The Green Bean Podcast Episode 67: Knitting With Snakes
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
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Featured Projects:
Regolith Jumper by Kiyomi Burgin from Cosmology by Drama, using Daruma Geek yarn in the colour 08 Ocher x Moss Green
Handspun waistcoat: self-drafted for yarn made from Inglenook Fibres limited edition blend, Harfoots.
Handspun jumper: self-drafted for yarn made from John Arbon Textiles limited edition blend, Barn Owl, and 100% Zwartbles for the contrasting colour.
Outdoor footage was filmed in the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park
Intro and outro music:
"The Whole House is Singing" by Alasdair Roberts
All other music from the album "Miniatures" by Will McNicol
Thank you for watching :)
To see your joy is a joy for me. An episode full of very special wooly projects. Thank you, Katie.
So happy for you. You are glowing!
Hi Katie, Enjoyed your episode so much. Also love the guitar music! Love, Sara
Thank you for taking us with you and for showing us your lovely journal. All beautiful.
this was so positive and creative - I love how you managed to create such a lovely journal and instead of dwelling on the negative aspects of the Hobbit vest - you found a creative solution! Great to see you and Jack back in your old stomping grounds, too!
Glad To see you back into what you love. Even if you did take on poterie, I would have been pleased for you, as long as you have a smile 😍. It is rather to us To "THANK YOU" for all the effort, at the end off thé day, it is a lot of energy gone into an épisode. Remember we are here because we love you, your style and the cool spirit you pass onto us...Cécile from Paris... because we watch you from all other the world ❤ 🐶 🌿
Just loved seeing you again and listening to your life stories. I bought an espinner yay yay yaya, and I'm building up my spindle spinning so I get to feel what spinning should be. Ah, first world worries =deciding whether there would be enough room in the knitting journal for the waistcoat!!!! goodness, if only life was so simple hehehehehehe! thanks again for checking in. see you next time, and Jack.
Katie, I can see how very much good your holiday in Dartmoor has given you in lifting your spirits and energy. Hurray! Terrific episode, as always. I knit and draw as well. Your knitting and drawing energize and inspire my making. Thank you!
So lovely to see you and Jack back in your beautiful Dartmoor. Love your knitting design journal!
Katie your hooded jumper is sublime! No wonder you are wearing it so much! It suits you well.
Lovely episode 😍So happy that you're back with knitting! Your knitting journal is an inspiration...
Nice to see you ...
Thank you for sharing your makes. Very happy for you that you have your knitting mojo back. It was lovely to see your old knitting journal and new and glad that you will continue and that you won,t let the blip in the misplacing of your journal stop you. My attempts at journaling have always fallen flat so you have given me inspiration to pick up where I left off and just continue 🙂
Thanks Katy, I love your knits, so inspiring even the bits that didn’t work out.
Blessings Gail 🇦🇺
Oh Katie… how about knitting back the frogging you have done and spinning a strong tea colored yarn for the icord and collar? Just sending you my thoughts 😊
This is what I say too... Don't frog the entire back, just get a contrasting color for the I cord and collar.
Great idea.
Katie, I can see the world of good your holiday in Dartmoor has really refreshed and invigorated your soul. It so lovely to see you relaxed, happy and inspired. What a fabulous episode! LOVE your new hoodie and your handspun projects, what a joy and a treat. J xo
Lovely to see you again with your wonderful knitting! I absolutely love your Barn Owl jumper! It’s going to be gorgeous. I think your illustrated knitting journal is inspirational! Such a great idea and looks perfect for an artist like yourself! Lovely to see Dartmoor again too x
Love your episodes as always...had you considered combining your sewing & knitting talents by using a gorgeous wool fabric for the back of the hobbit vest...so nice to see Dartmore again
Thank you for such a wonderful episode. I bought and gifted some of your washitapes and a mushroom picture (which I kept and am now looking for the right frame): all products were great. The mushroom print glows. I am currently spindle spinning a brushed tops from John Arbon in a glorious pink melting pot of colours: I may hold it with a mohair and knit it into socks of perhaps a hat, or......:) I am a beginner spinner and have not yet knitted with any of my spun creations.
Everything was lovely but I was so touched when you helped Jack down from the rock. And also I love your mitts!
Your new hoodie and sweater are wonderful. I was so amazed by how neat organized, and helpful your old project books are that I joined Patreon hoping some of that might rub off on me.
I truly enjoy your partners photography and framing. The lichen intrigues me, I wanted to touch that moss. Your journal is gorgeous . I particularly appreciate your sensibility on yarn chicken with handspun. All the yarns in most knitting podcasts are pricey and require shipping costs beyond what I can afford. Because I want to be quite green and indulged, I found alpaca farms willing to sell a whole raw fleece for $25 and discovered washing, hackling and spinning are more meditative than knitting... right up to needing to knit 4 more inches. It has been a learning curve. sigh. When starting from fleece on any animal , buy more than you think you will need, mix fleeces together even if from same animal on different years as colors will vary and spin way more than you think you need so you might have a consistent end product. What I make now will last me the rest of my life so it must give me insane joy that lasts.
