I'm currently sick at home with a summer cold, so I'm really enjoying spending time with you. I'm too tired to craft myself but I'll can experience the creative joy through you. I hope you keep healthy and well, I'm all ways.
I really love your singing (and your fiber crafts as well of course!). I’m a chronic ill woman from the Netherlands and I just found your podcast because I’ve gone deep into spinning and it brings me joy. I’m mostly at home and finding connections online, so thank you.
I think the gold yarn would be beautiful for your socks. I love your content and I always recommend your channel to knew spinners, you are so inspirational!
I love that you found an open knitting group at your LYS to join. I moved to where I am a year ago and quickly plugged into my LYS open knitting group and have made great friends that I’ve gone to fiber festivals and textile shows. I hope to be joining one of the ladies for snow shoeing. Tuesday night we’re gathering for our Christmas party. I could watch you spin for hours and one if these days I will start spinning myself. Thank you for your videos. Merry Christmas.
Peaches is precious and quite a lucky dog to get a hand spun hand knit sweater. Your spinning is so beautiful. You seem quite brave to even be recording videos and sending them out to the world. I admire that, as I have often thought about doing the same, but am too afraid. I hope you will really enjoy the knitting group. And from your last video, I would be thrilled to see stash in your stash room. You could probably guess that there are many of us just like you with such an abundance of fiber, yarn and all the goodies that keep us planning and creating, nothing at all to be embarrassed about. Sounds like a room of treasures. A little about me, about your age, living in Breckenridge, CO. My husband is a retired architect and I am a homemaker with a background in fine arts (painting and drawing). I love all sorts of crafts and try to do them all. Lisa, thank you.
Thank you for introducing yourself, Lori! Posting in RU-vid is a bit like diving into a cold lake. Once you’re in it feels quite warm. I am amazed at the kindness of my viewers. 🤗
I LOVE all you shared today, Lisa. From your Felix cardigan to your answered prayer and cake! . Your podcast is a joy. I find most of us that are into fiber arts are very similar in many ways. ❤
So Peaches is both knit- AND spin-worthy! Lucky pooch. I love the poncho dream knitting. The shades of Corriedale are beautiful for that. And I’m so glad you found a knit group, Lisa. I understand the isolation thing, being a decidedly empty-nester … I love answered prayer. ❤🙏🏼
You have a lovely voice, thanks for the Christmas carol. Thanks for sharing your feelings. I too have been feeling a bit isolated. Despite the fact that I have had several opportunities to socialize in person lately, I think like you, I need to put myself out there a lot more. I hope that you have a wonderful time during the holidays and that you surrounded with love and good company ❤
All the same well wishes for you. It does take some courage to get out there. Like my Dad always told me “you have to make and effort “. Happy Holidays to you and yours. 🎄 🥰
What a lovely outro! So you not only play well, you also sing :o) I can almost picture you sitting at that gathering you have mentioned, all knitting, some tea on the table, may be a fire in the stove, and singing away :o) that is what people in the villages of my region used to do in winter - it feels so like coming back to the roots :o) you can also take turns in reading, like we used to at my granny´s when I was little. Have a nice winter holidays, all the best to you and your close ones! And btw - I also vote for the ginger socks🧦
Hi Lisa, cute socks! I vote gold. It was easy to see your heart looked happy when you showed them☺️. I highly recommend the Toni Cardigan from Cocoknits. She does have a book. But you can buy this one separate. The pattern along with her tutorials would be enough. Her patterns have an amazing fit. Everything I have made feels custom fit for me. The process is fun and seamless. Yes on your hand spun poncho! It will be gorgeous 🎄
That Toni is such a classic wardrobe staple! I’ve had Coco knits in my radar for a while. Another viewer recommended her, too. Many thanks for the recommendation!
Your current projects are so lovely! I am cheering you on from my home in London, UK, as I am so glad to see you knitting and planning and knitting projects with your beautiful hand spun yarn. That red of your Felix cardigan is just the most beautiful colour. I almost cheered out loud when you revealed your plan of spinning a Black Welsh Mountain wool cardigan. BWM is my all time favourite fiber to spin and knit with, and I love how it works in combination with other colours. I too have a sweater quantity of BWM waiting to be spun up. I'd love to join you on a BWM spin to knitalong! Loved your ideas about the hot Cocoa socks, I have few too many gift projects I want to finish before Christmas, or I would have joined you. Thanks for your podcast, always so inspiring!
