An Irish Knitting Podcast 11. What's the deal with yarn cones

hello everybody and welcome to episode 11 of an irish knitting podcast hi everybody and welcome back to my channel i am sam i'm an artist illustrator and aspiring knitting designer based in the republic of ireland you can find me all over the internet instagram facebook twitter and of course my robbery page looking for irish farm art if you are a new viewer thank you so much for coming by this is my weekly by weekly whenever it happens a podcast in which i try to follow the classic knitting podcast schedule talking about finnish works works in progress acquisitions and every other craft endeavors that is going on in my life everything through the eyes of an artist or as much as they can if you are a returning viewer once again thank you for spending an hour 45 minutes with me this really really means a lot so today we don't have much content or at least we don't have a lot of finished works a lot of big finish works but we do have some smaller items that i managed to finish and this because of course life gets true and the stuff happens i'm based in ireland and this week was saint patrick's day and saint patrick's weekend was an extended bank holiday over the weekend so i didn't really manage to get to my needles up i was of course celebrating with the friends and family and of course the saint patrick's is a very busy time a lot of stuff to get ready prepare and enjoy a couple of pints as well i'm going to put some footage of the saint patrick's festival the parade here in dublin at the very end of the video so without any further do grab your cup of coffee or tea or whatever beverage you have you're knitting you're crocheting your needle point and let's get into finish works my first finish work is not really a finish work well it is a finish work but i've done this a couple of weeks ago is what i'm wearing now this is the rogers cardigan jacket by mary thousand and this is amazing i've been wearing this over and over and over and over again i have washed this so many times and he held up really really well i am going to put all the specification about the yarn and the gauge and the colors and the pattern on the screen here as per usual so you don't really need to take notes or anything even if you wish to take note i don't know but i made this cardigan using a super wash wool that i had in my stash and specifically the ground studio extra fine merino wool which is a dk yarn it's very lofty and really really soft as you can imagine i had really bad experiences with superwash and merino wool if you have seen my previous blog i was talking about a beautiful bubble sweater by stephen west that i made using super washer cascade 220 that i threw in the washing machine and it got completely ruined this cardigan though it's been washed over and over again and it's still quite perfect so i know there is a lot going on about um drops uh grand studio wool i can't really fault it at least this specific lot of merino superwash it's just beautiful and soft washes really well i don't know if we have to fold the cascade to 20 either it's probably due to a mistake of wash or the fact that i use perhaps a two aggressive detergent i don't know it put me a little off using super washer to be honest although i really love the feeling of merino as you know i'm really fussy about wool and what i put on my skin is always really itchy and this is basically a sweatshirt um it's it seems like cotton is so soft it's lovely doesn't it at all and yeah again it wear out really really well there's a smidge of bubbling going on in the underarm but nothing that can't be solved with a little brush or or just some scotch tape actually the feet is quite lovely it's basically knitted in pieces and sleeves as well are knitted flat i kind of uh fudged the situation and knitted the sleeves in the round it took a little bit of tailoring and i'm air quoting here because i am absolutely not an expert in tailoring and just took a little bit of shaping the body was a little too large for my liking and the sleeves as well but it was an extremely easy process and actually was very much fun to follow so i would definitely um need another one of these if i'm correct i follow the second size which is the medium size but i probably would go down a size next time i missed this piece and yeah i would love to experiment knitting knitting it completely in the round and then sticking the um color and the band button because it's a little bit easier and i think i can get a grip of the shape a little bit better as well but uh yeah here you have it the rogers cardigan by mary thousand the bottom here are just a wooden button that i found in publication i believe they just work very nicely it's just lovely all around the cardigan all together the second finish work and i have probably obsessed everybody and i've stressed the life out of everybody in my youtube channel in my instagram account to facebook and of course in real life is this or are these little shamrocks and i have made this using uh just a sock yarn in this case i believe it's adria field culture socks which is my favorite sock yarn as well as you know in the beautiful lime green color this is just a shamrock a clover i believe you would call this oversea it's knitted in the round using the magic loop technique i recorded a tutorial pretty comprehensive tutorial although i am not a tutorial person but it's up there and i'm going to link it below in the description the pattern is available for free in my robbery shop and yeah it's a perfect decoration little pin little uplink for some patrick's day but i have seen that many of you guys in the project robbery project page needed four leaves clovers rather than shamrocks which is completely fine and you know everybody needs a little bit of luck so the way it's constructed and once again please refer to the tutorial if you want to get full understanding