Stash Down 2023, my WIPs and a Crafternoon | Hey BrownBerry Knitting Podcast EP 123
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I’m knitting a garter Marler cardigan for myself, and a hooded baby sweater for my grandson. I enjoyed spending time with you today.😊
I so appreciate your focus on normalizing long-term making. Looking at projects in this way supports my as I think about mindful acquisition and thoughtful making. The wrap is lovely and the sweater will be so worth all of your time and efforts. The fabric looks beautiful. Thank you for your welcoming presence.
It’s my pleasure to have you here and part of this conversation, Jane!
Always enjoy your episodes. Lots of best wishes for spring, your beautiful projects and for your Habib. It is going to be wonderful, whenever you complete it. Happy more April.
I just discovered your podcast and it was so smoothing. I am knitting a massive cardigan for a peer and feel slight guilt that it is taking me longer to make. Your reminder was needed today. I have to remember the worth of bringing someone joy with this sweater. Have a lovely day and I look forward to your next episode.
Your opening shots, where you are knitting, and wearing THE CARDIGAN that is the backdrop to your knitting. That is such a perfect image, and such a perfect sweater. I'm also enjoying the community and support in the Discord group. IG's changes which means I see their "suggested posts" and reels, and not the people I follow and with whom I want to communicate, has me on an extended IG vacation. I feel so much more centered and so much less distracted and distractible since I've stopped looking at my feed. I'm enjoying the conversations and the group's focus on our making and our exploring the fiber worlds together. And I'm very glad that you are there. Thanks for the long term project encouragement. I'm hoping my desire to wear my endless sweater will return and overcome the being totally bored with knitting it part of me! I also liked your format of bits of conversation, à la the Not Quite Enough Yarn podcast, joined together. harpingJanet
It's such a bonus treat to share the group space with you, my friend. I totally relate to your comments, here. To have any similarities to Lesley's podcast (which I adore!) is high praise indeed.
Thanks for talking bout your view on knitting comfortably and not focus on speed. I’m not a fast knitter but I enjoy getting into a rhythmic movement. Love your videos.
This format is engaging and enjoyable. I thought I had been listening for much longer than 24 minutes. The way you spliced a little of this and a bit of that was comfortable because it is definitely how I fit my assorted making into daily life. When I choose myself for 10 minutes here, 15 there and get a lot done over the course of a few months. So, I appreciate the variety you offered. I also like that you speak on peace of mind associated with making. I think sometimes because you are on public view there is pressure to have finished items. Speaking about why you let things rest was a nice touch.
Thank you so much, Sonji for this very thoughtful feedback!
Great podcast as usual, I always enjoy your pace and vibe ❤ Damn, girl, you’re one lucky woman being snuggled by that mighty fine looking husband of yours 🤩 I’m very envious 🥹 but you’re a worthy recipient of his love and attention. The shawl is super lovely ❤
I am adding length to a sweater that I finished almost two years ago for my then 3 year old. He is now 5 and wanted to wear this sweater again. The sleeves were way to short... It is a very rewarding project, even though it is not something I love to do. I want to learn to mend and adjust things more often, to make them last longer. You have been an inspiration for me in this endeavour. All the best from the Netherlands, Nanja
Such worthwhile stitch time to give a handmade sweater more life. Yay!
Spun my way through this episode. Very peaceful all round. Thank you.
Happy to keep you company
I really enjoyed your interview with Dr. Hobbs! I’m currently knitting the Traveler Cardigan by Ozetta using the Manchelopis yarn. It’s a beautiful breed (Manchega), but it’s spun into plates and is like knitting with two strands of roving. So this is a slow knitting project because I really have to pay attention to my knitting technique and tension. Not to mention I’m on sleeve island. I like the new format… thanks for sharing.
I love when you ask what we are working on it's so nice to read through what folks have on the go! I'm making a scrappy granny stripe blanket in the hopes of taking it camping in the spring! Inspired by the blanket you brought with you to your backyard camping adventure!
