videos we had covered in the house before christmas and i got it too and felt pretty miserable with it it wasn't nice and there was something so comforting about wearing a scratchy winter woolly jumper i don't know what that is why did i find that so comforting but i really did i don't know whether it's that sort of prickly feeling reminded you of how you felt when you were well and you were wearing it did it do that i don't know if you're a psychologist you might be able to figure that one out so this gets worn to death so there's definitely pilling going on but again i think that's to be expected with the pluto lobby you know it's completely unspun it's really rustic and i love how i mean you can't probably see them but like look how high some of those the peeler bits of hair stroke will come up really high out of it um yeah it's just it's so wearable i knitted this hoping that it would be a really good layering piece that i could pop on underneath like a fleece and a waterproof and go out to the the goats or take the dog a walk in the winter with and when i knitted it up i knew it was going to be massive this way that massive positive ease and that made me worried that i wasn't going to be able to use it in that way but actually i think because it's pluto looking it's so light um and squishy in terms of fabric it just sort of folds in and i can get my fleece and my waterproofs over the top of it and yet when i come home and take all those layers off i've got this lovely cozy up on the sofa jumper so love it the pattern is um bluester did which i think means time for flowers and that is by amanda allberg whose pattern design name i think is 14 hours as in 1 4 hrs um so really easy simple pattern and then the design element is here and in the embroidered flowers that you can do however you want there's very little um description of how to do them there's pictures that you can kind of use for your own inspiration but you know it's literally off you go sew some flowers have fun um so mine you can't see them that would be my only downside about it is that this sort of slightly decorative touch from what is a pretty basic um jumper doesn't show up too much of mine but it doesn't stop me loving it so i don't think i would knit this pattern again necessarily i think one's enough but i definitely want to knit and float a little bit again and i don't know whether i'll maybe try um a color work jumper i do feel like most of my winter jumpers are you know hit the underarms and they just go straight down i don't think i've knitted anything that is fitted to the waist or the sugar plum jumper i guess is a little bit because it's pulled in and it's cropped it feels a little bit narrower but i think i'd like a pluto lobby that is genuinely more fitted that would be a great layering piece but also look maybe a little less casual than this one who knows i'll definitely have a think about that over the summer so yeah there you go there was a whistle stop tour and finished my guilloche uh you know this one was knitted ages ago and then i was busy with gift knit and i suppose before christmas and then the geo has been the last garment and yeah we'll have to see what i do about it beautiful beautiful yarn this is the um the recommended yarn i think the yarn that albania often designs in just to show you it up close ignore the waste yarn for the underarms so let me see i did write it down it's the donegal tweed and the iron weight and this colorway is malvina so yeah i think that was pretty good representation it has beautiful like little blue flecks and gray flecks and bright purple flecks and i think even there's a couple of bright reds in amongst there just this lovely purpley pattern and it's a really dense fabric um which i think albino that was her kind of intention whether that would feel like an iron jumper so hopefully that will also add to my collection for next winter because oh i think this one feels like it's going to be a repeat of this one it's got similar sort of positive ease but it's not going to fit under my waterproof so easily it's much denser fabric than the pluto lobby gives you so i hope you've enjoyed that that feels like whew and it took me a lot longer to get through that i thought this would be a quicker podcast episode so i think i'll finish there i was going to show you a couple of finished objects but i want to encourage myself to record another podcast soon so i'll plan in the next couple of weeks to do the normal podcast where i take you through what i'm working on what i've finished what acquisitions i've made because you know has anybody else used the crayabeas um discount code for willingness because i did in my defense it was my birthday a couple of weeks ago and i used my birthday money for that so i see that as an investment in my knitting journey for the second year of knitting so what gaps can any of you see in my wardrobe there and i know there's no cardigans that's a definite um i'm i've got plans i actually have two swatches that i'll show you just because they were sitting on the table here and then that one i think that was 3.5 millimeter and this one's a three millimeter so beautiful silk merino i mean the difference between this and the pluto lumpy it's pretty big um and i have cardigan plans for that and i've had this yarn for a long time which isn't very me i'm normally if i have yarn i want to use it i don't really have a big yarn stash though i could definitely call what i have a stash now but i beat you for the first year i wasn't accumulating yarn in any way and this yarn is called blackbird not surprisingly and it's from um wild atlantic yarns and i had been looking and looking and looking for a pattern because i was so specific about how what kind of cardigan i wanted to knit this in and i wanted a boxy cardigan in stockinette and i wanted three quarter length sleeves so i wanted to be the kind of cardigan that you could throw on if you were at a wedding and you could just pop it on over your fancy fancy dress as a little layer but also a cardigan that i could wear with jeans and be perfectly happy with i finally found a pattern so i will reveal that in my next podcast episode hopefully i definitely want to cast it on it won't be today but hopefully in the next few days i'll get that cast on because i only have two projects on the go at the moment and i like to have three um so that could be my third but yeah can you see any other gaps in my wardrobe i can see that people are making like leggings and joggers and they're knitting them did anybody else wear knitted tights when they were at school because i remember wearing the tights i'm not feeling when you've been sitting for too long on the knitted tights and then you know like if you've got ridges in your skin from leaning against something they can get really itchy oh and that uncontrollable feeling of your skin crawling the thought of knitting leggings or joggers i love how they look just doesn't appeal to me but maybe maybe i'll change my mind what else am i missing garment wise skirts do people do that i think they do do we cardigans definitely i think i'd like dressy cardigan and the blackbird yarns and beautiful silk and mourinho and maybe i need some more slouchy throw it on when i'm at home cardigans but if you have any ideas for me please put them down in the comments below even if it's just i think you're missing this kind of garment and you don't have any pattern ideas it might send me off in a little hunt through the internet to find something so that would be nice um yeah right now i'm gonna be quiet now i think that's enough i've probably got a fair amount of footage of the goats that i will tuck on at the end here and you can see how they're doing they're getting very hairy so when i got them in october i was told that they would be geoclip in february and i've been trying to sort of push it into march i think eventually i'd like their clip to be october and april because weather-wise that's a bit better here um so pushing for them to carry on for another week maybe so that'll be interesting i'm slightly drilling it and slightly thinking well you know if i make an absolute hint of it nobody's gonna mind as long as i don't actually injure them while i'm doing it as long as they are happy to stand for a wee while while i do it we should be okay so i will pop some good footage on later and hopefully i will speak to you all soon where i'll show you what i'm knitting on at the minute and i really hope that you're all well and that you are enjoying the start of 2022 so far take care speak soon [Music] so [Music] [Applause] get out of your troll get out of the trough and then i'll go feed you [Music] you

Channel: Cat Kelly Crafts

Views: 1,457

Keywords: Knitting, Ireland, Slow living, Fibre craft, Hand knits

Id: Z9hGXH0iCU8

Length: 47min 33sec (2853 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 25 2022