Found your podcast through Knitting with Kim and Jonna, so happy they mentioned you, your pod cast is lovely. Your Yell Cardigan is amazing, it's really so much more then amazing, and I love all the little changes you made. Can't believe you just started spinning, you have a knack for it. I knit the Alaska hat last year for my husband, I love the sweater after seeing yours, makes me want to try it. I love, love, love that you have a book segment, I also am a voracious reader. I will be going back now to watch all your other episodes. Really enjoyed your walk through the beauty of the snow wilderness. I also am living in a white wonderland right now, Washington. Take care and stay safe
I gave birth at home (which is standard here in The Netherlands as you might know) and it was the best thing ever. So tranquil and safe and amazingly powerful. With my second child I was hospitalized 2 weeks before and I didn’t want to give birth outside the hospital because of possible complications. The interesting thing is that intuition and the development of it as a new mom was the most important guidance I had and I didn’t know beforehand that this would happen for me as a medical professional who also had seen a LOT.
You’re gym class was skiing and mine was endless jump roping in a gym and the YMCA 😂. Love love love all your makes. You’re Yell. Stop it. It’s gorgeous, I need to pick that back up so we can twin it up. P. S. SHOW US THE SWEATERS! 😂🤪 I know they’re hiding in there 😉
I’m glad to see you and that you are safe. Although I am in The Netherlands, we saw the news about the fires and I have friends in the mountains around Boulder too so I was very worried. It’s nice to see another knitting doctor. Although I have given up my medical jobs after 15 years, I still resonate a lot with the work of a healthcare professional of course. And knitting is such a great way to get rest and wind down in times like these.
I couldn’t agree more, thanks for being here. Knitting is such self care and soooo important for me to do daily to decompress after what we see and do at work.
I love your Alaska sweater with the fairy lights! So adorable! I have this one in my to make list but I haven't found the perfect yarn combo yet. I'm quite enamoured by the fairy light idea now 🤭
Steamboat looks so beautiful! I'm a winter person myself. Your Yell Cardigan is just gorgeous. My friends lost their house in the Marshall fire (in Louisville) -- just heartbreaking, but they and their dogs are safe and sound. They have insurance and savings and will rebuild, but mentally it's just so hard.
Also! Birth stories! I'm glad to hear that Ina May's guide includes positive ones -- people usually share the most traumatic ones. :O My first childbirth experience was, in fact, traumatic (I have a lot of feelings about how often childbirth is induced NOT for the sake of mom/baby, but for the sake of hospital/MD scheduling -- and I regret that I didn't fight harder against being induced), but my second was EASY and almost magical, mostly unmedicated, just some lidocaine after the birth. Baby was ready, my body knew what to do, no time for an epidural. Out popped my beautiful Bridget less than an hour after we got to the hospital! Sometimes things are easier than you expect. Sending you all good wishes. Also, a short book you might enjoy: A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers. It's a cozy read, especially for the genre, and I'm so glad to see diverse voices and representation in genre fiction now.
It’s so good to hear you are doing well. Your yell cardigan is beautiful! I was apprehensive about giving birth at first. But I had a lovely empowering hospital birth experience for all of my three children. I think a lot of times we only hear the difficult stories and it makes it seem more overwhelming. You are going to do great. Happy new year!
Just found your podcast and love it Maggie 😍 So many beautiful makes and inspiration! Beautiful snowy scenery footage at the end, we have lots of snow here in Muskoka Ontario 🇨🇦 too …minus 33 celsius today 🥶. I am a retired OBS/Delivery nurse and the best advise is what you already said you were going to do, go with the flow and be kind to yourself!! 💓Take care 💓
Loved your episode! Your stories about x-country skiing made me laugh, as that was basically my childhood too. I finally learned to skate ski last winter, and I love it, it's a nice substitute for running in the winter. I also enjoyed the book talk, and will try to pick up Transcendent kingdom soon. You might enjoy Guy Gavriel Kay - lovely historical inspired fantasy. Lions of Al-Rassan was probably my favoirite.
