Espace Tricot Podcast - Episode 25

[Music] okay hi there welcome to podcast number 25 I'm Lisa and I'm Melissa and we're from St Austell ago a knit shop in Montreal Canada where it's winter and Christmas we are ready we are ready with the Espace Rico Shelly collection this has got slippers on your hands for me nice and giddy and excited and I were really happy to launch our new collection yay so then we're gonna be talking a lot about this in this episode yes this is a we've obviously talked about it alluded to it before this is a collection we've designed in collaboration so how did you go back that's a good question I think you're just like I guess because Diana was working for us and so we were inspired by her as a designer and she's like a well-known designer with great patterns and she's working for us and I'm like oh maybe she could do something right we were feeling very lucky and then also it coincided with our decision for this year to bring in a lot of the Norwegian yarns the more bullier yarns from Caliburn and from Rama Rama well yeah to Google and so our thought and garthen or exactly and so we just thought wouldn't it be great if we could marry our sort of new interest in these yarns and our new interest in color work with a design collection that was sort of specifically yes right because you know we were very specific to in our aesthetic and even when we choose covert projects or really specific in terms of what we like so working with Diana we thought it'd be a great opportunity and she was so amazing like she we kind of brainstormed some ideas she did some sketching came back to us we went back and forth yeah and she's so easy to work with and I had to remit the Hat three times it wasn't quite working out oh yeah I didn't do this a couple of times oh yeah I mean the process of ending this remember I was all finished I was all finished I was down here I was on the straightaway of the of the black and then I realized I'd missed a row up here so I didn't do the whole thing come back up but you know that's and then I had cast off and decided that it needs to be longer yeah but that's the whole design that's a design process you know so it was really nice to be able to have all that you know back and forth and tweaking and our last pattern was the slipper pattern that still needed a little bit more tweaking so we're really grateful that Diana had the patience and yeah and also the foresight to see what was working and what was not working and they were and their mittens - diana knit the mittens and the scarf and the slippers and Lisa and IH knit one of the PS though I knit this hat three times it certainly is and and it's so nice when we can just say oh we like a little bit of this a little bit was able to change it for us and and it's really interesting because when then when Melissa put this sneak peek on Instagram of the patterns I was like oh my god that's always fastly go like it's it's interesting how you can take your professional professional it's amazing how you can capture an aesthetic and energy and I don't really know exactly what it is but just to look at it all we're like oh yeah it really captures the essence and I think and that was what we wanted we wanted something that captured our color sense which leads towards the neutrals with the pop of color and then also because we were fairly new to color work this year we also wanted something that was going to incorporate a more geometric approach to color work and one that was simple so there wasn't going to be you know that experience of having long stitch areas where you're gonna having two large flows and these are really ideally suited to the beginner color worker right in terms of the technique the techniques so I mean you know patterns can be done by advanced standards as well or just the techniques we wanted to really make something that was accessible that people are like oh it's my first time doing color work saw I'll never work more than two colors in a row I won't have long floats things will be accessible and then and then we really wanted to work with with yarns that you know kind of new yarns that we fell in love with so the Brahma yarns were working with the phenyl Garn to any of the three ply mr. Knight yeah so maybe people want to talk about each pad yeah yeah sure yeah why don't we start with the hat yeah so I'll start with the hat so that the Hat is knit in phenyl and it's three colors so I'll put a little close up here and so it's you know basic basic hat with two colors per row and it's fingering weight so the feeling with the fingering leaning towards sport yeah say yeah and it's really it's we didn't want to make it it's there's a couple of different sizes too and we we wanted it to be not like nice and snug and warm without being like and we didn't want a beanie and we didn't want to slouch I know so I'd say it's a beanie with the perfect amount of shake it's just a tiny bit of sludge so it's not coming it's not really actually coming down at all but it's you know there's room in there for like yeah a little bit of height it's like you know writes it to the top and I'd like to cover my ears like yeah really what's the point of a height if you're not covering your ears you know so it's you can cover your ears or if you want to be hipster you know you can so it's just a very versatile hat that's not too small not too large so that's our hat pattern and it's called oh we forgot about the name yes okay we've heard about that so do you want to talk about that yeah well we were Melissa and I were kind of like oh my god Alyssa sends me an email and says I mean we have to name our patterns I'm like oh so then I'm like I have to be something Quebec or mine I was like oh why don't we do like ski resorts you know so I listed all the all kinds of ski resorts in Montreal and Quebec City and and I send it to her list and then Melissa match them all and it was like so it was really a team effort it's like yeah you know I shall achalasia shall we yeah so so that's where that was is what inspired us and the name of the Hat is called the Tremblay Duke so uh and that's perfect because we're gonna be talking about a little event that's happening up in trouble yes so I nathie Stoneham poncho and this one is knit with the Calvin Mullins Scout which is a worsted weight DK DK weight yeah gay but you do 20 inches although this isn't it at a 22 stitch gauge and it is a nice hundred percent woolly wool but it has a very nice soft feel yeah it's a very different very touchable against the skin like you know directly against the skin which is why we would and you know I really like a high collar so my getting warmer cowl was really about having that that that cowl part that stood up and didn't flop forward so really keeps you toasty warm up here and so you can wear this as a poncho and then if you put your coat on you can pull it up and just have it sort of gathered here in front and then pull it back down so it's just you know just keep it on all the time it has a split head split him here so it just helps with mobility our minds anyway so yeah and it's just knit from the top down very very simple you're just doing a few increases as you go and the stitch pattern just grows and it's very fun it's just totally engaging you just want to get and say she did a really beautiful job on the yoke like the beef it's really pretty enough sections where you have more color it's just so I mean the idea was really to have neutrals with a pop of color and I really found it was fun picking that color for each one of these in the way they coordinated feels very very like wintery wintery and I still kind of modern it's very modern modern motifs I find so anyway so that's the Stoneham poncho and then moving on to the we call these the burl mount minimus so Bromwich is so trombe la is a ski resort in North Omaha it's one of the furthest ones out Stoneham is a ski resort in your Quebec City and Broman is in the Eastern Townships so in the eastern part so Quebec the Stoneham is in the East trama northeast and then Broman is south of Montreux that's where actually we go skiing Shaun and John Luke and I so here we are and we played around with this too at first we didn't have the little crosses and then we decided to add more pink in case the cuff got sort of hidden under yes but exactly because we had a little bit of clear so and then you know we picked up on sort of the same motif kind of matching when I have a rule and with my winter knits okay so three things is too much but three different things I can't do either so I matched so so these are I just find they're so well done and so pretty and again lots of color sizes for all these accessories in the patterns so okay okay so then so we wanted we didn't want big garments we just wanted to have seriously you know five sort of cozy accessories that you could wear anytime all winter the last one that was developed were these Sutton slippers and and second I tell you that Sutton is a ski hill that's next to Brahma so it's a bit of a I would think it's a little bit of a smaller hill but it's one of those diehard real skier kind of hails like a skier skier hill you can you can go into the glade you're pushing your feet but these are just great for hanging around the house they have we have included in our kits but also to purchase separately are these little leather suede stoppers I guess or just anti slip PDFs that are easy to blanket stitch on and again it just it's the repetition of that motif that you see all the way through the patterns and I just think they're great I'm looking forward to knitting these ones actually because and they're amazing I love to say knitting the whole family a pair of these but you know they're really fun they're slouchy yeah but they're little but not too slow she's right I know they're not heavy either cuz their will so they're gonna be really warm and this is done with around my three pops okay by strict bar so thicker than the hide in the myths the mitts were also done in phenyl so I love the way this feels and you know it's gonna hold its shape and its structure because of that woolly wool and it's knit and a nice dense a nice dense gauge and I'm gonna breathe well because a hundred percent wool so and yeah these are from these are really fine and we have three this is the medium size and just maybe since we're talking about that I can just show that om in three sizes so they come in small which we consider children size and then the medium is what we have put on ours and then we have the large so we we like and they have so we have the gray and then the gray and then we have the tan so you can purchase them individually and as you can see here they're pre perforated so it's