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Hi there. It's Florence here and welcome back to my knitting video podcast. This will just be a regular episode. So, I'm going to show you the knitting projects that I've finished lately, a few other things that I've been actively working on, and any new yarn I've picked up. As usual, to start this video off, I will mention what I'm wearing. This jumper is something that I knitted freehand a year or two ago. It is based on the Tombo Tee, which is a t-shirt pattern that I have available on my Ravelry, but this is knitted in a DK weight. The t-shirt is knitted in a fingering weight gauge. Um it has the same shoulder construction, so it's sort of a contiguous shoulder construction. I would really like to release the DK weight jumper version of that pattern. Um and I do really like this, actually, but there were a few fit adjustments that I wanted to make before I write up the pattern, and I just haven't got around to knitting a second sample yet. So, yes, this is freehand and there isn't really a pattern available for it. The yarn that I used for it is Tukuwool DK by Tukuwool. It's a 100% finished wool yarn that I actually really enjoy. It's very woolly. There's no merino-y softness here. Feels like I'm wearing wool, but it's not so scratchy that I can't wear it comfortably directly against my skin. I should say I don't particularly have a sensitivity to wool, so that might be different to you. The only thing that I don't like about it, I guess, is the color of the cream stripes. It's a very yellow cream color, which just isn't my favorite. I think it's just undyed, probably, but it definitely runs a little bit too yellow and doesn't match so well with other cooler cream items that I have in my wardrobe. Overall, I love this jumper and wear it a lot, though. I'll jump straight into talking about my first finished object now. Here it is. Actually, I think this is just about my only finished object for this episode, but this is the Dagmar jacket by PetiteKnit. I showed this in the last episode and I had worked quite a lot on it at that point, but I still had some way left to go. But I really enjoyed working on this project, so I've ended up knitting it quite quickly. The reason I knitted this was because I was doing a small in-person knit along with some other people who go to the same knit night as me in Oxford. And we decided, well, technically it was going to be a cables knit along, but I think that was to be inclusive of people who had half-finished that they wanted to finish as part of the knit along. Many of us were always planning on doing it as a like a Dagmar knit along. And so we did end up making the Dagmar jacket or other Dagmar variations from PetiteKnit. I'm sure most of you have seen this pattern before. Obviously PetiteKnit is the most popular knitwear designer at the moment. And this particular pattern comes in a bunch of variations. So this is the jacket version, which is really a cardigan. It also comes in a jumper version, a quarter-zip version, and there are some men's versions as well. Um so I think it works quite well for a knit along because there are a bunch of different options to suit slightly different tastes. I also liked it for a knit along cuz it was a pretty quick knit. I hate when something that I'm knitting mostly for a knit along ends up taking a lot of time, but this felt very reasonable um and I enjoyed every moment working on it really. So, where did I start? Uh I guess I'll talk about the yarn first. The yarn that I used for this, excuse my pronunciation, I don't know anything about how Danish is pronounced, was Hjelholt "Triple". I don't have any left with packaging on to show you. Normally I would sort of show a full hank of the yarn um because I think I had seven hanks of it in stash that I bought at Snurra in Helsinki a couple of years ago. And I used up everything that I had. I think I had a little ball like this big left at the end from knitting this cardigan, and each ball was originally quite large. The size that I knitted by the way, is the extra small, which I think is the second smallest size. This pattern does also come in an extra extra small. I think the size range for this one is pretty good. So, yes, this wool I really actually enjoyed a lot. The color, I mean, maybe you can tell. Actually, if I show you this, this is a ball of yarn from another project that I'm working on that I'll show you in just a moment, but I obviously have a favorite color because the two of these are so similar in shade. Both of them are a very cool grayish white color, where the pale gray look comes from like a marling of the white and darker fibers, rather than being dyed a flat off-white throughout. I think it's the same color that Petite Knit used for the sample. It is the same yarn that Petite Knit used for the original sample. And it looks just how I hoped it would. I've been reaching for this so much. I've worn it most