Gardening and knitting… two of my favorite things. I am seriously considering to learn how to crochet because I keep seeing things that I’d like to make & they’re crochet. Love your blanket.
Love the Lilacs and watching you do the planting. Love your podcast and wish you more and more success and increase in viewers! congratulations to the winner!! Love, hugs,prayers
Sitting here mending my pile of socks that have patiently waited about 6 months for some attention. Thank you for posting- found you for the first time and really enjoyed.
I also really like what you said about your brother. Grief touches us all in different ways. I just lost my mom last year and it’s been so hard, but I believe that is in part why I started a podcast also. She loved crafting and embroidering and sharing it with everyone and I feel that sharing my passion for knitting and crocheting keeps her closer to me. Thank you for continue to keep our community connected 💖🧶🙏🏼
I’m so sorry to hear about your mom. They are always with us in different ways, and it brings me such joy to hear all your stories of the special people in your lives! Thank you!❤️
Oh my, I love your podcast so much. You have such a nice, easy going voice, so easy to listen to. I'm thinking my next blanket will be a Battenberg! I saw KnittyNatty's, and then watched the how to join video in the pattern, and it looks so easy. I'm thinking I'll use a couple of sets of Advent mini calendars for mine. I love that you are learning about flowers, particularly perennials. We do love our perennials as well. We still have a couple of peonies that are from the roots of my MIL's peonies, possibly originally from her mother! So these will be passed on to our kids, and hopefully their kids... I was saddened when you said you had no knitting friends nearby. Do you have a local yarn store near you that might have a weekly knit night? I hope you find or teach someone to knit or crochet with you soon! Fibre festivals are wonderful, and I'm so pleased that your daughter and her friend crochet on the bus! 💗💗💗💗💗
@@margreffle Thank you so much!! ❤️ I don’t have an LYS close to home, but I’m hoping as my daughter grows, she will catch the knitting bug! 😂 Thank you for being here!!
So happy to have found you and your podcast. I plan on going back and watching your video's from the very beginning. Hope you are well, take good care of yourself, until next time ~ Hugs Lacy ox
Just discovered your podcast and must say I love it, especially what you said about the loss of your brother and the following healing process. 3 years agomy husband died of an aneurysm. I am still learning to live with the pain and the grief, you might call it healing. Knitting helped me a lot to go through all this. One might say it kept me sane.
I love your flowers! I am not the best gardener so I am taking in all of the tips. I am in the same boat regarding yarn. I have so much and I am constantly second guessing myself about what to make 😝Happy sock knitting!
Dear Nikol, I have not been there from the beginning and am very sorry to hear about the loss of your brother. As creators, I find it is such a fine line of what feels comfortable to share. On one hand, there is this desire to connect and on the other, I often feel exposed... and the battle continues. Even though I try to keep it real (something I decided from the very beginning), behind most of my videos there is untold story that only I can recognise, whether through hardly being able to get through my words, or a stone cold gaze.... but then of course, there is also joy. I am so glad I have found you and that you have also introduced yourself on my channel, and I will slowly catch up on your older videos. Wishing you all the best and lots of beautiful days spent in the garden. Ivana ❤
Thank you, Ivana. ❤️ It is most certainly a strange dichotomy, and it’s nice to hear I’m not the only one who feels this way. 🫠 But you are right when you say it is mostly joy. I love having this creative outlet and a sense of creative community! I’m so happy you returned the visit, thank you. ❤️
I've always been a knitter or crocheter and gardener. So my summer knitting becomes almost non existent once my gardens start popping. To me it feeds the same part inside of me. The colors, the textures, the tweaking, the ripping out and redoing, the learning, the techniques.... just everything seems to correspond to each hobby.
Sarah from its a Sarah podcast in Holland is also making a Battenberg blanket!! I was a crocheter first and have to always have a crochet project going as well so I will add the Battenberg blanket to my queue!!
