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  @brendafalk516215 күн бұрын

  Question off topic: Love your blanket and am wondering what size needles you are using and how many stitches you cast on. I have a variety of blues and have wondered how a feather and fan pattern would make up using stripes. thanks.

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  @lefeverbeaver21 күн бұрын

  I love the way the colour on the sleeves worked out to be similar on both sides. (Lucky or intentional??). Overall it’s really gorgeous. Great squishy Rios yarn!

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  @grannyt681921 күн бұрын

  Love it! Excellent fitting and beautiful pattern. That yarn is gorgeous, and the way it transitioned across the bottom of the raglan all around including on both sleeves, it looks very intentional and a design feature. Well done.

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  @jessmakesstuff21 күн бұрын

  Thank you so much!

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  @grannyt681921 күн бұрын

  That yarn is gorgeous. I haven't tried Malabrigo yet.

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  @grannyt681921 күн бұрын

  I always have trouble with knitting the cast on too. It doesnt matter which type of cast on I do, either. I think part of it is just that there is no structure yet to hold the stitches in place. They kind of push away from the needle the first row or two. Once you have a couple of rows done, the fabric is held by your hands as you go and it stabilizes the stitches. Tightness of cast on definitely comes into it as well. The needle has to push more on the tight unstable stitch than if the stitches were looser. I have been working on loosening up my cast on stitches, just consciously not pulling them as tight. I also find that pointier needles also help. I have 3 different sets of needles, bamboo, plastic, and steel. I will use the needle type that works best with the particular yarn Im using. Bamboo is great for slippery yarns. Steel for stickier yarns. Plastic for random yarns that dont work well on the other needles. My bamboo needles are the pointiest, then the steel, then the fat rounded plastic ones. Oh yes. I do use Prym needles too. They are triangle shaped needles with a ball type thing on the pointy end. It helps keep from dropping stitches. Im am still experimenting with various needles and yarns. But most definitely, pointy needles make the first couple of rows easier to cast on. There is an old trick for getting a looser cast on. Hold the two needles together and cast on around both. Then you slide one needle out, and voila, looser stitches but also very even, unlike if you try to just cast on loosely on one needle.

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  @thereselegault7217Ай бұрын

  Thank you for a great podcast. Your gentle nature is just soul-soothing for me. Very interesting and your success and failure are equally a great learning curve for me. ❤

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  @kj3d812Ай бұрын

  I do Portuguese style knitting, so my tension is pretty consistent since the yarn tension comes mostly from the knitting pin, not from how I hold the yarn. I do adjust how the yarn wraps around my fingers depending on whether it's bulky yarn or a very fine lighter weight yarn, which for me requires a bit more tension. Interestingly, another commenter here mentioned always holding the needles at 90 degrees/perpendicular to each other as you knit, which is exactly what you do anyway in Portuguese style knitting. 🙂

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  @svance1041Ай бұрын

  thanks so much…very helpful for even a longtime knitter :)

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  @peaches7551Ай бұрын

  Why do we want our hand knits to look like a machine did it ? Might as well go buy it. We're too hard on ourselves !!!

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  @fritzifrey2908Ай бұрын

  I learnt to knit from my mother at the age of six. Unfortunately, I only learnt to knit knit stitches at first. I didn't learn how to cast on or cast off properly, so I didn't knit much for many years because I was unhappy with my results. The yarn tension in particular caused me problems. When I was sent into early retirement, I started to work intensively on my knitting problem with the help of KZread videos. Now that I have been knitting intensively for about six years and have also been reading special things about the anatomy of knitting stitches, learning different variations of casting on, casting off, alternating knit and purl stitches within a pattern, etc., my stitch pattern has become excellent. All in all, I have found that you just have to try out what works best for you and that it is generally easier to produce a great knitted pattern if you knit rather tightly. In your video here, I have again seen a completely new way of knitting purl stitches for me, because you hold the yarn behind the needle. Thank you for this contribution 🤩🤩

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  @christina9156Ай бұрын

  the trick I use for even stockinette while knitting flat: on my interchangeable needles, I simply change the needle that always works the purl rows to one that's half a size smaller! e.g. when I technically need a 4mm needle to get gauge, the wrong side is always knit on 3.5mm because my purls are a little looser than my knits. So far this technique has always worked like a charm for me, but obviously if there are short rows involved you'd need to resort to another solution. Still, I find it easier this way instead of trying to adjust my tension.

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  @lifelearner47Ай бұрын

  I can't hold the yarn like you do because of painful fingers. However I found an excellent solution. The "Portuguese" method involves passing the yarn behind your head; the tension is therefore made by the weight of the work. Purling this way, with just a flick of the thumb to pass the yarn around the needle, is incredibly fast, and on the knit row I can use my right hand to guide the yarn, or continue to use the thumb flick. This way I resolved 2 problems, tension difference and painful fingers.My knitting took up a new lease of life again when I discovered this. ps for some reason the sound has improved slightly watching again 12 days later; so maybe not all the fault of your micro.

