I love your podcast! I took social media off my phone a few years ago and I can honestly say that I do not miss it! I just needed to simplify my life and it started with that change! Happy new year! I’m a mom of two sons as well but they are now 28 and almost 30.
First time viewer, very. Ice podcast. I want to knit a sweater, I am a bit intimidated but still is my plan. Thanks for your bundle, very nice choices. Looking forward to seeing your next podcast.
Love the podcast, and don't mind the misspelling 😊. As a knitwear designer myself, I'm planning on knitting and designing more skirts.. Currently working on a dress with rustic yarn from Jamieson's. Keep up th good work, and happy new year!
Hi from Virginia, just found your delightful podcast😊 There are not enough hours in the day to knit everything I dream of😊 I plan a winter and a summer project and then let inspiration fill in the gaps. Finished The Secret Garden last fall after it had been on the list for 2 years😊
Enjoyed seeing your dream list for 2025. I have more of a "wing it" style of knitting but I saw several patterns in your list that have me inspired. Happy New Year and happy knitting in 2025!
Not sure which rock I have been living under but I just found you. I test knit the Burdock shawl. It was a lovely knit. Enjoyed spending time with you today x
Love your podcast. I am actually making my ravelry bundle for 2025 as we speak. Fun fact: I have the same exact notebook with stickers to keep track of my knitting. Thank you for this video, I'll go check your previous ones and subscribe so I won't miss any new one.
I loved your vlogmas! I hope you do it again! Please dont ever feel like you have to entertain, and I say that without any vlogmas creating/filming experience. I love when vlogs are real and I loved seeing the beautiful home and things you created. Also, check out Chelsea Yarns vlogmas. Its one of my favorites and I love every minute of the minutia.
I went through my yarn the other day and I have enough for 8 projects, so my year will be working through the yarn I have rather than buying yarn on impulse and not using it. Happy new year!
Thanks for great ideas. In the past I normally wing it, knitting what I want all year. Mid way thru 2024 i started writing down seasonal to dos or wants. I have not thought of what I want to do in 2025 but I am certainly making notes in eveyones end of year podcasts and will work on mine soon.
New to your podcast and loving it! Just a tip, for when you don't have time/don't want to list each thing in the description. There is a transcript available for each video. It's usually listed at the bottom of the description area. This will give viewers a place to get the written version of the video so that they can just copy and paste for searching whatever pattern name, place, person, etc. I find it really helpful as I don't always hear well if there's any background noise. So I refer to transcripts to get a lot of information. Have a wonderful winter season.
Happy New year from Scotland 🏴 ❤. For me my knitting is done on an - as the mood takes me - style. I’ve often baby knits or requests from family to fit in or inspired knits from other knitters and that’s fine. I enjoy your podcast as it’s nice to see how knitters on almost the other side of the world fit in their knitting and the differences in lifestyle as well as what’s on the needles 🙂. Happy knitting. Have a happy healthy ’25.
Watching your podcast for the first time. I loved it. Thank you. I think I’m in a similar era as you. Wanting all the classic colours, classic pieces and more cardigans for me as I suddenly get hot unexpectedly. 😅 I loved your 2025 plans. For me it’s more about finishing my WIPs. With gift knitting I didn’t get to finish the things I started for myself. Looking forward to watching more of you.
I would like to knit more garments this year….but I will still knit socks,hats and fingerless gloves for on the go knitting. AsAt the moment I’m finishing up granddaughter’s Christmas love note sweater. Love your podcast and HappyNew Year❤
I just watched you for the first time. Love your podcast. I made the Field Cardigan. I have to say that was quite relieved when I got past those grains! It’s easy to get lost in those grains and forget where you are. It definitely became a product, rather than a process project.
I’m spinning some yarn that I am hoping will be the right weight to make Jessica McDonald’s Winter Woods. I just love that pattern! I was happy to hear you say how easy they are to follow.
Happy New Year🎉 I just found your channel and look forward to more. I have not thought about making a want to list for the year and it causes me trouble. I find I have so many WIPS to work through or frog at the end. But I am going to make for 2025
Your yarney corner looks so cozy. I really like your instagram philosophy...and am heading that direction. I took it off of my phone...but somehow it's still there if I swipe a different way and I'm finding I'm drifting back into looking for it. Our pastor spoke about this and I am becoming more aware of the time wasted as well! I don't like the make nine goals either, but I do use ravelry more. I find I use my queue and especially the order of priority - so things that I know I want to knit are near the top with yarn ideas....and then in my favorites are a particular version of these patterns that I love. And periodically I'll go through and delete things as my feelings about them change.
