Espace Tricot Podcast #38

is it recording i think it's recording okay here we are [Music] hello i'm naomi hi i'm stephanie and we you may have noticed with some new faces in the shares this time for episode 38 of the espos rico podcast yeah we are the new co-owners of espastrico and lys in montreal and uh wow i'm kind of speechless about it i know well we better get not speechless i know because we have a podcast to do as soon as we start talking about yarn you won't be able to shut us up i promise yeah absolutely um so should we start by introducing ourselves a little bit i guess that's a good place to start okay uh go for it okay uh i'm stephanie stephanie erp and um i started working at especially co in 2016. i came in to buy some yarn and the next thing you knew i had a job um and since then i've been working a little bit behind the scenes i lay out some of the patterns and do stuff like that and i love to design i've designed a whole bunch of different patterns i'm going to show you some of those today um but obviously from working here i met naomi i have a bit of a similar origin story to steph i came in one saturday while i was working a nine-to-five job that i wasn't crazy about and um while i was browsing sasha who still works with us came up and said hey didn't you work at la chico tech which was another young story module at the time and i said that i had had to leave because i found a full-time job um and then the next thing i know i see her whispering to lisa over on the other side of the store and i'm like oh i wonder what's going on there lisa comes over and asks if oh no or wizard sasha came over anyway and asked if i wanted to replace her because she was going on mat leave with her first little one um and so yeah next thing i knew i was coming in and spending my days in heaven every saturday i know i mean i feel like that first year all i did was spend all of the money i earned online yeah it was a little bit it's a little bit like that it was just so inspiring and i learned so much so fast yeah i think as soon as i was around it all the time and i remember the first time i did a sample for the store like what i learned about finishing because it knew it had to be for the store it was different than it was for me i was going to be presenting it it was going to be here on the floor and i just put so much more effort into my finishing and i asked the different people who worked here my new colleagues like how do i do this so yeah it's you learn so much from so much as you really get um you get this inspiration from so many people around you but also that you kind of like absorb the experiences of everyone around you like people coming in with their questions and sometimes i didn't know the answer and i could pass it on to a colleague and sometimes i did know the answer because someone had come in before and i started to realize that my problems or my mistakes were not silly they were just things that everyone encounters in knitting and everyone's living process is different and we all encountered different mistakes and and i feel like the only reason i am such a skilled knitter now and i want to own that i want to say it i am a skilled knitter and i love it and i i take pride in the fact that i uh i'm i'm good at this craft that i love but that is because i've been working in a yarn store no i don't because often like you know that moment when you're looking at a pattern and someone's presenting you with the issue and you realize that you've never done that and you don't know how to solve it and there's that terrible sort of like imposter syndrome feeling of like do i should i really be doing this but then you work it out together you learn it yeah the person you're working with learns it and then the next time someone comes in you're like okay i've seen this one before it's true it's true and like sure i may be knitting one or two things at a time or five six but and i'm you know i come across issues and i make mistakes and i drop stitches and i redo things in all of them but that is very just i guess very much less exposure than when i'm in a store and 20 people may come in in one day and they all have different things something to different things something to be proud of something to fix so that's what i mean by just like ex by the exposure of of working in the yard store is how how is basically the only reason i feel like we've got to this point where i don't think we do we have any imposter syndrome we probably have oh i have my moments of imposter syndrome when i see like people on instagram are like oh i just took this amazing course on double knitting and brioche in the round with lace and cables and i'm like okay i guess i had to put that on my list yeah but it's interesting that like to sit we're sitting down like we don't have a ton of the script here we have things i want to show you much at all but i think it's interesting that the first thing that we wanted to talk about that experience of being in the store with customers because i think that's been the most intense thing about the last what 18 days yeah just um the pace the change of it it's been wonderful and everyone's just been so amazing yeah it's been just you guys thank you folks you are all like you've just been wonderful all of you have said anything about the the transition about the future about your amazing memories with lisa melissa um it's just all come together to be such a wonderful experience yeah we're just wonderful super lucky yeah um so look should we get into it and show some stuff that we've been working on without all our yarn yeah um we were wondering building up to this podcast like what shall we show what's new and um we haven't been able to do podcasts in such a long time that basically everything is new yeah there's a ton of new stuff in the store so we kind of selected a few of our favorite things that we're really excited about that we wanted to show you um do you want to start there do you want to start with projects uh well yeah that's uh what's our little outline in a nutshell we kind of steph's podcasted before i did back years ago before i realized i didn't really have much to say yeah although i have a whole storm um but you know if it ain't broke don't fix it lisa melissa's model was pretty good okay we want to show you our works in progress we want to show you our finished objects we want to show you our upcoming plans and some beautiful fun things we have in the store um but i'll start with what let's start with some finished objects yeah what do we want so what are we wearing that's always one of the best uh little bits in the podcast so i am wearing a sweater called lexpress that's my french accent uh this is actually the this is the melissa cool design and it's in um la mana como which is a beautiful yarn i've got a fluff no oh is it is it like a sticker or something oh no it'll come off it'll come off oh gosh we have stickers all over this is a store sample so now i'm like oh my god i got a sticker on our store sample okay i'll do it like this um it's this little monochrome which is a very beautiful yarn in the ball uh but really i had only ever seen it in the ball until this sample was made and then i touched it and it was like it is beyond it feels like cashmere honestly like it it reminds me of like those beautiful cashmere sweaters that you find in the in the department stores around the holidays it's got that kind of feel to it um so yeah one of our own free patterns and we've got lots of this yarn in stock i think we used and the quantities in the show notes which we will have below in the youtube comments we're thinking we won't put them on ravelry just because it's easier to keep them all in the same place so just take a look in the comments below for everything we mentioned this episode but yeah i chose to wear it today because i wanted a nice little neutral backdrop so i could show off another one of my fos that i'm really excited about so this is actually going to be my very first espastrico design and it's called you had me atrico which is like our phrase that's on some of our bags and our signature colors often called that we've got a few different colorways or different brands where we have a you had me and trico colorway and one of them is from la biane may so i decided to use that signature colorway to create and of course held together with mohair of course naturally uh to create my first uh spasterico design would you mind holding out this end for me so you can see it's um it's it's a scarf really but it's a sort of shawley scarf with a beautiful ruffle and uh it's about i think it's 78 inches long so nice and long you can really wrap it around you which is what i'm gonna do with this fabulous ruffle so you can do the typical sort of draping it around