Favorite 5 One Skein Knitting Patterns - One Ball of Yarn
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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The pattern of mine that I chose to show is Irulan. You can see the Ravelry page here: www.ravelry.co...
I can see a Princess of Dune wearing that shawl. All of these were great picks. Thank you for sharing them!
You are so welcome!
Knit my very first sock today!
Congratulations! You are one up on me!
Took me three years 😂
That's what I want to try to knit this year is socks--wish me luck! :)
I learned from a German Lady who spoke no ENGLISH . I do not know any GERMAN. She was a great teacher . I made my first sock in only a few days. 🧦🇺🇸👍❤
@@daphnehowell5338 congratulations!
You make my heart happy! My sister and I love to knit and enjoy your UA-cam channel! You keep us entertained. I feel my knitting has improved watching your channel.
Thank you so much!
Loved this actually love the shawl at the end, thank you for sharing and as always love, laughter and happy crafting.
Thank you!
The shawl is gorgeous, love bingeing on your vids, you always entertain me, and I always learn something and enjoy the company! ♥️ and your cresent shawl is STUNNING
Oh thank you!
Too funny. My family and I made the foot during our Christmas visit. I tried to get my grandson to do it ahead of time. I said, 'remember in grade school when you traced your hand and made turkeys....'. Well, it didn't work, so another wonderful family holiday memory.
I'm sorry it didn't work out.
I have been using this method of having drawings of my grandchildren's feet, leg shape,& ankle shape to knit socks for them for a long time. It works great.
Love it!!! Great selection!!! I love them all.. one skein patterns are awesome for destash!..
They are the best. I need to design more.
Hello Barbara, I enjoy one skein projects, the 5 patterns you have shared with us today are wonderful. I love the slippers and Apice shawl. Thank you for sharing and look forward to seeing more favorites. Have a fabulous day! Respectfully, Donna K.
I am so glad you enjoyed the video!
Great picks Barbara. Watching this in Nov 2021 and its times the patterns are timeless, I just love it. Doing Christmas gifts so its PERFECT. Your shawl in this is Brilliant, as usual. I just have to say to date I have made 4 one row scarfs. I so love that pattern. Doing a couple more this year too!!!! So many different types and sizes of yarns its quick easy warm and gorgeous using so many versions yarns held double, some with mohair and a light whisky version in Suri Alpaca and many I still envision as well. Thanks so much. I hope you have lovely holiday season with Covid hopefully wrapping up.
I'm glad the video has aged well. I really tried to pick great patterns that would remain great LOL!
Thank you very much for hunting through ravelry to choose these wonderful one skein projects. It was a very thoughtful podcast. I enjoyed it especially as I am knitting gifts for Christmas.
I am so glad that this was useful to you!
Definitely making that cowl !!
Fantastic!
Please do a fav 5 on variegated yarn. Sometimes it is hard to find a pattern that works with variegated yarn
I've actually done that one! ua-cam.com/video/cZOCOsC73yM/v-deo.html but I could definitely revisit it. I also have a video on how to evaluate a pattern and decide if it will work with variegated yarn: ua-cam.com/video/e4KaEYWuagc/v-deo.html
Hope these help!
Great selection, want to try them all__including your shawl! 💖🙌🙌🙌😺
Yay! I am glad you liked my suggestions.
Oh you lovely person! I have just recently "found" your channel thanks to suggestions on UA-cam and I find you adorable! I am sorry, I needed to say it :D and I love your patterns and and and well yes, everything!
Welcome! I am so glad you found me and I hope you stick around.
Thank you very much for providing this video tutorial. You are such an enthusiastic instructor! I am subscribed to your channel and I am always excited when I receive a note that you have released a new video. Please keep up the good work; your designs are fantastic.
Thank you! I always like seeing your comments!
Love to watch your videos ! don't stop young lady !
Thank you so much!
I finished my first functional with no holes toe-up sock 30 min before the new year and then yesterday I finished my second one last night. I had never knit a sock before and the sock was the whole reason I taught myself to knit in the first place 6 years ago lol. It is just a basic sock that is an ankle sock with a short row heel. I am now wanting to make another pair of socks for my husband but instead of a short row heel, I want to try out the German short row heel. That way his heel is a bit more protected from his shoes while at work. I also want to do a ribbing right where the instep is to have a bit of a better support system for his foot. I have a pair of socks that have that ribbing that was made by doctor sholes ( sorry can't spell it) and I love those socks they actually massage my instep with every move of my foot. I have really super high arches that are falling now due to my age. But they aren't falling as fast as others who have super high arches that wore heels a lot while young. Because I did not wear high heels a lot while I was young. I am short and have always worn pumps or flats lol. But my husband has flat feet. So his arches hurt him a lot because he is always on his feet at work. But before I can do that I am working on a cardigan that I am designing with Sport weight yarn.
