Oh how I love your podcast! You take podcasting to a whole new level with your garment expertise, Andrea, and your willingness, Andrew.but the thing that takes it above and beyond any other knitting podcast are your interviews with amazing people. This episode was no exception. Keep bringing what you do best.
I just love your podcast. I always learn something and always come away inspired to stretch out in my knitting endeavors. And thank you so much for expanding our horizons with your Knitters of the World segments.
Another great podcast. I enjoyed seeing everybody's sweater progress. I also loved hearing about and seeing Australia through Petah's yarns. You also did a great job pairing the music with the photographs. Thank you!
Hi Andrew and Andrea. Petah recommended I watch your podcast. I'm so glad I did. I thoroughly enjoyed it and the interviews too. I live in Queensland. Perth has been on my 'must see' list for many years. After listening to Petah talk about Perth and the wildflowers I want to go there now. I recently started knitting with Dingo Dyeworks yarn - top quality, so soft and the colours are amazing. I look forward to your next podcast, Julia xx
I found your podcast through Petah and I'm so glad she mentioned it! I truly enjoyed this episode and will go back to catch up on the others. The firebirds are beautiful. I really don't think anyone will notice the tiny jog due to the colourwork but if you think it will bother you, I would turn it to the back. I quite like the birds facing each other across the front. I haven't done fair isle in some time but you've inspired me. I know exactly what you mean about the enjoyment it brings you. Thank you for a lovely podcast.
I have to say, I'm sorry that in the interview I look like Lady Cassandra from Dr. Who (the face on the stretched skin that needs to be moisturized). The camera settings were up way too high and I couldn't really change it in the editing.
Found you on reddit and this is the first episode I've watched. It was really lovely -- very interesting, well produced and professional looking. I'll be watching the rest of the episodes to catch up and I'm subscribing so I don't miss anything new. Thank you both.
I am sure that Andrew's firebird sweater is finished, but I agree with Tilly, that the birds facing each other on the front is the best. Has to do with relationship and enduring relationship if you check the symbolism. And the wonky bit, not wonky at all, really lovely work. I am in Leuterhausen, and hope that I get to visit you!
The Firebird jumper. I know it’s all done, but for the future. On the row before the change-up, I do a little known increase where I knit the stitch, hold on the needles, and pick up a stitch through the purl bump of your stitch, thereby making a piggy-back stitch increase. It’s not noticeable to most knitters unless you know to look for it. I learned it from my experienced group member who also taught me to do my first pair of socks on magic loop and her name is Barbara and she goes by Knitnerd 😀
I love the Firebirds looking at each other! It's just sweet! The jog isn't so bad it's just I like them looking at each other....You are amazing! Andrew try knitting Portuguese style. VeryPink Knits on You Tube has several videos on this technique. You will be amazed at how fast you'll become at knitting stockinette. Purling in Portuguese style is so easy and fast you'll want to purl all the time. Also the tension is beautifully even. I love knowing that more and more male knitters are coming out of the wool closet! Absolutely love your podcast!
I'd put the jog on the back, because otherwise it would annoy me whenever I looked at my (hypothetical) husband's face. ;) Plus, I quite like how the birds are facing each other, so it looks just as deliberate to me as in the front! The sweater looks beautiful either way though. Another great episode!
Andrew, I am watching this Sep 13, 2016 episode on June 19, 2018, as I only recently discovered you and Andrea. I am losing a lot of sleep trying to catch up. About the temperature conversion issue - I live in a Fahrenheit world, and have managed to remember two reference points, hot and cold: 28C = 82F, and 0C = 32F. Unless I am preparing food, I can wing it from there! Love the podcasts, for being both fun and informative, and Andrea does such a professional interview, asking such good questions.
I love watching your podcast and have learnt a lot since finding it only a short time ago. Andrea, I think you should leave the jog in front as its hardly noticeable and yes I know your eye would be drawn to it every time Andrew wore it...but hey life isn't perfect so let it go ;-) You're inspiring me to want to try a fairisle garment..soon, but not quite yet. Im amazed at how fast you finish them!
I loved to see the knitters of the 2 KALs. I would put the the front of the cardigan with the little jog in the back, because the jog would bug me, because I am crazy like this. Andrew, you did some great progress on your garment, perhaps you can do it till the end of the KAL, at least the body and you can wear it as a vest and the sleeves will follow later.
