Kristy Glass Knits: Roselle TEE KAL - swatching!

we interrupt this month of managed slashed Women's History Month slash everything wonderful about March the snow to name one of them it's International Women's Day it is today today so we're interrupting all of that because I had a swatch emergency and in fact I experienced a little something from Penny Lane that there was some sweats Oh barely she's right she slid right into my dance and shamed me and they're not all of it with a neck so I fine Patti fine look I thought that you have a swatch but apparently I do not this is my offering Patti what's wrong with it cuz some knitters are looking at that going that is a beautiful swatch okay so first of all there's nothing here in teaching that's about shaming it's about empowering you yes to create that's right a fabric that looks like that profession Yeah right you want a fabric that looks like this but but beyond that we're gonna roll it back so we're gonna roll it back we're gonna talk about the whys of everything here we're gonna talk about what's going on yeah with the lies we're gonna turn the lies this watching question right but before we talk about that before we talk about the lie we got to talk about the why that's right okay and let's catch people up in case it's your first time seeing Patti and me together knitters extraordinaire mostly heard we talk over each other a lot yes how are you know I was gonna say that but we joined together to do your knit along this season which is the Roselle Cal which is right result Roselle Tikal I'm wearing it this is a sassy side with the lakes and then the classy sides in the back but we're not keeping it close the additional um bumpiness of overalls oh yes look bumpy let's go video ok I'm wearing on the rope so this is um if you go back to some past Cristi videos and you got a dig deep um you have a proud history of putting new hair over soups like an appropriate undergarments so remember when you put on the Costa Maya cardigan it's like this sport way drapey and she has a super bulky sweater with a giant cowl and I'm like oh that works I break all the rules so yeah but I think it looks fine it'll you look at door but thank you for pointing that out in case you did see some buttons I do have overalls on today but here's the thing this looks like a professional thing you could buy in a store meaning like machined at like perfection and for us to be successful no it does we were totally at this no I know what we're talking about how do we make these hand knit items look not hand knit in a mrs. Weasley way well no you love you mrs. Weasley handmade and not home that's right so the first step is to get your swatch right so well really Oh the first swatch the first stuffers really the first step is understanding the why of smudging so what I feel that most knitters do and say oh I got to quickly do that swatch so that I can get on with the knitting yeah I think you're talking about me but that's not what the swatch is the swatch is knitting this is your time to spend quality time with your yarn hi I'm pleased to meet you I've just met you hello who are you what do you do what do you like do you like metal do you like bamboo do you like search do you like straights do you like extra sharks who are you do you like it when I pick you do you like it when I throw you do I like it when I Portuguese pearl you or pearl back backwards we're gonna talk about that later got different knitting tools but it's your time to get to know what your yarn does that's right so it would be akin to a chef jumping right in to building a recipe without tasting the ingredients or an actor going rehearsing I don't want to spend any time with the script and like get to know my character or get comfortable with it you don't be fun let's just I'll just read the script real quick and then curtain up company night let's go there right yeah yeah so that's all my nightmares right I know right holy night i undress station manager come on version of it where I have to call a show this and I've never called it before and the prompt book is like in another language focus the book with all these years it's like another language so that's first of all the why of it okay we're getting to know our fabric okay now ideally your swatch should be exactly like you cut a section of your sweater away yeah so this swatch doesn't lie to me no this swatch has nothing on it that would lie to me garter um it is just exactly like I took scissors and I cut a square of this fabric out okay and that's what your swatch is supposed to do your swatch is supposed to predict what your fabrics gonna be yeah so one interesting thing to do is if you ever go back to sweaters where you might say all those sleeps came out too narrow yes oh one of those things do you may be a little too long right uh check back with that swatch just want you to do with your finished fabric hmm right and the answer is probably no in which case you know what's a good time saver don't swatch no I'm just kidding meaning this is really has nothing to do with what your finished fabric will be does that make sense yes okay now let's dig into the why a bit you're gonna go to the overhead I have so many sassy so many things going here I'm gonna gonna at least have a little extra but I want to talk about for a moment just like in a little more is why garter does not belong in a swatch so there's a lot of there's a lot of all for everything or just cotton dude unless garters in your garment why is garter in your swatch right so remember think about what that swatches it's cutting out a size right your fabric