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This winter my feet have been very very cold for some reason.

Maybe I just need better shoes, but

I thought it would be fun to make some knit

socks, specifically in merino wool

because wool is very very warm and I don't feel like I have enough wool socks.

So this is my first go at making socks.

As you can see I do have a knitting machine here

that I use very often for my work.

For knitwear development which is

my job, or just making fun knitted stuff for myself or for whoever.

I've made lots of stuff but never socks before

So I was really excited to try socks.

This is what one finished sock looks like.

I made them a little bit large for me because I wanted them to be more like slippers

rather than socks, so they're kind of loose

and super comfy.

As you can see there is a good bit of short rowing in the heel

and in the toe.

And it's tubular knitted.

The whole thing is basically tubular knitted

with some short rowing for shaping.

And there's a kitchener stitch here.

This is kind of at the top.

Top of the toes, you just kind of have a

hidden seam here.

Where you finish the tubular.

So this is the first sock and

I did not film it because I wanted to

get all of the mistakes out of the way on the first sock and

then I thought I would film the second sock.

And it's good because I royally messed up on the first sock.

I made the foot really really long, like it was

extremely long. I obviously got messed up with the measurements of

the tubular compared to how big the foot

should be. Anyway, I had to basically unknit

partway down to about here and then I had to attach it on the machine

and reshape the toe again.

But anyway, this one fits me pretty well

So I'm just going to make an exact copy of this sock.

I followed Diana Sullivan's YouTube tutorial

It's three parts on making this sock.

Most of it's the same. I changed a few

things like I didn't do the rib. She did rib for the ankle part.

I just did a regular tubular because I just wanted

the whole sock to be the same and

I kind of wanted to just fold it down and I thought

that would be fine. I didn't really want to go through the trouble of making

a rib top and a tubular jersey bottom

so I just did the whole thing in tubular jersey.

Besides that, everything else I did the same. I followed her instructions.

It's a really good tutorial. I'll link it below.

If you want to try to make socks as well.

The first thing I did was make a tension swatch because

you have to know your gauge and you have to

test the yarn you want to use, so I made

this little tubular swatch to see how many stitches per inch it was going to end up being

And I followed that as far as measurements

for the sock. For how many rows and needles to use.

The first thing you're going to do

is start on this side. Use your waste yarn to start.

At least for my sock, I use

waste yarn.

I'm using white as my waste yarn

My knitting machine is a 7 gauge.

It's basically a 7 gauge.

It's a medium mid-gauge machine.

It's not super chunky, and you can kind of see on here

It's not super chunky, it's not super fine

medium medium mid-gauge

and then you go and knit your needles just

I have my tension where I want my tension

So you knit it all through, and then

you put the comb on.

This is the comb.

I also normally knit in the middle of my machine.

I don't know if you can see I'm kind of on the side

The center of my machine is actually this pole

But I didn't want the pole to be

in the center of my face, so I thought I would

I thought I would film it from

kind of the side of the machine because

the sock doesn't use that many needles. It uses

about this many needles.

That way you can see my lovely face :)

And the yarn is kind of to the side.

Rather than right in the middle of my face.

It's a little odd because I don't usually use the side of the machine.

After that, I put the comb in.

The comb is hanging.

I do left part on the top bed, and I'm going to do the

N to the PR on the bottom bed.

You machine knitters at home know what I'm talking about

All these things have letters but I forget what all these letters mean.

You just know what all the buttons do.

As I go this way it's going to knit just the bottom bed.

And as I go that way it's just going to knit the top bed.

Let's do a few rows of that just because

it helps to

Then you just have a little bit more slack on the waste yarn.

This tension is a little bit tight, but

I don't want to mess up my tension because this is the tension I want for the sock

So for my waste yarn the tension is a little iffy.

But that's fine with me.

We want to start on this side with

the blue yarn.

I need to go get scissors. Hold on.

Ok. Got my scissors.

I don't want to cut this.

I'm just going to pull this thread through.

I reuse my waste yarn.