Andrew here. We absolutely loved seeing our KAL knitters too. On the sleeves - these KALs are a serious business, and one of the rules for the first garment KAL was that there had to be sleeves - no mohair undershirts. We'll see how far I get, but I do know I'm going to be very busy over the next few months... Thanks for watching and for your feedback!
I know just what you mean about knitting with Hebridean 2ply...I sign with happiness when I use it too. Just an opinion but I think the birds should look at each other on the front and the 'join'should be on the back. But that is only an opinion..I am sure it will be fine either way..I suppose it depends on what you can live with best.
I must say I agree with TMT, your cardie is beautiful. If pushed I would think the tiny jog to the back. You make all you do seem effortless. I loved your interview with Dancing Dog Dye Works. Would it be to much to ask if you could posable do an interview on how they make silk ? Well done a fabulous podcast. Thank you.
I am watching this about a year after the interview with Petah, but Andrea, if you knitted the top you were wearing in the interview, can you tell me what the pattern and yarn is. Thank you Lyn
Hi Lyn. You can find out about the top on the show notes, here: fruityknitting.com/2016/09/13/dingo-dyeworks-and-other-australian-delights-ep-13/ I think we answered both of your questions. Thanks for watching, A + A
Fruity Knitting sorry Andrea Thanks for the quick reply. I mean the green marled top you were wearing when you interviewed Petah, not the peachy coloured top by Kim Hargreaves.
Hi Andrea, I am trying to visualize...could you have repositioned your start of the round to an underarm position....before establishing your armhole steaks?
Aha, should have kept going before commenting....I see, the birds would be all facing the same direction on either side...... It really doesn't matter...the finished sweater will be gorgeous!
enjoying the podcasts a LOT. i travel a lot (that's why i learned to knit) - so can you possibly put your podcasts on iTunes? that way i can watch them when i'm not connected to internet (especially on long haul flights) bluey the aussie guy knitter ravelryId=blueylittle
Wow. I'd never heard of 'mulesing' and had no idea this barbaric practice was carried out on sheep. I've now looked into it and seen that many major fashion retailers are threatening to boycott Australian merino wool if they don't properly enforce - at the very least - humane practices such as pain relief for the animals. The procedure was not described in this video, but it involves cutting away crescents of skin from a lamb's hindquarters without anaesthetic, with the idea that the wounds will heal and scar more tightly, leaving fewer damp crevices and recesses that the blowfly like to lay eggs in. find Petah's argument that mulesing is the lesser of two evils a weak one, I'm afraid: the obvious conclusion is that the merino sheep is simply not suited to Australia, and instead of persisting with a practice that is appallingly cruel, even to a carnivore like myself, Australian farmers should be looking at animals that are better suited to the environment they have. For knitting I almost exclusively use British wool, but I will be checking the origin of any other wool product I use, such as from fashion retailers, and if it's Australian and I can't get sufficient evidence that it comes from un-mulesed sheep, I will not be buying. P.S. I'd watch the hell out of an episode that looks more critically as issues of fibre-animal welfare! Thanks for an interesting episode, as ever.
I have refused to buy any merino that is not mulesing free since I found out about that barbaric practice. There is lots available from not only other countries but farmers in Australasia who use better flock care instead.
Thank you so much for all your efforts with the podcast and the marvelous interviews.
Graciass!! beautiful podcast to watch on a free day.. from Argentina ... thankss!!!!
Another lovely episode. I really appreciate the work you do with the music!
Australia looks beautiful. What a lovely show you both put on. Thank you for the humour and knowledge.
Such an inspiring session and such a great add for our wonderful country even if this program is four years old.
Oh how I love your podcast! You take podcasting to a whole new level with your garment expertise, Andrea, and your willingness, Andrew.but the thing that takes it above and beyond any other knitting podcast are your interviews with amazing people. This episode was no exception. Keep bringing what you do best.
Pat, you're so great! Thanks for staying in touch.
I just love your podcast. I always learn something and always come away inspired to stretch out in my knitting endeavors. And thank you so much for expanding our horizons with your Knitters of the World segments.
Another great podcast. I enjoyed seeing everybody's sweater progress. I also loved hearing about and seeing Australia through Petah's yarns. You also did a great job pairing the music with the photographs. Thank you!
Hi from a fellow Aussie and new viewer. Great episode. Loved your feature on Petah - she is so passionate about colour, it's infectious!
