One of my favorite traditions is, just having the whole family together on Christmas Eve. I also love just giving away crochet or knitting items to strangers around the holiday.
One of my favorite traditions is getting a picture of my girls in front of the Christmas tree. Since my second daughter's first Christmas, I have had them sit in front of the tree, in the same positions each year for a picture to see how they grow. 🎄
Our favorite Christmas tradition started when my son was a toddler. My best friend comes to our house, and two of them decorate our Christmas tree. I am "helping" them by preparing a tree and Christmas ornaments, and I am in charge of taking lots of pictures and videos. After all that "hard work" we drink some hot chocolate, eat cookies and watch a movie. Our family lives in Europe, and it was important for me to start a tradition that my son will remember as we cannot travel to Europe for Christmas.
Our favourite Christmas tradition is baking. Growing up my mom would let us pick out whatever we wanted to bake out of her cookbooks then go shop for all the ingredients. We would all gather together in the kitchen and bake together. There was always a lot of yummy different Christmas goodies! Congratulations on 3000! Love love your podcast! Thanks for all you do!
Ever since my kids were little, when we decorate our tree I unwrap all the ornaments and tell the story of each one…where it came from, etc. And we always watch The Preachers Wife while we decorate the tree too!
Every year, a few weeks before Christmas, my mom makes some baker’s dough that we then use to create Christmas ornaments. We use food coloring to make several different colors of the dough, then create different shapes (Santa’s, Christmas trees, snowmen, etc). The ornaments are then baked and eventually hung on the tree. That’s our family tradition. Love your podcast!!!
Now that my daughter has grown, we do not do as many gifts during the Yule Season. We have agreed to give as things are needed or "thought of you and wanted you to have this". It was most fun to guide her when she was very young through the choices for the gifts for individuals. And later watching her make selections on her own. I have no idea how time can pass so quickly. It feels like she should still be in grade school ! Do not feel guilty or the need to apologize for putting your immediate family first. We, your "yarn family", expect nothing less. Happy Christmas to you and your family.
Thank you so much Dawn. These past two weeks with family were sooo wonderful, not having the stress of vlogmas is exactly how it should have been. My oldest is only 11 and I already feel like time has gone sooo fast. Thank you for sharing your beautiful memory with your daughter. Merry Christmas!
Wow so many projects!!! I absolutely love all the socks you've been knitting, especially the ones for your youngest. I would never imagine the colour to turn out like this by looking at this ball of yarn. Have a wonderful time with your family and enjoy every precious minute with them ❤️
Thank you so much Magda! It was such a joy to see how those were going to turn out and my son LOVES them!!! I hope you have a wonderful holiday time!! ❤️❤️❤️
Fernanada, you are a knitting MACHINE girl! My favourite crafting Christmas tradition is choosing a knit theme for my kids or the grands and then having the fun of choosing the co,ours and madly knitting them up- we have had animal scarves, felted slippers, hockey team themed family hats, and this year it has been hats with bling for all the granddaughters and socks for the bigger boys.
Thank you for sharing all your projects! I enjoy seeing everything! My favorite holiday tradition is having breakfast casserole on Christmas morning with my family!
My favorite tradition is Christmas breakfast. We love having Eggs Benedict for breakfast and then add a ton of other food to the table. Its just so much fun feasting on Christmas day! :-)
New subscriber! A tradition I love is my son and DIL use Christmas paper to block off the door to the living room so the little one has to burst through the paper to get to the presents!
Love your shawl & cardigan. I want to learn how to make socks & you’re inspiring me! 3,000, WOW! My favorite tradition is all my children & grandchildren getting together & making Christmas cookies… 🎄🧶
Congrats on 3000 subscribers!! The holiday season is one of my favorite times of the year. A tradition that I love is making Christmas cookies with my children and grand children. We usually take a weekend and make cookies for friends and family. I remember making cookies with my family as a child and it holds special memories. Your chestnut sweater is going to be beautiful. Happy holidays to you and yours.
Some of our traditions include: traveling across the country (Oregon to Illinois) and then driving around the Midwest to visit family. We also get real Christmas tree, etc. we do the elf on the shelf thing. We have a nice biblically based book advent that Mathilda enjoys. I feel the same about recording vlogmas; I really related to what you said. I don’t feel like my life is super interesting and I do not want to feel overwhelmed by it or lose joy. However, I’ve done 6 days of it and I’m enjoying it. It’s turned into a way to capture family time in a fun way that I appreciate. Who knows if I will finish or do it next year, but so far the first six days have been fun.
So happy to hear that you have been enjoying vlogmas! I might do it next year when I don’t have family In town, I don’t see me recording now with everyone here!!
Decorating sugar cookies with my kiddos and little brother. It has been several years since he has been home for Christmas, and he will be this year. Can't wait to decorate cookies with him.
Aww how special!! I’m so glad that you will be able to be with your little brother. Mine is here in town too, haven’t seen him in about 3 years…we are having a blast!!! Merry Christmas Brandi!
Thanks for offering this prize package and congratulations!!!! on achieving 3K! I'm sure by this time next year you'll have more than 5K (and you'll have to run that far and post it : )) We have both Christmas and Chanukah in our home. Christmas dinner is something I've only been exposed to for about 7 years... and it was my first time making a turkey, if you can believe it! I love planning the Xmas menu, tweaking it a bit every year, and I always make everything from scratch: stuffing, sides, desserts. My favourite Chanukah tradition is lighting the menorah for 8 nights. It's very peaceful and grounding. Be well!
Hello Kaila!! Thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement!!! I am so glad that you get to celebrate both traditions and turkey is one of my favorite things ever!!!
My favorite thing to do during this season is to get presents for my boys and for the little ones in the family. We all get together on Christmas Eve and the kids get to open their presents after dinner.
Do Vlogmas next year please! Id love to watch. :) Making my own wreaths and garlands from our evergreen trees to put in our home is my favorite winter holiday tradition. :)
Aww thank you for the encouragement Becca!! I do want to join in the fun next year, it has been wonderful just enjoying family and not worrying about uploading and recording. Next year it should be easier for me to participate and I’m excited for it!! ❤️
So glad to see you again :-) my mum used to write a letter and in there she wrote what the family had done the last year. She included that with the Christmas card. I'm doing that as well now and it's so nice! Friends that you don't see or speak very often get to know what you've been up to. That christmas card used to be a photo of the family. I'm doing that as well :-)
That’s a wonderful tradition!! I remember when people used to that, it was so nice. I guess with social media and people knowing everything that everyone is doing, not that many people include those with their Christmas cards anymore!! Glad you are keeping the tradition alive! have a merry Christmas!
Love the socks. I hope one day I can do it. I am learning to knit, but I know how to crochet. My favorite tradition is the Epiphany on January 6. I am from Puerto Rico and we celebrate in big. I live now in USA and I continuing with this tradition and teaching my son the Epiphany.
I’m so glad that you can continue your traditions!! And I think if you continue to practice, soon enough you’ll be able to knit yourself a pair of socks!!
