Knit Ink Ep 14: A Little Bit of Everything!

[Music] hello and welcome my name is petra and i'm here today in stonington connecticut with my lovely daughter natasha and today we're knit ink i mean not today we're living we're always knitting but today we are bringing you episode 14. wow i know yeah we're just we just keep doing it i guess yeah it's really so much fun so um thank you to all our new viewers and thank you to our og viewers we're so happy that you're enjoying watching our yani traveling journey yeah so knit ink in case you're new it's ink because i also share some hand lettering so this is us on instagram if you'd like to give us a follow um so yeah we are actually recording this episode a little quickly after episode 13 because we're gonna have some scheduling conflicts coming up we wanted to make sure that we had you know two episodes in a month um released and since episode 13 was filmed long after episode 12 um we have a lot of knitting content to share so lots to talk about still um we will do our traditional fos some whips um you're excited to talk about some vintage projects that have come our way yeah and then we'll also talk about share the giveaway at the end so um and there's gonna be some dream knitting on um officially out of the sock madness competition which is a good thing i'm a little bit sad i actually made it um one additional round last year i made it to the third round last year this year i got knocked out round two but do you think that the socks were more challenging this year yeah i think the i think the beading and a pretty complicated pattern that you had to keep paying attention to the you know to the chart i never really was able to get into the rhythm of either one of the socks pairs of socks last year they were pretty challenging too um but i think i i think i had less i had more head space last year and maybe i had less other things going well i think we were in the thick of um pretty strict quarantine yeah in march and april last year so um like i wasn't coming down then to see you and you know it was a lot stricter i'm so of staying at home and you know we are safely able to do other activities outside of the home now and with people more and more people getting vaccinated we can see you know feel a little bit more comfortable seeing people outside so that's probably has to be that's that's not all right that's a factor yes so i'm and actually i do feel like a little weight's been lifted off and so that's why i'm i've got some dream knitting because i'm thinking about my next project that's exciting yeah so shall we start with what are you wearing today so this is the well water hoodie um well water hoodie and it is by suvi knits another pattern by susan i know and i didn't do that on purpose um i didn't even realize when you were talking about souvenirs in the last episode with your winterly or the last few episodes with your winter league that um i had also done this venus pattern so i actually cast this on in may 2016 and it sat for a while i didn't finish it until march 2019 um and it is with juniper juniper moon farm finley dk yeah it's really soft and lovely and it's got a hood it is a hoodie so it's got that look at you big hood um and you can see there's some reverse reverse stockinette and stockinette and an i-cord edging and these are buttons made by my grandfather your father um so they're really special um it's like a gray blue i think it's the colors coming off pretty well it was a lot of knitting did i let's see i used five and a half skeins and are they no they're 50 gram skins yeah they are well it says it was 550 grams total oh gosh i mean it's a lot of knitting look how big this hood is oh and it's quite long and it's pretty long and they're actually okay there actually is some nice waist shaping it comes in and i think you can at the back is very nice too yeah you know what um i really do love suvi knits designs i've made two of her sweaters and she always puts some interesting um details in her sweaters but there's not too much and her patterns are really well written yeah i'm a big fan of soothiness i think this was a bit of a challenge for me when i first cast it on in 2016. it's probably one of my like first within the first five sweaters for sure or cardigan so i remember really being challenged to do this whole sleeve area um and it's obviously a lot of knitting too five and a half skein so i remember putting it down for a while and then coming back um and flying through the rest this picture i think does a good job of showing the waist shaping oh yeah um so it actually is it was a fun knit so um yeah i haven't worn this on the on youtube yet so it's actually perfect for this time of year i probably could have worn a not a stripy distracting t-shirt underneath um but i usually when i wear this i always have it buttoned um i think because it kind of the buttons it just it just doesn't work as well when it's open um so it is a cardigan but i always wear it buttoned when i wear it yes so that's what i've been wearing nice let me just take a quick thing let's see um modifications oh oh one thing so it actually does have elbow patches and i have the elbow patches i just haven't um put them on so they're knitted elbow pads yeah yeah yeah yeah i should do that here's a photo from the pattern where you can see um oh you're seeing the reflection of what we're looking at outside but here's the um there's the elbow patch so maybe i'll do that i know i have them stacked up with my swatches in a drawer i'm holding onto all my swatches oh yeah i did i held out to mine as well i'm thinking like they could be a fun little patchwork thing one day so i think they could be one of my sort of long-term projects in the making is old sweaters that we that i've either made or that i bought that i will that are that we no longer wear i've actually my mom did this she um what's the word separated the panels and we felted them and the idea is that we're going to make a make a patchwork rug with all the feltings so i'm thinking the swatches could go into that yeah we could make it if they're well they could just be a wool felted