days since I finished it, because I just think this color goes with so many things. And this piece doesn't look too busy for me to wear with more interesting pieces of clothing, like printed or pattern jeans, or like a check gingham dress. But, it also does have enough visual interest to pair well with plain jeans or whatever else. The stitch definition is pretty good. I think everything shows up nicely and looks really beautiful. It does have some slightly warm colored flecks in it that look a little bit like I've dropped something red on the front of my cardigan, but I think it is just the original yarn. I don't think I've spilled much on it yet. Overall, this is a yarn that I really enjoyed, and if I ever went somewhere where I could easily buy it, I would definitely pick up some more, but it's not widely available in the UK. I don't really know where I would find it. The only place I've ever seen it in person is, well, in shops in Copenhagen and in Helsinki. On to the pattern itself, it's exactly what I have come to expect from a Petite Knit pattern. Very clear and easy to follow. The charts are very easy to memorize. This doesn't have any big cables in it. So, I think I mentioned last time the biggest cable you ever get in this project is a two-two cross, which means that you can easily do them without a cable needle, and it makes the cabling much quicker than it would be if I was having to constantly reach for an extra cable needle to be able to complete the cables. And none of the cabling here is difficult at all. I think for somebody looking for a first-time cable knitted project, this would work just fine. I knitted this pretty much without modifications. I think exactly as the pattern specified for the size extra small. And the only drama I had was I realized at some point that I'd done one of these cables wrong, one of these diamond cables. I'd been cabling at the wrong direction. And so, I had to like ladder back quite a long way, which was very exciting. Um but it was easy enough to fix, and I didn't have to unravel anything. I finished off the cuffs and the bottom of the cardigan with an Italian bind-off just because it's a little quicker. I don't think a tubular bind-off is strictly necessary. Oh, I can actually see where I have dropped something on the sleeve already. Oops. But, when it comes to this sort of front button band and the collar as well, I did do the tubular bind-off as specified in the pattern. I think the pattern tells you to do the two setup rows where you slip stitches as part of the instructions for the button band and for the collar. And then it tells you to do an Italian bind-off afterwards, but those add to become a tubular bind-off, I guess. And I did do the proper tubular bind-off because I think these parts of the cardigan need a little bit more structure than the cuffs and bottom edge need. I hate when the collar stretches out, and a tubular bind-off um definitely gets tighter and less prone to stretching than an Italian bind-off would be. And I also think it gives a really clean, neat finish to the button band as well. So, I think it is worthwhile. So, I'm satisfied with those choices, and I would do something similar if I knitted another cardigan with ribbed details on it. As for the buttons, the original pattern called for toggles, which I think look really great. Um I think I have some somewhere, and so I was thinking of using those. But then I went into the Wool Hound, which is one of the two small yarn shops in Oxford, and I saw some buttons on the counter. I'll put a close-up picture of them in here, cuz I don't think they show up very well when I just hold this cardigan up. But I totally fell in love with them. I ended up buying them. I was a little bit worried that they'd be too small. I think they're probably 20 mm ish. Um I thought they'd be too small and that they'd look too small for this cardigan, but I couldn't buy any of the ones in bigger sizes because they came in packs of less than six buttons, which is what I needed, and each pack was slightly different because they are handmade ceramic buttons. But actually, I'm really glad I went for this size, cuz not only do I think they look pretty good. Like I don't think they look abnormally small, but also um this uses a sort of knit two together yarn over type buttonhole. I don't think that any larger of a button would have fitted through the buttonholes anyway. Um this I can button and unbutton, but it's pretty tight. I posted a picture of the buttons on my Instagram, and the Wool Hound commented to say that you can buy these buttons on Etsy, on the Eliza's Buttons Etsy page. I will link it in the description along with any other yarn, patterns, whatever that I mention in this video. So I did end up going on to Etsy and buying a few more. I got this stitch marker set for free, like a green ceramic stitch marker on a leather cord. It's pretty nice. And then I got three sets of buttons. These pale