Summer Knitting Starts Here. My V Neck Sweater Era Coo Girl Scarves Knitting Podcast Ep 12.

I've been doing a lot of knitting, finished objects, lots of stitches, another v-neck sweater. I don't feel right when I wear it. Summer is on the way. Hello and welcome to another episode of What Hannah Knits. My name is Hannah and on this channel I love to chat to you about everything knitting related and today I have three finished objects and three works in progress to talk about and I am pleased to say that I have started on some summery knitting projects which is very exciting. I feel like I always start my videos by talking about the weather which is very British of me but we are having some really beautiful weather this weekend. The sun has been shining, we had 20 degrees yesterday and it is 18 degrees today so it is actually starting to feel like summer is on the way so I'm very excited to have those summery projects on the needles. I am still on a mission to find the best place to film in my house so we're in another new location today. I'm in my living room and I've moved one of our armchairs so I'm sitting here in front of the mantelpiece with the window directly in front of me. I've moved this beautiful bunch of flowers that were sitting up there behind me, I just wanted them to have a moment in the spotlight because they're so pretty and I just wanted to mention that I do have some ranunculus in this bunch which seems very fitting and as always I will just start by talking about what I am wearing today. So let me just pop down this coffee and move my hair so that we can see what's going on. So this is a little cardigan that I self-drafted last year. I finished this right at the end of summer just as the weather was getting cold so I didn't really get a chance to wear it last year but the weather is now perfect for this type of knit. So during British spring and summer you do need lots of layering pieces so that was the idea with this one and I thought that it would be perfect over little summer dresses or over little bandeau tops like how I'm wearing it today. I knit this from the top down with a contiguous shoulder construction and I knit it quite cropped with a, I suppose you would call this a bracelet length sleeve. I finished the cuffs and the body in a one by one rib and then around the neckline and in place of a button band I used an i-cord and then extended the i-cord to make this little bow tie detail here. For the yarn I used two strands held together. So the first strand is from a small company called Swaledale Woolens. It's a DK 100% wool yarn and I used the colour Iris. I then held that with a I used the Yarnsmith's silk mohair and that is in the shade Fjord blue and that's just a standard lace weight silk mohair strand and it produced this really lovely colour. They are quite a good colour match but you get a really subtle mulled effect in there which I always like when the main strand and the mohair strand don't quite match and you get that little bit of dimension in the finished fabric. So I will just very quickly stand up so that you can see the length on this. So these jeans are very high waisted so you can see that this is quite cropped. Okay then let's move straight into speaking about my finished objects and here they are. So I'm going to start with this one here. So this is my Hannah sweater by Petitknit. As always I will insert footage of this being worn so that you can see this a little bit better than how I'm showing it here. This is also covered in my hair. So this is a V-neck sweater by Petitknit as I've just said. It is a dropped shoulder construction so you cast on here at the back neck and you work increases which gives you this detail here across the shoulders. This is a very oversized design in true Petitknit style and all the finishings are in a 2x2 rib including this V-neck and the neckline is quite a high neckline as well which seems to be a bit of a trend at the moment with these V-necks with the much higher necklines. So I wanted to jump on that. I really enjoyed knitting this, one of the reasons that I return to Petitknit time and time again is not only because I really like her personal style and her designs but I also like her pattern writing style and I know that when I purchase one of her patterns it is going to be well written, it's going to be easy to follow and that I will like the style. So I really did enjoy knitting this, no issues with the pattern at all. Let's talk about the yarn that I used. So I used the Cascade 220 which is a worsted weight 100% Peruvian Highland wool if I'm remembering that correctly. I can't remember the name of the shade but it is this really deep burgundy colour, this is definitely more of a purple burgundy versus a red burgundy and this is actually very similar to the colour of the sample in Petitknit's pattern photos so I was definitely inspired by that as well. This was my first time working with this particular yarn and I really really did enjoy it. I have worn this a few times now, I am also noticing that I've got some type of white mark down here so I'm hoping that that's going to come off, it may even be, it looks very suspiciously like toothpaste which I have a terrible habit of getting toothpaste on my clothes, so I'm hoping that will come out. But