Oh aren't you such a sweetheart? Thanks for being sunshine! You inspired me to start my moby sweater! Although I have other projects, but my moby is my dopamine 🥹 Thanks for being sunshine and an inspiration ❤
I had no idea I was knitting eastern uncrossed until you told me 😂 I’m left handed and my right handed mother taught me to knit. A great challenge that ended with just sitting across from her and mirroring her every move, somehow by almost magic I ended up knitting a square that looked the same as my mum’s square but the way I did it, was alien to everyone who saw me knit, still is to honest😊
@@ZimVader-0017 I think so, in fact i think it’s easier for everyone, I’m a teacher and I teach kids to knit in the lunch break in the school library, they get really quickly this way. 😊
What a happy sweater that is! I love it when something makes me giddy because I like it so much, and it looks like this sweater does that for you! I've recently been making several of the Worry Wyrm Dragon by Thalia Evans and that is a good dopamine project. It's super quick, uses up acrylic yarn that I don't want to use for anything else but also don't want to throw away, is great for those weird colors that don't go with anything, and at the end you have a super cute dragon to fiddle with or give away.
Oh my gosh, your sweater turned out beautifully!! I especially love how you striped the lighter yarn throughout, it creates such a fun pattern! And that yarn bowl is PRECIOUS 😍 My Eastern European grandma taught me how to knit, but she taught me continental-style... not sure how that happened 😅 I also have a "bad habit" of only making dopamine projects, and it's only "bad" because I have no clue how to wear anything I make 😂 At least I had fun making it!
Dopamine projects are vital. Whilst every project I knit is at least to some extent a dopamine project, some of them just tick all the boxes. One of my favourite dopamine projects was the Skull Shawl I crocheted for my daughter. A Fibre Spider video just happened to come across my feed. I clicked on it because hey, skulls. All kinds of cool. Every second of that project was pure dopamine and even now, every time my daughter wears it I get a kick out of it. Did she need a shawl? No. Did I have the yarn? No. Do I usually go out to buy yarn for projects I don’t need (or that at least someone needs?) No. Unless it’s for a present. Was it fun? Did I enjoy it? Does my daughter get a lot of wear out of it? Do I intend to make myself one some day? ABSOLUTELY.
Love the happiness this video exudes 😁 Made me smile the whole time. My knitting right now is making me want to squee with excitement every time I pick it up to knit. I’m knitting my long dreamed of sweater with Shetland/alpaca that I finished spinning during Tour de Fleece.
@@MijnWolden it is very lovely even though I spun and plied it with a pretty firm twist to hopefully minimize pilling. And it’s such a lovely heathered grey, with The Shetland being a dark grey and the alpaca is a light silver grey. Looks so beautiful blended together.
I woke up and had the same experience this morning. I am making a crochet cardi from sock scraps and my little heart is so happy. Thanks for the encouragement. ❤
I watched this while fervently practicing a paw print fillet crochet tutorial my mom sent me. In my favorite color yarn, and paw prints are my motif of choice.
I'd say the colours in the yarns you used to knit that top would go with a lot of your wardrobe. While I know not everybody would do it, I'd certainly try that with plain green shorts/pants/a skirt. My dopamine project would have to be elf socks - which has grown into mythical creature socks. There were the angel socks in unbleached white wool and now the surprise sock-along socks in several shades of green, which my friend says look like fae socks, even if they are -regular- large-footed human size along with plans to make a little hank of handspun natural brown in to garden gnome socks!
I was taking a picture of it this morning for instagram, while wearing a bright green dress, and it did occur to me to one day see how it would look together :D
I just found your channel today and enjoy your enthusiasm and joy in what you create! I just subscribed, so I’ll be watching for more joy in knitting. I’m just finishing a cardigan sweater for a friend who beat breast cancer and that brings me joy.
I experienced so much happiness just from seeing your new yarn bowl! Your sweater is gorgeous as well 😍 I just got back into crocheting and I made a shawl from yarn scraps. I will probably never wear it because it is too many bright colors for me, but it gave me such a happiness boost!
I found it! If you know, you know. I might actually be able to knit Eastern uncrossed. English & Continental are both hard for me. Thank you for taking us on your dopamine jaunt!
