Tour de Fleece, A New Kate Davies Project - Ep. 125 Fleece & Harmony Knitting and Crochet Podcast
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2024
- In Episode 125, we talk a lot about hand spinning. Simone and Kim are participating in Tour de Fleece. Simone demonstrates using a supported spindle. You have to see what Betsy felted! The new yarn base is coming along nicely.
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One link to see all of the products we talk about in Episode 125:
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Project Pattern Links:
Find the Rioux pattern here:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
Find the Rioux Yarn Kit here:
fleeceandharmony.com/products...
Link to the Treit Pattern:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
Link to the Harlow Hat Pattern:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
Music in the Harmony Part: The Warming Sunrise - Kevin P. Holt
The Mercerie - Wallflowers
www.themercerie.co.uk/
Felted Tweed Code to receive 10% off with the purchase of 10 balls or more: MERCERIEFT23
Check out the PEI Fibre Festival Website here:
peifibrefestival.com/
CHAPTERS
Intro 0:00
Farm Update 1:28
Festive in July 5:23
Shop Update 9:55
Betsy and Kim 17:54
Felting on Denim 20:10
New Hat 25:00
Treit 28:03
Patti Wrap 35:31
In the Mill - Swatching the new yarn 40:14
Simone and Kim 51:43
Rioux Shawl Progress 53:42
Tune T-shirt 56:28
Harlow Hat 1:10:30
Tour de Fleece 1:14:30
Supported Drop Soindle 1:23:20
Prince Edward Island Fibre Festival 1:30:09
The Harmony Part 1:31:40
Link to Sheldon the Sheep Pattern (a crochet project):
www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
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This podcast is recorded on our sheep farm in Prince Edward Island. We spin our own Fleece & Harmony brand of yarn and knit A LOT. We use Belfast Mini Mills equipment. We are also a Rowan Flagship Retailer.
I found myself unexpectedly tearful watching the spinning segment.I used to be an avid spinner in the company of a dear friend who taught me this wonderful meditative art .When she died I somehow lost my joy in spinning but seeing you two spinning in quiet harmony made me realize how much I have missed being at my wheel.I am going to try again--thank you!❤
I LOVE this Joan! Yes you should try again.
Oh! Please join in the spinning along with us! 💗
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Agree Kim, lots of variety, you seem to have every fibre craft covered😂, always a good watch!🥰, Sharon.
Thanks Sharon. We do seem to cover most of the things between the three of us!
Another great episode, Kim. You three are great together. Shout out to the executive producer as well. :-)
The executive producer appreciates the recognition!
Great episode. Thanks. You three are great together. Kudos to your cameraman too.
Thank you so much! We have fun.
Thoroughly enjoyed this episode and loved the sound of Simone spinning at the end! Thank you for offering this podcast. I look forward to each new release 🙂🧶
Thank you so much Marianne!
Kim your podcast is getting better and better 🧶🩷
Thank you so much!
Thanks for your wonderful content. I love Simone's broken teacup and shoebox, Betsy's felted cow on the denim jacket, Kim's picot edging and Ken's camera work. Go Team Fleece and Harmony!
We are quite a team!
Totally beautiful, I'm about to learn to spin, it looks so peaceful and meditative.
Oh how wonderful! I am sure you will enjoy it!
Oh the sounds of the wheel spinning!! I could listen to that all day. Thanks very much to all for the great info and look at the shop.
Our pleasure!
Great episode. The sound of Simone's wheel makes me think of watching the last car of a train as it passes down the track. There used to be a caboose and it made this sound. No caboose nowadays, but the last car still makes the sound.
Yes it does have that kind of rhythm to it!
TY . Wheel sounds like a super fast train ... Nice. God bless your trip Betsy keep u all safe .
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Oh Betsy, you brought back memories! I grew up on a dairy farm and yes we did . Betsy was a beautiful cow and we loved her so much. Loved this podcast!
HA! Wonderful!
Your spinning was awesome. It really does look relaxing. You do have a lot of excitement going on. It is always motivating when I watch your channel. I am looking forward to seeing all of your new yarn. Have a very good two weeks!
See you in two weeks Beverly.
❤❤❤ watching you spin was magical and so calming
Wonderful - that was what we were going for!
I was also teary watching the segment about spinning and how soothing the sound was. Thank you so much for sharing your projects, your creative process... it is a joy to watch you girls.
Thank you so much for watching!
The spinning segment is indeed most beautiful and Ken did a wonderful job in video-taping it. Thank you!
He did! Thanks for watching!
I laughed out loud when you said “it seems like we kinda know what we are doing”. I think that’s the understatement of the year. Kim you and the team keep going from strength to strength. All of the content you are sharing has us spoiled - thanks so much!
Thank you Dawn. We make a great team.
I am not a knitter…yet. I really enjoy watching your podcasts. The friendship and respect between you all is amazing. Thank you!! I have so much fun watching.