I've been enjoying you and your family, farm and animals. Much older know so we moved closer to town. Miss the country life though, so enjoy watching. Made some hats this winter and want to make a Musselburg hat and lots of socks. Also fingerless mits. Happy New Year to you and your family.
So enjoyed this episode. I tend to wing it but that usually means I am all over the place with projects and not so great at finishing. What a great idea to make a “to do” list. I am thinking of following your lead and trying this. It would force me to sort out my WIP and yarn I bought last year and the rest of my stash and project wishes. I have been knitting for 28 years and just discovered knitting vid casts on RUclips. Yours is the fourth one I’ve sampled and the first one I watched all the way through. I am now going to try out some past videos. Now: about your husband’s comment about your beautiful handspun on display and that you should do something with it….. there is nothing wrong with being a fibre collector. In fact I think you should KEEP your handspun on display (at least some of it) for your own enjoyment and as a memento of your accomplishment. About 15 years ago I made my own handspun. My BIL had sheep that needed to be sheared. I helped out, clean and carded the wool and spun it. I started with a drop spindle and then got a wheel. I hand dyed it with koolaid. It was so fun. I knit my BIL a hat and a few other hats for gifts. I knit a hat for myself out of the drop spindle yarn. It was so beautiful. I lost it. If I had any leftovers I have missed placed it. (Moved several times since then) I have nothing to show for all my work. I would love to have some to put on display. So you display and enjoy looking at it all you want. Remember: us fibre enthusiasts are not just knitters/crocheters, we are collectors! There is nothing wrong with that. Everyone collects something that brings them joy. My collection contains some of the most beautiful yarn in the world as well as an impressive collection of fibre magazines and a few shelves of books and I LOVE IT!❤🧶❤️
I’m doing a make 9 for the first time this year. It’s only garments. I will be able to make 9 garments this year, but if I change my mind on which ones, that’s fine. Nice podcast.
You got yourself a new follower :). Stubled over your podcast this morning - I LOVE your bundle - thank you for sharing. I'm not deleting SoMe, but I've been thinking throughout Christmas that I need to make a few rules. The tablet idea was smart. Looking forward to your next episode, but now I have all your previous to watch :). Nina in Norway
Nice patterns! I love authentic wool aswell. Don’t be to afraid of making the field patterns of Camilla Vad. It isn’t that difficult. I made the sweater and it is stunning. There are 33 rows which you need attention but it is not complicated. That is it! You can do it. I plan every 3 months the things that I will make. So I make some garments and some accessoiries. I make a winterplan until March including 1 garment for next season (spring)
I enjoy your podcast very much. I grew up on a farm and miss the outdoors space, animals, freedom from concrete and crowded spaces. I’m a Christian so your podcast is good for me. I do make a make nine board but certainly don’t always make it all. I get distracted by other things I want or need to make. Your bundle is inspiring! I’m making the Felix cardigan and one day would like to knit the Felix sweater:)
Just found you and really enjoyed your list. I never knew you could make your own bundle on Rav- I think I have to do that too. My plans are to continue working off my queue and I also have a bunch of hibernating projects. I have way too many plans- that could be a whole other hobby to just pick patterns and match up yarns 😂 I am planning to cast on a Stella blanket and a cabled or textured pullover - maybe Yoki - for the New Year.
Some years I plan, some years I wing it. This year, I did a make 9 and challenged myself to only use yarn from stash for those projects. Yesterday I put the yarn in project bags so I can just grab one when I am ready to cast on something new!
I love your podcast and your bundle! I keep a list of patterns I want to do each year. Last year is all done and I hope for the same this year. This year I decided I'm going to learn to Steek as well but I said that last year. Maybe we can get a few of us together to do it together. My brother has been waiting so patiently for a Dude sweater and I really need to get over my fear and do it! But also there are new babies to knit for, one of my sons is moving to Wisconsin and I need to knit him ALL the things since he barely even needs a coat where we live currently. 😂 Thanks for sharing your bundle!
