You 3 are getting better and better together, so natural on screen. But I have just one thing to say about this very full episode: Simone’s sweater is to die for. It is the single most beautiful thing ever! Xx
So I’m sitting here listening to you all talking about finish it or scrap it while I’m unknitting a bolero . The yarn is an acrylic fuzzy, precluding just pulling the needles and pulling the yarn. It requires unknitting each stitch and sometimes pulling the fuzzies before you unknitting the next stitch. I made a really dumb, stupid mistake that I didn’t realize until I had sewn up the seams. It took me some time to make my decision. Do I want this bolero? Yes. Do I want it in this yarn? Yes. Do I have enough leftover to make it again? No. Does it really bug me that I ( who have been knitting for more than probably sixty years ) have made such a stupid mistake? Yes. Am I going to unknit this and do it right?YES! Listening to the three of you enjoying yourselves so much lightens the task and, believe it or not I’m enjoying this.😏
The Lady Slipper flower is the Minnesota State Flower. I cross stitched these in my youth. You can still find patterns out there for them. We often have the flowers in fabric also. Don't give up making your flowers.
STUNNING Sweater Simone!❤ Great episode, Thank you Ladies ...and Ken. I think I have more of Betsy 'a mindset about my knitting. I don't mind ripping something out that I am not loving. I don't have any knitting buddies(you are it) so don't really get any feedback on my knitting. I am OK with that😂 🥰Sharon.
💚 Love the knitty gritty this time around. I do generally finish things because I have a vision of what I want. But… I can call it when something just isn’t working out … sometimes!! Sometimes I also finish a garment and as soon as I try it on I know I’m not going to wear it. Then if I love the yarn still I will rip and repurpose the yarn to something better. If I don’t like the yarn anymore I’ll either give it away or bin it as a worse case scenario. I purge my stash regularly - maybe only every 5-10 years - but I’ve been knitting for a long time. I give away all the yarns or projects that I can’t bear to look at any more. All different reasons for that. Very freeing 🥰
Oh, Betsy. Just when I thought I liked you...:) Lace with laceweight is my absolute FAVORITE! That and socks. I just believe in a LOT of stitch markers and frequent lifelines. Simone, Chestnut is fabulous! I'd never take it off. And, Kim, I think that the reason that the first couple of rows after adding the sleeves is that you're spreading out that circle that you were just doing when you were doing the sleeve and making it stretch to the front and back of the sweater.
Thanks for sharing your joy! Completely agree with the need to be kind to yourself, embrace what you like and channel that into your knitting projects.
March 15th my son's 40th Birthday, I'm seeing this early on the 16th in Australia, always love having my coffee to the stories and laughter. The knitty gritty topic gave food for thought. I am a finisher, mainly because I am a new knitter, maybe 3-4 years so all projects and their parts are a learning experience. However, when the finished object is not to my liking, either yarn choice or style or fit, when it is done, I'm not adverse to frogging the entire thing and repurposing the yarn or giving the yarn away. All lessons learnt. I do sit with it for a bit to see if my assessment changes. If I like something but find I don't wear it or use it, I ask myself why, and modify it, which adds to the learning. I love Simone's button band story, another bit of info for me to add to a future project.
I am looking forward to see if Kim has enough yarn to finish the top of her Treit sweater, I bet she does. The crochet dog is wonderful ! I also like the JasmineTea Shawl. I really appreciate your Knitty Gritty discussion. I prefer to buy yarn for a specific project, but I find myself wanting to knit so many things and not having ennough time to do it all. So yanr end up accumulating as my queue grows. Great harmony part !!! I bet the skunk is happily lapping from the stream ...
Thank you for sharing how you create and take joy in repurposing yarn project that don’t bring you joy. We are all so different and we should do what brings us joy alway😊
great episode ladies, lots of really thoughtful discussion and perspectives. Simone explaining how the button band was worked took me a while to understand, then I got it and it makes so much sense, will certainly be doing that technique when I do my first steeked cardigan but I have to spin the yarn first. Like you Kim,, my default is fine and it is a real challenge to create a thicker consistent yarn.
