Really, what a wonderful video, I'm overwhelmed 🙈 I have to watch it twice to absorb all the impressions and informations. Amazing, really. Peace and love for you and everyone else 💚
Hi Lisa! So happy to see you each week, brightens my day! I love your shawl colors...looks like so fun to explore your stash and colors!! Look forward in seeing its fruition 😊🎉 Love the vacation pictures...lovely time. Enjoy your week and Thanks for your podcast 😀
Im glad you had a lovely holiday and how lovely to have the whole beach to yourselves. Thank you for the Turkish spindle tutorial. I make my leader on a top whirl spindle but I will try your method now. Your Stephen West shawl is looking great and such pretty colours. What a treat to hear you playing the piano. Looking forward to your next video. Take care Lisa.x
Thank you .....really lovely finish. x Thank you also for the revision on the Turkish spindle. You replied last time to my question on spinning singles, suggesting Romney as a good fleece to try. I live in the UK, in south east London. I am close to Romney Marsh: an hours drive a guess. So, I found Romney Marsh wools, and have ordered a little from their beautiful flock of Romney's . Excited to try it.
Was that Gallagher's Farm Market you guys stopped at because they have the best cherry butter and preserves, oh my goodness amazing!! I used to live in Michigan and I am in San Diego now but I still mail order cherry goodies from them because they are the best!
No, it was Jollay Orchards. I purchase the best tart cherry preserves. That area of the country is a wonderful source of produce especially Peaches and cherries that I love so much.
I love your start to the geogradient shawl, your colours and hearing about your inspiration. I’m having a crocheting phase so have incorporated a granny square diamond with 4 triangles to make a square for mine ( it’s fun seeing peoples personality in their centre square) I reused most of my small bits of yarn from the original clue, because some of it was handspun. One stripe is handspun mohair. I’ve spun mohair and plyed it with alpaca and that works well but haven’t tried it with Finn I will be interested to see what you think. If you want lots of halo you can brush the skein it with a soft brush. Thankyou for a wonderful podcast.
You asked about tea. I get a lot of tea from Harney & Sons, which has a huge selection. I tried all the breakfast teas and came back around to English. They have a black tea called Russian Country, which is just a little bit smoky (but not too much). It would be a bit much first thing in the morning but is great in the afternoon. There's a kind of quirky weird tea called Milk Oolong, which I first tried on the recommendation of Selma at Little Big Knits. I get mine from Genuine Tea in Toronto, and if you've never tried it before but are interested, I would definitely recommend just getting the sample size at first, because I suspect it's one of those that you will either really love or really hate!
I think your original Turkish spindle video was the first one I ever saw of yours! And then it was the drop spindling from start to finish and I continue to recommend that video to lots of people. You truly have taught me and inspired me in so many ways, Lisa! to the point where I was a spindling demonstrator at the Virginia Fiber Festival last weekend ❤️🧶🐑 The CVM for your arboreal is stunning, btw. and don’t our sons just 💔?
Thank you for this gorgeous and peaceful episode! I enjoyed seeing all the projects you are working on and the vacation footage was amazing. I tend to drink both coffee and tea in the morning, the order depends on my mood each day.
Love the film clips by the lakeside - so lovely and peaceful. Peaches looks so happy and relaxed too. Another delightful podcast. Thank you for sharing your crafty adventures with all of us. - My MKAL Geogradient is going ok. I’d finished the OG Clue 1, and only just this evening finished the v.3 Clue 1. My mods were to add eyelets and some texture. (Face palm) haha.