Hi Ashley. I, too, found your Vlogmas this past December. I enjoyed your daily farm and life adventures and look forward to more. I live on a small hobby farm in west central Wisconsin and for the second year in a row have no snow. Everything is brown! We have 3 horses, chickens and raise a couple of steers for the freezer. My knitting plans include finishing a WHIP summer tee before March. Currently, I’m knitting fingerless mitts out of natural wool from Wild Rose Farm in Washington state. I have several skeins that were gifted to me and since they are a bit picky thought hats or gloves would be good choices for that fiber. Keep up the good work on your vlogs. I’ll be watching.
So glad your channel popped up in my youtube feed.😊 I also want to make all the things, but would need to live to 150 in order to accomplish them all😅. As a grandma to a 1 yr old I am always looking for patterns for my grandson. The one I have saved in my favorites on Ravelery is the Festive Yoke Kids Pullover. I think it's adorable. 😊 Look forward to your next podcast and happy knitting.
Great pattern choices!! I've knit both the Elven socks and the Summer Flowers patterns and can highly recommend them. Both are in heavy rotation in my wardrobe. Emma, from Woolly Mammoth fibres is in Ireland. I have purchased much from her and can honestly say I have never been disappointed with her product. Galway is a rustic yarn with a very specific pedigree. You'll be fascinated by her podcast all about this breed, it's rescue from the brink of extinction, and the special place it has in Irish history.
Happy New Year!!🎉 You sure are going to be a busy lady this winter. Just keep working on that wedding dress. You are making great progress on it. I started knitting a vest called Chocolate Best with some Lorna Lace wool yarn I had purchased years ago. I hope I have enough, because it's discontinued. Keeping my fingers crossed.
This is my first time watching and I really enjoyed your company while knitting. I just finished the Ingrid Sweater by Petite Knit (2nd time) and this night I was blocking the Aika sweater on front cover Laine Magazine 22. It is a pattern by Megumi Shinagawa but I am simply love Japaneese knitting designs! My next project will be the Mussel sweater by Isager and I would also love to knit the Pam dress by Junko Okomoto. Looking forward to your next episode❤and just to tell you, I am kind of picky, but your podcast is just about right in all sense!
I removed all social media except Instagram and I don’t regret it. I enjoyed this episode. The patterns you showed are so classic and even romantic looking. I am with you on the natural fibers. I still knit with superwash or a nylon blend for others, but for me, I want it to be all natural. I like to think I plan for my knitting and I do have sweater quantities for particular sweaters but sometimes on a whim that changes. It’s more about my mood at the time.
I just found your podcast, and I really find it so soothing and nice❣️I’ll be back for sure 💖 My plan for 2025 is to not have a plan 🤭 Had a make-nine for 2024 and it just cause stress, so no more of that My way is impulse and go with my flow … so planning doesn’t really make sense for my creativity. I do need a dress and I just started my journey to create my next tunic… so there is some kind of plan… wishing list with a quirk, so to speak 😉😉 Hugs from Sweden //Titti
I generally divide the year into 3 - winter knits, spring/summer knits and autumn. I’ll choose and adult garment, and 1 or 2 child sweaters, and add in socks, blanket squares, maybe a shawl or hat, and amigurumi or other toy. This leaves me room for joining KAL’s or CAL’s. I also try to include a year long, like a year of gnomes, or socks, or an advent like the Mitten Garland Advent Calendar that I’m doing this year. 24 colourwork mittens for an Advent calendar. For the kids. But 3 times a year I do a pattern search and save faves. Mmyy favvss is getting insane on Ravelry! 😂. Time to thin?
Hi. Just found your channel and love your style. Will watch your vlogmas very soon. I have a folder where I keep all the printed patterns which I wanna knit in the next season. It's like a stylebook for the next season. For example I would love to knit the traveler hoodie from Andrea Mowry which I don't have the pattern right now.
Happy New Year from northwest Missouri. I enjoyed seeing your plans. It's fun to dream. I have a rainbow cabled stripes baby blanket I need to finish by the end of March, and then I want to make the Elara cardigan by emknits as well as the interthreading pullover by Hannah Sandler. I also need to crochet my son-in-law a blanket, but his birthday isn't until next December so I have time. I would also like to make some more socks as a run around project since I have plenty of beautiful sock yarn in stash. I can't wait to see your new projects come together this year. ❤🧶
I have found the same thing with Caitlin's patterns. Extremely loose gauge which I usually find to be way to loose with fingering weight yarn and the patterns are hit and miss. Now that I am a more experienced knitter, if I like one of her colorwork patterns, I know I can use it for a base and make the necessary changes so that the pattern will fit properly with the yarn I chose.
