Episode 14 // Cat Kelly Crafts // Knitting podcast // A wee catch up!

right here foreign hello hi art wheel it's been a while hasn't it hmm i always seem to start off my podcast saying that but it's been a while but it really has this time so my name is kat and i am a knitter from northern ireland and this is basically where i lather on about my knitting for 40 minutes to an hour usually you'll know how long it's going to be because you can see on your screen exactly how long this video will be um yeah it's been a while i kept meaning to record the last couple of weeks and i just wasn't feeling it just wasn't in the mood didn't have the right energy for it and i definitely when i first started doing this malarkey i said to myself i will do it when i enjoy it so if i'm not in the mood i don't record so you could have seen this lovely top in progress but instead you're going to see it finished and you could have seen another item at an earlier stage but stage or not that's how it goes isn't it hopefully it means that it's a slightly nicer podcast to listen to when i'm in the mood to chat as opposed to trying to force it that's the idea anyway and hey it's all a bit of fun so thank you very much for being here and letting me blather on about my knitting again um i do really enjoy this it kind of provides a focus for my knitting and my projects and helps me think outside of just you know knitting a pattern because when you're in the podcast world you tend to watch other podcasts and get great ideas from them it's very enabling but i think that's a good thing everybody needs creative island don't they yeah uh there's something i was gonna say there oh yes i have on a few of my podcasts had um feedback saying that the sound isn't great for some people and i think it's i feel like it's maybe not working for some people and is fine for others but i just wanted to say along the vein of me doing this because i enjoy it i also have no desire or need to have any financial gain from this so i'm not going to be investing in like um any better equipment and i apologize for that if that means that you don't enjoy my podcast the way you would like to um but you know i stick my iphone up on a very cheap tripod that i bought in b m and i chat to it and that works for me at the minute it's not to say in the future that i wouldn't change my mind and think oh yeah maybe i should invest a little bit more but for now this is where i'm happy and you know if it's not working for you and you feel like you need to unsubscribe please don't feel like you have to stay listening to a podcast where the sign doesn't work for you i get it that's no fun but yeah hopefully for the majority it's still okay fingers crossed so yes i will be following the usual route of a podcast so you know the drill if you've been here before so what am i wearing right now is my first sorry i'm getting caught on something down there is my first finished object yes i'm really forgetting the terminology myself it's been so long so it's finished but i haven't woven in the end so you might see a little tail dangling here and there and it's just off the blocking mat and this is a test knit for the lovely kelly menzies at row row and kids i always want to say rory and katie's makes you sound like i don't know some greek myth i think and this is her adult version of the moonlight dress that i knitted last summer for my youngest and this is a moonglade tea and i'm going to try and show you it now rather than editing and putting in another bit but if it doesn't work i'll insert a video where you can actually see it so it's beautiful top i love this boat neck neckline and i know kelly worked really hard to figure out how to do this neckline because the dress has a lateral braid but on the bigger sizes it kept flipping so you can see it's a lovely little small rib beautifully shaped neckline and then the lacework has like this gorgeous little stockinette triangle and then the lacework creates two little triangles or rather the two triangles create your shoulder and it's a gorgeous gorgeous pattern you can see they're kind of diamond shaped lace pattern i move up close maybe you can see it a little bit better and then it does increase slightly from the shoulders um and then there's a lace border in the bottom so i'll show you that without talking now trusty jeans are on as always do i ever wear anything else i'm not convinced i do when i'm recording the podcast so i've knit it um as part of the test i think the deadline is next monday so hopefully i will get out in the garden and get probably one of the kids to take photos of me in it today after school um and yeah it was lovely i was definitely not in the least work frame of mind when it's worked top down and i messed up and was probably about here and had to rip back try it again didn't get as far that time had to rip back again gave myself a stern talking to reminded myself that lace work is hard and you do need to follow the chart and you need to be concentrating and third time was a charm and i really enjoyed the borderless work because i was kind of in the flow again and knew what i was doing i think i just hadn't done any lace work for a while so just to show you the moonglaive dress so you can i think you can actually see the pattern a little better on the dress i've knit this in uh the woolly knit cone in dark apple green and i kned it in that because that's what i had um i think it was a sock base that the pattern was created on