I so much love to sew my garments with the chrochet hook. Sometimes it is better to use back stitch. Thank you again for this episode of fruity Knitting. ❤
I am so overwhelmed with the desire to look at every single one of your videos today. I think that will be impossible, because I think I saw that you have over a 100 . I am so impressed with the three I have just seem. Thank you for all that it must take to put these out.
I'm thrilled to see Linda Marveng on your podcast. I have long admired her patterns and have a few on my list of must knits. Another wonderful podcast...thank you Andrea & Andrew.
Fruity Knitting was cited several times during KnitStars this year as being a top notch blog! We were especially blessed by episode #65 which featured Andrea Rangel’s favorite yarn from Urudale farms. Thanks again for all you do!
Loved both guests, as usual. How I would love to just travel round the world and visit each and every one of your guests. I consider this my substitute world knitting tour.
So happy you featured Linda Marveng else I might never have heard of her! Her design aesthetic seems right up my alley, I have been looking for a long time for a cable cardigan design that I like!
I absolutely love to watch your episodes! You two are not just very talented, but also very entertaining. And.....absolutely adorable! There is lots of harmony in the room, lots of warmth and respect for each other! I hope to meet you someday soon! Maybe in Edinburgh, March 2019?
Oh, what is that sweater @ 1:01:58?! I must know. Haha 😁 so I can immediately learn that honeycomb-esk stitch pattern. 🤩 those cables are lovely too. Can anyone tell me what those patterns are called? Please and thank you! Love your podcasts! I sit down with my coffee/tea and my knitting and thoroughly enjoy myself. When it’s over I feel like I’ve just had a nice conversation with a friend. My heart goes out to you and yours, so sad to learn about Andrew‘s passing. He is missed all the way over here in North Dakota. Watching him take on all the challenges you’ve thrown at him encouraged me to be a more adventurous knitter. ♥️🧶
Love your videos they make my month. Extra delighted today to See crocheted seaming something I thought I was alone with so now a great designer is on my page I'm so endorsed and delighted 😊 Thank you both and All your guests for amazing info and designs and wishing you all a very merry Christmas. 🌲🎅🎄🎁⛄🌟
Absolutely love this podcast! Thank you again, Andrea and Andrew for the exquisite content, I look forward to the new podcast every two weeks and I am a patron. Enjoy your coffee. Dawn, from northern British Columbia.
My grandmother was Norwegian - if only I'd met her and learned her knitting skills! That top does look pretty stunning! You'll blow the Frankfurt English Theatre away with it Andrea!
The colour combination (really suits you) on your knitted top is spectacular and as you say very unusual. It looks lovely, even better than the original (I just looked :)).
Just love your classy podcast! I was glad to see Linda's sewing with crochet. I used to do that method in the 80s& 90s! Always looking forward to see your upcoming podcast!
Perfect KAL!!! I know exactly what I'm going to knit, and it gives me the chance to use the beautiful merino wool my friend bought for me during her recent trip to Australia... I'm excited and inspired 😊
Crochet in split stitch when you finished your garment! I just 😍 love 💕 it! Thank you 😊 💕I finally decide to do more garments for myself this year! 2019 🇨🇦
never does time go so fast as when I’m watching one of your podcasts. You have broadened my world immensely and I have started following the designers you mention. I have just read Alice Starmore’s Aran Knitting and think she’d make a great guests to interview and talk about the origin of the Aran style, it certainly isn’t what I thought it was. I fell upon your podcasts by accident a month ago when I was laid-up and so had the chance to binge watch the whole lot. When I got to the end and had to wait 2 weeks like everyone else, I went to watch other knitting podcasts but sadly, none are a patch on my ‘first love’, so wait I must. Have just made a Kate Davies Sheep Carousel tea cost to introduce me to the idea of steeking which I hadn’t heard of before and now am onto something from the Marie Wallin Springtime collection but I can’t decide which design to knit!!! Thanks for introducing me to all these new designs, designers and techniques. Long live Fruity Knitting !!
