Humans Of Westknits MKAL 2024 Finale, Part 2

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@julialoosjes7769 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. I loved these series!

@katerogers5365 2 ай бұрын

Irina, thanks for creating this wonderful sharing community. I had to leave the Zoom early and couldn’t express my appreciation to everyone. I am always very impressed by the relaxed, curious, and genuine way you engage each of us and how you seamlessly suggest tips or admire the different projects each of us is putting (gobs of) our time into. Also both you and Martin share your own impressions, setbacks, and life experiences with such spontaneity and authenticity. It is very inspring.❤

@Fiberchats 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Kate! So kind of you!

@Liz.Green789 2 ай бұрын

Thank you again, Irina and everyone. I have enjoyed this so much. Thank you for the help and encouragement, too.

@Fiberchats 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for joining us!

@KimClinger 2 ай бұрын

I just wanted to thank you so much for pulling these MKAL group zooms together! This year I conquered brioche to an acceptable degree but the frogging and re-knitting held me back a bit. I’d make a mistake, zip up the bag it was in, and set it aside. Then I’d remember that a zoom call was coming, and I’d get it back out again. I also learned a lot from the other knitters. Yes! Teach that knitting class, maybe your son will learn too…😮. Thanks again! ❤

@KimClinger 2 ай бұрын

Maybe you could videotape your son’s work knitting class(es)…could be a lot of fun to watch, and could be a good one to add to your extensive teaching library!

@Fiberchats 2 ай бұрын

Great idea!

@Sewjo87 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Irina for another year of HoW! You and all the gang are pretty dang cool, and the talent, tips, and tricks shared were inspiring. I'm on to my second Gogo, filled with awe from the community you've created and gratitude for your generosity and time. Keep gogo goin y'all!

@Fiberchats 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for being a part of HoW!

@Mortycat777 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for doing these meetings. They have been really helpful! Nice to see everyone’s progress and ideas.

@Fiberchats 2 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

@sew_So_beautiful 2 ай бұрын

Lol. I loved it when you told about doubling your entertainment for $25 by ripping out and knitting again. I must really get my money's worth then. I don't think there is a project I've knit yet that I haven't ripped out parts and knit them over so many times that in reality I've knit the object two or 3 complete times. I'm going to think that every time I rip back now. I don't mind ripping back that much, to me it's just a part of the process and it bothers me a lot more to leave obvious mistakes, than to rip back. I'm always lurking in the background, but I've really enjoyed watching everyone's progress. Sometimes maybe I can join in too, but I didn't start knitting the shawl until the third clue came out. I wanted to make sure I loved it first, even though I had the yarn from the beginning. I'm near the end of the second row of eyelets. I have to rip a row back again. Lol. I don't rip everything back. I did brioche for the first section, or at least tried to. Somehow I got on the wrong row and I have the knit side to the front of the shawl for both my main and contrast colours, and the part that should be between the Knits are all on the back. But it's so pretty, I left it and did the whole section like that. So basically every second brioche stitch is wrong. I had already ripped back 4 rows of brioche done correctly, but I had dropped a stitch and messed it all up trying to fix it. So I wasn't going to rip back something that looked so pretty no matter how wrong it was knit. I've learned how to read it though and fix my mistakes.

@Fiberchats 2 ай бұрын

That turned into a design feature the moment you decided to repeat that brioche mistake :)

@sew_So_beautiful 2 ай бұрын

@Fiberchats lol. Yes, it did and I just keep looking at it and thinking it's so pretty.

@CatherineD-3 2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately my internet went down so I wasn't able to join this final session. But just wanted to say thank you Irina for all the time you put in to organizing these and enabling people like me who don't have any knitting friends in real life to connect to the community. Thank you as well to everyone who participated - see you all next year!

@Fiberchats 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Catherine! ❤️❤️

@nicolelafontaine1720 2 ай бұрын

How nice to see you all share, thanks !

@Fiberchats 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@ixtlanisabelle 2 ай бұрын

Irina, about teaching. I have heard you say that you started with lace and that there was no fear about it. Find a pattern that you like, whether a hat or a shawl, and teach as they go ! They can choose also. I started with a line of cast on and did garter stitches, and missed stitches as many would do when they learn and added some as a newbie could do... but you will learn a lot from teaching. I am thinking of doing a page (and it could well be Facebook, YT is too slow to download to my taste) of teaching and my "speciality" would be to make the english patterns available to french non english speaking. There is aooooo much to work with english !

@Fiberchats 2 ай бұрын

That’s a great approach