ALL the things I knit and crocheted (with handspun yarn) in 2023!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Hello friends! At the beginning of 2024 I would like to take a look at all the projects I knit in 2023. And I must admit, it is a LOT. More than any sane person would knit in a year, but here we are. Especially if you count in the fact that except for a couple of smaller projects everything is made with yarn I spun on my own spinningwheels and spindles. So yes, you read that right, practically all of it is also handspun. So let's take a look at my 2023 in knitting!
I want to be clear: I challenge myself to knit a lot, but you shouldn't see this as a benchmark you have to reach as well. I have a lot of time to knit, knitting is a major part in my mental health journey as well, so if you don't knit as much as I do: that's completely normal. And maybe even healthier.
But I am curious, maybe some of you knit even more than I do? Tell me in the comments!
You can find all of the knitted projects that were featured on my channel in this handy playlist: • I knit a Victorian cyc...
Or if you want to check them out seperately:
The Marzipan Pullover: • Frogging a Failed Proj...
The 1894 Tam O' Shanter: • Knitting a Victorian T...
The 1940s wartime effort sweater vest: • Knitting for victory? ...
My Pathfinder character plushie: • Knitting That Frog but...
The not so succesfull 1940s sweater: • How (NOT) to knit a 19...
The not so succesfull angora hat: • Let's spin the Easter ...
The Rey Cosplay: • Knitting a Rey Skywalk...
The crochet festival essentials: • Crocheting accessories...
The Ariana cardigan: • Granny Square Day: Cha...
My husband's sweater part 1: • Knitting a Vintage 195...
The Socktober stockings: • Knitting Vintage Lace ...
My husband's sweater part 2: • Knitting a Vintage 195...
The spindle spun edge of twilight hat: • Spindle to Garment: Cr...
The 1970s does 1940s sweater: • Frogging a Project and...
The emotional support sweater: • Spinning and Knitting ...
If the stuff I made this year inspires you, here you find a list of all the patters:
*The Butterick 1897 Victorian Cycling Sweater: www.ravelry.co...
The Marzipan Pullover: www.ravelry.co...
The 1894 Tam O' Shanter: archive.org/de...
Frog: www.ravelry.co...
Le Velu: www.ravelry.co...
Rey: www.ravelry.co...
Granny Fanny Pack: www.ravelry.co...
Alberta Sunshine: www.ravelry.co...
Ariana Cardigan: www.ravelry.co...
Quick Ombré Hat: www.ravelry.co...
1950s sweater: freevintagekni...
Edge of Twilight hat: www.ravelry.co...
Lumme: www.ravelry.co...
*Frosted Cathedral: www.ravelry.co...
If you want to join in on the chaos, you can join the patreon via: / mijnwolden
You can also find me on Ravelry and Instagram as @MijnWolden
If you enjoy spinning, yarn, knitting, fiber arts or any other traditional craft then this channel is right up your alley. Maybe you could hit that subscribe button?
You're definitely one of my favorite channels that I started subscribing to in 2023!
Thank you ☺️♥️
I couldnt even pick a favourite item you have created. They are all amazing.. I am a complete sucker for anything granny square being a crocheter (its almost compulsory lol) but I am always blown away seeing your knitting creations and you are literally the only person i follow on here who I can happily sit down and watch your videos one after another for my shenanigans fix lol. I look forward to seeing where you take us in 2024 ☺️
Haha compulsory granny love, that's a first 😁
My plans for 2024 are to make a double knitted scarf that matches the hat I made. I also want to finish the shawl I am knitting for my sister. And I want to finish the sweater for my daughter.
I also want to do more spinning, so I at least want to spin something for my youngest kid with the wool I got in October.
Oh yeah, I also want to weave something on my loom. I still haven't woven any of my handspun, so that's something I want to do too...
Where I am going to find the time to do all this, I don't know. 😂
Time is a problem yes haha 😅
my favourite project: the "trick you into watching me knit a stockinette sweater" sweater! Because it makes me happy to see a not so successful piece remade into something more successful!!!!
my 2024 plans (more like what's on my currect want to do list): do some alterations on thifted knitted pieces. There are so many more useful pieces that I want, but for know, I just want to see those beautiful pieces fit me the way I want, because I really want to wear them!!!! Bright yellow sweater with embroidered pink flowers!!!! HELLO YES!!!!
HELLO YES I AM HYPE TOO 😁
Thanks for the very fun review. I look forward to your version of the husband knit. I love the natural dark wools and one day I will be able to buy some, I hope.
