Episode 19: All the new things and EYF
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What a gorgeous yarn bowl. How wonderful that your friend took into consideration the center of mass that helps keep the bowl steady.
One of the nicest post EYF podcasts I have seen, always a pleasure to watch you Anna.
Thank you so much, that means a lot!
Everybody looks so happy there in EYF
Ohh I am happy to hear the video made you happy! It was quite funny to watch Kristy Glass and Westknits rocking the dance floor 😁
Thanks for sharing the fun footage from EYF. It looks like it was a lot of fun!
Thank you! Yes it was!
Hi Anna. It was such a pleasure to meet you!
Thanks for your podcasts; they are always so interesting and it will be a pleasure to follow you untill hopefully next year at the EYF.
Isabelle
Hi Isabelle! It was a real treat to meet you and your beautiful cardigan will be a picture I won’t forget so soon! Hope to see you next year again ❤️
I completely know what you mean about older knitters not taking us seriously. More than once I've decided not go back to a shop because I felt like they didn't treat me like a worthy customer. I'm not sure if they think it's because I can't afford much because I'm young or if it's something else. But the shops that cater to a broader, more modern audience just feel so different. It's just wonderful to actually have someone talk to you and try to figure out if there's anything they can help you with or what you enjoy etc.
The yarn bowl is beautiful.
My friend will be happy to hear that!
Ooh that looks like so much fun but I am not surprised you were a bit overwhelmed!! So much going on and so many lovely things!!! It will exhaust me lol
Yes this is not a vacation, it requires a vacation afterward!s! hahaha
You are so talented!
Loved that you showed the crochet and the dancing at the end. Great podcast.
Thank you Louise! I am happy you liked it.
Understand about the conference brain, this weekend went to National Alpaca show and saw sooo much luscious fiber, left with raw fleece to work in felting slippers and try drop spinning. I gathered cards and 2 days later have no idea who was whom. I think older knitters like me are intimidated by the mastery of so many stitches and techniques that were so confusing in writing pre internet. I have learned so much while watching all the videos while enforced rest now. When I started knitting at 6yrs, no other kids were knitting, at 13 I was teaching knitting and the only adult knitter I knew was picking knitter who wasn't friendly. So many people I have taught basics to, just this winter met group of fiberworkers that could have friendships with. You are lucky to have knitting community.
Oh Cheryl, I absolutely understand you. I am fascinated by your generation who was knitting before the digital age. We all would probably not have learned so many stitches and techniques in such a short time if we wouldn't have the internet. I remember how my Mum tried to learn stitches from books sometimes when I was a kid and how frustrating it was for her sometimes, if the explanations didn't make sense. Now we just search a video, or we ask in a ravelry thread and the information is somewhere out there. It is so nice that you are passing your knowledge on to new knitters! And hey, you are a part of this knitting community too!
I, too, am an "older" knitter, I learned when I was seven when we were living in France (I'm American and my father was military). We had a French cook who taught me to knit by "letting" me watch her; she didn't speak English and I was a shy little girl who knew very little french but knitting seemed to be our common language (that was 50+ years ago). I tried teaching my two daughters to knit, one took to it mainly because of a knitting website BUT I DID teach my then 10 year ( now 12) granddaughter to knit. don't know that she's stuck with it, but it does show I can teach it ;-)
But I initially want to thank you, Anna, for taking us to the EYF!! Oh how I'd love to go and taking my knitting daughter with me!! I've been to Scotland once and once is definitely NOT enough!! Thank you for telling and showing us about it, that was so very lovely
Thank you thank you thank you Anna!!!! for giving us this lovely inside at EYF. Maybe I can manage to go there one day.
Vanessa
Oh Vanessa it would be so nice to meet you at EYF! I hope very much that it will be possible one day :)
Your work is beautiful.....:-)
It was wonderful to hear about your time at EYF - what an incredible trip! xo.
Thank you dear Tommi! ❤️
It was lovely catching up with you today. I don’t know about you but I’m missing everyone from EYF. The woodwork of your friend is amazing . SO beautiful!
Hi Kate, so nice to hear from you! Yes I miss the wonderful people at EYF incredibly. Wish we could have such events more often... and that we all lived closer together!
Dear Anna!
It was so nice to see you talk about all the fun you had at the festival! Really enjoyed your videos of everyone dancing and it felt so nice to see so many familiar places in one place :) I can imagine how overwhelming it can get but you managed to find the time and energy to film some bits for us who couldn't attend this wonderful event. Thank you so much for sharing it with us!
love from New Zealand,
Marina
Oh yes and those colours for the yoke (how do you spell it? ) are absolutely you! Can't wait to see them all knit up :)))
Thank you, dear Marina! I am happy you enjoyed the festival recap :)
I was waiting for your episode, and now I'm sure why - so many nice and sencerely words for EYF! The bowl blow my mind :)
Thank you :) I am happy you liked it!