and yeah yeah for sure so that's that's a project that's just sitting for retirement retirement a retirement project every time project yeah but i save my swatches oh unless i need the yarn then i swatch and i don't cut and i unravel the swatch and i i just use the yarn yeah that's actually what i do most of the time yeah so yeah i should add in those elbow patches but that is my well water hoodie nice so what are you wearing so i am wearing the gola also a grey sweater and um it's g-o-l-a which is funny similar story and it is a coincidence that we chose these sweaters so i'm just gonna who's this by it's by laura nelkin and she's um i think she's more not famous is the right word or known for doing a lot of beading she designs she designs beading um beading and knitting brace jewelry bracelets and necklaces so yeah this is a laura nelkin pattern and i this also rested for a while i started this in march 2016 2017 2017 sorry and i finished it in february of 2019 so i started it it rested and then i i went to finish it um so i don't want to talk so it's a very very interesting construction you you start with once one sleeve and you knit and then you cast on a bunch of stitches knit this way um cast off for the neck opening and then rejoin and knit here so i think yeah you can see the stockinette is this way yeah so it's not this this way so what's nice is if you're using variegated yarn or um stripy yarn the stripes will go this way so i i prefer that i don't really like wearing horizontal stripes too much would they be is it hard yeah so and then you join under here actually when you use this when you knit this panel you knit this panel at the end and you're joining so you're joining from both sides so interesting and um i'm going to stand up because it's an it's an it's an asymmetric hem finishing and you can just see the details and then on the back and it's dk weight yarn and then the striping kind of gives you an opportunity to just use up some leftover yarns that you might have a little bit you know only a little bit left and um so let me just tell you about the yarn so this is a dk this was a souvenir skein that i bought in north carolina when i was visiting my friend sandy and um she took me to as many of her local yarn stores as she could which was really sweet so so this is a this would be a good project if you have a special single skein or something you don't have the full um you don't have enough for a full sweater exactly but yes you could add in yeah that's fun and and if you go if you're interested in the sweater gola and you look on ravelry at other other sweaters that people have made they've been really creative with the striping i'd actually really like to make another one and make it slightly bigger this is kind of a snug fit on me i think since i started in 2017 i might have put on a few pandemic pounds um so so then the black is this um simplicity by haiku which is a dk merino acrylic nylon and i got a few skeins of these in a yarn swap that we did um a few years ago at my driftwood local yarn store so i used a little bit of that in here um so so this is the main wool that i used and then i i could have i have this much left over now i bought two really big skeins at the new england fiber festival and the it's from a farm um the wall room at longmeadow farm and this is blue-faced leicester dk and so as i said i bought two big skeins and when i got them home and i was about to unwind them i'm just looking to see how big the skeins were okay so each one was 250 grams wow um i got them home to unwind and there was a big patch of undyed yarn where they had been tied together and i was so disappointed so i wrote i sent an email to the lady from the farm and she was very apologetic and she said send them back to me and i will over dye them oh and she you know she offered to give me some discount but i said no that's okay i understand um and so she sent me this little skein oh this is so pretty i know i to make up for that oh and there's a little note um yeah hand eyeballing cashmere wool cashmere nylon blend approximately 275 yards this is nice this reminds me of like a robin's egg oh yeah it does so um it's really soft so yes so that's the um longmeadow and um so i'm not sure so i've got quite a bit left over um i have to figure out how how to use this maybe this is another sweater in the making actually you know now that i'm holding these up the ravello or something like that and then um this kind of fun color was died three waters three waters farm another farmyard nice yeah so it's it's definitely one of my one of my favorite sweaters and um before we talk about other nittany um projects i just want to say a really big thank you for all the comments that you've been sending our way we read them all um i try to reply to some of the questions that you have i hope that you're getting the replies i'm sort of a newbie at this um youtube commenting because we've just only really recently started to get a lot of comments but we really love them we love the engagement so um please please keep them coming and eventually i hope that we will um answer all your questions and maybe in a little while we'll even have a q a oh that's okay or something like that yeah so um i do have one more fo so why oh you do yeah okay you you what's your their phone then natasha so this is my outline tank actually our first fos because these are all their phones yeah these are all their phones yeah i have a recent fo let's talk about recent fms so this is my outline tank um and this is by jessie made designs oh this person just came out didn't it yeah i think i mentioned wanting to knit this in one episode um oh you did yeah it was about to come out oh my gosh this is so cute let's see the drape it's like okay so this was a super quick knit and you um set up to have a drop stitch it's it's bottom up in the round um and then when you um go to do a three needle bind off for the um straps you drop the stitches and it's so fun to do that to drop them yeah i made a i made a wrap a few years ago with drop stitches and oh my gosh i love dropping the stitches when it's on purpose it's