Ep 60: Waterlily, Storm Sweater Petite Knit, Camisole #9, Skimmer Socks - Mostly Knitting Podcast
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- FINISHED OBJECT:
Skimmer Socks by Sheila Toy Stromberg in Dingo Dyeworks Ridgey Didge in Blue Gum
ravel.me/tashbalaz/ssr7
FRIEND FROM THE VAULT:
Waterlily by Meghan Fernandes using Quince and Co. Tern in Back Bay Blue
ravel.me/tashbalaz/w3
WIPS:
NEW! Storm Sweater by Petite Knit using Sandnes Garn Peer Gynt in Ash Melange.
ravel.me/tashbalaz/ss6
Camisole #9 by My Favorite Things Knitwear in Knitting for Olive Cotton Merino in Bark
ravel.me/tashbalaz/cn9
Early Bloomer by Heidi Kirrmaier in De rerum Natura Penelope in Orgeat and some leftover Madelinetodh DK Twist
ravel.me/tashbalaz/eb
Half and Half Wrap by Purl Soho using Purl Soho Linen Quill in Bird's Egg Blue and Poppy Red
ravel.me/tashbalaz/hhtw
ACQUISITIONS
None
WHAT HAS CAUGHT MY EYE
- Italian Knitter Step by Step Cardigan by Florence in Noro Silk Garden and Mohair.
-Also like her Italian Spring Shawlette pattern.
ravel.me/an-italian-spring-sh...
- Karen's (casuarinagirl) version of - Vertices Unite by Stephen West
ravel.me/vertices-unite
- Helle from Danish Musings - Eurus Slipover by Aegyoknit and Gerda Sweater and Skirt
ravel.me/eurus-slipover
ravel.me/gerda-sweater-2
ravel.me/gerda-skirt
- Patrick in my knitting class was knitting the Oslo Hat using Blackwattle yarns Jacaranda Suri Alpaca and Silk
blackwattleyarn.com.au/jacara...
OTHER PLANS
- Snow Wonder by Heidi Kirrmaier in De Rerum Natura Gilliat in Ciel or
- Poppy Tee by Petite Knit in Sandnes Garn Sunday and Tynn Silk Mohair in 4008
- a new hat for Mia's grandpa Gaby in Madelinetosh DK in Cloak
TUTORIAL PLANS - In no particular order
1. Adding short rows to a top down pullover that doesnt have any in the pattern
2. Mattress Stitch Side to Side and bind-off to bind-off
3. Adding short rows to the Anker Summer Shirt - i need to use some "made up" numbers so as not to breach copyright
4. Button band for Champagne Cardigan when i make it
5. Fixing Mistakes video - how to spot them, which ones are "fixable" without ripping all the way back etc.
6. Sewn Bind Off
7. Understanding gauge
8. Blocking a project while on the needles
9. Adding waist shaping
10. Bundles on ravelry
Endcard sweater:
Sorrel by Wool & Pine
ravel.me/tashbalaz/s1
Thanks for watching:
I am @tashbalaz on ravelry and Instagram
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I just wanted to say that I really enjoy that you try on your makes for us while they are still in progress. I watch a number of other knitting podcasters who don't and it makes me really appreciate that you do, thank you x
Thank you so much Sonya. :)
Your projects are so sweet, I just love your alpine tee it’s so so pretty
Have a lovely Easter weekend and rest! ❤
Thank you so much Carol. x
Early bloomer is looking fabulous! Another pattern to add to my wish list…Love to watch what you are working on or find because searching Ravelry can be very overwhelming. Wish I had your resolve to NOT buy wool! It is my obsession and I have enough to last thru any apocalypse that’s for sure. I tell myself that it is actually cheaper than petrol!! My excuse when hubby wants to go anywhere is me saying “ oh it’s just too expensive let’s just stay home and I will knit” I am crafty in more than one way 😂
Ha! Love your "craftiness" Michelle. ;)
Hi Tash, Lovely as always 💕 How fun to explore your old friends and make them new again. Feel better, there’s nothing worse. Happy Easter, Karen
Thanks so much Karen! Hope you had a lovely Easter. x 😊
@@mostlyknitting The Easter bunny comes to this house daily! I did see an actual live bunny run into the garden of our neighbours house so that was cute! Hope you had fun too 🥰
So happy you are feeling better. Also glad Zach's surgery went well and I hope he feels well soon too. I love your Waterlily top. I cannot imagine how huge your "vault" must be, considering all the lovely things you share with us. That's one of the wonderful things about knitwear though, it lasts and looks good forever. Right this minute I've got Jackie Rose's Soho Square scarf on, so I can relate to how satisfying a big garter stitch shawl can be, both to knit and to wear.
Thanks so much Constance. Isnt a large garter project so lovely and soothing. :)
Your Waterlily sweater is beautiful. You should wear it more often. It looks great on you. Thanks for the podcast. Have a great long weekend and Happy Easter!
