Happy Autumn: Handspun sweaters, WestKnitsMKAL2023, Baking, Socks! 

Beautiful cranberry color! Your cardigan will be fantastic!

WoolX has excellent quality clothes, I wear them almost every day!!

Enjoy your vacation! Can't wait to see your progress when you get back.

Dear Lisa, thanks for your update. Autumn mice, so cute, I think I'm going to purchase this book! After your last video, I decided to participate in mkal for the first time. My choice fell to different shades of green. Wish you a wonderful vacation and see you soon. 💚🐑Gabi

Lisa, that is gorgeous yarn! Definitely you should be proud. I draft like you, with fiber supply in the right with twist control in the left. Love the purple!

great podcast, Lisa! My Thriftbooks copy of "Charming Colorwork Socks" is already on it's way to my house. You are such an influencer! Watching you bake an apple cake while listening to Bach piano was the perfect ending. Enjoy your vacation!

HiLisa,I always measure my yardage after washing just by measuring the length of the skein using my figure 8tie as my stop and start points. In this way if there is any shrinkage in the washing I’m covered. I have found this to be more accurate. Grace

Your red handspun is MAGNIFICENT! Very beautifully done! I'm so glad you were able to get more fibre - it would have been awful not to have enough. Love your MKAL swatch! Looking forward to your progress on that. Have an excellent holiday!

Have a good vacation.. thankyou for posting , a lovely episode. I’m quite new to fiber arts and spinning etc , and as an aid to understanding have been weighing and measuring quite a bit as I’ve gone along . Most of the processes I understand why there is often a loss of fiber weight but spinning has me baffled. It nearly always results in a reduction often significant, unless my scales are playing tricks.

Ooh the color of your cardigan project is gorgeous. Very interesting learning about grift which is a term I have never heard of. And that cake looks so yummy I must try it. I'm so glad you're posting videos on RU-vid again as I'm always learning something and enjoy the content and your presentation so much. Enjoy your vacation!

The 2 yarns (red and white) would be beautiful plied together. I’m not a fan of reds and whites together normally (yet I buy them 😂), but those two being a little lofty looking would be stunning knitting up together in a flat piece. 😍. Also you are my favorite RU-vidr for spinning and knitting. It’s like you’re a teacher in a casual class and it makes me feel so warm and comfortable watching. Thank you for what you do. ❤

Hope you have a fantastic vacation wherever you go. Looks like you will be all set for knitting. See you when you get back

Have you cast on the geogradient mkal yet? So exciting! ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉I ❤

The HJS tutorial was so valuable to me when I read through it...thank you so much for recommending it. I love love love the color of your upcoming Felix cardigan. The color is outstanding! Can't wait to see it finished. Have a wonderful vacation!

Maybe one of those lovely sock patterns for next year's spin for socks? 🥰 Have a wonderful vacation Lisa! (Also, I think Katie from the Green Bean Podcast has an adorable mushroom sock pattern - the Fairy Ring socks I think they're called)

Have a wonderful vacation! You’re so witty- making a cake and then making cakes of yarn. That really made me smile. And your yarn looks amazing! Christopher’s podcast is so fun and I love his funny editing. I’ve been wanting to make the cake too and hope it taste just as gluten-free 🤞💚🧶💚

Oh my! So in love by the garnet colour of your Felix cardigan project ..... and then you end by showing your MKAL kit! Wow! Thank you for reminding me about the Chai cake, I had seen his podcast and thought that I needed to try that, but now I have seen yours I definitely want to make it! Just printed off the recipe! Have a lovely holiday. Good luck with finishing your beautiful Arboreal, looks like you need your hands free for those lovely projects that you have lined up. I just finished my first handspun cardigan, all spun on my IST spindles, which I bought after watching your spindle collection video. Thank you for all the inspiration.❤

That's exactly what I did. I watched that episode of Fruity Knitting and immediately purchased the book. I've never owned a knitting book in my life nor knit colorwork socks and now I'm getting ready to do my 3rd pattern, lol

Enjoy your holidays away, Lisa! I’ve that sock book, too, & want to knit everything in it!

Just back from 21 hours in A&E, so your podcast was the perfect unwind (no pun intended) and enjoyed another delightful episode which really hit the mark, relaxing, always informative and inspiring. I’ve made the Felix Cardigan and confident you will love making it too. Happy vacation. ❤

Hello Lisa, and Peaches. That shade of red is beautiful. You make very nice yarn. Can hardly wait to see your sweater once you begin it. I am onto a new fixation. I'm not sure how it started, but I am completely mesmerized on knitting with unspun roving. It knits up into a soft halo, like nutiden. Take care

Your red yarn is gorgeous and it will look amazing for the Felix. I love your book recommendations! I haven't seen that one before, but I will have to find a copy now! I have a sock pattern addiction. 😂 Have a wonderful vacation!

