Hello! Thank you for sharing some more of your crafting journey. Intentional slow making is also part of my plans. For the past few years, I select 1 project to make from fiber to FO. I've done a scarf, a shawl and this year I am trying my hand at a sweater/cape. Through this process I am reminded of all the time and value that this item has. It feels good not to rush. I've made a blend of Corriedale, Polwarth and Rambouillet. A soft but sturdy mix. Once completed, I hope to enjoy wearing this garment for many many years. While my hands are busy, audiobook and podcasts are my go to for entertainment. History, fiction, fantasy, there is always something to keep my brain and ears engaged. You are completely right. Nothing compares to following along some characters across a series. There are 13 books in the wheel of time series. I bought them for my husband ; ) I hope you enjoy them as much as he did... His read them twice!
I love this top so much!! The neckline makes your neck look so long and elegant, and the color is gorgeous on you. Love seeing the process and how you transformed it from basic and "fine" into something truly lovely and flattering.
"Spinning Sample Snacks" I'm here for that 😂 Your Rambouillet spin is lovely and oh, I'm so thrilled to watch the Corriedale come to life in your hands ❤ I hope you feel the love from my farm to you when you have it in your hands my friend
Your crocheted tee is darling. It's so interesting to hear about your modifications and thoughtful making. Enjoy wearing that top. Your spinning is also thoughtful and so interesting. I finished listening to The Island of Missing Fig Trees and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Lovely top, suits you so well! I really enjoyed being included in your musings and alterations - - a real life glimpse into how our hand worked projects rarely go as perfectly as we first think they might 😂. And as always, I luv seeing your garden, so lush!!
I really appreciate the time you take to make these videos for us when you are already working so hard elsewhere. I love your crochet tee, it looks perfect for wearing in your climate (though I was somewhat horrified by the temperatures where you are already!) and I'm sure it would make an excellent layering piece for cooler months too. Thank you so much for sharing your making with us xx
Thank you for giving great details about finishing your shirt. I'm a newish crocheter, and how to finish a project is also new. I love that you finished the arms so beautifully. Love the finished garment!
Your red tee looks lovely and suits you so well! Interesting to listen to your joining thoughts and you’ve done a great job! It’s a shame when your day job gets in the way of crafting! Lovely to spend time with you again x
It's been fun to watch this sweater's journey. I've been admiring the yarn all along--such a gorgeous color and plumpiness. I also like the reminder (to me) to make the back somewhat smaller than the front, which is definitely something I usually forget. All that fluffy fiber is glorious, and your idea to do samples is ingenious; like swatching for spinning. I need to look into supported spinning because I can not keep my spindle spinning for long enough, it seems. SIDENOTE: My daughter got to spend 5 months in Prague just before the pandemic because her fiance was on the writing team for Netflix's The Wheel of Time production. I haven't read them but they sound good. The voice of your audiobook sounds a lot like James Marsters, who played Spike in Buffy but who I mostly know as a narrator of the Dresden Files.
Oh wow, it’s amazing how nice the sleeves turned out with the single crocheting. I love the top and the color and plan to crochet a top for myself. Thank you for walking us through the finished process 😊
Hi Marce, I'm with you on seamed garments. They have structure and hang on the body better. The mattress stitch is so satisfying too. Over, under, over, under and then that satisfying zip. You just might be tempting me to try crochet after showing us that beautiful summer top. It looks great on you. Please keep sharing your fibre adventures.
The top looks great on you - so interesting to hear your thought process as you craft - everything you do is so carefully created. Enjoy wearing your new masterpiece. The spinning looks amazing, too - such consistency. Bravo xx
Thanks dear Lesley. This slower, more reflective making was a longish time coming, but I am happy to have reached this point in the journey. I hope your making time has been just what you need of late. I'm due to catch up with your latest episodes!
Your crochet top is fabulous, thank you for taking us on the journey and for sharing your thoughts as you went. I've tried quite a few times in the past to crochet a garment for myself and have never managed to find anything that I like for me, this is making me think about trying again
Hello dearest, Ange! This is something I hope will come back around for you my friend. I am finding it really easy to wear (yes, I have it on AGAIN today lol)
Great to catch up with you Marce! LOVE the red of your crochet top! Fun to follow along your process of making it fit the way you want it to fit - so good! I'm currently really enjoying the book Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. Take care~Stephanie
Hi Stephanie! I will have a look for that book! I finished a quick read of Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss and really it a good read. Thanks for the kind compliments on my top. See you on your channel soon 😊
Your red garment looks fantastic on you, of course! Thanks for sharing your ideas about the pattern on that piece . Even though yours is crocheted, it has given me some ideas about doing the same thing with whatever textured knitting panels I might want to give it a go with. Two rectangles equals a blank slate to play with, basically. ❤❤
I love the top! I always itch to pick up my project while I listen to you work on yours. I just joined my last ball of yarn to the lace weight Tunisian crochet scarf I'm working on, so it was lovely to feel like I was making along with you.
@@heyBrownBerry I'm working a pattern called the Listopad Stole, a pretty simple repeat if you want to take a look! I could finish it with this repeat, but if I've done the math right I can squeeze in two extras before I run out of yarn so that's what I'm trying
your top is fabulous and it looks amazing on you, how satisfying , thanks for sharing all the finishing work with us! my daughter and i read the Wheel of Time back when they were first published, i had just mentioned to her that i thought we should go back and listen to them! i love good historical mysteries and i've just started the latest book by C.S Harris' Sebastian St. Cyr series!
I love the Wheel of Time. I think I have finished 5 of the books so far. I am currently listening to the last Witcher book; it is also a great series. Beautiful crochet top.
