Your lack of "hive mind" is why I subscribed. I, too, am tired of "lemming mentality". There is no be all, end all designer for me either. I don't get the hype and don't turn into a screaming "teeny bopper" for anyone - it seems so immature, but that's just me. Today's video was fun and I hope you do it again.
LOL - When someone stops me when I am knitting in public to ask me about my crochet, I correct them with something like , "this is knitting, I wish I could crochet like my mother". I always look forward to the next question which is normally, "what is it going to be etc.
As a continental knitter with arthritis, purling causes me more pain than knitting. I try to knit in the round as much as possible to avoid purling when I can. Using shorty needles also helps reduce my pain when knitting.😊
Love your forthright honesty, Kendra, especially about YTers who are all knitting the same stuff as each other! And great tip about filtering out the mainstream designers that deluge and obscure the first pages of a Ravelry search. Can’t believe I hadn’t thought of that. I was half expecting a segue into Ranunculus too. 😉 Lots of love and appreciation from this Portuguese style knitter who adores purling and small circular needles 😊
Isn’t it funny? I think the people that have the most sense with mohair are the ones living near my daughter in Alaska and the Yukon or any other cold climate. The extra warmth from the mohair makes sense. How many fluffy sweaters do you want? I love the color choices you made for the sweater you are wearing.
Me too! I want more sweaters mixing knitting and crochet!!! Presently knitting Prairie Skies then will start the Link Sweater. Love mixing crafts and changing myself.
I only learned how to make socks this year and I haven't stopped. Just love them. I have some standard patterns I use and love playing with the different effects you can get with different stitch. arrangements. I mostly use wool or wool mixes.First time I've seen your videos and have enjoyed the chat. Thank you
I agree that there are some designers that are overrated. As a knitter you need to concentrate on the how well the designers’ patterns fit you and work in your wardrobe. I have a few Petite Knits that are flattering. But I like to explore lots of designs and designers. And yes, mohair should not have to be in EVERYTHING! It is so ITCHY and HOT! Get comfortable yarn that you can afford.
I love your opinion on the "top" designers. Mohair ITCHES! Thank you for saying it. 😁. For almost all the statements, especially the one-sided harsh view opinions, I love how you brought them back to just that...opinions. ❤
Yessss! It is not that serious. It is okay to use main stream but no need to hype it up. I love how you named that you named your insights. Group mentality lol
Your honesty is such a breath of fresh air! I don’t get the hype over Petite Knit either…and when she came out with a mohair version of her Oslo Hat that you had to pay for even if you’d already bought the regular Oslo…not a good look IMO. And the whole mindset of demanding designers be size inclusive….AGREE, and you are brave for stating your opinion. No one is entitled to another’s work. Let the market sort it out! If they are financially fine not being size inclusive, it’s OKAY.
@@balancedskein I’m also pretty sure I’ve written this comment on every video you’ve said something about DPNs. I guess I’m also that obnoxious friend. 🤣
On the size inclusivity- I 100% agree. It’s a free market and designers are free to choose the sizes they want to grade and provide without being shamed. As for the Euro girls- I like some of their patterns and simply don’t get others-like the tiny little scarf everyone made-which imho, looks silly. My pet peeve.. the same people who are screaming about size inclusiveness are promoting patterns that cost $300+ to knit which is anything but inclusive. Again, if someone wants to knit a $300 sweater- that’s on them, but I do find it a bit hypocritical for them to scream about inclusivity. I am looking at you Canadian podcasting sisters.
So much good stuff here. I loved the sentiment about having a negative reaction when someone asks you to knit something for them. That feels like it is coming from a place of entitlement and ignorance as to what goes into creating it. But some people are soooooooo knit worthy. Also, I loved the sentiment the No Frills sweater from Petite Knit, but it has become my basis for a basic raglan and that is all. It has nothing to do with the influence of the designer. It’s just a good pattern that fits me well. 😂😂😂. A well written pattern is what matters. Not the person behind the design.
I just found you, Kendra, and I enjoyed your honest remarks. We don't all like the same patterns, yarns, and styles. To each his/her own. I have always avoided what everyone else wants to do, so I have saved myself a lot of headaches and unwanted clothing. (I love my hand-knit socks, too.) I will certainly check in again.
