Firstly, your hair looks amazing! Mad Mardigan was a character in the movie Willow I think, played by Val Kilmer maybe? I am just starting to sew and enjoy watching your makes. Hopefully I will be making some pyjamas soon.
I googled it and still had no idea what I was looking at haha, but it’s good to know that it’s just something I don’t know much more about 🤭 sounds great!
I have to say that I agree with you about the tubular bind off for the Hem. I don't care for it because it does cinch in. I made a beautiful sweater last year and spent a lot of time doing a tubular bind off and I don't care for it. Like you I also do like the Italian bind off and it does take a lot less time. Enjoyed your podcast..thanks❤😊
The tubular bind off is supposed to keep the edge tight. It's called "tubular" because essentially the setup rows/rounds are double knitting, I'll explain. Just imagine what we're doing during these rounds: at one round we're knitting all the knit stitches and slipping the purl stitches, so we have 1 round of fabric with half our initial number of stitches and our purl stitches are hanging on our needles as well but they're between the stitches of this one round fabric we've created; on the next round we're skipping the already knitted stitches and we're purling all the formerly skipped stitches, again creating 1 round of fabric with half the original number of stitches. So we have on our needles essentially two pieces of fabric now, each 1 round long, only we have the stitches for both fabrics on the same needles. (If we continue repeating these two rounds we'll really see that we're knitting two separate pieces of fabric now.) Then when we bind off with the needle we're actually grafting the two fabrics together - thus creating the tiniest tube at the edge of the fabric. Hence the name. But the tube has half the number of stitches we originally had in its circumference, so it's tighter than what we started with. Good to keep things from stretching out. Not good if we want the edge on the looser side. If you want it loose, I'd say unravel the needle bind off and the setup rounds, do one regular ribbing round to keep the length the same (I'm assuming there are two setup rounds in the pattern because this is what I usually see and they actually go back to back, so they are more or less equivalent to one regular round in length) and then go straight to the needle bind off. This way you're not tightening the edge of your fabric.
Yes, I get that but I believe it could be a bit stretchier had I done it more loosely.. I will think about redoing it but for now I’m fine with it :) thank you!
@@marleneknits Oh, I apologize. The tubular bind off was such a mystery to me for the longest time, eventually I understood what was going on so I am eager to share whenever I think somebody might not exactly get it. Apparently this is not the case, so I apologize for the unnecessary explanation. By the way, I have a t-shirt, one of my first garments, that was knitted top down and the edge is bound off kind of tight. As in, it isn't visible that it's tight but I feel it when I put the t-shirt on or when I take it off. Right after I completed it and found out the edge feels tight I thought, "I have yarn, I'll redo it at some point." I'll most likely never redo it, it is not something that makes wearing the t-shirt uncomfortable.
@@kameliapandaklieva2453 oh no don’t apologize! I appreciate you trying to help :) and yeah I totally get that szenario - it had also happened to me many times 😅 but sometimes I do go back and redo parts as well :)
Storm sweater looks amazing on you 😍 I don't know how this happens but usually, my Italian bind-off on the body can be too wonky or too tight, however, I don't have such problems with the sleeves 😂
Such a relaxing video, I just love watching even though I'm not into knitting or sewing at all. So I'm really looking forward to more (also random like) vlogs, I also really liked your vlogmas series. Your new hairstyle looks great, especially in the end of the video, would love to know how you styled it.
oh thank you!! ☺️ I have naturally wavy hair and use a curling iron to enhance the curls on a few strands especially around my face - for my bangs I use a big round brush to dry it with :)
Ooo I love the color of your Holst Garn Haya yarn. I bought some a few weeks ago from my LYS but I have like an oyster grey shade. I thought the fabric composition was interesting and it’s soooo soft to the touch. I’m doing a test knit for a tshirt with mine. Can’t wait to see your finished project.
I just completed square 56 of my sweet shop. I think I'm going to go for 81. My colors are all over the place; muddy, neon, and a few true dk. The more squares there are, the more coherent it looks. I'm with you on socks. I'm going to go down to 60 stitches.
that’s wonderful ☺️ I just layed out my new minis and leftovers from stash and played around with how I’ll add them! can wait to knit up all these yummy colors and have it as a blanket covering the foot of our bed or couch on day 😍
Completely agree with your thoughts on tubular bind off for the body. I made the Petite Knit Sonja sweater with tubular bind off for the body and the hem cinches in too much with no give. It's a really oversized sweater so looks strange. I would like to frog it and redo it next year in a smaller size and just do an italian bind off so it has more stretch. Tubular bind off works well for the sleeves though and looks nice.