of this but is needed in the round using the magic loop technique i have um started with the judy's magic accustom which allow you to get a flat cast on in the round joined together so without having a loop increased a number of stitches on both sides and then decreased the same number of stitches and going down towards the very pointy of the the very center of the leaf still keeping the decreasing and then for the stem i just did a five stitches i-cord which works fantastically sew everything together from the back of the clover and applied a little broach backing how do you call this and yeah this this is just the most cute and little lovely shamrock i was really surprised when i launched this pattern it went out on robbery and almost instantly got to top 20 it was featured in the kind of hotter right now pattern or something like that and it was a really nice heartwarming feeling because i generally take this as a hobby i want to get into doing this crafting more and designing more but i never really got much of a positive or warm feedback out of this you know you upload a pattern on your robbery shop and uh yeah you get three or four downloads and that's it but literally we got around 400 download almost instantly which was mind-blowing but anyway if you are interested in this pattern once again is for free in my robbery shop i'm going to put the link below in the description as well another little note i want to make on this this is about a four centimeter tall shamrock and i use a two millimeter needles and a sock yarn a four ply a very very thin yarn you could definitely use some decay yarn going up with your needle size and get a bigger shamrock i wouldn't be surprised if the technique of creating these petals or this leaf will turn into a flower quite soon definitely you could have different sizes of petals and bunch them together and create like a rose or a daisy or whatever other flower you wish and i think it would work very nice i must must try to do that at some stage anyway i'm really happy about my shop rocks this got a very very nice feedback and i was wearing this on the parade and it was just lovely you know it's something that you made yourself is not commercial and it's really unique and based on the pictures from instagram or from the project page this is really easy to meet as well every single one the mateys made a fantastic job so check it out let me know what you think and yeah let's make more shamrocks everywhere my next finish work is another type of experiment you have seen in my previous blogs in my robbery page my instagram these little guys here these are just a little bow ties or papillon or just regular ties that are really easy to make knitted in the round once again with the number of increases and decreases as per usual in my kind of style i have experimented last week with um a bow tie inspired by ukraine i don't have it here but i'm going to put a picture somewhere on the screen so basically i was trying to raise some money for ukraine and we'll get to that a little bit later at the very end of the podcast doing that i realized that applying some color works on this bow tie would really make something nice and interesting and a different type of boat that you really can play with experiment with and get some fun just so i made this little collar work here they're just um kind of swirls or waves of water or the sea it's really inspired by the ocean uh you can interpret as you wish though the pattern is draft is out for test knitting and it will come to my robbery page very soon i feel like it's just really nice and would work really well with a white shirt and yeah so here is my last finish work once again to knit these bow ties i used some sock yarn and this is probably from drops is their fable range of sock yarn which is just a regular nice enough soak yarn is probably not my favorite but it's a really well available here in ireland so here you have it now moving on this is not a finish work by any mean but is kind of off finish so of course we have a sock so let me talk about the pattern first and then we'll get into the nitty gritty this is work from the bottom down it has a little color work stranded color work on the top of the cuff going down is a combination between slip stitches and stranded collar work i believe this is kind of mosaic technique merged the color work but don't quote me on that i just got um the idea from a mosaic technique and the idea from start the color work and i really wanted to get vertical stripes so that worked for me the pattern is written and uh it actually kind of works so we got the strata color worker going down a combination of slip stitches mosaic-ish and color work and then we get the heel this is the same heel i was showing you before in one of my previous video that comes from my great grandmother socks she needed a lot of socks in her life and i have so many my drawers as well but i never got to learn from her how to make the heel and i was asking my mom she doesn't know as well my granny doesn't remember so i took a pen and paper and i literally um wrote down every single row of the pattern took me forever but here we have it this is a little bit of a play on that heel is not the original creation my great grandmother would have done the heel in a block of contrasting color but i would i had just continue with the color work and then added a little bit of uh alternating yarn on the gusset here which works quite nice as well so let me take this off the blocker and i show you the heel so as you can see the heel turn is a little small but it allowed for a very good fit because the heel gusset is quite large i have no idea if you can even see this from the the screen there but yeah it's a very very ingenious construction in my opinion so the way you need this heel is you continue working in the round for the entire um heel flap meanwhile you increase for the gusset still working in the