I really am enjoying your podcast. Your Chestnut sweater is just gorgeous! My favorite Christmas traditions are going to our beautiful Christmas Eve Mass, enjoying a cozy Christmas Day just at home with my family, a in general enjoying Christmas music and decorations. God bless!
I always from the time my children were little have read the Christmas story out of the Bible to them. They are all grown but I still keep this tradition.
Hello Chrystal! Yes! We also read the Christmas story from the Bible…my parents did it with me and my brothers when we were little and we continue the tradition. Have a very Merry Christmas!
Wow! Your chestnut cardigan is going to be amazing🤩 Love your color combination🥰 One of my favorite christmas tradition are when we are getting our christmas tree. We have friends that owns a big forrest. And we go there and pick a tree and shoot it down with a hunting rifle🎄 My boys love it🥰 Hope you have a wonderful time with your family visiting❤ Have a blessed advent🌟 Love from Anne🇧🇻
Hello from hot Melbourne Australia 🌞 and it is a cold drink for me. Fernanda your Chestnut looks beautiful. I have not started my Marie Wallin project yet but I have the yarn ready I just need to finish of some of the gift knitting first 🧶 We like to go to the beach on Christmas Day 🏖
Growing up in the Southern Hemisphere myself….we enjoyed a hot Christmas too!!! Going the beach sounds perfect!! It sounds like you will get to start your Marie Wallin project soon! How exciting 😍😍
Thank you Naomi!! ❤️ I loved Zoe’s yarn. I am so glad you told me about it!! 😍😍 hopefully I can finish all the things I want to make on time for Christmas!!
My goodness you've been knitting up a storm Fernanda!! I found it so funny that we both made mistakes early on while knitting the backs of our Chestnuts 😂 Your Juniper cardigan is going to be soooo beautiful and there's no doubt in my mind that you'll manage to get it done for Christmas Eve 🥰🥰🥰
So many traditions I love...I do like to purchase one new special ornament each year for the tree, which I did yesterday...a handmade one from a maker that I know. I just finished knitting a pair of socks out of Kroy for my youngest, but he is 30! I used the Sidewalk colour, very nice....but I think my needle size was too small...it made a nice fabric, but it hurt my wrists to work on...I'm glad I made them, but I'm also glad they are done 😁
Hello Sandra! Yes!! That Kroy sock yarn is for sure thicker!!! I love getting special ornaments. We always buy one when we go on vacation. So we have special ones that are attached to a special time!
youtube recommended your podcast, I'm so glad they did as have enjoyed watching. I have just subscribed. I live in the UK. Our family's main Christmas tradition centres around Christmas Eve food. Being born in Cornwall in the far south of England we always have Cornish pasties followed by Sticky toffee pudding on Xmas Eve. This allows plenty of time to prepare the veggies for Xmas Day dinner and quality family time. xx
Hello Lynn! I am so glad that you enjoyed your time here! ❤️ that sounds delicious and so fun! I have not tried Cornish pasties, but my brother has made sticky toffee pudding! Jamie Oliver is one of my favorite chefs to follow, I have many of his cooking books, and I love watching his CZcams show, so I learn a lot from his traditions too!
I'm new. I love your philosophy of knitting.. One stitch at a time. I'm trying to overcome anxiety and ADHD and perfectionism... Thru knitting. 😂 Right?? But this is a great approach to almost anything.. One stitch at a time. Break things down. ❣️🥰❣️ Oh that orange is over of my favorite colors
Hello Chrissy! I am glad you are here ❤️❤️❤️ yes, taking everything one step at a time can make something that seems daunting and hard a lot easier!!! Thank you much for watching! And have a merry Christmas!
Thanks so much for this delightful episode. your knits are gorgeous and your family is really lucky to have so many lovingly knitted presents. I am taking my time with giftknitting as I had given myself some deadlines and it was getting stressful....the opposite of what I am looking for in my knitting! Never mind. I'll finish off my projects and gift them for other circumstances. xxxxx
That’s a wonderful way of doing it, knitting shouldn’t be stressful, it should be fun! Thank you so much for watching and your kind words. I wish you the best of this holiday time! ❤️
Happy birthdays 🎂 your chestnut looks AMAZING 😍 hope you do vlogmas, it's my tradition for the 3rd year now. Congratulations on the subs that's brilliant 👏👏👏😘
I make Pasteles and Coquito. This is a Puerto Rican Christmas tradition. I taught one of my three sons how to make Pasteles so he will be able to pass on the family tradition.
Love, Love, Love you and your podcast so much! Thank you for your positive spirit and your beautiful knitting! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Fernanda!! Our family tradition is to have a fire going while decorating for Christmas - although living just outside San Antonio, Texas it's often warm...so we pretend with the TV fireplace when it's too warm! LOL. Hugs from my knitting home to yours!!❤
Hello Sylvia!! You are always so kind and I’m always so happy to hear from you ❤️ we use the TV fireplace too sometimes since we don’t have a proper one 🤣 but it does make things seem very cozy!! Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family! ❤️❤️
My favorite tradition is to pretend being St.Mykolay (our Ukrainian Santa). Here, he comes on 19th of Dec and put gifts under kids' pillows)) seeing those exited and surprised little eyes...so much enjoy
@@littlemonkeysandme3171 we do, but no presents. Families just get together to have a Christmas eve dinner. St.Mykolay also wants to be in a family circle that evening ))) so he prefers to do his job earlier 🙃
I love making tamales for Christmas for our Christmas eve dinner and Christmas day breakfast. It is a tradition that my mom's family has been doing for as long as I can remember. All the women in our family would get together and make a large batch of tamales together (the largest batch I have made is 45 dozen of them bad boys- there were 7 of us that made them together that time).
Ahhhhh love your episodes as always! I once made a very similar mistake in a colorwork cardigan and one thing you could do if it is still bothering you is to duplicate stitch over it! I don't think you need to and think that the beauty of handmade objects is that we are not machines and make mistakes, BUT if it is driving you crazy you could duplicate stitch over it!
Thank you!! Yes, I thought about it and I have done it with other things, but in this case…I think the mistake is hardly noticeable and it doesn’t really bother me, so I think I’ll keep it! 😍 have a wonderful holiday season!
Hello! As for Traditions for Christmas: Listening the movie Santa Clause with Tim Allen all bundled up on the couch with hot cocoa lol so much fun ! Also the Christmas mass on Christmas Eve ! Followed by the opening of gifts! And new pyjamas lol Have a merry Christmas with your family!
@@helenedumoulin9092 hello! It is called Ecco and it is by nestle but they sell it mostly in Chile (where I am originally from) sometimes you can find it online, but not sure who sells it, maybe Amazon. A local store to me brings it sometimes. If I can’t find it, I buy another drink that tastes very similar and it is called Pero, and I buy that one through Amazon! I hope that helps!
Such a joy to watch you! We'll have to find a way to get you some British wool that's not wildly expensive. "Coo" is the scottish word for cow! So "Ginger Coo" is a ginger cow, just like the highland cows you love to much! Very very cute.
