The adventures of knitting my Flared Sourcebook Pullover for the Yarniacs' Colours of Fall knitalong continue. I also get defensive about this thing called knitting, share 3 multicrafty projects, discuss another new Aussie vlog/podcast, and disclose my love for a pair of shoes.
02:15 Giveaway follow up
49:27 Craft for Thought
58:13 Multicrafty
1:18:30 Eyes and Ears
1:22:27 Heart Full of Craft
1:28:01 Thanks!
Transcript
Greetings knitting neighbours and crafty comrades. Welcome to both returning and new viewers to another episode of Bobolog. My name is Bobbie Olan and I am a knitter and fibre crafts explorer in Victoria, Australia. I live with my partner on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people and I would like to pay my respects to their elders, past, present and future, and I would like to extend that respect to all Aboriginal peoples.
So to get started, first up is housekeeping. You can find me on other platforms such as Instagram, Ravelry, Kofi (where I have a little shop) and... Think that's it. I feel like there was another one but I think that's it. Yes.
If you do follow me on Instagram, I'm not that great at posting or making reels but I have come very late to the party of stories. And I'm making an effort - I have been making an effort recently to create story highlights of the things that I'm doing. So I have a highlight for specific projects that I'm working on, one of which is the Flared Sourcebook Pullover which I will be talking about today. And another one that sort of very sporadically gets content is my natural dyeing, which is something else that I will be talking about today.
So I feel like I should warn you - on that note, as well - that this is probably going to be another really long episode. I can't seem to really keep them under an hour and I have a feeling this one is gonna go well beyond that. So be warned. This is probably gonna be a long one. But when you started watching this video, you probably saw whatever the timestamp ends up being so yes, we shall see how that goes. All right.
Giveaway follow up
On to content, the first thing that I want to bring up is a little update on the giveaway. Not really an update because I'm not changing anything. It's more of a reminder that I have my first giveaway going on, which is for reaching - or surpassing 100 subscribers here on YouTube. Yay! That's pretty exciting. It took me a pretty long time to get there. But I'm so excited to have you all joining me here and yeah. It's- It's great to know that there are people out there who are interested in the content that I put out.
I sometimes feel like the tagline for my vlog, podcast, whatever you want to call it should be 'Knitting: TMI' - 'Knitting: Too Much Information' - because I know sometimes I go into a lot of detail. But it seems like a lot of you out there do like the technical things, which is great to hear. And I've loved hearing from some of you that you are actually learning something new here and there, which is kind of something that- that I'm aiming for. It's something that I've been hoping for. And that's the reason why I share so much information because I'm hoping that by sharing all of the little details and all of the processes and thoughts that go through my head, that you're going to get something out of it as well. So that's been really nice to hear.
And just on the giveaway itself, it's been so much fun to see and read all of your comments and responses to it. It's been really interesting to see everyone's preferences for which- which set of yarn you'd be interested in getting. So if you do want to see what the rules - I guess - are and what is being given away for this giveaway, go back and watch my previous episode. Which I think I didn't realise at the time - I was doing my 100 subscriber giveaway on Episode 25, which I thought was kind of a neat milestone match up. A quarter of a century when I got to a century. Something like that.
Anyway, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Yes, if you want to see what is being given away - what the two options are and how to enter - go and watch my previous video. But basically I have a wool option and I have a cotton option. And I'm letting whoever wins choose which one they get.
And it's been so interesting to see what everyone's preferences are. Sort of- One really interesting comment that's come through from a few- few of you is that you primarily have worked with one, but because of that you're really interested in the other. And I just think that's so exciting and I would love to be able to introduce one of you to a new fibre. So yeah, we'll see how that goes. And I guess that's all that I have to say about the giveaway.
Sincerely, Curious in Craftlandia
It has inspired a new segment that I am calling, 'Sincerely, Curious in Craftlandia.' Kind of a throwback to, you know, those columns or write-ins, or basically you know - like Sleepless in Seattle. You- People write in with these- the questions or- or share their stories or whatever and they sign off, not with their name but with some sort of alliterative... What do you call it? What do you call it? That's gonna annoy me now. You know when you're pretending - not pretending - to be someone else. You're like - is it under a pseudonym? Is that what I mean? But it's not really a pseudonym.
Anyway. Sincerely, Curious in Craftlandia.
And this question comes from Sharry. Sharry was asking for advice on what cable to pick for making a beanie that just had a panel or a single motif of cables on the front of it. So one that wasn't going all the way around it. And that really made me pause for a while and think about it, because I don't know. I feel like there are so many different ways that you can approach that problem.
The first one that came to my mind is - if you have any sort of stitch dictionary you can really just find anything that you liked in there. And this obviously doesn't just apply to cables. It's a- can apply to any sort of pattern and you can make a panel that is just that.
One excellent thing about this particular book - the Knitted Cable Sourcebook, which is a stitch dictionary for cables - is - I have mentioned this before, but Norah Gaughan has a system that she calls the Stockinette Stitch Equivalent - the SSE - so if you are wanting to just put in a panel of cables on the front of your beanie, this makes it super easy. Because if you know what your gauge is for a stockinette stitch, then you can kind of figure out how many stitches around your beanie should be and you should really- you should be able to really easily sub in one of the cables from this book.
You can really- If- If it's just a small panel - I mean, it's not going to be a huge panel because beanies aren't that huge - but if you're just having a panel of it, the pull-in of the cables shouldn't be too great. So you may be able to get away with not increasing or not adding any stitches to that section. I guess it also depends how you want your beanie to fit. But this is probably - in my opinion - the best book for figuring out how to make that work for yourself.
There is also a beanie pattern in here. And it didn't occur to me to look at that before- There's one. There's one there. Let's see. Where- Do they have the patterns all in one section? Here. Sorry, I should have looked this up. Oh, projects. Hat, page 65. Let's see if that's the one that I'm talking about yet. So this... do that. Because I'm not- I don't want to give anything away.
This hat here. If you have a pattern with cables, and the cables are going all around the hat, you could also just decide to do whatever section of it you wanted in the stitch pattern and do the rest of it in stockinette. That's another thing.
One hat that I would recommend that has a really nice cable on it is by Oliphant Kat, and it is called - oh I'm going to get this wrong. Again, I should have written this down. I think it's called the Gothic Tracery. But if you just look for Oliphant Kat on Ravelry or on her own website, I'm sure you'll be able to find it there. It is actually a beanie that has cables all the way around it. But I did have a look at it when I was considering this question and it would be so easy to just pick one panel of the cables and omit the rest. And that one I really really like and it is on my queue- in my queue to do because I think- well it looks really good for one thing. But I also just really love how the cables work up into the crown of the beanie.
Yeah, this- I feel like I'm just= I'm not really giving you a straight answer, Sharry. Sorry about that. But there are really just so many things you can do. There are so many different types of cables.
