7 Hand Knit Sweaters in 7 Days.

This week we are chatting about seven hand knit sweaters over the next seven days. It is officially sweater weather where I live, which for me means about highs of 10 degrees Celsius and lows around two or three. It's also that little sweet spot where we can wear our hand knit garments or wool garments Outerwear, which is one of my favorite ways to dress. I tend to reach for the same two or three sweaters over and over again. So this week I will challenge myself to dig a little deeper in my closet and pull out some of my less worn knits and share them with you. Today is not that day. I am wearing my petite knit. Cloud sweater. I don't even think this sweater needs an introduction. We all know the cloud sweater. This one is knit in Isayer EcoSoft, held with Isager silk mohair. I believe the EcoSoft is now just called This is one of my favorite blown yarns because the tubing is made of cotton. So if you don't know what a blown yarn is, essentially it's a woven tubing that they blow the wool fibers into. So in this case they have blown alpaca fibers into cotton tubing. So many blown yarns are actually a synthetic tubing which I don't really love. So quite nice that this is all natural materials incorporated into this sweater. So it is a drop shoulder, it's got a little pearl detail on the shoulder pickup, and the arm pickup. It's got a little funnel rolled neck, and the bind-offs are A little few rows of ribbing with just a rolled hem, quite a bit faster than an Italian bind-off, which is quite nice for this sweater. I have talked on my channel before about how blown yarn is not my favorite. I don't think that it wears quite as nicely as some of my other yarns over a long time. However, I have worn this sweater a lot. It's one of my favorite Cozy, home, comfy sweaters. So we are going to go. Get a coffee today, quite nice to have zero plans in the schedule so I will be cozy in my sweater just currently styled with some cotton sweatpants. However when we do go out I will throw on some sort of over layer, a ball cap and probably a pair of jeans and boots. So this is my petite knit cloud sweater. Welcome to the home of my future knitting and sewing studio. It is day two and I am wearing my sweater number 14 v-neck. This is a pattern by My Favorite Things Knitwear which I knit in early 2026. I believe I used the recommended yarn which is Knitting for Olive Merino held with Knitting for Olive Soft Silk Mohair two strands. So the Merino I used Dusty Artichoke and one strand of Mohair was Dusty Artichoke and the second was Fennel Seed. And it created this really nice sort of lightweight fluffy fabric. I wouldn't necessarily say it's dense. Or squishy, because it was knit on a 5mm needle. When I purchased the yarn to knit the sweater, I was in a bit of a knitting lull, and I just went down to my local yarn shop. And just pick this up and took it home and it knit up really quickly, which is probably just what I needed on that five millimeter needle. Kind of forgotten about this one because by the time I finished it, I think I wore it a little bit and then it was time to pack away my sweater. So quite happy to pull this one out this morning and put it on. I'm just wearing it over top of a little cotton base layer that I wear underneath almost Almost all of my knits. So as I said, I'm hoping that this will be my future sort of yarn, knitting, sewing studio. It is a room in our house that's really lovely, but we've never really been able to figure out what to do with it. I pulled these shelves out of storage last night, so I had these shelves made when I had a small gallery space selling ceramics. And they are perfect for this space. They've been sitting in storage for a couple years. And I was quite pleased when I just connected the dots and decided to hang them up in here last night. They are... Still quite dusty and dirty from being in storage, so my fun little task this afternoon is to take off my knitting and sewing belongings and give it a really good clean. And then probably going through some of my knitting stuff and picking my most sort of favorite things or tools and yarn that I'm really interacting with at the moment and then have it on this shelf. It certainly isn't solving my yarn storage issues that are currently happening in my But it is a start, and I have the idea of getting perhaps a cedar trunk or chest that I can store Ziploc bags of yarn in somewhere where I know where they are and they're easy to access. But... They're sealed away and safe, and you can't necessarily see them, which would be nice. And then in this room, I also want to make myself a little swatch board, so maybe we'll get to that this week. For today, I'm just cleaning off these shelves, and I'm cozy at home in my sweater number 14 v-neck, a pattern by My Favorite Things