Karoline’s Knits Episode 15 // Danish yarn haul and knitting a dress

hi everyone and welcome to my podcast i am in a completely different setup today because i am filming um from back home it also means i don't have my tripod so i'm gonna keep you on my watch today so if you see the watch lit up and it's my face that's just why um i should probably start with the introduction so my name is caroline and welcome to my youtube channel caroline snitz where i mainly talk about knitting i am originally danish but i usually live in well i do live in scotland with my partner ben and my puppy fella but just now i am actually in denmark so welcome to my mom's house i didn't want to tidy up her whole place to film so i've kind of just propped you up in her sort of big living room space as i could um to talk you through all the stuff i finished today so i'm also joined by another papa so i'm joined by mom's papa um and she um her name is nora nora is a chocolate labrador and you might hear her little uh pause click cracking around at the living room i definitely think she was a tiny bit confused when i dragged out all the knitting and i've had so many pans while i've been home it hasn't really been feasible for me to film before today um but i'm also aware that my family are coming back soon so i'm gonna try not to offer on too much today as usual anything i talk about will be linked down below where you also find my social media links if you have any questions or comments i love reading them and i do try my best to get back to them so let's get started today i should start with what i'm wearing so i'm wearing my first uh finished project this is the easy evening dress turtleneck edition that i've test knitted for easy s knit um i finished this um a few days ago um this was a quite a big project it is obviously a dress um i will maybe see if i can also get some cutaways but um it is a full-on dress that i knitted um it actually didn't take me as long as i thought it would dog is outside um so i test knitted this um there was some issues with me getting the yarn which put me slightly behind schedule um so from when i cast on until um the deadline for feedback it was two weeks and i was keen to see just how much i could finish in that time and actually from start to finish this project took me less than three weeks which i think is crazy considering the size it is knitted in one strand of drops and appel which i might have here now they're all through i don't really think you need to see drops lapel um it is quite a thick yarn it runs i think about 75 meters per 100 uh but 75 meters per 50 grams um so it's quite a heavyweight yarn um it's a mixture of fake wool and alpaca um to me it is next to skin soft it is very very nice where even the turtleneck i knitted it in medium gray which basically i've been so lucky to have beyond sponsored quite a few times and i'm really trying to be better picking neutrals i just think i have plenty of colors lined up and um actually i kind of just need something quite neutral i also thought if i was to knit whole dress i'd want it to be kind of wearable for all occasions um so i thought like this kind of medium gray would be quite good also because with failure um anything that is kind of mud proof is the best this is obviously knitted in um breaking rip stitch um which kind of creates lots of texture lots of like um like it's quite stretchy i should mention that this is unblocked um i don't have all my blocking gear here so and i've just contrary to what i usually do i've just started wearing it from the beginning and yeah i think it should grow a little bit um you can sort of see here this is where like the arm is sitting or like the shoulders i think it i think i'm under the gauge by about one stitch which i split to easiest knit about because i couldn't hit gauge even going up half a needle size but you could feel in the gauge so you can see how much this stretches and i can already see it has grown in length even pre-blocking um just simply the weight of the garment um changes the gauge so we both like we agreed that it was better for me just to to sort of knit with the gauge i got then size up even more because it might grow so much and like washing and handling it just because broken rip stitch is so stretchy i will say that breaking rib stitch is brilliant um if you are quite a new knitter or you have sight gauge difference between your knits and pearls because you can't tell so even though this is knit it flat um there's not really any different like well basically it's knit it flat until the armholes it's that kind of constructions you know where you start the back leave those stitches to rest and you start one side of the front the other side join that knit that for a while then join all the way in the round all the way to the bottom pick up sleeves for the arms pick up sleeves for the neck pick up sleeves for the neck pick up stitches for the neck that kind of construction um and i do think that um if you for example look at one of my own projects the wednesday sweater there's such a big gauge difference between my knits and pearls on the flat part compared to when it stitches in the round it becomes really really obvious and i think broken rib stitch is great in the sense that it doesn't show breaking whip stitch if in case you haven't knitted it before is just one round of knits and one round of ribbing so one