I so love the Edwardian era . I love how you are helping to keep that style alive! I also love how you are incorporating the style to modern times! I pray these styles ketch on! Because women were so very elegant then. I too love to knit , sew & crochet. And I’ve always loved this era. Thank you for sharing your art and inspirations, Sincerely Kelly
Regarding smaller needles; I've done a lot of early historical knitting with embroidery silks and the easiest thing I found honestly was getting wire and just filing the ends to a point and dulling it a little so it wasn't so sharp. Wire is both historically accurate (probably was as similar to early knitting needles as we can come) and it is malleable which is surprisingly useful. It pays to go for as high a quality silver as you can as copper or plated wire alloys are a knitemare after a while on your hands and tarnish/wear very quickly. You need maybe 40cm, which you halve, and some way of filing the end, but I found it pretty easy to obtain everything. This lace lookes great btw!
Thank you! I'm so glad that someone in this community is bringing knitting foward. It's such a big part of historical clothing, and a wonderful skill. I've been trying some Victorian lace patterns myself, and I look forward to using these sources.
I have really been enjoying using Victorian patterns in my knitting, and am so glad I have found a way to share it with others who feel the same way! I hope to see more historical knitting, it fascinates me!
My great-grandmother was a home laundress and her side-hustle of making use of rags by embroidering over holes and knitting or crocheting lace edges for towels, hankies, aprons and basket liners. It became so popular she ended up leaving the laundress job and making only lace dollies and collars in the years before her death (she died in her mid 40s).
Hi I have been looking for a crochet or knitting pattern for women's silk stockings. I found one pattern on antiquepatternlibrary.org, and that surprised me. There should be more. Could you refer me to a site? Thanks.
@@a.r.3476 The stockings I made were wool, not silk. Here is the link though in case you are interested jacobiterose.blogspot.com/2012/11/knitted-stockings.html?m=1
I don’t think there is a seamstress alive that hasn’t sewn their project to the clothes they are wearing at some point! Lol Just found your channel and have binge watched your progress through this gorgeous outfit. You are doing such a beautiful job and taking so much time and care with each step, and it shows in the final results. I also love that you show the bits where you don’t feel you did as well as you could - too many new sewists are intimidated by videos where people don’t show their mistakes and think they are doing something really wrong when they make mistakes. It is all part of the learning process! For someone who hasn’t done much sewing before starting this whole series of projects, you are doing an amazing job!!
My grandmother (born in the late 1870's) crocheted the lace for her undergarments. I've made some very, very fine lace using size 50 crochet cotton and a size 14 crochet hook.
Beautiful work! Someone already said wires, which the prisoners used to make gorgeous lace. Maybe Arizona State Pen. I'm more interested in learning the technique of how to hold the needles which was lost mostly due to social mores. We are twisting our forearms unnecessarily, and holding a forefinger up really can stress the entire arm. Has anyone learned how to swave? One reporter who visited knitters in the Shetland Islands described it as a swaying while singing. Check out A Fisherman Knits since he might be the only one in the US who has mastered it possibly. He uses wires for needles. Spins up really wondrous yarn my Thank you for your incredible work!! I
I was looking for lace patterns I could transfer into light lacey summer socks and found a treasure chest! Thank you so very much for sharing "The Art of Knitting". Fun fact: I once bought a shawl pattern because I liked the big eyelet flower so much. I just used it for socks and everyone asked for the pattern. I was hesitating because of copyright and German Facebook groups are quite strict with sharing even parts of patterns you don't own the copyright. Now I found the exact flower in "The Art of Knitting". Now I can share the pattern pointing out the pattern of the lace flower is already 130 years old.
Music wire from the hardware store is a choice for making finer knitting needles. It is hard drawn wire so its not easy to file it but using a new triangular file to nick it to length can be done. The ends can be annealed over a gas flame. Even an alchol lamp can be used for the finer sizes. It is not easy to make the sizes larger than # 1 needle. Give it a try. They are smooth, but the finest grit abrasive paper is even smoother.
I remember when we went to old houses on tours on history in the laundry they had balls on top of the fire irons that they said were used to press the ruffles and lace by running them over the ball shape. I googled ball fire irons and found it on Amazon if you have a fireplace.
