Thank you for sharing your time with us! Liked, saved, subscribed and looking forward to "our" next rambly chat. Because in all truth, if we knitters just sat down to talk, it would be no different than this! We're here for the whole thing!
Great job, thanks for sharing your stories. The firsts of anything always feels awkard until you find a rhythm. Quite amazed you've knit so much and test knitting too, what an awesome job. Trish from Pennsylvania USA
Yayy! I love your new channel! I love your aesthetic and the way you think about colour and pattern and yarn. And also, I like you (the bits you're sharing so far)! Please keep doing more.
Thanks Emily, I definitely enjoyed your first episode; very relaxing to watch and pleased to see a similar knitting style to my own. I also share your tendency to lean to one side! I look forward to your next episode and your new Fun Project. The need to delay the WIPs and start something new is common to many of us x
I will be watching you so keep going! I am so similar in my daily knitting life. I can't be bothered with some of the details. You're adorable. Keep at it.
For sewing, once you do that more often and have a dedicated space for your machine it can be like 10 minutes every now and then like you do with knitting. I love your rumble raglan. Maybe you can go up a needle size under the bust to get slightly more room at your hips? Love your quilt too!
Its great to see someone who knits the same as I do. I'm left handed, so I watched my father knit, who knitted the same as you and I sat in front, (at age 6) so I'm a mirror image knitter. Also love the quilt on your sofa. New subscriber here Barbara Radzevicius Bondi Crafter , Sydney Australia. Can't wait for ep.2. Best wishes
Interesting job that you have. I have a few suggestions for you. I have a TH-cam channel although not for knitting but, you had mentioned setting up your camera. If you bring your camera up and have the angle directly at you or a slightly higher pointing downward (but not too high) this will help your angle. Put yourself fully in frame with the camera, not off the edge of the viewfinder. Sitting up straight will help it to look a bit more polished and at least for the intro, speak directly to the camera and give viewers your full attention. I always look into my camera before beginning recording to see what my background looks like, where I am placed within the frame and how much of my body I want shown. I have an art channel so chest up is fine unless I am showing them items then I adjust accordingly. Your leg later in the video took up a lot of frame and foreshortens which doesn’t look great through the camera lens. Keep your legs out of the frame unless you are modeling knittting, moving about, or have more distant shots ie overhead etc. Their is a lot of editing that goes on as I turn my camera downward to teach tutorials. Then I look at supplies placement, where my hands are in the viewfinder, and if I am fully in frame for painting. You won’t have to worry about any of that most likely. You can usually zoom out your lens unless you are using a phone camera on the front or “selfie” mode. Turning the camera around can be more difficult because if using your phone you won’t be able to see yourself anymore and check periodically to make sure viewers see what you are showing them. Usually front facing cameras have lower quality lenses but for a knitting podcast this isn’t too huge a problem. So if you are set up close then move your phone back. Remember that in your settings you have your phone set to keep the volume set to pick up close as you get further away. My Samsung allows for this which is nice. I don’t know about iPhones though. So keep your pitch up. Which brings me to my next suggestions regarding voice. Another suggestion is to keep your volume of speaking up. I noticed quite a bit of mumbling especially in the beginning. When editing look at your volume controls and make sure you are editing at 100%-140% volume. This will make it a better range when people viewing watch playback. They can adjust the volume up or down to suit them. If your volume level is too low then someone will run out of the upper end of their volume control trying to hear you. I notice the trailing off and mumbling is more of an issue with English accents. So maybe this is cultural, but even professional speakers who have accents keep their tone even and don’t trail off at the end or change the speed of their speech to very fast between sentences, etc. Maybe you don’t notice because it is cultural but to other areas of the world it makes it more difficult to understand. There are some podcasts I won’t listen to because people have thick accents and then I can only pick up half the sentence so I just put them on my do not watch list. Also I don’t know if you are sick but possibly pausing to blow your nose then restarting the recording will help, but you are sniffling through the entire recording. 😊 By the time you got to the lime colored socks you began to speak a bit louder. Your sentences tend to trail off in volume. And yes writing things down and making a list of speaking notes may help you. But the sniffling needs to stop. Listen back your video before posting so that you can see any annoying speech or behaviors and edit them out. My biggest issue is that I say um, so anyway, etc. When I listen back I try to cut most of these out. It is annoying not only for me to edit(because sometimes there’s a lot😊) but it is so annoying to viewers. Saying things like “I’ve leaned again but you’ll just have to deal with it” is not a good thing to say to the camera or viewers. Be professional even when keeping things casual. I try to make sure that when I am in front of the camera, I do my hair, makeup if you are one to wear it, and try to keep looking at the lens and not at yourself in the viewfinder because it is very noticeable when people are staring at themselves rather than looking at us through the lens. It can be a difficult habit to break once you start it. Clothing choice for a knitting podcast would be to wear a sweater you have made, or t-shirt/blouse in summer. All in all you began to get much more comfortable speaking and if you compare your beginning to the middle and end of your video your volume has raised in your voice as you became more comfortable. I am fairly new to watching knitting “podcasts” and notice that most people call them podcasts but when I listen to a podcast on Spotify or other radio these are very well organized talk shows. If one is just gabbing to the camera I do not see this as a podcast. This must be a knitters thing that people use the word podcast when they really aren’t. Read about podcasts and how they are organized, set up etc. But if just gabbing like this, I wouldn’t call it a Podcast. There are other knitters like :Wool, Needles, Hands” I think is the name, she has podcasts and then other shows she does on other days. There are a few others like “Penrose Knits” who does “The Knitting Pickle Podcast” but in other days does a Vlog. Know the difference and keep it less confusing. I know this is a lot. People on TH-cam make things look easy, but a good podcast or Vlog is anything but. It is a lot of work, especially the editing which is not easy. I hope these suggestions are helpful. Please don’t take them harshly. We all look back on our channels and think omg what was I doing in these old videos!🤣 Keep at it, and you will get it. Good luck to you in your TH-cam endeavors.