knit one pearl one knit one palette the whole way around and yeah it's in that sense quite easy um you don't have to be as proficient in reading stitches as you might with some other patterns i like i found with the half fisherman's rib that i'm currently knitting that that is quite hard for me to see um kind of what round i'm on so and again it's really lovely and like stretchy and it creates quite like a squishy fabric so um i really enjoyed this i know that um they are planning to uh translate it as well so it should be available in english for a final note before i move on to my current nibs um i decided to size down um so when i applied for test knit i said uh i think us i have been losing a little bit of weight i'm starting to be closer to a 110 centimeter chest instead of being close to 120 so i tend to size down a little bit and just to have a better fit which i do in general if you watch my podcast for a while you may know this but i thought especially for this not being tight fitting i didn't want it still not to be like really oversized and i think it's quite good balance i think even if it grows a little bit it's still gonna have it's not gonna be massive massive on me and because it does mean that currently as you can tell there isn't all that much positive ease around my chest but then it grows around um sort of my hips and and bum it has slightly more width um it also has two slits on the side now the length in the pattern i think it's a tiny bit to the short side on me i could probably have added a bit more length but then i kind of like it short on me so um that's kind of i guess a judgment call you can make um one of my only comments for the pattern was i thought they could add more decreases to the sleeves because i did think they were quite quite long so that's really all i have to say about this project um i really rate nepal so far i'm noticing it is fluffing quite a lot and i do think this will pill like i'm when i was just looking in the mirror before filming i could see there's a few pills like forming especially here around my hips and stuff which is kind of a strange place like usually it starts underneath the arms first but it hasn't done this but i do think it will pill on the other hand i didn't use all the yarn that i had sponsored which in total i think i was sponsored 22 balls and i'll update ravelry with the exact amount but um i definitely needed less than that i think i'm about 16 17 balls of yarn and in drops in the pal that is still garment and that is under for memory under 40 pounds which to me makes the yarn quite attractive i think for a lot of people that it's actually affordable um because there's certainly yarns that i would love to knit a whole dress in but i'd struggle to justify um you know paying um 78 pounds a ball where's nepal i think runs about the three pound mark maybe slightly less um they have a v-necks or vest version which i quite liked in it i'm just going to let the dog in otherwise she'll start barking at me also realized i forgot this project as well so i went to pick that up noah wants more attention i think so yeah that's that's my finished project oh yes i was saying sorry uh before i got interrupted they've also made a vest or pinafore as the crea bear reminded me it's called um version of this uh you could probably hit gauge with this in peruvian highland walls or from phil colano if you'd like um apologies i thought it was only my dog that was demanding but it seems nora i think she needs attention to right so i'm going to show you really quickly just an update on this um because i had to rush knit this my first sweater um isn't completely finished but i should be able to finish it hi noah should be able to finish it quite soon so i'm sort of halfway through the final sleeve and it's a little bit crumbled up because obviously it's been shoved in my suitcase so um as soon as i'm done with my next work in progress um this will be this will be my focus basically um because i think it will be so so lovely and i'm really sad that i had to put it on hold um but i'm hoping to to get this finished real soon so i'm not going to show you too much of this because hopefully the next time i see you that is going to be a finished object instead of just a whip so um i'll sort of save it for then i before leaving home i knew that i wanted to use up some of my stash obviously my stash just you will see there's a lot of acquisitions today my stash just keeps on growing and not shrinking so the more i can can use of my stash the better and one quality that i thought i could find quite a nice project for is i think there's still full ball that doesn't have its belly button there we go so this is the knitting for olive double soft merino which i actually think they're discontinuing um which is a shame it is quite a nice yarn and i should say add sponsored because i originally received this charm for test knit um but this is not it wasn't sponsored for this this was just leftover leftover balls really um because i thought i was going to run out of yarn then didn't run out of yarn but i'd already put in an order for more yarn so this is um a bit hard to see because i've obviously stopped in the middle of a row i'm almost done with the body now so this is going to be a wrap cardigan um in size 10 to 16 months so this is for my cousin um who just turned one um and this color was just right up my auntie