I'm done with this yarn, so I'm going to pull it all the way through.

I'm going to put my blue yarn in for knitting.

I'm just hoping this sock comes out the same as the other sock.

I'm hoping I remember how to do everything properly.

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WOKE-UP! FAST FASHION & LUXURY FASHION: Let's Identify | SDGs - Duration: 12:23.

on average only 2% until 4% of the price of each clothing from brands go to the

factory wages of these workers.

Do you have a passion...

... for fashion?

Welcome back to Zevaulia. In this video let us discuss further about the fashion

industry. As you know the fashion industry is problematic not only is it

industrially problematic but it is also environmentally and socially problematic

To put into perspective, 700 billion garments of clothes are produced every

single year. Women, we spend 7 times more of our money on fashion and its

accessories than men.

Yes... 7 times more and that is not

really good.

The market segments that comprise of all this is all throughout

the fashion industry from the high-end luxury fashion until the high streets

fast fashion and everything else in between from sportswear, menswear and

kids wear accessories jeans everything. A recent study was conducted by the

Ellen MacArthur Foundation. They have estimated that there is an equivalent of

one garbage truck full of textiles that is dumped every second to our landfills or

burned. Approximately 500 billion USD of value is wasted because of clothes that

are barely worn and not recycled.

Clothes release half a million tons of

microfibers into our oceans and this is equivalent to more than 50 billion

plastic bottles. If you haven't watched my previous video on plastic waste and

its impacts already, you better check it out.

And these microfibers are impossible

to clean up because of its quantity and it's size and it could also enter our

food chains through the marine animals that we consume. Microplastics 30% of it

derives from our laundry wastewater and also synthetic textiles

In 2018 last year the Copenhagen fashion summit also said that the fashion industry

contributes to an amount of 92 million tons of solid waste dumped into our

landfills every year. The fashion industry is the second largest consumer

of freshwater. They also produce 20% of waste water and generate GHG emissions

or greenhouse gas emissions more than international flights and also

maritime shipping combined

to put into perspective to produce one cotton

t-shirt requires two thousand seven hundred litres of water and to produce

one pair of jeans requires 1700 gallons of water and to dye fabric it requires

1.3 trillion gallons of water every year no wonder the fashion industry is the

number one industry that pollutes our fresh water

Now what do us Millennials

and also Gen Z's think in general about sustainable fashion and sustainable

purchasing? Well a college in New York called LIM College, they are a college

that focuses on business and fashion, they did a consumer insight research

and in this research they stated that Gen Z's and also Millenials don't really

put sustainability high on their consideration list when they shop

unfortunately.

But why is this?

So above thinking about sustainability in their purchases, these are the things that they actually care

more about

Brands and also retailers they need to not only educate their

consumers about sustainability but also they have to deliver quality of product

and also quality of price and value that is competitive and also fair and not

only that we as consumers we also have to educate ourselves more about

sustainability, about circular fashion, circular economy in general and also slow

fashion or whatever you call it, sustainability is the key word.

It has become more urgent and significant than ever to become a conscious consumer but

one thing that you can do to start is to purchase less. Buy the things that you

need and not always the things that you want. In my early 20s I am someone who

loves to shop for clothes and accessories but then I decided to

simplify what I have and really reduce what I buy. This is easier said than done

but is definitely attainable you don't need to always have like different

outfits for every post on Instagram or Facebook or wherever you can always mix

and match what you have and upcycle too. Which you will see more in my channel

We need to be more woke about sustainable production and ethical production.

By 2030 the fashion industry is predicted to emit

4.9 gigatons of CO2 each year

So that begs the question: How do we know if a brand is sustainable or not?

So there are four ways to identify whether a brand is sustainable. These are the

four ways.

Let's go to the first one and this first one is easy to do.

Check the materials.

These are the textiles that are not only recyclable but it is also

renewable

Now let's talk about natural dyes. We can get natural dyes from these things right

here

However these things aren't suitable for the mass-market

because why?Everybody wants to have different colored clothes right?

