Leela top + Lakes Stripe Tee tests and progress on *THE* skirt – knitting podcast ep. 24

00:00 Intro
01:50 Leela Top test for Caidree
18:27 Lakes Stripe Tee test for Ozetta
31:20 THE self-drafted skirt 🙂
45:34 Update on the Arctic Morning Blanket
51:53 Life and climbing holidays
53:06 Outro and thank you
56:31 Climbing footage

..-° INSTAGRAM °-.
@millahism.tinks https://www.instagram.com/millahism.tinks/

.-° WHAT I’M WEARING °-.
Leela top test knit for Caidree, will be published in July 2024
Yarn : Pernelle by Natissea in Vert Forêt https://natissea.com/categorie-produit/fils/pernelle/

Mentioned : Soho top by Caidree https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/soho-top-2
Sabai Top by Paula Strickt https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sabai-top
Half hitch bind off tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvNao1Asuvc
Yarn for the next Leela Top : Aestiva by Lanivendole in Poseidone https://lanivendole.com/en/products/aestiva-88/

.-° FINISHED OBJECTS °-.
Lakes stripes test knit for Ozetta, will be published in June 2024
Yarn : Trio 2 by Isager in Granite and Green Tea https://isagerstrik.dk/en/product/trio-2-2/?attribute_pa_color=granite-en

.-° WORKS IN PROGRESS °-.
Self-drafted skirt design. Test call coming at the end of June on my Instagram !
Yarn : Candide by De Rerum Natura in Grand Bleu https://www.dererumnatura.fr/fr/fils/222-candide.html
Yarn for the next sample : Seide Lace by Sidispinnt in Earl Grey https://sidispinnt.ch/?product=seide-lace-2&lang=en

.-° MEASUREMENTS °-.
Height : 169 cm / 5’6’’
Upper bust circumference : 85 cm / 33.5”
Bust circumference : 80 cm / 31’’
Chest circumference (under bust) : 70 cm / 27.5”
Waist circumference : 65 cm / 5.5”
Bicep circumference : 26 cm / 10.25”

[Music] hi my name is Maya and welcome to the episode 24 of the m s nitic podcast where I share all my thoughts process and other random stuff about all things fiber related but mostly detail so today is the 6th of June 2024 and I’m coming to you from the French speaking part of Switzerland where I live with my gecko you can find me on Instagram as mil. things and you can find Links of everything I talk about down in the description box below as well as my measurements if you are interested so uh today we have uh I need a lot because I was on holiday last week I mean for the last two weeks kind of so yeah I have a lot to show I have two finished objects the two of them are test nits this is the first one and the second one is the leg stripe for oeta leg stripe te and I have a work in progress which if you know you know it’s the skirt and I have an update on a very long-term project which is the big color blanket so if you know you know so yeah that’s it for today I don’t have any Acquisitions um I was on holiday basically in the middle of nowhere so there were not really yarn shops to go to and yeah maybe I will do a little update on the holidays at the end but we will see if we have the time so let’s get right into it the first thing is what I’m wearing oh I love it so much so this is the look at the drape anyway this is the L top I test it for kri and it was published two days ago so the 4th of June so if you haven’t seen it yet run don’t work because this is really really lovely um I need the size two on 3.25 mm needles or rather 3.5 for the flat section and 3.25 on the in round section but more on that later and the yarn I used is perel by natia which is a French brand and perel is a 100% hemp blend which is kind of surprising to use because when you get it in the skin form it’s like super rough and you’re like I can eat a bag with that but not clothe it’s really surprising but yeah when I bought it it was at the at the booth at the swisson festival so I could touch a Swatch and it was so soft so I was sold and I bought the yarn and I can confirm it really really really really softens up a lot with washing and yeah this is already it’s kind of rougher than like cotton for now but I know with washing it’s going to get even softer and softer and softer over time so I just can’t wait to see how this fiber leaves over time and yeah it’s already has a lovely drape as you can tell and yeah it’s lovely it’s the colorway ver for which is Green Forest I used um I bought two skins and I used almost everything basically I just stopped when I didn’t have enough yarn to complete another repeat like gter section stocking it section gter stocking it and I have this much left so this is like I don’t even know maybe nine G and what I’m planning to do with this I would like to knit a small Swatch yes I’m knitting a Swatch after I knit the carment whatever um to need a small Swatch like maybe probably this size it will end up I think and I would like to try to throw the Swatch in the washing machine in the normal cycle like 30 de and see what it becomes maybe it will soften up more like faster and maybe it will give me a good Insight on if I can actually put this in washing machine with my other normal clothes or if I need to put it in the delicate cycle with the other wo I have so yeah I can try it out with the leftover I have and it’s excellent because I don’t like having this type of small leftovers in random uh fibers because yeah I have like a grand granny strip blanket for my Marino Island wools but this is not wool so I cannot put that in the blanket so perfect use more on that in the next episode so subscribe if you want to see more anyway um the modifications I did to the pattern I did I think three so the first one is that I added one pattern repeat this is the front so you can see I have like one section two three I cannot see and then the fourth is when the underarm Caston happens and on the back I have one more uh this is because the back is longer than the front on a human body it’s