thing like this but what i think is so cool about it is you can kind of layer up the ruffles so unwrapping it a few times and so you get like multiples am i getting it right yeah of the ruffles and super feminine i definitely i like anything that's a lot and this is a lot feminine um but i was inspired by two existing aspastryko patterns the la duca kick um shawl by lisa which has this fabulous ruffle on it and then the fleur shawl by melissa which uses these colors such a classic so both of them such classics and that's one of those ones where well why don't you show the schemes individually oh yeah um because it's just such a lovely way to see how mohair plays with a base color because so you're often like really trying to match our mohawk and our base yarns but you can really play with contrast and it doesn't look mild it kind of just the mojo will kind of just influence the overall color um just you know you could have chosen like a deep fuchsia yeah and it wouldn't happen this entirely totally um and that combination made me completely revisit a yarn that i love in the skein but never really thought of using because i know it's not really my wardrobe and i would love knitting it but would i wear it and then you can the effect overall with the the white mohair is just yeah something else entirely and um you already have me planning my next project i want to get your opinion on what yarns i would use because i picked these while you as well oh really so um this lazy fingering simple has just always called to me and i was thinking of pairing it with again this whole influence thing of like a very pale blue i like that idea or or a gray like more in keeping with the actual base color i'd go for the blue because i think it will change it it'll make it something different yeah lift it a bit um but enough about me we will be having kids absolutely we will uh the pattern is written and i just want to get it tech edited and of course translated into french as well and when all of that's done this will come out as a kit and the pattern will be called you had me a trico um and this is it will take two of each and just a note on styling i would totally wear this with a badass leather jacket oh totally well you came in where i know maybe after the podcast i think we'll have to do some model shots okay absolutely so yeah that's my that literally is like fresh fresh fresh hot off the needles and um really looking forward to getting it finished and you probably did you even steam it it's totally ready to go i did steam it just i just wanted to make sure i was getting the gauge right when i was writing up the pattern so i gave it a little stick so i think that's my efforts finished objects what about you what's like i happen to notice something you're wearing indeed i am wearing a new sweater hot off the needles i bound this off and steam ironed it yesterday night um accidentally fell asleep at 4 pm woke up at seven and uh finished the bind off okay sometimes you need a nap before you finish i really needed a nap um not that this was sort of like a marathon that needed lots of breaks this was a very simple knit um starting off from melissa's bright side sweater pattern but um i did make i think sufficient changes with the needle sizes and the arm and body shaping that uh i may as well write it up into a fresh pattern because um you know i want it to be more accessible than just uh tons of notes on raffle yeah totally um maybe i don't know if you'll still see me if i stand up and give a little twirl but i'll try it out um so it's really quite cropped um my natural waist is is here and it just drops a couple inches below my natural waist and it's got a little split high low hem and a boxy raglan and uh it just makes me feel like swishing and well what are we going to call this what are we going to call this we are going to call this after well i was knitting it a lot a lot on uh the thanksgiving weekend and i made gingerbread pumpkin cookies because i didn't make pie and so i thought i'd call it the gingerbread sweater love it and what do you what did you make it with it is in and i have it ready to show you part of it at least so my new favorite combination knitting for olive merino which is 100 untreated merino uh in an absolutely gorgeous palette and um camera rose midnight soul this is baby alpaca tencel and marina wool so um this this company in general they they're it's produced in europe um and they really do make an effort for environmental and ecological sustainability tencel itself is a very much more environmentally friendly alternative to viscoses just in the way it's produced um it adds this gorgeous halo while remaining quite matte and um i feel like it's sort of an in-between surrey brushed suri and mohair my mohair silk knits i feel like they're too fancy for like everyday wear which i've gotta get over because i love the effect um and then suri sometimes feels it's more like a fluffy cozy like loungewear like luxury yeah this is a nice like split the difference in between and it's inner core that's holding the alpaca fibers is a little bit darker than it's out of fluff and so you know i was talking a little bit about contrasting mohair's before and these two you wouldn't necessarily think that they are an exact match this is quite darker but overall it gives this gorgeous yeah it's a really subtle effect of marlin yeah but actually so maybe i'll take it off i'll show you a little closer so so while you're holding that up tell people what untreated merino means oh untreated merino it hasn't been uh treated to be machine washable um so untreated i think is becoming quite a commonly recognized term for non-superwash um the support treatment um is generally the one generally used is called the chlorine hercet treatment which and i'm sure a lot of people know this better than i but uh generally it's a process of bleaching the yarn first to smooth down the um the scales of the wool fibers which that's the scales are what interlock in felting and then um it is coated in a polymer so that is a commonly used superwash treatment um but like the untreated merino to be clear it's super soft still it's gorgeously soft and um i don't know there's something about its spin it's it just has it just has a lot of character like the visible spin of it and it's a little bit lighter than many fingering weight yarns they recommend 28 stitches in 10 centimeters you could knit it looser than that for sure this is knit at 22. but obviously it hasn't been in that saw and this kind of you kind of got away with a bit of a looser gauge perhaps than even a silk mojo i bet you could do this with a with a standard like heavier fingering um at even like 20 20 stitches it's always just fun to swatch and play yeah if you like the fabric you're not going wrong yeah so totally um no it's interesting like i've always was one of those people who was like i need my yarn super soft and so i wasn't sure about the whole untreated merino thing but then obviously i discovered euless and gilead from durrarum natura yeah yeah so now i'm all over because it's it's the best of both worlds it's got that truly crunchiness that makes beautiful cables and texture but you still get the softness yeah and this i would say is probably even a little bit softer than elise just because it's it's got that smoother spin of a of a western spaniard and elise is half wasted half will and spun that's what i've heard also there's a little bellowed slave i know it's so cute it's the espacefico balloon sleeve but sort of yes satelized yeah and i did do some i did have a decrease round and this is where i want to rewrite it because this pattern comes across a lot of sizes it has nine i think it'll this will have nine sizes because it's basically based on the bright side and i did size one but uh i just knit the arm completely straight down but for the larger sizes where you have more stitches in the arms i think it would be more uh appropriate like a more proportioned silhouette to have a couple of decreases so that this proportion is proportionate and the balloon sleeve has the same effect across all sizes because obviously if you're moving from um i think this was 66 but if it were i don't know the pattern off the top of my head 76 or into the 80s obviously like the wrist wouldn't have to proportionately be that big you still want the risk to be around about the same size so um to keep a similar proportion to the sleeve across all sizes i will probably put in a couple decreases perfect um well and we can refer back to our notes from our class that we caught yeah naomi and i taught class together before this all came together we we were teaching um a sweater design class together so we have like fun internal reference stuff we're just like talking in the same