The other thing that you could even do if you were feeling creative- creative enough is to come up with your own cable design. And this isn't something that I have tried to do myself, but I imagine that you could just - if you got some graph paper and, you know, doodled on it, you'd be able to figure out, you know, where cable crossings and that kind of thing should go. But I don't know how complicated that is.
I- I swear that Norah Gaughan had a class on Craftsy many years ago about designing your own cables and it sort of talked about... Like that- I think that was one of the methods that was presented. But I had a look on Craftsy recently and I couldn't find it. Or at least I couldn't find that particular class by Norah Gaughan. So it may have been removed somewhere along the line of all of the changes- changing of hands that Craftsy has gone through in the last few years. But there's probably something out there about designing your own cables. Just, you know, doodle on some- on some graph paper and see if you can make it work.
I feel like I haven't really been of any help but they're sort of the approaches that I would take if I wanted to make that kind of beanie. The easiest thing of course is to see if you can find a pattern that you like - like the Gothic Tracery. But yeah. So I feel like I haven't helped but I tried. I hope- I hope you found something there to pique your interest, Sharry. Let me know what you ended up doing.
Handy Dandy
All right. Let's jump into Handy Dandy - and I have only been working on the one knitting project and that is the Flared Sourcebook Pullover. So what do I want to talk about first?
Flared Sourcebook Pullover
So in the... Where is it? In the previous episode, I had just finished the mammoth back piece. So I had shown this here. You can see I've got my pocket on that side. Long, long piece. Pocket on that side.
There is one thing that I had forgotten to mention about this beautiful cable pattern that I wanted to and that is just that - like I mentioned, Norah has that Stockinette Stitch Equivalent system, which I thought was really excellent. But you can see in this- in this cable here - this cable pattern here - that it starts off - like this is actually part- this is- this is actually part of the cable pattern. So it's like this whole thing... Let me see if I can get enough of it on the screen.
But the cable is pretty much, you know, this narrow bit and expands out into the wider section of cables here. So of course this section up here has a lot more cables, therefore a lot more pull-in than this narrow bit here. So what I thought was so excellent with her design - I keep saying she's brilliant because she is - is that she had really thoughtfully cleverly placed increases hidden in amongst all of this cabling, so that as you got to do more and more cables, you were still having the same Stockinette Stitch Equivalent all the way up. So I just thought that was brilliant. And I thought that it was worth mentioning. Because it's just wonderful. So that is one thing.
The one big thing that I forgot to mention in the previous episode was my whole big saga of doing a nice a smooth rib to cable transition. So if you watch - watch? - if you follow me on Instagram, then you've probably already seen it in my stories that I had this whole thing where I got to the end of it and I was able to make this- this- this cable bit here transition nicely into the ribbing. So where am I?
The two- I don't know why I'm struggling so much to show this to you. But this here - this leg of the cable goes really nicely into the stockinette bit - into the knitting stitches of the ribbing. And same for this leg that comes out the back, so that if I pull this apart, you can see there are some stitches in between the two legs of the cable and they go into the purl and then it just transitions really nicely.
The way that I had done the- the start of it when- when I just did the ribbing and then transitioned into the design, I didn't think about that at all. And once I had done the end of it and it was looking really good, I was looking at this and the- one of the legs of this cable was going into a purl bit and I- I just couldn't- I couldn't.
I like- I hold knit- like knitting- I hold knitting in such high esteem. And I've been- I've done so much to make this pattern my own and to make it exactly what I want it to be that I couldn't let something like that lie. And for me - because I hold knitting in such high regard - I feel like the things that I produce, I... And this isn't all the time - but I personally want to produce things that are really high quality, because I want to elevate my knitting as much as I can to sort of help, you know, to- to- what am I trying to say? Basically, I think knitting is so amazing, and my knits needs to be good enough to match... I just- I just want them to be the best that they can be. That's basically it in a nutshell. I'll stop trying to expound on that.
Anyway. So what I did is I re-knit the ribbing from a fresh ball of yarn and then I grafted it onto this without cutting off the original ribbing. And then I- I snipped the- I snipped where the old ribbing was and pulled that off. But then I was having all of these like wavy curly, loose bits of yarn and I realised I'd completely botched up the grafting. So I undid the kitchener, and I had the two separate pieces like you should have, and I grafted them together properly. Which was a bit fiddly because the- where the pocket was -
I think I'm showing you the wrong one. I think this was the end and this was the start that I redid. Yeah, you can see actually that this one- this one does the transition a bit better than this one that I had re-grafted, but still good enough for me. Anyway.
Where the- The way that I had done the pocket is - I had sort of knitted it on as I went along so that it was all in one piece and I didn't really need to do any seaming. But when I took off the bottom ribbing, the bottom of the pocket was now open. So when I was grafting that section where the pocket is, I had to do a bit of a- it felt like I was combining like a three needle bind off with the kitchener stitch but... So that was really fiddly, but it worked well. You can kind of see that there's like a break there. Like there's a line that runs along there that isn't really as visible on this one. But I'm still really really happy with the result.
I'm really really happy that I went to all of the effort to do that because I think it looks so much better than it did. And because I had done it wrong the first time, the whole thing took me - not including the re-knitting of the ribbing - the whole thing just from from the initial graft, to the realising it was wrong, undoing it, redoing it, and getting it all actually done and correct - it like- it took me 3.5 hours. And it's one of those things... It's like, you're going through it and you're like, 'Oh my god, this is so much work. Is this worth it?' But then, you know, I look at this, and I remember what it looked like before and I'm so much happier with this. So for me it's worth it because I want to produce the best work that I can. And you know, it's these little details that for me are the difference between something that's like really, really good quality and something that's just good quality, you know.
I'm- I'm a bit- I feel like my perfectionist, obsessive compulsive tendencies have really been heightened with this particular project. And I think that really is because I've been doing so many modifications to it to make it my own.
But anyway, thankfully very happily once I had finished that one and I knit the back of it - this bit knit up really quickly. And as you can see like it is- it's such a small piece compared to, you know, this whole length that I can't even... Upside down. Let's try it upside down. I could get up off my chair but can't be bothered. Hopefully you can see that enough there.
So anyway, you can see how huge this whole big giant long panel is and then how small the upper back is in- in comparison. That knit up so quickly. I felt like I started it and the next thing I knew it was finished, which was quite nice after this slog.
So the special techniques that I used to make this include sloped bind off, which just makes such a nice edge there. It doesn't have, you know, the steps that you usually get when you're doing just a regular sort of, you know - bind off a few stitches and then the next row you bind off a few more. This- This just makes a really nice edge for- for seaming and it just looks good anyway. I like it to look good.
Interestingly enough, it doesn't look quite as clean in garter stitch. Because you can see there's kind of like... Like this- this stitch that is creating the slope - it looks like elongated and there's a bit of a hole. It's like there's a bit of a hole there. And then this one, yeah they- if you can see this clearly enough, the V's are interrupted where the sloped bind off is by this like purl bump-ish type thing. And I guess, you know, that's because it's garter stitch. But, you know, it's not too bad and really like it will be seamed so you're not gonna see it. But I still think it's- it's a really easy technique and again, one of those just little detail things that can help improve the piece, or something. I don't know. Anyway, that's that.
