Expert Knitter reacts to Knits in Call the Midwife! || Season 3
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I love the show Call the Midwife for many reasons - but one of my favorites is that they have wonderful vintage knitting and crocheting! I've even found some similar patterns, I think:
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I love this, so, keep going. I want to point out though that not every knitted or crocheted item is done so via a printed pattern. History is filled with very talented women, my mother being one of them, who knew garment construction basics and used it as a basis for creating their own designs not necessarily to share and, so, there’s not always going to be a pattern to find is what I’m saying.😊
I agree. An elderly lady gave me all her wool and there were three unfinished garments which she was doing from intuition after years of knitting.
Knitting a color work sweater as I watch from now on pattern, just make as I go. I did make a gauge swatch and a pattern stitch count repeat of 44 stitches.
My grandma knitted a anatomical correct uterus for my aunt, who is a midwife. So the show was accurate. She used it to demonstrate stuff for her patients
A book of knitting designs inspired by call the midwife would be the most amazing thing ! Please do a All creature's great and small series after !! Helen's sweaters are beautiful, but I haven't been able to find her lacy fern green sweater, a series inspired by that show would be a must watch !
Seeing these vintage-styled knits from tv is really fun! I'd love to see pieces from All Creatures.
I definitely think that call the midwife need to release a knitting/crochet book for some of the items in the show. They released a cook book and I’m enjoying working my way through it. In a later season of ctm there is knitted bossoms that cause a bit of a giggle. Oh yes please on all creatures great and small but if possible the original series.
Interesting idea. I worked on CTM a few days when I worked in film costume. Most of the items are sourced from costume rental houses. Some for the leads will be made from scratch. There is likely not many patterns avail and they would have to be made. It’s likely more costly to produce than what is viable. If you are in the UK you can do a tour of the costume house called Angels. You could see some items there.
Such a lovely take on this series.
Concerning the anatomically correct uterus it is still used by midwife’s today, since in the preparation classes it is the best way to show the birthing process.
Funny fact I knit one for my midwife as a thank you and she still ushers it today
I love this series. And an ACGAS series would be great. In the UK we call the colour of the yellow sweater mustard yellow. English mustard is hot, not sweet like US mustard and is that sort of colour, especially if it is mixed thickly from the powder, which it would be at the period of the series (ready mixed arrived much later).
The knitting book of Call the Midwife sounds fabulous! Yes please!
I love this series. It feels like a way to stop and say thanks for all the fiber crafts we don't have anymore
These videos are so fun! I think one a month is a good plan, because I love your other crafty videos so much as well!
I recognise the tea cosy stitch. Vogue knitting calls it the Indian Cross stitch. And it's alternated with a couple rows of garter. I'd guess the green underneath is the same tea cosy shape knit in plain stockinette like the lining of a mitten, and joined at the top
I searched for images of that stitch and I think you are spot on. Although, I wonder if the cozy had a single crochet border around the top/edge.
A version of the Indian Cross stitch is used in the JLocatelli "Hipster" shawl. The large holes in the cosy remind me of those in the shawl.
I love this show, and the great knittings is the cherry on the cake 😂
I also love Jacob's first vest, love the simple cables, I really need to try to find a similar pattern.
I also often wondered about the costuming (especially the first seasons), for the knittings they look so vintage that I honestly think they are real vintage thrifted by the costume team.
To help you find this particular stitch for Jacob's vest, look for 'travelling stitches'. Not really a cable as the decorative stitches don't cross each other.
I wondered if the vertical elements in Jacob's vest were made using a slip stitch. My mother made a cardigan around 8 or 10 years later that created the vertical part of a chequered pattern by using slip stitches.
Fred's vest looks handspun to me.
I'd suggest that you keep the knitting from shows like Call the Midwife going at the rate of one a month - which will keep you going for a while. Along with Call the Midwife and All Creatures Great and Small, there is some very nice knitting in Foyle's War.
Adorable projetcs. Thank you for sharing them, They are very inspiring and sweet.
Yes please, keep going. I love watching Call the Midwife and your take on the knits in it.