Hello Nikol. I do feel like we are friends already. I love your style and your genuineness. I have been a knitter for a bit over 2 years and “found” you recently. Thanks for sharing a bit of your journey with grief. I believe grief is a walk. A very long walk. And I like to think God gives us people to hold hands with and walk with during that walk. He intentionally has us cross paths with people to share the journey. I hope you find some of the people who subscribe have been there holding your hand and taking this grief walk with you. I’m here to walk my section with you. Keep being you. I’ll keep “chatting” with you. Thanks!
I really enjoyed watching your podcast tonight - a great way to end the day. I'm also going to try my hand at casting on a Musselburgh hat. Wish me luck!
Hi, I just about fell over watching your May update podcast. Your shot of the Wooster fiber festival had my best friend and myself shopping for yarn. What a surprise!! You must be close to us here in Ohio. My best friend is from Oberlin and I'm from Huron. Hello, fellow Ohioan.
I recently took a class at The Nest which is where the Yarn Bird truck parks/is from, and for the first time I changed my yarn purchasing habits. I bought a kit instead of single skeins and I’m so excited to have this great garment waiting to be made in my stash instead of yet another sock skein. I have so many random skeins! But Yarn Birds had Rock It Tee kits twisted up so cute and since it’s only a two skein kit, the only hard choice was choosing colors!
I always look forward to ur channel and my Roku YT finally showed me ur latest episode. I luv Danish Musings too. Also I found a Norway knitter that uses unspun yarn for her projects. Am going down that rabbit hole as it would b better for my SSI budget. So sorry u got another job on top of what u do now. As for grieving... In 2001 I lost my newly married daughter and as a result, divorce, loss of business and home. But God came and held me to get thru. Any loss, requires grieving and we can't avoid it. So I fully understand. I hope ur home garden will b heavenly for the "golden years". Thanks for sharing.
Just found your podcast again. Loved seeing your gardens, so love Lilacs but cannot grow them where I am in New Zealand. Am going to go back and binge watch your episodes.
My gramma lived to 104. She was gardening and knitting until the very end. The most peaceful, patient woman you could ever imagine. She brought the love of knitting to me, taught me about the basics and showered me with encouragement even when I really sucked. At ther end she gave me all of her knitting supplies and in a bag was a simple garter stitch baby blanket she started but was put aside for some reason. I haven't finished it yet... but I kind of like it the way it is.... like she could just come back and finish it.
@@jla110661 that is so nice to have these memories and a piece of history and her life with you … this is how I feel about my mom also. I love having the things she worked on or made for me … I feel she is there with me. Thank you for sharing this with me 💖😘
First time watching your podcast and I really enjoyed it. I have only recently returned to knitting after a thirty year break so I have lots to learn about modern patterns and knitting techniques and have found watching podcasts has been a great way of learning everything that has changed over the years - I do enjoy doing socks as the technique hasn’t really changed, just more choice with tools. Thanks and look forward to your next podcast 🌸🌸
I feel the same way about the Sock Squad. This is my first year and my expectations were different than the reality - certainly more my fault than the dyer’s but end result is that I’m not excited to knit it up some months (June, I’m talking to you). I have, however, started a scrappy hat with the leftovers and it’s adorable (textured stripe scrappy hat by Sarah Schira) so I’m also going to continue through the year. Have to throw in that the customer service at Farmers Daughter Fibers is outstanding and that alone is worth a year-end reconsider. I only found your podcast about a month ago but I love it. Down to earth and realistic, it’s like having a meet-up with a friend. And thanks for introducing me to Dark Lake, I love everything you’ve shown from them.
Hi , I'm Keely, a new subscriber and love your podcast! Good luck with your Musselburgh hat, its my favorite to knit. I heard a great tip from Lisa at Knit All the Yarn Podcast to avoid that fiddly beginning. If you know your final stitch count (mine is 120), use a provisional crochet cast on and then work towards one end decreasing until one crown is finished. Then pick up the stitches and work towards the other crown. No fiddly beginning plus decreasing is easier than Make one's I find. Thanks for your podcast!!