When I did get up to this [garter] stitch bit, I did realise that I don't actually know what my gauge is in [garter] stitch. So I actually swatched and it was kind of like fortuitous that I had taken off the ribbing from the original big panel because I just reused that ribbing yarn that I reclaimed to do my garter stitch swatch and it was kind of like the perfect size to get- to get a decent swatch there.
And I just thought I'd mentioned one thing that I did in blocking this is - I never really know- I'm not really- like I'm never really confident in how you swatch garter stitch because it has so much stretch to it and I'm- I- I'm- I'm just- I don't...
Because I'm trying to get the gauge, I didn't want to stretch it out to match a particular gauge. I kind of just wanted to see what it would naturally do. But in a garment - a big sweater like this especially - you're going to have the weight of the- of the jumper like pulling down on it. So what I did - and I don't know, this- this is kind of just my own technique. I haven't seen anyone else do this and I don't know how much it helps really. Like there's no sort of accuracy or science or math or anything behind this. I don't know what the physics involved or anything is.
But anyway, what I'm trying to say is - when I pinned this to the blocking mat, it's pinned exactly- I pinned it exactly as you see here. So I put a whole bunch of pins along the top of it so that I would get at least the width- so the width of it would match my stockinette stitch, stitch gauge. And then I actually just left it like that and set it upright against the wall. And I was kind of hoping that the weight of the water that was in it - because I had wet blocked it - would sort of mimic in a way the weight of a sweater pulling down on it. And I just sort of let- let it hang and let it dry it that way and then I measured my garter stitch row gauge.
So that's the second swatch that I did for this project. And yeah, once I was happy with that, then I was able to finish the top of this. That's it for the back piece. Thank goodness. It's a huge, huge piece.
So then I was able to get started on the front piece. And before I get to talking about that I thought I would share - trying to pull swatches out from beside me here. Where'd it go? I pulled them both out. I thought I had only pulled one out. Oops.
Anyway, so these are my swatches. This is the original swatch I had done which I have already showed to you and I decided to re-swatch this one here - this side panel here - because I did look at it again before I started. Or actually, after I had started knitting the front piece. I had just a tiny bit of getting into the cables. And I thought I would just look at the swatch and just make sure I was happy with my choice. And my choice had been to go with this one here - for various reasons that I have explained in previous episodes. I won't go into it again.
But when I looked at this again, I still liked how this looked. But I realised - see how these ones here, they have like a double braid thing before it does the big crossover. I realised that this one here was missing that. So it's got the double going across the middle of course, but going into that there's only a single braid there. Where over here, there's 2. Two, 1, 2, 1. And part of the reason that I had picked this particular cable to be the side one is because it kind of matched this and all of the you know double crossovers that are going on here.
So while this still looks really good, I kind of decided that I prefer to keep this in it. And the reason that I had tried all of these different versions was because basically this chart was a 28 row repeat and this was a 24 row repeat. So I was trying to find a way to make this also a 28 row repeat, which I didn't like. So then I went to make it a 14 row repeat so it would easily divide into 28 like this one.
Anyway, so I realised that I wanted to keep the double thing. So I tried initially to- to kind of squash those in there. But here, they're so compacted you can barely see them. And again here, it just doesn't look quite right. So I tried the- so these are my attempts at making it a 14 row cable. So they- these weren't working. So I decided I'd go back and try a different version of making it a 28 row cable, which is this one here. And it's not bad, but it- because I put extra rows in here and it sort of... So what am I trying to say?
Here, those two cables are too close together. Here, I feel like those two cables are too far apart and they aren't matching this one as nicely. So in the end, I decided that I would actually just... Stuff everywhere... I decided that I would actually just stick with the original.
You can see I prepared this one. I've covered up actual charts with some cards I've got so that I'm not giving anything away from this book, but I can show you that original cable. And that's it there. Isn't it so pretty? And like I think it goes well with this. This is- That's why I had picked it. I think they would complement each other well. And after all of this swatching I realised, 'You know what - I picked this cable because I like how it looks. I'm just gonna stick with it.' So I'm sticking with it.
Oopsies. All right. So that is that there. Let me put that away. Let me put that away. Let me put that away. So I have actually... Too many things. I've got too many things. I try to like prepare everything around me which means like every available space is like taken up and I don't actually have that much room.
So I have the front piece here. And I have gotten a lot of the way through it because I realised that the deadline for the Colours of Fall knit-along - which is what I'm knitting this for - is less than two weeks away. By the time this episode comes out. It'll be about a week left to go so I really have to hurry up and get moving.
Anyway. Showing you the back of it. So that's what I have done of it there. I'm so happy with how it is looking. Yeah, maybe I think you'll see it better if I lay it down here for you. Beautiful cable down the centre. Love the cables down the side. One thing is - because I had started the cable before I... What am I trying to say? So not organised.
Because I had just started the cable before I had gone back and realised that I want to stick with the original and not any of my modified versions of it, I had started doing it where there was just one braid crossing over into the big one rather than two crossing over into the big one. And I decided I wouldn't bother ripping out that bit and I would just keep going. I would continue on just from where that was and work the chart up.
But then when I started getting into this top bit here where I've started doing the shaping - again, you can see the sloped bind off there. I calculated how many rows this whole thing would actually be. And it actually turned out that it ended up- the number of rows ended up being divisible by 24, which is the height of this chart. And for a while I was like- I think I was- yeah I was up to like here.
Like I said, I was where the armhole was starting. And for a while I was kicking myself going, 'If I had just - all the way back here - just undone the tiny bit, I could have started the cable from the beginning of the actual chart, and I would have had complete full repeats of the cable itself.' Because the way the chart is - it's like that section there. That's one repeat of the chart. But I had done it so that that - oops, you can't see that. That was one full repeat of the chart. So it's not centred and it's a bit awkward if you're looking at it just like that.
So while I was knitting up this whole bit, I was fighting with myself thinking, 'No, you do not need to be a complete perfectionist and ladder down all of this and re-knit just to have the chart centred. Like that's something that isn't going to make a huge difference to the whole design. You're not elevating your knitwear by redoing that whole section,' or something like that.
And I was arguing with myself back and forth like, 'No, I want to do it because I want it to be perfect.' 'No, you don't have to do it to make it perfect. It's going to be fine.' But then I also realised - the way that I had done it is - the very top before it gets into the garter stitch, there is one cable that goes in. And if I had stuck with- if I had gone back and done it so that I was working the chart as written from start to finish it would have ended here. So there, on a stockinette stitch section.
And I realised I actually really appreciate - and it's- it worked out quite well - that there is a cable at the very very last row before I do my decreases to do the garter stitch because the cable is pulling in a bit and it's going to make- it's just going to help the transition into the garter stitch, which is many fewer stitches than was used then.