I hope you do too!
i love all u made. u are fun to watch too! i see u come on with a new video and i get so happy to see what u are up to next. My fave is the knee high lace socks! I knitted and crocheted everyone in the family slippers and socks for xmas and our handyman always comes for the holidays. Our handyman got teary eyed cause of the slippers i made him. i love all your knittings.
Oh how nice you made a pair for the handyman too!
I enjoyed every single one of your videos this year. You just make my days brighter and inspire me a lot! I wish you lots of luck and fun and good health for 2024 and I'm looking forward to your new projects a lot :)
I'm currently knitting rainbow socks that make my queer heart really happy. And I'm looking forward to many more spinning/knitting/crochet/embroidery projects this year!
Rainbow socks!!!
Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm ... I feel the same way about fiber and textiles... Love, Love, Love!!! you are such an inspiring fiber artist.. so pleased I found your channel. I am a hand-spinner, knitter, quilter from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Thank you 😁 happy crafting!
Happy 2024. Finally found time to watch the video. I love your marzipan sweater. But I am overall impressed by all tge spinning and knitting you have finished.
I don't have concrete crafting plans for the year. But being in Vietnam right now I plan on some summer tops. Have Saris sunkissed top on the needles right now.
Have a great day
Happy 2024 for you too. Summer Knits are probably more useful in Vietnam than warm winter knits indeed. Have Fun traveling!
First of all: may happiness and health be always with you and your loved ones in 2024!
Crafting for mental health - I hear you. Just call it productive therapy. The side effects are so much more bearable (and wearable 😁) than with pharmaceutical choices! 😊
I haven’t knitted as much as you did, but that is just because of my fulltime job. It always seems to interfere with my creative side. 😅
So you turned 30 last year… in other words: you were born when I graduated from University. Jeez, I’m old! 😂
Yes, fulltime jobs do make knitting time more sparse than we'd like 😁
Good morning from Australia
lovely informative video as always
I do like your pattern choices, especially when you 'do your own thing' successfully.
RE: Angora hat (fail). Some ideas: only frog the band below the indigo work, and use smaller needles/more frequent decreases to make the beret style fit you but be looser. The body of the hat is lovely.
OR Hold the brim in hot water and shrink it back down.
I really like the Giant's sweater. I enjoyed the whole process and he looked so impressive posing to show it off.
Cheers for 2024
Sally
The body is quite a bit too large for my liking too, still not sure what to do
Love watching you 😂🎉❤,you make my day, I smile through all of this video, because I watched you make all of these items, I loved your lace socks, maybe this year you could spin up and dye yarn for a shawl or wrap ❤️ hope you have another fun full year for 2024, I will be watching you from south Australia with my sheep and alpacas
Oh say 'hi' to the sheep and alpacas from me 😁
My highlight of 2023 was finding your channel!
2024 plans: dive into plant and fungi dyed wool experiments! Im currently making mini skeins to practice my spinning techniques that will be perfect for small batch dying.
I'm now also inspired to make my own niddy noddy - did you make yours? Its gorgeous
I made my niddynoddy indeed, it's just a couple of twigs rigged together 😁
I think my favorite of your projects from 2023 would have to be the marzipan pullover. I now want to make one myself. My 2024 plans involve spinning to knit my Fiance a hoodie out of a blend of Finn wool and a mystery fleece I got from the Australia sheep and wool show last year. I also want to knit myself an Orenburg lace shawl, and my first ever cardigan for myself, probably also out of handspun.
He'll be delighted with the hoodie!
Happy 2024! I really hope it's better for a lot of people than 2023 was.
Regarding the alpaca - I think of alpaca in relation to Peru and I then think of those big jackets that were knitted in Peru and very fashionable back in the 1970s. So I'd suggest you find a 1970s pattern for the alpaca, strikes me as a nice confluence of concepts. I look forward to seeing your projects and chaos goblin shenanigans.
My project plans: I'm working on a rather intricate colourwork hat at the moment, it's going to be part of a set but I'm going to need to order more wool before I can finish the set. (That wool is really bad, it's in all these colours and I look at them and use a little for this and a little for that and suddenly I need more.)
A number of my projects will have to wait until my knee is back in working order and I can drive again, as I need some audio-visual-electronics related things. That leads me to the elf sock project. It began with a simple modification of a full-sized, adult sock pattern and I have written that out - and done most of the proof-reading corrections! But then there's going to be the colourwork version of the elf sock pattern, which is not yet written down and, indeed, not yet knitted. So that will need to be workshopped and written down (and I need some more wool, see above, that's where some of the wool went). When the patterns are written out correctly I want to publish them on Ravelry and also do an instructional video. The AV stuff is needed for the instructional video.