okay so garter has a different row gauge right so you'll notice so where am i measuring am i measuring here here here here here here where the heck am i measuring I think that's a check right so every little section it's totally different row gauge right so I'm gonna go XO and so I read a column it's called ask patty 404 mason-dixon and and I this the comm used to be in twist collective and someone wrote me a letter and said my friend took your gauge class and said you never use a Garter edge but she forgot why and she said here's what I always do I always add you know four or five garters stitches on either side then I always do like four or five rows on top and bottom and she said and then I was told that I can measure from the the purl bump to the Pearl but exactly and do the math and it'll work out exactly right but weirdly my garments never fit and I'm like right and here's why let's break down the lies okay breaking it down okay so a couple things first of all we just do a little if you notice the size of this knit stitch has very little if anything to do with the size of all the other knit stitches right bigger because we're on it transitions to a pearl is totally different plus we know the Garter edge makes a big that hot lyov you know pulling it in yeah but then she had the perfect storm of wrong she said oh now I know my garter edge you know distorts a little bit don't worry I pin it out to be a perfect square but we don't pan out our stockinette swatch ever because our stockinette swatch just has to be what it's going to be yeah so now she measures and she might think oh look I'm gonna measure from from the purl bump to the purl bump and again like which which part right yeah so if she chooses one round apart and she'll go oh okay I have 19 stitches in five inches great now I'll know exactly my gauge except that's not really her gauge because then I knit the exact same yarn yeah but with no garter edged in a larger section of fabric mm-hm okay so also why do we need to knit a larger section why two reasons math and knitting math is we need a large a large enough piece that we can measure until we hit a whole stitch on a whole inch that will give us a dead accurate gauge not squishing oh you know so when you see a gauge in a pattern like 24 and a half stitches per 4 inch most likely I measured longer like 6 or 7 inches until they hit a whole stitch on a whole inch and then you divide that by say you know measure over 6 inches you divide it by 6 and you know how many stitches per in 1 inch and then you multiply that back up by 4 for the pattern yeah but now here not only do I have no garter edge and yeah just did the edges roll a bit yes is it the end of my world no no because there's still plenty of surface area to my name surface area but I said there were two reasons reason one is for the math reason to knitting yeah we knit much differently when we're working back and forth over a tiny section of knitting then when we're like relaxed and knitting our whole thing yeah so what happens a lot with especially with Cotton's is knitters try to make this tiny sample and they're like tugging at their yarn which is a no because we're gonna do some knitting technique in a second and they they're like I'm down to a u.s. two needle yeah and I still don't have your gauge okay so first of all you know wait a minute if the ball band so it's just for like an average stockinette you know this is a sport weight yarn and and you'll get 24 stitches per 4 inch on us on a us 5 that means one bitter might get 24 another neuter might get 25 you know in that range but if you're down for a us to and you're only getting 22 stitches that means we're not actually using our needle as our measuring cup but so knitters start just to try to achieve gauge and they're knitting back and forth on this teeny section of knitting mm-hmm and what will happen is they'll though they get frustrating they get tired and they're like okay I'm just gonna knit the garment on aus - then what will happen is as they're knitting across a large area and they're knitting the way they actually knit they start to tighten up and after a while they measure and they're like hey this is coming up tiny and B it could take a bullet right because it's so dense right so then they have to be pimp out and start again so that's not a time-saver no that's it right so we want to knit waving it so looking at all of my swatches look like this yeah so and and everything is surveyed mind when I first start to knit until I realize like you have to trust your knitters instinct and if you look at this and go oh where do I measure every it's like all crazy because it's being pulled in well where do I measure if that's what's going well maybe I shouldn't have the Garter edge right maybe that shouldn't I didn't think that so I'm glad that you're my voice of reason cuz you gotta trust your own nesting yeah so really that lady that thought for sure she was getting 19 19 stitches in 5 inches now if I'm if I go a larger section and I give a little count here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18:19 I'm Marty at 24 per four inch right so you translate that into a whole sweater she's getting a size that was really unexpected yeah yes yes so it's a hot bummer now okay judge tech hot beverage get seriously hot bomber now row gauge is another really interesting thing this was some remember that old show knitting daily remember that not really um it was it was a while ago as well back so this was a swatch that I did for one of the segments on that TV show and every motif is a different neo material so the width of