I've just discovered your podcast and absolutely love it. Thank you for the excellent seaming tutorial - I am always looking for knitting-in-the-round patterns in part due to my hesitancy with seaming.
I always use a crochet hook to finish. I learned to crochet before I learned to knit and it's super natural. It also looks great when creating exposed seams, I did it on my Weekender Sweater instead of a three needle bind-off. Just lovely.
I really loved listening to Linda Marveng, what an inspiration she is and I was glad to see a fuller figure garment being shown. I was so pleased to see your method of back stitching Andrea as I have been backstitching for 50+ years but a little bit different to yours, which is much better. I have learned so much today and what generous Patreon discounts, which I will defiantly be taken advantage of. Thank you
I always do crochet seaming and I'm so happy I'm not the only one!!! But I can't remember when I learned it, probably it was instinctive. Lovely podcast as always!
Beautiful knit and beautiful work ..suits you so well Andre....lovely. Loving the tips and designs of Linda Marveng too. Beautiful yarns..omg great designers.
I have come back to knitting because it is soooo lovely! I wish I had the money o buy all the beautiful yarn and patterns. I am a highly experienced knitter among so many other things! Maybe one day!
Thank you both so much for all you do. I adore your elegant podcast almost as much for the music and sights around Germany as for the knitting. Two questions: will you please include more scenes of a German Christmas Market in your next episode? And when are you going to interview Alice or Jade Starmore?
Andrea, I'm like you with light blue. I fall head over heels for blue yarn. Where you're risking becoming a leprechaun, I'm risking becoming a smurf! Once I'm done with my current (blue) cable project, I'll absolutely do something in green! Get me out of my smurfy comfort zone :)
BTW: I just wanted to mention that I have improved my knitting technique from watching your show. I've always held my yarn over the left index finger in order to skip the step of wrapping with the right hand. It works well, but I'd never been able to increase my speed. I've always been amazed when I see you knitting on the show. It seems like your hands hardly move. I finally decided to zoom in and do some stop motion on one of your tutorials to see exactly what you do. I realized I've been wrapping the yarn with a little twirling motion, pulling it through at an awkward angle, and dropping the left stitch in an additional motion. You, on the other hand, simply slide your right needle through, grab it with the tip of the needle and pull through in a smooth horizontal motion, which lets the previous stitch drop off the left needle only when the new one is secure on the right. There is no separate motion for releasing that left hand stitch; it just happens naturally. 'll never be as fast as you, but I can work on picking up speed now, with this new method. Thanks!
You guys are the very best!! Thank you so much for all the work you do and do so well. I don't ever remember hearing how you picked the name Fruity Knitting...where does that come from? Very best whishes to you both from a happy patron in Missouri.
I agree, Jennifer - Andrea and Andrew are the best! And I, too, have never heard how you picked the name Fruity Knitting, after all these wonderful episodes! Would love to know :)
I so love your program and I don't even know how to knit. However I have gained a wealth of knowledge on yarn, which is a guilty pleasure of mine. I'm a crocheter who lives on a tropical island in the Caribbean - Puerto Rico. I enjoy crocheting lace shawls, blankets, hats, cowls, and some garments. I admit to not liking seaming with a crochet hook; I prefer mattress stitch and am anxious to try backstitching. I don't expect you to ever feature any crochet segment because I agree that crochet garments in yarn are not as delicate as knitted garments. But maybe sometime in the future you can film a special feature on those beautiful crochet garments stitched up by the Russians. I have also seen very fine pieces in Latin American magazines - mostly done in cotton. Tunisian crochet is very similar to knitting in its final product so that, too, can be a consideration for a future program that would include little bit of crochet. Again, I absolutely love your program and you should be on PBS or BBC since the quality of what you produce is so good. I hope to someday become a patron as my finances permit. Please don't go anywhere. Take care. Hasta pronto.
My sister recently asked me why you are called Fruity Knitting... And I'm not sure! Also, have you ever considered going to the J C Rennie Mill in an episode or finding about their dye process? I love their yarn shades and they seem to be steeped in heritage!