street and so i asked if she would want this kind of rat cardigan um it's from a designer called striker and i know some of her patterns are translated to english but i don't think she's translated this but if you ask i'm sure it's one of those things if there's you know people want to buy you pass and usually designers are quite happy to translate it the reason i was drawn to this is it's called she has a whole series of patterns called the chunky baby nick and this is the chunky baby nip wrap or chunky baby wrap or something like that and what really attracted me is that most of this is knitted on well all the patterns are knitted in some sort of um earring weight yarns so things like double soft thought merino proven highland wall um i have some leftover nepal that i could use and that also means it's knitted on needle size five um besides the ribbing and so i cast this on like i've really only been knitting on this for two days and i've definitely not had as much knitting time as i sometimes do so i also think that like that is like pretty quick i can probably finish you know i'm at the body ribbing now and then i just need to knit two tiny baby sleeves and an i-cord and and i absolutely love that you could actually finish a whole baby garment in that amount of time in the chunky baby knit series there's also some quite cute trousers and there's like a body type thing you know where it's like straps and places down at the bottom um there's a normal cardigan there's like oval style trousers as well um and yeah i could definitely see myself knitting more patterns from this range because it is a yarn weight that you could hit quite easily or you could even do it like a bag of style and like mix lots of leftovers for it that kind of thing but still um it's quite nice i quite liked in the pattern so um for example she describes how you know that this has like twisted um knit stitches here in the raglan and up in like in all the ribbing um but i do think the patterns are so easy to adapt if you wanted to make them um without that or with just a thick racklin or you could put lots of other things so yeah that those kind of like versatile patterns that i just think are great for leftovers and i'm starting to hit that age where all my friends are having children so i have a feeling that in the next few years i'll be knitting lots of baby patterns and so i kind of liked i could even knit this in for example drops merino extra fine like that there's some thicker super wash on and it would be fine for someone who's not gonna stand and hand wash their knits and for my granny or not for my granny for my auntie who was um an absolute knitwear lover i know she'll really really appreciate the double soft mourinho and it also clears you know those two to three balls of yarn in your stash i thought i'd also show you this which i'm storing it in and this is um actually a project bag that i bought in uh sister nakrena which is a danish shop i think it was um about 65 kroner so about seven seven pounds ish um and it's just brilliant with these big pockets and it fits a good project in here um i also have like my massive haberdashery pouch and everything in here and as you can tell there's still plenty of room um so yeah i have really been loving this um i should say that um a goal for 2022 is not to add more yarn to my stash because i don't need any more yarn ever potentially um there are there's some stuff that i got from sabrina as a christmas present and but i'd like to show you that in the next podcast when i can show you everything and i left the yarn that she uh kindly gifted me um back in back in scotland so i can't show you that now so save my christmas present from simona um till i'm hoping maybe to film just before new year's because there'll be a few more things to show i think because i'm still on holiday and there'll be some projects to be finished however while i've been in denmark i have bought and received quite a lot of yarn so i'm going to run through acquisitions now if that's not for you that's completely fine and i'm also just going to say that clearly i need to stop adding you onto my stash because i need time to knit it so first off i'm going to show you my main christmas present um which yes i did pick myself um you might have seen i've test knitted for augustine's before and i should also say that none nothing in this portion is like sponsored or or gifted in the like um marketing sense it's all paid for by uh my money or my family's money right so um you might have seen i've tested it for algorithms before she makes really beautiful feminine projects mainly lots of like pretty lace um and she recently released a pattern called the northern augustine's number one and it's like a color work yolk with like a beautiful roll neck and after i've knitted the nordstrom sweater i have really been in the mood for more projects that are color work um also because it's so practical with the dog and when i saw that pattern i knew exactly what yarn i wanted to knit it in um so for my from my grandparents um i really wanted this combination or this particular yarn cameras our cameras sniff nook which means snowflake in case you didn't know is probably my number one yarn ever um it is so incredibly soft and i have knitted three sweaters in it none of them have any major issues with pilling um and complete softness like this is next to skin soft for me and