the piece is myself as a board it's the same because the needle size stays the same but I changed needle material every no chief what does that mean knitting material needle material Oh like bamboo plough you did that on here let's watch every I understand to show how knitting material can wildly change change your row gay yeah right so each one of these lace motifs measures a different height Wow so that's also why we take our time while we're swatching I'm like ducking behind you can see that so that we can figure out what needle material do I want with this what needle length what like Oh your needle tip all of that is you as a Top Chef master experimenting with like what type of knife skill am I gonna use on this what type of you know this is why we have many weeks before we start yes because swatching is getting to know your yarn right so I have a couple other guys here I just want to show you so this was my swatch and you can see there ain't no guard or edge on this bad boy right and you can see that's large enough yeah that I can get away from the top and bottom I don't bind off I just put a little bit of yarn through a tapestry needle and pull it through the loop that's good and in the video class I also teach a special cast on four gauge and this can only be used for gauge it looks like a provisional cast on but it's not but it creates an edge where your top and your bottom are going to be unconstrained by cast on and bind off which holds the fabric ends good now there's always gonna be somebody saying but I hate when my edges roll all right no bigs here's an example of a swatch that has no garter at the top or bottom and just like two stitches of garter in the edge and it's flat as a pancake but it's not gonna be like mine crazy pants right yes okay so do we feel like we we're getting the vibe I totally get it up - why are you gonna talk about cotton - though because that's so that was the factor that was the only thing I thought I had to pay attention to was just make sure you wet it and dry it so so I didn't watch the video because I thought I knew about swatching it wasn't to be an offensive to you it wasn't enough fence it wasn't like sorts of fun things for you there yeah I know that's what cast on I think have blocking tips I think people like feel the same way as me like I know how to do this like to your point like you already explained who we are and this is an intervention and we wrote letters we all do that I had all sorts of bad habits and I thought you know we all think we know like next year I will be here talking about a thing that I thought I knew last year that's right and that I don't that I never knew I mean right that's you because living down it Fran yeah oh my god everybody thinks all the time where I'm like what what was the thing that I just ah I just heard something somebody talking about another teacher talking about something at West and I was like what now oh I gotta join that yeah and then I immediately forgot what it was oh god yeah I think it was Hamburg but but I think that's what I like about needing to is and I'm always learning something new living craft man so that's why I'm not mad at you first watching me mean I okay I just can't I just make a nightmare yeah no no no night guys okay no because we're gonna we're in a new cuz we want to look at some situation okay okay no so he's watching you would be listening to your life and saying it in public oh right that's watching it ain't a loving friend who wants your fabric I know to look like this says it in on the on the DL did you want to add contrast pocket to your design okay I brought some needles okay so that was a great thing because you can experiment with different needles mid swatch yeah oh yes so a lot of knitters are on the rap group I'll just show you I'll just put this on me so this is a little swatch that I have in progress so I put the pearl Ridge to indicate where the bottom was blocked and the top isn't okay so I just wanted to show you what the quality of the stitches look like blocked verses on behind so if you look at the rap group to see all sorts of wonderful examples of people who are swatching and they post their pictures of the swatch on the rap group and a lot of knitters will just pop in a pearl rich here's why laziness don't be ripping out because you're like oh hmmm I don't think I'm getting gage I'm gonna rip out because thing one you can't really get a sense of your gauge until you knit a good section of knitting right like I mean you know this is yeah this is like a pretty big swatch and then I have another one yeah like here oh yeah I like popped in a little pearl bump to indicate oh yeah I'm changing needle sizes um but think - sometimes we're chasing a gage number yes now you might not have clicked on every magical red link in your know yeah they're there for you that I different video I thought I knew okay but jazz I said of it you're gonna click on every red link because there it's a wonderland and one of them is the gauge tutorial okay like oh I can't match it okay so might that be a good thing uh-huh no yes I mean it's good to have the red link that's enough it's an awesome tip sometimes not match that's right that's right why might it be exactly what you want to not match gauge thoughts because I don't know okay I was listening but I don't know the answer right now I feel like I'm in school no no okay here's what you I just want you to enjoy every red link because that's where they are and if you go to the raft page and then read some of the messages you'll see all sorts of people cling like beds laying people being like