and i kind of feel like it would be gorgeous in a plant fiber maybe a mix um rather than 100 plot fiber because it would make a really lovely kind of floaty open summer top i feel like it gives me a slight a-line shape um i'm not sure that it will give the cmg up on everybody but hopefully there'll be loads of pictures of different body shapes wearing it and you'll be able to see what it looks like when it's released um yeah and this is the moon gear dress if it's a bit creased i have taken it out of my youngest wardrobe so that um she doesn't leave it lying somewhere through the summer and then she can have it again let's face it northern ireland should probably have it again in august because the warm weather well it hasn't even arrived yet apart from this morning um and the dress has this lovely little button detail at the back but that's not on the adult version and she actually chose little mismatch but buttons for hers i'll show you a close-up of the lateral braid because you could choose there's two options for the sleeve length you can either do a rib which i did just to match the neckline but you can also do a lateral braid on your sleeves so there's a lateral braid here and that was my first time doing lateral braids and kelly's pattern was great for helping me through it i think you can see the lace work better here this is a sock yarn from west yorkshire spinners so yeah maybe a sock yarn would show up the lace a little better i feel like it's more visible i'm trying to see what it looks like on the screen here but i feel like it's maybe a bit more visible in person than it's coming across on the screen but yeah lovelynet really enjoyed it and there was great chat on and slack during the test net so that's always part of it i think when you're involved in a testament i say that i've only ever done one before and that was kelly's as well and it was like a beginner sock pattern and i just started knitting socks so i thought like i'm probably a good person to do this testing it so i don't think i'm a testament kind of person but never say never it can be very tempting because of that camaraderie that you get when you're chatting to other people and through an app like slack it's yeah that's part of it isn't it i'm sort of wondering about the length of this i might have to um i haven't even got my summer wardrobe i might have to try it i think it will go quite nice with like little shorts that sort of relaxed fit um i actually knit the body about eight centimeters shorter than the pattern it just would have been too long it would have been like below my crotch line if i carried on netting so i eight centimeters or around about that is usually what i would take off at a top but there's part of me wondering would it be nice if it was um nearly at the waistline of a pair of jeans or a pair of shorts or a skirt so i'll try it on in my wardrobe and yeah i'll see how it fits i'm sure that's the joy of knitting where you can rip back and change it if you know that it all sits a different way i also think um it was very it was very very slight increasing and i actually quite like tops that are broad at the top and then come in a little so i think to get the right number of stitches for the lace at the bottom i could do very slight decreasing if i was going to crop it a little i don't know i'm going to wear it like this for a wee while and enjoy it first and yeah the wheel would be perfect normally but the weather's decided to be quite warm this morning so i can actually feel myself quite warm in this so if i get rather warm and suddenly change in the middle of the video you'll know why it's just that i'm overheating and my willing it will top on a what looks and feels like a summer's day out there i think the wind's picking up again though so it's not going to be as warm later on so that was finished i also finished you might have got a sneak peek there of my stephen west exploration station show but i have not blocked it i have not woken in the ends i'm not on a massive hurry to do yet and i think it's because well i mean i'd sort of never intended this to be something that i was going to wear straight away because you know it's a big woolly shawl and it's not really the time of year for that but i'm still a little unsure about the color in it so i'll let you have a look and then i'll talk about it so hopefully that gives you an idea of it i mean i like it i do um i kind of wish i'd gone my first thoughts which were to have different shades of grey and the yellow and not had the blue but that would have meant me buying another gray yarn and i just didn't want to i wanted to cast it all and i wanted to knit it so you know i got the knitting experience um i also held the mohair double i made the rookie error of not thinking oh when you hold it double you need more mohair so i actually ran out so you can see this little section is a little bit not not as deep as it should be i actually ran out of mohair and had to cut that one short and probably had to fudge the stitches then for the end i can't really remember i finished this ages ago when it's just sat there waiting to be blocked and this was my first um time doing brioche so that was why i wanted to do this pattern was to do this lovely brioche section here and i really enjoyed that um i can't for the life of me remember what i learned i could not brioche just by picking up some needles and doing it now but that's what youtube's for am i right um i was very glad it was two