This tutorial possibly explains your speed of knitting... That Eastern uncrossed style looks very efficient and ergonomic. After having hand surgery a few years ago, I have to be careful of pain. Thanks! My dopamine project was during the pandemic. I bought horrible cheap acrylic yarn... Because it was a garishly bright rainbow color!! I knitted a whole self drafted sweater without a pattern. It is warm, bright, easy care, and ugly. Perfect for curling up alone on the weekend, but I would never wear it in public.
Oh I just LOVED this video and I LOVE the top you made! (also love the Papapaparam song, btw). Thank you so much! Yes, I should definitely do a dopamine project soon again - I have been spinning a bit, but all I see right now is GIFT KNITTING FOR CHRISTMAS and it's already piling up and ... yap. Dopamine knitting is in order. Definitely.
I absolutely love everything about this project!! Especially the colour of those yarns together. You absolutely glow!! (I have been watching a lot of colour analysis videos lately.) I knit a lot of dopamine projects during covid. I just didn't know that's what they were. Now I do 🌶🧠😜 And now I'm trying to alter them to fit in with my wardrobe, because I have never been a crop top person. Ah well. Crop tops are quick to knit!! 🤷🏻♀️
@MijnWolden l have a long torso. Why I thought I could knit multiple tops extra short, I do not know. Performing surgery on all of them with whatever yarn I had left, or similar, has been a looooong process. And it still isn't completely done because it contains 0 dopamine and lots of focus. Gah!!
You explaining how you knit in a goblin style. Me knitting my shawl in the exact same way, in the same time. I did not know that my knitting style had a name, but now I know what my issues are with my increases and decreases. Thank you.
Working on a dopamine knit right now - I'm knitting socks for myself in the most obnoxiously bright green (radium glass UV glow levels) yarn, and I'm obsessed!
"Make a little project for the dopamine!" Instructions unclear, surrounded by ~10 unfinished projects 😆 For real, though-- that top looks lovely!!! I adore the colors :D and that yarn bowl is darling!!!
I just watched this episode straight after watching the one on solar dyeing, and noticed when you were modelling your exquisite top, at timestamp 11.15, what appear to be mirabilis jalapa (?) plants (with the pink flowers), or what we call 4 O’clock plants her in Australia. As a fibre artist who makes bilums (the traditional bags made by the ladies in Papua, New Guinea), I know they use the seeds (tiny black, ball-shaped, about 5mm across) of this plant to produce a very vibrant pink dye for their plant-based fibres. I have not experimented with this on mordanted wool, but I am almost sure it would yield a good result. I may be wrong about the plant species, but it looks very much like the plant we grow here Down Under (which is also listed as a weed here in Northern Australia where I live). Congratulations on a beautiful garment. I shall now go and create some of my own dopamine … 😁
It is a mirabilis jalapa indeed!!! oh oh oh the seeds you say! Now I must collect them. I have tried once with the flowers, but they're honestly too pretty for dyeing.
I'm so happy I found your channel during the Tour de Fleece. I think that sweater turned out very nice and is making me want to pull mine out and finish it! I just wish it was in happy colors like yours, but maybe the next one will be!
Hey. Lovely project. I was considering the ghost whisperer before but decided it's just to unpractical for my lifestyle. And i have to many unpractical dopamin knits already. Especially dresses. Hafe a great day
I just cast on the Sailor Swift Top by Kutovakika which has been in my queue for AGES. I didn't swatched and just paired together two yarns that are close enough. It is making the most beautiful fabric and the knit is the best kind of mindless. A good reminder that knitting is fun!
Oh you've gotta love a dopamine project! Beautiful summer tee, I love it. I thoroughly enjoyed your explanation of your knitting style. very informative.. thank you muchly 😃
I'm currently using a drop spindle and can't seem to get any kind of consistency. I did a few perfect and fluffy skeins, but the last 2 seem overspun. I love watching your content because you are such a positive force. I start to feel anxious about what I can use my yarn for (as its fluffy, then not fluffy and dull), but then you tell me to use it anyway 😂 it's a great kick up the backside! I don't suppose you can point me towards any of your videos that use inconsistent yarn for small projects? 😊 thanks, kristina.
