Knitting Podcast: A proper finished blanket & my new CRAFT CLOSET!
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- In today's episode of the WOOL NEEDLES HANDS knitting podcast, Tayler shares her completed Winter Cuddler blanket (AGAIN) and the progress she's made on her two #somethingoldsomethingnewMAL submissions, as well as takes you behind the scenes for a craft room tour.
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Happy Sunday everyone (or whichever day you're watching this)! Hope y'all are well. I'm back with a laid back podcast episode for you today. We're revisiting some projects from last week and I'm giving you an update on the "mama blanket". It's officially DONE! Also, I had something adorable delivered and I want to share those with you....and to top it off, I'm giving you a behind the scenes craft room tour since I've recently done an organization overhaul on my closet. Get comfy and enjoy! Thank you for watching. ❤
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I harvested 12 shirt shell buttons from my late father's woollen one piece, when he had gone to America in 1950. Used them for my daughters cardigan. They are beautifull!
This is so special. What a great way to preserve an heirloom of sorts. I love this!
Awesome that you finished the blanket! 🎉 smart idea to get rid of the few rows of SS.
I love the new organization in the closet too! I feel the same way about organizing. It makes me feel so much better if everything has a place. ❤ Love it!
Thank you Laura! ❤️
Your comment about being organized keeping you calm made me think of Gretchen Rubin! I don't know if you've read any of her books, but Outer Order, Inner Calm is great. She really breaks down WHY we feel better when things are organized and HOW to build habits to keep things organized. All her books are delightful.
This sounds like a great read for me. I am very much that sort of person who NEEDS organization, order, and a clutter-free environment to stay centered and calm. I think most benefit from this, even if they don't embrace it in the same way. The whole idea of everything in its place and a place for everything is something I truly live by and it really helps to calm the noise. ❤
That closet transformation is very clever. I can see why you’re inspired by it. 🧶
Thank you Pam!
Anyone who has their grandma's sewing tin knows that buttons travel through time and generations, so those buttons might well be heirlooms one day. Wear them in good health and don't forget to harvest them once the cardi wears out!
This is so true. And I do hope that one day they become heirlooms. They are quite special. ❤
This is SO true. My mother died when i was a girl, but i have her tin button collection. I am sure that she inherited many of the buttons because they are VERYYY old.
I just put some of my grandmother’s buttons on a sweater for my daughter. It’s such a nice way to remember her.
Definitely love the new space 😍
Thank you so much!
Just love the extra special buttons for your cardigan
Aren't they so cute! I'm very excited to find the right cardigan pattern now.
Wow, great job with the closet redo! It looks fantastic. Sending prayers your son feels better soon.
Thank you Karen! ❤
I really love this episode! Your blanket is lovely and looks so warm and cozy, I love the way you combined your yarns for that cute marled look, and your studio looks so warm and inviting. Those buttons are adorable, and I’m glad you held each one up so we could see them! I always enjoy watching your podcast early in the mornings when I’m having my coffee - they really set the tone for my days to be calm and peaceful as I sit and knit or crochet. Have a lovely day! By the way, I am also in Nevada - I’m in Sparks.
Ah, this is such a lovely comment. Thank you Laurel! I love knowing that I'm joining you for your morning coffee. And I LOVE that you're also a Nevadan! I'll be up around your way this summer. We're spending time up at my folks' place in Winnemucca and spending a couple of days in Reno and Virginia City. Love the central and northern portions of our state. Hidden gems. Have a great week! ❤
I loved the office tour, and especially what you did with that closet! For me, with organization, it's too easy to forget what I have when it's inside a drawer or cabinet - it's out of sight, out of mind. So the labeling is a good, neat solution for that. Inspiring!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed this. And I am so the same way. I need to either see it or read that it’s there. 😅❤❤
Those buttons!!1 That was the best calm quiet moment!! loving your podcasts :D
So glad you enjoyed that. ❤️
GM Taylor
What a great episode Again!!!😊
Your knits are beautiful and I often wondered is that Taylor’s living room because a couch , so that’s a great room just for you..your wool, desk for painting and everything looks so neat and know where everything is … good for you ,, looks like your happy place … 😊
Have a great week ahead and do what is enjoyable to you 😊💝🇨🇦🇨🇦
Good morning Debbie! Thank you so much for watching and for your sweet words. I am so excited for this little addition to my space here. It really does add a boost of inspiration and coziness. And I think many folks imagined that this was my living room! 🥰
Love your new space!!!
