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My all time fav from Republic of Tea! All of their teas are great!
My all time fav from Republic of Tea! All of their teas are great!
YEP, I have given up on learning to knit sooooo many times. And I soooo felt you on "town days". We are having too many of them right now.
QQQ How to grow fresh mushroom. Don't need fancy muchroom's just simple white cap button mushrooms. Go throught them constantly.
Making herbal tea. I purchased dried hibiscus and passion tea. I want to make my own mixes. For instance, I love Passion tea lemonade. Would love to make my own. Also would like to build on those flavors. I thought I would just know but I stare at my pretty jars of herbs and I'm intimidated to even try. I know that sounds very silly. And Jess, I've been a fan for many years. I watch your videos when ever I need to exhale. ❤
I’ve included a link:
The more you knit, the better your stitches look. It’s helpful that you know how to crochet… picking up stitches is easier with just a stockinette stitch but still do-able.. here’s a link to a quick tutorial for picking up dropped knit stitches
https://youtu.be/KFVapi4RqzY?si=JzOwdEEuk69Ndyf7
Hope this helps, and just search for other tutorials if you have more questions
I joke that I can only knit squares and rectangles lol. Blankets, yes you can use the corded needles. I'm currently using one to make a blanket. I just squish it all on the needles. I embrace my mistakes. I will back up past my mistakes and carefully undo one loop and then place the exposed loop onto a needle. If I put it on backwards, then I can tell it's homemade
❤ I recently learned how to crochet this past winter and was given a knitting loom for Mother’s Day so I am very much in the same boat. Gardening has definitely given me the confidence to get through the messy period of learning. I would have given up years ago.
I've started onion seeds multiple years in a row and they've never germinated. What am I doing wrong?
However I have learned that spinach when it germinate looks like grass. It's not a weed. I had to control my urge to Pluck it out.
Your necklace is beautiful
Yep, we have town days as well..!!!!
Where can I start when it comes to chickens.
All my neighbors have chickens but they aren’t really hey come over & talk neighbors unfortunately but I’d love to learn where to start!
I’m thinking no more then 6 chickens & I’d want to start with already laying hens but again, where does one start.
What do you feed them to ensure egg production, how do you clean their coop?
I taught myself to knit, so I understand the frustration of having the "dumb questions" with no one to ask. One of the easiest ways to pick up a dropped stitch is with a crochet hook, and just pulling the strands above that fell out through the loop one row at a time until you make it back up to the top. It's fairly simply with stockinette stitch (where you knit on side and purl on the other so it looks), with Garter stitch (where you knit both sides and do not purl) you can do the same but will need to remember to pull the strand through alternating sides so that it matches up with the pattern of ridges.
I started out flat knitting (which you are doing there), but prefer circular knitting as there is less seeming involved. With flat knitting you can knit smaller width panels and seam them together to make a larger blanket sized project if you want to and yes you can do the same for sweaters but its a bit more complicated and you should probably use a pattern for that your first try. Ravelry.com is a great source for knitting patterns they have both free and paid for patterns there, you can also get crochet patterns. I wish I still remembered which books I used to learn (but they will have some in the library that you can look at and use) and I used google a lot to figure out terms I didn't understand how to do from pattern descriptions.
Don't feel bad about pulling it all out and starting over, its the easiest way to learn. I still pull out projects and start again if I don't like the way they look or think I've got the wrong gauge. Better to pull it out and start again then be unhappy with what you are making. I had to learn over a few years that just because something is almost done, wont matter if I don't like it when its finished. It can be hard to decided to rip out days or more worth of knitting, but with experience you learn its always worth it if you are not going to be happy in the end with what you've got.
Not a question, but I want to thank you for sharing the information about roly polys! My garden got off to a great start but the little pests were eating EVERYTHING! The Sluggo plus did the trick- I may actually have cucumbers now! You are the best!
So, I love the channel EngineeringKnits because she breaks down how things are put together because she talks about how patterns change from time and places. Like how patterns are written in the victorian era versus now, or how one region makes an item compared to another.
I heard you mention in a video that you soak you wheat berries to make bread you can digest better. How does that work? do you grind them all wet and everything?
I bought all the things to crochet,and am super annoyed I can’t do it , and I’m apparently an adhd super focused get things done ✅ type a gal. ❤
I learned how to knit from YouTube years ago. If you keep at it, the answers will come. The day I learned to pick up a dropped stitch was so empowering. Just look up how to pick up dropped stitch. Also, it may be easier to learn with a solid color rather than the variegated you have I the video. Keep at it. Oh, and yes, most sweaters are made in pieces and stitched together. Hope that's helpful.
Town day! I live about an hour away from “town” I have a dollar general 35 minutes away. I travel to town once a week and it is pretty much an all day errand day. 🤣🤣🤣
Thankyou Jessie
Message me and I’ll help you out.
If you have any dmc or thicker thread you can do what is called a “ life line”. Thread a needle and then pass the needle and thread through each loop on your knitting needle leaving a long tail. Continue to knit as usual. That way if you make a mistake you only have to frog, ( rip it), back to your life line and not back to the very beginning. I’ll try to message you a picture of what I mean.