I'm not a monogamous maker so I enjoy bouncing between the projects that call to me ☺️ are other folks in the same boat or more monogamous with their making?
I am so happy I found you! You are a beautiful young lady, you have a very handsome husband, and your voice is so soothing. And I really enjoy your attitude towards knitting. I am 77 years old and live on the west coast of Canada, just 5 minutes from the U.S. border and have been knitting for about 67 years. I am currently working on a sweater that I had almost completed only to try it on and find it to small as my Guage changed for some reason. A first for me but since I enjoy knitting and love the yarn, I am happy to try this again! I look forward to your next visit.
Hello and welcome, Linda! I hope the reworking of that sweater brings you joy in the making all over again.
always so nice to see how your projects are coming along, Marce! i always want to enjoy a project but knit through it so it can be worn or gifted, recently i slowed myself down while knitting myself a cardigan, sat it down while i knit small gifts for Christmas and a birthday sweater for my Grand daughter, just enough time off to come back and pick up all those button band and collar stitches and now i can enjoy the making of it and know it will be done soon, but i don't need to rush, like you like to say, mindful making! thanks for sharing with us, loved the hubby cameo!! ♥
Lynn you totally get it - mindful making.
23:59 I enjoy spending time here with you, seeing your work and hearing your understanding of what we are about as we knit and spin. I just completed a pair of socks which were my January project.
I then cast on for February’s pair with some self striping yarn which has been in a drawer for years. Do you ever find color combinations hideous? I will continue since I sometimes am surprised as time goes by. Hopefully that will happen.
Thanks for sharing your work with us.
Always good to see you! I love when ITS PODCAST TIME! ❤
Hi, Kim! Thank you
Marceline you looked absolutely lovely! Blue is such a great color for you! The hadid sweater is going to be stunning! 🌻
Oh thank you!
Thank you Marce for another lovely peaceful glimpse into your knitting,spinning, making journey❤️My goal this year is to not buy any yarn for 1 year! I love to look at yarn shop updates and I just tell myself “ you can buy this beautiful yarn, just not this year…” It has been pretty easy so far, I’m using up yarns from my stash that have been neglected for too long. It feels so good.👏
That's excellent!
I love getting together with my crafty friends. ❤
Such a treat.
Lovely to see you and your beautiful projects and listen to your always soothing voice.
I finished all my December knitting in December. I'm currently working on two projects I cast on at the beginning of January - both with Festive sets, always have socks on the needles, and will shortly be casting on a cable cardigan that a friend and I are both knitting. I have several long-term WIPs and am hoping to finish one per quarter, but no pressure on myself. Finally, I have a LOT of shawls and wraps that really need to be blocked.
I love a no pressure approach, Janie. Thank you for subscribing and for hanging with me!
Love love love the bits & pieces format! So fun!
February is my “finish all the WIPs and UFOs” month. I find ALL the languishing projects around the house and work on getting then completed. It is amazing how many can pile up, most of them probably just needing ends woven in and blocking 😂.
E Spinners are a blast! I got one to use just for plying but I actually use it quite often
Hi, Zan! I know what you mean about how close to the finish some languishing projects can be - we are nothing if not interesting making creatures LOL
I'm in a stash down group also. I spent yesterday afternoon and this morning sitting on the floor updating my Ravelry stash page. The goal for 2023 is to make from stash FIRST and get all the stash in a 9 cube storage shelf rather than overflowing cubes and bags on the floor 🤣
I believe you can get there, truly. Especially since you're starting with tallying what you have AND you're getting some group support.
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Lovely episode Marceline xxx Thank you for sharing your makes xxx
I appreciate your company - thanks, Elspeth!
I was gifted an e spinner to celebrate my retirement. Very enjoyable. Right now I can only manage one creational craft and that is knitting a Jennifer Steingass sweater. Happy making.