color because that definitely helped you remember where you were in the kind of four row pattern of brioche and so i enjoyed that and i love the feel of it it's so squishy so i i think i've already purchased um the fluff nugget cardigan by soprano knits i think because i definitely want a brioche garment for the winter it's just that perfect it's a little bit like pluto lovely i think it's going to create a lovely light airy warm garment so i've yeah i'm pretty sure i purchased the pattern because i think she had a sale on i was like that's the sign i need to purchase that pattern so i will be brioching again it was great um i think i was very careful not to go wrong because i've heard that it's a nightmare to work back on brioche so i think that's what i did it's so long ago i can't actually remember i actually couldn't decide whether i wanted the gray to be more dominant or the yellow but i'm glad i went with gray because you know the yellow is scary for me i don't know slightly mad there's nothing scary about it at all i just know that you know if you're going to wear a scarf it's generally going to be quite close to your face i don't think that yellow is really my color but i love it my idea is that this will fit um on the back of the sofa and be used as like a nice little cuddly shawl in the winter i think that's what i plan to do with it so i really should wash the thing so in the ends and then it can be used in that way once winter comes it doesn't really go with the living room decor so maybe that's also holding me back a little oh i set my cup of tea on a painted window so i'm nearly stuck to it that's not good just he i'm not a blogger who has blogger podcaster who has you know fancy tees on the go so um i only really have one other project to show you that i'm working on i've completely forgotten the name of it i do have a pattern here i'll show you the sleeve and i bet you there'll be some of you going it's [Music] because you'll know oh it's bindweed see i even reminded myself by doing that it's the bindweed cardigan look at that oh my god i love it so much look and i will tell you it's by when i have a look at the pattern because i've completely forgotten and did not look at this beforehand excuse the rustling yeah where's the start oh my goodness i probably didn't even print off the designer's name i can't remember oh no blind weed designer cassania [Music] oh my god i'm so sorry i know i know she won't be watching they won't be watching but it was in knitting for olive in a magazine is that what i just glanced as i push that in again now it was knitted in knitting for all of yarn originally published in making stories magazine issue five and i have been admiring this cardigan and then bar and all the finished projects in it for months and months and months and finally just went do you know what i'm just going to cast it on i am absolutely loving it it's one of those projects where you're kind of trying to hold back so that you can continue to enjoy it for longer loving it i actually even um just held the stitches of the body you're supposed to finish the body and then move on to finishing the sleeves but i was enjoying the sleeve pattern so much that i just popped the body onto one of these knitting cords so that i could start knitting on sleeves and at least get one done maybe then i'll do the body and then i'll leave some lovely patterning to finish off again it's so um it's so enjoyable it's not easy and i think at the beginning you're following three different charts because you've got your braid chart which is obviously different to your sleeve chart and then you've got you know your stockinette at the back why is there three then oh i can't remember and it's a really unusual cast on as well not one i've come across although saying that i've only knitted like two other cardigans so maybe it is quite common in the cardigan world um i'm enjoying the cables you're only ever sort of i'm not using the cable needle but you're only ever you've only ever got three stitches kind of hanging loose while you swap them you know what needles they're on and the little knobs i keep um i keep dreading the row where i have to do the little knobs and then find that i really enjoy them when i get to it so i think it's just knowing right i need to concentrate and i'm using a little crochet hook and a dpn so i'm transferring them onto a dp and then picking them up with a crochet hook and pulling the yarn through because there's just no other way i would manage that and um i'm not sure if i went down needle size than this i may have done let's say in this first page um no i'm knitting in the needle size because actually for this for my moonglade top i had to just go down a needle size and i should have gone down more than i did but i went down to a three millimeter and there was no way i was knitting a garment this size on less than a three millimeter needle so that's why it is it is slightly oversized on me because i think i aired on the larger size and then knitted it on slightly larger needle than i should have done to get gauge but i must have met gage okay in this one um i had luckily read somebody's project page on this where they had said about the yolk being too short on them so for my size and this pattern i checked the fit just before the sleeve separation and it it was high it would have been sitting right where my armpit was so i knew it was going to be too short for me as well so at that point i continued knitting for