great yeah when it's on purpose but it's it's a it makes it it's a really sort of a quick way of having a lacy look isn't it yeah totally and yeah easy to do so a couple things so i i love the feel of this yeah so this yarn um i actually got on the third piece on sale before they moved um so it's also tuna per moon like the sweater i'm wearing now but it's another farm yeah um it's pollock it's a blend of silk and linen um so these are 100 gram 100 gram bowls yeah so i use 1.25 skeins for this tank top um so i knit the second size and it was actually a little too big i'm okay with the width but the straps were really long and like the v was like down here so i ended up unpicking um my three needle bind off ripping back some of the strap length and then rejoining and now it's fine i had to be careful that it wasn't it was still for the armhole so it's still a little big but um i will hopefully get a finished object photo of me wearing it that i can insert here after recording um to show how it looks um i think i would do another one actually i would definitely do another one and just do the smaller size yeah i actually did so i think it's with three or four needles is what she recommends and i actually ended up i did the um what's it called when it's the reverse ribbing twisted rib twisted twisted ribbon size three and then i probably did like two inches with size four and i was like oh i think this is gonna be a little big so then i switched to size three so the majority of it was actually knit and size three needles so i think about those three us needles yeah i think if i did this first size in size three i'd be you know i guess with this yarn i would have been but the look is supposed to be like a little looser baby it wasn't didn't want it skin tight or anything but it need i didn't want it to have like massive um armholes or yeah so that you would yeah so i think um you know this would be fun to like i could wear this like over my bathing suit to the beach i could also wear it with like some some i feel like it would be nice with like white pants even um so i will do a styled pick and insert it you'll do a christy gloss styling oh i don't know if i'll go that far um it might be nice with just a tight fitting black tank top underneath i could do that too yeah black pants and so is that yarn a fingering weight or sport weight so the pattern is for fingering and i remember being i think technically this is and this is probably user error why it's so big that's that's where i'm going with my questions technically this is dk so that's explains me too big yeah no i didn't swatch did you check your gate no oh my gosh i know i was like it's a tank top it's fine so it's totally user error why it's too big that explains it yeah but i knew it was i wanted it to be roomy but i just didn't like to have like massive things so i did have to adjust and i think it's going to work out but i wanted another one a little bit more um more to gauge more to gauge yeah but well yeah so that's it and that one that project let me see let me i think it took me less than three weeks um it took me less than two weeks to actually do that project so were you pretty monogamous probably yeah nice so do you have a more i have i have only one fo and um this is the fo that anna's gonna talk about oh yeah so we'll go get anna we'll go get her we'll be right back welcome anna to knit inc thanks for having me tell me tell us what you're wearing so this is a sweater that my mom surprised me with on my birthday um it's it's not completed but there's definitely been a lot of progress since my birthday um and remind me i know there's an ice queen element to it but tell me more so the name is sled rongan in i must be finnish and it's from um the tails ice queen gosh i can't remember the name of the author now i'll insert below yeah but what i'm excited about you can see the sleeves and this is something that my mom told me is like a little stars oh um actually i know that sounds terrible i know um i think there's many different names for them to be honest yeah yeah but we actually talked about this in the last episode of what we were going to do because my mom was running out of the brighter purple mohair so she ran out of it so we were discussing how to finish it off so yeah so i'll just the comb the cone is no more but it's now a cake it's now a cake um and then when i wound off the remaining yarn on the cone i was shocked that there was still almost 100 grams left i think that 500 gram cone must have been more than 500 grams so now i'm just knitting holding double and i'm on the i'm on the bottom hem now i i unraveled all the garter from the last time we talked about this and i hope to make a pretty good dent because i i'm ready to use up most of this yarn and then and it's gonna have a new sweater just in time for summer just in time for summer and she's gonna she's gonna show uh i've got more to share my another finished object well actually before i um share this with you you might remember in episode three i was it was um what month was it gosh we were in newport i think it was october yeah it was october it was before halloween and i was knitting um a doggie sweater for my boyfriend's dog who i have a pet name for her strudel um she's an affine pincher and i wanted to make kind of a jack-o'-lantern sweater for her and i ended up being a boston leader of natasha and she really helped me with this part of the knitting for strudel's little legs to come out of but as you can see you know we were kind of adjusting a pattern to be smaller for her and you can see the the leg where her legs would go out it's just so large it looks tiny but let me just preface one thing i hadn't actually met the little doggie yet so i didn't realize i didn't realize how tiny she actually was so when rihanna was telling me that these leg holes were going to be way too big i was completely baffled right i was like how could these be too big for a dog leg right um now seeing her and meeting her a few times i completely understand she's she's so tiny i actually was um i'm fully vaccinated um i was at a friend's place where there