round you increase the number of stitches to each side of the gusset and then you will start decreasing by working flat and this is where you have the little heel turn here you work flatter you return to the number of stitches before the increases and this is the way that is constructed so the fact that you keep working in the round for the entire flop will allow you actually to create a color work for the entire song and you only have this little piece of heel turn which is in contrasting color that for me works amazingly of course you could work the heel turn in color work as well if you wish uh it's just i don't like purling in color work so yeah that's that's the only thing but i will definitely experiment with this construction a little bit more so this sucks has been attack edited and it's now with a million of test meters literally so many of you responded for the destination it's quite amazing and it never happened to me before and again if you are interested in knitting this socks don't drop me a line send me an email through my email address irishfermart gmail.com and i'll be delighted to send you the pattern although this will probably go out later this week as we are at the very end of the test knitting and i'm need just to finish the second one and of course get some pictures done it will be just a pleasure for me to be able to send you the pattern for free and just for you to try one of my socks design uh this really would mean a lot to me so please drop me a line or send me an email and i'll be giving you sending you the button the pattern as we stand now it's only written and edited so we don't have any pictures but i believe i post some pictures of these socks on my instagram account so if you need a reference you can take that as a reference the pictures will come when the pattern is actually ready to be published something more about this pattern this is the third or fourth entry in my kind of collection and once again i'm here quoting here because yeah it's a collection but i take this as a project by project basis the collection is inspired by the palaces the buildings that face the canal grande or the grand canal in venice which is the main road or the main communication way within the city of venice is a massive canal that runs across the city back when venice was an independent republic all the rich families wanted to show off their wealth and their power so they built beautiful palaces along the canal facing the canal so everybody they were trafficking venice and as you know there's no cars in venice so everybody goes by boat and we're seeing the wealth of these families i have dedicated a couple of socks already to some of the most beautiful palaces and this goes to a palace that is really really dear to me the palace is palazzo pizzani which is used to be the family uh pizani's home a very powerful family i don't think they were noble but still big into commerce into a fostering culture fostering artists and this palace is just amazing it's massive it's built with two big internal how do you call them it's like two big giant squares within the palace so the palace is built across and around these two squares they're like two mini gardens and in the middle of each garden there is well for fresh water to get of course water for the family for the the animals and for whoever whatever needs the family had but it is just a very beautiful building recently the palace was given to the institute of music of venice the conservatory of munich of music benedicto marcello which is where i study music i graduated in piano and the composition over there and the building was always very very dear to me because it's well the home of lyrical and classical music in venice and because it's just so magical when you get into the palace um this is like the first reaction that i had on the first day of music school there you stand in the middle of one of this little enclosed square and the policy is very tall is like six or seven stories tall and you can hear out of the many many windows all the people playing their instrument or singing and all this swirl of sounds goes up to this well and just mesmerizes you literally the first day i was there in music school i had to leave because my head was spinning and i was about to get sick so i had to leave to take a breath and i got back and went up to my classroom and yeah that was a marriage of love every single room classroom is decorated with beautiful frescoes stone decorations stickers is just so so pretty and we are so privileged in being able to study in such a massive building and such a beautiful palace and i think the it's the perfect home for music in my city it's open to the public i believe so if you're ever in venice walk down the academia which is one of the squares there and try and find the conservatory is just so beautiful you can have a tour if you're lucky attend a concert they are usually for free as our students are playing uh it's just very beautiful there is a very nice theater inside the conservatory as well which has the something really peculiar and probably unique within the music world if you're into music i don't know you can skip ahead if you're not but in the theater of the conservatory there are two organs two pipe organs and these two pipe organs communicate with each other so basically if someone is playing on the left one will trigger some notes on some pipes on the right one and the other way around which is a very very interesting thing and really unique in the world i believe anyway these socks are inspired by that palace because the windows on the ground canal facing the canal they are very tall gothic windows and they are quite beautiful all the building looks really really vertical and yeah so you have it it's the fourth um iteration on my grand canals or venetian inspired collection of songs i have four i don't know many i'm gonna do i have faced myself a little bit of a downstream