Thank you so much! I learned to knit from my grandmother, who was left handed. I am right handed, so she had me sit on the floor and watch her. I thought that was so smart of her💕 I have truly enjoyed knitting and never made a sweater for myself until now-I should have been doing that all along! 🥰 I hope you all continue to enjoy those loving memories in the sweaters your mom made❤️ 🧶
Spooky and fun all at the same time. 😁 I really enjoyed the painting, along with the now expected, “Ann’s story time”, thank you! Being extremely late in my viewing made it all the more special. Yours has been the first and last Halloween video I’ll watch this year. The US has a much longer history of Jack-O-Lanterns. Here in Scotland, we would use turnips aka ‘neeps’ (they are in season here) as ‘back in my day’, a pumpkin was not something we ever saw either in the fields or shops. As a child I can remember having to use a horrifyingly sharp knife to dig out the inside of what is an extremely hard vegetable, having first sawed my way through the top to make a lid. Then, having given up before it was remotely thin enough to glow (I NEVER saw a glowing neep in my life!), I would then poke holes wide enough to allow string (hopefully strong) through each side and up through the ‘lid’, but it was a precarious vegetable to do battle with, and scarier than any costume I assure you. Oh and the stench coming from the burning innards of the neep 🤢 … As a child, I walked about the country lanes, burning turnip in hand, peering into the dark and looking for any distant lights. I’d knock on the door, be invited in and had to tell a joke, sing a song, or recite a poem. Only then, having satisfied my audience (not to mention left neep stench) would I receive a treat. Usually fruit, occasionally a sweetie, and on rare, but happy occasions, some pennies! Sadly, our Scottish tradition has fallen to the mighty “trick or treat” option, although no more scary sharp knives wielded by 5 year olds! We even have pumpkins in our stores. Well, that was a ramble and a half huh? 🤷🏼♀️ 🎨 👩🏻🎨 🖌️ 🏴🇺🇸
A much loved ramble, though! I had forgotten that in the ‘60s, there were still a few houses where the adults who answered the door would insist upon us performing a trick of some sort before we could earn our treat! Those were the days when families gave out homemade candied apples, popcorn balls or even cookies…until nefarious actors ruined that and from the. In, Halloween was best with store-bought candy, which must be inspected by a child’s parents for safety prior to consuming. (Sigh…humans can be awful). My mom (born in 1924) was of the era where children would play tricks on houses if they were NOT given a treat! She remembered rubbing a bar of soap on windows, and taking a notch wooden spool, and spinning it on the door so that it would make a horrifyingly, loud rattling sound, and then running away. So pretty much my mother was a vandal as a child.🤣🤣🤣 You mentioned the smell of a neep being horrible… The smell of candles burning the insides of pumpkins was purely delightful (along with a few families having burned their leaves, which is no longer legal… ) all of this made for an immersive memory experience trick-or-treating on Halloween night!! We actually watched a scary movie this past Halloween season that had to do with some turnip that was from a séance and it was carved out like a jack-o’-lantern so you described it very well I know exactly what you’re talking about!
