Hi. I’m glad you are making the video release schedule work for you because I like having them on their respective Tuesdays and Fridays. Thanks, I continue to enjoy your videos. I hope your yarn spinning is fun.
Love love love your spreadsheet! Would love to see a video of how you go about putting that together. Excited to see your upcoming projects too! Thank you for sharing all your insights with us. Big wave from California and hope you have an amazing time at the State Fair!
Very fun to see the knitted up swatches for your spinning experiment! It's always fascinating to see a skein become a knitted fabric because it's so difficult to predict what it will look like in any given piece. Also, wow, that sweater is gorgeous! I'm so looking forward to seeing every aspect of this and all the techniques you use. The stitch pattern is absolutely stunning, and I'd love to make one for me! The colour is such a beautiful azure blue, as well. Just lovely. Have fun at the State Fair! It sounds like a dream!
I got my BA in linguistics, love the podcast recommendation. Language is a lens to so much of what it means to be a human being-history, phonetics, anthropology, psychology etc.
That podcast sounds so interesting, I’m looking forward to listening but what I’m most excited about is following along with this sweater. Thanks for so much great content 😊
So interesting. I would be interested in the twisted stitches, haven’t tried them yet, love the look of them. Love the way you are teaching us in these sweater podcasts. You are the best, thanks so much.
My niece worked at Zoar Village here in Ohio during college summers. Her job was demonstrating what she called their Walking Wheel - while in historic costume. They taught her to spin on it as a part of her historical commentary. She loved it. Zoar Village was founded in 1817 by German Separatists and has been recreated for visitors. Think of Williamsburg. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm for learning!
I Roxanne, I'm so glad I found your videos. A fellow Minnesotan! Last weekend I got to look at and touch my great-great grandmother's wheel. Not a big wheel but a lovely one. It still had spun wool on the bobbin. Old wool that was well spun. The wheel has been passed down through the generations and is presently my mother's and it's planned to go to my sister. It was so fun to touch it.
The "History of English Podcast" episode is fascinating!! I can't wait to hear more episodes, and to introduce it to my husband who enjoys this type of information. Thank you so much for that tidbit! Looking forward to your technique videos and seeing your clever design come to fruition.
Oooh, spreadsheet!!! For a future video I’d love to see how your formulas work. I’ve tried in the past to set up my own and I feel like there must be a way to have the spreadsheet do more of the work automatically. Thanks!
I've done several segments on how I set up my spreadsheets in the past. You can search my channel for the word "spreadsheet" and you should get several hits with spreadsheet in the video title.
I’ve been listening to that History of the English Language podcast for several years. I started at the beginning and when I was caught up, I was sad to have to wait between new releases! Love his voice. I’m finding your experiments with the spinning with colors very interesting. I spin, but haven’t experimented like this yet. And as for the toddler sweater…I love the tulip design you’re using. So pretty!
Oh my gosh, I love the overview of your design process. It's brilliant. And I happen to love the spreadsheet mapping. I think it's a leftover from IT days. I do love the color you chose for the sweater too. I'm not a superwash yarn user either, but it has it's place. I'm looking forward to seeing video of the state fair. There was one here in WA last weekend in Evergreen. I hope to go next year; I'll know where Evergreen is by then! I went down a rabbit hole of the English language a few weeks ago. Hours and hours - loved it. Love the stitch pattern books - you are a wealth of knowledge!
It is so exciting that you can once again go to the state fair - I really did love your prior videos on it and it took this long to climb out of the pandemic. So glad we are all still here and that you will show us what is going on there!
Thanks for the link to Dyed In The Wool. Regarding native British words 'imported' into the English language: 'Flannel' being the fabric and also the common name in GB for a facecloth/washcloth, and probably anglicised from the Welsh 'gwlanen' meaning ‘a woollen article’, itself from 'gwlân' meaning ‘wool’. Sheep farming is evidenced in Wales from prehistoric periods, and wool related objects have been found as early as the bronze age.
