Love all the socks! The egg ones are my favorite. I love all the captions when you need to correct or clarify something. You’re funny. 😃

@emilykatemadethis

Ай бұрын

Oh thank you! I love the eggs too :) haha yes.. I'm not good at seeing a mistake and not correcting it... I'd love to be able to do that in real life haha

Just loving that all the knitting content is about socks 😂❤

@emilykatemadethis

Ай бұрын

You've certainly converted me back to sock knitting after all your sock chat haha

Wow! Love all the socks😍 Thank you for keeping me company after a long day celebrating Norways national day with parades and tooo much cake and icecream😅😂 Hope you are having a wonderful weekend 🌼🧶

@emilykatemadethis

2 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️😊 Is there such thing as too much cake and ice-cream? 😉😆 I'm glad you had such a lovely day. I just love your traditional dress 😍

Your socks are adorable. I don't knit many socks but I knit toe up socks. The egg socks are cute, I really like the toes. Thes socks for your mom are very cute. I think they look like foxes or a ginger cat 🐈

@emilykatemadethis

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊 I love the toe too! I'm weirdly very excited to try toe up socks haha I have a few patterns so I'm just clearing the needles before starting 😆

I love all the crafting content. I too want to do embroidery. I just got a book for it and want to play around. I'm going to make an effort to get my stash down because I feel like I need to reduce my yarn before I dive into other crafty goodness, which is ridiculous but it's my OCD kicking in, haha! The pickle is adorable. SO cute. ALL THE BEST, Kimberly

@emilykatemadethis

27 күн бұрын

I would like to try embroidery with wool as well as with thread, but I just need to kick myself in to trying it. First up, is knitting something plain and then being able to actually embroider over it and now get attached to the plain item haha I want to get my stash down too (as you know) but I need more ways to do it... I'd like to weave and embroider and do aaaall the things, but somehow, I never have the yarn I need for the project I actually want to make. It's terrible lol If you do try embroidery, show me show me :) haha I love Gherky :)

@thekindles1183

27 күн бұрын

@@emilykatemadethis hahaha! that's me. I always want the yarn for the project. I hardly buy skeins just because these days.

I love your socks 😍 I have only ever tried once to knit colour work socks, and they were a big fat fail! I love knitting socks, though, and always have a pair on the needles, just not colour work ones 😂 I hope you have a lovely time here in the UK with your mum. See you next time ❤

@emilykatemadethis

2 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 I'm so pleased with them. I love making colourwork socks in comparison to plain, but the adrenaline about whether they will fit is not something I love haha Thanks ☺️☺️

A great way to finish your egg socks, they all look great. While you’re in the uk the knitter magazine ( 202 ) has a lovely vintage inspired ‘Broderie Anglaise’ summer top by Pat Menchini (page 74) that you might like! I’ve just started knitting it! Have a great trip.

@emilykatemadethis

2 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️ Ooo thanks for the tip! I'll have a look when I'm in the shops 👏👏 I love British magazines.. even when I don't knit most of it .. they're so pleasing! I'll keep my eyes open for it, ta 😊

You can make a mock up, and then where adjustments are needed, do them on that same mock up. Taking in the mock up is easier, obviously, but you can also go very patchwork to add fabric in where needed as well. After all, it's not something that will be worn. I've seen some KZreadrs with hilarious looking mockups before, and I love it because its so much less wasteful. The few times I've done true mock ups, this is what I've done. Alternatively, you can do what I usually do, and do wearable mock ups with less precious fabric, and just make notes (or if you're really like me, mean to make notes but forget and be back at square one) for when you make the next one. I don't mind having a bit of fit issues in the first version, because its still probably fits my body better than anything off the rack. For your dress, you can replace the zipper and do a lace up back to get some space. It would be definitely something to practice on something less precious first. But you can seam rip out the zipper, make and attach Rouleau button loops with a similar white or blue fabric, and lace up with a matching ribbon. Most other options to get space will be more difficult without more of the original fabric, unless you make it look intentional with a different fabric. You can also inspect the seam allowances and see if there's space to let them out a touch. You will potentially see the holes after you pull out all the old thread from the original seams, but if someone is close enough to see them, they're probably too close anyway.

@emilykatemadethis

2 ай бұрын

I have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as non precious fabric haha I seem to have an emotional attachment to it all haha But generally I do the wearable toiles as well. It's just I often then end up with 3 wearable ones and think, do I really need to make a forth that might be "the one" 🤣 I need to work on my relationship with mock ups 😅 And yes, perhaps get patch worky with some of them by using bits of each others Frankenstein style. Thanks for the tip

I had some lovely culottes that needed to be resized just a smidge, and asked a seamstress to make them bigger by taking fabric from the hem. Her quote for doing it was astronomical so I decided against it 😕 Shame about your dress being tight, I was thinking how lovely it looks. Love your socks! Glad you found a way to move on from the two rows of eggs 👍👍 I don't know if you feel the same, but I feel like I'm always using scraps and stash and then I don't always like the process of using those scraps, or the finished objects. I hope you don't run into that issue with your sewing.

@emilykatemadethis

2 ай бұрын

Ooo I would charge a fortune if I was a seamstress too haha anything that looks easy in sewing is ridiculously hard 🤣 and making it look nice and not haphazard would be extra 😅 Generally I avoid scrap projects for that exact reason. That's why I've made sure to use the scraps in a fun project. I would rather buy more yarn to finish something that I like Vs using up scraps and not liking or wearing it. I see lots more socks like this in my future because they are fun 😊

Really love your socks also have you seen the ponies sweater by Mandy McIntosh raverly you might like it

@emilykatemadethis

2 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️ I shall go check it out, thanks for the recommendation 😊

Noooo, the point of a toille is to have extra seam allowance so you can adjust the actual toille and redraw your pattern!

@emilykatemadethis

2 ай бұрын

Come visit me and teach me everything you know haha I didn't realise it was meant to have extra seam allowance. Of all the videos I've watched that was never mentioned! I absolutely need to do that! Thank you for pointing that vital point out haha

@Bookupied

2 ай бұрын

@@emilykatemadethis that’s what I was thought at school, such a waste to just sew up a whole new one!

@Bookupied

2 ай бұрын

@@emilykatemadethis i don’t mean to sound mean ❤️🙈