blue ones. I think these were described as champagne, but they're like a little bit yellowy. And then these little tiny brown ones. These are the cutest, but I think the size is a bit tricky. Just because these sorts of ceramic buttons, um they're very beautiful, obviously, but they are pretty chunky and they're quite heavy. And so I don't think every cardigan can really support a button like this. Some cardigans which have very thin or unstructured fabric really need a lightweight plastic button or plastic adjacent. Actually, this Dagmar in this yarn holds these buttons brilliantly and it looks great. But, I do worry that these ones are a little smaller and so I think they need to go with a slightly more delicate looking piece. But, I don't know what kind of fabric could have that gauge that matches the smaller button size, but also manage to support these buttons physically, you know? Still, they were so pretty I couldn't leave them there. I had to order them. I do have a cardigan in progress at the moment. Um, I don't have it right here to show. I have a Maggie cardigan also by Petite Knit which I cast on a year and a half ago. It's baby pink and it's been in an almost finished state for a year and a half. It's missing like half of the second sleeve. And so, I need to finish that off. I've already done the collar and button band. And I might see if any of these buttons could maybe work well on that. I'm thinking maybe I'm thinking maybe these champagne ones might go well with the baby pink. We will see. So, yes. This is a huge success. I think this will continue to be probably the most worn knitted piece in my cupboard. I've said before I don't usually reach for Petite Knit patterns just because I've knitted so many that I don't feel like I'm learning much new stuff when I try to follow one because I think, you know, the techniques are often similar between patterns. And also a lot of Petite Knit designs are very plain and not necessarily the most exciting to knit. But, every time I do knit a Petite Knit piece, it ends up being something that I just reach for all the time and I wear all the time because I think the designs are beautiful um and the fact they're kind of basic means they're so wearable. So, yes. I'm a huge fan of this. I do recommend this pattern to anyone who's interested. Oh, just one other comment. I have found that the collar is a little bit tight. It might just be how tightly I did my tubular bind off, but it is potentially something to keep in mind if you know you want to wear it fully buttoned up. I can't pull it over my head. I have to undo the top button to be able to put the cardigan on. And when it is done up, it does do up and it looks fine, but I just really feel it against my neck. There's just more pressure like tightness there than I really want. And so I've been wearing it a lot with the top button undone. I don't think it bothers me that much and I think over time it will stretch out a little bit. So I'm not going to frog it, but just something to keep in mind if you're making this. Maybe keep your tubular bind off a little bit looser just around the neck, especially if you're making the same size as me. I guess now I will go on to talk about my most exciting work in progress. And I suppose this is mostly what I've been working on since the last episode. I don't have a lot of finished objects or anything and it's because I put a lot of time into this. I think in the last episode I mentioned that I was going to cast this on, but I hadn't yet cast it on. Um but actually I've done a lot since then. This is a jumper that is from a book that I have. The book is over there. I'm going to put this down and run and get it just so that I can show you. Here it is. This is a book that I think I've mentioned before is fairly hard to find outside Norway. I don't think it's ever been published in any other language than Norwegian or outside Norway. However, a lot of the patterns inside this book you can just buy on Ravelry or find in vintage booklets. So if you're interested in any of the patterns in here, you don't necessarily have to buy a hardback book from Norway to be able to knit them. That said, since I was able to track down this book, I really wanted to knit something from it. And the piece that I wanted since the start to knit was this one here. Trondheim 1997. So the jumpers from this book were designed by Dale of for the Norwegian skiing team for different ski world championships and also winter Olympics. I mean the ones in this book are all from world championships, but they did make them for winter Olympics as well and those patterns are also available. I've actually seen a lot of non-knitting people on social media commenting on how much they liked the Norwegian team's jumpers from the winter Olympics that just happened. Particularly that picture of Klæbo with his like six gold medals or whatever he got. Half of the comments were like, "Wow, this man's jumper is so