Just found your podcast! There is a fun podcast called The Knitters are Here. It is 4 knitters from Ohio and they travel to knitting shops in Ohio. I am on the border of Ohio and Pa… I don’t get to a lot of festivals but it is fun to watch this channel. Love your podcast❤
Thanks for watching! ❤️ I lived in Hermitage, PA - near Sharon- growing up. Not sure if you are familiar with that area, but I still have a lot of friends and family that live around there. 😊
I just heard about your podcast from Kim&Jonna and I’m Glad I did! I don’t exclusively knit socks but what a great filler and take along project when sweaters are too bulky! I will be tuning in…take care and Happy Knitting! Thank you!
Hi Nicole - thanks for another great video, I always enjoy hearing what you’re working on. I’m currently trying to finish a few WIPS - the Felix pullover, a pair of DK socks (CSL), and Stephen West’s Dotted Rays shawl. I’ve decided to take on WIPS in groups of three 😂 I have quite a few to get through! BTW, Tash over at Mostly Knitting has a tutorial series for the Musselburgh hat and the first one details how to do the cast on, it’s really helpful. Have a great June 👋🏾
Love the Yarn Chicken pin! That's adorable. I feel the same way about my yarn stash. I really want to work through what I have and am going to TRY very hard NOT to make any purchases for the rest of the year. Your sweater is coming along nicely. Its going to be beautiful! What yarn are you using for it? I missed that.
Nikol, you mentioned in a prev podcast that you have a photo printer that you use for journaling…do you mind sharing which one? On another note, I hold you thoroughly responsible for the pile of Battenberg squares growing on my table😜😜. I’m doing the bigger squares using dk weight and I absolutely love it!
@@ThePineCottage Thank you! I'm putting together a scrapbook for my grandson, but my daughter has all the pics on her phone. I want to make it as easy as possible for her to fill up those photo pages 😁
Wow, I love everything you do! I’m new to your channel and look forward to seeing more of your projects. I also really like the project bag that you made. It looks like you caught on quickly to sewing. Is there any chance you can share the name of the pattern you used? I have been searching for a nice pattern for a while now. I’ve also been searching for a pattern to sew my own dpn case, (maybe even interchangeable and crochet hook cases). I’m also a novice sewer. Happy crafting! Paula
I heard Nitty Natty is planning a Musselburgh tutorial so I’m waiting for that to cast on. It sounds fiddly. (I stole that term from Martin at the Knit 365 podcast.)
🧶 Yarn and the Garden… Favorites! 🥰🌻
Hi Nikol, another enjoyable episode! Thanks for sharing! Happy Knitting and gardening!
Enjoy your podcast! Thank you!
Gardening and knitting… two of my favorite things. I am seriously considering to learn how to crochet because I keep seeing things that I’d like to make & they’re crochet. Love your blanket.
Love the Lilacs and watching you do the planting. Love your podcast and wish you more and more success and increase in viewers! congratulations to the winner!! Love, hugs,prayers
Thanks so much, Barbara! ❤️
I enjoyed this video so much! 💜 I love knitting, crocheting, yarn, and gardening. 🧶
Thank you so much! I love how we all enjoy these hobbies together! 😊
Sitting here mending my pile of socks that have patiently waited about 6 months for some attention. Thank you for posting- found you for the first time and really enjoyed.
Thanks for watching, Monica!❤️
Also crocheting the Battenberg 💛💛
🙌Yay!
