You are so welcome! I am glad you enjoyed it. Remember to request the books from other libraries if they don't have it. But I tell you... you may as well try to find the one I bought to buy. It is really something. ♥
I was so excited for you when you were interviewing Nina. You were about to burst from excitement. You've been on an incredible journey since the first podcast. Well done yarny sister.
Thanks for a lovely interview with Nina, Julie! I learned to knit 'Norwegian style' from Arne and Carlos' online podcast tutorials in recent years and have not gone back to English style ever since. There might be slight differences between that and Continental, but I'm not sure about that because I did not ever learn Continental before Norwegian. There are few situations when I feel like it's easier and safer to do an English Purl (to avoid messing up a make 1 purl wise stitch on my current project for example) and I think there might be a little bit of 'throwing' involved in some colourwork - even in Norwegian ;) I did run into trouble during a double knitting class I took because I purled Norwegian style. But overall knitting and purling in Norwegian has been wonderful for me! Your mittens look amazing! 😀
Thanks for this interesting episode! As it happens I was just reading an article on Norwegian Mittens in the Winter 2023 issue of Piecework magazine (pages 8-15). You might be able to access it physically or digitally from your library. Stay warm😊 and thanks again.
I enjoyed this podcast very much. The interview was great . I am from Scotland and I too learned to knit in school and the boys also learned . Now at 80 I am still enjoying my knitting .
What a great podcast! I enjoyed this sooo much! The interview with Nina was wonderful! I love the history!! I too find Norwegian knits beautiful!! Stay warm!❤
Thank you so much for the interview. I am planning a trip to Scandinavia this year. I have relatives which I have never met near Oslo and will be able to meet my Grandmother’s family. I have not knit colorwork but I’m inspired to start this adventure with a mitten. One thing I have heard when using a chart is to set your ruler with the bottom edge above the current row thereby showing the progress below. Maybe this would be helpful as well? I look forward to all of your podcasts. Thanks for all the links as well!!
Awesome video!! My grandparents were born in Norway and came to Canada in the early 1900s. I love everything Norwegian🇳🇴🙂!! I knit mostly Norwegian stranded items, so I was happy to watch your video🥰. I love Nina, and have been a fan for years 🇳🇴. Again and excellent video about this beautiful art of stranded knitting!!!
What a great episode! I love learning about knitting traditions, especially from places in the world that have a rich history like Norway. I actually finished my first pair if Norwegian mittens a week ago and I am also so pleased by how pretty they are. I keep putting them on just to look at them 😊 And when I used them to walk my dog, I was amazed at how warm they were. No wind got through to my hands at all!
You. Onvinced me to try and knit color work mittens You convinced me to try colorwork mittens. Love yours! What a surprise to see your zoom call. Thank you so much! I will check her out.
Oh you are soooo welcome. I had the most fun of all. She was delightful. I wish it could have been longer b/c I still have so many questions but I wanted to respect her time. You can see how accomplished she is... Thank you for watching.
Just found your podcast and watched your second one. I learned to crochet this Christmas and bought an attic 24 kit and am making the granny strip blanket ( start with a simple project). I also love the yarn and am having so much fun with the changing colors. Just fun to learn a new craft. Love your podcast, and can now go back and luxuriate in the rest.
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this interview with Nina. It was a wonderful walk through knitting history and some of it brought memories for me as a child as my mother and grandmother knit almost everything I wore. I immediately went looking for a copy of the book you showed and found a few others that I will purchase. Best wishes from Margaret of My Wonderful Knitting Life Podcast.🥰
I was delighted to find your Channel. I actually own Nina’s book and have it sitting on my nightstand as one of my goals for this winter is to knit a pair of mittens from the book. It was so interesting to watch the interview and now I am even more excited to get started on my mittens. I was sad to hear that her book is no longer in print as it is a wonderful resource. Too bad they haven’t thought to re-release it as a paperback. Anyway, so happy to have found you. I have now subscribed to your channel and look forward to future episodes. Thank You!
