Knitters Niche Episode 2 My second Ranunculus and My First Sweater | Soldotna Crop

okay bella let's do this [Music] hi everyone this is bobby of knitter's niche this is episode two and today we're going to be going over a few of my works in progress and also of my finished objects the first one was actually a work in progress and all i had done was the neck band and that was during episode one which was two weeks ago um i actually got this done in a week and a half i knitted in universal yarn i knitted in the bamboo pop and the color is called darling pink it's very drapey it feels very cool to the skin when i blocked it however it did not quite block as well as the my first one which was done in merino wool which is koiku premium merino wool and it did block out a little bit nicer however this has a little bit more drape to it i did do it a little bit longer and my sleeve is just a little bit longer i did knit it with us number nine needle which is what i had done my previous one also and this is the dk weight and i had made a mistake during episode one and i had said that the koi koigu premium merino wool um was a dk and it's not it is it does have a recommended us3 to be used with that yarn so that kind of puts it on the little heavier end of a fingering weight but they both knit up delightful and i had so many comments from my episode one about all the different ranunculus sweaters that people have have already knit and some were on number four so this is my second one i've knit two so far so i'm just thrilled with this again just like i said um the first podcast i i recommend this over and over and over again a lot of new techniques in this new ways of thinking about how a sweater is constructed because with this sweater pattern it's all the same for everybody all through here until you start doing the raglan now that's where the size changes but the yoke itself you cast on the same amount for the neckband and you continue continue continue and then your numbers change like i said right when you go to separate and and uh excuse me when you do the raglan um that's when when that changes for certain sizes um i also have another very popular sweater that i had knit this is my very first sweater i had knit and not only was it my first sweater it was my first color work now this is definitely a dk weight and this is um a beautiful beautiful sweater by caitlin hunter and um it's so so popular again it is um a crop sweater which wouldn't this look adorable with the dress that i have on um i have one this is a sleeveless dress um as you can see and i've just put my little crop sweaters on top and voila i've got an outfit so this is uh one way to wear it i've also worn it with a cami underneath and um which i do have a cami showing here and i have worn this under the soldotna and it looks delightful just just adorable and you know this being my first sweater it wasn't a difficult sweater to knit um it was a little bit daunting uh to knit it to do the color work for me and to do the german short wears which i had never done short rows ever before because like i said it was my first sweater i had ever knit but isn't she a darling isn't it just it's delightful i just love it and quite frankly i thought i did kind of a good job because the majority of this was done in the car and we were going to a wedding in missouri and it was during covet so it had been cancelled at one point so they finally got to have the wedding and i thought i'm just going to take my yarn i'm going to do this i took my chart i had all my little post-its you know and followed along the lines and i did just fine i did just i'm not saying i didn't have to go back and fix a couple things um i generally do and i think a lot of us do because that's part of knitting and that's part of learning so that's my soldotna a very very popular sweater that i'm sure a lot of you have knit and i would recommend that obviously for your first sweater or your first color work sweater and you know you really wouldn't even have to do color work if you wouldn't want to you could just do the sweater itself so i'm just thrilled with that and i also have up here um this was a test knit i had done about a year ago and this one this here and it's a cardigan and this is done in super bulky weight yarn um this it was is designed by owen o l a and n handmade and her name's emily and what she does she has a few patterns in their for sale in their hats but what she does she knits these and very very very high-end yarn and sells them for hundreds of dollars well she wanted to go ahead and get a pattern going to sell so other people could knit some of their some of her sweaters so i'm just going to take this down and show it to you um it's it's just beautiful look just look at that raglan on the front and i really like it on the back so i'll slip this on here in a second so you can get a good look at it um it's really not not very difficult at all um i hadn't used this big of needles in a long time they were done with 15 and 17. but really it ended up to being a delightful knit had a great time knitting that so let me slip this on and show it to you now last time i checked i did not see this being available to purchase the pattern but i would keep an eye out for that again it's ola and in uh hand knits and i'm going to show you the back here isn't it beautiful it's just i just couldn't get enough of it now this is the small and i had knit this um i had knit this in a very inexpensive yarn and the reason that i had done that is i don't have