How (NOT) to knit a 1940s Vintage Sweater with Handspun Yarn
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Hello friends! Vintage knitting patterns, who doesn't love them? At least I do. Especially when knit up in my handspun yarn. This particular video was inspired by @Engineeringknits video on her Valentine's sweater. And by a question by one of my Instagram followers about knitting with handspun.
So in this video I knit this vintage 1940s sweater with my handspun yarn and give you some tips and tricks to do so yourself. And then I encounter an avalanche of issues that I need to troubleshoot and find some creative solutions for. So, yes, this promises to be yet again one hell of a choas goblin ride. Speaking of rides...
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Puff sleeves would definitelly look cute on this one!
Right?!
You are such a breath of fresh air !
Thank you ☺️
Chaos brain, chaos solution, wonderful.
Hehe thanks 😁
I didn’t have my glasses on so I thought you said cheese brain 😅
In Dutch we sometimes do say our brains are like ''gatenkaas'' (cheese with holes) 😂
@@valzahnzahn too funny
I'm finally planning my own hand spun knitting project and seeing all the problem-solving it will require is really eye-opening. Moral of the story, DON'T TRUST THE PATTERN SUGGESTED YARN AMOUNT! I'm super excited to start.
Oooh! Happy knitting to you! I'm sure it will be a most treasured piece 😁
That’s indeed pretty much it!
Even with commercial yarns, I find the amounts stated on the patterns are often quite arbitrary. All too often I’m left with too much yarn. Some times it ends in a terrifying game of yarn chicken.
That’s why I like spinning for specific projects so much. I get some extra fibre (or prep extra, depending) and I know I can always spin up some more if needed. This means I often have very little extra yarn, and the fibre that is left can be blended into another project or, if it’s a white fibre I have a lot of (I have a stash of ‘standard’ fibre) it can simply go back in the stash.
I find knitting scarves, wraps and shawls has taught me a lot about my default comfort spinning (lace weight yarn). I have found out roughly how many grams yield a specific amount in yards/metres. Size of the finished piece is less important with this kind of garment. That made for less stressful knitting when using that precious homespun yarn.
From there, it’s easier to ‘graduate’ to garments that basically consist of combined squares or rectangles.
TLDR: don’t trust the yarn requirements of the pattern. Trust the gauge swatch more. If needed, consider calculating yarn requirements based on that swatch. And remember that adjusting needle/hook size can help. Because as Jente stated in other videos, the wraps per inch can be iffy as well.
I think it's cute, like you said a bit more rustic but still it brings it's own texture to the piece
Thank you :)
I really appreciate you showing your process and including projects that don't turn out exactly how you'd hoped.
Thank you ☺️ eventhough I don't feel very happy with them I think it's important to show things that go wrong. Our social media society is so focussed in perfection that it seems like nobody fails at anything anymort
Great taste in music! Looks like your husband would make a good drummer!
I know right, Lacuna Coil bringing the fire 🔥
just wanted to say that as a new knitter I have discovered that the length of yarn thread in a ball matters more than the weight lately. I am knitting now a 40s vest, it calls for 17 stitched in 2 inches, and the best match of yarn I have found is approx 400 meters in 100 g ball (4ply socks yarn). Actually, your blouse/sweater is adorable and it doesn't matter that it looks different from the pattern picture!
Sad part of vintage patterns is that you don't always find references to the original yarn and how many meters per 100 grams that was
I think your knitted blouse is adorable. It probably has more ease than a midcentury garment, it’s still absolutely magical.
Thank you ☺️
I haven't yet knit anything that wasn't a rectangle, but I, too, SO wanted to try out those sleeves when I saw Engineering Knits' video! The colors in your sweater are so pretty together, and I think puff sleeves would be adorable.
Thank you 🥰 and except for shaping the neck and sleeveheads, this was a couple of rectangles 😉
Good idea to make the back different, it looks good. I think the main difference to the pattern image is not the sleeves but the ease. The vintage version is very close-fitting.