I’m really enjoying your channel. I love what your making, the videography and you combine my love of knitting and newer interest in sewing. I like dogs and mountains too, so I love your landscape shots. If you got or made a tailors ham you could use it to press you sewing and could pin your sewing to it to give you the tension you need. I look forward to the next instalment!
I really loved the billowy earlier version of the top, but the tailored version is also lovely. Thank you for helping me make sense of these older knitting patterns 🙏🏻. I’m not great at visualizing how a thing is supposed to look, especially mid way through the thing.
It's lovely! I recently started crochet, but knitting still intimidates me a bit (especially as I always want to go for the complex things first ;) ). Seeing these laces was very nice, they are beautiful!
On the topic of how to launder items that have starched lace added, perhaps treating the lace like a dust ruffle (only the opposite) might be an option? So you would attach the lace to a bit of bias tape or ribbon and then baste that trimmed lace to the garment. When the garment is washed, you could remove the basting stitches and then re-attach the trimmed lace to the cleaned garment. This would be pretty involved and time consuming, but I think it would still be easier than trying to starch and block lace that is attached to a garment!
My mother used to make her own homemade starch and pour it into the washing machine after the final rinse then she would set the washing machine on the lowest water static. I know she used a fairly good size pot and we hung the sheets outside to dry and we got them hung up on one side we would each take a corner of the sheets and snap them. Just got out any little wrinkles that was in them and after they dried, we would put them on the bed if I was rich and had someone to do this for me, I would have fresh sheets every night of course of those days sheets were cotton and not polyester.
Re very small knitting needles. People from Yugoslavia use bike wheel spokes, shaped at the end with tiny hooks that help when using very fine, and even thick yarn. They make slippers from thick yarn (Arron weight) with these tiny needles. If you have a bike shop and some sort of grinder, you can make your own.
I have a pair of 0.75mm (no idea what that is in US sizes) that I got from a doll show. Doll and bear makers often have very fine kniting/crochet supplies, including 1 and 2 ply wool. eBay has a vast array of knitting supplies. It is, at least, a great place to begin :)
Check out some Tailor pillow to sew on, saw some historical tailors using it as background for their handsewing. (maybe pinsent tailoring mentioned it? Or bernadette banner, don t know i saw it in a victorian book for household needlework)
I've started crochet lace for a sewing project that needs finishing. To be honest the knitting version of lace intimidates me a lot. Maybe someday but for now crochet will have to do
Your videos always put me in such a good mood, it's so nice to see you researching and experimenting : ) you keep me company in my own sewing adventures!
You can sometimes find smaller needles for sale in opportunity shops - such as Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul or hospice shops. Try the shops in older suburbs, or areas with a population whose average age is on the higher side. It is amazing what sometimes turns up - including old threads which are often of a superior quality to anything readily available today.
If you are still interested in smaller knitting needles you may want to try Lacis online. I have purchased some extremely fine knitting wires from them in the past.
Perhaps antique/vintage hat pins might be fine enough for your lace projects. This is just a guess/suggestion. Some were gold plated so that will protect your hands from contact with more reactive metals. Your videos are really great.
I'm not sure if tatting needles are thinner or not. I made a sample with size 10 cotton and size 0 bamboo needles. I don't know if I want to try knitting with smaller thread and needles. I did crochet some lace for pillowcase edging with size 20 thread and size 14 steel hook. It was pretty fast to make. Started a shuttle tatting sampler to experiment with Lizbeth size 80 thread (Hobby Lobby). It is very fine and pretty, but I'm not sure I want to spend enough time to make garment trim.
Knitpro brand - which I think are called something else in the US? Yeah, google isn't super easy on this one so I looked up the review article, they're called Knitter's Pride in the US - make needles called Karbonz which are made of carbon fibre, and they go down to like a 0.75mm in 0.25mm steps. I'd really recommend them, they're so sturdy. I know this is....maybe insane but I so want to make a pair of knitted stockings with tiny tiny needles and silk thread. I made some stockings from a 16th century pattern with 2mm needles and light fingering weight thread and I'm probably just going to do another pair in lace weight and smaller needles with some math for gauge because the pair I have fit so well, and then size down again to thread and tinier needles. Am I the only one who finds it super soothing to do row after row of 'mindless' knitting? I don't have to look at the knitting much and can just relax and watch a video (like your videos :D) or listen to a podcast, I don't find it tiresome at all to have a piece that takes many hours because it's soothing. I also love more complicated projects with fancy lace but I'm having some eye issues right now and while looking at the knitting is fine - which makes no sense, right? - peering at the pattern chart for too long gives me headaches and eyestrain.