I think Black Welsh Mountain will make the coziest cardigan that I’ll have for years to come. I don’t use ravelry too much but perhaps we can post our progress there come the New Year? Have a lovely holiday season and thanks so much for writing. 🥰
I like the ginger skein with the mint and lipstick colourways it will make gorgeous socks. I have also recently mastered the tubular sewn bind off, following Andrea Mowry written instruction for the Stonecrop cardigan. Well I say mastered but I ended up binding off the button bands in pattern because the sewn method was too tight. But I like the end result and my contrast colour was handspun. I hope you make some good friends at the knit group, I go to a spin/ knit group once a week and love bouncing ideas with the people there.
Another lovely episode. How wonderful that you had been praying for in person visits and God gave you that at the yarn shop. What a sweet treat that must have been. Thank you for sharing the answered prayer. Also thank you for sharing your music. It is a joy to hear! You are certainly multi talented! I’m no where near Chicago, but I’d love to get to drop in for a real visit over tea/coffee, some of you delicious looking pumpkin loaf, and a visit while we knit or work with our hands in some way. Thank you for opening up your virtual home to us.
Great video! I just re-started my spinning journey and am really interested in the different sheep breeds. Right now, I am spinning BFL. I am thinking about some project to incorporate all of the breeds together. I have family in Tinley Park and we are in northeast IN. Merry Christmas!
I’m triple happy for you; and Peaches… I KNEW there should be a knitting group in around Chicago land, you will find more gatherings like that and you will discover each group has different dynamics. Supper happy for Peaches for her dog jumper. You’re so blessed to find great fleeces and fibers, and have ability to magically transform it into artwork. Thank you for the video (and all previous ones) and lacing it with the music of my countryman … I love Chopin works.
I admire your dedication to the icord sewn bind off. I have to admit I did not persevere on it after watching a couple different tutorials and being totally confused. I ended up finding Elizabeth Zimmerman’s The Sewn Bindoff, demonstrated by Roxanne Richardson on RoxKnits. Maybe next time I’ll try again on the icord.
Hi Lisa, I am retiring from teaching this coming June, and at this point, I have been craving alone time to create for a number of years as I wind down my career, perhaps it is that mental shift from work to retirement kicking in, or something, but I do think about the fall coming up, as my colleagues return to work, and I am home every day, that I do wonder about that social piece! I do plan on rejoining my weavers guild, and spinners guild, which I stopped doing during Covid, so am hoping to reconnect. It sounds like you will enjoy your knitting group! I was also part of one before Covid, and am looking forward to rejoining that as well, and starting to expand my social circles around craft once again. Right now, I just go to work, then collapse at the end of my day, once I get home! Enjoy your winter, find peace in your crafting, and many new friends to knit with in your newly found group!
I remember a few years ago you telling me about your retirement year… and now it’s so close! You will love having more time to craft it also you’ll be less tired and stressed. So happy for you.
Happy holidays Lisa! I think that fiber once you spin it will be gorgeous for a poncho. It’s almost the colors are in your hair and it will be so flattering!
I would LOVE to participate in Soulful Knitting Socks Along, I wonder if you start a thread for this on Raverly? In Soulful Spinning group, this way we all could exchange ideas and photos.
Agree. We don’t want to spin like a mill, I hear and read a lot about Handspun: versus Mill spun. Last Winter Knits magazine had a good section on Handspun and breed specific yarn.
You should definitely join that gathering! I, too, enjoy the podcasts of others, especially from around the world who generously share their lives with us, but I couldn’t live without the contact and fellowship of ‘real’ people. We are fortunate to be able to be part of both!! ❤❤ (UK)
Hello my friend! So good to see you. I love a tubular cast on, but not so good at the bind off lol. When I'm working with unspun (like Nutiden or Letlopi), I take a length and spin it to use for both casting on and sewing. Maybe you already know that, but thought I would mention it Have to love Corriedale ❤
For the bind off 1/1 rib you can put the stitches on two needles. One needle for the knit stitches and one for the purls. It's like grafting the toe of a sock.