Dear Andrea and Andrew, please remind me in which of your videos do you have a short lesson on keeping yarns from twisting during two color knitting. Thank you for everything.
Another wonderful podcast, your Louisa Harding top is gorgeous, everything you knit looks gorgeous Andrea! Andrew is a great knitter as well. I'm impressed by anyone who can knit socks and accomplish brioche. Does the Yellow Gold sweater by Linda Marveng have enough cabling to qualify for your upcoming KAL? I just bought it, love the details on it.
Thanks for the great work. Loving the show. I tried adding a comment to this episode on your website but I guess it didn't go through. I am new to the show and to knitting. I'm guessing KAL is "Knit-a-long" or something like that? Is there a resource you could point me to about that and how to join? I'm finishing a large lace cardigan now, but I don't guess this one would count.
I only use the crochet seaming method and totally agree that seams create structure, just like in a tailored sewn garment. While I appreciate knitting sweaters in the round for ease, I prefer how pieced sweaters look.
I am Norwegian and started nitting 55 years ago. A lot what Linda says about typical Norwegian nitting, is not known to me. Like using a sewing machine to put on the sleeves, not forming a neckline, and using only two colours.
You can buy Hillesvåg yarn from Ysolda or directly from Hillesvåg themselves: ysolda.com/collections/hillesvag or www.ull.no/produktkategori/garn/norsk-pelsull/
Oh, do you really want our ideas? How about the smaller honeycomb cable set 1.5 times the cable width from the zipper on either side. - I started to make another suggestion, but let’s keep it straightforward for Andrew. Thanks for another inspiring video.
Elisabeth Zimmermann's knitter's almanac has een beautiful Aran sweater design (month of january) which is stunningly elaborate 😉... Just another idea...
Andrea...my best friend from high school can't keep from dressing in animal prints. I harass her about it constantly but she has ignored me for 50 years. Your fetish for green is far more acceptable in my book. Layoff, Andrew.
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I so much love to sew my garments with the chrochet hook. Sometimes it is better to use back stitch. Thank you again for this episode of fruity Knitting. ❤
The finishing tips are great! I like the crochet slip stitch.
I do enjoy the slip stitch join but I usually use the back loop for the front piece and the front loop of the second and it make a beautiful seam.
Love your videos! Just found you! So informative! Love watching andrews slow mo knitting. It’s like me!!
As always another great episode. I loved hearing Linda discuss her crochet slip stitch seaming technique as I often seem pieces together this way.
I am so overwhelmed with the desire to look at every single one of your videos today. I think that will be impossible, because I think I saw that you have over a 100 . I am so impressed with the three I have just seem. Thank you for all that it must take to put these out.
Another wonderful episode. Who on earth are these people who give you the "thumbs down" ?? Sue, UK xx
I'm thrilled to see Linda Marveng on your podcast. I have long admired her patterns and have a few on my list of must knits. Another wonderful podcast...thank you Andrea & Andrew.
Fruity Knitting was cited several times during KnitStars this year as being a top notch blog! We were especially blessed by episode #65 which featured Andrea Rangel’s favorite yarn from Urudale farms. Thanks again for all you do!
Loved both guests, as usual. How I would love to just travel round the world and visit each and every one of your guests. I consider this my substitute world knitting tour.
So happy you featured Linda Marveng else I might never have heard of her! Her design aesthetic seems right up my alley, I have been looking for a long time for a cable cardigan design that I like!
I absolutely love to watch your episodes! You two are not just very talented, but also very entertaining. And.....absolutely adorable! There is lots of harmony in the room, lots of warmth and respect for each other! I hope to meet you someday soon! Maybe in Edinburgh, March 2019?
Oh, what is that sweater @ 1:01:58?! I must know. Haha 😁 so I can immediately learn that honeycomb-esk stitch pattern. 🤩 those cables are lovely too. Can anyone tell me what those patterns are called? Please and thank you!
