What I've Been Knitting Lately: Inspiration for Cardigans, Sweaters & Cable Knits 

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Nice video! You saved me last year with your easy hat in chunky yarn for my daughter’s Christmas gift. She loved it and it only took a few hours of my day to knit it. She wore the hat on her hiking trip when she was climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in late September this year. I’m now knitting a Sophie shawl for a dear friend who recently lost her husband of 57 years in August. It’s a joy to watch your videos as you wait for your first newborn! ❤❤

I am planning Darling Cardigan as my next knit. And I want to say HUGE thank you for video tutorials. I am a complete beginner, so a visual guide is very useful.

"An idea forming on your needles", so beautifully said!

You’ve inspired me to get back into knitting again. I used to knit Icelandic sweaters with fair isle patterns. I could even design my own patterns in graph paper. I just finished a plain striped baggy sweater in fall colours that I love to wear. Now I’m considering socks.

I was so happy to see your video pop up. Gosh Kika, you don’t think you’re a fast knitter? You pump out so many new designs and multiples of each one so quickly. Of all of the knitwear designers I watch, you would definitely be the top of the list for fastes, and they’re more complicated textured patterns. I’ve been wanting to finish my Salty Days sweater but for some reason I keep losing a stitch somewhere and was getting so frustrated I had to put it down for a bit. I really want it done for Christmas but I don’t know. I had major hip surgery, having tens muscle reattached so I have plenty of knitting time, but the frustration I was having just made me stop and I’m working on my mindless Sonja sweater by Petite Knit. The Salty Days I am making in the beautiful cobalt (electric) blue color with Drops Daisy 100%Merino. Maybe I will pick it up again today. But if I just wait until next week I can get my Sonja finished. Maybe I will do that. And finding out I am going to be a grandma for the first time I want to knit some booties and things for Mom and Dad to open even though baby won’t come until summer. 😊

Ďakujem, vždy sa teším na vaše projekty sú prekrásne ♥️

You are such a joy to watch, I love your bubbly personality 😊 I bought a few of your patterns last week when they were on sale, I’m so excited to start them! I’m also due in the spring with a baby boy, so fun to join you on this journey!

I just love your energy and enthusiasm. 😊

So much inspiration, thank you, I love your design work, your esthetics, your style and your energy.

This was lovely, Kika! Thank you for sharing. Very excited about the wishbone sweater tutorial.

Yes! So Happy to hear the Wishbone Tutorial is almost ready! I bought the pattern and yarn already. You are so talented! Thank you for another great video

Good to see you again Kika😊 I'm currently working on Salty Days sweater and loving it! Nice knitting to everyone ❤

You look so happy. Your selection of patterns this week is so lovely. Have a wonderful December.

Such an inspiring video. I always play your videos when I'm lagging and need to finish a project. It's like knitting with a friend. Thank you for all your hard work 💜

Good morning! So glad I caught your new video. You're sooo creative and fast and inspirational!

I just love your videos and all your knit patterns are beautiful. Watching your videos brings me such joy.

Your work is so beautiful. I feel lazy next to you but after working a 10 hour day looking at 4 computer monitors I feel so tired. At times I just get out a project and hold it as my eyes just don’t want to work together. You do excite me with your lovely personality and make me want to do more-so here I go!

You're my favorite knitwear designer!! Everything you showed in this video is so beautiful. I love your unique sense of style. Looking forward to the pattern releases.

So much inspiration in one video! I love your energy and your knitting style and design taste soooo much. Every pattern I've knit of yours so far has been such a joy. I can't wait to see what comes next and to continue supporting you and anything you do! Congratulations and good luck with your new baby :)

Just love this pink slipover! I am so going to knit that! 😊 love all that you do!

Thank you for your videos! I got so much inspiration and encouragement from all of them! And thank you for showing your artistic vulnerability and all the challenges that you face. It was very reassuring to see that!!!❤❤❤

I enjoy your warm fun and energizing videos a lot. Wishing you all the best for the coming time with your baby.