quite easy then it's just I mean it's like a one-stop shop so these are really good and they do also have like full ones but we thought this was cuter a little more modern to have favorite too so we have those and then and our last pattern is called Lim s if because it's a long scarf and Nemus if is a ski hill past Quebec City and it's I think it has like the steepest drop this side of the Rockies and it's a fantastic hill it's one of those hills where you're at the top and you're like you feel you might follow and way back when when Sean and I first went to the mess if there wasn't even a chairlift oh really they had a school bus drive you so you would you would ski down and then you'd hop on this school bus it would bring you to the top so now they have chair lifts and it's much more developed so it's a it's really young I love this scarf it's really beautiful house so that was just a little story about the hill so this scarf I love how how a woolly scarf can look so chic so this is knit in the round so it's a tube scarf and we just we decided that we were gonna go for color work at the end and then just do a simple like stitch color work all around so I mean just this just like the black and white is really a beautiful contrast and that doublet thickness just makes it so toasty and this Scout is so squishy and lovely like it's hard to think it's just like a natural well that hasn't been processed exactly and what's so nice is that you know there's no wrong side you're knitting in the round so I mean first of all of course that makes color work easier but then you know you can you can sort of tie your ends if you want or weave them in but you don't really need to nobody you just want to secure them maybe but you don't need to do a lot of work at the end and this was you know we decided just to do the color work on the end to make it a little more accessible and not so you get a little bit of a break you know we're gonna use your motif around so so this is the new massive scarf Stoneham poncho satin slippers broma mittens and tabla too so these will all be live on Ravelry hopefully the day that this air so we recording this actually on a Monday but it's going to LA it's gonna go up on YouTube on Friday and that is the day that all of these patterns are going to be available for purchase on on Ravelry so this will be the first collection or first set of patterns that we will be putting out that are actually paid patterns and part of that is just you know they are that much more work we've commissioned somebody to do them we've been editing professionally photographed the whole thing so it's like the real deal their real deal so so we have a lot of confidence putting them out and known as individual patterns but also as an e-book and also the other thing I want to mention is we're also getting them translated but I think the translation is will be available just the day after then she'll have them ready around the 10th ok it'll take me a little while to lay out all the translations so maybe a within a week or so after you know after the English ones launch then hopefully we'll have the French translator so for our French customers just to know that you know the French translations will be available probably a week after the did we see what we're making kits I don't know oh no we didn't say ok we're making the kids so what we've decided to do is we've kidded up all of these patterns so the colors that the pattern actually so come this way now that's not to say that we don't stock all the yarns you can create your own color combination or just once you pass purchase pattern you'll see exactly what you need in fact you don't need to purchase matter and all that information will be on Ravelry but you can just build your own kit as well but for the actual colors that they that we've knit them up in and design them in those are the ones that we'll have exactly and the slippers come in two sizes so they come in like an adult small medium and then a large and the mittens and the hat you have enough yarn in the kit to do whatever size that you want to do so the only ones you have to make a size decision for are the Stoneham slippers the rest you don't have to worry about and the fact that kits will also include the pattern so you'll have the pattern in all the yarn already included in the kit and yeah and so we're gonna see how goes and then if the kids go quickly then we'll restock and create have our elves ready to you know to a they go we did it and I guess maybe we should just thankful Diana first of all for like helping us with this project she was obviously the main total professional professional it was quite amazing with all the deadlines and was wonderful and she's modeling them willing to do the model and yes exactly and also I wanted to mention we should mention yes that there is going to be an it along hosted by Diana on now I don't know if it's gonna be on our rivalry disc forum or honors or on both but it will definitely be a chalet collection it along to begin January 1st so it's gonna be a New Year's Day cast on so you'll pick whichever one of these you want to knit and everybody's gonna get along with Diana and Diana will be involved in moderating and so I guess well as we get more information we'll post it on our social media so but get ready January 1st cast on Shelley that's you know please for like a candle glass of wine music we also want to thank Kitty from knit one tech to Sochi her in khaki own knit one tech - and she tech edited our stuff and it was such a yeah it was our first time we met we met Cathy and Kitty many years ago at TNA and they approached us and if you're ever if you ever design patterns really oh yeah right never you know and here we are so we're really happy to them and so she's been so encouraging yeah yes exactly and just just so just our general yeah and so we we also saw them at Rhinebeck so that was fun so Kitty's the one who tech edited ours but Cathy and Kitty worked together this alternate alternate projects and Viki Bernard who's our translator so she's helping us with the translation and then Stephanie Erb who's putting everything on Ravelry yeah getting us all set up that way and and she also will be addressing questions concerns as they come up about that is it through rivalry as well right so we had a nice team and then you know Stephanie and I need today who Stephanie Sanders and any who are making kids furiously this morning and every take the village it certainly does you've got so many people help us out with this project so we're so grateful and hopefully you love the patterns as we put all these away yes we can create some space because we actually have a lot of other things to cover as well so what else did we have on it so being that we wanted to talk about oh look we talked about is without even looking pretty good so I guess finished objects so that's really easy for me because I don't have any big finish so I had my trial on to your trial yeah but some of you have been so kind I've kind of been absent from interested anything he's been really I'm gonna take care of it yeah I'm really trying to take care of my body and it's working like I'm feeling less pain I was having elbow pain it's kind of almost gone but still a little bit so I'm really focusing on taking care of my body I'm focusing on sleeping so I'm actually getting more staying up till 3:00 knitting exactly so uh so that's why it's been really good for me it's been hard but I think the first two weeks were like really hardest I was like oh my god oh my god then I'm like oh my god when you don't you could say that but I was like wow it's me up a lot of time it dedicated a lot of time to our to our craft right so it frees up time to do other things yeah are you drawing soon yeah so I'm taking my drawing class so that Saturday so I'm still doing some some drawing and painting so that's that's been fun that I've had a little bit more time to do that but I have been doing a little bit of knitting but I've been limiting my sessions to 45 minutes and not every day so I'm actually working on two patterns one with the Coburn Scout which is a long wrap that I had showed on a podcast and France waz and I are a core design a pattern and she's doing this car that's a good point least like you've been quiet on Instagram and you've not been able to knit as much but you still been design and connected with you know you know doing other other parts of of the business Kenard business its mass its massive and it takes a lot of like all the nitty-gritty like impact knitting is such a small part of yes point right exactly there's there's so many other things in just the management of the physical space and land stuff like that so so I've been thank you so much for people who have asked about me so I'm doing okay I'm getting healthy I'm my body's feeling better than it's felt in years you know slowly I'll be having some patterns out some designs in the in the new year in the new there are you're in the new year who knows what so Melissa meanwhile you've been okay so this is the wolfy hat - Natasha I messed her name it I reckon attention I know and I always had a whole bunch of a bunch of extra s's anyways Natasha Hornby and she is moonstruck nix on Ravelry and so I think I was nearly finished this on the last time I remembered it so it's finished and you know as I mentioned before it was a super super fun knit and I'm showing off my floats cuz it's so pretty inside out as well I find you know what I want to say I was that I was walking by REITs the other day and which is a store yeah and there was a colorwork sweater and the drop was this was was the floats and then the motif underneath so the way the the way that yoke was was floats yeah and then motif so like it was two parts they flipped it yeah I was like there's a design idea was a design idea so ever wants to pick up on that so cuz it was it's so pretty you can technically where the hot like not you could why not I know that's why when I saw that sweater I'm like Oh anyway so I said you know this this hat is so fun that you'll want to need a whole bunch and I wish I had time to do it but I just wanna you know you will dream up all the different color combinations and so I knit this one in the a Montreal BFL the mt-lb FL that any of knitting it up dye it up for us and actually it's a second hat and then this was the second hat that I I just finished so cute it's super love it yeah so good I'm the model yeah you're the model the hat model so this is the sky hill hat bye-bye vo I almost want to say viola Emily but Emily Foden from the nits about winter book which we sold out of instantly but I think we have a few extra a few more copies on the way our supplier