Wow, your top is fantastic! It was reminding me so much of spending a day traveling across the country and seaming up, weaving in ends and doing finishing touches on my crocheted "Oaxaca Tunic" by Nomad Stitches. I didn't pre-plan it, but with the front turning out larger than expected, I made the back a bit smaller, and it worked out great. Maybe it's something I'll have to think about intentionally for the future.
What a beautiful summer top! Thank you for sharing with us. I'm reading through Elizabeth Lim's books this year. While they are for older children, I'm thoroughly enjoying the world and character building in these high fantasies. I'm also reading "Unmasking Autism" and "The Grieving Brain" on a more serious side. I hope to be a better care taker, family member and friend as I gain more knowledge about these two existences.
@@heyBrownBerry I’m mostly knitting socks and baby sets. I did just finish a spin and started knitting a shawl. The picture that I posted of the shawl in progress today doesn’t do it justice. I also assemble granny square afghans for Warm Up America. Another lady crochets the squares and I make the afghans. My hands are moving all day every day. ❤️ Thanks for sharing your makes. I love seeing the process.
I have a pattern like that. There are lots of confusing parts and some just left out but after making it work several times and ending up with wearables, the top is usable to me. That was a fun journey! Thanks.
It looks fantastic! The red is great on you, too. I look forward to seeing your spinning as the project grows- if you are interested in a wee rabbit/squirrel, I have a bit of Irish rare breed wool I could send you 🐑🤗
CroJoy!!!!! And the color is so beautiful and you look🔥!! I'll be working on Spring and Summer crochet tops soon I hope. Thanks for the inspo. You did a Great job!! I just finished the Inheritance and now reading Room With A View.
Totally CroJoy!!! I feel so freed from my previous hesitation around making something like this work for me and my preferred style. I hope you'll have some lovely things you enjoy coming off the hook, too! I have heard of both of those reads. Do you recommend The Inheritance?
@heyBrownBerry thank you 🥰 Yes I recommend The Inheritance. I really enjoy the eloquence, niceties, and whit in classics of this style. The Inheritance is a short and enjoyable read. The way the characters are explained is similar to how Dickens describes his characters and I love Dickens! In the summer, I plan to read novels by J. California Cooper. She is my favorite author, but M. Shelley Frankenstein is my favorite book of all time. I've only read one of JCC's novels but devoured several of the compilations of short stories. I know you didn't ask all this, but I get so excited and can't help myself.
Your top looks great!! One of the first garments that I knit for myself was this style with just two seamed rectangles. It’s such a great canvas and your modification to make the back narrower is so smart!
The top looks great!!! I have a knitting pattern for a top like that, and I'm thinking that maybe I should get to making it for a knit-worthy person. 🤔
Hi friend! I read (and reread) lots of multi-book series. The WOT is one of them, and I recognize Michael Kramer's voice while you were working :) I just finished Remarkably Bright Creatures (a single book story), so good! A series that I love so much is the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. I listen to it over and over :) xo
Gorgeous top and I have also worked with faulty patterns before. One was a very complicated lace short fingered gloves and when I had to unpick third time I realised there was a pattern mistake but by then I could figure out how to knit it correctly. I e-mailed the supplier, with my corrections and they mailed me back, thanking me and changed the online pattern! That was gratifying as it is an exquisite glove pattern. Looking forward to seeing your new projects growing. Btw, what;s happened to Maria? Is she not posting anymore or is RU-vid not sending me notifications anymore?
Great to know that the pattern company responded so well to your feedback. Maria is posting over on IG and has some great content on her website. She’s not doing RU-vid videos right now.
Your top looks great! As for books: my current audio book go-to is the Inspector Gamash series by Louise Penny. Fun! So great to see you on the 'tube, my friend. Be well.
Well, thanks for getting me to take the spindle out, it had been a while. As you said, there's not enough time in the day sometimes... And after a run in the morning and a workout in the evening, the energy for crafting sometimes just isn't there 😅 Currently reading The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, a thriller/mystery novel set 19th century gold rush New-Zealand with a constellation of unique characters (English prospector, French journalist, irish chaplain journalists, a swedish investors, a noble prostitute, an eastern European Jewish editor, a Maori hunter, two Chinese diggers and opium sellers...) all involved in a series of events that have yet to make sense to me. It's also about 700 pages and I'm only a third in!
@@heyBrownBerry I've been *very* on and off with the spinning, so I've been spinning the same John Arbon corrideale combed top for over a year now 🙈 (I did take breaks to spin the same fiber/different color way on the nano in the meantime.)
Love your crochet top. The colour is fab & looks great on you too. ❤️ Do you mind sharing by what proportion / how much smaller was the back panel to the front one to help with shaping? Making it small is a great tip- thanks x
Hi! I made the back 2 inches more narrow than the front if that helps. The whole top has about 3" of positive ease I think making the back10- 20% smaller than the front is a noticeable adjustment for making the whole top fit the way I wanted
I considered this! I think that would work well too as long as you found a cadence that you like in the elongated sections of the double crochet. So many options
the red top reminds me of the Lana Top by Potter and Bloom which is a well-written pattern though it is written in UK terminology so people would have to pay attention to that if necessary.
Cotton does not have the elasticity of animal fibers, so I chose not to block this. I don’t need it to set shaping or sizing. When I wash this after wearing it for a while, it will need to be reshaped and dried flat when wet.
I’m thinking you might enjoy Venco by Cherie Dimaline. Strong, interesting women working together for the common good kind of thing. She also wrote The Marrow Thieves which got a lot of critical praise. Some 🇨🇦 content for ya down there! 😉
Alison, I grinned at this!! I just finished (and LOVED) Empire of Wild and have every intention of reading more of this author. Thank you for these titles. The recognizable Canadian content was an extra treat. 🇨🇦🤎