exactly the same as when you add short RS to the back neck of a like a wagon or a round yolk except this is not a like you need the front and the back separately and I just wanted to maybe it’s easier to see this time no yeah you can see here it’s sitting nicely on my back and if I hadn’t done the modifications it would be like this which is which is a look but I don’t like it and you can actually tell in the pattern pictures on rivalry there is I think one picture from the back and it’s definitely fitting like this and yeah so I just wanted to avoid that and now it’s in sitting nicely at the top of my back which I really like and to avoid having two big arm holes because I added length to the back I did shter straps and it’s working like a charm I think I’m really happy super pleased and it was such an easy modification to do so I really recommend to do it if you ever need this pattern um please note that I need the um thin straps version but a lot of testers did uh wider straps to be B friendly obviously I don’t have a bra so I don’t have really have this concern but a lot of testers did and kri Sabina did add the modification to the pattern so you have the choice between thin straps and wider straps and there is one person that actually directly sew the back panel to the front panel like this I I can show you yeah like this so they are directly connected and it’s looking really nice actually it makes me think of the I think it’s called the Sabai Top by po strict she’s German so I guess it’s strict which is actually kind of similar to this and I don’t really like the feeling of this touching my neck but I guess if you need a bigger size and the both neck comes a little bit further on the shoulders maybe maybe you could do that and it looks really nice on her so yeah that’s another possibility and that’s it for the top yes for the bottom I shorten uh the body it’s supposed to be I don’t know I don’t even know I just as I mentioned I just stopped when I didn’t have any arm left so it’s definitely cropped my belly button is here and I modified the Hem because the pattern instructs you to do ribbing like one by one ribbing for maybe 1 cm I don’t know and and I’m not sure about that because I feel this is very personal of course I feel like using ribbing in a design that has already Stripes of gter is a missed opportunity to not use ribbing I just don’t like ribbing for some reason in summer garments um so yeah I swapped that and I did the same G stripe as the rest of the texture and I did I think two rows of stocking net so knit stitches and I used a half half how that how’s that called half hitch half hitch seone bind off which is kind of a Kitchener Stitch but you only do half of it that’s a really bad explanation I will link a video tutorial in the in the description box but basically it’s a seone bind off and it mimics the longtail Caston so here I did the long tail castone and here it’s the half hitge so bind off so it does the same but unlike the long T cast on the half hitch kind of is very stretchy like very stretchy which is kind of surprising so I actually had to tighten all the stitches after I had sewn it which was a little bit annoying but yeah and it did this really nice very stretchy uh ending which I’m really happy about and I much prefer this than the ribbing but you do you there is one thing I wish I had done is that I when you do the gter sections the gauge is a little bit bigger because gter just has a bigger Stitch gauge than stocking net and when you do like stocking net gter stocking net it doesn’t really change anything to the gauge in itself because the stocking net will tighten everything after you enlarg the gauge but here on the last one there is no I mean I did two rows of toing net but it’s not enough to really pull in the larger gauge of the gter so that’s why I have this kind of riing effect it’s not only because of the of the bind off that’s a very stretchy it’s also because the just the gter is not getting pulled in by another stockinet panel so I have this something which I’m not here which I don’t really like and I wish I had done the last gter section on the small needle that’s recommended for the ribbon that would have solved the problem uh the G section and the last two stocking RS but I didn’t and now I have to undo the sound bind off to redo this so I don’t know if I’m going to do it or not we will see I will just uh see how this wears over time because plant fibers can move a lot a lot more than wool does so we’ll just see how it how it changes but yeah now it’s not bothering me too too much anyway there is one thing that I don’t like about the pattern that I also wish I had changed it’s this on some sizes like you have the gter stripe gter stripe and you are doing the underarm Caston in the middle of a g stripe so you have a like a curvy effect that’s happening because the iord edge you have here is kind of pulling the stitches to the top but when you switch to not having the iot edge it starts changing a little bit tensioning and you get a curve and I just don’t like it I think it’s a case where I would have preferred to have a little bit of a discrepancy between the sizing uh length and have the sizes that have the under AR Caston happening in the middle of a gast stripe be either a little bit shorter or a little bit longer to avoid having the connection in the middle of that stripe and not have this curing effect uh then prioritizing PRI priority what prioritizing prioritizing whatever something uh the dimension over the look of the texture but again that’s my opinion um it’s only happening for two sizes I think maybe yeah size two and another one I don’t know which one but yeah um I don’t I did did mention this in the feedback form um I sent to kri Sabina uh and I don’t know if