Thanks for another fun episode! I rarely frog anything- if I am not thrilled with the results, there is always someone in my family who is happy to take the garment. I had a bumper crop last year: I knit 23 sweaters, five of which were for my granddaughters. I think around 11 of them were tests. Probably why I finish so much is that I do a lot of test knitting and there is always a deadline. I have done around 55 tests in the last five years. I have finished four sweaters so far this year, two of them more tests. I have three more still on the needles and two of them are tests. But I think I’m going to focus on accessories for a while. I call it “Accessory April”. After all, how many sweaters do I actually need? 🇨🇦🇫🇮
Another wonderful episode! I do not knit or crochet but I have been watching Fleece & Harmony since your first episode ! Love Harmony Reads as well (I do read😉) and of course, The Harmony Part, Ken👍 I have not commented in ages but never miss an episode or your beautifully written newsletters, Kim🤗 So happy to hear your bunny is doing well and I think of Diva often. Okay, I can not get over home much work and time you all put into your fabulous podcast. Oh and Betsy and Simone are a joy to watch, not to mention all of your interaction 😀 Great, great channel Everyone!!
Team Betsy for the win! Truly loved hearing about all your projects and mindsets. We are all wired differently but the beauty is knowing and embracing oneself.
Simone, I would love to see a tutorial (or demonstration) of how you picked up the button band for your cardigan. It looks amazing and so much neater than the unfinished look that you usually get with the steek ends. Brilliant!
Kim! I understand your desire to finish projects. 🙂 When I retired from teaching 5 years ago, I pulled out projects that I had laid aside when my first child was born. I finished a cross stitch throw (cross-stitched flowers in the squares of the fabric) that had been waiting 32 years! I finished a maple leaf quilt which my mother began in 1977. I embroidered her name and mine on the edge of the quilt. I love to rescue old projects of mine or my family. I have an English hexagon paper pieced quilt which my grandmother wasn’t able to finish before she died. I want to finish it in her memory & honor.
What a great episode. Loved the discussion on how we assess our projects and whether or not to complete them. Betsy's expression joy o er frustration is on of the best. Simone's jacket is delightful. xxx
Another wonderful Saturday morning with you gals😊. I really enjoyed your discussion on “to finish or not to finish”!😊. And as always my new puppy loved the Harmony Part.
Love Simone's knitting projects 🧡💚💛 My favorite podcast 💙🩵 Kim I do identify with you, I never quit. Sometimes I finish a knitting or crocheting project and frog it after a year or two 😅 and repurpose the yarn 🧶 and I don't care because knitting or crocheting makes me happy 😁
So much fun on a Friday - it’s always my favorite time of Friday when I see the episode drop. You never disappoint and the three of you sharing your projects and inspirations make my day! ❤ Each segment has me talking to you all and stopping to replay parts. Oh - I’m a Betsy - sometimes finish projects out of more judgment fear than anything else…and a lot of little interests/bits/stops-starts. I have a harder time stopping books - so I may skim/slog through it, but projects - oh, so many WIPS.
Fantastic discussion! As I’m watching this episode I’m repurposing a Rowan yarn (already discontinued) that I was using on a Rowan cardigan 15 years ago, I cannot remember why I stopped knitting it, maybe it was to complicated for me at that time. Well I took it out of the dungeon and began to knit the Eva cardigan. The yarn is beautiful and I’m happy. As a 71 year old I want and I need to be in Team Betsy, I have no time to waste!!!
It’s always such fun watching your podcasts. For anyone who wants to see amazing cross stitch, Lost in Stitches is Lisa from Edmonton. I wondered what Flosstube was when she showed up in my suggestions and I didn’t know such intricate stitching was possible.
So funny about finishing things! Frogging things is so critical to my process-I’m constantly trying a pattern with a yarn, frogging it and trying something else, or changing the colors, etc! I like to experiment a lot. 😊
Great podcast! thank you for the inspiration, ideas and teachings!! awsome stuff. And that Chestnut sweater is just amazing. Simone, you are so amazing....and keep up the google talk....you always teach me something so interesting!