was sold out I bought the last exam piece which hopefully will be delivered this week but I loved knitting this hat I knit this with the again with the mt-lb FL and this is actually a double stranded so it's a sport weight yarn that I used and it's double stranded and so it makes this nice thick squishy it is like I mean if you look at Emily's book and her photos you kind of want to wear a hat like this I know like isn't it hilarious I mean it's cute it's so much fun it's like you know what's nice is that it is so warm it's warm but if we're heavy no it's warm buddy and I guess because of that you know obviously I mean a broom like it's a revelation to me a having that that that turned up brim is just so warm on your ears it's offset you know yes I love the way they design that slip stitch it's like elf like but cute and then the pattern comes in two styles so you can either do it so that it's flatter and more curved on the top of your head or you can do this sort of little point where it I did which I love and I just love can I take it out yeah I just love the way she doesn't just finish it off cast it off you know you have these little these little baubles that she she has you do on the last eight stitches that are at the top of the Hat and I just think it finishes it off so nicely it doesn't need a pom-pom or anything so and I highly recommend the mt-lb I felt this was in the little Lion Man colorway which I think we're sold out of but hopefully we've reordered and this one was come on Eileen and paper paper white paper paper paper paper paper wait yeah well since you're talking about hat yes can add this hat so this is Stephanie earth who designed this little hat she called it La Belle fille which owns the daughter-in-law and her idea was so good too so she's like oh you know sometimes women come in and they want to make like a little gift further their their son's girlfriend or their son's wife but you know the something simple you know and so Stephanie was like conservative a little classic refine because yes is Kashmir yeah so she's like oh I think I'd like to design this little hat for you guys like yes please so it takes two skeins of the Lange case off baby so we created little kits in different colorways so we have sort of like a pinkish pinkish gray light gray we have a more charcoal gray so this is nice so just with two little skeins and maybe I'll do a little up close version so just like a really elegant classy simple little table - Betty but I see no I see nothing particularly feminine about this oh I mean it was just it was just Stephanie because she's works in the cellar her inspiration yeah because she said you know so many of them they're like oh I want to make a little something for but you know nothing cuz I don't know if they're gonna stay together or together nothing so that was her inspiration but it's yeah it's totally can be for anybody yeah I mean hat sir for anybody I think the pattern only comes in one size okay you could probably you'd have to make sure you have enough yarn but it's probably as simple as adding another another div so that's it so that's called Leben fee it's a free pattern up up on Ravelry bye bye Stephanie forest Bostick oh and you can get kids if you wish this yarn we don't have it sold separately so it was a specific yarn that we ordered just for Kim yeah and that's slang cash soft baby and we had also we had originally ordered it actually to make our kits for doesn't help to show it for our little teddy bear sweaters or teddy sweater it means okay I know I'm not having another baby I know but this is the teddy sweater by turbulent okay that's too cute I know which is basically this is basically just a mini version of the no-frills sweater yeah that's by the same designer so she sized it down did she just put this little and just a little tiny bit of embroidery right is that so this was so it's called the teddy sweater or teddy bear sweater and and so we had bought that yarn the cat Lang cash soft baby to make little kits and it's stranded with the shabooey silk cloud of course for that and the pattern actually calls for stranding with the silk mohair so we were happy to oblige of course and then because it's just so sweet and I felt it needed a little topper I decided and I think I mentioned I think I showed this on a previous podcast I just designed this little urban baby hat and this one I think is a zero to six month old size and then we have I have some modifications for the pattern for a six to nine month that's as that's as big as it goes look at this little pump a little pom pom pom pom so again this is done with the cash soft baby with the Shibui snap cloud and it's just a 1x1 rib and you can have it you can we try it on little baby it was really cute so you can have it just sort of like that so it has a little bit of a slouch for that little hipster that's what I call the little urban baby and also black but you can also yeah roll it and roll it up and just have that sort of traditional classic and it's kind of nice because it's probably gonna be a tiny bit big on a newborn that was nice to be able to just have a hat that's gonna stretch and grow with your baby and what's good to is you don't necessarily have to put the brim so if people are worried about like you know when the baby's resting that it digs into them right you just have it flat which is perfectly nice and this is a free pattern too so the Hat is from and you can you can download it on Ravelry quite separate from anything else if you like and you can use line 150 also with so cloud or leftover but this pattern is petite knit and you'd have to buy buy it so though our what kit what the kit included was enough yarn to make up to the 960 nine-month-old size of the sweater along with the Hat and our hat pattern but not pity knit pattern that you write a bicep so yeah included our pattern but you would have to buy the katinhat pattern separately to work the kit Melissa and I've gone sort of back in here I know about kits and including patterns and what we feel is that when it's our pattern yes we only included in the kid but when it's someone else's pattern what's nice when you buy it on Ravelry is that and then you get updates if there's updates errata can go directly to the designer will contact you plus you have an electronic copy in your library so we always feel that that's a better option for you rather than us purchasing the the pattern for you yeah so it puts you directly in touch with the designer yeah I think that's great yeah and anything we can do to direct more traffic to designers and course and speaking of baby knits we have a little store Sam I can't try that one it's by Wix ttan Jenny Gordy and Jenny Gauri and so she has it's a it's a collection of patterns I guess you get three different ones in the in the animal bonnet pattern lace yes different option the hot is the same as just the ears that change so you have the Fox the fawn and the lamb so this is the fun that's the fun so you can choose and it'll just you know I even think it just dips you so your ears differently exactly it's like a shape and the color the color you choose for your hat I guess would determine I had relatives here from Italy and they saw the Boni and they're like oh it's just like we used to put on our kids cuz they have that tradition in Europe yeah a little bonnet yeah and that's what's so nice it just covers the ears yeah a little split up the back so it just tucks right under and covers the ears and then when it's on that when it's on the baby's head these ears do actually stand out so anyway so we knit this one up with well we Stephanie er who's one up for us with the art film Eric Anna DK which we haven't loads of yeah exactly so you can do that so we I'm assuming you can probably get more than one hat yeah yeah maybe I maybe even yeah super sure of one thing so this trench oh okay this is this is just like a one so try that on yeah sure so taralyn morrison I believe is the designers name and I found her initially because I loved her she's developed a line of sweaters with super bulky yarn and I've got it a bee in my bonnet about knitting one up now actually but she had this super bulky cowl I'm just wanting to get it right free lease I think the fringe goes that way and it uses one skein of super bulky and it's just so cool look at that you know it's like cows can get really boring and redundant after a while so when we saw this one we're like oh my god it's so simple so so simple yeah but different just having like the fringe on the bias like that and it actually looks bigger than it is yeah it's just like one loop but it just happened up lat it takes up space yeah it's amazing so it uses one I used the Yana except no the yeah straight up no super bulky for this and and seriously there was a lot left over so he wanted to make a little bit taller or add more fringe or whatever you could easily have done that it wasn't enough for two cows but it was there was definitely more you could have made it bigger or if you bought if you bought two balls and even three cows yeah yeah for sure so I mean it's old what is it called the Durant cow during my darlin Morrison who is good night day I believe on Mallory and Instagram and so I think I just at least was asking me to I was doing when I came in today cuz she saw me piling up yarn at the cache and I said hey I've got a bee in my bonnet about a super bulky cuz super bulky sweaters no one you don't really think that you can knit a sweater and then it's gonna be it's gonna sort of work it's gonna add it's gonna it's gonna make you look like the Michelin but there's something about the way she's designed these sweaters they're cropped and they're at the proportions of them that makes them just seem totally wearable and you don't look like a but um yeah and Karen Templar actually has also done a little post on fringe Association blog about her sweaters I think as well as she talks a little bit about that so I highly and and she's from Toronto I think Lee's the designers so I think she's Canadian so we're all for supporting our northa northa 49 exactly so so maybe I'll have that work in progress in our next yeah exciting that'll be a quick quick knit mm-hmm so we have and I think we have just one more store sample as we have the Carrie Shaw oh yeah so that's right okay so I'm just taking off there so this want to model those Catherine Catherine yes path ring that that form this for us this is called the Keri Shull and least who's the the Carrie Shah by sorry Nordland right because we had this new yarn that came in this fall no I'm black on black so skulls drop sky this is a little similar to my mitered didn't but I did accept this done in one piece whereas