the size above so i guess i've technically knitted it a smaller size to about here and now i am onto the bigger size and i'm just following the larger size i also um modified it slightly where i stopped making the increases and so obviously you're making increases both sides for a while here and then when you get to knitting in the round you continue making increases to make it kind of close like a cardigan wage but i noticed in some people's um photographs on the project pages and ravelry that it kind of then stuck out like a little triangle so i stopped doing the increases and i hope that that will make it just go down a little more it's not buttoned there's no buttons in this cardigan pattern so it does just hang open and it's the kind of thing that i would like to be able to pull across me when it's cold but would like it to sit open when i'm wearing it and the yarn i'm using is again it's woolly knit and this is in the kilder blue and then i'm holding it with the drop small hair i forgot what that's called but the colorway is north sea and yeah you can see why it makes me think of the north sea that one and i think it's made a really lovely combination they're pretty similar um but i wasn't trying to color match it i didn't want a complete color match um and yeah i think it's made a really nice tealy blue and it changes i i find the woolly knit when you're knitting with it is it's nearly crunchy uh and then when you wash it and wear it it blooms and softens um like i would say this is i mean it's just off the block and mat and i would say there's still a little bit of crunch there but from knitting with woolly knit before it does soften up when you're wearing it but the mohair added on to this just means it's so soft i just sit in the evenings and feel this so nice and it's such an attractive looking pattern as well so i'm absolutely loving this trying to make it last it would be quite a good thing if we got some really warm weather because then that would put me all finishing it because yeah i'll be able to wear it in summer evenings in northern ireland but it's definitely not a summer night is it so i need another step i'm not used to this my throat's getting dry i'm also trying to keep an eye on um my daughter got two little chickens for her birthday gorgeous little bantams and one's a lavender pekin and the other one's a ginger pecan they're so cute if you if you're into chickens honestly google them they're so so cute they have like double feathers so it makes them look really round and then they have little feathered feet so they're very very sweet to watch but um they came from a flock that had a rooster so we saved their eggs for the first week that we had them and we put some of them in an incubator this is the first time we've done this so we don't really know what we're doing but in the meantime the ginger one decided to brood um so she's clocking on eggs we slipped one of the ones that we knew were fertilized and we could see there was something happening inside under her and they're due to hatch right now so i'm just keeping an eye out if she runs out of she comes out into the run i might go check on the egg so again i might suddenly disappear but you'll not know that there'll just be a weird stop start in the video so yeah that's why i'm staring at the window today i've always got some excuse for looking out the window haven't i so what do i want to talk about now oh yes i have when i bought the mohair for um the bindweed i also bought some everything's falling now bought some um style craft linen drape and this is a dk weight yarn it's seventy percent viscose and thirty percent linen and um despite me saying but i you know don't like yellow i bought a yellow haven't i it's a the colorway corn and i'm planning to make a i have to write this down because i will never remember a sorvet which is um like a vest a very very basic vest top and that's my plan and there's two reasons why i actually did go for like a yellowy color one i think it looks great with denim yellow looks scuba down i don't know how good will that look good for the top of it too but also i'm slightly trying to recreate a vest top that i have that i bought i think possibly an m s or somewhere years ago and it was just a plain vest top in a gold yarn and it was like a knitted much much finer than this and yeah it was like a gold but like a dull gold and it was so handy you could throw it on and it went with anything and you could pop it under tops and yeah it just went with anything so i sort of thought um summer in it i might go for something like that so that's what i bought it for um i i might still change my mind might not become a sorbet but i've bought the pattern and it's sitting there looking at me so that might be my next cast on and hey if i don't wear it because it's too yellow the joy of knitting is i can rip it out and start again which actually i did i ripped out my guilloche chomper how many times have i spoken about this in the podcast but i did it i pulled it all out i skinned it all up i washed it all because it was so kinky so i gave it all a wash and it's all hanging ready to be wind up and stored and then i will re-knit my geo jumper um at the end of august probably when it's starting to get cool because that will be enjoyable it will be a really nice chunky warm knit to have in your lap through september october when you know you're slightly depressed at the change of the season you're not fully embracing the winter