Yes I to use electrical fencing wire and make my own needles I think I’m going to call them the emperors new needles since they’re so thin they’re invisible
I was able to find 5/0 needles on amazon. They are Knitter's Pride 00000/1mm Karbonz Double Pointed Needles, 6". 1 size smaller than what you use now. Also, the brand HiyaHiya has had us size 000-000 needles on amazon in the past.
@@sophroniel I have not had any issues with them so far. I have used them for a few months now. I prefer the karbonz because they don't bend in my warm hands.
I couldn't quite tell where on the sides you reduced the fabric on your chemisette. I think reshaping the shoulder and waist seams would help. making the side measurement from the shoulder to the waist smaller would get rid of the gap as well. or maybe a dart.
Thanks for the tips! I took in at the right and left side seams but when I was reviewing the video, I definitely saw the gaping on the shoulder. I agree, I think I should take that in as well!
My finest dpns came from my mother-in-law in a treen tube holder and belonged to her grandmother. Could you try looking at buying from a bric-a-brac store? I think they are 1.5 or 1.25 mm, my guage isn't small enough. They were very probably used for little girls' cotton socks. I'm not sure if the metal have would held up to being finer without bending.
My smallest knitting needles are steel fixed circulars at 0,70 mm. by HyiaHyia. They also offer steel DPNs in 0,70 mm. :) hope that helps and that you find what you are looking for
Actually I went to my favorite source PRYM And they have 1.25 stock listed but with the quarantine good luck says they are silver colored not stainless steel
Megan you can do it with practice! I’m cheering for you, go for it! I used to just knit and never tried crochet after failing to grasp it. Luckily, my brother taught me how to crochet and I have been crocheting ever since, and hoping to crochet lace very soon.
@@EngineeringKnits I'm so glad! Your videos got me hooked on knitting lace (down to me buying a reprint of the 1892 art of knitting lol) and that's where I buy my supplies. :)
Hello Maike. I have a question & it may seem quite silly. If one were to knit yards of lace trim to add to things how on earth do you keep it from falling apart after cutting it or is it best to make it the exact length for a project?
I have typically made the exact length I need for a project, however there has been one occasion where I needed to cut the lace in order to fit! In that case, I used my sewing machine ans I sewed back and forth across the edge where I would be cutting, to keep it from fraying. I probably overdid it a bit, but it is still holding strong! I don't know if this is the 'correct' way, but it does work and is not too noticeable if you use closely matching thread!
Hi. Love your channel. I found a historical pattern site, antiquepatternlibrary.org. I was trying to find a crochet or knitting pattern for women's silk stockings. I found one pattern for silk stockings, and only one or two patterns for regular wool stockings. Same low results when I searched for shawls which surprised me. There should be more. Am I using the wrong terms for shawl for historical garments? I searched "shawl" and "sontag" and came up with one shawl. Any suggestions? Could you refer me to a site? The patterns books ranged from the 1840's to mid 1920's mostly.
I realize this video is a few months old, but if you're still looking for tiny needles there's a shop in St. Charles, MI that sells 5/0, 6/0, and 8/0 needles. She has an online shop where you can order them at shop.victorianpursesbysue.com/product.sc?productId=144&categoryId=6
For anyone looking for teeny tiny needles for lace knitting, I just found Victorian Purses by Sue in Michigan. Here's the online listing for the needles: shop.victorianpursesbysue.com/product.sc?productId=144&categoryId=6 - they're quite affordable and she even has size 8/0!!!
If you (or anyone else) is still looking for smaller needles hiya hiya makes a 6x0 my work sometimes has them, not on the website yet but you can contact us at covetedyarn.com. I love watching ur vids while I'm at the shop! Currently knitting a shawl while I watch tonight
I so love the Edwardian era .