These textile dyes are usually very toxic. They are fixative and can consist of

chromium, aluminium, formaldehyde, chlorine, lead, mercury etc there are up to 1600

toxic chemicals out there and these are difficult to remove by conventional

water treatment procedures and systems and in the end these toxic dyes become

factory waste and it is harmful for plants for animals for humans for the

ecosystem as a whole

Now let's talk about sustainable wood. So sustainable

wood is ideally wood that is certified for example by the FSC and is also wood

that are scraps from the furniture industry or called re-discoverable wood.

It could also be from bamboos or pine trees for examples that are very easy and fast

to produce.

Now let's talk about sustainable leather. So there are two

sides in this. Not everybody agrees. So the first side is using recyclable leather

so these leathers are byproducts from the meat and also fishery industries.

Yes they are not vegan friendly but at least people are becoming more sustainable

Next choice is faux leather. Faux leather is from plastics and it also depends

what type of plastic because not all faux leather is actually environmentally

friendly. For example PVC is very toxic

suggest to now the faux leather is, well it's vegan

friendly, you don't kill any animals, but it's also not automatically always

environmentally friendly.

Now the second step that you could do

this needs more effort but it is definitely worth it is to check certification

Certification occurs when there is an accredited independent body,

an auditor, that verifies whether a supplier is in conformance with an

appropriate standard or not and when they succeed verification they'll be

given a statement in a certificate. We need to keep in mind that standards come

in two types. The first is mandatory standards which is legally binding and

the second is voluntary standards and certification falls within the second

category which is voluntary and not all standards are necessarily effective .

We also need to take note that the certification process can be expensive and not all

SMEs or all brands are able to afford a certification

These are examples of certifications for the textile industry

these are examples of certification for the leather industry

And these are examples of certification for the wood industry

the third thing that we need to check is for cause marketers or PR strategies that are not

very legit. For example do they really donate to the cause that they are saying

that they donate to? They state that they donate a certain percentage to a

certain cause but how much really is that percentage that they donate?

There could be a lack of clarity of the amount of the transparency and of the

allocation of the percentage of donation that they give to these causes.

Another condition is when a brand declares that they support a certain initiative

for example they support breast cancer awareness. However do the materials that

they use. Is it safe? Does it really support breast cancer awareness or does

it actually contribute to the creation of cancer? So these little things we

also need to think about regarding the supply chains down the

line. Another thing that some suppliers do is that they donate to certain

non-profits. However to cover the expenses of the donation that they give they mark

up their prices. I know that in general many people still have the

business-as-usual mindset, everybody is looking out for themselves, it's all about

the profit but I think that if you really think from a wider perspective

from a more social cause perspective, it doesn't hurt to give a part of your

profits to social causes and really be responsible for it.

And that brings me to

the fourth checking point, which is checking the CSR and also the business

model of these brands and including the operations of the brand itself.

In the fashion industry we also have to look at the sustainability of the supply chains

it goes all the way back to agriculture, to manufacturing, to processing, fabric

care, to the use from the consumers and then to recycling, if there is any, and

then to the disposal. There are many sustainability checkpoints within

sustainability processes of the supply chain. You can also find even more

details about the sustainability of these supply chains from whether they

use eco-friendly methods of production until whether labor rights is implemented

These are also other things that you can also look for

Talking about ethically paid workers, many of these brands have factories in Asia as we all

should know by now. Why? To increase profit margins because you

know workers in Asia are paid much more less in general and also to even evade

environmental regulations that are maybe not as tight.

Deloitte through its Deloitte Access

Economics in October 2017 released a report for Oxfam Australia

and they stated that the employees of Australian brands that have factories in

Asia, their wages are lower than the living costs of these countries.

As an estimation for Bangladesh it is 76% lower, for India it is 41% lower, for

Indonesia it is 29% lower and for Vietnam it is 8% lower than the living cost in each

of these countries. On average only two percent until four percent of the

price of each clothing from these Australian brands go to the factory

wages of these workers.

But of course there are various progress that is made by the

fashion industry and we need to take credit and applaud them for it.