Thank you so much for the detailed feedback. Some really useful points in there. I did notice the sniffing when I was editing but hadn’t realised I was doing it when filming. Hopefully the next one will tick off some of these points 🤞🏼
OMG ~ I like her delivery. I like that she is off center to the camera and the back ground is interesting yet not distracting to the piece being knitted. This is a fresh look to knitting ‘PODCASTS’
Ha! You thought no one was going to watch and you have 3,527 views! Great job! The only thought I have on improvement is to prop your camera up higher. It would give a better view of you and your work. I love the quilt behind you. I took a little break from sewing as well and I too hate the summer weather! I felt like i was sitting in your living room with you while you chatted with us. I’m looking forward to more from you!
I loved this podcast, can't wait for the next one. Please, show more your works on prosess and do rumble on, loved it too. Greetings from Helsinki, Finland!
I thought your first podcast was quite enjoyable. I really liked hearing about your color preferences. i love neon baby bootie idea...stealing that idea
"Distacted by crow" 🤣🤣🤣 I was once repeatedly distracted by a peg on my neighbours washing line and had to explain why I kept looking out the window! It's not a rare occurance either lol! Hashtag youarenotal.........sorry! Squirrel!....alone! 🤣🤣👍
I think anything goes for baby socks. Really sweet : ) Love the quilt! I am a knitter and a quilter too. I am expecting my 9th grandie so my sock game is strong. This was an enjoyable podcast. Hoping you do more. Love the fitted sweater. It will be very flattering on you. Great colours : )
Great podcast! B any sock are a perfect present, I have a drwere full waiting for babies not yet concieved. New babies generally have long think feet so the luminous ones are perfect. Also all baby socks come off whether they have a rib or not!
Your video is good, I like to watch people knit whilst they are talking, I think it makes you feel like you are sat across the room chatting. Intrigued also by your accent! I am from the NE of England but live in France so don't ofter hear that great accent. Like I say, relaxed style and watchable video, looking forward to the next.
Thank you for sharing your time with us! Liked, saved, subscribed and looking forward to "our" next rambly chat. Because in all truth, if we knitters just sat down to talk, it would be no different than this! We're here for the whole thing!
I like the luminous 💚 🧦! Welcome to the podsphere! The ramble raglan is awesome 😎 !
Great podcast! Your knitting story is so interesting. It's fun that you sew too. It feels like just sitting and having a chat with a chill friend.
Great job, thanks for sharing your stories. The firsts of anything always feels awkard until you find a rhythm. Quite amazed you've knit so much and test knitting too, what an awesome job. Trish from Pennsylvania USA
Yayy! I love your new channel! I love your aesthetic and the way you think about colour and pattern and yarn. And also, I like you (the bits you're sharing so far)! Please keep doing more.
Thanks Emily, I definitely enjoyed your first episode; very relaxing to watch and pleased to see a similar knitting style to my own. I also share your tendency to lean to one side! I look forward to your next episode and your new Fun Project. The need to delay the WIPs and start something new is common to many of us x
I will be watching you so keep going! I am so similar in my daily knitting life. I can't be bothered with some of the details. You're adorable. Keep at it.
Really enjoyed your first episode! I can't wait for the next !
Thanks so much 🤗
For sewing, once you do that more often and have a dedicated space for your machine it can be like 10 minutes every now and then like you do with knitting.
