I love the fingerless mitts. I'm glad my comment inspired the creation of the awesomeness that is the Rohan swamp mitts. I'll have to buy myself a copy of the pattern book I need a pair for myself. 😂
Just a little money-saving suggestion if you want the one pattern: my local library has this book and maybe yours does too! You can also request they get a copy.
Perhaps a hat, combining purple and natural yarn to pull them all together, or a little chatelaine purse to safeguard the magic runes? Love the shenanigans ❤️
I'm 5'8" and shaped like a mother goddess, but I've got these tiny hands too. When I played the piano it sucked, cause my reach is so short, but Like you, I can knit tiny mittens for myself, so that's fun. Also, my craft room is often cold (I live in So. Cal. where the electricity gets turned off every time the wind blows). I've got a corn bag I microwave (cause it's hooked to the generator) and put in my lap and the heat from that helps my hands. BTW, you Could Not Be More Delightful.
My husband once bought me a keyboard, because he got into music and wanted to make music together. I could not stretch my fingers one octave apart. I did not get into music together with him...
I also vote a head band or hat, you’ve got feet, hands, neck covered so all that’s left is the head. I saw wool needles hands post about mosaic knitting and hats-that could be really cool
Oh, I'm with your husband, gothic is my fave!!! But I love Rivendell and Rohan as well. I think I would take over the abandoned Orthanc and turn it into my forest sorceresses lair. Mwah-ha-ha. I have this book too, but I haven't tried any of the patterns yet, but now I really want to. I have handspun that I want to make the Elven Warrior gloves with! It makes my heart so happy to LOTR nerd out with you!
Fabulous mitts! Maybe a headband / ear warmer? Start and end with the same white yarn in ribbing and a fun stitch pattern with the big yarn? Or an all over color work pattern with both yarns? harpingJanet
The Shire & Rivendell. Love the mittens! I wear fingerless mitts constantly as soon as autumn arrives until at least spring. I have tiny hands and Reynauds so my knitted ones really do make a difference. Yours are lovely. I need that book.
Loved this episode as I am a big Lord of the Rings fan! Your mittens are great, and I would also vote for a matching headband/ear warmer, as you already have a scarf. To keep you warm in your studio, and to use up some of your other stash, why not make some leg warmers.
I think everyone suggesting a headband is on to something! Or, if the swamp skein continues to be endless, a whole hat! As for my favorite place in LOTR, it's Rivendell. The art nouveau style of the movies basically matched what I imagined when I read the books as a kid. It's just so pretty!
These are beautiful! Fingerless mittens have always been my go to. Wear them for everything, knitting, spinning, gaming. I even did some for my mother in law (she always thought i was mad for wearing them) now she never takes them off when knitting either 😋
I’m a wool snob too but for a reason… I would be willing to bet your hands will be warmer or as warm as your husband wearing full mittens that aren’t wool. It makes a huge difference in warmth and for me who struggles to regulate my body temperature, wool has been life changing for me in a way I never dreamed it would. It has improved my quality of life. I put on a knitted wool sweater, wear all day,take off, go to bed, or wear to bed if I’m comfy. With Jersey or fleece pullovers & cardigans all day, on and off, on & off, sweaty then fine. Gross! Not at all, wool to the rescue!!!
beautiful fingerless gloves friend! i filled the blessing box in our town with alot of my knitted mittens,socks and hats. they were all taken with in two days. its been like 14 degrees here. So cold. oh i love your beautiful fingerless gloves. love your yarn. i love that pattern u got. Oh finally it makes so much sense to use fingerless gloves for spinning!! thank u for your wonderful video's!
The earth tones in that yarn are perfect for a Rohan themed knit! And fingerless gloves are awesome. I read somewhere that they supposedly warm the blood as it flows through your wrists so it maintains more heat when it enters your fingers. I don't know whether that's true or not, but it sounds good. Either way, they are widely used by the family members I've knitted them for. In fact, I need another pair, and it sounds like this pattern would fit my gigantic hands if I were too knit them to gauge. Also, could you possibly squeak a beanie out of the bog yarn?
Yep. I have lots of fingerless arm warmers/mittens. They help with arthritis and chronic pain, and let me continue to paint, draw, type, or whatever I need to do. I even wear them while sleeping if it’s cold, or in the summer when the air conditioner is mean.
Hobbit holes are so cozy and the fireplaces and book nooks and everything being safe and warm and cozy from any wind and weather under the hill is my favourite place that I would want to live in from the movies, but I also like having big lakes and rivers nearby where I live for going canoeing on and I love the winter with snow and cold weather for cross country skiing and forests so I don’t know if the shire is really everything that I like in a place because it hasn’t got the big lakes and rivers and I think the shire is meant to have weather like England which isn’t what I would prefer and it’s got small creeks and ponds but not big lakes and big rivers, but I really liked the whole vibe of everything about Bilbo and Frodo’s hobbit hole so if it could be that living place and the garden around it but picked up and put down somewhere else that has big rivers and lakes for boating and swimming and a proper snowy cold winter then it would be perfect and I’m not sure where that place would be in middle earth that has distinct seasons and snowy winters but also has lakes and rivers plains hills and forests, it’s been a long time since I read those books so I’m not sure what places in middle earth would fit those parameters.