Always love your videos❤You have helped my knitting tremendously!! More than that… thank you for your authenticity during your ups and downs over the years! Sometimes you feel alone and feel you are the only one going through life’s struggles!! I am so excited for your sweet family and all the blessings ahead! Thank you for all you do❤️💐

Lots of joy brought to me as a new viewer! Thank you 🌸

You always give me tons of inspiration! Loved the podcast!

Your enthusiasm is wonderful. Wish you good health ❤

I loved seeing your projects! It's inspiring for me to keep moving along with my WIPs! You have such a passion for knitting and your videos are such a joy to watch. You have that pregnancy glow happening now too! :)

Those two,3 cable sweaters are all beautiful, love the basic red one, and the dreamy pink one with the waist cord is stunning! ❤

I really enjoyed this vide! It was a great time to take a pause and just knit for a little while. You're making so many beautifull things! I've knitted a few of your patterns now and they're so clear and I love the way you write your patterns. Keep on doing the things you love in a pace that suits you! 🥰

I love seeing all of your beautiful knits! I am currently working on Andrea Mowry's Ginny cardigan and I'm knitting it in a rustic alpaca and wool blend from a small spinnery. I got this yarn at a fiber festival and I am loving it.

I just bought your book and I'm so excited to start! Wishing you all the best with the little one coming...

As always, loving all your creations and yarn!!! Happy Knitting 🧶

Love all your knitting projects 🩶🤍🩷

Love watching your videos. You are very inspiring. I just started your wishbone sweater and I am so excited for it! I've wanted to make it since the pattern came out but I didn't have a chance until now. I really love your patterns, they all fit my style perfectly. Stay well, and Merry Christmas!

Love watching and listening, your voice and attitude is so soothing. I am going to start knitting again because of you!! Thank you for sharing with us, the baby looks beautiful on you! ❤️ Tina ❤️

I enjoy watching your videos. For a long time I only knit in class with my instructor. I tried your Marshmellow beanie pattern and I was so encouraged I could make hats by myself! Thank you. I have made 3 -two of them for gifts.

Congratulations for your amazing work and for your beautiful smile! As always, your newest two sweater are wonderful, I'm waiting their patterns with great interest, but please be careful to not knitting too much just now. You must be relaxed for you and the baby. Thank you again so much for this new episode, you are so talented and such a wonderful person. 😊🤗❤

Enjoying your videos and watching your preparation for your baby. It's fun to see you and Juki together creating your nest. It is inspiring to see so many of your yarn projects and encouraging since I'm deep into Christmas knitting and my projects are growing into mountains of finished works. December is crunch knitting time for a few last items, but I'm still excited to be preparing them for everyone. Just one sweater to finish and two vests to go for the family. I also have a few puppy knitting projects to do.

I’m currently knitting the Juki sweater from your book! I’m planning on giving it to my husband for Christmas. I love your videos and seeing your knitting progress, looking forward to your pride and pearls pattern xx

Hello! Oh my goodness such beautiful, amazing colors and sweaters! You are glowing more every time i see you! ❤

Just started knitting my first clothing item, your sailor swift top. im doing 2 shades of blue and loving it. The video is so helpful to watch alongside the pattern. Thank you!

Beautiful video, Kika! You inspire me so much and I love all of your sweaters! Thank you! ♥️🐑♥️🐑♥️.

you look great! I can't believer how much you are working on...wow! I can't make myself finish my first cardigan, it been months...lol!

I just bought two of your sweater patterns for my daughter's gift. I have never knitted a sweater before, but looking forward to it. Now to find the correct cotton yarn in the USA…

Your patterns are excellently written! I am knitting your arctic lights now and love it :)

I love the new cable sweater... would love to see a video on how you cut out the rib and picked up the stitches again....lived this video and all your projects.

Thank you for your videos. I just love your energy and your work. All the best to you❤.