it's it's quite thick it runs 110 meters per 50 grams it's 55 alpaca 35 cotton and 10 extra fine merino wool um so i picked these two colors which are quite neutral for me i think um so the main color is going to be this which is called steinko which means stone gray and then this one is in the color marine block or basically marine it's like a very very very dark navy um so this is going to get on my needles very soon because i'm really excited to knit it and i just know that this yarn is a yarn that i'll really like cherish having um having a full project in so yes i'm really excited to leave this so that's young acquisition number one and this is from the shop called tendercoin if you're keen to see um the yarn shop that i have visited and while i've been in denmark in the previous vlogmas episode episode number three um there's clips from them all so you can see the shops if you're curious what dana shops looks like right a sip of tea having some nice earl grey so also from tendagon um i knew i bought this last year in sakami's sale was it last year it was definitely before we moved so i bought this a while ago and this is her colour baba yaga which i think um she definitely has just had this color in the sale i think even on this base which is the 60 percent superwash fine merino 20 baby alpaca and 20 mulberry silk my mom um has touched essentially every single piece of wool that i own um and even things like sniff nukes she wasn't too sure about this she touched and said this is so soft enough against like skin for her which is that's a sign that this is as soft as it comes it's not the softest yarn that i have felt but i do it is of course incredibly soft um but this color is really stunning but it's also really multifaceted and i really want to knit i have a sweater quantity of this and i really want to knit like a sweater with it i'm still not sure which one i feel like it looked the best either in a completely like simple pattern like the balloon sweater from petite knit or the cardio hen from knitting for olive um or i've also considered maybe one of along anna's pattern so she kind of gifted me the silver leaf jumper earlier this year it has like lace sleeves and i think that might be nice i'd love to hear what you guys think is something like this too busy for like lace sleeves anyway i really wanted a second strand for this because this base is so incredibly soft and luxurious i did not want to buy my hair for it because i'm really sensitive to my hair as you may know i wanted something i knew would be next to skin self so camera also it's as you can tell one of my favorite brands i bought some nuts on and i deliberately brought just one skin because i wanted to hold them up together so i matched these two i think it's a pretty good good match this is uh called gamma horsa which is like old rose color and it has that kind of dusky dusky pinky one that i think will still complement the sort of darker purples that run through this but still fit with that kind of moist pink base um and just a tiny bit of orange speckles so this is going to become a project in the new year so that's what i bought from tendercon as you can tell plenty of yarn already then we went to another shop in my hometown so attending one is an answer and this makes shoppies as well and this is um and this shop was called pure pipe now i asked her because i'll speak about different quality of yarn if she ships to the uk she ships all over the world but lots of um places that used to ship to the uk stopped after brexit because of import rules being really complicated but she said she's shipped to like the states and new zealand and australia et cetera so um if you are looking for some of these danish yarn quality like one like dana shawn brand so she had lots of isaiah she had lots of camera also no she didn't have cameras that's the one she didn't have but she did have issa she had phil kalana she had hillhot which i'll show in a minute that's the sort of rustic wall petite it uses um and i don't think i saw a few apart as well so she stocks lots of danish brands and she was really really helpful and said that she's always like happy to to help anyone if you're interested um i saw so basically i actually went in to buy some of that rustic one i'll speak about why in a minute um but then just feeling it in real life and sort of calculating how much it would be i just decided that i can always buy that down the line when i've kind of worked through more of my stash because realistically it was not project i was going to start tomorrow anyway i already kind of had yarn for it in my stash etc etc long story short i just decided not to buy more rustic yarn because i have plenty of rustic yarn and i don't i didn't really need anymore however simoyna from knit and i have been gushing over the marble sweater since we first saw it and for me it always looked like well it looks like the type of sweater i would get lots of wear out so when i saw she had um the marble sweaters i need to sign from petite knit i'll pop in and photo i'll be good and edit this very well because i'm on holiday i have no excuses and it is kind of like much more of a chunky fit and yeah i just think that would be really really useful really so and it's one of those designs and i can hit really fast and use loads so simona brought in one of the new lenogato equalities called anise which should work single