That is all from me now. Thank you so much for everybody who has watched especially if

you've watched from the beginning until the end, I really appreciate it, I hope that

this really makes us to radically rethink about how we see sustainable

fashion and the fashion industry as a whole. Everything needs to be done

step-by-step there is no rush but I think that even if we make the smallest

of progress it will definitely count. I'm still very positive that we are in a

better step towards a more sustainable future but of course this requires a lot

of help not only from me but also from you. See you in the next video!

For more infomation >> WOKE-UP! FAST FASHION & LUXURY FASHION: Let's Identify | SDGs - Duration: 12:23.

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Meghan Fashion - Kate Middleton BAFTAs: Has Duchess taken style tips from sister-in-law Meghan Mark - Duration: 5:42.

 Kate Middleton, 37, wore a bespoke Alexander Mcqueen dress to the BAFTAs last night

The white gown hugged her waist before billowing to the floor. The one-shouldered item had a stunning ruffled design on the left side of her body

The elegant outfit could be considered to have drawn influences from Grecian aesthetics, thanks to its toga-style

 Just months ago, Meghan Markle, 37, stepped out in a very similar look. The Duchess wore a white couture number, which is not available to buy

 She sported the Theia Couture dress in October last year, when meeting the King of Tonga, during her first international royal tour as the Duchess of Sussex

 This particular gown had cap sleeves, and featured a high neckline. It had also been embellished with beads on the shoulders

 And, while there may be a number of differences between Meghan and Kate's gowns, there is a resemblance between the chic Ancient Greece-inspired looks

 Last night, the Duchess of Cambridge paired her dress with a pair of £525 high heels

 The glittery silver shoes are the Jimmy Choo Romy design. She teamed the look with a white clutch bag, as well as a sparkling silver bangle

 Kate also used her accessories to pay tribute to her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana

 The mother-of-three sported a pair of dangling pearl earrings, which had a silver leaf design

 The item of jewellery was owned Diana, Princess of Wales. During her lifetime, she wore them a number of times, however, it seems that some adaptions have been made to the jewels

 These days, the pearls on the earrings seem to have been exchanged from the original South Sea design to smaller and longer shaped versions

 Kate and Prince William, 36, have attended the BAFTAs ceremony in previous years

 The Duke is the President of BAFTA, a role which he has held since 2010. Last year, Kate, who was pregnant with Prince Louis at the time, wore an olive-green dress by Jenny Packham

 How did Kate Middleton become a royal? Early life Kate Middleton, or Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, was born on 9 January 1982 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, England

 She was born to Michael and Carole Middleton, a former flight dispatcher and air hostess

The couple founded a party supplies company, Party Pieces, in 1987 - now estimated to be worth £30 million

 Kate has a younger sister Pippa Matthews, 34, and a younger brother James Middleton, 31

 Education Kate and her family moved to Amman, Jordan, in 1984, where the future Duchess was educated at an English-speaking nursery school

 After moving back to Berkshire the family sent Kate to private school, St Andrews School

She went on to briefly study at Downe House before moving onto Marlborough College where she boarded

 For university the young Kate attended the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland

Here she was awarded an undergraduate MA (2:1 Hons) in history of art. Relationship with Prince William Kate met Prince William when they were both studying at St Andrews, and both living in St Salvator's Hall

Famously, William reportedly took a fancy to Kate after she wore a see-through dress during a fashion show

 In 2003 the couple began dating and lived together during their second year of university

 The couple split in April 2007, however, in October they were back together. Wedding Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton with his late mother Princess Diana's engagement ring in October 2010

The couple were holidaying in Kenya at the time. On 29 April 2011 they married at Westminster Abbey with a whopping 26 million watching the event live

 Kate wore an Alexander McQueen dress worth a reported £250,000 on the big day. Kate assumed the title "Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge" and also become the Duchess of Cambridge on the day

For more infomation >> Meghan Fashion - Kate Middleton BAFTAs: Has Duchess taken style tips from sister-in-law Meghan Mark - Duration: 5:42.

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