I'm knitting the Arctic Light Sweater and I love it so much that I'm already planning to knit it again in a different colour 😊 thank you for the video instructions, Kika! I wouldn't make it without it. Love from Vienna ❤

Hey Kika ! Thanks for the update. I really love the poppy color, it brightens up your skintone :) I'm still struggling with the wishbone sweater so I'm glad and thankfull for the tutorial. I hope I can wear it on Christmas !

Knitting for the baby is so much fun and baby stuff is so cute. Knit a blanket to bring the baby home from the hospital in. Here in the u s its called a receiving blanket. I knitted one for each of my children and i still have them.

Honestly I love all your knits! I’ve problems to decide which one I’ll do next, because I can’t wait to have them all! 😍

A pleasure to watch your videos, beautiful knits , bright and cheerful, lovely 😊

I am absolutely going to knit the pride and pearls when it comes out! I can't wait! xxx

Beautiful mama! You are absolutely glowing!! And another fantastic video!! 💕

Love your podcast. You are so positive and energetic. I am working on my first ever knit skirt. Two cables down the front and two more in the back offset by seed stitch. I am knitting in deep browny red like a raisin. Size 9 US Needles. Such fun. Love you pink pull over/vest!

Hi Kika,,Congratulations for your baby..i have been watching you since your wedding dress video and you are a huge inspirations for me..i love your energy and you are glowing in this video..thanku..and best of luck and best of health for you and family..

Well, now I have so many things I want to make, tyvm! 😄 Can't wait for the patterns! And I want to use flurpsy now as word! I love it! Thank you for all the beautiful inspiration!

I LOVE the red hood! I just started the salty days sweater the other day - loving it!

Loved all your projects ❤

Please, please, release the PRIDE & PERL pattern with a video tutorial too. It looks so BEAUTIFUL, but also kind of complicated. 😊😊

As usual a truly inspirational video. I have several projects which I need to finish so will push on. What beautiful garments. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to the baby knits. Best wishes to you and your family

your excitement when talking all things knitting & yarn is so contagious, love watching you work & play, you seem to always have fun all i want to do is learn seamless knitting, have started a very basic top down cardigan i found on the RU-vid which i do a few rows every morning if cool enough (it's summer here) curious to know if you ever do men designs or knit for your hubby? keep up the fun & thanx for sharing

Thanks Kika for this moment & for the free month skills share 🎉

I love these videos!!! Thank you!! All the best, Kimberly

Thanks for your inspiration. Since I saw your videos, I don't feel guilty about having several projects on the needle. At the moment I'm knitting a wrap cardigan. All the best to you.

Your sweaters are getting better and better!

This is the most wholesome video ever🥹😍

Thank you so much...love your enthusiasm and aesthetic....the background sound at the start made it a struggle for me though...I was relieved when it stopped

Love all of your knits!

Hi Kika, I'm much later watching your video than usual, lots of things going on at home!! You are such an inspiration, a joy to watch. So enthusiastic about all your projects. You have so many ideas that come to fruition so quickly. Thank you for all you do, especially the tutorials. I have made "The Sunday Brunch" and "The Salty Days", but as I'm useless with Instagram I've not posted them. Next on my needles is "The Darling Cardigan" followed by either "Arctic Light", "Stripe Hype", "Wishbone" or "Cinema". 😃♥ Wishing you a very happy Christmas and New Year. Your little one will soon be here! xx

Can't wait for those 2 cable sweaters to be done. They look beautiful. I love cabling.

Lovely video catch up as always! I’m looking to do the wishbone sweater next… pattern and wool purchased and once video is released I’ll be tackling as I’m fairly new to making my own jumpers but know the video will help me along the journey as your videos are always so intuitive, thank you!

I am always so inspired by you and your knits!! I would love some tips on how you keep so many active projects organized. the more wips I have the messier things get in my space 😅 if I cast on something new I have to pick a project to tuck away somewhere and when I pull it back out it’s all tangled or something!