language from that yeah uh do you have anything else that's anything else that's new i'm kind of surrounded by things like that i have this another stephanie erp special the selena from 52 weeks of shawls by liner magazine and tell us your big news stephanie okay so this pattern actually has come back to me where i can republish it um as a single pattern um but to everybody who knew it from the magazine thank you they were beautiful beautiful examples but i know a lot of people wait for it to come out as a single pattern if they can't commit to the whole book which was definitely a luxurious thing to treat yourself to so what i've decided to do is actually release it as a free espace trico pattern um i have it in translation at the moment and as soon as it comes back we'll be releasing it and doing up kits of course and this one you knit for your granny is that right i did i did so i will have to send her the youtube link to this podcast after i presented the gift and what there's only one thing they're saying well of steam castles so i made a couple i made a little video of how we make tassels so i'll put that up on instagram as soon as we've decided our strategy for instagram videos which we would like to do more of um but it's just gonna have one tassel at either point and i think that'll just be super fun yeah i'ma maybe can tell i'm a big fan of these like long not too deep shawls because they go fast yeah it's true this was a really this was a really quick it's for force gains i believe yes yes four skeins and i had plenty to do the tassels i knitted exactly as written with the number of repeats i don't know if i would have squeezed out another repeat with what i had left i remember i was pretty yeah uh maybe i could have but i wouldn't have had enough left for tassels yeah oh by the way which is it's in um wool folk luft yes you mentioned the yarn um but we were thinking of another store sample in one of our other beautiful blowy hands right yeah we were looking at snap now okay glorions or something blue yarn sounds really silly um it's actually what they're called uh for those yarns that are a tube or a net of usually cotton or nylon and the fibers are blown into that net which holds them so they have this beautiful loftiness they're super easy to knit with and they like like for how bulky they are right like knits at a bulky gauge but it's not a heavy feeling when you're knitting it's not like weighing down your needles and when you wear it it feels light and um i think that'll be perfect for my granny living in the northeast of england by the sea um i like the idea of of your granny wearing a shawl that i designed and that you knit that makes me very happy she's the one who taught me to knit as is a familiar story among many people and that's just the greatest gift she could have given me literally i'm not gonna wear products exactly you know my whole thing with this when i was designing it was the idea of taking like the best parts of an errand sweater and putting them on a shawl and you did an iron sweater kind of like this yeah it almost looks like a raglan sweater the nice thing about coming to this role with a back catalog is like i have so many things that i'm excited to look at again do in different yarns and refine the pattern a little bit maybe out of size when there's the opportunity and and put them back out in the world as a spastical pattern completely um one final word on this i realized i should emphasize what a perfect gift knit it is i definitely can imagine knitting a couple of these in um sniff nug or air for so well we'll we'll put some suggestions in the in the show notes of which which other yarns would be great for it yeah for sure and you can kind of get creative with this say you've got this number of stitches in the repeat for the cable you can find some other cables that uh totally that fit that stitch camera like a part of it too was that because i was pitching it to um like i designed it to go in this book of 52 weeks of shawls i know from being sort of in publishing years ago that what they would want would be something that could be written in a short amount of space right right so i just wanted to choose something where like the cable was a short repeat that wasn't going to take a ton of uh chart space to describe um i like i like designing under those kinds of constraints i get the more little things i can add to it to be like hmm how do i solve this problem and that's what they say they always say that you design better when you have constraints based upon you yeah if if you can do anything you can get totally paralyzed what should i do are you getting hot i'm getting hot i'm so cozy so it's hard to take it off at least today was is cool right now it's good it's like finally the sweater weather is here so what else one last finish top yes this is my last finished object i've just been very productive well this i knit a while ago oh yeah that's true that's true this i knit over the summer um it's actually maybe one of the only things i've knit two of because i knit one in my own hand spun and then um well you know lisa she i said i designed it myself she said you should write it up as a pattern because she's always just like super encouraging to get get our patterns out into the world we all need a push sometimes yeah she was always ready to give that other side yeah so i was going to what was identity no i will flip it around so this is my shawl labies oh it's so light and it's three skeins of the sunday morning fingering four ply three two gosh look how far she goes eh yeah that's great and it's just so light so light and uh yeah we've got to talk about this yarn stuff i know well i mean we do but also everybody is really talking about this about um this sunday morning uh lisa and melissa's crowning achievement i think as one of many but yes like what a way to round off your career at a yarn story like basically creating this amazing yarn line gorgeous yarn line gorgeous base palette that it resonates with everybody and all the colors go together and it's really it's really well designed it's thoughtful and but you know i'm almost like worried that we shouldn't talk about it too much because i'm worried it'll all be gone by the time the podcast goes because it's definitely it's a hot seller yeah yeah uh yeah people people love it and i think the more you look the more you knit with it the more you like to i just pull out four random colors as suggestions for this beautiful one color simple slightly asymmetrical shawl broken rib border and they just you know now i want color work in that yeah any random colors you pull out it will fit together yeah it's really good and i think that that's not an accident you know that of course it's good a lot of hard work and so these beautiful labels with a cozy inviting bed for lying in and they're sweet names well yeah and all the the colorway names are sort of inspired by that idea of sunday morning like they're all about lazy weekend sleeping in yeah eating brunch this is uh five o'clock somewhere very much how i treat the weekend um better together um ritual which really kind of just resonates yeah with me and simple pleasure simple pleasures yeah so this is the fingering weight this is the fingering weight we have more of this left yes okay you're right because the dk really saw off the shelf lisa melissa both designed some really great patterns for it well this is 21 stitches i knit the wool and honey i'll wear that in a future podcast maybe yeah definitely the wool and honey sweater by andrea maui i knit with it in the four ply and that was a denser gauge like 26 or something in garter so it's really just so versatile across a range of gauges and the gentle knitter podcast knit melissa's dk weight shawl in three skeins of the fingering and it's beautiful total light and so versatile oh and um four ply is fingering we should say not always but in this case the fourth fly refers to a fingering weight yarn this comes from the lakstands the base as it spun and died at laxton's in yorkshire in the uk and you're gonna go visit them i hope we're setting it up it's looking like it'll work but with everything with travel like i don't believe it until it happens i'm going to england on wednesday quite stressed about all the travelers i'm sure many of you who have traveled over the last little while can attest to i'm just so grateful that my family has been here in canada though like i can't imagine what it's like to be separated from your people for so long and yeah and i've i really have had the privilege of my family being able to come over and it's made me like so much more recognizant of how it is to how difficult it often is to move around the world i always took it for granted that i could jump on a plane and