You definitely made the right choice by taking off the non-superwash tassles - they would have felted and looked horrible after a wash or two. Blanket will be very useful this way.
I need some more of the bird button ASMR.
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Great podcast! I like the blanket much better without the tassels. Your revamped work space is wonderful. I would love to have something like that! Love the beautiful buttons.
Thank you Wynona! I'm so happy to have the blanket finished and done right without the tassels. It's a really lovely item. And the extra workspace is going to be great! My boys even love it! ❤
Loving your new space!! I’m inspired to do the same to a closet upstairs!! 🥰
Oh I’m so glad! It’s such a great transformation and reclamation of space. Definitely try it! ❤
Excellent video....as always.
Thank you Donna! ❤️
Absolutely loved this video. The blanket looks so warm and cozy for your friend and I like that you ditched the tassels. You are such a great problem solver. Your room looks fantastic and I agree that organizing and getting rid of things not being used is so freeing. I am on a mission this year to only keep things in my home that are meaningful and being used. Thanks for sharing your home and cute little doggie!
Thank you so much Deborah! After sharing the blanket on the last episode and receiving such great advice, I knew I needed to make some adjustments. So glad I did. And so glad you love it too! Thank you for watching!
Wonderful job! What a great use of space!🤗🤗
I love your projects and your new buttons. Your closet is great! Happy making!!!!
Thank you Ann!
Beautiful Blanket! LOVE your Studio/Office Space. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Chrissy!
I really enjoyed your craft room tour. I am in the process of trying to get mine in order. It's so overwhelming but I know I'll feel so much better when I'm done. Thanks for the inspiration.
Ok but now I want a house tour, your decor 🤌🏻
Thank you Emily! Maybe we'll do that as a spontaneous bit at the end of an upcoming podcast episode. ❤️
Love your podcast, your buttons and your studio...that is not just an office! 😊
Thank you so much Susan! ❤
Love this video & I really love your craft room. The print on the wall in the back….. above and left if the framed bag…. It always draws my attention.
Mine too. From our angle it reminds me of a Renoir, my favorite painter. It was nice to get a bit of a closer glimpse.😊
love the new she shed tour, so inspiring
I have some bags from my grandmother, too. They were sewn. She repurposed the handles from a back scrubber thing, plastic D shaped handles. The bag she made was really cute. It is still good, just some seams coming undone. I need to patch it up.
I like your granny square banner, like the Himalayan flag banner. Very cool!
Thank you! It is just like a Himalayan banner! It also makes me think I need to find a way to crochet a version of papel picado (Mexican party banners) to tap into my heritage. 😊
@@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS I had never heard of Papel Picado. They are beautiful! I searched in TH-cam, and there are actually crochet patterns for that!
Noooo Taylor! He needs the front logos of his Tee shirts for a memory tee shirt quilt. However, you can then use the non printed back of tee shirt for tee shirt yarn. Save some pieces of fabric to fill around quilt blocks of the least favorite colors or multiples of a repeat color.
Well done! Love, love what you’ve done. ❤
Thank you so much Roxanne! ❤️
Hi Tayler! Beautiful blanket, looks very nice ❤ I really like how you rearranged your closet, how practical and clean and organized, love, love, love it! Excuse me while I got knit on my Ilene bag 😉 Happy knitting!
Thank you so much Marie-France! Happy knitting in your Ilene Bag. ❤️❤️
I finished it, love it! I use it as a project bag 🤗
Dude. Because I didn’t love/envy this amazing space you have enough already? Seriously, it’s so stinking wonderful!!! 😍😍😍 Also, now going to go cut up the hubbys old shirts…
Gosh, thank you! That really is such a nice compliment. ❤️❤️. Have fun cutting up shirts!!
Fantastic redo on your closet!
Thank you so much! It feels so great.
@@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS I need some of your energy and clarity for organizing my entire craft studio - and a good friend, I think!!! 😜
Old sheets are also a good way to make “t-shirt yarn”.
Great idea!!!
Hey, if your brother cannot part with his old T shirts, I go to the thrift store to purchase old ones. They are really cheap and they have lots and lots of shirts there.
Great suggestion!! ❤️❤️
Space looks great! And btw, Pepper gets weirded out when you talk to yourself. Knit on.