The mittens to bind us all. I am off to the library to see if they have the that book 😊 what a wonderful project. I use fingerless mittens to spin and knit in winter all the time. Sending yarny warm wishes from Katy from NZ ❤😊❤
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I’d do a headband, hate getting cold ears and perfect for days when you can’t be bothered about your hair 👍
spindle spun mittens! I tell you soon the only spindle spun thing you will have left to make is a skirt! ;) hahaha there is truly no end to that bog yarn! xD I love it! the mittens turned out so pretty! I should revisit the pattern I failed when starting to knit with handspun xD also, my favorite place in middle earth is probably bag end and hobbiton in general, I love the rolling hills and cute farm land community :D but I also love Lothlorien, because trees and elves! :D
I love Rivendell because of the Art Nouveau/Jugendstil like you said. My second favourite is Minas Tirith. There's something very goth about an all-white city.
Please realize that you are a staple in my household, and when I watch your videos on the big screen instead of my phone, my self-proclaimed dwarf husband will walk in to peek. He fully approved of the Rohan mitts, and then I hear “she pulled out the (insert sword name I can’t remember here)?!” Nerd husband approves! Always love your videos! I also totally skimmed through this book at a craft store around Christmas. Beautiful mitts!
The bog yarn is eternal! Glad that the gloves are working out for you! I've been trying something similar lately, just a lot lower effort (bought cheap gloves from zeeman and snipped off the fingers), and I can't draw in them unfortunately, but I think I can learn to crochet with them if I keep trying. Warm hands are best hands I'm so fond of...fandom patterns I guess? They don't really intersect with anything I like to do (I don't do things you can put intricate colourwork on and hardly ever touch amigurumi), but people make such cool stuff inspired by other cool stuff! Case on point, an entire book of LotR patterns! I think if I saw someone with handmade merch (that I recognise) out in the wild I would lose my mind with joy Also, your ability to do fiddly intricate colourwork like both of the mittens featured in the video never fails to amaze me
Stunning pattern and beautiful execution! I gotta get my mitts on a copy of that book! I have only recently found you, but you have become one of my feel-good youtubers in very short order and I just love how you are so apologetically living your best nerdy chaos goblin life! I think I would make a color work headband with the rest of the yarn... but that depends if you wear something like that...
Gorgeous fingerless mittens ❤ I have so many pairs for different weather types and now I also have a pair for knitting in cold places. Super glad you are a fingerless mitts convert - they really do help keep hands warm when crafting. Also, thanks for sharing the book .... off to get my own copy now 😍🥰
I love LoTR too! ... and am not quite hobbit size but perhaps 🤔 Dwarven height. 😅 my hands, feet & head are totally child size so I feel your pain! The favorite size of needles I knit on for appropriate guage for my own garments is typically 2mm to 3mm & I ignore positive ease (except for tops wich I like oversized & long enough to keep my seat covered h warm. Your fingerless mittens are AWESOME! 😍 I liked, subbed with all notifications & am leaving a comment to help your channel reach more people. I enjoy knitting (crochet & nålbinding) while watching videos. I'm so glad you showed up in my recommended videos today. I'm totally here for the shenanigans! 🫶
When I visited Stirling in Scotland, when I looked up towards the castle I felt like I was looking at Edoras. A Golden Hall indeed. If you ever have the opportunity, take the mittens on a trip! :D Also, those mittens with that sweater look amazing together!
I love that you're a LotR fan (all the best people are 😄). My favourite setting is the Shire, but specifically Bag End. One day I want to live in a house that's decorated to have a Bag End aesthetic, with a cottage garden, a fireplace, and big pantry stocked with excellent food in case any wizards or dwarves happen to stop by.
Oh my goodness, I only just learned about the existence of this book today, a few hours ago while browsing for knitting books and instantly added it to my wishlist, and now you posted this video 😂clearly the universe wants me to have this book! Love the mittens, they are stunning🥰
I love those gloves! and you wear them well! I like the hand to be a little longer, to cover my knuckles, so the thumb would be a good length for a wee bit longer hand … but that might make spinning more difficult. Definitely an ear warmer with the Rohan motif would be gorgeous!
Headband, a belt, part of a corsage, a soap cosy, a small crocheted trinket bowl, a phone case, a coin purse, a little stuffed creature, a mug cosy, a glasses holder/pouch.. love your channel ❤
Your mittens are gorgeous! Let us know how you enjoy using your fingerless mitts. I think your husband needs a pair of elven mitts, too. 😊 I knit loads of fingerless mitts in winter. My husband even uses them when riding his bicycle in January. I made his from angora this year. I just went downstairs and he has them on. They do warm up the area before the fingers. I make them longer up the fingers than yours. My idea is to cover as much of the fingers as possible, but still leaving the fingers free for spinning, knitting, whatever. Obviously, I’m not using such a haloed yarn (is that a word) for spinning. Then I choose a smoother yarn. Speaking of angora, I have been experimenting with my angora and I have discovered that the craziest halo occurs when you don’t wash the yarn after knitting. I have not seen any shedding either. The staple length from my bunnies is about 4 inches and I spin it with a lot of twist
@ I just harvested the wool from one of my angora bunnies this evening and the staple length is just over 6 inches. I have seen some people on YT that are combing angora and it looks much longer than the staple length from my buns. Mine are English Angoras and their wool is very soft and fine with few guard hairs. I wait until they blow their coats to harvest in the winter, since I hate for them to be nekkid when it’s cold. 🥶 (They live in a room in my house, so it’s not as bad as if they were outdoors.). I say all this, because if you buy angora from someone, try to get the Winter or Spring harvest. It is much longer and there is more of it.
