Andrea Mowry - Ep. 33 - Fruity Knitting Podcast 

I truly love all three of you. Your family makes me smile. And amazing knitting content & teaching too!

As a brand new subscriber and patreon, I am still binge watching almost the entire archives, what a joy. At the same time I watched Andrew‘s memorial service two days ago and am still processing that. I am loving seeing this family‘s podcast in happy times. I am praying for Andrew‘s family for the strength to carry on and to step by step find happiness again. In the meanwhile, I enjoyed Andrew’s happiness with his finished beanie. (I enjoy the show for many reasons.)

I recently had the opportunity to attend an advanced brioche class at VKL 2019 (NYC) Andrea Mowry is a charming , articulate example of our best & brightest💫 Most impressive, is the wellspring of fresh prolific knit star genius Andreas gifted us with . Her Her sync in communication with the class as a whole was so perfect , there wasn’t even chatter among friends , Teaching well is an entirely different skill than design or knitting . Creative people can’t necessarily transmit the information in with easy clarity that also allows for the passion they have to come through . Andrea Mowry has either been blessed with natural Left and Right brain abilities of equal measure , or she’s worked hard at developing the rare combination. We,re so fortunate to have so many wonderfully talented designers of all types . Andreas ideas have already changed how many of us. Knit 🧶

OMG! Listening to Andrea Mowry describe her process and organization style was so mind blowing. It was nearly word for word the way I describe my own. It is very uplifting to have come across someone else who thinks so very similar to me. Thank you for having and sharing this interview. It is so very much appreciated.

Madeleine is SUCH a beautiful model! What a gracious and graceful young lady! And the skirt is really, really cool!

Rewatching some of this. That wedding dress is spectacular. I also loved Andrea Mowry

As a fellow Aussie and singer and knitter, I was drawn to your podcasts from the beginning. I am loving following your journey around the world, learning new techniques and all accompanied by the most glorious musical choices. You are such a class act. Thankyou!

Again I learned so much this episode! At last I can do the kitchener stitch without looking in my notes every single stitch.....But also very inspiring to improve and try new things. The interview with Andrea ( it is in the name 😉) was also interesting and inspiring, it is nice to get involved in the Knitting world and hear more about it. So both thank you very much and looking forward to the next episode. Bye Bye 👋🏼

What a delightful interview with Andrea Mowry - she is such a creative and inspiring young woman!!

Your tutorial was excellent-so clear and precise. THANK YOU,,, Your podcast is definitely my favorite.

It always makes my day when a new Fruity Knitting Podcast comes out! :)

This is one of the most professional podcasts on RU-vid. Excellent work! So enjoyable and informative.

Thank you for having her talk about her sweater!

I just found your video podcasts and am delighted! So much information without pointless chatter, and I love the featured guests, your projects and that the family creates together. Thank you! I had better go back and start at #1 and catch up quickly.

Andrea, you are an amazing knitter and teacher. Fruity Knitting is my absolute favourite podcast!!

Your sewing is is getting better :) The reason for puckered buttonholes is normally the foot pressure. On stretchy material you need a walking foot to keep that from happening, and adjust the pressure (usually on top of the machine, just over the foot is a dial for that. If not, check your manual). You can also put paper under the fabric and zigzag around the intended area before, then do the buttonhole, cut it open, remove the zigzag and the paper. Paper has absolutely NO stretch, and the zigzags will keep the fabric on. Thank you for all your effort, even if it's a few years later, Your podcast is still fresh and interesting.

Thank you for another wonderful podcast. You are a beautiful, gifted family. Fruity Knitting is my very favorite podcast and I so look forward to each one. Take care... Crystal.

I love your programmes, so warm, informative and inspirational. When I first came across your podcasts a couple of weeks ago, I thought that they were too advanced for me. Perhaps it was just that particular episode. Then I watched the video with Lynn who teaches knitting to prisoners and your beautiful wedding day footage.... I've been hooked ever since. Thank you to you and all your contributors and subscribers 💐🙏🏼🍾

Wow, that house dress is totally amazing. Stunning.

Thank you for the tutorial! So clear and helpful! I really enjoy your podcasts, thank you for all of your hard and inspirational work you do.

Love your podcast! Thank you for the interview with Andrea.

I love the beanie and the rust and beige jumper.

Best interview with Andrea .. I’ll be spreading the word..

