Creabea Knitting Podcast - Episode 46: It's the season of the sticks
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- Hi, I'm Rebecca (She/Her) and welcome back for Episode 45 of the Creabea Knitting podcast, a place where I talk about all things knitting. I've included information on what I've talked about below, but if you'd like any more details then feel free to drop me a message.
Where can you find me?
Instagram: / the.creabea
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creabeapodcast@gmail.com
⭐ Stick Season Sweater ⭐
Use code STICKSEASON15 for 15% off through until Sunday evening
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/15882...
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The Stick Season Hat is also available, all proceeds from hat sales throughout November 2023 will go to the Vermont Flood Relief Fund
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/16024...
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- SHOW NOTES-
If I've forgotten anything or you'd like more information, feel free to send me a message or leave a comment.
Projects
🧶 Finished Objects
Stick Season Men's - Explorer Knits and Fibers Earthy DK in Linen
Stick Season Hat - Explorer Knits and Fibers Earthy DK in Daybreak
Sophie Shawl - Fonty Angora
Cargill Cowl - Laxtons Sheepsoft DK www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
Tolsta Tee - Knitting For Olive Pure Silk (held double)
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🧶 Works In Progress
"Stickless Stick Season" - Drops Alpaca and KFO Mohair
Stick Season Hat - Explorer Knits and Fibers Earthy DK in Rosaria Park
Rhue Sweater - The Fiber Company Lore
Stockholm Sweater - Rosa Pomar Mondim and Filcolana Tillia
Leith Cardigan - Drops Nord and Sandnesgarn Mohair www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
Tolsta/Kerr Mash up - Drops Daisy and Drops Mohair
🧶 Acquisitions
Making Treasures - The Makers Notebook
makingtreasures.com/
Junction Fiber Mill Farm Fresh
www.junctionfibermill.com/
Sawkill Fibers Sport
sawkillfarm.com/collections/yarn
Starcroft Fiber Tide
www.starcroftfiber.com/yarn/
I've checked Fonty Angora and the yarn is sourced from Angora rabbits who are kept to strict animal welfare standards. Great sweaters, gorgeous scarf and lovely cowl ❤
Oh my - the Rhue sweater looks amazing! Can’t wait for that release, in particular!😊
Considering how productive you are with your designs; it would be impossible for you not to mention it on your podcast😆. I'm sad that Pom Pom is going out of business as well. All my fiction is epub but but I love having physical knitting books and cookbooks, pretty much anything reference. Preordered the last two issues and some back ones because they're just beautiful.
Such a good way to support them!
What a lovely surprise to wake up to!
You have been missed, but no pressure ~ post when you can, we'll be here!
We are fully into sweater season in my corner of the US, so Stick Season's arrival in my library is perfectly timed.
Thank you so much for all you do to make the world a cosier and bore beautiful place!
Happy knitting. Hugs!
I realised after filming that I really miss it! so looking forward to getting back to a regular schedule and chatting properly!
Another episode, yay, loved it. Even as tired as you are, your energy comes through - there's always a laugh! Thanks for the yarny tips, really appreciated 😊.
I absolutely love love love all the colors you choose. They’re my jam too ❤🧶💫 your knits are gorgeous. Stunning handiwork surely allowed to be proud! 😊I thoroughly enjoy your podcasts . Thank you for supporting my beloved state of Vermont 🍁
Ahhh thank you!!!
How on earth do knit so much and have a “regular job”? I’m in awe of your speed and determination to complete things.
I knit through all of my meetings! Also I never go anywhere without my knitting!
Thank you Rebecca for the donation to the vermont flood relief fund. I live 6 miles from Montpelier,Vt where the flooding occurred. A lot of the businesses are opening now but there was a big fire a couple of days ago at our local lumberyard. Our Montpelier fire department lost a fire engine in the blaze.
The hat and sweater set is so cute! I wish I could have met you while you were at Rhinebeck but I didn’t make it this year.