I have this book, too. Most of the patterns are too hard for me but I think I am going to tackle the Rohan mittens. I love your videos! You inspire me to try harder projects! ❤ Thank you!
I would say use for contrast toes and heels and cuff in socks, or a headband. Also I'm jealous, there must be a trick, when I try to longdraw with fingerless mittens the twist tends to grab the fibers of my mitts sometimes and get tangled. Maybe my mittens are just old and fraying though.
First and foremost, Jente, I love the mitts, I love the colours, I love Rohan, but please don't hold Andúril by the blade! You might slice your mitts with it! 😰 As for your question, I believe a headband would complete the set! I've used the Benon headband pattern by Hazel Tindall both with and without the colourwork to get through my finer lace/fingering yarn scraps, as a suggestion since the pattern is free. ❤
like a lot of people have already said, the Shire is absolutely my favorite place in middle earth. the idea of little homes buried beneath the ground is just so enchanting to me, and the grass is SO green! also, beautiful mittens! maybe i'll make fingerless mittens my next project after i finish the socks i'm working on. EDIT: also, maybe try a few granny squares or something similar for a larger patchwork piece? i have this vague idea to do something like that with the various odds and ends of yarn i've saved up over the years.
Oehhh ja! Dat is zo een mooi boek! Je vingerloze handschoenen zijn heel mooi geworden. Misschien kan je nog iets passend bij je handschoenen maken met de overgebleven wol. Iets van een muts/baret of een tasje
So couldn't find the book in the library or second hand in NZ so have ordered second hand copy from Biblio which is coming from Spain I will take 30-40 days to arrive 😂 So boy oh boy did your video Inspire me😊 just have to knit those mittens ❤ sending yarny good wishes to all Katy from NZ ❣️😊
Justan Idea for your next trip to a medieval setting. In Southern Germany is the castle of Burghausen. It's Europe's longest castle and there is a wonderful medieval festival in summer *wink*
Oh, this spoke to me! We watch the Lord of the Rings movies every year on Thanksgiving. Our home is our hobbit-hole and while I very much love the aesthetic of Edoras and would happily visit Rivendell for an extended period of time, the Shire is my happy place. As for the leftover bog yarn, I'm drawn to another headband, much like your cabled white one, perhaps paired with white to do colorwork not unlike the motif on the inside forearm of the new fingerless mitts?
I just did a quick crochet fingerless mittens when my hands were cold. So what about a pouch/ drawsting bag with what is left because holding the yarn double is a thing.
Have you looked at the insulation in the ceiling and walls of your studio lately? Maybe the insulation needs a bit of topping up in the attic, blown in insulation always settles over time and becomes less effective if it’s no longer in a thick enough layer after it settles but adding more insulation to it can fix that easily, or maybe the weather stripping around the windows and doors is worn out and letting in drafts, I don’t know if it’s the same in the country you live in but where I live they offer rebates for increasing the energy efficiency of your house so we got the assessment of what could be made more efficient totally free and the new programmable thermostat and attic insulation was recommended and the thermostat change was free from the electricity company including the installation and them teaching us how to use it and setting it up for us with the first programmed settings and I think we got some money back for the attic insulation too but I don’t remember if it was a rebate or a tax refund.
Oh yeah, it isn't isolated much, I know this. We added new isolation in the roof when it had to be redone after a storm blew a part of it away, but the walls are just one layer of stone. It is not really meant to be an area where you live in. It was built as a pottery studio, so there would be ovens blazing away. As it is not integral to our house, the tax refunds don't apply.
Beautiful fingerless gloves! I can’t knit with actual knitting needles; but I have just found out about knooking, which is similar to Afghan crochet, except it’s with a crochet hook with a needle eye on the end, and you turn your work. I’m making a little purse-bag out of some rough, kind of crappy wool yarn, and a lacy, fluffy green alpaca/something-artificial-I-can’t-remember scarf. Am now giggling evilly and eyeing Mom’s knitting books XD
@ I’ve tried Tunisian crochet, and I’m finding knooking to be a bit less cumbersome; less fighting the weight of the yarn on the needle (hypermobility is fun). Also, it’s easier for me to work with more frustrating art-yarns, because I can actually see my stitches while they’re spread out on the ground-yarn
Oh, now you definitely “need” a swamp goblin/LOTR headband/ear warmer to top up the collection. Colour work, or perhaps cabled with a border in a contrasting colour? I mean, if the goal is to keep warm while working in your studio… might as well do it stylishly and with hand spun yarn, right?
I think I'm a Shire girl myself. It probably has something to do with the fact that I'm short! lol But I do love that all the Hobbits are so happy . Such a simple way of life and my life never feels simple. I love your fingerless mittens. I've never had good luck with fingerless mittens myself. Maybe I need to give them another attempt...maybe with my own handspun yarn - that is a goal of mine this year - to knit with my handspun rather than letting it languish in a bin.