That’s what I thought!! I couldn’t read the handwriting on that tag, but I think that is what it said! I will have to order some British wool one of these days, I’m sure I’ll be paying less than what I did on that one cone!! ❤️❤️
Love love love your Chestnut cardigan Fernanda it looks amazing! I am also gobsmacked at all of your Christmas knitting you have been so productive. I was interested to see Parallel as I was so tempted by that colour so may get some next round. I will be interested to hear how you go using the single strand it’s a lovely pattern. One of my favourite traditions was doing a Christmas Eve drive with the kids to see all the Christmas lights on houses around the town 😊 have a lovely holiday with family time.
Hello Bern!!! I have been knitting like a mad woman hahaha I am excited to see too how the one strand ends up knitting up. We go on a drive looking for Christmas lights too!
I've really decided I'm starting gift knitting in like April next year so I don't have to cram everything into one month while there's still projects I want to do for me. I'm currently working on a stocking for my boyfriend and will be making one for myself after and as this is our first Christmas living together I'm hoping we can start some traditions of our own
We love getting ornaments in our different trips, it just makes them so special. I’m glad you can start some new traditions with your boyfriend. And yes, I’ll have to start my gift knitting before…I had done some months ago, but I still had more to make.
Congrats on hitting 3K! I remember your first podcast! I bake Polish bread (Babka) every year at Christmas time. Every time I make it I wonder why I don't bake it at any other time during the year? I can't believe how fast you knit! I'm trying to learn continental style to maybe pick up some speed.
Hello Dorothy!! Babka is very delicious!! And I do the same with some other recipes…I only make them at certain times during the year and then wonder why I don’t do it more often. But I guess, that is how they stay special! Have a Merry Christmas!
I love Christmas traditions….. baking cookies, watching certain movies, decorating the tree, gingerbread house challenge, stockings on Christmas morning, always the same breakfast and lunch on Christmas Day (our children won’t allow the menu to change!). So much family fun! I, too, want to order from Wooly Knits!! I almost did on Black Friday but when I do order, I want to order a lot to make it worth the shipping. I didn’t really “need” any yarn so I’m going to wait. Looking at their Instagram page, it looks like they have a big sale during the summer. I’m going to try to be mindful in the next 6 months and decide on some patterns I want to make so that I’m not just buying yarn. I’m looking forward to your vlogmas, however you devide to do it. I totally agree that you need to make it fun and not “a job.” Merry CHRISTmas to you and your family!
Oh, and I’m so glad that you shared more about your chestnut cardigan. I really want to make a Marie Wallin sweater but have been afraid of the colorwork purling. I’m so glad you shared your thoughts on that!
Hello Susan! I will have to keep my eyes peeled for that sale from Woolly knits, like you, I like buying with a purpose and I don’t want to just buy and then not use!!! All those traditions sound fantastic and it is exactly what it should be, spending time with family and loved ones remembering Christ! I hope you have a very merry Christmas!
Hi Fernanada:) I am catching up on your videos!!!!! You do beautiful work:) Love seeing all your makes. This is my first advent also. I have no idea what to make lol Looking forward to watching more videos:) Decorating for Christmas is always a favorite as making fudge for family and friends!!!!
Your Chestnut is looking fantastic! One of our holiday traditions is Nollaig na mBan: Women’s Christmas’ which is 6th of January. Traditionally it was the day the men waited on the women & the women got to enjoy a ‘little Christmas’ after doing so much work over the festive season. Nowadays, it’s a day where women get together with other women friends/family. I missed not being able to do so in person last time with the lockdown, but *maybe* this time? Either way, that’s the day the Christmas must be down by, and that done by the fellas, of course 😉
I wish the regular craft stores had more options in 100% wool. Besides the Patons and lion brand fisherman wool there’s hobby lobby’s I love this wool. I’m not positive, bit Of the three I think the patons classic wool might be the closest to DK. Christmas tradition in my family is to get new pjs on Christmas Eve and also we make Greek cookies along with traditional Christmas cookies
Hello Cassie!! Yes! Hobby Lobby does have a 100% wool, forgot about them…but I really wish there were more options. Greek cookies sounds delicious!! Have a wonderful Holiday Season!
Hola Alejandra, So many Christmas Traditions but here are a few. My daughters and I along with my granddaughters go to San Francisco (I live in the San Francisco Bay Area in California) and stay at the Westin on Union Square and shop and enjoy all the decorations, ice skating rink and just the wonderful hustle and bustle of the Christmas Season. We missed it last year but we are booked for the weekend of the 11th. Also cookies and fudge and Tamales are the foods we always have. Last on Christmas Eve I fill Christmas stockings for my children and grandchildren. That brings me so much joy. I have 11 grandchildren and 5 children and their spouses. I have a spiral staircase and the stockings are hung on the banister. BTW I am knitting hats or socks for all of them!!!! I hope I can get them all done. Thank you for your enjoyable podcast and have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy your family. God Bless 🎄
Those sound like wonderful traditions!! I am so glad you get to do things with children and grandchildren. The time spent together is priceless and they will remember these times forever! Good luck with your Christmas knitting! ❤️❤️
Hello Jodi!! You absolutely should try!!! You could start with some of her sweaters that only have colorwork in the yoke! or ones that don’t have any colorwork!!! You can do it! 💪🏼💪🏼
I LOVE your Chestnut so far! I think my first colorwork project was knit flat and I didn't know to think of it as "difficult" so I just dove in. I try to teach others to think that way too. I think a video on how you handled the chart would be cool to see, but I think you should reach out to the designer first. Even though it's freely available on her website, it could be a violation of copyright to share it. Copyright usually forbids reproducing and distributing which I think sharing it without the designers permission would fall into that. It's always best to protect yourself first!
Hi Fernanda. I hope you have a wonderful time with your family and I know you will have a Christ filled Christmas. I really love your colorwork sweater, I think it’s called Chestnut. I wanted to mention that I saw a video recently where someone had made a mistake in their colorwork and she fixed it later by using duplicate stitch with the correct color over top of the mistake. And I just want to say, too, that it would be nice to hear how you think of the colorwork chart so that it’s easier to follow. If you’re concerned about using the chart from the pattern, you could find another chart to use and talk in general terms. God bless.
Hello Michelle! It is always a joy to hear from you ❤️ you are so right, I could do duplicate stitch with the right colors…I’ll think about it. I kind of like the “mistake” now haha And yes! Maybe I could use another chart. Another viewer mentioned sending an email to Marie Wallin and ask her permission. I might do that!! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!
