Your podcast is always a treat and inspiration - I love all the beautiful sweaters between the two of you. It’s quite amazing given you both work full time - I’m in awe! I love animals too, and have quite a few myself - 3 dogs and 2 cats. However, all the dog barking is truly a distraction from your lovely show. Imagine sitting down for a nice quiet time wanting to absorb a fun knitting podcast - and at times you can’t even hear the dialogue because of all the dogs barking! Sometimes my dog hears your dog’s barking and starts barking too! It becomes, frankly, a joke. Please think of doing just one show without all the commotion - I think most of your viewers would be grateful. 😅
Aw thank you so much for the feedback and the kind words Margaret! I totally get what you’re saying and it’s sooo annoying for us too. I’ll see what I can do next podcast episode. Haha maybe the boys can go to their grandma for the day. I know she would love that!
Just found you ladies and it makes me so excited. I love they way you ladies talk about your knits it's so refreshing. There are a few podcast that I no longer watch as it feels more like a commercial on things I need to buy then a conversation about what is being knit so for me this is wonderful. I can sit and knit with my beverage of choice and enjoy listening and watching a discussion on FO's WIP's etc... Editing... just started back watching had to take a moment to get a few things done, just noticed your neckless Carmen is beautiful.
Omg, first, welcome!!! Second, thank you for your beautiful and encouraging words! We feel exactly the same way about podcasts and have and will never let that happen to ours. It’s why we say no to samples and insist on buying all our wool ourselves. So so great to have you with us!! ♥️♥️♥️
OMG! Carmen's Artus on your Rib Wave sweater is just absolutely stunning, Jackie!!! Loving every single piece and now MUST make a Rib Wave as well as another Junko and I'm just in awe of your amazingly creative beauties!
Aw Lily!!! Thank you!!! Haha and I agree about my Artus on Jackie’s ribwave so she obv has to give me her sweater. That’s what you’re suggesting, right? 😜
Oh my goodness, you two beautiful beauties! I loved this so much. The way the ideas just flow from you is so inspiring, and my queue is now bursting with plans. I'm so glad you're here, it's so wonderful to spend time with you! xoxo
Your Artus is lovely -- I see why you're pleased with it! You commented that you wanted a moody shawl but your innate joy popped out anyway with the pinky 'error'.
I think your umma cape looks better than the original and the best of the projects. Beautiful! I would not have seen the potential, you have a good eye.
Wonderful knitting content as always. I was obsessed with everything, but Jackie - I GASPED when you came out in your Traveler hoodie! Cutest thing ever. My opinion, for what that's worth: add the sleeves! It's adorable as is yes, but I think it will be at its ultimate cuddly best with long sleeves. I loved the lengthy conversation about lists! I also have had a love/hate relationship with lists. One of many reasons I love my Kindle Scribe (bought early this year) is for ease of making and deleting lists and notes. Something about failing to do a written out list is so depressing (maybe I feel guilty about the paper/trees I've wasted with my useless lists?! I recognize lists can be erased, but I hate pencil lists, and even with great erasable pens like Frixion pens, there's only so many times that looks nice...) On the Scribe I can easily delete lists that no longer serve me, or carry over part of a handwritten list that I want to keep but in a new list . . . Normally I'm definitely a pen and paper kind of person, but the Scribe really does have that same feel as writing on paper, so it works! It also makes it easy to organize related notes and lists into different folders!
Jackie, even with aegyo's wider sample, I still see where the sleeves point upward on her pattern page, photos 1 and 7. Do not feel bad. Also, there is such a huge range of possible individual measurements within each pattern size that it would be really difficult to end up with yours looking on you exactly how hers looks on her. Yours is stunning!
Loved hearing from y’all again and knitting with you! For summer yarns, I really like Queensland United. It’s a sport weight wool/cotton blend, really soft in the hand like wool, but not quite as warm because of the cotton. It’s also pretty inexpensive, which can be nice. I usually treat it as a heavy fingering, but I’ve worked with it on US 1.5 all the way up to US 5 needles, so pretty versatile!
Omg I’m waiting for Rib Wave sweater patterns release and tadaaa you both already have them 😍 I’m totally influenced from Jackie and now I’m checking Sonder yarns page and can’t choose color 😂🫣 Thanks for adding my mornings coffee laugh ❤
Lol...Carey from Sex & the City would wear the gloves too. You can too! Oh, and I loved Olivia Pope's aesthetic...both her outfits and her home were stunning. Fun episode ladies. ❤
Knit the sleeves on your hoodie! I have knit the Traveler hoodie and the sleeves worked out fine. Andrea has you do rapid decreases from the get-go so they don’t end up looking too big, trust me! And your hand spun looks beautiful!😊
Love the podcast, I always feel like I am in the room with you both as you chat away! I am also knitting the Umma Cape and found myself unhappy with the length of the sleeves. I knit short rows at each sleeve to lengthen them so that they made it to my elbow.