I love that you just trust your creative process. It’s great to see you doing so well. My son is going to score a Stick Season sweater before he heads back to Japan in January 🧡
So nice to see you again 😊. I was laughing so much at the first part of the episode: „ they are small,… but they talk…“; I‘m pretty well organized for Christmas… I‘m just not knitting gifts“; then describing your need for a cozy, squishy cowl, I kept thinking, why wouldn’t you think of your own super squishy Cargill design 😂?
Your brain is BUSY 😊😊😊!
Hi Rebecca, as always wonderful episode. I live in BC, Canada and we had a sailboat for many years, until we got a power boat with a built in heater😂, which I love. But we've been sailing or been on the water for 20 years the best thing for being on the water in damp area is Polar Fleece, jackets, vests and I made sheets and surrounded the v birth with polar fleece. It's an absolute synthetic but it wicks away moisture and drys rather quickly. It's the only thing I found works the best for wet boats😢
I was looking for some Scottish vlogs, and came across yours. So glad I did. Listened while knitting, and I really enjoyed your content. You have sooo much knowledge, and have such a positive vibe. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍
First timer here - I loved listening to this. I’ve also powder thru many a knitted item to that version of Pride & Prejudice or North & South. 😊 I really appreciated you discussing the underarm felting/pilling/etc - it’s so obvious but it never occurred to me. 😊
I've not watched North and South for YEARS! Maybe that should be next.
Hi Rebecca, I've been waiting for the Stick Season release, I frogged a jumper made from Holst Garn Noble which is now discontinued and have been waiting for a project to reuse it and Stick Season is it. Hope the release is going well.
Oh!! A few testers used Holst and their versions are lovely!
I adore EVERY pattern of yours! I’m loving the rust and navy combo and can’t wait to see what you come up with!
AHHHH thank you!!!
Have knitted 3" of the rib for the Stick Season Hat, while watching you, I am using 2 strands of Drops Alpaca so far so good. Glad you had a a great time at Rhinebeck.
Love this!
Hi Rebecca! Enjoyed the podcast while working away on the daft days test knit! Love the fabric of this knit! Thank you for making your patterns size inclusive!!
Eeee so exciting! Glad you're enjoying it.
I read and knit too! I love to knit simple socks for Christmas gifts as I read throughout the year ❤
Thanks for this poodcast episode and for all your lovely patterns. I've knitted your Cargill cowl last december, it is now offered to my daughter in law, I hope it keeps her warm.
Fantastic podcast. So many wonderful projects. ❤Congratulations on more pattern releases!! Thank you for donating the hat sales to Vermont. I live 2 states over in Maine and you’re so generous. 🥰 Have a great relaxing trip!
You knit so much! I appreciate your use of color and variety of. I think a lot of people knit various on a theme when it comes to that.
Hi Rebecca, happy Friday, just purchased the sweater and hat patterns, can't wait to get stuck in, but first I've to start Lanark in black for my brother for christmas, wish me luck, lol
Oh that's a sign that you really love your brother! Good luck!
Love your patterns. Both of your Stockholm Sweaters amazing 🧡💚
Hello from Ireland, I just discovered your podcast, its a jam packed episode, you have so many projects on the go. ☘☘
Congratulations on your many successes Rebecca. Your designs are so unique and so lovely. Oh my goodness, your Rhue! No pressure, but please hurry up with that one 😉. I see so many colorwork patterns that I think I want to knit, but I want to cast that one on the minute it's released. Love it!
Happy Stick Season! I've been looking forward to this pattern since I first saw it. It's the perfect cozy Autumn sweater.
As someone who grew up in VT/NH, your generosity and thoughtfulness in donating a portion of the hat sales to flood relief in Vermont really warms my heart. I was just visiting in early October, and many towns are still very much struggling in the aftermath. Thank you so much for your kindness, it means a lot 💛
Ahh so so love to hear this. It's been popular so far so it'll be a good sized donation!
Rebecca, I so enjoyed meeting you at Rhinebeck! I put the picture I took of us on the project page for my (STILL unfinished, but getting there!) Corran Cardigan. I also purchased skeins from Sawkill Farm, after seeing them in 2022 and dreaming about their mauvy pink for an entire year.