When a new Rox video shows up in my feed, I feel a huge smile wreath my face. Hope you have a fabulous time at the state fair. Maybe there'll be a cheese cow sculpture to rival Iowa's butter cow?
We have Princess Kay of the Milky Way, and her court (11 of them). Each day of the fair, a 50 lb block of butter is transformed into a sculpture of one of their heads. :-)
Heading over to listen to the history of enlightenment podcast with my sock knitting. Very curious to see the techniques for the toddler sweater. Another great episode Roxanne.
Just watched Great/Walking Wheel vid. Wow, a LOT of work! Very interesting! Love the sinuous vertical twisted st! This episode has sooo much info (well, all your vids are …!), and I Thank You for all you do! I usually make top down sweaters-mostly for fit. I’m very interested in watching this bottom up sweater evolve! My brain analyses much like yours, and if my laptop wasn’t old(er) and grumpy, I’d be using excel (I love excel)!! Thanks for sending me in different directions…again!!
Another great vid Roxanne...I've already checked out the History of English podcast and I'm very excited about going back and listening from the first episode. I am also excited about you restarting technique tuesdays and am curious, as Im sure many of us are, about the circular swatch technique. I also recall I couldnt find a twisted rib provisional bindoff in your technique videos, I should have mentioned it at the time as from memory it was a bit hard to find anything on that technique when I needed it. I vaguely remember a Suzanne Bryan video helping me and later on hearing the advice from Leslie, from A Friend to Knit with saying, she untwists the stitches before binding off. Im looking forward seeing your take on it. Its nice to hear your daughter is still knitting too. Take care. Tara
There is a child's sweater p.154 in the book by Maria Erlbacher " Twisted-Stitch Knitting Traditional Patterns & Garnemts from the Styrian Enns Valley". The symbols on the charts are completely different than the ones we use, but once you get used to them, this book is a real treasure for twisted-stitches lovers. @@sharonaldag2279
I’m excited about your new sweater project and the related videos! Also, I just started Peggy Orenstein’s book. I wanted to read it because of the content, but I’m really enjoying her sense of humor.
Hi Roxanne, the toddler sweater is so exciting for me. I am knitting one for my granddaughter using a flat pattern but decided belatedly to use the morse code technique for her name found in Carla Meijsen’s Magic Motifs book on the sleeve as this did not work out easily flat. I therefore knitted the sleeve in the round but then did not know how to finish the sleeve top. The instructions were to cast off 8 stitches at the beginning of the next three rows. I ended up purling back which altered slightly the gauge. (You can see from this that I didn’t plan my work previously I’m sorry to admit). I will be interested in your project so much and I will certainly plan my next sweater for her much more carefully following your approach and upcoming techniques. Thank you once again.
If your purl gauge is different than your knit gauge, you can always use a smaller needle in your right hand for purl rows (it'll be in your left hand on knit rows, and will not alter your knit gauge)
Your tidbit #1 segment sounds amazing! I took a 400-level English course in college about the history of the English language, and it ended up being my favorite course throughout my whole degree. I'll be starting the podcast at episode 1, but I'm looking forward to the specific episode you mentioned today. I'm not sure if you've done a video on this already, but I'd love a technique Tuesday video on how you set up and use a spread sheet for sweaters.
Spinning/swatching so so interesting. Would not have guessed the outcomes. Love how you explore all aspects. New knitting project riveting! Thanks for all your insight.
Great episode. I’m going to listen to the Dyed in the wool episode. Sounds very interesting. Thanks for the heads up. Looking forward to seeing the techniques you will be sharing. The toddler sweater looks very nice.
I was at the state fair last Sunday - a big deal for me since I am from CA - it was my first time! We had such a good time! I looked for you in the Creative Arts building, but of course you were not there. It was great seeing the knitting! I love your new sweater! It will be great to watch the TT videos - looking forward to it!
So ironic that you spoke of the Great Wheel today. I just spent a week at the John C Campbell Folk-school I a spinning class and we all were able to use a great wheel. I hope you are able to locate one close by to try.
