I really appreciate you showing the try-it cords. Seeing them in action confirmed that I don’t need to waste my money on them. It’s so much easier to use a cable connector and just add another long cable, try on, then remove the extra cable and keep going. Not nearly as fiddly and nerve wrecking.
37" Chiaogoo spin cord with a union and a stopper stays permanently together in a bag; one each in small and large, takes seconds to prepare to try on.
Agreed! Watching it made me realize it wasn't just me or user error making the barber cords overly fiddly and time consuming. Even with great technique it's not that quick. I have a set of barber cords but hate them. With my Addi click interchangeable set I will just stop one row before I want to try on, knit a round onto my 60" cord and I'm good to go for trying on. Knit back onto my smaller cord after trying on - *zero* knitting time wasted and my stitches are 100 percent secure the entire time. For my husband same but using an 80" cord to try on.
I don’t move them off the needle. I just attach the cord to the ends of my two needles and move some stitches off until I have enough room to try it on.
Absolutely! That was an awful lot of work and time. I use an extender and extra cord. I never have to move stitches on or off something else. I was exhausted just watching! 😂
Waiting for that fluffy pink yarn was the right choice for sure. It is the perfect color for the other and it does make your sweater GLOW. I appreciate the Try It On Tubing tutorial. Those tips will come in handy.
STUNNING Alpenglow! Too often I talk myself into knitting with colors that I'm just not sold on. And while I think there's a place for not overthinking color as well as having fun with color combos outside your comfort zone, watching you go from color choices you would have liked but not loved to the absolute perfect combo was such a reminder that for special projects it really is worth taking the time (and unfortunately sometimes extra money) to find a combo you love.
This might be crazy but wouldn't it be fun to save your gauge swatches and crochet them together and I've time have an afghan made up of all your swatches. It could be a memory blanket of all your projects.
I was just typing out a comment that suggested that same idea same idea. Then you have something that you can look back on and see all the swatches of past projects so even if you donate those projects elsewhere you still have a piece of it.
Love the idea of a ribbed Musselburgh. I wonder if they will stretch differently. Looking forward to seeing how it works out as I think it's a great idea that I might be copying 😉
Ooh the second toque is so pretty! Sometimes if it's really windy, it's nice to have the extra roll of fabric to protect your ears from the wind. But then again, I have sensitive ears so I prefer that
Hi Natalie, thank you for showing how to use the try it cords, I struggled with mine, they didn’t come with instructions, also because you showed your knit plans, I too have started writing down how many skeins have been used/entered my life, so far this month I’ve used three, hoping to use a few more before the MKAL with Stephen West starts, see you in the next one.
I use this tubing but never move all my stitches onto the needles. I just spread my stitches so they’re all nice and smooth and so I wont’t lose any stitches when I pull the garment over my head and shoulders.
Hello Natty. Started a Musselburgh last night. First time with a Disappearing Loop cast on. Practiced about 10 times before the actual start of my hat. Using Yarn Over New York Times Square in the color Orchid Mantis. 😊💜
I really love your videos and all the progress being made on the bungalow, and of course your knitting progress too!Thanks so much for sharing, I can’t wait for the next one!
Hi Natalie, your Alpenglow is beautiful!!! Great choice waiting on the replacement fluff, it really tied it all together. I think you might have been thinking a little backwards on your Musselbourgh hat, I think the ribbing will be cool, however ribbing takes more yarn than stockinette and since you have less of the solid you are already in a deficit. Plus if you rib in the multi if it stretches and you can see the secondary color the solid won't be as obvious as the multi? Just my thought. Happy Knitting! *)
Love the craftivist! Went in June when we were in Atlanta. Beautiful shop and nice people! I bought the prettiest yarn there, and some of the Purl Strings too!
Que divino tu apartamento que linda vista se ve la ciudad que piso es como 23 pisos rascacielos,me encanta tus tejidos que divinos tus anillos saludos 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🙌
Alpenglow is looking so good! I love the fluffy pink decision! 😍 I have a musselburg on the needles and I’m doing half in one color and half in another so I can change things up and wear it either color depending on what I’m wearing lol it’s an addicting knit and a portable and mindless similar to socks, good tv watching knitting!
Love the Alpenglow! My Rhinebeck sweater took a lot of searching for the perfect yarn too! Hope to see you there again! For the Musselburgh, doesn't purl/rib take more yarn than stockinette? Hoping you have enough for both hats!
Thanks so much for the tutorial! I’ve been thinking about getting the try-it-on tubing for awhile now. Currently, I just put my stitches onto waste yarn in order to try on my garment. Are there any advantages to the tubing over just waste yarn? I used to think it must be faster to use the tubing, but after watching you do it, I don’t think it is. Can you think of other advantages to tubing over waste yarn?