Thanks for another entertaining podcast, look forward to the next episode when it suits you, enjoy your break away, best wishes Frances
I had exactly the same thing happen recently, unexpectedly finding another ball of a year old dye lot. I was in my LYS, I actually cheered out loud!
Beware angora sheds like crazy and with a black coat, OMG! I once knit an angora sweater and wore it to a party. When I sat on the sofa and then got up, I left an imprint of my back on the sofa! Love how it feels HATE how it wears.
There are SO many long hairs on it that I'm not at all surprised by this! Will be aware of parties and sofas
Wow Rebecca, you have been so busy! I love your designs and have many in my Ravelry library now. Some of your beautiful designs would just be too warm for our Western Australian climate but up to dk works well! Still need hats and cowls though!❤❤
Oh my gosh, I love your Rhinebeck purchases! Can’t wait to see what you do with them! I’m currently swatching for the Stick season with yarn I got at Wool and Folk. It was awesome to see you in person! You are so lovely! Thanks for the update today!
I didn't realise just how well I'd bought yarn until I showed them on the podcast, really got those local fibers!
Love the green
Love your knits and patterns! Have a great weekend🤗🇫🇮🇸🇪
Thank you! You too!
Rebecca, as always your work is so beautiful. I got the Alder pattern and can't wait to start...can't settle on colors. you are going to love the Junction Fiber yarn. I'm from the US New England (CT) so I love Vermont. Woolly Thistle sells Junction Fiber Mill and shows some beautiful projects using it, if you want ideas
Your dad makes a great knitwear model! Lovely podcast as always.
Thank you! 😊
Oh my gosh! I wish I could knit up a Tolsta that fast 😄 I finished my first with some yarn I was a little skeptical of, but now I love it. I have some more yarn that will JUST be enough for another (which is why I love the pattern). So not sure when I will get to your other patterns I have purchased which includes Stick Season sweater and hat 😊
Hi Rebecca, I just started a Stick Season hat for my grandson for Christmas as I watched this. I can’t wait to start the stitch pattern.
Lucky Grandson!
Loved to see all your acquisitions from Rheinbeck. I'd like to thank you for organizing the Advent swap mine has arrived with my partner and hers is on the way to me, so excited to start opening it. 😊
Yay! so pleased to hear this.
You make videos on your terms. And you are a busy bee with those patterns. It should feel ok when you want to post. Looooove the sweater and hat!❤
I so enjoyed sitting down and filming, I'm looking forward to getting back to it. And hopefully that way I won't have 6 Finished Objects to share all at once.
BBC's Pride and Prejudice is my favourite thing to watch if I have a rainy weekend at home knitting :D
Me too! It's my Sunday TV watching. I must have seen it at least 50 times by now.
You have just made my decision for me. I need to knit a sophie! Thanks for the inspiration. Love love your new sweater !
Yaaaay! Welcome to the Sophie-verse
Congratulations on release of Stick season!
Thank you!!
It was lovely to meet you at Rheinbeck ❤
Congratulations on your Pom Pom publication!! 🎉 Very impressive to be in such an edgy, artsy magazine. And yes, sad they are closing down. The hat you found and put on was oozing cute vibes for sure! Maybe you need a different closet system so you can have all your gorgeous knit things on view??? Hope you get your cabin relaxation in and see you soon!
Congrats to another pattern release! I am almost finished with the Lanark body. Can't wait to wear it. It's going to be one of my most worn sweaters, I know it. Already thinking about what yarn to use for a second one 😍
Thank you!!! I wear mine ALL the time. It's so cosy.
The colour work in the Rhue 😱😱😱 Omg I’m in love
YAAAAY. Someone just told me they're thinking of making a version with different colours for each motif. SO cool. Now I need 10 versions.
Hi Rebecca, congrats on your new pattern!!! You are a genius! I do not know how you keep a full time, job, read, go to the movies go away for hikes, to the boat and what not AND create all these fabulous patterns!! I was wondering if you ever cross over to the dark side and listen to books rather than read them? I Just love listening while I read, I get so much more done. Thank you so much for this meaty podcast I feel so inspired and energised from watching.