money doesn't have that that doesn't have the spine dress same shape Oh black I'm really sorry you can't really tell I love it I love black on black and this is a this is such a beautiful it's a Jeanette play look how sophisticated that looks like it does and what I love are just these very simple tassels that give it a little weight and just this is a very ality that it doesn't have without them because this is a very lightweight very light it's Mario and alpaca it's light and squishy but it's a very airy chainet structure so it just feels like nothing it feels like a cloud maybe we can do you don't even know how many skeins this took you don't even have a tag thank God for rivalry because it's our it's our memory that's a really nice or memory so really okay see I'm not knowing I maybe I could get someone to knit neither so well you know um I I made a blanket out of drops air which is a same kind of not the same structure but the texture and gianluca's like this is the best blanket in the whole world so this drop sky I really did it it doesn't pill but it fluffs it fluffs but you know because this one's chain and it won't even won't fluff and I don't think it'll peel no it's just you just think The Gleaner takes off all the floor yeah I mean the Gleaners another thing Ravelry and Gleaner two must-haves in your knitting in your life in your life okay so I think we've kind of hit all these saps true store samples and you have about oh well yeah yeah the rugs oh yeah which Melissa said it really is a very really I love it so much so this is my one and only work in progress right now like I have other works in prognost not worthy of singing by showcasing on the pod just because I haven't made any progress on them is my it's it's like a rug it's it no no it's not it doesn't feel another it's the text the texture feels um hearty it feels hardly for sure so I did use an Icelandic yarn I'm using the aleph oslo p and it you know it's that beautiful halo that I love with out the mohair and I mean that's that's just the low PD Alafia let me show b-roll yeah so this is not a yarn that we actually stock in the store although we'd love to if we had the space but you know next year lope is really on our radar yeah I really like lo P but what we've been doing is when we knit a sweater with it that we love then we will start kits for it yes so we do have the yarn in stock now for this hopefully we'll get the kids put together this weekend it's a it's a it's basically a one size sweater of that Christmas everybody and so I think it's gonna be I'm not even I haven't done the exact math to know I'd like to finish so that I could cuz the way I did the math is sort of like 7.99 balls of right and I don't know if I want to include eight balls or nine balls in the kit so right so choppy chop yes pattern by junk youko Okamoto mm-hmm and I wanted to knit lots of her patterns and her patterns are are just they're easy neither and we saw people at Rhinebeck we saw a whole gang who and it that's one of the sweaters that had like the flower Oh yep plum music no cables yes I think there were four ladies who had all knitted and they were they were they were together wearing and I said that it was one of the hardest color work patterns they did because it wasn't regular regular so every road there was no it was very hard to see the whole pattern but it's beautiful it was so sober than one of them was her first color work project it was really beautiful I mean her patterns are just and the great sweater so Naomi hidden it that bright sweater and Chloe came into the store wearing it the other day she just knit it as well it's it's a it's one of those beautiful sweaters with you know a little commitment but it's worth anyway stunning it's very very yeah it's very different it's very but very straightforward this pattern especially was very straightforward if you're comfortable with some short rows and some basic color work what I will say is there are some very long sections here so here we'll have yes it's yeah here's Ashley so I did I did catch my floats sort of between those and you know unfortunately what happens is you you will kind of do it yes you're walking through a little bit but that doesn't bother me I feel like it's just all part of it part of it exactly so this is like a it's like a cape like a kind of a sha like yeah you know like a light shirt underneath although I don't mind this on my skin it no I mean it's like the low P that you were on yeah I know exactly but I'm just saying this kind of lends itself to like you know I'm running out to the dippin hour and I throw you know go walk the dogs and throw my sweater so I'm looking forward to having that and I think I'll be done a couple days yeah good for you yet for tumulus pressure pressure so like I said I'm doing - I'm doing my travel shawl Intel born Scout in the gray yeah and I'm doing a shawl in nightshade so I'm anticipating I'm anticipating or delivery of nightshade was at least if they said they were going to it was like five to eight weeks okay so we should be coming to like beginning of January probably okay so what what I had this idea of a pattern of a shawl I wanted to knit and then I talked to house woz and so I say okay this is my idea I found the motifs and the stitch patterns and I'm like can you figure out the math me so she was really great and then she decided that she would help in knit it out so we're kind of working through it together and I threw all the little Corrections so she's knitting a shawl version in lhamo by roma which is the lace week which is it's heavy Lakes region will yeah and where I'm restraining it with pressed flowers from like you know yeah that's pressed flowers but it's a lighter a lighter version it's pressed flowers and actually she's gonna die our next batch so we've ordered we're gonna make kits for that pattern and she's gonna die up a lighter break-ins gonna do it matches so so that that design we're working on and then I decided to do a scarf version of that so I'm knitting up the scarf scarf version in the night shades and I'm actually doing it in the purple which is called talk-radio egg I had grey and purple I'm like okay my other ones okay dark very dark so I'm working on those two patterns and but they're not ready to be revealed can you see the purple idea I think you can this nightshades is also another interesting texture it's like it's wooly but it's it's like cottony if you like almost like a felt its felt it a little bit and it's like a hardy I don't know what does it remind you of does it remind you of the brooklyn-queens at all no not at all no not at all there it's like a wool but it feels more like a cotton and it has a lot of structure so when I block it I'm interested to see how it's going to drape it's it's I haven't been able to pinpoint what it's what it's like what it's reminding yeah what it's reminding of it's quite something very different than I but as I knit more else I'll think about that and bring some ideas to you on that so then you want to give a sneak peek of your know if I would have blocked it maybe okay so it's coming it's coming so and maybe we should we just have a couple a couple of yarns that we wanted maybe before we get into the products and notions like we have it the 14 which is a new yarn oh did we not bring any yeah I brought some right over there right here okay this is 14 min okay here we go so 14 is is it looks like this guy in that it's a chain it yeah but it's a it's a heavier weight it's a 16 to 20 stitch gauge so I would call it like an errand this is so soft you guys is it 10% or 5% cashmere it's it's 10 percent cashmere 90 percent merino this is hand wash yeah it is like squish it's it's it reminds me of of the sky but it has the cashmere and it's just a cloud it is and light light light this is that idea too of warm but super light and just squishy and cozy and you just want to wrap your you just want to buy skeins and now I did design a cowl last year that I had done originally with this and then because we didn't carry this we also did it up in the far and it was called the cooler side of warm I can't remember how many balls it takes is it on it must be on Ravelry yeah so it's three skeins of far so you used but then if you look on Ravelry it says you used about 320 meters okay and the 14 is 135 meters so three bubbles yeah so three balls of the 14 and you can make that I mean I'm here to turn it okay so I have there and then I'll click on one to make it bigger yeah so I used a jewel designs closure for just to keep it a little bit more snug at the neck so you could definitely do that with fourteen and three skeins of fourteen when you typically this I would knit anything that you want to wear on your head on your neck that you want really close to you yeah it would be amazing if you wanted to do like a little lap blanket yeah any kind of shawl neck warmer scarf it's definitely evolved or Cowell's and yeah you know what this might the hipster might be like oh very interesting very interesting anis it would be super squishy that would really nice when the hipster any sha with worsted weight yarn would be perfect for that so those and then we just wanted to profile some sparkly yarn because yeah it's so funny when we took over that when we opened our store um oh my goodness I'm having a brain Ellen worked who had a store in our location before I said not Sparkle people but in the meantime we've become yeah so there's some Sparkle that's really nice so we went to two yarns in particular we like for Sparkle yes so we we found this one when we actually went to H and H and we spoke with Amy from Madeline Tosh and she was she had come up with this new yarn called halo glitter and what's very interesting about this yarn is that it's a neutral color but it takes the sparkle takes on the color of the yarn so in this one it'll look a little greener I mean it's very hard to see that it's like greenish and golden so it's sort of a hologram and then it takes on the color so if you wanted perfect like if you see this purple then but it's the same glitter the glitter doesn't change color so that's really so that's basically tache merino light yeah it's the hollow glitter added so we're like how fun would that be to have like a little one or two scheme project like a little shot how pretty that one is when you turn yeah I really I hadn't noticed this one before no they go and then we've got something a little more subtle so so these are great I think we have everybody happy litter in terms of um we have multiple we have a good a number so we have like yeah yeah we have like so what about the grizzly in the yeah yeah definitely though I mean the groovy is our go-to now we had done the