I never thought that I had the potential to give away all of my money and sell my home to go join a cult, but thinking of a craft commune with little hobbit houses has me 100% on board. IM COMING EDYTHE! (Because that’s how commune Edythe would spell her name)
Love your cross stitching. When I started cross stitching I didn't think it would be so rewarding but here I am stitching a variety of different patterns from fancy lady to fullcoverage. At the moment I switch between spinning and cross stitching with some crochet and sewing sprinkled in between.
The zig zag border on a quilt is call Prairie Points. It looks great but can be a bit of a challenge to make it fit along each edge. I've done it twice and that was enough for me, lol.
I so enjoy your podcasts - thank you so much. Your apple conversations make me long for the midwest of my childhood. I would love to join your crafty commune with hobbit holes - sounds delightful! And it's a coracle - Reepicheep the mouse sailed off in his little coracle at the end of the Narnia books. Thanks for a fun episode!
Succumb to the crafty whirlpool!!! As a fellow multictrafter, there is no escape from those random bursts of creative excitement! Just go with it and realize how lucky you are to make beautiful things!!🤣👏🏻😘
Amy Beth, you make me laugh out loud because I can soooo relate to what you're expressing. I find that because I consider myself a maker that I need to make all the things. I have to remind myself that I do not have the energy/time/space/budget, etc to do that. I also have many projects in waiting. Keeping a brief list of them and what is needed to do/complete them helps, but even watching your episode makes me think, I need to try ice dying and EPP (that bowl!!) and so on. All of your projects look fantastic.❤❤❤
Totally agree! I also have to sometimes skip sections of crafting podcasts that discuss a craft I don't do but have the vaguest of curiosity in (like spinning yarn) because I know my mind will stir and stew on it until I give in and I don't have space for that in my life in any way. I also have the wild impulse that if I do the thing, I better buy the quality, expensive materials so I can have a good experience and not have to 'inevitably' buy them later and waste money. 🙄😆 But more often than not, those hobbies fall by the wayside and I come back to crochet and knit. My friend helped me be more rational about it and said to invest in beginner items to start and if I end up liking it, then spend the big bucks to get good quality materials. Who knew it could work like that? 😄 On the other hand, a crafting commune sounds amazing and would solve all the problems? 😂😍
I so identify with the hyperfixation! For me, after the rush of planning and gathering, it's almost like i've done the project. I look at my fabric and yarn stashes and know exactly what I was going use them for. Happy to join you in your coracle!
Hubers Orchard in Southern, Indiana. ❤ Is fabulous place ! I love it in the fall. I grew up nearby and now live in SC and try to make it back to FLOYDS KNOBS Indiana to get my apples & pumpkins, apple butters and cheeses from HUBERS ORCHARD. They also have restaurant family style dining on site and I can’t forget they have an ice cream shop!!❤ Specialty and Holiday wines made there too!! Hi are is worth the drive and the foliage is a plus every autumn❤
I loved this video although in all fairness,your videos are amazing! I am done the rabbit hole of stitching. I’m obsessed with fabric birds and landscapes. I can relate to the obsession about projects.
OH HEY FELLOW "CREATIVITY IS REALLY AN EXORCISM" HUMAN! Since you asked, I have tips! I find that sometimes when I'm in "I need to make this right this second," it's really more about being afraid of forgetting my idea. I keep an ongoing Word Document with pattern links, fabric/yarn colors and sources, and schemes, and often just having a written plan will scratch the itch and I can come back to it later. If it doesn't, I'll just GO WITH IT. I've found it's way more detrimental to beat myself up for needing to go on a little side trip than actually just doing it. I've also been working on not ordering additional supplies and patterns until I'm all ready to go on the plan-- this is a bit of a balancing act because I DO love a robust stash and being able to strike while the creative iron's hot.