I loved the conversation about WIPs that are assigned RIP! 😂 Simone please do a tutorial about your steek sandwich with Judy’s Magic Cast On. I recently finished knitting a colorwork cardigan and to secure the steek I needle felted the steek stitches. I’m waiting for the delivery of the Nordic clasps to make design decisions and complete the cardigan. Enjoy the projects🙌
There is a book Unbraided - The Art and Science of Spinning Colour that shows differnt types of braids spun in various styles. The book also shows knitted swatches of the yarn. It has so many great photos. I found it very helpful for planning the yarn that you might want to spin. I thought you might like it too if you don't already own it. 🙂 I love that you are showing more spinning!
Hi Simone, after seeing your wonderful English paper piecing work this past year, I have been inspired to sign up for the workshop at the Fibre Festival. Excited!
Love your Chestnut Simone. I have used the technique that you used for the button band and agree that it gives a nice finish. I find trying to pick up stitches on the back of the band after the one side is knit very frustrating so wrapping the yarn around another needle as you pick up for the front of the band is the only way to go.
Just a little info on the Haunui sheep from New Zealand. Always enjoy the podcast. HAUNUI is a fusion of New Zealand Halfbred and Fine Romney stock bred on a family owned sheep station now belonging to John and Fiona Gardner on the South Island (South Canterbury) of NZ. Several generations of the family have selectively bred these sheep since the 1980's.
Thanks for a rescue as I was in trouble over making an Easter bunny for Easter for 4 yo, was giving up when I saw this video and jumped on the rabbit pattern which I had forgotten about. I was in ptsd over this bunny but her knit instructions were so so much better. It is smaller and there are tiny parts as the yarn is a light fingering so a little fidly but so it’s done off to mail tomorrow. Oh she fits in my hand!
I love every podcast! Simone's cardi is AMAZING!! A tip for Kim knitting the lace part of Treit...use markers to mark out each 12 stitch grouping. I did that with my first Treit & I continue to use markers in all colorwork chart segments. I love that you were starting a new British show!! You 3 gals bring such joy! ❤
Also it is helpful to figure out what type of knitter you’re so you will not do what I did, starting with a yarn box subscription and getting really excited with the new box selection each month and not realizing until way down the road that you have no idea what you’re are going to knit with it. And can’t give them away either. Also it is very hard to get excited to knit a sweater in CA when you know that you will never need to wear it. Every time I see those beautiful sweaters and shawls you guys make I tell my daughter that we must move to Canada, so I can knit and wear it.
Loved this episode. Made me laugh out loud. I am knitting a sweater in Point Prim Sock yarn as I watch……this is the third try…previous two, pattern donot suit the yarn or me. Now it’s going great, I do believe the yarn will tell you what it wants to be! I often abandon a project, but not the yarn, I will just try again. Hope your March goes out like a lamb not a lion!
Please please, Simone share the two sided button band in a tutorial or write it out. I am still working on Marie Wallin's Cowslip, which I am making into a cardigan. Your button band would be ideal. Thank you.
My sister took 30 years to finish a child’s sweater, she was knitting it for her daughter but by the time she finished it it fit her granddaughter. It was intasia and it looked great. However in 30 years the quality of wool has improved. I’m mostly like Kim, I have to finish what I started with the rare exception.
Ooooh I'm loving the new idea for doing a steek sandwich. That is BRILLIANT! I'm going to try that the next time I have to encase a steek. It is such a polished finish. Just wondering Simone if you 3 needle bind-off did you then just grab a stitch as you go along for attaching your eye-cord? You look stunning wearing your cardigan. Loving everyone's' project/s progress. I so enjoy how much the three of you love 'everything fibre'....I just smile and keep thinking it so nice to listen to people who 'get it'. Thanks for a great episode!