there is no pilling on this at all, there are some areas where it is looking a little bit fuzzy like it might be about to form a pill but it seems to be wearing quite well so far. My only bugbear with this yarn and this may just be part of working with a darker colour because I'm not, I don't usually work with dark colours but the issue that I'm having, you may or may not be able to see, I don't know how well that will pick up on camera but this picks up every tiny little bit of dust and bits of mohair, bits of my hair, bits of my dog's hair and I don't know if it is because this yarn is just somehow magnetic to little fibres or if all my jumpers are covered in little fibres like this and I just can't see them as well because they're lighter colours, but either way I spend so much time picking hairs off of this and lint rolling it to try and make it look like it's not covered in little bits of dust and hair and when I was knitting on this I had that problem as well, it was just forever covered in bits of dust and hair which isn't the nicest look, I don't love it so yeah I don't know if that is just a, so there is like a hole here of mine I think that's literally just fallen out of my head and stuck straight into this sweater, so yeah I don't know if this is a problem with the yarn itself or if it is just because it is a darker colour but as I am sitting here I can literally see the mohair fibres falling off of this and sticking onto this sweater so I'm going to stop moving it around. In terms of the fit I am really pleased with how this fits, I did knit mine a little bit shorter than what is suggested in the pattern and that is partly because I am on the shorter side so I am shorter than the average person so I tend to need a little bit less length in the body and I also do prefer a more boxy look, I just find that it suits me a bit better and that is probably again because I am a little bit on the shorter side so yeah I did knit this a bit shorter than what is recommended so it is quite a boxy fit which I really like, I do really like the neckline as well. Next up on my finished objects I have another Hannah, this is the Hannah slipover and this is a design by The Knit Pearl Girl, this is not even buttoned up, let me just quickly fix that, I wore this yesterday so it is a little bit crumpled and I wore this unbuttoned so I haven't actually re-buttoned this in preparation for today's video, this also has quite a lot of buttons so it's quite fiddly but yes this is the Hannah vest by The Knit Pearl Girl, this is actually my second time making this pattern, I made one of these last summer and the standard version of the pattern is just a vest without the buttons but when you purchase the pattern you do receive instructions to knit a modified version with a shoulder construction so you get this really lovely detail here and from there it is just a standard little vest and it is finished in one by one rib for the the collar, the button band and the armholes. This has actually been on my needles since last October so this has been a long time coming and for no particular reason I just kept putting it down and picking it back up but I did really enjoy making this, I really like the pattern, I used some very special yarn to knit this, this is the Fiber Company Law and it is in the shade Pensive which is this really lovely grey colour. As we know I do love a grey and I really really love this particular shade, with greys in particular I really like when they have dimension and there are different tones in the yarn and this is definitely one of those greys, I don't know how well you will be able to see that but there are lots of different tones through the yarn so it isn't just a flat colour. This yarn is definitely more on the expensive side but I am sorry to say that I do feel that it was worth the price, it was so lovely to knit with, it feels so beautiful and soft, the stitch definition is also really lovely and the stitches are so uniform, it looks so lovely and neat is the only way I can describe it and I just love the feel of that fabric. I purchased three 100 gram skeins of this yarn and I actually only needed two so I have the tiniest bit left from the second skein and I actually have a whole skein left over so I don't know what I'll do with that leftover skein but that is just one to be aware of if you are interested in knitting this. I did knit this from two 100 gram skeins of that yarn, this is the second size and I did knit this to pretty much the recommended length, it is probably, I don't know, maybe a centimetre less but I do think with that little bit that I had left over I could have got that extra bit of length if I had wanted it. So that is a very long-winded way of me saying that you could make this out of two skeins of that yarn which would reduce the price a little bit more and I need to have a think now about what I'm going to do with that leftover skein because I definitely don't want to let that go to waste. My final finished object is this little triangular scarf, this is the In My Stripes Era Scarf by Kotova Kika and it is a very simple little scarf in the shape of a triangle, you cast on here right at the tip of the scarf and you increase either side so you are working increases all the way across and you end up