Oh you should buying that apple orchard! I can imagine the joy it would bring you to have all those apples ripening each year… (maybe buy a lotto ticket ) I’m crossing all my fingers and toes😉😉😘you could start a hobbit and apple retreat!!( with crafting of course!)🤩🤩🍁🍂🍎🍏🍎✨✨✨
I am so with you on having an idea of what you will make with something before or as it goes into stash. But I see so much beauty and then get ideas of what I'll make with it, buy it, and keep doing this cycle. Sadly I realize I am still buying way faster than I am making and using my stash. I am really trying hard, but it's almost like I have to get off social media, and I don't want to do that because I WANT to be inspired and get excited about making all the things! I say let the kids worry about getting rid of our stash after we are gone. Imma gonna leave names and contact info in my will of all my crafty friends, so the kids know who to give to first. 😂😂😂
Thank you for articulating the issue?/gift? of needing to outfit for crafting multiple interesting things. I have both your "problem" and a need to have ALL the best hiking/camping gear for me (even if I'm too old to use some of it...) Humaning is rough somedays but the days where an overnight frost has loosed the beautiful coloured leaves from the trees so that they look like psychedelic snow make up for the roughness. Sometimes...
at 24:56 ! in the splotches patterns there's a chubby frog with their hands up, right where you placed the paper :) hope you see it :) love what you do :) thank you for your time and your words :)
When I want to do something, I get obsessed with it, and then I fall down the rabbit hole, and I research it to death, then I forget what it was i was looking up in the first place. I love your little bole, and that fabric is amazing!
Yes, I get so excited designing and finding the perfect materials (that’s the creative part) and then never make the object (the hardworking discipline part). I start, sit the project aside, and my brain is already moving to the creative part of something else. It’s like craft ADHD!
Totally get the whirlpool analogy. And my stash has been stressing me a bit, so some is being given away and I bought an Ikea kallax to reorganize it. Now that I can see it, old stash is giving me more joy and inspiration. I also have a journal to get the ideas that snag me written down and out of my head and I force myself to let it simmer and try to use stash to do it. But I do like seeing sweaters on different body sizes so I can get a better feel for if I'd actually like it on me. I'm going to need more knit worthy people in my life to use up my stash!
The Quilt Museum has a huge collection but is not able to display it all. You can always ask for a special appt. If there is a particular quilt you would like to see. They are very fragile and are rarely displayed on the walls any more.
What your talking about is a compulsion and I have them often with crafting (and other areas of my life). I find sketching out what I have in my head and planning out color a color scheme is helpful as a halfway step to easing things out of my system without reaching the buying stage every time. It doesn’t work 100% for me, but it helps.
I used to go down those crafty roads especially when I was researching crafts to do with my Girl Scouts! My restraining tool was money! But sometimes I used my own money to get all the stuff!! Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm!
Hello, my name is Vasco, I’ve watched your podcast for a fair few years, I tend not to comment as I always feel rather awkward and that my opinion would not really matter. First and foremost, you are a fantastic human being, thank you for your sharing, and for being fab. What I wanted to say is that I have never fitted anywhere, not even in the knitting world, but perhaps I would in your crafting commune. Can I came and be your neighbour, so we can craft and chat? I totally get your cycle thing, for years I tried not to get a sock knitting machine, but recently I caved in….. along with so many crafting things, I just wish I could craft all day long. Happy knitting, spinning, crafting! 🧦 🧶
I can relate! Just visited Crate and Barrel and couldn’t stop taking pictures of the things I could make (someday). Now obsessed with figuring out the next thing to make.
Such lovely warm, cosy feelings from your lovely podcast. I am dying to cast on a stranded colourwork something! I've got that same 'down-tools-must-put-yarn-together-for-this-immediantly' that you described for your pineapple quilt block! You are an amazing maker. Also I loved the meandering coracles throughout ❤
I don’t have any tips for escaping a hyperfixation on making something without buying stuff, but I do have some some solidarity for you! Honestly, just discovering my neurodivergence a few years ago and learning what it means to have an “interest-based” nervous system has given me permission to just scratch those itches when they come along because it gives me the kind of joy that more than makes up for the dents in my budget. 🤷
Oooh your Academic vest will be gorgeous! My ribbing also looks like hot garbage as well so a while back I decided to use Norwegian purls when ribbing. And for a sewist who has made project bags, even love making them, I love reusing large plastic product bags as project bags.