Beautiful Jack O Lantern! Thank you for the painting tips. The ink pens look interesting. Very nice sweater! I knit and crochet but haven't ever made sweaters for myself. I made a few ponchos that I enjoy. It's nice to have something cozy to do when you are feeling a little miserable. Like you, I have many memories of snowy and warm Halloween nights. I have a few costume memories. The homemade as well as the store bought costumes with the plastic masks. Lol. We come from the same era. My brothers and sisters and I always trick or treated on our own. My parents didn't take us out. Halloween was my Dad's Birthday. Happy Halloween. I hope you feel better. 😊
Hi JoAnne! Thank you 🥰 Your dad’s birthday was Halloween! That’s so fun! We were with a neighbor who also had her birthday on Halloween. What a great treat to have a costume party every year for your birthday! I bet your dad loved it 😍 I have crocheted more than I have knitted-the 1970s rarely saw me without a crochet hook! I made a purple and pink granny square vest to wear with my biggest bell bottom jeans-so fun! My mom taught me how to crochet. She made these cute little angel ornaments for our tree out of very tiny cotton floss. We starched them-I remember that well. Somehow all the memories of things I’ve created with my hands stand out a bit more in my mind. I hope that’s true for you, too. I bet your ponchos are warm! Gosh I wore a lot of those, too😎☮️ It’s so good to create anything you’re pleased with, and I’m happy you enjoy your handicrafts-that’s so rewarding. These pens are a lot of fun-several sizes of nibs & only one is a real brush tip. Happy creating & Happy November! 💨🍁🍂❄️
Ann, you knit a sweater in a week -while sick no less!Wow! That’s talent!! I’m hopeless with knitting. But I did manage to crochet a hat for my baby grandson-after 10 tries! Ha ha it should fit him in a year or so! 🫠😂 PS great Jack-o’-lantern 🎃🎃🎃 Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween, Doreen! Ohhhhh I bet your grandson’s hat is adorable! Knitting in a week….sounds like a lot but honestly that’s ALL I did. Easy pattern, too😉🫶🏼🫶🏼
Happy to hear you're feeling better, Ann. Did I hear correctly - you knitted that beautiful sweater while under the weather? That's impressive! And your jack-o-lantern turned out great - a little creepy and a lot cheery. ⭐
Thanks, Irene! Yes, you heard correctly-I knit the sweater while on “Couch Island.” ☺️ Don’t be too impressed; it was a super easy pattern and large needles, so it was a quick project. I can’t seem to sit with my thoughts-have to have busy hands! It was kind of a knit, purl, 🤧 , knit, purl, 🤧 situation😂 Hope your Halloween was a bit creepy and a lot cheery🧡🖤🫶🏼🎃👩🏻🎨
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Am glad you’re feeling better and love the ole Jack o lantern x
Thanks Becky!🧡🖤🎃
My elderly mother knitted many beautiful sweaters for my daughter. We both love the sweater you knitted! How beautiful!
Thank you so much! I learned to knit from my grandmother, who was left handed. I am right handed, so she had me sit on the floor and watch her. I thought that was so smart of her💕
I have truly enjoyed knitting and never made a sweater for myself until now-I should have been doing that all along! 🥰
I hope you all continue to enjoy those loving memories in the sweaters your mom made❤️ 🧶
Spooky and fun all at the same time. 😁 I really enjoyed the painting, along with the now expected, “Ann’s story time”, thank you! Being extremely late in my viewing made it all the more special. Yours has been the first and last Halloween video I’ll watch this year.
The US has a much longer history of Jack-O-Lanterns. Here in Scotland, we would use turnips aka ‘neeps’ (they are in season here) as ‘back in my day’, a pumpkin was not something we ever saw either in the fields or shops. As a child I can remember having to use a horrifyingly sharp knife to dig out the inside of what is an extremely hard vegetable, having first sawed my way through the top to make a lid. Then, having given up before it was remotely thin enough to glow (I NEVER saw a glowing neep in my life!), I would then poke holes wide enough to allow string (hopefully strong) through each side and up through the ‘lid’, but it was a precarious vegetable to do battle with, and scarier than any costume I assure you. Oh and the stench coming from the burning innards of the neep 🤢 … As a child, I walked about the country lanes, burning turnip in hand, peering into the dark and looking for any distant lights. I’d knock on the door, be invited in and had to tell a joke, sing a song, or recite a poem. Only then, having satisfied my audience (not to mention left neep stench) would I receive a treat. Usually fruit, occasionally a sweetie, and on rare, but happy occasions, some pennies! Sadly, our Scottish tradition has fallen to the mighty “trick or treat” option, although no more scary sharp knives wielded by 5 year olds! We even have pumpkins in our stores. Well, that was a ramble and a half huh? 🤷🏼♀️ 🎨 👩🏻🎨 🖌️ 🏴🇺🇸
A much loved ramble, though! I had forgotten that in the ‘60s, there were still a few houses where the adults who answered the door would insist upon us performing a trick of some sort before we could earn our treat! Those were the days when families gave out homemade candied apples, popcorn balls or even cookies…until nefarious actors ruined that and from the. In, Halloween was best with store-bought candy, which must be inspected by a child’s parents for safety prior to consuming. (Sigh…humans can be awful).