Love your channel, found you during vlogmas. I’m a new knitter, I’ve made one sock and working on finishing the second. Have two crescent shaped shawls going, same pattern, one fingering weight, one worsted weight. I’ve also started my very first super beginner friendly sweater. 😊
Hello from sw Montana!! You are my children's favorite knit podcaster( you won them over with vlogmas) and it helps we are homesteaders so it's similar to our lifestyle ❤ my son who is a knitter too, says his goal is to knit himself his first sweater and to learn to knit in the round. My goal is to learn to knit bobbles, a T-shirt and a poncho. Loved this video❤
I have done #makenine for few years now and have knit some of the items from my grid but there a so many new and shiny patterns that come out during the year and jump onto my needles 😂 I have found your podcast from RUclips recommendation 😊
Hi Ashley. I found your channel during Vlogmas and subscribed. I loved all the farm videos and your black ram made me laugh. I see he had a definite attitude adjustment. I think it's great and exciting to be able to use your own sheep to make something. I'm working through the field sweater now. There is definitely a language issue and you need to be able to read the designer's mind too. My advice is don't do it unless you want it very badly.
I don't really make plans! Especially since sometimes new patterns come along that I really want to make. My only relatively certain plans are to make my mom and I matching cardigans, and myself a lobster onesie!
Just found u at Vlogmas and enjoyed it so much…I’m a “winging it” girl…I follow several podcasts and find that I knit what seems to be trending…I don’t start with any plans!
You might want to check out Topsy Farm in Ontario Canada. They have reasonably priced wooly wools and with our Canadian dollar being so low it will be a great deal for those in the US.
Thank you for your choices, so many beauties. This past year was the year to finish UFOs and I did pretty good at that. I have one languishing one to finish. This year my plan is to fix or frog things I’m not wearing. As make something new in between as well. 😊🧶
I eliminated social media years ago. As for knitting, I don't really pre plan. My husband needs socks, and I want a new cardigan. Other than that, I will knit what inspires me.
Happy New Year from Michigan! I am new to your channel and enjoyed this episode. I just started spinning this fall and love all things fiber arts. What breed of sheep do you raise?
Happy New Year Ashley. I can’t find your bundle on Ravelry. Also can’t find your link for your bundle. I also use a note book for my projects. I find Ravelry very boring to list my projects. I make stickers and sticker photos of my projects. Embellish my pages with yarn tags & flat pompoms of the yarn I have used. I loved those Arianna mittens but could not find them.
Social media and brain rot scrolling esp. celebrity genre, is a complete waste of time. Do we really care if so and so like a purple sofa, or if a sexy movies left an actress feeling abused, 100% say no. Do what propels you forward and not stuck in the mud.
I love your podcast! I took social media off my phone a few years ago and I can honestly say that I do not miss it! I just needed to simplify my life and it started with that change! Happy new year! I’m a mom of two sons as well but they are now 28 and almost 30.
Love your podcast and all the great ideas. thank you!!
Beads are easy and stunning!
Happy New Year🎉 Love your patterns choices ….. I love Jessica McDonald and you gave me some new ones I hadn’t seen.❤
The only plan I have for 2025 is to really try and use my stash yarn. I have enjoyed your Vlogmas and your podcasts. Wishing you a happy new year!
First time viewer, very. Ice podcast. I want to knit a sweater, I am a bit intimidated but still is my plan. Thanks for your bundle, very nice choices. Looking forward to seeing your next podcast.
Love the podcast, and don't mind the misspelling 😊. As a knitwear designer myself, I'm planning on knitting and designing more skirts.. Currently working on a dress with rustic yarn from Jamieson's. Keep up th good work, and happy new year!
Hi from Virginia, just found your delightful podcast😊 There are not enough hours in the day to knit everything I dream of😊 I plan a winter and a summer project and then let inspiration fill in the gaps. Finished The Secret Garden last fall after it had been on the list for 2 years😊
Enjoyed seeing your dream list for 2025. I have more of a "wing it" style of knitting but I saw several patterns in your list that have me inspired. Happy New Year and happy knitting in 2025!
