My *NEW* top 5 favorite hand knit sweaters to wear this fall!

hello everyone how are you today i hope you're having a really good day so far this is a brief video about my top five favorite sweaters i am very excited to wear this fall if you have been following me here on youtube you might know that i love to create garments i love to spin yarn to knit into garments and i have acquired a little bit of a sweater stash and over time because i wear my sweaters as much as i possibly can some of them wear out some of them no longer fit as well as i hoped they did when i started making them um and we're not going to go into those stories maybe that's some video content for another day you can let me know if you're interested in that but i generally try to keep things positive and uplifting here and there's no need to go into the projects that were not what we anticipate because there's so many variables when you're making your own clothes the pairing of the pattern with the materials used the tension and gauge acquired by the hands of the maker all of these things play a part in the outcome of knitting and i want to share with you my successes the things i'm most proud of to be honest i am proud of some of the garments that i've made but i want to share with you the patterns and the designs the sweaters that i've made that i am the most excited to wear this fall it is the heat of summer right now in 2021 we are in august and there's really nothing to wear that's related to knitwear and i'm trying to get all the things that i'm making finished making and i'm waiting to hold off on starting new projects so i thought the best thing to do would be to pull out the sweaters that i've already made that i'm super excited about and i want to share them with you all in case you're interested in seeing them without watching my entire backlog of podcast videos but if you're interested in more content i do record a weekly podcast i try to upload as consistently as possible and if you want more of that just subscribe so that you know when those are out i'm going to get into the sweaters now i'm just going to start with pull overs and then cardigans they're not in a particular order the first will be this one it's a design by caitlyn hunter and i knit this with my own hand spun this is fiber that i combed and spun into a two ply that i then knit up with some modifications i have a whole video on this sweater so i won't go into all the details but i did make it a long sleeve i extended the cable motifs and i chose a stockinette for the body with the eyelet patterns between the two cables that i ran down the length of the sleeve i'm going to run and throw this on so you can see how it fits i'll be right back one of the reasons why i am really excited to wear this sweater this fall is that the modifications i made to this pattern make it fit very well i don't only love to make garments for the sake of making them i like it when the clothes i wear fit and when i was knitting the sweater i was playing a game of yarn chicken um with the yardage i had spun to knit and i was afraid i would run out so what i did was i added decreases down the sides i decreased i think every four rows so i did a decrease round and then i knit three rounds flat and then i decreased again from pretty much the armpit all the way down the length of this cropped sweater what that did was it brought it in so that it's somewhat fitted it's not super loose i wonder if i can get a little a little higher here for you so that's how the waist appears and i think that that modification was a good one for this particular design i think that i knit a size small and i don't know how many stitches i ended up with but i just kept trying it on as i worked the design and i'm really happy with the outcome i think it will fit well with high-waisted jeans or skirts because it is not too wide at the bottom half of the garment sometimes whiter sweaters they just get too bulky underneath more fitted skirts that they're tucked into so really excited to wear this sweater with almost anything i can think of the next sweater i am excited to wear this fall is a design by andrea mallory it is the wool and honey sweater and this is my most recent finished sweater i think one of one of the two and they're both in this video so um this is one i also modified just slightly in a very similar fashion i added uh decreasing from about the elbow down i think that i decreased every third row or so on both sides of the center seam and i also decreased the body of this garment as well so it would be just a little bit more narrow i'll put it back up on my chair to show you the waist but that is how it fits along the back and the sides and i'm really happy with this sweater it fits really well and i think it's one that's going to continue to fit well year over year some sweaters that i've made will start to felt in the armpit and they no longer fit as much as i liked the way they did before so i'm kind of retiring some of my sweaters finally and making more new fresh ones that i'm excited about so the thing again that i love about this is that the armpit is much lower than a lot of my other sweaters it's not like a swancho or anything it's just that it doesn't touch my sweaty messy hits it just sits a little bit lower and it's a little bit more relaxed but adding that decreased shaping gives it a little bit more shake than i think the original pattern is written which is fine i i love andrea's designs this yolk is insanely brilliant as was katelyn's that i just showed you that caitlyn hunter design and i'm really excited to wear this sweater this fall one of my more recent finished objects is this sweater by isabel cramer it is a top down yoke and i want to stand up on my chair again to show you the waist but my cat has occupied it there she goes all right so you can see it is not really with a lot of shaping it's pretty much straight down but the color work at the bottom does pull it in a little bit so that alone has a similar impact as decreasing wood it just hugs it in ever so slightly and i think it looks rather nice very polished and neat i think that i followed the instructions uh actually i modified the sleeves slightly by i think decreasing at a different rate um i think i wanted a more relaxed fit through the sleeves and so it is like looser and more relaxed i didn't want a fitted forearm sweater i wanted one that would look kind of like a sort of like a boyfriend sweater something that just you kind of pull the elbows up on and that's another thing too about elbows is when i make sweaters and then i wear sweaters they become a very different shape than they originally were so when i've been wearing a sweater it takes the form of my body and the way that it moves and if it doesn't felt in the armpits like i mentioned it will kind of expand in the area of the elbow and so as the sleeve expands sort of horizontally it will shrink somewhat vertically and so when i make new sweaters when i now that i've learned that and i make new sweaters i add at least two inches to the length of the sleeve unless it's noted somewhere that you know it's a long sleeve i i generally try on most things anyway um but even if i were doing a bottom up sleeve i'd probably add that yardage because i do want my sleeves to fit to the edge of the wrist and i do want to have it fit that way over time what tends to happen is some sweaters they suddenly become kind of like a bracelet length or whatever you may call that and um because i wanted this to look really