here with lots of stitches on your needles and you finish with a little bit of one by one rib and from there you pick up stitches all the way around which feels like a lot and you then knit some more one by one rib to form this edge here and you fold that over and sew it down to get this really neat finishing here. This one by one rib on the edging feels like a bit of a slog because it is done on two and a half millimeter needles and although it is only a very thin portion here you are actually knitting double that width because you're going to fold it over on itself so that was probably the most tedious bit about this, other than that I did really enjoy knitting this. The main body of the scarf is done on three millimeter needles and up until maybe here-ish it seems to fly by. Once you get like two thirds in and you're increasing on every row you do start to feel like there's a lot of stitches on the needles and the rows obviously take longer and longer and longer as you're getting towards the end but certainly for the first bit of this scarf I felt that it really flew by. This was actually my birthday cast on as well so that was in late November so it has taken me quite a while to get this finished and cast off but it was just this edging here that took a long time and I just found it very tedious. I used some scrappy bits of yarn from my stash to make this so this creamy beigey color is Drops Flora in the shade White Fog and that is a blend of alpaca and wool so it is nice and drapey and for the contrasting stripe I used some Filcolana Arweta and that is in the shade Burgundy and Filcolana Arweta is a sock yarn so it's a blend of wool and nylon which is super wash treated. The main reason I wanted to knit this is because all of autumn and winter I was seeing these little triangular scarves everywhere. There is a little boutique shop on our local high street that was selling these in Kashmir and I was so tempted to buy one just for the quick fix of having one in my wardrobe immediately but I knew that I could knit one myself so I did and I ended up finishing it again just as we're coming out of the season where I would want to wear something like this so I have wore this a few times. It's quite nice at this time of year when it is still very cold in the mornings when I'm heading to work and I can have something like this just around my neck and then by the afternoons it probably is too warm to wear something like this but because it's not so bulky I can just throw it in my bag but I haven't worn it all too often and I think the main reason is I do just struggle to style things like this. For whatever reason I will get dressed and then I'll put this on and I just feel that it doesn't look right or I feel a bit silly. It is a very similar feeling if you're not a hat person and you wear a hat and you go out of the house and you think everyone is going to know that I don't normally wear a hat, they're going to know I'm not a hat person, I look so stupid and I feel the same when I wear this. I feel like everybody knows that I'm not one of those cool girls who can pull off a triangular scarf and I don't feel right when I wear it so I'm hoping I'll get over that, it's definitely just something that is in my head but maybe I will wear this a little bit more before the weather gets too warm. Now let's move in to my works in progress and my first work in progress is another v-neck sweater. I'm definitely into my v-necks at the moment. This is the Paul sweater and this is a design by Moreca Knits, it's actually my first time using a Moreca Knits pattern and I'm really enjoying it so far but this is a saddle shoulder construction so you start by casting on these saddle shoulders here, there is lots of ends hanging out so please excuse that, it's obviously also a very dark yarn so it may be difficult to see but yes you cast on these saddle shoulder portions and you join them here, this is at the back of the neck so you get this lovely line here, it is rolling up really badly at the moment but that will of course block out and you pick up stitches across the back there to form the back panel and you pick up stitches from these front edges here so from where your saddle shoulders are to form the front panel and you work some shaping along these edges here to make the v-neck at the front. So I have finished the body, I have knit this to the length suggested in the pattern which looks quite short at the moment but there is quite a significant portion of ribbing after the stockinette for the body so you do knit 11 centimeters of ribbing so I have just started the ribbing so I've done maybe five rows here of the rib so I've got quite a lot to go on that and I may or may not knit that full 11 centimeters depending on how this is looking so I will try it on and see how I feel about the length and then of course I will have the sleeves and the neckline ribbing to go as well. I will probably add in the neckline ribbing once I finish the body just so that when I try it on for the sleeve lengths I will get a true sense of how everything will sit. I've been making lots of progress on this, this wasn't even a work in progress in my last episode so as you can see I have been doing lots of knitting on this in fact I don't think that any of my projects I have