Hi Cheryl - thank you so much for the book recommendations, I will add them to my list! I haven’t learned to skate ski yet - just doing traditional for now - skate skiing seems so hard! So sorry for the late reply, the end of my pregnancy was a difficult time for me, thank you for being here!
Just found your podcast, can't remember who mentioned you but I am so glad I did! Love your knitting aesthetic and the Marie Wallen sweater...........wow, not quite ready to do a pattern of that complexity. Transcendent Kingdom is on my list and you have reinforced that for me with your review. Looking forward to next time. Happy knitting and reading.
Hi Susie! So sorry for the late reply - I have been working nights in the ED and am just re-emerging into the real world! Let me know if you like Transcendent Kingdom!
I just found your podcast and I love that you combine knitting and reading ! I also loved The Name of the wind and was a bit let down by The Wise man's fear. The first one is one of my all-time favourite books, but I don't think I would read the second one again. Can't wait to see your Yell cardigan and more of your podcast!
Hi Cynthia! So sorry for the late reply, I’ve been working nights in the ED and feel like a zombie! I couldn’t agree more about the Kingkiller Chronicles! It isn’t that I didn’t like The Wise Man’s Fear but in comparison to The Name of the Wind it was hands down not as good! Hopefully he will write the last book, but not holding my breath! Ahha
I am so sorry I posted my comment about not finishing The Name of the Wind because my friend told me there wasn't a final book! I have gone back and finished it after your reviews and it is amazing! I will have to read his second book as well. Love your podcast and look forward to seeing you make more this year! I recently bought yarn to make a Yell too. I havent started it yet though.
Hi Maggie lovely first of the year. I love your cardie and I think I need to make a super cabled cardie for myself now. I also love the yell and I have wool for it, so maybe this year? Love the book recs, I have read Homegoing and it was amazing and harrowing. Maybe enough time has passed that I can read Transcendant Kingdom. I love Chimananda Ngozi Adichie, in case you have not heard of her. Good stuff there too. I remember Ina's book. It's very good. Like you, I was apprehensive and wanted to hear lots of positive voices, people are always so keen to tell you the horror stories. I read a few good books and chose home birth in England. I also found a book about tales from all over the world of different stories of people from different cultures and I found that really helpful. Good luck with your rersearch. It seems like you are no longer suffering from morning sickness so that sounds fabulous. Take care, Catherine
Hi Catherine - thank you for being here and for you kind words and recommendations! I will look into Chimananda Ngozu Adichie - I have heard of them but haven’t read anything by them yet!
Hi Maggie, Thanks for such a great episode. After you talked about "12 Dates of Christmas " on your Christmas vlog, I read it & enjoyed it very much. Your Yell cardigan is looking beautiful. I knit Marie Wallin's Samphrey last spring. I used her original colors (very rare for me). Loved knitting it.
Thank you for the episode. I’ve been thinking about you and your family and friends with respect to the fire and I’m glad that you are safe and well. Two recommendations : Taylor E. Owen’s A Thread to Mend Podcast-She made the yell cardigan and did some tweaks to make some of the color work in the shoulder area easier. Her podcast is here on TH-cam. : an audio podcast called “The Longest Shortest Time”. This is about parenting. It starts with the podcaster’s own birth story. The podcaster interviews Ina Garten. You may enjoy that episode in particular. And all the other episodes are high quality and educational. I found this podcast when my daughter was 18 months old or so. I wish I’d found it before giving birth. I
So nice to see you back. Glad you had a great Christmas and time off. My thoughts are with all those who have lost so much. Thanks for the link. Stay safe.
Could you please explain how/where you do the ladder back jacquard? I took a class, but the teacher didn’t do a very good job of explaining how to adapt the process to a colorwork design we might do.