So happy to see a podcast from you. Makes my day! Dec 1st we pull out a homemade advent tree with pockets 1-25 and the kids get a treat and a Xmas activity everyday. Dec 1st is always put up tree. Question for you: when you knit your kids socks how do you do the gusset? I love your little recipes. But u forgot to mention the heel and gusset. Thx in advance. See u soon hopefully
I do a heel flap and gusset. I do it the same as an adult just a bit shorter. For my 5 year old I only did 18 row for his heel and picked up 11 stitches on each side. For my 8 year old I did 28 rows for her heel and picked up 16 stitches on each side!! Your tradition sounds perfect! Your children will have so much fun! ❤️❤️❤️
@@littlemonkeysandme3171 thank u for that. I will try that. I have a 10&12 year old but a 2 yo grandson too. So lots of sizes to think about. I am buying my 10 yo the 1st Harry Potter book for Xmas because of u. I want to prepare him for his big 11 bday. Maybe a HP sweater?!🤔💙💕
@@christinefunk3591 how exciting!!! We love Harry Potter so much and if he likes it too. Then a Harry Potter sweater will be a very well received gift!!!
I don't really bake, but I like to make a gingerbread house for work every year. My sister in law made me and my husband the most beautiful stockings and I love hanging them and choosing lovely things to put in my husband's stocking. Also Christmas crafting is a lovely tradition for me. Even before I knit I loved to make decorations and cards every year. I love your podcast, especially seeing all the gifts you've made your family.
Hello Jennifer!! Those are wonderful traditions!! My sister in law makes handmade ornaments for everyone in the family! They are so very special to all of us! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
how do we find the shop for the embroidered project bag with the tree? I can't find it. It's gorgeous! Great podcast! Have a great Christmas!Oh... my favorite tradition used to be our Tree Farm day and Cookie Day. But my. kids have all moved away (with ALL of my grand babies!) and we have a dreaded fake tree now. So this year I'm trying to find some new traditions to bring me joy.
I’m sorry! I forgot to link her shop, I just linked it. The tree bag was a special collection, so she won’t be making it again. But she does have other designs that are very pretty. She doesn’t have any up right now, but she does updates every month! I hope you can find new traditions to fill your heart and days this December!
Your Chestnut is absolutely gorgeous!!!!! I have a sock question for you. When you say you knit 'x' amount of rows for the foot, are you starting your count from when you pick up after the heel flap?
Sorry it took me so long to respond. Yes. I count that first picked up row as the first round of the foot. So, for me I do 60 of those before I start the toe! i hope that helps!
I really enojoy your podcast. Love the socks you made. Thanks for sharing the recipe. Im new at sock knitting, but i really enojoy it. In my family we don't put out christmas decorations or eat gingerbread coockies before the first of advent(första advent, in swedish). On first advent sunday, we bake gingerbread cookies and put up the christmas decorations. on second advent we bake "lussebullar"(I don't know if english have an actual word for these buns, but they taste amazing) or make an gingerbread house. We usually make or bake some kind of holiday inspired candy or buns or cookies on every advent sunday, in my family, for example(I will write this in Swedish 'cause I don't know the english words): Pepparkakor, lussebullar, knäck, kola, and ischoklad. And of course we go on christmas markets and buy something like smked sausague made by bear- or boar- or elk meat.
How wonderful!!! I love hearing about traditions of other countries! Do you celebrate St. Lucia? We have a book that talks all about it and it has a recipe for lussebullar!!
@@littlemonkeysandme3171 yes st Lucia is an big thing here in Sweden, we just call it "Lucia". Both in the country in general but even in the schools and preeschool it's a big thing with "luciatåg" and special songs just for this occasion that the kids practice every year from preeschool up until we are adults.
What was the pink yarn that you are making your sweater with? I didn’t understand what you had said. I use a 1.25 mm needle to make my fingering socks but I accidentally ordered a sport weight sock yarn and started knitting it and was way to big but fit my husband so well. I guess I might have to do a 0mm to knit my sport weight for myself or make the smaller size with a 1.25 might work too. Love the clover color way.
It's simple, but I find so much joy in lighting the candles each night of Hannukah with my husband. It's what I look forward to the most.
Hello Valerie! You are so right, the simple things can bring us such joy!!! I hope you had a wonderful Hanukkah!
One of my favorite traditions is, just having the whole family together on Christmas Eve. I also love just giving away crochet or knitting items to strangers around the holiday.
Spending time with my family is also my favorite. And how kind of you to share your talents with so many!! Merry Christmas Joyce
One of my favorite traditions is getting a picture of my girls in front of the Christmas tree. Since my second daughter's first Christmas, I have had them sit in front of the tree, in the same positions each year for a picture to see how they grow. 🎄
Oh wow!!! That’s a wonderful tradition 😍 I bet seeing through those years will be very precious when they are all grown up!!!
"Fancy" hot chocolate & Christmas shows/movie night...and knitting! My favorite traditions....and memories.
Sounds delicious and wonderful!! I also love doing those things! Watching a Christmas movie right now!! ❤️❤️❤️
Our favorite Christmas tradition started when my son was a toddler. My best friend comes to our house, and two of them decorate our Christmas tree. I am "helping" them by preparing a tree and Christmas ornaments, and I am in charge of taking lots of pictures and videos. After all that "hard work" we drink some hot chocolate, eat cookies and watch a movie. Our family lives in Europe, and it was important for me to start a tradition that my son will remember as we cannot travel to Europe for Christmas.
That sounds like a wonderful tradition and your son will remember it with joy later on! My kids love decorating the Christmas tree ❤️
Our favourite Christmas tradition is baking. Growing up my mom would let us pick out whatever we wanted to bake out of her cookbooks then go shop for all the ingredients. We would all gather together in the kitchen and bake together. There was always a lot of yummy different Christmas goodies! Congratulations on 3000! Love love your podcast! Thanks for all you do!
Oh my goodness Rosemarie, that sounds sooo special! I am so glad you have such beautiful memories!
Ever since my kids were little, when we decorate our tree I unwrap all the ornaments and tell the story of each one…where it came from, etc. And we always watch The Preachers Wife while we decorate the tree too!
I love that tradition!! We do something very similar. Every ornament has a story and we even have some that my husband made as a child!!! ❤️❤️
Every year, a few weeks before Christmas, my mom makes some baker’s dough that we then use to create Christmas ornaments. We use food coloring to make several different colors of the dough, then create different shapes (Santa’s, Christmas trees, snowmen, etc). The ornaments are then baked and eventually hung on the tree. That’s our family tradition. Love your podcast!!!
So lovely Kim!!! We have made ornaments with my kids too and they love hanging them on the tree! I hope your Christmas was wonderful❤️
Now that my daughter has grown, we do not do as many gifts during the Yule Season. We have agreed to give as things are needed or "thought of you and wanted you to have this".
It was most fun to guide her when she was very young through the choices for the gifts for individuals. And later watching her make selections on her own.
I have no idea how time can pass so quickly. It feels like she should still be in grade school !
Do not feel guilty or the need to apologize for putting your immediate family first. We, your "yarn family", expect nothing less.
Happy Christmas to you and your family.
Thank you so much Dawn. These past two weeks with family were sooo wonderful, not having the stress of vlogmas is exactly how it should have been. My oldest is only 11 and I already feel like time has gone sooo fast. Thank you for sharing your beautiful memory with your daughter. Merry Christmas!