I can't explain things. I'm trying really, really hard.
Cables pull in. You need more stitches to make them the right width. So you had to decrease a lot of stitches to be able to do the garter stitch. And having the cables at the very top - which are pulling it in - sort of just helps that a bit- helps make that a bit neater.
Oh goodness. Okay. All right, I'm gonna move on. I'm gonna move on from that. The next thing that I wanted to talk about is - Oh, yes.
Because I had made all of that effort with the back piece to make that one little like ribbing to cable transition nice, I had to do that with this one as well. So in the pattern when you go from the ribbing to the cable, Norah just has you do increases evenly across. So if you can see there - there's like a line. You can kind of see a line that breaks up the ribbing and the cable, which sort of helps it not matter as much because it's not a smooth transition going into- going from the ribbing into the cable anyway because there is a break there. But because I had made the back of it have the smooth transition, I thought the front of it should match and have that smooth transition as well.
So instead of doing my increases evenly across, I actually went through - once I finished the ribbing - and was like putting stitch markers on all of the spots where I should do the increases. And I was comparing- I was seriously- I was like going along it and looking at the chart and being like, 'Okay, that bit's- that bit has a stockinette stitch. That bit has a purl. That has a stockinette stitch. Okay, this one needs to have like a double increase to match...'
Yeah, anyway, I did it. And I- I am really really happy with the result. Like I think it just looks so good - to toot my own horn. Like just look at that. It's just smooth. It just goes right in. Right in. Right in. These ones were a bit funny because this was- these were the spots where I had to do increases sort of like... This- this two panels of knitting becomes like four stockinette stitches to try to make that a smooth thing. And thank goodness for a cable being right above there to help that pull in and not be so obvious. Like here you can see it a bit better how it's kind of like bubbled out a bit. But I think that looks fine.
You may notice that there are a couple of spots here like this - and here - where the ribbing does actually go into a purl section. But that's actually because that is how the pattern is. So if you look further up here - where there the chart repeat starts again - the whole thing actually just comes out of purls. It's- There's no like- This cable does not continue down, and this cable does not continue down. And it just so happens that down here, I was able to have one of them continue down and come up from the ribbing. So that actually doesn't bother me that those couple of - or three spots there - don't have that smooth transition because that's just how the pattern is. If I do decide that it does bother me, then I can just easily - pretty easily fudge fixing that with some duplicate stitch. So that's that there.
The other thing that I want to mention is I tried a new increase. So I'm gonna pull that up so that you can see. So this one isn't the new one - this one's a Make Left. And then I tried a Make Right. And then these two here - I hope that you can see that well enough. But that is a new increase that I discovered by Assia Brill - I'm so sorry if I have pronounced- pronounced that wrong. I will have the link for the technique down in my... Down in my YouTube description below.
And I've just realised that that is what I forgot to say in my housekeeping - is that I have all of the links to everything I talk about down in the description below. I also have a website where I have transcripts and I have all of those links. And yeah.
So you will find the technique for this Twincrease down below. But if you can - I'm not sure how well you'll be able to see it there. But it's like... So there's this row of - this column I should say - of stockinette - of knitting. And then the two- two stitch- the stitches, it becomes two columns. One column becomes two columns - but they're centred around that column instead of leaning left or leaning right. It's leaning both ways at once, which I thought was really neat. So that's really cool. I think that's a really neat decrease.
I did try using that de- that - it's an increase. And I did try using that increase all the way along here when I was doing the increases for the cable, but I did find that I had to fix them - I had to rework them in this one here, because to have two Twincreases side by side was actually making a little hole. So instead, for these ones I ended up laddering down a couple of rows just to make them Make 1 Left and Right increases instead. So I thought that was a really cool new technique to learn.
What is next? Next is... I'm just looking at my notes. Talked about rib to cable. Talked about the Twincrease. Talked about re-swatching the side cable. Oh yeah. So there's two more things that I wanted to say about this front piece here.
So one is - this big cable that's in the middle here is a fairly big chart. I don't have a great memory. I have a pretty terrible memory, so there was no way I was gonna be able to memorise this chart. But I really like logic and I really like puzzles and I quite enjoy math, and I feel like this chart was just ticking- it was just satisfying all of that for me. Because while I could definitely not memorise the chart, each row was just so easy because it was just so logical and sequential and it just like... It was just really satisfying. I found it so satisfying.
So basically what it was is - if you're looking at the row - each row on its own - and just looking at the knits and the purls - each row was like a really easy pattern. It was either like... Let's see what one of them- one of the rows was like 8-6-4-2, 8-6-4-2, 8-6-4-2. And then another one of the rows was 2-2-2-4, 2-2-2-4, 2-2-2-4. And another one of the rows was 4-4-6-6, 4-4-6-6, 4-4-6-6. So I really enjoyed that about it.
I could not memorise the chart, but like when I was- got up to the next row that I was working, I just looked at the chart and I was like, 'Okay, what's the pattern for this chart?' And I wouldn't need to look at it as I was working all the way across. I would just be going in my head 2-2-4-4 - wait, no - 2-2-2-4, 2-2-2-4 or whatever it was. And I just found that so enjoyable and so much fun. So that was excellent.
The other thing is - if I try to stretch this out here, you will see that the front piece itself actually... It's actually this shape. What's this shape? It's like a V. So rather than having- rather than being like bigger around the hips and then narrowing as you go up into the waist, it's like the narrowest point is the hip and then it increases up. And, you know, that's shown in in the schematic and everything that it has that shape. It's kind of like reverse A-line.
And for a while I was like, 'Oh that's- that's a bit odd.' Because usually - I mean in my experience - shaping for a sweater... If it's going all the way down to your hips, it will either be straight or it will go a bit wider where your hips are because generally speaking your hips are wider than your waist. It could also do like an hourglass thing if it's a really shaped thing - so wider at the hips, narrower at the waist, and then wider again for the bust. And this kind of shape where it's like a V - I have personally only sort of seen it where it's a cropped sweater. So it's hugging you around your waist and then it increases to accommodate your bust.
So for a while I was thinking that's really interesting. Like it's just an interesting shape and it doesn't look like it pulls in. And then I had like my dumb moment of realisation - or my realisation of seeing that I was being dumb - in the way that I was thinking about it. But of course - it's the Flared Pullover. It's got that huge long back panel that connects to the front and because- because it's wider at the top and then narrower at the front, that helps the- the ends of the flare bit like pull in around the front and not just be hanging and bunching all the way out the back. It'll actually like come around a little bit. So of course it was just like- just another moment of like - well, yeah, this is why Norah is so brilliant.
The only thing that I want to say about this pattern is it only comes in 7 sizes, which is okay. It's not bad, but it's not the best either. It's not the most size inclusive pattern. So I think it goes from - I've got it in my notes actually. The bust circumference - the range is from 76cm to 137cm. So it could be better. And I feel like for a pattern like this as well where, you know, the- it's not all over cables. It's like, you have your panel - which didn't change for any of the sizes - and then you have all of this stockinette stitch where all of the shaping and all of the extra sizing could happen. I feel like it just- it would have been really easy to make it more size inclusive.
