Thank you for the link about the reweaving. Over 50 years ago, my sister-in-law learned to do reweaving. I remember her repairing a cigarette burn in a pair of men's suit pants that was right on the front crease. It was perfect and invisible!! Brought back great memories. I forwarded the video to my sister-in-law who is now 84 years old, and I'm happy to say in great health!
I only found your videos recently. And I have to tell you how much I have enjoyed them. I too love a challenge and learning. After seeing your video on Japanese stitching, I thought wow, I love their designs , and I haven't read knitting charts since I was in my 20s. I'm 68, so this will be my challenge. And I love it. After this project is finished I'll be starting another with another design from the book. You opened my eyes that knitting doesn't have to be the same old projects with the same old stitching. Love your vintage sweaters and your attention to detail. I'm learning lots. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences
Congratulations on your 1940s Harlequin sweaters, they really fit you perfectly, both of you. Thanks for the link to invisible mending. The documentary was just so moving, talk about slow fashion and attachment to meaningful clothes ...
@Cara, Thanks for saying so. Practice, practice, practice (and sometimes frog, frog, frog). If you want to knit vintage styles, you almost always will have to do some modification, if only to get your size. We both spoke in earlier episodes about using either charting software or graph paper to sketch the original pattern to see the overall dimensions. That gives you a handle on what you need to tweek.
The sweaters look fantastic! It’s so interesting to see the two very different sweaters made up with the same decorative design. Billie’s looks very ‘40s (those shoulders are fabulous!) but yours is much more timeless. Thank you for sharing your process…I learned so much!! Oh! That tidbit about the documentary is much appreciated. The techniques for the invisible mending are just mind blowing.
Thank you @TheMetatronGirl. I'm glad you like my padded shoulders. I'm trying to build a "new" wardrobe based on "vintage" styles, so for me the 30s and 40s will be forever timeless.
@@ShowandTellknitting Your sweater is gorgeous! My parents were born in the ‘40s. I have dozens of photographs of my grandmothers in similar silhouettes…it’s a favorite era of mine, fashion-wise. There’s something so classy about the looks of the ‘30s & ‘40s. What I really meant by timeless is that you couldn’t pinpoint a decade for Roxanne’s version. While yours is definitely a 1940s sweater, it will never go out of style!
I’m really impressed with the fit of this sweater. In this age of mostly baggy clothes, it is really nice to see how a closer fitting garment looks on a body. And yours suits the style, as well as the colors. Thanks for the link to the Japanese reweavers. It’s been a long time since I had to do that in my dressmaking studio ( and never that well!)
Rox the 1940's jumper looks great on. The colour combination that you both picked were delightful. You may be interested for your 1970's project about the award winning London designer Patricia Roberts. She has some amazing patterns that are iconic for that era. She even had her own yarn brand Woolly Bear.
I think you and your friend both solved the neckline issue brilliantly. Both very different but both very nicely done. I loved the Japanese weaving video very much. Thanks for sharing.
I love the sweater! It turned out beautifully and looks lovely on you. Looking forward to your next one! It's so funny when you mentioned the instructions for the vintage sweater. I do remember back when I used to make Fisherman sweaters, they look similar to a Cowichan sweater. I grew up in Canada and these were very popular 30 years ago. In fact anything I knit 30 years ago, instructions were sparse, yet in many instances more clear than many I see today. Absolutely loved the documentary on Kaketsugi. What incredible work father and daughter do, and the patience required by these artisans - wow! 😊
The Japanese Kaketsugi technique for repair is the same as what is called "french weaving" or "reweaving", you weave a scrap of the same fabric on top of the damaged part, 1 thread by 1 thread, incredibly fine work.
I have seen the picture of this sweater as you have shown it over a number of videos and really didn’t care for the design/colors. But ‘in person’, on you, it is much more interesting and suits you very well and the neckline choice is a good one. And agree with other commenters that is very complementary to your coloring.