Simon's cardigan is gorgeous! I used some old yarn for a sweater pattern instead of the yarn suggested. The yarn was so splitty and although I finished the sweater I doubt I'll ever wear it. I plan on buying the yarn prescribed at some future date because I really like the pattern.I liked hearing all your philosophies on projects and yarn give a ways. I've started trimming my stash piles.
You ladies are really fun to watch. When I first started knitting years ago I wouldn’t change anything in a pattern not even the yarn color. lol Now I’ll change color, length, ribbing etc. I also am able now to not finish a book if I’m not into it but that took a long time too. 😂
Thanks for another episode filled with so much to ponder :). Loved seeing the List of Five again! I am in the "must finish sometime" camp, but have recently decided to not deprive myself of the joy of just knitting which I was tending to do
I'm picturing the orchid chart now.... I happen to be making knitted cactus and have not assembled the different stems yet. At the moment they look like tiny woolen condoms, but the finished projects look great, so I am proceeding.
Blown away by Simones Chestnut. Did you steek the armholes as well? I couldn’t tell if it was a set in sleeve or not. Did you have to do it flat at some point.? Do you have this sweater as a Ravelry project with notes? If so what is your Ravelry name. First time watching and it’s been quite fun to knit with you. As Arnold says. “I’ll be back”
Yes I am very creative so Embroidery , Crewel Art in diff meiums and lots of knitting doesnt work or I give a lot away too . I almost cant follow a pattern completely so ya I take a chance but more doesnt work out then if I was figuing every detail out . we probably enjoy either planning or not planning too. lol all are needed in this world .
I’d like to recommend a children’s book called our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm by ( I think) Martin and Alice Provensen. Your skunk discussion and your animal stories reminded me of it.
Have the same problem. Can no longer spin thicker, and when I try its terribly inconsistently an uneven thickness. I dont like unfinished wips. I was a yarn collector during Covid and paid a lot of money. So I wont gift it. I feel burdened by them hanging around and dont have unfinished wips. A lot of knitting pattern only cater for yarns from Europe/USA that we cant get in Australia, which is annoying. So we are always trying to substitute yarns.
The dog chased a skunk who went down a hole into my brother-in-law's well to the house... it had to be drained. The water was stinky for about 6 months.
Simone was knitting the Chestnut in Marie Wallin's yarns. Marie sells a kit for it on her website. Here is the link: mariewallin.com/products/chestnut-kit
The 3 of you make me happy
You 3 are getting better and better together, so natural on screen.
But I have just one thing to say about this very full episode: Simone’s sweater is to die for. It is the single most beautiful thing ever! Xx
Your most enjoyable podcast!
Each of your items show wonderful possibilities.
So I’m sitting here listening to you all talking about finish it or scrap it while I’m unknitting a bolero . The yarn is an acrylic fuzzy, precluding just pulling the needles and pulling the yarn. It requires unknitting each stitch and sometimes pulling the fuzzies before you unknitting the next stitch. I made a really dumb, stupid mistake that I didn’t realize until I had sewn up the seams. It took me some time to make my decision. Do I want this bolero? Yes. Do I want it in this yarn? Yes. Do I have enough leftover to make it again? No. Does it really bug me that I ( who have been knitting for more than probably sixty years ) have made such a stupid mistake? Yes. Am I going to unknit this and do it right?YES! Listening to the three of you enjoying yourselves so much lightens the task and, believe it or not I’m enjoying this.😏
I am grateful for people like you 3 that take the time to entertain us while we knit .
I really enjoy the three of you as well as this episode. I always feel more grounded in my knitting and life after watching your podcasts. Thank you!
OMG Let's all bow down to Simone. Wish I was that talented. 🙃
You are fortunate to have each other. Another fabulous and entertaining podcast. Thank you.
The Lady Slipper flower is the Minnesota State Flower. I cross stitched these in my youth. You can still find patterns out there for them. We often have the flowers in fabric also. Don't give up making your flowers.