into knitting now i don't know knitting socks especially i felt that this pattern took the life out of me it was really complicated to come up with i tried to challenge myself more and more and really the things that ruins this mojo of coming up with patreon knitting is social media you see so many patterns so many beautiful works that you feel like you are why are you even trying to do this like i'm not um how can i say this i i haven't studied design by any means i'm just kind of dibbling into art and design i haven't got a background in desiring i am of course we just establish a musician but as my daily job i'm a lawyer so completely different and i yeah i just find that i probably need a little bit of more um inspiration even more i don't know just to get rid of my social media probably and just enjoy my crafting anyway let's stop talking about my troubles the palazzo diary socks are here they will be in my robbery shop probably at the end of the week but again if you're interested in eating this please drop me a line they're very easy very quick and uh yeah you can use whatever sock yarn you want which is always a plus let's get into works in progress taking that the thoughts were and are still a work in progress my first work in progress which is my first nightmare in progress is this one here let me try and figure out where is the right side here we go you can just see a about a seven centimeter strip of fabric this is the very beginning of the svenson sweater or jumper from brooklyn tweet this is a full on cable sweater it is my first time doing proper cables it is my first time doing a sweater flat with cable it is my first time having nightmares about knitting so and the yarn that i'm using here is this cone of yarn here this is from host garden supersoft this is their silver gray which is a four ply fingering lace something i'm going to put all the details here um yarn it's um 100 was super soft uh i just love it i had many many uh jumpers needed with this bull yeah not the specific other colors of course they are just amazing the bull is drenched in spinning oil so whenever you need it the fabric results very webby very loose and quite horrible if we have to be honest but the moment you washed out all the oils the fabrics becomes just amazing plums up blooms it's super lofty super super nice warm cozy it's not scratchy by any mean it's just beautiful and uh yeah i have as you probably can notice here in the corner many many of these cones and many came but we are going to talk about that later in the acquisition part i just love it so i decided let me put this back to use this yarn held twice because you can't really get rid of much of the yarn if you held it hold it just one string and um it's a labor of love if you wanna need a jumper just in fingering weight um which i'm by the way doing is my next work in progress so i kind of was pushed to get rid of some of my stash and as well need something different challenge for myself and therefore here we go with the blue clean twitter swenson sweater so the way this is constructed i'm knitting now the back we have a um five six centimeters of ribbing regular ribbing with a knit from the back loop type of situation so it's not difficult it's just quite annoying and then we work in partners we have a central partner we have two natural partners and to [Music] i would say hand panels they are the very very lateral piece on both sides so these are knitted in moss stitch which for me was a big nightmare because the pattern is not clear on how much muscle stitch is needed i haven't done most stitch before i tried to look at youtube videos that was the way i was going but if i had to use the pattern gold save as all and then you have you start with your um different type of cables there are different a cables everywhere all around for the back only we have i'd say six different type of cables the pattern itself is not clear at all it makes everything really really difficult an example could be this middle piece here the pattern assume you repeat the center a number of times which is just like 16 stitches why wouldn't you literally put the charge of those 16 stitches on the paper an idea so i found myself unraveling this little piece about eight or nine times because i lost count the most stitch didn't work because i lost a stitch at some point and i was just very annoyed and i was thinking to myself we are at the beginning if i don't uh save this now when am i going to save it so just a very very big deep nightmare someone on my instagram mentioned that this will come natural as you need true i have no idea if this is true this doesn't give me joy by any means i just push myself to need a row or two every day just to remember the charge i not get to read a very very bad pattern once again the other thing that i'm concerned about although on the flat i meet gage this is the back panel and it's huge so i don't know how am i going to tailor this on my body and bear in mind this is the smallest of the sizes of course i've needed my size following gauge and following what the pattern will say but it was just like massive massive massive massive so this is very big as well i don't know if it's washing the yarn would contract a little bit or if i have this panel on the lateral piece just to be able to tailor it as my as to fit my size i have no idea i'm taking this now as an exercise in order to understand how to cable and in order to use a little bit of that yarn if this doesn't work as a sweater this will turn into a panel for a throw or something like that or a pillow as well like a caution would look nice with cables wouldn't it anyway this is my first work in progress big big nightmare would i recommend it absolutely not i've seen the broken tweet has uh and this specific project has a lot of projects so many people did this before if you guys have any recommendation for me please let me know this because i absolutely