Danish Night Sweaters, Family Stockings and FlexiFlips XL // Casual Friday 2-47

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In this week's Casual Friday podcast: Vivian Høxbro's book Traditional Danish Sweaters; socks for my mom to remember me by; a Christmas stocking that has become traditional to my family; FlexiFlips XL needles; and a Q&A.
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Introduction: 0:00
Traditional Danish Sweaters (night sweaters): 0:49
Finished Object (Remember Me Socks for my mom): 14:10
New Project/Family Stocking tradition: 15:47
FlexiFLips XL: 32:01
Q&A regarding the Alternating CO: 39:04
Traditional Danish Sweaters: 200 Stars and Other Classic Motifs from Historic Sweaters, by Vivan Høxbro
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Traditional Fair Isle Knitting, by Shela McGregor
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Charts for Color Knitting, by Alice Starmore
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Principles of Knitting by June Hemmons Hiatt
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Christmas Snowflakes Stocking by Laura Gebhardt:
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Falling Snow Stocking by Jennfer Hoel
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@8531022 4 года назад

Each time you post a new video, I get my knitting journal and pen ready because I know that I’m going to want to take notes!

@thenameofYeshua 4 года назад

I'm a new subscriber as of last week and am so touched with the story of your mother and her socks you've knit for her. My own mother passed away from Alzheimer's earlier this year and my family lived with my parents for the last 4 years of her life to help take care of her, so I'm intimately acquainted with how precious those moments are when someone so dear to us can remember something about us and hold a connection like that. What a precious and tremendous blessing. I learned to knit several years ago while living outside of the country and the first thing I ever knit was a scarf for my mother. I sent it to her and she treasured it until it was lost somewhere along the way. I'm sure that it was forgotten somewhere at church or in a restaurant or some such place as her illness progressed, but I loved that she loved it and proudly told people her daughter had made it for her when they commented on it. As I've journeying through life, I've experienced some losses that have been so profound and so unusual that I felt all alone and that there was no one who truly understood what I was going through, so I wanted you to know that I truly understand the connection you have with knitting socks for your mother and the desire you have to do so.

@LoveoftheDarkFiberArts 4 года назад

I love that you celebrate Solstice in your house! It's so nice to hear about other people who also have non standard celebrations!

@mlilledahl 4 года назад

I always enjoy your lessons and research! You are extremely knowledgeable and thanks for sharing with us

@brandip2446 2 года назад

I agree, I just found this channel and I can't stop binge watching because I learn so much

@metaphoryarns8490 4 года назад

Thank you so much Roxanne for this episode of Casual Friday. I was touched by how you talk about your mother who sounds as if she was and is an important influence in your life. You in turn have influenced and are constantly improving my Knitting life. I am glad I have discovered your channel.

@amberschiwi 4 года назад

Oh, btw, my family and I also celebrate winter solstice 🌞 here's to longer days and more light in our lives ❤️

@wcwright44 4 года назад

Yes, yes, yes to Latvian braid. Your interest in Latvian mittens has gotten me out of a rut.

@SigalAlon 4 года назад

I'm wo glad I came across this video. I'm a crocheter yet found this video very interesting. Thank you or sharing this!

@misse-jensen 4 года назад

I can tell you that in the 1. Danish knitting book, there are 3 or 4 ways to cast on and it's written 1. The One we all know so there's no reasion to descripe that.... !!!!! What!!!! But I can't remeber the others but I lough a lot when I read it😂😂❤

@marilynnsimonini8784 4 года назад

Thank you for giving me your time and knowledge of this wonderful craft

@valeriengwt 4 года назад

Roxanne, thank you so much for yet another great episode! I don't follow that many podcasts anymore, but your channel is the one that I keep coming back to. As a fellow knitter who is interested in the technical side of knitting and all the finishing techniques, your approach to knitting and design has always been inspiring. I must admit that, at times, it is quite lonely to be a meticulous knitter (I call myself the fussy knitter), and your videos always provide some comfort on days when I feel like I am probably a little crazy being so fussy about a technique. And what a coincidence! I'm currently working on a Christmas stocking design. The Latvian braid jog problem did bother me, and I had ripped the braid back about 5 times until I found the way to minimise the jog. I am curious, and can't wait to see what you have come up with! I bet it's a brilliant and smart way! I will probably mention you over on IG when I talk about my stocking (I'm @joyancefibrearts over on IG). I am finishing my stocking right now as we speak, knitting it using the Chiagoo short interchangeables. Looking forward to your next upload and happy knitting! =)

@denisenj7648 4 года назад

You must release the Christmas stocking pattern! It's just amazing. You're a treasure to your family. And the socks for your mom made me want to cry.