was a cat and i was like that is a big cat because it's all just relative right like i'm so used to being with a really small dog um that the cat seems huge but it was just a normal cat but anyways um the legs holes are too big and i also forgot it in boston but when i it's not finished and i i it's my big dream to finish a doggie sweater so one day i will be i'm sharing with you my completed dog sweater i'll be very pleased with myself and i think i'm very pleased too we'll be super thrilled but what i do want you to notice is just how lovely the um yarn colors are and i really liked how the the orange kind of bleeds into the green i thought like oh this is gonna look so cute um so i wasn't excited about that finish i mean we could it's not that bad to rip back and do these armholes again yeah yeah i guess we'll discuss more later and i think i found a much better pattern now which is a great um it's with this shopper's um sheepies stonewash and it's actually cotton so yeah what my mom was saying she did find a really great pattern cotton acrylic sorry thank you cotton acrylic um and it's called the lucky dog sweater pattern by pearl soho okay yeah go ahead it's my story time um so this is a completed dog sweater and it's the second one that my mom's done for strudel and it is a great fit and can you tell me one more time the what the pattern is lucky dog sweater see that's got great karma um and my boyfriend kyle is so excited we facetimed him and showed him and he's like i love the color and um my mom put her little like emblem here which says petra knit ink petra nice too oh sorry petronitz too this is pre-knit ink these labels right and as you can see like this is this is more like her little legs yeah so she's got oh she's got little chicken legs yeah did you want to share about this yarn yeah so this is um sublime baby cash merino silk dk there's there's a cashmere in here nothing but the best for little strudel and the colorway is called cutie carrot so it's sort of like a burnt orange and this is going to be part of her spring wardrobe so um [Music] a modification is that this pattern actually has a turtleneck and the black one i made her has a tip so i emitted the turtleneck because she doesn't need all of that now because you keep telling us how warm it is in pennsylvania yes compared to here and so i just want to go back anna caught me off guard about the story about the name of the sweater it's actually danish not finnish and it means ice queen and it's hans christian anderson fairy tale i don't know how i couldn't remember that before no worries so yeah great um now i guess all the sleeves and okay length now yeah i guess they are and okay then oh no actually they're a little bit short aren't they i like it i don't stretch out yeah i'm i'm really really happy with it okay that's great so i just have the hemming to do now right um yeah and before um i leave i just wanted to say it's been so exciting to see the growth of followers for net inc and i've been cheerleading from the background um and you know just seeing the subscriptions and the beautiful comments it's just it's like yeah i just feel part of it and it's so welcoming and there's a really great behind-the-scenes support team creative and yeah yeah um i was gonna see some the same friend who had the cat and my mom was like just please don't brag about us too much i'm like well i will if i want to um because it is just so exciting and um i've been sharing with my friends friends who don't even knit um and people are just like yes ink thanks anna it's a lot of we're getting a lot of wonderful positive energy it's been really beautiful yeah and one more thing i want to say is how much i enjoyed watching knit my way home i actually discovered them it was it just suggested after i watched my sister-in-law's video and it's this beautiful setting in the yukon a mother and daughter and i was just so captivated i thought they were so sweet and lovely um and then my mom said look at this comment and i was like oh i know those women um and i was just like oh my god the community is coming to life um so that's loretta and natalya's daughter and they like said they're up in the yukon territory of canada up like right next to alaska so right right up there so they have been doing i think they've got three episodes up right now and when they film them outside in the snow which is really fun to see the scenery and they also love norwegian scandinavian knits and talk about cell blue mittens yes um you know rustic yawn that we love to write modifying patterns to make them fit for natalia because she's younger so finding patterns um she's excited to try out some color work but a lot of patterns the smallest sizes for a small woman so they talk through some of those adjustments and it's really fun to uh get a little glimpse into their world um yeah what they're reading and stuff yeah too so it was so funny anna found them before we got a comment from loretta yeah um but we we loved watching we the three of us watched a couple episodes together um so go check them out i will put their info yeah but another mother daughter knitting uh yeah definitely fun and natalia has inspired me because you know she's made this beautiful cowl and i'm like you know what i can step it up too yes once all right once you've made the doggy sweater you don't know what's coming next it'll just keep going yeah it'll snowball that's right well thanks for coming on thank you thanks for having me okay so i think we're on to works in progress yeah whips and i only have one and i only have one okay but you have a pretty complicated one do you want to talk about yours first sure so i don't know a couple months ago actually it's more than a couple months ago um fruity knitting um andrea she uh has often talked about marie whalen and has knit quite a few of her beautiful patterns and i've always been in complete awe of how wonderful the pattern is and how well andrea knits them up and i think some of you may be familiar that andrew is fighting brain cancer right now so we are sending lots of love to them and we think of him often um so when marie