Hello and welcome to arieknits! My name is Ariel and I love knitting 🧶 I also sometimes crochet, sew, and dye yarn! Knitting has become such a huge part of my life and what I do on my free time, that I thought it would be fun to hop into the knitting podcast community and start making videos where I talk about what I am knitting, what projects I have finished, what I have planned, and general other chatty things.
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Love the look of how your spin turned out 😍
Love the finished skein! It reminds me of chocolate strawberries 😋
Absolutely inspiring as always ❤️ I love your Yarn Jam colorway!! It's been a blast spinning alongside you this tour de fleece!
I’m thinking about gift knits too, but I feel like everyone around me would like black beanies. I’m making a pastel green Hipster and I am glad for the pop of colour haha. I can’t ait to see your finished shawl! If you have leftover suri you can now add it to future Bennet Sister shawls ;)
Wow, your hand spun looks absolutely gorgeous! The colours are so beautiful! I have had some bordeaux yarn for a while to make a hoodie for myself. After seeing yours I decided to use Tori's pattern as well. Fit looks perfect. Now where to fit it into my long queue??
Hi Arie! Just started your video. I have a question I wanted to ask. Are you happy with your eew 6.1 wheel? I am on the waiting list for a Daedalus starling but realized many spinners have the eew 6.0 or 6.1 wheel and seem to like them and they are way less expensive, so I am curious about how you feel about it 😊 Your hoodie is fabulous, saw it finished in your last episode and can’t wait to watch how it fits on you. A hoodie might be the only thing i haven’t yet knit, now I am casting one one this fall for sure! Hello 👋 from Canada, I love your podcast and your personality and all the inspiring projects you present!
I'm definitely making your hoodie, it's so cute! Your yarn is gorgeous that you spun, also!
Nice Hoodie! 👏🏻👏🏻
I also got some of Bridget's batts (I got two seafoam ones) and I am so incredibly excited to spin them!!
While watching I was hand-sewing a zipper into my florence bag!
I have been in a knitting slump until this week, so I have been catching up on your podcasts while working on the Stephen West surprise sock along! And omg, I can't wait to see your "everything I knit in 2024" video because you're just crushing it with FOs and they are just all too good!! Also, your color way is 100/10! 😍
Awww thank you so so much! Glad you are out of your knitting slump!
Your colorway looks great! I really love your Vice Versa shawl and can't wait for the pattern to be released. I recently finished the perfect handspun for it and have a coordinating color of Ulysse too! Can't wait.
YESSS what colors are your handspun and Ulysse?
The Mahla top looks beautiful and would never have guessed that it was off gauge and quite different sizing to what you had initially intended. It looks perfect! Good to know that you think it will work in DK weight as well. I'm not sure about in the US but in Australia, sport weight is very uncommon anyway and it's much easier to find DK.
I also find it more difficult to find sport weight vs DK weight in the US!
I'm a crocheter, and I would be confused with that instruction as well. Generally somewhere on the pattern either in the notes, how to do the stitch, or on the crochet row is should tell you "SC, ch1, sk st....." If it didn't say that my assumption would be the you "SC ch1" into each stitch unless it includes a stitch count that makes it obvious. ie row 1 has 10 st, row 2 has 5SC and 5CH
Thanks! I’m glad I wasn’t crazy for thinking I missed an assumption about how those instructions worked. 😅
Oh I just love your colorway Ariel!! 🩵
Thanks Marlene! ❤️
Will be interesting to see how the different braids look plied together. Love the look of your fibre from yarn jam would be great if it came in yarn form too as I don’t know how to spin. Can’t wait to see Meghan’s colour way too
I love how your Vice Versa Shawl turned out! You really get to appreciate both colors and it looks great tied. I’m curious about how the Andrea Mowry pattern turns out. Is it like a thicker version of a Cumulus Blouse?
I would say it’s quite different from the cumulus blouse because it’s knit bottom up, has ribbing details, drop shoulder, and has a round neck instead of a vneck. But I can knit both with 2 strands of suri held together!
@@arieknits so basically completely different! lol!
I just finished the Colette pullover by Sari Nordlund. It is an all-over cable design. I had to restart twice and change yarn and needles. Achieving her stated gauge was very difficult. And in reading comments on Ravelry, many knitters seemed to have the same problem. She must knit her cables very loosely compared to most knitters. But I love the finished sweater.
I took a class to knit that sweater and the teacher helped me modify it to fit my gauge, otherwise it never would have worked!
I had the same issue! In the end, I went up two sizes.
I've heard sari nordland is a loose knitter!
Love your fiber colorway!!! I don’t spin but I hope it will come out as a plied yarn in the future! I’m working on the Cargill Sweater by Rebecca Clow, so addicting, and it would look adorable in your colorway.