About the "French Tuck": I wasn't aware it was called like that until a knitter on RUclips mentioned it like 3 weeks ago. Here in the Netherlands it was a thing in 2018-2019. Nowadays no one in my city seems to do this kind of tuck anymore.😅
11:41 👏🏻 Free market knitting! I applaud this definitely controversial opinion! As a designer and an editor I see the work that goes into creating patterns. To be expected (and bullied?!) into size exclusive grading when you are either not trained in or don’t have the resources to pay for it to be outsourced is, quite simply, gatekeeping. Now…while I agree that we should all feel free to knit what we want and as small scale designers, design for bodies we are familiar enough with to serve and dress well (on all ends of the spectrum and in the middle), I will say that “design houses”/big brands that have teams dedicated to churning out patterns have no excuse to not make size inclusive designs. It’s a change that needs to be acknowledged, but I agree that we don’t need to demand boycotts. Knitting what you want! 18:58 hahaha! Sofa Leg Warmers. 😂😂😂
The reaction that Toni and her mom did was fantastic: such funny women! I am glad you did this, it was interesting to hear the opinions and your takes on them. You were very level and fair even when you were not on board with something. I loved the French tuck comment 😄 (It makes me roll my eyes.) I like center-pull cakes, but I tend to roll the remaining yarn when the cake collapses to avoid tangles. I think short-row shaping makes a lot of sense for fit reasons. If someone doesn't find it necessary, more power to them! And I agree that a lot of people are way too easily offended. People need to step back and realize that what others say is often not personal, it's not about them. And I love knitting for others. I have way more yarn than I will ever be able to use and so when I can work up things to give away, when a friend or relative admires something I've knit and is interested in having it (or having me make a similar piece for them), I am thrilled. I'm a process knitter more than a product knitter, so it's super for me when I can make things and give them away (to knitworthy souls). I like how you talk about the craft. Subscribed 🙂
Totally agree with that observation you made about the hive mentality!!!! I tend to avoid things precisely when they fall into this category of popularity (yarn, designers, movies, books, the list goes on....). I want to support people who have similar talent but don't get anywhere near the press, sales and love. And your sweater looks really nice on you 😊
I recently realized, everyone does fall into the rabbit holes of specific designers, and I feel like they’re all competing with one another ... not for me. I knit for mental therapy. Not a competition. 😊 I resonate with your comments. 🤘🏼😁
I’m so disloyal to any one small circumference technique. I kind of just do whatever fits my mood or current project. On hats I usually go from 16” to DPNs, but I’ll use a magic loop a needle size I don’t have 16s for. For sleeves I love magic loop for top down, but DPNs for bottom up. Not sure there’s a rhyme to my reason, but it’s nice to have several tool choices!
I have so many knitted items in my wardrobe - and a drawer full of hats scarves and mittens. I’d love to knit more for others. It’s the feeling of my own implied deadline that I struggle with. With regard to very popular designers, my thinking is more that their pattern writing style has been refined and critiqued and the patterns themselves checked for errors because so many are looking at them. I’ve knitted a couple items from lesser known designers and occasionally found unclear instructions and errors in the pattern. Sometimes the hive mentality can be helpful? That being said I haven’t knitted a single item from Petite Knit and only a couple from Andrea Mowery.
Your comments about the “hive mind” are spot on and had me laughing out loud because I feel exactly the same 😂. Sometimes I look at these sweaters and tops that others are raving about and I think, how is that different from a basic sweater? Couldn’t you just take Ann Budd’s book of top down sweaters and knit that in any gauge, any yarn, any size? 😊
Hahaha... Omg I so agree with most of these... Specially the hive mentality bit.. it's not new, obviously, and as someone who's had multiple hobbies (from makeup to home DIYs) I've learn to filter out the hypes and cliques fairly quickly. Another thing, from the very beginning, I taught myself with free patterns and almost immediately how to adjust to MY measurements and preferences... Maybe because of the fact that as I mentioned before I've tried plenty of hobbies so I'm pretty technical and hands on. It all boils down to preferences, abilities, and what one is willing to learn.
21:21 is anyone doing anything groundbreaking? A sweater or tshirt is a tube with a hole in the top and a bigger hole in the bottom and two sidebits for your arms. I personally do not want thick cables or colorwork that will end up so thick that I can't wear it 23:46 as a new knitter that still is dropping stitches by accident, I don't want any 'held double' 'I held 3 strands' patterns
When it comes to small circumference knitting, two circulars is criminally underrated, and I think a big reason is not a lot of people know about it but it's amazing
For small circumference knitting I actually love the FlexiFlips. However Addi's are expensive so I only have the sizes I use most for garments so when I knit hats, if I don't have the perfect wire length, I will use magic loop
I seem to be too stupid to filter out designers in ravelry, I must be overlooking something obvious?! It would make looking for patterns way more enjoyable. Thank you for speaking out loud what I only think ;) and also for being tolerant of other opinions, too. ❤
Hi! You can click on the three dots underneath the pattern and choose "hide this designer" and it will hide the designer on that search and all future searches
@@balancedskein Duh, thank you! :) Nothing against the designers themselves, but my taste is just different. And thank you again for your openness and general interesting videos!
I agree with you on everyone, BUT the centre-pull ball. I have been knitting for more years than you have been alive (60 years, learned in grade 2) and have only occasionally had issues with yarn barf or tangles. I do cake all my yarn, even the commercia put up balls. Just a comment on not using patterns if they are not size exclusive, it was not till the last 5-10 years where we have had larger than a basic XL size included.
@@balancedskein I come from a super crochet background (learned at 5 years old). I learned to knit when I was in high school (continental style since my family is German heritage and that is what my mom knew) but didn't really like it since it felt "wrong" to me to hold the yarn and needles and such. I basically stopped knitting until about a month or so ago when I re-taught myself to knit (because I had a small amount of some hand-dyes and spun yarn and it takes more yarn to crochet than to knit) and found the Portuguese style which is more natural for me and feels better on my hands.