Then I want to do a simple Introduction to Vintage Knitting, also as an instructional video, intended for people who have never done any vintage knitting and who may be a little unsure of how to get started.
I've just finished spinning 382 yards of "natural medium" Corriedale (Ashford combed top), not quite sure what I'm going to do with that, but I also have a packet of the natural white and the natural light to spin, so I've got some time to think about it.
As to what I will *_actually_* end up doing in with fibre and yarn in 2024 is anyone's guess. I was astonished to discover that I can buy zwartbles fleece in Australia. Maybe, when my knee lets me drive again, I will get some alum... there are some things in my garden that I think might create interesting natural dyes...
Fantastic plans! Even if in the end you end up doing something different 😁
Wow, that's so much yarn and so much crafting! Congratulations on a year's worth of work and happy new year!
Happy new year and happy crafting to you too!
I recently found your channel and have been binging your videos. Love them all. You are a chaos goblin queen and chaos goblin is a new phrase I happily add to my vocabulary
Thank you 😁
Which project of yours is my favorite? All of the above. My project plans for this year is to make myself a cabled sweater and spin and knit up socks for my men folk.
Cabled sweaters are always a good plan
Are you calling yourself a chaos goblin?? I might copy you and use that for myself 😂
Yes, because I am 😅
Wowser, that's a lot! My favorite is the chaos goblin socks (at 16 min in), Gorgeous 😻
Thank you 😁
Happy New Year! I'm excited to see all your projects coming up ❤
Happy new year to you too!
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Instead of adding elastic, you should try knitting some garters
While a great idea, I'll not do that on UA-cam for reasons :D
Fantastic knitting for the year, let’s hope I get more knitting and spinning done in 2024
Thank you 😁
Just remember if you use only alpaca for a sweater it will drop just what alpaca does as it has no memory a bit like the hat, you don’t seem to have 🧶 knitted any gloves 🧤 or mittens or am I mistaken. I wear my fingerless mitts a lot as well as my cowls, the shawls seem to sit in the cupboard unworn now I am retired
I knitted gloves last year, and they still serve me Well 😁
My favorite is the 1940s wartime one, you looked adorable in the shot with the camera! ❤
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Are you from Belgium? I sense a Flemish accent.
Your Flemish spidey senses are correct 😉
you did so great , thank you for a wounderfull year , I look farward to what you will make in this coming year , thank you
Thank you :D
Ooooh, I'm SO excited to see you tackle those bright red colors! That's going to be so much fun. Everything you made is stunning, I genuinely can't pick a favorite! I do really like your 1940's re-knit, and how the colors subtly shift throughout it.
(secret: I'm tackling the bright reds as we speak, I'll dm you a sneak peak over discord ;) )
The hat - Musselburgh - is pronounced Musselburra. It is a seaside town in Scotland.
When pointed out like that, it does make a lot of sense. Too bad my non-native english brain doesn't always make sense... :)
@@MijnWolden don't worry about it - English/US people often cannot pronounce Scottish names correctly 😅
You are prolific! Congrats on a great year.
Not half a henley in 4 days, but yeah I'm pretty fast 😉
Hi Jente, Happy New Year to you and Dries 🎉🎉🎉.
Wow, that's a lot of Handspun Hand Knitted projects.
I think the Colour Work Sweater you made with the yarn you bought in Barcelona is my Favourite, favorite but then I have 2 others, one is the Sweater you Handspun, Hand Knitted for your Giant ( sorry, I mean Dries) and the last one is the Super Chunky Handspun, Hand Knitted you finished last week.
Mmm, somehow I think Dries and your Mum conspired together for your Christmas Presents 😅😅🎁🎁
Can't wait to see what you make with them.
Happy Spinning and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love, Blessings and Big Hugs to you both Jen xxxx ❤️❤️💖💖💖🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕
You would think they conspired, but no my mom was totally surprised by it!
@@MijnWolden Hi Jente, I'm glad that they hadn't conspired, makes more of a surprise for your Mum and Dries.
Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥
Sending Heart ♥ back to you ❤️💞🎀
Thankyou for sharing All of your video podcasts and your Fibre Shenanigans in 2023. 🐑🐑🐑🌟🌟🌟
I wonder how much you'll get done this year.
