Have a very Happy Birthday! 1984-85 was the year I became an exchange student. I learned how to knit in the spring of 1985 while I was in France. Still learning. I enjoy these Ravelry Roulette games very much.
Happy birthday, Taylor! 1984 is a good year. i had my son that year. 🥰 This is a fun series! Does anyone else forget and try to scroll the ravelry pages? 🙃
Try searching for ONLY men's sweaters…impossible. Very frustrating. Women's patterns are absolutely more creative, but I have failed at using the search function to narrow down my search for finding good patterns for men.
When you use advanced search on ravelry and check male AND female, you can click below to how the terms relate, go to advanced and make it say "male and not female" - this will show male and unisex tagged patterns that are not also tagged as female. You can also exclude unisex to only find specifically patterns tagged male (but I do find a lot of male sweater patterns are also tagged as unisex, so this can be limiting).
Omg Kevin I know!! It’s ridiculous. I actually have a menswear video and I think I touch on that a bit. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LMQ3ZCTw0GQ.htmlsi=CemXeQjyulQdx8bJ
@@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS I appreciate you answering my tiny rant. I have been trying to learn to make a sweater and I cannot find anything that is imaginative really for me to learn on, I have me around to try it on so I can work out my bugs. I will then go into making some for my sons, and then of course pick one of the 12 million patterns for my daughter. I was actually looking for a henley type that I know I will wear.
Happy Birthday Taylor 🎉🎉🎉 I agree. As soon as I saw the shawl scarf, I thought of the camel colored yarn I have stashed. And how about the interlocking stash buster shawl! I need to jump in Ravelrys website instead of the app and just dive in.
Happy birthday. It is so fun to watch your ravelry roulette. I do discover new patterns and sometimes when I don't know what to knit - I try some roulette inspired by you.
I just love this series!! I had my own turn of Ravelry roulette the other day trying to decide which garment I was going to knit next. Thanks for the inspo Tayler and have a Happy Birthday. 🎉🎉
Thank heavens for this podcast today - Have just spent 4 (FOUR!!!) whole days fixing my laptop, too stressed even for knitting to save me! Now it is finally done, this was just the soothing random fun I needed to wind down. Perhaps I need to knit an emotional support chicken next🤣
lace is much easier then people think give it a try. that design looks like a good beginner friendly pattern. Lace is really good at helping you learn how to read the stitches on your needle. most lace uses about 3-6 stitches in total and the trick is to learn directional decrease. If you are like me and enjoy knitting patterns that require you to count simple repeats then lace is a rewarding project to knit. As far as color work with a gradient or stripped yarn its also really fun to do. I recently finished the alpine bloom hat for my goddaughter using a hand spun stripped yarn that came out stunning and a quick knit
Happy Birthday! The Lacey Shawl Scarf might be something I’d knit. The drops design reminds me of the cozy memories blanket, but having a shawl would be so much fun with advents.
I have found some really lovely lesser known patterns while scrolling through Ravelry and I agree the photo matters a lot. There are many that are let down by not having an appealing main picture. There are often cases where the projects people have made can look better than the chosen designer example but that top first picture will always be the one on show when searching patterns. It should be a good one.
@@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS I'm hanging in here! Actually savoring the cooler weather today, since it looks like we'll be in the 90s by next weekend! 😬 I haven't experienced the real desert heat yet! 😅
A big beef with DROPS is .. according to what I’ve heard from some designers on RU-vid.. is that they very very very closely copy (steal?) their designs. So if they are lazy enough to copy designs, why should they put any work into thinking up names for their patterns?
Happy birthday Tayler, I love your series, I have 2 questions about "Elizabeth" 1. where did you get her eyes ... and 2. will you be knitting her some of those eggs?? lol (I cant believe you didn't reference those for her)
Happy Birthday! Ive recently discovered your channel and having a lot of fun catching up on previous videos. Such a great resource of hints and tips! Love it!