I love your rumble raglan. Maybe you can go up a needle size under the bust to get slightly more room at your hips?
Love your quilt too!
Great to meet you. Look forward to hearing more about your knitting journey 💚
I really enjoyed this. I hope you do more videos. Thank you.
Its great to see someone who knits the same as I do. I'm left handed, so I watched my father knit, who knitted the same as you and I sat in front, (at age 6) so I'm a mirror image knitter. Also love the quilt on your sofa. New subscriber here Barbara Radzevicius Bondi Crafter , Sydney Australia. Can't wait for ep.2. Best wishes
Thanks so much Barbara. 😊
Interesting job that you have. I have a few suggestions for you. I have a TH-cam channel although not for knitting but, you had mentioned setting up your camera. If you bring your camera up and have the angle directly at you or a slightly higher pointing downward (but not too high) this will help your angle. Put yourself fully in frame with the camera, not off the edge of the viewfinder. Sitting up straight will help it to look a bit more polished and at least for the intro, speak directly to the camera and give viewers your full attention. I always look into my camera before beginning recording to see what my background looks like, where I am placed within the frame and how much of my body I want shown. I have an art channel so chest up is fine unless I am showing them items then I adjust accordingly. Your leg later in the video took up a lot of frame and foreshortens which doesn’t look great through the camera lens. Keep your legs out of the frame unless you are modeling knittting, moving about, or have more distant shots ie overhead etc. Their is a lot of editing that goes on as I turn my camera downward to teach tutorials. Then I look at supplies placement, where my hands are in the viewfinder, and if I am fully in frame for painting. You won’t have to worry about any of that most likely. You can usually zoom out your lens unless you are using a phone camera on the front or “selfie” mode. Turning the camera around can be more difficult because if using your phone you won’t be able to see yourself anymore and check periodically to make sure viewers see what you are showing them. Usually front facing cameras have lower quality lenses but for a knitting podcast this isn’t too huge a problem. So if you are set up close then move your phone back. Remember that in your settings you have your phone set to keep the volume set to pick up close as you get further away. My Samsung allows for this which is nice. I don’t know about iPhones though. So keep your pitch up. Which brings me to my next suggestions regarding voice.
Another suggestion is to keep your volume of speaking up. I noticed quite a bit of mumbling especially in the beginning. When editing look at your volume controls and make sure you are editing at 100%-140% volume. This will make it a better range when people viewing watch playback. They can adjust the volume up or down to suit them. If your volume level is too low then someone will run out of the upper end of their volume control trying to hear you. I notice the trailing off and mumbling is more of an issue with English accents. So maybe this is cultural, but even professional speakers who have accents keep their tone even and don’t trail off at the end or change the speed of their speech to very fast between sentences, etc. Maybe you don’t notice because it is cultural but to other areas of the world it makes it more difficult to understand. There are some podcasts I won’t listen to because people have thick accents and then I can only pick up half the sentence so I just put them on my do not watch list.
Also I don’t know if you are sick but possibly pausing to blow your nose then restarting the recording will help, but you are sniffling through the entire recording. 😊 By the time you got to the lime colored socks you began to speak a bit louder. Your sentences tend to trail off in volume. And yes writing things down and making a list of speaking notes may help you. But the sniffling needs to stop. Listen back your video before posting so that you can see any annoying speech or behaviors and edit them out. My biggest issue is that I say um, so anyway, etc. When I listen back I try to cut most of these out. It is annoying not only for me to edit(because sometimes there’s a lot😊) but it is so annoying to viewers. Saying things like “I’ve leaned again but you’ll just have to deal with it” is not a good thing to say to the camera or viewers. Be professional even when keeping things casual.
I try to make sure that when I am in front of the camera, I do my hair, makeup if you are one to wear it, and try to keep looking at the lens and not at yourself in the viewfinder because it is very noticeable when people are staring at themselves rather than looking at us through the lens. It can be a difficult habit to break once you start it. Clothing choice for a knitting podcast would be to wear a sweater you have made, or t-shirt/blouse in summer.
All in all you began to get much more comfortable speaking and if you compare your beginning to the middle and end of your video your volume has raised in your voice as you became more comfortable.
I am fairly new to watching knitting “podcasts” and notice that most people call them podcasts but when I listen to a podcast on Spotify or other radio these are very well organized talk shows. If one is just gabbing to the camera I do not see this as a podcast. This must be a knitters thing that people use the word podcast when they really aren’t. Read about podcasts and how they are organized, set up etc. But if just gabbing like this, I wouldn’t call it a Podcast. There are other knitters like :Wool, Needles, Hands” I think is the name, she has podcasts and then other shows she does on other days. There are a few others like “Penrose Knits” who does “The Knitting Pickle Podcast” but in other days does a Vlog. Know the difference and keep it less confusing.