I have a demo booth at the Homestead Festival so I’ll have a whole extra tent if anyone needs help or has questions about their knitting, or crocheting. I’ll also be teaching drop spinning if anyone wants to stop by.
Nine Patch Farm in the demo area!
WATERMELON!!! I can’t get a watermelon to go grow and produce a fully ripe melon! I grow a lot of beautiful things…watermelon stumps me!
This was me trying to crochet for the first time the other night thank you thank you
Please delve into your ginger growing process Jess. I started mine in February using store bought organic ginger. I had 7 sprouts. Now down to only 2. They just kept drying up and dying. Today is day one of hardening those lucky two. Not sure where to plant them in my garden. Am I correct they like full shade? Any info would be greatly appreciated 😊
??? Yes. Can you please talk about when and how to join two flocks of chickens together. Our spring chickens (ordered) are teenagers now and growing out of the smaller coop, and our first set of birds are two years old. My older mama hen has plucked feathers from the babies when we have tried a free-range opportunity.
Love knitting! Still a beginner after 8 years, because motherhood 🤍 The fabric squishes on the loops so you can make larger projects! Good Luck!
I have a "town day" once a week and it usually an expensive day too. I was fortunate that I had a Grandma who loved to knit and garden and I loved spending time with her. So she taught me how to knit. I am far from an expert but I can knit some stuff if needed. Now talk about keeping that quiet though and figuring it out on your own…lol…a guy who knits…lol. Anyway, the big afghans (blankets) can be knit in panels and sewn together or you can get cable needles (the cable between the needles) and knit as one big blanket. This is same with sweaters, it depends on the pattern as some can have body sewn in panels and some can be knit all one – sleeve holes are either sewn on or created out of stitches you leave behind. You will learn the twist of the yarn and how a dropped stitch lays – if it is multiple rows back, you can take them off one stitch at a time by picking up the stitch from the bottom and unraveling the yarn for the stitch. If you get questions about gardening or chickens in the north, I would be more than happy to help answer. Keep going on the knitting, you will figure it out!!
I will teach you to knit if you teach me to crochet. I’m not far Elberton.
love that you are learning knitting – I do knitting, crocheting spinning and felting, some quite well, some not 😂
i suggest looking up continental knitting given you already crochet – often called speed knitting as well (but that comes later) …. i tension my yarn the same way as I crochet, holding it in my left hand. A perfect 1st project for knitting is somerhing like a cowl where you can just knit back and forward and join it in a loop when it's long enough. A lot of people mention doing scarves but they honestly get boring as they need to be so much longer – there is no reason why you can't turn your start into a cowl.
When you're ready to start looking at patterns I highly recommend Truly Myrtle – her patterns are so well written amd easy to follow, she also has a weekly podcast where you can ask her questions and a facebook group with a lot of helpful knitters if you do get stuck on any of her patterns. Best of luck with your knitting journey.
I'm a bit jealous of your garden right now as I'm in NZ and heading into winter – all I want to do is plant tomatoes and peppers and all those spring/summer seeds. Yes there is stuff that needs attention in the garden, beds need tidying up and resetting and the list goes on 😂
There is a channel called engineering knits, and she discusses a lot of things like how do you pick up stitches or what if you make a mistake, you might enjoy some of her stuff.
Welcome to knitting! I'm an avid knitter and I also like simple and mindless projects. The best thing to do is just take it one step at a time. Learn the knit stitch, learn to purl, even if you add stitches or it looks wonky, just keep going on as you are for a while and just practice. Very Pink Knits is a great channel for how tos like how to fix dropped stitches. Ravelry is the place to go to for patterns (though you probably already go there for crochet patterns!). Learning to read patterns early is really helpful and Ravelry has tons of free patterns. Also, rather than worrying about how to do all of the different types of projects, pick what you want to make and learn to make that. You will learn a lot more and be less overwhelmed if you have something to focus on! I hope you stick with it and try sock knitting (my dearest knitting love!).
Ginger peach tea is amazing!
When you are knitting a sweater or a knitted toy, you knit it in pieces and sew them together. I love to knit toys, baby blankets, shawls, and mittens. I have not tried a sweater yet.
Knitting an Afghan you use circular needles with a long cable.
I taught myself to knit with YouTube videos.
The best book I have found is The Idiot's Guide to knitting and crochet. I hate the title of the book but it is really helpful.
Man, I wish we were neighbors! YES, the first yarn and needle size are so important. And there are a million ways.
I apparently knit "wrong.". HUNDREDS of socks and sweaters and blankets, wrong. I have been told over and over. But I taught myself.
Low and behold, I knit like Europeans, not wrong, just not like an American yarn store owner. 😂
I wish I could show you… And answer all the not stupid questions…😊
I’ve switched from knitting to Sewing as it is much faster, but still slow if that makes sense! Recently added in some embroidery to my sewn garments. But those are for cozy season right now It’s garden season and that always takes priority in my book!!!
Jess, look up picking or continental knitting….
You hold your yarn in your left hand like crochet And it may make more sense to you. It makes way more sense to me and I came to knitting from crochet.