Hi Julie, This was so amazing. I thank you so much. My Grandfather was from Norway and my Grandmother (paternal) was from Holland. When they met his last name was Larsen and her last name was Larson, she just changed her "o" to an "e" and they lived happily ever after😺. She taught me a lot of pastry baking when I was young, I was really better at taste testing😹😹, but no knitting. I am getting a pattern and making a pair of those mittens!! I was going to say for next winter but since I'm sitting in 8 inches of snow I think I will still be able to use them for awhile. You are amazing!! Take care
Thank you.. I had so much fun doing this one. I love learning about "'how our craft evoved" I am glad you enjoyed it. It is funny how they changed their names. I have watch documentaries on it on you tube. So interesting.
Great episode. Fascinating to hear about the norwegian knitting, the mittens and then your tips on chart reading, which has always terrified me! I thing of the busy looking patterns actually being the simpler ones is a bit of an eye opener. Thank you so much x
Amazing pod cast, loved it very much. Also loved the interview with Nina. I live in New Zealand and my husband is also part Norwegian. I started knitting when I was 5 and knitted my first Jersey when I was 10. I am 70 years old and am still knitting profusely.
I’m so happy to say I’m going to Norway in March to join Arne & Carlos and Kate of The Last Homely House for a knitting and quilting cruise on the Hutegruten. My plan is to choose a Norwegian mitten pattern before I go, buy the yarn in Bergen the day we arrive and work on it while we’re all together. For that reason, this was a really fun episode that popped up for me today. 🎉
What a dream trip. I just downloaded Nina’s e book on ravelry last night. It says there are 4 patterns but there were 12. She is correcting the description- it is such a value - less than $2 a pattern, they are all darling. Have a wonderful trip
Thank you, this episode was so extremely helpful with chart reading and the tools to help. Enjoyed listening to your guest speaker “Nina”. She was so sweet and I just love her patterns on ravelry. Now I’m inspired ❤❤❤❤to
I have been wanting to make some Nordic mittens! So this episode was perfect! It was so informative and has given me the courage to just do it. Thank you!
What a wonderful episode full of amazing information. I always learn something when I watch you. Thank you for taking your time for sharing. I am looking for the great mittens book but right now the lowest price is $337!! I will certainly keep looking ❤
So happy that RUclips offered you up to me this morning. Very inspiring episode. I love your passion for this art form. So often I find myself amazed by the ingenuity of knitters, especially when I’m knitting socks as I think I would never have lived long enough to imagine I could make a sock with string and sticks. ❤️. Happy Knitting, stay warm-it’s winter here on the east coast of Canada too but we haven’t had any double digit negatives on the Celsius scale yet! Regards, Roxanne.
Wonderful podcast. I have that book I bought it from the woolly thistle,a shop in Maine . They carry mostly yarns and books from Norway, Scottish,England etc. they put together some kits for the socks and mitten from that book. Of which I have. ❤️ loved the interview. Thanks
Oh goodness, what a great video. I am one of those knitters that says, ' I could never do that'.. Not sure I still understand the charting but, now I'm willing to give it a try. thank you so much for this video and your gloves are so beautiful. Take care with love,hugs,and prayers always.
Glad you enjoyed it! It means a lot to me that there are people who want to watch the things I find interesting. It inspires me to keep going so thank you for sharing. ♥
Loved the interview! I think I will make mitts this year using one of those beautiful Norwegian patterns. Thank you for sharing your color work knitting technique too.
Thank you for this video. I am a Norwegian knitter...my relatives are from Selbu, Norway....and I live in Colorado. I love listening to the dialect! Will buy her book. Thanks again.
Your mittens are beautiful! We are crawling out of our cold spell up here in Montana. So, many sympathies on your cold. Have you noticed that converting from Fahrenheit to Celsius is very dramatic on the Fahrenheit side when it's hot, and the opposite when we drop below 0. I understand why, but it still makes me smile. These temps encourage us to start knitting warm things! My paternal grandmother's family also emigrated from Norway in that same time period. My great grandmother grew up speaking Norwegian, and learned English at school. She did not keep up with her Norwegian. My father has some Irish, and my mother is Irish with a bit of English. Is it any wonder I love to knit?