Thank you so much Denise. Have a wonderful Easter. x
Thank you - always a treat to watch. Such pretty projects! I'm so glad you're feeling better, and your son's surgery went well. Enjoy your long weekend :-))
Thanks so much Cat. x
Tash I think your Waterlily is beautiful. It’s looks great out and tucked in. I wouldn’t change it. And it should definitely be worn more often. Happy Easter.
Thank you so much Annie. Happy Easter. x
I have only just found your lovely channel thanks to a viewer recommendation and am so happy that she recommended you. I have really enjoyed your episode and look forward to catching up with you again Tash!
Welcome!! Thanks so much for watching and for taking the time to leave a lovely comment. :)
I think that blue sweater (from the vault) looks great on you as is. It makes you look like your torso goes forever.
Thank you so much. x
Your Waterlily top is just perfect as it is. I do hope you wear it more, it's so pretty and suits you (personally I think the length is just right!
🙂
Thank you so much Claire. I am actually glad that i can do a little tuck with it.
Such a treat watching you. Love your light blue sweater, you need to wear that more often, it’s beautiful and it goes with your eyes. Love all your knits. I love red, so I can’t wait to see your poppy red summer sweater knit up. Sorry you were under the weather, glad you are on the mend. Happy Easter. My daughter is a French teacher but is now doing her masters doing her masters at Knox college, she will be an ordained Presbyterian minister. She’s 25 and she’s preaching on Good Friday, so going to that service for sure.
Hi Sharon. I hope you are having a wonderful Easter and enjoyed the service on Good Friday. What a wonderful celebration that would have been.
The water lily top looks great on you. You should definitely wear it more!
Thank you so much Nicola. x
Peer Gynt, in my experience, softens a lot after blocking. I had similar impressions when I first worked with it, but have since changed my mind. Love your garments!❤ thank you for sharing
Thank you so much for letting me know about your experience with Peer Gynt. That makes me feel a lot better about this sweater. I still dont love knitting with it but looking forward to the feel improving after blocking. x
Your Early Bloomer is absolutely beautiful 🌸
Thank you so much. x
I love your Friend from the Vault, the Waterlily. It looks very nice on you.
Thank you so much Mary. x
Wonderful video as usual. Happy Easter to you and your family. I love the vest that Helle featured. I am going to wait for you to make it before I attempt it 😊! I am happy you are feeling better. ❤
Thank you so much Maryann. Have a wonderful Easter. x
The Waterlily tee is beautiful and looks lovely on you. I wouldn't have changed a thing.
Thank you so much Mary. x
Your house looks very unique. Would you ever consider doing a tour for your followers? I really look forward to your videos.
Thanks so much Sheri. I wish i could show you around my house but living with a dog and three teenagers, i am not sure when it would ever be in a halfway decent state. Maybe one day when I am getting ready to sell??? Thanks for the thought though.
I absolutely adore blackwattle yarns..buy some, you wont be disappointed..❤
Alright, next time I am searching for yarn for a project, i will try them out. :)Thank you for the feedback about them.
I live the style of the Warterlily sweater and the colour is good. The Storm Sweater will be finished eventually and will be like a comfy sweater. The two tone knit is awesome so keep on knitting. The Cami in that colour will look great on you. The sweater is coming along. Yes what are you knitting next, let me look in the notes. The Italian Knitter has a knit that look elegant.
Yes and I pulled down my colourwork cowl so I could the reverse of the ribbing. I was using odd balls of yarn from stash and did not like making joins and doing colourwork. I had a full ball of the primary colour and away I went. Take care Tash and rest. ❤😊
Hi Rosemary, Glad you are enjoying your knitting. Thanks for sharing what you are up to. Look after yourself. xx
I did the ribbing and it looks good on both sides. Stash knitting your rib can be uneven now on colourwork
Thanks Tash.
Another inspiring episode,Tash! Thanks for taking the time,as always.Wishing you and yours a blessed Easter and rejuvenating school break.👋🙏🕊️x
Thank you so much Annie. Blessings to you and your family over Easter also. xx
Another great podcast, you suit everything you make. Glad you and your son are on the mend and hopefully the Easter holidays give you both a chance to fully recover. Great to see you have started on the other colour on your half and half wrap. I’m still slogging on with my Stockholm slipover and fancy trying to make skimmer socks but haven’t made socks before. I also want to make the step by step cardigan by Florence when the pattern is released. I have some Hobbi yarn called winter glow that looks very muted like the Nori yarn. My budget doesn’t stretch to the Nori and it also seems hard to get in that colour in uk. Thanks again and Happy Easter to you and yours x
Thank you so much Maureen. Have a wonderful Easter. Hope you manage to finish your Stockholm soon. x
Hi your Early bloomer is beautiful 😻
Thank you so much Sophie. x
I’m fairly new to your podcast and I really enjoy your personality and all your knitting projects! You have become one of my favorites!! Looking forward to watching more☺️
Thank you so much Heidi - for watching and for leaving such a lovely comment. :)
Hi Tash! I just told Francesca 🤗 🧶💚 Love all your knits as always, sorry you are under the weather, so am I, weather is crazy and got a bad cold, also because of a lot of stress due to health issues in the family. 🙏 I was thinking about the leftover yarn from the half & half, you are going to have the same amount left from the pretty orangy red, so either you do something considering all three together, as you said a colorwork, or you could do something with the 2 colors from the half and half, like a mini half and half or something with that combo as a smaller colorwork project, if you do not like the three together. well I suppose you would have thought about this by yourself...😂 have a lovely Easter, I am deeply in need of renewal and rebirth 🙏💚🌷
Hope you are having a wonderful Easter Barbara and feeling better. I like the idea of possibly doing something with all three colours of Purl Soho Linen Quill. I will keep an eye out for patterns that might work. :)
Love waterlily top
Thank you so much. x
Glad you are feeling better and your son too. Your Early Bloomer sweater is beautiful!!