Love your podcasts! I sit down with my coffee/tea and my knitting and thoroughly enjoy myself. When it’s over I feel like I’ve just had a nice conversation with a friend. My heart goes out to you and yours, so sad to learn about Andrew‘s passing. He is missed all the way over here in North Dakota. Watching him take on all the challenges you’ve thrown at him encouraged me to be a more adventurous knitter. ♥️🧶
Love your videos they make my month. Extra delighted today to See crocheted seaming something I thought I was alone with so now a great designer is on my page I'm so endorsed and delighted 😊 Thank you both and All your guests for amazing info and designs and wishing you all a very merry Christmas. 🌲🎅🎄🎁⛄🌟
Absolutely love this podcast! Thank you again, Andrea and Andrew for the exquisite content, I look forward to the new podcast every two weeks and I am a patron. Enjoy your coffee.
Dawn, from northern British Columbia.
Thanks Dawn
Love the Meet the Shepherdess interviews! One of My favorite parts of your show!
Some really stunning design from Linda and the alpacas are so cute!
Thank you ever so much!
Beautiful sweaters! Thanks for sharing! ❤️
Linda is great, and I'm so happy you interviewed her! Andrea it will be a crying shame if you don't knit that gorgeous green yarn! Love you guys!
My grandmother was Norwegian - if only I'd met her and learned her knitting skills!
That top does look pretty stunning! You'll blow the Frankfurt English Theatre away with it Andrea!
The colour combination (really suits you) on your knitted top is spectacular and as you say very unusual. It looks lovely, even better than the original (I just looked :)).
Just love your classy podcast! I was glad to see Linda's sewing with crochet. I used to do that method in the 80s& 90s! Always looking forward to see your upcoming podcast!
I am happy to hear it, thank you!
Perfect KAL!!! I know exactly what I'm going to knit, and it gives me the chance to use the beautiful merino wool my friend bought for me during her recent trip to Australia... I'm excited and inspired 😊
Crochet in split stitch when you finished your garment! I just 😍 love 💕 it! Thank you 😊 💕I finally decide to do more garments for myself this year! 2019 🇨🇦
Really enjoyed these lovely ladies, and the show this week. Can’t wait to see what colour you are branching out to! ❤️
never does time go so fast as when I’m watching one of your podcasts. You have broadened my world immensely and I have started following the designers you mention. I have just read Alice Starmore’s Aran Knitting and think she’d make a great guests to interview and talk about the origin of the Aran style, it certainly isn’t what I thought it was. I fell upon your podcasts by accident a month ago when I was laid-up and so had the chance to binge watch the whole lot. When I got to the end and had to wait 2 weeks like everyone else, I went to watch other knitting podcasts but sadly, none are a patch on my ‘first love’, so wait I must. Have just made a Kate Davies Sheep Carousel tea cost to introduce me to the idea of steeking which I hadn’t heard of before and now am onto something from the Marie Wallin Springtime collection but I can’t decide which design to knit!!! Thanks for introducing me to all these new designs, designers and techniques. Long live Fruity Knitting !!
Here, here!
I came here to hear Linda Marving, but I fell in love with that gorgeous top you made.
I've just discovered your podcast and absolutely love it. Thank you for the excellent seaming tutorial - I am always looking for knitting-in-the-round patterns in part due to my hesitancy with seaming.
I always use a crochet hook to finish. I learned to crochet before I learned to knit and it's super natural. It also looks great when creating exposed seams, I did it on my Weekender Sweater instead of a three needle bind-off. Just lovely.
I really loved listening to Linda Marveng, what an inspiration she is and I was glad to see a fuller figure garment being shown. I was so pleased to see your method of back stitching Andrea as I have been backstitching for 50+ years but a little bit different to yours, which is much better. I have learned so much today and what generous Patreon discounts, which I will defiantly be taken advantage of. Thank you
I will definetly try the crochet seaming. Thank you for this episode and your inspirstions.
Upps, I don't wanted to response. Sorry
That is great to hear! Thank you! @@sabrinas.4671
That is wonderful to hear, Daphne! Thank you so much!