Yeah that is true as well. But that's a commonly recurring problem for me with patterns that are basicly rectangles. If I want them to be comfortable in the bust area, they're going to be loose everywhere Else 😅
It's amazing how you explain what knitting may be, it's not just the result but the feelings you have when you do it since the spinning to the smell of the wool (that warm, reassuring ,cozy smell)and feeling the soft warm wool on you. Knitting is an experience. I love those colours you combined. And, by the way, when I was younger I worked as a painter of stove tales (I just know the word in German , "Kachelofen")and my boss used to say to me that an imperfection was not a mistake but an added value. You can fit this principle to all hand made things. 😌
That's a beautiful philosophy! In Flemish we call them kachel as well ,'👌
Greetings from the northeast USA. You have encouraged me so much! I am a brand new spinner using the EEW6 eel wheel. I am so excited to get to spin my own yarn and actually make a garment to wear. I’m starting with socks.
What a blessing it is to be able to share a craft with someone across the globe.
Handspun socks are the best socks! They give me so much physical and emotional warmth! Have Fun 😁
Knitting with your own handspun is amazing! It's so fun to see how it turns out!
Handspun is best spun 😎
I learn from experience too! Thanks for sharing your process!
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Beautiful!! I love it. Rules be damned. ✌️😊
Rules are made to be broken 😁
Just add some cuffs to the sleeves and reknit the neck band!!! Love your attitude on knitting and spinning
Thank you 🥰🥰
Thanks for another enjoyable video - love seeing the process and the product!
You could sew some shirring elastic around the sleeve cuffs to add poufiness to the sleeves?
That's what I was thinking indeed!
Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️
I love your Handspun Sweater, it looks amazing.
I love the colours, I also like the Cropped style of your Sweater.
I Crocheted a Cowl/Scarf with some of my Handspun Yarn and one thing I noticed is that Handspun is a lot softer than commercial yarns.
Happy Spinning and Knitting Sweet Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🐕
I missed this video podcast when you first put it out as I was ill in bed. I'm fine again now though. 😊😊
Glad to hear you're better now!
@@MijnWolden Hi Jente, Thankyou, yes I'm much better, had a flu bug but with having fibromyalgia and very severe arthritis meant I was laid up for about a week, fortunately I have a very good husband who besides having to do everything normally, gave extra TLC.
Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥
Sending Heart ♥ back to you
Happy Spinning Sweet Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🐕
It turned out really nice! I like it 👌
Thank you 🥰
Gauge swatches are my go to for any knitting, unless I allow chaos to rule and simply throw myself into a project with abandon. This goes for hand spun as well as for commercial yarn. I do tend to spin for specific projects.
Simply throwing myself with wild abandon is kind of my favorite thing 😁
Hoi hoi. Zo blij dat ik jou gevonden heb😂. Heerlijk zoals jij werk. Ik herken mezelf erin. Ook ik haal mijn vachten uit mijn dorp. En ik geniet ervan. Als ik haak of brei loop ik ook steeds tegen de patronen aan. Het klopt nooit met hand gesponnen wol. Of ik zou me natuurlijk ook beter kunnen voorbereiden…..nee..dan is de lol er af. Geniet van je wol…..ik geniet van je filmpjes😍!
Dan is de lol eraf, zo is het! 😁 Veel plezier
Wow France looked beautiful! And so does the project!
The Ardèche is one of our favorite regions indeed. But a little birdie told me you might have a Ardèche series in the Future 😉
@@MijnWolden in a couple of months that might be the case! ❤️
It still looks fabulous and you look beautiful! I love the struggle of running out of yarn LOL this happened during my first handspun sweater. I enjoy watching your process and wish I had all that floof.
The only downside of having all that floof is feeling restricted to get more floof 😂
Maybe you could try adding elastic to the hem of the sleeves to make them puff?