Not sure which rock I have been living under but I just found you. I test knit the Burdock shawl. It was a lovely knit. Enjoyed spending time with you today x
Nice to meet you. I tend to go with my flow...and make whatever I feel like in the moment. Great inspiration video.
Love your podcast. I am actually making my ravelry bundle for 2025 as we speak. Fun fact: I have the same exact notebook with stickers to keep track of my knitting. Thank you for this video, I'll go check your previous ones and subscribe so I won't miss any new one.
I loved your vlogmas! I hope you do it again! Please dont ever feel like you have to entertain, and I say that without any vlogmas creating/filming experience. I love when vlogs are real and I loved seeing the beautiful home and things you created.
Also, check out Chelsea Yarns vlogmas. Its one of my favorites and I love every minute of the minutia.
I went through my yarn the other day and I have enough for 8 projects, so my year will be working through the yarn I have rather than buying yarn on impulse and not using it. Happy new year!
Thanks for great ideas. In the past I normally wing it, knitting what I want all year. Mid way thru 2024 i started writing down seasonal to dos or wants. I have not thought of what I want to do in 2025 but I am certainly making notes in eveyones end of year podcasts and will work on mine soon.
New to your podcast and loving it! Just a tip, for when you don't have time/don't want to list each thing in the description. There is a transcript available for each video. It's usually listed at the bottom of the description area. This will give viewers a place to get the written version of the video so that they can just copy and paste for searching whatever pattern name, place, person, etc. I find it really helpful as I don't always hear well if there's any background noise. So I refer to transcripts to get a lot of information. Have a wonderful winter season.
Happy New year from Scotland 🏴 ❤. For me my knitting is done on an - as the mood takes me - style. I’ve often baby knits or requests from family to fit in or inspired knits from other knitters and that’s fine. I enjoy your podcast as it’s nice to see how knitters on almost the other side of the world fit in their knitting and the differences in lifestyle as well as what’s on the needles 🙂. Happy knitting. Have a happy healthy ’25.
Watching your podcast for the first time. I loved it. Thank you. I think I’m in a similar era as you. Wanting all the classic colours, classic pieces and more cardigans for me as I suddenly get hot unexpectedly. 😅 I loved your 2025 plans. For me it’s more about finishing my WIPs. With gift knitting I didn’t get to finish the things I started for myself. Looking forward to watching more of you.
Love your taste. I enjoyed your list I love the Eva cardigan from Petite Knits. Glad I found your channel!
I would like to knit more garments this year….but I will still knit socks,hats and fingerless gloves for on the go knitting. AsAt the moment I’m finishing up granddaughter’s Christmas love note sweater. Love your podcast and HappyNew Year❤
I just watched you for the first time. Love your podcast. I made the Field Cardigan. I have to say that was quite relieved when I got past those grains! It’s easy to get lost in those grains and forget where you are. It definitely became a product, rather than a process project.
I’m spinning some yarn that I am hoping will be the right weight to make Jessica McDonald’s Winter Woods. I just love that pattern! I was happy to hear you say how easy they are to follow.
Happy New Year🎉 I just found your channel and look forward to more. I have not thought about making a want to list for the year and it causes me trouble. I find I have so many WIPS to work through or frog at the end. But I am going to make for 2025
Your knitting is great. Your dogs are beautiful.🤗
Your yarney corner looks so cozy. I really like your instagram philosophy...and am heading that direction. I took it off of my phone...but somehow it's still there if I swipe a different way and I'm finding I'm drifting back into looking for it. Our pastor spoke about this and I am becoming more aware of the time wasted as well! I don't like the make nine goals either, but I do use ravelry more. I find I use my queue and especially the order of priority - so things that I know I want to knit are near the top with yarn ideas....and then in my favorites are a particular version of these patterns that I love. And periodically I'll go through and delete things as my feelings about them change.
I've been enjoying you and your family, farm and animals. Much older know so we moved closer to town. Miss the country life though, so enjoy watching. Made some hats this winter and want to make a Musselburg hat and lots of socks. Also fingerless mits. Happy New Year to you and your family.