I adore you and all your knitting. I am thrilled the Wishbone sweater KAL is almost done. I am finishing some Christmas gifts and the wishbone will be next on my needles. I love the red WIP with the flat cables. I am looking forward to that pattern for sure! I have been following you for about a year but my account never allowed me to comment. I created this 2nd account just so I can comment! Love and adore you! So happy for your pregnancy. Congratulations!

Hello, lovely to hear from you, as usually. You are glowing Girl! :*

Thank you Kiki I love your podcast ,take it easy your fantastic knitter and good Teacher

I believe the word you are looking for in relation to your second sleeve is 'procrastination' which means delaying or postponing something that should be done. The sweater is gorgeous.

The red one is so beautiful! Even though I already have 3 of your patterns going currently I’ll have to put that in my queue ❤️

Wow.......your things are stunning!!!! You're very very talented!! Beautiful work!!

Ohhh, I love the red sweater 😍 it'll look amazing with the sequin skirt, I'm sure!

Love the look of the cable vest, can’t wait for the pattern to come out

Great work I love all your sweaters and cardigans 😊

Kiitos neuleseurasta! Piristät aina iloisella olemuksellasi💖 Kaikkea hyvää sinne💖

Stamina, it a word)).Adore your work, you so workaholic. ❤

I really enjoyed seeing what you are working on and would you believe it, tomorrow I am starting your Salty Days sweater in red! I’ve wanted to knit this sweater since you released it but just haven’t gotten around to it. So tomorrow I start it and it will be my advent project for December! I’m also on the last few rows of knitting your Lighthouse Beanie and that one is in a very dark burgundy pink colour. I can’t wait to wear it 😊

Such a nice Episode 💙 I really like the cabled V-Neck Sweater and can't wait to see the finished result! I totally felt in love with it :)

Your videos inspire me to knit so many projects. I would love to see more about the yarns you use. You will have knitting time when your little one naps! ❤ from Michigan, US.

Wow Kika I am so excited for all those beautiful designs ❤️❤️ especially the red cable sweater 😍 I am also pregnant at the moment so I can relate to the baby movements 😊 thank you for your vidéos !

Thank you so much for the beatiful inspirations!

If you were still considering an oversized sweater, but also something that resembles a “wrap,” then you should do a looser version of the Elliot sweater from Wool and the Gang! I know you create your own patterns, but their pattern is free on their website if you wanted some inspiration :) I think it would be really convenient since the front folds can easily be moved out of the way, without having to completely unwrap a sweater! Can’t wait to see more videos from you once you’re ready 🥰🫶

So much inspiration ❤ ilove cables veey much so this is sooo my thing

Thank you for this video, Kika! Sooo lovely, the things you're working on.. I recently watched a lovely video from Fruity Knitting where Andrea interviewed the mother/daughter team from Knitting for Olive..... just gorgeous baby items. I thought I'd mention this since you had some of their yarns. Take care of yourself..

Thanks for the inspiration! I’m not an advanced knitter but aspire to be that good some day. Thanks again for a great video and I hope you get to make special pieces for your little one.💕

You make the most amazing knits!❤

Nice video😍 and I realise once more that you are a passionate knitter with more than one project on your needles😍 🤍✨️ knitting my darling cardigan and watching this video was the perfect way to enjoy my evening 😍💫

It's incredibly cool to hear how your voice changes, matching native pronunciation of the different yarn brands! I thought you were Norwegian when you mentioned Sandnes garn, Swedish when you mentioned a Swedish brand and Finnish again when you mentioned the name of the Finnish brand! Very impressive even if it might just be a coincidence! And incredibly cosy to hear you talk about you baby as well, wish you all the best with the rest of your pregnancy

oooh I can't wait to make that slipover! I just found out that I dropped two stitches in my salty days sweater, but due to the structure of the yarn they didn't rip at all, which is both a blessing and a curse because nothing is broken but it took me since last night to find them. :'D so I just picked them back up and completed my round while watching this video hehe.

Thank you Kika! Lovely WIPs.

Dear Veronika🌸 I really like your vlogs 💕 and your projects💕 Thank you for inspirations😍 Best regards from Poland ☀️