okay so I really like the fabric that I you know I switched to I start on the five then I switch to the four but I actually really like the fabric that I liked better on the five okay so already we're seeing why you don't rip out okay you pop in that little pearl Ridge you know or like I did a three I did four I did a five I think I like the fabric on the floor better even though the three matched your gauge but I like the fabric a better on the floor now there are on average between two to four inches between every size right in a commercial knit garment in a in a commercial pattern so say you're torn between and these aren't regular sizes because my schematics like off-camera but I'll just use an example between a 36 inch chest and 40 inch doesn't go our 30th 36 and a 38 because you think what a easy or just you are in between you're like ah you know what my dream size for V 37 right my dream size doesn't exist math and not matching gauge ranks all there for you in the class you'll see how simple it is okay and the people in the rap group the knitters who are like digging into this or like okay check me if I see how this feels yeah my high chest is this my full chest is this my shoulder measurements are this the fabric I like is getting 24 stitches per 4 inch so I think I'm gonna do this cast on not not this cast on meaning changing the pattern because you're choosing a different size to follow so sometimes not matching the gauges okay okay what you want to do is swatch until you get a fabric you like like yes which brings us to fabric okay so that's why I don't want you to rip yeah all that knowledge okay let's take a peek here now this is not shaming it's educating and loving friendship on International Women's Day yes because I know you do you think that I popped out of my mother's room creating perfectly even stitches in cotton no I have to fight for it um so I fought for it so my swatch looks really really bad it's not next to you no it's not okay it's no comparison but I'm even as I put them side-by-side okay that's really really bad this isn't to change because this transpired bad right well we're gonna talk about that you're gonna talk about these guys because these guys if you see you can okay let me just one of my kids look like yelling at me during that well young man geez one thing is I always say you want to swatch the way you knit so here's so it interrupt yes no for real for real for real so I in my in my gauge class I always say so if you knit on the subway that's pretty squash on subway always swatched on the subway always always or if you get a little bit of knitting done and Eve while having a glass of you know Chardonnay and watching some TV that's more yourself sucker and you know or if you get a couple hours of knitting down in the morning after like pouring coffee down your gullet and having a fight with your kid put on a pot of coffee pick a fight and cast on for a day so I like that so when we swatch not only are we using the actual needle that we're going to use for a project and I just don't mean needle size I mean every decision you make about the needle do I like 4-inch tips on circular needles in searchable stainless steel do I like you know 24 inch bamboo right so like that's the there's your extra goober okay but let's talk about stitch sizing growing out and using the needle to size your stick okay so the goal is that each one of our stitches basically looks the same size right but more than that if they flip over our swatch we want to have a minimal amount of rowing out so rowing out oh I think I know what that is yes it's the straightening so say all those those guys where it looks like oh I'll show you how and this is not you it's them dad battening this is not you it's them so 99% of issues that you have in your knitting is them it's their fault it's literally the stitch Anatomy like things like oh there's so many things in my classes like bind off loosely that's not you it's them okay why it's impossible yeah like literally so many things it's their father okay so this is they're fine okay fine and I'll show you why okay so this is first of all this is not like this is hardly a new concept this is every knitter known to man has rowing out even if you take a sweater it was knit in the round up to here and then divided front and back turn that sweater and set out look at the difference between the in the round and flat recommitting okay so these gaps sometimes people ask me why do I have one wheel loose two rows tight one of those yeah it's not one row loose two rows tight it's four nope this purl bump right there remember it's a pearl collar not a pearl hat belongs to this be that big giant right there this purl bump belongs to this neat formed V right there so this is one row loose one row tight one row loose one row tight one row this one row tight in other words the pearl Oh so the way I pearl back and loose more wonderful things resources for you on the rampage the revelry page also has all this getting started information it has a technique FAQ page that links to like a million videos it has a Ravelry FAQ page if you're new to rap like how do I set up a project page how do I do and one of the things in the FAQ page for the new DeLonge is like I'm having trouble mashing stitch H any suggestions and I'm like lot little and all these suggestions and I'm having problems matching row gauge any suggestions why quite a bit okay I want Ravelry to develop like a patty lines that can pop up in the frame so do you know that do you not see a Coleman yeah she I ran into her I'd never met her before we're like separated at