Love your episodes! Each time you try a garment, I am saying «I must knit it too!»😅 I totally copy Carmen choosing the Dreamstate, Full English and Free Spirit colours for my current colour work sweater. Now, I must knit the first sweater you show or this traveled hoodie. 😂
Love your list talk! I laughed because I also love to make a list of my upcoming knits. I get it all organized and it feels really satisfying- and then I inevitably cast on something completely different that is not on the list! 🤷♀️ Seriously, what is that about? 😆 I actually do love Ravelry’s Challenge feature where you set yourself a goal for the year and can see your progress throughout the year. Very satisfying! Happy spring ladies!
The list making is just the first layer of fun - often enough fun that you don’t need to knit this thing!!! Haha double the knitting joy. Happy Spring to you too and can’t wait to see your Artus (tag us!)
Discovered you through Tracie from the Grocery Girls. Oh my....you are so inspirational. Thank you for sharing all the cool pattern ideas. Just a wee note the last tee is called Kanno's Résistance. Only found out as I was looking for it on Rav
I love your sweaters! Such a beautiful design, I'll have to find the perfect yarn for this one. I totally get the checkmark vs the strikethrough. A strike through is like you are removing that item from the list. A checkmark says Why yes, I did do that! ✔ Time to reward myself with some knitting! 😁
Beautiful episode! Your FOs are just gorgeous. So inspiring! Jackie your handspun traveller hoodie is amazing. And Carmen, where did you get your beautiful skirt?
Logistical question: Knit City Montreal sounds amazing. But when I google it, only Knit City Toronto pops up. Is this the same thing...? I also wanted to say I just love how you two always try on each other's sweaters. It's just a unique thing you do that I've never seen in another knitting podcast, and it adds so much dimension to the appreciation of the knit when you see how 2 different knitters experience the same garment even when they didn't create it!
HI! It’s the same festival in that it’s run by the same people (knit city) but the location alternates each year. This year it’s Toronto and next year it’s back to Montreal. :)
hooray, so delighted to listen to your stories and tangents on this rainy (not snowy! finally!) morning, while working on lonnnnng rows for my own test-knit shawl (for Inese)... Jackie, you should wear more green, your Traveler hoodie looks AMAZING on you. re: sleeves, if it's for Scotland, you'll probably want sleeves. and Carmen, the red color especially in your Artus is so inspirational, i'm having to restrain myself from ordering some right away (although it sounds like your grad school experience was verrrrry different than mine!). and oh, the joys of checklists and etc. (i cover my printed-out patterns with hatch marks to keep track of rows, and they are SO satisfying to accumulate.) oh and edit: that was my comment last time about how can you knit a whole sweater in so much ribbing, and you *might* have me convinced to start a sweater no. 28 when i travel to NYC next month... they both look so lovely. and have a FABULOUS time at KnitCity -- wish i could be there!
and last thought: summer knits here in Iceland are obviously a different thing than in most parts of the world, but i DO have some Walk Collection alpaca-linen-silk blend that i'm hoping to try, in a scrumptious green -- just have to find the right pattern. thinking about Teti Lutsak's Volia blouse, but not decided yet... (two big shawls, the test-knit + a wedding shawl for a friend, to finish before anything new starts)
Oh Laura, your comments are always so thought-inducing and give such a window into who you are! I really hope we all get to meet in person some day! I enjoyed reading every word of this. Thank you!
The cape is gorgeous as is. I wouldn’t change a thing. All the knits are stunning. My queue just became a few items longer! Lol Please feel free to throw any of your sweaters, cardigans or shawls on me at Knit City. I won’t mind one bit!
Thanks again 😂😂I now have at least 4 more items added to my list …. Cant wait for the rib wave sweater , adding the tank and sweater 28 to my list … also have the twigs on my list but syringe /toothpick knits still scare me ….
I love your handspun Traveller. I think the sweater will be fabulous with sleeves although they might look great with a deep 2x2 rib. I have the Artus pattern and would love to use Sonder yarn but I wish the pattern was larger. I don’t know if her dk weight would make it significantly larger and worth the risk of the triangle becoming too deep. What do you think? Great episode, thanks.
Thank you Tanis!! And I totally agree re the length of the artus. It’s a good question about the dk. I think that could def work, especially if you make the gauge larger than the pattern recommends. I guess the question about the depth will depend on your row gauge and how it relates to your stitch gauge (for me my stitch gauge increases faster than my row gauge so the depth wouldn’t change as much as the length would). As well, how much of a buffer do you have for the depth, body-wise? For me, since I’m tall, it being longer wouldn’t make much of a difference but for Jackie that would be significant
Loved the podcast ladies. I have a question for Jackie regarding the Rib Pullover. Were you able to get gauge with Sonder’s Lux sport base? I want to try it out and I loved how your sweater looks.
Thanks Sherry!! And yes - I did get gauge with Lux sport solo - my Ravelry project page is updated so you can also take a peek there for more details. Can’t wait to see yours/hear what you think about the base.
Aw thank you! And that is so interesting that you felt I couldn’t get a word in! Haha that definitely is not my experience but thanks for the intention of looking out for me! ♥️♥️
Aw thank you! And that is so interesting that you felt I couldn’t get a word in! Haha that definitely is not my experience but thanks for the intention of looking out for me! ♥️♥️