I also really like what you said about your brother. Grief touches us all in different ways. I just lost my mom last year and it’s been so hard, but I believe that is in part why I started a podcast also. She loved crafting and embroidering and sharing it with everyone and I feel that sharing my passion for knitting and crocheting keeps her closer to me. Thank you for continue to keep our community connected 💖🧶🙏🏼
I’m so sorry to hear about your mom. They are always with us in different ways, and it brings me such joy to hear all your stories of the special people in your lives! Thank you!❤️
Oh my, I love your podcast so much. You have such a nice, easy going voice, so easy to listen to. I'm thinking my next blanket will be a Battenberg! I saw KnittyNatty's, and then watched the how to join video in the pattern, and it looks so easy. I'm thinking I'll use a couple of sets of Advent mini calendars for mine. I love that you are learning about flowers, particularly perennials. We do love our perennials as well. We still have a couple of peonies that are from the roots of my MIL's peonies, possibly originally from her mother! So these will be passed on to our kids, and hopefully their kids... I was saddened when you said you had no knitting friends nearby. Do you have a local yarn store near you that might have a weekly knit night? I hope you find or teach someone to knit or crochet with you soon! Fibre festivals are wonderful, and I'm so pleased that your daughter and her friend crochet on the bus! 💗💗💗💗💗
@@margreffle Thank you so much!! ❤️ I don’t have an LYS close to home, but I’m hoping as my daughter grows, she will catch the knitting bug! 😂 Thank you for being here!!
@@margreffle AND that’s amazing that those peonies are growing through generations!! 💕
Congratulations.
Thank you so much 💓
So happy to have found you and your podcast. I plan on going back and watching your video's from the very beginning.
Hope you are well, take good care of yourself, until next time ~ Hugs Lacy ox
Thanks so much, Lacy! ❤️
Just discovered your podcast and must say I love it, especially what you said about the loss of your brother and the following healing process. 3 years agomy husband died of an aneurysm. I am still learning to live with the pain and the grief, you might call it healing. Knitting helped me a lot to go through all this. One might say it kept me sane.
Oh, Sabine, I am so sorry. I feel like it really does take time (and knitting). Sending love to you!❤️
I love your flowers! I am not the best gardener so I am taking in all of the tips. I am in the same boat regarding yarn. I have so much and I am constantly second guessing myself about what to make 😝Happy sock knitting!
Dear Nikol,
I have not been there from the beginning and am very sorry to hear about the loss of your brother.
As creators, I find it is such a fine line of what feels comfortable to share. On one hand, there is this desire to connect and on the other, I often feel exposed... and the battle continues.
Even though I try to keep it real (something I decided from the very beginning), behind most of my videos there is untold story that only I can recognise, whether through hardly being able to get through my words, or a stone cold gaze.... but then of course, there is also joy.
I am so glad I have found you and that you have also introduced yourself on my channel, and I will slowly catch up on your older videos.
Wishing you all the best and lots of beautiful days spent in the garden.
Ivana ❤
Thank you, Ivana. ❤️ It is most certainly a strange dichotomy, and it’s nice to hear I’m not the only one who feels this way. 🫠 But you are right when you say it is mostly joy. I love having this creative outlet and a sense of creative community! I’m so happy you returned the visit, thank you. ❤️
I've always been a knitter or crocheter and gardener. So my summer knitting becomes almost non existent once my gardens start popping. To me it feeds the same part inside of me. The colors, the textures, the tweaking, the ripping out and redoing, the learning, the techniques.... just everything seems to correspond to each hobby.
This makes perfect sense, Jennifer! 💕🌷🍓
Yes. Me as well.
Sarah from its a Sarah podcast in Holland is also making a Battenberg blanket!! I was a crocheter first and have to always have a crochet project going as well so I will add the Battenberg blanket to my queue!!
This is so fun! 🥳
I also watch curatorial knits and I am noticing a lot of similar tones of your voice.
Interesting!
Hello Nikol. I do feel like we are friends already. I love your style and your genuineness. I have been a knitter for a bit over 2 years and “found” you recently.
Thanks for sharing a bit of your journey with grief. I believe grief is a walk. A very long walk. And I like to think God gives us people to hold hands with and walk with during that walk. He intentionally has us cross paths with people to share the journey. I hope you find some of the people who subscribe have been there holding your hand and taking this grief walk with you. I’m here to walk my section with you.
Keep being you. I’ll keep “chatting” with you. Thanks!
Thank you so much, Nancy! ❤️
I really enjoyed watching your podcast tonight - a great way to end the day. I'm also going to try my hand at casting on a Musselburgh hat. Wish me luck!