Lol…she actually really does. 😂
You always talk about pepper. Can they join the podcast at some point. I am dying to put the face to the name.
She is my spirit animal, that big girl. I just love her and will definitely bring her into more podcasts. Funny, she usually sleeps in the room with me when I record. Today it was a bit warm, so she chose to lay by the door (you get a peek at her here). ❤
Wait!! Don’t cut the T-shirts! Some shirts from bands are worth $$!
OCD has nothing to do specifically with cleaning or 'type a'. Sometimes compulsions can be cleaning related, but it is not a disorder focused on cleaning at all.
According to the national institute of mental health, "Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common, chronic, and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts ("obsessions") and/or behaviors ("compulsions") that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over." While this can present in cleaning compulsions, it has as much to do with the disorder itself as knocking on wood or checking a lock.
Please stop perpetuating this connection between liking an organized space, cleaning, etc with OCD, it is harmful and misinformation.
Make sure that your brothers band tshirts are not worth money- you are talking about music bands right like rock bands- some of them are worth money
So yes. However, he has most of his good ones still. I think the only band shirt I saw was a bright yellow Blink 182 shirt from a concert he went to here in Vegas back in the day. I wouldn't cut that one. 😉
Throws craft room in trash
I'm turning 50 this year. The fact that your vintage yarn has held up for 50 years and still looks great is quite heartening ;-)
Also - wrt some comments below, I have OCD (not cleaning related). I understand why people still use the term OCD in their general vernacular wrt being orderly etc and I probably used it that way myself before I was diagnosed. OCD is quite horrific though - it really is.
I know you didn't mean it in a bad way, but as someone with OCD I just wanted to let you know that OCD doesn't have anything to do with cleaning, that's just a stereotype. Happy your space is so much more useable now! Here I always thought you were filming out of your living room lol
Like the blanket much better without the tassels! I’m #1 viewer. Woo hoo. ❤. I love the way you’ve reorganized your craft room. I’m super excited for you…and jealous ☺️
Thank you Karen! I love it so much more as well. ❤
I can't be the only one who wants to pop on the lounge with a cuppa and knit the afternoon away?
A place for everything and everything in its place! Organized spaces make me feel calm too.
100%. ❤
Make the band shirts into a t shirt quilt!
SO good you're cleaning up of your space......functional! I love your finishing of your blanket. MUCH better without the tassels, clean complete lines. It looks great. Loving your podcasts and eduction. My favourite of your items you shared has to be your new/old bag reconstruction - the finished fabric looks amazing and in keeping with the handles. Really nice choice. Thanks Tayler. Go well.
Hey there💕Love your new inspirational art cave! By the way, all OCD really stands for is “Old Closet Destroyed “, right?!
Love your new space, it looks fabulous! Your MAL projects are looking fabulous too 🌸
O wow this workspace look perfect for being creative. Good job.❤
Another fun episode! Love the way you re-organized the closet and made it a perfect workspace!
Thank you for the photo of Oscar and Pepper!!
Thank you for the beautiful “bird button moment”
My pleasure. ❤️
Glad you ditched the tassels, it’s much classier looking
I just love so much your studio. It is tiddy and alive.
Omg make a t-shirt quilt out of the t-shirts.
Talking about old stuff and buttons. When I go to the second hand stores, I look through the clothing and keep my eyes open for anything that has really cool buttons. If it's something I can't wear or is ugly, but has cool buttons, and it's cheap, I buy it and cut the buttons off. I also go to the yearly big fair size gathering of antiques and collectables and buy cool buttons from them. I love your new buttons and they are going to rock your cardigan! Right now I'm making the Stillness Shawl by Helen Stewart. I've made it before, but I needed to knit something that wasn't a sweater to get a break. I have some one of a kind skeins of yarn, so I've put 3 different yarns and colors together for this shawl. I'm trying to get my stash knit down low. Thank you for sharing all the things.
I think this is such a great (and fun) idea for button shopping. You can find some really gorgeous ones in the thrift shops for sure. And the Stillness Shawl is gorgeous! Enjoy knitting it ❤
Love your studio. How fab to have such a space to work in!
Thank you!! ❤️
Good choice on the baby blanket!
Beware that Trueboo stretched a lot. If the other yarn stabilizes it that’s great, but otherwise you may find your bag oddly stretched.
