Okay one more compliment! I love how down to earth you both are! Such a delight to watch your videos for the beautiful works and to enjoy you both in your leisure! Thank You Kindly.🌹
Once again, you guys have brought even more knowledge to us. I'm sure many of us "frog" our fabric. As a newbie to knitting, I find I rip out a lot! But I'm figuring that every bit of practice will hopeful one day give me the same quality stitches that are demonstrated in your work. Thanks again as always for explaining the options!
Carol Bancroft Love you both! Remember your bird feeder tutorial? I am using the pattern to crochet melon nets for supporting the melons growing in our poly tunnel. My husband is very impressed. Thank you!
Thanks guys! You answered my question! I really needed your advise on this. I'm fairly new to continental knitting, (taught myself so I could knit faster), but my tension is not as even as it used to be. I'm sticking with it. Sunny hugs
So encouraging to those who are intimidated by colourwork. Everyone should be able to become quite confident with your helpful tips. And the advice to not automatically rip is VERY helpful. Sometimes knitters are too ready to rip if it is not perfect and then they become frustrated and then pretty soon they never want to even try knitting colourwork and they stop knitting altogether. There are other ways to improve and continuing and practice is the only way. Your advice about that can never be emphasized enough. Thank you for another important tutorial by showing how to evaluate your tension.
This video is just what I needed as I’m looking at my hat, there are too loose and too tight stitches. Thought not to rip out but use this experience to learn the Norwegian way of knitting. Hat is for my husband. I’m using cashmere and wool yarn. The feel is so so nice. Thanks again!
ARNE, You have been so helpful as I try to learn two handed knitting. I found the pick method you use works best for my 76 year old hands. However I would love a slow motion tutorial on purling with this technique. Thanks again for your help and say hi to Carlos as well. Knittingnana
Good evening guys once again a pleasure to see you both. Your tips are most helpful. I haven't done colour work in ages for the reasons you've given. Im going to give it another try. Your both a blessing every week without fail you make us smile laugh along with you as well as learning us new ways ond old of doing things. Be good to each other take care till next week. X
Hello guys, yesterday i received my copy of your new book " favorite designs" one word; LOVELY!!!! Oh my god how i love it. if someone can afford only one of your book it have to be this one. what a wonderful book, so complete, so pretty, colourful and very well explain. Thank you so much for everything (tips and knowledge) you two are sharing with us. :)
Hello Arne and Carlos! I was enjoying the weekly video installment as always and you mentioned bringing up questions so I have some. I'm in the US (upstate NY more specifically) and weaving is becoming really popular here as a craft while making a bit of a comeback in the art world as well. I know you have mentioned that Arne used to work on Finnish Rya rugs in the past. Is he willing to share any of these with us? Also have either of you played around with the smaller lap looms? Or even small branches? People are finding really creative weaving projects for leftover wool yarn and roving. I would love to see a tutorial of this sort of thing if you are working on any related projects.
Wonderful informational video! Thank you! Can you please do a tutorial on colorwork knitting in the round? How do you avoid a jog in the colorwork? When I start the new round with colorwork , I get ugly stair-step or jogs in the colors. My motif gets all askew and looks really bad at the start of a new round. How can you avoid the ugly stair-steps and have clean circular colorwork in your knitting? Thank you Arne & Carlos!
There is a new book out by Tin Can Knits called Strange Brew that discussed all the ways to create colourwork to hide jogs. It basically comes down to large patterns, placing the jog at the center back of the sweater, and small pattern repeats, placing the jog on the back scapula area. Great resource by the way
Timely tip. I'm working on s sweater now and noticing some tension issues after a couple of hours knitting. Carlos great lines on that sweater you're wearing!
Thank you for your explanation. I enrolled in Knit Stars because of you. I never heard of it and now I'm so curious what it will bring. I do have a question: don't you ever get injuries with al that knitting and/or crocheting? Have a lovely evening and greatings from Belgium.
Thank you both so much, with your help and instruction I put some colorwork into a cowl and I did pretty good! (Well enough to post it on instagram , Lol) again Thank you. ❤️😁👍🏻
Very helpful video once again. My tension is good when doing the baubles and eggs. I’ve just done a detailed Mitt and I’m not happy and after seeing your video I wish I didn’t weave the ends in. I’m going to have to just start over now. 😕 just to many of the tighter stitches like Arnes demo on the bottom.
Hi Arne&Carlos, Thank you for sharing this tutorial:) I have been knitting a cowl practicing colour work, I think my tension is getting better as I am reaching the end. I am so keen to make a nice Norwegian hat😀 Love your tutorials, and podcasts, I love listening to you both,so relaxing. KimXX
Very nice informative tutorial. I wish I had found you on RU-vid some years ago. I used to be afraid of color work because I had tension problems but watching your videos has really helped. Is it possible for you to do a video on picking design elements for a yoked sweater. How do you decide which elements and colors. Do you have recommendations for sources of charts?