Good luck! 😊 We can do it!! 🙌
@@ThePineCottage I'm stash diving for yarn this morning and will cake it up. Let me know when you're starting yours and we can cheer each other on!
Love your podcast! Fun to see the garden segment. You inspire me to attempt socks and to knit from my stash!! I’m trying to be disciplined.😉
Thanks, Louise! Good luck knitting from stash! 😬
It is so hard not to buy more yarn!
Hi, I just about fell over watching your May update podcast. Your shot of the Wooster fiber festival had my best friend and myself shopping for yarn. What a surprise!! You must be close to us here in Ohio. My best friend is from Oberlin and I'm from Huron. Hello, fellow Ohioan.
🤣😂 So funny! I love this! I was born in Wooster, but now live about an hour north. 👋
I recently took a class at The Nest which is where the Yarn Bird truck parks/is from, and for the first time I changed my yarn purchasing habits. I bought a kit instead of single skeins and I’m so excited to have this great garment waiting to be made in my stash instead of yet another sock skein. I have so many random skeins! But Yarn Birds had Rock It Tee kits twisted up so cute and since it’s only a two skein kit, the only hard choice was choosing colors!
That’s so great, Jennifer! I love their business concept…so creative! 😊
I always look forward to ur channel and my Roku YT finally showed me ur latest episode. I luv Danish Musings too. Also I found a Norway knitter that uses unspun yarn for her projects. Am going down that rabbit hole as it would b better for my SSI budget. So sorry u got another job on top of what u do now. As for grieving... In 2001 I lost my newly married daughter and as a result, divorce, loss of business and home. But God came and held me to get thru. Any loss, requires grieving and we can't avoid it. So I fully understand. I hope ur home garden will b heavenly for the "golden years". Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I’m so sorry to hear about your daughter.❤️
Just found your podcast again. Loved seeing your gardens, so love Lilacs but cannot grow them where I am in New Zealand. Am going to go back and binge watch your episodes.
Thank you, Dot!❤️
I love seeing everyone’s garden also and looove your flower garden plan for house and your life … 100 is a pretty good life goal ❤✨🪴🌱🌿
My gramma lived to 104. She was gardening and knitting until the very end. The most peaceful, patient woman you could ever imagine. She brought the love of knitting to me, taught me about the basics and showered me with encouragement even when I really sucked. At ther end she gave me all of her knitting supplies and in a bag was a simple garter stitch baby blanket she started but was put aside for some reason. I haven't finished it yet... but I kind of like it the way it is.... like she could just come back and finish it.
@@jla110661 that is so nice to have these memories and a piece of history and her life with you … this is how I feel about my mom also. I love having the things she worked on or made for me … I feel she is there with me. Thank you for sharing this with me 💖😘
Jennifer, I love this. She sounds like an amazing woman. I agree, I think I would keep the blanket unfinished too. ❤️
Thank you!❤️
First time watching your podcast and I really enjoyed it. I have only recently returned to knitting after a thirty year break so I have lots to learn about modern patterns and knitting techniques and have found watching podcasts has been a great way of learning everything that has changed over the years - I do enjoy doing socks as the technique hasn’t really changed, just more choice with tools. Thanks and look forward to your next podcast 🌸🌸
Thanks, Kathie! Welcome back! 😊
Hi! I recommend the Knitting Vortex’s tutorial on the pinhole cast on for the Musselburgh. I have to watch it every time I start one!
Oh, THANK YOU, Lani!! 🙌
I feel the same way about the Sock Squad. This is my first year and my expectations were different than the reality - certainly more my fault than the dyer’s but end result is that I’m not excited to knit it up some months (June, I’m talking to you). I have, however, started a scrappy hat with the leftovers and it’s adorable (textured stripe scrappy hat by Sarah Schira) so I’m also going to continue through the year. Have to throw in that the customer service at Farmers Daughter Fibers is outstanding and that alone is worth a year-end reconsider. I only found your podcast about a month ago but I love it. Down to earth and realistic, it’s like having a meet-up with a friend. And thanks for introducing me to Dark Lake, I love everything you’ve shown from them.