Hi Brenda! You can just add a ladder back stitch wherever you want! I usually do them like every 5 stitches in the same way you would want to catch the float every 5 stitches or so! Since you can’t see it on the front of the fabric it doesn’t matter where you put them!
Thank you for your podcast, I enjoy watching and listening to it, especially as you also look at books and events in your life. The snow scenes are joyful. The book Spinning Silver by Noami Kovik I also enjoyed reading, and it echoes the snowy scenes! Keep well
Really loved this video. Looking forward to getting into knitting this year. Hopefully I can be as talented as you one day. Hopeful for a better 2022 x
Hello from Sweden! Just found your podcast and loved everything about it! Will definitely come back! The book Spinning silver sounds interesting. Will check it out. Thanks for a great episode!
You can just add a ladder back stitch wherever you want! I usually do them like every 5 stitches in the same way you would want to catch the float every 5 stitches or so!
Wow nearly 80 books in a year! How do you manage it? So impressed. Do you sleep? Send some of your book reading mojo my way please. Just getting the hang of color work myself with two hands but not ready for a Marie Wallin yet, well, maybe one of her garments that combines color work and cables, so you get a bit of a break from the color work.
Hi Marla! I recommend listening to some audiobooks while you knit, clean, drive, grocery shop! If you have access to the Libby App you can download audiobooks for free from your library! Marie Wallin is such a fantastic designer- you can do it! The Yell is great because you don’t have to catch floats on more than a couple rounds which makes things easier!
Your kess is amazing. The comments on Ravelry seem to indicate the English version is messed up. Did they correct it? Or did you get the pattern from a different platform?
Gah! So sorry for the very late response - I have been working overnights in the ED and feel like a zombie! You know I haven’t found anything wrong with the pattern so far - perhaps that is only on the book version? That being said, if it is something subtle I probably wouldn’t notice haha! Thanks for being here!
Faff is when something requires more effort than it's worth basically - "what a faff". If someone's faffing it's kind of like dicking around (excuse the French) 😛 Like if you are trying to leave the house and your partner keeps forgetting things or going back inside... something like that.
Thank you so much - sorry for the late response the end of my pregnancy and delivery was crazy but should be uploading more videos now that I am on parental leave!
Happy New year Maggie! Thank you for a wonderful episode. I am also working on Yell. I'm pretty much at the same row as you are, I love it! You have inspired me to learn the LBJ. I'm going to try it with the Alaska hat first. I still don't understand the placement but I'll keep looking.
Hi Sue! I can’t wait to see how it looks! For placement, since they aren’t visible on the front you can put them wherever you want! I usually place them every 5 stitches or so!
Found your podcast through Knitting with Kim and Jonna, so happy they mentioned you, your pod cast is lovely.
Your Yell Cardigan is amazing, it's really so much more then amazing, and I love all the little changes you made.
Can't believe you just started spinning, you have a knack for it.
I knit the Alaska hat last year for my husband, I love the sweater after seeing yours, makes me want to try it.
I love, love, love that you have a book segment, I also am a voracious reader.
I will be going back now to watch all your other episodes.
Really enjoyed your walk through the beauty of the snow wilderness. I also am living in a white wonderland right now, Washington.
Take care and stay safe
My daughter moved from Aurora to San Luis Obispo CA in June. I miss visiting the yarn shops near her, the wild weather and snow!
I gave birth at home (which is standard here in The Netherlands as you might know) and it was the best thing ever. So tranquil and safe and amazingly powerful. With my second child I was hospitalized 2 weeks before and I didn’t want to give birth outside the hospital because of possible complications. The interesting thing is that intuition and the development of it as a new mom was the most important guidance I had and I didn’t know beforehand that this would happen for me as a medical professional who also had seen a LOT.
You’re gym class was skiing and mine was endless jump roping in a gym and the YMCA 😂. Love love love all your makes. You’re Yell. Stop it. It’s gorgeous, I need to pick that back up so we can twin it up.