That's what I like about Edoras too, it looks like a "simple" society, with beautiful craftsmanship, community and living outdoors. But it has the added bonus of being near the mountains, and that gives it its advantage over The Shire for me :D
I've knit these too! I altered the palm design to some basic flea stitches because the OG pattern looked rather phallic to me 😅 I came across some La Bien Aimee merino singles in the very appropriately named The Shire that was just the most perfect green for these, and I love them so much.
Infinite bog yarn. My fave location in LotR is Minas Tirith, mostly because I just love places that have been carved out of mountains or cliffsides or stone in general. Ooh, or Fangorn
I spun some lace weight merino and alpaca and knitted some of it into a hat. The hat was plain, I wanted to make it in a hurry and full disclosure here, I am a pinhead. All of that said, my finished hat weighs 1.2 ounces or 35 grams. So I’d say you’ve got enough swamp Polworth left to use it as the main colour in a hat. I think that if you were to make a headband you’d still have some left-overs. Plan B: some people have mentioned project bags or similar, how about weaving with it to make stuff for a bag? I’d use a different yarn for the warp and use the swamp yarn for the weft, perhaps with some striping. Or, again as others have suggested, a granny square/use up scraps of wool project. I’ve not seen the LOTR films but I’ve read the books. In some ways I think readers are meant to like The Shire most, it’s a sort of idealised England. In some ways the Shire is just a little too tame for me, as an Australian I am used to things being just that little bit wilder.
I vote for a headband :3
It would also keep your ears warm when spinning/knitting in cold places! And also, cute matching set.
I love the fingerless mitts. I'm glad my comment inspired the creation of the awesomeness that is the Rohan swamp mitts. I'll have to buy myself a copy of the pattern book I need a pair for myself. 😂
Just a little money-saving suggestion if you want the one pattern: my local library has this book and maybe yours does too! You can also request they get a copy.
Yes, your comment pushed me over the edge for these :D
Perhaps a hat, combining purple and natural yarn to pull them all together, or a little chatelaine purse to safeguard the magic runes? Love the shenanigans ❤️
I love those, absolutely gorgeous! I vote for an ear warmer band, like a beautiful elven crown or something 😍
I'm 5'8" and shaped like a mother goddess, but I've got these tiny hands too. When I played the piano it sucked, cause my reach is so short, but Like you, I can knit tiny mittens for myself, so that's fun. Also, my craft room is often cold (I live in So. Cal. where the electricity gets turned off every time the wind blows). I've got a corn bag I microwave (cause it's hooked to the generator) and put in my lap and the heat from that helps my hands. BTW, you Could Not Be More Delightful.
My husband once bought me a keyboard, because he got into music and wanted to make music together. I could not stretch my fingers one octave apart. I did not get into music together with him...
I also vote a head band or hat, you’ve got feet, hands, neck covered so all that’s left is the head. I saw wool needles hands post about mosaic knitting and hats-that could be really cool
I love love love your mitts! Yarn is beautiful 🥰
Oh, I'm with your husband, gothic is my fave!!! But I love Rivendell and Rohan as well. I think I would take over the abandoned Orthanc and turn it into my forest sorceresses lair. Mwah-ha-ha. I have this book too, but I haven't tried any of the patterns yet, but now I really want to. I have handspun that I want to make the Elven Warrior gloves with! It makes my heart so happy to LOTR nerd out with you!
One day I will make the elven pullover from the front, that just looks so neat!
What an abundant skein of yarn. Headband is a grest idea. Hobbiton is my favorite place. I visited it 10years ago and it was lovely experience🥰
Agreed! With a headband or something to keep her ears warm, she can have a boggy day in a cold studio and wear the entire set to stay warm.
Omg the music you chose for the reveal with your sword instantly gave me video game “boss mob fight” vibes! ❤
Swamp/bog yarn ear warmer/headband!! Love the fingerless mitts, they turned out great!
Fabulous mitts! Maybe a headband / ear warmer? Start and end with the same white yarn in ribbing and a fun stitch pattern with the big yarn? Or an all over color work pattern with both yarns? harpingJanet
(The white yarn might have already been used up in another project now...)
The Shire & Rivendell. Love the mittens! I wear fingerless mitts constantly as soon as autumn arrives until at least spring. I have tiny hands and Reynauds so my knitted ones really do make a difference. Yours are lovely. I need that book.
Loved this episode as I am a big Lord of the Rings fan! Your mittens are great, and I would also vote for a matching headband/ear warmer, as you already have a scarf. To keep you warm in your studio, and to use up some of your other stash, why not make some leg warmers.
I just bought this book, and this pops up from my favourite purveyor of fibre shenanigans! Amazing! 😍
Coincidence! :D
The shire. Home community family, and the ability to leave for an adventure
I think everyone suggesting a headband is on to something! Or, if the swamp skein continues to be endless, a whole hat!
As for my favorite place in LOTR, it's Rivendell. The art nouveau style of the movies basically matched what I imagined when I read the books as a kid. It's just so pretty!