We really are great friends and a great team. It is so nice when that happens!
This episode has a beautiful energy. It left me in such a peaceful mood. I loved everything about it, from Kim's gorgeous top through Betsy's needle felting to Simone's cup and shoebox. Sometime it would be really nice to see some video footage of needle felting. I hope your holiday is fabulous, Betsy. Thank you all xxz
We love it when people are left in a peaceful mood! thanks!
LOVED every bit of this podcast and the spinning / harmony section was amazing. How peaceful and relaxing to watch you both enjoying such a peacefully active time!! Thanks, again, for the time and effort put into creating these podcasts.
Glad you enjoyed it! ❤️
I was knitting my Night Shift shawl, from my supported spindle spun yarn, while watching this episode! What fun to see all the different fibre crafts in this episode.
Oh - that's cool!
Such a wonderful and inspiring podcast today! I love hearing all about the new yarn you’re working on in the mill, and enjoysed seeing your spinning segments. It’s so meditative and mesmerizing to watch! Keep up the great work! I love all your podcasts and I keep spreading the word to my knitting friends to checkout your channel! Happy summer! Live to all❤️🧶🧦🐑 Katie
Thank you for spreading the word Kate! And thanks for your kind comments.
I love seeing the creative work that the 3 of you are doing in your own projects and together! The joy is evident and it spills over to us. Thank you! I'm so looking forward to visiting Fleece & Harmony when my family and I travel to PEI this summer. I keep changing my mind on which yarn I'd like to purchase as a souvenir.
We love it when people find we are spreading joy! I guess we will see you this summer!
This has been one of my favorite episodes! It was fun listening to Betsy 's segment. The in the mill segment was interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing the new yarn. I found myself laughing with you and Simone about complicating the easy. You are two press in a pod! The harmony part was so relaxing. Ken did a great job videoing you ladies. I hope you will show the finished yarns.
We definitely show the final yarns when we are ready to unveil them. Stay tuned!
A great episode, so lovely to see you and Simone spinning. 🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed it!
So excited to see your new yarn. The process seems very interesting! Love Simone’s shawl so much. It’s gorgeous. What an interesting episode. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much!
You three girls seem very excited about the new wool release. You also have amazing smiles.
We are very excited! Thanks for watching Becky.
That was absolutely brilliant I so enjoyed watching the spinning found my feet rocking and I ve never spin but being Scottish through and through my grandparent on my fathers side came from the highlands in ardnamuruchan so I suspect spinning in my genes must try it biput am now 69 maybe too old but will see thank you three lovely ladies for inspiration greetings from edinburgh
What is too old? I don't know what you mean??? LOL
Never too old to try something new. Go for it. 😊
Thank you for this episode. It was actually fun to hear about the Tune mishaps - I had to cast on three times as well. 🙂 In the end, I just knotted two different threads from two balls of yarn and did it from that, long tail cast-on can be really trying one's patience. Also, I didn't heed your advice and started the body in the round, so I'm going to have to watch out for the garment growing. I didn't have the courage to face sewing up stripey bits and was sure I'd get it wrong. Anyway, your colour choices are really nice and I'm looking forward to seeing the Tunes growing. Thanks again.
Good luck with your Tune. It is a nice project! As for the sewing, take a look at my tutorial on mattress stitch. It is easy to get the stripes to match if your tension when knitting is consistent.
Lovely episode. Makes me want to learn about spinning!
Yay! that makes us happy!
Great episode, such a great team. The spinning was fascinating and thank you for explaining it. The new yarn development is really interesting and i love all the different content - thank you
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Each episode you raise the bar - all of the fascinating learning about yarn composition and what’s coming with new yarn, along with the projects, ideas, and the so wonderful segments with Betsy and Simone - ❤it all!!
Thank you so much!
Great episode with a TON of content. I knit as I watch, but occasionally have to stop and really pay attention to something. :) I always look forward to these.
Thank you Kim!
The rhubarb colour way is gorgeous!!!
It really is! You will have to take a closer look your next time in the shop!
Amazing podcast - thumbs up to all the team!! Loved the Harmony Part. ♥
Yay, thank you!
The Scotch Mints!!!! It’s not just a Maritime thing, I grew up in BC and there were always Scotch Mints to be had. My Dad in particular loved them. And the image of the mints in Kleenex is bang on.
LOL! It is so funny now to think of it.
Always enjoyable
Thank you!
Knitting with a kitten bouncing around! I commiserate! Mine is 3 months old and sooo happy when she sees me knitting…jump, attack, bite… Good thing you gave the Nordic KAL a good long deadline because I have to hide my WIP Sidsel Høyvik cardigan very often.😂
Lovely episode, you always make me smile ❤
I love that - when we make someone smile!
Loved it all, especially the harmony part!
Thank you for watching! The Harmony Part is my favourite to work on too!
