Thanks so much for acknowledging that you unpick some of your stuff too. If I did as much knitting as I do tinking, I'd have a knitted a dozen sweaters by now. Your honesty is very gratefully received!
You are so right in that in learning something new, you open your view of knitting so much. Case in point: In your Tuesday Techniques, you are currently highlighting chart reading. Last week, you showed us how that the symbols used in chart reading give you clues to how the stitch should look. A few days later, I was looking at a chart and its symbols and instead of getting daunted, I thought, 'oh, it's a left leaning decrease'. I'm becoming less afraid of charts and my next 'big' project may be a total chart pattern with no optional written out instructions.
My grandmother would make the holes in the ribbon the correct size (larger than the knitted holes) then starting from the center hole and working alternatively up and down, sew only the upper and lower edges of the knitted hole to the ribbon holes. This way the edges of the knitted fabric can give a bit when the button goes through and the ribbon, which cannot give is not only free to open all the way but also close straight. After all the holes were done, she would just as carefully stitch down the outer edges of the ribbon to the button ribbing. I am certain you will sort out something that works for you. Thank you for your video today. I look forward to the next one...
Ah, that's really interesting -- to leave the edges free. When I was researching whether or not to even sew the ribbon hole to the knitted hole when I made my WWI sweater, I found something that suggested there was no need to sew at all, if the hole was small. Mine were not small, sew I tried sewing them, but I didn't use a proper technique, and I didn't think to leave the edges free. Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm in England and I have to admit, I could sit and listen to you all day.. Have you passed on these skills to your daughters. My mother is a fabulous knitter, but I only learnt how to knit and purl on straight Pony needles, until a couple of years ago, after I agreed to have a kindle and I taught myself to crochet. Podcasts were new to me, and some crochet podcasters knitted too. Circular needles and lifelines changed my life. I'm not very good, but alot better, from learning from people, like you, thankyouu😊💞
Thank you for explaining your educational background. Fascinating! I have a deep and abiding love of books and so am very interested in your book review/show and tell over the next few weeks. The Master Knitting new programme sounds interesting to me as well. HUgs
Thank you for the information about the Master Knitter program! I’ve only been knitting for a little over a year, and have made a pullover, shawls, socks, and almost done with a cardigan. I thirst for more finesse in my abilities. I’ll definitely look into the newest program that you mentioned.
Thank you for the simple explanation of why short rows are now included in the design of garments with yokes. I was wondering why the pattern I am presently following for a colour work jumper (top down) included short rows. I was on the point of leaving them out as I did not get why they were required. Last colour work jumper with a yoke I kniitted over 35 years ago, the last time they were in fashion, was a bottom up with not a short row in sight. So a mystery is solved and my jumper will look the better for it. Cheers Julie LOL I posted first section of this comment before watching to end. I have a degree in Genetics and also studied for PHD in Human genetics post grad. So that would explain the 1st section of my reply, I have similar character traits to your mother. PPs I was born in Scotland and live here, granny taught me to knit and my mother bought a knitting machine in th 1970s, she knitted for London Fashion houses on it. As to the SRA English system we had that in Scotland too in the 1970s at Primary School. Remember coming back from the Opticians had had drops put in my eyes to check my eyesight. Teacher still said had to do my SRA English even though I told her I could not see close up because of the drops the optician had used. I had to concentrate soo hard to see the text. I remember the text it was about the Invention of Cats eyes to mark the middle of the road at night ..... how a man had noticed the railway lines had gleamed in his head lights in the dark and taken the idea and modified it to make the Cats eyes. Wow..... your podcast has just made me remember that.
Genealogy and knitting...love it. I was a professional genealogist before my retirement and was certified for ten years. I love learning and knitting is also a passion for me. I have been teaching knitting (along with a friend of mine) to a group of Indian women for the last five years. Today is the first time I found you on You Tube. Thank you for this vlog.
As always, I was fascinated by your narrative. The self paced school you attended sounds wonderful... ideal, actually. Thank you for sharing your story... I am, in the Meyers/Briggs Personality Sorter a true, and total, INFP.... Pretty much your opposite, I think... I am nit a great knitter. and a terrible fixer of mistakes,,,so there is a lot of ripping out, and starting over going on. I look at the kind of knitting you...and others...do, and am quite simply amazed. I also crochet, . I knit and crochet ...mostly charity items... No garnets, or (yikes) no socks. I do what my vision allows, and find joy in being creative within my own limitations. But that does not mean I am nit interested in seeing what really talented people can create. I learn something new every time I watch one if your podcasts...It doesn’t matter to me thst I am nit skilled enough to use this information... I just enjoy hearing you talk about whatever the topic happens to be. Thank you.
We are not as opposite as you think! I tested as an ENFP when I was working in an IT department with a bunch of ISTJs, but I'm really an ENXP (evenly divided between F and T), and only slightly extroverted. :-)
Rox, I always enjoy how you tie in your life stories and general information. I wish I could have gone to a self-paced school like that! After learning knitting and crochet from my mother (she was a super expert in both), I am mostly self taught in knitting. crocheting and sewing. I did this from books (pre RU-vid days). I also used to watch some early PBS shows and videos, like Elizabeth Zimmerman and Sewing With Nancy. Now with the advent of RU-vid, it's so easy to see someone demonstrate something. I really like that the Guild has developed a new program. I purchased the MHKP, but I never completed it, as I realized I didn't care if I mastered some of the things they wanted. But thinking through it was a useful exercise.