a local yarn shop here in town um so i admit it with hobby lobby uh it's a yarn i always got alpaca in it i didn't check i didn't have the ball band left on that um i do have it on my rivalry page that you can look that up and see what i'd used to and i can actually put it put a little note in here let you know what it was it's great with jeans oh my goodness it's great with jeans um you could throw a little cami underneath this it would be perfect just perfect and i'm sure you know if you went on ravelry you can search you can actually search a cardigan and a super bulky weight open print card you can type it in there for patterns and it will bring you bring up it'll tell you how many is there and it'll bring them all up and you can go through and then you might find one very similar um if you don't find one just like this but it's beautiful it's beautiful i will say um this yarn is a little scratchy to me it is commercial yarn it's very inexpensive yarn and i do knit with some very inexpensive yarns um occasionally and i don't see anything wrong with it not at all because knitting is knitting and it's your craft it's your art uh you use what you may what you what you'd like um but i will say this inexpensive yarn uh it's just a little scratchy so i think i just need to to wash and block that again and maybe i can maybe i can get to get this to soften up on me a little bit more but this is a gorgeous oh and i didn't even tell you the name of it it's called uh the haven cardigan h-a-v-e-n cardigan but it's beautiful it looks like today if you've noticed it looks like everything it's kind of a mom or light pink um featuring today on my on my episode two okay and here is another cardigan and i'll bet you all recognize this one if you look at the raglan shaping there the eyelets and then again in the back this is the rift and isn't it nice now there again um i was in another i was out of town and i didn't have a yarn shop to go to and i thought oh i'm just going to pull this up on my phone the pattern and i'm just going to knit it so it isn't inexpensive but you know what it's pretty soft i think it's really nice changes that i had made i did a twisted rib um instead of just your the regular ribbing i call for now you see the buttonholes here that i have done well i picked out some buttons and i just got they were you know just pretty average buttons and i thought i want something really special on here so i'm in the search of some really nice buttons i might go online and possibly find someone etsy or if anybody knows of uh where i might find some very unique buttons they could you know give me a note give me a note in the comments down down below and i would be happy to purchase it from someone to purchase some buttons from someone and also i was going to tell you the episode one talked a little bit about brioche now brioche i mentioned a couple things that maybe a beginner might try now and i also said my first brioche was the brioche i did for cozy up knits the sisters the test that i had done for them i said that was the first brioche project i had ever done the first time i'd ever done brioche well guess what it wasn't this was the first brioche project i had ever done now isn't it beautiful it's so nice it's not a luxurious yarn just beautiful yarn this yarn was from the shop that my friend ruth had uh years ago and and i had never used it and i thought well i'll do this this is the pattern it's called says how to knit a handband in english rib and at the time i thought well english rib you know okay i'll do that it's brioche now would i have tried to knit it if i knew it was brioche probably not because i was like oh i'm probably never going to learn that um but this is free it's a free pattern it's on ravelry so if you just go on there and put in english rib headband it'll pull right up and it's free there's no charge um it is done flat and then you twist and fold these and it explains it in the pattern how to do that and then you just sew it up there but it's really really really cute i'll just slip it on for you here um where we live now it doesn't get very cold and well in the i don't know late fall it might get a little get a little chilly but this just does the job you know to keep the wind out of your ears and and for all of you that want to learn to do brioche do this this is just it was easy the directions were very concise and i understood absolutely all of it it was very easy it could be your first brioche project something to tackle before you jump into a sweater or a shawl or something like that and i also found lion brand has a free pattern and this is the laura brioche cowl and there again that would be a fantastic first brioche project i really hope some of you try this and if you do let me know um i haven't done the cowl yet but i really really want to because you know i love brioche i love the feel of the fabric um i love the texture that it gives let me scoot up a little bit and i'll show you show you what it does it just has a bounces right back and look at the edge it's perfect it's perfect and it's a project free for anyone that wants to give it a try and i also had my little bento bag hanging back here and i didn't have the information about it um last week so let me tell you a little bit about the bento bag the bento bag is constructed and it's pretty clever how it's made um no it is a paper pattern so i'm really not going to go into how it's made but let me just say there's squares there and it it's adorable it is just adorable it holds several