Wow so many projects!!! I absolutely love all the socks you've been knitting, especially the ones for your youngest. I would never imagine the colour to turn out like this by looking at this ball of yarn. Have a wonderful time with your family and enjoy every precious minute with them ❤️
Thank you so much Magda! It was such a joy to see how those were going to turn out and my son LOVES them!!!
Thank you so much Magda! It was such a joy to see how those were going to turn out and my son LOVES them!!! I hope you have a wonderful holiday time!! ❤️❤️❤️
Fernanada, you are a knitting MACHINE girl! My favourite crafting Christmas tradition is choosing a knit theme for my kids or the grands and then having the fun of choosing the co,ours and madly knitting them up- we have had animal scarves, felted slippers, hockey team themed family hats, and this year it has been hats with bling for all the granddaughters and socks for the bigger boys.
Hello Jennifer!! what a wonderful tradition. Your family is so very lucky! ❤️❤️❤️ merry Christmas!
I love your podcast! Congratulations on 3K subscribers! That is awesome! Our favorite tradition is to play Polar Express on Christmas morning!
Thank you so much Vanessa!! And that sounds like a fun tradition, how do you play Polar express??
Thank you for sharing all your projects! I enjoy seeing everything! My favorite holiday tradition is having breakfast casserole on Christmas morning with my family!
Thank you so much Sara!! That sounds delicious, so nice to have something yummy when everyone is tired and enjoying a slow morning! ❤️
I love seeing your little boys socks, they are so sweet.
Thank you Kim! He loved them so much!
My favorite tradition is Christmas breakfast. We love having Eggs Benedict for breakfast and then add a ton of other food to the table. Its just so much fun feasting on Christmas day! :-)
That sounds delicious!! I love eggs Benedict! 😍😍
Your cardigan is a work of art, your colors are amazing, love it.
Thank you so much Sue!! It is so fun to knit, the day it is done…I will do a happy dance!
New subscriber!
A tradition I love is my son and DIL use Christmas paper to block off the door to the living room so the little one has to burst through the paper to get to the presents!
Hello!! 👋🏼 so happy to have you here. That is a very fun tradition, I bet your grandkids love it 😍
Love your shawl & cardigan. I want to learn how to make socks & you’re inspiring me! 3,000, WOW! My favorite tradition is all my children & grandchildren getting together & making Christmas cookies… 🎄🧶
That’s a wonderful tradition!! And you should totally get on the sock knitting wagon!! Come and join the craziness hahaha have a wonderful Christmas!
Congrats on 3000 subscribers!! The holiday season is one of my favorite times of the year. A tradition that I love is making Christmas cookies with my children and grand children. We usually take a weekend and make cookies for friends and family. I remember making cookies with my family as a child and it holds special memories. Your chestnut sweater is going to be beautiful. Happy holidays to you and yours.
Hello Carol!!! We like making cookies too, I love how traditions can hold such a sweet place in our hearts! Have a wonderful holiday season too!
Congratulations. Woohoo. You’ve passed 3000 subscribers. Well done xox
Thank you so much Sue!!! I so appreciate you watching and supporting me!! ❤️❤️❤️
Some of our traditions include: traveling across the country (Oregon to Illinois) and then driving around the Midwest to visit family. We also get real Christmas tree, etc. we do the elf on the shelf thing. We have a nice biblically based book advent that Mathilda enjoys. I feel the same about recording vlogmas; I really related to what you said. I don’t feel like my life is super interesting and I do not want to feel overwhelmed by it or lose joy. However, I’ve done 6 days of it and I’m enjoying it. It’s turned into a way to capture family time in a fun way that I appreciate. Who knows if I will finish or do it next year, but so far the first six days have been fun.
So happy to hear that you have been enjoying vlogmas! I might do it next year when I don’t have family In town, I don’t see me recording now with everyone here!!
I love watching Christmas movies with my family
We love watching movies too. Merry Christmas!
Decorating sugar cookies with my kiddos and little brother. It has been several years since he has been home for Christmas, and he will be this year. Can't wait to decorate cookies with him.
Aww how special!! I’m so glad that you will be able to be with your little brother. Mine is here in town too, haven’t seen him in about 3 years…we are having a blast!!! Merry Christmas Brandi!
we bake certain items like fudge, peanut butter balls and sugar cookies during the Christmas season. We each open one present on Christmas Eve
Hello Norma!! That all sounds delicious! I just love hearing about everyone’s traditions!! merry Christmas!
Thanks for offering this prize package and congratulations!!!! on achieving 3K! I'm sure by this time next year you'll have more than 5K (and you'll have to run that far and post it : )) We have both Christmas and Chanukah in our home. Christmas dinner is something I've only been exposed to for about 7 years... and it was my first time making a turkey, if you can believe it! I love planning the Xmas menu, tweaking it a bit every year, and I always make everything from scratch: stuffing, sides, desserts. My favourite Chanukah tradition is lighting the menorah for 8 nights. It's very peaceful and grounding. Be well!
Hello Kaila!! Thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement!!! I am so glad that you get to celebrate both traditions and turkey is one of my favorite things ever!!!
My favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas Eve mass and then dinner afterwards with family!
Sounds wonderful!! We do many fun things on Christmas Eve!!
Sounds wonderful!! We do many fun things on Christmas Eve!!
My favorite thing to do during this season is to get presents for my boys and for the little ones in the family. We all get together on Christmas Eve and the kids get to open their presents after dinner.
That sounds wonderful!! We also open presents on Christmas Eve!!! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas with family!
@@littlemonkeysandme3171 thank you too, wishing you and your family many blessings and wonderful Christmas time.
Do Vlogmas next year please! Id love to watch. :) Making my own wreaths and garlands from our evergreen trees to put in our home is my favorite winter holiday tradition. :)
Aww thank you for the encouragement Becca!! I do want to join in the fun next year, it has been wonderful just enjoying family and not worrying about uploading and recording. Next year it should be easier for me to participate and I’m excited for it!! ❤️
Love watching you Fernanda! Thanks for making a lovely podcast!
Thank you Ashley!! What a wonderfully kind thing to say! ❤️❤️
So glad to see you again :-) my mum used to write a letter and in there she wrote what the family had done the last year. She included that with the Christmas card. I'm doing that as well now and it's so nice! Friends that you don't see or speak very often get to know what you've been up to. That christmas card used to be a photo of the family. I'm doing that as well :-)
That’s a wonderful tradition!! I remember when people used to that, it was so nice. I guess with social media and people knowing everything that everyone is doing, not that many people include those with their Christmas cards anymore!! Glad you are keeping the tradition alive! have a merry Christmas!
Love the socks. I hope one day I can do it. I am learning to knit, but I know how to crochet. My favorite tradition is the Epiphany on January 6. I am from Puerto Rico and we celebrate in big. I live now in USA and I continuing with this tradition and teaching my son the Epiphany.
I’m so glad that you can continue your traditions!! And I think if you continue to practice, soon enough you’ll be able to knit yourself a pair of socks!!
Happy Holidays friend!!! Love your Chestnut!!! - Kimberly
Thank you!! I’m loving it ❤️❤️
Making Christmas cookies with my grandchildren!