Thank you Roxanne for explaining the construction of this sweater. Loved it! It looks great on you! You did a fantastic job! Hope we get to see more projects like this one 😊
The sweater looks very contemporary with the rounded neckline. I’m really impressed by the evenness of your stitches and the fine quality of the fabric. It looks lovely.
Roxanne, I watched the Kaketsugi video. That was truly amazing! When I was younger, I never mended my husbands socks…it was easier just to buy new ones. Now that I knit my own, I’ve spent time to really learn how to darn well. But this technique was amazing to watch. Thank you for sharing that. The sweaters that you and Billie made are wonderful. They look great on each of you.
The Harlequin sweater is very nice and think is wearable today's too. Perfect work Rox. Looks very good on you. I'm amazed about the mending art, nice document, thank you for sharing
Well done Rox. Absolutely wonderful tutorial. I’m out of my mind knitting a toddler’s jumper with every row a different pattern of stitches. I thought I knew how to read a chart but apparently I don’t. I’m starting the sleeves and would love a tutorial on knitting these at the same time on a pair of circular needles. I know that it’s not as easy as it might seem. My mother in law spent WW II knitting socks for her brother in law and others and baking fruit cakes in tins that they would then put the lid on. They weren’t turned out of the tins or if they were they were just put back in and the lid was put on and an address attached. Interestingly not a sock pattern exists in the house. I had hand knitted socks as a child and they were like wearing string socks 😂 Best wishes and love from Australia.
I, too, watched this invisible mending film. I remember seeing a book on this technique in the 1990s that was written in the 1960s. I was fascinated by this, but amused by the author's contention that this was a great career path...An amazing skill but a limited market in our ear of cheaper clothes.
Very interesting episode. Enjoyed the history about the vintage patterns and the painting. Watched the mending documentary, was lovely....thanks for sharing!! :)
I have some Paton's Beehive Fingering 3 ply in my collection. As far as I can tell the difference with Scotch Fingering is that the wool itself comes from Scotland and it's in a skein not a ball like the ordinary Fingering. Love the finished sweater!
My colour palette encompasses black, white and the red family, so personally your 40s colours did not appeal. But your Harlequin sweater looks magnificent and your colour interaction is perfect! And your finishing, Roxanne, is so accomplished. There is nothing about your work that ever looks (sorry, makers) "home made." Not sure why this one seems so wonderful. Someone else mentioned the fineness of the fabric and i agree heartily. And on top of everything, it looks great on you.
Oh wow, how gorgeous it turned out! Everyone of your vintage projects is such a revelation. It just struck me today when looking at the black-and-white photo where I'd seen that kind of close-fitting necklines before, and now I see design traits from Nehru jackets and Mao suits in the forties sweater. Or were those from a later period? Very interesting with the seamed hems too. The first knitting books I ever owned (in the mid-eighties) definitely recommended backstitch as the most useful method for seaming. Somehow that always struck me as weird, because why would you want something as bulky on the inside of a garment? Then I was going through a back catalog of online digital patterns and immediately noticed when I had delved deep enough to find the 80's. Well, with that kind of wide billowy silhouette and extravagant ease that was in fashion, you'd hardly feel any seams at all while wearing a knit sweater.
Those '80s sweaters were very oversized, and heavy. A sturdy seam would have helped stabilize the shoulders. Seaming methods for sweaters were often the same seaming methods used for woven fabrics, so backstitch and whipstitch were natural choices. The use of mattress stitch seems to have come from the machine knitting world (people often credit Japanese knitting machine books from the '60s, but I haven't yet found a source to pinpoint when that transition started to occur). I was definitely using backstitch in the '80s when I first learned to knit.
As for additional neck closures like this, some times over the shoulder or on the back, I feel like if you're going to do all that work, it makes more sense to make a cardigan or a polo-like collar
You have made a wonderful job of this vintage sweater. I think it a pity you couldn’t wear a funnel neck because that was so typical of the era and very flattering. Your fit is spot on as intended, nice and close. I know I shouldn’t say but it is much better than Billies (why did she do that to the sleeve heads?). The colours are fabulous too. I look forward to your next jumper.