balls of yarn i have some koi lion brand yarn i put in here um for display and oh there's eight of them in there and still some room but it's really cute and i knit this um in a cotton it's a cotton yarn that i had had for quite a while i'll show you the pattern the bento bag and it is by darling jadore okay darling jadore and it's just a very very well written pattern i thought she did a fantastic job and what it is so cute i mean you could knit this in cotton um you could knit it oh good goodness if you had some kind of almost a raffia um yarn that would be really cute for the summer really really cute if you wanted to carry that around as your purse and uh darlings your door also has this classic camisole and this classic camisole um is a basic camisole but it is uh i did start to knit it but what i did with it i thought well i'm going to try and do some of my own add some of my own things to it um i don't have much knit um it's about this much because i might undo it and i'm doing it with linen quill and i might need to use that linen quill for another project i'm working on but what i had done is i sit and i had knit oh goodness i think it's about 10 rows stockinette in the round and then i thought i am going to do some eyelet across the bottom so when it hangs out for instance i can layer this under a cropped sweater and then have the little eyelet at the bottom and wouldn't that be darling hanging out the bottom so that is another option if someone was interested now these are both paid for patterns so but i do recommend those very clever very well written written patterns and real quick i'll go back to that haven cardigan which was up here that i had test knit that i tried on a little bit ago and this is the haven cardigan by olin handmade o-l-a-n-n beautiful i mean look at hers in the gold tone just gorgeous just gorgeous and this is a picture of the felix cardigan that i talked about um right here this is the felix cardigan it's like by savory knitting and this is also paid for pattern pattern i got mine on ravelry okay very good and also i was working on camisole number two and i have made a little bit of progress with that i'll just show you real quick here this is it i made a little progress not too much now it is um i mentioned that it's knit on size three and i apologize i mispronounced the needles i was kept saying koivu yarn which is what my first ranunculus is written and i call these koi goo needles and they're chow goon needles uh interchangeable needles and i know a lot of you are aware of these and they're stainless steel they have the red lace and they have very pointy ends so you're really able to fly and pick up your stitches really easy with those pointy stainless steel ends and just to give you a little look at the pattern for the sold.net color work sweater and this is by katelyn hunter katelyn hunter is a designer that does a lot of color work sweaters she's it's a very she's a very popular designer um everything is fit very well several sizes a big range and sizes some something for everyone there again i highly recommend this i love it i mean it couldn't be no it is a little heavier um because i've gotten so used to knitting the suldotina and everything all these lighter lighter weight items like my camisole number two using the fingering weight so when i had i had uh i keep this nice and folded with all my all my knits um never had never hang them now i have them hanging here just for today's episode but i would never leave them hanging now you don't want to leave um knitted garments hanging because the weight of them what will happen is they will stretch and not only will they stretch you will have this lump here from where the the hanger ends so you you don't want to hang them up all the time but anyway when i got it out because i do keep it folded i store my my knits very carefully i'm very careful with them and take good care of them because you know we spend a lot of time on our knitted items and we want to keep them nice but when i got it out and unfolded it and i'm so used to these lighter weight sweaters it's like oh this has got a little bit of heft to it because when you um knit you're going to have it's it's almost a double thickness because these are your floats they call them floats so as you're knitting you carry them on the back of your fabric you carry to the next one then you'll pick it up you pick up the next color and so on so you're going to have more of a thickness and it is a little the decay is a heavier weight more yarn also more so than the fingering but it's adorable i just love it i just can't get enough and these remind me of little houses i don't know does anybody else think that those remind you of little houses and these almost remind me of a feather going across there and you know it was so well written before i knew it i mean i had a pattern going here all these colors and i wasn't having any trouble at all and you just chart reading a chart is not hard um once you read a chart it's almost like it's easier than reading a pattern that's word for word so that's the soul dotna love it love it love it uh let's see uh in episode one i had talked about the knits one of the knits that i would like to do upcoming knit upcoming project i love it can't wait and i told you i had all the yarn for it but i didn't show you the yarn so i will show it to you now this is the feel good shawl by andrew andrea mowry and this is the yarn that i'm going to be using it's going to be bright it's going to be squishy it's going to