ARNE & CARLOS Thank you soooo much for every thing you do , but have you ever done a knitting tutorial for toe socks , for all 5 toe's or for flipflop socks ????
I heard people speak so kindly of you both and I’ve only had the opportunity to see a few of your videos. Many people just assume you are a couple but when see you, I think you might be brothers. Could you confirm either way for us curious people who have no business asking? Lol. Big hugs from Canada.
Hi Arne & Carlos. A longtime knitter, I feel you're taking my knitting to the next level with your superb tutorials, tips and inspiration. I find I rip back less and I'm becoming more adventurous with colour. I'd love to see how you finish off the underarm seam on sweaters. When I join sleeve to body on a yoked sweater, I end up with a bulky join as I try to avoid underarm holes. At least it's a seam no one can see .... unless I wave my arms about :-)
So nice to see you again! Best part of my weekend :). I have a question. I am working on a jacket and following your great tutorial where Arne made one for Carlos. When I measure the cuff, based on the rib at the bottom of the main piece and make the sleeve from the cuff upward, I am not sure where to increase. I know from the cuff to the shoulder it gets bigger, but I am not sure when and where to add my increases. Have you ever done a video on that? Thanks!! Xoxo
One thing I've been struggling with is that my purl stitches are always a bit looser than my knit stitches and so when I knit stockinette back and forth I always have one row of bigger stitches and one row of tight ones... How do you avoid that?
Ok, since you asked for comments.....Based on your previous comments, I was curious to try Norwegian wool and bought Rauma 100% pure wool. It is a bit scratchy and I wonder if you have any recommendations. I was thinking about maybe using a merino yarn for the neck ribbing on a sweater or maybe lining the sweater around the neck? Have you come across this problem? How have people solved it? :0)
I'm hoping you can help me with a knitting question. I am knitting a christmas stocking and i am new to color work. I want to put a design only on one side and was wondering if i have to carry my accent color all the way around the back side or is there another way?
Hi Michelle, here is a tutorial on catching floats on colour work ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vpRMXdfcHPU.html and another one where we talk about stranded color work ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-37M1exzoYU0.html
Hello! I'm a quarter of a way through a knit scarf (English rib) and have super uneven edges, the scarf has got curves and bumps on the edges :(. Would you recommend blocking the project before fixing it or should I just go right in as soon as I finish knitting?
Love watching you two.I am knitting my second Christmas sock and some Christmas balls .my question is any hope of a new Christmas sock pattern to go with the other one .thanks sue
Hi Arne en Carlos. I like You Both. You are Just a great combination. I am a started knitter because of You Both. You are my inspiration. I have a question. Which is for You a good number of needles and yarn (kind and thickness)? Sorry, my English is nog that good. I come from Peru btw. Greetings
Hello! Would you please do a tutorial on how to wind a center-pull ball of yarn from a hank? I do not have a ball winder, but I have used a kitchen-whisk as a nostepinne!
Love your videos and you two!!! Thk u sooo much! How is a Duplicate Stitch worked? I also wondered at your Sock and Doll Videos....🤔 thx u very much 🤗😍😘
I've been trying the Norwegian method to knit and purl instead of throwing, but am having a harder time with tension. I know my issue is with holding the yarn in the left hand. I can see that Arne is holding the yarn over his finger, but the camera does not catch how he holds the yarn with his other fingers. When throwing I usually wind the thread around my left hand in the same way I do with crochet, but although I am doing the same while kitting the Norwegian way my tension is all off-- sort of good/horrible. I have been knitting swatches to try evening my stitches out. I can see I will have to practice for quite a while. Is this just a matter of muscle memory or is there another way to adjust the yarn tension with the left hand?
Maybe for the next video you could explain gauge...i understand so many rows should be so many inches but when reading a selbuvotter pattern I have seen 38x38 or 25x25 what does that mean?
newe4me The sweater I am wearing in the video is not designed by us and was purchased in Paris a number of years ago. So there is no pattern available.
Hi guys. I've found that some yarns seem to give me uneven stitches. Using Cubic aka square knitting needles eliminates that problem. They also are very comfortable to knit with. " Kollege " yarns has kollege square needles. I love the DPNs but I can't recommend the square circular needles. The joins at the cable and the cables themselves are MISERABLE!
great video! I am Canadian but live in the US. The barrage of Trumpian news on TV has caused my tension to be all over the place. The tension is literally ruining my tension! So until Trump is gone I have to protect my knitting, therefore I got rid of my tv! lol