I really should make a better shoulder pad to fill out those '40s shoulders. The pattern I used, Charm with Checkers, from the same decade as Harlequin, called for a unique shaped sleeve cap which was not uncommon at the time. Rox and I had a lengthy conversation about sleeve/ sleeve cap in an earlier episode about 15 minutes in: ua-cam.com/video/GFXRbbZy-R8/v-deo.html and I spoke further ua-cam.com/video/mrzCm0AhcvI/v-deo.html
Many known titles of artwork were given by merchants and/or curators, sometimes years after the artist's death, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case for "The sock knitter"
Hello I like this sweater very much. It fits beautifully. Here is my one crazy observation. The straight neckline of the original 1940’s sweater is a repetition of the design element of strong horizontal lines Look at the top of each line of triangles ..horizontal lines. Changing the straight neckline and introducing a curve, breaks the repetition of the main design element?
My reaction to the sweater design when I first saw it was that I knew I would not like the fit of the neck. As I drew the schematic, I realized why the designer had made that choice, but I still knew that I would not like wearing a sweater with a neck like that. I mentioned several times during the course of knitting the sweater that I wasn't sure how my idea for the change in the design would bear out, visually. I knew that I could end up with something that fit well but looked weird, and that I wouldn't want to wear. If that were the case, I would have ripped back and reknit the front as the sweater was written, in order to get a better visual result, which I also wouldn't wear, but would still be useful in the context of the long term project to knit a sweater from each decade. In this case, I felt like the change in the neck resulted in an overall improvement. Not everyone likes the same things, though, so not everyone will agree with the change.
My aunt had a beautiful hot pink suit in raw silk in a complex weave. While she was at an event, a woman burnt a hole in her skirt with a cigarette. Auntie found an invisible mender and wow, you’d never know from the front. You could see the little threads from the back. It was like a miracle.
My mom and grandma used to do this kind of invisible weaving as an at-home way to make some extra money. There was a company that sold the tools (like little latch hooks) and the classes on how to do the method. My mom did a lot of the work through a local dry cleaner, and we'd have to go by there when she picked us up from school to drop off and pick up things to be mended.
My immediate reaction on seeing hearing the painting title was also "SOCK knitter? Really?🤨". I do wish we could properly see what she's making... it looks too small to be a sweater section (except possibly a sleeve?), most of the era patterns I've seen for hats and balaclavas were also knitted in the round... Is it a scarf? *squints quizzically at the image*
Not sure what you're asking. How long it took to plan what out? The video? The sweater? A specific modification? The color choices? The actual time to knit it?
@@RoxanneRichardson I guess my comment wasn’t very clear. You made adjustments to the pattern. The sweater is impeccably fitting, so I suspect it may have taken some math, swatching, etc., to get to that point. I am just curious how much time it takes an expert like u to do that part of the knitting process. For a novice like me, that part would take me more time than to actually knit it. Hope that makes sense. The sweater looks so beautiful on you bcos of your ability to tailor it so perfectly to your body.
@@carblarson8868 Well, then, I guess it took me 35+ years. :-) I have always chosen projects based on what I can learn from that project, starting with my very first knitting project, which was a sleeveless, V-neck top. The next project was a cardigan with a button band and sleeves and a very easy stitch pattern, which helped me learn to read my knits from my purls. Then I chose projects with cables, colorwork, lace, etc. I had no idea of how to modify something or design my own things for years, mostly because I didn't know any other knitters who I could ask, and I wasn't able to figure out on my own how to learn those skills. Drawing the schematic, then modifying it to my own measurements, and then translating that to stitch counts and shaping rates, and then putting it into a chart so that I could actually see what was going on was probably a day or two (not 8-hour days, just a couple hours here and there, but it's so fun for me, I lose track of time). The neck modification took a bit of thinking through, because I really didn't know if it would work, and I thought through a few different ideas before I swatched to see if I was on the right track. It was all *far* less time than it took to knit 88K sts, and then do all the finishing work! I didn't set out in 1986 with the goal of being able to design my own sweaters or modify a pattern from the 1940s. I just looked for things that were interesting to me and that I thought would be fun to learn.