despise it and i would love to be able to love it because the jumper looks amazing and it's a classic feeling of an iron sweater which for me is the ultimate sweater knitting so if i managed to make an iron sweater if i managed to make a full-on cable sweater i am done as an eater i am going to stop eating you know i'm just kidding but you know it's the most challenging thing i would find so i really feel like i would love to be able to need this with pleasure but so far we encounter some troubles staying into troublesome projects we do have another project that comes from cone this is a cone of j c rennie british full super soft it's more or less the same as host super soft wool 100 british wool this is drenched in oil this will bloom up and so on and so forth i actually used this before for one of the mario sweater i believe you saw this in my previous video it's lovely i'm knitting this uh in the round with a 2.5 millimeters needle and i'm holding the yarn only once so it's a very light fingering weight jumper and i use as per usual my favorite 260 stitches custom which i know is my size so far i've done about 20 centimeter i'm planning kind of a bottom up sweater and i would love to incorporate my own design on the sweater and perhaps make some [Music] adjustment on a classic raglan sweater there's nothing much to say it's just plain reum of stockinette so far is growing really really slow because of course the yarn is fingering weight it's very slow to need and as well i have so many other big projects on will come true i'm not stressing myself by any means on this sweater at all it's just a work that i would love to have time to do but yeah i'm absolutely enjoy how the yarn works i absolutely enjoy seeing this super mega thin spider web i don't know if you can see from the camera it's a hundred percent through but the magic of this yarn is that once you wash it it just blooms amazingly and you get a fantastic fabric very very light as well so working on my second project uh i am dedicating like uh half an hour every couple of days just to need true stock in it and it is what it is um i kind of uh can't wait to really to get through the designing stage for the yolk and the sleeves and incorporate some nice features some color work or probably some stitch pattern some texture as well but that will come eventually in time and then we'll get to my last work in progress which lives in my beautiful drill type of dewalt bag so a little bit about the bag of course is not a project bag i went out to buy myself a drill for some works in the house and by my surprise it came with this beautiful bag it's a zipping zip bag opens flat and has a very strong sturdy bottom as you would expect for a tool bag a toolbox and it opens with some wiring so it opens flat stays flat on the ground and in here we have my bubble sweater number two let me put my fantastic dewalt back down [Music] and i'll show you where we are so you've seen this again background story i just mentioned it but i needed this bubble sweater using cascade 220 superwash and it was um ruined while washing my fold for sure i am not saying that superwash cascade 220 is bad though when i tried it on you can see all of this in one of my previous vlogs it was quite big so i did hope that with a little bit of washing and blocking it would come to size and the kind of did was a little bit i wasn't really minding it was just beautiful but put it in a washing machine i took it out and it was completely destroyed it had a hole in the body like if a stitch was dropped although i'm 100 sure i didn't drop any stitches it probably got that weak in the washing that is not and create this massive hole that was unsavable all the bubbles were inexistent after washing they literally flattened out and it got extremely bubbly literally i had to clean the washing machine filter because there were bubbles and fluffs everywhere and the washing machine was working properly i still find bubbles and little fluff of cascade 220 in my washing almost on a daily basis it will take a time some time to wash for sure but anyway i was so in love with that jumper the feet of the jumper was beautiful that i decided to knit it again and here we are here i think i need another like five to six centimeters of uh body before started ripping and then get onto the sleeves um and this will be done i really hope to dedicate sometimes this week so i can get it on for next um podcast i've done a couple of things differently first of all the yolk now it is as precise as you can get it in my previous attempt i really did miscount some of the stitches so a couple of bubbles rows of bubbles weren't really working well you couldn't really notice it but knowing that i did notice very much so this time i paid so much more attention in the stitch count for all the yolk and going down into the body the second thing i did differently is the size although i got perfect age or almost perfect gauge i decided to go down a size so i'm now knitting the extra small size this because i do like some negativities in my sweaters in my jumpers generally my garment i feel like my body shape of course is not perfect and it needs some sort of uh artificial shaping so that's why i prefer kind of more stretchy garment and about the shape as you can see i have some stitch markers at each side of the body this because i'm kind of tapering the body a little bit to get um to fit it better on my waist i just decrease four stitches to each side i don't think i'm going to decrease any more stitches i try this on and it's perfectly tight as i wish um so it's fine i am noticing that the sleeves are a little to the sleeves or are a little too big i will definitely taper the sleeves a little bit more than the pattern recommends just to get the perfect fit the yarn that i'm using here is sonnes per gimmed ah well it's a combination of purging and the sun is perfect the purging is the black one or