Knitwear. It is day three. I said I was gonna dig deep and I did. This is my sweater number 25. It is a pattern by My Favorite Things Knitwear. I knit this one in the recommended yarn, which is three strands of Isager yarn. It is their tweed, their silk mohair, and their alpaca too, which created this really mottled fabric that has quite a lot of variation and texture, heathering, and different colors in it, which is Quite an interesting fabric. I believe this one was knit on a 6mm needle, so it knit up very quickly. It is very oversized. I could certainly do with shortening the sleeves. A few other things about this sweater that have contributed to it being my least worn sweater and probably my biggest knitting flop project so far. Number one is the color. The color was really popular when this sweater first came out, so much so that the Isser tweed and the lime color was often sold out in Canada. I finally got my hands on it and knit the sweater without thinking too much about whether or not I like to wear this color. Have I ever had this color in my wardrobe? Is it something I reach for or am attracted to in stores? The answer to all of that is probably no. So unfortunately, this just isn't a color that That I gravitate towards. The second thing I don't love about this sweater is that it's very kind of floppy and oversized and I think that's because of the yarn combination on that six millimeter needle. It's just sort of an unsupported or unstructured fabric and because of that I find on places where the sweater sort of hangs off my body so my shoulders and the neckline I find the stitches look like they're opening up a little. A bit too much under the weight of the garment itself being so large. So I probably could have done with going down a needle size on this one. I think those are my two biggest gripes with this one. The color and the floppy sort of oversized unstructured feeling of it. I am just hanging around home today. I've got a little bit of computer work. I'm working on my own knitting pattern which I want to spend some time on. But I think I will challenge myself to put together an outfit for this. I'm sure I'll get out of the house at some point and I'll try and wear this in an outfit. And just see if it's something that I can maybe find a way to feel good in. It is again my sweater number 25 by My Favorite Things Knitwear. From my least favorite to my most favorite, it is day four and I am wearing my sweater number 11 light. This is another pattern by My Favorite Things Knitwear. I guess I've knitted a lot of My favorite things knitwear patterns. This is the first time I knit a sweater not in the recommended yarn in my knitting journey. This one is knit in Isager tweed held with KFO silk mohair and it is my favorite hand knit garment that I've made so far. So let's talk about why. One, the size of it. It's oversized. But it's not like I'm not swimming in it and I feel like the fabric itself is quite lightweight so it can carry itself in contrast to my sweater number 25 that I showed yesterday. This one's got beautiful twisted rib finishings which I think just feel a little bit more refined. This one has a detail on the shoulder pickup. That, I think, is nicer. The number 25 just sort of tries to pick up and have it be invisible. But I personally always prefer having a little bit of a line running down the shoulder. I think the gauge on this one, obviously, is finer. I think this one was knit in on a four millimeter needle. I have to run out and get some groceries. And this is actually one of my favorite sweaters to wear under my favorite outerwear as well. Just layer this underneath a puffer jacket and I quite like the two of them together so that is what I'm going to wear when we go out and get some groceries this morning. And this is my sweater number 11 light by My Favorite Things Knitwear, my favorite knit garment thus far. I am currently wearing my Brady Loop sweater. This is a pattern by Other Loops. I knit this one in Cardiff Cashmere and Isager Silk Mohair. It is what I refer to as my most luxurious knit. It is very soft. It is very lightweight. It's a beautiful combination of yarns. I believe this sweater calls for fingering plus lace. However, this is technically a sport plus lace. And I love the weight that it's created for this Let's talk a little bit about the design features of this sweater so it's got a vertical stripe created through like this wide rib pattern and then it's got this cable that runs across the back and down the sleeves and I really love the way the decreases are worked against the cable and it's got a folded over collar with a little row of purl stitches that runs around and this is one of my My neatest. Collars and it must just have something to do with the combination of yarn because I didn't do anything different and I