nice." And I was just sitting there like a Dahle jumper nerd in the comments being like, "You know this jumper design is based on the 1956 Cortina jumper that Dahle designed." Anyway, I love these jumpers. You can buy them pre-made, so if you don't want to knit one yourself, you can buy them. Um there are a lot available vintage from decades ago and they still sell some of the newer designs and some of the more iconic vintage designs today. But they are a pretty straightforward knit because well, I mean, you do have to steek the armholes, which means you're not knitting much colorwork flat. And I've made one of these before. I made the Albertville winter Olympics one a couple of years ago. I really eliminated the need for colorwork flat altogether by also steeking the neckline, which I will also do for this piece. And so what it ends up being is just knitting a big colorwork tube of circumference roughly what you want your jumper circumference to be and then going at it with a pair of scissors, um which makes it one of the easiest colorwork projects out there. One of the girls at knit night always complains that the first time she went to knit night, I was telling everybody how the best place to start with colorwork or like the easiest place to start with colorwork is one of these Dahle ski jumpers and how she thought that I was so pretentious and off-putting that she might never come back, but she came back and we're friends now and it's all good. Um and you know what? I stand by what Florence of a couple of years ago said. These are a great place to start with colorwork if you're feeling ambitious. Nothing here is difficult. That said, this has been a roller coaster. I guess I'll start with the yarn. Um this is Lore from The Fiber Co. It's a Kent lambswool. It's definitely a British wool. It's very beautiful. It's a DK weight, which is roughly what I want for this. Um some foreshadowing. I didn't swatch and the DK weight used in the pattern is definitely a lighter DK weight. I think the gauge is like 23 stitches or something like that. Um a light DK weight for sure. But I was confident that I could just adjust the stitch count um so that the circumference of the body is what I want. And then I'll just steek everything so I don't have to really worry about any increases or decreases or anything like that. So, um yes, I was knitting my big tube. I did actually gauge swatch in stockinette um or rather in this uh textured stitch pattern here just to check that my gauge in a single color was about what I wanted it to be and then I used that number to calculate the number of stitches that I cast on. But I didn't gauge swatch in colorwork and my thought process here was I hate gauge swatching in colorwork. I don't like knitting colorwork flat and that's also not what I'm going to be doing so it wouldn't be an accurate representation of my tension. So I'd have to do a colorwork gauge swatch in the round and that would involve like cutting long floats or I guess knitting a tube and cutting it open. So what I thought I would instead do is just start off knowing my um gauge for this textured part. I would go up a needle size for colorwork because generally I do that and it's pretty good at making my gauge consistent or my stitch gauge consistent between single color and colorwork fabric. And then for the row gauge I just measured what I had for this band that I did right at the start. The way that these jumpers work is the top part so like from the shoulder to here-ish um is a very specific design and it's a set length. So here it's like two charts that I have to follow. And so, I'm working this bottom up. Once I start working on both sections, the length will be what it is. Like, I'll work through the charts and that will decide the length. So, if I want to adjust the length of this tube, then I have to adjust the length of this section here, which is, in this case, like a textured pattern. In the Albas one, there was a very simple colorwork repeat for the body. And so, I did this bottom section. I started doing some of the textured section, and I was like, you know, once I've done a good bit of it, then I will measure how long um my piece is so far, and I'll measure how long I want it to be when I finish, and I'll calculate the row gauge of the colorwork and the number of rows left from these two charts for the upper part, and I'll figure out how long the jumper should be before I start on this upper colorwork section. So, once I've done some of this um textured section, I will just show you cuz it's super cool. It's supposed to look like ski slopes with ski tracks. It's so pretty. I I love how it's looking. Anyway, once I'd done some of that, I did this calculation. And what I found out was that my stitch gauge is pretty similar to the pattern, but my row gauge is completely different in colorwork specifically. And so, if I have any of this ski slope textured section here, and then I just work the charts at the