In my color knitting era!

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

In today’s episode, I’m sharing some updates on my knitting projects. And there's actually lots of COLOR! Enjoy. ❤

[@katibere1966]

LOVE LOVE LOVE your Flea Sweater!! Colors for blanket are great!

[@novelglee]

yes welcome! colorwork sweaters have been my addiction since I made my first one!

[@Bodille]

Love your sweater! I am Norwegian, and we call those single contrasted stitches "lus" which translates to "lice". Therefore, "loppe" most logically for me, and probably all Norwegians, refers to "flea" as in "flea market". We say loppemarked in Norwegian. 😊

[@danitigges6105]

Can’t wait to see your finished product - flea sweater. ❤ Really enjoying your color selection! I won’t lie wasn’t sure at first when I saw them in skeins 🤷🏼‍♀️.

[@kathylagreca9893]

Love the flea sweater, thank you for going outside your color choices......good influence 😂❤😊

[@mamapajama1273]

Tayler, I have really enjoyed your podcasts and weekly rambles…and it cracks me up that your flea sweater is in perfect harmony with your studio color palette. Girl, just confess…you love color!! It’s OK! 😂

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Thank you, friend! And you know, I DO love color. It’s more or less that I just don’t wear a lot of it. But I figure, why the Hell not. My home is really very colorful. Why shouldn’t my clothing be occasionally? ☺️☺️

[@franlevaillant6749]

Nope, not sick of it yet! In fact, I made a happy face when I saw this video in my subs this morning, and knew I’d be watching it while baby has her midday sleep 😊. Vicarious colour-therapy ❤.

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Ah that makes my day. Thank you! Hope you had a nice midday nap time. ❤️🫖

[@morningcoffeeknits]

Love the sweater excitement and the “mom” interjection regarding a punchcard for your son. 😂

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

lol. Thanks! My littlest gets homesick from time to time and just can’t help himself. Sometimes I’m already at school helping PTA or in the classroom and I’ll get the call and when I pop down there to see him, I can tell that he just needed some momma love. I can’t complain. ☺️

[@kimmyk3640]

Agreed! That was hilarious! 😂

[@MelindaStewart-cr7wo]

Exciting to see the Flea Sweater come together. Great color choices! I knit the Next In Line blanket by Bonnie Sennott and loved how it turned out. Take a look!

[@marthastrogen9001]

Wow, it looks great on you. It has an Andes vibe.

[@dianachristie5700]

Love the colors in the Flea sweater!

[@TrixiaDK]

I’m loving the colour’s on your flee sweater ❤

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Thank you! I’m so excited about it as well. ☺️

[@siljesel9489]

The contrast stitches are called lice when the sweater is knit bottom up (which was more common in traditional Norwegian knitting) but when you knit a sweater top down the “lice stitch” changes from being a V to a upside down V and then they are called fleas instead😅 just your typical Norwegian logic😅 and then as mentioned in comments above, I also believe that Pickles is using a pun with the connection between the fleas in the sweater and flea markets🥰

[@maryannestoner4065]

A Hudson Bay Blanket would be good in those colors. Love your Flea sweater.💕🧶

[@ccpperrett7522]

That is what I pictured in my head too. LLBean has one that's going for $600!😮

[@jfigs5359]

It’s funny that you mentioned adding more colors sometimes makes a multicolored project look better. In design I was always taught you want everything in threes or odd numbers, so threes and fives somehow always look more aesthetically pleasing than twos and fours.

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Yes! Totally. My mom taught me this when I was very little and she’d be decorated homes for selling. Odd numbers are more pleasing to the eye. As for this sweater, there are six colors but one is much more neutral and sort of anchors the others. But I do firmly believe in the power of odd numbers. ☺️

[@ShariPulford]

Love the colors in your flea sweater and your cardigan is such a pretty color too❤❤

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Thank you! ❤️

[@mamapajama1273]

Thanks for the knitting chats! Go enjoy a new tea on me!

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Hey, thank you so much. This means a great deal to me. Truly. 🫖❤️

[@itsck834]

For a blanket idea, you could try the Heaven's Stripes Blanket. It is written for 2 colors but you could easily use 4 colors. It is crochet but does not have the holes like a granny stripe does.

[@carmenbrindeiro3001]

Love that blanket combo, can’t wait to see what pattern you pick!! The cardigan 🔥🔥🔥

[@jodyo1814]

You’re knitting mojo is certainly coming back, and you’re flea sweater is so inspiring ❤️Can’t wait to see the blanket window shop, you could also do a ravelry roulette episode based on blankets

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Thank you Jody! And I love a Ravelry roulette blanket edition! Yes!

[@AnneWiley-vp5rj]

I’m enjoying watching your flea sweater progress-fun!

[@mwolfe7883]

Super fun! Can’t wait to see it done.