basically go anywhere in the world yeah it's been so but i'm glad you're going i'm really excited for you i'm obviously going to be missing you here i'm going to send you lots of work to do and when it's nighttime here and i'm sleeping you'll be working and you'll wake up and get to your desk and i'll have like a full day's work right but i think part of what we've learned over the process of deciding making this huge decision of are we going to actually go for it are we going to buy the store are we going to become business partners is that you know we can count on each other and i would never want to be the reason you didn't see your mom and your sister and your family when you've been waiting so long to see them like i can hold it down and we have the best staff ever yes it's true so we're gonna make it through 10 days while you're waiting consider it if it weren't for everyone hauling holding everything down here and now we have our beautiful new website yes so when we were talking about uh wrinkles even more everything's running even more smoothly yeah we were a champion getting that up this quick yeah so if you're um a regular shopper on our website and you've visited lately you may have noticed that it's changed i actually tried very much to choose a design that wouldn't be too different from what we had before so that it wouldn't you know trip people up too much if they're regular visitors so that's what i've been doing pretty much since even before we took over i was working with melissa honored a lot because melissa was sort of in the web role um and we've been working together and also like francoise was doing translation so it's just been like all hands on that big day we just came in with a lot of fresh energy yeah and a lot of like okay like let's just nose to the grindstone i mean i all of us did work an enormous amount of naomi and also our colleague amanda did an amazing amount of work on our images and anyway it's done and it's up because there's still little bits of translation that need to happen and there's still a few of our uh products that haven't gotten back online yet so if you're if there's something you wish that you're you're sure that we probably still have but you're just not seeing it online like just reach out to us um we're still working on it yeah so well we just took a little second a little break there because i had to double check the phone was still recording because i haven't done such a long recording before and we were just talking about being worried about files getting deleted so yeah i've had that happen yeah um it stinks well you know sometimes it's great because you get to resay something maybe you take a little more time with it and maybe you you find the rhythm of it but other times too it's like you can you feel weird because you know you're saying something for the second time and it feels rehearsed not that i wouldn't do this like over a million times just spend time with you we've got many more podcasts to come um should we use every time shall we move on whips yes okay i have a couple of works in progress um okay um this one is a long term whip like i don't know how long are we talking like at least 365 days um so this is actually this is also a design of mine i swear i do knit things i didn't design you do i do sometimes you do um so this is called the la peregrina which is an older design of mine from a while ago um but it's got a little really sweet like a sort of heart shape and lace in the uh in the really sweet and i love that in anything just like stockinette on reverse stockinette it just gives texture and it gives and it gives a really strong question to myself well gives a strong vertical that's the way you see it well it's got some cool little tricks in it because you know who wants to knit all or work all these pearls it's worked in there but in this case what i ended up doing is i figured out how to reverse direction in the round it's really easy you just make a german short row right but i made a little video of it it's actually probably my most popular youtube video it's like two minutes long and it's me just showing how i did that so yeah after i after i knit the yoke i reverse direction and so that i'm actually knitting you know on this side right so i can love the texture i mean this could almost be reversible yeah so this is la bien may sports we don't have right now but we are getting back yes so by the time another 365 days goes by and i finish this look at the sleeves you can do that no no yes i just after you when you take a year to knit the body you're like you run out of confidence this sleeve island is going to be the size of antarctica um what are those sleeves on what is going on uh okay so um probably a lot of you have already seen these uh tkb the knitting barber is what that's short for cords so they're little silicon cords and i gotta tell you i was a major skeptic when i saw these come came in um i was like i don't you know what's wrong with waste yarn right um and then i tried them and they're amazing can me tell you yeah let me tell you all about it so they have this little like they're just little uh they're hollow tubes yeah but you can sort of join a needle yeah yeah hang on wait let me find you a needle how many of you have it there 60. we'll come back later yes we'll come back to that um see a little one yeah okay so basically i don't i don't know how well maybe here you hold that up and i'll okay so basically you can just insert the tip of your needle and it sticks and so if you were working on this you could just slide it through let's do it they are a little sticky that's kind of good yeah they don't fall out that's kind of good i was just going to be like whoop no they definitely that's good they grip so still everything has some grip okay so we don't have to do that but basically that's what you do it's like you put this slide right on the needle and then you put your stitches and then to take them off you just kind of have to use your nail a little bit but it doesn't damage them okay i was worried about that i thought oh for sure going to split it when i try and take it off right right no so it seems really sturdy and then all the way along it grips it's not going to fall off your needle while you're in the middle of transferring no and i was nervous about it but i tried it a bunch of times didn't have any problems so now i'm a total convert and um what i really like about this is that i often would just buy extra cords for my interchangeable kits and i'd leave my sleeves on the cords and then one day i'd open up my kit and go like where are my cords so i went looking for them and that's when i used my tkbs so i i repopulated my cords into my kit and now these are now it's on here and they come in a sweet little tin do you have one put one in your basket um with a super long one for a body and then two shorter ones for sleeves two lovely short ones for sleeves and a bunch of different colors yeah i chose white because i don't knit with white very often so i knew that that would be easy to see i've noticed we have quite a few left in black and i think people might want to avoid that because oh i think people think they want to avoid that because of it being a dark color but actually if you're knitting with a lighter yarn it's totally providing that that contrast yeah so don't be put off by the black i might even pick some up because i'm always knitting pale colors yeah i just thought i know i mean occasionally i'll knit with white but you know i'll just get myself another set yeah so that's i that's why i want to show this i will i'll keep working away on this and then did you alternate schemes no and you can't even really tell well i think that's the beauty of la bien emme really she her stuff is so good so this is the color madeleine beautiful and it's maybe a little lighter here but only because i'm trying to see under these like podcast spotlights yes yeah it doesn't have a lot of ease my original design had more ease i was like well i'm going to go down a little bit and try to make this yarn go i think that's a a nice design for less ease though because yeah can you see this you see the design yeah nicely so yeah i'm hoping that i'll have this all done and you know when we get the merino sport back this can be a store sample a design yeah so that's one of my whips and then my other one is in my beautiful transparent loki bag which i'll mention afterwards um but so i got inspired to make a pull the wool over hat which is a classic espastrico design from way back when i think my first year that i was working here maybe it goes way back um but you know it's still popular it was just we just got a bunch of emails that it was featured in an email newsletter from um from a french club to cc yeah yeah yeah