Hello from northern British Columbia, Canada. To knit Norwegian mittens is on my to-do list. I also follow Arne and Carlos on RUclips; recently have bought some of their patterns to make Christmas stockings for next year
Hi Julie! I have that book & have corresponded with Nina too! My dad's family (Anderson) came from Norway in 1861. I wanted to make the mittens from the region they were from and of course, they were the very plain Striped Mittens (pg 159)😂 I've made a selbu mitten pattern from Skeindeer knits, but reinspired by you, I pulled put my book to plan a project! Hope you're well...thanks!!❤❤❤
What a great episode! The interview was great and very educational. I don’t know why I haven’t thought about using liners inside my knit mittens- genius! Have you seen Andrea Mowry’s alpine bloom? It looks like a similar flower to your mittens. She has a hat, along with a sweater.
Great episode Julie, i just purchased the "Selbu Patterns" book by Anne Bardsgard. It has some basic sock, hat and sweater patterns in it that you make up your own pattern with. I would say it would be for experience knitters. I also have a book by Jenny Alderbrant called Winter Knits from Scandinavia. It has a pattern called Missy C- cat Mittens which i think you will love❤ ,🇨🇦🥰Sharon.
I want that book but it is now $175 Canadian. Think I'll just order it in from the library, enjoy and return it. I would like to knit the same "Cat" mittens you want to knit. Lovely!
Oh my gosh.. That is too much. Once you get it from the library have a good look. If you love it like I did, there are many on line used that are under $50 USD. I think it is a treasure. Thank you for watching. Share your cat mittens when you get them done!
beautiful mittens! i did a mystery stocking KaL with Arne & Carlos over the advent & totally enjoyed the colour work, which i haven't done since my eldest was a toddler (34 now) thoroughly enjoyed it great podcast too thanx for sharing
Loved your podcast. They are always full of ideas and content about a particular subject. Your mittens were just fantastic. The one question that i had for Nina was how she holds her yarn. Since she is a continental knitter, i would imagine she keeps all the strands in one hand. She said she doesnt use any of the tools. How do you hold the two colors.
She holds her strands in her left hand. I don't use a tool either. I find they get all tangled. I saw a really good instagram post about that. I will see if I can find it. I have never done colorwork with more than two colors at at time though. Give them a try!
You have knitted some nice mittens and I really like them. Since I'm Norwegian, I want to engage in a bit of nitpicking. Hope you are not offended, but this is not the traditional Selbu rose. It consists of eight pointed parallelograms assembled into an octogram. I will immediately add Nina's mitten book to my wish list for Christmas.
Really enjoyed this podcast and your interview with Nina. I just subscribed to your channel. I'd love to have a copy of Nina's Mittens From Around Norway book, but I'm not finding any affordable used copies in good condition. I'm wondering if you asked her if she could make any of her older books available as ebooks?
Thanks so much for your review. Norwegian knitting is my favorite also! The book “knits from a northern land” reviews state that the book has a lot of errata. Have you experienced that with it?
Minus 20 degrees!!!! I can’t even imagine living somewhere that cold, I think the low teens is cold. We are expecting 43 degrees during next week, not that I love it that hot either. Low 20’s is my optimal temperature.
It is cold - but usually not windy and always dry. So it is totally escapable with the right winter gear. It allows me to buy more wool! Thank you for watching ♥
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. OK, one question completely off topic: How do you get your succulent to look so beautiful and healthy? I'm trying so hard not to kill one given to me as a gift, but I'm starting to lose the battle! Appreciate any tips!!! Stay warm!
Dora, thank you... I am a succulant master... apparently. Mine were all getting leggy. So I cut them off, removed the bottom leaves and stuck the steam in soil. If you get a flat container like that and lay all the leaves you took off down on the soil... keep the soil barely damp - sometimes dry - they all sprout into new plants. It takes about a month before you see any action. The pot you see in the photo are my removed the leaves 6 months after I laid them down. Maybe there is a youtube video. I love them. Then I take each little plant and put them in little pots as gifts. ♥
I’m probably the only person who knits faster with English style. I learned from my Irish grandmother when I was 10. I learned continental at least 20 years ago but I’m much slower with continental!
Do you mean there is only one size in the pattern? That was my hold up too. I used DK instead of the what the patteren called for (worsted). I did use the same size needle it called for - but knit super tight. I could have gone down one needle size to make the smaller. Nina said you can use smaller yarn and smaller needles to adjust the size.