[@eleanoreadams]

So my thoughts for your blanket.... Tunisian crochet blanket....

[@britter.the.knitter]

Loving the flea sweater. Personally, I'm in my stripes era, and I'm finishing my Andrea Mowry Stripes! sweater currently. This project is brimming with joyfully mismatched stripes, and I couldn't love it more. Incidentally, this pattern also is an incredibly helpful reference for incorporating short rows in to a striped pattern.

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Oooo love the STRIPES! Such a fun design. ❤

[@alexandraostwald3526]

You are sooo real I love the ramble and then life gets in the way with a 911 phone call😅

[@allisonkohtz8540]

I too love the colors on the flea sweater! It’s one of those pieces of clothing destined to improve your day when it’s worn. I also can’t wait to see what buttons you choose for the cardigan! Please be sure to show us when you’re at that stage.

[@100Diamonds10]

Wow! I like the change/switch on the colors for the repeat. I never tried this. I think I need to try something with 2 colors and switch them around. Looks good now with the added colors, good with your hair color.

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Isn’t that cool? I hadn’t thought to try that until now and I love it. And thank you!

[@EuiHwanP]

I'm OBSESSED with the colors in the Flea Sweater! 😍

[@Whenlifegivesyoulemonscrochet]

Gorgeous! The flea sweater color combination is perfection and very much you (at least the you I see when I see the yarn you dye) ❤

[@stitchy_linn]

Love the Flea Sweater and your color choices! Oh fun blanket pattern shopping.

[@crys6375]

I love the colors in the flea sweater! I don’t know why but I keep thinking of it like a flea circus because of all the fun color combos 😂

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

I love that! A flea circus!

[@mundanemornings]

Yep. Definitely super obsessed/invested in this flea sweater! I feel that the "color era" is a thing because I am so drawn to knitting an avocado green sweater for myself and a bubblegum pink sweater for my baby girl. I was being a "sad beige mom" that was only wearing/buying neutrals up until a few months ago! LOVING all the color!!!! (I do still love neutrals but I'm loving the excitement color is bringing me right now)

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

100%. In fact, everything you’re saying here I’m totally resonating with right now. I love this for us. 😘

[@Rachel-hf5ub]

I love the colors you've chosen for the Flea sweater--looks fantastic and feels so creative. Can't wait to see how it turns out!!!

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Thank you so much Rachel! ❤️

[@RuthAnneD21]

I need cozy season too! Last week it was cooler here and we had a few perfect gloomy days. This week it’s hot again.

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Oh Ruth how nice to have some cool days to cling to before autumn sets in fully. I yearn for those first truly cool and gloomy days. I can’t wait. ☺️🍂

[@mollygraham1249]

I love the multitude of colors! It gives me Molly Weasley vibes.

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Yusss!!! Love Mrs. Weasley!

[@jilliankonig2759]

Since you know that the fit is okay so far, you may want to weave in ends every so often, so it doesn't become the job you dread. You may be glad you did when you get to the end. The colors look great on you. I don't know of anyone who's made it an old age who said, "I wish I had worn more grey and less color." We lived with black and white movies and TV originally, so color is great!

[@Lavran]

For weaving the ends - I believe I've seen before that you can braid the ends instead of individually sewing them in. But security of that is highly dependent on the type of fiber. I think it's worth looking into with this amount of ends 🙂

[@rdeniserhinehart7512]

That is so beautiful. Loooove all the colors?

[@ChrisCook-nm4cd]

Casapinka has a couple blankets that might work with your bulky yarn. Don't know the name, but one is a baby blanket with one main color and three accents that you might be able to use as inspiration.

[@sandramullen7650]

I live in Alberta so love autumn but we tend to go from summer to cold and snow to quickly.

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Ah yes. We have the same problem in the spring. It’s more like “sprummer”. We get like a couple days of nice spring weather, and then BAM. Hot. 🥵 lol

[@genukamidnight4112]

This looks like it would make s fantastic poncho version. For the blanket, size 11 needles and zig zag stripes or herringbone stitch!

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Oooo yes!

[@belwynne1386]

I like your version of the neckline. The darker color grounds the rest of the garment, imo.

[@bethc8809]

Your sweater is gorgeous

[@barbaracommeau2212]

I was watching the Arne and Carlos podcast. Arne is knitting a sweater with the little dots of colorwork in the body. He said I am almost done with the “lice”!

[@sjorchatodman34]

Loving the flea sweater so much, maybe a flea sweater version for the couch blanket?

[@niknaiman5359]

What about the Travel Mode by Susanne Sommer? Or the Easy Puzzle Blanket by Purl Soho? I feel like they would both be right up your alley and would look amazing with that color palette. The Good Morning blanket by Purl Soho could also be a great option. I'm thinking about using my advent kit to make that this Christmas season.