Very cool and congratulations on your first socks! They say they are the best. It sounds like you have a lot of fun knitting planned.
@Susan bond thank you, I am pretty tickled with myself. I posted a pic of them to my facebook. I play pool in an APA league and we have 8 players on the team. I am number 8. All 7 of my team mates have placed a request for their Christmas gifts this next Christmas for socks lol.
@Susan bond that would be awesome and different lol hmm gonna think on that one lol
Great information. I want to try this. Thank you so much
Have a ton of fun!
Thanks for the tips. The cowl, fingerless mitts and your shawl are my faves.
I'm so glad you liked the video.
I'm partially deaf so I just love that you are so clear and concise. Love this idea of one skein projects as I dye yarn and I want to pass along what can be done with only one skein. Also, your hair pulled up and back like you have it is great, I tend to be distracted by loose hair flip flopping around. You are such a great teacher.
That is wonderful to hear. Thank you for watching.
I have a family foot file!! I have traced their feet onto thick cardboard and cut them out. This way I have something sturdy to put in the sock when I knit them top down to ensure the decreasing for toe is a right place etc. This has worked very well over the years and I surprise them with socks throughout the year.
Woo Hoo! I knew that someone out there had to have on. I think if I made one I would have to make it look like an X-file from the old TV show LOL. Write "I Believe" or "The Foot is Out There" on them.
Oh! I've done garter in the round without purling. You do a wrap and turn at the end of each knit row, turn the work, and knit the other way, wrap and turn at the end (knitting the prior wrapped stitch), and knit back, etc. I learned here on You Tube, of course. :) No seaming required as it's still in the round, but it does leave a mock-seam ridge that's not too noticeable. I used it for sleeves on a cardigan and the "seam" was along the inner arm and not very noticeable.
Now that you mention it, I have done this before!
"Sizz-uh-gee" :) Fun list, thank you!
LOL thanks.
Hi, Barbara! Just a note on how to pronounce "Syzygy": SIZZ-ih-jee. Rhymes with prodigy. Love your videos, and you've taught me so much about so many aspects of knitting. Thank you!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I know it’s not the only use, but I know the word from the opening of “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” 😍
(I came for the single skein patterns, but you tapped into my obsession for musical theater for the win!) 😂
Hello Barbara, I had just bought one skein of wool that was 250 meters long and was wondering what I could make with it. I was so inspired about the Syzygy cowl that I got the pattern and have started knitting it already and it needs 240m!. It´s very easy and looks really good. Like Valerie C mentioned below, you do a wrap and turn (W&T), at the end of each row, just like doing short rows. The nice thing about this is that you don´t get the curl up at the beginning and at the end of the cowl. Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions you make, I really love your videos.
I have gotten my hands on the pattern just to see LOL but thanks for the info. I am so glad you liked the video and hope you have fun knitting the cowl.
The shawl is gorgeous!
Thank you!
I so exciting to tried my first sock tomorrow😁💝😘
Woo Hoo! You go!
Happy New Year Barbara! These patterns are beautiful. Good luck with your socks.
Thank you! I always need luck with socks LOL.
Hi, Barbara! I love your Fave 5 videos, because it introduces me to new designers and it’s inspirational. I love the Swatch Labs. I learn a lot. It would be interesting to see you do some easily accessible yarns and compare, for example Malabrigo Worsted (single ply), Rios (plied Superwash), Twist (plied nonSuperwash), etc. I also like your tutorials and pattern tours. Thanks!
Thank you for the suggestions Marjorie, I really like the idea of comparing different yarns within brands. I shy away from comparing yarns from different companies because I don't want to imply that one is better than the other - but explaining the differences within a yarn range sounds very cool. And I love Malabrigo (I actually work for them). What other yarns would you consider "easily accessible"?
WatchBarbaraKnit I think anyone with access to a LYS can also get their hands on Madelinetosh, Cascade, Rowan.
Thank you! Maybe I can work out an interview style thing with a Local Yarn Store, that could be fun.
Happy New years love your pattern so beautiful I have a yarn in deep hibernation stash that would be perfect thank you
Wonderful! I love it when I can help fulfill a yarn's special purpose.