Thank you so much! Wonderful episode! Loved especially Andrea Mowry! Thx!!! 💓😍

Thanks for another great show! Andrea Mowry is so inspiring and open about her process, I feel like knitting with speckled yarn now. You are very inspiring too Andrea and have got me sewing with knit fabrics.

thank you for beautifully made podcast. i loved every segment and i am so gratefull for making intererwiew with andrea mowry!

So interesting to see Andrea Mowray, thank you

I love the color work sweaters from the knitters around the world segment. She does such gorgeous work. I want to accomplish a few of those showpieces too.

I love your podcast but seeing Andrew LIGHT UP with his finished hat was the best thing I have seen on the show so far. Well done!

First time watcher, from Australia. Loved the family interaction, I learnt a lot, I have found myself getting bored with my knitting, Andrea Mowry has made me rethink using texture and colour. Thank you excited to see your next video.

and great work Chantal Belisle 🌸

I absolutely love Chantal dress! Just like sewing, but with knitting ❤️

Best show, loved it from beginning to end

I love you all so much! I thank you, and your beautiful family, for the thourogh tips and tricks. I enjoy your videos.

Wow, love your podcast. Your family seems so fun. I hope to pass my love of knitting on to my kids. Watching you fix that sweater was incredible! Such patience and the result was flawless. Inspirational!

WOW I learn so much when I watch your podcasts. I also love how your love Andrew looks at you with such adoration, respect and hotness. You are lovely and his eyes and smile shows it. Keep it up😊

Your podcast came up in my recommendations, and oh did I enjoy it. I love the magazine style production with different guests and segments. Your tutorial on grafting the sweater pieces was much needed as I have a sweater with extra long sleeves that need shortening. I'll definitely be coming back for more.

Watching this episode and the interview with Andrea Mowry while knitting her Comfort Fade Cardigan.

Catching up on your podcasts. They are very informative and I really enjoy your interviews. Thank you.

Lol, the end was so cute! I loved that very real moment caught on camera, so cute! Love your podcast I always learn something which is my main goal of watching podcasts, thank you so much!

The knitting surgery tutorial was amazing! Wow!

About making buttonholes in stretchy material....would it be better to use a surgical scalpel to cut the hole? It wouldn't pull at the lycra fibres, which is probably what makes the hole pucker.

I don't sew but was wondering if the solution to the buttonhole issue would be to make the buttonholes vertical like on a shirt. Andrea, you are such an inspirational knitter and podcaster. Thanks for all you do!

This episode popped up when I finished your most recent one. Your Bousta Beanie looks great. I just finished mine after you recommended I start with it for my first fair-isle project. Mine turned out great and my husband likes it BUT I wish I had watched this episode first as I would have been happier with leaving out 2 rows. It’s a bit slouchier than my husband would like...oh well! Cheers!

Try iron on stabiliser on the back when doing the buttonhole. Then cut with a stamp type of cutter. Worth a try.

Good job as always. Thanks you so much.

Man - I had a slight panic attack when you cut that beautiful sweater. Whew! You all are talented. A family of talented knitters - want to be my neighbor? I bake. . .

Thanks for tutorial. So clear.

Loved the interview with Andrea Mowry! And I thought the popper snaps was a great solution for the Button skirt. I sure enjoy your podcast!

I loved the "unraveling" music 😄 perfect for and anxious road to a successful ending. It reminded me of a Humphrey Bogart movie ending!

Wonderful tutorial!!

Hi Andrea and Andrew, I can't remember where I saw it but I have seen a tip on one of the sewing blogs saying that if you use a craft knife to cut your button holes with a ruler you get really neat button holes. you could try that with the stretch fabric. I love the podcast.

Very clear explanations!!! Thanks:)

In order to get nice button holes in a stretchy fabric you will need to put a fairly sturdy interfacing behind the facing. That should do the trick :-)

Veeery interesting interview with Andrea, you asked very good questions. Thank you!! :)

I'm glad I watched till the end, like the really end hehe (not to spoil anything)

Wonderful tutorial. Just found you a few weeks ago and have a lot of catching up to do.

Excellent podcast ass always and I have to thank you for the wonderful, precise and very informative tutorial on how to cut and grafft a piece that is too long!! So helpful as I didn't have the slightest idea of how to do that!!!

Found your podcast pretty recently and am struggling ;-) to catch up - you are the most adorable couple (family+ Madelaine) - it is so nice to see and hear you together

Amazing graft!

Andrea, that blue sweater you are wearing is gorgeous!

Thank you for that Grafting part! :)

I love how you call each other Darls xxx

Thank you!