I love knitting math! You should do a video on creating your spreadsheets. The Alaska State Fair has a great textile exhibit. It’s likely much smaller, but people get very creative with design and often pull in Alaska Native motifs. We also get fibers from local wildlife while musk ox, wolf, and caribou.
I've done several Casual Friday segments on how I do spreadsheets. If you search my channel for the word "spreadsheet" you should be able to find them.
@@RoxanneRichardson I didn’t know you could search within a specific channel, but hilariously as I was listening to Casual Fridays on shuffle, it pulled in a video where you demoed how you set up your spreadsheets. Hahaha
Oh my gosh! I've been listening to The History of English Podcast since the beginning... and I listened to that episode long before I got into any fiber! I'll have to go back and listen!
Hi Roxanne! I will cross paths with you at the Weavers Guild booth. I’m doing the morning shift on the floor loom - which I only just learned to use at the beginning of August (I learned the table loom in March). I haven’t been to the fair in years, and I’m really looking forward to it.
The Old English podcast about wool and sheep sounds very much like the history of the world of sheep and wool in English nature author Sally Coulthard’s 2020 book, “A Short History of the World According to Sheep”. A fascinating tale that begins in Mesopotamia and wanders through the influence of sheep and shepherding on English language and English cities. A book by her dated 2021 from a different publisher, titled “Follow the Flock: How Sheep Shaped Human Civilization” may be the same book published in the US.
This is one of the best parts of making your own yarn. Experimenting! If I were making a sweater I would use the 2 gray to 1 color,. But if I were knitting socks I would use the three color strands.
Your videos whether they are Technique Tuesdays or Casual Fridays are always interesting! Our library has the book, I put a hold on it, its 8 weeks out, but I now have 1 book at 6 week, 1 at 8 weeks, and 1 at 11 weeks. So hoping I am not rushed. Please do record your State Fair! It would be great for your viewers that arent in the US, to see a State Fair, and the booths you are volunteering at. A great tidbit for a casual Friday. The swatches turned out great, interesting to see how the colors knitted up. I am knitting my first sweater, well more like a tshirt style and summer will be dont soon. Maybe I will finish it done in the next 2 weeks. Its top down and raglan. I would like to do a toddler one bottom up in the round with long sleeves. So I am going to watch everything you do for the toddler one. The technique Tuesdays are so perfect to always refer to. I had to use the one for casting on stitches in the middle of a row and at the end a couple times. Thank you for all you do!
You said to tell you which we'd prefer... I'd like the lessons about making a sweater. I'm making my first sweater and I'm designing it myself, so anything you do would be great, but I'm at the moment interested in top-down, set in-sleeve sweaters (lol -- not at all what you are going to talk about --- that's okay -- it will be so useful anyway and maybe I'll change my mind.) I wonder about adding the button-hole portion to a cardigan (how to do it picking up stiches up and down the front and around the neck and also how to add the button holes). and about the shape of the sweater behind the nape of the neck and the shoulders (is there shaping there?). Those are the problems I'm struggling with in my current project. Plus a cable pattern runs up each front panel and then ... I don't know--do they just stop at the shoulders (with a top-down seamless pattern), do they go over the shoulder and run parallel down the back of the sweater?(is that possible with top-down, seamless?) I enjoy your videos and find them helpful and informative. Thank you for making them.
I'm not sure how this request would fit, but if you think it would be possible: I'm really interested in saddle shoulder construction. I read some things about it and I guess it might not be overly complicated, but I'm a visual learner and your videos tend to be most comprehensive. Thank you!
I was fascinated by your titbit on old English. My daughter found a book for me at a book sale called “The History of the Woollen and Worsted Industries” by E Lipson. Originally published in 1921, this one from 1965. It has a beautiful frontispiece of a seventeenth century broadside illustrating the processes of the woollen and worsted industries - with old English!!
Thanks for the video and I'm really looking forward to seeing sweater videos! For me, anything about combining stitch patterns would be particularly interesting, what patterns are good as fillers, how should I deal with panels when I get to the armhole, that sort of thing. Thanks!