Wow what a great gift!! The gift of more making time :)
I love listening to your chats, Marce. Your mindfulness is encouraging, thanks.
I have been finishing projects as I need the supplies in them. Finished a shawl because I needed the needles and I hadn't worked on it since April of last year. Ripped out a crochet shawl because I wanted to add it to the sweater I'm currently making with the needles I needed. I also finished a crochet shawl/blanket because it was cold in my apartment.
This sounds like the absolute BEST motivation for moving through WIPs!
I am currently knitting the Hinterland sweater by Jennifer Steingass using Berroco Ultra Alpaca tonal in purple as the MC and an unknown teal colored merino blend that was gifted to me as the CC. I purchased the Berroco yarn several years ago and I am so glad to be using it finally. Now that I am knitting it up, I am realizing that this particular yarn has a lot of guard hairs still in it. I am hoping and praying that I will be able to wear the sweater once it is finished. I have become more accustomed to the more rustic wools since learning to knit but I still have a hard time with the guard hairs. Time will tell. I started the sweater in early January and I am just over halfway finished with the yoke. I think I might be on track to finish it by the end of March. 😊
I hope that your sweater finish timing and comfortable wearing worked out Chelsea!
Hi Marci! I finished the step by step sweater since the holidays, it is very simple and knit at a big gauge so it flew off my needles. It’s quite cold here right now, around -25C 🙊, so I am thrilled to have it 🤗🤗 I also finished the Boho texture collage shawl by Annie Lupton. I really enjoyed that project and am enjoying wearing it a ton. Our daughter is expecting so I made 2 pairs of tiny socks for our little baby coming this summer too. I am now knitting socks patiently waiting for wool to come in for my next projects 🤗👌 Happy knitting 😘
So many good things happening over there!
Oooh, it's lovely. funny, I thought of Denise when you pulled it out - it's so very close to her style but not quite - so looking at the project brings thoughts of her but she totally captured you in her choices of colors. Only good friends can do such a thing. I am on a stash busting project. Years ago, I bought 2 GIANT balls of acrylic for a project and then life got in the way and after it sat for a few seasons, I frogged it. Now one at a time, plain white acrylic hats are being created. I donated 6 last week and started another, then got a bug in my ear to make those twisted headbands I didn't know they were double knit, but now I'm convincing my hands to slip every other stitch purlwise when I've been knitting 1x1 for months! LOL, it will be fine. Lots of folks come out here to Joshua Tree thinking it's desert but forgetting that the elevation makes it COLD so the thrift stores that support charities I admire are getting hats and now headbands and I'm improving my tension. WINNING. Your grey sweater is lovely. as is your perspective on the pauses and how knitworthy YOU are! Good to see you Marce - I very much enjoy your videos.
You said it right about Denise and how well our color palettes collide :-) She's the best! Sounds like you're doing some great work over there; how cool to be able to make a modification to something you've done a lot and then keep going in a new way!
I have cast on a pair of socks and plan to use up the little scrap balls of wool at the bottom of my yarn bin . .. you are helping me do this and not be stressed about whether every colour will work perfectly with the next, or how thick the stripes should be and just let it come off my needles on a whim. I'm going to try and enjoy the process and at the end will have a pair of fun socks to wear and keep my own or someone else's feet warm. All the best from Nova Scotia, Canada. (It snowed here yesterday!)
Sounds like a perfect project, Susan!
You are so encouraging. I appreciate you!
I finally decided on the pattern for my friends wedding blanket and I'm so happy I didn't go with my first two choices, but also trusted my instincts that something wasn't quite right for them.
Windy Day Blanket by Purl SoHo. I'm ignoring their colour placements and doing my own thing, making it intentional but also intuitive.
I'm knitting 2 of the throw sizes and grafting them together.
Its definitely slow knitting but I'm hoping to be finished finished finished by their wedding, late summer.
