EVERYTHING I Made in Finish It February (Shorts Compilation)

So Finish it February is nearly upon us and this  year I have one goal and one goal alone and that is to finish the daisy blouse. I've got it  all here in this shoe box and I've counted up the ones I've crocheted together. I have 63  crocheted together daisies and I have 373 total, that means 310 daisies left to crochet  together. I've estimated 26 days in February because I also have to sew on the  ribbing and also make buttons. That's 12 days daisies a day. I have to crochet  together 12 daisi

es a day to finish the daisy blouse in Finish it February. I  hope I can do it. Do you think I can do it? Do you know what this is? It's a vintage crochet  tool called a daisy maker and I'm going to show you how to use it. So you turn the dial on the  back so that the little spokes appear and then on the flat side you wrap the wool around two exactly  opposite points two or three times according to the thickness of your wool until all the pins are  covered. And then you cut a tail of yarn, I fou

nd about 20 cm works best, and thread it through a  darning needle, and then you have to sew all the petals together by going under two at a time all  the way around, so that you're always sewing an new petal to the one you've just sewn. Once you've  sewn all the petals together you secure the yarn with a knot and then you turn the dial and off the  daisy comes and there you have it a little Daisy. And then you just have to make approximately  400 more and crochet them all together to actually m

ake anything useful. So if you'd like  to see me attempt that make sure you subscribe. So it's day one of Finish it February and  trying to finish the 1930s Daisy blouse. I'd estimated that I need to do 12 daisies  a day in February to finish by the end of February. I managed 14 and 12 took me about an  hour so that's that's manageable right? However, what the hell is going on? This is supposed to  be a sleeve. I have no idea. What? What? I've got like a right angle? What? I have...  I don't kno

w... help! Please send help. Day two of working on the 1930s Daisy blouse  in Finish it February. Somehow I've got to make sense of these sleeves. The daisies  are joined together by slip stitching in one of the petals and then chaining three  before slip stitching in the next petal and so on. You work a picot every three petals  to create a square around the daisy to fill in the gaps in between them and to join them  together at the corners. I'd added several more daisies to my sleeve when.....

So I've  just realized the reason this doesn't make any sense is because I've made a massive  mistake. I was supposed to work back to here before I started adding these. So  here we go... bye.... bye daisies! Bye! I cannot believe I didn't think of this. So  today is day three of trying to finish my 1930s Daisy blouse in the month of February  and I've been working on fixing that massive mistake I made previously and I've come to realize  something. So my aim has been to join 12 daisies a day e

ach day in February and that should keep  me on track to finish by the end of February, but of course what I hadn't considered is that  just joining the daisies together isn't enough along the bottom. I then have to work back  along the top. So that means it's going to take me twice as long to join all the daisies  together meaning I've essentially doubled the amount of work I need to do each day  to finish during finish it February. Day four of trying to finish the daisy blouse  in Finish it Fe

bruary and I've gotten to a very strange part of the instructions. So I have  now worked back to where I needed to be with that mistake that I made. But now rather than join  the daisies here, as I've been doing for the rows, I'm now having to go this way. I have no idea  what's going to happen. We'll just have to follow the instructions and wait and see. So I've  only managed to add five daisies and I'm going to have to stop because my neck is killing me. I'm  currently doing my neck Physio and

I'm not coping very well. But I have at least figured out now how  this is constructed and how it's going to work. This is the bottom edge, and then this bit wraps  around to form the body. And then the sleeves are like going to be worked out from either side like  this and then we're going to work up make a hole for the neck and do the same thing on the other  side. Finally I know which direction I'm going in! Day five of Finish it February and trying  to finish the 1930s Daisy blouse and I am

massively behind schedule. I've got a lot  of crocheting to do so while I do that I'll do a little voice over and tell you the story of  this project. So my good friend Engineering Knits sent me some vintage magazines from the 1930s  with a bunch of knitting and crochet patterns. Now I love anything unusual in terms of vintage  knitting and I was really drawn to this vintage Daisy blouse using this Daisy maker. So I trawled  eBay to find one and I managed to score one for 99p and I started work

many, many, many months  ago on making this Daisy blouse. It's currently my longest running UFO and I've been working  on it as part of my stash busting series for over a year now. And that's why I'm trying now  to finally finish it this Finish it February. So today is day six of Finish it February and  trying to finish the 1930s Daisy blouse but I've decided I'm taking the day off. I've been  working really hard to try and catch up after I made that mistake and honestly I'm already  starting t

