Farmhouse Knitting Podcast | Spring Clean Your Knitting
Sweaters, socks, & spring clean your knitting chatter!
Hey friends! I’m back today to share with you progress on my Homebody Sweater and chat about how to spring clean your knitting.
Grab a cup of something cozy and let’s hang out for a bit!
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What I’m wearing
Today I’m wearing my shortie vanilla socks. It’s about 50 degrees outside, which is nuts, and I’m nice and cozy in these!
I used the Vanilla Sock pattern on 9″ circulars by The Crazy Sock Lady, but shortened them up. You can see what adjustments I made at the 2:10 mark in this podcast episode here.
I like wearing shortie socks with jeans, because you avoid the awkward tuck in or tuck out fiasco that I have with taller socks. And jeans bunch up under calf-length socks, ya know?
What I’m knitting now
I’m doing major sweater surgery.
The Homebody Sweater pattern by Lady Jay Crochet needed a little TLC from me.
I’m tall, so the first thing was needing to tear out this cast on bottom edge (painful!)
It’s sort of therapeutic once you get into the groove, but I pray for anyone who takes on this challenge. I wound up cutting my tail as it got longer, knowing that I had a lot of extra yarn to just pick up with a new ball.
If I needed to unweave that whole tail twice through each stitch for 8ish rows I might not have survived.
Next up, I’m knitting in the opposite direction and heading down so I can try the sweater on as I go. I’ll switch to smaller needles for the bottom ribbing.
The sleeve cuffs and collar need to go down a needle size, too. I’ll probably end up folding them under to have a clean edge for both.
It’s tough to frog something, but I keep telling myself to break the cycle of making “eh” sweaters that don’t fit right. I’m trying to get better at this whole sweater knitting thing!
It helps that simple stockinette seems to be what my brain needs right now in this season of knitting.
I’m using size 8 needles and the yarn is from my stash: Wool of the Andes worsted in the color Grizzly Heather, a very classic brown!
Spring clean your knitting
I chatted about spring cleaning your knitting, from yarn to patterns to needles. Let me know how you clean out after winter knitting and get ready for a spring refresh!
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