But I actually haven't checked the other patterns in the book, but I assume that she's done it so that they are all 7 sizes. But yeah, I just thought I'd mention that there for anyone who is considering getting this book or making this pattern. Yeah, just keep in mind that if you are smaller or larger than then either of those then you might have to do a bit of work to make it work for you, unfortunately. But yeah. I mean, it's not terrible. Old patterns used to just come in one size, but we've come a long way since then. So yes.
All right. I think that is all that I have to say about the Flared Cable Sourcebook Pullover. What's it called? Flared Sourcebook Pullover. Flared Pullover. Yes, I think I'm done with that. I'm going to put this away. Okay. Do do-do do-do. Can't put things anywhere. All right.
Craft for Thought
So I have - for the rest of the episode, this is what I have to share. I'm gonna have 3 Multicrafty things to share with you, which will hopefully be short, but we shall see. I have another Eyes and Ears. And of course my Heart Full of Craft, which seems to be - not popular, but people appreciate that segment which is really nice to hear.
Yeah, okay, but before I talk about all of those other things, I did just want to have a bit of a rant. Well, we'll see how much of a rant it turns into.
But basically, I found an article that was written earlier this year that was talking about knitting. Its focus was actually something else. But the thing that I want to talk about is how it was talking about knitting as a hobby because that like really got my goat. Like it really...
So this thing, this knitting thing, right? Like, I like it. Can you tell? Like I kinda like it. I kind of love it. I'm kind of obsessed with it. It's my thing.
So basically this article wasn't talking about knitting as a hobby that favourably and it really bothered me how it was talking about it. And ultimately, it- it- the purpose of the article was to be like - basically, here's a way to like get into knitting and- but it's kind of like - how can you like be saying all these like sort of negative things about knitting, talking about how, you know, daggy and boring and unappealing - essentially - it is, and then be like, but really, you know, it's fun - whatever else the article was talking about. And I actually shared this article with some- with a group of knitting friends online, and we had a really interesting like, chat, just about all the nuances of it and everything.
But yeah, I was just really offended. I am a defensive person in general. So yeah, I love knitting. So they were kind of insulting knitting in a sort of like passive aggressive - not passive aggressive - but like yeah. They just weren't talking about it that favourably. So naturally, I got really defensive about it.
Anyway, knitting is not boring. It is not daggy. It is- It is not unappealing. I mean, clearly, I am like so deep in this world of knitting that I like- I cannot see outside of it. So I have a very different perspective from - obviously - the journalist and what have you. So I can understand that. And I understand that, you know, people have different experiences and I don't want to like- if someone's experience truly was that they tried knitting and they liked knitting, but they couldn't find anything that they thought was appealing, I'm like, okay, I can understand that. That may be the case for you.
But a part of me is also very much like - where did you look for patterns? Like, how- how hard did you look for patterns to- that you couldn't find anything interesting? Because I mean, the internet. And just going to a yarn store. Like even just going to Spotlight or Lincraft - it's like a riot of colour in the yarn section.
So like, one of the things that they'd said was like that it was all in neutrals. And for one thing, like neutrals are beautiful. Neutral colours are like... They- They're so beautiful, and they're timeless and they're classic. I get it if that's not your thing. I mean, look at me, you know knitting bright yellow. But okay, neutrals are beautiful, but also you like- how can you like go looking for yarn and not see colour?
And I don't know maybe they were just referring to patterns - like all of the patterns that they were seeing that were just in neutral colours. But then it's also like, just substitute. Like, just change- choose a fun coloured yarn if that's what you're after. And, like- I was just like- in my head, like thinking about- all right. Yeah.
So I really like knitting. Why do I like knitting? I like, I like the history. I like the technicality. I like the versatility. I like - yarn is just beautiful. And it's like- it like feels really good in your hands. It's- So I guess, you know, I guess you'd call that tactility and texture, and just so many things. And then, you know, I feel like I was just going off on so many tangents in my head.
One of which was like - oh my gosh, how can you think knitting is unappealing? Do you know who brought knitting into like the world of fashion in Western culture? Like Coco Chanel. Like she has a lot to do with knitting moving out of the realms of like sports-well - sportswell? - sportswear and utility and becoming like, a fashion item. Like- Like whatever you might think about Coco Chanel's designs or her brand or whatever, like she's an icon in fashion. How can you say that that is unappealing?
And then I have to check myself because it's like - well, they're talking about knitTING, not knitWEAR. They can be two very different things. So you know, pull it back, Bobbie. And just... Yeah, I just got- I just got defensive because I really like this thing.
And yeah, I guess I was kind of sad that someone would think that - because there's so much out there. There's so- There's so much out there. There's- It's actually like, almost a problem. Like that there's too much out there, you know. As a Ravelry user, especially. Like if I want to look for something new - which I really have no- no need to do because I think I have over 200 patterns in my Ravelry queue. But like, I have to use like every single filter possible to just not have a million pages to browse through because there's so much out there. There's so much to choose from and yeah. Yeah.
I just did not like how this article was talking about knitting because I love knitting so much. Basically. So this is kind of my love letter to knitting. It's- It's- Yeah.
It's- It's just- It's been around for so long. And even when, you know, knitting was considered just to be 'utilitarian' or for sportswear and not fashionable or something - that still doesn't mean that people weren't making beautiful clothing, beautiful pieces out of knitting. Like they definitely were. There were like- People were knitting like gorgeous rugs. People were knitting gorgeous like garments and sweaters. Like think about fair isle. Think about, you know, Shetland lace or Orenburg shawls or... Just so much.
And like the things- some of the things that those ancient knitters could do. I've unfortunately never been to a museum that has shown knitwear, but I have heard tell of like people going to museums and seeing this ancient knitting and like, you know, these things are knit at gauges that like I could not even fathom knitting at. Like, they're just so tiny and so fine and so detailed and like - how?
Oh my goodness, okay. I think I need to move on because I'm just... I love... You- You know I love knitting. I don't need to tell you that I love knitting. You know that I love knitting because you're here listening to me talk about knitting, every episode. So anyway, I'll move on from that.
Multicrafty
Let's get into some Multicrafty, shall we?
So like I mentioned before, I have 3 things to talk about in Multicrafty. Let me go through- I'll try to go through the quickest first.
Spun a full bobbin on my EEW 6
So the first one is spinning. And all I wanted to show you is that I recently filled my first bobbin from my Electric Eel Wheel 6 - my EEW 6. And this holds so much. It holds so much yarn, seriously. Like there is about- there's about 300g -ish of this yarn that you can see and I have tried to fin it - fin it? - I have tried to spin it as fine as I possibly can. And there is actually more than 300g on this bobbin because I actually used this bobbin when I was first getting to know my wheel.