be scrumptious i like to say that word and needed five colors so those are the five that i have chosen and i think that's going to be just gorgeous you might think well bobby it looks like most of your units are a little more subdued yeah they are yeah they are but there's a way to use brioche because you're going to have almost a background color and a foreground color um so they're gonna just working off of each other it almost kind of mellows them out um so i think that's good i think it's gonna look great and you know what i'm just gonna do a little swatch and i'm going to decide where my colors are going to go with the different parts of the of the pattern and if i need to make some changes i will that's what one thing's nice about knitting when you're knitting i know all you knitters that have knit for a long time or even just a short amount of time know this but some newer ones might not have thought of this before but when when you knit not only are you shaping making a shape you're knitting the fabric at the same time um it's not like sewing where you cut out your pattern in your shape you know the fabric you go and buy the fabric cut out the pattern cut up your fabric to match the pattern piece and then you sew it together well with knitting you are making the fabric with your yarn and your needles and the the pattern and and so on so um you can change anything you want by different weight yarns like a shawl is very easy to change you don't if you think you want a lighter weight when use fingering weight which i could easily do because a shawl um this is triangular so even an asymmetrical one it wouldn't matter it's just going to be smaller um i mean you can use you can you can play around with your needle sizes if you want a little more flowy fabric you could go with a drinking weight yarn and a bigger needle than recommended and you can go vice versa you can go chunkier and make a real warm you know just snuggly one just whatever you choose to do it's all up to you that's what the best thing is about knitting it's it kind of shows who you are um i might be mixing up a little bit with these bright colors i've chosen for this for the andrew mallory um brioche shawl but you know what i i just drew i was just drawn to it i was just drawn to it so i'm gonna do it and i haven't cast it on yet um i got this done and like i said i was working on camisole number two and camera song number two is by my favorite things knitwear um so i got i need to work on that because i do have i did have some comments on my episode one uh some people had commented that they cannot wait to see how that um camisole number two turns out and how much they want to know how much i like it and and how it went so that's one nice reason uh one good reason to have a youtube channel is not it documents things for me and also even if i have questions out there i can ask any of you a question and you can help me with things too and maybe i can help you with something that you might have a question about so i did have a question that i'm putting out there for all of you um if it was actually a very good question one um knitters had said that that she is does not have space to store her beautiful hand knits and she was wanting for suggestions she she said she lacked drawer space um so she was wanting suggestions on maybe how to store her knitted items so that's my question out there for you if you put in the comments how you take care of your knitted items and how you store them um that would help her tremendously i have some ideas too but i'd kind of like to know what all of you think uh and help her along because that's what we're all here for is to help each other um i thought i'd pop back in and introduce you to our dachshund her name is bella grace she's a little southern girl she's from tuscaloosa she's our long-haired english cream dachshund and she always seems like she's a little camera shy every time i try to take her picture or to do a video of her she'll turn her head so here we go so i hope you can get a good look at her she's our baby we love her and i did notice on episode one that that you could hear her little um tags just to jingling on her collar and you could hear her um digging in one of my bags that was full of yarn you know she she never bothers my yarn she's a good girl but she's just nose he just wants to knows around in it so um we just thought we'd uh pop back in and say hi we appreciate you all thank you so much for all my subscribers i've have i'm just blown away um about um about how everyone's been so supportive of me uh all my youtube viewers and um all the likes and comments that i've received and and i just want to tell you again i always like to to end my videos and say you know keep knitting don't give up persevere um and you know it's funny i've heard of the phrase that says when the day and i told my husband the other day i said you know i might say on my next episode i might say knit the day and he went oh really so i don't know i thought i'd throw that in and just get out there and knit the day and enjoy yourself and and um every day is a learning day every every sweater every uh project that you you cast on there's a there's some learning to be done it keeps our minds alert and it keeps it keeps the the good the good mojo flowing i guess i should say so we say bye we'll see you next time keep knitting thank you so so much for being so supportive goodbye from knitter's niche bye bye

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Published: Fri Jul 15 2022