I want to make the Musselburgh hat. Every time you talk about it I think "I need to get that pattern". Though on the green one. Since you are wanting to save yarn on the solid green wouldn't you want to do stockinette since ribbing would use a bit more yarn? Just a thought.
thank you for the video... quick question...I can't figure out how to use the mussleburough hat pattern... there is a lot in that document...I mostly have dk acrylic (not ideal but what I have). would you mind recommending needles would you recommend to achieve a large adult ... with the mentioned materials. I'm an fairly experienced knitter but can't work this out without advice
Love your Alpenglow color palette!!! It was definitely worth the wait on the gorgeous pink!! Glad to hear you will be attending VKLive you are going to love it. I hope to attend and take a class. Great choice on the Stephen West Kit. Love knitting with the Walk Collection yarn.
I love the idea of the ribbed hat! Have you ever noticed if ribbing uses more yarn for you than stockinette? It does for me, somehow. Just curious, it may affect your yarn usage with the solid green yarn. I am totally going to have to make some more beanies this year!!!
Moving between knitting and purling uses more yarn, so it’s not just you. That’s one reason why a textured fabric will always use more yarn than a stockinette one.
I really appreciate you showing the try-it cords. Seeing them in action confirmed that I don’t need to waste my money on them. It’s so much easier to use a cable connector and just add another long cable, try on, then remove the extra cable and keep going. Not nearly as fiddly and nerve wrecking.
37" Chiaogoo spin cord with a union and a stopper stays permanently together in a bag; one each in small and large, takes seconds to prepare to try on.
Agreed! Watching it made me realize it wasn't just me or user error making the barber cords overly fiddly and time consuming. Even with great technique it's not that quick. I have a set of barber cords but hate them. With my Addi click interchangeable set I will just stop one row before I want to try on, knit a round onto my 60" cord and I'm good to go for trying on. Knit back onto my smaller cord after trying on - *zero* knitting time wasted and my stitches are 100 percent secure the entire time. For my husband same but using an 80" cord to try on.
I don’t move them off the needle. I just attach the cord to the ends of my two needles and move some stitches off until I have enough room to try it on.
This is exactly what I do. It’s so much easier
Absolutely! That was an awful lot of work and time. I use an extender and extra cord. I never have to move stitches on or off something else. I was exhausted just watching! 😂
Waiting for that fluffy pink yarn was the right choice for sure. It is the perfect color for the other and it does make your sweater GLOW.
I appreciate the Try It On Tubing tutorial. Those tips will come in handy.
Your colors for Alpenglow are fabulous and the ribbed musselburgh is a great idea!
Way to keep things interesting 👏
Omg!!! I'm so glad you like the yarn!!!! 😊 Thanks for the mention!
Cute cute cute!! Love the Mussel… pink hats. Both look adorable on you. Thanks for sharing.
STUNNING Alpenglow! Too often I talk myself into knitting with colors that I'm just not sold on. And while I think there's a place for not overthinking color as well as having fun with color combos outside your comfort zone, watching you go from color choices you would have liked but not loved to the absolute perfect combo was such a reminder that for special projects it really is worth taking the time (and unfortunately sometimes extra money) to find a combo you love.
This might be crazy but wouldn't it be fun to save your gauge swatches and crochet them together and I've time have an afghan made up of all your swatches. It could be a memory blanket of all your projects.
I was just typing out a comment that suggested that same idea same idea. Then you have something that you can look back on and see all the swatches of past projects so even if you donate those projects elsewhere you still have a piece of it.
You should save your swatch with the pink fluff and decorate the front of a notebook with it! How fun would that be to have a fluffy notebook?!
Love the idea of a ribbed Musselburgh. I wonder if they will stretch differently. Looking forward to seeing how it works out as I think it's a great idea that I might be copying 😉
Your fluffy pink yarn for the Alpenglow looks like cotton candy lol
I just finished a musselburough hat on vacation. I decided to do it in two colors so I could have a contrasting cuff. I love it!
Great episode, so glad you are back more regularly.
Hi I like the new rolled edge hat. It has a more chic look.
I tie a quick knot with my try on tube so I don’t lose stitches. It easily unties at the end and no worries!
I find it so much faster to just use a chiaogoo cable connector and attach another longer cable instead of fiddling with those plastic cords.
Wow that Ryan Yarn is so my color to.. it's so pretty😍
The Apenglow is sooo beautiful!! I'm speechless. Great podcast. Love it!!
That Musselburgh hat is perfection. I love love love that color way. The crochet pinhole cast on is super pretty.
I’m so glad you held out for the perfect pink floof! It looks amazing with the rest of your colors!
Oh, Natalie! Your Alpenglow is so beautiful! I want to copy yours, even though it’s not possible! 💜💕💜💕
I tie the two try on cord ends in a knot so no matter what my stitches can’t come off.
Assistant Toaster lol! Love that you include your doggo in a lot of vlogs
Can’t wait for the virtual yarn crawl! Always love to see your knitting!
I just used my try it on cords for the first time and they worked perfecTly!
Your Alpenglow is going to be GOR.GEOUS!!!!!!
