i knit the sweater of my dreams in a weekend (i tried)

i'm feeling a little risky today because i have my period and i'm wearing white pants i hope everyone's doing super dandy today because for today's video i am going to be making a sweater which i am so excited about i have not started a new project in knitting in a really long time because i've been working on this one pair of pants with these itty bitty needles and it's been like a month and i'm still not done like i'm getting there i'm done one leg but the other leg not not really there yet i just need to start a new project so we're going to be making this sweater right here today it is by laurie delgarde and i got it from a course i'm currently taking all about intarsia and how to you know use multiple colors when you're knitting you know you get it and i've already started well not the sweater but i got my swatch here i hit gauge i'm ready to actually cast on my sweater i have my yarns here which i did get a little crazy last weekend and i spent the whole weekend hand dyeing yarn just because i wasn't able to really find colors that i actually really liked in this yarn that i'm going to be using so i ended up buying a whole bunch of the white yarn and just hand dyeing it colors that i actually liked and i just really enjoyed it so i ended up spending two full days and dying yarn and now i have like five billion balls of yarn colors i like but that's enough story time so let's get started with the sweater so the pattern does call for chunkier needles which you know on my favorite because you you can finish things a lot faster so hopefully that's on my side when it comes to finishing this relatively fast relatively that's a new word so i decided after like debating with myself for 45 minutes that i'm gonna go with size medium large because i want it to be more of a relaxed fit and the size just go by extra small slash small and then medium large and then so on so i'm done casting on this color so now i'm gonna do this color and it actually looks a lot more complicated when you're doing two different colors for cast on i thought i don't know you had to do some magic or something but no you just cast on one color and go to the next color and then cast on that color i don't know why i thought it was so much harder [Music] the only thing with intarsia is that you're constantly wrapping the yarns around each other to connect the two colors so like at this point i gotta loop them together otherwise they're gonna be two separate pieces so i have to twist these like that so they stay together but that means all my yarn gets twisted so it's definitely very messy it's very messy in tarsia so i am done the ribbing so next step with the sweater i just have to follow a color chart for the rest of the body so i think i'm going to print it out just because i feel like i want to go places to actually knit the sweater like maybe in my car or i don't know i just don't want to bring my computer around so i'm going to print it out just so i can like mark off the rows too otherwise it might get really confusing if you're thinking about getting into knitting you've maybe done one project and you're like oh this is pretty fun i like it i would 100 recommend getting an interchangeable inter interchangeable it is just so handy when you know you do the ribbing and then you have to change it to a different size for the body and you just take it off and put the new needle on there it is so handy and i also find it's a lot cheaper to do it this way to get the whole set just because needles especially circular ones can get really pricey when you're buying them individually whereas buying a whole set it's just it's better in the long run new needles are on now i can start the body so we're just going to take a quick break from the video because today's video it is sponsored by pila if you haven't heard of pila pila is this amazing company here in canada and they create these compostable phone cases all of these are made from plants they are super soft to touch and they also have a military-grade protection on my phone right now i have this booby case but i also have this pretty pink flower case and a cow print one pillow has been a long-term sponsor on my channel and i haven't shown you guys proof that these cases can actually decompose so today we're gonna be putting it to the test we're gonna be using my lomi which was created also by pila and it's a kitchen composter we're gonna be throwing this case in there and seeing how it breaks down so here is my loamy and this is what she makes with my food scraps and right here i just have some food scraps i'm gonna dump in here i'm also gonna throw in the pillow case but we'll check back on her tomorrow and see what she looks like so my loamy finished last night and this is what the phone case looks like now if you guys want to get your own pila case i have a coupon code for you all so the first 50 people that use my coupon code jenna at checkout will get 40 off and then 51 on 20 off i already realized my first mistake and i haven't even started the body yet and it's with the ribbing i'm looking at the chart here and it's telling me that this is supposed to be the front of the ribbing and i twisted the the yarn on the wrong side when i was connecting them it's not that big of a deal because this can just be the back piece so i can just work on the back panel but yeah i gotta figure that out for the next time to actually twist it on the side you're supposed to twist it [Music] [Music] this sweater is really getting me excited about color work in knitting which i didn't even think was a possibility i just always stuck to stripes and just solid colors but now i'm getting really excited about this this is really fun this sweater it's looking so good so far and it feels really soft that's another thing you know when something feels nice and it's looking good perfect combination so i am going to stop knitting right now and quickly go to the mountain and go skiing okay i'll be back i'll be back cause i'm i'm very excited about this i'm gonna work on it again when i get back tonight but for now going cross-country skiing [Music] so i wish i could say i'm pretty far along because i knitted all the way in the car all the way to the mountain but mistake number four which i already took apart half the sweater because i forgot or i just didn't really realize in the pattern chart that over here on this side there starts to be like a dip of white and i was only focusing on this center connection so i was missing a whole bunch