I will keep this in mind. Thank you!
OMG! Taylor that is a beautiful room. I love it so much! All the labels are fabulous! Well done.
Thank you so much Anne! I had way too much fun with that label maker! 😅
So glad you ditched the tassels! Beautiful blanket. Love it.
Thank you Marjorie! ❤
Before you go cutting up Band Tees you may want to check and see if any of them have a good resale value. You may be surprised at what original Band Tees sell for. If they aren’t originals, no harm, no foul if your Brother is willing to part with them.
“Before you go cutting up Band Tees…” I’m imagining that you’re envisioning me holding these tees hostage. 😂 Don’t worry. 👍
The Felix cardigan takes 8 buttons!
Well would you look at that! ❤
Loved seeing your new organized space; inspires me to work on my office /craft room now. 😊
Thank you! It feels good to have it all organized. 😅❤
make a tshirt quilt with the old tshirts, don’t shred them!🤗
I may need to look into this. ❤❤
Some of those T-shirts might be highly collectable and worth some money. You might do some research on them first. Who knows, you may be able to sell a couple and buy some really large sized T-shirts to use for yarn or pick up some premade T-shirt yarn.
Loved seeing your closet update and room tour! It's an amazing space!
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Outtake was great. And wow the re-org was SO inspiring!! I love a label maker too. Same feels when I know where things are. 😉😁🧶💚 Have a great week, Tayler!
So I’m sure whatever cardigan you make will be beautiful. However, the buttons…the buttons are like lipstick on a perfectly made up face!
29:25 Tayler, The blanket you made for your friend turned out wonderful! I am so glad you reworked it without the tassels. I am also inspired by your closet redo/updo; what a fabulous idea to open up that space into your room!
Thanks for sharing your space with us , any space where you know where everything is , is a good thing. Your's is super organized !
I love seeing other people’s craft rooms! It really inspires me! Thank you!
What a beautiful space, truly inspiring!😊
Just wanted to tell you how much I love your hair today. I know you’re growing it out but this look is great. Such a pretty, wavy style-very flattering.
Thank you! I am growing it out, but I had to have my mom trim the bottom to get rid of some uneven mullet action taking shape 😂. Now it's like this little wavy bob. 😊. Thank you for the compliment. That really helps when you're in a state of in-between styles.
Same on the hair! Adorbs with the gold glasses!
Love your space!
Blanket beatuiful (without tassels), ... just gorgeous!! I love what you have done to organize the room. really, really wonderful!!! Love seeing Pepper. Your home looks lovely, warm and organized. love,hugs,prayers.
Thank you so much! I'm loving the blanket without the tassels and this additional space in my office is such a refreshing change. Thank you so much for watching and always sending your hugs and prayers. It never goes unnoticed. ❤
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The closet nook came out great! ❤
Thank you! It’s a good motto. ☺️
Amazing post today! I love the blanket--you did a great job. We always find work-arounds! Those buttons are just so delicate and elegant. Your Eileen bag looks great--that tape yarn is coming in very handy for both projects. What a terrific job on the closet/work space! Love what you did with that. I am not the most organized person (that would be my husband), but when I feel like life is out of control, I do clean and organize to help me feel better about life in general. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much Jennifer! ❤️
Wonderful all the way thru the video - blanket sans tassels, MAL projects, buttons, work space, dog cameo!
Tee shirt yarn is so soft but I find it hard on my joints because you really have to tug on it for crochet items. Had a few old band tee shirts when I worked at the old arena in Winnipeg. Not sure what became of them however I have a few treasured pins - Bowie's Let's Dance tour. Found a sweatshirt from a U2 concert I went to in Minneapolis and framed it. Good times!
Thank you for watching Valerie! It sounds like were sitting on quite the t-shirt gold mine! ❤️
Love the baby blanket and office tour 😄😄😄 as for your brother’s t shirts. I’d recommend you do some research first. There are band t- shirts worth hundreds of dollars. Crazy I know but there are collectors out there who will pay big bucks for a vintage t shirt. Hope you find some $$$ in your brother’s shirt drawer. 🤞🤞
You know what, this is excellent advice. I used to have a No Doubt concert tee from 97 that is worth quite a bit now. 😭
❤ the buttons. I can't believe u have not knitted a cardigan. Ur poddies r so knowledgeable. No worries I still admire ur encyclopedic mind. 😊 Thanks for sharing.