@VultureSkins I've seen them, but what I like is that Jente feels the fear and does it anyway. She doesn't let her anxieties stop her. 🥰 I like to see that she is inconsistent at times and makes mistakes, but uses her yarn anyway. I'm one of those people that will fixate on getting something 'perfect', but this chanel brings me back to earth. 😊
I think stockinette stitch looks wonderful with uneven rustic yarns. So depending on how much yarn you have, try and find something that will make that shine. My immediate thoughts are fingerless mittens or a headband. But I can't think of videos, except my own mental health sweater knit, but that's not a small project ;)
I loved the explanation! I used to knit a mix as I was purling in the esterm way/ sp my stitches ended up woth the right leg in the back but knitting in the western / right leg in the front
Have a done a project simply to make me happy, yup...pretty much all of them. Some of the highlights are a cowl with a dragon scale pattern on it, a vest I'm currently working on, and some silly stuffed animals.
My current dopamine project is the Joinery top by Yumiko Alexander. I'm not 100% happy with the color (blah baby blue and white - so blah), but it should be very wearable. I would have preferred a charcoal color, but my LYS didn't have that color in stock, and I had to start NOW! Well, before I went on vacation. I'm back now, didn't knit much while gone. Actually, the color is growing on me. It's more of a pale aqua than pale blue. And my other dopamine project is weaving with some of my handspun singles that were dyed in patches of neon colors. My warp is white cotton, and the weft is making really great stripes. This is going to end up as a summer top, or maybe a summer dress, depending on how much fabric I end up with. It is so fun to weave - I wish I hadn't procrastinated on getting the warp on the loom - now I'll have to wait until next summer to wear whatever it ends up being!
This turned out great, and the color looks nice on you as well. I need this sort of project after a few less than satisfactory knits this year... I will check my stash to find something inspiring! Currently waiting for the library copy of Dopamine Nation, coincidentally.
I prefer to knit combination and your explanation of Eastern makes sense to me! I have a hard time doing complex lace in that style because all the decreases are executed differently and I'm never sure whether I'm doing double decreases right. Maybe I should be looking into how Eastern knitters do lace since on the knit rounds I'm knitting into Eastern mounted stitches.
Most of my projects in the past are little dopamine hits. Lately, though, I haven't. Had to finish a sweater for my husband because i told him i would. Next I've got to finish a lace wrap for my sister and her wedding. Then I'm making 2 vests for me and her friend that is also in her wedding party. I really need to get a dopamine project soon. 😩
Last year I knit a pair of leg-warmers in self-striping sock yarn using Victorian stocking pattern instructions. I was going through a really rough patch and just wanted something repetitive to do & this fit the bill exactly. Am I the only person I know who wears stripy woolen leg warmers? Yes, yes I am. Do they fulfill all my warm-legged witchy clad desires - absolutely. No regrets.
Yarn: a ball of very fine, finer than laceweight, 2 ply handspun from the thrift store, natural white. It had been wound around a newspaper in 1974 and is very over twisted. The years of being in a ball have set the twist and once knitted, it makes a passable utility fabric.
That turned out very cute! Maybe I should make another sweater for my stuffed bear. He got stained pink from the red shirt he came with. So now I'm making hom different clothes since naked isn't really sn option anymore lol.
Before you showed the eastern uncrossed - your style, I was feeling slightly envious because I throw my yarn, and your way seems so much smoother…. Maybe I’ll try the eastern uncrossed way 😅
or you could try continental? Then you don't have to reverse all of your thinking, just the hand in which you hold your yarn? Carrie Craftgeek has some interesting videos on different knitting styles if you want to learn more :D
since you knit through the back loop, does that mean, when you want to un-knit, you pick the stitch from the back to the front or is it still from front to back? :)
@@MijnWolden How do you like them? I’m considering Chiaogoo as I like metal crochet hooks, and am finding my Knit Picks wooden needles are losing their finish!
i taught myself how to knit from books and i taught myself to knit through the back loop and knit that way for YEARS until i noticed my ribbing looked different than everyone else's (the stitches were twisted because i purled through the front loop)
I knit the same way but my stitches are on the right had needle. I knit through the back of the loop. Im a left handed and mirror image eastern knitter? I purl the way as you too only opposite.
@@MijnWolden I love it! It's also a historical type of clothing I think from Hungry or somewhere similar. I read a novel years ago, and women and men both wore them, especially for riding!