spirit yet um and i'm looking forward to knitting it again i did really enjoy knitting it and so my husband was horrified that i was ripping out an entire jumper but i think i kind of get it i enjoy the knitting so much and i really enjoyed that pattern that was a really moorish cable pattern as well so yeah i'm looking forward to knitting it the only thing is is i've already sized down by my measurements and i've checked my gauge my gauge is not quite bang on but i think it's the rows aren't right and the stitches stitch count is i can only go down one more size so i'm doing that size and if it's a little bit too big on me that's fine i suspect that albiona is maybe a tight knitter the designer and i am a really loose knitter and i think it just means that it's going to be tricky for me to get the right size but we will work with it and we will do it so i have what will i do first yeah i will no do you know what i'm going to show you because i wash some of the boys the goat's yarn or the coach yarn it's not yarn yet it's definitely not not yarn still just fleece so i washed about a quarter of the boys fleece and i just wanted to show you it because honestly the sheen that is coming off this is unreal so look at this i hope this comes across you never really know look at that look how shiny it is it is literally like moon beams it's incredible like you could sort of see it before i washed it so i washed it in a fairly small tub um and it got two dunkings with a big glug of e-cover uh dish soup um but i didn't want to wash it i mean the ends are still a little bit murky shall we say but i didn't want to wash it too much because i know if you strip away all the oils then it's going to be difficult to process not that i really know what way i'm processing it but i just really wanted to show you you could see the sheen before i washed it but once it dried like look at that the light is just bouncing off us and it's beautifully soft yeah i'm really looking forward to doing anything with it really there are some bits that were kind of already matted on the voice you know a little bit like the dogs get what are they called i've forgotten the name of those kind of bits that they get around their ears where it starts to felt so there's little bits like that that are probably not going to be used for anything other than maybe some felting experiments um and i have i mean this is about a quarter of what i have to process um but yeah look at that a whole bag of just a lot of vegetable matter let's just say there's still a lot of that in there i did not spend hours picking it out but look there's one let's see if i can show you one little curl actually that one's a better one one little curl so yeah i do actually have a spinning course booked but i suspect that um learning to spin with mohair is probably not the best idea but sometimes you just gotta work with what you got and you know if i muck it up the boys are still growing their fleece i'm gonna get more in september october what am i gonna do with this first anyway i thought i would show you that so i wanted to show you that before i went on to acquisitions because i know that's not always everybody's thing so if it's not your bag and you want to head on then please feel free um i'm just gonna have to reach over and grab what has fallen so um i did do splurging it must have been at the very beginning of may um one was i just can't resist i need i need to buy those and the other was i'd sort of had in mind that this was going to happen i've been waiting for the opportunity and the opportunity arose and i splurged so the first one was from um sarah taylor who has the taylormade podcast lovely podcast if you don't already follow her please go have a look i don't think she's done a podcast for a wee while now but oh she's just such a lovely soul really really enjoyable and she lives off-grid in australia and yeah it's just she's so interesting she'll talk about all sorts she's shown like her wardrobe and how she's going to fit things in her wardrobe she talks about skincare she's very um like socially minded in terms of how you can set up a business while supporting others and environmentally minded and she has started doing botanically dyed yarn so when she opened up her shop which is called the maker's the makerscorner.com yeah that's the name of it i will put obviously the details down below and i ordered um two skeins of her i think it's coridial sock base again i wrote this down so i wouldn't forget so um she has also named her yarn bases um after uh women who have been prominent in australia but also have links to the yarn so if you go on her website and have a wee look through her yarn based description she does tell you where they've come from so this is the general and it's a sock base so it's meant to be a hardware wearing sock yarn and i like many other podcasters would quite like to try um using non-plastic yarn for my socks just to see how it goes see how hard wearing it really is um i have nothing against using the sock base at the same time love my west yorkshire spinners um sock yarn i think it's great it's really um it's really nice to make gifts for people where you know you can't get away with throwing it in the washing machine if you must um you just know you've got that little bit of security i suppose but i wanted to try some more natural yarns so this one is eastern grey i just love high hand-dyed yarn the twists are just so beautiful and this one is honeycomb so i