STUNNING Sweater Simone!❤ Great episode, Thank you Ladies ...and Ken. I think I have more of Betsy 'a mindset about my knitting. I don't mind ripping something out that I am not loving. I don't have any knitting buddies(you are it) so don't really get any feedback on my knitting. I am OK with that😂 🥰Sharon.
💚 Love the knitty gritty this time around. I do generally finish things because I have a vision of what I want. But… I can call it when something just isn’t working out … sometimes!! Sometimes I also finish a garment and as soon as I try it on I know I’m not going to wear it.
Then if I love the yarn still I will rip and repurpose the yarn to something better. If I don’t like the yarn anymore I’ll either give it away or bin it as a worse case scenario.
I purge my stash regularly - maybe only every 5-10 years - but I’ve been knitting for a long time. I give away all the yarns or projects that I can’t bear to look at any more. All different reasons for that.
Very freeing 🥰
Oh, Betsy. Just when I thought I liked you...:) Lace with laceweight is my absolute FAVORITE! That and socks. I just believe in a LOT of stitch markers and frequent lifelines.
Simone, Chestnut is fabulous! I'd never take it off.
And, Kim, I think that the reason that the first couple of rows after adding the sleeves is that you're spreading out that circle that you were just doing when you were doing the sleeve and making it stretch to the front and back of the sweater.
Love your Chestnut Simone. It is a work of art. I really enjoyed the Nitty Gritty section. Good discussion. Thanks for the episode ladies.
Thanks for sharing your joy! Completely agree with the need to be kind to yourself, embrace what you like and channel that into your knitting projects.
March 15th my son's 40th Birthday, I'm seeing this early on the 16th in Australia, always love having my coffee to the stories and laughter. The knitty gritty topic gave food for thought. I am a finisher, mainly because I am a new knitter, maybe 3-4 years so all projects and their parts are a learning experience. However, when the finished object is not to my liking, either yarn choice or style or fit, when it is done, I'm not adverse to frogging the entire thing and repurposing the yarn or giving the yarn away. All lessons learnt. I do sit with it for a bit to see if my assessment changes. If I like something but find I don't wear it or use it, I ask myself why, and modify it, which adds to the learning. I love Simone's button band story, another bit of info for me to add to a future project.
I am looking forward to see if Kim has enough yarn to finish the top of her Treit sweater, I bet she does. The crochet dog is wonderful ! I also like the JasmineTea Shawl. I really appreciate your Knitty Gritty discussion. I prefer to buy yarn for a specific project, but I find myself wanting to knit so many things and not having ennough time to do it all. So yanr end up accumulating as my queue grows. Great harmony part !!! I bet the skunk is happily lapping from the stream ...
Thank you for sharing how you create and take joy in repurposing yarn project that don’t bring you joy. We are all so different and we should do what brings us joy alway😊
great episode ladies, lots of really thoughtful discussion and perspectives. Simone explaining how the button band was worked took me a while to understand, then I got it and it makes so much sense, will certainly be doing that technique when I do my first steeked cardigan but I have to spin the yarn first. Like you Kim,, my default is fine and it is a real challenge to create a thicker consistent yarn.
Thanks for another fun episode! I rarely frog anything- if I am not thrilled with the results, there is always someone in my family who is happy to take the garment. I had a bumper crop last year: I knit 23 sweaters, five of which were for my granddaughters. I think around 11 of them were tests. Probably why I finish so much is that I do a lot of test knitting and there is always a deadline. I have done around 55 tests in the last five years. I have finished four sweaters so far this year, two of them more tests. I have three more still on the needles and two of them are tests. But I think I’m going to focus on accessories for a while. I call it “Accessory April”. After all, how many sweaters do I actually need? 🇨🇦🇫🇮
Another wonderful episode! I do not knit or crochet but I have been watching Fleece & Harmony since your first episode ! Love Harmony Reads as well (I do read😉) and of course, The Harmony Part, Ken👍 I have not
commented in ages but never miss
an episode or your beautifully written newsletters, Kim🤗 So happy to hear your bunny is doing well and I think of Diva often. Okay, I can not get over home much work and time you all put into your fabulous podcast. Oh and Betsy and Simone are a joy to watch, not to mention all of your interaction 😀 Great, great channel Everyone!!
