clearing my needles, it's a miracle 🧶knitting podcast #8

[@clairescozycorner]

I feLT that when you said your patience doesn't allow for longer sweaters haha. your pieces look gorgeous and smilla sleeves is now in my WIP queue!

[@tangerineknits]

Ahhhh your vienna blouse looks absolutely stunning!!! I loveeee the icord ties, the peplum and the very subtle marl in the yarns you chose! I can definitely see how it's a labor of love but the piece is amazing and looks great on you!

[@SylkyJ100]

Your red sweater is so gorgeous - your knitting is beautiful! I love all your knits and I can see your enthusiasm for what you've been knitting so if that same enthusiasm isn't there for the cream-colored peacock sweater - frog it. In my opinion, there is nothing worse than working for so long on something that you'll feel "meh" about later. Hugs from Texas!

[@sweaterandspice]

very true!!

[@bathulhu]

I would frog it, mainly because i kow that i would end up frogging it later or never wearing and i don't like cutting yarn lots for surgery. I would also try to knot the button band with the rest of the cardigan because i dislike picking up for button bands but yeah. Good luck on your nova sweater. The saskie sweater is also in my queue after i do an easier colourwork one.

[@slow_knits]

I love your smilla sleeves!! Looks so good on you

[@vivienyinnn5]

im also making the vienna blouse and glad to hear im not the only one who is a victim of it

[@sweaterandspice]

hahaha so true tho

[@punctumsutura]

Your knits look lovely ! Especially the Vienna cardigan, it is stunning on you. The stitches look so neat 🥰 Too bad the pattern is not widely available…

[@sweaterandspice]

thanks! Yeah getting the Sandnes garn pattern booklets are kind of a pain in the US :(

[@stephanierobertson3118]

i love that sandnes garn sweater, i have that pattern book but i dont think i have it in me. I knit the Amy slipover last year and i think i feel the same about that as you do for that cardigan

[@sweaterandspice]

ooh I actually want to knit the Amy slipover soon! hopefully before summer! hahah I cast on the blouse with a friend and that was the only reason I was able to start it, otherwise idk how long I would’ve put it off for

[@stadknit]

I love your Vienna cardigan! ❤ Maybe you knitted the icord along the edge a little tighter on the left side than the right side? That would make the left side seem shorter. You can probably pull this side longer when it’s wet.

[@sweaterandspice]

def gonna try to aggressively block it longer!

[@QueensYarnBoutique]

Your Vienna Blouse is stunning!! ❤❤❤

[@sweaterandspice]

thank you! 🥰

[@lordhenriknits]

I love your Vienna blouse so much wow! You've inspired me to cast it on. I recently had a cardigan with a similar issue (one side was longer) and I realized I had knit the button band way shorter on one side- my tension got tighter and probably picked up stitches at a different rate too. Maybe that's what happened with your applied i-cord?

[@sweaterandspice]

🤯🤯🤯 omg this is probably it

[@pagesandpurls]

I’m all here for your red era, these colours are gorgeous !! And congrats on finishing that peplum cardigan, what a journey 😅 i think if i was you I’d probably frog the peacock cardigan - the surgery would be an option, as you said, but if you enjoyed working on the lace motif, I think I’d have more fun reknitting than figuring out surgery on the collar 😅

[@sweaterandspice]

yea the idea of sweater surgery puts me off so much that I’d rather frog the whole thing hahaha

[@y0landa543]

quick question, how can you actually buy the vienna blouse pattern?? i found the website but there is no “buy pattern” button whatsoever?

[@sweaterandspice]

If you’re in the US there’s motherknitter where you can buy the pattern online I think but you also have to buy some Sandnes garn yarn with the order. I got my booklet from knitt.co but also had to buy 3 skeins of Sandnes garn andddd there was a flat shipping fee :(

[@elleandish]

🐸 the 🦚 ! it’s still going to bother you since it still bothers you after all this time ❤ you’ll be happy you did if it turns out cleaner and closer to what you want

[@sweaterandspice]

v true 😤

[@nicolevena5445]

I think if the collar of the peacock cardigan is going to bother you, its best to frog it now before you get any further. You don't want to finish it and not wear it because of the collar. I can't wait to see your colorwork sweater!

[@elswhere]

I think the cream bolero is soooooooo cute you just need to style it with a dress

[@sweaterandspice]

worst case i give it to you hehe

[@deborahderden4860]

Both sleeves are the same honeycomb pattern so you can call it a “modified design feature”! You did it on purpose. 😀

[@sweaterandspice]

true hahaha

[@lukebullard9521]

If you can stomach it, I am a big believer in frogging. If it bothers you now, it will likely continue to bother you.

[@sweaterandspice]

it’s 🐸 time for sure