Your excitement in these videos is contagious!! Love your videos and ive been watching since the victorian toilet cushion. Keep up the great work!!! I saw claudes homefires knits and theyre absolutely gorgeous, so I'd love to see you go through the knits from that show
Thank you for this. I'm slowly binge watching Call the Midwife, I'm on season 5, will have to keep watching so I stay ahead of you! I love all the knits in the show too.
These videos are rather inspiring - as i generally watch for plot and realize how great costumes are after. Unless the show is bad. If they are a lot of work for little payoff - feel free to ignore, but if they give you a little breathing room - i'm happy to watch more of these
I'm game for any of all of that! I haven't seen any of the shows but I enjoy your discussion about the knitting
Love tea cozy-I think Broomstick lace also called hairin crochet
It looks like some hairpin lace crochet I did when I was a kid
Lovely episode! As much as I love your engineering knitting, I really enjoy this type of video, too. Please do All Creatures Great and Small.
Love his series. I would think that the checkered vest is stranded colorwork because the squares are quite small. It makes more sense to do stranded knitting than embroider all these vertical lines. By the way, one thing that's a bit of a pet peeve: fair isle is a very precise type of stranded knitting from the Fair Isle island. So the correct word for what you are wearing and the vest is actually stranded colorwork.
I love this series! You have such a keen eye for details, I'm learning so much!
I love seeing what knits stand out for you bc I didn’t even notice some of these. 😊 Please definitely make more of these videos they are so much fun to watch! You’re one of my favorite channels ❤
This is such lovely content, I know that stitch from the outer layer on that tea cozy! It's on The Art of Knitting!
No. 5 Knitting Design for shawls, stripes, spreads, afghans, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if the background is a simple garter stitch, sewn together and sewn at the sides with a slot for the spout.
Oh my goodness - men's knitted vests! That took me back. I learned how to knit in the early 60's and still have a free Coats & Clarks Red Heart Yarn flyer with about 8 different knitting patterns. One was a men's vest with two cable panels running up the front and I did knit one for my dad. As an aside, the last pattern in the flyer was a knitted octopus - essentially a round stuffed head with braided yarn legs.
Thanks for your podcasts! I would like to point out that the sweaters that you described as Fair Isle are really Stranded Knitting. Fair Isle is a subset of stranded knitting and follows very specific guidelines. I’m sure you’ll enjoy checking it out. Thanks again!
I’m loving this series!💕
I hope you do continue through all seasons, I thought of you as soon as I saw a knitting machine in a recent ep of season 13.
It's possible that the sources for costumes may have been second-hand shops. There's an exhibition on at the moment at the Museum of London which includes a character from EastEnders' well-known coat and notes that it was bought from a local charity shop. I suspect that either that is true here too, or that it's general costumes archive.
Yes more like this please, love this series you’re doing, thank you
I think the “gossip “ salmon colored sweater may be machine made. That lace design looks very familiar.
Have you seen the Banshees of Inishirin? It's a great movie but also very rough at times and definitely not it a cozy watch. It also features some lovely men's knitwear all made by the same designer and hearing about her process is incredible
PLEASE “All Creatures!” And maybe an episode that instructs how to find vintage patterns.
I'm really enjoying this series! While it would be really fun to see other series as well, I'd rather see your crafting! Maybe once you've done all series of Call The Midwife in a year or so, then move on to the other suggested series like Home Fires and All Creatures?
I really enjoy your content, thank you so much for each and every video! ❤
What you can also do for the vertical stripes is purling thise stripes whole knitting up your piece and after finishing you crochet those vertical stripes to fill the vertical preboliously purled spaces.
They use this method for a vest in the book tartan knits.
You got me addicted to this show lol! I just finished season 12, and I'm tempted to start all over again.i find it to be a comfort show for me. But omg, yes, please keep this series going. And I would also love to see you recreate some of these gorgeous sweaters. ❤
I love all your videos, especially this series. Your enthusiasm is contagious!
I have literally been catching up with Call the midwife because of this series you are doing! I just finished season 3 last night so I am watching this today! I hope you keep this up because I am so pumped and love this series :D
I love this. Keep going.
On the show I think they keep Sister Monica Joan out of trouble with fiber crafts like knitting and crochet. So maybe she made Jenny Lee's s blue scarf and all the other blue scarves ?
The colourwork in the busy Mrs Doyle's sweater looks almost exactly like the one on two hats I've knitted lately. It is fair isle, very simple. I wish I could post a pic here.