I like your content. I do find you ask particularly long and multipart questions. I have notice this pattern in many of your interviews. It’s fine if that is your style. I prefer shorter more open ended questions that allow the interviewed person to speak on and embellish upon.

Actually to make the buttonholes not strechty you have to put interfacing along the skirt edges. There is different kind of strength interfacing out there, with stretch and without. Get the very sturdy one with no stretch and voila, buttonholes with no stretch. :-)

Thank yuo for your clear tutorial.

Tks Marthe, knit on.

i love the skirt you are wearing, andrea! awesome show!

Thank you for another great episode. I'm interested to know how hard Lantic by Sarah Hatton is. I am still looking for a jumper pattern I can manage and I'm thinking this might not be too difficult as it is knit in pieces. I really enjoyed seeing and hearing from Madeleine - how wonderful your family all knit! @knittingpoppy

Love your podcast, you being a professional knitter, look into making hand made button holes, my mother could do them, I never learned, I am sure someone on here knows how to make them, they come out beautiful if done right. Just a thought! Thank you

Great tutorial, I have a similar job on Mum 's cardigan next week.

You really should come to Norway on the 17th of May one year. Welcome to Trondheim :-)

Lovely sweater!

A brilliant alteration

On the buttons, I'm not a sewer by any means. but maybe if you sew a piece of fabric o the back like a patch... Maybe some ribbon. like hand sew a mini rectangle the size of the button hole and then do the button hole on top (right side of fabric) It might work. Just an idea

Did your skirt pattern call for iron on stabilizer? Most buttons on stretchy fabric do have stabilizer for stability.

Gorgeous beanie 👏👏👏👏

Nice to see your highlighting so many different designers. Is it time for you, Andrea, to share some of your own designs??? Hope so!

I would love to be Andrea's apprentice, you so lucky Andrew!

Godspeed.❤❤❤

Vertical button holes with stiffer interfacing for the skirt . If not use a trouser silver catch on inside , just Incase it becomes a stripper skirt 😉 at waist .

Hi Andrew and Andrea, Thanks for another interesting podcast. Andrea, as you were explaining your challenge of buttonholes on stretch material, I wondered if the trouble might be your cutting tool. I own a pair of scissors specifically designed to cut buttonholes (a section of the blade is missing so you only cut the hole). I have also seen a sewer use a sharp chisel the width of the button hole hit with a hammer, against a board. It made a perfectly clean cut. Just some thoughts to share with you. Cheers!

0:12:36 I was waiting for Jack’s hand to show up, too.

Actually, the music for the footage from the Norwegian national day is the King of Denmark's gaillard... A bit of a national faux pas in a way, but I'm probably the only one to notice anyway.😆

Your skirt is gorgeous! You might want to look into bound buttonholes as an alternative to a zigzag one on your machine. They are a bit labor intensive but you end up with a nice button hole.

Hi Andrea! I'm catching up with all your excellent podcasts and really enjoying them - but I can't watch this one because You Tube just keeps telling me "this video is not available". Do you have any idea what could be happening, please? I would love to see this one too! I'm using an iPad... hope you can help!

First of all congratulation to both of you for the amazing Podcast and the very useful tutorials. One question though, why did you turn the garment upside down, did you have to, or that was a personal preference for other reasons? Many thanks again.

Colorwork: if you want to leave out only one color repeat you can change the order the colors (so you do not have to change the crown decreace)?

Just wondering why this video in unavailable?

скажите пожалуйста,как связать такую шапку,где взять описание?

Why did you name your podcast fruityknitting?

Madeline should be a model, beautiful

The skirt is lovely You could have tried bound button holes

Good morning Sarah, this is Marion Jay from the USA. I just want to say don’t get hung up on people saying that you’ve changed or anything like that I I was the master embroiderer I did shows all over the United States. I did get a golf tournament hats for it famous people that I asked because they liked my writing better than anybody else’s and I I never I always sound like oh I was pretty good but I wasn’t any better than anybody else. I just thought I had a talent and I took advantage of it, so don’t don’t go getting it slow because it’s it’s not true it’s not true you’re just good at what you doing it even your husband said it was you were the same person so get a happy girl you’re doing good

Madeline is beautiful

Very informative podcast with lots of content. Out of interest what type of US accent does Andrea Mowry have? I've never heard such a strong rising inflection. Thank you!

I love your podcast, but ep.33 is not available. Regards

Do you guys turn on ad revenue from RU-vid? It wouldn't be much, but it might also help provide some extra cushioning on the financial side of things :-) Great show! I have to catch up a bit

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