@@RoxanneRichardson Ha. Yes, it probably was a foolish question on my part, but the way u get your sweaters to fit so perfectly is fascinating to me. After watching u knit the various pieces, then going from that to a perfectly fitted sweater was a bit of a shock, although nice shock. I won’t take any more of your time. Thx.
Thank you for the link about the reweaving. Over 50 years ago, my sister-in-law learned to do reweaving. I remember her repairing a cigarette burn in a pair of men's suit pants that was right on the front crease. It was perfect and invisible!! Brought back great memories. I forwarded the video to my sister-in-law who is now 84 years old, and I'm happy to say in great health!
I only found your videos recently. And I have to tell you how much I have enjoyed them. I too love a challenge and learning. After seeing your video on Japanese stitching, I thought wow, I love their designs , and I haven't read knitting charts since I was in my 20s. I'm 68, so this will be my challenge. And I love it. After this project is finished I'll be starting another with another design from the book. You opened my eyes that knitting doesn't have to be the same old projects with the same old stitching. Love your vintage sweaters and your attention to detail. I'm learning lots. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences
That sweater looks terrific! So beautifully fitting!
Congratulations on your 1940s Harlequin sweaters, they really fit you perfectly, both of you. Thanks for the link to invisible mending. The documentary was just so moving, talk about slow fashion and attachment to meaningful clothes ...
Thanks, Nicole.
Both of you are so talented! I'm a total novice, so it's almost overwhelming to hear your genius modifications.
@Cara, Thanks for saying so. Practice, practice, practice (and sometimes frog, frog, frog). If you want to knit vintage styles, you almost always will have to do some modification, if only to get your size. We both spoke in earlier episodes about using either charting software or graph paper to sketch the original pattern to see the overall dimensions. That gives you a handle on what you need to tweek.
Oh, thanks Roxanne, for the link to the sweet and moving mending story. Lost art, dedication, family. Lovely.
Amazing work on the vintage sweater!!! 🧶💕🧶
Loved Billie's hat! It looked well with her sweater. Both necklines were fine because each sweater fit well.
The mending section was mesmerizing, I Have watched it twice already. Congratulations on your finished jumper, it really fits you well.
The sweaters look fantastic! It’s so interesting to see the two very different sweaters made up with the same decorative design. Billie’s looks very ‘40s (those shoulders are fabulous!) but yours is much more timeless. Thank you for sharing your process…I learned so much!!
Oh! That tidbit about the documentary is much appreciated. The techniques for the invisible mending are just mind blowing.
Thank you @TheMetatronGirl. I'm glad you like my padded shoulders. I'm trying to build a "new" wardrobe based on "vintage" styles, so for me the 30s and 40s will be forever timeless.
@@ShowandTellknitting Your sweater is gorgeous! My parents were born in the ‘40s. I have dozens of photographs of my grandmothers in similar silhouettes…it’s a favorite era of mine, fashion-wise. There’s something so classy about the looks of the ‘30s & ‘40s.
What I really meant by timeless is that you couldn’t pinpoint a decade for Roxanne’s version. While yours is definitely a 1940s sweater, it will never go out of style!
Your sweater came out so beautifully and the fit is impeccable. Congratulations!
I’m really impressed with the fit of this sweater. In this age of mostly baggy clothes, it is really nice to see how a closer fitting garment looks on a body. And yours suits the style, as well as the colors. Thanks for the link to the Japanese reweavers. It’s been a long time since I had to do that in my dressmaking studio ( and never that well!)
Rox the 1940's jumper looks great on. The colour combination that you both picked were delightful.
You may be interested for your 1970's project about the award winning London designer Patricia Roberts. She has some amazing patterns that are iconic for that era. She even had her own yarn brand Woolly Bear.
Thank you, Jean. You might recall how I agonized over choosing those colors. ua-cam.com/video/NSRbn-4wVSo/v-deo.html
I think you and your friend both solved the neckline issue brilliantly. Both very different but both very nicely done. I loved the Japanese weaving video very much. Thanks for sharing.