Hi Andrew and Andrea. Petah recommended I watch your podcast. I'm so glad I did. I thoroughly enjoyed it and the interviews too. I live in Queensland. Perth has been on my 'must see' list for many years. After listening to Petah talk about Perth and the wildflowers I want to go there now. I recently started knitting with Dingo Dyeworks yarn - top quality, so soft and the colours are amazing. I look forward to your next podcast, Julia xx
Thank you for the welcome! Sorry I accidentally pressed the wrong button and deleted your reply. Have a beautiful day, Julia xx
I found your podcast through Petah and I'm so glad she mentioned it! I truly enjoyed this episode and will go back to catch up on the others. The firebirds are beautiful. I really don't think anyone will notice the tiny jog due to the colourwork but if you think it will bother you, I would turn it to the back. I quite like the birds facing each other across the front. I haven't done fair isle in some time but you've inspired me. I know exactly what you mean about the enjoyment it brings you. Thank you for a lovely podcast.
I have to say, I'm sorry that in the interview I look like Lady Cassandra from Dr. Who (the face on the stretched skin that needs to be moisturized). The camera settings were up way too high and I couldn't really change it in the editing.
That whole episode was soooooooo wonderful
Ah, not even close. You're gorgeous.
Love love and more love to you both xx
It was interesting to hear from knitters in Australia in this podcast; a great example of how ones environment can inspire ones art.
Found you on reddit and this is the first episode I've watched. It was really lovely -- very interesting, well produced and professional looking.
I'll be watching the rest of the episodes to catch up and I'm subscribing so I don't miss anything new.
Thank you both.
You look fine, great video, I am just an amateur knitter, but am learning a lot watching your podcasts, thank you
Thanks, Sheryl.
WA wildflowers! Nature is so beautiful! Thank you for such lovely interview. Can not stop watching your podcasts.
Thanks, Zetta. And please, keep watching!
I am sure that Andrew's firebird sweater is finished, but I agree with Tilly, that the birds facing each other on the front is the best. Has to do with relationship and enduring relationship if you check the symbolism. And the wonky bit, not wonky at all, really lovely work. I am in Leuterhausen, and hope that I get to visit you!
I like the birds facing each other on the front.
The Firebird jumper. I know it’s all done, but for the future. On the row before the change-up, I do a little known increase where I knit the stitch, hold on the needles, and pick up a stitch through the purl bump of your stitch, thereby making a piggy-back stitch increase. It’s not noticeable to most knitters unless you know to look for it. I learned it from my experienced group member who also taught me to do my first pair of socks on magic loop and her name is Barbara and she goes by Knitnerd 😀
I love the Firebirds looking at each other! It's just sweet! The jog isn't so bad it's just I like them looking at each other....You are amazing!
Andrew try knitting Portuguese style. VeryPink Knits on You Tube has several videos on this technique. You will be amazed at how fast you'll become at knitting stockinette. Purling in Portuguese style is so easy and fast you'll want to purl all the time. Also the tension is beautifully even. I love knowing that more and more male knitters are coming out of the wool closet!
Absolutely love your podcast!
Wallan banksia and Ridgy Didge colours would suit you very much Andrea. The dye colours are gorgeous.
I'd put the jog on the back, because otherwise it would annoy me whenever I looked at my (hypothetical) husband's face. ;) Plus, I quite like how the birds are facing each other, so it looks just as deliberate to me as in the front! The sweater looks beautiful either way though. Another great episode!
Andrew, I am watching this Sep 13, 2016 episode on June 19, 2018, as I only recently discovered you and Andrea. I am losing a lot of sleep trying to catch up.
About the temperature conversion issue - I live in a Fahrenheit world, and have managed to remember two reference points, hot and cold: 28C = 82F, and 0C = 32F. Unless I am preparing food, I can wing it from there!
Love the podcasts, for being both fun and informative, and Andrea does such a professional interview, asking such good questions.
Thanks for the tip, Sue. I will work on getting an understanding of the Fahreinheit system. Enjoy catching up, but make sure you get your sleep!!!
Droopy loopy bit to the front lovelies. Love the podcasts
Oh My you have Tilly Trout doing your KAL! I love Tilly!!!!
I love watching your podcast and have learnt a lot since finding it only a short time ago. Andrea, I think you should leave the jog in front as its hardly noticeable and yes I know your eye would be drawn to it every time Andrew wore it...but hey life isn't perfect so let it go ;-) You're inspiring me to want to try a fairisle garment..soon, but not quite yet. Im amazed at how fast you finish them!
