Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Welcome to I’ll Knit (& Spin!) If I want To! I asked y’all to send in some of your questions (from everything from fiber arts, to designing and on!) so I could put together a little video for y’all every Friday doing my best to answer your questions!
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In this week’s episode we cover:
1. Hi, this is a short one: I am curious about why some of the wonderful brioche hat brims from the last KAL have the tendency to skip to one side, while others lay perfectly straight. Is it just about blocking or do I need to be patient with wool choice to avoid an oblique brim line, when I want to knit my own one?...thank you so much for your advice!! ...and of course thank you so much for your great podcast!
2. I have a very silly question. I am fairly new to knitting sweaters and have not knit a cardigan. I love your comebackigan cardigan. I have purchased the pattern and some yarn. But when I went to start it, I started to overthink things. You stated that you knit your pattern with 10" of ease. Is the 10" built into the pattern or do you need to go up 10" to get the ease?
3. I have a traveler, my friend who knits has a traveler and my other friend who doesn't knit wanted one too. So I knit her a crew neck traveler. Can I surgically remove length in it? I got carried away(10 purl bumps carried away lol, I know I know!). With a belt it could have passed as a cute mini dress sweater lol. She said she wanted it longer then mine lol she got it. I swatched and knew how it would grow but over did it anyway. I think you answered this before but in case you didn't I would like some reassurance. I'm not worried about where, but because it's knit bottom up, does it still work because it's grafted and not knit? I may do a practice run in pattern with some scrap yarn so I don't ruin it. But before I use up my precious time I thought I would ask.
Also I'm walking more but don't know how to measure my distance. You walk long distances how do you measure it? I figure a smart watch but hoping there is another way, the reviews are all over the place with those things. I can't drive it either and I take different routes all the time.
Thank you for your time.
4. Hi! I was curious about your best tips and tricks to avoid color bleeding during blocking. I’ve recently knit a project with light and dark colors and I didn’t think to soak the yarn before hand. Thanks!
5. I am an emerging knitwear designer, and I'm curious about how you scaled your business. Which site do you use to manage your newsletter list? And how did you build your website? What advice would you have for someone who is just starting out growing their audience of knitters and customer base?
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Today I am wearing The Traveler:
Ravelry: ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-traveler-3
My Website: dreareneeknits.com/shop/the-traveler
Ask a question for next week’s Q&A:
https://forms.gle/pKM9gF9SixkdQwmS7
Welcome to I’ll Knit (& Spin!) If I want To! I asked y’all to send in some of your questions (from everything from fiber arts, to designing and on!) so I could put together a little video for y’all every Friday doing my best to answer your questions!
Sign up for my newsletter here: Sign up for the DRK Newsletter: eepurl.com/diPxsr
In this week’s episode we cover:
1. Hi, this is a short one: I am curious about why some of the wonderful brioche hat brims from the last KAL have the tendency to skip to one side, while others lay perfectly straight. Is it just about blocking or do I need to be patient with wool choice to avoid an oblique brim line, when I want to knit my own one?...thank you so much for your advice!! ...and of course thank you so much for your great podcast!
2. I have a very silly question. I am fairly new to knitting sweaters and have not knit a cardigan. I love your comebackigan cardigan. I have purchased the pattern and some yarn. But when I went to start it, I started to overthink things. You stated that you knit your pattern with 10" of ease. Is the 10" built into the pattern or do you need to go up 10" to get the ease?
3. I have a traveler, my friend who knits has a traveler and my other friend who doesn't knit wanted one too. So I knit her a crew neck traveler. Can I surgically remove length in it? I got carried away(10 purl bumps carried away lol, I know I know!). With a belt it could have passed as a cute mini dress sweater lol. She said she wanted it longer then mine lol she got it. I swatched and knew how it would grow but over did it anyway. I think you answered this before but in case you didn't I would like some reassurance. I'm not worried about where, but because it's knit bottom up, does it still work because it's grafted and not knit? I may do a practice run in pattern with some scrap yarn so I don't ruin it. But before I use up my precious time I thought I would ask.
Also I'm walking more but don't know how to measure my distance. You walk long distances how do you measure it? I figure a smart watch but hoping there is another way, the reviews are all over the place with those things. I can't drive it either and I take different routes all the time.
Thank you for your time.
4. Hi! I was curious about your best tips and tricks to avoid color bleeding during blocking. I’ve recently knit a project with light and dark colors and I didn’t think to soak the yarn before hand. Thanks!
5. I am an emerging knitwear designer, and I'm curious about how you scaled your business. Which site do you use to manage your newsletter list? And how did you build your website? What advice would you have for someone who is just starting out growing their audience of knitters and customer base?
squarespace.com
mailchimp.com
Today I am wearing The Traveler:
Ravelry: ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-traveler-3
My Website: dreareneeknits.com/shop/the-traveler
Ask a question for next week’s Q&A:
https://forms.gle/pKM9gF9SixkdQwmS7