so you know so it's still out there the classics in gear so i'm almost done such a good color well this is my color i love this color it's everybody's color really you think well i mean i don't know if everybody likes it but i think it's a color that looks good honestly and join me in the mustard yellow purple combination welcome been having a moment for a couple years now so i'm going to do it with this pinky magenta that's a fun combination i'm just already thinking of that with like navy blue black dog winter coats like i know one i feel like i want some color and then i'm gonna do a second one in um this sort of purpley blue dark purpley blue with a red pom pom for sort of a little bit more of a gender neutral maybe i mean not that this isn't but yeah a little bit maybe conservative for me uh so that's and i'm going to do them up as kits new polo wool over kits this is in the uh gilead by uh dorarem natura which again is one of those untreated merinos that's just and beautiful it's just one boy and you have that much less uh-huh you could get two hats out of it for sure or at least like two kits you'd have enough for like a third color blocked yeah but maybe you need to have enough of two yeah or maybe you can do or i don't know i'll see how much i have left at the end maybe i can add something to it yeah i don't know what a hanky add it what like to the pattern idea like oh you buy that and you get the hat and then maybe you can knit a hat i have to see how much i'm gonna have left i don't know baby mittens see baby mittens is like maybe a little bit more it's kind of a weird combo a nice woman's adult hat and some baby mittens i think it would make more sense earrings i'll make tassel here yes anyways so this is this is my work in progress right now i mean this i was thinking i might even have this done in time for the podcast but you could probably have it done by the end of this pocket if i knit through the podcast if we've been knitting this whole time so that's what i'm working on and yes this is like my favorite new thing that we've gotten in i love yes i love a transparent bag uh because i love the idea of rocking up to midnight with like oh my yeah on my staff we're gonna see it taking that to the festivals yes the shopping bag for rhinebeck if we'd gone this would have been a while i would have definitely yeah so let's see i wonder if that's going haywire under the reflection right now it's sparkly um and so this is the transparent one but there's a couple others i'll show you so there's like a milky one i like that one i know it's kind of it's fun with really bright colors inside yeah yeah yeah we put a bunch of the quarry worsted in it to take a photo of it and it looked great and the um la vie enemy you had me at trico we were piling it in yeah yeah we did a big thing of it and then there's also a like a hot pink version of it as well so you know if you're knitting your with your like a nice all-natural undyed aaron sort of yarn then you could turn it pink by putting it in here make it pink yeah so i think these are really cool and you know they're for reusing they're not this is not a one-time use bag it's something you're gonna have for a long time it's a sturdy plastic yeah um and we're looking into it because i know some people want to do want to avoid plastic i understand that but um it's recyclable yeah it's it feels super sturdy this is not a grocery one used carrier bag right like this is a project bag um you can clean them with a damp cloth or with windex even yeah i've used windex on them um you know they're designed to last and you know then if they don't work anymore you could even sew these back like they are sewn you could amend them if they have a tear and then you recycle it again it's totally personal choice but people want to purchase and put in their homes and into their wardrobes and stuff uh i totally understand that that's uh yeah that's deep and personal but i know how much i'm gonna use mine and how long i'm gonna have it and i feel comfortable with it yeah so yeah i love them and they're huge yes they do hold a lot oh i have one more whippy sort of thing just that i have a shawl that i finished in um retrosaria rosa palmar's mungo which is the cotton wool blend and it's all in the natural color like it's white and i'm going to use these new mini skein kits that we just got in to create sort of um what a tassel fringe french like a gradient rainbow fringe so this is del uruguay fino um which is fingering weight single ply superwash merino gorgeous they have these i love the way they put colors together right yeah do you have the boxes do i have i do i have some boxes so these actually come in a cute little gift box uh but i want to take them out so that you could see and also since i'm going to use this one i said we'll save the box no i don't need the box for this yeah oh there's such a sweet little box i'll bring it a little bit closer um i guess this would be the advantage of filming with the camera facing us say that we could see so that we can see but i think the front-facing camera isn't as good quality um anyway yes they're all named after they have women's names and i wonder if there's any rationale for it oh yeah this one is called uh civil this is augusta and the illustrations these are just works of art i would never be able to get rid of this box i don't know no deal with it i know well so yeah we have we have a pretty good array of of color selection uh on the website with yes so it's 490 yards yeah it's good for the five of them together they're each 25 20 rounds 20 grams 490 yards per hundred gram scheme but this is effectively yeah 100 100 yeah so i mean it can go a fair distance but also i love this for combining with a solid color to do a shawl to add stripes to something to add fringe yeah it's really fun yeah and then that way you're not committing to buying the whole skin five 100 you know 100 gram skeins and colors that you only want a little bit of yeah so i'm really happy we got these i love those formats yeah yeah so that's them those are my whips i mean i have other whips do you want to show amanda's whip yes you can better talk about this for me okay so amanda is one of our awesome staff members and just like um you know we're continuing the tradition at espastrico of having lots and lots and lots of store samples so everybody knits um and so because i knit this already a number of times i asked amanda if she'd be willing to knit my design called the raya shawl which was part of a collection i did for manos um in the fall so this is she's just starting and this is going to be a long shawl i'll show you a picture of it but this is our black and white we call it the graphic colorway so black backdrop with this little white detail it's actually knit in you don't have to embroider it on or anything you it's a dip stitch style thing exactly you're knitting it as you go you don't have to apply it later it's it's happening while you knit um and you like you do this thing where you put your needle through and pull out a bunch of loops to create this sort of flower and then you decrease them back down it's so pretty so i know that amanda mentioned for her and i think she's english style knitter which is me i'm continental she used to crochet hook to make that easier okay but i found i was able to do it just with my knitting needles yeah um we love this yarn oh i know single player he's already the episode of winter shoals eh i know he's like well i love winter shots yeah yeah so that as i say is what we're calling the graphic colorway and then this was my original colorway uh you may recognize this colorway from the hat i was just wearing because i love this combination of colors um i don't know how well you can see the picture we can also just link to this but this is what the finished shawl looks like the only reason i'm not showing mine is i sent it back to manos because they have all the samples and yeah i'm hoping to visit them in new york at um vogue knitting live in 2020 two maybe uh in january yeah yeah you want to go great anyway so yeah i hope i get to see them again there and pet them and say hi so that's the original colorway called bright mona helped me pick this colorway and it's sort of a a warm gray with this kind of poppy orange red it feels kind of a bit merry mecco like there's something very very fresh very modest we call this mod that's the name of this colorway so we have a bunch of kits um completely and this is a beautiful beyond 100 extra fine merino it's like a wasted heavy wasted single ply so it's like my go-to yarn from manos it's called maxima and uh right yeah i can just tell you the name it's so great to work with sweaters shawls anything i love it well amanda's doing a beautiful job so i'm sure we'll