o feel a bit burnt out. My hand hurts, my shoulder hurt, I'm starting to get a bit  of a headache and so I'm going to listen to my body and take some time off. The goal of slow  fashion and making our own clothes should never be to produce as much stuff as quickly as  possible. It's about creating clothes that we love and value and want to wear so that  we take care of them and also have fun. So if you're currently struggling with your making  or your hobby this Finish it February I'm giving you

permission to take some time off and  do something equally important and rest. So day seven of Finish it February. I had a  lovely day off yesterday. time to get back to work. So it's very difficult to get this all in  frame for you but you can sort of see how this is coming along. This is a sleeve, this is the  body section and that over there is the other sleeve. And I'm about to do the shoulder here do  the other half of the sleeves and then I come back and do the right shoulder. But I've ju

st totalled  it up and I've done 104 daisies so even with my day off yesterday I'm ahead of schedule! I can't  really believe it. I'm not sure if I did the maths wrong or if I've counted wrong or something  but I'm... I'll... I'll take it it's a win! Day eight? Of Finish it February and I'm going out  this afternoon. It does happen occasionally. But of course I've got to get my daisies in before  then haven't I? So you might remember a few weeks ago I asked for recommendations for if there  was

such a thing as an interchangeable ergonomic crochet hook set and I've ordered myself one off  Amazon. I've seen mixed things about this one so let's see what we think. I should say I've got a  variety of these crochet hooks that I'm going to be testing over the next couple of weeks and there  will be a full length review video coming out over on YouTube but um yeah for now I'm just going  to give each one a fair shot by doing my days daisies with it. So I started here this is how  far I got wit

h this thing. I wasn't impressed. I swear it's not what it looks like. It's  actually a 3D printed ergonomic crochet hook handle and on day nine of Finish it February. I'm  going to be putting it to the test. I don't even know if I can bring myself to show you. So I have  redone this last row of daisies three times now, three times! And I was just getting it out to  to make this video.... Guess what I'm going to have to redo it a fourth time! I had made a  mistake here on the previous row. I'd m

issed one of the picots to join the corners together.  So I ripped this row out, I redid this picot, crocheted all the way back along, here did  these daisies, went to join the next one and realized I've done exactly the same thing at  the next picot. So I to rip it all out again, rip even further back along this row, re-crochet  along the top of this row and I just readded the daisies. Can you see what I've done? Right at  the end here? See how it's sort of awkwardly curving round like that? Ye

ah that's not  supposed to be like that. I have to rip it out and start all over again. On the plus  side I really like this thing [giggles] So day 10 of Finish it February and trying to  finish the 1930s Daisy blouse and you know so much went wrong yesterday that today it's  just about catching up and getting back on track. I've been trying to use all these  different ergonomic crochet hooks but for this 3D printed one I couldn't find quite the  right size for the size hook I'm using so I had t

o glue it in. Which which means I can't now  use this hook with my other things that I've bought so I'm just going to carry on using this  one for now and I've ordered some more crochet hooks and hopefully they'll turn up. So I've  managed about four daisies so far today and I have to work back along the top of this shoulder  section before I can add some more. So it's quite a lot of work to do on the plus side at least  I didn't glue this hook into this handle and then find out I hated it. I do

actually really  like this ergonomic 3D printed one, despite its shape. So I've made it back up here and this  time I have checked that I've done the last row correctly before I start adding my daisies.  I've done it. 12 daisies done. See you tomorrow. It's official. I've officially run out of  yarn on the daisy blouse. And now you may remember from the last time that I run out of  yarn on this project that the yarn I'm using this CaMaRose Økologisk Sommeruld, currently out  of stock with the m

anufacturer and I cannot get it anywhere in the British Isles. I also cannot  get it shipped from Mainland Europe because a lot of the small independent yarn shops in places  like Denmark or Sweden that currently do have it in stock no longer shipped to the UK because  of Brexit. Now last time I was able to get more yarn because I put a call out on rivalry so I'm  hoping somebody will see this video and if you have 50 g of CaMaRose in the colour 2001 Rahvid.  Please I will buy it off you! Send m