the charcoally one and the perfect is the purplish color burgundy is a hundred percent individual while perfect is uh kind of a soak yarn 75 percent wool and 25 polyamide or nylon one of the two this because simply i couldn't find the right shade of color in the burgundy so i pick and choose doesn't really affect much of the work they are the same weight and they feel like the same yarn a thing to say about the purple one the purplish color looks really orange on the camera and it looks orange under some lights as well if i need on this during the evening time this looks extremely orange almost brown if i look at this now with morning sunlight this looks extremely purple with a very very strong hint of blue which doesn't make sense to me my mind is blown by this color i love this yarn it's like it's just perfect like the name would say uh it's beautiful and yeah this is my last work in progress i can't wait to finish this i'm basically on stockinette aisle on two projects and this takes so much time and patience at least it's a good television project if i watch some show i just need a long end this will go through in no time for sure of course the weather is getting warmer and i'm not going to wear this for the summer but i just like to have it done and finish eventually at some stage by the way the beauty of this bag is that i can keep all my balls there and especially the balls that i'm unraveling to knit through is sitting there on the ground i'm sitting on the couch and i can knit through and the ball stays within the bag without going anywhere picking up a fluff underneath the the couch or anything it's just amazing like if the drill was cheaper i would probably buy another one just for the bag but yeah really if you have any idea of any bag maker perhaps on etsy that does this type of situation bag let me know i would kind of be interested in buying some bag that looks like this one they're very very useful so finally let's talk about acquisitions and as you can see i have some yarn acquisitions as well so many of them and this will probably be a nice thumbnail for the video but anyway as you can see i have some cones and all of these coins let me put them back one by one come from fully neat volinit is a uk based company that i got to know through another podcaster of course everybody knows her she is crayo she is a podcaster here on youtube and an amazing knitter she did a collaboration with the bulimits giving us knitters 20 discount with a hair code i'm going to put the link below i don't know if it's still running but uh eventually you may try and get a 20 off using her code and then she is running as well a knit along for any garment any object needed using cone of yarns and i have two and i have entered for the two of them so finger crossed there are lovely prizes for this knit along as well still i'm going to put the links below in the description if you wish to check her out so the website it's a little complicated to navigate so basically you when you go through the the yarn that you want to buy you put it in the back if you live in the uk i'm sure it's easy straightforward you just place your order but if you live outside the uk you will need to send them an email they will reply with the shipping cost and then you can place your order afterwards completely fine went went all really smooth and the cone came in no time at all so what did i get here the first one this one that i'm holding here is the only merino cone that i have it's a fingering way yarn 500 grams and this is the color gold it's so beautiful and so so soft i got one cone of merino only because you know me and my adventures with marina so i didn't really want to get back into that same type of situation although this is not superwash which makes me think it will knead out knit up quite beautifully it doesn't feel super wash it does feel drenched in oil in spinning oil as well so i'm really hopeful for this merino wool it's a lovely gold cold gold color there's a little bit of green and a little bit of blue as well it will make a beautiful type of big cozy sweater a very very summery color as well which is not difficult to think that in ireland you can't wear a jumper in the summer but anyway i can't wait to start a new thing on this the second piece that i got is this lovely orange here i know that on the camera it comes out very red but this is called burnt orange it's a hundred percent british bull super soft it's like the host garden wool something like that although i can feel it's a little bit more lofty than horse garden or jc renny and i suppose because this doesn't have as much spinning oil as the other two have burnt orange 500 gram 100 wool what would i do with this bright orange i have no idea i just loved the feeling of the orange color the feeling literally and i can't imagine myself wearing a jumper this color but it can come really handy with the color work perhaps holding it with a brown color or a beige color this would look amazing in the autumn i got as well some silver gray because i love silver color i need all the time in silver well i love it's not my favorite color of all the colors but i found myself wearing this color a lot so i tend to need in this color i tend to wear this color quite a bit it's just nice it's kind of variegated i can tell i don't know if you can see from the camera there but there is a kind of beige yarn and a more bluish yarn held together which is kind of interesting and will probably give some lovely lovely shades when knitted up and when twisted once again together so silver gray and then finally we got some summer storm here this is another 500 grams super soft 100 british wool cone this is just because i was silly and i liked um the idea of having some kind of light blue soft fully hoggy type of jumper so that's why i got this as well so i got these four cones with the crayola discount code would have cost me around 40 euro i have no idea