Colourwork Season! Knitting Podcast, Episode 27, Karlie Paige

[@sabeaniebaby]

You're making me miss Calgary SO MUCH! Thanks for the project suggestions and for the content.

[@bagladysendtheferalspinner3761]

Loved your choices. As a fellow Albertan, I love warm colour-work sweaters too.

[@thosetwinswhoknit]

Hi from Rachel! All of these designs are so inspiring! ❤The bouquet sweater has been on my list for a long time now and this has been such a great reminder to start planning a cast on for it! Thank you so much for sharing all of the beautiful colorwork!

[@karliepaige8269]

Hi Rachel!! Thank you! Looking forward to seeing your version of the bouquet 💐 ☺️💕

[@KnittingWithCatHair]

Hello from a fellow Canadian 🤗 I adore colourwork so thank-you very much for walking us through some of the beautiful patterns that have caught your eye 🤗 I especially appreciated seeing many new-to-me patterns. Now you've given me the urge to dig out all my wonderful Kaffe Fasset books I picked up at a local second-hand store to have a flip-through! Thank-you for the inspiration and I'm very much looking forward to seeing which pattern(s) you end up casting on 😍 Happy Making 💕

[@karliepaige8269]

Hello! Thank you! I’m so glad you were inspired and found some new to you patterns to check out ☺️ oh yes you will have to have a look through your Kaffe Fasset collection ☺️ Happy knitting!! 🧶💕🧶💕

[@slow_knits]

Love that all your picks are more unique, not the usual ones everyone knows about! I found a Kaffe Fassett book at a thrift store and I loooove it!! all the designs and color choices are just so inspiring

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you! Oh very cool! Ya the colour combos from his designs are so cool!!

[@Thomas_mic]

So impressed with your sewn linen blouse! So inspired to pick up sewing again! Beautiful work!❤️

[@karliepaige8269]

Awe thank you!!

[@tulpenballerina]

On the photo of the Kilim jacket: Is this not Kate Moss?! 😳 She must be very young then... I also LOVE the Holly Sweater and already bought yarn to cast it on this in the next few weeks.😍

[@karliepaige8269]

Ya I’m pretty sure it is and I was shocked to see her modeling knitwear haha! Oooh so exciting, happy knitting! 🧶💕🧶

[@melissalampman7214]

Thanks for sharing, it is Kate Moss, good eye who saw that, I really like that jacket, I just gave two Kaffe Fasset vintage books to our weavers guild, I am going to double check them, I don’t think that pattern is in them ,will see if they are 93. I love the Astrid,and the Vair, I bought the book, I will try that first. I want to make it in the colours of the black one, love it so much, it is a dream knit, one day, I am going to attempt my first colourwork sweater it’s from the Knitting Kalevala book, the one on the cover, I want to knit most patterns in that book. Take care from a B.C, Melissa.

[@karliepaige8269]

I’m jealous you have the book with vair in it! Might need to get that ☺️ Goodly luck knitting your first colourwork, that is very exciting 💕🧶💕

[@ouineque]

Thank you so so much for the bundle! I hope I'll get hooked like you are because there are some beautiful patterns out there❤❤❤

[@karliepaige8269]

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[@QueensYarnBoutique]

I really like the Kilim Jacket, Elena sweater, Hjarta dress, Buness beret, and Pokharagenser sweater. Great video! 👏🏾

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you! Glad you liked some of the patterns shown, happy knitting! 🧶💕🧶

[@edinacole6382]

I knit Vair with short sleeves in less than 3 weeks. It was a joy to knit

[@karliepaige8269]

That’s so great to hear you enjoyed knitting it, it’s so beautiful! Can’t wait to have one ☺️💕🧶

[@edinacole6382]

@@karliepaige8269 It wasnt hard either. Very good instructions

[@carlafawcett3851]

Fun and inspiring video! I love the Rug sweater by Junko too. It's on the list in my head : )

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you! Oooh yes, I love that sweater and will hopefully knit one day as well 💕🧶💕

[@eeeveeelieeen]

Love the inspiration! So original :)

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you! 🧶💕☺️

[@julieknitsandspins]

Antler buttons! I called my brother last week to see if he had a couple of broken horns! 🙄 He said I’ll send you the whole rack 😂😂😂 I live in Southern California 🤦🏻‍♀️ I said not now just a couple horns. Love the Kilim coat too. Love most of the patterns in your bundle ❤

[@karliepaige8269]

Oh that’s so cool haha! 🧶💕🧶

[@Meredith36]

Just found your channel. Liked and subscribed. The colorwork sweaters you showed are so beautiful. And your top is so cute! Happy creating 💚🪡🧶💚

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you so much! Happy creating to you as well! 💕🧶💕

[@nsgfbaerougbakjnbkjabgjl]

Omg this is my first time seeing this design from Kaffe Fasset and I am shocked because I think it may have been inspired by the ethnic designs of my people in Eastern Europe- we make blankets and tapestries called ‘piroski kilim’ that have that same texture! Must research more but thank you for introducing me to this beautiful pattern!