I know this is a lot. People on TH-cam make things look easy, but a good podcast or Vlog is anything but. It is a lot of work, especially the editing which is not easy. I hope these suggestions are helpful. Please don’t take them harshly. We all look back on our channels and think omg what was I doing in these old videos!🤣 Keep at it, and you will get it. Good luck to you in your TH-cam endeavors.
Thank you so much for the detailed feedback. Some really useful points in there. I did notice the sniffing when I was editing but hadn’t realised I was doing it when filming. Hopefully the next one will tick off some of these points 🤞🏼
OMG ~ I like her delivery. I like that she is off center to the camera and the back ground is interesting yet not distracting to the piece being knitted. This is a fresh look to knitting ‘PODCASTS’
a lovely video! the colorwork sweater looks soooo cooooool omg
Keep going, I loved it! Your sweater colours look great together. I must try that mondim yarn. J
Hi Emily, thanks for being real x
Ha! You thought no one was going to watch and you have 3,527 views! Great job! The only thought I have on improvement is to prop your camera up higher. It would give a better view of you and your work. I love the quilt behind you. I took a little break from sewing as well and I too hate the summer weather! I felt like i was sitting in your living room with you while you chatted with us. I’m looking forward to more from you!
Hi! I cannot wait for your next episode. I did really enjoyed it 😊
I loved this podcast, can't wait for the next one. Please, show more your works on prosess and do rumble on, loved it too. Greetings from Helsinki, Finland!
I thought your first podcast was quite enjoyable. I really liked hearing about your color preferences. i love neon baby bootie idea...stealing that idea
Yessss! Neon bootie twins 👯♀️ thanks lots for the kind words ☺️
Hi Emily, your videos made a great impression on me. I would love so much to see an update on how you are doing. We miss you.
"Distacted by crow" 🤣🤣🤣 I was once repeatedly distracted by a peg on my neighbours washing line and had to explain why I kept looking out the window! It's not a rare occurance either lol! Hashtag youarenotal.........sorry! Squirrel!....alone! 🤣🤣👍
Nice first video--I am looking forward to more!
Hi Emily! Welcome ❤ Just want to let you know, that crow distracted my cat completely too 😹. Lovely watching you work as you chat.
😂 those darn crows. Thanks so much for the warm welcome 🥰
Enjoyed your first episode very much. Thank you for reminding me of the delight’s of rice pudding! I’m making some tonight ❤
Hurrah for rice pudding! 🍚
I think anything goes for baby socks. Really sweet : ) Love the quilt! I am a knitter and a quilter too. I am expecting my 9th grandie so my sock game is strong. This was an enjoyable podcast. Hoping you do more.
Love the fitted sweater. It will be very flattering on you. Great colours : )
Thanks so much for the kind words. So many tiny socks in your life!!
Love from Lisbon!!! I like your way!!! I am a fan of all Retrosaria yarns!!! They are special!
I agree! I’ll definitely be trying more in the future 😊
So nice to meet you. Your wips are beautiful!
Great podcast! B any sock are a perfect present, I have a drwere full waiting for babies not yet concieved. New babies generally have long think feet so the luminous ones are perfect. Also all baby socks come off whether they have a rib or not!
This is good to know 😄 I’ll knit baby socks with wild abandon from now on.
Your video is good, I like to watch people knit whilst they are talking, I think it makes you feel like you are sat across the room chatting. Intrigued also by your accent! I am from the NE of England but live in France so don't ofter hear that great accent. Like I say, relaxed style and watchable video, looking forward to the next.
Ah thanks so much. Always lovely hearing another Northerner 😊 thanks for the kind words!
Love the socks!!!!!
I like your podcast-it was enjoyable to sit and knit and chat and get to k ow you!
Hi love your podcast look forward to many more patricia
Your idea of ancient is hysterical. 20+15=35😂
😂😂😂
Enjoyable video, thank you! I knit in almost the same pose as you :)
Enjoyed your video
Your a natural!
Suggestion: grey athletic socks with red stripes in the ribbing…those would look adorable on a baby 😊
I think having a lot of WIPS means your highly intelligent and you have to have several things going 😁
If only 😄
Great first podcast is there a pattern available for the bobble cardi ur knitting?it looks smashing
No published pattern unfortunately as it’s sold as ready to wear. I’ll let everyone know if that ever changes though ☺️
I really enjoyed your podcast. The matching quilt and sweater is what made me watch you. Is that a Bradford accent?
Ah thank you! It’s a Cumbrian accent but I’ve been in London for 13 years so I’ve lost some of my twang.
She has a rose -rock color in her stash!
Hiya Emily