Just a few days of everyday life / June 2024 / the republic of me
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- Welcome to the republic of me.
My name is Ivana and this is a channel about slow living and making things... with focus on fiber arts like knitting and spinning, as well as painting, growing a garden and living on an island in the Mediterranean.
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You are a treasure! Watching you is like therapy for me! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I feel the same ❤way
me too! 💚
thank you so much ❤️
Enjoyed catching this episode this morning while I knit (and everyone else is sleeping). Gorgeous handspun and projects and boo to all the bugs. I am sick of spiders, scorpions, ants…
thank you Rhonda ❤️❤️❤️
I always love hanging out with you Ivana, it is so nurturing and soothing. Love and Light! 🙌🏻
thank you Barbara ❤️
Your videos are a great start to my day! Thank you!❤
I'm so glad.... thank you ❤️
Thank you Ivana - gorgeous podcast as ever! Just wonderful content from beginning to end 🙏❣️🙏
thank you ❤️
Thanks again Ivana for this lovely episode. Such a joy to watch 👌🏻❤️
thank you ❤️
And when the day comes that we're laying on our deathbed, our last thought is not going to be "I should have dusted more often" haha.
❤❤❤😂 gosh! I hope not! I'm pretty sure mine will be "I can't go yet, I haven't finished my sweater!"
@@KariEngblom-Youkey 🤣🤣🤣 yes!
Look up Dust if you Must by Rose Milligan
@@DanaBarbieri i just looked her up! Thats what i’m talking about!! Everyone should read it 👍😊😊
Sometimes I do dust but only when I need a brief rest for my knitting hands. I don’t worry about it too much. It only comes back, doesn’t it. 😮
What a Treat Ivana ! Another vidéo 😍. Thanks.
I have Many triangular shawls and I have Never Seen someone Who wears their like mine. I don't like to wear the point on front either.
What I Do is to place the point on a shoulder, a Little bit toeard the back. I take one Side and I throw IT on the next shoulder and I Tuck the other Side on front as well. Difficult to explain ! 😂 I migth take pictures and put Them on your Instagram.
It's Nice and cosy like that ! I live in Québec so it's very useful during Winter. But I also have some made of cotton that I wear AT nigth on the Summer.
Thanks again to let us into your life ! Have a great Day.
I'm currently making another triangle shawl, but this time in thicker yarn... that way I can wear "grandma style" if you know what I mean. That is going to be great for winter mornings ❤️
Beautiful spin Ivana. Looking forward to seeing what you knit up with the yarn.
Thank you! 😊❤️
Hi,you are an excellent spinner. I love the yarn you spin. I am from South Africa and our fibres is very few. I just starting spinning on a drop spindle and I love it. Thank you for your sharing of your beautiful things.
thank you. I also don't have any fiber available here, so I have to order everything online. I mostly use World of Wool in UK. ❤️
Lovely video. Relaxing and inspiring. Thank you! Hugs from Sunny California. Stephanie
thank you very much ❤️
Thank you for sharing your everyday life! I love seeing how you live with your garden, and you truly inspire me to get out my spinning again! I want to participate in Tour de Fleece, so I should start practicing to regain the muscle memory.
Our weather here in northern California is very hot right now as well. My cats and dog look all day long for the coolest spots to lie down in. We are supposed to start cooling off for a bit for the rest of the week, so here's hoping! Have a lovely rest of your week, Ivana! ❤
I've been spinning more than knitting lately, I guess the heat has something to do with it. I am grateful to have other options to turn to :) ❤️
😂❤..... only a mother would notice your cobwebs! Lol.
I am looking around my house right now and noticing all our cobwebs! But, I am a Grandmother Spider devotee😉, I decided spiders are just an inspiration to join in and work with my fibers! And, nobody will see my cobwebs through all my stray
spinning fibers and dog hair anyways!❤ your spun yarn is gorgeous! I really enjoy seeing your spinning. Thanks for a nice morning knitting to your video😊.
so true... you made me smile. Spiders have calmed down this week, but we have welcomed the ants now :) ... it just never stops ❤️
A lovely episode, it was great have a coffee and to spend a little of my afternoon with you 😊❤️
thank you ❤️❤️❤️
Oh how I love when I see you have another video up. So many lovely projects and your gorgeous tree is flowering so beautifully. We have the same tree in Brazil. 💗💗
thank you Taci ❤️
I’m watching and knitting while my husband is cleaning around me 🤭😂 we will all be dust soon enough!!! Omg mosquitos … thankfully we have very few, they make me crazy. We have no screens, house wide open and no aircon so they aren’t welcome 😆 thanks for sharing, stay cool and happy creating, Karen 😘
Tell your husband "hi" from me and that is is my hero. Actually you are my hero :)
For some reason, I thought Australia would be full of mosquitos... shoes how much I know.