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  @fritzifrey2908Ай бұрын

  Great tip! I'm going to try that too, as I also have problems with my fingers. Thanks for the comment.

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  @robinmarks5638Ай бұрын

  I too knit Portuguese style and for the same reason as you painful hands! I would have to just stick with crochet if I couldn't do Portuguese style cauce knitting is harder on the hands!

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  @user-sn7pv3qy8s2 ай бұрын

  N9 audio problem for me either. 😊

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  @elizabethmerrick34692 ай бұрын

  No problem with audio. your voice is calming. I knit english style and tried Portuguese knit, just cant get the hang of it byt wi persevere. ❤

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  @silkspinner70102 ай бұрын

  I knit English way,but keep the yarn much closer to the needle and knit off the needle tips. In fact I don’t take my right hand off of the needle, just flicking the yarn with my index finger. When I do Fairisle work, I knit one yarn in English style and the other in. Norwegian style, it means I knit relatively quickly with two colours. Thanks for the video.

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  @marymcnevin96522 ай бұрын

  I would love to know what pattern you are using for the blanket. I need to make a baby blanket. Thank you for the tensioning tip. Most helpful.

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  @user-ol8fn2dy8h2 ай бұрын

  My Grandmother knitted in the English style and it looked perfect. My own view is that the more you knit the more even it gets

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  @robertastewart2083Ай бұрын

  The problem as I see it is that the Continental purl is difficult for lots of people whereas the English purl is as easy as the English knit stitch and so the finished work is very even.

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  @helza2 ай бұрын

  Very interesting watching the efficiency and speed of your continental knitting versus the English style throwing. I'm the exact opposite and knit and purl a lot faster with my yarn in the right hand, work with the yarn very short and make only very small movements with the needle tips. Was taught to tension the yarn like you. I'm currently practising continental knitting because I have RSI in my right hand. I've been finding purling really awkward so I'm going to look up the Portuguese purl P.S the sound was fine!

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  @suzanrudulph41412 ай бұрын

  Lace socks 😊

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  @lindamb89622 ай бұрын

  I can barely hear you even with my volume turned up to maximum. I have subtitles on but its difficult to watch your work and read at the same time.

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  @4kassis2 ай бұрын

  this method of holding your thread also allows you to knit much faster - once you get the hang of it...

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  @laurayoungmark3342 ай бұрын

  still interested in test knitting when you have a pattern ready. i have knit lace sock patterns before. and i can use DPNs, short circulars, or magic loop. either toe up or top down. If you're able to chart the lace portion there are apps that will translate the chart into a written stitch pattern for those sections.

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  @bonnij2 ай бұрын

  Agreed Norwegian knit and purl is consistently lovely. I learned it years ago from Arne and Carlos.

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  @lefeverbeaver2 ай бұрын

  Excited to see that Whales Road jumper! Hoping everything works out for you to continue it soon 😊

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  @grannyt68192 ай бұрын

  That yarn you bought for heart lace socks is beautiful. I can't wait to see how that knits up. I haven't used hand dyed yarn yet but I find it fascinating to see how various splotches of yarn knit up into beautiful patterns. This are pretty socks and I would love to see more people wearing pretty socks rather than the plain mass-produced ones most people wear now.

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  @grannyt68192 ай бұрын

  I love that jumper. The flowers and matching neckline really dress it up.

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  Thanks! I think so too.

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  @kayceegreer44182 ай бұрын

  Sorry ... not gonna stick around for this. I'd rather watch a tutorial than listen to somebody talk and show me stuff that is already made.

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  That's fair! I'm not interested in only making tutorial videos so I thought it would be best to release a podcast after that tutorial video went viral. Go with good knitting vibes!

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  @user-fk2ri8kw3v2 ай бұрын

  I’m going to be 70 year young this June, but I’m learning and practicing to hold the yarn like you do! I’m not far from 70 years! Mark line!

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  Amazingly well done! I hope I'm knitting as long as you!

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  @shirleybewley66462 ай бұрын

  When I learned to knit, the gal who taught me asked if I crocheted. Yes. I hold my yarn as you do, just as when I crochet. Also, do my work at the point as you do. Great illustration! Thanks!

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  That is awesome! I wonder if that yarn holding method is more popular among crocheters?

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  @norahbeauregard77292 ай бұрын

  @@jessmakesstuff I’m a left handed crocheter, and I’ve noticed that I ended up mirror-image continental knitting (because I hold the yarn in my right hand in crochet)

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  @handmadeartz29082 ай бұрын

  Beautiful

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @Countrycabin2 ай бұрын

  Thank you

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  You're welcome!

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  @oreoanddaisy2 ай бұрын

  Thank you for this tutorial. I fixed my purl tension by knitting ‘backwards’ through the back loop on the purl row. That way I’m not turning the work. It always stay right side forward.

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  Ooh, that's interesting. I've tried that and found it a bit mind-bending to start with but I'm sure with practice it becomes very natural.