These are beautiful! Fingerless mittens have always been my go to. Wear them for everything, knitting, spinning, gaming. I even did some for my mother in law (she always thought i was mad for wearing them) now she never takes them off when knitting either 😋
Fingerless mitts: the garment some people need to be convinced about haha
I think it took me less than 2 minutes to order my own copy of that book. I’ve never loved colorwork but you’ve inspired me! Love the video!!
Colourwork hat next i vote!
Yes, agreed.
Possibly a colour work hat with ear flaps, to prevent ears from freezing over.
I’m a wool snob too but for a reason… I would be willing to bet your hands will be warmer or as warm as your husband wearing full mittens that aren’t wool. It makes a huge difference in warmth and for me who struggles to regulate my body temperature, wool has been life changing for me in a way I never dreamed it would. It has improved my quality of life. I put on a knitted wool sweater, wear all day,take off, go to bed, or wear to bed if I’m comfy. With Jersey or fleece pullovers & cardigans all day, on and off, on & off, sweaty then fine. Gross! Not at all, wool to the rescue!!!
Wool is indeed the best :D
This is *precisely* what I needed after a long day of work, thank you!
beautiful fingerless gloves friend! i filled the blessing box in our town with alot of my knitted mittens,socks and hats. they were all taken with in two days. its been like 14 degrees here. So cold. oh i love your beautiful fingerless gloves. love your yarn. i love that pattern u got. Oh finally it makes so much sense to use fingerless gloves for spinning!! thank u for your wonderful video's!
A beanie might be a stretch, but the comments seem rather unanimous that it has to be something for the head or ears
@@MijnWolden a headband would be so cute for u friend!
They came out beautiful
Rivendell is my favorite :)
I always wore fingerless mittens when I worked in an office 😄 love the magic swamp yarn that seems to never run out!
Love the nerdy mixture love the unique knitting and spinning , dying yarn videos thank you for sharing with everyone. It us inspiring.😊
The earth tones in that yarn are perfect for a Rohan themed knit! And fingerless gloves are awesome. I read somewhere that they supposedly warm the blood as it flows through your wrists so it maintains more heat when it enters your fingers. I don't know whether that's true or not, but it sounds good. Either way, they are widely used by the family members I've knitted them for. In fact, I need another pair, and it sounds like this pattern would fit my gigantic hands if I were too knit them to gauge.
Also, could you possibly squeak a beanie out of the bog yarn?
I wear fingerless mitts when in bed holding my phone on cold nights. Knit with my wheel spun Black Welsh Mountain. I ❤ The Shire!
You can make ear warmers in another LOTR theme! 😊
Oh wow the mittens turned out so cool! And they seem to fit very well!
They do :D
A small lined draw string pouch to carry your favorite book.
Yep. I have lots of fingerless arm warmers/mittens. They help with arthritis and chronic pain, and let me continue to paint, draw, type, or whatever I need to do. I even wear them while sleeping if it’s cold, or in the summer when the air conditioner is mean.
Love your fingerless gloves ❤
Rivendel en Lothlorien. Maybe you can knit a headband with the pattern of Arwen's Evenstar.....
Hobbit holes are so cozy and the fireplaces and book nooks and everything being safe and warm and cozy from any wind and weather under the hill is my favourite place that I would want to live in from the movies, but I also like having big lakes and rivers nearby where I live for going canoeing on and I love the winter with snow and cold weather for cross country skiing and forests so I don’t know if the shire is really everything that I like in a place because it hasn’t got the big lakes and rivers and I think the shire is meant to have weather like England which isn’t what I would prefer and it’s got small creeks and ponds but not big lakes and big rivers, but I really liked the whole vibe of everything about Bilbo and Frodo’s hobbit hole so if it could be that living place and the garden around it but picked up and put down somewhere else that has big rivers and lakes for boating and swimming and a proper snowy cold winter then it would be perfect and I’m not sure where that place would be in middle earth that has distinct seasons and snowy winters but also has lakes and rivers plains hills and forests, it’s been a long time since I read those books so I’m not sure what places in middle earth would fit those parameters.
The mittens to bind us all. I am off to the library to see if they have the that book 😊 what a wonderful project. I use fingerless mittens to spin and knit in winter all the time. Sending yarny warm wishes from Katy from NZ ❤😊❤
I’d do a headband, hate getting cold ears and perfect for days when you can’t be bothered about your hair 👍
Love them😍❤
love the fingerless knits, love the designs, love the whole thing.
spindle spun mittens! I tell you soon the only spindle spun thing you will have left to make is a skirt! ;) hahaha
there is truly no end to that bog yarn! xD I love it! the mittens turned out so pretty! I should revisit the pattern I failed when starting to knit with handspun xD
also, my favorite place in middle earth is probably bag end and hobbiton in general, I love the rolling hills and cute farm land community :D but I also love Lothlorien, because trees and elves! :D
One day, I'll make a skirt! But probably woven then...
I knit my nephew a pair Lord of the Rings mittens(White Tree of Gondor) a few years back.
I love Rivendell because of the Art Nouveau/Jugendstil like you said. My second favourite is Minas Tirith. There's something very goth about an all-white city.