When I knit 2 mitts or 2 socks separately, I'm always concerned that my tension in 1 mitt won't match the tension in the other. So, I'm careful not to let too much time pass between starting the 2nd of any pair. It looks like to knit one mitt right after the other and they are exactly a match. Good going, girl.@@TheKnittyKats
translation of comment from Ukranian: Interesting color schemes. I will definitely do something similar. reply: Thank you for watching... I appreciate you watching from so far away! Blessings to you and your family. Дякую за перегляд... Я ціную, що ви дивитеся з такої відстані! Благословення вам і вашій родині.♥
Hello from Toronto. I love Norweigan knitting, kitties and your videos. You might want to check out Amanda of Sweet skin o mine. She blogs about her knitting, dying her yarn and her life in general. Her channel is a sweet, cheerful addition to my RUclips videos.
translation from Ukranian: Does it get that cold in Colorado? reply: Yes, the following day I woke up to -17 Farenheiht (-27.2 C). In the summer is gets to 100F (37.7C). We have very big swings. Так, наступного дня я прокинувся при -17 за Фаренгейтом (-27,2 C). Влітку температура досягає 100 F (37,7C). У нас дуже великі коливання.
Thank you for introducing Nina to us. I ordered and already received two of her books. She is indeed, a darling!
Best wishes! ❤
So talented for sure. I talked about another pattern of hers on my latest video.
Your mittens are beautiful. The interview was really interesting and i will look in the library for Nina's books. Thank you for taming the time. 🇬🇧
You are so welcome! I am glad you enjoyed it. Remember to request the books from other libraries if they don't have it. But I tell you... you may as well try to find the one I bought to buy. It is really something. ♥
Great episode Julie!! Thanks for the interview with Nina. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it! She is really amazing. What talent!
I was so excited for you when you were interviewing Nina. You were about to burst from excitement. You've been on an incredible journey since the first podcast. Well done yarny sister.
Thank you so much!! I appreciate it.
Thanks for a lovely interview with Nina, Julie! I learned to knit 'Norwegian style' from Arne and Carlos' online podcast tutorials in recent years and have not gone back to English style ever since. There might be slight differences between that and Continental, but I'm not sure about that because I did not ever learn Continental before Norwegian. There are few situations when I feel like it's easier and safer to do an English Purl (to avoid messing up a make 1 purl wise stitch on my current project for example) and I think there might be a little bit of 'throwing' involved in some colourwork - even in Norwegian ;) I did run into trouble during a double knitting class I took because I purled Norwegian style. But overall knitting and purling in Norwegian has been wonderful for me! Your mittens look amazing! 😀
Hooray. I really love colorwork too. Thank you for watching. ps. I just saw Arne & Carlos mitts on Insta. A bunny. ♥
Thank you for this lovely interview! I’m watching it from Stockholm Sweden. I’m a big fan of Nina’s work 👌🏼
Oh my Pleasure. How lucky you are to live in such a magical place. Nina is nothing short of AMAZING!
Thanks for this interesting episode! As it happens I was just reading an article on Norwegian Mittens in the Winter 2023 issue of Piecework magazine (pages 8-15). You might be able to access it physically or digitally from your library. Stay warm😊 and thanks again.
Thanks for sharing! I am going to try and find that for sure.
What a treat to hear from Nina! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! She is just awesome.
Lovely interview with Nina. Love the history behind all of these mittens
Thank you... I think she is just amazing!
I enjoy your podcast always, but I have to say, this was super fun to watch!!!! Thank you ❤
Oh thank you! Seriously. Nina was such a wonderful discovery for me. ♥♥
I enjoyed this podcast very much. The interview was great . I am from Scotland and I too learned to knit in school and the boys also learned . Now at 80 I am still enjoying my knitting .
You said the magic word that tugged my heart. Scotland ♥
What a wonderful podcast! Love your interview with Nina and the history behind these mittens. Yours are beautiful!
Thank you so much! I really enjoyed it as well. She is just amazing. So talented. ♥
What a great podcast! I enjoyed this sooo much! The interview with Nina was wonderful! I love the history!! I too find Norwegian knits beautiful!! Stay warm!❤
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much. She was amazing.