I love how you are helping to keep that style alive!
I also love how you are incorporating the style to modern times!
I pray these styles ketch on!
Because women were so very elegant then.
I too love to knit , sew & crochet.
And I’ve always loved this era.
Thank you for sharing your art and inspirations,
Sincerely Kelly
Regarding smaller needles; I've done a lot of early historical knitting with embroidery silks and the easiest thing I found honestly was getting wire and just filing the ends to a point and dulling it a little so it wasn't so sharp. Wire is both historically accurate (probably was as similar to early knitting needles as we can come) and it is malleable which is surprisingly useful. It pays to go for as high a quality silver as you can as copper or plated wire alloys are a knitemare after a while on your hands and tarnish/wear very quickly. You need maybe 40cm, which you halve, and some way of filing the end, but I found it pretty easy to obtain everything. This lace lookes great btw!
You can also use extra long sewing needles!
In my jewelry making kit I hav a tool that is just for rounding off wire ends. I found it in the beading section of JoAnn Fabric
Thank you! That's precious information to have!
Knitpro 1.00 km knitting needles
@@forgetmenotjem1147 Now I am imagining what knitting needles with a 1 kilometer circumference would look like😆
Thank you! I'm so glad that someone in this community is bringing knitting foward. It's such a big part of historical clothing, and a wonderful skill. I've been trying some Victorian lace patterns myself, and I look forward to using these sources.
I have really been enjoying using Victorian patterns in my knitting, and am so glad I have found a way to share it with others who feel the same way! I hope to see more historical knitting, it fascinates me!
My great-grandmother was a home laundress and her side-hustle of making use of rags by embroidering over holes and knitting or crocheting lace edges for towels, hankies, aprons and basket liners. It became so popular she ended up leaving the laundress job and making only lace dollies and collars in the years before her death (she died in her mid 40s).
I'm so thrilled to find someone who is just as excited about historical knitting as I am! I just completed some lace stockings from a 1940s pattern. 💚
Hi I have been looking for a crochet or knitting pattern for women's silk stockings. I found one pattern on antiquepatternlibrary.org, and that surprised me. There should be more. Could you refer me to a site? Thanks.
@@a.r.3476 The stockings I made were wool, not silk. Here is the link though in case you are interested jacobiterose.blogspot.com/2012/11/knitted-stockings.html?m=1
I don’t think there is a seamstress alive that hasn’t sewn their project to the clothes they are wearing at some point! Lol Just found your channel and have binge watched your progress through this gorgeous outfit. You are doing such a beautiful job and taking so much time and care with each step, and it shows in the final results. I also love that you show the bits where you don’t feel you did as well as you could - too many new sewists are intimidated by videos where people don’t show their mistakes and think they are doing something really wrong when they make mistakes. It is all part of the learning process! For someone who hasn’t done much sewing before starting this whole series of projects, you are doing an amazing job!!
That’s an extremely adorable addition and really completes tying it into the overall goal you set! Who doesn’t love a little touch of lace?
Thank you, I really enjoyed making this little addition!
My grandmother (born in the late 1870's) crocheted the lace for her undergarments. I've made some very, very fine lace using size 50 crochet cotton and a size 14 crochet hook.
How old are you? My calculations say you have to be at least 83? If so that's incredible.
Beautiful work! Someone already said wires, which the prisoners used to make gorgeous lace. Maybe Arizona State Pen.
I'm more interested in learning the technique of how to hold the needles which was lost mostly due to social mores. We are twisting our forearms unnecessarily, and holding a forefinger up really can stress the entire arm. Has anyone learned how to swave? One reporter who visited knitters in the Shetland Islands described it as a swaying while singing. Check out A Fisherman Knits since he might be the only one in the US who has mastered it possibly. He uses wires for needles. Spins up really wondrous yarn my
Thank you for your incredible work!! I
I was looking for lace patterns I could transfer into light lacey summer socks and found a treasure chest! Thank you so very much for sharing "The Art of Knitting". Fun fact: I once bought a shawl pattern because I liked the big eyelet flower so much. I just used it for socks and everyone asked for the pattern. I was hesitating because of copyright and German Facebook groups are quite strict with sharing even parts of patterns you don't own the copyright. Now I found the exact flower in "The Art of Knitting". Now I can share the pattern pointing out the pattern of the lace flower is already 130 years old.