Beautiful episode. I love your knitting journal. It looks very much like a nature journal used to record wildlife in the days before iPhones and Instagram. So inspiring!
I love your knitting note book ! It's very inspiring. I could do one my self. It would be very enjoyable to create and go back to it, even just to look at the beautiful drawings ! When I make notes, it's more like scribbles all over the place 😅 and it makes it harder to read all the informations I need... Thank you for the inspiration Katie !🤩
You are creating some lovely, lovely projects! In recent years I’ve embraced slow making as a way to put beauty in every day activities. Things like weaving kitchen towels and knitting linen dish cloths. You’ve inspired me to upgrade my knitting journal with some mindful note taking instead of all my illegible scribbles 😂. I appreciate your videos so much!
Thanks for the podcast Katie! Love that new yarn that you spun... soooooo beautiful!!!
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Thanks Katie great episode seeing you and jack and your projects
Catching up with missed episodes
Love your podcast, I have watched them all and find them really inspiring. Have you checked out world of wool for your matching fibre blend for your waistcoat. They do a ‘design your own ‘ and they blend the fibres for you. Not sure if they have the exact ones you need but might be worth checking it out
So glad you enjoyed your holiday, Katie, and have come back from it refreshed. Love the hoodie, especially the hood edging👍
How about a contrasting colour for collar and I-cord, I think that would look very nice, as always enjoying your podcast and of course Jack!🧶🇨🇦
Yes I was thinking of a dark brown either natural or maybe with some green speckles. You could always spin it thinner and then hold it two ply to replicate the thickness.
Love your podcasts Katie and love Jack
As always Katie, your knits are gorgeous! I think your hooded jumper will be going in my favourites on Ravelry. I like your problem solving with your handknits and think the solution for a dark green back for your waistcoat is a great design feature, rather than a make do! The stitch pattern you came up with for your Barn Owl yarn is lovely and I agree the yarn will give such good stitch definition to the project..... can't wait to see more of this garment in the future! ❤
Hi, Katie. I love your Regolith sweater. So cool that you found your knitting journal. I like your solution for your vest… fingers crossed that you can find the perfect fibre to finish it🤞
I like your new project… the yarn is yummy. I love the texture that you designed for your Barn Owl sweater❤️
Thank you Katie, both your spun yarns are a beautiful colour and look as if they’ll make cosy knits. Dartmoor was looking lovely. Your knitting journal prompted me to think about how I might record my projects as I sometimes start to knit a second version and I have no idea what needles I used or the yarn or the adaptations I made,
So good to see you 😊
Love your new jumper
Would you consider using a darker color to do the I-cord binding? It would be dramatic and you could preserve the reverse stockinet back that shows the hand spun colors so well.
I have done several recent projects using an integral I-cord just to save finishing and I love it.
It was lovely to see you striding Dartmoor again with Jack, feeling the fresh air and knowing the days are lengthening and the light is returning. So glad your knitting "mojo" is back.
Silk on the drum carder-you can cut silk to change the length so it gives you fewer headaches on the carder. I’d bet that’s what the original fiber supplier did.
Katie, I love your hoodie garment! I’m sorry your waistcoat was not successful. Your are right, we can frog… I’ve done this so many times trying to learn colorwork. I was frogging a row while you were talking about your waistcoat. Trying to tell myself that one stitch off wouldn’t make a difference but it does… snowflake looked a bit strange😕
Jack loves his walks; keeps him in good shape🥰 thank you for all the beautiful walks, I love tagging along.
You could try to find wool in a similar thickness and darker green in a shop to make the icord and collar out of it. That would be faster than spinning more yarn. But then it is obviously not completetly " Me Made".
Would contrasting icord and collar work it seems such a shame to frog .. that said I'm sure you've thought of that xxx
Hi Katie. In a commonplace book an index is used. As life is not continuous in duration, shape, size, occurance, etc. an index returns, order, control AND artistic structure. Would that help in your knitting journal?
What about doing the collar and icord edging in a different color?
Bonjour Katie, j'admirai bos savoir faire et raisonnement et de plus votre fierté. Vos ovrages sont vraiment intéressants. Portez vous bien et a tres bite.🖐️🌹🌼
I have to say, I was very apprehensive when I saw the title of this video, but luckily no real snakes have appeared... Couldn't you do the i-cord edging in a different colour? I think it would look great in a darker green. I knitted my first handspun cardigan this autumn, and I have to say, I ended up doing a lot of tricksing and mixing, and I still ended up with very short sleeves...
Did Jack recognise his old haunts?
My thoughts are the same as Jane Marriott’s but what do you think about spinning a lovely darker shade of green
Why not piece your Hobbit garment with a heavy plaid or herringbone fabric (I know it's sacrilege to mention sewing to knitters, but your seem to know both).