to talk about today were works in progress in my previous episode and I've made a lot of progress on all of them so I've obviously just been doing a lot of knitting at the moment so I am really enjoying working on this at the moment I think this big portion of ribbing will probably slow me down because working masses and masses of one by one rib isn't my favorite. Another thing to mention with these saddle shoulder constructions is just by virtue of the way this is constructed there's a lot of start and stop at the finish the finish at the start and you do end up with lots of loose ends so you can see here these are just some pieces of scrap yarn because these are cast on on a provisional cast on but all of these here are there is a huge fly buzzing around sorry there is an absolutely huge fly that has found its way into the living room and is now buzzing around so hopefully it's going to find its way out but yes as I was saying there is just lots of loose ends which isn't great for me because I don't have a very good track record at weaving ends in in a timely fashion so this could be a finished object that ends up languishing for a long time with the ends waiting to be woven in it just depends how eager I am to wear it which if I end up finishing this in the middle of summer I'm probably not going to be in a huge rush to wear it and those ends will probably sit around for a while but I will get round to it eventually ah oh my goodness the fly the fly is still very much with us so if you catch me looking around the room that's probably what I'm looking at so let's talk about the yarn this is what I'm sweater this is a vintage yarn I picked up on Vinted last summer so this is the Lister's Shetland yarn it is a two ply so I would say that this is a heavy lace weight it's definitely thinner than a fingering weight um but it feels thicker than a traditional lace weight strand and it is 100% wool there is no information about the yardage or meterage or um where the wool is sourced from I suppose you would assume it's a Shetland wool because of the name and it is a 100 gram skein and I have 10 of these 100 gram skeins so I have quite a bit of this to get through there is no shade name it is just colour 870 but it is this really really really dark charcoal grey it's nearly black but there is just these little hints of lighter grey that are spun through the yarn you may be able to see that I'm holding this double on four millimeter needles and I was able to meet the gauge of 22 stitches per 10 centimeters when I swatched with this the finished garment from when I've measured it appears to be coming out a little bit smaller than the pattern measurements so that may be because this is going to grow when I block it um but it may also be that my gauge swatch lied to me a little bit either way I don't really mind if this comes out with a little bit less ease than what is written into the pattern um because it is quite an oversized garment so it's not the end of the world if it comes out a little bit smaller I'm definitely going to have lots of this left over for at least another project so I wound up two 100 gram skeins of this yarn and I'm still not at the end of those skeins I'm still working through them and I've finished the body stockinette and I'm onto the ribbing with less than 200 grams this feels so lightweight so the yardage on this must be absolutely insane so I'm definitely going to end up with a few garments in this yarn now we are going to get into those more summery works in progress which were promised this is my next work in progress and this is the Isabel top by Knit Pearl Girl and this is actually a test knit that I'm currently working on so this is a really beautiful um all over lace work so I'll show you the back here because it's probably a little bit easier to see so it has this beautiful lace work design here and then the sides are worked in this hurdle stitch texture and there are two versions of this top I am working the version that is buttoned up at the front so this will have a little button band added and some little buttons along the front here and then the other version is just joined at the front so a standard camisole I will insert some photos of the finished samples from the designer so that you can see a little bit better because this is really difficult to show I'm also right in the middle of a row here which isn't the best way to show you this but I really fell in love with the fastened version of this top because the designer finishes hers with these little tiny pearls up the front so I've actually purchased some little pearls and some um hook and eyes which is what she has used to hold the top together with those pearls and I believe there are instructions in the pattern for exactly how she did that so I'm really hoping that I can execute that and make my fastened version look the same as hers because I really fell in love with how that looked so this is another top down construction you cast on here at the back neck and there is a little bit of shoulder shaping and you work of course the back panel then and there is some shaping for the underarms and from there you pick up from the shoulders to make the straps and you then work some shaping to form the front of the neck and the underarm shaping again so at