LOVE this type of video I hade to watch the others! So helpful for ppl just getting into knitting and don’t know where to shop, the quality of yarn, and also good to see the prices a bit! Please continue making them ❤️❤️
These videos are so so fun to watch! Living in Australia, so many of the popular or unique yarn brands are not accessible here, so window shopping is really as far as we can get 🥲 but this video makes me feel less like I’m missing out, window shopping can be just as interesting and so can finding alternatives locally ! 💕
I feel the same way as you! I live in Uruguay and we don’t have access to that many brands. I mostly do window shopping and cry about the shipping prices 😂
I bought some Life in the Long Grass sock yarn when I was on holiday in London and I really enjoyed it :) It was a little bit of a lighter fingering than I’m used to with socks but it worked up into a beautiful lace texture
I have a nearly finished Lanark Sweater in my WIP pile. Just missing 1.5 sleeves and the zipper. It is such a nice squishy thing but half fisherman's rib just takes AGES. Also a quick note on Holst Supersoft - you can get 500g cones of most colours. The yarn has a lot of spinning oil still on it, which is one of the reasons it's inexpensive (fewer steps for the producer), but this means it feels very stringy and not soft at all, UNTIL YOU WASH IT. Possibly several times. Even then I would not call it SUPERsoft, but I really like it because it's versatile, you can hold it single for intricate colourwork or double for a chunkier look, there are LOADS of beautiful colours, and as you said it's fairly cheap.
I really appreciate that RU-vid suggested your vid to me, because I absolutely love your vibe! Window shopping + yarn is absolutely a happy place for me, I look forward to bingeing the rest of your vids now
Half fisherman's rib is the same as half brioche. The technique is different, but the result is topologically identical. Personally I prefer brioche to fisherman's rib because I like its rhythm more so I always use brioche for either of them, but a lot of people find fisherman's rib to be the easier alternative to brioche. Neither are as intimidating as they seem from knitting cultural osmosis, I promise. If you can do a 1x1 rib and yarn overs, you can do brioche. The half versions of both are very easy to adapt to once you get one of them down. You just do the brioche/fisherman's rib stitches on one side, and the other side is just a regular knit 1, purl 1 rib. If you want a project to help you ease into the stitch, I recommend Ursa by Jacqueline Cieslak. It's bulky so it goes fast, it's cute, and it only uses the half-brioche stitch for a little bit of detailing and eases you into it over the project. You can, of course, use the half fisherman's rib stitch for those sections instead if you prefer. (Also I did an icord around the neck because I found it needed a bit more structure)
My LYS here in Wisconsin carries West Yorkshire Spinners. Exquisite is an appropriate name for that base. I am currently knitting a sweater with WYS BFL Fleece DK and the stitch definition is beautiful.
Saludos desde España!! I knitted a Lanark last year and will absolutely be making a second one, probably after the summer. It’s one of my most worn knits, despite terrible pilling (my next one will definitely be in a sturdier yarn)