i did have to laugh sarah messaged me after she'd sent them to me saying that in her haste to post them to me she'd forgotten to put the labels on them which i just think is so cute so thank you sarah i love that me getting joy from one supporting you in your adventure and to getting gorgeous yarn also give you enough joy that you got over excited about it i love that so my intention was that this would be a pair of socks and this would be a pair of socks but when they arrived look how beautiful they are together i'm actually blending in a rather too well aren't i but yeah focus on these not me they are just gorgeous together so i think i'm going to have to find a sock pattern where there's a little bit of color work maybe just around the ankle and maybe i'll just do um like a yellow sock with a little bit of green color work and then do a fully green sock or maybe i'll do like a little pair that sort of can be mixed and matched just beautiful and sarah being an absolute darling asked me would i like um to choose another skin because she wanted to send one to me as a gift and i couldn't choose between two colors and i wanted to try a different base and she sent me them both so this is me slightly telling her off and slightly going i'm actually secretly quite glad you did that so this is the mira base that sarah has um which is a 100 mourinho non-superwash look at these they're gorgeous so this one is grevilla i don't know if i'm saying that right i wonder these plants that i don't know of and this one is lilac so sarah dyes these using plants that she tries to um take from her land so i think these i think these are both eucalyptus i could be wrong if you go onto her instagram she shows you you know what she's using to dye them um so yeah just look at these they're showing up pretty good all the colors today seem to work in whatever way the light is out there so i'm not sure what to do with these but i have come across a pattern that i really want to knit it's called the rumble raglan sorry i'm looking down again because i won't remember any of this and it's by lydia and she goes by what lydia made on instagram and the rumble raglan is amazing i don't think it's been out that long but it's not like a new release or anything so it's um a negative ease top and it has these amazing like um like lines of the different colors and then they meet with another one i think you need three i don't think you need three i think you can knit it in two colors but i feel like these two together there's a look about this that i think just needs something else to i don't even know what the look is it reminds me of the kind of um colors of felt tips i would have used like early 90s to draw with really like pastely yeah i don't know it's a look i'm not sure it's a look i want to wear without there being something else in there i'm just not sure what to go with if you have any suggestions if you're looking at this and you're thinking that needs whatever color don't say yellow please don't say yellow um i mean i'm thinking okay so mint color would go with this but that is completely the look i mean i bet you somewhere in the online world there is a name for that particular aesthetic that i'm thinking of it's like pastels and a mint green with these two is like completely that look i'm being so vague i don't even know what i'm talking about so i hope you know what i mean so mint is most definitely not going to happen but maybe like a really bright turquoise would just pull them away from that look a little or a green i mean my default is always gray but no gray's not going to work with those too maybe it just needs to be cream maybe a cream and those i will try and insert a little picture of the rumble raglan so you know what i'm talking about so yeah rumble raglan i think these could work in a rumble raglan we shall see anyway they are absolutely gorgeous you can really feel actually the merino softness there they all feel soft but yeah definitely beautifully soft so sarah i have not as you can see done anything with your gorgeous yarns but i cannot wait i've actually been really um i've had a pair of socks on the go for ages and i done nothing on them so i really must now that i'm only working on the bindweed cardigan try and resist uh casting on the cervet top and get those socks finished so that i can cast on a pair of socks that are no nylon that would be good and the other acquisition i made was the yarn dyer who i have harped on about on this podcast before and most of you will probably recognize it immediately it's woolly mammoth so again this is on my new nylon plastic freestock quest this is uh emma's hearthstock base which is 50 jacob and 50 bfl and it's four ply and um i was trying to veer away from my usual blues and cool colors when i was choosing um what color to choose to buy emma's shop normally sells out immediately and i must have gone on a few days after her update wasn't her previous update i think it was the one before that i bought these on and went on a few days later thinking it'll be all sold out i won't be spending any money and it wasn't all sold out for a change and there were there were schemes left so there were quite a few gorgeous gorgeous briny kind of colors and i think there was maybe like how they all have sold out i think maybe maybe the olive had sold out but there were other greens there but again i was trying to don't go for your usual choose something different and i frankly couldn't choose they were all too