Exactly what I did in the end 😁
My current project is to spin and crochet a bulky sweater for my dad with handspun yarn. I had 1kg of carded wool. I have done most of the front and I'm already worried I won't have enough for the arms 😅😬
Woeps haha 😅
I am also a member of the chaos tribe.
High five!
It does look a bit wide, yeah, but personally I think the sleeves are super cute, especially with those colours.
I wish I could knit with my handspun, but I barely knit at all, and figuring out things like gage etc myself is beyond me. I am planning on weaving it though, first for a few decorative items to get a good feel for it, and then for clothes. Good thick winter skirts are impossible to find, especially in my size, so I think handspun handwoven wool fabric should fill that hole nicely.
(On a side note, thank you for having the captions on pretty much immediately when your videos go up. I don't have to wait five hours to actually watch them.)
Ooooooooh handspun woven garments. Now that's a thing I didn't realize I needed but now it's lodged in my mind forever
@@MijnWolden should I say "I'm sorry" or "you're welcome" XD ?
The latter 😉
I like your sweater and gathered sleeves to be poofie would look good.
I have made them pooffy by now and I can confirm it looks nice 😁
Love the color combination. Is too big because the pattern is wrong or because the gage is off? Could you maybe weigh the whole sweater and tell us how many grams it weights in the end? Even without the long sleeves.
It weighs over 400 grams, which if I'm correct is approx 14 ounces. That's wildly off.
Ik vind de kleuren super en je filmpjes trouwens ook haha. Ik zelf zou de trui uithalen want ik vind m veel te groot voor je. Je hebt nu een hele grote swatch gebreid toch ;-) kan je nu berekenen hoeveel steken je echt nodig hebt. Bij mij zou die dan in de kast blijven liggen, ik weet niet of dat bij jou ook zo is........... maar dat zou zonde zijn want op zich kan ie echt leuk zijn. bedankt voor alle wijze lessen haha ;-)
Uithalen zal 'em niet worden, dat krijg ik niet over mijn hart nu. Misschien nadat 'ie eerst minstens een jaar in de kast gelegen heeft, maar nu zeker niet 🙈
@@MijnWolden 🤣 snap ik
Do you know what pattern you used for the yellow cabled sweater you're wearing on your way to France? I love it.
Yes! It's the Marzipan pullover by Sari Nordlund :)
@@MijnWolden thank you! I think I’m going to knit that when I can finally get all my other projects done.
That 4oz thing was total bullshit 🤣 How much did your's weigh in the end? I agree about the sleeves needing some kind of pouffiness. I think it turned out really nice in the end.
I just knit a small blanket with handspun. It was for the cats. I've now decided i want to use up loads of my earlier skeins and make it into a blanket for me, because knitting with my handspun is awesome. 🎉🎉🎉
It weighed over 400grams, so it was more like 14 ounces, which could in fact be a typo maybe 😂
@@MijnWolden Omg that's quite a difference!!
Is dit een kaarder van woolmakers uit enschede? Hoe vind jij hem?
Klopt, een woolmakers giant. Ben er tevreden van, al vind ik dat er veel wol achterblijft achter de haakjes, als ik andere mensen zie kaarsen, zij krijgen hun batts er altijd zeer proper af. Maar dat kan natuurlijk ook aan de wol liggen. Of aan mij 😅
Look I don't hate it, the yarn and the colours look nice but It's got a really definite modern feel about it. For better of worse. The sleeve shape I think would look less modern if you did gather the bottom.
You take the words out of my mouth, though a bit more eloquently.
Why spin if you want it to look like commercial yarn it has no life. It is a spring sweater with the wide sleeves maybe rein it the sleeves doing the head then taking some of the width out would give you enough to do a tighter cuff or just spin a bit of the darker ool when you get home and knit a tighter cuff,or ad shirring elastic to the bottom edge of the sleeve
Shirring elastic is what I had in mind! But I could indeed use one of the other colours for the cuff too.