So enjoyed this episode. I tend to wing it but that usually means I am all over the place with projects and not so great at finishing. What a great idea to make a “to do” list. I am thinking of following your lead and trying this. It would force me to sort out my WIP and yarn I bought last year and the rest of my stash and project wishes. I have been knitting for 28 years and just discovered knitting vid casts on RUclips. Yours is the fourth one I’ve sampled and the first one I watched all the way through. I am now going to try out some past videos.
Now: about your husband’s comment about your beautiful handspun on display and that you should do something with it….. there is nothing wrong with being a fibre collector. In fact I think you should KEEP your handspun on display (at least some of it) for your own enjoyment and as a memento of your accomplishment. About 15 years ago I made my own handspun. My BIL had sheep that needed to be sheared. I helped out, clean and carded the wool and spun it. I started with a drop spindle and then got a wheel. I hand dyed it with koolaid. It was so fun. I knit my BIL a hat and a few other hats for gifts. I knit a hat for myself out of the drop spindle yarn. It was so beautiful. I lost it. If I had any leftovers I have missed placed it. (Moved several times since then) I have nothing to show for all my work. I would love to have some to put on display. So you display and enjoy looking at it all you want.
Remember: us fibre enthusiasts are not just knitters/crocheters, we are collectors! There is nothing wrong with that. Everyone collects something that brings them joy. My collection contains some of the most beautiful yarn in the world as well as an impressive collection of fibre magazines and a few shelves of books and I LOVE IT!❤🧶❤️
I’m doing a make 9 for the first time this year. It’s only garments. I will be able to make 9 garments this year, but if I change my mind on which ones, that’s fine. Nice podcast.
Hi there. I, too, am from SWMO. It was great to find you.
You got yourself a new follower :). Stubled over your podcast this morning - I LOVE your bundle - thank you for sharing. I'm not deleting SoMe, but I've been thinking throughout Christmas that I need to make a few rules. The tablet idea was smart. Looking forward to your next episode, but now I have all your previous to watch :). Nina in Norway
Nice patterns! I love authentic wool aswell. Don’t be to afraid of making the field patterns of Camilla Vad. It isn’t that difficult. I made the sweater and it is stunning. There are 33 rows which you need attention but it is not complicated. That is it! You can do it.
I plan every 3 months the things that I will make. So I make some garments and some accessoiries. I make a winterplan until March including 1 garment for next season (spring)
Love your sweater! I hear you on the social media. I try to keep mine "meaningful" so it doesn't eat my knitting or reading time. It's tricky!
I enjoy your podcast very much. I grew up on a farm and miss the outdoors space, animals, freedom from concrete and crowded spaces. I’m a Christian so your podcast is good for me. I do make a make nine board but certainly don’t always make it all. I get distracted by other things I want or need to make. Your bundle is inspiring! I’m making the Felix cardigan and one day would like to knit the Felix sweater:)
Hi, lovely podcast, I’m a new knitter so very slow but I liked all the patterns you chose. Thank you ❤
Just found you and really enjoyed your list. I never knew you could make your own bundle on Rav- I think I have to do that too. My plans are to continue working off my queue and I also have a bunch of hibernating projects. I have way too many plans- that could be a whole other hobby to just pick patterns and match up yarns 😂 I am planning to cast on a Stella blanket and a cabled or textured pullover - maybe Yoki - for the New Year.
Happy new year. I have no plans yet for 2025. I have been finishing wips. I also have many dream patterns on ravelry
Happy New Year ! Thank you for your work during Vlogmas !
Great clog.
Some years I plan, some years I wing it. This year, I did a make 9 and challenged myself to only use yarn from stash for those projects. Yesterday I put the yarn in project bags so I can just grab one when I am ready to cast on something new!
I’m also enjoying the natural farm yarns. Junction Mill has some great ones. No plans here but would like to knit a few stuffies.
I love your podcast and your bundle! I keep a list of patterns I want to do each year. Last year is all done and I hope for the same this year. This year I decided I'm going to learn to Steek as well but I said that last year. Maybe we can get a few of us together to do it together. My brother has been waiting so patiently for a Dude sweater and I really need to get over my fear and do it! But also there are new babies to knit for, one of my sons is moving to Wisconsin and I need to knit him ALL the things since he barely even needs a coat where we live currently. 😂 Thanks for sharing your bundle!
Hi Ashley. I, too, found your Vlogmas this past December. I enjoyed your daily farm and life adventures and look forward to more. I live on a small hobby farm in west central Wisconsin and for the second year in a row have no snow. Everything is brown! We have 3 horses, chickens and raise a couple of steers for the freezer.