I like stockinette specifically because I enjoy switching between knitting and purling (currently doing a moss stitch project and it’s a bit too much switching for my taste🙃 Now, this english thrower is off to look up Portuguese style!
Do you have a video showing how to properly weave ends in? I hate putting knots in but I also don't trust myself since I was never really taught how to weave in ends for knitting.
Appreciate the honesty 😊. I am always amused by “knitting police”. I’m a continental thrower and I can’t tell you how many times people have told me that I’m doing it wrong 😂.
Also, I agree with you on the knitting vs crochet comments. If a knitter is offended by someone calling what they do crochet (or vice versa) then they are clearly the one who is prejudiced, which is much uglier than ignorant!
It's just mostly non-superwash yarn that is relatively inexpensive (especially in Europe). Sunday and KFO merino are just light fingering yarn that is not treated with superwash in a broad range of colors. People also generally struggle to substitute yarn so you have a very popular designer who uses that yarn, it's no surprise that the yarn she mostly uses becomes popular too.
Thank you for your candor about Petite Knit. I totally agree. She’s so over saturated. There are so many other beautiful designers that deserve the spotlight.. although I don’t think Andrea Mowry deserves to be in the same category. Her patterns are unique to each other, beautifully designed and very clearly written. As a fairly new garment knitter, I just finished the Winters Beach Cardi. It was my first bottom up my first cables, first afterthought pockets and first helical knitting. It fits beautifully, and I am so proud of it. I now have the confidence to tackle almost anything And it will most likely be another Andrea Mowry design💕
I totally get that! I like many of andrea mowry's patterns, and plan to make several. I moreso mentioned her because i have noticed similar hype around her patterns. However, you're right. I think her designs are very diverse and unique/ easily identifiable. Totally different than PK and MFTKW. Thank for watching 😁
I don't know? Every Andrea Mowery design I've seen, I see in other designers, sometimes decades past. What she does do is hype up the experience and makes the design popular. Which is fun and also, you could find other indy designs that are similar and knit those, if you want.
I think Andreas Pattern are to expensive for the lack of detail you get out of them. I love to pay good money for a well written pattern for a interestingly designed garment or even a very profound recipe for a technique/garment construction. But if I have to essentially calculate and plan all of the details that give the sweater a professional finish myself... Nope. Yep, many of those patterns are "beginner friendly" but especially as a beginner I wanted to learn how to archive perfect details. That's what I pay money for besides of new and interesting ideas and concepts.
Thank you for your content, I am always on the search for interesting content. The greatest thing about any craft is the individuality we bring to it and the opinions that that creates . . . insert drama 😂 thank you again
I'm with you about the most popular things. If I happen to like the item they are producing then I will favorite it, buy it, or make it, but I have always been like that. I tend to gravitate away from name brand items because most of the time you are paying for the name. And, "I hope I didn't offend anyone, but if I did... I'm not sorry." 😆😂🤣
I've really enjoyed this, thank you! You have made me laugh with your opinions, and I agree that there is no knitting police, you can do what you want, knit what you want in the yarn that you like. But I strongly disagree about magic loop. Yes it's a very clever technique, and it has its place if you are in a situation where you might lose a needle. However for me magic loop is spawn of the devil! It's like knitting with a recalcitrant butterfly and not for me. It's good that we're all different in our preferences though, and that there are techniques and yarns to suit everyone, and no real hard and fast rules.
Hello! This was almost spooky because we agree on basically every topic 👀 👻 lol So, glad I found your channel as I was also poking around looking for crafters that aren’t all doing the same patterns 😆
I loved this episode! I agree with you on many things. Mohair - ick. Certain designers - overhyped. But I don't like magic loop, either. I knit my socks on 2 24-inch circulars. That's my favorite.
My take on the French tuck is that it looks sloppy. I personally love small circulars and wouldn't want to knit socks or sleeves without them. I have small hands so small circulars work very well for me.
I think I get why people would hate the idea of knitting socks and/or shawls. That said, those folks must be knitting more sweaters/tops and that's just not something everyone can confidently do. I'm really passionate about full bust adjustments in knitting, so I could go on and on, but ultimately even patterns that have bust adjustments are severely lacking. Ultimately, mastering full bust adjustments in knitting is extremely difficult and inaccessible to most people. And a person is only going to put themselves through the disappointment of ill fitting garments so many times before it's not worth it to knit them anymore.
how you feel about petite knit is how I feel about the ranunculus sweater like why are so many people obsessed with it? I will be watching a knitting podcast/video and as soon as it’s mentioned I click off 😂
While I see why it feels okay to you and some people to accept yarn for collabs, it's still not great because it sets that as the standard. Because if brands can get someone who is more casual about content creation to do work for free, then that makes it hard for others who want to make a career creating content to do so because brands won't work with them if they can get the same work from someone else for only yarn.