Your knitting is amazing 👏 😍
Thank you so much Micki! Baking with kids is so special! They will remember that forever ❤️❤️
Always a good time seeing what you have been up to, thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much! I hope you have a wonderful day!
Your socks are amazing!! So glad your back!!
Thank you!!! I hope you have a wonderful day!
I really am enjoying your podcast. Your Chestnut sweater is just gorgeous! My favorite Christmas traditions are going to our beautiful Christmas Eve Mass, enjoying a cozy Christmas Day just at home with my family, a in general enjoying Christmas music and decorations. God bless!
Thank you for sharing! We do many of those traditions too. ❤️
I always from the time my children were little have read the Christmas story out of the Bible to them. They are all grown but I still keep this tradition.
Hello Chrystal! Yes! We also read the Christmas story from the Bible…my parents did it with me and my brothers when we were little and we continue the tradition. Have a very Merry Christmas!
Wow! Your chestnut cardigan is going to be amazing🤩 Love your color combination🥰
One of my favorite christmas tradition are when we are getting our christmas tree. We have friends that owns a big forrest. And we go there and pick a tree and shoot it down with a hunting rifle🎄 My boys love it🥰
Hope you have a wonderful time with your family visiting❤ Have a blessed advent🌟 Love from Anne🇧🇻
Thank you Anne! And that sounds like a wonderful tradition, my kids would love to shoot down a tree!!! 😱😱😍😍😍
Hello from hot Melbourne Australia 🌞 and it is a cold drink for me. Fernanda your Chestnut looks beautiful. I have not started my Marie Wallin project yet but I have the yarn ready I just need to finish of some of the gift knitting first 🧶 We like to go to the beach on Christmas Day 🏖
Growing up in the Southern Hemisphere myself….we enjoyed a hot Christmas too!!! Going the beach sounds perfect!! It sounds like you will get to start your Marie Wallin project soon! How exciting 😍😍
Congrats on 3k! 🎉 I still can’t believe how fast you knit! 🤯 love your socks out of Zoe’s yarn, it’s so cute and festive 😍
Thank you Naomi!! ❤️ I loved Zoe’s yarn. I am so glad you told me about it!! 😍😍 hopefully I can finish all the things I want to make on time for Christmas!!
@@littlemonkeysandme3171 lol, I have no doubt you will 😂
My goodness you've been knitting up a storm Fernanda!! I found it so funny that we both made mistakes early on while knitting the backs of our Chestnuts 😂 Your Juniper cardigan is going to be soooo beautiful and there's no doubt in my mind that you'll manage to get it done for Christmas Eve 🥰🥰🥰
Thanks Nikki!! I’m glad I’m not the only one that made a mistake! I keep getting distracted, so I hope that I finish my Jupiter cardigan!!
So many traditions I love...I do like to purchase one new special ornament each year for the tree, which I did yesterday...a handmade one from a maker that I know. I just finished knitting a pair of socks out of Kroy for my youngest, but he is 30! I used the Sidewalk colour, very nice....but I think my needle size was too small...it made a nice fabric, but it hurt my wrists to work on...I'm glad I made them, but I'm also glad they are done 😁
Hello Sandra! Yes!! That Kroy sock yarn is for sure thicker!!! I love getting special ornaments. We always buy one when we go on vacation. So we have special ones that are attached to a special time!
youtube recommended your podcast, I'm so glad they did as have enjoyed watching. I have just subscribed. I live in the UK. Our family's main Christmas tradition centres around Christmas Eve food. Being born in Cornwall in the far south of England we always have Cornish pasties followed by Sticky toffee pudding on Xmas Eve. This allows plenty of time to prepare the veggies for Xmas Day dinner and quality family time. xx
Hello Lynn! I am so glad that you enjoyed your time here! ❤️ that sounds delicious and so fun! I have not tried Cornish pasties, but my brother has made sticky toffee pudding! Jamie Oliver is one of my favorite chefs to follow, I have many of his cooking books, and I love watching his CZcams show, so I learn a lot from his traditions too!
I'm new. I love your philosophy of knitting.. One stitch at a time. I'm trying to overcome anxiety and ADHD and perfectionism... Thru knitting. 😂 Right?? But this is a great approach to almost anything.. One stitch at a time. Break things down. ❣️🥰❣️ Oh that orange is over of my favorite colors
Hello Chrissy! I am glad you are here ❤️❤️❤️ yes, taking everything one step at a time can make something that seems daunting and hard a lot easier!!! Thank you much for watching! And have a merry Christmas!
Thanks so much for this delightful episode. your knits are gorgeous and your family is really lucky to have so many lovingly knitted presents. I am taking my time with giftknitting as I had given myself some deadlines and it was getting stressful....the opposite of what I am looking for in my knitting! Never mind. I'll finish off my projects and gift them for other circumstances. xxxxx
That’s a wonderful way of doing it, knitting shouldn’t be stressful, it should be fun! Thank you so much for watching and your kind words. I wish you the best of this holiday time! ❤️
Happy birthdays 🎂 your chestnut looks AMAZING 😍 hope you do vlogmas, it's my tradition for the 3rd year now. Congratulations on the subs that's brilliant 👏👏👏😘
Hello Dawn!! You are so sweet. I’ll have to give vlogmas a try next year, for now, I’ll just enjoy yours! 😘
We start decorating the day after Thanksgiving Thank you
That’s what we usually do too! but this year we did it a little early since we had family in town for thanksgiving!!! Have a merry Christmas!
I make Pasteles and Coquito. This is a Puerto Rican Christmas tradition. I taught one of my three sons how to make Pasteles so he will be able to pass on the family tradition.
They sound delicious!! Passing down traditions is just my favorite thing! 😍😍😍 have a merry Christmas!
Love, Love, Love you and your podcast so much! Thank you for your positive spirit and your beautiful knitting! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Fernanda!! Our family tradition is to have a fire going while decorating for Christmas - although living just outside San Antonio, Texas it's often warm...so we pretend with the TV fireplace when it's too warm! LOL. Hugs from my knitting home to yours!!❤
Hello Sylvia!! You are always so kind and I’m always so happy to hear from you ❤️ we use the TV fireplace too sometimes since we don’t have a proper one 🤣 but it does make things seem very cozy!! Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family! ❤️❤️
I never sell any of my makes either for exactly the same reasons as you. Lovely makes and the shawlography looks amazing
Thank you Samantha! Understanding our worth is important! i hope you have a merry Christmas!
I am the same as you when it comes to selling my work. I'd rather enjoy my projects and not have to worry about deadlines or money.
It is so hard to sell handknits! I love knitting too much!!
My favorite tradition is to pretend being St.Mykolay (our Ukrainian Santa). Here, he comes on 19th of Dec and put gifts under kids' pillows)) seeing those exited and surprised little eyes...so much enjoy
How wonderful!! 😍😍😍 do you still celebrate on the 25th or only on the 19th?