Welcome back from your vacation. I'm so glad you guys had such a lovely time. I LOVE the flower you've made in the center of your shawl. It's so beautiful. And the colors are so pretty. Happy knitting and spinning! 💚🧶🐑💚
Hello from a very sunny - but cold! England! I’m watching you on Sunday afternoon, sitting knitting my first Fairisle garment and loving it,with my headphones on watching you while my husband watches the England - Fiji rugby match. Every now and then he updates me on the score…😄 I love to watch you spin, it’s why I found your channel, fairly recently, because I’m going to have my first drop spinning lesson at the end of this week, when I come back from a knitting retreat! How lucky am I! I think even if I don’t become a spinner, I would love to collect spindles because so many of them are really things of beauty, aren’t they? I’ve thought for a long time that Stephen and Kaffe have a lot in common, but mainly that they are self taught innovators and colour geniuses. On holiday on Wales some years ago we drove to Lampeter to see Jen Jones’ antique Welsh quilt collection (I’ve been a quilter for decades) and along side it was the travelling Kaffe Fasset collection - the juxtaposition of the old and new quilts was just marvellous. Have a lovely week, I’m looking forward to your next posting.x
Your shawl is going to be absolutely beautiful. Thank you for a great episode, again. Lake Michigan is so beautiful. So happy you got to end your summer there.
Lovely podcast. I purchased a Turkish spindle from Snyder Spindles after seeing yours. I love it! You are inspiring me to try another Turkish spindle maker.
Hi Lisa, your clue 1 is amazing! I started clue 2. Your flower is a perfect fit🎉. I also added a 5th color. Everything always works out right.?! I am looking forward to seeing everyone’s square. We all but our love into this one ❤
I love how you decided to use your flower square for clue 1 in the mkal. I love Turkish spindles, my favorite style of drop spindle. Your piano playing is beautiful! I'm busy this weekend with canning applesauce and knitting a fisherman's rib scarf for my son in law.
Loved getting another Turkish spindle lesson. Wonderfully peaceful- loved scenes of your vacations scenes. What were you looking for in the water? Stones are beautiful. So relaxing hearing the water wash over and tumble the rocks. I play piano too so enjoyed that as well!
Thank you for including the Turkish spindle tutorial. I wasn’t interested in trying it but you’ve changed my mind. I just found your channel recently and you’re so good at teaching. Thank you.
As a SW Michigan resident, I am glad you enjoyed your stay in the area. I got a Turkish spindle at the Michigan Fiber Fest and am really enjoying using it! I am trying to learn to spin as consistently as you do, but there is a ways to go yet.
PS I play that piece that you ended with. I’d love to see the cover of the book. The one I play out of is an offertories book from years ago with a red cover.
Beautiful video as always. I’m spinning some gorgeously fine Shetland on my tiny IST Turkish spindle atm and getting around 20 WPI when plied back. I have two of these fleeces, one white and one very dark brown so I’m going to experiment with colour mixing and blending and hopefully end up with super fine shawl yarn 😀. I will also be taking this little spindle on holiday when we go next month. I’d never heard of using one as a supported spindle though; I can’t wait to have a go at it.
Enjoyed your video, as usual. I really liked your interpretation of Stephen West's new MKAL, and look forward to seeing his and yours evolve. I bought the same Spanish Peacock spindle, which just arrived yesterday! There is some magic in his spindles!
Your videos are such a joy. Thanks for all the things you do. I love the spinning content you are so inspiring. I too love my turkish spindles from IST crafts. ❤
The yarn advent I ordered for this year includes 2 days of hand spun yarn from the dyer so I’ve been keeping my eye out for colorwork designs like the sweater you showed! Thank you for the inspiration 💛
I spun 2 singles of gray Finn (from Marti at Walking Cloud Farm) with one single of white mohair for socks. They are beautifully soft and warm with lovely hello. The singles were very thin and the yarn came out to be about fingering to sport weight, so the socks are wearable in shoes and boots. I am sold on this method as an alternative way of blending.
I might have to borrow that phrase when you referred to the book which "came into the house". Its quite interchangeable right? "The fleece came into the house" 😂
Hi it is one of my 100mm (the length of the arms) Turkish, I do 2 in what I call the mid range, the 100 with 3mm brass weights and the 110mm with 4mm weights. Ian IST Crafts.
Thank you for another wonderful episode Lisa. Love watching you spin on your spindles and the scenes of your walk on the beach and piano playing are soothing and relaxing. Always uplifting!