I have a question about knitting with superwash wool. I know that knitting socks we use a gauge that is a little tighter than what is on the ball band. I heard that when knitting sweaters with superwash wool people have had their sweaters grow a lot. What considerations do you have when knitting a sweater in a superwash worsted? Would you use a smaller gauge than recommended? Would that change the amount of yardage needed? Are there any techniques you would consider using to help prevent the growing? Were there any considerations you had when planning the toddlers sweater you are knitting now?
Question...was switching such a narrow piece concentrate the colors, especially in the first swatch? In a sweater with longer rows, will the color placement be different?
That's why variegated yarns can be tricky! Stitch counts, and whether you are knitting in the round vs back and forth will change how the yarn pools colors.
Yes. I applied it directly to the carder. I think I mentioned either in this video or the previous one that the next time, I would apply the color more carefully so that the fibers were opened up a bit more, to make the spinning easier.
@@deejcarter2003 There's a link to the previous video down in the Spinning section of the show notes, where I explained how I did that. Once you get to that video, use the chapter links in the video timeline to find the section titled Spinning.
Hi. I’m glad you are making the video release schedule work for you because I like having them on their respective Tuesdays and Fridays. Thanks, I continue to enjoy your videos.
I hope your yarn spinning is fun.
Love love love your spreadsheet! Would love to see a video of how you go about putting that together. Excited to see your upcoming projects too! Thank you for sharing all your insights with us. Big wave from California and hope you have an amazing time at the State Fair!
So glad technique Tuesday is returning! Love your videos
Very fun to see the knitted up swatches for your spinning experiment! It's always fascinating to see a skein become a knitted fabric because it's so difficult to predict what it will look like in any given piece. Also, wow, that sweater is gorgeous! I'm so looking forward to seeing every aspect of this and all the techniques you use. The stitch pattern is absolutely stunning, and I'd love to make one for me! The colour is such a beautiful azure blue, as well. Just lovely. Have fun at the State Fair! It sounds like a dream!
Great episode!
Your channel for me is equivalent to the knitters handy book for visual learners. I visit your technique videos often.
I got my BA in linguistics, love the podcast recommendation. Language is a lens to so much of what it means to be a human being-history, phonetics, anthropology, psychology etc.
That podcast sounds so interesting, I’m looking forward to listening but what I’m most excited about is following along with this sweater. Thanks for so much great content 😊
So interesting. I would be interested in the twisted stitches, haven’t tried them yet, love the look of them. Love the way you are teaching us in these sweater podcasts. You are the best, thanks so much.
My niece worked at Zoar Village here in Ohio during college summers. Her job was demonstrating what she called their Walking Wheel - while in historic costume. They taught her to spin on it as a part of her historical commentary. She loved it. Zoar Village was founded in 1817 by German Separatists and has been recreated for visitors. Think of Williamsburg.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm for learning!
I Roxanne, I'm so glad I found your videos. A fellow Minnesotan! Last weekend I got to look at and touch my great-great grandmother's wheel. Not a big wheel but a lovely one. It still had spun wool on the bobbin. Old wool that was well spun. The wheel has been passed down through the generations and is presently my mother's and it's planned to go to my sister. It was so fun to touch it.
The "History of English Podcast" episode is fascinating!! I can't wait to hear more episodes, and to introduce it to my husband who enjoys this type of information. Thank you so much for that tidbit! Looking forward to your technique videos and seeing your clever design come to fruition.
Oooh, spreadsheet!!!
For a future video I’d love to see how your formulas work. I’ve tried in the past to set up my own and I feel like there must be a way to have the spreadsheet do more of the work automatically. Thanks!
I've done several segments on how I set up my spreadsheets in the past. You can search my channel for the word "spreadsheet" and you should get several hits with spreadsheet in the video title.
I’ve been listening to that History of the English Language podcast for several years. I started at the beginning and when I was caught up, I was sad to have to wait between new releases! Love his voice.