Thanks for the great ideas, Barbara. Cheers from Australia
I'm so glad to be helpful.
Your shawl is just what I'm looking for to make for my daughter. Thanks Barbara
my fav!! you give me such good ideas. I like this set up too, not quite as distracting =), as for cowl, connected at the end might be provisional cast on and kitchener....actually knit flat maybe? I may need to buy this one!
So you liked the backdrop? It didn't make things too boring?
not at all in fact it made everything highlighted more and I could see more detail on the shawl even though you blended ;) really liked it, nice neutral back drop makes you shine more
Happy New Year! I love that shawl of yours the best. How did I not notice it before? I’ve seen it now! Beautiful. And I’ve just the right yarn for it too.
Love the fave 5 vids 😄❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Ooh, I can't wait to see your Irulan! I'm so glad you liked the video.
When I have made slippers in the past...I applied rub backing on the soles to help prevent slippage..
Excellent plan!
Your shawl is so beautiful!!!
Thank you!
Loved your channel. Regards from Brazil.
Welcome and thank you! If that's Brazil in your photo Brazil looks amazing!
Happy New Year Barbara!🥂 I agree with Karen Gilbank, I love your shawl the best; it's beautiful! Thank you for sharing...😊
Thank you! Happy Knitting.
The shawl edging looks art deco. So beautiful. ❤❤❤
Thank you! It was totally meant to be art deco so that is wonderful to hear. If you look at my work you can see a lot of art deco influences because that is my favorite decorative style. Often times I don't even mean to design something deco and it comes out that way anyway LOL.
Just found this channel think I’ll really like it new subscriber!!!!
Welcome and thanks for joining! I hope you have fun with my videos.
The Fave 5 is back....hooray. I love the exposure to new patterns I might have otherwise overlooked. I love your shawl and might have knit one because the shaping you described is intriguing to me. How about a Fave 5 that works well for self striping yarn?
I'm so glad you liked the video. I'll have to ponder self striping. Most self striping yarns are pretty much designed to make socks and that's pretty straightforward LOL.
That shawl is gorgeous ! 👄❤👍
Thank you!
Love video because I don t now to read a pattern. Whenever i find a book to show me. Thanks
Hi! I have started a series of "How to Read a Knitting Pattern" lessons that might help you get started!
Lesson 1: ua-cam.com/video/N1nnhP1xFTE/v-deo.html
Lesson 2: ua-cam.com/video/jQiXQ0x83xk/v-deo.html
you make me happy
That is such a lovely thing to say to someone. Thank you, I am glad that I can lighten your world a wee bit.
How do you weigh yarn? The shawl has a certain drama in graphics, color and points. Very nice.
I use a small scale I purchased. It is best to have one that measures in grams and to at least 2 decimal points. They are sometimes called jeweler's scales.
I am sometimes puzzled how to gauge how much yarn to use when the pattern says to use so many grams of a certain yarn but I only have a yarn of similar weight but towards the middle of a project it’s obvious I don’t have enough length. So, I chalk it up to live, learn, and find a different pattern for the yarn.
I live in a nursing home and I would love to knit the shawl pattern for some oh my friends I going to78 years old on the 20 th of April and I myself would Love to get this pattern
The links to where you can purchase all of the patterns in this video can be found in the description notes.
On Syzygy: to get garter stitch when knitting in the round (without using the purl stitch), turn the project inside out.
Thanks!
Love the slippers. I actually want to make those.
Yay!
Hi I like your Irulan Shawl. I'm hoping to make it but I personally like it a little longer and wider. Does the pattern show how I can do that? Or would you be able to tell me how? I wouldn't mind using two skeins of yarn.
I'm afraid that Irulan does not lend itself towards being made bigger because of the way the lace progresses. You could make it bigger by knitting it in a larger yarn with bigger needles, but I have no idea how much you would need.
Great video!
I was looking through my stash yesterday, wondering what do do with several single skeins of worsted. Those slippers are the perfect answer. Don’t know if I’ll be starting a “family foot file” tho. Lol.
And just because I can’t help myself: “apice” (ah peach ay) in Italian can mean peak, or point or summit or height. So it could refer to the shawl’s shape, or could refer to the height of success. I’ve heard “syzygy” (siz ah gee) used when they talk about planets aligned, like in an eclipse.
I'm 100% fine with having people tell me how to pronounce things LOL. Let me know if you make the slippers!
I though that the idea of knitting in the round meant that one only needs to knit one type of stitch around and around and around.