Hooray!! Making the blanket with your instincts right from the start is part of the love in that gift! Encouraging vibes from here >>>>
Hi, Marce. I like sharing bits of your day. I like the idea of My Favourite Colours shawl. I may have a go it. Your Fan and Feather shawl is lovely… I have knit a similar one.
Thanks! Do let me know if you cast on for the wrap!
Still working on my Christmas Eve socks. Had a test knit in January which obviously had a time pressure but my plan for the rest of the year is slow and steady….😊
Slow and steady, right there with you Kate!
The new format is cute - I’ve been thinking about revamping my channel - but right today as I was watching you I split for the sleeves on my jingle pullover and turned the heel on my sock - so that is progress
I really enjoy listening to you you have a nice calm sense about recording
BIG progress! Well done. I hope that a channel format refresh brings you new joy.
Your locs intertwined in you shawl is so beautiful. I have to do the shoulders at the same time or the sweater will be in time-out for awhile before I can face the other shoulder.
My hair and wool are like cousins :-D
I LOVE podcast day with you. You make my day so Lovely. I also love the conversations you create. I have a vest that I started over a year ago that is for my client. It is not hard it uses white buffalo wool & I am procrastinating on it. I need to push through. It is for someone who will cherish it but.... the joy is not there. I am working on 2 sweaters. Laia by Isabelle Kraemer. It has some lace that I need to go slow on because I tend to mess it up. I am also making the Longline Cardigan that I have had kitted for several years by Joji Locatelli. I usually don't have 2 sweaters & a vest going but I felt okay with this so I had something easier to knit on while I have the work. My goal is to work on stash both in my yarn, fibre & patterns. I have all my yarn on Ravelry. I would also like to be making with my homespun. I have some & have not made anything with it for years. In the last few years I have being thinking about my making & why I make. It is not to produce many things it is something that soothes my soul & mind. At one point I wanted to go fast but then anxiety crept in. For me it is a slow journey that needs to fill me up & helps let go of anxiety, depression, etc. Thank you for being in this place. You make my day better.
Hi sweetest Marnie - reflecting on your making why is such a useful way to go. Your comment gave me the warmest fuzzies. Thank you for being such a long-standing supporter.
I am currently knitting on my first pair of cable socks and this is a testknit, but it is really fun to learn something new and I love this challenge. I also prefer the metal chiaogoo needles. Thank you Marceline for this podcast!
You're so welcome, Ann. Happy sock knitting! I'm such a fan of cabled texture, I bet they turn out just as you hope.
Hello from St.Louis Missouri!
Hi Janet - hope you're keeping warm!
Thank you Denise for sharing, your thoughts are so precious. I appreciate that you continually remind me that time spent with a project is injecting love for it and the person you're knitting for 🥰❣️
Good morning 🌞
Hope you're having a lovely day, Suzanne
I am trying to finish WIPs. I have almost 40 of them and I would like to have the finished items. I like that you talk about slow making. Some podcasters have several FOs in a week and I am not like that. It takes me a long time to finish items. I do some of the things you talk about like setting a project aside for one reason or another.
So glad you can relate to some of this. I hope that whichever WIPs you return to that you find new joy in them.
I like the new format. The hubby cameo made me smile. Have a great day.
Thank you! You too!
Hi Marce, I’m working on my Granny stripe blanket. My mom and I started almost a year ago , but she will never see it to completion. To say the least, this will be my most treasured object.
Did you finish the book, American Dirt? Wow ,what a read. I’m almost done. To scared to turn the page- don’t know if I can handle the character having another negative situation.
Thank you for a beautiful episode! It was interesting to watch as you knit Continental on your sweater and English on your wrap. I have found it difficult to Purl Continental and maintain tension. I’m working on that 😄. I’m currently working on my first pullover for myself. I purchased the yarn on sale at Michael’s because my excuse had been that I did not want to purchase a sweater’s quantity of “good” yarn to practice. With this, even if I don’t get the sizing just right, it will be an inexpensive learning experience. Over the years I’ve made cowls, shawls, socks and dolls, but never something that I had to be concerned about gauge in order to wear. I’m making the 3/4 Length Sleeve Classic Pullover pattern from Lion Brand. If it doesn’t fit, I’ll give it away🤷🏽♀️
I hope you’ve had great success with your sweater project!!