I’m finding your experiments with the spinning with colors very interesting. I spin, but haven’t experimented like this yet.
And as for the toddler sweater…I love the tulip design you’re using. So pretty!
Oh my gosh, I love the overview of your design process. It's brilliant. And I happen to love the spreadsheet mapping. I think it's a leftover from IT days. I do love the color you chose for the sweater too. I'm not a superwash yarn user either, but it has it's place. I'm looking forward to seeing video of the state fair. There was one here in WA last weekend in Evergreen. I hope to go next year; I'll know where Evergreen is by then! I went down a rabbit hole of the English language a few weeks ago. Hours and hours - loved it. Love the stitch pattern books - you are a wealth of knowledge!
What a beautiful pattern you picked for that sweater! Thanks for another great episode.😊
It is so exciting that you can once again go to the state fair - I really did love your prior videos on it and it took this long to climb out of the pandemic. So glad we are all still here and that you will show us what is going on there!
Thank you for the sweater book recommendation. It sounds fantastic because I’m fond of charts .
Perfect next sweater project. I always wanted to work through Ann Budd’s book.
Enjoy the fair!
Thanks for the link to Dyed In The Wool. Regarding native British words 'imported' into the English language:
'Flannel' being the fabric and also the common name in GB for a facecloth/washcloth, and probably anglicised from the Welsh 'gwlanen' meaning ‘a woollen article’, itself from 'gwlân' meaning ‘wool’.
Sheep farming is evidenced in Wales from prehistoric periods, and wool related objects have been found as early as the bronze age.
When a new Rox video shows up in my feed, I feel a huge smile wreath my face. Hope you have a fabulous time at the state fair. Maybe there'll be a cheese cow sculpture to rival Iowa's butter cow?
We have Princess Kay of the Milky Way, and her court (11 of them). Each day of the fair, a 50 lb block of butter is transformed into a sculpture of one of their heads. :-)
Heading over to listen to the history of enlightenment podcast with my sock knitting. Very curious to see the techniques for the toddler sweater. Another great episode Roxanne.
I am soooooooo excited to learn about your fake in-the-round swatching technique. The typical method drives me nuts and yours looks a bit tidier.
Just watched Great/Walking Wheel vid. Wow, a LOT of work! Very interesting!
Love the sinuous vertical twisted st!
This episode has sooo much info (well, all your vids are …!), and I Thank You for all you do! I usually make top down sweaters-mostly for fit. I’m very interested in watching this bottom up sweater evolve! My brain analyses much like yours, and if my laptop wasn’t old(er) and grumpy, I’d be using excel (I love excel)!!
Thanks for sending me in different directions…again!!
Another great vid Roxanne...I've already checked out the History of English podcast and I'm very excited about going back and listening from the first episode. I am also excited about you restarting technique tuesdays and am curious, as Im sure many of us are, about the circular swatch technique. I also recall I couldnt find a twisted rib provisional bindoff in your technique videos, I should have mentioned it at the time as from memory it was a bit hard to find anything on that technique when I needed it. I vaguely remember a Suzanne Bryan video helping me and later on hearing the advice from Leslie, from A Friend to Knit with saying, she untwists the stitches before binding off. Im looking forward seeing your take on it. Its nice to hear your daughter is still knitting too. Take care.
Tara
Design a child sweater in Bavarian twisted stitches, a dream !!! I am so looking forward to these new technique Tuesdays.
Is there a child sweater for this?
There is a child's sweater p.154 in the book by Maria Erlbacher " Twisted-Stitch Knitting Traditional Patterns & Garnemts from the Styrian Enns Valley". The symbols on the charts are completely different than the ones we use, but once you get used to them, this book is a real treasure for twisted-stitches lovers. @@sharonaldag2279
I’m excited about your new sweater project and the related videos! Also, I just started Peggy Orenstein’s book. I wanted to read it because of the content, but I’m really enjoying her sense of humor.
