How long does it take you, in general, to get over failures and find the courage to start again?

@kristalburns3490

7 ай бұрын

If it is a finished thing and it was a mistake I rip right away. If I am mid project and I mess up I give myself a week to deal with it. So how much yarn was left from the mistake sweater? I like your reknit much better.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

@@kristalburns3490 There was a little bit left over of the main colour, of course all the grey and pink is still untouched. I like my reknit better too :D

@nblmqst1167

7 ай бұрын

🤐 I refuse to tell just how long some of my failures have been in time-out!!!

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

@nblmqst1167 that's valid 😁

@LualaDy

7 ай бұрын

As long as necessary. Letting it sit is part of the process.

“It’s going to be weird.” 😂😂 I’m so glad I found your channel!

@MijnWolden

5 ай бұрын

Weird is what I got :D

I love the texture of your handspun yarn so much. I am so happy you decided to leave it as a plain stockinette, because the yarn makes it anything but plain. It showcases all the lovely texture and color of your work with the wool! Gorgeous 😍

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

so 2 things. 1. I like the sweater without any extras it really lets the yarn speak. 2. You did take an additional step when frogging and knitting up the new sweater, someone I know that is certainly not me, did the unholy thing and just knitted directly from the project that needed frogging without even balling it up first. 😇

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

That is a unholy move yes 😂

Knitting (and handicrafts in general!) really teach us that hard lesson of doing lots and lots of work on something, and then ripping it back to start over. I try to think of it as "character building" (that is, once I finish sulking about it)! You did such a beautiful job transforming this sweater. And that yarn you picked up on your trip will be stunning in a sweater!

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Character Building, that's a great way to talk about it 😁

This turned out really lovely! Also it is nice to see you rework it into a "plain stockinette" sweater. It is so easy to feel pressured to make super fancy, complicated things when the basics are just as useful and pretty.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

The pressure is real indeed!

It looks great! So glad you did not add extra details, it would have competed with the beauty of your yarn. No need to worry about 'tricking' us -- I'm sure most of us who watch your podcast love your entertaining story telling style and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual FO.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Anxious people gonna anxious 😅

Sweater turned out GREAT!!!

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

I’m glad you didn’t add embroidery to your sweater. The sweater has a classic look and doesn’t need anything to make it beautiful. Great turnaround of something that didn’t work into something perfect for you. harpingJanet

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

I think not frogging the entire project kind of makes sense. It keeps a significant part of the yarn as untouched as possible. Call it sensibly scheduled handling time to when it needs to be done. It’s part of “just in time” management of labour in a business setting, so why not translate it to outside of your day job? 😇 Your new sweater looks lovely! And… don’t call your less than successful projects mistakes. “Tout chef d’oeuvre mérite un brouillon” (every work of art merits a trial version/first draft is the loose translation for anyone who doesn’t speak French).

Hi Jente, I hope you're bith OK xx ❣️❣️❣️ If you'd asked before you frogged the Sweater, I would have suggested making it into a long sleeved version. But has it is, I do like this more fitted style. Thankyou so much for sharing some of the sights and yarns from your holiday. Looks like Dries was having fun with hus Drone. Happy Spinning and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎡🎉🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs to you both Jen xxxx 💖💖💖💖🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Long sleeves were indeed the way to go :D

Your sweater turned out lovely. They way the colors turned out is lovely and it doesn't need embroidery, in my opinion. And really couldn't we all use beautiful basics. If you wanted, I think the answer to your shoulder drama is padding. I think some shoulder pads would make that shoulder seam sit a little higher and give you more poof. But like I said your sweater is great either way!

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

I've got some pads, but they're more the broad eighties shape, don't think they are the answer 🤭

The new sweater looks great, and vintage as well. I was there in the late 1970s, so I can attest to the authenticity of the look. Puffy sleeves were there before the ghastly shoulder pads of the 1980s.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

I like the shoulderpads of the eighties, got quite a few second hand blouses like that 🤭

With that red stone you'd almost think you were knitting at some castle in Alsace. Both are equally good spots for a good knit of course!

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Bamboozled! It was Catalonia after all

@TheHistoryHikers

7 ай бұрын

@@MijnWolden 😲😲😲😲

Going ahead and making it without meeting guage and going up a size is me right now with a cardigan I'm working on. I'm gonna use my alpaca yarn one way or another. Still can't figure out how people just sit for 2 hour car rides. I can do max an hour before I need entertainment. Or a nap, but I'm not good at that. The result is cute!! Even if its stockinette its fun yo watch because it's you. ❤

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Just going a size up is only slightly unorthodox 😂