Music wire from the hardware store is a choice for making finer knitting needles. It is hard drawn wire so its not easy to file it but using a new triangular file to nick it to length can be done. The ends can be annealed over a gas flame. Even an alchol lamp can be used for the finer sizes. It is not easy to make the sizes larger than # 1 needle. Give it a try. They are smooth, but the finest grit abrasive paper is even smoother.
Loved to see that you pinned the work to your sweats, such a great idea and I will probably use it myself in the future. Thank you.
I remember when we went to old houses on tours on history in the laundry they had balls on top of the fire irons that they said were used to press the ruffles and lace by running them over the ball shape. I googled ball fire irons and found it on Amazon if you have a fireplace.
I’m really enjoying your channel. I love what your making, the videography and you combine my love of knitting and newer interest in sewing. I like dogs and mountains too, so I love your landscape shots.
If you got or made a tailors ham you could use it to press you sewing and could pin your sewing to it to give you the tension you need.
I look forward to the next instalment!
I have been looking all over for info on how to recreate this kind of lace, thank you!!
Well, looking for smaller needles my grandpa (!) taught me knitting with tatting needles when I was a young boy (!). It's worth a try. x
I really loved the billowy earlier version of the top, but the tailored version is also lovely. Thank you for helping me make sense of these older knitting patterns 🙏🏻. I’m not great at visualizing how a thing is supposed to look, especially mid way through the thing.
Wow it looks stunning. So much work has gone into the garment but it was so worth it.
It was definitely a ton of work, but so satisfying to work slowly on each piece!
It's lovely! I recently started crochet, but knitting still intimidates me a bit (especially as I always want to go for the complex things first ;) ). Seeing these laces was very nice, they are beautiful!
I love all the patience, care and love that you put in all the process. Keep on working like that! I brings you, and many of us, joy and happiness.
On the topic of how to launder items that have starched lace added, perhaps treating the lace like a dust ruffle (only the opposite) might be an option? So you would attach the lace to a bit of bias tape or ribbon and then baste that trimmed lace to the garment. When the garment is washed, you could remove the basting stitches and then re-attach the trimmed lace to the cleaned garment. This would be pretty involved and time consuming, but I think it would still be easier than trying to starch and block lace that is attached to a garment!
They are very pretty, I think is very cool that you make your own lace...
My mother used to make her own homemade starch and pour it into the washing machine after the final rinse then she would set the washing machine on the lowest water static. I know she used a fairly good size pot and we hung the sheets outside to dry and we got them hung up on one side we would each take a corner of the sheets and snap them. Just got out any little wrinkles that was in them and after they dried, we would put them on the bed if I was rich and had someone to do this for me, I would have fresh sheets every night of course of those days sheets were cotton and not polyester.
Re very small knitting needles. People from Yugoslavia use bike wheel spokes, shaped at the end with tiny hooks that help when using very fine, and even thick yarn. They make slippers from thick yarn (Arron weight) with these tiny needles. If you have a bike shop and some sort of grinder, you can make your own.
I have a pair of 0.75mm (no idea what that is in US sizes) that I got from a doll show. Doll and bear makers often have very fine kniting/crochet supplies, including 1 and 2 ply wool. eBay has a vast array of knitting supplies. It is, at least, a great place to begin :)
Good job. Wow you have beautiful work 😍 👏 ❤️!
Ansolitely gorgeous it’s a lost art. Perhaps you will show more trim for skirt tutorial.
It looks so good with the lace added!
That lace is lovely and looks wonderful on the collar!
Check out some Tailor pillow to sew on, saw some historical tailors using it as background for their handsewing. (maybe pinsent tailoring mentioned it? Or bernadette banner, don t know i saw it in a victorian book for household needlework)
Marieke from Enchanted rose costumes has a video that featured making pin lace, she used a pillow. It wasn’t knitted however.
Your entire channel is one of the best finds I have made on youtube! I would love to make my own laces and this was good inspiration!