Hi Roxanne, the toddler sweater is so exciting for me. I am knitting one for my granddaughter using a flat pattern but decided belatedly to use the morse code technique for her name found in Carla Meijsen’s Magic Motifs book on the sleeve as this did not work out easily flat. I therefore knitted the sleeve in the round but then did not know how to finish the sleeve top. The instructions were to cast off 8 stitches at the beginning of the next three rows. I ended up purling back which altered slightly the gauge. (You can see from this that I didn’t plan my work previously I’m sorry to admit). I will be interested in your project so much and I will certainly plan my next sweater for her much more carefully following your approach and upcoming techniques. Thank you once again.
If your purl gauge is different than your knit gauge, you can always use a smaller needle in your right hand for purl rows (it'll be in your left hand on knit rows, and will not alter your knit gauge)
Your tidbit #1 segment sounds amazing! I took a 400-level English course in college about the history of the English language, and it ended up being my favorite course throughout my whole degree. I'll be starting the podcast at episode 1, but I'm looking forward to the specific episode you mentioned today.
I'm not sure if you've done a video on this already, but I'd love a technique Tuesday video on how you set up and use a spread sheet for sweaters.
Spinning/swatching so so interesting. Would not have guessed the outcomes.
Love how you explore all aspects. New knitting project riveting! Thanks for all your insight.
Great episode. I’m going to listen to the Dyed in the wool episode. Sounds very interesting. Thanks for the heads up. Looking forward to seeing the techniques you will be sharing. The toddler sweater looks very nice.
I was at the state fair last Sunday - a big deal for me since I am from CA - it was my first time! We had such a good time! I looked for you in the Creative Arts building, but of course you were not there. It was great seeing the knitting!
I love your new sweater! It will be great to watch the TT videos - looking forward to it!
Ah, too bad we missed each other! I was there on Monday afternoon.
So ironic that you spoke of the Great Wheel today. I just spent a week at the John C Campbell Folk-school I a spinning class and we all were able to use a great wheel. I hope you are able to locate one close by to try.
I love knitting math! You should do a video on creating your spreadsheets.
The Alaska State Fair has a great textile exhibit. It’s likely much smaller, but people get very creative with design and often pull in Alaska Native motifs. We also get fibers from local wildlife while musk ox, wolf, and caribou.
I've done several Casual Friday segments on how I do spreadsheets. If you search my channel for the word "spreadsheet" you should be able to find them.
@@RoxanneRichardson I didn’t know you could search within a specific channel, but hilariously as I was listening to Casual Fridays on shuffle, it pulled in a video where you demoed how you set up your spreadsheets. Hahaha
Oh my gosh! I've been listening to The History of English Podcast since the beginning... and I listened to that episode long before I got into any fiber! I'll have to go back and listen!
High energy video. Got me enthusiastic about every single thing you talked about :)
Peggy Orenstein's book is also available as an audio book, which she reads herself, and it's wonderful!
So we can listen while we knit!!Thanks!
Hi Roxanne! I will cross paths with you at the Weavers Guild booth. I’m doing the morning shift on the floor loom - which I only just learned to use at the beginning of August (I learned the table loom in March). I haven’t been to the fair in years, and I’m really looking forward to it.
Wonderful!
The Old English podcast about wool and sheep sounds very much like the history of the world of sheep and wool in English nature author Sally Coulthard’s 2020 book, “A Short History of the World According to Sheep”. A fascinating tale that begins in Mesopotamia and wanders through the influence of sheep and shepherding on English language and English cities. A book by her dated 2021 from a different publisher, titled “Follow the Flock: How Sheep Shaped Human Civilization” may be the same book published in the US.
This is one of the best parts of making your own yarn. Experimenting! If I were making a sweater I would use the 2 gray to 1 color,. But if I were knitting socks I would use the three color strands.