@DreamWeavr 4 года назад

I agree! I just paused the video to see if you wrote up the pattern, sadly I didn’t see it. I would definitely buy the pattern if you do.

@laurielarson3655 4 года назад

Yes I was hoping she wrote up a pattern of the stocking. I wanted to do the same making stocking for my family

@pamelajwatson988 4 года назад

Roxanne, So much information. Thanks for sharing this beautiful book and all of your insights! I took up my Mom's tradition for knitting Christmas Stockings for our ever expanding family, when she passed away 12 years ago. She began this tradition in the early 1960's. Her pattern was a chart on graph paper and loosely written . I don't know for sure where she even got it from but I discovered the pattern was circa 1941!. The original construction was to knit the leg of the stocking flat until the heel and foot, then use DPN's, seaming the stocking up the back. Well, I wasn't having anything to do with that so I began knitting them in the round, but the intarsia parts were really messy and I didn't like the bumply turn created or the jog you could see when at the color changes for the bands. Long story short...I now use a jogless color change method and recently came across another wonderful teacher-of-all-things knit, Suzanne Bryan, who has some wonderful RU-vid tutorials for how to knit intarsia in the round without having a turning seam...I am still working this one out as my intarsia isn't just blocks of colors that expand and contract, it's candle sticks that are a bit tricky. The result is a bit more ends to weave in, but ultimately, it's much neater and less frustrating, maybe! hahaha!! Let me know if you want more information on the jogless join for color change! Happy Holidays! Pamela Watson Miss Pam's Creations

@misse-jensen 4 года назад

Hi... I'm Danish and you did it well with her name..👍❤ and I have the book and have ben to a meeting Where She told about the book and her work about it... and She is the most lovely person and She sat down next to me, when we Should Eat and we had a long talk about knitting... ❤

@Keldertrapje 4 года назад

In knitting New Foundland mittens, I discovered that the kind of jog less knitting is solved by adding a pepper pattern . stranded knitting. Alternating the colors you are working with every stitch, this solves the neat overflows to the pattern.

@lsncred19 4 года назад

You're so interesting to watch and listen to . Thank you for being so thoughtful.

@allisonbyrd 2 года назад

I love this episode, Roxanne! Thanks for the detailed Flexi-Flips XL review, and for sharing your family’s various holiday traditions. I grew up in a home with parents who came from different religious backgrounds (Jewish and Christian), though they were not religious people as adults, so all those holidays were celebrated, but in a secular fashion. Now that I’m grown (ha! 50+, actually), my husband and I celebrate the Winter Solstice. And, of course, we have a Charlie Brown “Solstice” tree! 😁🎄

@kajainstitches 4 года назад

Oh! (Later in the podcast). About the needle tips. I bought the Addi lace click interchangeables. I love them. And despite having pretty small-average hands I still have a problem knitting with them, but I’ve never figured out why. So now I have ordered a set with the longer tips. And I will most likely sell the shorter ones...

@annakatris6348 4 года назад

Hello Roxanne, totally agree with the FlexiFlips XL needles I did go looking for the smaller sizes for socks and was disappointed they only start at a 4mm.

@minkaf4243 4 года назад

I love your FlexiFlip analysis and completely agree. Those socks are gorgeous!

@zan_wild 4 года назад

I love flexiflips for sleeve!

@MarilynWiley 4 года назад

Have you looked into the ChiaGoo needles the now make a red and a blue tiny 3” or so cable where you can use you interchangeable tips on since the make a tiny 5” tip it could be used with the cables. You will need the reducer to make a small into a tiny cable join for the red I believe but the blue are for the small. Going by memory hear but check out Handsome Fibers site and look at the interchangeable selection of cables and tip. I like a 5” needle as well. Check it out

@kajainstitches 4 года назад

I think I read somewhere that the natt-trøja has nothing to do with night (danish: natt), but rather with the German word “naht” that comes from sewing. Makes much more sense! In Sweden we had a similar confusion. In the beginning the faster trains were Called snäll-tåg (=nice trains) that really had nothing to do with being nice or pleasant. But came from the German Schnell=fast.

@1loeg 4 года назад

The original version of the Høxbro book is called "strik danske stjernetrøjer" in danish. It translates directly to "knit Danish starsweaters". As a dane I find it kinda funny that they chose to translate it to nightsweaters in the english version. The starpattern is such a big part of what makes them unique. And the wore them to church and so on. A fun fact for you to know that they are called star and not night sweaters over here. It's a beautiful book. And so interesting from a historic perspective.