Lol, this is exactly what I do when encountering new to me podcasters knitting petitknit with knitting for olive and mohair. Also, any podcaster wearing a renunculus is a immediate skip for me.
Great video, a breath of fresh air. I don't agree with everything and that's the point! Another unpopular opinion here: Don't care about modesty, so what if people want to show their bodies?
I gotta disagree with you on the size inclusivity and the charts/written instructions thing; unlike most of the other opinions you dealt with here, these two are where the privileged set (I'm not going to say majority, because in size inclusivity complaints, we're often dealing with designers whose LARGEST size is at or even below the AVERAGE bust size of Western women, which is a size 16/18 which corresponds to a bust size of somewhere over 45" - for the average size!!! Meaning half the women are above that to well above that!) - the privileged set have the opportunity to use their voices (and their dollars) to help others. A free market is not a moral good, and in this case, it reinforces fatphobia and other oppressive and exclusionary views that are a real social poison and contribute to actual violence as well as mental health repercussions to those on the receiving end of the oppressive views. With the charts and written instructions, I'm with you that charts are easier - for me. Yet I have friends with vision and/or mental processing differences that make it nearly impossible for them to use a chart. I am all for inclusivity where it comes to designers making their patterns readable and usable by more people, and it doesn't hurt a chart reader for there also to be written instructions in the same pattern. But everything else - I either agree or enjoyably tolerate your take. A BIG high five on the Petite Knit comments. Not only are they mostly all the same sweater, but her schematics leave out important measurements and I find that irritating.
After loosing so many dpn needles, magic loop is the way to go. Thanks for your opinions, I agree with all. Refreshing, thanks for being entertaining too!
Do not say "historically". I watch a video on fashion, specifically the brand CHANEL, a few months ago and according to the video, up until the late 1950s, early 1960s, pink was used for boy and blue was used for girls. That dynamic changed in the early 1960s
Mohair does not need be in everything. Totally agree!
Your lack of "hive mind" is why I subscribed. I, too, am tired of "lemming mentality". There is no be all, end all designer for me either. I don't get the hype and don't turn into a screaming "teeny bopper" for anyone - it seems so immature, but that's just me. Today's video was fun and I hope you do it again.
the chair analogy got me CRACKING UPPPP
LOL - When someone stops me when I am knitting in public to ask me about my crochet, I correct them with something like , "this is knitting, I wish I could crochet like my mother". I always look forward to the next question which is normally, "what is it going to be etc.
You're a breath of fresh air for this older woman. Looking forward to watching more. Enjoy the Spring.
Thank you! 🌸
"Everything don't need no dang mohair!" !!! I love it, you are right. It's too hot where I live😊
As a continental knitter with arthritis, purling causes me more pain than knitting. I try to knit in the round as much as possible to avoid purling when I can. Using shorty needles also helps reduce my pain when knitting.😊
Totally with you on handknit socks! Make them for my husband all the time.
I've made my husband four pair so far, and he wears them a lot! Can't wait to make him some more 😁
Love your forthright honesty, Kendra, especially about YTers who are all knitting the same stuff as each other! And great tip about filtering out the mainstream designers that deluge and obscure the first pages of a Ravelry search. Can’t believe I hadn’t thought of that. I was half expecting a segue into Ranunculus too. 😉 Lots of love and appreciation from this Portuguese style knitter who adores purling and small circular needles 😊
Ohhh the famed Ranunculus! I certainly have thoughts about that one, lol! Thank you for watching!
Isn’t it funny? I think the people that have the most sense with mohair are the ones living near my daughter in Alaska and the Yukon or any other cold climate. The extra warmth from the mohair makes sense. How many fluffy sweaters do you want? I love the color choices you made for the sweater you are wearing.
Me too! I want more sweaters mixing knitting and crochet!!! Presently knitting Prairie Skies then will start the Link Sweater. Love mixing crafts and changing myself.
I only learned how to make socks this year and I haven't stopped. Just love them. I have some standard patterns I use and love playing with the different effects you can get with different stitch. arrangements. I mostly use wool or wool mixes.First time I've seen your videos and have enjoyed the chat. Thank you
I agree that there are some designers that are overrated. As a knitter you need to concentrate on the how well the designers’ patterns fit you and work in your wardrobe. I have a few Petite Knits that are flattering. But I like to explore lots of designs and designers. And yes, mohair should not have to be in EVERYTHING! It is so ITCHY and HOT! Get comfortable yarn that you can afford.
I love your opinion on the "top" designers. Mohair ITCHES! Thank you for saying it. 😁. For almost all the statements, especially the one-sided harsh view opinions, I love how you brought them back to just that...opinions. ❤
OMG I can't believe you made this jumper (sweater). I thought you'd bought it. Beautiful!!
@katherine6031 thank you!!