Great tutorial on the try it on tubing!
socks with matching hat and fingerless gloves
Ooh the second toque is so pretty! Sometimes if it's really windy, it's nice to have the extra roll of fabric to protect your ears from the wind. But then again, I have sensitive ears so I prefer that
Hi Natalie, thank you for showing how to use the try it cords, I struggled with mine, they didn’t come with instructions, also because you showed your knit plans, I too have started writing down how many skeins have been used/entered my life, so far this month I’ve used three, hoping to use a few more before the MKAL with Stephen West starts, see you in the next one.
I love your Musselburgh hats! I just purchased the pattern and I'm going to try one.
I use this tubing but never move all my stitches onto the needles. I just spread my stitches so they’re all nice and smooth and so I wont’t lose any stitches when I pull the garment over my head and shoulders.
Hello Natty. Started a Musselburgh last night. First time with a Disappearing Loop cast on. Practiced about 10 times before the actual start of my hat. Using Yarn Over New York Times Square in the color Orchid Mantis. 😊💜
Lol - I read this “ Disappointing cast on”!
Love your Alpenglow. The colors turned out so good!
I really love your videos and all the progress being made on the bungalow, and of course your knitting progress too!Thanks so much for sharing, I can’t wait for the next one!
Hi Natalie, your Alpenglow is beautiful!!! Great choice waiting on the replacement fluff, it really tied it all together.
I think you might have been thinking a little backwards on your Musselbourgh hat, I think the ribbing will be cool, however ribbing takes more yarn than stockinette and since you have less of the solid you are already in a deficit. Plus if you rib in the multi if it stretches and you can see the secondary color the solid won't be as obvious as the multi? Just my thought.
Happy Knitting! *)
Love your Alpenglow yarn! So beautiful. Now. Have to get some try it on tubing. Thanks for the tips🤗
Love the craftivist! Went in June when we were in Atlanta. Beautiful shop and nice people! I bought the prettiest yarn there, and some of the Purl Strings too!
Love, love, love the Alpen Glow colors!
Your colour combo is to die for!
Love your FOs and new projects 👍🏻🧶🥰🥰
Que divino tu apartamento que linda vista se ve la ciudad que piso es como 23 pisos rascacielos,me encanta tus tejidos que divinos tus anillos saludos 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🙌
Alpenglow is looking so good! I love the fluffy pink decision! 😍 I have a musselburg on the needles and I’m doing half in one color and half in another so I can change things up and wear it either color depending on what I’m wearing lol it’s an addicting knit and a portable and mindless similar to socks, good tv watching knitting!
Love the Alpenglow! My Rhinebeck sweater took a lot of searching for the perfect yarn too! Hope to see you there again! For the Musselburgh, doesn't purl/rib take more yarn than stockinette? Hoping you have enough for both hats!
How much positive ease does your current mussel borough have?
Auto captions call it the muscle bro hat 🤣
BEAUTIFUL!
Thanks so much for the tutorial! I’ve been thinking about getting the try-it-on tubing for awhile now. Currently, I just put my stitches onto waste yarn in order to try on my garment. Are there any advantages to the tubing over just waste yarn? I used to think it must be faster to use the tubing, but after watching you do it, I don’t think it is. Can you think of other advantages to tubing over waste yarn?
I want to make the Musselburgh hat. Every time you talk about it I think "I need to get that pattern". Though on the green one. Since you are wanting to save yarn on the solid green wouldn't you want to do stockinette since ribbing would use a bit more yarn? Just a thought.
thank you for the video...
quick question...I can't figure out how to use the mussleburough hat pattern... there is a lot in that document...I mostly have dk acrylic (not ideal but what I have). would you mind recommending needles would you recommend to achieve a large adult ... with the mentioned materials. I'm an fairly experienced knitter but can't work this out without advice
Tell me again where you got circus tonic yarn. I wear hearing aids hard to hear some of things you say. I love your hat. My fav is no fold.
Love your Alpenglow color palette!!! It was definitely worth the wait on the gorgeous pink!! Glad to hear you will be attending VKLive you are going to love it. I hope to attend and take a class. Great choice on the Stephen West Kit. Love knitting with the Walk Collection yarn.
I love the idea of the ribbed hat! Have you ever noticed if ribbing uses more yarn for you than stockinette? It does for me, somehow. Just curious, it may affect your yarn usage with the solid green yarn. I am totally going to have to make some more beanies this year!!!
Moving between knitting and purling uses more yarn, so it’s not just you. That’s one reason why a textured fabric will always use more yarn than a stockinette one.
With your new set up do you have a different desk in your bedroom to podcast or have you moved everything back?
In the green hats, won’t the rib half be a narrower circumference than the stocking stitch?
will the single rib section take a bit more yarn than all knitting for the hat?
What if you did a stripe of the varigated green on the solid green side of the musselburough hat?...
Or you could pick a different color for the stripe using up some scraps.
Thanks for another lovely episode. I am currently working away on my shawl. It’s getting cold here in Sweden so I am needing it soon!
I would like to know how to do a tilted toe Do you have a video?
I knook instead of knitting so that cord for trying on knitting seems mental. Why don’t you just knit off the cord instead of moving them all back?
You got a problem girl ribbing takes more yarn than stocking stich