@@littlemonkeysandme3171 we do, but no presents. Families just get together to have a Christmas eve dinner. St.Mykolay also wants to be in a family circle that evening ))) so he prefers to do his job earlier 🙃
@@yuliia_soroka how fun!!! I love learning about traditions from all over the world! Have a merry Christmas 🎄
I love making tamales for Christmas for our Christmas eve dinner and Christmas day breakfast. It is a tradition that my mom's family has been doing for as long as I can remember. All the women in our family would get together and make a large batch of tamales together (the largest batch I have made is 45 dozen of them bad boys- there were 7 of us that made them together that time).
How wonderful!!! I love tamales! One of my uncles is Mexican, so my aunt also makes them for Christmas Eve!!
Ahhhhh love your episodes as always! I once made a very similar mistake in a colorwork cardigan and one thing you could do if it is still bothering you is to duplicate stitch over it! I don't think you need to and think that the beauty of handmade objects is that we are not machines and make mistakes, BUT if it is driving you crazy you could duplicate stitch over it!
Thank you!! Yes, I thought about it and I have done it with other things, but in this case…I think the mistake is hardly noticeable and it doesn’t really bother me, so I think I’ll keep it! 😍 have a wonderful holiday season!
Trimming the tree is my fave thing. Almost all my ornaments are either handmade or from years and years ago. I love the memories they bring me!
How sweet Debbie. We also have many handmade ornaments, including some that my husband made as a child!!! ❤️❤️
Hello! As for Traditions for Christmas: Listening the movie Santa Clause with Tim Allen all bundled up on the couch with hot cocoa lol so much fun ! Also the Christmas mass on Christmas Eve ! Followed by the opening of gifts! And new pyjamas lol Have a merry Christmas with your family!
That sounds wonderful Hélène!! We love that movie so much too! 😍😍 we also get new jammies on Christmas Eve!! Have a wonderful Christmas ❤️❤️
@@littlemonkeysandme3171 hi again! Could you tell me what you are drinking in your first episode .. barley drink… but what brand or where to buy ..?
@@helenedumoulin9092 hello! It is called Ecco and it is by nestle but they sell it mostly in Chile (where I am originally from) sometimes you can find it online, but not sure who sells it, maybe Amazon. A local store to me brings it sometimes. If I can’t find it, I buy another drink that tastes very similar and it is called Pero, and I buy that one through Amazon! I hope that helps!
Such a joy to watch you! We'll have to find a way to get you some British wool that's not wildly expensive.
"Coo" is the scottish word for cow! So "Ginger Coo" is a ginger cow, just like the highland cows you love to much! Very very cute.
That’s what I thought!! I couldn’t read the handwriting on that tag, but I think that is what it said! I will have to order some British wool one of these days, I’m sure I’ll be paying less than what I did on that one cone!! ❤️❤️
Love love love your Chestnut cardigan Fernanda it looks amazing! I am also gobsmacked at all of your Christmas knitting you have been so productive. I was interested to see Parallel as I was so tempted by that colour so may get some next round. I will be interested to hear how you go using the single strand it’s a lovely pattern. One of my favourite traditions was doing a Christmas Eve drive with the kids to see all the Christmas lights on houses around the town 😊 have a lovely holiday with family time.
Hello Bern!!! I have been knitting like a mad woman hahaha I am excited to see too how the one strand ends up knitting up. We go on a drive looking for Christmas lights too!
I've really decided I'm starting gift knitting in like April next year so I don't have to cram everything into one month while there's still projects I want to do for me. I'm currently working on a stocking for my boyfriend and will be making one for myself after and as this is our first Christmas living together I'm hoping we can start some traditions of our own
We love getting ornaments in our different trips, it just makes them so special. I’m glad you can start some new traditions with your boyfriend. And yes, I’ll have to start my gift knitting before…I had done some months ago, but I still had more to make.
Congrats on hitting 3K! I remember your first podcast! I bake Polish bread (Babka) every year at Christmas time. Every time I make it I wonder why I don't bake it at any other time during the year? I can't believe how fast you knit! I'm trying to learn continental style to maybe pick up some speed.
Hello Dorothy!! Babka is very delicious!! And I do the same with some other recipes…I only make them at certain times during the year and then wonder why I don’t do it more often. But I guess, that is how they stay special! Have a Merry Christmas!
I love Christmas traditions….. baking cookies, watching certain movies, decorating the tree, gingerbread house challenge, stockings on Christmas morning, always the same breakfast and lunch on Christmas Day (our children won’t allow the menu to change!). So much family fun!
I, too, want to order from Wooly Knits!! I almost did on Black Friday but when I do order, I want to order a lot to make it worth the shipping. I didn’t really “need” any yarn so I’m going to wait. Looking at their Instagram page, it looks like they have a big sale during the summer. I’m going to try to be mindful in the next 6 months and decide on some patterns I want to make so that I’m not just buying yarn. I’m looking forward to your vlogmas, however you devide to do it. I totally agree that you need to make it fun and not “a job.”
Merry CHRISTmas to you and your family!
Oh, and I’m so glad that you shared more about your chestnut cardigan. I really want to make a Marie Wallin sweater but have been afraid of the colorwork purling. I’m so glad you shared your thoughts on that!
Hello Susan! I will have to keep my eyes peeled for that sale from Woolly knits, like you, I like buying with a purpose and I don’t want to just buy and then not use!!! All those traditions sound fantastic and it is exactly what it should be, spending time with family and loved ones remembering Christ! I hope you have a very merry Christmas!
We open 1 present on Christmas Eve before bed.
That sounds like a wonderful tradition! We give the kids their Christmas pjs on Christmas Eve!
Hi Fernanada:) I am catching up on your videos!!!!! You do beautiful work:) Love seeing all your makes. This is my first advent also. I have no idea what to make lol Looking forward to watching more videos:) Decorating for Christmas is always a favorite as making fudge for family and friends!!!!
Hello Sara!! I’m loving my advent so very much 😍 and we love decorating for Christmas too!!
@@littlemonkeysandme3171 🤗🤗❤️❤️
Your Chestnut is looking fantastic! One of our holiday traditions is Nollaig na mBan: Women’s Christmas’ which is 6th of January. Traditionally it was the day the men waited on the women & the women got to enjoy a ‘little Christmas’ after doing so much work over the festive season. Nowadays, it’s a day where women get together with other women friends/family. I missed not being able to do so in person last time with the lockdown, but *maybe* this time? Either way, that’s the day the Christmas must be down by, and that done by the fellas, of course 😉
What a wonderful tradition!! I loooove it! I hope you can actually celebrate this year!! ❤️❤️❤️
Love it 💕
😘😘😘 thank you!!
I wish the regular craft stores had more options in 100% wool. Besides the Patons and lion brand fisherman wool there’s hobby lobby’s I love this wool. I’m not positive, bit Of the three I think the patons classic wool might be the closest to DK.
Christmas tradition in my family is to get new pjs on Christmas Eve and also we make Greek cookies along with traditional Christmas cookies
Hello Cassie!! Yes! Hobby Lobby does have a 100% wool, forgot about them…but I really wish there were more options. Greek cookies sounds delicious!! Have a wonderful Holiday Season!