Ahhh I'm very lucky to have few responsibilities otherwise, so all my time is my own. I definitely do listen to Audiobooks BUT I've been reading a lot of fantasy recently and somehow modern accents feel weird when listening to them... so I need to find the "right" audiobook for it to stick. If that makes any sense.
32:52 I am so sorry Rebecca you got the idea of it maybe being warmer from me!!! But other knitting podcasters had been talking up a warmer climate that weekend before I talked to you about Rhinebeck. Here in Oklahoma where I’m working we have a false fall… I’m sorry I made you panic about the weather! I’m glad you had fun though.
I’m swatching for the stick season sweater now. Congrats on the release, your new boat, and your Pom Pom publication.
“They’re little. But they talk” 🤣🤣🤣
I have since learned that they are very nearly six.
Always great podcast😊
Thanks so much!
Thank you so much for a great episode and for the pics of your stepdad 🤪😆 What a hunk!
So now I know what to knit for my stepson for Christmas - I just love the Rhue sweater! I would knit one for me but I have too many projects waiting already.
Anyway, super designs and will be heading off to Ravelry pronto 😊
Hugs from Gothenburg xx
PS Sticka = to knit in Swedish.
He'll be delighted with that title!
I'm working on your Corran cardigan now and I'm loving it!
Eeekk! So pleased to hear it
Alpaca fibre has fewer and smaller scales. So it is less prone to felting ☺️ That will be the reason why your lovely stockholm jumper is still looking beautiful 😊
AMAZING! Thank you for sharing this.
I thought about their Stick Season colorway when I heard the name of your pattern last month! I love Junction Fiber Mill- need to save up a bit before the splurge.
Yessss they have such cool colours. I was so excited to tell them all about Stick Season at their Rhinebeck stall.
❤❤BON week-end à vous chère amis merci
This is my next knit!
I also bought that green yarn from from Farm Fresh along with their Leaf Peeping color which is oranges, yellows and greens. I want to make a color work yoke with the green as the MC. Could you design something for me? Haha!!
I love listening to audiobooks when i knit colourwork. Especially I'm doing some big complicated motifs (like 50+ stitch wide charts...) so I can't even really watch TV while knitting
Yes! That's such a good idea. I need to get into a new audiobook.
Thanks for the podcast. I'm not saying that because I'm French, but I think Fonty's angora is quite good in terms of animal wellness. According to their website, they use only angora produced in France, by farms which respect a quality chart, which you can read online. It gives some guarantee in terms of how animals are treated, and how their hair is "recolted" (by combing and not plucking). It's of course part of their marketing, yet Fonty is quite transparent on their production process (you can easily visit the mill), and they participate in the preservation of some industrial knowledge in France (again, to make money out of it, I'm not trying to advertise for them!!!). I am no expert on the angora production process, so I might be wrong. Best!
Oh I LOVE your new colourwork design in the making. Rhue? I'd love to test knit it if possible. ❤.
Yes! I'm hoping to get the test call out a week today (23rd)
To use up the last of the Retiro Park, what about a Srick Season headband/ear warmer? I have a skein of Earthy DK waiting for me to knit it into a Stick Season hat. I just need to wrap up a couple of WIPs first. 😁
Oh that's such a cute idea!!!
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Lmao! I bought your Cargill pattern just before playing this video. I was looking for a textured cowl that would work well with my handspun and silk Mohair held together. Then you end up talking about it and for pretty much the same reasons, lol😅
Oh how fun! I so so loved knitting it up, I forgot how fun those dip stitches were.
Love the sweaters you and your stepfather modeled.. sounds like your brain is running in hyper speed with patterns.
Thank you! Brain is definitely in hyperspeed this week!
Omg I LOVE the Rhue sweater!! Will you be needing test knitters? If you do, how and when do you typically put a call out?
I will! I'm aiming to get things organised to do a tester call in the next podcast episode. I'll share the link here and on Instagram and it usually stays open for 2-3 days.