My grandmother tatted/crocheted tea cozies, vases, baskets etc. The latter were sugar starched to hold its unique style. She was left handed and I just couldn't learn from her.
Fun episode, and timely. I was at the local thrift store this morning and saw a knitting machine. I have never seen one before in DECADES of thrifting, but I immediately thought of you!
I think that tea cozy pattern is made with hairpin crochet in horizontal stripes. A similar sort of pattern can be seen a youtube tutorial called 'Way to Develop Hairpin Crochet Strip' by Crochet ElenaRugal Studio. There are ways to interlink the loops more as seen on this tea cosy white pattern overlaying the green. A lovely little puzzle to figure out.
Definitely make more videos. Loved this one!
You could do the unofficial call the midwives knitting book
I love these videos! I'd be interested in seeing yarncraft from other shows too, but I know Call The Midwife will have plenty to keep you occupied for a while. 🙂
I just started a rewatch of Call the midwife, I don't think I watched beyond season 5 or 6 so I'm in for a treat I'm sure! I do remember the clothes always catching my eye and I'm definitely curious what yours catches!
So I think part of the tea cozy is crocheted. The top green edging on the ruffle looks like sc and around the edge opening around the spout. I agree, the white part looks like broomstick lace. It’s possible the rest of the green could be crocheted? The crocheted scarf looks like some sort of alternating sc or dc pattern but without a better close up I can’t tell for sure.
The Australian show A Place To Call Home set in the 1950s has multiple great knits (& sewn clothing). It would be great to look at some movies from the era too 😊
Love this series please do all seasons
Love the book idea, I'd buy it
These are so interesting. I’d love to see more 😊
Love this series, thanks for the entertainment 😊
Yes, a knitting book and if you need more inspiration , try The Sullivan's from Australia . Set in Australia at the time of the world wars. A long running series and heaps of Knits.
I have definitely seen crochet lace patterns like that tea cosy! It's made sort of like pineapples with the strands of chains but has a box in the middle instead of the pineapple. I'm searching my pins because I'm sure I have it somewhere. Only trouble is I have no idea what it's called and I literally have thousands of crochet/knit/yarn pins. 😅
Oh I have come across the knit pattern they're suggesting it could be. It seems feasible this could be the pattern, but I know I've definitely seen crochet like this, too! Here's the knit pattern
Instructions
Cast on 36sts, you will work 3 sts border each side
Row 1: knit
Row 2: knit
Row 3: knit
Row 4: k3, *introduce needle on next stitch as you going to knit, 3yo, knit carrying the yarn overs, repeat from* to 3 sts, k3
Row 5: k3, *dropping wraps, pass 6 sts from left to right needle, introduce right needle on 4th, 5th and 6th long wraps of left needle and pass them over first long wraps, bring all 6 long wraps to left needle again and knit one by one, repeat from* to last 3 sts, k3
Repeat row 1 to 5
I love your sweater,the one your wearing,love that pattern, green& white , beautiful
I like once a month. A CtM fibre crafts book would be great! Maybe contact the BBC to help with securing rights to patterns, especially since the show is still going and they might be interested in doing that legwork (or fingerwork these days) for merch.
Hello!
I love watching these reviews. Never seen the show and sometimes I get so involved with the story that I miss out on what people are wearing anyway. Lol
Also, I don't see the link to the pattern for the sweater you are wearing here? I've always loved it and wanted to make it! Thanks!
Is it possible to watch the credits for the name of the costume people? They are sure to be able to help you.
Birdy
I think these are great! I'd love to see your take on The Bletchley Circle's knitted items/fashion pieces!
Looking at that zoomed in picture of the second vest I started wondering whether that's not all over colourwork. The horizontal black lines aren't all black, but have white stiches at the crossings and the patterns seems small enough that it wouldn't be TOO bad to strand behind the white squares (that seem to have some kid of texture to them too?). And the one white row has a black stitches at the crossings. Of course the intersections of the lines switching the colours could be done with mosaic knitting too. And I agree that (as far as I can tell from the video images) it does seem like the vertical black might be embroidered.
Love the podcast! Keep going.
This video pushed me over to subscribe. I really enjoy these!