e a message on Instagram and I will get in touch with you.  If not my only other option is going to be to completely start over. Undo all this crochet  so I'm just left with loose daisies and start again crocheting them together with a different  yarn that I know I'm not going to run out of. So not being able to carry on with the Daisy  blouse at the moment leaves me with a bit of a dilemma because I've been looking at my other  works in progress. I think I've come to the decision to frog two of

them. Which only really  leaves me with the beekeepers quilt as an option to work on during Finish it February but I'm  not entirely sure I have any yarn to work on that either. So the projects I've decided to frog  are this one which was an intarsia 1940s blouse. I'm just not excited to work on it and I also  know that I'm just unlikely to wear it. I have one in exactly the same colour palette which I  prefer. The other project I'm going to frog is my Victorian corset and that's just because I

started  this 3 years ago and there's no way it's going to still fit me. I still want to make a knitted  Victorian corset but I'm going to have to start over. So that leaves my hexipuff quilt and now I  have found one skein of yarn that I got as part of a yarn swap so I think this is what I'll have  to work on for the rest of Finish it February. Day 15 of Finish it February and having  paused on the daisy blouse I'm now working on my hexipuff quilt. So I've got my  yarn and it needs winding up

so it's time to actually get out of bed for the  first time this month and go downstairs. [more swift jangling noises] [ball winder turning] [swift unfolding] [snort of derision] My one concern having just wound this up is this  yarn is supposed to be four ply but it looks a bit thicker to me. So I'm going to have to make  a gauge Swatch. So I have knitted a little gauge Swatch and yes I normally get a tension of nine  stitches to an inch for a hexipuff and I'm getting seven. I think I can make

it work I'm just going  to have to rewrite my pattern. See you tomorrow. As I wait for more yarn to arrive for my Daisy  blouse, thank you so much to everybody who's come through and offered to help. I have some on the  way so [squeal of delight] it's going to get done, it's going to get done. But as I wait I've  been working on my hexipuff blanket knitting these little stuffed hexagons to make a quilt  out of. Now the only yarn I have is this one. Slightly too thick and I have adjusted the  pat

tern for stitch gauge but what I hadn't done was adjusted the pattern for row gauge  because weirdly while the stitch gauge is vastly different I get the same row gauge. So my  hexagons are going to be weirdly squished. So I've done some maths and I'm going to have to do an  uneven shaping rate which I don't know whether is going to work or not but as it stands we're  starting this project with yet more frogging. So as I'm rewriting the pattern to make  my hexipuffs work with my yarn that isn't

quite right I thought I would talk you through  what I'm doing. So this is a spreadsheet that I have written for grading vintage knitting  patterns and I've essentially put in all the information and it's spat out how many  decreases I need to do, how many times with, how many rows in between. But because I've got  an uneven shaping rate I'm not sure whether that means that my angle along the hexipuff is going  to be uneven? I guess really the only way to see is to try it. So I have to start by

increasing  every two rows four times and then I increase every three rows three times. So I've done my  first set of increases which were every other row and now I'm switching to do one increase  every three rows and hopefully we won't end up with like a weird shape happening here. So I  finished with my first hexipuff and it is a bit rounded compared to the other ones which were  a bit pointier but I think it's going to work. Excuse whatever's going on here it's night  time and I'm getting rea

dy for bed but I have finished my first hexipuff I've stuffed  it and now I just have to graft closed the seam. You can do a three needle bind off but  I can't find any other needles this size so I'm going to do Kitchener Stitch. Kitchener  Stitch it's one of those things I can never remember I always need a video. Okay I've got  it here we go. Knit off, purl on, purl off, knit on. One more stitch on this side than the  other. Something went wrong here. [whispers] oh well. So yes one done I'm ho

ping I can get  six more out of the yarn I've got left and that way I'll get a full flower and the centre  of another Daisy, not daisies hexipuffs! Am I going to have enough yarn? So I've been  working away on my hexipuffs and I'm now up to three and I'm loving the way they're looking  but I've only got this much yarn left and I'm not sure if it's going to be enough, so let's do  some maths. If I want seven out of 50 g that's about sevenish? Let's say eight so I need four  more..... Why can I do

