Lovely makes Hayley! The waistband sounds like a good fix for the joggers. I've made that mistake with stretch fabric before, its so annoying. The sweater dress will be so warm and cosy 😊 Happy new year!
Hi Tania, thank you! Gosh I was so annoyed with myself about the joggers, it’s obvious once you know, but it’s not something I’ve come across before 🤦🏻♀️ We’ve got loads of snow today so I wish my sweater dress was already done and keeping me snuggly! ☃️
Love that cardigan. I can knit and have made myself a lot of garments but I'd love to learn how to crochet now. Just a tip, all yarn pills, regardless of the quality, so, if you haven't got one, get yourself a depiller (I think it's also called a lint remover or shaver). It's a game changer!
Thank you! I made the same cardigan in Rowan drape (linen and cotton blend) over a year ago and it hasn’t pilled at all, so I thought it was related to the yarn or fibre content… I’m new to wearing crocheted garments though so I should probably take your word for it! I do have a defuzzy thingy 😀 and ridiculously I hadn’t thought to try it, so thank you, I will do it before I wear it next.
@ ah see, you can tell I’m new to all this! The yarn I used was polyester and yes, poly knit fabric does always bobble so that makes perfect sense. Now to pluck up the courage to “shave” my gorgeous cardi 🙈
I'd love to see your previous Roscoe sweaters 😍 I've almost finished one but I didn't manage the neckline as well as I would have liked and then sadly got tired of it when I only had the hem band left to do 😂 yeah silly... Hopefully when the weather cools down here in Australia I'll finish it!
Here's the link for you! ua-cam.com/video/wT0SJG6Sx80/v-deo.htmlsi=TNA6JNKsIDO8g3_S The neckline is a bit fiddly isn't it. I don't know why but hemming / hem bands / finishing is such a struggle for me! The number of projects I pick back up and that is all left to do is ridiculous. However it is fun when a new season rolls around and I have something new to wear with minimal effort! That's how you will feel come autumn, you'll actually be strangely pleased you left it as you did because you'll get a quick win 😂 Hope you love it as much as I love mine, I wear them all the time.
Oh Hayley makes me laugh that you think that gorgeous gilet took ages as I’m working on a quilt that was started in November 2020. The end is finally insight as I’m halfway through the first “layer” of diagonal straight line quilting (when finished I have to repeat in the other direction to cross hatch the quilt). Then I can trim the excess backing and wadding off and bind the quilt. Good luck with all your future makes.
Ha ha, I made exactly the same comment to Dianne at Beyond the Sewing Room last week. She said a jacket was a “slow sew” because it took her a week, I was like, that would take me 6! I guess it’s just proof that it’s all relative when you’re still on a 2020 project! I’m impressed by your commitment though, keep going and one day you will be so proud of it 😊
@ a lot of the time it was in time out because I was squirrelling doing other projects (that are in various stages of completion in time out) most aren’t finished. Some are small projects that I didn’t feel I had the skills to finish, but most are bigger projects that just felt overwhelming at the time… one being the first (huge) quilt top I made after losing my sight. I need to measure that one, choose a backing fabric and wadding and sandwich it ready to quilt… if I can remember where I put it for safety 🤦♀️
Gosh I can relate to the “remembering where I put it” conundrum. I had to rewatch my Autumn Plans video and note down each garment because I’ve put my UA-cam clipboard somewhere safe… and I can’t find it! 🙄
@@alwaysinthecraftroom best blessing in becoming blind is now I don’t keep clipboards or notebooks which loved playing hide and seek. All that information is now kept in notes, and I’ve started to add location information on the individual project notes since I realised I didn’t know where I’ve put that all important 1st quilt top which I made with a fabric collection called Cocoon. I still don’t know if I’ll finish it for myself to commemorate adjusting to my sight loss or finish it for my daughter to commemorate her hardest time as I feel humbled by the incredible person she’s become. I know I’ll work it out when it comes out of the black hole it is hiding in. If it ends up being mine I’ll find the perfect fabric to back it. If it ends up being hers I’ll work out how to do something she asked me to do and it will become fully reversible (patchwork both sides). I’ll leave it up to Fate/ Karma to decide who it’s been made for.
Lovely makes Hayley! The waistband sounds like a good fix for the joggers. I've made that mistake with stretch fabric before, its so annoying. The sweater dress will be so warm and cosy 😊 Happy new year!