she took that in in account for the for the published design because we didn’t receive the updated pattern I think so I don’t know Maya from the future forgot something uh the pattern the L top is not size inclusive um it only fits up to bust 132 I think CM so yeah uh that’s not great however it’s super easy to modify um you have a few things to do it’s not like just add more stitches here but super easy still so if you are in the biggest size range um really just message me and I’ll help you if you need some help to size up um I can do that for you so yeah that’s my take on knitting something not SI inclusive but still allowing people uh to knit it if you want to and are not in the size range let’s go back to the present uh you can find for once I did a rivalry project page um my name on rivalry is like milis I think not milis things and you can find all the details there written out and even more I went really I’m kind of lengthy when I write stuff down so yeah there are a lot of informations there if you’re interested and yeah I recommend going there uh check it out I also have some indications on the gauge I had with this yarn because my gauge is a little bit too big um which is not a problem for the test because I’m still within the uh positive ease range for my size my bus size so it’s fine but yeah I have a gauge that’s a little bit bigger yeah I mentioned I use a different needle size for the top than the bottom and that’s because I tend to knit tighter flat because I tighten my Pur CS a lot more which is unusual uh yeah so I switched to a smaller needle went in the round but I think I kind of loosened up along the way because I have this kind of flaring out which is happening here and I think it’s because my gauge is a bit bigger here than here because I just uh I just relaxed as I was knitting it so I think it’s it’s not helping the little fling thing here I don’t know it’s not it’s not a big deal it’s just something I noticed all that to say that I really love really really love this design um it’s funny because when I applied for the testnet uh it was mainly because I have two Soo tops um which I which are by the same designer they are basically this design but in um DK W and old gter and I love them but I never wear them because they are too for a lot of reasons but one of the reasons is that they are too heavy and too hot for hot weather and I just prefer something in fingering weight so I jumped on the occasion when the test scod for this came out but I didn’t really care for the striping and the texture I was like yeah whatever I don’t like Stripes famous last words but uh yeah I wanted the the Garment for the shape and the weight of the yarn so I applied anyway but now that I have it I just find it so gorgeous I really think the texture is awesome and I like the way you have the gter stripes that’s stopping at the underarm so you don’t have the weird connection at the beginning of the round that’s not like that’s like offset because of the way you knit and yeah I just like the small details there are in this design it’s just really lovely I really really recommend it it’s such a simple knit it goes so fast and yeah and for the nobr girles like me it’s like the best because I’m not flashing anyone when I lean forward which is so precious so yeah I really recommend it it’s really lovely and I’m actually already planning to need the second one in the yarn I originally plan to use for this one but I didn’t but because I couldn’t get cage um so this is the first Swatch this is the Y is by L in the and it’s a little bit crinkled because I took it in my suitcase on holiday but yeah this is the Swatch and it’s the same texture but in a very very much lighter yarn this is almost 200 g it’s 185 I think and I think I can get away with 50 gr of this yarn for the same design which will be very interesting but this one has wool so it’s still going to be warmer than this one so yeah and probably going to cast this one this week or next week and I’m super excited I just love knitting this so much I’m super happy to have the opportunity and the Yar under my hand to need another one so soon yes anyway so yeah I think that’s all for this one I really like it really recommend it and it’s yeah it’s an easy knit quick knit go for it you won’t be disappointed I promise um anyway so that’s it for this one my second object is not blocked so it looks a little bit weird but it’s another test net I did this time for ozetta OA Haley and it’s the legs stripe te wow it looks so cool as I mentioned this is unblocked so it has the signature uh saddle sh construction and it’s a tea with stripes like yeah whatever I don’t like Stripes famous last words so yeah I need this using uh is trio2 which is a linen cotton lioel blend in two colorways so they are granite and green tea which is kind of a purpley blue and uh green they go so well together I’m so happy about the cover Choice uh yeah so I finished this and you know what’s funny this is lighter than this as I mentioned this is what like 180 gram and this is I think 170 G so it’s a little bit lighter even though it’s a t-shirt with sleeves and everything and yeah just found it funny so I test it size two I used three .25 mm needles which is a little bit smaller than they recommended and I need this during my holidays so it was all perfect knitting for the holidays but not really not completely because I still had to manage the two bowls because I didn’t cut my yarn between the stripes um I carried the floats between them so the Y management was a little bit painful but I did it anyway so it worked I’m just going to try now instead of doing this wow I’m so happy yeah so this is my leg Stripes it’s not blocked again it’s going to uh like stretch out a little bit and it’s super cropped as I always