Hi Florence, It's nice that you're knitting what you want to and not feeling obliged to knit summer knits. I liked hearing about your plans and your comments on yarn. I'm not crazy about silk mohair and would like to find substitutes for bulking things up. Here in Vancouver there's a yarn shop that stocks a lot of those Danish yarns. I've had my eye on that Book Club cardigan too. Maybe I'll consider joining that knit along. Thanks for posting.
Florence, your olympics jumper is a master piece and even though you say it's not that difficult to knit it absolutely looks like it actually is ❤! I am from Germany and have knitted with "Jawoll" a few pair of socks. I really like that yarn and also think it is quite soft for sock yarn. Btw, your pronounciation was pergect 😊 Please keep making your lovely podcasts I am a huge fan since the very first video ;-)
@@handmadebyflorence OK, but then do I need to use 13 skeins of each or how do I calculate that? Or maybe like 7 and 7? Sorry, I'm totally new to knitting and this will be my first sweater ever.
„Jawoll“ is pronounced correctly. It means „yes for certain“ - you could also interpret it as „ja“ meaning „yes“ and „woll“ as a short for „wolle“ meaning „wool“. (I‘m German 😅)
Hi, your Norwegian jumper is beautiful. I wanted to thank you for your cardigan video-I have used your button hole technique to knit my first double knitted button band .😊
Hi all - the awkward cut at the end is due to me mentioning a yarn which somebody in the comments said is produced unethically. I can't find info to confirm or deny this but I have removed that section of the video anyway and will not use or mention the yarn in question again.
The gauge of individual knitters is so interesting to me! I find my gauge for Sari Nordlund's patterns is spot on (I'm doing the Poetry Pullover and I did like 2 inches of a swatch and it matched perfectly and I was so excited that I just immediately cast on and it's been great!) whereas my gauge for Andrea Mowry's patterns (for example) usually requires that I go 2 needle sizes down and also use a thicker yarn. It's so weird lol, and I guess it just speaks to all of our individuality as knitters!
Your Albertville sweater is so majestic, Florence! And so lovely to see your progress on the Winnie, the colour is spot on for you! Thank you for sharing 🤗
Helsinki in the summer is like UK or Stockholm. It can be +15 or +30, so I guess weather forecast is the best help. At the moment we are hitting +30 degrees (rare for May tho).
It gets quite hot where I live in the summer but I freeze in the aircon at work! Love my wool cardigans to throw on at work over my otherwise summer outfits 😊. All your knits are gorgeous!!
I knew this day would come, but I kinda hoped it would not. Angorafibers are cruel, I know some claim they are well kept and so on, but if one knows just a little about these animals one knows it's not possible to have "kind" yarn coming from rabbits when the production scale is so big it can be sold. These animals suffer so much in cages, not being able to live together and run free. And many are plucking the rabbits causing so much harm. And that is why Angora was banned by most yarn producers. But alas, people always want what they can't have with little or no thought on where it comes from and what harm it went through before it ends up on our knitting needles. I beg all knitters, do not use Angora. There is a huge risk that animal is suffering a lot. The chance that it's suffering is bigger than it's not suffering. <3
I deleted my response because I wanted to try to phrase it better. I don’t think it’s fair to say I never consider the ethics of the materials I use, and I had previously read some information about this company and how they source their wool and it seemed reasonable enough. With that being said, I don’t know a huge amount about yarn manufacturing, so all I really do is check companies seem to place an emphasis on animal welfare and generally adhere to some standards. I also try to stick to buying from well known brands. If I made a mistake this time I am very sorry about that, and I am happy to make corrections to my content or go back on things if I did say them in error. I have removed the section of the video where I mention the yarn (although this change may take some time to process) and will pin a comment.
This sweater was designed by the Norwegian yarn company Dale of Norway for the Norwegian Ski troup in the 1992 Albertville(France) Olympics. They have designed sweaters for every Olympic and World championships. Up to our time. My respect for your beautiful work. You nailed that sweater. Seriously from a Norwegian 🇳🇴🇬🇧
Your winter Olympic sweater looks SO good!!😍 And I'm so glad you joined and are enjoying our Book Club Cardigan KAL!!<33🥰🤩 Now you'll have so many nice knitwear pieces to wear coming autumn (hehe)! Oh and "økologisk" does mean organic/ecological 👏
So happy you're participating in our KAL Florence! I'm exciting to see how your yarn works up as the Book Club Cardigan 🥰 Also excited to see the Cardigan No9 as a finished object, as the description you made of the yarn really sold me on it!
OMG your Albertville sweater looks amazing! I love the boxy fit. I thought about applying to test the Winnie sweater as I really like the look of it but I have no social media or ravelry presence and a very common size so I never get picked for test knits. I will buy the pattern once it comes out. And I just finished the Cardigan No. 9! It's not fully dry yet but I am already in love with it. I will make another one for sure.
Ah I feel you, I often get rejected from test knits and I have a fairly large following, I’m just usually the most popular size! Hope you enjoy the Winnie sweater as much as I am enjoying it :)
Hi Florence ! I am about o be steeking a Norwegian sweater with many floats in the back of the fabric … did you find the floats would catch on the feed dogs on your sewing machine? I am scared it will all caught up and wreck the sweater … please help ..! Thanks
I don’t even know enough about sewing machines to be scared of this! I just shoved it through and it sewed beautifully. I do catch my floats pretty often though so they were fairly short
Lang is german :) Jawoll is pronounced with a short „o“ and it’s a pun. Jawohl! means something like ok boss! and is colloquially often spelled jawoll. And wolle means wool.
I've also knitted the pattern you're wearing, I like it very much but I do have a question, how can I modify it so the straps don't fall off? Please help, I've knitted it with a different yarn it is a cotton bamboo blend, I think maybe I could add an elastic or maybe fold the edges so it keeps its rectangular shape
That jumper is absolutely gorgeous - and a serious triumph for your knitting! Bravo, Florence, a project that will last through generations and be cherished 🥰
I guess it depends on whether you change the size you’re knitting to compensate for the gauge difference! I expect to use between the yarn consumption for the size I knit (off-gauge) and the size I should be knitting if my gauge was correct Honestly though it’s a super interesting question, i’m often very unsure of whether my needle size change will increase/decrease yarn consumption
The Albertville sweater looks amazing! I am so impressed and inspired to practice my colourwork (which I currently can’t achieve consistent gauge with at all). If you weigh the whole jumper, and then individual leftover balls, you can subtract the weight you used in other colours from the total to get a number for white. That’s a lot of maths though 😅
My worry is that, since the original weights probably varied a bit from exactly 50g, by the time you do that whole calculation the margin of error might be pretty big for the white!
Tombo sweater!!! I will be first in line to purchase ^-^ working through my tombo tee right now and loving it. The colorwork sweater looks so lovely and is inspiring me to give colorwork a try!