top, the jumper will be way too long. So, I guess the obvious option would have been to frog a lot of this um and then start the charts, but what I've decided to do is I'm just pushing on. So, I know that this will be too long when I finish it. What I'm going to do is I'm going to give it a good block. And the reason why is, firstly, I think it will change the length. It's also going to change the width. The length that I want the jumper to be depends on the width. So, if it's more fitted, I also probably want it shorter. Whereas, if it's very oversized in width, then I also don't mind it being a bit longer. So, I really need to get a feel for how wide it's going to be to decide how much of that I need to remove. So, I'm going to finish all of the color work, block it, and then I think I'm just going to cut a chunk of this textured section out, and then try and seam it together again. I think it will be okay. I think I can do that, and you won't be able to tell. It's just going to be a shame to lose it, because this textured section is so beautiful, and it's a big part of what I thought was so special about this particular pattern out of all of the ones in this book. This is a joy to knit. I'm having so much fun. I'll just show you. How cute is this? There's a little crown in the middle, which I think is so pretty. It's just Yeah. Um I don't know how to describe it, except it's extremely fun. And if you're considering knitting a piece like this, I would say go ahead and do it. It's not as hard as it looks. Um and the finished piece is so impressive. Like I was so proud of my Albeville one. A couple of notes about this one in particular, the Trondheim 1997. Usually these jumpers just use two colors at a time. This one does use three colors for a few rounds. I think like round here. This was very annoying to knit, but I just I did it. You know, I pushed through. I know that uh one of my friends from knit night has also knitted one of these, and the one she made also had just a handful of rounds with three colors, so I think that's fairly common. And it might be worth checking the pattern if you feel strongly about it. I also made one mistake. Um I paused for quite a while in the middle of this chart here. And so, right here, I'll try and hold it closer so you can see. There's a round where you alternate the red and blue stitches. And here I held the red dominant, and here there's a a similar round where you also alternate red and blue stitches, but I held the blue dominant. And the two look quite different. There's a good example of why you should worry about what hand you're holding each color in. I mean, no one else is going to look at that and notice it, but I notice it. It didn't bother me enough to frog it, but it will slightly bother me. I don't know. My Alba feel has a couple of incorrect stitches, I think in the sleeve. I think I was knitting it tired right before I finished. And I don't really mind, especially because this jumper is one that you can just buy on eBay or on Etsy pre-made. I think having a few tiny mistakes in it kind of makes it feel more unique and special, perhaps. The jumper says Trondheim 1997 on the back of the neck, and I'm wondering if I should write that or if I should think of something different to put. I've not yet decided. So, yeah, I might actually give this a mid-project block now, actually, while I work on something else. But, I'm really looking forward to making more progress with it and finishing it. I think I will love the final result. I'm just a bit scared for how much of that textured section I'm going to have to cut out. The yarn is gorgeous, by the way, and the Fiber Company is shutting down, so this yarn is discounted everywhere. Make sure you buy enough to finish a project, but I would really recommend it if you can pick it up. It's less scratchy than, like, this Tuku wool, for example, but it still feels non-superwash and woolly and nice. And it does come in a lot of really pretty colors. I have two more work-in-progress pieces to show. I guess I'll start off with this one that's also very close to being finished. I did show this in the last episode. This is a long abandoned project that I've decided to pick up and push on with and finish, and I'm really getting there now. This is the Norma sweater by My Favorite Things Knitwear. This was not a knit-along, but it was also influenced by my knit night in that a couple of people at my knit night made this, and one of them in particular I also work with. She wears it to the office. And it always looks so good. Every time I see it, I'm like, "Wow, I should really knit one of those." And I'd gone out and bought yarn a long time ago and never got round to it. And so I decided to just knit it. Plus I was really craving some mindless knitting that doesn't require me to do calculations myself if I'm free-handing something or reading a chart without repeats like that one time one. Like because the pattern is not