Hi Tania, thank you! Gosh I was so annoyed with myself about the joggers, it’s obvious once you know, but it’s not something I’ve come across before 🤦🏻♀️
We’ve got loads of snow today so I wish my sweater dress was already done and keeping me snuggly! ☃️
Love that cardigan. I can knit and have made myself a lot of garments but I'd love to learn how to crochet now. Just a tip, all yarn pills, regardless of the quality, so, if you haven't got one, get yourself a depiller (I think it's also called a lint remover or shaver). It's a game changer!
Thank you! I made the same cardigan in Rowan drape (linen and cotton blend) over a year ago and it hasn’t pilled at all, so I thought it was related to the yarn or fibre content… I’m new to wearing crocheted garments though so I should probably take your word for it! I do have a defuzzy thingy 😀 and ridiculously I hadn’t thought to try it, so thank you, I will do it before I wear it next.
@@alwaysinthecraftroomyes, I meant wool, really. I find most wool pills. Cotton/linen doesn't usually. A bit like fabric 😊
@ ah see, you can tell I’m new to all this! The yarn I used was polyester and yes, poly knit fabric does always bobble so that makes perfect sense. Now to pluck up the courage to “shave” my gorgeous cardi 🙈
I'd love to see your previous Roscoe sweaters 😍 I've almost finished one but I didn't manage the neckline as well as I would have liked and then sadly got tired of it when I only had the hem band left to do 😂 yeah silly... Hopefully when the weather cools down here in Australia I'll finish it!
Here's the link for you! ua-cam.com/video/wT0SJG6Sx80/v-deo.htmlsi=TNA6JNKsIDO8g3_S
The neckline is a bit fiddly isn't it. I don't know why but hemming / hem bands / finishing is such a struggle for me! The number of projects I pick back up and that is all left to do is ridiculous. However it is fun when a new season rolls around and I have something new to wear with minimal effort! That's how you will feel come autumn, you'll actually be strangely pleased you left it as you did because you'll get a quick win 😂 Hope you love it as much as I love mine, I wear them all the time.
@alwaysinthecraftroom thank you!
Oh Hayley makes me laugh that you think that gorgeous gilet took ages as I’m working on a quilt that was started in November 2020. The end is finally insight as I’m halfway through the first “layer” of diagonal straight line quilting (when finished I have to repeat in the other direction to cross hatch the quilt). Then I can trim the excess backing and wadding off and bind the quilt.
Good luck with all your future makes.
Ha ha, I made exactly the same comment to Dianne at Beyond the Sewing Room last week. She said a jacket was a “slow sew” because it took her a week, I was like, that would take me 6! I guess it’s just proof that it’s all relative when you’re still on a 2020 project! I’m impressed by your commitment though, keep going and one day you will be so proud of it 😊
@ a lot of the time it was in time out because I was squirrelling doing other projects (that are in various stages of completion in time out) most aren’t finished. Some are small projects that I didn’t feel I had the skills to finish, but most are bigger projects that just felt overwhelming at the time… one being the first (huge) quilt top I made after losing my sight. I need to measure that one, choose a backing fabric and wadding and sandwich it ready to quilt… if I can remember where I put it for safety 🤦♀️
Gosh I can relate to the “remembering where I put it” conundrum. I had to rewatch my Autumn Plans video and note down each garment because I’ve put my UA-cam clipboard somewhere safe… and I can’t find it! 🙄
@@alwaysinthecraftroom best blessing in becoming blind is now I don’t keep clipboards or notebooks which loved playing hide and seek. All that information is now kept in notes, and I’ve started to add location information on the individual project notes since I realised I didn’t know where I’ve put that all important 1st quilt top which I made with a fabric collection called Cocoon. I still don’t know if I’ll finish it for myself to commemorate adjusting to my sight loss or finish it for my daughter to commemorate her hardest time as I feel humbled by the incredible person she’s become.
I know I’ll work it out when it comes out of the black hole it is hiding in.
If it ends up being mine I’ll find the perfect fabric to back it.
If it ends up being hers I’ll work out how to do something she asked me to do and it will become fully reversible (patchwork both sides).
I’ll leave it up to Fate/ Karma to decide who it’s been made for.