about the conversion pounds or um dollars yeah you just get the math a little bit it was a very good price the surprise came when the guy from ups came at my door and asked me to pay for the import taxes which i didn't realize were that high and so on the top of the 40 euro yarn i ended up paying 65 euro on import taxes which once again doesn't make any sense to me so all this yarn cost me all together the 40 euro 45 euro of yarn plus import taxes plus shipping a fortune of course it's yarn of course it's gonna turn into lovely lovely jumpers and of course it's different but with off of the price here i would have bought probably more yarn out of a host which makes me think i'm i've been a little silly in buying that much yarn without checking uh import or custom taxes before anyway now you have it and i this is my stash and it's gonna live there forever and ever until it gets kneeled up if you are needing something especially like something for me like a male type of jumper cardigan let me know i'm on the lookout for new patterns and looking to get something different perhaps with this type of yarn which is something i love so we got to the end of the podcast the acquisitions and the works in progress the tools finished work and now we have a couple of things to talk about so first of all if you have been waiting for so long for the draw of the giveaway thank you so much i'm so really sorry last week i was supposed to draw the giveaway winner but i didn't have time or i wasn't in the mind space for that task and yeah i was about to leave it for another week this week but we probably like i put myself together and it took a minute put all the names in an online tool that draws from um youtube comments filter out the comments and yeah we got a winner a little bit on the giveaway before announcing the winner i did want to celebrate my thousand subscribers here on youtube which is nothing i know for the youtubers that have millions of subscribers but it was a big milestone for me and um i've been playing around with youtube for quite a while and never would i have ever expected to have a thousand two hundred people look at my channel ever which still scares me because i would never speak to a thousand two hundred people where most almost a thousand three hundred now i would never speak to that many people on a stage live in real life and uh yeah here i'm talking to a camera and i'm hoping to have some views but uh it's quite scary anyway i felt really blessed and my hard drive was really exploding when i received a notification from youtube saying oh you reach a thousand subscribers so i really wanted to give you back something and i will draw a person out of all the comments that we had on my thousand subscribers video i would love to have more people to give more people but yeah this is a tiny channel this is a kind of a hobby for me and all the prices that i got are purchased from myself so they're not gifted and um yeah uh it's quite embarrassing to say but you know here we go so as this was meaning so much to me i wanted to get something that it was really meaningful to me and i got three prizes first of all sorry for the crackling here first of all a pattern book and this is a book that helped me a lot to get into knitting this is the first book i got i was obsessed back a few years ago with anna and carlos and watching their videos the way they inspire people the way they lived through arts and design was really really inspiring so i learned so much from them and from this book that i thought it was a very nice way to share a little bit of myself and a little bit of my knitting journey with one of you at least this book is full of norwegian style color work and norwegian style designs hence why i'm obsessed with color work and norwegian style designs so you get the socks you get coasters you get jumpers you get huts gloves whatever i actually needed both of these jumpers and uh they are absolutely lovely i think i needed the much part of the pattern here but the way that they explain the patterns the way that they explain the techniques is just amazing super easy to follow so this will be the first prize for the giveaway i wanted as well to give you some of my culture so something that was part of my upbringing as well as something that i'm building now so thinking about what you got which was knitting related but as well venetian italian related and irish ireland related it was down to yarn and craft so the next thing that i got is a set of stitch markers made out of pine wood from a very local shop in a town really close by where i'm from and this guy is a very very great good artist i am going to link his website below he makes the most amazing art um sculpture out of wood locally sourced from the dolomites his shop is just amazing it's just like getting into a little alice in wonderland type of world with beautiful sculptures and objects everywhere and cuckoo clocks literally all over the place and so the sound and the smell of the wood and as well the person the artist that is always there welcoming people is just a great thing so i have a number of stitch markers i don't remember how many actually we have eight stitch markers here uh he made the stitch markers i asked him to [Music] kind of stump them with some knitting sentiments like increase one decrease one so on and so forth they are made out of pinewood the source in the dolomite and then i attached one of those like a light bulb type of markers thingy and they are really lovely i got a set for myself as well just because you never know and then finally the biggest part was getting some yarn from ireland which is the second part of myself and where i'm from so i was looking at online retailers and the indie dyers and i stumble across these lovely beautiful things these are merino and nylon yarns from fine leaf fibers which is an indie dyer here in ireland she is based in cork she dyes the most beautiful