Thank you, Andi! ❤️ Good to know about their customer service. I’m crossing my fingers for next year!
Hi , I'm Keely, a new subscriber and love your podcast! Good luck with your Musselburgh hat, its my favorite to knit. I heard a great tip from Lisa at Knit All the Yarn Podcast to avoid that fiddly beginning. If you know your final stitch count (mine is 120), use a provisional crochet cast on and then work towards one end decreasing until one crown is finished. Then pick up the stitches and work towards the other crown. No fiddly beginning plus decreasing is easier than Make one's I find. Thanks for your podcast!!
Thanks so much for the tip…and for watching!!❤️
Just found your podcast! There is a fun podcast called The Knitters are Here. It is 4 knitters from Ohio and they travel to knitting shops in Ohio. I am on the border of Ohio and Pa… I don’t get to a lot of festivals but it is fun to watch this channel. Love your podcast❤
Thanks for watching! ❤️ I lived in Hermitage, PA - near Sharon- growing up. Not sure if you are familiar with that area, but I still have a lot of friends and family that live around there. 😊
@@ThePineCottage omg yes I have a dear friend that lives in that area ❤️
So nice to hav found your channel
I just heard about your podcast from Kim&Jonna and I’m Glad I did! I don’t exclusively knit socks but what a great filler and take along project when sweaters are too bulky! I will be tuning in…take care and Happy Knitting! Thank you!
Thank you, Mary! I’m glad you’re here!❤️
Hi Nicole - thanks for another great video, I always enjoy hearing what you’re working on. I’m currently trying to finish a few WIPS - the Felix pullover, a pair of DK socks (CSL), and Stephen West’s Dotted Rays shawl. I’ve decided to take on WIPS in groups of three 😂 I have quite a few to get through! BTW, Tash over at Mostly Knitting has a tutorial series for the Musselburgh hat and the first one details how to do the cast on, it’s really helpful. Have a great June 👋🏾
Thanks, Jill! So nice to hear from you! 😊 I love the Felix…I definitely have another one in my future.❤️
I love lilacs! My favorite. It sounds like we shopped at the same booths at that fiber show. 😊 🧶🧶🧶
Love the Yarn Chicken pin! That's adorable. I feel the same way about my yarn stash. I really want to work through what I have and am going to TRY very hard NOT to make any purchases for the rest of the year. Your sweater is coming along nicely. Its going to be beautiful! What yarn are you using for it? I missed that.
Thanks, Anne! I’m using knitpicks swishDK in the nutmeg colorway. 😊
Is there a pattern you used for the project bag you made? I love listening to you.
Nikol, you mentioned in a prev podcast that you have a photo printer that you use for journaling…do you mind sharing which one? On another note, I hold you thoroughly responsible for the pile of Battenberg squares growing on my table😜😜. I’m doing the bigger squares using dk weight and I absolutely love it!
😂🤣Jen!
It’s a Kodak Step Instant printer 👍
@@ThePineCottage Thank you! I'm putting together a scrapbook for my grandson, but my daughter has all the pics on her phone. I want to make it as easy as possible for her to fill up those photo pages 😁
Wow, I love everything you do! I’m new to your channel and look forward to seeing more of your projects. I also really like the project bag that you made. It looks like you caught on quickly to sewing. Is there any chance you can share the name of the pattern you used? I have been searching for a nice pattern for a while now. I’ve also been searching for a pattern to sew my own dpn case, (maybe even interchangeable and crochet hook cases). I’m also a novice sewer. Happy crafting! Paula
Thank you so much!❤️ The link to the video tutorial is in the description box! Happy sewing! 😊
I heard Nitty Natty is planning a Musselburgh tutorial so I’m waiting for that to cast on. It sounds fiddly. (I stole that term from Martin at the Knit 365 podcast.)