Hi Anna.
Your EYFshawl is looking só beautiful with the colours of your own yarn!
The wooden yarnbowl is super, those pins are so handy to keep the yarn in place👍🏼. Was that your idea?
What a beautiful souvenirs and memories you have from EYF; have fun with them all!
Thank you Marjan! No the pins were my friends original idea. He is an engineer, so he has a very practical way of thinking :)
Great video! Thank You!
Thank you!!
The festival was sooo intense! And wonderful. It was such a joy to go with you :* Yay for the neon socks being so close to completion!
I have just ordered Jamieson's of Shetland yarn for Eli's colorwork sweater! :D Yay for colorwork!
It was the best thing to go with you!! Ohhhh I can't believe you have ordered shetland yarn. I hope you will love it. And no more growing and blocking out way larger than allowed ;-) Can't wait to see which colors you chose!
This will be my second time knitting with Shetland wool, the first project being my shawl from my handspun yarn. I've already started swatching, Jamieson's feels rougher than my handspun! :o
Love your podcast, really nice footage of EYF at the end. Such a treat to see Steven West dancing up a storm, lol! I've never been to EYF but maybe one day. Glad you had such a lovely time :-)
Oh thank you! It was so much fun to see Stephen West dancing at the ceilidh... I hope you can make it to EYF some day too!
Oh my, what a treat that episode was! I can imagine how overwhelming it could be. What amazing company you had. One day I'll get to EYF - not so easy being a teacher in Australia when our Term 1 starts at the end of January but your footage and talk made me feel as if I had a taste of it. I adore all your colour choices and can't wait to see what you make - thank you from @knittingpoppy
Hey Poppy, thank you so much! It would be amazing if you could make it one day - but oh what a long way!
dunkelgrün I do come to Europe twice a year to see family, but in June/July and December/January. This one is just at the wrong time!
Hi!! Miss you already :-D You would have laughed to hear me squeal when I saw you raise your Toph up to the camera. LOVED this episode as always, and I'm already looking forward to next year. That New Lanark yarn is amazing. See you! xx
Ohhh Marce I miss you tooo 😘
It was so lovely meeting you at EYF! I hope we'll meet again :D
Sounds like a fabulous time! I too get overwhelmed at festivals and forget what I want to look for, so I always make a detail list of vendors to checkout, as well as the amounts and colors of wool I want.
This is certainly what I will do next year! I didn't really have anything I really "needed" or wanted this time, but it would have been very helpful!
What a lovely recap of the festival. I think the most important was the people and making connections. I haven't said hello, only to Magdalena sorry for that. We live close, so one day we can all get together for a tea or two :) Hugs.
Hi Gabriela! I saw you for a quick moment I think, but then you were gone. I actually "know" you from your instagram and the few podcast episodes you put out some time ago. I wonder if you maybe feel like reviving your podcast? :-) It would be great to get together for tea and knitting chat!
I have been imagining a yarn bowl just like that!!
Isn't it pretty :)
That yarn bowl is fantastic love the pins so you are not committed to keeping the yarn in it!
Yes it really is so practical!
Fantastic podcast you have. I found out that Trollenwol is placed in the city where my aunt lives. So as a Scandinavian I will go to Holland to by cool yarn. Thank you!
Oh how nice! Highly recommend going there :) Thank you for your lovely comment!
ooh, you met Isabelle on the plane :) nice episode by the way!
Thank you 😊 yes it was so nice to meet Isabelle!
Another lovely episode! Enjoyed hearing about your EYF stories :) I have to say, I know exactly the feeling you describe about being judged based on age while yarn shopping. I am 32 and I've felt that too, although some times I wonder if it's real or perceived; as I tend to always feel like i'm being judged in public or that I don't belong anywhere- it's the anxious introvert in me. Any how, take care, Anna
Thank you Melissa! The "anxious introvert" feeling and thinking people will judge me is certainly something I do to. I think most older knitters actually get absolutely delighted when they find someone our age who is that much into knitting, and it might be also our task to show them (because their assumption that most young people don't care about the craft is not so wrong). Anyways, the beauty of the knitting community is that people of all ages and backgrounds are connected by their love for wool and knitting :)
I think you are right
Anna, thanks for sharing your EYF story. It was my dream to go but I just had a baby 3 months ago so it wasn't practical but I was SO wishing for it. So your account helped me feel a little bit of that joy for myself. I completely relate to your story of it not feeling real until you stood there with your own ravelry pin. That is how I feel..hoping one day I can join. Wanted to ask you what is your recommendation for sourcing undyed yarn..a merino blend perhaps or whatever you love) for dyeing? Love to see all your hand dyed work!!