repeated, it's sort of a big design across the front. You really have to look at the chart the whole time. So this seemed like a good option and I did abandon it for a while which was interesting because when I went back to it, I didn't remember what size I was knitting, what needle size I was using, but I think we're back on track now. So I think that this is the size extra small and I think that I knitted it on 4.5 mm needles except for the rib which I'm doing on 3.5 mm needles. This is a top-down in the round raglan. You have again probably seen this before. It's a very very popular design. Um but it has these cool colorwork stripes that I don't know. I really like how they look with the raglan. I like how they continue across the raglan increases. The original yarn suggested for this jumper is I think something like Isager Tweed and then two strands of mohair. It's a very light mohairy fabric and I think that because the colors are so classic, I'm using very similar colors to the original sample. I wanted the fabric to feel very classic as well and so I've just gone for wool. The beige hair and then the blue in the stripes, these are Peer Gynt from Sandnes Garn which is 100% Norwegian wool. It's a very affordable yarn. And then this bright orangey red is um heavy merino from Knitting for Olive. This is in the color pomegranate. I can't give the color for the Sandnes Garn Peer Gynt because most of the colors are just numbers and so I don't remember them, but they will be in the description if you're interested. I think I mentioned in the last episode I was a little bit concerned about using these two yarns together because the Pigment is a DK and the heavy merino is a worsted weight that I would normally knit up to about an 18 stitch gauge. This jumper is I think supposed to be knitted at a 19 stitch gauge, I believe. But the Pigment is definitely a slightly thicker DK and so I've been knitting it up on 4.5 mm needles. I think I'm pretty much on gauge. And you can't really tell by looking that the reddish orange yarn is a little bit thicker than the other two. I will say this has become a slightly annoying knit um just for these sleeves. I'm doing magic loop and obviously there are a lot of colors involved. It's not got very much color work. These four rounds where you have to alternate red and beige stitches are the only rounds where you're actually doing any color work. But because you switch from white only or beige to red and beige to blue to red to blue to red and beige to beige. Um I think at least for that stripe it makes sense to keep all of the balls of yarn attached so you don't have so many ends to weave in. But I find it super annoying doing magic loop when I have three balls of yarn attached to my knitting and so I'm finding the sleeves pretty frustrating. Each stripe is kind of a slog and then as soon as I get to this plain section in between, I mean you could carry the yarn across the plain section but I'm just cutting all the colored balls of yarn off, just knitting in beige and enjoying being able to twist the sleeve however I want to knit magic loop without getting everything tangled. I think I'm knitting it pretty much exactly to pattern. I don't have any plans to do any modifications. I do think I've made the body slightly on the shorter side and then the sleeves slightly on the longer side so we'll see how that looks after I've blocked it. I guess I can always go back and add a little bit of length. I do have some more of this beige yarn left I think and I can probably find some more if I need it. But I'm very close to being done now. I'm really looking forward to wearing it. I've done one sleeve and I'm maybe halfway through the second sleeve. Okay, not quite, but probably not far off. I've mentioned before I have some mittens that I think will pair perfectly with this. They use the exact same pomegranate knitting for all of heavy merino and then I think the knitting for all of marzipan color as a lighter contrast color. They will look so cute. Unfortunately, I think by the time I have this finished will be through mitten weather in the UK. It's February, but it's already probably 11 or 12 degrees some days. It's really not that cold and so it's very hard to get opportunities to wear mittens. Coming along very nicely, I think. I have one more work in progress to show. I don't have very much progress through so far. My camera really oversaturates reds, so I'm hoping I can make this look okay. I cast on a summer top. I don't know. I feel like now is the time to knit a summer top. It's never the thing that's on your mind in February, but it's the time to knit it if you want maximum wear throughout the summer. Especially because the yarn I like knitting with is not really yarn for peak summer wear. I mean, I find the knitting for all of merino pretty comfortable to wear throughout the summer, but that's not what I'm using here. I bought this yarn from the Wool Hound, which is again