casual i made them a little longer i think in retrospect i might have um either used a slightly larger needle for the sleeves because you can see right now i don't know if you can tell this is kind of common and i'm finding a way to correct this now in my knitting but you can kind of tell where i stopped knitting the yoke and split for the sleeves and then where i picked up the sleeve to knit and i think because i use the nine inch circular needles i might knit at a tighter gauge on the same size than i would if i were on a bigger circumference interchangeable needle cord um so the next time i might just immediately go up a needle size so that i don't have that kind of uh what do you say this is like a there's just this imperfection here where it's not the most smooth transition i can sense that the gauge is different in the sleeve than in the yolk and it does hug my bicep i like to think that i'm like strong but i feel like my my muscles are like kind of flexing through this fabric so maybe i will block this sweater out to kind of take up a little length and stretch out horizontally here through the upper arm so that you know the sleeves are just more comfortable i have not yet worn the sweater i've knit this like months ago and there just hasn't been the weather to wear it so this is a brand new sweater in my wardrobe it's unbelievable when you start knitting your own garments you just have new stuff pile up before your eyes and when you finally get the chance to wear it it's so rewarding and i'm very much in love with this i think it's going to be i mean hard for me not to wear this daily it is my hand spun i don't know if i mentioned that this is a hand comb two pie wool yarn i believe it was a cormo crossbreed and then the chocolate like yolk color is a natural merino sheep fleece i have a ton of this fleece left uh brian my spouse wishes that i would hand spin him a sweater i said maybe it's a lot to ask someone to knit you a black sweater um i've already done that and i i guess i'll make him another black sweater but to hand spin it it's going to take some time i i need to prepare myself for that so maybe that'll be my next sweater spin it's hard to know how much you need for someone else's body i know about how much yarn i need for a sweater my size and i also know i can make it cropped i can make it a short sleeve quarter length sleeve i could add decreases and make it fit my form just enough that i have enough yardage but when you're talking about knitting a men's sweater for some other body that isn't going to try it on throughout the entire process that requires more yardage than you probably need and when you're a spinner how often are you spinning more yardage than you ever need for a given project i feel like it's pulling teeth just to get the amount that's necessary let alone what is needed so we'll see about that but i'm off subject now i have two cardigans to share with you and then we're going to wrap this up because again it's july i'm getting hot and i have to layer somehow cardigans over top of something so i'll show you that next the next sweater i am super excited to wear this fall is a favorite of mine i've never worn it over color work before but this is uh marie wallen's yell cardigan i knit it mostly with bish and bouche um as well as ralma's female garn for the main colors and then jamison and smith throughout love jameson and smith um and this is a favorite cardigan of mine mostly because um one it's it's gorgeous but i also don't have enough cardigans i i could never have enough cardigans and that's what i'm mostly devoted to making in the next few seasons i hope but i digress there is one thing i wish i could do differently with this garment and if i had the motivation and time i would knit this button band without buttons to have to be double-sided and basically you know pick up these stitches knit maybe some stockinette and then tack it down on the inside so that it doesn't roll like you'll see that it does it tends to roll a little bit and that i don't know i mean i blocked it i've ironed it out many times there's only so much i can do to keep it from happening and it's just going to continue to happen but i figured you know it's gorgeous enough as it is i modified the sleeves as well for simplicity i simply didn't decrease at all and i knew that would give me this kind of retro vintage kind of bell sleeve hippie sort of look and it was just easier to not decrease and to just keep doing the same motifs that i had done for the bottom band so this is another favorite i can as you see layer over sweaters it fits just right and this is a gorgeous pattern totally worth the time and energy the short rows i modified as well just to make them um my like i'm a little obsessive about how i execute things sometimes and so i wanted to make sure that the motifs were um almost like symmetrical from side to side but i don't know if you can tell it's very subtle anyway one more one more sweater the last sweater i am excited to wear this fall is actually a design of my own i just had to throw myself in with the greats like andrea mowry caitlin hunter elizabeth kramer isabelle kramer sorry isabelle kramer marie wallen they're like great legendary knitwear designers and i'm just me myself but i love this cardigan it is um one of my few cardigans but i can't have i should probably make another one uh i'd have a hard time not modifying it and then feeling like i need to publish a new version of the pattern just to include all the changes i made but um it is a really interesting color i like that a lot about it and i love the motifs on the front and the back is really the stunner of this design it's um this gorgeous pattern and in retrospect i think i wish i repeated some version of that on the front and said i chose the globe braid motif that i featured in a bra design because that was kind of the original inspiration and then finding this one that really stole the show so maybe there's other designs that can incorporate this gorgeous pattern motif into but this is another great i knit it with harrisville designs watershed yarn watershed yarn is kind of like a heavier worsted weight it's almost erin but it has a lot of air so it's very light and lightweight yarn makes for great cables in my opinion it keeps the garment nice and light and it won't kind of it'll kind of fill out the areas that are tugged and pulled but it also won't um become really heavy and like too much yarn to wear because it is easy eats up so much yardage you want some of that additional yardage to be air better more air than not because otherwise you're you're carrying around a five pound sweater um at the end of the day but that's just my thoughts i would love to know what your opinion is of any of these designs or yarns used in the making of these sweaters or my modifications i hope that my notes and thoughts rather are are helpful to you that's why i make these videos i really enjoy spending time online getting to know other makers and knitters out there because it is such a niche thing there's not i don't think there's enough of us yet and we need to just keep keep the dream alive and and keep inspiring people to make gorgeous things i want to thank you so much for watching this video if you want to find me on social media my name is taylor e owen you can find me on ravelry instagram or twitter as taylor e owen i'm also on 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Length: 18min 46sec (1126 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 13 2021