So I have a video on my channel that is my introduction to this spinning wheel. And you'll be- you can see in that one that I play some wheel games to get to know my wheel, and a lot of that involved spinning waste yarn and just feeding it onto a bobbin. So underneath all of this yarn that you can see is waste yarn. So you can fit- you can comfortably fit - or I could comfortably fit - more than 300g of yarn onto this which is pretty amazing in my opinion.
So that is number one. Done.
Sewed an accordion interchangeable needle case
The second thing that I want to share is a sewing! It has been... I can't even remember the last time I had a sewing thing to share with you.
But I made this thingy-ma-bob here which is an interchangeable needle case. It is not very well made. But it is plenty good enough for my standards and for my purpose. This print here - to me it looks like marbles but I had to buy it because the quilting store that was selling it called the print 'yarn balls'. So I had to, even though to me it doesn't look like yarn balls at all and it looks like marbles.
But anyway, at the start of this year - sometime at the start of this year - I saw a sewing pattern thing for making accordion pouches and I thought at the time that that would be perfect for interchangeable needles, or even just keeping like a whole bunch of circular needles. So I've had on my list for ages to make one for myself. And the sewing mojo finally got me a couple of weeks ago and I made it. I made one and I didn't do- I didn't make the pattern exactly as- I didn't follow the pattern exactly because I customised it to make it the perfect sewing thing for me. So let me show you what that is.
So first of all, I haven't put like a button or any kind of closeture- closure thing here because - right now it's this narrow, but if I ever take this travelling with me or anything, then I'm going to need to be, you know, filling it up with more things. And then where this flap comes down to is going to change and it won't stretch as far so I didn't want to put a closure. So that's one thing there.
The other thing is - let me open it up. So that's like the accordion thing there. And the pattern itself had this first flap as a closed- like a pocket on its own as well. But I wanted to be able to open it up so that I could see all of my needles. So that was another of the changes that I made is I made this first flap- I made this first flap be able to open up flat.
And of course, something just fell out of it. What could have fallen out? Oh something fell. One of the needles fell. This one. This one fell out. Oops. Anyway, be careful, Bob. What was I saying?
Fold out and have the pockets for all of these. So there's an extra row stitching there to make these not as deep for all of these, but I have left a couple of longer ones on the sides so that I can fit longer things if I need to.
And then also this- so each one has like the big pocket but then where you combine each pocket together it has like a mini little pocket. So the first of those mini little pockets - for me, I just made into more needle size little pockets so that I could put in any extra needle tips that I may buy like this Lantern Moon one here that can- that can fit into there.
And then I have some of the bigger cables in the bigger pockets and then smaller cables in the smaller pockets. Which I made a lot bigger than what the pattern had said as well, so that they aren't getting really compressed in there. And then- So that's my interchangeable cables. I think I've got- yeah, interchangeable in there as well and in there as well. This one's actually a dud cable. I keep a clip around it so that when I pull it out, I can remember that it's a dud one.
And then in these other three big cables here I have my Lykke's, my Lykke circulars. So each of these has 2. So I think this pocket might have the ones that... Basically, they're in size order. So probably 2mm, 2.25, 2.5, 2.75, 3, 3.25. I think that's what I've got of the Lykke's. And then, yep. Just more cables in there. And I'm so- I'm so happy with it. It's like exactly what I needed. It's exactly like the right size and everything to fit my things.
I wanted to make it as big as possible so that the cables can be as open as possible and not like kink up so much. And the other thing that I'm super happy with as well is I had bought the remainder that they had of this fabric and - I can't remember what size it was - but the way that I was able to do this is - the size of the pouch itself was dictated by the size of the fabric that I had. So I divided up in such a way that I- I barely had any scraps. I should have pulled them out. They're in a bag somewhere with all of my fabric scraps that I used for stuffing, but I had next to nothing. I had next to no- like yeah, no- I had next to no waste on this. Which made me so happy because I kind of hate waste, for obvious reasons.
But even- So- So how many pockets do I have here? One, two, three. I have four of the big pockets and they're all the same size. So I think I was able to see, like- So say the fabric is-
I really should come more prepared for you. I feel like I like do all of this prep. And then when I come to sit down and talk to you, it's like, 'Well, you didn't really think about everything, did you now?'
Anyway, say this is the size of the fabric. So along one length of it, I figured out like what's the longest I could get three of those pocket sizes. And then I put a fourth one on the other half of it. And then the- this bit- everything's falling out. Oopsies. I'll talk about that in a second.
Anyway, this bit of it needed a longer bit of fabric because it has the flap that goes around. So I had- So the same size - 1-2-3-4. And then a longer bit. And then this bit here, I just cut in half and that is what made these two bits here. So seriously, like really minimal waste. And that like, you know, that worked out to be like a good size for like fitting my longer needles. And then I was just able to adjust it as much as I, you know, like do this extra stitching that I needed to fit my shorter cables and like it just- it just worked out so well.
The one thing that I hadn't considered is that things fall out of it. So I will need to - just putting stuff away. I will- I don't know what I'm going to do about these ones falling out because clearly I just didn't make- sorry, that was off camera. I- These had come out and I was just putting them back in.
I clearly just should have made these pockets just a little bit narrower so that they could hold there a bit nicer. So I might have to do elastic or something somewhere, I'm not sure.
But the bigger problem is, the cables are falling out of here. I think what I'm gonna have to do is just buy some stick on Velcro and put it there, which isn't going to be the nicest but it'll be the easiest to attach now that it's all sewn up. So yeah, I'm so- I'm so pleased with this.
And oh, you can see things are falling out. These ones came out again. Yeah, I need to come up with a solution for this. Maybe for now they can just live together. Yeah, that's better. And okay, I'm not gonna- I'll fix this off camera. I'll fix this when I'm done. Put that aside. Okay.
Naturally dyed a double handful of mini skeins
And then the last Multicrafty thing that I want to share with you is - I have done some more natural dyeing. Quite a bit. Quite a bit, as you can see here.
So I'll take you through all of these. So, the - that's kind of fun to have them all there.
So these are my originals. These are Polwarth yarns from Tarndie - from Tarndwarncoort. So that's their natural - I can't remember if that one has a name there - cream. And that's their taupe - their natural taupe. So that is how I got all of these other colours here.
So I'll start off with what we did in the dye group, and that is we dyed gardenia- with gardenia last month. So that is these two colours here. So these beautiful blues which I would not have expected from that plant. So amazing. So impressive. They're just beautiful. I love this natural- this natural taupe. Yeah, taupe. This natural taupe in particular. It's such a beautiful deep colour. Yeah, the bright blue- like the blue - it's a nice blue. But like - a really nice sky tur- blue, turquoise-y sort of blue. And while I love blues, it's not really my kind of blue but I do still really like it and I'm so impressed that that has come out of that plant. So that is what we did in the dye group.