P. S. SHOW US THE SWEATERS! 😂🤪 I know they’re hiding in there 😉
I’m glad to see you and that you are safe. Although I am in The Netherlands, we saw the news about the fires and I have friends in the mountains around Boulder too so I was very worried.
It’s nice to see another knitting doctor. Although I have given up my medical jobs after 15 years, I still resonate a lot with the work of a healthcare professional of course. And knitting is such a great way to get rest and wind down in times like these.
I couldn’t agree more, thanks for being here. Knitting is such self care and soooo important for me to do daily to decompress after what we see and do at work.
I love your Alaska sweater with the fairy lights! So adorable! I have this one in my to make list but I haven't found the perfect yarn combo yet. I'm quite enamoured by the fairy light idea now 🤭
I love your Alaska sweater! Just beautiful
Steamboat looks so beautiful! I'm a winter person myself. Your Yell Cardigan is just gorgeous. My friends lost their house in the Marshall fire (in Louisville) -- just heartbreaking, but they and their dogs are safe and sound. They have insurance and savings and will rebuild, but mentally it's just so hard.
Happy and healthy New Year. I love your Marie Wallin just watching feels me with overwhelm lol :)) Look forward to knitting with you in 2022!
Also! Birth stories! I'm glad to hear that Ina May's guide includes positive ones -- people usually share the most traumatic ones. :O My first childbirth experience was, in fact, traumatic (I have a lot of feelings about how often childbirth is induced NOT for the sake of mom/baby, but for the sake of hospital/MD scheduling -- and I regret that I didn't fight harder against being induced), but my second was EASY and almost magical, mostly unmedicated, just some lidocaine after the birth. Baby was ready, my body knew what to do, no time for an epidural. Out popped my beautiful Bridget less than an hour after we got to the hospital! Sometimes things are easier than you expect. Sending you all good wishes. Also, a short book you might enjoy: A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers. It's a cozy read, especially for the genre, and I'm so glad to see diverse voices and representation in genre fiction now.
It’s so good to hear you are doing well. Your yell cardigan is beautiful! I was apprehensive about giving birth at first. But I had a lovely empowering hospital birth experience for all of my three children. I think a lot of times we only hear the difficult stories and it makes it seem more overwhelming. You are going to do great. Happy new year!
Just found your podcast and love it Maggie 😍 So many beautiful makes and inspiration! Beautiful snowy scenery footage at the end, we have lots of snow here in Muskoka Ontario 🇨🇦 too …minus 33 celsius today 🥶. I am a retired OBS/Delivery nurse and the best advise is what you already said you were going to do, go with the flow and be kind to yourself!! 💓Take care 💓
Loved your episode! Your stories about x-country skiing made me laugh, as that was basically my childhood too. I finally learned to skate ski last winter, and I love it, it's a nice substitute for running in the winter. I also enjoyed the book talk, and will try to pick up Transcendent kingdom soon. You might enjoy Guy Gavriel Kay - lovely historical inspired fantasy. Lions of Al-Rassan was probably my favoirite.
Hi Cheryl - thank you so much for the book recommendations, I will add them to my list! I haven’t learned to skate ski yet - just doing traditional for now - skate skiing seems so hard! So sorry for the late reply, the end of my pregnancy was a difficult time for me, thank you for being here!
So good to see you back. V glad you had an excellent holiday. Wow, Yell is a beast!..and neatly missed the 'fairyland'.
Yay! Maggie is back!😁 That Marie Walin cardigan looks gorgeous but also intimidating. Can't wait to it progress and finally finish. Happy New Year.
Hi!! Thanks for being here!! It is so much fun - I’m OBSESSED! Soooooo easy to just do one more row, I love colorwork!