do as I like and it’s looking lovely so my shoulders and I’m going to go into the modifications but yeah this is how it how it fits how it looks so lovely I’m so happy anyway so the modifications um as I mentioned I need size two but I need size three for the back panel which but only for the Stitch count which doesn’t make a huge difference because they are like three stitches differ because um in the latest episode I mentioned like why would you do another pattern to just add strip to an existing design which is the Le T and I’m eating my words because there is a big difference actually everything is uh designed and graded to fit the Stitch the row counts for the stripes so for example the Saddles are the same uh length for the first like three sizes and then you get one more pattern stripe for the next three sizes and then another pattern stripe for the next last three sizes which makes it a completely different grading than the Le T without the stripes so really there is a big difference between the two patterns know that and yeah I so I need the size two which is in the middle of the range for the smaller saddle and I tend to have fit issues on my back so um I discussed this with um Haley and she mentioned I could maybe use this Stitch count of size three on the back to get a little bit more room um and I also figured maybe I could use the row count but no because then my stripes wouldn’t have match at the underarm if I used the different size for the front and the back so I couldn’t however I still did add um more length to the back as I always do apparently um because if I hadn’t done that the fold I mean if the front and the back were exactly the same length the fold on the shoulder would happen exactly in the middle of the saddle and then the color would be too high I mean I would get the same issue as the uh the lat top I showed you the front would be a bit too hide it would be like this which is fine on the look but I it’s touching my neck too much I don’t like it and on the back it would sit like this which is okay but it’s just better like this I think which is why I added more length here which gave me a bigger armhole that I couldn’t just make Shor straps like in the L top to to compensate so I just have bigger armholes so I picked up the correct amount of stitches for my armhole and I decreased down to the size two sleeves using a gussette at the underarm you can see it’s here which looks perfectly fine I think so that’s a trick if you tend to have problem like Feit issues in the shoulders and you tend to need a bigger size for the shoulders uh you can just do getts it also works for the body I have done it in in another sweater I have getts at the underarm and here just below the underarm castom and it works like a charm so this is what I did and it’s going to look even better when it’s blocked uh so yeah it’s perfect um another modification is of course I cropped it a lot I think it’s supposed to go like down here and I did fold it over edges instead of ribbing because again I don’t like ribbing in summer garments I don’t know why uh in this case it’s a twisted rib like half Twisted rib but doesn’t change anything I don’t like it so I did this um and I did the little trick of having a just a pop of color at the fold so this is the same size stripe as this but I have the sewing line of the of the folded of hem that’s showing and I have the same on the sleeves here and on the color for the color I was a little bit worried it was going to like do this but too much and actually it’s fine pretty happy I used the same Stitch count as the ribbon Cola hoping it would work and it did uh please note that for the body and hem ribbings no no ribbings folded H I used the body needle like the big needle until I did a p roll here on the fold so I used the bigger needle until the Pearl row Pearl row including the Pearl row and then I switch to the recommended needle for the ring which is in my case two sizes smaller so 2.75 instead of the three that’s in the pattern and I use the smaller needle for all the reverse part of the folded hem which helps to avoid having the Hem flaring out and I also I think I knit five rows on the inside and I sew down the live stitches I didn’t bind off because the bind off gives a bulk and when you sew it down it can just accentuate the folding effect like this because it’s bulky and it’s not stretchy usually so I just don’t bind off and I se down the life stitches and I sew them six rows higher which means that the inside part of my hem is smaller than the outside which means it’s pulled in instead of fling out so the fling out um won’t always happen but I have found that it happens too much for me to take the risk so I just St the different options I have to avoid the Flaming out so some of them are using smaller needles for the inside of the Hem sewing the stitches one row higher than the number of rows you actually knit or decrease the number of stitches after the fold uh usually I just pick two out of those three options and this time I picked the smaller needle and the skipping one row because I found that if you decrease the number stitches that means you have to sew the stitches to a different number of stitches um on the fabric so you have to skip one stitch on the fabric every 10 for example if you decrease one stitch every 10 Stitch you have to skip one stitch every 10 Stitch when you sew and I just can’t remember to do that so I always M mess up my Stitch count and the Hem starts to get a little bit biased and it’s annoying so I just picked the other two for this time and it’s working like a charm I don’t have any like flaring out anywhere and it’s looking super nice and I’m so happy looks so clean and fresh and I like it uh yeah so um for the color though I use only the smaller