The Island Lamb: Episode 29 Knitting and Counting Down The Days 'Til Fall! 

Hi Diane thank you for your enthusiasm about your knitting it is infectious 🧶your knits are gorgeous as ever.Your cashmere jumper is stunning 🤩 it will look amazing on you.Congratulations to you and Dave on your anniversary 🎉Happy knitting and have a great week 🧶🌺

I so enjoy your channel,knitting ,and every day gardening and the island you live on

That shawl looks like so much fun to knit. Love your podcast and always learn so much.

Thanks for a great podcast! My mouth dropped wide open when you showed your cashmere sweater. Gorgeous !

Thank for for another lovely episode. All your knits are beautiful!

16:05 with a smile on my face , I want to tell you what an entertaining podcast. You were enthusiastic about knitting and about taking the threads out of a sweater. You are a professional podcast presenter now. You bring the viewer into the story. I was totally entertained. Have to call you next week and explain my enthusiasm

That wrap is gorgeous! I love hearing you talk about your projects because they are so well thought out and just works of art. A hotel on Nantucket had a big fire like that last year! I think the neighboring homes were damaged, but thinking of it going to the whole town is so scary! Thank goodness all the fire depts worked together to save your town!

What a beautiful fantasy! 🙂

From the beginning of my knitting journey 10 years ago, I’ve always remembered M1 R by saying M1 Rear instead of Make 1 right. It’s much easier than trying to remember a saying or whatever. Love your podcast, projects and hearing about your island!

Love your podcast! The white cashmere sweater is just gorgeous. 😊. 10:30pm 9/1/23

What a nice podcast (first time viewer here). Love your knits and your warm tan walls. What a nice refresher from dreary grays

Love your cashmere sweater, immediately put it on my to do list.

Thank you for another lovely vlog. I’m thankful the fire didn’t turn into something far worse…..my parents lost our home and business to a horrific fire when I was young (seven children) and it is devastating. Community is so important…..Loved all you knits as usual!! I’m just starting a Lento sweater this morning but off to have coffee with a friend. Have a lovely weekend.

Congratulations on your anniversary. Love the wedding photos. Sounds like you have all had a super time. The shawl looks gorgeous and I love your jumper. Great seeing you here again. It’s feeling like autumn here in Cumbria, England. The nights are drawing here in and our little hamlet has no street lights so it’s really dark outside earlier. ❤

Dear Diane, The white sweater is just so beautiful. The way you are thinking about your knits is how Ralph Lauren designs his clothes. He doesn't start with the dress but with the women in mind. How does she look, what does she do, where does she live, where is she going? And then he makes a dress for that woman. Ivana ❤

Love your fantasy while knitting your cashmere sweater…beautiful…you will feel luxurious when you wear it

I heard your voice while doing something in the kitchen and came right in to visit with Diane 😉. Love you knits and plans. I knit 1 cotton/linen top and was done 😂. We keep our home at 74 so back to wool! Finished a Felix cardi and an Oslo hat. Knitting on another Oslo and deciding on my next project. My mom likes the Magnolia Bloom cardigan in olive green, so I’m looking for yarn. Congratulations on 35 Years! Thank you for sharing your time ❤️

Beautiful sweaters Diane x

0:23 yes their vacation was fabulous. Such a glowing report of the cruise makes me want to go on one. Back to your podcast. I invited Paul to watch it for a while He felt like I do You are so professional in front of the camera

Hi Diane! I really enjoyed this video and your knitting pattern styles and colours. Best wishes from a Canadian knitting podcaster!

I just finished “binge” watching your episodes. Wonderful. (Btw- I must order that linen quill blue )

