Knitting a 1902 Lady's Spencer with only Spindle Spun Yarn
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Hello friends! You may or may not have noticed that my personal style is greatly influenced by historical and vintage fashion. I am very much inspired by Victorian and Edwardian Fashions, so let's dive into the Second Book of Hows out of 1902 once more!
In this video we will knit a 1902 Lady's Spencer out of my own Spindle spun yarn that I Spun during the #100daysofspindlespinningchallenge. During that 100 days of spindle spinning challenge I managed to spin 31 mini skeins of yarn out of my Flemish Sheep and Belgian Milksheep fiber. Will this be enough for this historic sweater (or well, cardigan) knitting attempt? Let's find out!
All of my yarn is also naturally or botanically dyed. The endresult might not entirely fit me as the Edwardians or Victorians have intended, but I am really happy with and proud of my new cosy little handknit cardigan. It only took me like half a year to make it.
The extant examples shown are found on the europeana collections:
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Bourse (sac) - Palais Galliera - Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, France - CC0.
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Porte-monnaie - 1900 - Palais Galliera - Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, France - CC0.
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Your spindle-spun sweater is gorgeous!. I can't imagine having the patience to spin enough on a stick to knit a sweater. My one and only spindle-spun object is a headband / ear-covering sort of thing I made about 30 years ago. I was visiting a rural area of Scotland and collected bits of fleece from bushes and fences. Instead of waiting to take it home to spin on my wheel, I bought a pencil and a potato in the local shop and spun the fleece into yarn on my make-it-work spindle. When I got home, I knitted the band, and I still wear it every winter.
That is amazing!
Pencil and Potato is next level spindle spinning
I love how you use what you spin and you make what you want instead of following the latest trend. I just love it.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👌🏾
Trends are silly anyways :D
Spindle sticks and knitting needles are in fact our magic wands! 😉
they truly are!
Spinning outside in nature is definitely great for philosophical thoughts :) Thanks so much for sharing tis project, it brought the spindle spining challenge to a great ending!
Thank you!
Beautiful cardigan! I love the sunny colours! I have a pair of spindle-spun Falkland wool socks… I spun the wool; Mom knitted them. They are so squishy and comfy! I’m currently spindling up some mini-skeins for a patchwork bag. Happy spinning!
Happy spinning to you too!
I'm plying my first ever handspun with a drop spindle as I watch this, dreaming about all the spindle-spun garments I want to make one day! I love how the spencer came out. It's so colorful and happy.
Ooooh go you!
I love how your spencer turned out. It does look like a modern cardigan. If you have unruly curling edges you can do a crochet edge around them to help them behave. My first sweater was a nice spindle spun adventure. It turned out lumpy and bumpy and uneven , ill fitting bundle of squish that I love and wear.
Bundle of squish is a great descriptor 😁
The colors are just beautiful. Stunning!!
Thanks 😁
Love it, love everything about it, you did a great job on that 1902 cardigan. I first learn how to spin on a handmade spindle I made, and while I did pretty good, I just didnt have the patients to spin enough yarn to weave anything with it, since I am a weaver. But I did build a quill spinner, and that really improve my spinning, and have spun over 8 oz of mohair, but again I never did anything with it, and its been lost to time, but I have been thinking about weaving enough fabric using pre-spun yarn to make a gentlemen's jacket or some type of upper clothing, I have been thinking maybe a Japanese style out jacket or coat called sakiori, where they make fabric from old clothing and weave them into a rug like fabric and make outerwear with it, similar to weaving rag rugs. I think you should do something like that, weave enough fabric and make a woven cardigan in that 1902 pattern, that will make a good episode.
I really want to do more weaving indeed!
@@MijnWolden I have a few large cones of chenille yarn that im dying to turn into either a vest or jacket of some type, weaving is so relaxing, you'll do great, ive watch you first weaving video, you did great, but yes you need to weave more for us viewers. I will be weaving it soon, wish me luck.
I admire you for frogging the sleeve and redoing it. I think your sweater is beautiful. Spindle plying looks very complicated to me. Congrats.