needle for the whole thing I didn’t use the bigger needle for the first I mean for the top part and then switch to smaller I just use the smaller for the pickup for the outside and for the inside of the folded over ham and it’s looking perfect so yeah and it if it still fls out after blocking I can still add an elastic inside it so everything perfect I’m so excited uh yeah so that’s it for this one I think oh yeah um I had a lot of leftovers because I had I used I think two ballls and a little bit of the third for the base color and I used one bowl and a little bit of a second for the contrast so I have exactly I think exactly 85 gr left of each which is funny uh so I’m left with like a lot of leftover and I not sure what to do it and I’m not sure I want another stripe stripey thing but it’s too small to use in itself so I would probably need to pair them so I don’t know I’ve been thinking maybe I can do like a a cami with iner and having one side be one color and the other side be another color so that it gets a different look than the stripes but I still can compare those two beautiful colors together I don’t know um if you have suggestions I’m taking them no Stripes but using small amounts of fingering weight some y this yarn Feels So Fresh it’s so it’s difficult to describe but it’s like it’s like when it’s slightly damp so it has a like a cool touch but it’s not damp it’s just that the the fiber feels cooling I don’t know it’s really amazing I really like it anyway um I just removed this and I can show you uh saddle shoulders are known to have a lot of ends to weave in afterwards and saddle shoulders with stripes is even worse so I have a lot of small ends kind of hanging around everywhere and yeah I W most of them as I went um but I still have a lot of yeah yeah it’s the kind of Finishing Touch I don’t like to do as I mentioned I carried my floats uh doing between stripes and you can see the floats here I think I did a good job I mean you can kind of see it on the right side but it’s not obvious either it’s here I think I did a good job and this should block out so nice so that’s it for my two completed test NS I think I’m going to no not I think I’m going to block this and wear it in the next episode so if you want to see um a very polished finished look of how this will be after blocking stay tuned um yeah so now let’s go into my work in progress which is as I me as I mention mentioned the skirt and I’m just now realizing I forgot something wa so this skirt is a self-drafted design that I need I don’t know two years ago I don’t remember and I just love it so much it’s um it’s it’s this it’s a super lovely uh skirts like a skater skater Style with a lot of flare um if I hold it upside down it looks like this so it’s not a circle but almost and this is the first sample I knit and this one is knit using antigon by the natural which is 100% L and I cast on the second sample uh because I’m planning to publish the design uh soonish uh yeah so I just wanted to KN another one and this new sample includes pockets and here we are so it’s completely scrunched on the needle but I promise there are pockets and they are here look wait if I can find it hi it’s a pocket yeah so uh this one is n using CID by durum Natura which is a cotton and wool blend and it’s super soft uh which was very important for me because the waist this is the waistband is um close to the body and something that’s like cinched to me needs to be extremely soft otherwise I just can’t stand it so this is one of the only I mean I haven’t tried a lot but this is one uh cotton blend Yar wool coton blend yarn that works for me so I wanted to try that and it has uh specifications for like the color is gone blue it has specifications uh saying it’s like sport weight but I’m knitting this on 4.5 mm I like a DK gauge I I don’t even know and yeah it’s going super fast this one I think the gauge is maybe 23 stitches and this one I am very happy to report that I have no idea about the gauge or the Stitch counts I have on my needles no clue because you don’t need that it’s a type of pattern that you knit uh two measurements and you literally just choose needle based on the fabric if you like the fabric you get then just use the needles use those needles and just cast on follow the instructions and you will get a skirt you don’t need to count the stitches you don’t need to do any calculations you don’t need to pre-planned stuff or whatever just need so yeah it’s like uh the muscle BW hats except you you don’t need to measure your gauge to calculate the finished pie you want to get just NE and yeah I’m super happy it worked my ID worked so um yeah it’s just a recipe kind of that you follow and you can get this doesn’t look like a skirt at all I should have put it on bigger needles or uh on the cable but I didn’t I’m going to start writing the pattern um probably this week next week I think um I just came home from holiday so I couldn’t write a pattern while I was away but now I can so I’m going to start now that I have checked that my ID works and I think I’m going to include a lot of instructions on options because first I have decision fatigue and I cannot make my mind on one type of uh like edging for the Hem or Pockets or not or the main thing is that the overall shape of the skirt is going to affect a lot uh how it falls on your body so this one um is kind of I would say it’s not a circle as I mentioned a full circle would be flat Edge like this and then the semicircle so when you unfold it you get a full circle but this one is I would say we are missing one fifth of the semicircle so it’s not I mean it’s hanging nicely and it has the draping effect of those SK skirts but it’s not as much knitting as if you’re knitting the whole circle and this one is not a circle either