7 * 7 in my head but not 4 * 8? 32 so this needs to be at least 32g for  me to get enough hexipuffs out of it. Let's go downstairs and weigh it [tense pause] Oh my God. Thank God for that! I am starting to struggle a little bit with these  hexyipuffs. Previously I've always really enjoyed knitting with very fine needles, these are 2.5  mil, but for whatever reason now it's really hurting my hands which is new for me. So I'm  having to do much shorter chunks and I can't really figure out how muc

h I can get done in say  an hour or something like that. So what I thought I would do is set a timer for 15 minutes and  start from scratch with a hexipuff and see how far I get and then hopefully I can schedule in  some 15 minute chunks in the day and that will help with my pacing. Okay here goes. Actually  what am I doing I need my glasses.... and now I've lost the needles... you might have to come  back tomorrow to see how far I actually get. So this is how far I got in 15 minutes. Obviously 

it's not a lot of work. I'd say I'm probably about a fifth of the way there. So realistically I'm  looking about an hour and a half sort of knitting and finishing and everything per hexipuff.  So I mean it is what it is resantly... it is was...[laughs] I mean it is.... why can't  I say it? I mean it is was it... [laughs] I mean it is what it is.... I mean it is what  it is. I'll just have to keep plodding along. I think I've figured out how to make this project  even better. So somebody suggest

ed on one of my previous videos that instead of doing my  uneven decreases in two separate chunks, so I do a block of decreases every two rows  and then a block of decreases every three rows, I should alternate them and that should give  me a smoother angle rather than the slightly rounded points I'm getting at the minute  on my hexipuffs. So I'm going to try it with this one and let's see if it works. So I  have no idea whether you can see the difference here but this is the original one with t

he uneven  shaping and this is the one where I interspersed the number of decreases and it's definitely  pointier. So I think I'm calling that a win. I have to be honest I haven't been being very  clear with you all. Somebody commented one of my most recent videos about the hexipuffs  what are you making with them? And I don't think I've ever actually explained it. So  these little hexagons become a quilt and this is a pattern by Tiny Owl Knits and it's  known as the Beekeepers Quilt. And essent

ially what you do is you knit loads of these little  hexagons and then you join them together like this. You simply tie them together at the  corner and I've been arranging mine into these little flower designs. And it's my aim to  make a grandmother's flower garden style quilt. So at the moment I've only got six flowers ready  to go. I have enough hexipuffs to make two more and the hexipuffs I'm working on at the minute  as part of Finish it February should be enough to make another one of the

outside of these  flowers and one for the middle. I still have to decide what sort of border if any I want to  put around each flower. I do quite like the look of the ones that have two colours but I'm not  sure whether I'll have enough yarn for that. So how do you actually make a hexipuff? Well  today I'm going to show you. So you begin with with what's called Judy's magic cast on. I don't  know who Judy is but she invented this particular cast on method whereby you get a seamless  join. You th

en work in the round increasing every other round, hopefully, if you get the right  gauge, until your hexipuff is the correct width, for me that's 3 and 1/2 in but you can  make them whatever size you like really, and then you do the opposite and you decrease  until you have the same number of stitches that you cast on, and then before you cast  off you stuff the hexipuff. I'm using leftover cushion stuffing from a previous  project and then you can either do a three needle bind off or I like to

graft mine  closed and there you have it a hexipuff. So there are two days left in Finish it February  and I have two more hexipuffs to make to complete my flower. I'm pretty certain at the rate that  I'm going that I will be able to finish by the end of February but of course as usual my main  concern is am I going to have enough yarn? You'll be pleased to hear that my yarn for the daisy  blouse should be arriving any day now I'm not sure whether it's is going to get here before the end  of Fe

bruary though. I think I am going to carry on with the Daisy blouse as my current work in  progress because I'm really pleased with how far I was able to get in February and it is a stash  busting project so it counts towards my long-term stash busting goals. But I am starting to feel  the itch of wanting to cast on something new. So today is the very last day of Finish it  February and I have one more hexipuff to make. I think I'm going to have enough yarn, we're  so close to finishing somethin

g in finish it February, let's get started. So this is how  far I was able to get in my first 15 minute session so it's time for stretch and a rest  and I'll see you in a bit. Okay we're back, take two. Oh perfect timing. I'm exactly halfway  after my next 15 minutes. Time for a break okay this is the next 15 minute chunk time for a lunch  break. So I finished the knitting [snip] ... and that's it! That's the last one  seven hexipuffs finished in Finish it February and I even have a yarn left ov

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