have the finished object maybe for our next one that would be cool um so what's what's on your needles what's on my needles um i bought two things because this just came off my needles that's the problem it's like i was working so hard to finish that hat and then i was like but if i finish the hat i have no i have no whip um this i guess i'll start with this one um this is my beautiful autumnal lolu piece bag um lolibiz is a locally made here in in montreal um and she just picks the most beautiful fabrics like this forest mushroom and like this and this is like a velour suede so beautiful the contrast inside i love it because she picks like bright colors for the inside so you can actually see what's going on and you can find all your bits and bobs and it has little pockets too of course just a little bit extra so we still have quite a few of these left in some really beautiful fabrics so i'll link to them below um but i'm fitting i've got five balls of loft in here right now and um i could still set it like a little bucket open so they really do hold like the majority of the sweater quantity certainly you could fit any shoals in here and this is a test net um i haven't done one in a while and this is for sofia oshira and it's just so much fun this color work um it's got this i it's bottom up but i'm actually really enjoying that for this color for a change yeah i don't have to swatch in the round my sleeve is my swatch so i started right away with my cuff which has this fantastic uh bold structure with twisted rib and increases it's got this really beautiful balloon thing going on i'm reminded of like anne of green gables when she can't get through the door [Laughter] and this is a little bit emphasized i guess because i'm going to get into technicalities here but i used the needle she recommended in the test pattern for the rib because i was i never go up a needle size so i thought okay well i'll use the one she recommends for the rib and then she used a three millimeter i think for the color work and that seemed a little small to me to get 22 stitches in color work and sure enough i went up to a 3.75 oh so the difference between the difference between the two is bigger than what's intended by the designer um i made an executive decision to stick it out what are the other colors the other colors are i remember that we had fun picking these okay hayloft old world old world and iceberg iceberg this is all in loft and um i've been remiss i have not found a photo of it but maybe with my fancy video editing skills i will put a photo in here let's see i hope i did that i hope i managed to do that for well no the thing will be can i succeed in putting anything back it would just be us fair enough you're right if you could put a giant question mark you could probably put the exactly if i don't manage to cut a jpeg into the video stream i will put a link to her instagram post in our um comments below uh she did it with nine colors which is so beautiful her version and it would be a fantastic stash buster because i don't think it's going to take much for each color but um she was really receptive to the idea when i said oh i might trim down the number of colors just you know to make it effective use of the yarn when we're starting from scratch with new skeins um so i've whittled it down to three contrast colors and then the two colors of the body so this is the sleeve the whole body will be in this houndstooth it's so cool and it's gonna be fantastic so i'm excited about that i need to get a wriggle on though because it's due in november oh yeah point well you've got a big flight coming i do i really love this designer and i'm excited that you're doing this and then but i'm also a little bit jealous and well do you want to knit the other sleeve no that's not what i was going to suggest but i did pick a bunch of uh bishop uh the petty lambswool and set it aside for another one of her designs that i really love so we will definitely post a link to her stuff i just think she's a really interesting exciting color work designer doing fresh things that i haven't seen before people aren't really designing bottom up sweaters these days as much as they used to and and i'm knitting it and i'm i'm kind of refreshed by it because by the time i joined the sleeves and body you know it all gets smaller from there and it'll go by like that yeah like once i joined for the best the exciting color work part like the yolk on this is amazing so it's like that's where things go yeah it's kind of like the reversive top down they're so simple to start they they go quickly and then you get past here and you've got a sleeve to finish and you've got another sleeve and you've got the whole body and there's all stock in it and i'm not gonna lie i kind of enjoy that part too because it all depends what you want out of that out of your project right like for sure it's more about and and what do you feel like knitting in the in that moment which is why i have like 12 whips well that's cool i i can't wait to see how it comes together yeah and then i'm doing i guess it'll be kind of my second design well third design for us boston because there's a sweater please there's lovelies and then this is a cardigan have we ever done a cardigan i don't think we've um don't think so i don't think so either melissa's knit caught against there's not that i don't think that has been in this bastard there's still time for firsts exactly so this is very simple structure crew neck quite a high crew neck super cute with a little shirt collar poking out or a little turtleneck i'm all about that like layered collars i almost wore a little dickie today but then i just you're like the only person i know you could wear a dickie i have like four um but this this yarn this la bieneme cory worsted hundred percent corydale this beautiful um heathered gray base and this is the color avon with the shire and dawn and rust and i just think they're gorgeous together it's beautiful i haven't knit with this yet but i've heard you guys talking on the on the sales floor too that it's not a worsted weight it's a worsted support really it's definitely a worsted spun it could be knit at some worsted gauges this is 22. um and that's sort of just what it was when i swatched it because i just chose a needle this is a 3.5 for me um and i just like the fabric so i went from there i think it could be beautiful a bit looser certainly as low as i think 18 depending on the structure and the garment um and that's like a lightweight light wasted heavy decay i would say if i wanted a hat in it i would definitely knit at least 22 maybe 23 and another pattern that i really love for it the pillow is um 23. yeah and i understand why like it it works yeah it's lovely so that's uh that's really what i have to say i can't wait to see your sweater and and i guess we have one more whip which is true yeah yeah so [Music] she has been knitting the bay sweater from jacqueline seasac uh which we fell in love with as soon as it came out what a the beautiful pattern just dome dolmen sleeve right is it i mean it's um it's quite interesting the way that the sleeve is created yeah um i'll figure out how to put a picture put a picture so this is the the front and back the top fronts and backs are the same mona says i'll hold it around stockinette size open um neckline and then you start with a crochet provisional cast on um and then the front and back are worked and then you knit the body down so this is from sleeve to speed to sleeve oh that's cool i love an unusual construction yeah and maybe i should have even mentioned the yarn first this is alpaca lin oh lovely so it's got that beautiful brown rama beautiful fuzz halo of alpaca the lightness of linen this is going to have beautiful drape the gauge is 16 stitches you know i feel like mona is the right person to knit this too because it's gonna have warmth but with the ability for air to move through it um mona is the person in our office who's always trying to open a window or get us to turn down the heat so this is good she will enjoy having this on her lap because it won't make her too hot so she's got through a lot but i think that this is also like a good engaging the kind of like engaging knit of the lucid gauge that you can get through because it's really interesting construction good pace yeah cool definitely making me want one and i really like this this is showcasing this yarn in a way that's really making me want to start knitting with it right now basically i always thought of rama as like you know they do the workhorse norwegian phenol um striker gun like which is right away yes but you can see a little bit behind us um but this is just airy and luxurious and like a bit of a different vibe from them so so really interesting when we have