I’ve been wanting to make the cargill sweater! Glad to hear you are enjoying making it!
Beautiful Mahla Top 🤎🌹
Aw thanks!
If you like high low hems, you might like the Alice Top by Hiroko Fukatsu!
Oh it’s so cute! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Arie, I really love the size of the bag you received from nest fiber club, may I ask is that 4 oz or 8? I'm a new spinner so cannot tell haha ☺
It’s 4oz! 😊
congratultions on the collab! i am excited to see what your fibres spins up like!!
I’m adding the Downtown Hoodie to my list after seeing yours. It’s lovely!
Yesss I can’t wait to see what colors you make yours in!
Can’t wait to see what your fiber collab looks like!! The rococo top and color is gorgeous
Rambouillet is my favourite to spin right now too!!! It's just sooooooo good!!!
For edge stitches, purling on the end + slipping the first stitch or knitting the last stitch and then slipping it with yarn in front is the same effect. But like you noticed it affects how tight the edge is. So you can safely switch and the visual effect will be the same, but there might be a difference in tension. I’ve swapped them partway through a project before with no issues 😊 - also this is confirmed by my grandmother who is an expert knitter. She recommends purling the last stitch and slipping the first stitch for selvedge.
This is such great information! Thank you for sharing!
I LOVE the green yarn you dyed for the Stella Quilt Cushion! Also, you inspired me to knit the Bennet Sisters Shawl! 😄
Yessss we can knit the shawl together!
Downtown Hoodie is looking amazing 🍷
Loved seeing what you've been up to! I really enjoyed all the handspun and fiber dyeing too! 😍 Thanks for sharing! 💕
Unbelievable amount of projects!
If you do need a leftover project for your sport weight yarn, the Minou Scarf by Luisa Rehkopf seems like something you might enjoy :)
OOOO that’s totally up my alley 😍
I've also been loving Coast to Coast soooo much lately!! That Milkweed colour is stunning!! I can't wait to see what you make with it!!
Me too!!
I swapped hands daily as I learned to draft/spin so I am ambidextrous and some fibers prefer one over the other, but I can draft either way. Still don't really prefer one over the other.
Oh nice! Maybe I should try switching hands too
Love your fiber dying! The blue braid is gorgeous
Thank youuu!! 💙
Love the soup shawl!!
I recently finished my first spinning class. It’s definitely fun once you get the hang of it and I can wait to buy a wheel once I have enough saved up
That’s so exciting I’m so happy for you!!
Milkweed !?? Heart rate skyrockets, collapse with joy ❤❤❤❤❤❤ That is gorgeous, so jealous !
You have a real passion for knitting and all things fiber art, and it's beautiful.loved the second braid and the bobbin of chocolate browns. Gorgeous loved the blues to.💕
Thank youuu!
Bennett sister shawl will look so nice in the milkweed😍😍 made one in Hello autumn by Woolberry and I love it. Your fibre that you dyed looks nice, like the shades of blue and my first thought about the first one you showed was Christmas garland vibes 😍
Bennett sister shawl in hello autumn sounds amaaazing I love that colorway too!
Yay the soup shawl is finished!! Lucky about it not bleeding, although if the yarns were sold as a sock set would it be fair to assume the dyer had already tested for bleeding. I think if they sell it as a sock set, they are kind of implying that it is safe to use the yarns together but I guess it's better safe than sorry. It would have been cool if each of the sets came with a soup recipe.
Omg a soup recipe would have been a great idea! 😄
Your Mahla Top is absolutely beautiful 🍷
Aw thanks!
Amazing video, Ariel! I love this color with your chosen contrast color for the vice versa too and the video inspired me to give chain plying a go someday! ❤
Thanks so much Marlene! ❤️
This was such a relaxing, peaceful, wonderful video! I loved every moment of it and loved watching you spin! You're making me want to get a ladybug wheel!!!
Yay! That makes me so happy to hear!
Thanks for the spinning videos. I have a ladybug as well but haven’t been spinning much lately. This is giving me inspiration. I draft with my right hand as well - and I’m a lefty! Go figure. For the speed of the chain plying, you could try using a bigger whorl to slow it down.
Next time I chain ply I will switch to a bigger whorl!
I'm not a spinner but I found the video very interesting but also relaxing, especially watching the tredling. Love the chopstick lazy kate!
Aww thanks!
Hi. I enjoyed watching you spin. It’s so interesting.
Thank you! 🤗
Very informative! I don't spin yet, am hoping some of this will stick when I finally start.
Thanks! Before I tried spinning I watched a lot of videos of other people spinning haha!
Nice! 👋👋
Hi, I draft with my right as well.