Normally I'm not so keen on frogging, but this just looked ridiculous
Turned out great! The only thing they may not have had in 1902 is the bright orange colored yarn in the sleeve 😜
Oh but they might! Synthetic dyes were invented around 1850. So it's also historically plausible to have the bright orange 😁 (thank you again for the floof)
I’m terribly impressed with your cardigan, and your determination to spindle spin all the yarn for it! The time and patience involved is amazing. I think it looks wonderful, and you have every right to be so proud of it and how it turned out! You’re very talented!
Thank you!
One of your best videos to date I especially like the historical references awesome thank you
Thank you:)
Cannot wait to see your Viking spindle spun sail 😂 Gorgeous cardigan, brilliantly done Congratulations 🎉
Do you think Dries would build Jente a Viking ship to go with it?
Some years ago I was going past the pet food aisle in the supermarket and there was a little boy saying in an off-hand tone to his mother, "Hey, Mum, let's get some cat food!" His mother replied, "No, we don't have a cat." It was so obvious that the little fellow wanted a cat and he was trying to be subtle about it but not really succeeding.
If he could he would, but he can't so he shan't 😅
The shaping on the back of that cardigan is GORGEOUS.
Love how the cardigans and jumpers from that era have the super long ribbing; it's so flattering!
It is so flattering indeed! And it gives so much more shaping than modern patterns do
Yente, the sweater turned out beautifully. I love the colours in it, and its casual nature. Cheers-Laura
Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx❣️❣️❣️
Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast.
I love all of your Supported Spindles Handspun Yarns and the fact that you gave each one a name. That is a great idea. One that I don't think anyone has done before, unless they intend to sell it.✨️🔆🌟
Your 1902 Lady's Spencer, looks amazing and very beautiful. Made from your 100 Days of Spindle Spun Yarns.
I've not made any Garments from my Spindling Handspun Yarns,
Maybe sometime in the future I will, especially with my Supported Spindle.
I have used some of my Handspun Yarn made on one of my eSpinners to make the Eyelet Border on a Shawl, the main bidy was made with commercial yarn from my stash, and my Handspun compliments perfectly.
I am starting to have a collection of Handspun Yarns, without any particular intention for them.
Thankyou so much for sharing your expertise and for the inspiration, both are very, very much appreciated. ✨️🌟🔆💐🌷
Happy Spinning and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎡🧶🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Huge Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🐑🐑
My stuff always is more than just stuff :)
I love how the cardigan turned out! I think if you wear it with a Victorian outfit it might look much more fitting in that era, but styled with your normal clothes it looks more slouchy vintage which is definitely not a bad look!
Indeed not a bad look 😁
love love love your colours and the stripes are splendiferous. personally, the button band has an off centre feel and that would drive me nuts (it was ok in the 80's for our clothes to be all skew and skwiff) but now that I am old I find that I am more ... um .. no I am less ... eeerrrrrr ... sjoe this is difficult ... look I am still a chaotic, wild, free, eclectic, rebelious, Frida Kahlo-esque bohemian. And happily mix spots, stripes, circles and flowers all in one outfit, and proudly wore orange and red when my hair was red and I don't care if my hair bun leans to one side ... but, I just like my buttons and zips to be perfectly centred. But to you I say BRAVA, job well done !! its lovely !
I know what you feel! I've been wearing it loose or with only the top button buttoned because it does bother me a bit as well...
So glad to see someone else dancing in joy like me. I bought 12,yes, twelve, alpaca fleeces straight from farm.y spindles are a dowel with wooden wheel as whorl. Can hold so much more than Turkish spindle and spent on fleece . I don't follow trends either. So I have a Miss Grace shawl of many natural colors and 2 tshirts,just finished Turtledove cardigan with similar trepidations. Knit top down,flat,has sorta dolman sleeves getting narrow at 3/4 length... mutton? As i have broad shoulders and hate. Strangler sweater that seemed great. Sooo great.Few where I live understand significance of made from dirty fleece.you made me happy. Also used to make my buttons from fimo clay which also not understood.
Handspinning is often not understood in our day and age of speed and comfort :)
I have only made scarves and shawls with my spindle spun yarn. I exclusively spindle spun for like 7 years and was waayyyy into lace knitting so it was a match made in heaven....Although I was also too scared to knit sweaters with commercial yarn even heh. One of my current projects is spindling up some yarn for socks. size of sock depends on when Ive had enough but my platonic ideal is stockings for the winter.