Kisses. ❤️❤️❤️
@@therepublicofme some areas are crazy 🦟 like everywhere I guess. We lucked out 🥰
I would be in the pool all day 😂
I’m on holiday in Cyprus right now and I totally agree with you it is very warm, too warm for my taste 🥴 I enjoyed your video very much. Thank you for sharing👏🙏
Oh how wonderful, I hope you are having a good time ❤️
I a, so envious of your weather. The extreme heat is marvellous for my arthritis and fibromyalgia…. To the point I am in remission! England is windy cold and wet! Xx
yes, I can see how British weather is not good for that.... I'm sorry you are suffering with those ❤️
I really love your handspun yarn. Such a lush garden also !
Thank you! 😊
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Ty I Ana for a lovely episode… I am I. The northeast part of the United States and it will get a bit warm here next week but not half as hot as you apparently live in 😳🥵 yet we still knit! 😃😂😃👏🏼🧶🧶🧶❤️
Good morning Ivana, I can sure relate to the heat. It was 95 far. in my driveway late yesterday!!! I have to give my garden a drink in a few minutes so I can get going for the day. I'm moving to Oregon so getting ready to put my home up for sale in days. It's hell! But.....having said that I squeek in knitting my son a pair of socks every time I sit down. They are almost done. I believe they are the reason I'm not flipping out and needing to be taken away by the ambulance men in white coats to the funny farm!!!!! Oh ya- and cobwebs are out of control at my place too- spring brings in all the baby spiderlings. Lots of oak trees at my place so natural habitat for thise spiders! I love hearing about all your yarn and plans. Loved your Edinburough trip episode previously. Will go there myself for the yarn festival probably next year. Take care and stay cool!!!!!! Best, Carrie from Northern San Francisco Bay Area 🥰❤🐕🐑
Wishing you a very smooth move and a beautiful new home ❤️
I really enjoyed your everyday life video. You always inspire me to begin knitting again. Thanks for posting.
thank you very much ❤️
Thanks Ivana for keeping it real".It is life and there is no need to sugarcoat the beauty of ordinary,normal,routine days for the masses..although,in the same breath,I also juiced our tree's blood oranges🍊 today and I'm guessing it wouldn't look as cinematic as your efforts🤭Still tasted good,however👌So nice to see the purple toned batt spun up...glorious❤️.Go well and watch those mozzies.We get them in Summer too.🙏❤️👋🐨🌏xx
I've actually started plying the purple yarn this evening :) ❤️
Love spending time with you my dear!! That was delightful 🤗🤗
thank you Selma ❤️❤️❤️
I enjoyed this video..your life is similar to mine so you're not alone..❤
When you mentioned “cob web” yarn my first thought was you were spinning all the spiderwebs .😂
:) now that's a thought ❤️
Your dusting comment reminded me of my brother. He always said why should he be responsible for moving dust that God had put on the earth!