the moment I am just working in pattern for the body so I've still got quite a way to go you can see this is still quite short and this will when it's blocked expand out so I'm anticipating that I will need to knit this longer than I want it because I'm going to lose some of that length as it expands out when I block it once the body is finished I will then need to I believe there is a finishing for the armhole and there is definitely some finishings for the neckline and the button band portion here so I'm really enjoying working on this so far the deadline is in June I can't remember the exact date but I'm pretty confident that I will have it finished before that deadline and I'm so excited to have this finished for the summer to be able to wear this through those summer months let's talk about the yarn I'm using the recommended yarn which is the knitting for olive pure silk and I have been wanting to try this for a very very long time it is definitely more on the pricier side but I just really wanted to give this a go because I've heard a lot about it I've heard mixed opinions about this and some people seem to absolutely love it some people don't seem to really like it but I am really enjoying working with this so far and lots of people say that this is quite hard on their hands when they're working with it and I have found that it makes my hands feel very dry I am more of an oily skinned person I don't particularly get dry skin but this makes my hands feel so dry I'm getting through so much hand cream working on this so I definitely have to take breaks but other than that I am really enjoying how this yarn actually feels in the hands and how the finished fabric looks and how it's working up in this lovely lace design and so far I do think that it is a yarn that I would like to use again obviously I will make my decision fully on that once I have finished the top and get to wear it and I should mention the shade this is in the shade haze which is a really light grey colour it is yet another grey um I did want a different colour I can't remember the name of the shade I can't remember there's some really lovely really light beigey colours which is not any more adventurous than a light grey but all of those colours were out of stock when I was looking to purchase this so I ended up going with this which I love just as much it is a very um yeah just a very light grey is the only way I can describe it and I purchased three balls of this to make this top which should be enough so I'm on the second so I have quite a lot left of this second ball and you can see I am quite a way through the body so this should be more than enough for me to finish this top and I am working this on 3.25 millimetre needles to meet gauge so I've sized up one needle size versus what is recommended to meet the gauge so I have just one more work in progress to talk about and here it is this is the tolster tee and this is a pattern by Rebecca Clow so this is a cast on for the neck ribbing which of course you can see I haven't done but we'll come to that a little bit later from there you then work some short rows to raise the back neck and you work your raglan increases and from there you would separate for the sleeves and knit the body and the sleeves so it's a very simple design but in true Rebecca Clow fashion you do get a lot for your money when you purchase this pattern so you receive instructions to knit a DK weight t-shirt a fingering weight t-shirt as well and then for both of those you receive instructions to knit long sleeves onto your garment so you're getting four in one really for the price of the pattern and you do get a separate pdf with lots of ideas for how you might want to modify your t-shirt this is actually my second time knitting this pattern so I have knit a DK version of this before and I modified mine to have an eyelet pattern as well and it's in a lovely cotton yarn so it's a really lovely um airy summer type of t-shirt this time around I am making the fingering weight version and as you can see this doesn't have any finishing for the neckline yet so what I have done is just cast on the amount of stitches that is stated for my size and instead of working the ribbing I went straight into the short rows and the raglan increases so my plan is to actually go back and pick up stitches around this neckline I won't be leaving it like this and I want to work a rolled stockinette neckline rather than a ribbed neckline I could have just worked on the neckline first instead of the one by one rib and then gone into the pattern so I wouldn't have to go back and pick up stitches but I couldn't decide whether I would need the same amount of stitches that's required for the ribbing or because one by one ribbing tends to cinch in a little bit will I need less stitches and will I need to go down an extra needle size and I just couldn't be bothered to work it out so I think the best thing to do is to actually go back and pick the stitches up and add the neckline in and if it isn't looking quite right I can rip it out and experiment with what looks the best and it's also a problem for me to think about another day so at the moment I am just enjoying working the body so you can see that I've split for sleeves and I'm working on the body here the plan when I