groovy in this one which is Sweet Georgia cached luxe well it's basically cash luxe fine with the it's called cash Lux park but it's her cash luxe fine yarn which is merino and cashmere with the Stellina added so we had originally done the groovy with can you see the sparkle in that which is a real it's a go to pattern we've done the the groovy a few times for the store and we had done it up in this but I think it takes three skeins right Lise and we don't have yeah oh yeah you can make it whatever size you want he's with with two skeins of a yarn that was 180 meters that's right so you just get a smaller so you just stop the groovy there's there's two versions there's the lace weight version and the DK we always do the DK version yeah the lace fingering weight version is um more repeats and tighter so we've used fingering weight to do the DK version and it's by jumper cable knit Annie Baker and it is great because you just start and when you run out of yarn you stop will you bind off yeah you find the dinner but it's two skeins in the list oh it is - it is - okay then the world is your oyster with the sparkly yarns yeah so this is I mean it's either sparkle in the picture yeah of course we did so that's the groovy and all our details for that are on Ravelry on our Ravelry check page so that way if you want to know what needle size be used in which ya version of the pattern we used so the groovy is great two skeins and either the halo glitter by Matt Tosh would be amazing or the cash the spark spark by Sweet Georgia yeah so those are - don't mind it's still my desert island you're in the calyx find is yours so yeah so that I mean it's fun like I don't know for some reason we're feeling a little more festive this yeah and you know ye to do so we need to do something sparkly I know because Melissa got a fake fireplace it's one of these turn on the switch she has a fireplace controlled I have a beautiful fireplace and mantle but it had been sealed up and so it was no longer functional and I played with the idea of putting candles in there and that seems like a lot of work and then I was looking at battery operated candles and I just didn't seem quite right and so you know in the sales the big sort of Black Friday sales that were happening I I splashed out and I bought a really nice fireplace insert electric yeah control you would never know you never know and then like you have a screen in front and it's just your son and I went over to dinner the other night and we're like I said now you got a he keeps off let me see you guys just put the flame where you can have an inflamed ant is likely a glorified space heater it is very it's so it just it's amazing I mean change the whole feeling ever it changes everything so I'm like okay can I build a mantle and pick something somewhere it's just amazing so people put them like in armoires and all kinds of I don't think you're supposed to but no but anyway so that kind of got us into this festive feeling yes we're feeling we know we're feeling feeling the Higgy I were yeah you get or even like we should put our tree up earlier and yeah all kinds of stuff um bake cookies and who knows if that's gonna happen what we've got this like I said to Jim let's bake cookies just like oh yeah great you know so yeah and earlier than usually yeah I know like yeah exactly middle of middle of December we start thinking about a tree but yeah I think it's all it's all the people doing vlogmas and everything like everybody's got their tree up December first cuz people really get into it it's just like another thing to do I'm trying to simple find my way before Jellico's when we never even had a tree like oh you got to put it up you got to clean it up I know I actually I at least that I have never not had a tree like I could imagine not putting it on my parents have an amazing tree so I just go to the oven you look in the same city yeah so I'd go over there all the time but and went actually you needed a tree go look I actually only started putting over to Angelica understood that's like I didn't even like I think it was five years old he would notice that you okay so maybe we could just talk about our kits cuz we we really got it on the kit bandwagon and we just have talked about pretty much chopped everything up no we talked about in the loop so we got that up yeah so we'll just show the pattern so in a loop that's so words this has been reached this was we were waiting on the cream we're waiting on the cream faqad what a comedy of errors that was and anyway so it's been it's been restocked okay Stephanie and you have been hard on the kit so it's just so enlightened light and squishy and comfy and totally clashes with but you know some flying weight and a pop of color actually it doesn't cause that I thought I was just gonna say no it kind of blends yeah anyway so we had made originally we had made two different color options for the kits but the one that was the most popular was obviously the original so we've decided to just make those for now and it's called the modern pastels so we have those in the store now the other kits that so just some old ones that are have been restocked so we have the European road trips process knitting if you're taking a long road trip so this is there and you'll be done in time for spring so we just I just wanted to show the different colorways so we have a a eucalyptus I really when we chose the colors we sort of went in with spring in mind spring in summer we have this beautiful light lavender and this is the self by jade sapphire we have the original color which is whis and then we also have a nice white color which I believe is an anglo Lea so it's a creamy white so we've done oh and I forgot one more it's a blue one and this one is called Delft so that's a more of a darker genie room so we've restocked the European road trip so the AZ is still done with the stuff but this one only takes three skeins so this is a really just a nice elegant wrap to show that so there we go very simple that's so pretty due to the lizard wrap but also just as a scarf yeah it can be and what's nice is you can have a wrap and then it kind of collapses it collapses so then you can make it into a scarf if you need that and that one comes no so we have that one in the original color which is Russell and we have one in black as well so we have those or we have this oh yeah the classics the classics it's so funny when we first made this kit I put the wrong color names and Jade sapphires I know what color you said doesn't exist I'm like oh darn you know so yeah so there's the the Russell and then the second Avenue which were super popular second so that was really nice of her she sent us a picture and I'm like oh it looks exactly like mine it was so pretty so we restock the yarns for the second Avenue those were a little trickier to put together because we have yarns from Julie from art fill and also from Manos should be getting a restock believe we have just one here so this is the escargot blue which is again a nice nice long knitting project yeah it starts it starts at the Marriot starts at the narrow one so it's like goes fast yeah so okay and the change of color kind of keeps you motivated and you don't cut you you carry as you get along so we we have one kid and we're getting a new order this week so we should be restocking those as well yep so maletto is a lace way-o from Julia's lair in her beautiful colorways so I used one skein so there's I believe 800 meters let me just double check so there's 800 yards it's merino cashmere silk blend and so basically it's like my European road trip shawl the only difference is it's smaller so it's one skein and also I I did stockinette and then reverse stockinette I switched in the know yeah I don't know if you can tell that on the camera yeah so just to make it not so the points let me see oh yes I did this one I did using short rows versus the European road trip I did increases and decreases just because some people maybe weren't comfortable with short rows so I just changed it up but this was nice too would be I like the size of it but it makes it a pretty wrap and then a great scar great scarf so it's this is more like less knitting but it's it's really honoring the fabric of the miletto which is just beautiful you know the and I'd give you gives you really beautiful shades and the texture is just really luxurious so if if anybody is interested in in the mer Leto so we have that pattern and that's the Kigali Knights is a free pattern yeah almost Saturn's are free I think yeah exactly all the kids that we talked about there oh yeah so that's it for the kits and we just wanted we didn't really do an official gift guide or anything we didn't this year but you know cuz there's so many things that people can can get and then we're like oh we've already talked about them in the past and we you know we fear being redundant yeah so at the risk of being redundant we'll go over if it recently been restocked yeah that we thought would be great and a few things I think we haven't talked about yes why don't you start Melissa okay so of course the ever-popular wrist rulers have been restocked actually that's a lie they've not been restocked we just have a lot in stock because the order that we ordered a lot so we've got the gold these are I just find these papered for the holidays right you've got rose gold hot pink gold silver and then of course we have our Trident shoe black dark brown and nude medium brown and dark brown these look they look quite dark but I think they're the dark brown and medium brown yeah and then the nude natural and so we have a good supply of those we've also reordered as well I think it's more than natural color one and the dominant also is the ones we were more low on yeah so we do have an order pending which may or may not arrive before Christmas but we still have loads of stock so yeah those are a good gift option yeah definitely and not and not just for dinners - yeah I won't end up just for news yeah like there's people who buy them for her gifts cuz they make a cool leather bracelet you know my niece actually wanted one cuz she just thought it looked cool yeah we also I don't think we we were sometimes were like did we talk about it we couldn't remember so there's these are a little bag tag so we had our promotional ones that week with our logo on it which were fun and then we decided to get these ones from katrinka so this one says at the first rule of NIC Club is you tell everyone about NIC club so and then at in the back you can write this project bag belongs to and you can write with a sharpie you can write your name on it and your email or phone number and this is what happens at the lis stays that the OIS