My mom (born in 1924) was of the era where children would play tricks on houses if they were NOT given a treat! She remembered rubbing a bar of soap on windows, and taking a notch wooden spool, and spinning it on the door so that it would make a horrifyingly, loud rattling sound, and then running away. So pretty much my mother was a vandal as a child.🤣🤣🤣
You mentioned the smell of a neep being horrible… The smell of candles burning the insides of pumpkins was purely delightful (along with a few families having burned their leaves, which is no longer legal… ) all of this made for an immersive memory experience trick-or-treating on Halloween night!!
We actually watched a scary movie this past Halloween season that had to do with some turnip that was from a séance and it was carved out like a jack-o’-lantern so you described it very well I know exactly what you’re talking about!
Beautiful Jack O Lantern! Thank you for the painting tips. The ink pens look interesting. Very nice sweater! I knit and crochet but haven't ever made sweaters for myself. I made a few ponchos that I enjoy. It's nice to have something cozy to do when you are feeling a little miserable. Like you, I have many memories of snowy and warm Halloween nights. I have a few costume memories. The homemade as well as the store bought costumes with the plastic masks. Lol. We come from the same era. My brothers and sisters and I always trick or treated on our own. My parents didn't take us out. Halloween was my Dad's Birthday. Happy Halloween. I hope you feel better. 😊
Hi JoAnne! Thank you 🥰
Your dad’s birthday was Halloween! That’s so fun! We were with a neighbor who also had her birthday on Halloween. What a great treat to have a costume party every year for your birthday! I bet your dad loved it 😍
I have crocheted more than I have knitted-the 1970s rarely saw me without a crochet hook! I made a purple and pink granny square vest to wear with my biggest bell bottom jeans-so fun! My mom taught me how to crochet. She made these cute little angel ornaments for our tree out of very tiny cotton floss. We starched them-I remember that well. Somehow all the memories of things I’ve created with my hands stand out a bit more in my mind. I hope that’s true for you, too.
I bet your ponchos are warm! Gosh I wore a lot of those, too😎☮️ It’s so good to create anything you’re pleased with, and I’m happy you enjoy your handicrafts-that’s so rewarding.
These pens are a lot of fun-several sizes of nibs & only one is a real brush tip.
Happy creating & Happy November! 💨🍁🍂❄️
Ann, you knit a sweater in a week -while sick no less!Wow! That’s talent!! I’m hopeless with knitting. But I did manage to crochet a hat for my baby grandson-after 10 tries! Ha ha it should fit him in a year or so! 🫠😂
PS great Jack-o’-lantern 🎃🎃🎃 Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween, Doreen!
Ohhhhh I bet your grandson’s hat is adorable!
Knitting in a week….sounds like a lot but honestly that’s ALL I did. Easy pattern, too😉🫶🏼🫶🏼
Happy to hear you're feeling better, Ann. Did I hear correctly - you knitted that beautiful sweater while under the weather? That's impressive! And your jack-o-lantern turned out great - a little creepy and a lot cheery. ⭐
Thanks, Irene! Yes, you heard correctly-I knit the sweater while on “Couch Island.” ☺️ Don’t be too impressed; it was a super easy pattern and large needles, so it was a quick project. I can’t seem to sit with my thoughts-have to have busy hands! It was kind of a knit, purl, 🤧 , knit, purl, 🤧 situation😂
Hope your Halloween was a bit creepy and a lot cheery🧡🖤🫶🏼🎃👩🏻🎨