I am so excited to see your progress on this! Can't wait for the next video!
I've started crochet lace for a sewing project that needs finishing. To be honest the knitting version of lace intimidates me a lot. Maybe someday but for now crochet will have to do
Your videos always put me in such a good mood, it's so nice to see you researching and experimenting : ) you keep me company in my own sewing adventures!
Your videos are getting better and better and i'm excited for when your ensemble is complete :)
Thank you so much!
I'm breathless . Absolutely beautiful. Your enthusiasm and patience are timeless and your honesty gave me a chuckle. I must give all these a try 🌹
Nice work! Thanks for sharing your work with us.
You can sometimes find smaller needles for sale in opportunity shops - such as Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul or hospice shops. Try the shops in older suburbs, or areas with a population whose average age is on the higher side. It is amazing what sometimes turns up - including old threads which are often of a superior quality to anything readily available today.
If you are still interested in smaller knitting needles you may want to try Lacis online. I have purchased some extremely fine knitting wires from them in the past.
Perhaps antique/vintage hat pins might be fine enough for your lace projects. This is just a guess/suggestion. Some were gold plated so that will protect your hands from contact with more reactive metals. Your videos are really great.
Absolutely incredible! Beautiful, talented work!
Thank you so much 😀
Beautiful
I enjoy what i learn here. It is a gret way if self expression too.
I'm not sure if tatting needles are thinner or not. I made a sample with size 10 cotton and size 0 bamboo needles. I don't know if I want to try knitting with smaller thread and needles. I did crochet some lace for pillowcase edging with size 20 thread and size 14 steel hook. It was pretty fast to make. Started a shuttle tatting sampler to experiment with Lizbeth size 80 thread (Hobby Lobby). It is very fine and pretty, but I'm not sure I want to spend enough time to make garment trim.
Knitpro brand - which I think are called something else in the US? Yeah, google isn't super easy on this one so I looked up the review article, they're called Knitter's Pride in the US - make needles called Karbonz which are made of carbon fibre, and they go down to like a 0.75mm in 0.25mm steps. I'd really recommend them, they're so sturdy. I know this is....maybe insane but I so want to make a pair of knitted stockings with tiny tiny needles and silk thread. I made some stockings from a 16th century pattern with 2mm needles and light fingering weight thread and I'm probably just going to do another pair in lace weight and smaller needles with some math for gauge because the pair I have fit so well, and then size down again to thread and tinier needles.
Am I the only one who finds it super soothing to do row after row of 'mindless' knitting? I don't have to look at the knitting much and can just relax and watch a video (like your videos :D) or listen to a podcast, I don't find it tiresome at all to have a piece that takes many hours because it's soothing. I also love more complicated projects with fancy lace but I'm having some eye issues right now and while looking at the knitting is fine - which makes no sense, right? - peering at the pattern chart for too long gives me headaches and eyestrain.
Thank you for sharing, very helpful info. Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄
Beautiful 😍
Yes I to use electrical fencing wire and make my own needles I think I’m going to call them the emperors new needles since they’re so thin they’re invisible
Knitter's Pride makes a 00000 dpn set in their Karbonz line. I found a set at Churchmouse Yarns on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Wow, I’m so I’m so impressed with your work. 👌💕
I was able to find 5/0 needles on amazon. They are Knitter's Pride 00000/1mm Karbonz Double Pointed Needles, 6". 1 size smaller than what you use now. Also, the brand HiyaHiya has had us size 000-000 needles on amazon in the past.
How sturdy did you find them? I don't mind the karbonz but had much better luck with honestly modified wire.
@@sophroniel I have not had any issues with them so far. I have used them for a few months now. I prefer the karbonz because they don't bend in my warm hands.
I couldn't quite tell where on the sides you reduced the fabric on your chemisette. I think reshaping the shoulder and waist seams would help. making the side measurement from the shoulder to the waist smaller would get rid of the gap as well. or maybe a dart.
Thanks for the tips! I took in at the right and left side seams but when I was reviewing the video, I definitely saw the gaping on the shoulder. I agree, I think I should take that in as well!