Thank you!
I loved to see the knitters of the 2 KALs.
I would put the the front of the cardigan with the little jog in the back, because the jog would bug me, because I am crazy like this.
Andrew, you did some great progress on your garment, perhaps you can do it till the end of the KAL, at least the body and you can wear it as a vest and the sleeves will follow later.
Andrew here. We absolutely loved seeing our KAL knitters too.
On the sleeves - these KALs are a serious business, and one of the rules for the first garment KAL was that there had to be sleeves - no mohair undershirts. We'll see how far I get, but I do know I'm going to be very busy over the next few months... Thanks for watching and for your feedback!
Could you not use a two stitch center instead of a one stitch center?
I know just what you mean about knitting with Hebridean 2ply...I sign with happiness when I use it too.
Just an opinion but I think the birds should look at each other on the front and the 'join'should be on the back. But that is only an opinion..I am sure it will be fine either way..I suppose it depends on what you can live with best.
I must say I agree with TMT, your cardie is beautiful. If pushed I would think the tiny jog to the back. You make all you do seem effortless. I loved your interview with Dancing Dog Dye Works. Would it be to much to ask if you could posable do an interview on how they make silk ? Well done a fabulous podcast. Thank you.
Hi Josie. Thanks for your comment and your request on the silk. We will look into it, but you might have to be patient. Keep watching!!!
the Starmore "Fire Birds" pattern, is the pattern still only in childs size or was it printed for an adult?
I am watching this about a year after the interview with Petah, but Andrea, if you knitted the top you were wearing in the interview, can you tell me what the pattern and yarn is.
Thank you Lyn
Hi Lyn. You can find out about the top on the show notes, here:
fruityknitting.com/2016/09/13/dingo-dyeworks-and-other-australian-delights-ep-13/
I think we answered both of your questions.
Thanks for watching,
A + A
Fruity Knitting sorry Andrea
Thanks for the quick reply. I mean the green marled top you were wearing when you interviewed Petah, not the peachy coloured top by Kim Hargreaves.
That pattern comes from an old German magazine that is no longer in print.
Fruity Knitting what a shame Andrea,
It looked great on you.
Droopy loopy on the back
Where did the name Fruity Knitting come from
Opps I think I put my comment in the wrong place..I was just saying that that episode was so utterly enjoyable.
Thank you so much, we're very glad you enjoyed it and thanks for submitting your selfie.
Hi Andrea, I am trying to visualize...could you have repositioned your start of the round to an underarm position....before establishing your armhole steaks?
Aha, should have kept going before commenting....I see, the birds would be all facing the same direction on either side...... It really doesn't matter...the finished sweater will be gorgeous!
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enjoying the podcasts a LOT.
i travel a lot (that's why i learned to knit) - so can you possibly put your podcasts on iTunes? that way i can watch them when i'm not connected to internet (especially on long haul flights)
bluey the aussie guy knitter
ravelryId=blueylittle
Hi Bluey! Always good to hear from Australia. We're looking into iTunes, but it's a little challenging for video podcasts...
Fruity Knitting or you could look at putting them in the iPhone podcast app! I have seen serveral video pods on there :)
Wow. I'd never heard of 'mulesing' and had no idea this barbaric practice was carried out on sheep. I've now looked into it and seen that many major fashion retailers are threatening to boycott Australian merino wool if they don't properly enforce - at the very least - humane practices such as pain relief for the animals. The procedure was not described in this video, but it involves cutting away crescents of skin from a lamb's hindquarters without anaesthetic, with the idea that the wounds will heal and scar more tightly, leaving fewer damp crevices and recesses that the blowfly like to lay eggs in. find Petah's argument that mulesing is the lesser of two evils a weak one, I'm afraid: the obvious conclusion is that the merino sheep is simply not suited to Australia, and instead of persisting with a practice that is appallingly cruel, even to a carnivore like myself, Australian farmers should be looking at animals that are better suited to the environment they have. For knitting I almost exclusively use British wool, but I will be checking the origin of any other wool product I use, such as from fashion retailers, and if it's Australian and I can't get sufficient evidence that it comes from un-mulesed sheep, I will not be buying. P.S. I'd watch the hell out of an episode that looks more critically as issues of fibre-animal welfare! Thanks for an interesting episode, as ever.
I have refused to buy any merino that is not mulesing free since I found out about that barbaric practice. There is lots available from not only other countries but farmers in Australasia who use better flock care instead.