If you use the knit stitch you would get stockinette with garter wrong side. If you purl you would get knit on the right side and stockinette and the wrong side No?
Yes, that's exactly how it works. Which is why I was a tiny bit confused LOL.
Your shawl is a beautiful design. And I don't like garter. You made it work . It's gorgeous
Thank you! Garter is just so squooshy it is hard to resist sometimes. But I find I like it better when it is used as a design element as opposed to all-over. I also block it out like crazy so it is more of a texture than a functional thing LOL.
Would you please link your crescent shape shawl? That is just speaking to me. I love it.
You can always find links in the description notes but I can make it easy for you! www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/irulan-2
@@WatchBarbaraKnit Thank you.
Leave it to Laura Aylor! Normally, I am not very fond of bulky yarns. Projects made with them just look silly to me. But the Syzygy pattern actually _works_ with bulky yarn. I may actually have to investigate this. :) And it looks like I do have to put Irulan on my to-get list.
Well, I am kinda super into bulky yarns right now - so I hope you like some of what I come up with LOL!
But I agree, I pretty much love everything she does. I have to prevent myself from putting her in every Fave 5.
Love slippers 🙋🧶
They are so fun!
What is the Rivalry you reference?
I'm saying Ravelry. Ravelry is a large online community of fiber artists. You can find it here: www.ravelry.com
Syzygy is pronounced Sizz-ah-gee. It refers to a straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies.
That is a really cool word!
The fingerless mitts are pronounced "ill-ee-ahm-nah." It's a place in Alaska.😎
That is really cool to know. Thank you.
Maybe that bulky cowl is knit inside out?
I am gonna figure it out LOL.
This is what happens when I am up at past midnight watching UA-cam. I'm wondering, have you ever wanted to make a fave five of patterns that make you want to learn to crochet?
Funny thing, I was just talking to someone about that. I was contemplating "Fave 5 patterns that make we want to learn how to crochet" but that's an awfully long title LOL.
@@WatchBarbaraKnit yeah but it'd still be awesome
A tip on pronunciation: go to Google's translate page and paste / type it in, it'll figure out what language it is AND how to pronounce it (the little speaker icon)
Syzygy looks Polish to me, turns out it's Greek: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy_(astronomy) pronounced (SIZ ih jee)
I kinda like guessing LOL. But I'll check that link.
Happy New Year! Love your choices... But .. I have to say that your shawl is so delicate and pretty...
Can you explain to me why people wear fingerless gloves? I wear gloves to keep my fingers warm.. It seems to me, that fingerless gloves defeat that purpose!
just a way to keep most of your hand warm when you need your fingers for detail work...they do not replace gloves, they are just an addition to your tool box.... I just take my glove off, do what I want and put it back, but I don't have to work where it's cold....
I know a lot of people who wear fingerless gloves in their offices because they are cold, but they need to be able to use their fingers for typing and other work type stuff. I wear fingerless gloves almost exclusively because where I live gets cold enough to want your hands covered but full gloves or mittens are just too hot. In colder areas they are more of a transitional season accessory. Also, people hate knitting all of the individual fingers LOL.
I run very warm so they are perfect for me but my friends who need mittens use them over top a pair of mitts or gloves to add extra warmth. They are a nice fall warm too when it's not quite cold enough for mitts plus if you get cold at your keyboard, they are handy for that too. xx from Canada
fingerless gloves allow me to still text
Personally I wear fingerless gloves as an accessory more then to keep me warm. Also it is very nice for when it is fall/mid spring. Youd be surprised how warm your fingers can stay if your wrists and palms are warm. Wont replace full gloves in snow but I'm in Florida. I'm lucky if it's cold enough to even have the fingerless gloves
Sygzy - I would pronounce it sizigee... Its not magic. You work back and forth in the round!
I have since learned that! Thanks.
My mother kept cardboard cutouts of everyones feet for socks.
I know people who keep files with traced feet LOL
You make me crack up. Foot file.
Glad to bring a smile.
Syzygy would be pronounced Siz-i-gee. Sort of like synergy.
Empress is the female equivalent of emporer
Yes, but is the daughter of the Emperor called a princess or is that only for the daughter of Kings? It really isn't important, it just occurred to me that it might be different lol.
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It's pronounced sizz zi gee. I used to know what that meant. Oh well.
I can assure you I have never known what it meant LOL.
Maybe pronounced "Ziggy"....
That would be awesome!
Si zi gee
Thanks!
Oh dear u r talking too much!!!!