Please realize that you are a staple in my household, and when I watch your videos on the big screen instead of my phone, my self-proclaimed dwarf husband will walk in to peek. He fully approved of the Rohan mitts, and then I hear “she pulled out the (insert sword name I can’t remember here)?!” Nerd husband approves!
Always love your videos! I also totally skimmed through this book at a craft store around Christmas. Beautiful mitts!
I don't even realize I'm a staple in my own household :'D
The bog yarn is eternal!
Glad that the gloves are working out for you! I've been trying something similar lately, just a lot lower effort (bought cheap gloves from zeeman and snipped off the fingers), and I can't draw in them unfortunately, but I think I can learn to crochet with them if I keep trying. Warm hands are best hands
I'm so fond of...fandom patterns I guess? They don't really intersect with anything I like to do (I don't do things you can put intricate colourwork on and hardly ever touch amigurumi), but people make such cool stuff inspired by other cool stuff! Case on point, an entire book of LotR patterns! I think if I saw someone with handmade merch (that I recognise) out in the wild I would lose my mind with joy
Also, your ability to do fiddly intricate colourwork like both of the mittens featured in the video never fails to amaze me
Fiddly intricate colourwork scratches a particular itch in my brain haha
That book has been on my wish list for so long!! I’m going to ask for it for my birthday in March, it looks gorgeous!
Stunning pattern and beautiful execution! I gotta get my mitts on a copy of that book! I have only recently found you, but you have become one of my feel-good youtubers in very short order and I just love how you are so apologetically living your best nerdy chaos goblin life!
I think I would make a color work headband with the rest of the yarn... but that depends if you wear something like that...
I think the patterns are also available on ravelry :)
@@MijnWolden Oh thanks! I'll have a look!
@ I was mistaken, they're only listed, not available :(
It’s swamp yarn. We need to knit the swamp!! I think you need a head band with little Shrek ears!
Gorgeous fingerless mittens ❤ I have so many pairs for different weather types and now I also have a pair for knitting in cold places. Super glad you are a fingerless mitts convert - they really do help keep hands warm when crafting.
Also, thanks for sharing the book .... off to get my own copy now 😍🥰
I love LoTR too! ... and am not quite hobbit size but perhaps 🤔 Dwarven height. 😅 my hands, feet & head are totally child size so I feel your pain! The favorite size of needles I knit on for appropriate guage for my own garments is typically 2mm to 3mm & I ignore positive ease (except for tops wich I like oversized & long enough to keep my seat covered h warm. Your fingerless mittens are AWESOME! 😍 I liked, subbed with all notifications & am leaving a comment to help your channel reach more people. I enjoy knitting (crochet & nålbinding) while watching videos. I'm so glad you showed up in my recommended videos today. I'm totally here for the shenanigans! 🫶
Yeah technically I'm more dwarf-sized too, but just to be sure everyone kne w we're talking lotr and not snowwhite I went with hobbit size :D
When I visited Stirling in Scotland, when I looked up towards the castle I felt like I was looking at Edoras. A Golden Hall indeed. If you ever have the opportunity, take the mittens on a trip! :D
Also, those mittens with that sweater look amazing together!
I paired them together on purpose hihi
That color would be perfect for a frog!!!!
I was also against fingerless mitts but you’ve inspired me, maybe I need to knit a pair now!
You only know after experiencing them haha
I love that you're a LotR fan (all the best people are 😄). My favourite setting is the Shire, but specifically Bag End. One day I want to live in a house that's decorated to have a Bag End aesthetic, with a cottage garden, a fireplace, and big pantry stocked with excellent food in case any wizards or dwarves happen to stop by.
I might want to stop by there too :D
Oh my goodness, I only just learned about the existence of this book today, a few hours ago while browsing for knitting books and instantly added it to my wishlist, and now you posted this video 😂clearly the universe wants me to have this book!
Love the mittens, they are stunning🥰
It might be a sign yes. Maybe your library has it?
I love those gloves! and you wear them well! I like the hand to be a little longer, to cover my knuckles, so the thumb would be a good length for a wee bit longer hand … but that might make spinning more difficult. Definitely an ear warmer with the Rohan motif would be gorgeous!
It seems like you need a head covering to complete the set. Probably a hood to cover the places that the cape does not.
Headband, a belt, part of a corsage, a soap cosy, a small crocheted trinket bowl, a phone case, a coin purse, a little stuffed creature, a mug cosy, a glasses holder/pouch.. love your channel ❤
So many good ideas!
Always love your knitting and fiber shenanigans!
We must have been channeling the same energy, the only difference was I used sock yarn from a craft store.
Beret of some sort is what I'd try with it! so pretty & ty for sharing the book
Those are so cool. I love them!
Your mittens are gorgeous! Let us know how you enjoy using your fingerless mitts. I think your husband needs a pair of elven mitts, too. 😊
I knit loads of fingerless mitts in winter. My husband even uses them when riding his bicycle in January. I made his from angora this year. I just went downstairs and he has them on. They do warm up the area before the fingers. I make them longer up the fingers than yours. My idea is to cover as much of the fingers as possible, but still leaving the fingers free for spinning, knitting, whatever. Obviously, I’m not using such a haloed yarn (is that a word) for spinning. Then I choose a smoother yarn.