The new sweater looks fabulous on you

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

I love this video!!! I know some people never do this kind of thing, because they think they have "wasted" the previous knitting. But to have something you love and will wear much more seems like the most sensible option for me. I have my first ever attempt at a cardigan waiting for me to reknit it. I didn't swatch or use the right needles or pick the right size. With fingering weight yarn. I knit almost the entire thing (with thin stripes as well!!), before ripping it all out. I need to do another swatch, but the needles are in another project. So whenever I finish that project will be when I restart the cardigan.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

I also feel a lot of people who are active on social media/youtube/whatever online knitting space have a fear of admitting mistakes, because there's this expectation that if you share your knitting online you must be perfect at knitting. I'm glad everyone here is so positive whenever I admit and correct my mistakes :D

@gemmaf_

7 ай бұрын

@MijnWolden Yeah its really weird to me. Why would you go to all that effort to just go "ah fuck it" and give something away because it's not quite right. Especially if the yarn or pattern is something you really like.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

@@gemmaf_ Exactly! Although I thought of it once, when I was knitting a sweater that turned out too big, I asked my best friend whether it would fit her. And when it was also too big for her, I just frogged :D But with handspun, there's no hair on my head that will think about doing that. If I spun it for myself, it will remain for me.

Oh man, I NEED to add this pattern/book to my collection! I hope they printed it in English. While I'd want it for the dots, you are absolutely right to leave them off. Those colors are PERFECT for this sweater, and it reads so 70s, but without being in your face about it. The shaping is so subtle, and yet so distinct to the time. I'm always so fascinated by vintage pieces taking their cues from even earlier vintage periods.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

I'm afraid this was a Dutch only publication. You can buy copies at tweedehandswerken(dot)nl, which is also Dutch. But for the dots it just says ''make some lines with dots spread evenly apart in duplicate stitch'' 😅

What a lovely sweater! It looks so good, and the subtle colour difference between the body and the sleeves adds a very nice subtle detail. It definately doesn't need the extra embroidered details.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for confirming that it doesn't need it :D

Your sweater turned out adorable, also lovely yarn choices.❤️

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

Heel mooi geworden 🐑 I've made so very many mistakes. I remember in the eighties I knitted this sweater with a victorian girl playing tennis on the front. Then I made the sleeves and started knitting the word "tennis game" up the sleeve, but then by the time the sleeve was long enough, it only spelled "tennis ga". My brother laughed so very hard and totally embarressed me, sooooo I threw the whole thing away 😢. I feel so bad about throwing it away. 😜

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

ohno! How naughty of your brother though, he should try before he laughs

I love how this looks.🥰 I tend to use my handspun in a similar way, wabi sabi. Strict rules don’t apply.🤣

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

The rules are more guidelines 😎

That's what I meant when I commented at your video then..... better to rip it out and make something you'll wear. This sweater fits you perfect, I love it. It suits you very wel!! It doesn't take me long to rip it out when I'm not happy with it. To start again, that depends on having another pattern in mind. If it's just for a smaller or bigger size, it will be immediately after it's frogged.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

I tried to love the first one first 😅

Hi Mijn, Your first attempt on the sweater with the hand-spun wasn't a 'mistake', but a learning opportunity. My current hand-spun sweater has been frogged 3 times, and now I am happy with it but isn't finished yet because I have to spin one more skein of yarn to be able to finish it. My second bobbin of singles is this week's project. Hopefully I can get it plied this coming weekend and will be back to knitting to finish the sweater soon after. Cheers-Laura

@MijnWolden

5 ай бұрын

Hi Laura, I know it might be confusing, but my name is not Mijn 😉 'mijn wolden' is Dutch for 'my woolden'. My name is Jente 😁

Very charming!

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you :)

very lovely. i like the first one u knitted but i love the new made one. its so lovely.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

I am loving the mood :)

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

I love how your second iteration turned out. It is a very pleasing silhouette on you, in my opinion. Though of course my opinion matters not at all, just your opinion. But I really like it!

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

But it does matter to me! 😁

It looks great! The fit is so nice.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

Beautiful sweater

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

looks good

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

De trui staat je echt supergoed! Ik zou bijna zeggen brei er nog eentje in een donkere hand gesponnen draad.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Het zal waarschijnlijk inderdaad niet de enige zijn die ik zo brei :) maar misschien niet voor meteen, beetje afwisseling erin houden

The new sweater looks lovely, although I miss the pinkish/purple tone from the first version. I usually know pretty quickly if something is going wrong, but I'm usually reluctant to frog it and just push on to a disappointing finish. Then it can take months or years for me to frog it and start over. I have a few skeins of yarn that I spiral plied with with a multi coloured cotton, it looks great, but I have never found a way to use it and I am now (2 years later) considering pulling it apart to reuse the single.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Very relatable 😅

I love it!!!

