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Love, love, love your truck show podcasts. Having different age groups and body types trying on each garment is just great. Just seeing Ginny and Whitney in the striped jumper really demonstrates how different a single piece of clothing can look on different body types. Ginny should have her own podcast dispensing her words of wisdom and making women aware of the fact that our rights were fought for by our grandmothers and mothers and the fight is not over.
Do you have a video showing how to avoid the step down bindoff?
I think i do. Lemme check
Very helpful to see the live presentation. Thank you.🐑
I was looking for information about this product. This video is very useful to me! thank you for making the video😻
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful!
I have found that the swivel isn't worth the snag on any needle. User beware!
Yeah. I’m not a fan either
I think the main thing about the quality of the cashmere is that it reflects the husbandry of the goats. The most important thing for me is that the goats are well looked after. Cheaper cashmere is available, but it’s farmed under dubious circumstances and should be boycotted.
Great tutorial. Greetings from Poland. :)
No it’s not visible. All thee wording at the bottom is covering your hands and needlework. 3/4 of your video is just green knitted fabric. Please re-corp this video.
Thanks
I want to be team seam, maybe there is hope for me now! Thank you!!❤ How did you learn to do these? I seamed a sweater from a magazine pattern (in a group from my library). I joined to find a mentor, but was the only one who finished the sweater. Seaming was a crap shoot, but by perhaps the grace of God, it ended up good. Lol, the group leader thought I was a super fast knitter. I think I just worked on it daily, and I am both a process and product knitter (is there such a thing? I am an introvert- extrovert, so I am thinking, yes). The zip, in the seam to row, was mesmerizing to me!
You are so welcome! I learned after years of trial and error. I own a yarn store and have had the pleasure of mentoring hundreds of knitters through the process ❤️ if you are still looking for a mentor and a supportive group, I would be honored to have you in Club Crazy for Ewe!
I was seaming on a baby sweater did really well until the sleeve which was stair steps.
Was that where you had the increases?
@@CrazyForEwe It was where I had cast off on the front and back for sleeve.
@loretta9213 ah, yes, I see
Brilliant. I have always pulled yarn up between 2 bars in stockinet. I will try your method in future. Love the garter stitch seaming.
Both work, but I think the single bar method looks better
Seaming has been something I have feared and never learned! It is so important that it looks good. I recently sorted through my entire stash, and I found two sweaters that were finished except for seaming! This video was a great start to giving it a try. I think your sweater club would be fantastic!
Wonderful! Sign up for the waitlist! We open this month!!
Thanks for the good information
You are so welcome!
Yes to poncho KAL!
I bought several different types of yarn from Noro and sadly I was very disappointed with them. They were under spun and as I knitted the yarn would just come apart. I bought two spinning wheels and now I make my own yarn and have no issues because I've done the spinning right.
I’m glad you have found a way to make yarn that you love! 😀
I am so excited to knit the Susan tank in Club Crazy for Ewe. I will go with some negative ease around the bust to get a great shoulder fit.
Me too!!! It’s such a great top
I can not get past the clingy negative ease that is form fitting. If you are a thin woman without any excess abdominal fat it’s fine and looks good. If you are anything else it looks absolutely horrible on everyone with rolls, tires or a fat abdomen. I see people in public like this all the time. They look poured into thier clothes. It’s almost like they are proud of the fact they need to lose 50lbs or whatever in their middle. I love many styles but this concept will never work for me. Things must be flattering on me and that means camouflaging my fat belly area.
I think we all have to find our comfort zone. Everyone is comfortable to a greater or lesser degree in various amounts of ease. I don’t think anyone should be ashamed of their body.
After completing a sweater, I measure the body circumference and then try it on in front of a mirror with arms at sides. I notice the drape on sides and without stretching fabric grab both sides of body with both hands and pull to no ease or no ease. Then I measure amount of fabric in each hand and that total is the amount of ease in sweater. This works for me!
Sounds like you have a strategy that works!
After completing a sweater, I measure the body circumference and then try it on in front of a mirror with arms at sides. I notice the drape on sides and without stretching fabric grab both sides of body with both hands and pull to no ease or no ease. Then I measure amount of fabric in each hand and that total is the amount of ease in sweater. This works for me!
Now THAT is what a Poncho should look like …. It is beautiful! ❤❤❤
I have an hourglass figure, and princess style used to look really good on me. I think it still would be good with a little more fullness at the sides of the hips and less in front. I do not like full slacks at the ankles, so often wear skirts or leggings. Trying to figure out how to make the hips and waist work on a sweater. I prefer longer sweaters and tops.
Great knitting lesson, Ellen!
I have always gone by upper bust measurement , This way garment fits my over all frame size. Never ever use bra band , or I would be knitting 34 " and that is way too much negative ease , too tight across the shoulders , but also don't normally use full bust of 42" measurement either or I would might have set in shoulder seams sliding down to look more like drop shoulder ones on a garment that is not meant to be drape-y I use upper bust and then depending on the style of the garment I can add bust darts so the sweater does not pull up higher at the waist in the front and I even have taken a pattern and redistributed / assigned, more stitches to the front of the garment and less across the back . (same total stitch count and ease )
Yes! That is exactly right!