Thank you so much Joan. x
Happy Easter Tash. Take some time to recover as you seem to have had a big term 1.
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Thanks so much Gail. I cant wait to sleep in tomorrow. The 7am starts when it is still dark are not much fun.
Always lovely to see your post. Black wattle yarns are beautiful. I knit my grandson's christening shawl from it and it was so lovely.
Thank you so much. Love hearing good reports on yarn. I will have to give them a try. x
The color of your waterlily looks beautiful on you! Happy you’re feeling better. Have a great week 😊
Thank you so much Micheline. x
Glad you and family are on the mend. Finishing West of the Moon by Inca Berg. My first pair of stranded knit socks. Blessed Easter to all😊
Thank you so much. Hope you are enjoying your knitting. Stranded socks - I have never attempted. So many beautiful patterns - i should give them a go. Blessings for Easter. x
You should always wear this color…the bluey green.
Thank you so much Janis. :)
A lovely visit with you, Task - thanks. Have you ever talked about how you walk and knit at the same time? I have done stockinette in a dark cinema with DK or worsted and felt very happy with myself. But walking?? Do you stuff the yarn into a fanny pack? Can we see a demonstration? My other question - my perennial question listening to you: DO YOU SLEEP? How can you pack so much into a week?
Hi Ynnsie. I have to get one of my kids to come for a walk with me and get a bit of video of me while i knit and walk. I either put the yarn ball in my pocket if the pocket is big enough and the yarn ball is small enough. Or i use a project bag with a carabiner and attach it to the belt look of my shorts. I always choose a very small and simple project so there isnt a lot of weight on my wrists or much I need to look at.
As for SLEEP - i LOVE my sleep. I usually get at least 7 hours a night but i try to get at least 8. I just knit while i do a lot of other stuff. ;)
Thank you Tash for your inspiring podcasts.
Happy Easter to you and family
Thank you so much. Same to you! x
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I had the exact same thoughts at first with the Peer Gynt. Not impressed, not going to buy that again. But I really loved the colour and wanted an Eva cardigan in that exact colour so I decided to knit it anyway. Well, it blocked beautifully. It is never going to turn into cashmere or superwash merino (which I actually really dislike, the superwash that is) but it does get softer with wash and wear and I very much enjoy wearing it. I always wear a t-shirt under a regular cardigan but at this point it would be soft enough for me to wear it with just a tank top. I am planning to kit the Storm next winter and it will definitely be in Peer Gynt.
That's so interesting Ursula. I also love the Eva Cardigan in that colour and was thinking the same. Now maybe i could see it happening. Thank you so much for the info. That is really helpful. :)
Why do you talk in inches? Are you not interested in speaking to Australians. This is why I find your podcast so good. There are not many, especially good Australians that have k sitting channels. CM please not inches.
How very rude of you!
Hi there. I appreciate your positive comments around the podcast.
In relation to the units of measurement that I refer to - I speak using the units that I think in and use myself. For body measurements, I learned and became familiar with inches. So that is why I talk about body measurements in inches. For needle sizes, I use mm as that is what i learned in and that is what comes to mind when I am giving details about the needles i use.
In the podcast, it would technically be possible for me to refer to every measurement I talk about in both inches and cm and every needle size in mm and US sizes and even Imperial sizes. However, this would involve a lot more work for me and possibly make the podcast more clunky, with me rattling off lots of different numbers.
It is an easy conversion to make, either using a calculator or google. One inch is about 2.54cm. Or roughly - multiply by 10 and then divide by 4.
I hear what you are asking for, but this is a conscious choice on my part to share the relevant details for a project in a format that comes easily to me. Then viewers, depending on their location, can make their own conversions if needed. Whether that is from inches to cm or from metric needle sizes to US needle sizes.
@mostlyknitting You are a class act my Dear!
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Love your podcast! As for ripping back…..do it! It’s so enlightening, and instead of being a garment with an uncertain future, it becomes an exciting WIP again despite the huge effort of ripping, straightening and re-winding the wool. I just did it to a cardigan I made too long, had to rip back 2 full skeins but now it’s on its way forward to a perfect length. Happy knitting!