It looks so good! I cannot imagine doing a sweater spin on spindles at all.
And then you should imagine everything was spun on spindles at one time in history!
Wow that was a great project! I love the result! :)
Thank you ☺️
The way the colors worked up really remind me of banded agate. Very cool!
Oh that's a really cool analogy that makes my rock goblin brain happy
Wow this is beautiful! I love your videos!
Thank you 😁
I have seen this sweater in a few videos now & I am in love with it! I love the shape and the stripes. So this may be something I will have to aim for: Goals! Except I would like mine in some varieties of natural grey wools, I think…. as more and more my wardrobe resembles a mouse’s 😂!
I'm knitting a grey sweater at the moment and all I can think of is "I need more of this"
Hi! What a so fantastic project!!! I’m so in love with the thoughts behind these amazing stripes of spinning yarns: thank so much for your inspirational video❤
for the moment, I am washing a fleece that my neighbour gave me, and my project is to spin on my wheel for a pair of socks…but my other project is to wood turning my own spindle on the lathe of my husband , and then spin this wool❤ a « one entire year project » to me 😂
But I love the fact it's a fleece from your neighbour! Yay local wool!
I’m fascinated by your videos, but this one captured me as I only have a spindle and 90 raw fleeces. I know I’m mad but farmers here were going to burn them. Im at the beginning of my spinning journey so you’ve inspired me to try and make something from my wobbly yarn spindle stuff. Thank you
90 raw fleeces? I might have 20 and already have anxiety about them 😅
I'm currently working on a cardigan (1950's style) combining my own spindle spun yarn and my Oma's wheel spun. I don't have enough spindle spun yarn to create a full garment for myself yet, but that is for sure the goal.
I'm sure you'll get to your goal!
I've knit myself a spindle-spun headband! It's bright green, thick and thin yarn, totally covered in cables ("Heartband" on Ravelry, I think?). I think it turned out really well, although all my spindle-spun yarn is z-spun and s-plied because I self-taught myself backwards and now that's most comfortable!
My wheel yarn is backwards mostly :D
I can't comment on gage because I'm not really a knitter, but I feel like all the ruffling and padding at the front at the time might have filled up some of that space nicely. Either way, it is a very cute sweater. It gives relaxing and cheerful vibes.
I have yet to actually pick up a spindle, unfortunately.... One day.
I think it's a case of both. I feel like the ribbing should be sitting a bit higher on the waist, so gauge is lengthwise a bit off, but indeed with the rounded padding and all the floof, most of the width would get fillled in.
WOW how incredible that you made this with spindle spun yarn! I absolutely adore the colours!
I am also going to think about the fact that they spun viking sails on spindles for the rest of my day...
Have fun thinking about how everything had to be spun by hand before the industrial revolution too... ;) carpets? curtains? clothing? sacks?
So cool seeing it all come together. Well done
Thank you ☺️
Well done! It looks very comfy and nice. The striping is really pretty and i like the fact that its not homogenouse but different all over. My OMG moment was when you said you're gonna frog it o.o - i hoped you were joking ... but it was worth it for sure.
I used to be very scared of frogging, but it's always for the better, eventhough it is still a small heartbreak every time.
I too have been spinning on a drop spindle with the intention of making a sweater someday when I eventually finish all of it. 😅
Good luck, you got this!
Loved this! What a huge challenge you took on and mastered!
Thank you :)
This was so cool to watch! I'm actually knitting a 1915 spencer right now, and it looks like they're put together in pretty much the same way! I did also make the "knit plain" mistake too, but that version was also knit in entirely the wrong size yarn, so it got frogged lol. I'll definitely be referencing this for when I have to sew it together ❤️ ❤
Good luck!
Love your sweater. Don't worry about you wheel and spindle addiction after only 2 years I have 15 spinning wheels and since my husband makes spindles I get any kind I want 😁
That sounds like a proper amount 😁
@MijnWolden I know right 😅
I made my fiance a pair of gloves from spindle spun yarns from the Monarch Knitting for Victory pattern book just this year. I WANT to say its the first thing i've made from my spindle spun yarns, but I'm not actually too sure on that. currently working on some red yarn on my spindles to knit my son some gloves too though.
