The Sophie Shawl ¦ Knitting with my Handspun.

Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are, whenever you're watching this, welcome to the channel, it is amazing to see you. I am Jane Taylor Natt, my name is Natt. Today I have a free weekend basically, so I have most of today to just knit, and then most of tomorrow if I need it to just knit too. So I thought, because I'm not busy and I'm not doing anything how about we start knitting up this wow I don't know if you can see the fluff that just came out I don't think it's fluff it's obviously fiber that's what makes this house this area so like it there's constantly bits of fluff um it's because of all the spinning I do um these two skeins I hand spun myself and these are made with merino and bamboo and then now we can get on to making a Sophie scarf with these. So I have two as I say. I can't actually remember the meterage. I do know that this one has slightly less meterage than this one so I am going to knit the Sophie scarf until I finish this first hank and then decrease the rest of it. I can't remember what weight these are. I think this is an Aran weight potentially. DK to Aran weight yarn depending on where you're looking at it from. That's just my my thoughts looking at it that's not the actual amount but I also don't really care um just as long as this works so that is the plan today I don't really want to waste much time I want to use as much time as I've got to knit this the only thing that I have on today is I'm getting my hair cut which is why my hair looks a little bit of a mess today because I have tried to prepare a wee bit for getting it cut um so if at some point in this video my hair is shorter and looks different don't mind it it's just because it got cut or it's getting cut so yes this will be my Sophie scar and let's get on please excuse the mess that is for here I decided before I actually cast on I would double check what this is and this I think comfortably comfortably fits in a worsted weight so I'm thinking I'm still going to do the Sophie scar however what I'm going to do is instead of doing it in a 3.5 mil i am going to do it in a 4 mil um because i think there's still some squish to it and i think i should probably swap i'm going to start off with a 4 and see how it goes i will not swatch not properly but i will start off see how it goes if i need to move a 4.5 i'm going to 4.5 that's me now just buying the pattern so i should from here be able to just start now so we are now an hour in i did actually get to about here and then go so i was like 20 rows in or something like that and then when i need it um i needed bigger needles so i have swapped to 4.5 needles so it's still going to be a bit denser but i think that's working you can't really see the inconsistencies of the yarn that much um maybe you can if you look at the i-cord but on the actual thing i don't think there's much of a difference so far um as i say that's taking me about an hour but i did have to frog from here and then redoing like the first 20 rows again and i am about 60 rows in so not too bad uh with it being merino there's a little bit of itch but nothing like shockingly so um i'm not sure if white is for me um so the option is for me either to gift this or to dye it but we'll see how it turns out because I'm not entirely sure how big it's going to be. This is how much I've still got left for doing the increases so we'll see how that goes and then I'll have all of this for doing the decreases so that's about 200 grams of yarn but I can't remember as I say the yardage on it. I'm sure it was bigger than Sophie's scarf but smaller than Sophie's shawl so I thought I would just get the Sophie's scarf and then just as I say knit on. I don't really have much to say. The I-cord has wee moments where it hurts my hand, nothing exceptional. I've tried to be looser with how I knit the I-cord just because I don't particularly want to be having any trouble with my hands while I'm knitting but because I am an hour in it is now about 20 to 11 so I am going to take a wee break I'm going to go and edit a video and we'll see what's what. I never have to use a row counter to count my rows however I find it quite difficult with this to know where I am because the I-cord obviously is you only knit it every second row and the garter stitch each purl bump is two rows i suppose i could probably figure it out because i'd have about 30 like well not garter bumps but like um 30 i-cord stitches on either side but i am just finding it easier to use my roll counter on my ipad that i'm using with loose loop and just going from there i will come back to you when I have done two hours. See you later. So this has pretty much just become a couch vlog I think at this point and right now I've just realized that without the blanket behind me I'm merging into the couch. Let me show you my two hours of progress. So here is where we are now. I've done approximately 30 centimeters in length and it's actually the width of the smallest size now so we're at like 11 centimeters across but bear in mind my gauge is off. I think my gauge is like 16 stitches along which means it's closer to the shawl and this is how much I've still got left of the first ball with all of the second ball still to go. So I'm thinking if I want to use this all up I might be worth just doing Sophie's shawl. This does mean it's not going to be finished today which was kind of my thought process was hey let's do a day-long project however it does mean I'll probably finish it still this weekend as I mentioned at the start of this video I have two days that are pretty empty the only thing I have going on is getting my hair cut today other than that nothing so yeah this is about 30 centimeters which means it is not as long gauge-wise as the Sophie scarf I think we're gonna go and wing it to make it a shawl type thing that is my update because it's gonna be the shawl I don't know if I'm gonna do an hourly update like I was doing um I think I'm just gonna continue until I reach halfway and then maybe speak to you guys then. I know I said the plan was to finish it this weekend. I have done almost nothing to this. I did a little bit earlier but you're talking like I barely made it and then and then the decreases. So that is a plan now. I instead actually spent about six hours sat in front of my spinning wheel and managed to finish up spinning my first fleece that I had. It was only 100 grams and honestly I it's a questionable one but I've spun them up I'm not plying them now so I can focus on my knitting but here's what they are they are Leicester long wheel and you can't see it unless you're looking at them I don't think you can see it on camera these look really like silver they're so silvery um like the luster on them is amazing um however I spent about five or six hours on that I'm gonna say that part of the reason I didn't do much next day is my finger was really sore so last night I started a test knit a color work test knit that I'm doing and it's at fingering weight and I think the tension I had was really like pressing on my finger because for ages today and last night my finger was quite sore um it's almost like it needs to pop like i can't crack my fingers but it feels like it needs to crack essentially so i took a bit of a break and got really fixated on doing my leicester long wheel because i had figured out i'm not gonna like the whole of this week until today it's not clicked for me what i need to do i've been trying things and i'm like this might be it but um something always fell off but today I managed to just sit down sort it. It is now half four on Sunday evening I am gonna try my best and see how quickly I can knit down this but I don't think we are finishing it this weekend. It is what it is but yeah I thought I owed you guys this update considering I have done nothing since this morning and that's just sometimes it's a way of it I mean I don't know what to tell you that is just sometimes the way of it so i'm gonna do this i will catch you when i've made some progress okay bye i'm taking obligatory croissant bowl what else do you do with a sophie scarf for sure um i've not tried it on yet but it has been blocked this is probably the way i am going to have to style it but i can keep focusing or mark it with my lip balm if i'm really cold i can just take this snuggle myself up yeah here is how it is could have done with being a wee bit longer yeah happy with this this will keep me warm enough but also is compact enough that when I fold it up it's that size like it's not big it's not like any of my big bulky ones so there we go here is what is left so I'm going to use this I keep saying about in a color work like I have a color work plan but I will probably be using this in some sort of color work. I have more information on that. That is all. I hope you've enjoyed. I'm not sure if this video is long or short at the time of editing it and putting all of the clips together. We're sat at like 50 minutes but I'm hoping this video is not much longer than 20 minutes in the end. So I love you and Louise. I hope you enjoyed. Please let me know what you've been working on down below. Have you made a Sophie scarf? What did you make a Sophie scarf in? Obviously mine is merino and bamboo but I want to know what everybody else has put them in probably people have done them in cashmere and for that I'm jealous if you enjoyed this video also please make sure to like and subscribe because it lets me know that you're enjoying these videos and if you want to see me more in real time you can follow my Instagram I often put stories up about what I've been up to and occasionally post this as well yeah I just hope you all have a great day I will see you next time