beautiful colors um we chose the beige for that sample but i think i picked out this okay it's like a very very dark forest green forest green that's gorgeous um but it still isn't too blue like it's got a bit leaning more towards camo so i think that would be a gorgeous option and then i also think it would be fantastic in drops i feel like air is so good for so many things yeah um and this is always really popular yarn around this time of year and it's fast uh it's kind of a worsted gauge but it's lightweight it's a great price it's a good palette we did the um turtledove two two yeah uh anyone who's tried this just loves sitting back to it again and again uh but meanwhile should we talk about uh like things that are coming up and yeah the things that are new do you have anything you're excited about well my my sophie o'shara thing that i'm going to cast on in my vision boosh for sure i'm also really looking forward to seeing the next issue of pom pom pom pom 39 which is due here any day now yes and i forget the actual release date but there have been some beautiful teasers yeah we use instagram we'll put the release date in the show notes so that people can see but i i just feel like pom pom is the magazine where i that i get excited about every time there's always something really interesting usually something i actually really really want to knit i don't always get to it but i was a subscriber for years and i'm definitely devoted to them but then we also have a new issue of making that's going to be coming out soon uh dusk issue is coming out on the i believe 29th of october and then we have we have some new books we've got amiriso on order we've got stripes by viola valamaki with leina coming we've got corey worsted that we're waiting for i think that's november november 14th or 19th beautiful book beautiful teasers on amy's feed um so yeah that's where you're at um and this upcoming issue i think is inspired by movies and films so i think cool i figure for sure with all that coming in something is going to catch my eye i'm going to end up with a new whip uh before you know it excellent i'm really excited about i'm really excited um well i first got excited when clever stitch on instagram time swedish um who i've been going back to again and again for book recommendations honestly everything she puts up in her instagram for book recommendations stone cold classic i've read several of them it's audiobooks or ebooks because a lot of them are in my library app and i've just thoroughly enjoyed all of them like great companion reads for knitting so when she posted that she wanted to do a read along for the secret history by donna tartt i was just like yes there this is the spirit i need to read this book because i've been meaning to you for so long it definitely feels like it's everything i could want in a book from the little teasers i've been hearing and you are a huge fan i have probably read that book once a year since i was 19. wow so i read it at a very impressionable point in my life probably took it a little bit too seriously i ended up actually studying greek and the classics a little bit because of this book which i don't think is a bad thing like i i know i'm really loving it three guys yeah oh well we can talk about fairing or i wrote runs or something i don't know i could i i could uh probably quote some bits of the bible oh okay i can i can definitely show you around mykonos i did biblical greek koine uh okay i did fifth century athenian that's really cool anyways so this book i know almost by heart i would say i know it's super well and i'm so excited that naomi's gonna be reading it and then i get to talk to her about it of course no spoilers uh i'll have to keep it in but so you're going to knit along with it too is that correct dark rhythms of campus sorry distracted reading this the blurb on the back um i just think it's really it really inspired me to think up it to dream up a new project uh tyne also designs beautiful shawl patterns and the whole like dark academia vibe of it really resonated with um the last little bit i have left of my own dyeing because before i took over the store i dyed yarn as humblenet this is an organic wool and then linen base that i bought in for the first time this summer and i sold it a little backyard market but at that time although i couldn't say anything i already knew we were selling this we were buying the store i'm taking this on so i never put it up on etsy and i never reordered it but it is just beautiful i've knit a sweater for my mom in it um in in these two colors actually um and it has even it's a single ply but it has gorgeous structure with the linen in it for a sweater and it's not twisting or anything when i blocked it but i think a shawl is really what i want to be to myself um and all of my colors as a diet inspired by nostalgia and this is really inspired by somewhere that i'm very much longing for my hometown of oxford i grew up in oxford my parents both worked for the university my dad still does um and so these colors come from that and that really paired very well with the story about the damage of academia in a small town liberal arts college so these colors that i think i might put together are called the kilns which is named after this beautiful garden and house of c.s lewis cotswolds which is where the oxford is and terrace is in the terrace houses that i grew up in little victorian red brick terraces um and then we're looking at other combinations i love these fries wide who was so cool she was a princess and she refused to marry the local king um he chased after her got blinded she took pity on him washed his eyes in the well and he could see again there's a lot more to it than that but that's legend that's passed down right side and this is gaudy night which is the name of um these big alumna dinners at um oxford uh also the name of an incredible dorothy althea's book if you're a fan of crime writing it's one of her best um and this is even song which is always the we would go sometimes to the church services at the cathedral and it was just beautiful they have excellent choirs in oxford and then this is freud's which is a fabulous cocktail bar oh it fries right again because it's pale blue it goes with everything and illuminati mayo which is part of the um the motto of the university and so i know that i gave you i was giving you name ideas yeah these as like colorways for the shaw based on secret history do we remember what i said um you called this one southern childhood yes one was violin factory but i forget which i think that's this okay and then i forget what i'll think about it yeah so i don't know what i don't know what those mean but i started reading the book last night oh yes um i haven't even said what shawl i'm knitting oh yeah yeah i i took a screenshot of the first page so that i can show you all but again i could probably just try to put in a picture for you here it is this is the autumn skies pattern it's a beautiful crescent shawl i think it's gonna use the colors in a really lovely way um i think i haven't read through the pattern but i think it uses short crochet thing to get um the goal um it's at least what it looks like and it's got a lovely little picot edge so i'm really excited about that time starts reading the book on the 1st of november we will tag all the relevant accounts down in the notes i'm having a moment where i think it's actually guitar factory isn't that terrible every once a year for 20 years and i think it's a good kind of factory today but i don't think i'll do kits i think i want you to be able to uh if you're interested in that yarn i'd love for you to be able to make your own combinations and look at the quantities you might need for different projects and just start because there's so little of it it's really the very end of the line for that not that there won't ever be any humble made in the future who knows you'll be determined who knows but um rather than locking it all up in kits i would love for you to just be able to browse it and uh at your leisure but so you have for some of you going home soon i'm going to get it drilled back into me when you come back are you going to have a stronger accent i don't know i kind of absorb the accent time around when i'm with my friends like they think it sounds super canadian but i probably end up sounding a bit more british um so but uh what was i gonna say you do have some of your yarns and kids i do have some of my yarns and kits yes i will wrap up that thought i want you to browse those colors of the wool in and blend at your leisure and i do have some yarns and kits because of course we were all wrapped up in sherlock with mania and we put together a few kits for the show logo because this is my sock base um which is british