Team Betsy for the win! Truly loved hearing about all your projects and mindsets. We are all wired differently but the beauty is knowing and embracing oneself.
Simone, I would love to see a tutorial (or demonstration) of how you picked up the button band for your cardigan. It looks amazing and so much neater than the unfinished look that you usually get with the steek ends. Brilliant!
Kim! I understand your desire to finish projects. 🙂 When I retired from teaching 5 years ago, I pulled out projects that I had laid aside when my first child was born. I finished a cross stitch throw (cross-stitched flowers in the squares of the fabric) that had been waiting 32 years! I finished a maple leaf quilt which my mother began in 1977. I embroidered her name and mine on the edge of the quilt. I love to rescue old projects of mine or my family. I have an English hexagon paper pieced quilt which my grandmother wasn’t able to finish before she died. I want to finish it in her memory & honor.
Love it!
Wow, Simone! The way you did the button band is wonderful! That's a great way to finish the sweater! Great job as always!
Yes, please! We need a tutorial about that button band, it’s beautiful 😍
What a great episode. Loved the discussion on how we assess our projects and whether or not to complete them. Betsy's expression joy o er frustration is on of the best. Simone's jacket is delightful. xxx
What a fun podcast! You girls are a perfect team. Love listening to you. Have a great week
Another wonderful Saturday morning with you gals😊. I really enjoyed your discussion on “to finish or not to finish”!😊. And as always my new puppy loved the Harmony Part.
There will also be a dog show in Charlottetown the same weekend than the Festival :-)
Love Simone's knitting projects 🧡💚💛 My favorite podcast 💙🩵 Kim I do identify with you, I never quit. Sometimes I finish a knitting or crocheting project and frog it after a year or two 😅 and repurpose the yarn 🧶 and I don't care because knitting or crocheting makes me happy 😁
So much fun on a Friday - it’s always my favorite time of Friday when I see the episode drop. You never disappoint and the three of you sharing your projects and inspirations make my day! ❤ Each segment has me talking to you all and stopping to replay parts. Oh - I’m a Betsy - sometimes finish projects out of more judgment fear than anything else…and a lot of little interests/bits/stops-starts. I have a harder time stopping books - so I may skim/slog through it, but projects - oh, so many WIPS.
Fantastic discussion! As I’m watching this episode I’m repurposing a Rowan yarn (already discontinued) that I was using on a Rowan cardigan 15 years ago, I cannot remember why I stopped knitting it, maybe it was to complicated for me at that time. Well I took it out of the dungeon and began to knit the Eva cardigan. The yarn is beautiful and I’m happy. As a 71 year old I want and I need to be in Team Betsy, I have no time to waste!!!
Loving the kitty gritty section, especially today's.
I find that I laugh out loud with all of you!
It’s always such fun watching your podcasts. For anyone who wants to see amazing cross stitch, Lost in Stitches is Lisa from Edmonton. I wondered what Flosstube was when she showed up in my suggestions and I didn’t know such intricate stitching was possible.
Always a joy. Thank you ladies
Thanks for watching!
So funny about finishing things! Frogging things is so critical to my process-I’m constantly trying a pattern with a yarn, frogging it and trying something else, or changing the colors, etc! I like to experiment a lot. 😊
Great podcast! thank you for the inspiration, ideas and teachings!! awsome stuff. And that Chestnut sweater is just amazing. Simone, you are so amazing....and keep up the google talk....you always teach me something so interesting!
Rowan Cotton Glace is amazing. The softness when you're working with it is just so lovely.