my local yarn shop in Oxford. They posted it on their Instagram and I commented like can you save me a few balls of that, please, because I really want to buy it and they saved it for me and I went in and bought it. This is from Lou Cuus. I don't think I've really used any yarn from Lou Cuus before. This yarn is called Eclipse. It's 20% cashmere and 80% merino. Definitely one of those cases where I'm like I don't know how much the 20% cashmere is making this soft and how much of it is just that they've chosen a pretty soft merino to work with in the first place, but I must say this is a very soft and luxurious feeling yarn. I don't know how well it's going to hold its shape, but I guess we will find out. This is color number 11. Um I mean, I'm sure you can figure it out. It's a really red red. A berry red, very very pretty. I've just barely cast this on. Um so far it's just a little rectangle with about two cables. But I want to do a cable t-shirt. My game plan for this is to have it be a scoop neck, but I want it to be reversible so that it's sort of a boat neck in the back and a scoop neck in the front and I can wear it either way around or I can have a boat neck at the front and a scoop neck at the back if I'd rather. I guess with this it means that the scoop neck has to be at a good level to look nice on the front, but it also has to be at the right level at the back to be able to cover up bra straps, bands, anything like that. I do want to put little sleeves on it, but I'm going to worry about that afterwards. I'm just going to start off by making a camisole that I'm happy with, which is something I feel quite comfortable doing. And I'm doing faux cables for this. So there are no real cables required, which makes it a much quicker piece to knit. So yes, I'm sure you'll be seeing more of this in subsequent episodes. Um I think once I'm done with the Norma, this will be my main project. Oh, I do have that the Trøntheim 1997. I can have two projects on the go at once. And I think this one will be the same kind of mindless knitting that the Norma was, so it'll be a good project to carry on from that one. Aside from the buttons, I haven't really done crazy shopping since the last episode. I did buy some yarn, but I'm basically counting this as negative yarn buying, right? I got a six balls of the Isager Silk Mohair. This is my favorite silk mohair. I do like it better than the Knitting for Olive one, um but the color selection is not as good. So what I tend to do is look and see if the color I want is available in the Isager and then if it's not, I buy it from Knitting for Olive. In this case, I wanted a baby pink. This color is 27. I think it's the perfect baby pink. I got this to hold with some yarn that I already have in stash. I couldn't find it. I was I'm filming this on my lunch break at work, so I was rushing to get everything ready as quickly as possible. Um I couldn't find the yarn that I'm going to hold this with to show you. Um but it's a DK weight wool yarn. It's the Lana Novita collaboration yarn, the DK version. I think it also comes in a four-ply. And it's also in a very pretty baby pink color. I don't know what I'm going to do with it, but I think that um that kind of very smooth, soft pink wool yarn that the Lana Novita DK is will work really well held with mohair to create a really soft and pretty final piece. If you have any suggestions for something that you think would work well, like a pattern that you would choose to knit with a DK held with a mohair, let me know. I think my vision for it was to do something quite plain just because I think a very plain solid color jumper will work well with my more like fun jeans, like printed jeans, um which I never really know what to pair with. Because a lot of my jumpers have colorwork designs or something that would make them look too busy with a printed jean, I think. But then again, this would look really cute with cables. So, maybe maybe that would be something I consider. I'm not really sure. But yeah, this is just so pretty. It's like candy floss. It's a very, very lovely yarn. And I'm really looking forward to using it. So, that's it from me today. Um I really hope you enjoyed watching. Hopefully, I'll be back again soon with another episode. I'm also trying something different. So, for the Trondheim 1997, I'm trying to film a knitting vlog. I'm really bad at it because it's light in my flat for like 3 hours a day in the middle of the day, and then it gets dark again. And it's light in quite a loose sense, like we don't really get any proper sunlight in here. And so, it's very hard to find times to film, but I'm trying. And hopefully, I'll be able to show some more of the process and some more of the drama. And uh lots of cutting and seaming things. And maybe it will demystify the process of these steeked Norwegian jumpers a little bit more for anyone else who's interested in making one. Thank you very much for watching and goodbye.