beautiful so i went with this one on the basis of its colorway name which is bar now so i think i've mentioned on the podcast before that i was the barn oil officer for ulster wildlife here in northern ireland for a couple of years and i have a real soft spot for the bar now still i would um go out at night and walk the fields here sometimes because they do hunt on the fields around my house so sometimes i get to hear a little screech or see a shadow of a barn owl fly over me or very very rarely see like the white sheep moving in the gloom of the night um so i went with barna for that very reason i'm really looking forward to this i think this will be a gorgeous knit it feels very bouncy there's maybe you know obviously it's sock yarn so there is quite a high twist but i would say that's maybe some parts of it don't look like as high a twist as i would be used to in a sock yarn you know i'm forever wearing jeans so this kind of beautiful brown it's maybe blowing out a little bit here i think it's maybe a little darker than it's coming across like more like the shadow and that's going to look gorgeous at the end of my jeans isn't it as soon as i can't seem to stop wearing those and then this one is in emma's sock base which is 50 to bfl and 50 cheviot and this one is the color cabbage patch so it's like a creamy i think probably undyed for majority of it and then there's just these little speckles of green there's actually a couple of little hints of purple in there too um i think under the band you can see the green and my plan for this is to knit myself a couple of leg warmers for my ballet class i keep meaning to knit for that um because dancers would wear a lot of knitwear because it's handy for like warm up and you know cool down and it's sort of loose and flowy and it kind of lends itself to the ballet aesthetic where we kind of well if you look at the pros they look absolutely amazing but when they're first warming up they honestly look like they're wearing hand-me-downs because they have so many layers on and it'll be like big giant jumpers and they'll tear the necklines of them so they're really loose so you know it's a knitting just lends itself well to that kind of look and i currently have a pair of just acrylic bright fuchsia pink and black stripy leg warmers that i wear i had quite like a really nice pair so i think this will be beautiful i i'm gonna need to make up my own pattern because i can't find a leg warmer pattern anywhere and probably just be stocking it with a bit of ribbing to hold them on at the top so that's the plans for this so yeah no time limit on that one that will happen when it happens so yes i think i mentioned i wanted to um i wanted to talk about a few patterns uh in this podcast i don't have any podcast recommendations because i'm frankly finding it hard to even keep up with the podcast that i already subscribed to i think it's just this time of year um i don't know if you find it as well where there's less time for nothing you're outside a bit more and there's less time to sit and watch a podcast and knit that's very much a lovely winter pastime and even though it hasn't been warm here we've definitely been outside a lot more often and if you follow me on instagram i apologize for the food picks you're probably going to see a few more of those because we have joined a local and it's like a vegbox game it's called a csa scheme community supported agriculture so it's basically a local farm that has been run in this business for a good few years they've opened up this fetch box scheme where you sign up to it and you're committed to it unlike some veg box schemes where you can buy a box one week not buy it for a few weeks this is one where you you paid up for your six months of veg box games you know what i mean and um every month you're invited to the farm to spend a day there where you do some physical work like you're doing some of the gardening so we were there last saturday and we were lifting stones and making beds in the new polytunnel and then they feed you this fabulous face of food so when you get the veg box each week you also get some recipes and we have like a whatsapp group where we can communicate together and yeah i've been sticking the photos up on instagram and so that they can share it so they're called the edible flower um so yeah i apologize if that's not your bag that will probably happen for the next six months because again it gives me a little bit of motivation to actually use these gorgeous vegetables that we're getting and try out these new recipes um so yeah we've definitely been spending a lot more time outside because it's also sort of prompting me to look after my garden and my tiny little veg spots a little bit better than i normally do which can only be a good thing so yeah no podcast to recommend this time right but i wanted to talk about just a couple of patterns two of which i've mentioned already so the rumble raglan was one of them i really love the look of that so highly recommend having a wee look at that one and uh the cervet vest now i think it's probably been out for years i wouldn't say this is like a high fashion it's a very basic best pattern it's lovely actually i might have excuse the rustling so that's the schematic of it you can't really see it in that photo just a basic vest i'm hoping that will become like a little staple in the wardrobe i'm also tempted by the outline tea by jessie may and she's also released another pattern i can't remember