And then at home on my own, I thought I would try doing some modifications. So the first thing that I did is I got some wattle.
So I should say - in the group, we dyed five mini skeins. So I had three over the cream and two over the taupe.
So with another one of the creams and the taupes that were dyed in this gardenia, I over-dyed them with some wattle that I just got from along the bike path. So that is that there. Yeah, and it came up- they came- they turned into these lovely greens. And you can kind of see where that- where the yellow didn't really take on this one here. You can still see some of the blue - the original blue colour. Oh, that's a big one there. You can still see it in there. Yeah, so that's those ones.
And then the last thing that I did with my final gardenia on the cream is to- I found a Eucalyptus Gunni. And I had tried dyeing with it previously and I got like a really bright, almost reddish colour. So I was wondering - or I was hoping - that if I did something that was like an orangey reddy colour, it wouldn't- it would give me something purplish. And because it was like an orange red - so there's more yellow in it - I wasn't expecting it to be Purple purple. But yeah, I was kind of just hoping I'd get something purplish and that did not work.
It- It did this. So I don't know why. It's like got some rust. Oh, I should say I did put vinegar in with this one as well because in my experiments with dyeing with the Gunni without vinegar, it was just going yellow. But with the vinegar it was getting the orangey reds. I think I probably should have put more vinegar in this because I really didn't put that much. So some of it went green and some of it went orange. So the blue had like pretty much no effect or almost no effect on on the orange bit. No idea why.
In that same jar, I did just put a cream that hadn't been dyed with anything previously so you can kind of see what that looks like on its own here. And again, you've got, you know, some bits of yellow and a lot of the orange so it's kind of interesting how this one has done that. It- I think it would be because I had- all- it like- the jar that they were in was quite full of leaves. So I think maybe all of the bits where it was yellow, maybe that was where the yarn was sitting up against the leaf and maybe it wasn't getting like vinegar. Or I don't know, who knows. I mean, like the- it's- the- it's really interesting how they've come out, basically. So that's those ones there.
And then again on my own, I just did some more experimenting with some various Aussie botanicals that I found. So what I want to do - let's put this one aside for a sec. This one is... What's this one? This one is... I did look at what everything was before I started filming and I thought I'd remember but. Ohhh, this is...
Let's start with what I know, shall we?
This one, which is sort of like a really earthy yellow that's got a bit of brown through it - that - and some of the like some of the brown bits - I don't know if you can see that they sort of like have a reddish tinge to it. Really, really subtle. That is the flowers of the Slender Western Rosemary, which is a light purple flower. That's that one there. Move aside for a sec.
So that one there- this one, which is a slightly greenish yellow is from the Correa. And again, I do think if I- none of these had vinegar. I do think if I try this one again with vinegar, I'm hoping it will give me a greener result. So I'll try that at some point.
And then these two are... Oh my gosh, why can't I remember? I'm pretty sure this one is the Grevillea flower, which is red. A red flower, so I was hoping for a stronger colour but no luck there.
This one. Oh, I know. This one is - I suspect it is Geraldton Wax. And if you look at it on its own, it doesn't look like it took any colour. But if you compare it to the the natural colour you can see that it- it did. It did darken it a little bit but you almost really can't tell. So yeah.
There was one other that I had tried, which was cones from the Sheoak. But they did absolutely nothing, nothing at all. So I don't have them here to show you because there's nothing to show. So yeah, so that's those ones there.
The other one that I wanted to show from that lot was- is Golden Rod, which came out with this beautiful buttery yellow. And because that one did so well, I also tried it on the taupe. And I find the taupe one really interesting because when I look at that on its own, I feel like- I feel like I can't really tell that anything has happened to it. But then when I compare it to the original, I can see the difference. I can see like the yellow on there.
So yeah, that's just been some fun playful experimenting on my own. Yeah, so just to show you - those are my taupes. I don't know what the best way to show you all of these are. So they're my taupes. I really like those. And then yeah. Just pull the other- we lost one. Let me put that down. Okay, that's it. I'm calling it there. That's it for Multicrafty.
Eyes and Ears
Eyes and Ears. Eyes and Ears.
I want to share that I have been watching Lovebird Lane. So I'm doing my usual thing of watching from the very, very beginning when she was called My Muddlings. And then - it's really fun, you get to see her start her business dyeing yarns. Snd you get to see her like, you know, experimenting, playing around with dyeing and growing her business. So that's really- that's really good.
I am still like- I don't know how far along- I haven't paid attention to like episode numbers and stuff. I don't know what episode number she's on at the moment, but I'm still somewhere in the 40s I think. So I still have quite a long way to go. I'm still a few years behind. But that's been really like, great to watch.
She's really sort of casual and honest. I love that like in her early episodes before she moves house, she's just sitting on the floor in front of her couch. Like it's just so casual and relaxed. And- And yeah. She's just like, talking to you and she's like really open and honest. And that's really lovely for, you know - like she just shares- she's- she's sharing like her life with you and it's just really nice. So, go check out Lovebird Lane, which is Julieanne who has the business Lovebird Lane.
Yes, I like- She- like I said, she shares a bit about her life. And I'm always really impressed when people do that because that's something that I- I've done that here and there in previous episodes, but I don't really like tell stories about what's been going on with me, or talk really about like what's going on in my life outside of this knitting world. Because, like, for me - probably the main reason for that is I feel like I talk so much about knitting, that there's just no more time. Like this episode has gone quite long already. And I really should be wrapping things up and I swear I'm getting to that. Like I feel like after I've talked all about the knitting I have taken up way more than enough of your time. And- And there's no time left for me to like, share life stories with you.
But then the other side of that is also - I just don't think that I am like- I'm not good at telling stories. And if I think about - for example - what have I done this last fortnight, I can't think of a story to tell you. Like I just like- I don't know. I don't know what I've done. I don't have any, like, interesting like anecdotes, and I feel like yeah. Like yeah. I don't know. I feel like interesting things don't happen to me, or something. Yeah, I don't know.
I feel like- I feel like I should start like a daily journal or something and try to like tell a story about my day to get used to telling stories or making stories out of my life because I'm just like, I don't know, I did nothing fun. The only interesting thing that I do - in my opinion - is knit, so... That's- I already share that with you.
Anyway. Yeah, I really like that, you know, among all of the crafting things that Julieanne shares on Lovebird Lanes like she does share things that have been going on in her life. I do also want to say - she knits and crochets and spins and dyes. And she did also do some polymer clay for a while there. So yeah, it's really fun to see all of the things.
Heart Full of Craft
All right. Yes. Okay, last thing. Last thing, I promise, and that is Heart Full of Craft. And this is going to just seem like a product placement plug type thing because it kind of is. But honestly, I just really love them.
And so my Heart Full of Craft is... This feels really weird for me to say, but I'm really grateful for shoes. But look at them. They're so pretty. Aren't they so pretty? Like they're my colour. They're so my colour. And these- okay. Start from the beginning.