which is what we put on our other ones are as pasta Co and again at the same time it says this bag belongs to and then you can put your name on it so these are really nice wooden versions of bag tags that we've had made from katrinka locals yeah she's sweet she actually just be just received a name tags for our stuff yeah magnetic magnetic name great and so we've also speaking of wood wooden items beautiful wooden items we've just received a restock of the sock sell boo sock and mitten blocker is from Patricia fortune of night ography and we couldn't be happier of course we love these and we were really low in stock she was so nice these are all handmade and hand sanded beautifully sort of buffed with B butter and each one comes with a little pot of laughs and display ever so slightly scented lavender butter to be butter to which is made with beeswax I believe and a little bit of essential that comes from that comes from our own as well and you use though you use that to keep them well conditioned so that your wood doesn't your wood doesn't crack and there it comes with a little insert explaining how that how you use it and those are a great gift they are they're beautiful another melissa has them just hanging in her in her studio office right on on your curtain right and they're just so beautiful so even if you're not a knitter I just find we also restocked huge which were the little kind of needle you don't look kit you don't look tools that we talked about this is from Jezebel and we have the the smaller six inch and we have the 8 inch one and it kind of works the same way as our needle look so been restocked so we have two ways that you can carry around your DP ends if they're in progress so this is the needle nut by Dave and he makes them in his garage and he's so wonderful he said he does a really nice job he's so professional and even in his communication and he never invoices us until we get the product and they're all and they're all okay he's just wonderful so we started a little magnet here I just been it's very strong yeah so it snaps closed and it's not gonna come open months yes it travels quite well yes exact so this so um Jezebel's la whose works the same way is that she's made hers out of leather yeah so it works the same way and for Dave also we have the needle nook and we have the six-inch and we have the 8 inch so what's really nice is you know it's just the needle notice and Jezebel's they're both so professionally made so the attention to detail you know it's artisans who are making top-quality products you know so these ones you just put your your DP ends in above the snap snap it closed and then you've got you let your sock hang out so nice yeah so that I mean I'm embarrassed to say that I took a set of both of these even even though I am not using DP ends a lot but I use them actually just to put I used to put the the tips of my circular needles in there you go but I never know when you're it's not as critical because there are other tools for that but I just I'm a sucker for anything leather actually least one of the things I forgot to mention when I was talking about the sell boom and sock blockers are these pretty little stitch markers and progress keepers that Patricia sent so you get a set of four stitch markers and one more little progress keeper with the sell booth snowflake on there so those are great they're really light which is nice they don't weigh they're not gonna weigh down your stitch or weigh down at all again all handmade and so tonight it's really nice to work with artisans I mean the wrist rulers or artisans that jiae's yeah you go who made our pottery okay yes so we have a few of these left so last year we had had Hugo make us are knitting fuel mugs these little notions holders and our yarn bowls can you bring out a little and the reason we haven't been able to restock is because ego has closed his studio because he's completely renovating so he's gonna be closed for quite a few months so we just have a couple of yarn balls left yeah I think just two or three yarns left and we have a few of these left as well which are great so I like having this just on my coffee table or next to my bed and I just keep a couple stitch markers my little scissors and and really just a few things that so that I always have them to hand so those are great yeah and even though this is not artisanal because because it's kim huiae yarn ball so we have these Gleaner dryer dots so there's been a big push you know to get away from sheets dryer sheets that are scented and manufactured and what's really nice is these are all wool dryer balls and what I love about them is I they always sit in my in my dryer in the dryer and I have six of them and what they do is they just plop plump up everything to allow air to circulate for them to dry faster so it's really nice and you know what I like using these for I I don't always remember to put them in with my loads but what I use to me is when I'm washing our big North Face coats or sew anything down yes you want to throw in the dryer you throw in with these and it just keeps yes look at it it's so important separates all of the feathers yeah if you're washing your duvet or or sleepy I'd wash my sleeping bags a lot it really helps so I bet mine always just stay in the dryer and everyone somebody says a nail that's what happens they come out with a load and then I wind up with them upstairs and see my laundry is like right off the kitchen but it's so funny because one of our customers say is it possible that they disintegrate because like I've lost two of them like you know that happens to me like I'll lose it and then like it shows up it shows the owner days later so who knows so they come six to sixty two a package and we have all the different colors please so this is the grade in this world yes yes we talked about I feel like we kicked off our very first episode we released but you know what and everyone who needs crafts crochets anything you have to have a know anybody you want is sweater owns a sweater periods a gray so this is the travel version and this is the regular version and really the the regular version is a little easier because it's more ergonomic yeah so even though this is super sleek it's great for travel I just keep it in your bag I like the bigger one yeah and I even have it you know next to my my keys and I do a little shoe and this for people who want a fur a tougher brush no it's a catchment yeah it's for animal fur so you can put it on the edge where there's the lint remover and it's to take off animal fur but your sofa and carpet dance but some people actually brush their animal with it now they think their animal three blades for different levels of pillows levels of pills but also the delicacy of your fabrics you can choose you know down to it's sort of very fine pumice for for cashmere and the thicker one it's really built it bags and stuff right big coats so it's really and like an come to lab as we say in French if you must anybody owns a sweater if you really really I need to get a Gleaner so that's something for a crafty friend but you don't know what to buy them this is just a great yeah non yarn or non project specific thing right for sure we also I guess we can talk about these two little things we've also we've talked about these before as well but we've just been restocked I opened one and now I don't know what they did with it probably knocked it off but these are the digital remember you seeing it somewhere Digital row counters these are great because they come in a rainbow of colors and we have all colors in stock right now there's a really fun they're made with the same material that they use to make Legos and you just put it on to your finger and keep it there as you're knitting and you use it to count your risk and it had you just press it each time you finish a row and then you press the reset button to reset it to zero and I love it yeah it's I mean they're very very popular people love so you know if you want to avoid sort of making a note on a piece of paper every time you finish a row or it's you know what it's a gizmo but it's super functional and and useful and speaking of that too we have these rings yes so the rings are great these are from knitters pride and you'll see that little those little silver areas or the area that you need to watch because that's where you're going to move your numbers as you're counting oh that's good you want it to be steady exactly you're on rone 9121 anyway so this is great because you just wear the ring and and just as you good cuz there's somebody a good idea I don't have my counter on my knitting I have my little real counter beside me and yeah like where the heck did it goes and it comes in different sizes this one is what it does yeah yeah and this is a size nine okay so they come in I did you know if we have it's on our website some more colors in the digital row counters powder blue and black white I like the white the white is the one I have actually and oh yes these these we talked about in our very first podcast as well I remember these are fantastic these are from exchanging fire and they are little notions cases so they look a little bit like pill holders but yeah they have all these different size compartments it's funny because when militia and I went to Q&A and Indiana yeah I went to we went to the t.j.maxx and in the chat there was like all this is the coolest thing ever and then a few months later we found them from exchanging fire exactly small ones and you got these longer ones which are great for tapestry needles safety pins stitch markers and this can fit little travel users this one I keep little secrets you can fit little travel scissors in there so then it just all fold it down to nothing it's and Bob's as the Brittain you can attach it to a bag if you want you these are very popular and we have those in all different colors as well there we go so we have that and then we just wanted to talk a bit about kids knitting so you know kids are home and during the holidays and you might want to do something with them so there's a really really oh my that you know a lot of you might know then either the knitting dolly the knitting Nancy that speak Italian French so it's basically this one is called the knitting Tower and most of the ones that we had found before were with a hook and they were very small with very small yarn but it's very hard for the kids I do a lot of knitting with kids since from kindergarten to grade 6 and these are the best because these have four thicker I guess needles you could call them and on this side you have 6 so it's smaller and what I love about this is you use your fingers yeah they don't need a hook you don't have to worry