Thank you so much for your delightful podcasts. I always look forward to your shenanigans! You probably already know about Robotime miniature models, but if not, I think they might be something that you would enjoy. I just discovered them….so tiny and full of cuteness!
That sweater came out so lovely❤ I really want to make batwing garments or those gorgeous swonchos, but I feel like they won't be very practical for wearing coats/bags
People always suggest a craft commune with tiny houses, but I'm thinking why not buy an Italian villa and everyone gets their own wing? I found this episode highly enjoyable, and I'm branching out in my apple choices even though I'm just a basic honeycrisp fool.
HI Amy Beth, I always learn something when I watch you. I thought you were saying "karakul" which I knew was a type of curly black sheep. I had never known about "coracles" but now I do. Also loved your paper piecing project and ice dying. I will need to try both.
Don’t you think the gathering of supplies and materials in preparation for a project that you may or may not embark on (and possibly have to spend money on in a retrospectively wasteful way) is creative and fun? It lets your mind work on color, texture, materials, developing a vision, etc. , etc. I think it’s good for the creative juices!
Yes!!! a CORACLE! I feel you! As a one time basket maker, I actually thought it would also be a fun make hahhaha A handmade CORACLE 😁 😂🤣 I have jewelry finding if you ever need some, heheh
Okay but what about when you're about to start a project and Edith has your damn US4 knitting needles because she decided to try knitting and 35 rows into her project, she set it aside to return to her woodworking...... I see many flaws as the knitter in this craft commune..... Already I am using needles that I need and just KNEW I had that one yarn... oh wait I turned it into that hat that I gifted. Dangit. So I guess I would have to have a secret stash with all my best knitting things the rest of the community doesn't know about. But then, I question if Edith is keeping her best whittling tools hidden too?? What is everyone else hiding???? And suddenly this community is just everyone looking at one another in suspicious sideways glances. That's it I'm moving back home.
I never thought that I had the potential to give away all of my money and sell my home to go join a cult, but thinking of a craft commune with little hobbit houses has me 100% on board. IM COMING EDYTHE! (Because that’s how commune Edythe would spell her name)
My friends suggested a swimming commune but they’re not crafters so which do I join?!
I really appreciate your end conversation. It is hard being a human and it feels like a warm hug hearing you speak of it.❤
Man that crafty commune sounds great, I could live in a hobbit house and paddle my coracle across the village pond....sign me up 🙂
Me too! I’ve always wanted to live in a hobbit house and this would make it so much better!!!!
Love your cross stitching. When I started cross stitching I didn't think it would be so rewarding but here I am stitching a variety of different patterns from fancy lady to fullcoverage. At the moment I switch between spinning and cross stitching with some crochet and sewing sprinkled in between.
The zig zag border on a quilt is call Prairie Points. It looks great but can be a bit of a challenge to make it fit along each edge. I've done it twice and that was enough for me, lol.
So thankful to you for sharing your awesomeness with us in this podcast 💛
I so enjoy your podcasts - thank you so much. Your apple conversations make me long for the midwest of my childhood. I would love to join your crafty commune with hobbit holes - sounds delightful! And it's a coracle - Reepicheep the mouse sailed off in his little coracle at the end of the Narnia books. Thanks for a fun episode!