Speaking of angora, I have been experimenting with my angora and I have discovered that the craziest halo occurs when you don’t wash the yarn after knitting. I have not seen any shedding either. The staple length from my bunnies is about 4 inches and I spin it with a lot of twist
4 inches is quite a lot!
@@MijnWolden The wool I get off them in summer or fall is about 3”. The wool from Winter and spring is the longer wool.
@ I have even tried leaving the coat on them a bit longer in summer, but it just won’t grow longer. Winter wool is premium. Thick, soft and longer.
@ I just harvested the wool from one of my angora bunnies this evening and the staple length is just over 6 inches. I have seen some people on YT that are combing angora and it looks much longer than the staple length from my buns. Mine are English Angoras and their wool is very soft and fine with few guard hairs. I wait until they blow their coats to harvest in the winter, since I hate for them to be nekkid when it’s cold. 🥶 (They live in a room in my house, so it’s not as bad as if they were outdoors.). I say all this, because if you buy angora from someone, try to get the Winter or Spring harvest. It is much longer and there is more of it.
I have this book, too. Most of the patterns are too hard for me but I think I am going to tackle the Rohan mittens. I love your videos! You inspire me to try harder projects! ❤ Thank you!
PS If there are any little girls in your life you can make doll clothes, even Barbie clothes, out of scraps. Kinda fiddly, though.
And I like Rohan the best, next is the Shire.
The mitts are great! I'd definitely live in the Shire. Cozy! Maybe you could knit a headband.
I would say use for contrast toes and heels and cuff in socks, or a headband. Also I'm jealous, there must be a trick, when I try to longdraw with fingerless mittens the twist tends to grab the fibers of my mitts sometimes and get tangled. Maybe my mittens are just old and fraying though.
or maybe they are of a fluffier fiber?
Beautiful 💗
Beautiful mitts! I was thinking head as well, but perhaps for the colorwork portion of a cream hat? Some cool lord of the rings inspired motif?
First and foremost, Jente, I love the mitts, I love the colours, I love Rohan, but please don't hold Andúril by the blade! You might slice your mitts with it! 😰
As for your question, I believe a headband would complete the set! I've used the Benon headband pattern by Hazel Tindall both with and without the colourwork to get through my finer lace/fingering yarn scraps, as a suggestion since the pattern is free. ❤
Big Hazel Tindall fan here!
Rohan is also my favorite aesthetic of LOTR, with hobbiton in a very close second.
I have this book also! I’m currently knitting the Hobbit toy!
Cute!
like a lot of people have already said, the Shire is absolutely my favorite place in middle earth. the idea of little homes buried beneath the ground is just so enchanting to me, and the grass is SO green! also, beautiful mittens! maybe i'll make fingerless mittens my next project after i finish the socks i'm working on. EDIT: also, maybe try a few granny squares or something similar for a larger patchwork piece? i have this vague idea to do something like that with the various odds and ends of yarn i've saved up over the years.
(You might want to watch next week. not for the swamp yarn. but something something squares)
Love the Rohan mitts! I have that book and have been eyeing the Second Breakfast mittens since first seeing them.
Oehhh ja! Dat is zo een mooi boek! Je vingerloze handschoenen zijn heel mooi geworden.
Misschien kan je nog iets passend bij je handschoenen maken met de overgebleven wol. Iets van een muts/baret of een tasje
Swamp yarn returns 😂 LOTR for the win
Return of the Yarn :D
So couldn't find the book in the library or second hand in NZ so have ordered second hand copy from Biblio which is coming from Spain I will take 30-40 days to arrive 😂 So boy oh boy did your video Inspire me😊 just have to knit those mittens ❤ sending yarny good wishes to all Katy from NZ ❣️😊
Second hand is the best way to get it :D
I love them!!
Justan Idea for your next trip to a medieval setting. In Southern Germany is the castle of Burghausen. It's Europe's longest castle and there is a wonderful medieval festival in summer *wink*
That looks impressive indeed!
Oh, this spoke to me! We watch the Lord of the Rings movies every year on Thanksgiving. Our home is our hobbit-hole and while I very much love the aesthetic of Edoras and would happily visit Rivendell for an extended period of time, the Shire is my happy place. As for the leftover bog yarn, I'm drawn to another headband, much like your cabled white one, perhaps paired with white to do colorwork not unlike the motif on the inside forearm of the new fingerless mitts?
The Shire is lovely, but Edoras just has the mountains too... I really love mountains. Mountains, Gandalf!
thank you for a lovely video to end a very stressful day for me:)
I just did a quick crochet fingerless mittens when my hands were cold. So what about a pouch/ drawsting bag with what is left because holding the yarn double is a thing.
I love all the things you made with the bog yarn. I vote for a headband, as your ears can be cold when you ride a bike.
My ears are always cold haha
Those mitts go so well with that sweater. Excellent work!
Thank you for noticing! I was hoping someone would notice my vaguely Rohan inspired outfit :D
Well, how about a Swamp Hat that matches the mitts?