singles or well held with a chunky my hair on its own i know she's met gage with sannis brush alpaca because i suggested that convoy with a niece um so that might also work but you can always ask someone if you're keen to try something else but anyway in the petit knit version it is hand-dyed like chunky my hair and i had looked at buying um from sushil or some of the authors of hand guys that are currently dying it however it is like 250 krona's gain which is about like 25 30 pounds of skein and you do need three at least for my size and then with the wall on top of house like that it's a lot of money um so i was a bit in doubt basically i was trying to find an alternative etc etc however in pure pope and we've just been talking about this rustic yarn and the growth of rustic yarn and love for that and then i ended up walking up with this um which is um good parts um which is also dana sean brand uh chunky knit my hair um so it's hand dyed by um who owns skipat and it is um recommended for five and a half millimeter five and a half millimeter needles to twelve millimeter and it's seventy eight percent keep my hair 13 marina and nine percent nylon and it runs 100 grams runs 200 meters this was in a sale box and so she had it reduced from [Music] i think it was 50 off so i think each scheme was a 130 kroner which is about 14 ish pounds um so i bought and and then she had exactly three skeins of this which is um it just says color c on it and so it's this kind of i guess undyed base with uh spring like big chunks of pink and green and red and that's basically it throughout so i'm gonna knit this with just a neutral base um but yeah i bought all the schemes in this color but she did also have a purple which was quite nice and i would probably have gone for but i know uh simona doesn't stop dennis in a color that would work with that and i knew i wanted to buy the yarn from her so that was all my answer purchases when i actually went to those two yarn shops with my granny who gifted me this sniff nug um but also when she got when she picked me up she's like i found this yarn in my stash i don't like i won't have time to knit it um my granddad is very ill and basically she he needs a lot of care so she basically only knits socks um anymore and and basically have given up on garment knitting so she's like had to sean in my stash i i just don't think i'll ever get to it you knit so much maybe maybe you could use it so i'm just gonna pick up from this bag so what she had in her stash was this now this feels like such a contrast after yeah so um it was two skeins of each of these colors but obviously there's no need for me to hold it all up one of them she had actually already rolled up so i think she said she'd started it bought it for a pattern she'd started it and then just couldn't get on with the pattern and then never finished it so one is um it's called this one is called dance now i should say that um this is from 2007. i know that because she'd kept the receipt it was like a whole thing basically she'd seen one of her friends in this garment that she bought this yarn for and she really liked the look of it and she wanted it and she ended up having to order it distance and it was before you know internet shopping became what it has become now so it's a big thing and even back then dishon was quite pricey um dance pencil um this kind of weight is still spun by hillholt um so you can still buy that and that's what pure pipe sells this does say it's from dense pencil.dk some maybe that does still exist i know that the gauge on this end of field because i felt the the modern version of this um it feels really similar so i presume they haven't really changed how they spin it all that much um hilhart's current pencil base it i think has different yarn weights so this is the fingering weight one which i think is eight slash two at the end of it so instead of just being dense pill tool it says eight slash two but this looks the same so she gave me these and um [Music] i've wanted to try this quality for well um if you've ever seen petite knit it's like one of her favorite qualities um but i knew this might be a little bit harsh for my sensitive skin so she um essentially had these three colors and so there is like this like brownie beige grayish color one color green and a slightly darker color green now the thing is i have two skeins of each and i don't know what to make with them it is definitely um it runs it runs 390 meters per hundred grams like this looks so much thinner that can surely not be a 400 grams so i have to weigh that that would change my plans a little bit i think i think if i held this together i think these could mild together i could use this as like a contrast color in color work because i know i could technically knit just a stripey jumper with it however this is to me it's not horrifically scratchy but this is not going to be next to skin stuff like this is at all so i kind of want to use something that is like less i wonder why this is so much thinner maybe she didn't she only needed 50 grams grams of this and then i need to recalculate how much i have but anyway um i think it would be great to use this as a contrast color but maybe i need to change my pads now because now i think there's less of this than i thought and then i won't have enough as a contrast i thought badge and blue might work but then this is quite thin so maybe