I'll remember that :) I got another comment saying "dust protects furniture"..... I love that one too ❤️
Love your channel so much. Happy creating 💚🧶💚
thank you ❤️
It's always a treat, Ivana, to get a glimpse into your making life - thank you! I didn't see any cobwebs! The heathered fabric you came up with for the raglan is so lovely - is it closer to a DK weight? I'm aiming to finish knitting your raglan pattern with fingering weight which takes quite long but I'm looking forward to the lightness of it - seeing your finished one is so motivating! All the fruit in your garden is lovely and mouth-watering! I do the same as you with getting busy first thing in the morning - otherwise I convince myself the task isn't really necessary and can easily wait for another day! 🥰
thank you Edythe... yes this sweater was closer to lighter dk. I do have one in fingering weight and you are going to love yours.... it's so versatile. Let me know when you finish it, I'd love to see it ❤️
Dust and Cobwebs (spider and yarn weights) seem to be a theme in this vlog. 😂😂😂😂😂
totally was :) ❤️
OMG!!! i ja vodim borbu sa mravima! hocu da poludim! ali svake godine...mravi! imam nocne more od mrava!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
THanks for sharing
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I can’t knit but I enjoy watching your videos😂❤
thank you Spyroulla... never too late to learn though :) ❤️
Hi Ivana. So glad you are doing your recordings❤ it is so fun to watch. Love your spinning. Take care😊
Thank you so much 🤗❤️
I’m on my verandah sitting in the winter sun with a cup of tea and,I kid you not, the same pjs🤣
oh that is funny ❤️
Dust protects the furniture! 🤣🤣🤣
:) I will remember this... love it ❤️
Ivana, you can be the Pyjama girl! The sweater looks luscious! Am I correct your summer is a dry heat? My frangipani is in a pot and slowly dying as our climate is too cool in SE of South Australia. A woman's work is never done. Hubby doesnt seem to notice the dust when I comment how dusty the place is. But Im the messy bessy in our house. Knitting yarn and needles around my chair. Embarrassing the wool fibre particles around my chair. Everyone has cobwebs. Our invasion was moths then sea beetles which comtaminated the whole community's rainwater tanks. Then black crickets. Now garden spiders. At least I vacuumed today. Good luck for your son's exams.
Every season we get invaded by something else.... this week is the tiny black ants.
Cyprus has a very humid climate ❤️
Hi Hi can you show your town where you live love to see your island please do not stop the vlogs love them xx
I will, it just needs some planning ❤️
Hi Ivana! I live in Arkansas, USA and we have a huge spider problem especially this spring. We do have an exterminator that comes every 3 months but that didn’t seem to help this year. My husband ended up in the hospital for 5 1/2 weeks in 2022 from what the doctor’s believe was a Brown Recluse spider bite that got infected so we try to keep their numbers down. I’ll never forget when we were living in Oregon we had a dinner party, everyone was in the living room before dinner and my husband points at the ceiling in the dinning room to show me a cobweb that was hanging over the table (I had dusted but must not have noticed it fall, oops). I ran in there quickly and removed it! We lived in a very wooded area, cobwebs were everywhere! 🕸️ The purple yarn spun up just beautifully!
Trust me when I say I checked out Brown Recluse as I read your comment :)
As far as cobwebs, at least I have the kids covered for the Halloween decor :) ❤️
Ivana, I want to join you in the hat project. You said that you used size 3 needles. How many stitches did you cast on and would you do the same for yourself. I hate to dust so I tell myself this;” dust to dust, ashes to ashes so maybe Mom is right here with me.” 😊. She hated to dust also! Anyway, she was much to busy creating to be bothered
I'm still experimenting but this is what I found so far:
3mm needles (fingering or preferably sport weight yarn)
108 stitches for women / 56cm (22 inches) long
116 stitches for men / 60cm (24 inches) long
This of course depends on how tight or loose knitter you are, but it can be a starting point.
Hope it helps.
Ivana ❤️
🙋♀️❤️🇨🇦😘 thank you for posting, I enjoy your visits.
Glad you like them, thank you ❤️
I enjoyed haning out with you Ivana, the lyrics to the background music was too much for me though... muted that part. Hope you are keeping cool as best you can.
than you ❤️
Hi Ivana, love it, let us cherish the daily little things in life , have a lovely day❤
Thank you! You too! ❤️
Hey Ivana. Hope you're doing well. Lovely episode. Your makes are beautiful as always. Until next time, many blessings, friend. 💜🤗💜
thank you Emilia, blessings to you too ❤️
@therepublicofme You're welcome Ivana 💜💜
what pattern was the pullover looks elegant
That is my In & Out Raglan recipe. You can find it for free on my blog. I'm glad you like it. ❤️
I was thinking how lovely to have so many citrus trees and fresh juice like that but heat and mosquitoes… nope, dealbreaker 🫣
It does all look beautiful with the frangipane etc. though, on a screen anyway…!
i can totally see how heat and mosquitos could be a deal breaker :)