I love the sweater! It turned out beautifully and looks lovely on you. Looking forward to your next one! It's so funny when you mentioned the instructions for the vintage sweater. I do remember back when I used to make Fisherman sweaters, they look similar to a Cowichan sweater. I grew up in Canada and these were very popular 30 years ago. In fact anything I knit 30 years ago, instructions were sparse, yet in many instances more clear than many I see today. Absolutely loved the documentary on Kaketsugi. What incredible work father and daughter do, and the patience required by these artisans - wow! 😊
Gorgeous sweater! Love your process and the results! Thanks for a terrific episode.
That shade of grey in the sweater you are wearing is very complementary to your complexion ❤️
The Japanese Kaketsugi technique for repair is the same as what is called "french weaving" or "reweaving", you weave a scrap of the same fabric on top of the damaged part, 1 thread by 1 thread, incredibly fine work.
Must look this up. I have a beautiful top that has a moth hole🤦♀️
Thank you so much for the pointer to invisible mending video. As a weaver, it was fascinating to see how they repair woven fabric.
I have seen the picture of this sweater as you have shown it over a number of videos and really didn’t care for the design/colors. But ‘in person’, on you, it is much more interesting and suits you very well and the neckline choice is a good one. And agree with other commenters that is very complementary to your coloring.
Thank you Roxanne for explaining the construction of this sweater. Loved it! It looks great on you! You did a fantastic job!
Hope we get to see more projects like this one 😊
It looks so much nicer than I had envisioned. Your made yours fit perfectly. Very well done, lady…very well done.👏👏👏
The Sweater looks fabulous on you! I hope this is one you will enjoy wearing.
I really like it a lot! Of course, it's the one week of the year when the temps are perfect for fingering weight sweaters and 3/4 length sleeves. :-)
Your 1940’s sweater came out very well. When you started it I didn’t like it ,but now I like it.
The sweater looks very contemporary with the rounded neckline. I’m really impressed by the evenness of your stitches and the fine quality of the fabric. It looks lovely.
I love how you pulled up that painting and the whole time I was like "SHE IS NOT KNITTING SOCKS!!!"
Me too, "those are not socks!"
Love you sweater Roxanne! Looks great on you! Awesome Billie, beautiful sweater!
Thank you.
Roxanne, I watched the Kaketsugi video. That was truly amazing! When I was younger, I never mended my husbands socks…it was easier just to buy new ones. Now that I knit my own, I’ve spent time to really learn how to darn well. But this technique was amazing to watch. Thank you for sharing that. The sweaters that you and Billie made are wonderful. They look great on each of you.
Both sweaters (yours and Billie’s) are gorgeous!
Your sweater turned out so well and looks fabulous on you. It was fun to hear about your process.
The Harlequin sweater is very nice and think is wearable today's too. Perfect work Rox. Looks very good on you. I'm amazed about the mending art, nice document, thank you for sharing
The documentary film about the specialty mending shop in Japan was absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing, Roxanne. It’s like magic!
Great episode! I love the sweater so much. This feels like a good time for creatives.
Well done Rox. Absolutely wonderful tutorial.
I’m out of my mind knitting a toddler’s jumper with every row a different pattern of stitches. I thought I knew how to read a chart but apparently I don’t. I’m starting the sleeves and would love a tutorial on knitting these at the same time on a pair of circular needles. I know that it’s not as easy as it might seem.
My mother in law spent WW II knitting socks for her brother in law and others and baking fruit cakes in tins that they would then put the lid on. They weren’t turned out of the tins or if they were they were just put back in and the lid was put on and an address attached.
Interestingly not a sock pattern exists in the house. I had hand knitted socks as a child and they were like wearing string socks 😂
Best wishes and love from Australia.
Super good job on sweater! I enjoy all the information you provide. Always good to be learning.
I watched the invisible mending documentary. What amazing craftsmen!
I, too, watched this invisible mending film. I remember seeing a book on this technique in the 1990s that was written in the 1960s. I was fascinated by this, but amused by the author's contention that this was a great career path...An amazing skill but a limited market in our ear of cheaper clothes.