i am best i really don't know what to make with this i love your ideas because i do want to keep it in one project and i didn't want to buy more of this rustic rustic yarn because i don't actually think i'd wear it like i don't think i'd get used of it um i wish to wooly nick yarns were i will have to see when i come back home if they maybe are slightly more similar thickness especially now when i realized i thought this was 100 grams but unless this has just been twisted extra tight well you can see with your naked eyes that's not going to be the same amount of yarn is it so anyway any suggestions on this very much appreciate it it runs 390 meters per hundred gram and it doesn't have any like suggested gauge or anything on it so yeah i don't know what to make with this but they sold basically they sold this yarn in the in the pure pipe shop so if you are looking for yarn like this i think for anyone who's a rustic lover they'll love it i know pen laura penrose um penary snitz spoke about the the schemes that her partner bought for her when he was last in scandinavia so um she can give you her thoughts on it as well if you want to see more um because it is definitely rustic but yeah so there's that now this was all from the same day um but today i arrived in denmark we went to um another shop at that um i'm sure many people would love to visit so i don't come from copenhagen um but it was a shop in copenhagen i really wanted to to visit and and you have to fly where i live you have to fly into copenhagen so we went to the knitting for olive shop it was so lovely to see all the yarns in person because i actually knew exactly what i went in for i spoke about this about this a bit in the vlogmas episode i find the hardest part about going to all these shops is that i get completely overwhelmed by the amount of yarn i feel like with each shop i kind of went knowing what i was looking for because otherwise i would don't i wouldn't even know where to begin so i'm going to show you the knitting for olive stuff after i've had a little bit of something to drink so as you know i've been so fortunate to have test knitted with sponsor john for knitting for olive once i had a uh the test knit where i got that double soft merino i showed you earlier i also had so i held it with silk my hair i have some left from that i also have a deferred sweater that finished earlier this year and um i also had some yarn left over so from all of these i had one ball for mourinho and um one boar silva hersey i think i have slightly more of each but i'm sure you kind of get the gist um so i really wanted to use them all in a project because they all sort of go in the same color family so i went into knitting for olive i knew i wanted to buy yarn that would work from four probably an hour's sweater from petite knit which is it's a stripe stripe sweater design with um a saddle shoulder and um it's quite a classic design so i went into knitting for olive knowing that's the only yarn i really needed not that i could have picked up loads um knittingvalve does colors so well so i'm just going to show you what i bought um so obviously these colors i bought to go with what i already have and so the first sort of color i would agree with it um it's this which is called dark mustard in the silk my hair and this is called dark ochre which is this um like quite pretty dark curry type shade and this was my dad's suggestion um and i really liked um how this is like completely different than all the pinks um so that was the first shade um i knew that i wanted a complete neutral to go with all the crazy colors so that's what this is which is to color um cream and the color kit or putty yeah putty and cream um which is just really nice like beigey white-ish tone i actually quite like this i think it's like white without being like stock i also picked up one ball from merino because the soft silk my head helped with the double soft marinade i obviously didn't have matching merino for so i picked up i want both marina in rose clay and then my final color choice so the rest of these colors are quite light um and obviously you have the dark okay that's a bit of a contrast because i i wasn't sure if i wanted to keep it all like pink tones and then maybe have like you know cream and maybe a gray or something like that but then i just decided i wanted a tiny bit more contrast so i obviously had the oiker color and then finally i picked up this which is the dark navy color so this is the mourinho in navy blue and then my hair in navy blue so i actually picked some that matched um so that's what i picked up from knitting for olive it was amazing seeing all the colors in real life obviously knitting for olive it's just it's just one of those brands that everyone kind of loves and it's quite funny because something i'm not used to when i go into yarn shops is like people walking in expecting help because i learnt in it doing the pandemic and i don't live really close to a local yarn shop i think i'm just so used to planning my own projects and figuring things out on my own so it's interesting to see it not be like that i can see the dog is moving i'm assuming people might be coming home so i think that's all i have to show you i'm now showing you all the yarn i hope you enjoyed it and um yeah hope i'll see you again soon bye

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Published: Tue Dec 21 2021