Succumb to the crafty whirlpool!!! As a fellow multictrafter, there is no escape from those random bursts of creative excitement! Just go with it and realize how lucky you are to make beautiful things!!🤣👏🏻😘
Amy Beth, you make me laugh out loud because I can soooo relate to what you're expressing. I find that because I consider myself a maker that I need to make all the things. I have to remind myself that I do not have the energy/time/space/budget, etc to do that. I also have many projects in waiting. Keeping a brief list of them and what is needed to do/complete them helps, but even watching your episode makes me think, I need to try ice dying and EPP (that bowl!!) and so on. All of your projects look fantastic.❤❤❤
Totally agree! I also have to sometimes skip sections of crafting podcasts that discuss a craft I don't do but have the vaguest of curiosity in (like spinning yarn) because I know my mind will stir and stew on it until I give in and I don't have space for that in my life in any way.
I also have the wild impulse that if I do the thing, I better buy the quality, expensive materials so I can have a good experience and not have to 'inevitably' buy them later and waste money. 🙄😆 But more often than not, those hobbies fall by the wayside and I come back to crochet and knit. My friend helped me be more rational about it and said to invest in beginner items to start and if I end up liking it, then spend the big bucks to get good quality materials. Who knew it could work like that? 😄
On the other hand, a crafting commune sounds amazing and would solve all the problems? 😂😍
The colors for the owl look amazing and the ice dye fabric 😍 Thanks for another great video.
I will 100% join your crafty commune! I am also totally in for living in Hobbit houses, too! They look so cozy!
I so identify with the hyperfixation! For me, after the rush of planning and gathering, it's almost like i've done the project. I look at my fabric and yarn stashes and know exactly what I was going use them for. Happy to join you in your coracle!
Hubers Orchard in Southern, Indiana. ❤ Is fabulous place ! I love it in the fall. I grew up nearby and now live in SC and try to make it back to FLOYDS KNOBS Indiana to get my apples & pumpkins, apple butters and cheeses from HUBERS ORCHARD. They also have restaurant family style dining on site and I can’t forget they have an ice cream shop!!❤ Specialty and Holiday wines made there too!! Hi are is worth the drive and the foliage is a plus every autumn❤
We went there last year….It was delightful!
I want to live in a crafty commune! I’m pretty sure that’s the meaning of life.
I loved this video although in all fairness,your videos are amazing! I am done the rabbit hole of stitching. I’m obsessed with fabric birds and landscapes. I can relate to the obsession about projects.
Ooooh, fried apples on top of pancakes or waffles! Yum! Have you ever had fried apples with fried potatoes and pork chops. That's good, too!
meditation, truely...learning about living in the moment
I love you so much❤️I’m ready to commit to a craft community of hobbit cottages. Thank you for bringing light into the world❤️
OH HEY FELLOW "CREATIVITY IS REALLY AN EXORCISM" HUMAN! Since you asked, I have tips! I find that sometimes when I'm in "I need to make this right this second," it's really more about being afraid of forgetting my idea. I keep an ongoing Word Document with pattern links, fabric/yarn colors and sources, and schemes, and often just having a written plan will scratch the itch and I can come back to it later. If it doesn't, I'll just GO WITH IT. I've found it's way more detrimental to beat myself up for needing to go on a little side trip than actually just doing it. I've also been working on not ordering additional supplies and patterns until I'm all ready to go on the plan-- this is a bit of a balancing act because I DO love a robust stash and being able to strike while the creative iron's hot.
Coracle. Also that sweater is sensational!