Yessss! It is not that serious. It is okay to use main stream but no need to hype it up. I love how you named that you named your insights. Group mentality lol
Your honesty is such a breath of fresh air! I don’t get the hype over Petite Knit either…and when she came out with a mohair version of her Oslo Hat that you had to pay for even if you’d already bought the regular Oslo…not a good look IMO. And the whole mindset of demanding designers be size inclusive….AGREE, and you are brave for stating your opinion. No one is entitled to another’s work. Let the market sort it out! If they are financially fine not being size inclusive, it’s OKAY.
I will center pull and knit with DPNs until the day I die!! Love, Mia 😂
🤣🤣 as is your right as a knitter!
@@balancedskein I’m also pretty sure I’ve written this comment on every video you’ve said something about DPNs. I guess I’m also that obnoxious friend. 🤣
OH wow, you make so much sense , totally enjoyed hearing your opinions , there has to be room for everyone and every kind and every opinion.
On the size inclusivity- I 100% agree. It’s a free market and designers are free to choose the sizes they want to grade and provide without being shamed. As for the Euro girls- I like some of their patterns and simply don’t get others-like the tiny little scarf everyone made-which imho, looks silly. My pet peeve.. the same people who are screaming about size inclusiveness are promoting patterns that cost $300+ to knit which is anything but inclusive. Again, if someone wants to knit a $300 sweater- that’s on them, but I do find it a bit hypocritical for them to scream about inclusivity. I am looking at you Canadian podcasting sisters.
So much good stuff here. I loved the sentiment about having a negative reaction when someone asks you to knit something for them. That feels like it is coming from a place of entitlement and ignorance as to what goes into creating it. But some people are soooooooo knit worthy. Also, I loved the sentiment the No Frills sweater from Petite Knit, but it has become my basis for a basic raglan and that is all. It has nothing to do with the influence of the designer. It’s just a good pattern that fits me well. 😂😂😂. A well written pattern is what matters. Not the person behind the design.
I just found you, Kendra, and I enjoyed your honest remarks. We don't all like the same patterns, yarns, and styles. To each his/her own. I have always avoided what everyone else wants to do, so I have saved myself a lot of headaches and unwanted clothing. (I love my hand-knit socks, too.) I will certainly check in again.
I'm so glad you enjoyed. Thank you for watching!
About the "French Tuck": I wasn't aware it was called like that until a knitter on RUclips mentioned it like 3 weeks ago. Here in the Netherlands it was a thing in 2018-2019. Nowadays no one in my city seems to do this kind of tuck anymore.😅
11:41 👏🏻 Free market knitting! I applaud this definitely controversial opinion! As a designer and an editor I see the work that goes into creating patterns. To be expected (and bullied?!) into size exclusive grading when you are either not trained in or don’t have the resources to pay for it to be outsourced is, quite simply, gatekeeping. Now…while I agree that we should all feel free to knit what we want and as small scale designers, design for bodies we are familiar enough with to serve and dress well (on all ends of the spectrum and in the middle), I will say that “design houses”/big brands that have teams dedicated to churning out patterns have no excuse to not make size inclusive designs. It’s a change that needs to be acknowledged, but I agree that we don’t need to demand boycotts. Knitting what you want!
18:58 hahaha! Sofa Leg Warmers. 😂😂😂
You said it so eloquently. I couldn't agree more on this one!
The reaction that Toni and her mom did was fantastic: such funny women! I am glad you did this, it was interesting to hear the opinions and your takes on them. You were very level and fair even when you were not on board with something. I loved the French tuck comment 😄 (It makes me roll my eyes.) I like center-pull cakes, but I tend to roll the remaining yarn when the cake collapses to avoid tangles. I think short-row shaping makes a lot of sense for fit reasons. If someone doesn't find it necessary, more power to them! And I agree that a lot of people are way too easily offended. People need to step back and realize that what others say is often not personal, it's not about them. And I love knitting for others. I have way more yarn than I will ever be able to use and so when I can work up things to give away, when a friend or relative admires something I've knit and is interested in having it (or having me make a similar piece for them), I am thrilled. I'm a process knitter more than a product knitter, so it's super for me when I can make things and give them away (to knitworthy souls). I like how you talk about the craft. Subscribed 🙂
Thank you for watching and welcome!
Totally agree with that observation you made about the hive mentality!!!! I tend to avoid things precisely when they fall into this category of popularity (yarn, designers, movies, books, the list goes on....). I want to support people who have similar talent but don't get anywhere near the press, sales and love. And your sweater looks really nice on you 😊
I recently realized, everyone does fall into the rabbit holes of specific designers, and I feel like they’re all competing with one another ... not for me. I knit for mental therapy. Not a competition. 😊 I resonate with your comments. 🤘🏼😁
I totally agree on the gift knitting idea. Getting a request to knit something is like a job, not something I like to do.
Whew the honesty! I love it! And agreed with most everything you said...Im a small circ lover lol.
Lol! And I respect our differences 😅
I’m so disloyal to any one small circumference technique. I kind of just do whatever fits my mood or current project. On hats I usually go from 16” to DPNs, but I’ll use a magic loop a needle size I don’t have 16s for. For sleeves I love magic loop for top down, but DPNs for bottom up. Not sure there’s a rhyme to my reason, but it’s nice to have several tool choices!