Omgosh Marlene, I am blushing! 😊 You are so sweet and I’m so grateful for your friendship. Now I wish I’d watched your episode before filming mine, but alas there is always next time. I think spending time with you as a treat for getting it done was much better anyway. Talk soon. ❤ Mia
me too!! I’m grateful for always being inspired and learning from you and other lovely folks in this community ☺️ can’t wait to watch your newest chatty video soon! hope you had a lovely weekend x
I love that!! had it a couple times last year and it’s definitely a favorite - I even made my own brown sugar syrup at some point, gotta make it again soon 😍
Hey Marlene, so schöne Sachen hast du wieder gemacht! Nur ein Nähtipp: du brauchst für ein Schrägband nicht unbedingt ein Tool, man kann das auch relativ easy selbst bügeln. Dauert natürlich etwas länger, aber geht absolut. Es gibt aber auch schon fertiges Schrägband zu kaufen (z.B. von Atelier Brunette), da kann man sich also Zeit sparen;) viel Freude beim Stricken und Nähen!
Danke Sarah! Das Band für mein Nähmaschinen Cover habe ich ja zb auch selbst umgebügelt und es war schon etwas ungenauer und vorallem fiddelig 😄 mir fehlt zum fertigstellen der Weste aktuell aber primär noch dieses große Lineal und der Heramarker, mit dem ich Abstände gleichmäßig vormarkieren kann, zum quilten dann :)
Thanks for your charing. Just today casted on the Storm sweater myself and thought it was quite useful to listen to your experience working on that one. It looks great on you. I did understand what you ment on the cast off of the body. Maybe just prolog the ribbing by 2 cm and then do the same cast off just using 0,5 mm lager needles and I think you would get rid of the problem. Triad to find your KAL on the cumulus blouse and wasn't able to find it. Where should I look?
I‘m glad ☺️ I‘m not sure yet if I want to lengthen it because I would have to open up and lengthen the sleeves too since I like them all to be the same length.. so for now I might just leave it as it doesn’t bother me too much, but if it does I might just follow that advice! we’re not publicly sharing the link anymore since the KAL has already been going on for one month and we’re already over 200 people in the channel so we didn’t want it to feel crowded and loads of people still coming in while others had already made loads of progress or connected, but here it is: discord.gg/nWS6EQw4 ☺️
thank you so much samantha 😊 it’s by knitting nellie - or do you mean the pattern to make one myself? it’s the aimee bag by mipi the label - hope this answers your question (:
Such nice projects and nice plans! I would love to see a video about your t shirt quantities. I just finished a t shirt last week, and now I'm working on my Cumulus Tee. So I'm all about the t shirts, knitting ahead of spring. For my socks, I have a women size 38, I always do 60 stitches. It depends on the yarn if I knit on a 2.5 or 2.25 mm needle for mee, but I feel 60 stitches works the best (unless I do a colorwork sock, than I go up to 64 and to a 3 mm needle). But I'm a little bit confused about the Peer Gynt. Is it a superwash yarn or not? From this video I get the impression that it isn't. I've only worked with the Tynn Peer Gynt and the lable says that it is machine washable. But it doesn't say the word 'superwash' on it.😅 However your Storm sweater looks amazing in Peer Gynt and I'm planning on knitting a cardigan with it next autumn/winter. The name Peer Gynt has a special meaning for me, so I'm just looking for the perfect project so I can make a very special memory piece.
I’ll film it soon! thanks for showing interest and sharing about your experiences with sock knitting - I think 60 sts will work great for me too :) Pert Gynt and Tynn Peer Gynt are both non superwash - technically non superwash wool is machine washable on a cold wool cycle, that’s what they probably mean! It has a special meaning for me too, as I played Peer Gynt in a school play as a teenager and I still know some of the lines and remember the despair of the main character in the end 😀
yes I have but I didn’t like the tighter fabric as much - I’m quite happy with what I’m getting with 2,5 and prefer knitting with them too but would just like a bit tighter fit on the leg so cutting 4 stitches seems like a good option 😊
thank you! I don’t get notified when people outside of my close friends tag me because I unfortunately got loads of spam that way.. but I’ve also heard about a few other ways to make it outside of using tools.. let’s see, if I get them for my birthday I’ll use them, if not I might go searching for other solutions then 😀😊
