can't wait to see the finished sweater! also I have the same issue with hair sticking out perpendicularly every time it's short and it's a lot lol, good luck with the whole floof taming!

OMG I love this so much!!! 🤣🙌🏼💖 everyone’s got their own knitting origin story 🤣

Love your sweater great work you should do an eagle thanks for the pattern.

I have been crocheting since 1975, I have worked with Red Heart in the past, and absolutely despise them! I guess the yarn has improved in the last 50 years, but I would rather buy Caron Cakes or Lion Brand. I will not be trying this yarn. Ok. I lied. I went out and got some just to try it out. It is a “meh” yarn for me.😮

Dear Aspen, Will you make a tuto ? I'd like to knit such a beautiful pull over as yours blue one. Or do you have any link to share with us? Forgive my english, it's not my 1st language. Big hug from France💋💋💋

you got me into crochet and now you're gonna get me into knitting.....this is the true gay agenda (also aspen is a nice name!)

hi! i know you made this tutorial a long time ago, but do you thing you could use the kitchener stitch at the end instead of binding off and seaming? i feel like that would work but im a bit newer and not entirely sure

i used loops and threads impeccable acrylic 4 weight with a size 8 mm hook in the color claret and its so pretty!

I saw the thumbnail and immediately thought it looked like the portal blocks from Minecraft. Now I want to get some of this yarn to make an end portal Minecraft mural with the granny squares

Not a hot take, but adding to the acrylic versus natural discussion: I’m allergic to most animal based fur/wool, so I literally cannot have any knit wear that is made of it. Not fun. 🫠

my name is aspen too!!!! such a cool name 😉😉

I have 5 WIPs and not a lot of space in my apartment, so I really need to decide what to do with them. Two of them are getting frogged for sure

So it would be still nice to wear without short rows?

Love to hear an accent from the Southern Hemisphere! Love from Wellington NZ 🌻

wool or acrylic... both still contribute to pollution... and landfills... and waste.... i mean all the problems in the world and we have yarn elites? are we seriously classifying YARN???????? someone needs to hit us with a nuke... we're broken.

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Hi Aspen!☺️I enjoyed the video!

the POV: we asked how you're doing section had me dying laughing bc i mentally answered the question with "we found out i might have lupus" which was followed by "that's awesome! yeah you really deserve it :)" 🤣🤣🤣

If I'm using indie/hand-dyed yarn, I always alternate rows. It works really well! I'm glad you are giving it a try. It really is the only way to prevent that line if you're using hand-dyed yarn. Even the best indie dyers have slight variations in dye lots. Store bought yarn, though? As long as it's the same dye lot on the label, alternating rows is not necessary. I can't wait to see your finished product!

I'm just curious about this ripping off other people's designs things. Growing up in Turkiye, with 7 aunts and my grandma, all of them expert knitters/crocheters, I find this idea extremely strange. Knitting, crocheting, any fiber crafts has a looooong history in Anatolian culture, way before USA even existed. The patterns of embroidery, knitting, and crocheting were like community products, everyone would share them and even in my childhood (which is early 2000s), there were magazines that yarn companies published that advertised designs and patterns, and basically everyone would get them for free from newspapers, magazines, etc. Now those magazines are just online published, without a cost, and you can get them from the websites of these yarn brands. I will consider buying patterns when I am that advanced in a craft, but honestly seeing my mom just figuring out how to make it by her own after looking at pictures of other people's clothes, I just find this whole THIS IS MY PATTERN, I DESIGNED IT idea very strange and bizarre. It's extremely west-centric individualism sourced. Just my take. Fiber crafts have been with us for thousands of years, they were not these individualistic trendsy products. About wool/acrylic debate: If you say that wool is better and acryclic is just cheap to any Anatolian woman who learned these handcrafts before going to school, they will just laugh at your face. These handcrafts are with us today because they were community efforts, shared across the villages, families, friends.

your videos are a good background for crochet, knitting, AND needle felting (as I am making a felt cardinal right now) :) Thanks for what you do!

I haye crocheting

Wow it looks so peaceful knitting by the water. 😌

isnt it hypocritical flying and traveling so much whilst "standing for" sustainability....

Supporting kelsies' friends here❤❤❤ its just so nice to watch them in a vlog together❤❤❤ From Ph

It must be so fun to have a knitting retreat with friends! We look forward to your new videos Aspen!

Aspen is a shade name of a Stylecraft DK yarn so it’s very fitting as a name choice! 🧶

I LOVE that blue! Perfect color for you, Aspen. Fun to see your progress in one video. 🌸🌼🌻

Holy hell Aspen is SUCH a dope name and it suits you SO well

I named my daughter Aspen. It was such a rare name when i named her. ❤

Ah yes, buying yarn with a specific idea in mind, then realizing that’s the last thing you want to make and doing something COMPLETELY different. I most certainly haven’t done that recently. Fantastic color, though!

I love any style of content from you Aspen, love the sound of waves off the lake in the background

Queef jerky realness

I have had loads of people crochet or knit in classes. All in higher education, not high school, but it was generally totally ok to knit or crochet during a lecture or lesson

looks like the trip was a lot of fun! I hope you enjoyed meeting your online friends and have fortified your friendships :) also, i really love that blue color!

I’m super lucky; my local thrift store has a specific fiber arts section (yarn, knitting needles, crochet hooks, embroidery thread etc) and for super cheap as well. Most skeins/balls are priced under a euro - often even under 50 cents. To be fair, the balls/skeins tend to be smaller the thicker the yarn is, but I think last time I bought 4 multi-colour balls of yarn for about a euro? I also once bought like 7 balls of the same orange yarn in a bag and it was still under 2 euros. I’ve recently picked up spool knitting again so multi-colour is super fun for me since it makes for more interesting cords, and I’m also figuring out what I can do with the cords! (I made a braided bracelet with one today! :D)

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hello Aspen!!

Okay 2 things: Your crafting crew's vibe is immaculate. ❤😂 Also, maybe an unpopular opinion, but f* Interchangeable needles. So many little bits to put together before you get knitting. Fixed circulars 5ever!!!!!!

ufff i love and miss western mass

I noticed your PussyBoys shirt and thought to myself “I should check them out” then the next day they were the first song on my Spotify day list 😮

The pussy boy highway euphoria shirt in the first new name video goes hard

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I don't think the amount of yarn I have makes me better. I'm just a stupid crow and I think "yarn pretty, must buy" Hell I actually think it makes me worse as a crocheter lol Only buy me yarn I want .....I.... I'm petty so I do care what you call it. But I get the point. I'm just too childish Oh one of my favorite yarns to work with is acrylic and I will die on that hill. Wool is scratchy and considering I don't crochet to be sustainable, I crochet because I have very bad anxiety and I need a hobby to calm me so I'll use the kartopu yarn because the touch of that and the end product fills me with joy

Me hearing a Kiwi accent when I'm not expecting it: 😲

I have the same plant as the one you got from your friend moving! I got mine in first year uni at ikea 😅

Aspen! What a lovely name you've chosen for yourself. Very excited to see where this journey takes you :)

u look like a newborn baby at the end 😭 😭

live for aspen, so happy you found a name, congrats.