Happy Spinning, Knitting and Crotcheting Fibre Friend 🎡🎉🎉🐑🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️💖💖🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕
I like the scarf you made for your mom - that was a sweet video. I think in 2024 you should challenge yourself with a larger project: handspin fingering yarn, weave it into several large enough pieces that you can make yourself a A-line skirt.
Ok, so in the video that is scheduled two weeks from now I utter that same idea ... Great minds or something?
@@MijnWolden Very much looking forward to this one! 🤗
OMG happy 30! me too!!!!!!!!
A good year 😎
I'm inspired by your marzipan sweater knit and am planning on doing it in some hand dyed yarn I got in the summer. I have been spinning alpaca fibre for a while and am hoping to make a small skirt with it when I have enough (reasonably short, cabled, negative ease. I just want to look like a mug cosy)
Is there a close up of those neon orange socks in any video? (Or image on other social media?)
Cup cosy is goals. 😎
@@MijnWolden watching this I was like "wow, 19 projects that's loads" just counted mine and if I include knitting, crochet, sewing and weaving I did 68 this year 😂 only about 4 things if it's handspun only though!
I went to edit my comment because i think i referred to things being amazing 4 times, and i realised i needed skme other vocabulary, but then i found that youtube had deleted my comment and editing it yielded it a 404 not found. So apologies if my comment comes up twice.
It might be because my comment had a link in it. I wanted to suggest a 1950s pattern to you that i think you would enjoy in your handspun and that would look spectacular IMO. The same idea was also reused in the 1980s by Patricia Roberts in her Spectrum pattern, but i like the 1950s one better.
Have a happy rest of your holidays!
I'll PM you on Instagram with the link
UA-cam does indeed not like links in their comments 😬
I find UA-cam doesn't mind links if you paste the link as plain text. Right click and select "paste as plain text" or use [CTRL][shift][V].
I am not nearly as good as a knitter as you, but l hope to eventually be good enough to also knit a cycling sweater. Until then l’ll be glad if l manage to knit a regular sweater 🤣.
Oh but, the hardest part of a cycling sweater is that it consists of very large rectangles of really Tiny needles. The most advanced skill you need is Patience. If you know how to knit, purl, increase and decrease, a cycling sweater is actually quite easy.
@@MijnWolden I do know all of these things, but I'm not very fond of TINY needles (I'm not even sure I own any, oops!).
@@ShenanigansinMotion I know that the modernised pattern asks for 3.25 mm needles, but I had to go down to 2.25mm to meet gauge
@@MijnWolden I definitely don't own either. I'm going to knit a regular sweater first and then I'm going to venture into my local yarn store and get smoll needles. But first I'm going to finish the 3 cowl balaclavas and that damn débardeurke (and put the corset back in the top I knitted oversized because I'm a doofus) before I cast on anything else. Things are getting silly!
So much work!! I love your descriptions! Enjoy 2024!!!!
Thank you 😁
Amazing work! Just beautiful, and it's impossible to pick a favorite from your collection! I can't wait to see what you make this year! I made 20 hand processed and spun projects in 2023. 18 were hats, scarves and neck warmers. I gave away 18 as Christmas gifts, and I let everyone pick out what they wanted which was so much fun watching what they chose! I also made myself a beautiful baby alpaca sweater that I took on an European vacation with me, and I also kept one super fuzzy baby alpaca scarf for myself. I'm off and running in 2024, and almost finished with a scarf for next year's Christmas gift pile.
What a great idea!
ALL of your knitting is AMAZING especially considering the majority of your knitting is with your hand spun yarn!! Hard to choose my favorite, but the Marzipan it is!! I live in the USA, Southern part, so not much need for sweaters sadly, I tend to knit 90% socks, planning to crochet a blanket this year!! So enjoy your podcasts!!!!
Happy that I'm in western Europe then, I love my sweaters too much 😁
I still love the bulky sweater so much haha but the high socks and the marzipan sweater are also favourites.
For the alpaca, how about a historical shawl or capelet? It feels like it'd drape nicely.
Looking forward to new projects!
It does drape very nice, though I'm not really a shawl person 😅
My gosh, that are a lot of projects! You must be the fastest knitter I know!
I really love the basic ariadne sweater. I'm a succer for a simple sweater and it fits you very well!
Having UA-cam deadlines sure helps 🤭
I love every single one of your projects. When I know you have a new video out I can’t wait to sit down and watch it! Your fiber shenanigans are so fun, you inspire me, and it gives me joy to watch you create. I can’t wait to see what you’ll do in 2024.
Thank you 😁🥰
So happy I found your spinning and knitting content! Happy 2024 I can't wait to see what you make next.
Thank you ☺️♥️