My knitting plans include finishing a WHIP summer tee before March. Currently, I’m knitting fingerless mitts out of natural wool from Wild Rose Farm in Washington state. I have several skeins that were gifted to me and since they are a bit picky thought hats or gloves would be good choices for that fiber. Keep up the good work on your vlogs. I’ll be watching.
So glad your channel popped up in my youtube feed.😊 I also want to make all the things, but would need to live to 150 in order to accomplish them all😅. As a grandma to a 1 yr old I am always looking for patterns for my grandson. The one I have saved in my favorites on Ravelery is the Festive Yoke Kids Pullover. I think it's adorable. 😊 Look forward to your next podcast and happy knitting.
Great pattern choices!! I've knit both the Elven socks and the Summer Flowers patterns and can highly recommend them. Both are in heavy rotation in my wardrobe. Emma, from Woolly Mammoth fibres is in Ireland. I have purchased much from her and can honestly say I have never been disappointed with her product. Galway is a rustic yarn with a very specific pedigree. You'll be fascinated by her podcast all about this breed, it's rescue from the brink of extinction, and the special place it has in Irish history.
Happy New Year!!🎉 You sure are going to be a busy lady this winter. Just keep working on that wedding dress. You are making great progress on it. I started knitting a vest called Chocolate Best with some Lorna Lace wool yarn I had purchased years ago. I hope I have enough, because it's discontinued. Keeping my fingers crossed.
This is my first time watching and I really enjoyed your company while knitting. I just finished the Ingrid Sweater by Petite Knit (2nd time) and this night I was blocking the Aika sweater on front cover Laine Magazine 22. It is a pattern by Megumi Shinagawa but I am simply love Japaneese knitting designs! My next project will be the Mussel sweater by Isager and I would also love to knit the Pam dress by Junko Okomoto. Looking forward to your next episode❤and just to tell you, I am kind of picky, but your podcast is just about right in all sense!
@@almaragnarsdottir8058 you're so kind! Thank you for watching!
I removed all social media except Instagram and I don’t regret it. I enjoyed this episode. The patterns you showed are so classic and even romantic looking.
I am with you on the natural fibers. I still knit with superwash or a nylon blend for others, but for me, I want it to be all natural.
I like to think I plan for my knitting and I do have sweater quantities for particular sweaters but sometimes on a whim that changes. It’s more about my mood at the time.
I pretty much wing it. I do have plans for a Stripe Hype sweater and to work on my cables and make the Saven sweater.
I just found your podcast, and I really find it so soothing and nice❣️I’ll be back for sure 💖
My plan for 2025 is to not have a plan 🤭
Had a make-nine for 2024 and it just cause stress, so no more of that
My way is impulse and go with my flow … so planning doesn’t really make sense for my creativity.
I do need a dress and I just started my journey to create my next tunic… so there is some kind of plan… wishing list with a quirk, so to speak 😉😉
Hugs from Sweden
//Titti
I generally divide the year into 3 - winter knits, spring/summer knits and autumn. I’ll choose and adult garment, and 1 or 2 child sweaters, and add in socks, blanket squares, maybe a shawl or hat, and amigurumi or other toy. This leaves me room for joining KAL’s or CAL’s. I also try to include a year long, like a year of gnomes, or socks, or an advent like the Mitten Garland Advent Calendar that I’m doing this year. 24 colourwork mittens for an Advent calendar. For the kids.
But 3 times a year I do a pattern search and save faves. Mmyy favvss is getting insane on Ravelry! 😂. Time to thin?
Hi. Just found your channel and love your style. Will watch your vlogmas very soon. I have a folder where I keep all the printed patterns which I wanna knit in the next season. It's like a stylebook for the next season. For example I would love to knit the traveler hoodie from Andrea Mowry which I don't have the pattern right now.
Happy New Year from northwest Missouri. I enjoyed seeing your plans. It's fun to dream. I have a rainbow cabled stripes baby blanket I need to finish by the end of March, and then I want to make the Elara cardigan by emknits as well as the interthreading pullover by Hannah Sandler. I also need to crochet my son-in-law a blanket, but his birthday isn't until next December so I have time. I would also like to make some more socks as a run around project since I have plenty of beautiful sock yarn in stash. I can't wait to see your new projects come together this year. ❤🧶
I have my eye on the Asynja Cardigan too.