I love the variety! And that you're skilled enough in each technique to pick and choose based on your mood 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
I have so many knitted items in my wardrobe - and a drawer full of hats scarves and mittens. I’d love to knit more for others. It’s the feeling of my own implied deadline that I struggle with. With regard to very popular designers, my thinking is more that their pattern writing style has been refined and critiqued and the patterns themselves checked for errors because so many are looking at them. I’ve knitted a couple items from lesser known designers and occasionally found unclear instructions and errors in the pattern. Sometimes the hive mentality can be helpful? That being said I haven’t knitted a single item from Petite Knit and only a couple from Andrea Mowery.
Your comments about the “hive mind” are spot on and had me laughing out loud because I feel exactly the same 😂. Sometimes I look at these sweaters and tops that others are raving about and I think, how is that different from a basic sweater? Couldn’t you just take Ann Budd’s book of top down sweaters and knit that in any gauge, any yarn, any size? 😊
Exactly 😅😅
Who says that is not what they are doing??? I love Ann Budd's book.
Hahaha... Omg I so agree with most of these... Specially the hive mentality bit.. it's not new, obviously, and as someone who's had multiple hobbies (from makeup to home DIYs) I've learn to filter out the hypes and cliques fairly quickly. Another thing, from the very beginning, I taught myself with free patterns and almost immediately how to adjust to MY measurements and preferences... Maybe because of the fact that as I mentioned before I've tried plenty of hobbies so I'm pretty technical and hands on. It all boils down to preferences, abilities, and what one is willing to learn.
I like dpns over magic loop especially for socks 😊
Same here! 🌸
I've always loved your take on things and your unapologetic honesty. I truly enjoy your content and pray that you are doing well. ❤
You're so kind, thank you! I also hope you're doing well ❤️❤️
The Petite Knit and Co discussion gave me life 😆
As an English flicker, I love purling! 😂 I also prefer small circular needles and dpns over magic loop. 🧶
Purling doesn’t bother me either.
Yeaaaahhhh….your good and ya got me as a subscriber…bout time a good knitting podcast about…..knitting
21:21 is anyone doing anything groundbreaking? A sweater or tshirt is a tube with a hole in the top and a bigger hole in the bottom and two sidebits for your arms.
I personally do not want thick cables or colorwork that will end up so thick that I can't wear it
23:46 as a new knitter that still is dropping stitches by accident, I don't want any 'held double' 'I held 3 strands' patterns
I love your videos. Your ‘chair in the shop window’ analogy made me laugh!! 🤭
When it comes to small circumference knitting, two circulars is criminally underrated, and I think a big reason is not a lot of people know about it but it's amazing
I don’t like mohair but I have learned I like alpaca & silk. Adds warmth to the knitted item.
I appreciate the mohair comment. While I have some sweaters I use (mostly loose gauge) it isn’t thought out well enough.
For small circumference knitting I actually love the FlexiFlips. However Addi's are expensive so I only have the sizes I use most for garments so when I knit hats, if I don't have the perfect wire length, I will use magic loop
I seem to be too stupid to filter out designers in ravelry, I must be overlooking something obvious?! It would make looking for patterns way more enjoyable. Thank you for speaking out loud what I only think ;) and also for being tolerant of other opinions, too. ❤
Hi! You can click on the three dots underneath the pattern and choose "hide this designer" and it will hide the designer on that search and all future searches
@@balancedskein Duh, thank you! :) Nothing against the designers themselves, but my taste is just different. And thank you again for your openness and general interesting videos!
I agree with you on everyone, BUT the centre-pull ball. I have been knitting for more years than you have been alive (60 years, learned in grade 2) and have only occasionally had issues with yarn barf or tangles. I do cake all my yarn, even the commercia put up balls. Just a comment on not using patterns if they are not size exclusive, it was not till the last 5-10 years where we have had larger than a basic XL size included.
Omg I love everything about you and your mindset. You my friend have a new subscriber. 💜💯
Thanks so much, and welcome! ❤️❤️
"I just say, 'Hm, that seems stupid,' and then I move on with my life." 🤣😂🤣 LOL, that's awesome!
Omg what a breath of fresh air you are! Yay! and thank you ;-)
@MariaMartinStudio aww thank YOU, and welcome!
I always get excited to see one of your videos pop up! ❤❤❤
I actually prefer the purl stitch to the knit stitch. I knit Portuguese style and I think this is a common idea with Portuguese knitters.
@CatholicAmanda that is so cool. I'm really intrigued by Portuguese knitting!
@@balancedskein I come from a super crochet background (learned at 5 years old). I learned to knit when I was in high school (continental style since my family is German heritage and that is what my mom knew) but didn't really like it since it felt "wrong" to me to hold the yarn and needles and such. I basically stopped knitting until about a month or so ago when I re-taught myself to knit (because I had a small amount of some hand-dyes and spun yarn and it takes more yarn to crochet than to knit) and found the Portuguese style which is more natural for me and feels better on my hands.