Always a joy to see you, dear Marce. I got a little teary at your lovely crafty party.
I haven't gotten together with my crafty mama friends for years and years. Thank you for sharing your crafting adventures
It was truly joyful and I know I am very lucky to have had the chance.
MOre and more I miss having a creative space where I can meet and work alongside other creatives. Soooo I am thinking of starting something like it as well as some classes I have been asked to do, now that we can meet in person again
Erika this is exciting! Hoping that goes well for you (and the group and students when they come)
Thank you for that kind, peaceful podcast, it is the first time I come across your channel and I very much appreciate all you put out in the world.
Small thought on sweater arms: have you tried knitting them two at a time? Not for speed or anything like that, simply to not have to do it all over again right after being finished with the first one.
Welcome and thanks. Yes, knitting 2 at a time is a great way to avoid the second sleeve syndrome. I have done that method in the past.
I have made it a goal to finish all my open projects this year, but haven't been working very fast because of work and family stuff this month. I'm almost done with my first raglan sweater for myself, but I keep putting it in time out because I'm unhappy with the sleeve. I'll get there!
Yes, you totally WILL
Thank you again for creating a calm tranquil space. You just set me up for creating or even not creating. Those days, I have a cuddle with my kitty Catalina and watch the boob tube.
Hi Yasmine! I so appreciate you subscribing and spending time with me.
Hi Marce, I love your podcast, it’s always so relaxing watching you😊 You’re so good about using your stash. My goal for this year is to work on the stash pile of yarn that I bought for particular projects. That electric wheel you were working on was so beautiful, what brand was it? I do have to practice my drop spindling more before I would ever consider getting an electric wheel!😅
Hi! I was using a Daedelus
May I ask, what is the cardigan you are wearing at about 1-2 minutes in? It looks like it has an integrated collar, which I love. Yours is beautiful...so classy!
This is an instant favorite sweater make called The Field Day Cardigan by the designer Hailey Smedley who's brand is Ozetta
@@heyBrownBerry Thanks so much...I will check it out!
I've been taking to heart what you said about slow making. I'm applying that to projects where I spin and then knit or crochet. It has given me so much more joy knowing that that it meant to take a long time. I really relish each moment. Always a lovely podcast!
I am so so glad this resonates. Thanks for letting me know.
Wow, I really love your idea of long-term making. I’ve never thought of approaching projects this way but now I’m excited to cast something on and let it come into being over time. Thank you, Marceline!
You’re most welcome!
I completed two projects…the Guernsey wrap and the Dustland shawl. I have been knitting them for over a year or two. Who’s counting?🥳🥳
AMAZING! Those are significant finishes to be proud of!
Hi Marce, love the new format and really anything you do your channel. just noticed that you knit continental and conventional(?) I only knit continental but would love to try color work and not sure where to start. Any suggestions?
I do knit continental quite often, but I have started knitting English when I feel the fabric or pattern stitches would benefit (my English knitting has a firmer gauge and it's very soothing when I'm doing a lot of knit stitches). I think some good colorwork patterns can be found from Tin Can Knits and I also love simple two color patterns like the Lineate hat by BlueBee Studio.
Lovely to see you and catch up with your making today! I loved the idea of a group of friends meeting together to share crafty interests and have a go at something different! Such a fun way to spend some time! I bet we shall hear you have purchased an e-wheel sometime soon 🤣 I’m going to listen to your interview now which I’m sure I shall enjoy! Take care and thank you for a lovely podcast (and for including your gorgeous husband!) x
Sending hugs, Heather! I am definitely keeping that e-wheel situation in mind heehee
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Hello and warm hugs, Evelyn!