whalen released some uh new kits i was like let's let's knit let's knit and inspired by fruity knitting um to kind of try try out this this wonderful designer and think of them as being at these sweaters um i should also mention that marie whalen the british breeds wool is from devon which my dad's mother um my grandmother kathy um she's from england and her favorite flower was the primrose and marie malen has a sweater called the primrose so i thought that would also be great to um knit the primrose sweater in honor of my grandmother as well so there's a lot of love behind um this pattern and this project and so we you bought us each a kit um which i feel very fortunate and excited about um and the kits came a little while ago and we each so we're each doing the primrose um oh yeah so we each got a bag that came with all the all the sweet little skins there are 25 grand balls um and they really do um smell sheepy there is i think 12 colors um so i will say i'll take some pictures and insert of them a little bit more organized it's hard to show them all on camera but yeah they are really cute let's see one two three four five six seven eight nine i'm showing some of mine 14 different colors 14 okay so and i have mine it's a different colorway yeah so i'm gonna get to that okay okay so this is the pattern um and uh mine is the original primrose and yours is the primrose o de nil which is the same pattern um and most of the same colors but just a little bit more of the teal and turquoise so they are very similar almost same same exact yarn same pattern um but just a slightly different color scheme throughout on that one so also i have to say these are a4 paper and i love a4 paper it's like such a wonderful size so it's a bit bigger than the american it's narrower and taller oh is that what it is okay um so yeah so this is gonna be a labor of love um so let's see i've um shifted everything around so i'm starting with the sleeve partly because i didn't have long enough size two needles to cast on um for the body um and i did i did some get some at uh driftwood yarns to go uh so that i can do that but um so here's why i am with my first sleeve so there's use almost use every color to do um the cuff and a one by one rib and then you start the color work so you can see some of the patterns starting to form here um it's not great late night knitting but it's fun um and a couple things i want to call out so i am actually starting the other cuff as well it's a little because i i just want to like get through that cuff since i it was a little tricky because you're only doing two rows of a color and then switching so there's a lot of ends and it's so small i maybe should have done these on dpn's um these are on the little tiny size two that are the little shorties oh yeah um and it's a little difficult and fiddly to try and make sure that your join is tight so i wanted to do this cuff quickly after doing this one so i kind of kept the same technique and my my join isn't like totally perfect but it's okay um and another thing so the pattern for the size small and medium it for the sleeve chart it says to start at row seven but i was a little confused and i ended up starting on row one and now i've gotten this far and i'm realizing after looking at a bunch of photos that i probably don't want to include those seven rows because that's going to be an extra inch and looking at people's photos the sleeves are already a little long like this so i don't want to end up with a sleeve like this so i'm going to eliminate seven rows um in the sleeve uh before you can see how it actually nicely lines up but i'm going to eliminate a section that's um before the body just to make up for the fact that i started with row one instead of row seven i think row one is for the larger sizes and i just got excited well you you just you said to me when i said are you sure you want to do that you said i want to include all the motifs i want to know all the motifs and now i have to eliminate one because i don't want this to be a sleeve that's like this yeah and i think that's a smart decision if you really want to knit all the motifs you can make some socks afterwards i would really there's some color work socks that look pretty amazing that yes originally i was gonna knit one for me and my mom was gonna knit one for her but anna saw these kits the other day when we were looking through them and i was deciding oh am i getting inside small am i getting this knit size medium we're looking at all of the yarn together and looking at these beautiful printed patterns and i was like i want that sweater so my mom is so kind and is going to use her kit to make anna a sweater so because these kits are for a size small or medium and we're both knitting the size small there will definitely be extra yarn there probably not enough for a sweater but enough to figure out what you would need to actually get a few more skeins for yourself to knit as well yes i might i actually like a sweater that's called the hollyhock i think which is just got some color work at the top and then it's got some either cable or lace lace and it's my favorite color purple the body of it so i might do that and then you know i i don't i'm happy to knit it for and my other ulterior motive is is that i can make the smaller size and it'll go faster right that's true and i i'm just gonna love the process i think i haven't started mine yet i'm learning from natasha yeah i guess i'm the guinea pig yeah and maybe i will use dpns for the i think i would recommend she actually calls that i would i would use dpms instead of magic loop yeah because these are i'm like these are too small for magic loop and then it's just like it's i'm stretching i thought about i actually was at like you know maybe at the teal bit here and i was like oh i should have used dpn's but i want to have it the same as the first one so that's why i'm struggling through this that absolutely um and you know what when the sleeve gets wider these nine inch circulars will actually work pretty well yeah um and nine inch circulars reminds me of needles at the ready oh yeah we love watching