birth so hard core that's crazy um and she's like oh you you won the Internet and I'm like what are you talking about she's like you won Ravelry I went to your group you put all these every cute yep you what you won Ravelry ha I want patty to pop up yes I have to we have to see and I have to do something together someday because we're like a separated Brooke so should I be knitting where I carried the yarn back around down the rap okay no so we want to talk about using your measuring cup which is your needle and then we'll deal with purling back so there's a lot of way I'm gonna go back to the overhead camera first um do you pick or throw pick okay so this is and by the way I could have predicted that this Pickers often will do something that I call the grab and go they're like look how fast I'm going look how fast I'm going look how fast I'm going to yes look how fast I'm going I'm knitting good right well I know it's not that great except it's very loose gee can you see the needle the tip of the nail yeah it's loose if I have room to stick a whole other needle under there yeah okay then what that means and this is I mean I was taught like this too okay it means that I'm not using this needle as my measuring it's right what I'm using is that needle as a hand that's reaching through a hole and just grabbing out right now you're right but I'm not measuring it with the yarn so it's akin to taking a 1/2 measuring cup and I'm supposed to measure out half a cup of flour for my cake yeah but I'm just scooping yeah and it's just a giant heaping soot and then my cake taste might be for caca okay the other the other mystery it's chemistry the other boo boo that knitters made is they're working on the wrong part of the needle so they work the stitch way down here on a shaft of the left needle well even if I had sized it the road before when I stick that right needle in what I'm gonna stretch that's to charge quite this size here so the best tip is and this is kind of I teach up a live class called improve your knitting technique and that's really I go around and I look at everyone I I show all my little tips pre-loading your stitches virgin legs exit path all this stuff and then we we knit knit knit knit I'm also going to show you some alternative methods and styles and that's what I do in in the improve your knitting alternative method no I look we're gonna have a little now I'll give you a little link so you can get this as a DVD but if you don't have a DVD player it's okay because you can still I can deliver your DVD file to you nice and you can still play it right that's still your DVD limit so you can email me and we'll talk okay so a you want to preload the stitch okay the reason you preload the stitches if you're seeing any air between the stitches on your kneel they're not squished off enough oh wow and I also have to apologize for my nails because you were early so I didn't get pretty these are just my I'm not just had a youtube comment on one of my most popular is teaching the alternative SS came and I wanna move house SK which everyone loves and she's like you need to be more professional and get a manicure and then someone else is like you need to apologize to her so I said I don't really focus on makeup and beauty calm down I focus on teaching it's knitting but there's a lot of YouTube videos with pretty painted nails and inferior teaching please to enjoy okay so if I'm pre loading those stitches then I always think of this line between the shaft of the needle and the tip of the needle like the red line of the DMV mm only one stitch is allowed to cross the red line before Marge goes back okay your thumb and your finger are March right they're keeping the other stitches at bay now notice as soon as this on the tip of the needle I can enter it yes but here's the most important part here's this the creamy center of the of mitting I'm getting hungry size to the shaft of the right needle okay so when I go in and I pick that yarn I I'm making an X to the back and picking the yarn and a knit stitch is a loop pulled through another loop but if I exit here too small it's on the tip of my needle if I simply grab it and do the diagonal pull I haven't sized to this at all well and then I could say oh I'll tighten it later mmm No that all I've done is distorted the road below mm-hmm is literally only one moment to make the stitch it's the moment you make it okay what I want to do is enter size to the shaft of the needle with tension still on the yarn exit while the next stitch advances so it's like a PEZ dispenser or like me grocery store conveyor belt so each stitch dick comes forward and the exit path is where the left needle is pointing notice that as soon as I diagonal pull off I not advancing the next stitch on the conveyor belt and I'm also distorting the stitch when it exits in the exact direction that that left needle is pointing you in you can't go wrong now that's the same with the Pearl which I can't grow like this but but other people might be able to and so in in the improve your knitting alternative methods and styles we teach picking throwing Eastern Western combination Portuguese and knitting and purling that backwards so if you say oh well I can I can't really do that purl so when I purl I throw maybe do you want me to show you my problem yeah we're done so then lesson you can also you still have to focus on pushing so now a pearl is a loop so we have to make an X to the front exactly opposite wrap our yarn push that loop through make an X to the back and exit yeah but a couple of easy tips from so here we have a combination both of rowing out but