of white here so i had to take apart like [Applause] eight or ten rows which is not that big of a deal but gotta restart again i think that was mistake number four right i'm assuming by the end of this video there'll be like 58 mistakes so last night i ended up staying up to i think to 12 working on this and i made progress i made progress i got the little swoop i made some progress i wish i could say i made more progress but i'm almost halfway down the back panel i'm not that far along so that is why i woke up super early this morning and i am just going to knit for the majority of day and just see how much i can get done i really want to get both of the panels done so the front panel and the back panel done and then tomorrow just finish the sleeves i'm hoping [Music] look at my sweater just take a second and really look at the sweater it looks professional with a capital p [Music] [Music] but here is the back panel doesn't it look so good ah i'm so excited and then here is what i have of the front panel so far not very much so for mistake number eight this by far is my biggest mistake so far and i'm actually um [Music] yeah quite impressed with myself that it took me this long to figure out that i made a real big mistake and it wasn't until i was going to change the needle late like i was supposed to change the needle when i finished the ribbing but i forgot but then i was like it's okay i'll just change it you know after a few rows it won't be that big of a deal and then i realized i had the wrong needle in the whole time which means this is too big now because i use the wrong needle so this um this needs to come apart the whole thing so before i unravel my sweater that i spent two hours working on i had to change my outfit can you hear the coffee in the background [Music] [Music] [Music] so good news i am back to where i started when i took apart you know the whole sweater this morning it's definitely looking a lot better and i'm very very happy i took it apart even though it was a pain and kind of a waste of like two hours of my life but it's okay because it'll be worth it it's just it's a lot better [Music] [Music] so once again i overestimated my abilities to be able to knit fast because it's monday and i don't have a finished sweater i have a back piece and a front piece and no arms but anyways i'm gonna start the day off by sewing these two pieces together i'm actually impressed with how perfect this fits look at this i do have a sweater underneath but it's it's cozy it's very cozy so recently i purchased a short needle kit they're just shorter needles so i can do all the sleeves in the round and this is the first time i get to use them so i'm pretty pumped to take them for a spin anyways while i pick up all these stitches i do have some very exciting news to share with you all because i've been listening to the harry potter books because i have never read them before i've been listening to them on my library app where i've been renting the audiobooks and i figured out how to get it on my computer [Music] so i just finished the sleeve and i just feel like it looks like a baby sleeve compared to the body here just because the body is so relaxed fitting on me and then this is more fitted i i don't know how i feel about it so i might redo it later i don't know i don't know maybe it's fine maybe just to do the caller and then it'll look better but i don't know so today is actually actually actually the day i'm gonna finish my sweater because i finished the collar last night and then i woke up super early this morning and started on the sleeve and i decided to change up the color originally i was gonna go with the purple sleeve but after just seeing the sweater i'm just feeling this blue color now i just feel like it matches more so i'm gonna do the whole sleeve in blue and then i you know we gotta do the boring stuff of actually you know finishing off all these like danglers here you're so crazy oh nice one benson is here with me today he is going to help me finish my sweater right sorry we're both gassy [Music] so i'm almost done the sleeve and it's not even lunch time now so i don't i don't know what i was doing yesterday but it's actually really quick to do these sleeves i don't know why it took me so long yesterday so for the ribbing of my sleeve i ended up adding a whole bigger cable to it and i also switch my needles to littler ones don't want to mess that up again because i'm gonna do the magic glue method for the ribbon here because it's too tiny i don't have needles and cables that are that small so i'm switching it up switching it up so my sweater is all knit up so last step before i can show you guys is just get rid of all these danglers here so that will take me a couple minutes and then i'm gonna show you guys all my knees itchy oh that's better the finished sweater okay i am done my sweater now i have it on it took me like 45 minutes to actually like weave in all the ends but it's done now it's done so here it is here's my sweater do you guys like it because i i really like it it's really cozy it's really i feel like jenna like i love the little wave here i love the color it just i love it definitely was worth the wait even though i thought this was gonna be a lot quicker than it was it wasn't it took me five days to do well not like five complete days like you probably could bust this out in two to three days if you were like and you didn't make any mistakes like i did i have to redo things so many times yeah i guess that's why it took a long time because i kept messing up i had like 25 mistakes that is it if you guys want to take the course by laura delgarde and make the sweater it comes with the pattern that i use and then it also has like step by step on how to make this sweater in the course i'll link it down below also have a 10 off gift coupon 10 off coupon for you guys because the course was gifted to me by domestica but that's it that's it i really enjoyed the course it was a really good one so if you wanted my thoughts i don't know if you did but yeah that's my thoughts i really liked it that's it so i'ma go i hope you all have great rest your day and i'll see you guys in the next video bye [Music] [Music]

Channel: Jenna Phipps

Views: 114,444

Keywords: Jenna Phipps, how to sew, how to make your own clothes, sewing clothes 2022, 2022, how to knit intarsia, pinterest knit sweater, knitting pinterest sweater, how to knit, i made a sweater, laura dalgaard

Id: 3WEJnD4288w

Length: 18min 7sec (1087 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 16 2022