it’s bigger so if this one was done and I I was holding it like this in front of you you would get the shape with the waistband in the middle and then like this which means if you unfold uh the circle you are going to have ripples because you have more fabric than the area of a circle can take on the floor so you’re going to have a lot of fabric basically and it’s just going to give a lot more of this than with this ship and I just like that so that also means that if you turn on yourself while while wearing the skirt we are definitely going to see your butt which is which is funny also but yeah so this is my second and the third option I want to do is the Full Circle plain circle like um when you fold it in half you’re going to get something flat like this like 180° uh yeah so that’s the three uh option for the for the flaring the the degree of flaring you want uh options for Pockets or no pockets and different options for the Hem I have a few ideas and this one is actually it’s pretty interesting because this one is a row stocking it Edge I have literally done nothing this is just toinette and I used I think a suspended Bindu or something like that or maybe Jenny surprisingly is t a bind off I don’t even know and it’s just a row Edge and it’s not curling because in my experience uh plant-based Yarns don’t curl as much as wool do because they don’t have any memory so once you flatten them out when you block them the first time they’ll just stay there because they have no memory to Cur back into the old position in my experience at least with linen yars so yeah if you are too lazy to do like ribbing at the end or fold folded over hands or whatever eye cord edging and you are using a yarn like this one only when the first time you block it you will have to be really careful about like pinning out the little curse but I think I have washed this this one maybe three times in the washing machine on delicate cycle and I just threw it on the blocking mat I didn’t do anything I just laid down flat to dry and the edge the bottom hem has St like this it’s not curing over again so yeah that will be the first option and then I would probably include a folded over hem anyway and an iord and I would like to try maybe having um applied uh cable Edge and probably also a filled one uh super cute like maybe pep Plum style kind of I don’t know uh I will try those with the swatches but yeah that’s my plan Maya from the future here good thing I haven’t put out the camera yet just wanted to mention that this ribbing for the Hem is not going to be in the pattern because um if you want to knit the way waist band like this you will need to measure your gauge and your waist and count the number of stitches you’re going to cast on and we don’t want that we don’t want to count anything so this is not going to be uh in the design it’s just the way I did it for the first sample I don’t even remember how I did it I think I I winged it I didn’t even measure anything but I’m not going to tell you to wing it in the pattern so this exact thing won’t be there I think probably not who knows yeah I’ll let you go back to the past present Maya lot of options lot of possibilities and super easy and Mindless neit and yeah I’m super excited so I’m going to as I mentioned write the pattern this week or next week I need to find a tech editor I don’t have one because I have never published a pattern uh um and then send this to te edit and then I’m probably going to do a test call at the end of the month of June um and it’s going to happen on Instagram so if you’re interested uh you can follow me there and if you don’t have Instagram leave me a comment we’ll get in touch so that I can give you uh informations on another Channel way device I don’t know so yeah I will also include tutorials because um the waistband is it’s not tricky but it’s a little bit I mean the pattern is so easy that the waistband becomes the most complete part complex part of it because the rest is so easy so I figured it would maybe work for um beginner knits and if you’re a beginner I don’t think you have already done double knit um bands so I’m going to include instructions on that and there were there are a few tips and tricks I can show you to just make your life easier and that’s just easier to explain in the video rather than write it down so yeah that’s Pock it um yeah that’s that and I already actually actually I already filmed the video but I did a mistake while knitting it uh knitting during the video and I didn’t notice until afterwards so this like a mistake in my tutorial and I also realized there is something I could change it’s a little bit detailed it’s just the placement of the beginning of round um that I could change to just make it easier for afterwards so I need to to film them again but it’s fine I learned along the way and yeah but yeah it means I will have to need another sample which is fine because as I mentioned I had already planned it and I already have the yar for it and this one is going to be in lace weight so I have three skins of this absolutely gorgeous gray color and as you can tell this is extremely fine y it’s a lace weight this skin is 800 M it’s CER lace which means silk lace in German um it’s 100% silk and the colorway is all gray and the dyer is CIT I also bought this at the ssan festival and it’s going to be so lovely it’s going to be such a beautiful drape and and yeah I wanted to try out a very different gauge because yeah this one is is like mid gauge mid Decay gauge this one is wored to heavy Decay gauge and this one will be lace weight just want to check my ID if it works in all the gauges and you still don’t have to count your stitches or know your gauge in any gauge um I’m not sure you can go any higher than worsted because then you won’t have a