Casual Fridays are my fave vids for listening/watching while knitting away, but I go back to Technique Tuesday vids and playlists (thank you for organizing those!) all the time when I am working on something new. There is an absolute treasure trove of info there! Even if you only do them sporadically going forward, the already existing library you have made is priceless!
Roxanne, you are my go-to for knitting techniques. Every description is clear and detailed. I will be pleased whenever you put up a technique video - weekly is not necessary. I'm so happy just knowing you will continue to make them. Love learning about vintage knitting and vintage yarn. Who knew there could be so much to learn?
I love your Technique Tuesday videos, they are my go to videos when I want to learn or understand a technique, but I understand your need to slow down. I would like to suggest two ideas for Technique Tuesday, one is about why sometimes the bottom rib of a sweater flips up, and what could we do to prevent that. The second idea is when making a split hem on a sweater, how to get neat edges, and how to prevent that stretched out gap between the two stitches where the split occurs.
I’m so glad to hear technique Tuesday isn’t going away completely. I totally understand about burning out, I’ve done it with many crafts in the past myself. I like how much information you put out to go along with your technique Tuesday, so if they only come out when you feel like it or have time, then that’s better than nothing. I love to listen to you. Your mittens turned out fabulous and your vintage sweater is looking great.
Will miss learning something new from you each Tuesday (Wednesday here in Australia), but understand your need to step away. I hadn’t considered nor fully appreciated the time and effort that goes into producing a weekly technique video. I am extremely grateful to you for all your informative videos and am relieved you won’t be completely giving up on Technique Tuesday.
If you need a break, do what you have to do for you! Really enjoy your videos, love how you are honest about your mistakes! I am working on a KAL for a bottom up drop shoulder sweater with a saddle, I had half of the back piece done and realized I had 40 st on one side of my cables and 30 on the other and had to rip it all out, my knitting is by no means comparative to yours, but you make me feel so much better about the process, you are so realistic with it all! Thank you
Glad you are listening to your heart and slowing down your video output. No need to burn out. Enjoyed the comment about giving the pillow "a time-out". Take care.
Very interesting about vintage yarns and patterns. I am participating in your “Finish in February” challenge with my Marius sweater. So far I have gotten the body almost to the arms and the sleeves 2/3 done. The carrot for me is joining them all together and doing the stranded colorwork. Wish me luck to finish by end of February. I have put on hold other knitting projects till I get this done!
Glad to hear about cutting back vs wearing out, too. Was worried you’d been hurt or sick and was praying for you all week. As always: early Sabbath mornings with Casual Friday is my favorite personal time of the week. I finished my first FairIsle Yoke Sweater yesterday. I owe you a debt of gratitude for teaching me so much the last 18 months. Love the wolf mittens and charity knitting with your sweet friends. Have a lovely weekend!
If cutting back on the frequency of TT means we get longer videos in the future on more complex topics, I'm on board! Thanks to you I just signed up for level one of the master knitter program.
Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge and experience. I would say that for pillow project has a design feature & that it's supposed to be like that. If you hadn't said anything I thought it really was a design feature, like a line for texture blocking. Your knitting is so beautiful and adventurous with your vintage projects thanks again for taking us all along for the knitting fun.
Will miss the Technique Tuesdays every week but completely understand the need to cut back. In addition to producing two videos per week you generously gift us with your time and expertise by answering questions, researching queries etc. Fyi, there has not been even one technique video from which I did not learn something. So now your techique demos will be like a surprise party instead of a dinner date. Rox rocks!
I must admit that I seldom watch Technique Tuesday episodes unless it is a technique I am interested in using. I have a couple archived because they are techniques that I use but infrequently so I need a brief refresher when I do them again. I love all of the knitting history on your Friday episodes, talking about the patterns, the yarns and the techniques and how they have changed or not over the years just fascinates me.
I have to admit that I admired your pace of steadily posting a Technique Tuesday video every week, and actually, I think you covered a whole lot of things already. Maybe it would be helpful to gather possible technique videos an posting ... one a month? Or whenever you feel like answering a question like that? If I were you, I'd probably only make technique videos for questions which raise a big discussion in your Ravelry group ... Anyway, I will be happy to watch whatever you put out, whenever you do.
Imperial Yarn in Oregon has some woolen spun yarns, made from wool from Columbia sheep and spun at a vintage mill. I see they currently have two woolen spun: Columbia (worsted) and Native Twist (bulky).
I’m glad glad technique videos are not going away. The information you present in them is invaluable! I always marveled at how you came up with something to do every week. I don’t think it’s necessary to have a technique video every week. That there are technique videos like you do them is what matters to me. Look forward to continuing to see your technique videos whenever they come out. If you hadn’t pointed out the line as a mistake I wouldn’t have known. I can see it, but it looks like a design element like there are supposed to be three block on the pillow.
