KnittingHelp.com | Knitting Meaning and Hope @knittinghelp | Uploaded November 2016 | Updated October 2024, 17 minutes ago.
In this video I invite you to imbue your knitting with meaningful imagery. Whatever is meaningful and important TO YOU. This can be a deep act of contemplation on what matters to you, and a powerful expression of it to the world. You can wear what you love, literally on your sleeve!
Here are two great resources for designing your own knits, filled with meaning for you. You can do this with a sweater, as I demonstrate, but of course another object can work just as well. How about a Meaningful Hat?
Resources:
Print some Knitter’s Graph Paper to start designing! Knitter’s graph paper is not a perfect square grid, but comprised of lateral rectangles, in a proportion similar to knitting, such as 7 stitches, and 5 rows, per inch. Google “Knitter’s Graph Paper”or use this one (you'll need to enter 7 stitches and 5 rows per inch, or whatever gauge you want): tata-tatao.to/knit/matrix/e-index.html
Sweater designing:
My favorite method for knitting a yoke sweater, or any sweater, is a method by Elizabeth Zimmerman, called the EPS system, and I highly recommend buying one of her books to obtain the pattern. It is so easy to do, that I risk copyright infringement on the pattern by a simple description of it, so I must leave you to discover it for yourself, and enjoy the liberation of knitting your own sweaters easily from here on! Look for it in any one of these wonderful books or DVDs by EZ:
Knitting Without Tears: amzn.to/2fdC8EQ
Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop: amzn.to/2fdEOSN
Knitting Around: amzn.to/2gyrfTI
Knitting Around DVD: amzn.to/2gbSWOl
Knitting Workshop DVD: amzn.to/2gtb0a0
Credits:
Patterns:
"Peace" hat, ravelry.com/patterns/library/peace-8
"North Shore" sweater, ravelry.com/patterns/library/north-shore
Music, Marathon Man by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Artist: audionautix.com
In this video I invite you to imbue your knitting with meaningful imagery. Whatever is meaningful and important TO YOU. This can be a deep act of contemplation on what matters to you, and a powerful expression of it to the world. You can wear what you love, literally on your sleeve!
Here are two great resources for designing your own knits, filled with meaning for you. You can do this with a sweater, as I demonstrate, but of course another object can work just as well. How about a Meaningful Hat?
Resources:
Print some Knitter’s Graph Paper to start designing! Knitter’s graph paper is not a perfect square grid, but comprised of lateral rectangles, in a proportion similar to knitting, such as 7 stitches, and 5 rows, per inch. Google “Knitter’s Graph Paper”or use this one (you'll need to enter 7 stitches and 5 rows per inch, or whatever gauge you want): tata-tatao.to/knit/matrix/e-index.html
Sweater designing:
My favorite method for knitting a yoke sweater, or any sweater, is a method by Elizabeth Zimmerman, called the EPS system, and I highly recommend buying one of her books to obtain the pattern. It is so easy to do, that I risk copyright infringement on the pattern by a simple description of it, so I must leave you to discover it for yourself, and enjoy the liberation of knitting your own sweaters easily from here on! Look for it in any one of these wonderful books or DVDs by EZ:
Knitting Without Tears: amzn.to/2fdC8EQ
Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop: amzn.to/2fdEOSN
Knitting Around: amzn.to/2gyrfTI
Knitting Around DVD: amzn.to/2gbSWOl
Knitting Workshop DVD: amzn.to/2gtb0a0
Credits:
Patterns:
"Peace" hat, ravelry.com/patterns/library/peace-8
"North Shore" sweater, ravelry.com/patterns/library/north-shore
Music, Marathon Man by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Artist: audionautix.com