I always do crochet seaming and I'm so happy I'm not the only one!!! But I can't remember when I learned it, probably it was instinctive. Lovely podcast as always!
Beautiful knit and beautiful work ..suits you so well Andre....lovely. Loving the tips and designs of Linda Marveng too. Beautiful yarns..omg great designers.
I am delighted to hear it, thank you so much!
I have come back to knitting because it is soooo lovely! I wish I had the money o buy all the beautiful yarn and patterns. I am a highly experienced knitter among so many other things! Maybe one day!
Thank you both so much for all you do. I adore your elegant podcast almost as much for the music and sights around Germany as for the knitting. Two questions: will you please include more scenes of a German Christmas Market in your next episode? And when are you going to interview Alice or Jade Starmore?
Haha, I knew it.. when I saw the cover of pompom magazine, I thought of you Andrea :-) Thanks for yet another wonderful episode
Andrea, I'm like you with light blue. I fall head over heels for blue yarn. Where you're risking becoming a leprechaun, I'm risking becoming a smurf!
Once I'm done with my current (blue) cable project, I'll absolutely do something in green! Get me out of my smurfy comfort zone :)
Absolutely beautiful top and it looks so good on you!
BTW: I just wanted to mention that I have improved my knitting technique from watching your show. I've always held my yarn over the left index finger in order to skip the step of wrapping with the right hand. It works well, but I'd never been able to increase my speed. I've always been amazed when I see you knitting on the show. It seems like your hands hardly move. I finally decided to zoom in and do some stop motion on one of your tutorials to see exactly what you do. I realized I've been wrapping the yarn with a little twirling motion, pulling it through at an awkward angle, and dropping the left stitch in an additional motion. You, on the other hand, simply slide your right needle through, grab it with the tip of the needle and pull through in a smooth horizontal motion, which lets the previous stitch drop off the left needle only when the new one is secure on the right. There is no separate motion for releasing that left hand stitch; it just happens naturally. 'll never be as fast as you, but I can work on picking up speed now, with this new method. Thanks!
Beautiful job thanks for sharing.
Loved learning the crochet seaming techniques!
That is great to hear, thank you!
Can't take my eyes off your beautiful jumper Andrea 😘💐
I will defintly try the crochet seaming. Thanks for this episode and your inspirations.
You explain everything very clearly. What colours do you use for your Aquila sweater? Thank you.
You guys are the very best!! Thank you so much for all the work you do and do so well. I don't ever remember hearing how you picked the name Fruity Knitting...where does that come from? Very best whishes to you both from a happy patron in Missouri.
Thank you, Jennifer!
I agree, Jennifer - Andrea and Andrew are the best! And I, too, have never heard how you picked the name Fruity Knitting, after all these wonderful episodes! Would love to know :)
I so love your program and I don't even know how to knit. However I have gained a wealth of knowledge on yarn, which is a guilty pleasure of mine. I'm a crocheter who lives on a tropical island in the Caribbean - Puerto Rico. I enjoy crocheting lace shawls, blankets, hats, cowls, and some garments. I admit to not liking seaming with a crochet hook; I prefer mattress stitch and am anxious to try backstitching. I don't expect you to ever feature any crochet segment because I agree that crochet garments in yarn are not as delicate as knitted garments. But maybe sometime in the future you can film a special feature on those beautiful crochet garments stitched up by the Russians. I have also seen very fine pieces in Latin American magazines - mostly done in cotton. Tunisian crochet is very similar to knitting in its final product so that, too, can be a consideration for a future program that would include little bit of crochet. Again, I absolutely love your program and you should be on PBS or BBC since the quality of what you produce is so good. I hope to someday become a patron as my finances permit. Please don't go anywhere. Take care. Hasta pronto.
Lovely lace sweater, Andre!
My sister recently asked me why you are called Fruity Knitting... And I'm not sure!
