I've recently come across your wonderful channel on RU-vid and I absolutely love it! I am a crocheter but you have inspired me to try knitting again and find natural yarns that are okay for sensitive skin. I like listening to your videos as I crochet 🧶🫶🏽
Ah lovely! I'm glad you felt inspired. I'm sure there will be certain fibres and fleece types that are better for sensitive skin - it's something I'd like to learn more about :)
Love the rustic yarn and natural dyes youve used. Your sewing projects are beautiful. Your Tetti's Garden knit is wonderful too A stunning finish. I look forward to more vlogs.
I’m really loving your videos! Thank you for sharing all your makes with us! I see and knit as well. You share many different small pattern companies that I am not aware of and I like what I’m seeing. I am aware of some indie designers but as I see, there are many more. Is there one place on the internet to see everything that’s out there? How do you come across all these cute sewing pattern? Thanks!!! 😊
Thanks so much ☺️ I think I find most patterns on Instagram. It can be hard to know what to look for at first, but it's a good place to see what other makers are trying out, and gives you ideas to start researching. There are some pattern companies that I often go back to, but I have mostly just built up a little library over time. I love patterns by Merchant and Mills, Friday Pattern Company, Anna Allen, Paper Theory, and I'm sure lots more :) an app is currently in testing called Threadloop, which aims to be a pattern library where people can share reviews, thoughts and makes- I think it'll be really useful!
Hello. Really enjoyed this month’s video. We’re on holiday in France but cut and dried or froze lots of plants before we left for dyeing. Have today found some 100% wool yarn grown in this area and naturally dyed with local plants. Might buy some to make a bifurca vest as yours is so lovely. Best wishes, Laura
I saw your yarn on Instagram yesterday, what a lovely surprise to find that there! I hope you enjoy knitting the bifurca vest if you decide to make it ☺️ x
@@threadandyarn Thank you. I need to swatch when I get home and have a think about choosing the right size. Haven’t done much colour work so hope I’ll manage ok. Yours was lovely enough to make me want to try x
Such a great video covering all the topics that I love. You are so generous to share your knowledge. Your projects are beautiful and it’s all very inspiring 🌸
Love, love your blogs!! They are so relaxing to watch. I’m currently refurbishing my apartment. So I’m crocheting some bits to add to it. I’m also knitting the Jardiniere socks by Stone Knits xx
Yay I'm so pleased you find them relaxing ☺️ I love that you were working on cosy things for your home while watching. I will have to look up the sock pattern ☺️
I'm so glad I stumbled across your channel a few weeks ago, I love the style of what you choose to sew, the wrap skirt is beautiful! Also so impressed by your rucksack. I commented on your last video to say that you'd inspired me to try again with the Hattie dress pattern, well the pieces are all cut out and I've worked my first few seams 😊 Thanks for another inspiring episode ❤
Love all the handmade items, I bought my sister some yarn from you for her birthday and took my ball winder with me to Devon where she lives so I could wind it up for her - I forgot that part when I ordered it! I’m not a knitter but I love to sew and crochet. I am almost finished a EPP squares quilt, over 1200 squares at my last count and about 6 months work!
Wow, the yarn you dyed looks so great! I fell in love with Jacob fleece when I got some roving to spin, and that led me to getting 3 Jacob and one Shetland sheep this spring! Love to you from Minnesota, USA. Wish I lived anywhere near you so I could come to a retreat!
I loved everything you've made in this video. You have my dream skills and expertise level in those skills. How cool to have made so many different things on your own, with dye that you've grown in your allotment. Very inspiring!!! ♥️
Wow thank you, that's very kind to say! It is so liberating making these sorts of thing for yourself. It's mostly lots of practice and experimenting :)
Thank you! I do love my allotment 🌿 exciting that you're interested in the knitting retreat! I can't wait to share more about it. We hope to release tickets in late September, so perhaps sign up to my website mailing list if you haven't already and I can update you when they're available 🥰
Your hand dyed yarns are so gorgeous, particularly the indigo and walnut one. I'm also super excited about the knitting retreat, I started following you after the sewing one which was sad but I'm really hoping to come to this next one.