These are All Birds. And I have known about this company for a few years now, at least a couple of years now. And my partner has bought their shoes before. He's actually bought their shoes that are made out of eucalyptus. But I have- these are the first pair that I've ever bought of theirs. And I got it only just recently and the reason that it took me so long to buy them is because I was waiting for like a colour that I was really really really in love with.
So they're always coming out with new colours and they're always really fun and all of that kind of thing but like... It's also because I had runners before and I was kind of waiting for them to wear out because I don't need two pairs of runners. Anyway - they came out with this colour recently which they're calling emerald green. And it is just so me. It is just so my like ideal number one colour. Like I just love it.
So I finally got myself a pair - and my old runners did wear out maybe like a year ago - but I was waiting. I clearly was waiting for this colour to come out. And they're so comfy. They're made of wool. Did I say they're made of wool? This is why I really like them. This is why I've been following this company. Because they're made of wool. They're super comfy.
I do have to say they only have whole sizes. They don't have half sizes. And they recommend if you have wide feet - like I do - to size up. Looking at the sizes, I feel like I maybe would have been a size 4. But they don't have a size 4 and I figured because- if I think I would have been a size 4, my sizing up would have been to get a size 5 which is they're smaller size. I have really small feet. So I got the size 5 but that was actually still too narrow for me. So I ended up returning those, getting the full refund, and I got the size 6 and that fits me really, really well. So I'm so happy to have my shoes.
A couple of more things that I'll just mention about them.
One is that the laces are really really short. Like I can just barely get like a comfortable bow out of this. So usually what I end up doing is I just do like a knot or a double knot and I stick- like I just pull the ends through that bit there so that they hold, yeah, and so the knots don't come undone or whatever. But that's one thing. Their laces are just like oddly really short.
And the other thing is kind of just like... Yeah, so I'm a knitter, right? And I really like wool, right? And I know a little bit about wool, especially since I've started spinning. I feel like I have a bit of an understanding about how wool works and different sheep breeds and stuff. And I get that especially in like fashion and in you know the wider public that doesn't knit and doesn't craft and like doesn't work with wool - like, Merino's kind of like the thing. It's like the only thing. It's like the "best wool" and all of that.
So these are made of Merino. But knowing what I know, I'm just like - that just doesn't make sense to me. Like it's a shoe. It's got to be like hardwearing. You can see like - maybe you can't - but like, it has already started pilling a little bit inside. And to me it's just like - that is not the best wool choice. But whatever. Yeah, people want Merino. Give the people what they want.
And the last thing that I want to say about the shoe isn't really the shoe, but it's kind of just reinforcing how much this is my colour. Because - I mean it's not an exact match - but look how well it goes with this yarn that I got from Tarndwarncoort earlier this year. So this was a hand dyed. I'd kind of sort of requested this- this hand dyed colour from them. And yes. Yeah, they're- this is a bit green. To me, this is a bit greener than the shoe. But that's my colour. My colour. It makes me so happy.
Yeah, so I'm grateful for shoes, which still just sounds so weird to say. But I love them.
And they are actually like the first shoes I feel like I've ever won that people have actually commented on. There have been two occasions now where I've been out and people have asked me like where I got my shoes and what brand they are and can I send them like the brand so that they don't forget. So that's really exciting.
All Birds. Grateful for All Birds. Yeah, and that's all I have to say.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for watching. Thank you for sticking around throughout this whole long episode. Extra long. Longer than usual episode. And I need to go and have some lunch. So I really need to stop chattering on and on and on at you. Thank you for joining me. Thank you to-
Oh, yes, of course. Hello, of course, to all of my viewers, especially to - well not especially. I don't like saying that. I don't know why I always say that. Focus, Bobbie. Okay.
Hello to everyone. Thank you for joining me. I have had a lot of new subscribers recently. And I'm sure part of that is to do with me doing a giveaway, but I hope that you're here because you like what I have to say. But I know that a lot of you have come over from Kukie Knits - which is Ira - or Sarah of The Maker's Corner, the- which- she has the Taylor Made Podcast. I just forgot for a second whether she rebranded the Taylor Made Podcast to also be called The Maker's Corner.
Anyway, both of them gave me such beautiful shout outs recently and I know that a few of you have told me in the comments that you've- you've come over from watching- from seeing what- if- either of them recommended me. I can't speak. So thank you, Sarah. Thank you, Ira. And thank you to all of you have given me a chance based on their recommendation.
Like I said, I had been feeling like my tagline should be 'Knitting: Too Much Information' because sometimes I do- I go into all of this detail that I go into, and I am editing it and I think like, 'Does anyone- Is anyone actually interested in knowing like this much detail?' Like I am. I like hearing other people go into that much detail. But like, does anyone else, really? Like is it too much? But both of them sort of mentioned like how technical I am. And they said it in a positive way. Yeah, that was really nice. I'm very happy to be known as the technical knitter. It is not all the time. It really- yeah. Anyway, I've said it all before. I'm not going to repeat myself.
Thank you, everyone. Thank you all for joining me. Thank you for watching. Thank you for being here. Yes, thank you.
One last thing that I wanted to say in my housekeeping as well but I completely forgot is - Patricia of Kamay - the Kamay vlog - the knitting vlog called Kamay (- Why do I have to say things in a million different ways? Why can't I just say them?)
Patricia from Kamay has set up an Australian Knitters group on Discord. Any knitter is welcome to join. If you are on Discord or if you're happy to give that new - well, I shouldn't say new - new- Discord has been around for a while. Anyway. If you want to join that community, I have a link for it below. Yes. It's- There's a lot going on in that community. Discord is something that I'm still getting used to. I fall behind a lot in the chatter just because I forget to look at it. But there's like - they have a sewing room, and a spinning room, and a crocheting room, and a weaving room, and like you know, general chatter, and like threads for knit-alongs, and events. And like, yeah. It's- It's- It's been really great. I'm just getting used to keeping up with it and checking it. But if you're interested in joining that - if you're an Australian crafter and you want to join that community - check out the link below.
Okay, and I am actually signing off now. Thank you for the millionth time. Thank you. I hope you take care, stay safe, love, laugh, be curious, be crafty, and I'll see you soon.
Fare thee well.
Transcribed by https://otter.ai
Resources
Mentions
Yarniacs podcast
Twincrease by Assia Brill
Article that mentions knitting as a hobby
Electric Eel Wheels (EEW)
Lovebird Lane (Julieanne's vlog)
KukieKnits (Ira's vlog)
The Taylor Made Podcast (Sarah Taylor)
Kamay (Patricia's vlog)
Australian Knitters Club on Discord
Patterns (on Ravelry)
Sourcebook Flared Pullover by Norah Gaughan
Gothic Tracery Beanie by Katrina Walser
Accordion Pouch (sewing) by Sewing Times
Yarns (from my LYS, or on Ravelry)
Bendigo Woollen Mills yarns
Tarndwarncoort yarns from Polwarth sheep