What a beautiful story with the Japanese family and their invisible mending skills. I love the 1940's sweater, looks great.
Just love this pattern and all your suggestions. I have a copy, and might try it for myself. Yours looks smashing and fits you beautifully!
Fascinating. The sweater looks really good on you and I admire your perseverance with the project. What next? 🇬🇧
Very interesting episode. Enjoyed the history about the vintage patterns and the painting. Watched the mending documentary, was lovely....thanks for sharing!! :)
Beautiful job!!! It’s so nice!!!!
Kudos your sweater is fabulous!
I have some Paton's Beehive Fingering 3 ply in my collection. As far as I can tell the difference with Scotch Fingering is that the wool itself comes from Scotland and it's in a skein not a ball like the ordinary Fingering. Love the finished sweater!
Ah, good to know, thanks!
My colour palette encompasses black, white and the red family, so personally your 40s colours did not appeal. But your Harlequin sweater looks magnificent and your colour interaction is perfect! And your finishing, Roxanne, is so accomplished. There is nothing about your work that ever looks (sorry, makers) "home made." Not sure why this one seems so wonderful. Someone else mentioned the fineness of the fabric and i agree heartily. And on top of everything, it looks great on you.
Oh wow, how gorgeous it turned out! Everyone of your vintage projects is such a revelation. It just struck me today when looking at the black-and-white photo where I'd seen that kind of close-fitting necklines before, and now I see design traits from Nehru jackets and Mao suits in the forties sweater. Or were those from a later period? Very interesting with the seamed hems too.
The first knitting books I ever owned (in the mid-eighties) definitely recommended backstitch as the most useful method for seaming. Somehow that always struck me as weird, because why would you want something as bulky on the inside of a garment? Then I was going through a back catalog of online digital patterns and immediately noticed when I had delved deep enough to find the 80's. Well, with that kind of wide billowy silhouette and extravagant ease that was in fashion, you'd hardly feel any seams at all while wearing a knit sweater.
Those '80s sweaters were very oversized, and heavy. A sturdy seam would have helped stabilize the shoulders. Seaming methods for sweaters were often the same seaming methods used for woven fabrics, so backstitch and whipstitch were natural choices. The use of mattress stitch seems to have come from the machine knitting world (people often credit Japanese knitting machine books from the '60s, but I haven't yet found a source to pinpoint when that transition started to occur). I was definitely using backstitch in the '80s when I first learned to knit.
Lovely sweater, really suits you and the fit is great, love the neckline 💚 Thanks for sharing your journey on this one. 😊
As for additional neck closures like this, some times over the shoulder or on the back, I feel like if you're going to do all that work, it makes more sense to make a cardigan or a polo-like collar
Thanks!
Welcome!
Thank you! Your sweater is classic!
your long term project and this sweater are so interesting
It looks GREAT!
Hey , the sweater looks great!
Great video thank you 😊
You have made a wonderful job of this vintage sweater. I think it a pity you couldn’t wear a funnel neck because that was so typical of the era and very flattering. Your fit is spot on as intended, nice and close. I know I shouldn’t say but it is much better than Billies (why did she do that to the sleeve heads?). The colours are fabulous too. I look forward to your next jumper.
I really should make a better shoulder pad to fill out those '40s shoulders. The pattern I used, Charm with Checkers, from the same decade as Harlequin, called for a unique shaped sleeve cap which was not uncommon at the time. Rox and I had a lengthy conversation about sleeve/ sleeve cap in an earlier episode about 15 minutes in: ua-cam.com/video/GFXRbbZy-R8/v-deo.html and I spoke further ua-cam.com/video/mrzCm0AhcvI/v-deo.html
Many known titles of artwork were given by merchants and/or curators, sometimes years after the artist's death, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case for "The sock knitter"
Hello
I like this sweater very much. It fits beautifully. Here is my one crazy observation.
The straight neckline of the original 1940’s sweater is a repetition of the design element of strong horizontal lines
Look at the top of each line of triangles ..horizontal lines.