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

No dots it is beautiful as is

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

It's a lovely jumper xx p.s. I've just found your other channel as I love history too 😊 xx

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Yay for history lovers 😁

listen, as much as I love the act of knitting ornate cables and delicate lace its the plain stockinette sweaters I wear the most! As far as failure goes it depends. If its knitting I have been known to frog and start reknitting in the very same evening I have decided its a failure; but for sewing? get it out of my sight. Its getting banished to The Box of Doom, if the mistake is more than one seam im not going back, I dont even own a seam ripper. Ill keep it because fabric is expensive tho. (And now im getting into quilting so I suspect a lot of those are going to be turned into patchwork)

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

I think every crafter has some sort of box of Doom 😅

You and your husband are so cute together.

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

It looks beautiful! Much better than the previous one. I like that you gave the yarn a second life and that you will now actually wear it more! I really don't mind that it is just stockinette, it fits very well and the handspun yarn gives it great character!

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Handspun gives everything character! 😁

I had to have my friend frog a project for me that I seemed to start in a fit of madness but felt weirdly attached to now i had worked on it for a few hours. I didn't even like the yarn! I did an embroidered flower on a jumper once using chain stitch and the same coloured yarn and it came out so great. I'd recommend it if you are looking to make future plain knit jumpers and just need a little something extra. Also "embroidering with hand-spun yarn" could be a fun video for a smaller item, just saying

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Having a friend frog, now that's a life hack!

@saraht855

7 ай бұрын

@@MijnWolden yes, a friend who does frogging, not a friend who is a frog. But a I did watch the video where you knitted a frog friend 😂

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

A frog friend that frogs is then ultimate goals 🤭

I love it 🧶🐑❤️

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

play around with drone? what's that? who does that? unbelievable... I would like to see you working with this mini spinning wheel behind you 18:18 and of course I never make any mistakes 🙃

@TheHistoryHikers

7 ай бұрын

Playing with drones is absolutely unheard of!

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

I know right, drones are professional material! :D

I have a Lumme (by Sari Nordlund) that I had to completely rip back and start over and only managed a smidge of the colourwork. I think I'm not happy with the colours I previously chose, so I'm hoping to get new ones to finally make it the way I wanted. The sweater turned out amazing and looks wonderful on you Mijn!

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

For Future reference: my name is not mijn 😉 'mijn wolden' is Dutch for 'my woolden', a play on 'my walden'. My name is Jente 😁

@heycrisper

7 ай бұрын

@@MijnWolden Oh thank you! I had a feeling I had that wrong. 💜 Jente, may I ask how it's pronounced? ☺️

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

I would guess 'yentuh' comes close. In my one year on KZread video I say it in the beginning 🙂

I did put a sweater projet on hold for 8 years before taking it back up a few months ago xD

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

And how are you feeling about the project now?

@etienne6916

7 ай бұрын

A lot more motivated to work on it knowing the sizing is right hahaha xD

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

@@etienne6916 That does help indeed :D

Here's a cookie 🍪 or maybe some speculaas ❤

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Nomnomnom

So when are we getting the cool collab of Sweeping Dramatic Drone Shots Of Jente Knitting In A Ruin like it's LOTR 🤔

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

Good question 🤔

@alexvanderpol1

7 ай бұрын

I could watch that for hours! Ruins, LOTR and Jente knitting, what's not to love?

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

@@alexvanderpol1 @TheHistoryHikers @OrcaFPV make it happen!

add a little organza to see if it will poof. it should hold it up. it is pretty good job

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

See if I can find some in my Stash 🤔

Hi Jente, Oops! Sorry about that. Cheers-Laura

@MijnWolden

5 ай бұрын

No worries, it's confusing I know :)

ZOMGZ, it turned out so lovely! I just found your channel and I really enjoyed this. Any chance you could point me towards how to buy that pattern?! I'd really love to knit that sweater! thanks for the vid

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

The pattern is from the February 1979 edition of the Dutch craft magazine 'Ariadne'. I know that tweedehandswerk(dot)nl has a lot of editions of the magazine in their shop, but I cannot say if they have the February 1979 edition. I'll also say: it's written in Dutch, and I do not think there's an English version to it.

@tuesdaygrey4752

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!! @@MijnWolden

Excellent video, as always. My only question: Why name a knitting magazine “Ariadne” and not “Arachne”🤔

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

My mythology nerd brain might say: Arachne was punished for her hubris while weaving, while Ariadne saved a lot of people with her clever yarn-thinking. And practically: Arachne might already have been a magazine for spider lovers? 😁

@andreahughes1500

7 ай бұрын

A reasonable answer. Lol. By this logic we need a weaving magazine named “Moirai.”

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

@@andreahughes1500 There's a fashionmagazine called "Moira"...

@andreahughes1500

7 ай бұрын

Close! But not Clotha. /bad pun/

@MijnWolden

7 ай бұрын

This is the kind of puns I thoroughly enjoy! 😂