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Hello to you and I wish you a very good day.
Ditza here.
Today I will be short and I would like to give you a hint or, better said, a ready made questionnaire for you to complete, in the times when you don’t know for sure if the new goal that you have just set, will help you in your needs or you have to add more resources.
This questionnaire can be used in all situations in your life. So, use it whenever you feel stuck😃
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As a designer, you find inspiration in almost everything.
You look at a movie and you see something that attracts your look.
Sometimes, a shape or a texture of a building makes you dream to create an unique look of a garment.
You see a field in blossom and you feel in love with the beauty of the colors and of the flowers.
The secret is that, when you have plenty, you have to save it, to store it somewhere.
Whenever the inspiration comes, sketch it, write it somewhere. Don’t be afraid to use colors and add yarn and fibers.
Also, it’s a good idea to invest in a design notebook. Look on the internet and you will find some.
Another process in the designing world is to work with drape. As a designer you have to work with drape for aesthetics and utility.
Drape is how a fabric or garment hang or falls.
To control it, you need to work with tension, stitch patterns and fibers.
In order to control the drape and to learn more about this process, you will have to do a lot of swatches and then you have to “dress” them.
What means to “dress” a tension swatch?
First, you have to create that swatch. Even if you Crochet or Knit it, it must be at least 15 by 15 cm.
Then, you have to wash and dry it like the etiquette tells you.
The 3rd step is to block the swatch, just like you would block the final garment.
The last step is to hang the swatch (after it got dried). You hang the swatch like following:
– run a knitting needle through the top and bottom of the swatch
– clip the top to a hanger
– clip the rest of the ball of yarn to the bottom and leave it like that for a day.
These three processes approximates the weight that the finished garment will have.
I have an exercise for you do to.
You will have to create four swatches.
You will have to use the same stitch, the same needle or hook and, as much as possible, the same weight of yarn.
Please use for one pure cotton, for another one 100% acrylic, for the third 100% your preferred wool and for the fourth, a yarn of your choice.
You will have to “dress” all your swatches.
At the end, note in your notebook, what did you notice about the finished swatches? Which one has grown the most and which one the least? Which one draped the most beautiful?
Thank you for reading this and see you soon.
Bye 👋
You might ask yourself why should you start designing your own clothes when there are so many people designing garments or, so many clothes already in the shops.
Or, maybe, you think that this is an easy thing, as you’ve been knitting or crocheting for a lifetime.
Or, maybe, for you it’s a hard or impossible thing because you lack of some knowledge in this area and, anyhow, you don’t look like a designer.
Well, I can tell you for sure that a designer have exactly your look and, if you don’t like the idea of creating your own clothes, it’s ok to go and buy them from the shop, just that you will look the same like all the other people.
If you wanna be unique, you can make your own clothes or you can ask someone to make them.
In this way, you will know exactly what yarn was used and that was made especially for you.
When you create your own clothes, you know exactly that that garment is unique, only because no one else is knitting or crocheting like you! Each one of us is unique.
Your body is unique and therefore, you can create the pullover exactly as you wish.
Happy knitting or crocheting your very unique pullover.
Update:
I have some videos about this sweater. You can find them here:
Freestyle Yoke – part one, yarn, Yoke technique
Freestyle Yoke- part 2, separate the body and the sleeves from the yoke
Till next time, byyyeee
Hello, beautiful you,
With a panel I have bought from Debbie Shore Sewing, I have made 12 socks for an Advent Calendar
You can find here, all her wonderful fabrics.
And here, you can see the video with the panel and how I have made it.
Happy sewing and take care of you,
Ditza
Salutare, oameni frumoși,
In acest video mi-am propus sa va dau o idee de cum putem croșeta un fular foarte, foarte rapid și foarte frumos.
Practic, in câteva ore vom avea un accesoriu frumos și care ne va tine de cald in perioada rece care va veni. 🙂
Tot in acest video veți afla informații utile despre croșeta și despre firele de tip Novelty.
Cum ținem firul in tensiune și pe croșeta pentru un aspect curat si ce este un fir Novelty.
Secvența pentru model este formată din repetiție de doua ochiuri și doua rânduri.
Happy crochet și aveți grija de voi!
Pe curând,
Ditza
Hello, beautiful you.
We are in full pandemic but when you are a small kid, this doesn’t matter to you because you have more important things to do.
For instance, the cold weather is here, we have rainy and windy days which means that Christmas is coming soon 😻🎄
And, before Christmas it’s something that you’ve been waiting for the entire year: the surprises hidden in the Advent Calendar, in those 25 days before Christmas. 😉☺️
Also, you may observe that the house smells different because mommy is “burning” things that smell like cinnamon, fir or vanilla.
She must love vanilla smell because I can smell it daily! 🙀
Anyhow, even it’s pandemic, beautiful things happen inside the house also. Cookies maybe, or yummmyyyy food in the oven. Yum 😋
This year, 2020, we will have following days for the Advent:
1st Advent is on 29th of November
2nd Advent is on 6th of December
3rd Advent is on 13th of December
4th Advent is on 20th of December
What Advent calendars have you prepared this year, for your kids or your grandchildren?
Hi, lovely One.
I hope you are good and everything is good with you.
It just came an idea about what is the proper yarn when you are working a Shawl or a Scarf.
Because sometimes, in the pattern it’s written that you can substitute with whatever yarn you have in your stash and it’s happening to be an acrylic yarn and, in my experience, it’s better to use only natural fibers, because after you will wash your accessory, the water will add some extra centimeters which you don’t have to work 😁
Happy knitting or crocheting and don’t forget to take care of you.
With love, Ditza
Hi, beautiful soul.
I love simple and elegant accessories and this shawl is one of them. ❤️
Find beauty in simple designs with this shawl. #limoniteshawl
Two weeks ago I engaged myself in testing a new design for a shawl, with Tunisian technique, from a Romanian friend of mine, Andreea Crețu, who is the designer from #YarnAndy.
I had to change the working yarn two times. Once because the firstchoice was too slippery and I was afraid that I will not be able to finish it in time and, at the second choice I have made some mistakes and I didn’t want to rip it off.
So, I ended choosing two types of yarn, in nude colors and I went in love.
Tot ce auzi de rău sau negativ la adresa ta nu pune la suflet. Un om sănătos nu vorbește de rău la adresa ta și la adresa nimănui.
Distanțează-te de oamenii cu intenții rele și care nu te ajută să evoluezi.
Viața e prea scurtă să-ți pierzi timpul și energia cu oameni care nu văd frumosul din tine fie ei chiar și membrii de familie.
Pune granițe stricte apără-ți sufletul și demnitatea. Nimeni nu are dreptul să te facă să te simți prost sau umilt.
Rolul tău pe pământ este să crești și să evoluezi frumos.
Persoanele care îți tulbură mintea și sufletul nu sunt potrivite pentru evoluția ta. Și de aceea trebuie să înveți să spui NU fără regrete sau păreri de rău.
Dacă lor nu le pasă de bună starea ta nici ție nu trebuie să-ți pese de ei.
În viața ta trebuie să domnească pacea și armonia doar așa poți funcționa normal pe toate planurile.
By Luna A. 🦋
Sometimes we need to be pushed a little to be able to move on and sometimes we are forced to do that, even we want or not 🙂
I have decided to make a video with the techniques I have used for my Elven hat.
Please, click and watch and send me your feedback.
If you liked, please like the video, put a comment and subscribe to my channel for more techniques, to find out what I do, what I create and notions about knitting and crochet design .
Have a wonderful day and stay healthy,
Make it Beautiful 
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