Love the Jenna tank on Ellen. Length is ideal as well.
I can't find this pattern on Ravelry but I recall that you talked about it previously.
"I am a case of what not to do .. just keep knitting!" really cracked me up. So True.
I noticed they all said longer and cover up their stomachs. That actually makes stomach look worse. The sweet spot is part way down the stomach.
Absolutely!!! You get it!
I posted your video on our retreaters group on Facebook. I organize knitting retreats in NC. Carolina Fiber Retreats and Tours on Facebook and Friends of Carolina Fiber Retreats.
Thank you! I am having our retreat here this weekend!
Hello you made me fall in love with Noro Yarn. I just order your 2024 Fall Noro Yarn Club and two other items 😅 I’m in southern PG MD. Hopefully I can make it to your shop on a Tuesday very soon. Thanks for sharing Ellen. PS I absolutely Love Pink💗
Awwww! Thank you! I look forward to having you come visit! Be sure to let me know when you’re coming so I can meet you 😀
New subscriber to your channel. I took a class for customizing your own raglan sweater thru zoom from a master knitter in Ottawa Canada. Very wonderful experience and Tonia was excellent teacher. Words of wisdom: Patterns r just guidelines. Don't be afraid to adjust your pattern - we all have different shapes and sizes. U can make adjustments to them to make the perfect recipe for your body type. It just takes patience and some math.
💯 so true!!!
Thanks so much for sharing this information! It has opened my eyes! It seems like the fabric drape is also important factor in determining ease.
Do you need to be local to join Club Crazy for Ewe? I live in Texas and love knitting sweaters but struggle with fit. It would be so nice to try on samples to know how a sweater is going to fit but they aren’t available. Currently knitting the same sweater again because the first one was too big. I need to embrace negative more and I think I’ll be happier with my sweaters.
Hi!! You absolutely do not need to be local! I have members in Idaho, California, Texas, Minnesota, Maine!!! Everything is virtual either on zoom or in our own private community
I would love to help you make sweaters to fit perfectly and look great!!!
The half-bust measurement is also useful. The sleeves of a top-down sweater are assumed to be at the midpoint of the stitches. That is perfect for a person with a 36-in bust who measures 18 across the front and the back. But if a woman has a 36-in. bust and is 22 inches across the front but only 14 inches across the back would find the sweater stretching across the front and baggy across the back. Perhaps the sleeves should not be centered for that woman.
Very interesting and informative. I learnt so much in that segment. Thank you for sharing your fantastic knowledge and experiences. So pleased that I'm subscribed, I don't miss an episode. Take care.
I’m so glad! Thank you for subscribing and for watching ❤️
I have Sally’s books. Still use them.
I am knitting a jumper 12 month old I am up to shape back neck 1st row knit 24 turn cont on these 24sts for right side of back neck dec one st at neck edge in next 3 row then 21st
Did you have a question about these instructions?
Where is the video about seaming the sleeves to the front/back? Before seaming up the sides…
how do you count rows.
These are without a doubt absolutely fabulous! I can’t wait to have the skills. They are all me!!
way too much talking before showing anything!!!
Thanks for your comment. I just made a short 😀
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Do you always knit the first and last stich to help with stiching
You can, but I find a sticjinette selvedge is best for stockinette fabric-i always work the first and last stitch in pattern. The key is to place shaping at least one stitch away from the edge.
I would like to do the poncho knit along. Today is 6-10. I bought the yarn and pattern. Couldn’t figure out how to raise my hand when asked.
Hi! Send me an email at [email protected] and I’ll send you the link
No, Orange, John Deer Green and Purple are my least Favorite colors! I am A Aqua Blue girl and have been for 70 years!
Maybe try a pale warm periwinkle! 😀
I'm a newer knitter and I look for patterns without complicated construction methods and simple knitting patterns. TFS
Absolutely- I think a lot of newer knitters shy away from sweaters that are knit bottom up and seamed, but top down in-the-round sweaters often have much more complicated construction requirements
I've day dreamed about the padron since last summer - - once I clear these WIPs that's next on my needles!!! 😊
Good song choice!
😊 love Prince
I love the Sabai and Petrie, they are so simple and can carry well year to year. They are all cute, those two were just my favorite.
Yes me too!!!
Did I miss the neckline video?
No! Are you ready for the neckline? I’ll post that soon!
Yes ready for the neckline video.
I‘m an Autumn type and I highlight some earthy, deep and warm purples that suit me best like Fig, Cassis or Aubergine 🍆🍇
Nice! Sounds like you get it! I’m sure those tones look beautiful on you!
I love lavender, lilac, light and medium purple colors!!!!!!!! PURPLE FOREVER!!!!🙋♀️
I Love Pink and Purple 💗💜