also of some uneven stitch race you know where where each one is like you'll have an awesome size run and then you're like put back down yeah oh you know yes tonight but a couple purl options option number one smaller needle size for the purl you don't have to think oh wait I have to transfer every time no you just start knitting with it yeah because if you think about it if I got an empty needle whether it's straight or or great interchangeable sir right so my empty meals in my right hand and I'm knit knit knit knit knitting and then an empty needle comes free I turn it on so the smaller needle is always the one that you're purling with that's one trick another one is and I'll learning alternative purling methods like a Portuguese purl a lot of people really love the Portuguese for home because with the Pearl issue we have two reasons that you get rowing out one is the actual anatomy of the stitch it's taller hmm the yarn is taking a longer path around the knee then this one mm-hmm but two is we pull things our body pulls things like rolling luggage bags and easier than we push yes a pearl is a loop pushed through another loop so we also lose our tension so there's two alternative purling methods that work great Portuguese and purling back backwards because the only way I can accomplish this it's being able to keep the yarn so taut that I can pluck it like a guitar string so I'm sucking it over the needle and pushing that through but because that yarn is going over my neck I'm pushing it through and I can't possibly lose the tension the other awesome alternative method and then you're gonna knit and purl for me oh my gosh is purling backwards so that is never turning your work and you can purl back backwards either as a picker or a thrower this is me as a picker with the air in my left hand but the reason purling back backwards works is the only way I can accomplish this is to maintain the tension because I'm actually lifting the old stitch up and over the new stitch so I just bring those up to open your brain to the wonderful world of curling methods out there so now admitting that our question is if we do all of this for our swatch and change me and if we change needles for the pearls how does that affect our final product so that is your swatch remember is exactly what will be your fabric right so if when I'm experimenting with my swatch and I'm saying oh what does it look like when I continental knit and Portuguese pearl how do I like that fabric no ok what about throwing the knit and pulling back backwards that is you've chosen your knife and your knife skill for that recipe okay so you've chosen your needle size your needle material and your styler method you've created your fabric sample and those are the tools that you take to your sweater okay so so don't do it on your swatch if you don't want to do it first yeah whatever you do to your swatch you do you do onto your swatch and you want your sweater okay because this was the first Tortola was a cotton this is a cotton catchment one this was two Springs ago and this was the first sweater where we realized oh people were struggling with row gauge because Corcoran she's back there that was a lace garment where it was really forgiving because lace off the needles like this and then you wear it and it becomes you know stretches out so when we swatch we want to play around I'm gonna scooch this over here I'm gonna go right in front of me let's see where's your pants do you want me to purl yeah run it for also so I'm just gonna show you how I purl it up baby so I'm gonna get you in frame and then I'm gonna look at you over here which means and that's on my rear something wha-wha okay okay how are your non-region perler yes okay so here's the here's the issue right away who taught you know Regent pearl I'm not gonna think it's a super fun purling method that is traditionally done with an Eastern mountain stitch meaning it needs to go around my neck no okay so did you see how wildly open you had to just move that stitch okay to be honest yeah the first stitch I probably would have throw it no no you do it exactly because I don't think I can start no no do you think that you know I always Norwegian Carter says no I had directed night I've done it for a couple years for about a year okay because I find that purling normal purling I don't care for okay so the Norwegian Pearl yeah it's holding your yarn in the back for both the knit in the purple but it's often done with an Eastern mounted stitch so we'll show you what so what I see look at how I stretched it yes so there's no way to keep the Virgin like so yeah if I ever can right and here is region pearl F no you can't and here's why and that explains why my squad yes so let me show you something we did one stitch now I'm gonna hand it back to it but I want to show you why in load my senior kind of set up to fail with the Norwegian Pearl in a western amount of cotton so Western Mount is the leading leg being in the front right most parts of the world they knit exactly opposite than we do they wrap the yarn over for the knit and under for the purl and their stitches for mounted this way so you enter this way to knit and you enter it this way to purl okay so what that means in the parts of the country where there are no region pearl are is they're going underneath the yarn right they're entering the stitch and all they have to do is just let it drink Bop under and they push it through so all they have to do is go whoops that one's western mountain it's go under and it pops under the yarn and they push it through so the Virgin legs stay together if you