The random household items as weights are 100% my vibe 😅 the shirt looks amazing!

Did you know that Belgium has a coin "shortage" ? Have you seen the hashtag "# spend your change"?

I feel like I'm always wearing my cat's fur. 😜

If its any consolation, I designed and sewed up a skirt made in deadstock denim. Despite triple machine washing it with bleach my hands WERE STILL BLUE. Indigo is a tricky creature 🤣

Do you wax where the drive band sits? Where do you omit the wax?

You know not even 36 seconds ago I thought to myself "Id rather be knitting with linen than this mercerized cotton" And then I got a 4 days late notif for this video 😂😂😂 bruh

I do the exact same with sleeves. I'm always convinced they're a lot less fabric than the front or back pieces. Even though they are usually at least the same. I just started my second sleeve of the Williamsburg Cardigan Lite by Karas Knit Eng. I usually prefer anywhere from 5mm-8mm needles. My hands are too shaky for anything smaller. I love the look of fine knitting, so I just live vicariously through you.

I love watching you work and your charming comments. Thank you!!

This is some of the beautiful yarn I think I've ever seen!! The colors are just so soothing and wonderful, even on a computer screen! Can't wait to see the project in the future!!!!

I HATE knitting with linen and/or cotton! I enjoy spinning those fibres very much, especially on my spindles, but for me, they are destined for weaving projects. I am very happy to stick to my animal fibres for knitting and crochet pursuits … 😁 Glad you persevered with your top though - it looks amazing! 😜❤️❤️❤️ Hope you enjoyed your holiday - looks like you had fun … 😊

Congratulations it turned out beautifully. I've only ever knitted with linen twice, I found it really hard on my hands, even worse than cotton. I do like the tops I knitted though. I found some linen/linen-look yarn in a charity shop, too cheap to leave, and I'm going to weave it up on my 40 cm rigid heddle loom into a light summer scarf.

Hi Jente. Im loving that top, very pretty, very timeless design 😊 Could you use the remaining linen in a weaving project? Could that work even? Im not a knitter.. or a weaver for that matter, just a humble crocheter and spinner 😁

Ooh I love that top, I might have to look through my vintage patterns with new eyes

Watching this while knitting my own spencer is weirdly entertaining. Its also nice to see people with similar interests from the same country haha!

I find knitting with plant fibres (but especially linen) really difficult. I think its the lack of stretch compared to animal fibres

Love the finished top !🎉

Very cute result! I've never used linen, but I've got a cotton that tends to tangle and flop like yours did. So I usually just rewind it before I start. Sometimes I don't and I usually end up regretting that. The alpaca I'm currently working with is wound the same way, but even if I pull from the inside, it doesn't get annoying.

Weaving with flax is often made easier by lightly pre-coating the yarn with a thin wheat paste or "flax spit" (flax gel extracted by simmering the seeds in water for a few minutes). This helps to hold the yarn fibers together and washes out after the fabric is done. I would assume it would also work with knitting/crocheting.

very cute top

Inspiring to see you finishing this even though it was a struggle to knit! I also failed out of knitting with linen but I still have the yarn so this inspires me to do something for next summer.

I would weave with the linen...😊

Hi Jente, I hope you and Dries are having a Wonderful Holiday. ❣️❣️❣️ Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast . I love the top it ĺooks so pretty. 🎉🎉🎉 Pity bout the Linen yarn though. Enjoy the rest of your holiday Fibre 🌟🌞🐑🥰 Lots of love and Big Hugs to you both Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕🫂

Weave your linen! It is much easier comparatively. And it lasts longer as a woven item. Your top is amazing though! (I don't like knitting linen either)

I just found your channel in the past few days, while looking for spinning help. I'm loving it here, and I not only learn, but I also laugh. Keep it up.

Love your shell pants!!!!!!!!!!!! And love the zigzag pattern of your lace <3 I havent worked with linen before so I learned a lot!

It turned out really pretty! :) having played with cotton recently, I understand your frustration haha! I'm going back to wool xD

What a lovely top! I'm glad you enjoyed the result so much. I unfortunately had the opposite happen recently: I knit a sweater with lovely local non-superwash sheepwool, and it was even done in time for the colder weather! But it's too big, and not in a nice, oversized is fashionable, kind of way. The neckline doesn't allow for a shirt underneath, the shoulderseams sit a few cm out from my shoulders, and the sleeves are both almost 10 cm too long... So time to frog, I fear!