colors ever this is underwater which is a lovely variegated bluish grayish color it looks exactly like the ocean it's so pretty then we got forbidden marshland which is probably my favorite is a nice green with warm gray and brown tones and a little bit of blue as well and then fire sparks which is a fantastic orange yellow and gold these are three sock yarn they are 20 grams each so three minutes you can get a nice little color work design you can use this as a contrasting color or you can need a couple of shorties as well or whatever else you wish it's just a lovely sockian i was so tempted to keep this for myself actually she gifted one for me but i feel like i'll be really how can i say really selfish if i keep one of these three for me they are so gorgeous that one of you may actually enjoy this so much more than i do i never buy indie dyed yarn i never buy hand idr at all i find that i'm not as good as a knitter as to justify spending a huge amount of money on indie die yarn and i yarn craft yarn but after holding those three skates in my hands and feeling them looking at the amazing color i may be converted i still don't know how much yarn i would need how much money i would need to spend on jumper for myself but yeah i am going to end up buying so much yarn at least from fine leaf fibers here in cork because the colors are just so amazing and the texture of the yarn as well is great so let me get through the winning stage so i have put all the comments into an online tool that basically well i didn't put a comment i just took the link of the video and put it into the this tool that um ruffle through the comments and pick one person out of everybody that have comments there is an option to [Music] um filter true people that comment twice or three times but i didn't check that because at some point i mentioned that the more entry you got the more comments you put the more entry you got or something like that which is good for my side because i got more comments and so the algorithm was happy and as well for who of you that took the effort to get into the tool to get into the comments sorry um the tool picked um this person called blue eyed style so i am going to put the name here as well if you are blue eyed style and you wish to receive your presents please send me a comment here a message an email through irishfarmart gmail.com whatever way you wish to contact me and i will and we will organize the shipping i'm going to ship it to you um no idea where you're based but it might take some time because of course with kovid's all the postal situation is a little slower but yeah please contact me i'll be delighted to send it to you and hopefully you will receive this and enjoy it so once again the winner of my 1000 subscribers giveaway is blue eyed style so lastly i would like to talk to you about the design that i created last week or two weeks ago to support the refugee crisis in ukraine i don't have it here unfortunately but i'm going to put a picture here um so this pattern is one of my papillons my bow ties dedicated to ukraine um the scope of this pattern was to be able to raise money at some phones to support um the organizations that are working with the ukrainian refugee crisis right now we know there are a lot of people impacted by this a number of refugees i think around the 5 000 mark just came to ireland and i really hope they received a warm welcome the city itself dublin is full of ukrainian flags and you will see that in a second when i put my kind of snippet from the parade and so it's a really warm feeling that the irish community and us all try to create for the refugees coming to ireland and seeking some sort of relief from a very terrible situation that is going home back home for them so i found myself kind of powerless thinking about what can i do what can i not do and i am as i said always in my intro and aspiring knitting designer so designing is what i do and i created this little bow tie to being able and do something through my craft through my artistic vision so this bow ties is for sale in my robbery page and is still for sale and 100 percent of the profit from the pattern will go to support unicef dot ie which of course everybody knows unicef it's the irish branch and it's an organization that will it's involved in helping especially children impacted by the refugee crisis impacted by the war so as per now we had 20 sales the pattern is priced at 3 euro per pattern which gives us 60 euro in income in uh in a price raise money raised i am going to donate some for myself and i'm going to try and match at least this 60 euro so 120 euro are going to unicef dot ie this week probably after this video is up and i will keep donating on a monthly basis probably the password is not selling that much on a monthly basis what we get through that specific pattern to unicef at least until the crisis is over and afterwards this property will be a free pattern so if you are interested in donating or inviting the patreon for you you can just find the link below in the description or check out my rubbery page and i suppose that is it it was a probably shorter vlog rambling no much stuff done i am recovering from somebody's day and i am kind of bored into stuck in a dial and a horrible long brainy project but we'll get through that it's just a week and next week will be 100 better i really hope you enjoyed this video and if you did please consider to subscribe to my channel this will give you the chance to keep updated with my videos and as well give me a little bit of support it doesn't cost anything as everybody say and yeah like comment and i really hope you enjoy this week i'll see you very soon bye [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] you

Channel: An Irish Knitting Podcast

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Id: 4FkUY3RkQp8

Length: 75min 30sec (4530 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 21 2022