😆😆😆 they’re 5! 6 in 2 weeks. ‘Not teenagers’ - no, thank god! 😅 L does have an enormous head however!
WHAT?! Okay I thought they were older than this. When does one develop the ability to judge how old kids are? hahaha
I was wondering what happened to your Webster design from way back when (I’ve been binging your podcast and I’m almost caught up). I really loved to accessories you made but I didn’t see you mention it after a while and I figured you scrapped it after I looked at your Ravelry and Etsy shop.
So technically it evolved into the Viridian cardigan that was published in Pompom. It's the same stitch pattern. My plan is that when I "own" the pattern again, I'll relaunch it together with the sweater
@@the.creabea I’m glad to see it’s come back! I was really interested in making that sometime in the future.
Thanks for my sweater. I tend to run off - is there a possibility for a finger weight extension. I you also going to put out the last beanie as a pattern.
I might put the beanie out when I re-release the Pompom cardigan! I don;t have any fingering weight plans right now, still need to find out my fingering-weight-knitting mojo.
I love the Cargill cowl but I have a question about wearing winter accessories like this: if one wants to wear hand knitted mittens, hat and cowl at the same time - should it all be matching?? Same pattern and colour? I don’t have a complete set in anything. And sometimes I wear a headband instead of a hat. Either way the cowl is very close, even touching the hat or headband so I feel like I need to be careful choosing colours and patterns. What are your thoughts?
Oh I never know! I don't have the patience to knit a whole set so mine are all mis-matching.
Hi Rebecca! I'm a big fan of your podcast and it's been lovely to watch you evolve as a knitwear designer. I've noticed that you promote Drops yarn from time to time, as in this episode, and I'm not sure if you are familiar with the "Mameluckupproret" (roughly translated to "the Bloomer Uproar"? In 2016, the Swedish knitwear designer Maja Karlsson published a bloomer pattern which was later essentially copied by Drops. This ignited an uproar in the Swedish knitting community, under the hashtag #mameluckupproret and eventually #droppadrops ("drop drops"). As far as I know Drops never responded to any of the criticism and the pattern remained on their website.
Seeing as you are a relatively new knitwear designer yourself, and seem to care about social issues etc., I thought you'd want to have this information. I also get the feeling that you take your role as a knitting influencer seriously by being careful about what you promote on your platforms. Personally, I haven't purchased any Drops yarn since these events unfolded. My understanding is also that the copying of patterns and the silence and indifference to criticism has been a reoccurring behaviour from Drops.
Here are links to Maja's pattern as well as the Drops pattern:
www.jarbo.se/majas-mamelucker-2-0-91826
www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=8259&cid=12
If you'd want to read more you should be able to put these posts in google translate, for example this blog post:
www.hildursbarnbarn.se/2017/10/24/att-stjala-ett-monster/
or this instagram post from another Swedish knitwear designer:
instagram.com/p/Bad8j3CAhEK/
If you have any questions or would like to have something translated, I'm happy to help. Same goes for anyone reading this comment really, because to me this is a message worth spreading.
Thanks for the podcast. Where did you get the Sophie scarf pattern?
Raverly! It's from Petite Knit
Hello Rebecca, can you tell me what colour you use drops daisy caramel number 12 with drops kid silk but what color did you use? Is it kid silk number 50? I love that combination of colours ❣
I think it's Daisy in Caramel (12) and mohair in Toffee (51)
@@the.creabea dankjewel 😘
Can you tell me the colournumber of the Fonty angora? Thank you Rebecca
It's colour 304!
Is the 12 month pattern rule now void since Pom Pom is going out of business?
Nope, they still own the rights and will have digital copies of all back editions for the forseeable.
When will your Toltsa Tank be released?
Probably in May!
I predict that Tolsta Tank will go viral ❣
You need some nautical themed knits, Rebecca? Much love ❤❤❤
I think the next one might be nautical! It's been bubbling away for a few weeks now.
What has happened to the volume
I don't have any volume issues on my side?