lot of drape in the fabric but if you don’t want drape you can try um it’s probably something I will have to check with the testers if anyone wants to test at a very big gauge um we can try so yeah um oh and of course another um option in the pattern will be of course the length you can just need to whatever length I tend to prefer mid TI mid thigh how do you call the upper part of the leg thigh no thigh thigh uh mid thigh length that’s just what I prefer but uh I’m pretty sure a lot of people prefer like knee length or even um Mid Cal length or if someone really wants to knit a lot you can do ankle length maxi skirt length I don’t know uh we’re going to see in the test it and of course there’s going to be a super long testing period I think I’m going to give three month so until the end of September uh wait July August September yeah end of September so that you have a nice long time to knit the biggest skirt ever if you want to so yeah I think that’s all for this one and I’m extremely excited this one is going like so fast I think I need this in I don’t know but it was super fast however don’t be fooled because uh of course since you are doing a lot of increases on the body of the skirt the more you go the slower it gets until you get to a point where you KN a whole bowl of yarn and you have made like 3 cm progress at the end it gets a little bit difficult but yeah as I mentioned in the latest episode I think uh the trick is to count not the progress you make on the fabric in itself but to count the yarn you use that’s a little bit better psychologically I think so that’s it for this one I’m done for the current work in progress except I can I wanted to talk to you about the blanket do an update on that one it’s my long-term project I’ve been knitting on it since January yes it’s the Arctic morning blanket by Jenice hope and it’s a color work hexi blankets and you knit each hexagon separately and then you sew them all together and it’s beautiful and I’m knitting um using only n and y for my stash and I’m really starting to lose Steam on it I’m just so tired of knitting all those Color Work hexagons uh it was fun until the maybe 15 Oh I thought there was a guy I knew on the road but I don’t think I know know him sorry uh yeah it was fun until the maybe 18th 19th and then suddenly when I hit the 20th I need to need 29 suddenly when I hit the 20th it was like I can’t take it anymore I’m so tired but I’m going to push through I just finished the 24th no 23rd um I did two wow it looks so good on the camera screen so much better than in real life wow this is giving me hope again oh my God it’s amazing um I need two during my holidays and oh my God that so beautiful I’m obsessed maybe I can I can find the courage to to continue I was not planning to stop anyway but yeah uh yeah I sorry I’m I’m having a moment um yeah I finished the 23rd I think I have I don’t even know I have six one two three four five six seven hexis left I’m counting there because I can show you actually welcome to my disgusting living room so this is my my desk yes it’s facing I don’t like having my back on a on the room so it’s facing inside so that I have my back facing the wall so it’s literally in the middle of the living room and this is my sewing machine um and here is what I’m trying to show so this is my TV that I’m obviously not really using a lot and this is half of the blanket so it’s actually how can I show this to you it’s folded and a half here here we have the exactly the same uh display on the other side of the TV and yeah I’m just using this as a design B kind of to just see the placement of my of my hexes so those two are going here but on the other side and yeah so this is half of it I need to do the center hexi I need to do the four that go on this place so the two here and the two on the other side this is the center and I also need two here in the middle uh at the edge of the center so still seven to go 1 2 3 * 2 6 + 1 and yeah it’s beautiful I really like it but but yeah it’s a it’s a lot of knitting and the the motives are different but it’s still always the same yeah still doing a color hexi and yeah I’m getting kind of kind of tired but but I’ll push to I can do it I have calculated that if I continue on the rhythm of one per week until the end of the blanket um I will be done by the end of July so only two months to go I can make it I can do it uh so yeah and also I realized um I had a feeling during this year that I was so slow on my knitting project um I mean it probably doesn’t look like it because I literally finished two garments and I did the beginning of the skirts and everything I need a lot and I need fast but I usually need even more and even faster so I was getting this weird Sensation that I was super slow this year and battery change but uh the thing is I’m actually knitting a lot on something that I cannot wear so that’s why I have this weird feeling of not knitting a lot but still knitting a lot I think I have used um more than a kilo of yarn in this project until now um maybe like 1,200 gram so that’s a lot of yarn to need so yeah I just need to to not forget about all the progress I’m doing on this one wow this motive is beautiful I didn’t realize it anyway so that’s that um and I probably um join the hexis during the month of August unless uh the weather gets crazy and we get a incredible heat waves after heat waves after heat waves like we had the previous years and I don’t want to knit on a huge unspun double strand super warm uh blanket we’ll see maybe I join everything at the beginning of the winter I don’t know but yeah that’s that’s my progress on this one so just a home stretch left I can make it uh yeah so that’s it for the knitting for today um I have I have some footage of my holidays with went climbing into