Thanks so much, I'm really excited about those colours and having fun experimenting with them ☺️ it would be lovely to meet you at the knitting retreat! I'm hoping to share more details and release the tickets by late September - do sign up to my website mailing list if you haven't already, and I can let you know when they're available. I'm so excited for it 🥰
What a lovely selection of really successful finished projects! As you were talking, a couple of recommendations came to mind. First, your briar shawl and hedgerow chat made me wonder if you have encountered the music of Sam Lee? He’s an amazing folksinger and nature lover and on his recent album there’s a song called Bushes and Briars that you might enjoy. Second, have you watched the (wonderful) Green Bean podcast before? Katie is having to take a break at the moment but they made a swimsuit recently and suggested some interesting patterns, including for gymnastics leotards that can be made as swimwear with a wider range of shapes to choose from. And lastly, I was just looking at the Pelica vest recently and deciding that I’d like to make it soon too. I might decide to spin some yarn especially for it which will delay my casting on somewhat, but I think it could be a really useful garment.
Thank you so much for the recommendations, I'm really looking forward to watching the podcast. I hadn't listened to Sam Lee, but his music is right up my street - the bushes and briars song is perfect. I just finished dyeing my yarn for the Pelica - I think it'll be so useful, like you say. Beautiful that you're considering spinning yours, I'd love to learn to spin. I'm sure it'll be absolutely worth it when you've finished!
We have been blessed with lots of beautiful lavender in our garden 🪴 I have been drying it and sewing lavender pouches and also sharing with family and friends 😊 I always enjoy your episodes the Bifurca vest looks amazing 🤩
I love lavender, how delightful to share it with your loved ones in that way. I've been cutting lots too, to try and dissuade any moths! I do love this bifurca vest, it's a great pattern :)
Hi Lorna, I don't normally comment but I thought I would. I have followed you for ages, love your style, choice of fabric,yarn, colours, Autumn! The vest was stunning and really suited you, you make this Yorkshire lass very happy. I could go on, but I won't .Thank you.
I really appreciate how you pay attention to size inclusivity even when your size is available! Everything you made looks so lovely. I’m currently knitting the Holger sweater but soon finished with it and can’t wait to get into knitting the Bifurca vest, already have the yarn waiting 🧶 Sewing wise I’m hoping to sew the Pansy dress again today, it’s by Rosery Apparel and I’ve worn my first one loads. I really wish I lived somewhere closer so I could attend your retreats!
Agreed! And thankfully it does seem to be getting gradually easier to find a wider ranges of sizes in both knitting and sewing patterns, even over the last five years.
Ooh you have some lovely projects planned!! Yes it does frustrate me about narrow size ranges- the whole point of making clothes is to give you freedom and have things that feel great and fit to whatever bodily quirks we all have :) if you ever do fancy a retreat we had a couple who flew in last time and made a longer Cotswold holiday out of it 🥰
It is a very unusual construction! I think it worked really well though. I have done a good amount of colourwork, but I don't think this was particularly challenging - I tend to catch my floats if I'm knitting in one colour for more than 5/6 stitches, which I think makes it more manageable. I'd have a look at how to do that if it's not something you're familiar with ☺️
Natural dying, love your colors. So you used walnut leaves? How did you get your green? Did you do indigo over something else?Yay on the skirt tutorial! Thanks!I. I had a number of people over for a natural dye day, and we had lots of fun: madder, logwood, osage orange (a local tree) and cochineal. Some fun colors. Love your videos, thank you!
Hey Patti, yes that's exactly what I did :) I got a lovely gold from an alum mordant and English walnut leaves, then gave it a quick indigo dip. It's a lovely sage colour now. Your natural dyeing day sounds delightful!!
I'm so happy I found your channel, I feel like I share a lot of the same tastes with you and I love your attitude to making and crafting. I've recently started learning to knit and it's lovely to have your videos playing while I do so.
This was such a lovely episode! A few years ago I helped set up a repair cafe to encourage and facilitate mending of all sorts. I’m absolutely no expert but it was a lovely thing to be involved with, until life changes and pandemic got in the way. You encouraged me to go and mend a dress where I’d caught a pocket in a door handle and ripped to bottom a bit. I’ve stitched a hexagon over the top and wore it out later that day.
Thanks for a lovely episode. I’m sure your less liked make will find a new home, and that seems absolutely the right approach. I’ve just been plying my latest handspun yarn while I watched and it was a lovely and relaxing way to spend the evening. Thanks!
That's perfect! I always hope people can work on a craft while listening ☺️ the dress has found a new home in Switzerland, and she let me know that she loves it, which makes me very happy!