[@karliepaige8269]

Oh wow that is so interesting! I’m going to look up that style of blanket and get some more inspiration for colour combinations, thank you for letting me know!! 🧶💕🧶

[@Maya-ii6im]

Love your podcast and enjoy every thing 👋I wish you all the best

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you so much! Happy knitting ❤️🧶☺️

[@saraw8503]

I have wanted to do a Marie Wallin pattern. I live in coastal NC and we have very little weather cold enough for an all over colorwork sweater. I am seriously planning (have the Jamison and Smith yarn) to knit Skerries mitts. I consider it a good introduction to a Wallin pattern.

[@karliepaige8269]

I would love to do a Marie wallin pattern soon as well! A small colourwork project is a great idea then since you don’t get that cold weather ☺️ Happy knitting!

[@MarianaCosta-qr2qv]

Hello dear Karlie. Great podcast as always :) I think the technique it's called Estonian Colourwork.

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you so much! 💕🧶💕

[@joannemoseley8994]

Gorgeous choices! Some are very ambitious, but would love to see you make them up. I’ve been wanting to make a Linka Neumann pattern for some time…I really love her designs.

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you! Haha yes very ambitious, I imagine some will take me a very long time lol Linka really does have some beautiful patterns!

[@eleanorpans1456]

I've been knitting the Hana sweater by Junko Okamoto and it's been one of the most fun knits I've ever done. Not colorwork, but a really fun cable sampler and very interesting construction!

[@karliepaige8269]

That looks like such a fun knit! I really want to knit that one as well, especially after hearing you say it’s been really fun! it is so beautiful! Happy knitting 💕🧶💕

[@blackmorerose]

As others have said there is a traditional Estonian technique called Roosimine where the strands are carried on the outside of the fabric. If you want to check out a modern interpretation of this technique have a look at Aleks Byrd's patterns. She is a wonderful teacher too. I did a class with her back in February 2020 and it was really interesting.

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you so much! I just checked out her patterns and they are beautiful, saved a few to my favourites ☺️ very cool you did a class with her! 🧶💕🧶

[@meredithanne]

Love this episode! Check out the Kaffe Fasset coat that @brookwillow knit last year, it’s stunning

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you! Ohh I will, thanks!! 🧶💕🧶

[@theyarngoeson]

A lot of my favorite color work patterns are by Caitlin Hunter, Stephanie Lotven and Elenor Mortensen (see her pattern Love in a Mist sweater)

[@karliepaige8269]

Ooh I will definitely check that pattern out, thank you!!

[@sandydansy]

I don't know if the technique in the first Junko sweater is exactly this but there is Roositud... "is an Estonian inlay technique in which a contrasting color is wrapped between the stitches as you knit". I'm planning to make Junko's Taro sweater, going to Iceland in November so hoping to buy lopi yarn for it. So exciting that you are going to go for the Kilim, that's totally a grail! I imagine the original yarns might be discontinued so people have to figure out their own modern ways. BTW if you go on the Internet Archive and go to 'borrowing books' you can find many Rowan and Kaffe books there, so you could have a look ahead at your pattern (as well as many others). But it will still be nice to have a hard copy, I have so many Kaffe books! I have a vintage Kaffe Spanish Combs kit that I got on etsy and I've knitted one side TWICE (first time because I had horrible loose row gauge being so inexperienced that the sweater would be insanely long on me) but I need to continue on with the project some time. Actually the 2nd time I modified the shape to a cocoon cardigan because I don't want the baggy huge 80s drop shoulder shape so that's what has halted me proceeding with the fronts since it will take more work to figure out how I'm going to place the motifs.

[@karliepaige8269]

Oh thank you! That’s so exciting you’re going to Iceland and can buy some yarn for your tarp sweater! It is exciting to start the kilim but I’m thinking it will take me a very long time haha! I will check out “borrowing books” thanks for letting me know about that! That’s really cool you have a vintage Kaffe kit! Good luck with continuing with that project, it will be worth it I’m sure! ☺️💕☺️

[@kikicarlisle]

I think the technique might be called Roosimine. It’s Estonian. But I’m not sure as I haven’t knit the Bouquet. But I sure want to!

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you! I will be looking into this technique ☺️☺️☺️

[@helenferland7732]

Have you looked at Junko Okamoto's pattern called Taro???

[@karliepaige8269]

Omg yes! It is so beautiful and unique! 🧶💕🧶

[@elainewilliams497]

Hi Karlie you are going to be super busy with all the gorgeous designs you have chosen.Very inspiring, happy knitting 🧶🌺

[@karliepaige8269]

Haha I’ll be too busy! Happy knitting to you as well ☺️💕🧶

[@wovenheart2686]

I think the technique in the bouquet sweater is called “ladderback jacquard” (i think???) Maggie from Sonder knits on youtube made one a year or so back and talks extensively about the technique. Also a great knitting youtuber I highly recommend! ♥️♥️

[@karliepaige8269]

Oh thank you! I will definitely check her out then to see what she says ☺️💕🧶

[@carolineleptitshowntell]

Estonian roosimine

[@karliepaige8269]

Thank you!!