I know! I'm a big talker I guess. 😂. Thank you so much for watching and all of your kind words each week. ❤
Your craft room/creative space is so colorful and cheerful. Love it. And I'm in love with your colorful area rug! Your paintings are impressive. You're so talented. Question, where do you usually sit and knit? Craft room, living room, bedroom? On a couch, chair or table? My favorite place is on the couch in my living room watching documentaries or true crimes. Great video as usual Taylor.
Thank you so much Vanessa. This means a lot to me. And my knitting spot is on the living room near the fireplace in my armchair. 😊
Love the work space. I love the blanket on your couch. What is the pattern. I am a hockey Mom too although now empty nesters. We are enjoying the Vegas knights in the Stanley Cup ….even though we are LA kings fans. Cheers from SoCal
Thank you Laurie! And the couch blanket is actually a sherpa fleece Pendleton blanket. It's one of my favorites! It's very similar to this one: amzn.to/3WnoqFA
And its been an intense conference finals! Hoping our Knights go all the way! ⚔
Your blanket turned out so pretty! Impressed with how organized your former closet is, so inviting!! ❤ Thanks for the sneak peek 😊
Thank you so much Chrissy! ❤
This is another great podcast. I love your projects, and the buttons are adorable. At one time I had a tin of buttons my mother gave me. I like unique buttons. You did a great job on organizing your closet. It's a great use of space.
Thank you so much Sharon! And I remember doing a little antiquing with my mom some time ago and finding a place that had a big collection of button tins. Such inspiring things!
I love your blanket, and your bag is turning out great. Your office is so great. I love Pepper too!! Let her join you any time!! Thank you and take care too
I will definitely get Pepper more involved in the future! ❤️☺️
You could save the front of your brother's shirts and make him a quilt! You just have to interface them and add dashing around them so they don't stretch. Perfect something old to something new. :)
This sounds like a great idea...however you had me sweating with "you just have to interface them and add dashing around..." As one who can barely sew in a straight line, this gives me pause. 🥴. I need to work on that.
Please, please, please research you brother's t-shirts before you cut them up. Some vintage t-shirts can be very collectible.
This is a VERY common concern here. Not to worry. In fact, maybe I'll do a little share of what he has there with y'all just for fun and we can look them up on the interwebs to be sure before slicing into them. ❤
Love that you can show organizing outside the minimalist aesthetic. Your gallery wall has lots going on but it is complementing and not distracting to the filming. Thanks. I hope to redo my stash closet again next year when I have knit down 3 more bins
I really appreciate this comment because I know exactly what you mean. Thank you! ❤
Love your new creativity nook; I enjoy all your posts and especially your upbeat presentation!
Ah, thank you Linda! And I love the term "creativity nook"! I need a sign! ❤
Love your room redo! It’s inspiring me! Thanks for sharing! 💕
My pleasure! Thank YOU! ❤️
Your inspiring room makeover outcome has put me into such a reverie, it is leading me to dream of how to look at my own space and see into it in the best way possible for an outcome I could only dream of. I am so truly happy for you at this achievement and if you wanted to talk more about how the ideas for how to organize came to you, I would be riveted.
Thank you so much Andrea! ❤
I have a project for the SOSNMAL, but not sure it will be done in time. I am working on a Terrazzo Bag, new pattern by Petite Knit, and using yarn from my Momma’s stash, that I inherited 3 years ago.
The blanket is beautiful - love the color and the pattern. ❤ The buttons are adorable - can’t wait to see them on your cardigan!
Thank you so much! And I can't wait to find the perfect cardigan for those buttons. ❤
I love your closet renovation! It’s inspiring me to do the same in my home office/craft space.
Thank you! It was quite easy once I got everything out so I definitely encourage you to try. Honestly, just removing the doors makes a huge difference! ❤
I love your pencil sharpener! I have two just like that, one small one large, they are the best!
OMG they are the BEST! And so well built. I didn't know they had a smaller one! 😀
Your office is goals. I love mine but I love all the “stations” and space.
Thank you so much!!
The storage area turned into a great space! Absolutely love it. I need a labeler.
Thank you! And yes. A label maker is a great thing to have!
Wow! I love what you’ve done with your closet……🎉❤
Thank you so much!