Veronika Linberg is a knitting content creator with over two hundred thousand subscribers.
She decided to knit her own wedding dress.
The story of the 200 hour process was told to Charissa.
When I was five years old, my grandmother taught me how to knit, and ever since, I've been obsessed with it.
I launched my own YouTube channel a year after I started my own social media accounts to share pictures of my knitting.
I thought it would be cool to knit my own wedding dress and document the experience for a video, even though I only had about six weeks before our wedding date, so I could tell it was.
I ordered 30 balls of white pure silk yarn for $290 and got to work on the video.
The process wasn't always easy, but it was worth it to create my dream dress and share it with my viewers.
I've never knitted a dress before. I was hesitant about the idea of it because I thought it would look like a pajama dress and not have any shape to it.
A lot of knitted dresses I've seen look a bit grannyish, but I wanted something that was more haute couture, so I looked up different dress designs from Christian Dior and Chanel, and decided to try and create a dress inspired by those designs, but made from I used an existing skirt I had made to give me an idea of how I wanted it to fall around my body.
I didn't do anything else for the next 45 days. I had to put all other video ideas on hold because it took me 200 hours to complete the design. This was the longest amount of time I'd ever spent on a video, and it was difficult to stay on top of making the dress and remember to document key moments at the same time.
There were a lot of things that went wrong during the knitting process.
When I tried it on, it was too large for me. I had to start all over again after ripping it back up. It took me a while to fix the sleeves that kept slipping down and exposing my chest.
I made sure to film all my mistakes so that I could be honest with my viewers.
I only had four days to rest before the wedding, and by the time I finished the dress, I was exhausted. I could not have been happier with the finished product after putting it on for the ceremony.
My partner thought it looked great, even though he was a bit skeptical about how doable it would be for me to make an entire dress in such a short time.
Guests would come up to me over the course of the day and talk about the dress. I love talking about knitting, so I didn't mind that they were more interested in the dress than me.
I'm happy that I was able to make knitting an important part of my wedding day because it's a big part of my life.
I posted a 46-minute video about the dress-making process after the wedding. It took four days to edit and put it together. My wedding day was relived all over again because of it.
I'm happy that I spent so much time on producing a longer, higher-quality video that it paid off, as the vlog is now my most- watched video with nearly 3 million views.
I think it's possible for people with less knitting experience to make their own wedding dresses if they give themselves six months to do it.
The success of the video has motivated me to debunk the myth that knitting is only for older people.
In recent years, knitwear has become fashionable again, with more brands trying to modernize knitting designs for the younger generation, but I think it's great that more people seem to want to make their own knitwear and invest in slow fashion.
It's great to be able to choose the materials that you want to use and make something that is your own.
I want my story to demonstrate that knitwear can be fashionable.
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