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In this week’s episode we cover:
1. I will be starting the Weekender Crew here in a bit and will be using two different colors; one as the main body of the sweater and another speciality yarn for the neck, shoulder rows and pockets. I would love to be able to create the faux seam down the front and back in the contrasting color as well. I have scoured the interweb to try to find another one with a contrasting “seam”, but can’t find one. How can I accomplish this?
Weekender Crew Pattern -
Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-weekender-crew
My Website: https://www.dreareneeknits.com/shop/the-weekender-crew
2. Is fingering weight yarn equal to a sock weight yarn? I want to do the traveler hat and I have a lot of sock weight yarn but I don't know if they are the same.
https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/yarn-detective-sock-yarn-and-fingering-weight-yarn/
3. After much procrastination, I just frogged a WIP sweater that was nearly done but languishing on my shelf for 2 years. I wasn’t in love with the pattern, so I decided I’m going to start again with a Weekender - yay! I frogged the yarn into balls, and then re-wound them into cakes on my Stanwood ball winder. My question for you is… can I go ahead and knit with these, or do I need to go through the whole process of washing the yarn to get the kinks out? The idea of doing that for 5 skeins of yarn seems like a lot, but if it’s really critical to do for a frogged project I’ll do it.
The Weekender Pattern -
Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-weekender-5
My Website: https://www.dreareneeknits.com/shop/the-weekender
4. I loved your idea of winding your singles from your spindles onto the small weaving bobbins. My understanding is that you then would use your lazy Kate to ply all of your singles together with your wheel? When I received my wooden weaving bobbins I found that they are too small to fit onto my lazy kate. What lazy Kate are you using that fits them? Mine is the lazy Kate that came with my wheel (majacraft). Am I missing something? I’m planning on using plastic berry containers from the market until I find a better solution.
Hansen Lazy Kate -
https://hansencrafts.com/compact-kates/3-ply/
5. I need your designer brain help!!! I’ve designed a sweater that holds one strand of DK weight with one strand of Oh Dang! and I’m struggling to calculate yardages. My brain tells me that both yarns should have the same yardage but I’ve calculated the yardages for each yarn based on the amount of yarn I had left over after knitting my sweater/swatches and I’m getting two different yardages for each yarn. Am I crazy? Or is it possible that both yarns would use different yardages? How do you calculate your yardages when you are holding two yarns together in projects like the traveler shell or pink fizz??
6. I’m working on knitting up your traveler shawl. It’s my first knit in the traveler series & im really excited for it. I already knit & blocked up a swatch. I’m using a yarn I bought locally that doesn’t have official specks (that I could tell) but seemed closer to a worsted so I knit the swatch with the idea of doing the worsted weight shawl. The swatch came in at 18sts over 4”. Since it’s close to the sport weight version should I go for that one? Should I go down a needle size & go for it? Do another swatch? Since it’s a shawl, is it fine if gauge is a bit off?
The Traveler Shawl Pattern -
Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-traveler-shawl-3
My Website: https://www.dreareneeknits.com/shop/the-traveler-shawl
Spring KAL Challenge!
Traveler Hat pattern
Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-traveler-hat
My Website: https://www.dreareneeknits.com/shop/the-traveler-hat
KAL Ravelry Forum: https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/dreareneeknits/4312977/
Instagram: #travelerhatKALchallenge
Today I am wearing the Traveler
Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-traveler-3
My Website: https://www.dreareneeknits.com/shop/the-traveler
DRK March to May KAL 2024
Sweaters: https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/dreareneeknits/topics/4302431
Shawls: https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/dreareneeknits/4302760
Instagram: #DRKMARCH2MAYKAL24
DRK Spin It to Knit It KAL
Ravelry KAL Forum: https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/dreareneeknits/topics/4300929
Instagram Hashtags: #DRKspinittoknitKAL2024 #DRKspinsTHETRAVELER
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