get to the end of the body is just to do that one by one ribbing on the body and I haven't decided what to do on the cuffs for the sleeves whether to do a rolled stockinette edge to match the neckline or to do one by one rib or I could do a tiny portion of one by one rib with a little rolled stockinette edge I think that's my preferred option at the moment but I'll decide when we get to that point I have been absolutely flying through this project I really really enjoy working a raglan it is probably my favorite construction to work on I find it so mindless and I also find that I have a lot of success with raglan sweaters and t-shirts in terms of how they fit me they just seem to suit my body shape so I'm hoping that this will have a nice fit as well I have however just got to the end of a skein of yarn and I actually need to wind up a new hank before I can carry on knitting so that's holding me back at the moment because I need to set up my ball winder and swift but that moves me really nicely on to talk about the yarn that I'm using so this is another vintage yarn that I acquired on Vinted I've had this sitting in stash for quite a while because it feels quite special and I just wanted to be sure that I was going to use it on a project that I was going to wear and because I had so much success with my previous tolster tee I thought that this was a pretty safe option so although it is just a very plain knit I'm pretty sure that this will be something that I will get a lot of wear out of and I really didn't want to feel like I wasted this yarn this is a yarn by Charles Sykes it is tulip wool it is 100 pure wool made in England that's the only information that comes on skein and this no it's gone and that is what the label looks like hopefully that's focusing in but as I mentioned I've had this in stash for quite a while definitely well over a year and when I first acquired this I did a bit of research and if I'm remembering correctly this is from the 1940s and it was originally marketed as a sock yarn and that's really the only information I could find about it it appears to be around a fingering weight but there is no information about yardage at all and I had two skeins of this so this is what I've got out of the first skein so I'm pretty confident that I will be able to get a t-shirt out of two skeins of this it may be a little bit cropped but I think what I'm going to do now that I'm about to move into my second skein just make sure that I don't run out is work the neckline and then work the sleeves and then with whatever I have left I will work the body and get the body as long as I can and it may end up being a little bit cropped but I do prefer a cropped garment anyway so I'm hopeful that this is going to work out just to loop back to talk about this yarn again there isn't any shade name um on the labels but it seems to be two colors spun together so the base strand is a gray blue and then it's spun with a strand of a darker navy blue so this is what it looks like in the skein and I've been so curious for the whole time this has been sitting in stash as to what this would look like when it's knitted up and I am really really pleased with how this fabric is turning out so this is what the fabric looks like so it's a really um sort of subtle mould effect I always use that word mould and I think that is the correct term for when you have two colors mixed together but I really do like how that looks so I'm looking forward to having this finished and I'm hoping it's something that I will get lots of wear out of I also feel that a wool t-shirt will be a really good piece to have for British springtime because even today the weather is amazing but it's not blisteringly hot and we don't get like really really hot temperatures here especially in the spring so something like this would probably be perfect to wear on a day like today so hopefully it's something I will get lots of wear out of okay so that is everything that I have to speak about today as always if you've made it through to this point of the video thank you very much for watching and I am just realizing again that I forgot to ask what are you working on today one of the things that we love to do here usually at the beginning of the video is to let me know in the comments down below what you have been working on whilst you're watching me speak about your knitting and that is mostly because I'm nosy and I love to know what you're working on but also it gives me inspiration and hopefully it gives other people in the comments inspiration as well and we can all share our knitting projects and talk about them together so if you've made it through to this point in the video do let me know if you've been working on a project today whilst you've watched this video what is that project what yarn are you using and is anybody else getting into their summer knitting at the moment because I am starting to feel like I want to put down all of my walls and I want to start working with cottons and linens and silks again so my next cast on will more than likely be something summery and I'm really looking forward to working with some summer fibres so thank you so much for listening and watching me talk about my knitting today and I hope that I will see you again very very soon. Thank you, bye!