I like stockinette specifically because I enjoy switching between knitting and purling (currently doing a moss stitch project and it’s a bit too much switching for my taste🙃
Now, this english thrower is off to look up Portuguese style!
“I’m not sorry” 😂 Love it!
Do you have a video showing how to properly weave ends in? I hate putting knots in but I also don't trust myself since I was never really taught how to weave in ends for knitting.
I feel the same way about Petit knits and Andrea Mowry. They are good just tired of them. I look for unknown knit designers on purpose.
Plus holding yarn double with mohair also doubles the cost of an already expensive sweater!
So true! Can't believe I didn't mention that 😅
Appreciate the honesty 😊. I am always amused by “knitting police”. I’m a continental thrower and I can’t tell you how many times people have told me that I’m doing it wrong 😂.
Oh my gosh why do people do that?! 🤣🤣
Continental thrower? What exactly is that?
@@redaletait’s when you use your left hand to wrap the yarn rather than flick or pick.
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Greetings from an English thrower…I’ve tried other styles, and it’s just what I like!
Also, I agree with you on the knitting vs crochet comments. If a knitter is offended by someone calling what they do crochet (or vice versa) then they are clearly the one who is prejudiced, which is much uglier than ignorant!
I mostly agree with you, just to add I don't get all the hype about sandnes garn
Yeah I hear about that brand and knitting for olive so often. Haven't tried either yet, but if I do, I'm prepared to be... underwhelmed lol
It's just mostly non-superwash yarn that is relatively inexpensive (especially in Europe). Sunday and KFO merino are just light fingering yarn that is not treated with superwash in a broad range of colors.
People also generally struggle to substitute yarn so you have a very popular designer who uses that yarn, it's no surprise that the yarn she mostly uses becomes popular too.
Thank you for your video. The more it progressed the more I chuckled and agreed. I’m happy to have found your channel. 😊
Welcome and thanks for watching! 😁
Thank you for your candor about Petite Knit. I totally agree. She’s so over saturated. There are so many other beautiful designers that deserve the spotlight.. although I don’t think Andrea Mowry deserves to be in the same category. Her patterns are unique to each other, beautifully designed and very clearly written. As a fairly new garment knitter, I just finished the Winters Beach Cardi. It was my first bottom up my first cables, first afterthought pockets and first helical knitting. It fits beautifully, and I am so proud of it. I now have the confidence to tackle almost anything And it will most likely be another Andrea Mowry design💕
I totally get that! I like many of andrea mowry's patterns, and plan to make several. I moreso mentioned her because i have noticed similar hype around her patterns. However, you're right. I think her designs are very diverse and unique/ easily identifiable. Totally different than PK and MFTKW. Thank for watching 😁
I don't know? Every Andrea Mowery design I've seen, I see in other designers, sometimes decades past. What she does do is hype up the experience and makes the design popular. Which is fun and also, you could find other indy designs that are similar and knit those, if you want.
I think Andreas Pattern are to expensive for the lack of detail you get out of them. I love to pay good money for a well written pattern for a interestingly designed garment or even a very profound recipe for a technique/garment construction. But if I have to essentially calculate and plan all of the details that give the sweater a professional finish myself... Nope. Yep, many of those patterns are "beginner friendly" but especially as a beginner I wanted to learn how to archive perfect details. That's what I pay money for besides of new and interesting ideas and concepts.
You have delighted me. Thanks
Thank you for your content, I am always on the search for interesting content. The greatest thing about any craft is the individuality we bring to it and the opinions that that creates . . . insert drama 😂 thank you again
Thank you for watching!
Totally agree on mohair! I’m so sick of every pattern having it. Especially when it’s fingering + 2 strands of mohair. Why?!
Really enjoyed this! Esp agree w/ the disappointment when I 'discover' a new knitting podcast and all the makes are PetiteKnit designs with mohair! 😂
I'm with you about the most popular things. If I happen to like the item they are producing then I will favorite it, buy it, or make it, but I have always been like that. I tend to gravitate away from name brand items because most of the time you are paying for the name. And, "I hope I didn't offend anyone, but if I did... I'm not sorry." 😆😂🤣
Just stumbled across you and I DID enjoy this - made me chuckle....
I've really enjoyed this, thank you! You have made me laugh with your opinions, and I agree that there is no knitting police, you can do what you want, knit what you want in the yarn that you like. But I strongly disagree about magic loop. Yes it's a very clever technique, and it has its place if you are in a situation where you might lose a needle. However for me magic loop is spawn of the devil! It's like knitting with a recalcitrant butterfly and not for me.
It's good that we're all different in our preferences though, and that there are techniques and yarns to suit everyone, and no real hard and fast rules.
Agreed, we can all respect our differences and enjoy our knitting! And "recalcitrant butterfly" made me LOL 🤣🤣
4:15 don’t y’all go hating on the French tuck 😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣 maybe I'm just mad I can't pull it off
After you just posted a video on the same day all about the French tuck! 🤣
First time watching you. Love your approach regarding people using/buying/knitting what they want. I’ve come to hate the phrase “people should”.
