Ohhhhhh the hair...FABulous! I made the Birds of a Feather Shawl in the suggested yarn and I wear it allllll.the.time. I also get soooooo many compliments on it.
I love your hair…I think it is perfect for your face shape!! Thank you for taking the one to do so much research on these videos. I have been wanting to make the color tip tee for quite a while and you have convinced me o love it to the top of my queue. Thank you for all you do!
Vania, your hair looks great! It suits you well. I really appreciate those videos. There is always so much inspiration and I can see beautiful hand dyed yarn that isn't easily accessible where I live. I would have to pay international shipping and that's not exactly something I want to do 😂
You have almost convinced me to make the cognac sweater from atelier castin! It is so lovely! If you decide to make that one, I will watch with great interest! Thank you for giving us ideas. I almost always find something to add to my queue from your videos. It helps so much to see the fit on you and to hear how the knitting went.
Your hair is lovely! Thank you for your informative video. Even though I can't do it in 2 skeins, I so appreciate you having size inclusive patterns. Now, I better get busy for spring!
several patterns mentioned here are just the things I have been looking for, thanks for taking the time to research this! I am looking for great fitting wardrobe staples...thanks so much!
I only recently bought 3 handdyed skeins, they are all different but you have inspired me for future ways to buy and use some special skeins. Thank you.
Hello from Washington! Thanks for another helpful video. I love hand dyed skeins, but they are pricey. I’ve chosen several of the patterns that you mentioned to try later this year. 🤗 Cheers!
Such perfect timing, I visited my first yarn festival a couple of weeks ago and I found so many amazing hand dyed yarns! Now I have some inspiration for what I can make, the Cognac Sweater went straight to my must-knit list 😊 Lovely episode and your new hairstyle looks super cute!
I love the look of the cognac sweater! the designer actually asked me to test it but I didn’t have the capacity at the time - but I love realizing how beautiful it is afterward now, Rebecca’s version also really captured me! can’t wait to squish all the (hand dyed) yarn with you this april ❤
Great episode! My favorite two-skein project is the Rock It Tee by Tanis Fiber Arts. It’s designed for one skein of fingering and one of mohair, striped. A friend made it with two different skeins of fingering, striped. I love the fit, so I’ve also considered making it with two skeins and no striping.
Made the flower shawl in plain yarn with hand dyed for flowers. It turned out lovely. the only thing is it is quite heavy because of the yarn. Next time I would use only fingering.
I am super excited for my hand-dyed pressed flowers shawl! I will have the background variegated in green- blue and then neutral flowers. Would love to see you do this, think it would be such a showstopper!
I’m also looking for patterns/projects which would benefit from using special yarn in combination with tonal or more plain yarn. Like yes, you can use it to marl, you can use it for colour details… you can do stripes and textures, you can do what you want really; but some ways are more interesting than others, you know ?
You are a beautiful woman regardless of your haircut but this one looks very good! I am not at all into hand dyed. I love to look at hanks but don't usually like the knitted fabric. I can't handle even the slightest unevenness of colour or speckles in the garment so I stick with commercial yarns and Nutiden. But I watch all your videos and I do have smaller quantities of yarn where it's harder to find a pattern. So still a lot of value for me in this video 😊
glad you still enjoyed it, and yes, can totally understand the dislike, it can be frustrating sometimes when it looks different in a fabric as opposed to a skein!
Let's do a Monica Geller Tee KAL!!! Since it doesn't have that many projects and it's so so pretty, I have handdyed Malabrigo Arroyo in stash and that'd be perfect! xoxo
I have knit 4 Birds of a Feather. For the full size you need 600 meters of the fingering although I used lace weight for one of mine and it was fine. And 420 meters of mohair or fluffy yarn. I do think the lace patterned panels look better in a plain colour otherwise you don’t appreciate the pattern elements.
Hi Vanissia! Love your channel and community ♡ I hope you make the Birds of a Feather with those colors...it would be lovely! I am doing one with hand dyed and entering in her March to May knit a long.
I just finished a Sonya Shirt by @paulastrickt using Woollyknit 4ply merino and it weighs in at 187g. I’m short at 5’2” and I knit it to the top of my hip bone in a size M. Usually I would knit a Small but my gauge was 25.5 sts and 34 rows as compared with the recommended gauge of 24 sts and 34 rows, so I went up a size. I also knit longer than the specified measurements given at staging points through the pattern because the called-for yarns included some cotton, silk or alpaca with the wool and so were likely to grow more than my 100% merino. I actually followed the row count given in the pattern, which, strangely knit up longer than the staging measurements, even though I had the correct row gauge. In any case, it’s a beautiful shirt with some lovely subtle details at the rib edges. Well worth the knit if you have 2 or 3 skeins in hand. P.S. I love your hair, Vanissia 🥰
I recently made the Canon Tee by Ines Garcia (@garcia.knits). I did the size 5 but I only had 800m of yarn ( Lay Family Yarns merino yak silk) so I went down a needle size and aggressively blocked the final garment - and it fits beautifully. I had 1.8grams of yarn left - just enough to sew on the buttons! I think 2 skeins would be plenty though for sizes 1-4. And really 3 skeins for the other sizes up to a size 12 which is a 66/67" - 169/170cmchest. A lovely pattern to make though.
Great suggestions! Here is mine: I have made the Tshirt Timeless Tee by Les Laines Biscotte. It's s free pattern on their website, very simple raglan construction: I used two skein of fingering weight to knit my version and it turn out great. 😊
i have a sweater quantity of la bien aimee merino dk and it is AMAZING but unfortunately had color pooling the first time i knit with it. i frogged and started over but my gauge with helical knitting was really inconsistent so i frogged and restarted again on smaller needles but then my gauge was insane on the sleeves so i gave up!! half the yarn is darker half is lighter so i plan to split it into two projects accordingly! i also tried turning my work for the body ribbing and i messed it up somehow and the cast off edge is really uneven. it’s in time out until i feel like unpicking the bindoff and frogging helical knitting again lol
I made the cozy classic and I really dislike the neckline. I’ll have to take a look at your Ravelry notes to see if I could make my way through a mod next time
yeah i thought it looked a bit stretched out on a lot of the samples, and i do like my modification, although it is still wider than many other sweaters!
What do you think of the Arte Nouva by Rachel Illsley? I love the shoulder design with a little bit of cable as embellishment. I have not started on this project yet but I do have the yarn already, hope I can pull off with 2 skeins and left over yarn for the color work portion. Lovely hairstyle today! :)
Does anyone have suggestions on patterns that look good in variegated hand-dyed yarns? I was think the Scotch Broom top from Wool and Pine would be good for 2 skeins (1-3 across the whole size range but 2 for most).