Cool! Warm hands for the entire family
We never kink shame in our projects! lol
No we don't :D
I just started with spindle spinning. Still struggling with grafting and consistency. Love your cardigan ❤
You'll get there!
sINCE YOU ASKED! I don't ... think I ever thought about knitting needles matching my outfits (and my needles are metal coloured) BUT I do love when my crochets (which are colourful) match my project =D Hurts the eyes? Maybe... Makes me happy? YES
the happy part is what is important :D
I'm currently knitting a spindle spun shawl. I spun the mini skeins everyday of December. I think I've started knitting Day 11 or 12.
Have fun!
i need to get to spinning! u inspire me so much! and knitting too. i have been crocheting long long strips to fold in half and sew together. Then i braid them to make a big braided rugs. making a big braided rug for the living room. i love your yarn friend!
Oooh braided rug sounds so cool!
@@MijnWolden thank u. they really are handy. If not too big u can just toss in washing machine. i made one big one so far. its tiring work. the fun part is using scraps. the changing of the colors and such. u can make baskets out of the braided coil too but i have not done this yet. they are pretty soft and very durable. thank u .i always love your videos. u frogging your sweater in this one ...i was like OH NO!! but the sweater is lovely. the yarn is beautiful. Good job gf!
Great job!
Thanks!
Magnificent as usual!❤
Thank you ☺️
very cute
Thanks!
I love your willingness (probably comes from being a chaos goblin) to have a go! It certainly paid off this time, the finished result is lovely.
So all the stitches fitted on the straight needles? I thought you might have changed over to have room for the extra stitches.
The sleeves were probably a little shorter than you wanted because the original was intended as an undergarment. I think it's very likely that people would have knitted the original in stripes or multi-colours, if that was what they happened to have spare. By the time you get to the Great Depression there are a lot of examples of garments and also things like blankets made out of scraps and part of the crafter's art was getting the colours to work together to make a pleasing whole.
I would think spencers were used as upper garments? 🤔 Or do the edwardians have a different definition for a spencer than they had in let's say the Regency?
looks good
I feel like I can really see how it would look over an Edwardian costume. That little waist and big, smooth, rounded barrel chest? It would work perfectly to match that silhouette. I love the stripes a lot, but I like the bright pop of the button band best.
It would go great over a Pigeon chest indeed
Woohoow!
And your boyfriend turned into dust on your holiday, hope he's okay!
My *husband likes doing magic tricks 🤔
It's so cute!
Thank you ☺️
That's an amazing project! 👏
Thank you 😁
I have a small flower bed beside my parking pad that I plant annual field poppies, and bachelor buttons every year. I love poppies! Oh, I have lost count of my spindles and will collect more, just because I can't resist. Why try?
Trying is futile 😁
"It must happen, it must happen. It's going to happen".
Cuts to Jente making it happen.
[It's happening].
(Now I'm confusing myself because Happen doesnt look like a real word anymore 😂)
Words are weird 😅
I have a spindle, i have a big bag of floof. I do not have any yarn yet however. Perhaps a spindle class might be of some assistance in this journey?
Jillian Eve has some great resources to help you get started :)
Je cardigan is super leuk! Ik zou wel graag willen spindle spinnen, maar’mijn polsen klagen al als ik brei met mohair dus spinnen gaat hem niet worden vrees ik 😪
Ja, dat wordt moeilijk, jammer!
I have not long found your channel and i love your content!! I was wondering how do you join your spindle spun yarn? I got abit discouraged about spindle spinning because i cant fit a whole lot on my turkish spindle and scared me about joining them together because i dont know how to.
While knitting I join them with a spit and splice, so effectively felting them together.
@MijnWolden Thankyou so much this will help heaps! 😍
Okay, but there are some more modern patterns that say "knit plain" and definitely mean stockinette stitch.
Right?!
That loose thread on the skirt button hole is distracting!
Lovely but not 1902 vibe. Who cares. I am ashamed to say I didn't find time to touch a spindle in month and am still a beginner. So far from a garment.have a great day
Not all months have equal amounts of spindle time and that's ok :)