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  @grannyt68192 ай бұрын

  Yes, I taught you to tension your yarn that way. :) You have learned so much more and your skills are far above mine now. It's so exciting to see all of your work. I love that bird patterned knitting. So pretty. I knit in what I have learned is a combined method. My knit stitches are Continental style, my purls Russian. I taught myself from a book because I didn't have anyone I knew who knit and could show me. I improvised in the parts I didn't understand, as it was line drawings, so I reverse engineered it. Because of this, patterns took me awhile to figure out, but now I just do the same sort of reverse engineering to make mine look like the example piece, still doing my weird combined knitting. It does result in a twisted stockinette I think its called, but I like it. I love that you can do several different styles of knitting. I have tried that Norwegian style but need more practice if I'm going to use it. I find that my own style is very ingrained and my brain doesn't want to change it. For more slippery yarns I wind it twice around my pinky. Works great. If I find my yarn twisting too much between the skein and my hand, I reverse the way the yarn goes around my pinky, going under and around it rather than over and around it. Whichever one doesn't make the yarn twist to much. I think the twist direction depends on if Im working from the center of the skein or the outside of it. Your video sounded fine to me. There was just a tiny bit of distortion right in the first few seconds but it went away. Holding your needles at right angles to each other as you do also helps with tension and not getting hand and arm fatigue.

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  @Kat-Knows2 ай бұрын

  Very good information in ur comment. I get to add that i am a left handed knitter which makes for some of its own challenges. It becomes quite challenging if i can't turn my knitting when i am knitting flat, becuz of the texture pattern. I crochet also & so i want to always feed my yarn in from the right side.

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  @Snaphappy262 ай бұрын

  I recently had the flat to round difference in my work. Definitely need to work at it. Can I please ask if there is a reason you yarnnover the opposite way resulting in it leaning the wrong way..how do you deal with it in the next row? Also audio was fine for me.. 😊

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  Stitches can be mounted either way (left leg at the front or right leg at the front) as long as you account for it in the way that you knit/purl. There are some tutorials available about this that would be better to look at as it's hard to describe without visual aids (I'll link one). Mostly I mounted those the wrong way because I haven't done throwing style in a long time and my hands were not cooperating haha kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJN5yaNrgLG2ps4.html

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  @nell69132 ай бұрын

  I have been knitting for 70 years, and I hold the yarn exactly as you do. The tension is always consistent. The other trick that keeps the stockinette even is to always hold your needles at 90 degrees/perpendicular to each other as you knit. That keeps you from stretching a stitch out and making it larger than the others in the row.

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  Absolutely! Great tip!

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  @stephenrobb87592 ай бұрын

  I started circular sock machine knitting this year. I found out that using the yarn mast helps my hand knitting tension a great deal. F I experienced far less fatigue and frustration by allowing the mast to control the tension. A true game changer for my hand knitting. I also like to use cabled crochet hooks for the needles. The complicated stitches pull through so easy compared to the acrobatics of twisting straight smooth needle tips through multiple loops.

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  How interesting - I've never tried a circular sock machine before but that sounds great!

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  @user-uw8rf5vj9g2 ай бұрын

  Good video! What are you making with those beautiful colours and pretty pattern stitch? Please share

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  Here's a link to a very similar pattern from another KZread video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lnWg19eIkc3cj8Y.html

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  @Needtoknit12 ай бұрын

  This is wonderful information. Thank You so much for sharing this. It improved my knitting!

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  I’m glad it helped! Good luck with your projects 😊

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  @kirstenschreiber41892 ай бұрын

  Beautiful pattern for blanket. Can you explain what you are doing?

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  The pattern I used came from a library book but this one is very similar: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lnWg19eIkc3cj8Y.htmlsi=VxdUooNNORvh3twj

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  @liesesadler52952 ай бұрын

  I switched to Portuguese style knitting this year and find that both knit and purl is quite even with this method. Also purling is much faster with less wrist action. Coming back to say I’m putting the yarn around the back of my neck, that friction really helps keeping the yarn tension consistent and at a rate I prefer.

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  I have seen that method used and it’s a great option. The friction is the key part!

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  @mariajoaoc27032 ай бұрын

  My mother and sister tought me to knit and, obviously, being portuguese, we use the portuguese method. Lately, i restarted knitting, and i came to youtube to learn more, and i find curious the continental style, because it looks so demanding to the hand. I realy cannot use it and i really dont relate to the diferences in the purl stitch and the knit stich, because in the portuguese knitting style we don't have that.

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  @pattycookie2011Ай бұрын

  You can clip a knitting pin to your blouse !

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  @lifelearner472 ай бұрын

  problem with sound here; pity.

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  @jessmakesstuff2 ай бұрын

  Sorry about that! I'm going to try getting a proper microphone soon.

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  @AlexandrashirleyH2 ай бұрын

  My mom always said that I could knit the peal row with a needle a size smaller. That's even the fabric

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  @fritzifrey2908Ай бұрын

  This is one of many possibilities. But it only works if you don't knit any patterns.