wool and nylon um some of the colors are the same and there are some fresh ones too these are the two colors we have left the shire and afternoon tea um because these are really just i admit i've looked at the spoilers and it's really making me want to knit it and i'm listening knit it it should i should just it's fine we talked about it so much and then you know i was oscillating back and forth i have a lot of other things to be knitting one there's this feeling too because we're taking the store on if like we really want to get some stuff out and show you guys what we're all about yeah and let me see what we do and then it's like well if i'm my mom i should be knitting designs i should be knitting the you know store samples and then you know for just for pleasure to knit something that's going to be super fun but you should i should and i've had a little bit of a little bit of a key breaky heart with letting go of these you know and it's just been such an honor to see people enjoying the yarns that i've died in as fast rico um i never put my yarns in stores really before aside from some one-off projects and part of me is like i guess i should keep them from my archives and i shouldn't sell them all but it's just i want the my yarns to be used and enjoyed and worn and i don't want them sitting in a bucket in my studio storage space so um so what you're saying is one of these might not be in inventory by the time this podcast goes because you might getting it i might be saying that that might be what i'm saying um speaking of archives can you get your knitting case out again oh yeah this is the knitter's needle case what do you mean so my little side business or my business before we decided to do this was i made cases for uh for knitters along with my design work and so this is my original case which holds it's designed to hold 24 interchangeable needle tips and um and cables but naomi goes one further and has her shorty's kits in here as well yes my two chiagu shorty's kits the little black pouches they fit in the pockets so she's taking this from being 24 needles to well i also cheated and one of these other side pockets holds all of my liquor 3.5 tips oh my gosh but they're kind of just like they're just kind of there okay they're not in like a little pouch no they should be i don't think i've lost i fit in there because these are different sizes they hold small tips really well and then there are wider ones for larger tips and the leather has molded beautifully to accommodate them all so there are even some eight millimeter or ten millimeter tips in there here's the key because it's magnetic yeah this is great so that's really cute i'm like these are great i'm amazing great uh but so this is basically what i have left is in the store now yeah um i definitely will get back to getting them made again and i'll probably rebrand them as espastrico rather than you know having a whole other company that i keep going with um kind of once we get our feet under ourselves and we know what you know how to do this part and i think it's a tough thing you have to find the right artisan like they're always made locally here in montreal and that's that's super important and you visited them and saw everything yeah and it worked really closely unfortunately with the pandemic the studio did not make it through i don't think that was the only reason i just love how this is wearing but yeah so i have some work to do to find another artisan yeah that can take it on oh and i don't know if you can see this stamp here they don't all have that stamp um stephanie gave me a good deal on the other yeah that was a um a second yeah yeah so yeah those that we still have some of those in stock in black um they'll probably be the last ones for a little while yeah so if you're a devoted knitter with more than one interchangeable kit or an interchangeable kit that you you filled out that's kind of what they were designed to be and um yeah i also don't have any i mean i have mine that i use all the time um but i don't have any in my archive i had somebody who was sort of desperately looking for one a little while ago and i was like well i have this prototype that i could give you and that's the last one what i really miss is the flip case add-on we've got one left should i go get it i think sure okay um it's such a great little expansion pack vibe um and i really hope you'll be able to get those made again i think so so this is the little the little flip case it's like it has another eight needle slots in it and room for there's two more cable things and the idea is oh shorty's badges yeah or shorty so maybe i haven't tried you might keep it closed like this and even if you have um you know if you use longer needles it'll just adjust but the whole idea is that laying flat it can go in the middle of your original case and actually fold into the center of it right which is what i do and then you're adding like another eight if you oh if you're into traveling and then you can just pick it up and go yeah right so yeah it could get quite you could have quite long uh you can go up to [Music] five okay well that makes sense yeah i don't think there's really many tips for longer than i did all kinds of research on different um interchangeables and found that the variety out there is incredible yes five is the longest most people find in a regular store so yeah i definitely will get back to these um but in the meantime yeah we have what the stock we have is the stock we have that exists in the world that's my archive wow so what do you think have we we really uh we did a podcast we did a podcast uh hope you enjoyed it i don't really know what to think i don't have to go back and watch it let's see how we did um i think there's some good material here that we can put out into the world i hope i hope you agree again i i i think so yeah i mean i know i think we we both know that a huge part of why you all have enjoyed the podcast over the previous 37 episodes so much is obviously um it's lisa melissa's friendship and and and their partnership and obviously it's a little intimidating to come and step into those shoes but then i really think in the end our story is some in some ways very similar to theirs yeah and metro knitting yeah uh we're both really we knew we were hustlers like we both loved our businesses yeah we we loved being out there trying to make things happen and we knew we wanted to work together and really yeah we knew we wanted to see something we were already talking about doing scene together before this opportunity came up yeah and then when it came up it was like well that's the right one because we never wanted to do enough the same thing for it to be an obvious match yeah and then this happened and it was like so yeah it's just a fabulous opportunity that i couldn't do with anybody without anybody else yeah there's nobody else i could do this no if the opportunity to come to me alone i would have said no it's it's a big job job yeah and it's just so wonderful to know that someone else has your back while while you're doing it yeah you know totally not just one person you know our whole team but uh yeah i i don't honestly hey there's too much yes but also like i rely on you so much to like am i right about this is this good is this bad is this the thing um yeah so i you know i hope i hope you'll enjoy watching us do our thing too um we'd love to hear what you think uh we'd love to hear your feedback and just thanks for letting us absolutely be on your screens this has really been as jeff said at the beginning we didn't really script this we had a plan and then we have a bunch of yarn on the floor and bins at our feet that was our plan um but it's been more comfortable and natural and fun and it'll just get easier and we hope that you all come along with us for the ride as you get to know us this i'm sure we'll be talking so much about ourselves over the coming episodes that was really like a whirlwind introduction to who we even are and how we got started at the store um i i think we've got a lot of fun things we can talk about we've shown you a lot of stuff from the store but i think there's a lot of lovely things i'd like to talk about in the world of knitting and techniques and tutorial stuff too i'm really interested in and yeah there's tons but so yeah good that's us good okay i think so okay well thank you guys and we'll see you next time not guys thank you folks thank you gotta stop doing that i know we gotta join ourselves thanks folks and um we'll see you again next time bye

Channel: Espace Tricot

Views: 30,420

Keywords: knitting podcast, canadian knitting podcast, knitting, yarn store, yarn store podcast

Id: HQTybsOXNUA

Length: 72min 2sec (4322 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 22 2021