You are so lovely, your closing brought tears to my eyes. Wish we could make some fried apples together ❤
Just love listening to you, no drama, no interruptions, just pure, relaxing and chatting. 😊
Oh you should buying that apple orchard! I can imagine the joy it would bring you to have all those apples ripening each year… (maybe buy a lotto ticket ) I’m crossing all my fingers and toes😉😉😘you could start a hobbit and apple retreat!!( with crafting of course!)🤩🤩🍁🍂🍎🍏🍎✨✨✨
I am so with you on having an idea of what you will make with something before or as it goes into stash. But I see so much beauty and then get ideas of what I'll make with it, buy it, and keep doing this cycle. Sadly I realize I am still buying way faster than I am making and using my stash. I am really trying hard, but it's almost like I have to get off social media, and I don't want to do that because I WANT to be inspired and get excited about making all the things! I say let the kids worry about getting rid of our stash after we are gone. Imma gonna leave names and contact info in my will of all my crafty friends, so the kids know who to give to first. 😂😂😂
So true….I told my family, I don’t care if you get rid of everything, but do call x, y, or z to have them rain the stash down on the knitters❤
Thank you for articulating the issue?/gift? of needing to outfit for crafting multiple interesting things. I have both your "problem" and a need to have ALL the best hiking/camping gear for me (even if I'm too old to use some of it...) Humaning is rough somedays but the days where an overnight frost has loosed the beautiful coloured leaves from the trees so that they look like psychedelic snow make up for the roughness. Sometimes...
at 24:56 ! in the splotches patterns there's a chubby frog with their hands up, right where you placed the paper :) hope you see it :) love what you do :) thank you for your time and your words :)
I see him!!
When I want to do something, I get obsessed with it, and then I fall down the rabbit hole, and I research it to death, then I forget what it was i was looking up in the first place. I love your little bole, and that fabric is amazing!
I hope you’ll decide to keep the sweater, I think it looks AMAZING on you!! 🤩
Omg you should def keep and wear the sweater. It looks great on you!!
Yes, I get so excited designing and finding the perfect materials (that’s the creative part) and then never make the object (the hardworking discipline part). I start, sit the project aside, and my brain is already moving to the creative part of something else. It’s like craft ADHD!
I would like to request a spot in your crafty commune please. That sounds like heaven!
Land between the lakes is wonderful. Two rivers were dammed. did you go to Tuscan Rose? Ohhhhh,, you did! I love that shop
I love fried apples. We add butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. I do not peel my apples. My husband always asks "Where is the crust? 😂😂😂
Totally get the whirlpool analogy. And my stash has been stressing me a bit, so some is being given away and I bought an Ikea kallax to reorganize it. Now that I can see it, old stash is giving me more joy and inspiration. I also have a journal to get the ideas that snag me written down and out of my head and I force myself to let it simmer and try to use stash to do it. But I do like seeing sweaters on different body sizes so I can get a better feel for if I'd actually like it on me. I'm going to need more knit worthy people in my life to use up my stash!
Thanks for everything you do. ❤️
The Quilt Museum has a huge collection but is not able to display it all. You can always ask for a special appt. If there is a particular quilt you would like to see. They are very fragile and are rarely displayed on the walls any more.
What your talking about is a compulsion and I have them often with crafting (and other areas of my life). I find sketching out what I have in my head and planning out color a color scheme is helpful as a halfway step to easing things out of my system without reaching the buying stage every time. It doesn’t work 100% for me, but it helps.
I used to go down those crafty roads especially when I was researching crafts to do with my Girl Scouts! My restraining tool was money! But sometimes I used my own money to get all the stuff!! Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm!
Hello, my name is Vasco, I’ve watched your podcast for a fair few years, I tend not to comment as I always feel rather awkward and that my opinion would not really matter. First and foremost, you are a fantastic human being, thank you for your sharing, and for being fab. What I wanted to say is that I have never fitted anywhere, not even in the knitting world, but perhaps I would in your crafting commune. Can I came and be your neighbour, so we can craft and chat? I totally get your cycle thing, for years I tried not to get a sock knitting machine, but recently I caved in….. along with so many crafting things, I just wish I could craft all day long. Happy knitting, spinning, crafting! 🧦 🧶
I can relate! Just visited Crate and Barrel and couldn’t stop taking pictures of the things I could make (someday). Now obsessed with figuring out the next thing to make.
Yes! to Crafty Commune!