Think I am going to try and knit my Tune on my knitting belt. Wish me luck.
How wonderful! Wishing you luck!
Started it and seems to be going OK. Also, it did not roll which is a good thing.
What a lovely episode, it is so stimulating to see you three try all these new things, or colors, going out of your comfort zones. I am so looking forward for the new yarn, what a suspense. I am so looking forward to come and visit during the Fiber Fest. Hope evreything plays well this year. Simone do you ever catch your hair in your spinning ? I know I often end up knitting some of my long hair in my knits, decided to leave it as a DNA signature. 😉
Thanks Nicole. We are always trying new things. Keeps things interesting!
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Very nice episode! A friend in Beaverbank, NS claimed she was going to start work constructing an Ark! Everything must be so green and pretty!! Missing home.....
Everything is definitely green! Today is a glorious sunny day here. The Island is sparkling!
I know exactly what scotch mints you're talking about! I'm also addicted to them. I found them at the dollar store and next time I went back they didn't have them ! So when I found them again I bought FIVE bags. My dad always had the original ones and gave them to my kids all the time. In my family we call them Poppa mints.
That's funny. We seem to be able to find them reliably at the gas station convenience stores for some reason.
Great episode and I might just have to learn how to spin!! Thanks
You should try it, Jeanine!
I loved the spinning❤
It's mesmerizing, isn't it?
Love the Harmony part.
Thank you!
Hello from Mounds, Illinois.
Hello from Belfast PEI!
Wow! I don’t think I could ever do that. How can you get the thickness so even? When you were spinning , what was that frame standing beside you Kim. I think I saw your house on some pictures. It’s beautiful.
Hmmm... No pictures of our house in the shop but we do have quite a bit of art work by a NS photographer - Ernest Cadegan. They are mostly sheep and farm scenes.
Made me think of a train coming down the tracks in the distance
Yes!
Hey Simone, you could always pick up the bottom stitches, cut the rib off and knit a picot edge....;)
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Hi Kim! Thank you for another great episode. You haven’t mentioned your angora rabbits in quite awhile…just wondering, do you still have them?
Oh yes, we still have them. We are still using their wool to make the Iona Bunny yarn.
In regards to Kim's Tune, since you are working on the back of your top and your gauge is a little tight, you could make the front a bit wider (an inch or two) and you would probably not notice it at all. That would give you just a bit more room in the front where you need it.
Yes - I was thinking about that as a possible strategy. We will see how it goes. Since I am fooling around with my knitting technique, I am measuring my gauge as I go - making sure I am keeping it consistent.
Tuck stitch is not the same as brioche, the Harlow Hat is indeed brioche. Always enjoy hearing your episodes !
Well that settles that! LOL Thanks!
If Simone wants a picot edge. Could pick up stitches at the beginning, knit the required amount to do the picot.
I think she is finding an excuse to make another one! ;-)
For the sweater in the blue, is the pattern dk or fingering? Will you need to adjust or will you just expect it to be a bit looser, fluffier?
Oh - I would expect that I will adjust. I rarely knit anything at the suggested gauge or yarn weight. LOL
My berrrocco modern cotton has stretched quite a bit after wearing
Yes - many cotton yarns do stretch. I find the Rowan yarns are better, but cotton just doesn't have the elasticity of wool.
@@FleeceHarmonyPodcast I used something called black Sunday and that didn't stretch hardly at all but this one I just made I should have gone down to à small :(
Hi is there info or a link for the rowan blanket kal? For some reason I can't find anything on it. Thx
There are two things happening. Rowan Festive Week which is a series of virtual events with some of the Rowan designers. This event costs £15 to join. You can register for all of the talks for that fee or only participate in a few. One of the talks will be featuring Martin Storey and he will talk about his Mid-winter blanket during that event (July 26th). It is sort of the launch of the KAL, but you don't have to go to that talk to participate in the KAL. On July 27th, Rowan will post the KAL under Make Alongs on the Rowan connect site. You can register for the KAL for free there. The first pattern release for the Mid-Winter Blanket will be August 17th. The pattern releases and access to Martin's videos related to the blanket are all free when you register for the KAL. I explain the whole thing in this week's podcast - out at 2:30 this afternoon.
Here is the link to Rowan Connect if you want to check it out. www.rowanconnect.net/
How are the rabbits doing? You haven’t mentioned them lately.
The rabbits are doing wonderfully. most of them are molting now, so I have been brushing furiously. they are happy to have some of the wool gone in this weather!
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Kim, you have somehow figured out how to add hours to the day. Please share your secret! 😁
Unfortunately not! Just always busy! LOL
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There was not one section that I did not enjoy in this engaging podcast, but seeing both of you spinning quietly and contentedly side by side in the Harmony Part definitely put the cherry on the cake. Thank you for such an inspiring podcast! 💖💖
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