I loved the conversation about WIPs that are assigned RIP! 😂 Simone please do a tutorial about your steek sandwich with Judy’s Magic Cast On. I recently finished knitting a colorwork cardigan and to secure the steek I needle felted the steek stitches. I’m waiting for the delivery of the Nordic clasps to make design decisions and complete the cardigan. Enjoy the projects🙌
Such joy watching you three! Perfect Friday evening knitting and catching up with you ladies. Love love love! 🥰
What a great, interesting and fun episode ! If possible, I would really like to hear a bit more about the button band of Simone's cardigan. ❤❤❤
Simone’s cardigan is absolutely beautiful! I have Weichen’s Arctic Knits and agree that it is a beautiful book and highly recommend it.
Beautiful girls in beautiful handmade pieces
This edition is so much fun to watch. Re the Lady Slipper. For one square could Kim’s niece digitalize a picture for Simone???
Love Simone's hair!
Any chance of a full tutorial on the button band on the Chestnut? Couldn’t follow it all, but will be in a similar position on a cardigan soon.
What a great conversation, I saw myself in all of you.
There is a book Unbraided - The Art and Science of Spinning Colour that shows differnt types of braids spun in various styles. The book also shows knitted swatches of the yarn. It has so many great photos. I found it very helpful for planning the yarn that you might want to spin. I thought you might like it too if you don't already own it. 🙂 I love that you are showing more spinning!
Hi Simone, after seeing your wonderful English paper piecing work this past year, I have been inspired to sign up for the workshop at the Fibre Festival. Excited!
Love your Chestnut Simone. I have used the technique that you used for the button band and agree that it gives a nice finish. I find trying to pick up stitches on the back of the band after the one side is knit very frustrating so wrapping the yarn around another needle as you pick up for the front of the band is the only way to go.
Just a little info on the Haunui sheep from New Zealand. Always enjoy the podcast.
HAUNUI is a fusion of New Zealand Halfbred and Fine Romney stock bred on a family owned sheep station now belonging to John and Fiona Gardner on the South Island (South Canterbury) of NZ. Several generations of the family have selectively bred these sheep since the 1980's.
Another great podcast ladies, thanks so much 🧶
Very uplifting episode today ♥️
Another great video, ladies. Thank you.
Suzanne
Thanks for a rescue as I was in trouble over making an Easter bunny for Easter for 4 yo, was giving up when I saw this video and jumped on the rabbit pattern which I had forgotten about. I was in ptsd over this bunny but her knit instructions were so so much better. It is smaller and there are tiny parts as the yarn is a light fingering so a little fidly but so it’s done off to mail tomorrow. Oh she fits in my hand!
I love every podcast! Simone's cardi is AMAZING!! A tip for Kim knitting the lace part of Treit...use markers to mark out each 12 stitch grouping. I did that with my first Treit & I continue to use markers in all colorwork chart segments. I love that you were starting a new British show!! You 3 gals bring such joy! ❤
Also it is helpful to figure out what type of knitter you’re so you will not do what I did, starting with a yarn box subscription and getting really excited with the new box selection each month and not realizing until way down the road that you have no idea what you’re are going to knit with it. And can’t give them away either. Also it is very hard to get excited to knit a sweater in CA when you know that you will never need to wear it. Every time I see those beautiful sweaters and shawls you guys make I tell my daughter that we must move to Canada, so I can knit and wear it.
Loved this episode. Made me laugh out loud. I am knitting a sweater in Point Prim Sock yarn as I watch……this is the third try…previous two, pattern donot suit the yarn or me. Now it’s going great, I do believe the yarn will tell you what it wants to be! I often abandon a project, but not the yarn, I will just try again. Hope your March goes out like a lamb not a lion!
Please please, Simone share the two sided button band in a tutorial or write it out. I am still working on Marie Wallin's Cowslip, which I am making into a cardigan. Your button band would be ideal. Thank you.
My sister took 30 years to finish a child’s sweater, she was knitting it for her daughter but by the time she finished it it fit her granddaughter. It was intasia and it looked great. However in 30 years the quality of wool has improved. I’m mostly like Kim, I have to finish what I started with the rare exception.