Also, have you ever considered going to the J C Rennie Mill in an episode or finding about their dye process? I love their yarn shades and they seem to be steeped in heritage!
Dear Andrea and Andrew, please remind me in which of your videos do you have a short lesson on keeping yarns from twisting during two color knitting. Thank you for everything.
Beautiful top on you, You are a very talented knitter.
"Tools in your Skills-Box" - It's actually quite accurate!
Amazing loved to Linda
Another wonderful podcast, your Louisa Harding top is gorgeous, everything you knit looks gorgeous Andrea! Andrew is a great knitter as well. I'm impressed by anyone who can knit socks and accomplish brioche. Does the Yellow Gold sweater by Linda Marveng have enough cabling to qualify for your upcoming KAL? I just bought it, love the details on it.
Thank you for buying the pattern and loving the details on it!
Hi from America! I love this episode...You were talking about changing the yarn & gauge in projects...how do you work out math & changes...Thank you
That is not something that I can type in a short answer. If you go back and watch other episodes you will hear me talk about it in detail.
Fruity Knitting Thank you...I will do that.
Thank you! 🌞
Andrea love the bright blue...the one horse shoe cable is called Staghorn, aren't they lovely.
Thanks!
watching this late and am like ah don't think i can do a project in 2 months ! always miss out on the KALs
i am currently knitting a cabled project but i started in November
Lovely lace Pattern. What is it called?
You mentioned a discount for Linda Marveng’s designs but I didn’t hear you mention what the coupon code is. I want to knit the Sirona!
The discounts are for our patrons. The financial support of our patrons enables us to produce this show.
Fair enough, I must have misheard.
I am delighted that you want to knit Sirona! Thank you so much!
Thanks for the great work. Loving the show. I tried adding a comment to this episode on your website but I guess it didn't go through. I am new to the show and to knitting. I'm guessing KAL is "Knit-a-long" or something like that? Is there a resource you could point me to about that and how to join? I'm finishing a large lace cardigan now, but I don't guess this one would count.
In our ravelry Group there is a thread for this KAL. Look up fruity knitting on Ravelry under groups and you should find it.
Lovely podcast Andrea and Andrew. Do you know the name of the pattern of the beige shawl that you said you liked.
Hi Ruby, no I don't but you could ask Jane. All the contact details are in the show notes at fruityknitting.com
I only use the crochet seaming method and totally agree that seams create structure, just like in a tailored sewn garment. While I appreciate knitting sweaters in the round for ease, I prefer how pieced sweaters look.
I am Norwegian and started nitting 55 years ago. A lot what Linda says about typical Norwegian nitting, is not known to me. Like using a sewing machine to put on the sleeves, not forming a neckline, and using only two colours.
Where can we buy this beautiful Norwegian yarn? It is just stunning!!!
You can buy Hillesvåg yarn from Ysolda or directly from Hillesvåg themselves: ysolda.com/collections/hillesvag or www.ull.no/produktkategori/garn/norsk-pelsull/
tools in your skillbox makes perfect sense to me!!
I've always seamed with crochet. It's just easier for me because I learned crochet first. It also has a bit of flexibility.
What is Indie.
Indie is short for independent designer.
Thank you
jumper must mean sweater?
Yes, it does in Australia and the U.K.
Oh, do you really want our ideas? How about the smaller honeycomb cable set 1.5 times the cable width from the zipper on either side. - I started to make another suggestion, but let’s keep it straightforward for Andrew. Thanks for another inspiring video.
Elisabeth Zimmermann's knitter's almanac has een beautiful Aran sweater design (month of january) which is stunningly elaborate 😉... Just another idea...
A skirt in the same knitting would look good , with the hem flared and the body fitted to you , how about that ?? Xxx
Sounds good!
0:06:23
You daughter got ripped off!!!
She bought two free tickets to give to her father for his birthday?!
Andrea...my best friend from high school can't keep from dressing in animal prints. I harass her about it constantly but she has ignored me for 50 years. Your fetish for green is far more acceptable in my book. Layoff, Andrew.
Thank you!