Ok you got me on a lot of things. I’m in as a subscriber
I agree with just about everything you just said. I am now a subscriber. Thanks for the video 😊
Thank you for watching and subscribing ❣️
I definitely snort laughed at various opinions 😂. Loved this video!
Hello! This was almost spooky because we agree on basically every topic 👀 👻 lol
So, glad I found your channel as I was also poking around looking for crafters that aren’t all doing the same patterns 😆
I'm happy to have you here!! Thanks for watching 😁
Loved this episode! It might be because your opinions are in sync with mine. LOL! But, well done and thanks! Happy Easter to you and yours!
Thanks for watching, and happy Easter to you too!
I loved this episode! I agree with you on many things. Mohair - ick. Certain designers - overhyped. But I don't like magic loop, either. I knit my socks on 2 24-inch circulars. That's my favorite.
Thanks for watching! And I haven't tried that alternative for sock knitting, but it does sound intriguing 🤔
thank you! Yes, gender no longer has a "color" but why would anyone be upset because people want to use pink and or blue? Reverse bias
Great video - thanks!
I loved this video so much.
This made me chuckle!
Thanks for watching! ❤️
I so agree about the overrated “most popular “ designers and yarns. I happen to love mohair, though! Lol
Great video! Agree 100% Appreciate your honesty ☺
Thank you for watching!
Mohair I agree is itchy. Suri is way better. However I don’t think it has to be in everything. I don’t wear it either
My take on the French tuck is that it looks sloppy. I personally love small circulars and wouldn't want to knit socks or sleeves without them. I have small hands so small circulars work very well for me.
Hahahaha you're right, I did leave the "I HATE CENTER PULL" comment - and I'm glad I'm not alone! 😂
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I think I get why people would hate the idea of knitting socks and/or shawls. That said, those folks must be knitting more sweaters/tops and that's just not something everyone can confidently do. I'm really passionate about full bust adjustments in knitting, so I could go on and on, but ultimately even patterns that have bust adjustments are severely lacking. Ultimately, mastering full bust adjustments in knitting is extremely difficult and inaccessible to most people. And a person is only going to put themselves through the disappointment of ill fitting garments so many times before it's not worth it to knit them anymore.
how you feel about petite knit is how I feel about the ranunculus sweater like why are so many people obsessed with it? I will be watching a knitting podcast/video and as soon as it’s mentioned I click off 😂
@@itsdeniseyo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
While I see why it feels okay to you and some people to accept yarn for collabs, it's still not great because it sets that as the standard. Because if brands can get someone who is more casual about content creation to do work for free, then that makes it hard for others who want to make a career creating content to do so because brands won't work with them if they can get the same work from someone else for only yarn.
Lol, this is exactly what I do when encountering new to me podcasters knitting petitknit with knitting for olive and mohair. Also, any podcaster wearing a renunculus is a immediate skip for me.
@nadiarogo4511 yeah, it can be uninspiring to see the same things all the time, so I get it!
I hope I didn’t offend anyone but if I did I’m not sorry is the most Kendra thing I heard you say in the whole video 😂
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PetiteKnit is the Stanley cup of designers
@@footferrie 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well done..hive mind really folks. Petit did not invent a pullover with raglan sleeves cropped in beige….
Great video, a breath of fresh air. I don't agree with everything and that's the point!
Another unpopular opinion here: Don't care about modesty, so what if people want to show their bodies?
People ARE too easily offended.
LOL. Not sorry
I gotta disagree with you on the size inclusivity and the charts/written instructions thing; unlike most of the other opinions you dealt with here, these two are where the privileged set (I'm not going to say majority, because in size inclusivity complaints, we're often dealing with designers whose LARGEST size is at or even below the AVERAGE bust size of Western women, which is a size 16/18 which corresponds to a bust size of somewhere over 45" - for the average size!!! Meaning half the women are above that to well above that!) - the privileged set have the opportunity to use their voices (and their dollars) to help others. A free market is not a moral good, and in this case, it reinforces fatphobia and other oppressive and exclusionary views that are a real social poison and contribute to actual violence as well as mental health repercussions to those on the receiving end of the oppressive views. With the charts and written instructions, I'm with you that charts are easier - for me. Yet I have friends with vision and/or mental processing differences that make it nearly impossible for them to use a chart. I am all for inclusivity where it comes to designers making their patterns readable and usable by more people, and it doesn't hurt a chart reader for there also to be written instructions in the same pattern.
But everything else - I either agree or enjoyably tolerate your take. A BIG high five on the Petite Knit comments. Not only are they mostly all the same sweater, but her schematics leave out important measurements and I find that irritating.
After loosing so many dpn needles, magic loop is the way to go. Thanks for your opinions, I agree with all. Refreshing, thanks for being entertaining too!
Do not say "historically". I watch a video on fashion, specifically the brand CHANEL, a few months ago and according to the video, up until the late 1950s, early 1960s, pink was used for boy and blue was used for girls. That dynamic changed in the early 1960s