Have you looked at the insulation in the ceiling and walls of your studio lately? Maybe the insulation needs a bit of topping up in the attic, blown in insulation always settles over time and becomes less effective if it’s no longer in a thick enough layer after it settles but adding more insulation to it can fix that easily, or maybe the weather stripping around the windows and doors is worn out and letting in drafts, I don’t know if it’s the same in the country you live in but where I live they offer rebates for increasing the energy efficiency of your house so we got the assessment of what could be made more efficient totally free and the new programmable thermostat and attic insulation was recommended and the thermostat change was free from the electricity company including the installation and them teaching us how to use it and setting it up for us with the first programmed settings and I think we got some money back for the attic insulation too but I don’t remember if it was a rebate or a tax refund.
Oh yeah, it isn't isolated much, I know this. We added new isolation in the roof when it had to be redone after a storm blew a part of it away, but the walls are just one layer of stone. It is not really meant to be an area where you live in. It was built as a pottery studio, so there would be ovens blazing away. As it is not integral to our house, the tax refunds don't apply.
Beautiful work
The shire, the shire, and... ah yes, the shire! 😍
I assume that when you live in the shire, you are constantly surrounded by the shire soundtrack 😁
Only if Rohan is also surrounded by their soundtrack of course haha
I have had the Rohan Soundtrack on my Phone for the last 10 years or so, so definitely YES! 😅
Beautiful fingerless gloves! I can’t knit with actual knitting needles; but I have just found out about knooking, which is similar to Afghan crochet, except it’s with a crochet hook with a needle eye on the end, and you turn your work. I’m making a little purse-bag out of some rough, kind of crappy wool yarn, and a lacy, fluffy green alpaca/something-artificial-I-can’t-remember scarf. Am now giggling evilly and eyeing Mom’s knitting books XD
Oh knooking was a big hype in the early 2000s here, but I never really got into it (I was too much into crochet and tunisian crochet back then)
@ I’ve tried Tunisian crochet, and I’m finding knooking to be a bit less cumbersome; less fighting the weight of the yarn on the needle (hypermobility is fun). Also, it’s easier for me to work with more frustrating art-yarns, because I can actually see my stitches while they’re spread out on the ground-yarn
@@luminalsaturn2 Hypermobility is fun indeed. I like sneaking up to people and asking them if they want to see me bend my thumb to my arm. (/joke)
The mittens look great. Could you make a video showing how you cast on please, I’ve not seen a cast on like that before
(the secret is: they're just slipknots)
Oh, now you definitely “need” a swamp goblin/LOTR headband/ear warmer to top up the collection. Colour work, or perhaps cabled with a border in a contrasting colour? I mean, if the goal is to keep warm while working in your studio… might as well do it stylishly and with hand spun yarn, right?
Handspun yarn is of course the epitome of style
I think I'm a Shire girl myself. It probably has something to do with the fact that I'm short! lol But I do love that all the Hobbits are so happy . Such a simple way of life and my life never feels simple. I love your fingerless mittens. I've never had good luck with fingerless mittens myself. Maybe I need to give them another attempt...maybe with my own handspun yarn - that is a goal of mine this year - to knit with my handspun rather than letting it languish in a bin.
That's what I like about Edoras too, it looks like a "simple" society, with beautiful craftsmanship, community and living outdoors. But it has the added bonus of being near the mountains, and that gives it its advantage over The Shire for me :D
I've knit these too! I altered the palm design to some basic flea stitches because the OG pattern looked rather phallic to me 😅 I came across some La Bien Aimee merino singles in the very appropriately named The Shire that was just the most perfect green for these, and I love them so much.
I had not noticed the phallic shape until you pointed it out... thank you, I guess? :D
@@MijnWolden lmao I'm so sorry
I think you could make a a ear head band thing for keeping your ears warm in the work space.
Infinite bog yarn. My fave location in LotR is Minas Tirith, mostly because I just love places that have been carved out of mountains or cliffsides or stone in general. Ooh, or Fangorn
The mountains is also why I like Edoras more than for example the Shire
Hey Jente, How are you enjoying the tunis wool?
Thank you so much for these cool mits. They look amazing 💜
It's crunchy and squishy, in my book that's the best!
You could make a headband
I spun some lace weight merino and alpaca and knitted some of it into a hat.
The hat was plain, I wanted to make it in a hurry and full disclosure here, I am a pinhead. All of that said, my finished hat weighs 1.2 ounces or 35 grams.
So I’d say you’ve got enough swamp Polworth left to use it as the main colour in a hat.
I think that if you were to make a headband you’d still have some left-overs.
Plan B: some people have mentioned project bags or similar, how about weaving with it to make stuff for a bag? I’d use a different yarn for the warp and use the swamp yarn for the weft, perhaps with some striping.
Or, again as others have suggested, a granny square/use up scraps of wool project.
I’ve not seen the LOTR films but I’ve read the books. In some ways I think readers are meant to like The Shire most, it’s a sort of idealised England. In some ways the Shire is just a little too tame for me, as an Australian I am used to things being just that little bit wilder.
Hmmm, good point about a headband maybe leaving more leftovers still...
Yes please!
The great hall of Durin in the mines of Moria is probably a good contender for coolest looking architecture!
Urkhas tanakhi!
Didn't expect you to be so art deco influenced
wow nice
Also your emerald looking ring looks like the ring of Barahir!
It's not an emerald though...