needles at the ready is it ray that i think it is rey he whispers into the mic yeah we can't do that no they're really if you haven't checked them out there um uh two men rey and kevin kevin and they live in connecticut too um and they have started dying yarn and selling as well um but they they they're fun to watch their knitting adventures too yeah um okay so yeah this is going to be a long-standing whip but i and it's i think it's spot i don't know if i know you mentioned it's bottom up and then you join and keep going it's the classic way of making color work yeah so that um this as as carl says the stitches are smiling yeah yeah um okay so that is my whip yours will be coming soon um but what else are you working on so i'm now working on a sweater for my mom that i have been thinking about starting for quite a while and i i i'm still in the relatively early stages um she wanted a raglan sweater and i um you the pattern is called not too much by hintom stein and i am using i'm holding two yarns i'm using so soft i'm using this yarn that natasha bought from the third piece it's um get it for sophia's sophia sofia sophia and it's um it's a really nice squishy it's not actually mohair no but it does have that mohair look it's alpaca and reno silk virgin wool alpaca and silk um 187 meters so for 25 grams so it's a bit thicker made in italy and i'm holding it double with some lorna's lace shepherd sock yarn that i have that's um a variegated red and it's a hundred this is a 125 gram cake and i have another 125 grams skein i i i don't think i'm going to have enough yarn but my plan is to do the top red and then fade into a gray i've got a nice gray of both a mohair and a fingering weight yarn to go so i'm just at the um sort of increasing i haven't joined in the round yet for the yolk and um my mom said she just wanted a plain niche raglan sweater and this one's just got a little bit of detail that it's going to be down the sleeve and then down the center back and where on the sleeve is in the middle of this i think it's right here okay yeah so so that's a nice um little detail so i'm at the point at the when i'm where i'm have to concentrate at the moment because i'm still doing the increasing and then after that it's going to be my meditative knit and then i think i will start the color work so i'll have to i like to have you know some variety in my knitting times when i just am tired and need something meditative i either work on vanilla socks or something like this and then something where i really want to be excited and engaged so um so that's just my whip and then the other knits then i have a little bit of dream knitting i have um i have a little bit of dream knitting that is kind of associated with my um i want to say stash questions because that's what christie calls her her yarn when she has stash so it's just like in my head to call them stash positions so it'll kind of lean into dream knitting so i am like you where i'd like to have um a complicated project or a more challenging one and then mixed in with an easier um less less focused knitting um because i also have that tam hat that i'm working on it's also color work so i've got two color work projects so um on local yarn store saturday we went to driftwood yarns and not only did we need needles for our marie marie whalen sweaters i was on the hunt for some linen or cotton to do a summer tank or a summer teeth i'm looking at these now they look like christmas colors but they're gonna be two different projects i have i picked up two skeins of this um it is ella rae rustic silk and it's 100 silk and i love the color variation in here so this um is i have 800 meters of this and i've been checking out yamagara patterns oh um her name is bernice but i'm just pulling up some of her pullovers and teas she is in singapore so has pretty warm weather year round so she has a lot of teas and tanks that i find extremely flattering um i haven't actually knit anything from her yet but just a quick quick glimpse here i definitely recommend checking her out so i was looking at the hikari which i guess it's not super simple there's enough detail in here to keep me interested but um not too complicated and then the other so that's the hikari that i'm thinking of the other one i liked was the tin roof um this one you can use you can stripe it um or or you could you know you have a lot of variation so i was like maybe i'll do this maybe i haven't decided um what pattern but i'm gonna do a search um and this is gonna be a tank or a t but i am inspired to try out one of her patterns the other yarn i got and i'm not gonna mix these because this is very christmasy they'll be two different projects i picked up um five skeins of this el lineo which is 100 linen i believe um and it's kind of like chain it's chain it yeah i made a top out of that in blue yeah and maybe you'll wear that in a warm a warm episode when it's really warm yeah or it's still a little chilly here um so yeah i'm gonna i haven't picked out an exact pattern for each of these but i'm gonna cast on um when i when i need a break from marie weyland's project yes colorwork nice so that's my dream knitting and stash stash acquisitions nice what about you what's your dream knitting so my dream knitting is transitioning into summer too and i i think i'm gonna check out some of that those patterns because um so i'm i started a swatch today and um let me grab this so i have a sweet friend a sweet local knitting friend that also watches us who reclaims yarns and she doesn't like knitting with really dark or black yarns so she um gives me some of the reclaimed yarns sometimes and what do you mean by reclaimed yarn oh reclaimed yarns is if she finds sweaters in thrift stores and then she unravels them washes the yarn skeins it up oh wow so it can be re-knit um she's giving me some purples and i did that from one of my that's a lot of work yeah it is an amazing amount of look yeah i did it for one of my own and you have to be starting to interrupt you have to be careful with doing that because you'll have to really look at the way the sweater is constructed because if it's cut here