just wanted to say that as a new knitter I have discovered that the length of yarn thread in a ball matters more than the weight lately. I am knitting now a 40s vest, it calls for 17 stitched in 2 inches, and the best match of yarn I have found is approx 400 meters in 100 g ball (4ply socks yarn). Actually, your blouse/sweater is adorable and it doesn't matter that it looks different from the pattern picture!
I'm finally planning my own hand spun knitting project and seeing all the problem-solving it will require is really eye-opening. Moral of the story, DON'T TRUST THE PATTERN SUGGESTED YARN AMOUNT! I'm super excited to start.
That’s indeed pretty much it! Even with commercial yarns, I find the amounts stated on the patterns are often quite arbitrary. All too often I’m left with too much yarn. Some times it ends in a terrifying game of yarn chicken. That’s why I like spinning for specific projects so much. I get some extra fibre (or prep extra, depending) and I know I can always spin up some more if needed. This means I often have very little extra yarn, and the fibre that is left can be blended into another project or, if it’s a white fibre I have a lot of (I have a stash of ‘standard’ fibre) it can simply go back in the stash. I find knitting scarves, wraps and shawls has taught me a lot about my default comfort spinning (lace weight yarn). I have found out roughly how many grams yield a specific amount in yards/metres. Size of the finished piece is less important with this kind of garment. That made for less stressful knitting when using that precious homespun yarn. From there, it’s easier to ‘graduate’ to garments that basically consist of combined squares or rectangles. TLDR: don’t trust the yarn requirements of the pattern. Trust the gauge swatch more. If needed, consider calculating yarn requirements based on that swatch. And remember that adjusting needle/hook size can help. Because as Jente stated in other videos, the wraps per inch can be iffy as well.
Thank you ☺️ eventhough I don't feel very happy with them I think it's important to show things that go wrong. Our social media society is so focussed in perfection that it seems like nobody fails at anything anymort
I haven't yet knit anything that wasn't a rectangle, but I, too, SO wanted to try out those sleeves when I saw Engineering Knits' video! The colors in your sweater are so pretty together, and I think puff sleeves would be adorable.
Good idea to make the back different, it looks good. I think the main difference to the pattern image is not the sleeves but the ease. The vintage version is very close-fitting.
Yeah that is true as well. But that's a commonly recurring problem for me with patterns that are basicly rectangles. If I want them to be comfortable in the bust area, they're going to be loose everywhere Else 😅
It's amazing how you explain what knitting may be, it's not just the result but the feelings you have when you do it since the spinning to the smell of the wool (that warm, reassuring ,cozy smell)and feeling the soft warm wool on you. Knitting is an experience. I love those colours you combined. And, by the way, when I was younger I worked as a painter of stove tales (I just know the word in German , "Kachelofen")and my boss used to say to me that an imperfection was not a mistake but an added value. You can fit this principle to all hand made things. 😌
Greetings from the northeast USA. You have encouraged me so much! I am a brand new spinner using the EEW6 eel wheel. I am so excited to get to spin my own yarn and actually make a garment to wear. I’m starting with socks. What a blessing it is to be able to share a craft with someone across the globe.
Gauge swatches are my go to for any knitting, unless I allow chaos to rule and simply throw myself into a project with abandon. This goes for hand spun as well as for commercial yarn. I do tend to spin for specific projects.
Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️ I love your Handspun Sweater, it looks amazing. I love the colours, I also like the Cropped style of your Sweater. I Crocheted a Cowl/Scarf with some of my Handspun Yarn and one thing I noticed is that Handspun is a lot softer than commercial yarns. Happy Spinning and Knitting Sweet Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🐕 I missed this video podcast when you first put it out as I was ill in bed. I'm fine again now though. 😊😊
@@MijnWolden Hi Jente, Thankyou, yes I'm much better, had a flu bug but with having fibromyalgia and very severe arthritis meant I was laid up for about a week, fortunately I have a very good husband who besides having to do everything normally, gave extra TLC. Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥ Sending Heart ♥ back to you Happy Spinning Sweet Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🐕
Thanks for another enjoyable video - love seeing the process and the product! You could sew some shirring elastic around the sleeve cuffs to add poufiness to the sleeves?
Hoi hoi. Zo blij dat ik jou gevonden heb😂. Heerlijk zoals jij werk. Ik herken mezelf erin. Ook ik haal mijn vachten uit mijn dorp. En ik geniet ervan. Als ik haak of brei loop ik ook steeds tegen de patronen aan. Het klopt nooit met hand gesponnen wol. Of ik zou me natuurlijk ook beter kunnen voorbereiden…..nee..dan is de lol er af. Geniet van je wol…..ik geniet van je filmpjes😍!
My current project is to spin and crochet a bulky sweater for my dad with handspun yarn. I had 1kg of carded wool. I have done most of the front and I'm already worried I won't have enough for the arms 😅😬
It does look a bit wide, yeah, but personally I think the sleeves are super cute, especially with those colours. I wish I could knit with my handspun, but I barely knit at all, and figuring out things like gage etc myself is beyond me. I am planning on weaving it though, first for a few decorative items to get a good feel for it, and then for clothes. Good thick winter skirts are impossible to find, especially in my size, so I think handspun handwoven wool fabric should fill that hole nicely. (On a side note, thank you for having the captions on pretty much immediately when your videos go up. I don't have to wait five hours to actually watch them.)
That 4oz thing was total bullshit 🤣 How much did your's weigh in the end? I agree about the sleeves needing some kind of pouffiness. I think it turned out really nice in the end. I just knit a small blanket with handspun. It was for the cats. I've now decided i want to use up loads of my earlier skeins and make it into a blanket for me, because knitting with my handspun is awesome. 🎉🎉🎉
Ik vind de kleuren super en je filmpjes trouwens ook haha. Ik zelf zou de trui uithalen want ik vind m veel te groot voor je. Je hebt nu een hele grote swatch gebreid toch ;-) kan je nu berekenen hoeveel steken je echt nodig hebt. Bij mij zou die dan in de kast blijven liggen, ik weet niet of dat bij jou ook zo is........... maar dat zou zonde zijn want op zich kan ie echt leuk zijn. bedankt voor alle wijze lessen haha ;-)
Uithalen zal 'em niet worden, dat krijg ik niet over mijn hart nu. Misschien nadat 'ie eerst minstens een jaar in de kast gelegen heeft, maar nu zeker niet 🙈
It still looks fabulous and you look beautiful! I love the struggle of running out of yarn LOL this happened during my first handspun sweater. I enjoy watching your process and wish I had all that floof.
Love the color combination. Is too big because the pattern is wrong or because the gage is off? Could you maybe weigh the whole sweater and tell us how many grams it weights in the end? Even without the long sleeves.
Look I don't hate it, the yarn and the colours look nice but It's got a really definite modern feel about it. For better of worse. The sleeve shape I think would look less modern if you did gather the bottom.
Why spin if you want it to look like commercial yarn it has no life. It is a spring sweater with the wide sleeves maybe rein it the sleeves doing the head then taking some of the width out would give you enough to do a tighter cuff or just spin a bit of the darker ool when you get home and knit a tighter cuff,or ad shirring elastic to the bottom edge of the sleeve
Klopt, een woolmakers giant. Ben er tevreden van, al vind ik dat er veel wol achterblijft achter de haakjes, als ik andere mensen zie kaarsen, zij krijgen hun batts er altijd zeer proper af. Maar dat kan natuurlijk ook aan de wol liggen. Of aan mij 😅