Timeless is the best way to describe that pattern! I have found patterns for that particular lace pattern for curtains in Weldon’s practical needlework to 1940’s blouses. I usually find it being called leaf and trellis pattern!

My first experience with linen is the same as yours... my yarn is extremely slippery as well as splitty and unforgiving of tension variations... worth the pain? Well, most definitely! There is no plant fiber superior in strength, durability, and cooling as linen.

Hey.hope you had nice holidays. Obviously knitting is cooler than skating. And I have the same experience with linen yarn. And let me tell you it gets worse when you are supposed to make twisted stitches or cables. But unfortunately it's amazing to wear afterwards and perfect for summer. So I still have some linen yarn around. But I try to rewind the skeins to balls to avoid the mess and will not have it as my only project. Bye

The blouse is beautiful! Way to keep going, even with the struggles

You made a lovely, classy blouse, and now I’d love to give linen yarn a go with all the helpful hints gained by reading through the comments. Maybe make a matching plain blouse with the leftover yarn when you feel like tackling it again.

The rest of the yarn on an inkle loom could make a lovely sash.

If you want to give linen another try, you could look for a chainette yarn like Shibui Knits Linen. I've done a summer top and currently working on a lace shawl in that. It's by no means my favorite yarn ever, but it's quite tolerable. The chainette structure means it has a lot of texture, so it stays balled up pretty well, and you also can't split the yarn particularly easily.

Your sweater came out beautiful

I love the feel of linen garments, but I don't love working with it at all.

The finished top looks absolutely gorgeous. I sympathise with you in relation to knitting linen - I've not knitted with pure linen but I have knitted with cotton and, no, it's not my favourite. Like your linen yarn, it's not particularly forgiving. (It did occur to me that it might be a good idea for linen yarn manufacturers to make a more slubbed, slightly uneven yarn. That would deal with the issue of the yarn being unforgiving in relation to tension, as well as adding texture.) I would suggest that you consider using your remaining skeins of linen for a weaving project.

I don’t believe I’ve seen a linen knitted garment so huge props to you for attempting!

I’ve only used linen to knit with once so far. Though I liked the feel of the top on, I found that it shrank shorter and shorter each time I washed it, though I tried to do so very carefully. Also, every join showed in the finished top, again, even though I tried to be so careful about how I did it.

When I have balls/skeins wrapped that way, I put them in a plastic baggie, zip the top almost closed and have one end coming out of the baggie. That way, when you pull on the yarn to knit, t just unravels from the ball in the baggie and doesn't tangle.

I worked a crochet piece with a cotton/bamboo blend, and it did the same thing. I hated working with that yarn and vowed to never touch it again. It's a shame, because it's a gorgeous yarn, but my patience has its limits. Also- kitty! When you were on the swing, a kitty ran across the bottom right. ❤

Suggestion for your next try at linen: try crochet. Have found that cotton, linen and blends of the two make for difficult knitting, but easy crochet. It might be just me… but worth trying, eh?

So glad to hear that I am not the only one who doom scrolls on ravelry

I've worked with linen recently and I'm not a fan. It's not stretchy at all and the top I made felt so heavy. I'd be so irritated with those skeins of yarn tangling up like that. I'd probably have angry wound the 2nd into a ball for it's own good. I do love your ingenious use of household items to pin down your garment for blocking! So chaotic!

Maybe ply it together with a thin wool yarn? Would be a nice experiment.

very lovely knitting ...what fun times u have. i ordered a book from Peggy Orenstein called Unraveling! its very good. Peggy it seems wanted to make a sweater from shearing the sheep to spinning to knitting her homemade wool. i got it on Amazon for 1.92 $ plus shipping. i get alot of books from the used books from Amazon. sure interesting book. thank u for your lovely video's!

Love the top! I made a hobbi t-shirt pattern that had similar lace down the back and I think it looks soooo good. I found the yarns that had more grip (cotton, linen, singles, silk) that sizing up a needle and using metal rather than wood helped the process of knitting less hard. You could also consider adding something moisturising to the yarn while you use it? Maybe some form of oil or soak to make it run smoother? (I haven't tried that myself though so might not work)

Oh no Jente, oh no. I love it too much, and I have just the right amount of linen yarn. But I do not have a late 80s belgian pattern 😢 Also huge props for listening to your hands and heart and scrapping a pattern when you started it. Intuitive, and inspiratial is what I'm trying to say, I think. Even if it sucked in the moment.

I've never worked with linen, so I had no idea how difficult it can be to work with. Your top turned out beautiful, and I agree that it's style is a timeless classic.

great work on the new tools and fiber