just find the ribbing looks so neat in this fiber content. We are headed to my dad's birthday dinner tonight so I'm just wearing this with a cotton base layer and a pair of really well worn in soft comfortable jeans and my little comfy winter sandals which which I will take with me. So I am very cozy, very comfy. Headed for a family dinner. I believe we're having chili and I'm sure there'll be birthday cake. And I'm just cozy in my Brady loop, other loop pattern, which I think is actually like a really nice sweater. If you're looking for something that can be dressed up or dressed down, because it does have some of these like finer design details incorporated on it. I do find it is something that feels a little bit special. So quite nice to pull it out this evening. She's having my family dinner. There I am. We got there. Oh look at those little guys. I want to take your picture though. I was going to send it back for you. How come there's a knife with these? They're one biters aren't they? Hello. Welcome to day six. Today I'm wearing my Sevilla blouse. This is a pattern by Petite Knit. This is cotton linen and viscose blend. I knit it in Sandnes Garn lean held with tin lean in the morning mist colorway. This summer was the first time I used Just the lean line of. Yarns and in this colorway, it became like a real summer favorite for me. I think it's a great mid-tone beige I'm just wearing it over top of a little cotton tank I did talk this summer about feeling like these fibers Don't have a lot of structure and it sort of felt like the neckline kept stretching out However, every once in a while I just throw it in the washing machine in the dryer and it seems to just tighten the fibers back up and I'm quite happy with it now. So at the beginning of this video I talked about It being the right weather to wear wool. However, today I'm going up for a little knitting hangout with a group of friends up in Comox and my friend is very kindly making a pot of chicken soup for us which just sounds so lovely but I have a feeling that I may get a little bit hot in. Like knitting in someone's house with a group of friends eating soup. So I've decided to wear cotton today with a little base layer that I can take this off if I need to. This is my Sevilla blouse. I'm just wearing it with a pair of jeans. It is just a great little throw-on layer. I think it's a nice opportunity to wear a bit of a statement necklace. Not that this is much of a statement, but it's just a nice easy piece to have in my wardrobe. I do think the pattern Does leave a little room for some better shaping. There's no shoulder shaping, I guess. So I did learn a little bit making this one about different types of drop shoulders and different ways to um draft or design the slope of your shoulder. But overall, I'm really happy with this one. It's my Sevilla blouse by PetiteKnit. Right Yeah, I tried to back up. so We made it to day 7. I am wearing my cardigan number 8. right This is a pattern by My Favorite Things Knitwear. I have a lot of My Favorite Things Knitwear sweaters and I think I just gravitated towards her patterns when I first started out knitting and I made a number of them and a lot of them are still some of my favorites to wear. This one is knit up in Isager Aran Tweed Tweed in the color sand and Isager silk mohair has created this lovely sort of tweedy. Beige fabric, so easy to wear, so easy to combine in different outfits. This one is pretty oversized, and it's interesting to think about why I like the oversized feeling of this one, but I don't like the green one, and I think it just boils down to this fabric is denser and has more structure and can kind of hold its shape, whereas the green one is really kind of floppy, which is a nice reflection moving forward, deciding what to make and what type of gauge I should look for. I just used a little tortoise shell or faux tortoise shell button I purchased off Etsy for this sweater. It did take me quite a while to figure out a mohair color that I liked with this Aran tweed. I think I just used. what was left over from my cloud sweater. So I believe the color is number six and the Aran tweed is in the sand colorway. I don't think there's much more I can say about this one. It does have that nice sort of shoulder detail and again just like the boxy structured fit that I find very easy to wear. I had fun making this video. Mike and I are just headed out to the annual potluck dinner for our community garden group, which should be fun. We are bringing Greek potatoes. It is Saturday night and it'll be nice to get this video out to you. I hope you enjoyed. I hope you had fun seeing my sweaters. I know I had fun pulling them out and making different outfits out of them and I really appreciate you watching. So thanks so much for being here and we'll see you next week. Bye.