Good morning Diane, As always, it has been a pleasure spending time with you while kntting. I too, was looking forward to switching my knitting from short sleeved plant based project to woolly, woolly pullovers...until mother nature served us with one last hurrah! We've been having a heat wave this week in Québec, with temperatures in the higher 90's. I really thought that my Salty Air Tee by Samantha Guérin would be my last project of the season, but no...I've decided that I have time this week for another one, so I'm making the Joni by Natasja Hornby with beautiful, silky Susurro by Malabrico in a pearly grey color that is very not me, but oh, so great to look at. I bought this yarn while visiting Chicago on a mini knitting retreat this August and I will think about it every time I wear it. So just like you, I also "fantasize" my knitting. I recognized the Vogue issue you showed with the shawl on the cover....I have it also in a box with other back issues. So funny the habits we share as knitters, eh? I made a similar "Missoni" inspired straight scarf with some Noro wool (I'm lazy so I didn't want to have to change the colors) and it was so beautiful that I ended up using it as a table runner in order to be able to see it all the time. I'm still discovering the wonders of KnitCompanion myself, and this week, thanks to an podcast episode by Knitty Natty, I learned how to play with charts, create a whole new page and bring more than one chart on the same page, line them up and merge them...game changer! I also learned about the Magic Wand, with which you can all at once color all your actions, like "Cable left", "Cable right", etc. and the cherry on top of the sunday is the magic row counter, with which you color all those knit stitches in between and KnitCompanion will show you the number of them in this color coordinated circle. Wow! I was tickled pink you referred to the Stephen West mnemonic aid about being "Right back" and "Left through the front door"! If it helps just one other knitter, then it's worth it. Thanx for sharing. The fire you talked about in your intro must have been quite an event in your community. Thankfully, it seems no loss of life was reported. We can always rebuild bricks and stones, but bones... The voluntary firemen are heroes. My best friend's husband is one of them in a small community near Lévis, Québec and he's had some intense experiences while waiting for backups from the big city. Trois Pistoles, eh? Amazing! An immersion course in such a small community is something I'd never thought of. It must have been quite an experience. And a whole year apart with you visiting ? Lots of kilometers to and fro must have been made during those months. I find it very useful when you refer to other podcasts. It's a great way to broaden my knitting horizons with people I would otherwise not necessarily have been able to connect with. Pleeeease, don't talk about Purl Soho's Linen Quill sales anymore! It cost me a fortune last time😯! I have enough of my yarn buying/hoarding pulsions to manage on my own without others nicely adding to them! I just fell off the wagon again this week I must confess, with a Holst Garn sale. You go straight to their Danish website and they soooo nicely do everything for you, the language, the currency, the delivery... you get the picture? That yarn is like crack, and they are the friendliest pushers in the universe. And because it is so amazingly cheap, ...you get more! Like in cones, with some lace alpaca to match instead of mohair...they even have a chart that tells you which Titicaca (that's the alpaca base laceweight's name) color is a perfect match to which color in all of their other bases (and they have a few). Just be warned..if you visit the website, you are a stronger woman than me if you don't end up buying anything. You have been warned! Well again thank you for taking the time and energy to put this lovely episode together, Your 30ish minute limit means that I'm always left wanting More and More - just like the cake! Happy knitting Diane! 🧶🧶

Such and enjoyable vlog, cute yellow eyelet top. I also watch knitters Kniche, and am making that sweater with the Lion brand yarn that I also just ordered. Lol. Happy knitting this fall. Thank Goodness for your local fireman who did a great job containing the fire. Miraculous for sure!

Love your PC. Just found you last week. I heard your accent and knew we had something in common !. Native New Englander here...Central Falls, N. Prov., Warwick......Love the references you make to being from RI. So sad to see the aftermath of the hotel....happy to hear they'll rebuild. We went to the island last summer. I hadn't been in years. Beautiful as ever. Looking forward to next episode. Happy September. Jeanne

Your podcast just flies by, Diane! Loved every project you've featured here especially that chevron shawl. Love the wedding photos!

Make one left or right I just say to myself “ right - rear” two “r”s. So I automatically know left front.

Came to Block Island in July. First time. North Light Fibers - I was probably one of the last customers in the shop! Sad to see it go. So sorry about the Inn. How scary. Glad the town was saved and all the helpers are ok. That is just crazy! We found no Orbs but had fun trying. We loved BI. Special place. Love your knitting and your episodes. You're a knitting inspiration. Will you do Stephen West's MKAL? I'm all in and hoping to stick with stash yarn but it is so tempting to buy a kit...and it starts in October. lol Best wishes.

Gosh Diane! That cashmere sweater 😍 If you will ever come to Iceland that would be the perfect sweater to bring along 😀. I am still working on my Cumulus but I’m also knitting the Dahlia using one strand of Alpaca silk from Sandnes garn and one strand of silk mohair from Knitting for Olive in a beautiful soft rose Color. You can never have too many sweaters for the cold winters here. Looking forward to the next episode, Dagmar 🇮🇸

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