Hola Alejandra, So many Christmas Traditions but here are a few. My daughters and I along with my granddaughters go to San Francisco (I live in the San Francisco Bay Area in California) and stay at the Westin on Union Square and shop and enjoy all the decorations, ice skating rink and just the wonderful hustle and bustle of the Christmas Season. We missed it last year but we are booked for the weekend of the 11th. Also cookies and fudge and Tamales are the foods we always have. Last on Christmas Eve I fill Christmas stockings for my children and grandchildren. That brings me so much joy. I have 11 grandchildren and 5 children and their spouses. I have a spiral staircase and the stockings are hung on the banister. BTW I am knitting hats or socks for all of them!!!! I hope I can get them all done. Thank you for your enjoyable podcast and have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy your family. God Bless 🎄
Those sound like wonderful traditions!! I am so glad you get to do things with children and grandchildren. The time spent together is priceless and they will remember these times forever! Good luck with your Christmas knitting! ❤️❤️
I want to do a Marie Wallin sweater, you give me courage to try.😀
Hello Jodi!! You absolutely should try!!! You could start with some of her sweaters that only have colorwork in the yoke! or ones that don’t have any colorwork!!! You can do it! 💪🏼💪🏼
I LOVE your Chestnut so far! I think my first colorwork project was knit flat and I didn't know to think of it as "difficult" so I just dove in. I try to teach others to think that way too.
I think a video on how you handled the chart would be cool to see, but I think you should reach out to the designer first. Even though it's freely available on her website, it could be a violation of copyright to share it. Copyright usually forbids reproducing and distributing which I think sharing it without the designers permission would fall into that. It's always best to protect yourself first!
Thank you. Yes, I think I will talk to her. If not, I can find a random free chart online and use that instead.
Hi Fernanda. I hope you have a wonderful time with your family and I know you will have a Christ filled Christmas.
I really love your colorwork sweater, I think it’s called Chestnut. I wanted to mention that I saw a video recently where someone had made a mistake in their colorwork and she fixed it later by using duplicate stitch with the correct color over top of the mistake. And I just want to say, too, that it would be nice to hear how you think of the colorwork chart so that it’s easier to follow. If you’re concerned about using the chart from the pattern, you could find another chart to use and talk in general terms. God bless.
Hello Michelle! It is always a joy to hear from you ❤️ you are so right, I could do duplicate stitch with the right colors…I’ll think about it. I kind of like the “mistake” now haha
And yes! Maybe I could use another chart. Another viewer mentioned sending an email to Marie Wallin and ask her permission. I might do that!! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!
So happy to see a podcast from you. Makes my day! Dec 1st we pull out a homemade advent tree with pockets 1-25 and the kids get a treat and a Xmas activity everyday. Dec 1st is always put up tree. Question for you: when you knit your kids socks how do you do the gusset? I love your little recipes. But u forgot to mention the heel and gusset. Thx in advance. See u soon hopefully
I do a heel flap and gusset. I do it the same as an adult just a bit shorter. For my 5 year old I only did 18 row for his heel and picked up 11 stitches on each side. For my 8 year old I did 28 rows for her heel and picked up 16 stitches on each side!!
Your tradition sounds perfect! Your children will have so much fun! ❤️❤️❤️
@@littlemonkeysandme3171 thank u for that. I will try that. I have a 10&12 year old but a 2 yo grandson too. So lots of sizes to think about. I am buying my 10 yo the 1st Harry Potter book for Xmas because of u. I want to prepare him for his big 11 bday. Maybe a HP sweater?!🤔💙💕
@@christinefunk3591 how exciting!!! We love Harry Potter so much and if he likes it too. Then a Harry Potter sweater will be a very well received gift!!!
I don't really bake, but I like to make a gingerbread house for work every year. My sister in law made me and my husband the most beautiful stockings and I love hanging them and choosing lovely things to put in my husband's stocking. Also Christmas crafting is a lovely tradition for me. Even before I knit I loved to make decorations and cards every year. I love your podcast, especially seeing all the gifts you've made your family.
Hello Jennifer!! Those are wonderful traditions!! My sister in law makes handmade ornaments for everyone in the family! They are so very special to all of us! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
how do we find the shop for the embroidered project bag with the tree? I can't find it. It's gorgeous! Great podcast! Have a great Christmas!Oh... my favorite tradition used to be our Tree Farm day and Cookie Day. But my. kids have all moved away (with ALL of my grand babies!) and we have a dreaded fake tree now. So this year I'm trying to find some new traditions to bring me joy.
I’m sorry! I forgot to link her shop, I just linked it. The tree bag was a special collection, so she won’t be making it again. But she does have other designs that are very pretty. She doesn’t have any up right now, but she does updates every month!
I hope you can find new traditions to fill your heart and days this December!
About the Cheatnut chart video: I would contact the designer and ask. It’s promo for the patterns so potentially an win-win if you can do the video.
That is a wonderful idea!! Thank you!!!
Your Chestnut is absolutely gorgeous!!!!! I have a sock question for you. When you say you knit 'x' amount of rows for the foot, are you starting your count from when you pick up after the heel flap?
Sorry it took me so long to respond. Yes. I count that first picked up row as the first round of the foot. So, for me I do 60 of those before I start the toe! i hope that helps!
I really enojoy your podcast. Love the socks you made. Thanks for sharing the recipe. Im new at sock knitting, but i really enojoy it. In my family we don't put out christmas decorations or eat gingerbread coockies before the first of advent(första advent, in swedish). On first advent sunday, we bake gingerbread cookies and put up the christmas decorations. on second advent we bake "lussebullar"(I don't know if english have an actual word for these buns, but they taste amazing) or make an gingerbread house. We usually make or bake some kind of holiday inspired candy or buns or cookies on every advent sunday, in my family, for example(I will write this in Swedish 'cause I don't know the english words): Pepparkakor, lussebullar, knäck, kola, and ischoklad. And of course we go on christmas markets and buy something like smked sausague made by bear- or boar- or elk meat.
How wonderful!!! I love hearing about traditions of other countries! Do you celebrate St. Lucia? We have a book that talks all about it and it has a recipe for lussebullar!!
@@littlemonkeysandme3171 yes st Lucia is an big thing here in Sweden, we just call it "Lucia". Both in the country in general but even in the schools and preeschool it's a big thing with "luciatåg" and special songs just for this occasion that the kids practice every year from preeschool up until we are adults.
@@Bexsar92 yes!! How fun! I’ve read about it and I’ve heard other talking about it! So fun and interesting.
What was the pink yarn that you are making your sweater with? I didn’t understand what you had said. I use a 1.25 mm needle to make my fingering socks but I accidentally ordered a sport weight sock yarn and started knitting it and was way to big but fit my husband so well. I guess I might have to do a 0mm to knit my sport weight for myself or make the smaller size with a 1.25 might work too. Love the clover color way.
It is the Nutiden unspun yarn! It is a Swedish yarn by Höner och eir. I’ll add a link to them!