Just found your podcast, can't remember who mentioned you but I am so glad I did! Love your knitting aesthetic and the Marie Wallen sweater...........wow, not quite ready to do a pattern of that complexity. Transcendent Kingdom is on my list and you have reinforced that for me with your review. Looking forward to next time. Happy knitting and reading.
Hi Susie! So sorry for the late reply - I have been working nights in the ED and am just re-emerging into the real world! Let me know if you like Transcendent Kingdom!
Oh gosh! I love your beaded trees! Such a pretty sweater!
I just found your podcast and I love that you combine knitting and reading ! I also loved The Name of the wind and was a bit let down by The Wise man's fear. The first one is one of my all-time favourite books, but I don't think I would read the second one again. Can't wait to see your Yell cardigan and more of your podcast!
Hi Cynthia! So sorry for the late reply, I’ve been working nights in the ED and feel like a zombie! I couldn’t agree more about the Kingkiller Chronicles! It isn’t that I didn’t like The Wise Man’s Fear but in comparison to The Name of the Wind it was hands down not as good! Hopefully he will write the last book, but not holding my breath! Ahha
I am so sorry I posted my comment about not finishing The Name of the Wind because my friend told me there wasn't a final book! I have gone back and finished it after your reviews and it is amazing! I will have to read his second book as well. Love your podcast and look forward to seeing you make more this year! I recently bought yarn to make a Yell too. I havent started it yet though.
Ahhhhh let me know how your Yell goes - so far I am LOVING it!!!
Hi Maggie lovely first of the year. I love your cardie and I think I need to make a super cabled cardie for myself now. I also love the yell and I have wool for it, so maybe this year? Love the book recs, I have read Homegoing and it was amazing and harrowing. Maybe enough time has passed that I can read Transcendant Kingdom. I love Chimananda Ngozi Adichie, in case you have not heard of her. Good stuff there too. I remember Ina's book. It's very good. Like you, I was apprehensive and wanted to hear lots of positive voices, people are always so keen to tell you the horror stories. I read a few good books and chose home birth in England. I also found a book about tales from all over the world of different stories of people from different cultures and I found that really helpful. Good luck with your rersearch. It seems like you are no longer suffering from morning sickness so that sounds fabulous. Take care, Catherine
Hi Catherine - thank you for being here and for you kind words and recommendations! I will look into Chimananda Ngozu Adichie - I have heard of them but haven’t read anything by them yet!
Hi Maggie, Thanks for such a great episode. After you talked about "12 Dates of Christmas " on your Christmas vlog, I read it & enjoyed it very much. Your Yell cardigan is looking beautiful. I knit Marie Wallin's Samphrey last spring. I used her original colors (very rare for me). Loved knitting it.
Yay! So glad you liked it - I find those holiday books to be so much fun during the holidays!
Thank you for the episode. I’ve been thinking about you and your family and friends with respect to the fire and I’m glad that you are safe and well.
Two recommendations
: Taylor E. Owen’s A Thread to Mend Podcast-She made the yell cardigan and did some tweaks to make some of the color work in the shoulder area easier. Her podcast is here on TH-cam.
: an audio podcast called “The Longest Shortest Time”. This is about parenting. It starts with the podcaster’s own birth story. The podcaster interviews Ina Garten. You may enjoy that episode in particular. And all the other episodes are high quality and educational. I found this podcast when my daughter was 18 months old or so. I wish I’d found it before giving birth.
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So nice to see you back. Glad you had a great Christmas and time off. My thoughts are with all those who have lost so much. Thanks for the link. Stay safe.
Could you please explain how/where you do the ladder back jacquard? I took a class, but the teacher didn’t do a very good job of explaining how to adapt the process to a colorwork design we might do.
Hi Brenda! You can just add a ladder back stitch wherever you want! I usually do them like every 5 stitches in the same way you would want to catch the float every 5 stitches or so! Since you can’t see it on the front of the fabric it doesn’t matter where you put them!