[@jacquelynsmith2351]

I think your flea sweater has a very American SW color scheme. I used to live in Vegas and Henderson, and now I'm in Utah, right back where I grew up, and it definitely fits in!

[@karenalbery2773]

The cocktail cardigan has been on my list for a while. I think I better just make it

[@100Diamonds10]

I like the cardigan also. I probably would make the band 2x as wide or more. Then leave the buttons and button holes out so that I could just wrap up in.

[@QueenBaha]

🌴☀️ GAWSH I LOVE THIS CHANNEL☀️🌴

[@SueR-w6d]

Take a look at Laura Penrose’s Sweetshop blanket. It’s beautiful. I’m knitting it in fingering weight held double but you can knit it in any weight yarn. Love your videos 😉

[@Monty-in-gumboots]

Every time I worked on my Flea sweater I would pinch myself I was so excited. Then I would remember all those ends and think why did I pick a stripy pattern for my first ever sweater project and then would pinch myself with excitement again.

[@peggyeagan9108]

Andrea Vaughan Knits has a very interesting video on braiding ends. I think all your ends on your flea sweater would be so pretty braided.

[@Knitterly]

FLEAS are little critters. The single stitch in a contrasting colour resembles a little flea.

[@ShettikkaWoods-jl8iq]

Blessings and crochet 🧶

[@hjones9984]

Are you going to film a "What should I make with this?" episode with your K&C yarn? I think that would be a fun video to watch: treat those skeins as if they had been submitted by a viewer and see what blanket patterns you find.

[@saraw8503]

Do I recall the colorwork dots in the Soldotna crop being called flea stitch?

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Perhaps that’s why it’s a familiar term to me. 🤔🤔

[@Sincyn241]

Please tell me that the back of your shirt says “but take no shit”? ❤

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

It most certainly does. 😏

[@Sincyn241]

@@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS Amazing. 🤩

[@Charlotte-85]

I don't know if someone has already said this, but in Norway there was an old saying "den som har mange lus som liten, vil bli rik når han blir stor" which translates to something like the one who has many lies as little will become rich when he grows up.

[@Bolprk]

Do you (or anyone) have any tips on good colourwork patterns for a first colourwork attempt? Ideally super clear and with tips on yarn management? I absolutely love how Scandi colourwork patterns look but am a bit intimidated by them 😂

[@barbaracommeau2212]

Have you seen the Fall Horizons Throw?

[@debraraymer3386]

I love how you changed the order. Or was that suggested in the pattern?

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Thank you! So it’s suggested to rotate the MC and CC, but I think it’s different in the pattern. I just decided to do it this way for ease of keeping track.

[@AdeleFidlan]

Tayler, Have a look at some Afghans in simple MOSAIC crochet by Tinna Thórudóttir on Ravelry. I made the Casablanca Afghan which has impressed everyonewho has seen it, HOWEVER it was VERY easy so I felt a bit of a fraud!

[@mugglefolk]

Question- how do you change colours each round without making a big like gap at the seam, I love knitting stripes in the round but it always makes this gap each new row on the back if knitting top down and in the round ?

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

This is a GREAT question and honestly, I may not have the best advice, but what I do is hold the old color and the new color together for the first stitch of the next round. This closes the gap and it's really not very noticeable.

[@tuuli1697]

Here's the translation of the Norwegian sweater name : Loppis (flea market/second hand store) + genser (sweater)

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Ah yes! Thank you! And I must say, it definitely has those vibes. Ok. I need to remember that. 📝

[@delcodeb]

My daughter (now 21) kept poking herself in the eye to get sent home when she was in 1st grade I only fell for it twice ... maybe 3 times

[@hjones9984]

😂

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

😂😂😂 I love this. To be honest, this was me in school. My son gets it from me. The 🍎doesn’t fall far from the 🌳.

[@ojaimark]

It's funny, my scottish grandma calls those 1x1 color patterns "mice's teeth". I'm not entirely sure it sounds any better than lice lol.

[@catblues8645]

In Germany we say "mice's teeth" when we make a folded over edge with a row of YO k2tog along the fold line, can't remember the English term right now

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

I find that the more I use these terms in reference to my sweater or knitting patterns in general, the more endearing they become. And now with your Scottish grandma’s use of “mice teeth” I’m just smitten. I just love it. ☺️

[@estherw8838]

We're having a heat wave in Ohio this week...cmon fall!!!

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Oh gosh! Not you guys too! Ugh. 🍂🍂🍂

[@apocketfulofprose]

Are you still working on the colorwork sweater, or is that one on hold for right now? 🧶

[@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS]

Soooooooo….I think this one is replacing that one for now. And then I think I’d like to try the Pinassa again down the road with other colors. 🤔