Hi Ruth! I am happy to hear you could feel a little bit of the EYF joy as well. I hope you can make it to a fiber festival near you soon. I know how it is to look at all the pictures and videos and not being able to go. But one day you will! All the best to you and your little baby!
dunkelgrün Hi Anna, can you tell me where you get your undyed yarn that is eco treated for dyeing? Is it local or do you order online? Really inspired by your hand dyeing!!
Sorry I forgot to answer that. Yes I get it locally, and unfortunately I don’t know a place outside of Switzerland who sells something similar. But I’m always keeping my eyes open 😉 if you would like some just for your own use, I could get some undyed skeins and send them to you!
Oooh the withdrawals!!! D':
Sooo much!!
keep it up you are boing good
Thank you Clayton, that’s very nice of you!
Anna! I know what you mean about going into a knitting shop and not being taken seriously. One time a woman just led me directly to the big chunky bright colored stuff without listening to what I was looking for. She kept saying that's what all the young people like to buy! I was like are you serious! She didn't even ask what I was shopping for. So frustrating. I have avoided these situations by always making sure I wear something intricate or impressive haha
Hahaha I love the idea of wearing something intricate or impressive! Once I bought some basic sock yarn as a contrasting color in a LYS here in Zurich and the lady asked me "Do you have the needles?"... hmmm 😆 I am sure she meant it in a kind way, but it felt like she thought I had no idea about knitting.
Lovely podcast ❤
Thank you!
-Love the woodwork, so much more elegant than a simple dowel. sigh. Watched you while finishing knitting seedstitch scarf in my first handspun 2 ply yarn. alas, it was more uneven than you do so 4oz fiber really made more of a collar.sigh. So many years of using commercial yarn in wild abandon is nothing like using homespun is it. deeper sigh.
Oh handspun is the most precious to work with. Don't worry about the irregularities... that's what makes it so charming :)
Have never been to a knitting/crochet yarn confernce, though had been to handweaving one (with lots of yarns and tools). Thank you for showing info and people and yarns! Have been experimenting again with natural dyes on yarns and fabrics and reading about fermenting dying (ancient techniques - Kirsta Vajanto-paper on ironage dying in Finland (mentions fiber stronger after this method! ) there is a a FB group also. www.exoriente.de/cms/faerberei.html?&L=3 , Mentions fermenting the fiber so it will recieve the dye better and be less feltable ( nature made "superwash" ). Still trying to figure the steps /materials to use.
Wow thank you for this interesting information! I’ll have to read more about that!
Lovely to see you enjoyed your trip. Could you dye the white John Arbon yarn with tea to darken it a bit without having to purchase more? Just wondering...
Hi! Yes my first thought was also to dye it. But then I realized I had a very specific shade of light beige in mind and without doing some tests it would be unlikely to achieve that. And the yarn is non-superwash and very fuzzy... so I couldn’t use a different yarn as a substitute. That’s why I went with the order of an additional skein. And it arrived already and it’s perfect! John Arbon is great 😁
What a fantastic time! I loved hearing about it and seeing some video! There was a friend of yours in a yoke sweater that was natural color MC with pink, orange, green and brown CC (she was wearing a scarf) could you please tell me the name of the sweater pattern or her name, I just love it! Thank you, Anna!!
I found it!! :)
Thank you Virginia! Great that you found her but I will answer in case someone else has the same question. I also really loooooved that sweater! It’s the Birkin sweater (I think) and the wonderful lady wearing it is Laerke from the Fibertales podcast!
The one I was thinking of is Telja by Jennifer Steingass, made by finfrost on Ravely. But now I want to go look for this Birkin! :)
love this. did you dye the curtain behind you?
Ohh dein selbstgesponnenes Garn sieht verstrickt richtig toll aus! Jetzt freue ich mich noch mehr aufs verspinnen :) Die Malabrigo Lace ist übrigens auch nicht-sw :)
Danke für den Hinweis! Ich hab mich gerade mal schlau gemacht, und festgestellt, dass es bei Malabrigo noch so einiges an non-superwash gibt. Da hab ich zu schnell geplappert und werde hoffentlich nächstes Mal daran denken mich zu korrigieren :-)
so was ähnliches ist mir auch schon passiert, aber man kann ja nicht immer auf alles achten :D
i wish i could do that
You can learn it too! TH-cam has many great tutorials and knitting is not only for grannies anymore 😉
thats 🆒
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