Thank you, Lisa, for another lovely video. I enjoyed spending time with you! I totally resonate with your feelings of isolation and needing to connect in person…. As you may remember, my husband and I have been shielding (due to my health) for 4 years and I really long for some in person crafty company. I don’t have any knitting or spinning actual friends now and I can only imagine how great it would be. I hope you feel able to go and participate in the Weds knit group. You have a wealth of information and knowledge to share and are such a lovely person…you will be such an asset to the group. I wish we lived closer! 😊
Coffee with gingerbread cookies. Would be more Christmas. Both beautiful. I’ll be starting Amy’s poncho soon. My next big knit. My cashmere..probably using it in a shoulder shrug.
I love the sweater you're making for Peaches! And the Hot Chocolate socks 🧦 look like an amazing knit. Your singing at the end is so enjoyable. Have a wonderful time with group knitting, it's so nice to get out and meet new people. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas 🎄. Happy creating 💚🧶💚
Another great episode, Lisa. I had to buy Charlotte's pattern as soon as I saw it. I love both options of colours you have selected. If it was my sock, I would use the speckled yarn as the main colour. I love the sweater you are doing for Peaches! It is adorable! Your Felix cardigan looks gorgeous! Such a great colour!
I'm so so glad you found a comforting knitting group. It's so good to connect in person. I recently started a monthly crafting group and I look forward to it every time.
I love your handspun felix cardigan Lisa, the colour, the texture, it's all so radiant and unique! I gotta say you really inspired me to cast on my own felix cardigan, except I used some yarn my mom and sister gifted me for my birthday. I am so glad I let the inspiration of seeing yours motivate me, I'm hoping to get mine done for New Years Eve! Happy Christmas!
Hi Lisa, your episodes are always so uplifting for me. I'm excited to get the Turkish spindle I ordered so I can start my spinning journey. Love the ginger colored yarn for your socks😊
Thank you for podcasting. You have been my company while I’ve been baking and making soup. I was fortunate to join into a knitting group many years ago. I still feel it is the best thing for my soul and soooo much less expensive than therapy. Wishing you the best day! Terry
Another enjoyable episode! I knitted a red sweater for a small black and white dog we got 1 week before our first son was born.... not good timing, but it is cute! It has a turtleneck and cables down the back... still have it somewhere (?), but our new black puppy will be a bit larger than that first pup. So i knit another one last month, same pattern, just using yarn that is a bit larger.
You have some gorgeous stuff in that stash of yours! It’s great that you hooked up with some local crafters. I went to my local art club for some years before work started getting busier and it was a good prompt to get creative. I’m too busy atm for social crafting but come retirement I can definitely see me popping along to our church fibre crafting group as I will probably miss the f2f interaction of work.
Thank you for the soulful interlude. It's always a joy to see what you're doing and how you are doing it. I always say, there's only so much reading about one's craft in books and watching instructional youtubes one can do, but there comes a time when you just have to actually try it out and learn by handling tools and fiber. And it is so helpful to see you doing that too.
Pausing the video to say that you have twisted my arm to go ahead & get and knit a pair of the Hot Cocoa socks 😂 I'd been eyeing them up but decided I could wait till next Christmas, especially as i haven't really any sock yarn here. But then i remembered I've gotten River's (Knitter's Homestead) coffee nook sock set in Butter Beer Latte!! I think ive some Knit Picks palette minis in a deep coordinating colour that will work for the mugs. Im excited to check the combo in natural daylight. Ok, back to watching 😊 🤗🤗
I have a bunch of black welsh mountain that I am spinning up to make a big cozy cardigan! It's gorgeously rustic feeling. I am making the possibility of crows cardigan, by disyarning designs, and it's looking very cozy so far
Lovely episode! Being home full time with my 1 yr old grandson, I find myself quite isolated. I’m worried I’m liking it too much. I really have to force myself to connect. Lots of inner reflection this month. I have a once a month knitters spinners etc group that meets and I absolutely adore it. I just wish it met more often. If I have to miss one it’s long time till the next. I’ve always had a ton of family so not all that many close friends. My neighborhood is small, with my next door neighbor being my sister in law. Evidently they have been getting together lately doing Christmas crafts….but I haven’t been invited…so…yeah, this time of year is hard.