Where your floats are being caught at the top of the trees reminds me do falling snow. 😊❤️
Awww I love that! Adds even more magic to the sweater!
Thank you for your podcast, I enjoy watching and listening to it, especially as you also look at books and events in your life. The snow scenes are joyful. The book Spinning Silver by Noami Kovik I also enjoyed reading, and it echoes the snowy scenes! Keep well
Your Alaska sweater is stunning and I love the beads!
Great episode!
Really loved this video. Looking forward to getting into knitting this year. Hopefully I can be as talented as you one day. Hopeful for a better 2022 x
Yessss! Love new knitters! Just remember it is all just knits and purls and take it one step at a time, you got this!
Hello from Sweden! Just found your podcast and loved everything about it! Will definitely come back! The book Spinning silver sounds interesting. Will check it out. Thanks for a great episode!
Hi Sissel - wow Sweden! I have never been and have always wanted to go!! Let me know if you read the book!
@@SONDERknit I will! So fun to get som reading tips too!
I’ve taken a class on the ladder back jacquard technic, but I’m still not sure where to place it. Could you maybe explain it, again? Thank you!
You can just add a ladder back stitch wherever you want! I usually do them like every 5 stitches in the same way you would want to catch the float every 5 stitches or so!
Wow nearly 80 books in a year! How do you manage it? So impressed. Do you sleep? Send some of your book reading mojo my way please. Just getting the hang of color work myself with two hands but not ready for a Marie Wallin yet, well, maybe one of her garments that combines color work and cables, so you get a bit of a break from the color work.
Hi Marla! I recommend listening to some audiobooks while you knit, clean, drive, grocery shop! If you have access to the Libby App you can download audiobooks for free from your library!
Marie Wallin is such a fantastic designer- you can do it! The Yell is great because you don’t have to catch floats on more than a couple rounds which makes things easier!
enjoyed so much, thank you.....
I love your kess cardigan! (And everything else you make) Can you share what yarn you used? I just love the look and the color!💕💕
I will remember to do it on my next podcast!
Your handspun is beautiful!!! It would make a gorgeous shift cowl by andrea mowry!
Thank you! I have that pattern already and didn’t even consider it but think you’re totally right!
Your kess is amazing. The comments on Ravelry seem to indicate the English version is messed up. Did they correct it? Or did you get the pattern from a different platform?
Gah! So sorry for the very late response - I have been working overnights in the ED and feel like a zombie! You know I haven’t found anything wrong with the pattern so far - perhaps that is only on the book version? That being said, if it is something subtle I probably wouldn’t notice haha! Thanks for being here!
@@SONDERknit - Thanks so much! I don’t know how you’re a full Dr and running a podcast. Thankful though! Thanks for the feedback.
I’ve been putting off reading the wise man’s fear. I know what you mean about the second book in a trilogy…
So hard, and I am not convinced there will ever be an end. I LOVED the name of the wind though!
Faff is when something requires more effort than it's worth basically - "what a faff". If someone's faffing it's kind of like dicking around (excuse the French) 😛 Like if you are trying to leave the house and your partner keeps forgetting things or going back inside... something like that.
Soooo helpful! That came out of my mouth and I was like….. what is this, where did that come from?!? Ahhahahah
Hello Maggie 😁 Just thinking about you and hoping all is well for you these days. 😘🤗
Thank you so much - sorry for the late response the end of my pregnancy and delivery was crazy but should be uploading more videos now that I am on parental leave!
@@SONDERknit Bravo on baby-making!!
Happy New year Maggie! Thank you for a wonderful episode. I am also working on Yell. I'm pretty much at the same row as you are, I love it! You have inspired me to learn the LBJ. I'm going to try it with the Alaska hat first. I still don't understand the placement but I'll keep looking.
Hi Sue! I can’t wait to see how it looks! For placement, since they aren’t visible on the front you can put them wherever you want! I usually place them every 5 stitches or so!