Really enjoyed this. Thankyou.
I've been subscribed to your channel for a while. I checked today, and I had been unsubscribed... AKA Nora Knits warned us that it happened to one of her viewers and asked us to check. So far, I've found 4 or 5 that I have been unsubscribed from. Just a FYI if your numbers have gone down. 😢
Speaking of anatomically correct knitwear or knitting, I used to work for a Midwifery supply company and one of the items that they sold was an anatomically correct uterus and baby with placenta, in 2018
I'm enjoying this! Also please do All Creatures as there's a specific rust coloured cardigan that Mrs Hall wears in S4 with a sorta leaf/branch motif on the front shoulder I'd love to find a pattern for
Thank . Entertaining and pleasurable to watch
Thanks for searching for all these knits. Sometimes you blink and miss them. I've seen so many knits in the background of All Creature that were wonderful but you only get a glimpse. Trying to keep track of the story line and main characters and focusing on their knit is distracting enough.
I love these insights to vintage knits on tv. I was wondering if you’ve ever seen the “Father Brown” series and if you could comment on those fabulous knits.
The tea cozy, in my opinion, is hairpin lace over a knit garter stitch base. Readers' Digest Complete Guide to Knitting page 440.
I would love it if you made a video about the knits in All Creatures Great and Small. There are such lovely knits in that show.
I have the pattern to make the 1940s, Fair-Isle-necked jumper and I have been wanting to make it for so long! I will do an original 40s style one, and possibly even stick to the original recommended colours? As long as it ends up looking green enough, as I love green! I still have a big back-log after all my Christmas knitting 😅
I own a wee knitted human heart that a friend knitted for me years ago! I had an actual size one too, but the moths got to it 😭
Would definitely love to get my hands and also help test knit for a call the midwife knitting book!! Some designers get people to test knit samples - they mail you yarn and you mail them back the sample for a copy or discount of the finished book!
In the latest season, I'm told, there is a knitting machine. Although the screenshot shared of the machine tells me it can't be a working one placed on a table like that.😁
Have you watched All Creatures Great and Small? Lots of knit wear as well and thanks to you and your videos, I'm appreciating the styles so much more. 😊 Oops, just watched to the end and I guess you have. 🤣🤣🤣
Ok. Glasses off (yes I'm getting old and this helps) and nose 3 inches from the screen to examine the screenshots in all their glory.
Hi @EngineeringKnits, at 2:25 in the video you mention that you'll put the pattern and yarn you used to make the sweater you're wearing in the description. I don't seem to see it. Can you relink to that info please? Thanks! From a fellow Engineer and Knitter :)
I love these
I hope you continue to make these video
love these vids
The cream colored part of the tea cozy looks an awful lot like hairpin lace. I think the green part may be up to your interpretation. As for the blue scarf, I would not be surprised it if was an alternate stitch or some type of V stitch pattern. I hope someone figures it out for you.
Can someone help me find the link to the sweater worn in the video? I’d love to see the vintage pattern. Thank you! Lovely content!
I think that blue scarf is alernate single crochet but i could be wrong.
I've also been looking at that scarf. I thought something like even moss stitch, crossed single crochet stitch, or a high-low stitch, such as griddle st.
I should be asleep instead I looked at the scarf again. It looks like it could be a crocheted moss stitch.
Foyle’s war tv show has the best sweaters!
I just finished watching season 3 and I’m so sad that Jenny left 😢
The one serious problem I have with Call the Midwife is how rarely they mention the people who have left. Jennifer Worth kept in touch with the rest of her colleagues for years, in some cases the rest of their lives. Would it be so hard to have the characters mention I got a letter from so-and-so or we had a lovely visit on my day off etc?
Could anyone direct me towards the link for the sweater she's wearing. Couldn't find the link in the description or anywere else.
My Link got removed… don’t know why…
Google for Etsy Ladies Vintage Jumper 3335 Bust, the yarn she used was knit picks palette.
I made several anatomically correct knitted boobs in varied natural shapes and sizes for our hodpitaks breadtfeefing classes.
well done
Still a smidge baffled that you're not calling this series "call the knitwife"
I love it anyway, though!!
Why not support your local public television network so you have access to PASSPORT which lets you watch British shows like All Creatures Great and Small?