I, too, like to knit shawls but rarely wear them! My technique to learn this year will be brioche.
@@darlajohnson2020 oh brioche! I've knitted one brioche pattern and loved it! I need to knit another.
Plan to use my stash
I have found the same thing with Caitlin's patterns. Extremely loose gauge which I usually find to be way to loose with fingering weight yarn and the patterns are hit and miss. Now that I am a more experienced knitter, if I like one of her colorwork patterns, I know I can use it for a base and make the necessary changes so that the pattern will fit properly with the yarn I chose.
Love your channel, found you during vlogmas. I’m a new knitter, I’ve made one sock and working on finishing the second. Have two crescent shaped shawls going, same pattern, one fingering weight, one worsted weight. I’ve also started my very first super beginner friendly sweater. 😊
Always enjoy your podcasts! In 2025...I am just winging it. Currently working on the Traveler Hoodie, but after that who knows😂
Hello from sw Montana!! You are my children's favorite knit podcaster( you won them over with vlogmas) and it helps we are homesteaders so it's similar to our lifestyle ❤ my son who is a knitter too, says his goal is to knit himself his first sweater and to learn to knit in the round. My goal is to learn to knit bobbles, a T-shirt and a poncho. Loved this video❤
Good idea. I think a social media break-up is great for 2025. Let’s see if I miss it.
You should Crk out the Wooly Thistle shop. They have beautiful farm yarns from Scotland!
I have done #makenine for few years now and have knit some of the items from my grid but there a so many new and shiny patterns that come out during the year and jump onto my needles 😂 I have found your podcast from RUclips recommendation 😊
Hi Ashley. I found your channel during Vlogmas and subscribed. I loved all the farm videos and your black ram made me laugh. I see he had a definite attitude adjustment. I think it's great and exciting to be able to use your own sheep to make something. I'm working through the field sweater now. There is definitely a language issue and you need to be able to read the designer's mind too. My advice is don't do it unless you want it very badly.
@@barbarablumke4827 Good to know!! Thank you for the advice. I kinda had a feeling.
I don't really make plans! Especially since sometimes new patterns come along that I really want to make. My only relatively certain plans are to make my mom and I matching cardigans, and myself a lobster onesie!
@thecraftychemist a lobster onesie?! I'm intrigued lol!
Uggg fine…I guess I’ll just save all of these 😂
Just found u at Vlogmas and enjoyed it so much…I’m a “winging it” girl…I follow several podcasts and find that I knit what seems to be trending…I don’t start with any plans!
You might want to check out Topsy Farm in Ontario Canada. They have reasonably priced wooly wools and with our Canadian dollar being so low it will be a great deal for those in the US.
Thank you for your choices, so many beauties. This past year was the year to finish UFOs and I did pretty good at that. I have one languishing one to finish. This year my plan is to fix or frog things I’m not wearing. As make something new in between as well. 😊🧶
I eliminated social media years ago. As for knitting, I don't really pre plan. My husband needs socks, and I want a new cardigan. Other than that, I will knit what inspires me.
knitting with my handspun yarns over the commercial yarns I have
Wing and a Prayer Farm in Shaftesbury VT is a farm to fiber site that I think you will like. Tammy has a website you could explore
I tend to fly by the seat of my pants 😆🫣
Happy New Year from Michigan! I am new to your channel and enjoyed this episode. I just started spinning this fall and love all things fiber arts. What breed of sheep do you raise?
@@alisondarwak66 I have east fresian, clun forest, and icelandic.
I am also going to spend less time on social media in 2025.
I am a new knitter and hope to branch out from doing practice knits and dish cloths!
Happy New Year Ashley. I can’t find your bundle on Ravelry. Also can’t find your link for your bundle. I also use a note book for my projects. I find Ravelry very boring to list my projects. I make stickers and sticker photos of my projects. Embellish my pages with yarn tags & flat pompoms of the yarn I have used. I loved those Arianna mittens but could not find them.
@@sharonbyers787 Hi, the link is in the description box under the video.
Social media and brain rot scrolling esp. celebrity genre, is a complete waste of time. Do we really care if so and so like a purple sofa, or if a sexy movies left an actress feeling abused, 100% say no. Do what propels you forward and not stuck in the mud.