Changing the straight neckline and introducing a curve, breaks the repetition of the main design element?
My reaction to the sweater design when I first saw it was that I knew I would not like the fit of the neck. As I drew the schematic, I realized why the designer had made that choice, but I still knew that I would not like wearing a sweater with a neck like that. I mentioned several times during the course of knitting the sweater that I wasn't sure how my idea for the change in the design would bear out, visually. I knew that I could end up with something that fit well but looked weird, and that I wouldn't want to wear. If that were the case, I would have ripped back and reknit the front as the sweater was written, in order to get a better visual result, which I also wouldn't wear, but would still be useful in the context of the long term project to knit a sweater from each decade. In this case, I felt like the change in the neck resulted in an overall improvement. Not everyone likes the same things, though, so not everyone will agree with the change.
I think anyone who studied art during high school in Australia is familiar with “the Sock Knitter”. An iconic painting.
My aunt had a beautiful hot pink suit in raw silk in a complex weave. While she was at an event, a woman burnt a hole in her skirt with a cigarette.
Auntie found an invisible mender and wow, you’d never know from the front. You could see the little threads from the back.
It was like a miracle.
My mom and grandma used to do this kind of invisible weaving as an at-home way to make some extra money. There was a company that sold the tools (like little latch hooks) and the classes on how to do the method. My mom did a lot of the work through a local dry cleaner, and we'd have to go by there when she picked us up from school to drop off and pick up things to be mended.
My immediate reaction on seeing hearing the painting title was also "SOCK knitter? Really?🤨". I do wish we could properly see what she's making... it looks too small to be a sweater section (except possibly a sleeve?), most of the era patterns I've seen for hats and balaclavas were also knitted in the round... Is it a scarf? *squints quizzically at the image*
What? I'm the first viewer? First commenter. Can't wait to see your shoulder snap construction.
Curious how long it took u to plan this out.
Not sure what you're asking. How long it took to plan what out? The video? The sweater? A specific modification? The color choices? The actual time to knit it?
@@RoxanneRichardson I guess my comment wasn’t very clear. You made adjustments to the pattern. The sweater is impeccably fitting, so I suspect it may have taken some math, swatching, etc., to get to that point. I am just curious how much time it takes an expert like u to do that part of the knitting process. For a novice like me, that part would take me more time than to actually knit it. Hope that makes sense. The sweater looks so beautiful on you bcos of your ability to tailor it so perfectly to your body.
@@carblarson8868 Well, then, I guess it took me 35+ years. :-) I have always chosen projects based on what I can learn from that project, starting with my very first knitting project, which was a sleeveless, V-neck top. The next project was a cardigan with a button band and sleeves and a very easy stitch pattern, which helped me learn to read my knits from my purls. Then I chose projects with cables, colorwork, lace, etc. I had no idea of how to modify something or design my own things for years, mostly because I didn't know any other knitters who I could ask, and I wasn't able to figure out on my own how to learn those skills. Drawing the schematic, then modifying it to my own measurements, and then translating that to stitch counts and shaping rates, and then putting it into a chart so that I could actually see what was going on was probably a day or two (not 8-hour days, just a couple hours here and there, but it's so fun for me, I lose track of time). The neck modification took a bit of thinking through, because I really didn't know if it would work, and I thought through a few different ideas before I swatched to see if I was on the right track. It was all *far* less time than it took to knit 88K sts, and then do all the finishing work! I didn't set out in 1986 with the goal of being able to design my own sweaters or modify a pattern from the 1940s. I just looked for things that were interesting to me and that I thought would be fun to learn.
@@RoxanneRichardson Ha. Yes, it probably was a foolish question on my part, but the way u get your sweaters to fit so perfectly is fascinating to me. After watching u knit the various pieces, then going from that to a perfectly fitted sweater was a bit of a shock, although nice shock. I won’t take any more of your time. Thx.
Huzzah!
So the athleisure style originated in the 1920s 😂
Could she be knitting a sweater? My great aunt made sweaters for the military non-stop in WWI.
Lots of possibilities! All manner of knitted items were needed for soldiers.