the south of France with my boyfriend we took the the van so he has a like an old Volkswagen T3 collection van it’s older than me so yeah it’s a very very old bus and it’s super cute and yeah it was absolutely perfect everything went well the weather was super nice a little bit too hot but I mean too hot for climbing not too hot for everyday life but when you climb you don’t really want to have um you you the best weather when you climb is kind of 10° cloudy and it was more like 20° very sunny but it was fine and I have some footage I don’t even remember what I filmed um maybe I’ll do a voiceover maybe not I don’t know I’m still a little bit in a holiday mode with my brain so I not sure what I’m going to do but yeah I have some footage of that and H yeah it was cool I’m sad to be to be home but it’s okay holiday cannot last forever I guess anyway so I’m going to leave you there for today I hope you enjoyed and as I mentioned if you are interested in the progress of the test call or the design for the skirt or for whatever else you can subscribe um I put out videos every two weeks uh podcast episode every two weeks so yeah and I wanted to mention thanks for the support on the latest episode um I got so many nice comments like I don’t know why but yeah it was it was just such a nice thing to read all of them U mostly during my holidays and yeah it was just I was just made me so happy it always makes my heart sing so thank you from the bottom of my heart for the super nice comments you left and I think that’s all for today so I hope you enjoyed this episode I hope uh you are knitting on something that you love or doing something something that you love and I will see you in the next one bye [Music] so this is the path we were taking every day to go down from the parking lot to the climbing crack and as you can see it’s absolutely beautiful it’s full of flowers of wildlife of birds of everything and it was just a delight to go on this path every day um this land is actually owned by private persons so the people that own this land let the climbers and the hikers and everyone just wander through this for free which is nice of them but it also means that um it was forbidden to stay there for the night it’s not the case for all the private lands in France but in this case it was so we usually actually stay uh on the ground Where We Are Climbing so that we don’t have to drive every day to get to the climbing crack but here we had to so it was a minor inconvenience I would say for the joy we had to just go through such a wonderful and beautiful place it was really really amazing um as you can tell I sometimes have to use my hands to go down more complicated parts of the path and this one is very complicated as you can see it’s kind of a canyon thing and you can see the rock formations on the left and right are looking like piles of plates the rock is called doomi I don’t know how you translate this but it’s how the people in the region called describe this rock it’s a pile of plates which is pretty accurate I think and it was the first time for me climbing on something like this it was very very different from what I have touched until now but super interesting and super nice that’s of course my boyfriend you can see uh working in front of me so this is the actual climbing cck at least one of those we went to and it’s really impressive I think that weird uh construction you can see is actually a ruin so I have no idea about the the history behind it I don’t know who constructed it or whatever but it was there since before people started climbing this and as you can see it’s a very beautiful vertical wall this is one I tried to climb actually it was super hard but I tried I made it to the top but yeah it was difficult so a little bit further away you can see an actual roof so this is another type of wall you can climb so it’s very different from a vertical wall of course and it’s also much harder as you can guess but yeah my boyfriend tried something there um and yeah it was very impressive the path along the climbing crack continues on uh to another section of the wall That’s again more vertical we get out of the roof section um and there were a lot of also very beautiful uh Roots down there but I’m not going to show you because it’s not very interesting to see if you don’t climb but yeah that’s the very impressive part I can show you and I can also make a a small like closeup of the ruin thing I have no idea what this is um there is this is like um a sign that some climbers put there there is also a notebook and you can leave some notes and basically it’s just telling you to leave the place better than you found it which is pretty normal I guess but it’s still nice to have it written down somewhere on the crack so people don’t forget and yeah I’m going to go inside the ruin here on the top of the door it’s written which means if you don’t find anything but I couldn’t find the end of the sentence so I have no idea what happens if you can’t find anything um as you can see inside it was probably uh probably some people lived in there because there is some suit on the walls because there was probably a fire or something you can find some shelves inside the Rocks it’s very very very impressive it’s really cool I would like to know what happened there many months ago but yeah I don’t know and I couldn’t find any history behind this in the distance there on the top of the hill you can see a village and it’s called venasque and apparently it’s one of the top 10 most beautiful villages in France which is nice and in the distance you can see the M which is a very very famous mountain in France and yeah so that’s it for the tour of one small section of our holiday in venasque I hope hope you enjoyed and I’m going to see you in the next one bye