Have a lovely vacation! Hope you finish your blue socks 🧦🧦 I’ll be watching your MKAL progress with that striking yarn!

I feel your grist pain! I am doing my first sweater spin with a long wool, Gotland. My grist is running in the mid 700's. Each skein feels like a load of bricks! I was originally going to make a cardigan, which I still may do, but currently I'm wondering if holding the yarn with mohair and doing a vest or slipover on large(r) needles might make more sense. The yarn is beautiful, but it sure is dense :)

Have a wonderful vacation! I really enjoy your podcast. I love it when you show processing the wool, carting, spinning and explain what you are doing and why. The different books on your shelf. I feel very fortunate that I found you. Please keep doing what you are doing.

Beautiful yarn. Because you plan to knit with a single, I couldn’t see and you didn’t say whether you were spinning Z twist or S twist. Unless yarn is plied, I understand a single yarn intended for knitting should be spun counter clockwise. Thx.

I enjoy your videos and seeing Your many ambitious projects! I love the red garnet yarn you just spun, beautiful color, looks like my favorite color of fresh grown beets, yummm! I too have multiple projects started and in various stages of completion....I have quite a bit of yarn and was thinking what else could I use it for. Found a video on rug hooking that you might enjoy watching- made by Ribbon Candy and it is a visit to a studio called Mill River rugs- oh my gosh- so enjoyed seeing the beautiful pieces and all of the colors, I will have to watch it again! Just wanted to drop you a line though to let you know how enjoyable your videos are! And, I would love to do a sock knit along as I am currently in sock mode... Take care and have a wonderful vacation knitting!

Have a great trip!! Loved seeing you get excited about Charlotte Stone’s book. I have the grape socks on the needles currently - my partner and I have an old running joke that “grape minds think alike,” so I had to.

I'm waiting to hear how you like the swing dress. I love their underwear. They always send a coupon for your next order. I'm concerned about the fabric in the dress, if it's too light weight.

Lisa and your husband have fun on your little vacation. It looks like 👍 you have plenty of things to do. Your cake 🎂 🥮 turned out great. We'll see you when you get back and share most of the things you got to see and do. Then we might see you make punkin bread or cookies 🍪 🤔 😋.

I love your Felix yarn! I've been thinking about it most days since your last episode.

Thank you for another inspiring episode.I am new to spinning and I learn so much from you in every time🐑

Lisa, if your gauge ends up being larger you may be able to knit the size 1 and it end up being the finished size of 2. This is something I do a lot with my handspun.

Beautiful yarn I think it will be enough yarn.

Hi Lisa! I love the red fiber and I was hoping to visit her website but I don’t see it listed below. Can you help please?

What is the little rack behind you in your videos, just below the lights?

Did I just discover that RU-vid puts all of your channel mentions in a different section of the Studio? Yes. Did I also just discover that you made the cake? Yes. I'm so sorry for ghosting your video!! I had no idea! Looooove that you not only made the cake but enjoyed it precisely the same way I do: extra apples and a cup of coffee. Thank you, sincerely, for the kind words. As I enter into my Spinning Era, don't be surprised if I start showing up at your doorstep with questions hahahaha

That COLOR!!! WOWEE.

Thank you for another wonderful, inspiring video! Your videos are so beautiful and informative. Also, they are so full of wonderful things, that I forget what I wanted to comment on😂🤔 I love your singles yarn for your Felix cardigan - it’s gorgeous. I always worry about whether I’ll be able to spin enough for a jumper…I haven’t tried yet but I have a combo spin planned in the future… Your mkal kit yarn is stunning and will be beautiful. Have a great holiday.

Hi Lisa, I just watched a 4 year old video of yours on Turkish spindle spinning. What kinds of projects would you choose to make using small or tiny Turkish spindles, please? Years ago, our S&W Guild members went through a drop spindle phase. My original one was just a slim dowel with a wooden toy wheel and a cup hook. It was great! Then I bought a very lovely one and I found that my fibre kept breaking, as if the drop spindle was too heavy for the very fine spinning I was attempting to do. Any thoughts on projects; weights of spindles vs type of fibre and thickness of yarn? Yours in Gratitude