about losing on the smaller side too yeah you use your fingers on both sides and then this comes the we sell it together it's by Camden Rose and they give you a little bit of worsted weight yarn and this is actually Manos and eczema and so any worsted weight yarn is really fantastic for this I mean you could even probably go with like an errand and maybe a bulky and it wouldn't be a problem but kids really take to this because they can use their fingers so this is really fun and then a lot of people say well then what do I do after that well you know the internet now is full of ideas right so this was some these were some projects that John Lafitte did and this was a carpet so what he did was he did a bunch of I cords in different colors and I sewed them together and then together we glued them on a canvas back so we just went to the fabric store that is so about a piece of canvas and together we glue and dip together and he has four of these carpets now and they're all over his bed it's actually be really good to make like trivets yes definitely it can be trivia smaller and then just have fun you can make them any size you want and what he does is he hasn't like a stepping stones in his room so you would have to put more of an CD hop on like uh like a anti slip anti slip and you can you have them in play rooms like yeah you know so good so hop scotch any little snakes so this snake and I actually found it so this was a boy who made another boy his name was Oscar and he made the snake so it's basically he made two and then we put a pipe cleaner and twisted it around so he made some little animals Gianluca actually bought this at the school so that and then we had a teacher who was leaving she was just replacing for a few months and so every kid made of flowers so just go a bit closer so basically all the kids made a long think of things some of them were able to loop it and sew it and others weren't so we helped them so basically a long by cord and then we knit it we sewed it and then the kids put a button or some of them put another little eye cord in the middle and glued it on us so we made a bouquet of flowers for the teacher so good so that was a fun idea oh that is so nice and then this is an octopus so this was Jim Luca yeah his color choice was very sober so he he made an octopus and then these here are with the the wooden I called him freak out things cuz that's what we called him in French so he made he made the legs with this and then the body with a bigger one and then added a pom-pom and then we did the ice for him so I knew there's loads of things loads of things and this is like kindergarten it's like the the imagination imagination they're shown you know there's butterflies there's all kinds of stuff and we actually did for another teacher who was having a baby every kid made a tentacle and then we embroidered there their name on the tentacles and then it was became like a stuffed animal for that for the baby so like you said it's endless and we I started this in kindergarten and up until like grade four I find after grade four they kind of want to do something a bit more challenging but definitely until great and so what like 8 years old yeah exactly till about 8:00 but some kids just like my son seems like he wants to just keep making bigger things so you know it can also be for any age so I suggest that and then the other thing too is we have needles we have two sizes so we have six millimeter and then these are ten millimeter I believe needles for kids and what's great about these is that when you're teaching kids to knit you can help them with the color yeah so like like you know put your yarn around the red or like put the blue one through so it's a really great idea and they're fun and a lot of the younger kids they love that they love the little animals and oh yeah because on this side I think there's like a little happy faces so those are those are fun for kids so I thought those were some great ideas that we got dang or the needles no we also have the icord if you want to go into industrial icon this is more of a and this you can just make an endless a minute I heard you want to trivet yeah so this is if you want an i-cord maker just so did you just buy the canvas at the fabric but I bought a piece of canvas and we try to shape you want yeah and then I we glue gunned it and then I slowly dropped it yeah so if you yeah the more rustic well you know what Gianluca really was knitting I chords on his fingers so you could also work with that you cannot try different and you can buy like them not buy but you can make also think are things with different objects like some somebody at school took pipes and then bought these really thick popsicles sticks from Michaels okay and put a whole bunch of them so made a really thick tube so if it gets to make little bracelets necklaces jewelry and you can make so you can even buy like you know there's the toilet paper roll is kind of the standard but I find it's too mushy yeah so what I like is the inside of the aluminum foil or the saran wrap okay as wrapping paper you know there's the two still too thin so Mike my favorites are the second high end wrap but listen this what I did I went to the dollar store I bought saran wrap and tinfoil and then I unwrapped not this rent oh no I didn't do it no I just bought tinfoil I unwrapped the the tinfoil and I left it at school because they always need tinfoil and then I took the long tube and I cut them in two and can you get out of all I can't remember because there's big in their smell and so cuz you only need to make them this big yeah and then I bought the thicker popsicle sticks and I cut them in half and I'm asking tape them ya know perfect so you can make like a whole bunch so I actually outfitted the whole kindergarten class with like three or four tin foil tubes yeah so you just want the smaller and the more rigid the easier it is for that and the last thing I wanted to talk about - is this really easy pattern that we're actually doing these at school and we're making slippers so these are actually super basic they're knit flat you cast on you knit for so many centimeters and then you decrease and sew it up there's no need for knitting in the round there's no need changing needles nothing nothing so at least is this a free pattern it's a free pattern it's called simple garter stitch slippers and look how pretty they look so you can actually they crocheted around so we're actually gonna practice doing that with a great project to start to use for beginners it's a great beginner project it's by Hannah Lavanya me we'll put it on our podcast show notes simple garter stitch slippers and and it's you know what I like about it for a beginner project is that it's it's it's not huge it's not a scarf that goes on forever that's never finished that they leave C Mon it's something where they actually have something yeah that you know fairly quickly and the girl who knit this is she's only knit one other thing in her life and she's a great so she did a really nice job and so we're probably like I said we're probably gonna do a little border the Annalee modification I did is at the end they took off for a three needle bind off at the toe but we found it didn't look so nice so all we did was there were sixteen stitches and we pulled it through like a hat like when you're finished and you just pull it through so the kids like that because they found it gave like a like a bit of a flower little swirl so I really highly recommend it's worsted weight yarn yeah and I really recommend this as a great little pattern if you want to get kids into knitting so and speaking of getting people into knitting and beginner knitter at a segue yeah it's all platter I feel that we should challenge all of our viewers least to teach somebody either a kid or a friend or somebody to knit over the holidays and whether it's you know you have some needles in your in your stash and some leftover yarns do it but if you want to give a gift and then also teach then we have these great learn to knit kits that have just come in from Twiggy horn or Quincy actually yes from Quinn's and they're fantastic because well I mean who doesn't love a beautiful Pat I know I love presentation is everything and it helped me Lisa okay and in it in this kit you've got this knit first stitch first scarf by Quinn so it's illustrated by Lela rub and photographed by Pam Allen and it's just learned to knit everything you need to knit your first stitch anyway it's it's just great it's beautifully photographed beautifully illustrated and it includes I'm Brittany Brittany which is great that's a nice and I only run business exactly and a really nice heavyweight tapestry needle for sewing in your ends and then two skeins of Queenston coat and I just want to touch on you know sometimes when people are learning tonight or they're showing people to knit they often go with cheap yarn because they're like oh I'm not gonna it's just a practice but when you knit with with synthetic yarns or cheap yarns the Knitting experience is not like this there's no stretch there's no give in the yarn and then if it's not a good quality it breaks all the time and so it turns out there's an audit is you know is if you're a beginner and you can't really make those yarns look great no beginning you can if you're experienced but as a beginner it's a little more of a challenge so to knit with nice yarn that has that stretch and give and it's really noticeable and we really recommend six millimeter needles per star designers at first we used to do more worsted yeah but we find that going with a bulky and a six millimeter just makes it a little bit faster a little bit more gratifying yeah and so it's it I find it's a perfect little starter kit yeah it's so cute and so I think we have that color which is a light blue and I believe we have a gray as well there weren't that many colors available so I know we got two different colors I just can't remember exactly what they were but they will be on our website so how to knit kit from Quinton company I love yes and that could be as good for kids like oh we like to start kids around 8:00 some kids start earlier but you know a lot of them just really around eight or nine they have a better deck surest don't forget to tell the beginners that they cannot knit from this game oh yes they would want to wind that into a ball first good catch meliss good catch good catch so we also have some tag so these were like they sold hot and fast and furious yeah so it's by the lakeside Sandy so we were so honored that she took us on as a wholesale customer so we have some these are the three patterns that we have left in the small project bags so I actually took this