My finest dpns came from my mother-in-law in a treen tube holder and belonged to her grandmother. Could you try looking at buying from a bric-a-brac store? I think they are 1.5 or 1.25 mm, my guage isn't small enough. They were very probably used for little girls' cotton socks. I'm not sure if the metal have would held up to being finer without bending.
So beautiful!
All you need now is a beautiful hat.
I would love a beautiful hat, I was thinking of trying out millinery, but please let me know if you have any resources, I've never made a hat before!
My smallest knitting needles are steel fixed circulars at 0,70 mm. by HyiaHyia. They also offer steel DPNs in 0,70 mm. :) hope that helps and that you find what you are looking for
Actually I went to my favorite source PRYM And they have 1.25 stock listed but with the quarantine good luck says they are silver colored not stainless steel
I always liked knit lace. I crochet lace-exclusively. I want to learn knit-lace- but I'm not the best knitter whatsoever. 😢
Megan you can do it with practice! I’m cheering for you, go for it! I used to just knit and never tried crochet after failing to grasp it. Luckily, my brother taught me how to crochet and I have been crocheting ever since, and hoping to crochet lace very soon.
In the "old" days. Maids would remove the lace and launder and starch it separately from the clothing...
Knitpro needles size 1.00mm
There is a website called Miniature Needlework where they sell the smallest knitting needles
Do you have any courses in how to Knit Victorian style shawls and scarves?
SharonsMiniKnits on Etsy sells 1mm, 0.8mm and 0.6mm needles
I am allergic to all laces, so I have to knit or crochet my own. You are the perfect channel for me
Try lacis.com. they specialize in lace making materials and sell knitting supplies.
I found some 5-0 needles there, that is amazing thank you so much! And so many other supplies for other lace making techniques, how exciting.
@@EngineeringKnits I'm so glad! Your videos got me hooked on knitting lace (down to me buying a reprint of the 1892 art of knitting lol) and that's where I buy my supplies. :)
Where do you buy such tiny needles for your lace making. I would so like to try this.
Your work in fantastic . I love the historical nature of
Victorian Purses by Sue has some: shop.victorianpursesbysue.com/product.sc?productId=144&categoryId=6
Hello Maike. I have a question & it may seem quite silly. If one were to knit yards of lace trim to add to things how on earth do you keep it from falling apart after cutting it or is it best to make it the exact length for a project?
I have typically made the exact length I need for a project, however there has been one occasion where I needed to cut the lace in order to fit! In that case, I used my sewing machine ans I sewed back and forth across the edge where I would be cutting, to keep it from fraying. I probably overdid it a bit, but it is still holding strong! I don't know if this is the 'correct' way, but it does work and is not too noticeable if you use closely matching thread!
@@EngineeringKnits Thank you so much!
Where can one purchase 4x00 needles?!
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Hi. Love your channel. I found a historical pattern site, antiquepatternlibrary.org. I was trying to find a crochet or knitting pattern for women's silk stockings. I found one pattern for silk stockings, and only one or two patterns for regular wool stockings. Same low results when I searched for shawls which surprised me. There should be more. Am I using the wrong terms for shawl for historical garments? I searched "shawl" and "sontag" and came up with one shawl. Any suggestions? Could you refer me to a site? The patterns books ranged from the 1840's to mid 1920's mostly.
I realize this video is a few months old, but if you're still looking for tiny needles there's a shop in St. Charles, MI that sells 5/0, 6/0, and 8/0 needles. She has an online shop where you can order them at shop.victorianpursesbysue.com/product.sc?productId=144&categoryId=6
I'm super allergic to laces. So, from now on, all hand knit by me. All lace.
Try Dharma Trading Company, in San Rafael,, California
For anyone looking for teeny tiny needles for lace knitting, I just found Victorian Purses by Sue in Michigan. Here's the online listing for the needles: shop.victorianpursesbysue.com/product.sc?productId=144&categoryId=6 - they're quite affordable and she even has size 8/0!!!
You should submit your videos to @costubeguide on Instagram so more people can see!
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If you (or anyone else) is still looking for smaller needles hiya hiya makes a 6x0 my work sometimes has them, not on the website yet but you can contact us at covetedyarn.com. I love watching ur vids while I'm at the shop! Currently knitting a shawl while I watch tonight