Such lovely warm, cosy feelings from your lovely podcast. I am dying to cast on a stranded colourwork something! I've got that same 'down-tools-must-put-yarn-together-for-this-immediantly' that you described for your pineapple quilt block! You are an amazing maker. Also I loved the meandering coracles throughout ❤
Thanks for the ribbing tip!
I don’t have any tips for escaping a hyperfixation on making something without buying stuff, but I do have some some solidarity for you! Honestly, just discovering my neurodivergence a few years ago and learning what it means to have an “interest-based” nervous system has given me permission to just scratch those itches when they come along because it gives me the kind of joy that more than makes up for the dents in my budget. 🤷
Oooooh! Thank you for the phrase “interest based nervous system.” I have not heard it before!
I absolutely love the Baltian sweater on you! It looks amazing over that dress ❤
Love the sweater!
Yes, I get into the loop you described. Making things and thinking about making things is a powerful drive in me.
Oooh your Academic vest will be gorgeous! My ribbing also looks like hot garbage as well so a while back I decided to use Norwegian purls when ribbing. And for a sewist who has made project bags, even love making them, I love reusing large plastic product bags as project bags.
Thank you so much for your delightful podcasts. I always look forward to your shenanigans! You probably already know about Robotime miniature models, but if not, I think they might be something that you would enjoy. I just discovered them….so tiny and full of cuteness!
I'll check it out!
That sweater came out so lovely❤ I really want to make batwing garments or those gorgeous swonchos, but I feel like they won't be very practical for wearing coats/bags
I think crossbody would be required!
I love your Baltian! It came out perfectly, and now I’m going to make one, too!😊
People always suggest a craft commune with tiny houses, but I'm thinking why not buy an Italian villa and everyone gets their own wing? I found this episode highly enjoyable, and I'm branching out in my apple choices even though I'm just a basic honeycrisp fool.
HI Amy Beth,
I always learn something when I watch you. I thought you were saying "karakul" which I knew was a type of curly black sheep. I had never known about "coracles" but now I do. Also loved your paper piecing project and ice dying. I will need to try both.
Omg I love that Eep bowl, it’s fantastic it was a pause and purchase moment! Christmas projects/gift planning now
That rabbit bag is beautiful. I happen to own a first edition. 😂❤
Don’t you think the gathering of supplies and materials in preparation for a project that you may or may not embark on (and possibly have to spend money on in a retrospectively wasteful way) is creative and fun? It lets your mind work on color, texture, materials, developing a vision, etc. , etc. I think it’s good for the creative juices!
Your sweater/dress combo looks fabulous on you!
Yes!!! a CORACLE! I feel you! As a one time basket maker, I actually thought it would also be a fun make hahhaha A handmade CORACLE 😁 😂🤣 I have jewelry finding if you ever need some, heheh
We need a TFSS arts&crafts Guild!
💛💛💛
I do that exact same loop thing. If I make myself finish some project before and that feeling goes away.
Okay but what about when you're about to start a project and Edith has your damn US4 knitting needles because she decided to try knitting and 35 rows into her project, she set it aside to return to her woodworking...... I see many flaws as the knitter in this craft commune..... Already I am using needles that I need and just KNEW I had that one yarn... oh wait I turned it into that hat that I gifted. Dangit. So I guess I would have to have a secret stash with all my best knitting things the rest of the community doesn't know about. But then, I question if Edith is keeping her best whittling tools hidden too?? What is everyone else hiding???? And suddenly this community is just everyone looking at one another in suspicious sideways glances. That's it I'm moving back home.
Are the Yule bags sold out? Are you going to be getting more in?
Are there Hobbity houses for the 5'9" crowd? So as to not wack our heads? Because this hobbit neighborhood/ commune sounds delightful!
I’m 5’7”, so we will definitely have some waiters-sized hobbit holes!
❤️🤗
I want a coracle!. I can use my stash fabric and make the covering. We can go together, separately. Sounds like a plan! stclairian
I wanna be in Hobbit hole 13.