I've always been interested in making patterns, but am not sure I have the skills to do so. Thank you for this video! I don't think I even realized the Masters hand knitting program was a thing before!! Love your love for knitting! ♥️
I think your sweater looks just fine. It looks like it should have looked if the designer had been thinking about how to add short rows to keep the back from pulling up. I also had a sweater I had knitted with some button holes and buttons that seemed to be pulling and stretching the fabric. I used one of your tips about the ribbon backing but I put it behind just the buttons. I didn't try (or need) to reinforce the button holes. But it only had three buttons at the very top and the rest of the sweater was meant to just hang opened. So perhaps there wasn't as much tension on the button holes to begin with.
Hi Rox. I had the same type of classroom in my school in Colorado for a couple of years in the 1970’s, but we did too much goofing off and not enough learning so it didn’t last long. 🥴 But so interesting to hear your experience. I’m working on level 1 of MHK now.
Rox, I was thinking of your dilemma concerning the back of the sweater. Many times I have gone up or down a needle size the in a specific area to solve a problem like you are having. Your solution work. Up changing needle sizes lower in the pattern over that specific area might also work.. lovely sweater. Keep up the interesting videos.
This construction was unique enough, with the short-rowed bodice and resulting live sts for the yoke, that I didn't want to plan ahead for adding length, as would be typical, because I wanted to see how this construction would play out. I can think of three or four other options that could potentially work with the stitch pattern combination of this project, but I will likely leave those experiments for a future sweater that uses this construction (and use stitch patterns that will make it all easier, as well!)
Great episode! Thanks for all the wonderful information. I wish I had a community. There really isn't anything close, so online is it, though I think there is a lot to be said about in person connections as well. I wonder if there is any benefit to joining the Minnesota Guild? Would be interesting. Very reasonable membership fee. I'm in Iowa, so should check here as well.
My community is mostly online. It's fun to sit with people in person and knit with them and share projects, and to go to knitting-related events with them, etc., but I have learned the most from those I have interacted with online. Often, its online communities that make you realize you're not alone in your interest/situation/whatever, and it's because they *don't* live near you and inhabit the same physical community that you can learn so much from each other.
I got my new magazine yesterday on Kindle edition and started reading this interesting article on seaming. I was going to post to you about it when I noticed that you wrote it. LOL. I always have trouble planning to line up the ribbing. I think I will make some swatches to keep for future reference.
Your sweater looks great! It looks like it could be part of the yolk design. No one will know but you. ☺️. You are the first person that I have ever heard mention that SRA learning program. I was in that program in 6th grade. But I then went to a middle school , 7th and 8th grade the next year that didn’t follow the same program ( long story ). Thank you so much for the guild info. My guild connection has kind of fizzled through attrition. And my LYS just recently closed. Maybe a library visit is in order. Thanks again.
I love the way your brain works and have learned so much from your videos! I used your grosgrain ribbon facing on a cardigan recently and had similar issues with the buttonholes so decided to omit the facing from that side. I found that the stability of the button attachment side was enough to ensure a secure and undistorted closure of the sweater when buttoned. Also, when unbuttoned, the button hole facing side does not show anyway. Just a thought...
Love the podcast, thanks for the info about the professional knitting cert. I think I will be looking into this. I previously thought about the mkc but shyed away because of the writing and designing element of it.
Before I even knew that Japanese knitting existed, I was doing those eyelet mock cables. They are in my 1971 edition of Complete Book of Knitting by Barabara Abbey as "tiny eyelet ribbing."
I would do buttonhole stitch over the whole edge encasing both the grosgrain and knit edge. You really don’t need to couch a thread under the buttonhole stitch because I believe the yarn edge will serve a similar purpose.
Ugh: SRA. That brings back all manner of bad memories for me, because it was such an inflexible system of reading/English instruction. For me. I believe I was in danger of flunking my reading class at one point because *I* was inflexible and refused to do what I perceived to be, in 7th grade, busy work.
I signed/paid for your sock class but was not able to participate. When things slow down, I would like to work on the socks. I printed out the PDFs and worked a gauge...may have to work a 2nd gauge due to changing needles...My initial goal was to use 9" circulars. Just wanted you to know.
You notice this only on my videos? Do you know which videos this beeping occurs? My husband uses high-quality headphones to listen to the videos (he is very persnickety about audio sound quality), but he hasn't heard anything like that. Possibly out of our hearing range? What sort of device do you use to watch the videos?
@@RoxanneRichardson I have only heard it on your videos and only in the last few weeks. I watch on my Samsung phone. You mentioned recently buying a new piece of recording equipment. I only noticed this sound after that.
Hmmm. Could you try playing an older video, from a few months back, and seeing if you hear it on that? My husband checked again, and he can't hear anything, so he's going to check the audio files visually (he has some software to do that), to see if he can see anything show up.
Look for another. Do you have a local yarn shop? Or any shop that sells yarn. Or your local community center or a local church? Good luck finding knitting friends.