Norwegian Pearl in a western mount I have to go through that leading leg I have to reach back to the right and look what I'm doing to my stitch I can grab the arm and then I have to push it through that's right now most likely we exacerbated it by instead of pushing up to size the stitch and exit most likes it likely it's exacerbated by doing this from a track grab it come through and exit that's exactly what I do right so you might have almost gotten away with it in wool but I'd say really go home and with a fresh eyes look at your wool sweaters so you might enjoy one of the other purling methods like Portuguese mural or purling back backwards because the idea of the Virgin legs is these two needles stay glued together until the exit so with a knit I make an X to the back I pull it through I move together glued together glued together X to the front and exit for a purl and make an X to the front they stay glued together glued together glued together glued to it the bridge and lies until I exit okay so whether or not I'm purl into them or whether or not I'm rolling or whether or not I'm that one I want to learn purling and all of these are in the class so try and try a different purl and really be aware of those virgin legs staying together so I wrap that yarn around and make an X to the front and I push that loop through size it and exit excellent I missed the spot with one tiny little variation so you great with the pushing through push through sighs dude now think of this needle as pointing you in the jaw there we go now we're talking oh yeah [Music] thanks to the front wrap push through x2 the bad guys and that's the stuff that I'm missing exactly and that's the measuring cup so when you preload those stitches each time you exit the next one will naturally advance has to spend like a dispenser I'm gonna have to change that because soon I don't think people don't know what that means no I really could I gave my kids part oh I'm a bad mom I let them eat sugar and like Nutella for breakfast here we go I didn't even know pesto was summer sisterly oh my god so it's something good here there are move the camera to you in your nouns I don't know why I did that that's mental the camera moving is better you're doing so great mmm ok but how much purling is in this pattern well it's stockinette face so you're gonna purl back baby so it's not in the round no okay so here's the thing um there was a whole like discussion on Rav about um is that me or you thank you Oh mom I'm sorry about um oh it's posting to Instagram wha-wha for International Women's Day uh there's a whole discussion about going in the round and the interesting thing was someone said but I've watched that video a million times and I don't see a scene and I'm like exactly so you're not gonna see a scene when mattress stitch is done beautifully but why isn't this knit in the round so when designers eat shoes their construction method there's a reason mm-hmm all right so the way that this swings away from the hip would not happen if it was knit in the round no it's the stability of these seams get back now someone was saying oh can I use an Elizabeth simmerman fixing and I'm like well two things one is it's that is for a wool Garmin that's closer to your body but two is if the statement was oh I don't want to see seems the Elizabeth's and women fake seam is a visible seam yes dropping down so you see a very visible scene so this is invisible so when a really great in the round designer and there's a there's some great ones out there right and that's the staff the key is instead of taking a flat pattern yeah and converting it around if you love working the round you know find those great you know Carol Fowler great in the round designer there's so many Julie White's from horse I was just looking over oh you want a knit one are you bored no I definitely want a knit one I just I think my batteries on you okay so you're gonna get this way like me and and you're gonna be awesome and you're gonna focus so you're gonna make a large enough swatch that you knit the way you knit like in your natural rhythm I'm gonna start again with fives I'm gonna do it do you think I should do bamboo or metal this time or do you think I should do a multi faceted just like we're talking about a whole different thing try try try metal and if you're like now do you need to go the like a very long way before you decide to change change your you have to go at least two inches yeah tremendous you feel like you're loving it should you keep going and yet even bigger yeah because you know kind of you need mathematically yeah so notice that I was able to put safety pins yeah mm-hmm to indicate four inches but you can see how much yes I have okay so so you're gonna end up with a piece of fabric it could cut just like yes and if you if anyone's interested in learning like Portuguese or throwing or picking or just an email me at info at patio I'm here look at your setup yeah I have your Portuguese mini clock alright I have a class that has many different ticket from you oh so you can rock some mob backwards well I can't I watch the video about it rock it will see didn't care anything Christian can't do I learned something already today okay but what I did learn is as soon as you buy this pattern which I'll put a link to that also underneath this video we need to watch all the red links because there's some stuff in there mana which I knew there was I just didn't know I I thought I had to start an April first but now I know I got a sir we said from the very soon as you buy it you've got video on the gauge I'm blocking your swatch on alternative