Your videos whether they are Technique Tuesdays or Casual Fridays are always interesting! Our library has the book, I put a hold on it, its 8 weeks out, but I now have 1 book at 6 week, 1 at 8 weeks, and 1 at 11 weeks. So hoping I am not rushed. Please do record your State Fair! It would be great for your viewers that arent in the US, to see a State Fair, and the booths you are volunteering at. A great tidbit for a casual Friday. The swatches turned out great, interesting to see how the colors knitted up. I am knitting my first sweater, well more like a tshirt style and summer will be dont soon. Maybe I will finish it done in the next 2 weeks. Its top down and raglan. I would like to do a toddler one bottom up in the round with long sleeves. So I am going to watch everything you do for the toddler one. The technique Tuesdays are so perfect to always refer to. I had to use the one for casting on stitches in the middle of a row and at the end a couple times. Thank you for all you do!
Great tips! The one about languages sounds fascinating! Thank you for one more great episode!❤️
You said to tell you which we'd prefer... I'd like the lessons about making a sweater. I'm making my first sweater and I'm designing it myself, so anything you do would be great, but I'm at the moment interested in top-down, set in-sleeve sweaters (lol -- not at all what you are going to talk about --- that's okay -- it will be so useful anyway and maybe I'll change my mind.) I wonder about adding the button-hole portion to a cardigan (how to do it picking up stiches up and down the front and around the neck and also how to add the button holes). and about the shape of the sweater behind the nape of the neck and the shoulders (is there shaping there?). Those are the problems I'm struggling with in my current project. Plus a cable pattern runs up each front panel and then ... I don't know--do they just stop at the shoulders (with a top-down seamless pattern), do they go over the shoulder and run parallel down the back of the sweater?(is that possible with top-down, seamless?) I enjoy your videos and find them helpful and informative. Thank you for making them.
I'm not sure how this request would fit, but if you think it would be possible: I'm really interested in saddle shoulder construction. I read some things about it and I guess it might not be overly complicated, but I'm a visual learner and your videos tend to be most comprehensive. Thank you!
You seem “perkier”, Roxanne 😉, hope this means you’re feeling well. Interesting, as always. 😊
I was fascinated by your titbit on old English. My daughter found a book for me at a book sale called “The History of the Woollen and Worsted Industries” by E Lipson. Originally published in 1921, this one from 1965. It has a beautiful frontispiece of a seventeenth century broadside illustrating the processes of the woollen and worsted industries - with old English!!
Interesting! I looked up the book on archive.org. Since that's from the 17th century, that's actually modern English!
Fascinating image though and I love the double s’s that look like f’s.
Thanks for the video and I'm really looking forward to seeing sweater videos! For me, anything about combining stitch patterns would be particularly interesting, what patterns are good as fillers, how should I deal with panels when I get to the armhole, that sort of thing. Thanks!
Have you checked with Seivers in Washington Island Wisconsin for a great wheel? Or maybe they have a lead on one. Just a suggestion.
I have a question about knitting with superwash wool. I know that knitting socks we use a gauge that is a little tighter than what is on the ball band. I heard that when knitting sweaters with superwash wool people have had their sweaters grow a lot. What considerations do you have when knitting a sweater in a superwash worsted? Would you use a smaller gauge than recommended? Would that change the amount of yardage needed? Are there any techniques you would consider using to help prevent the growing? Were there any considerations you had when planning the toddlers sweater you are knitting now?
Question...was switching such a narrow piece concentrate the colors, especially in the first swatch? In a sweater with longer rows, will the color placement be different?
That's why variegated yarns can be tricky! Stitch counts, and whether you are knitting in the round vs back and forth will change how the yarn pools colors.
Please, please! Someone hook Roxanne up with a Great Wheel!
For your 3 ply experiment did you mix the gray and color on the carder for the color singles?
Yes. I applied it directly to the carder. I think I mentioned either in this video or the previous one that the next time, I would apply the color more carefully so that the fibers were opened up a bit more, to make the spinning easier.
@@RoxanneRichardson So if I understand correctly, the color ply was a combination of gray and color right? Did you do a specific ratio?
@@deejcarter2003 There's a link to the previous video down in the Spinning section of the show notes, where I explained how I did that. Once you get to that video, use the chapter links in the video timeline to find the section titled Spinning.