I do love TT but understand the time put into it every week. As you say knitting should be enjoyable not a chore. So you do need to keep it that way for you. Love your Friday video too! I have question about your vintage sweater sleeves. I thought the sleeves have a crocheted cuff, a knitted split area and then knitted sleeve. Can’t you figure length out for the cuff and split part (or knit those first) then knit sleeves to the correct length. I hope I make sense! Thanks so much for all your knowledge!
The entire length of the sleeve is cast on from underarm to wrist, knit for several inches, with 5'' of the sleeve BO at the start of a row, and then CO at the end of the next row. It's all done as a whole unit.
One more thing concerning the vintage yarns: did any of the "vintage group" try to contact a yarn manufacturer who is in business for more than 100 years? I know Schachenmayr (a German brand you surely know) is in business since 1822, and I am sure that there are manufacturers in the US who have been in business approximately that long. Usually, these manufacturers have a historic department or a little museum, and quite often they have somebody working there with pretty deep knowledge. You might get to gain some new knowledge there.
I want to make the Lizard Ridge Blanket. I found your notes on using the GSR with this pattern. I can't find a definition of t&p which is included in your notes. Please explain or point me toward instructions.
I have a question concerning intarsia. I am working on a sweater for my grand daughter with sheep around the yolk. I wanted to make each sheep a different color, so I made little bobbins on clothe-pins for each sheep (then I realized I couldn't knit it in the round! Duh! ) but I didn't want ten more bobbins of the main color so I wove the main color behind the sheep like in fair-isle, the sheep also have a few stitches of the main color in them. Is that Ok is there a better way of dealing with this? I couldn't find any body describing how to deal with this problem. Thank you in advance.
If the motifs are fairly small, then a hybrid stranded/intarsia method can be preferable to having multiple balls of the background color. It is possible to use this hybrid method while also working in the round, using a method called "Festive Knitting," first described in Mary Thomas's Knitting Book (from the 1930s), but also described by others. If you search for "festive knitting" (use the quotation marks), you should be able to find several sources that can explain how to do it.
Roxanne, you are amazing! Thanks for sharing all that you do. And good for you for changing the way you will be showing techniques! Hopefully I will get to say hi this Tuesday at the Textile Center, the program sounds fascinating. I worked at the U hospital for many years and interestingly the stents we used to put in narrowed vessels, if my memory serves me correctly, were like knitted tubes. But in our application they would go in tiny and were expanded via ballooning. Our department took kare of vessels everywhere in the body except the heart. And MIT actually has a team looking at the physics of knitted fabrics. Did you see the article last Fall in, I think, the NY Times? I found the article and here's the link just in case. www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/science/math-physics-knitting-matsumoto.html Cheers, Fern
Errors are frequently an unintended design element. I can see the "error" in the pillow but if you hadn't said, I would have thought it was an intentional design element and where were the other lines? Just sayin'.
This is gonna be a long post so forewarning lol. There is actually no such thing as the “Alpha Wolf”. A German Biologist named Rudolph Shenkel was the one who coined the term “Alpha” how he came up with it was he studied wolves in a zoo and saw that two wolves, one male and the other female has dominance within the group and so he wrote a book on it calling them the “Alphas”. He then wanted to see if he could replicate the results he got in wild wolves and he saw that no their behaviors where in fact different and that that pack was more a family unit, there aren’t alphas. The term is a myth. He tried to correct his mistake but it was to late, everyone read his first book and would ignore his corrections
These are wolves bred in captivity that are not all born into the same family unit (they're not even all the same species of wolf), so they do express those dominance behaviors in this environment.
Roxanne Richardson in a zoo or captivity they do because well it’s like sticking a bunch of people together, one or two is gonna take charge, but this isn’t natural behavior. If you’re interested look up David Mech, he is probably the best info on the myth of the “alpha”. He greatly dislikes the term “alpha” and has begged and sent letter after letter asking the publishing company to take down the his own books on the “Alpha” but they won’t. I think you’d like this show it’s my favorite and has informed me on a lot of misconceptions society still believes in, the link is a clip actually on this topic and is on David Mech’s website, it’s a comedy show but I enjoy it for learning new things ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YTyQgwVvYyc.html
I can't believe you are putting this kind of deep meaningful energy into such a terrible sweater! I understand putting effort like that into the cabled masterpiece that I see you often wear, but that clown shirt? Vintage does not = good all of the time. That thing is just ugly.
I can't believe you are putting this kind of deep meaningful energy into such a terrible sweater! I understand putting effort like that into the cabled masterpiece that I see you often wear, but that clown shirt? Vintage does not = good all of the time. That thing is just ugly.