you're just gonna get it if it's seamed you're just gonna get tons of really short um threads if you can't do it yeah so you have to you have to definitely have an eye for making sure that you're i just don't wanna inspire anyone to go to go off and get get a sweater and then try to unpick it and it's just tiny loads of tiny pieces so that's that's something to keep in mind if you are interested in doing the reclaiming yeah that's a really good point natasha warning you have to be careful inspect the construction of the sweaters yeah so um she gave me this it's um it's like a ribbon actually and the reason so i wanted to make something um excuse me a second i got it into my head um that i wanted to make something black because last year i bought myself this black linen black and white it's more like a cream skirt that i haven't even worn yet this is so cute and i want to black a plain black top to go with it that's a fun thing to do is to have a garment um you know pants or a skirt or a dress and then to actually coordinate and figure out something to knit with yeah um so and then it took me a while to realize oh my gosh i do have some black that would work so the candle's so sweet she saved she saves the box she saved the buttons sorry sorry about the crinkling yeah so um and this is let's see what um what the composition is actually um so it's it's 70 silk which is i think why she decided to save it it's 70 silk and 30 nylon and it's got sort of a ribbony texture apologies for i keep dropping things today and i've just started swatching so i need i think it's sort of like a sport way dk maybe i chose um size three needles and i'm i'm gonna knit a little bit more and then once i figure out my gauge i will then go and search some patterns but i'd like to do something just very simple sort of sleeves to just above my elbow um and maybe just a little bit of positive ease and um not yeah positive ease i want it a little loose and not cropped but just below the waist because i want it to sit right just a bit of that skirt yeah not super long yeah so um i'm excited about that i'm excited about that outfit and um to go out into the real world have wearing some black heels and actually going out somewhere yeah getting dressed up and going up so yeah so this is my reclaimed yarn thanks carol i'm really looking forward to uh turning that into some into a nice top yeah that's exciting that'll be really nice so that's all our needling knitting and we're going to talk about some some treasures now yeah why don't you give a little intro about that okay so last saturday i was um last saturday afternoon i was at home and i saw a car drive up in into our driveway and out popped natasha's friend's 94 year old grandmother and uh my friend she was a close childhood friend we really grew up together um um and so i did spend a lot of time um with her grandmother and she used to take us to new york city to see plays and everything so um i did some really fun memories of her yeah yes so she's 94. she's 94 she was wearing she's tiny she was wearing skinny jeans fashion sneakers and she said i have this um big container of beautiful yarn and all sorts of things that i'm never gonna work on and i really would like you and natasha to have it and it was a real treasure trove yeah it made me think of you arnie and how you would have loved it because there's some pretty cool whips in there before i talk about the whips though i just want to talk about um some of the things that were in there that we're excited to keep so there were three sets of um straight needles in there um and wrapped up in these holders i guess um so this and i've washed and ironed them and i love that i'm gonna keep this one because you can see there's the numbers on there and it's really got this vintage um look so i think i'm going to put some of my my circular needles might demonstrate here some of my circular needles in here so um like this and then natasha is gonna keep one yeah i'm gonna put them in like this okay so there are actually yeah like you said there were three needle sets the third one um or three needle cases the third one wasn't in great shape but i thought this was so fun it's actually kind of corduroy um and there's a little tag here that says handmade by meryls of maine and i haven't looked that up yet but i am curious to see um if that's still a business or not because you know this is definitely old um these are probably 40 years old yeah i guess and so you you know you put your needles in here and you roll it up well if there's straight needles you wouldn't be rolling it up like this you'd be rolling up like you've done yours yeah so i don't actually have a um needle case so i'm excited to organize my needles when i get back to boston into here so thank you for watching and cleaning it yeah so mine's gonna be like this and i'm i have a couple of sets of interchangeables but then i've got some fixed ones so i think i'm going to put them in here so i'm happy to just sort of give these another new lease of life life okay so besides the needle cases what else did we get so there was this embroidery embroidery yarn look how antiquey this all looks and darning yarn which i am on a mission to fix all my hand knit socks on the balls of the feet up in darning socks so i am really gonna use these and look at that it says moth proof yeah and it's made in the usa 100 virgin wool i love vintage labels too i know um this was 10 cents i mean obviously there was more but this was 10 cents can you believe it yes 20 yards 20 yards for 10 cents and then there's bernard so yeah i mean these definitely have this antiquey um vintage labels vintage labels so we will we will definitely use these um for fixing and then there were just some other woolly wools some angora too yeah oh yeah the angora and then um so that will make a nice summer top don't you think yeah this is some cotton so yes definitely that looks like sloppy cotton and then you have a little bit of 100 pure angora made in france um i'm not sure what that could be incorporated into a cuff of a sweater or something like that so that was very exciting it was