Lovely as always x
Your podcast was full of giggles today! Just what I needed😊thanks for keeping it real
Here for the thumbnail knitcandy❤❤❤
Ooooh I'm loving the new idea for doing a steek sandwich. That is BRILLIANT! I'm going to try that the next time I have to encase a steek. It is such a polished finish. Just wondering Simone if you 3 needle bind-off did you then just grab a stitch as you go along for attaching your eye-cord? You look stunning wearing your cardigan. Loving everyone's' project/s progress.
I so enjoy how much the three of you love 'everything fibre'....I just smile and keep thinking it so nice to listen to people who 'get it'. Thanks for a great episode!
Simon's cardigan is gorgeous! I used some old yarn for a sweater pattern instead of the yarn suggested. The yarn was so splitty and although I finished the sweater I doubt I'll ever wear it. I plan on buying the yarn prescribed at some future date because I really like the pattern.I liked hearing all your philosophies on projects and yarn give a ways. I've started trimming my stash piles.
You ladies are really fun to watch. When I first started knitting years ago I wouldn’t change anything in a pattern not even the yarn color. lol
Now I’ll change color, length, ribbing etc. I also am able now to not finish a book if I’m not into it but that took a long time too. 😂
Very glad to see crochet projects as well❤
I started The Count of Monte Cristo to be ready for next week
Lovely afternoon knitting with you
Thanks for another episode filled with so much to ponder :). Loved seeing the List of Five again! I am in the "must finish sometime" camp, but have recently decided to not deprive myself of the joy of just knitting which I was tending to do
I'm picturing the orchid chart now.... I happen to be making knitted cactus and have not assembled the different stems yet. At the moment they look like tiny woolen condoms, but the finished projects look great, so I am proceeding.
You can mix thick and thin. Looks great.
Blown away by Simones Chestnut. Did you steek the armholes as well? I couldn’t tell if it was a set in sleeve or not. Did you have to do it flat at some point.? Do you have this sweater as a Ravelry project with notes? If so what is your Ravelry name. First time watching and it’s been quite fun to knit with you. As Arnold says.
“I’ll be back”
❤Love your beautiful knits😊
Check out Cheryl Faust and her mosaic shawls
We will see you all in July!
Even when doing a simple 12 stitch lace or colorwork pattern, I use stitch markers.
Yes I am very creative so Embroidery , Crewel Art in diff meiums and lots of knitting doesnt work or I give a lot away too . I almost cant follow a pattern completely so ya I take a chance but more doesnt work out then if I was figuing every detail out . we probably enjoy either planning or not planning too. lol all are needed in this world .
March winds bring April shower that bring May flowers that bloom in june😅
I’d like to recommend a children’s book called our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm by ( I think) Martin and Alice Provensen. Your skunk discussion and your animal stories reminded me of it.
Oh - I haven't heard of that book. I must look it up.
Would like to know the gauge for the treit the chestnut is fabulous
Have the same problem. Can no longer spin thicker, and when I try its terribly inconsistently an uneven thickness. I dont like unfinished wips. I was a yarn collector during Covid and paid a lot of money. So I wont gift it. I feel burdened by them hanging around and dont have unfinished wips. A lot of knitting pattern only cater for yarns from Europe/USA that we cant get in Australia, which is annoying. So we are always trying to substitute yarns.
Could you link the pullovers you showed at the very end?
The dog chased a skunk who went down a hole into my brother-in-law's well to the house... it had to be drained. The water was stinky for about 6 months.
Kindly consider selling Marie wallin chestnut kit plus tutorial. Thx
Simone was knitting the Chestnut in Marie Wallin's yarns. Marie sells a kit for it on her website. Here is the link: mariewallin.com/products/chestnut-kit
male appendages😂😂😂😂You three are hysterical 😳
you need a Great Pyrenees farm dog or 2
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Simone, chart a lady's slipper shoe with a 😉 in the corner.
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Yes I agree sheep r calm and dont like excitment . I cant stand sheep dogs running and scaring them . A shepherd leads them .
OHHHHHHHHHH I will definitely be knitting the Peacock Tee, love it!