what happens if I don't match it on how to pick the right size that's been the biggest us up discussion on graph so far that's been the biggest aha it's people saying oh my god I've been knitting two sizes too large for so many years yeah cuz you're gonna knit to fit your shoulder knit to fit which means I it's not like I need to do some measuring also yeah although I think that is I think that fits your shoulder very well this is a good right where it needs to be this is a small right yeah yeah yeah but if you ended up with a different gauge then you would click on the gauge document and you go what daddy would pop out man what size will I get if I follow thee you know what is I can't do it okay I'm gonna check back in with you let's check back in on live yeah we're gonna do a split screen in stuffs because I'm gonna wash it cuz it's going to change so I'm not gonna panic if I don't have the right stitches before washing it right you wanna don't panic you always want to know your gauge because when a pattern says knit to X number of inches that doesn't mean that it means knit until you have achieved say it says knit until body is 15 inches what that means is knit 15 inches worth of your finished row gauge period that's what it means okay so that can be pretty easy you can be like oh okay I my row gauge changed when I blocked it and so I can do one of two things either I can know that what the math was for my unblocked gauge and go okay unblock that should be 15 and a quarter mm-hmm or you can trust your finish row gauge and say okay well if this was decrease each side every whatever six rows six times up 36 rows and then I've done yet straight okay X number grows and and last tip about measuring it's about - my card is almost full don't measure a flat on the table measure on your body what I always say is that with no judgement to what anyone tells for a living almost like who you're not wearing that sweater lying flat on your back all day so if you're right so if you're gonna measure your length in progress and you're gonna use your unblock to gauge right you're gonna do that because you I mean I never take my tape measure time knitting when I'm working I trust my blocked page but I want two things stitch gauge and row gauge are linked so look what happens when we measure on the needle yeah we think oh yeh I have worked 15 inches straight and then you block it you're like what is only 14 inches right the stitch gauge and row major ruling great so if you put it on SERPs or on scrap yarn and you put on pants hangers get it to its final width mm-hmm cuz you can't measure length without with its right and then you have gravity and you up with I need to go watch these videos and she's already know if I can do this videos cuz they're there for you and I want this to look just like this and your peeps want you know they might have questions about like hey did you watch the second video Christine you don't want to be like yeah you know yeah no I know where's your favorite part oh when um I like the with the yarn I don't know this my I don't want to be a faker I want to be a real participant in the Roseau t cow so I'm gonna do it no I just believe in you I'm gonna do this does every believe it I need every moment alone I need everyone to comment below we believe in you Christie it's like so what's the Tinker Bell thing that when they laugh every time they laugh oh no no next in there too what do we do we snap weekly oh my god time I a baby cries a Tinkerbell is born no but there's something mighty girls dying and it's because people don't believe in all right I think I have to clap everyone I have to clap in the comments that they believe in Christie I'm gonna take a picture in this because it will be my motivation but I think you should take a picture of it holding your old swatch no that's already been put away oh it went into timeout timeout forevermore thanks patty Lyons I believe in you too Swan will be back I believe in you we'll be back after week one to see all the mistakes I'm making I'm gonna have to get the readers later so I'm just gonna we're freakin rollin aren't we yeah I should have got my readers to make you feel better even I don't quite you know I'm close high salt wound four weeks away from being old thank you you can can't I you know why my manga a manga when I turned 40 you came into the bedroom and you laid yourself on the fences no what is it like to be old okay so what is it like to be old I know I'm not old together did your mom when you said it so what does it like to be old say I don't know what does it like to be obnoxious seriously she should have okay she didn't let me forget um for the record just in the realm of setting the record straight so that some people aren't like I googled you not 40 so when she said when she says she's four weeks away from being old with me the other way I did not put on any do you agree this is an emergency media is now time to prep I like literally rolled out a bed there's no under-eye concealer or anything um so when she says she's four weeks away from being old like me that might imply I'm in my 40s I know I'm not in my forte just feel like I'm in India I read my 30 I'm in a new section age that's all I'm saying how do you have it great so you're in your thirties don't you have a girl my heart's working back to that man in my head my parts are working in fact when I was pregnant with her I walked around visibly pregnant and all I could think of was doing

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Length: 54min 29sec (3269 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 10 2019