really fun to look through all that and then some of the stuff we're not going to use we're going to give to georgie um she will be nine in may yeah around memorial day um and she is also maybe one day we'll have georgie on here yeah um but she does a lot of fun like fiber activities embroidery yeah things like that so there's there's some that will cause stitching and there's some yarn that she can use for embroidery yeah and doing creative things and then there's two whips that really made me think of that you might like arnie i don't know if carlos would allow you to have them but um there's this rooster and they're they're both um they're not knitting yeah they're not knitting lips yeah it goes like this so um there's the rooster and i we have all the yarn to finish it and then here is we have that it's it looks like there's a section and here's here's the picture of the finished one and then we have the we have the bag of pieces of all the pieces all the um yarn that's needed there's even needles and there is the um oh yeah there's the color card too yeah so we were thinking that if if one of you is interested in finishing this um please make a comment below and we will send it to you but please only comment if you really do if you really would finish it because we'd like it to um we'd like it to go to someone that would enjoy finishing it and we don't think that this is something that we would take on in the near future and it seems a shame for it just to be sitting in a bag um so if you are interested um send us some send us a note and arnie if you're interested in having more of these whips we'll send it your way and then we have one more that so if you're interested in the rooster comment i'll finish the rooster and if we have a lot of interest then we will do a random drawing and then in the similar vein um there's this really beautiful free form embroidery and i am just so impressed it would make a really gorgeous um cushion cover i think so i have washed it you can see that the fabric is um you know yellowed with age and there is a stain in the middle that maybe could be covered up and and once again we have we have the yarn here there's no instructions like i think this was a free form by someone it's looks like it was pencil drawn yeah that might not be coming up on camera but if if one of you loves embroidery and once again would be genuinely interested in finishing this send us a comment um with saying finish the embroidery and we will send it your way it would make us really happy if these went to good homes where they would be appreciated yes so yeah we're excited about that we're excited about that and then do you want to talk about the little thimble that actually is going to go to uh her granddaughter it might it was it was in a bag it's a beautiful gloss so i'm going to send this to my friend um because i i think she would love to keep it yeah yeah that was another little treasure so i think that's it so one more thing so um we're filming this before the giveaway deadline from episode 13. but just as a quick quick refresher um it'll be one of sandy's bags um this game from a local new england dyer lane lane and lotus and this is in the welcome home colorway it's like a nice off-white with some purple and darker speckles and then a couple of my cards um the don't stop knit it knit it print and then um you are literally the best card and and it happens greeting card so i'm gonna um this is gonna go up after april 30th so i will insert the uh note about who the giveaway winner is right here hello from the future um so we're gonna insert this video we're excited to do our giveaway drawing so the comments are now closed on our episode uh from episode 13 at lucky episode 13 and thank you to everyone who commented and said where they would love to go traveling um on their next trip it was fun to learn where everyone wants to go a lot of norway um comments a lot of scandinavia comments some people wanting to go get some warmth um we wish you could we could go with all of you on all of those trips um but hopefully you will be able to travel or do a vicariously travel experience soon um so mom you're gonna do the uh random selection yeah i just also want to say thank you so much i've loved reading all your comments and um traveling vicariously with you and i was particularly touched by one comment where a lady noticed that most people first wanted to meet up with family and friends and she didn't know whether to laugh or cry and that that really resonated with me i'm lucky enough to book the flight to go and visit my own mom in june and that's going to be my first trip and i am just super thrilled about that so yes so we're thrilled to do our random number generator and i'm using a website that links up the episode and filters out duplicate comments and our replies i'm so impressed that you're uh setting this up and doing the technology for the random generator mom thanks yeah i know well it wasn't completely seamless behind the scenes but here we go um we have 304 unique comments and i am going to pick star pick the winner and it's scrolling through all the comments and here we are the winner is jean hammerstein with two m's and her comment is after listening to your tale of your cruise that is where i would like to travel oh fun and gene um send us an email please and let us know and we will we will be happy to uh ship the prize out to you wherever you are in the world cool all right well now it's gonna wrap up our episode of 14 for you thanks for watching thank you bye um okay so congratulations send us a um an email um or to uh knit i'll put it down below knit inc 2019 gmail.com and so send us an email there um send us a note and we will we will send out the prize to you yeah yeah okay so thank you so much for watching thank you for your comments thank you for your likes it really brings us so much joy and positive energy we really appreciate it and we're having so much fun sharing our knitting hobby with you yeah so be safe enjoy your hobbies take care until next time [Music]

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Published: Sat May 01 2021