I love being by myself and get drained if I am around too many people and too much stimulation but I need some! You have a lucky little boy there to be with his grandma. 🥰
oh Lisa your voice is just lovely, please always sing. thank you for keeping it real. since you asked: the cashmere might make a nice cozy undershirt/lacy tank top? not sure what the yarn weight is but I always prefer cashmere next to skin, and without sleeves a form fitting top should fit the yardage. my 2 cents. I love your stash dives, time to pull out the treasures. I also deeply appreciate the raw fleece to garment segment of knitting culture, for so many reasons. ps. the mini skeins with the white handspun yarn!!! would also make a lovely alden by jennifer steingass (read any colorwork fade in fingering weight) if you are feeling a sweater, though the shawl will be just as lovely im sure! chefs kiss to all of it and big hugs to you.
I love your idea for a poncho with the white near your face, getting darker as you knit down to the bottom. Also, I hope you keep going to that Wednesday knitting group! I have been going to several knitting groups for years. Some of these women are my closest friends.
As always, thank you for sharing your lovely work & thoughts. Your skill on a spindle is truly envious! I am a new spinner and have a long way to go but am really enjoying it so much. I originally decided to spin in order to get the yarn I wanted and sorta thought the process would be a bit boring & slow but surprisingly it goes rather fast and certainly not boring at all!
I love your handspun Felix cardigan! I bought a fiber solstice box for Christmas. One of the bumps was a gorgeous deep red from a mix of fibers. It is absolutely the perfect red for me. Your Felix and the red fiber I spun has totally inspired me. I reached out to the dyer and asked if she could dye up a sweater quantity. I should be coming early February. Just in time for Valentine’s Day!
@@SoulfulSpinning That’s so exciting!!! Can’t wait to see it! Btw, I recently learned support spindling. I found your spinning from the fold very interesting! Will definitely be giving it a try.
Hallo Lisa ! I am voting for ginger - I love this color ! For your lovely kashmir I can sugest Sophie scarf from Petite Knits on ravelry. I like her designs very much. I am knitting her champagne cardigan for the third time- love it, very nicely written pattern and she is doing short , very helpful videos on techniques, also on tubular cast off. Felix cardi is on my to do list. Thank you for this nice video and the singing !
Happy Holidays! I think particularly after the pandemic isolation that we could all use more personal connection. Thank you as always for bringing us your little corner of the world through the podcast. P.S. Love seeing Peaches. She's a special and shares the same name with my dog who has long since passed away. I, likewise, always referred to her as "my girl".
while I mostly listen but glance up now and then when your showing goodies I've been spinning fleece I washed, picked and carded, actually my first of three partial fleeces I think washing is best done in summer :D I don't see a pole for your socks but I can see several ways you can use all the colors :) stripe the red, green and gold with white/grey ( not sure what color the light yarn is even if you mentioned it I forgot sorry ) for cuff, heal and toe , use the light yarn for the body of the sock and the three colors for top back and front that is cuff heal and toe ;) so many options for a festive foot wear :D have fun thanks for sharing.
Oh, Lisa, those doggy sweaters from Stephen West are gorgeous, so gorgeous in fact that I nipped over to Ravelry to buy the striped one and also came away with patterns for the Glittering Snowscape shawl and The Dustland hat, the latter having Gansey-like texture in a semi-slouch hat. Lovely! Thanks so much for sharing these beautiful patterns and their sources. Your Felix sweater is so beautiful! And what a lovely rich colour! I’m thinking I’ll make some of the doggy sweaters as lamb sweaters for a shepherdess I watch. Your Peaches looks quite similar to our Seamus, but a bit taller. Seamus was soooo loved that even after 5 years, we’ve not had the heart to replace him. So, I thank you for giving me a much-loved puppy-dog fix in each of your vlogs :-) Yours in gratitude