one but I took it from my notebook and my pens oh yeah so I took this one for my notebook in my pen so these aren't just bags oh good they are so they're little project bags for socks hats one skein is that called the paper lovers or something stationery liberation I think and this is this one has scissors on it what's nice is they have these little leather tassels yes look how cute that match so again these are bags not for knitters oh yeah the fabric inside like how come on I mean that just makes any your yellow like that that just goes so well and then the scissors have stars she matches her fabrics so well like we had we had a big delivery of these we had the larger bags we had these smaller ones they flew out the large ones sold first and then we had I think we've just got a few of the smaller ones left so hopefully they'll still be a few by the time you see this mm-hmm and we aren't able to get another order in before Christmas Sandy's really busy I know she has a big job that she's working for in in January so hopefully we can regroup in January and place another order and have some maybe early February have something so those are great and rate bags and now we have we just got our fresh stock of Harry Tana recycled for pom-pom so these are actually from Montreal and Harry can is a business that's been around for over 20 25 years and what they do is they work only with recycled fur coats so they have a Depot where people can drop off coats they could collect coats and there's actually a person who's on full-time pom-pom duty so we met her last year yeah yeah paws and I went there and she had a big box of old fur coats that she was cutting up and they just make beautiful pom-poms they're really nice they're really nice and the fact that she's recycling fur it's fur that was just old that can't be used in coats anymore and would just kind of be sitting there sitting in landfill so if you're into recycled for pom-poms we have some for beautiful different colors and we can get those in her and they have it they come with an elastic attachment and those come only in natural colors so these exactly and so what people have done with these ones is they've they've sewed a button on the inside of their hat yeah and they pulled it through and attached it to the button so that's a great weight because the elastics are quite small but it's a way to make your pom-pom detachable that's so good and then you can wash your hat no problem so these ones would you don't have to you can sew it right in but that could be an option and if you prefer something a little more colorful then these are our faux fur of pom-poms from lemma fur which we've just had restocked and I mean they're they're they're poofy like sometimes you get synthetic fur pom-poms that are just sort of flattened but these are wishy-washy yes these have depth and they're great faux fur faux fur you know everything from the hot look at them they just I just love the way and apparently if you want to really fluff them up even more just put them in the freezer and this one is blue and what's nice is this one has this has strings ribbons so when you this instead of putting a button you just pull it through and tie and tie it in a little double bow or something and then you can undo it and what I like about these is they're not so perfectly round it's like the Harry Canon which are naturally you know they just that's that and I think the last things we wanted to talk about were just some bags that we got restocked the duck back oh yes and the eve and the fringe bags yes so the duck bags we had waited they were out of stock the ocher we sold out of so we can't get those anymore but there are the Sailor stripes which are fun the black we have the olive so this is the one that Melissa and I took do you took the Alaba no you - no I didn't take any I should say I was holding out for them so I twig so I took the olive one and then there's the grid so these all came on the recommendation of staff of the ones that yeah in it so I will say I mean the only reason I didn't take ones because you had just I was well no I was just trying not to be gluttonous because you I I really wanted one I really want the Sailor stripe one which I might get summers in the spring summer exactly four and they're really what I like about is they're not too expensive so there's good quality canvas bag might Wiegand horn I'm a little more careful with or my knitters backpack whereas this one I'm like oh whatever I throw it in the wash I wash it it gets heavy washing the washing machine I haven't washed it but I certainly would not be scared to inhibit I wouldn't hesitate at all and I can bring this to school because you know school that's always my bag is always dragging on the floor when I go so we have these great totes from fringe Supply Company which are great gifts I find as well that's the same here's the one I love this one so much this one I just find that I use for storing all my different projects around the house yep yes dizzy stalls you guys and this as if our our chalet collection was in half we have a big announcement the knit for fun retreat 2019 the summer one has been announced finally and this is the and bud retreat so this is I think this is the third time that it's being held in Canada I think is normally held at admit attention and so I pretty sure we alluded to the fact or we mentioned yet we had met with Cindy howl I'm gonna add but and and by because rivers the River City ladies came so that's why they were here because they are scoping and so that's all been finalized now registration for this retreat is opening on December 7th which is Friday which is the day that this podcast should be going live and there are incredible teachers so it is going to be August 8th to the 11th in Multan Blanc and we have Alexa lunamon from tin-can nits who's going to be teaching we have Nancy Marchand I say we have it so we're running we're not our treat we're just we're kind of like tagging along tagging or tithing back we're not organizing it we're not in charge we're just tagging we will we will be beer leaders exactly in cheerleaders but we're really excited to be a part of it so we it's gonna be Alexa from Team Ken Miss Nancy Marchand and Julie Weisenberger from cocoa net so you guys what a lineup in the forest and bud as well will be teaching and then there is going to be it's gonna be the weekend up there so it's gonna be three days and then there's going to be a four-day ad on being a P so more tom law is north of Montreal and it's a beautiful resort so it's a ski resort but in the summer just a really beautiful in there it's in a little there's like a little village with shops and restaurants and the pools and it's all it's all there so just everything's accessible it's like a like a it's a little village it's it's there so then retreat it's in a stunning location it's an August it's gonna be beautiful it is gonna be beautiful and then after that you can and you can also take like a like a lift to go up like a ski lift to go up to the top of the mountain it's beautiful and then they've also put on an add-on package where people can come to Montreal and do some shopping at our store Neela now she's pretty mean throwing points where one of the participants are cheerleaders exactly and now GTA SA is going to be doing a dine workshop here at our shop so that's exciting so so if anybody's interested in registering for that well definitely we're gonna be there there for the whole time we may even have a few there's gonna be a bit of a marketplace yes we decided that we were gonna be part of them so there is a marketplace and we're gonna be part of that marketplace as well so it's our first our first time doing any kind of retreat which is nice is that we don't have to organize it so it's kind of easy yes or kind of get them that local retreat experience without having to do so a lot of you have been asking us about retreats and we really want to but just you know we just haven't wrapped our head around it so this might be a little push you know so it's a great way to to be part of you know the this amazing retreat and like Melissa said we'll both will be there the whole time yes and so it's it does not compromise or or conflict sorry with the twist no the twin it's a week after week after want to plan your holiday it might be Melissa yeah I'm up for this and then stay over the week do the add-on and then go to the twist festival you know I think so they just sent us an email so that would be a really fun yes right here good good okay so it's the 14th to the 18th of August and this is 8 to 11 this is perfect exactly and the twist is it's a festival that's become quite big yeah it's outside of Montreux as well but not far so it's an easy day trip from Montreal if you wanted to do the add-on with Anne and then scoot on over there for a day or two yeah look at that just as you get ready for your fall knitting oh yeah that's like we did like so we went to Edinburgh and in Germany yeah he's good gautam will compliment rial and then after the twister exactly which i'm just i always forget what town it's in oh don't say I'm st. andré Develin dabble a and I know that because when I was in high school I had my provincial gymnastics championships in Saint Andre a blink I've been to that baby and since I haven't been back yeah so twist again is going to be the 14th to the 18th of August so it's all the fiber Enid e goodness and Quebec you guys in August and you can even do the pei fiber trail before that in nova scotia that's for the whole server here in eastern canada so yeah so we're excited and we'll be speaking more about that of course as months go by and and tell you a little bit more about it but that's those are all the details I have for now if you go to the knit for fun retreat website you can see all the courses that the teachers will be teaching as well as find out all about registration and cost and add-on and all of that kind of stuff so well thank you so much for listening and for joining us and we decided that this is going to be our last one before the holiday yeah we're gonna try to focus on making our store a little festive this year and our house is festive and we hope that you'll have the opportunity to do the same thing as well and we will see you early in the new year definitely and thank you so much for your support and everybody join us for casting on 4 January collection pattern January 1st yeah stay tuned to our Instagram posts I think I'm gonna do the slippers great so happy holidays to everyone take care next year new year ok you

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Length: 91min 27sec (5487 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 07 2018