@RoxanneRichardson 4 года назад

That's so interesting! She does mention that museums call them by lots of different names, but none of the terms she mentions is "stjernetrøjer"! She lists striktrøjer, strixtrøjer, bindtrøjer, loenketrøjer, pindtrøjer, and nattrøjer. And there is a fair amount of speculation about why stars are so prominent in the designs, as well. Fascinating that the translation is presented a bit differently for an English-speaking audience unfamiliar with the tradition. Such amazing sweaters and stars. I have my eye on a few that I feel I will have to knit.

@courag1 4 года назад

Actually Rox, the wider grip on a needle is excellent. My father was Norwegian and had very wide hands and though I am female, my hands are wider than many women though in height I am not really tall: 5'5". I play the piano and can play Scott Joplin and the most I can play is 2 notes on the white keys, past the octave. In the meanwhile I was able to teach myself to be able to manage to use ChiaoGoo Mini Lace Twists. ChiaoGoo has the short cables in the Blue (small cable joins) and the Red (mini cable joins). And they have extra tips now of various lengths to pair with the 2" cords. I think this is my next investment. Recently got the Blue mini tips for doing cuffs and am doing many baby socks and booties as my daughter-in-law is pregnant with TWINS!!! So I've been doing loads of knitting. I have some arthritis in my fingers but for me to be as arthritis free, went dairy free and now I am all animal/fish/seafood protein out of my diet and it has eased up my hands and instead of MoveFREE (Glucosamine Chondrotin by Schiff), I switched to turmeric in capsules. This reduces inflammation and it is much more affordable and easy on stomach too. Before that, using extra small needles was not happening. But with the wide hands I have, I definitely understand where you are coming from.

@NinaKeilin 4 года назад

Great episode. I liked the part where people think it’s okay to just have uneven numbers of their circular repeats! So practical. I live the star patterns. I have also noticed they are universal. I have seen them in Latin American works.

@eighthwonder71 3 года назад

Hi Roxanne, they do have the smaller diameters in the Flexiflips XL on Amazon now. They have them in metal and bamboo. I didn’t know if you knew. I enjoy your videos. I always learn a lot!

@pialindeg 4 года назад

I am exactly like you - I cant knit with these flexi flips. And I cant understand what theyshould be good for. I love dpns.

@luellscott6268 2 года назад

Some time ago I watched your tutorial about your Latvian mitten class and you mentioned exploring what they do so they don't have a dominate color. I have searched for hours trying to find anything on that and haven't been successful. Have you been able to find out how to do that? I can't find a video of yours that covers that again. Would LOVE to find out the process for that. I believe you mentioned it was how you hold the yarn in back, always under??? Thanks for your videos!

@RoxanneRichardson 2 года назад

Rotating floats. I did several Technique Tuesday videos on stranded color work. They're in a playlist on my channel called Color Work.

@amberschiwi 4 года назад

Seeing this episode, I came to realize how I found your channel. It was your video about the flexi flips! What you said about the heel flap stitches issue today, came to my mind back then. Sylvia - the 'CraSy' in the original name - simply only mentions or makes boomerang\short-row heels. Now, the original flexi flips are available in bigger diameters as well, the promotion by Sylvia being, one could use them for hats and sleeves. That certainly wasn't playing out (unless knitting baby hats and baby cardis). I also wonder why the xl ones aren't available in smaller diameters and why the bamboos are longer. Maybe I will just write to addi; should have some advantage to be a German native speaker just for once in the knitter universe.

@peggyisme 4 года назад

Pretty Sweater!

@suzannemortimer9752 4 года назад

I love my Addi Crasy Trio! In UK you can get the wooden ones from size 2mm/0?

@RoxanneRichardson 4 года назад

But can you get those diameters in the XL length?

@suzannemortimer9752 4 года назад

Ah maybe not

@XtopherCB 4 года назад

the flexi flip info was nice... but i'm curious why you don't use traveling loop instead of magic loop for the stockings? your previous tutorial on that was great! i've been using it on colorworkhats and don't have the 'tight corner' issue...

@RoxanneRichardson 4 года назад

Because the circumference is too small. In order to keep the loop in one place for the entire round, the circumference has to be large enough to knit using a circ with a standard length tip (5''), but the stocking is only about 13 or 14'' around, making it too small to knit even on a 16'' circ, which has 4'' tips. I could use the make-do technique of yanking out the cord every so often, but that makes keeping track of where I am in any given repeat of the pattern difficult.