what it's called but it's like a really uh like a really dramatic halter neck at the front and the back vest pattern that i love the look of and she does show lots of people wearing it without a brow but i'm not sure whether my time for wearing tops like that has passed i don't know sometimes you think do you know what i don't care what people think i'm going to wear what i want and then other times she's like oh no i don't anybody to see me oh can't do it so um i'm watching it and i'm following it on instagram so i see new projects coming through because that sometimes helps you go yeah that is wearable i could wear that um but yeah i'd quite like to knit myself an outline tea is a nightline tea or outline tank no i knitted the outline tank last year which is the vest top by jesse um and i find that while i like wearing it it sits very low and i think the t-shirt would just make it a bit more wearable so that's on my cards for summer knitting as well and it's maybe not summer knitting but i absolutely love the manus and the lapis patterns by yamagara absolutely gorgeous what a way to use mohair i thought it was just like inspired way to use mohair and to use your variegated yarns so um while i don't think i'm going to be splurging on yarns anytime in the future i do have a little trip to edinburgh planned and um i might have to do a little trip into ginger twist did you watch him amy palko's um podcast where she took us on a tour of ginger twist so you know if i have spending money for my holiday in all likelihood it's gonna get spent on yarn so maybe the manus or the lapis i can't i think the lapis is the non-mohair version so it's a slightly heavier t-shirt and then the the manus is mo hair at the top and then it goes down to this beautifully scalped variegated yarn at the bottom so those are just a few pattern suggestions and to have a look at and if you want more summer pattern suggestions particularly northern hemisphere summer pattern suggestions i.e very northern and uh you could probably get away with them in winter in some places in the world then go have a look at amy's last podcast because it was it was really lovely to see all her um summer nets and she did put a caveat at the beginning that this is scottish summer i'm very like northern ireland you can get away with wearing knits pretty much any day of the summer here maybe you might have to wait until the evening but you'll definitely get to wear them at some point so i think that's all i've got to blather on about today and yeah it's getting long enough i have got some footage of me um ripping out the geo jumper and also got some bits and bobs of me cleaning the mo hair so i might pop those in at the end so if you're interested in that keep watching um i haven't taken much footage of the goats recently they are right next to my mom and dad's house um so every time we go down to visit them they're busy bleating over the hair gently come on and feed me and i'm only feeding them once a day at the minute um because there's plenty growing where they are for them to browse and yeah they're growing the fleece it's getting long again so i need to get myself you know thinking need to do something with this in order to utilize the next fleece so yes i have a lovely spinning course to look forward to it's on a spinning wheel so i will get a few hours of tuition in a group setting i think um on the first of july and that's through inspiring yarns who i've mentioned many times in the podcast um i've done no spending on my drop spindle since i think i had covert wasn't that when i did it last i think it was over christmas anyway so yeah i maybe need to summer do a little less knitting maybe i need to do a little less nothing and do a bit more branching out and seeing where else i can go to yeah we shall see how do you all feel in the summer do you knit less do you find you have less time to sit down in it because i'm definitely feeling that at the minute but then it's also if you have kids of like primary school age and mine are just into secondary school june is crazy it always is you're always running here there and everywhere so there is less time that's the dog tip toeing up and down the hallway in case you heard that but yeah there's just less time in june and the kids are awake you can't get them into bed so you've less of a okay they're in bed and i can sit down and knit yeah i'm missing that i need a couple of nights a week where i can do that at the very least okay well that was plenty of blathering this week wasn't it that seems to be my word for it at the minute so thank you so much for joining me and i hope to speak to you all again soon bye [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so this morning's job for the goats was to cut a path through the nails it was mostly looking like this there's a path taking them up to some brambles up there and i've created little piles of nettles because apparently if you wilt the nails just leave them for a couple of days the boys should want to eat them i'm not convinced they will so yeah just been using the scythe and making a few e piles and we'll see if they eat them i've already cleared this and the nails to screw again i don't think they come up here and i quite like them too so hopefully this will encourage them it's just come on to rain so the sound is probably not great it's not under the trees there you go still rather nice

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Published: Sat Jun 18 2022