@louiseblumel 4 года назад

The stockings are beautiful! I have been searching all over Ravelry to find a stocking pattern I like to make some for my family. Do you have your pattern listed anywhere? Thanks for the information on the Flexi Flips. I'd love to try them one day.

@RoxanneRichardson 4 года назад

I don't have it listed. I have debated about whether or not I want to do that, since I designed it for my brother's family. You're not the only one to ask. I would need to have it test knit and tech edited, and at the moment I have other patterns queued up for that process. Perhaps I will be able to do that in time for next holiday season.

@lindakilgore2298 Год назад

Thanks for the flexi flip review. I am trying to choose between metal and bamboo. I most often get gauge with wood (not bamboo) and find bamboo has some major drag. What did you think about the difference between the two materials?

@RoxanneRichardson Год назад

I don't tend to experience a difference in tension between metal and bamboo needles. What I liked about the bamboo needles were that the tips were somewhat longer than the original metal ones. The new square versions are longer still, but I'm not a fan of a non-round needle. If you have an LYS in your area that carries these, they might let you try them out in the shop to see what you think before buying.

@jackieblue22222 4 года назад

Love the Latvian braid. I first learned about it on my only pair of Danish star mittens named after the place that inspired them. Trondheim mittens, designed by Pia of RU-vid channel Kammebornia.

@ibyteuback 2 года назад

You are so amazing

@gabriellenancipierotti4194 Год назад

The squared flexiflips are longer and they come in sock sizes i think.

@RoxanneRichardson Год назад

Yes, they came out more recently. I did buy some of those, but I don't care for the square shape. Others will feel differently.

@gabriellenancipierotti4194 Год назад

@@RoxanneRichardson I love the square personally, but ironically enough, I need shorter tips, so I can't use those.

@shirleyncesar 4 года назад

Every time you mention the textile center, I get a little jealous 😒...

@verahunt2993 4 года назад

Could you provide some information on your friend who is creating z-plied yarn? I have a few skeins, but I'd like to acquire some more and it's very difficult to find.

@RoxanneRichardson 4 года назад

He learned to spin because he thought the company that produces z-twist yarn was going to close. A relative of the owner returned to Sweden to run the company, and it was still in operation the summer of 2018, but now I see the website is gone. I did see that Nancy Bush's company Wooly West carries Mora, a z-twist yarn spun in Sweden in something like 50 colors. You might tried there. www.woolywest.com/Pages-Products/Yarn_Pages/p_y_mora.html

@verahunt2993 4 года назад

Thanks for the reply. I only see three shades at Wooly West: a natural white and two grays. The last z-plied yarn I bought in colors was from Ingbretsen's which I think is in your neck of the woods; Minnesota or Michigan. I'm always keeping a lookout for more suppliers. I'm not a spinner, but maybe some day I could locate a local spinner and ask if it's possible for them to do some for me (at an affordable price).

@RoxanneRichardson 4 года назад

@@verahunt2993 Oy, I was confusing it with Borgs MORA, sold at the Woolery, which is a fine yarn spun in Sweden and comes in 50 colors (there's no indication that it's a z-twist, though)

@RoxanneRichardson 4 года назад

@@verahunt2993 You could also try looking for yarns that are z-plied on yarnsub.com yarnsub.com/search?q=z-plied

@RoxanneRichardson 4 года назад

@@verahunt2993 HEre's another option: zgarn.se/butik/garn/z-tvinnat-ullgarn/z-tvinnat-ullgarn/

@CassieDA17 4 года назад

I need to see how people knit with those flexi-flips. I just saw a Chiagoo 2” extra flexible cable earlier today and was wondering what it was for. I’m assuming that it’s to create your own flexi-flip style needle? I wonder if you can get a chiagoo cable to work with smaller chiagoo diameter needles for your socks.

@RoxanneRichardson 4 года назад

Well, I could, but then I'd have to buy 2 more sets of tips in each size, too. It's one of those tools that I don't want to use all the time, but I'm glad it's available to use when I do need it.

@bendiehintz1175 4 года назад

Is there a pattern for sale for your Christmas stockings?

@RoxanneRichardson 4 года назад

Not at this time. See response to the other question about a pattern. Perhaps next year!

@pialindeg 4 года назад

I am a danish knitter and know Vivian Høxbro Høxbro is pronounced Hoexbro - ø is oe in english. The word nattrøje is pronounced nattroei something like that. Just ask about "danish stuff" you are very welcome. And I will try to answer. My personal opinion is that a nightsweater is inspired by the ganseys knitted in England in some way.