Thank you so much for the interview. I am planning a trip to Scandinavia this year. I have relatives which I have never met near Oslo and will be able to meet my Grandmother’s family. I have not knit colorwork but I’m inspired to start this adventure with a mitten. One thing I have heard when using a chart is to set your ruler with the bottom edge above the current row thereby showing the progress below. Maybe this would be helpful as well? I look forward to all of your podcasts. Thanks for all the links as well!!
AWESOME tip. That is a great idea. Have a great time in Norway! Maybe our paths will cross. ♥
Hi - I use a magnetic board that came with a long magnetic ruler from Michaels for keeping track of any charted patterns.
Oh, that was so interesting! Thank you Julie for all the info. ❤️🧶❤️
Karen - you are the CEO of the Knitty Kats. You are always the first to watch and comment! Thank you...
Thank you so much! Two of my favorite subjects in the whole world! Knitting and the History of knitting! Wonderful interview!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
Awesome video!! My grandparents were born in Norway and came to Canada in the early 1900s. I love everything Norwegian🇳🇴🙂!! I knit mostly Norwegian stranded items, so I was happy to watch your video🥰. I love Nina, and have been a fan for years 🇳🇴. Again and excellent video about this beautiful art of stranded knitting!!!
wow.. Thank you. I am very excited about Norway too. I hope you have some treasures your family had. Did they also knit?
I enjoyed the interview very much, and all the knitting you showed is gorgeous!!!!
Thank you so much!
WONDERFUL job on the mittens, Julie! They are beautiful!
Thank you.... I do love them. Ready for round 2
What a great episode! I love learning about knitting traditions, especially from places in the world that have a rich history like Norway.
I actually finished my first pair if Norwegian mittens a week ago and I am also so pleased by how pretty they are. I keep putting them on just to look at them 😊 And when I used them to walk my dog, I was amazed at how warm they were. No wind got through to my hands at all!
That is awesome. So glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching!
Thank you for a wonderful and informative show, Julie! I truly appreciate and enjoy your very thoughtful podcasts.
You are so welcome! How nice you are!
You. Onvinced me to try and knit color work mittens
You convinced me to try colorwork mittens. Love yours! What a surprise to see your zoom call. Thank you so much! I will check her out.
Oh you are soooo welcome. I had the most fun of all. She was delightful. I wish it could have been longer b/c I still have so many questions but I wanted to respect her time. You can see how accomplished she is... Thank you for watching.
Julie 🥰
Wow great job on your podcast ☺️ I'm going to show my girls this❣️ They love to knit ☺️
Yay! Thank you! It was so much fun.
Love your mittens! The interview was wonderful! Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! I sure learned a lot from Nina. She is amazing ♥
So glad I finally had the free time to watch this. I enjoyed it so much! Thanks for asking the questions of the designer, I am sure that was not easy.
Oh you are very welcome. She was delightful.
So happy to find your podcast! So good! Love the paper whites …one of my favorites in the winter.
Thank you.. The paper whites are a favorite of mine too. My husband brought those out to me on Christmas morning. ♥ So sweet.
Just found your podcast and watched your second one. I learned to crochet this Christmas and bought an attic 24 kit and am making the granny strip blanket ( start with a simple project). I also love the yarn and am having so much fun with the changing colors. Just fun to learn a new craft. Love your podcast, and can now go back and luxuriate in the rest.
Awww Thank you. I am trying to make them all different. I get so excited when i discover something and am so happy to have a "pod" to share with!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this interview with Nina. It was a wonderful walk through knitting history and some of it brought memories for me as a child as my mother and grandmother knit almost everything I wore. I immediately went looking for a copy of the book you showed and found a few others that I will purchase. Best wishes from Margaret of My Wonderful Knitting Life Podcast.🥰
Margaret, I am so glad it was special for you. Thank you so much for watching. I am going to check out your podcast right now. ♥
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So interesting! Those mittens are beautiful. ❤ thanks fo❤4 sharing
You are very welcome.
I was delighted to find your Channel. I actually own Nina’s book and have it sitting on my nightstand as one of my goals for this winter is to knit a pair of mittens from the book. It was so interesting to watch the interview and now I am even more excited to get started on my mittens. I was sad to hear that her book is no longer in print as it is a wonderful resource. Too bad they haven’t thought to re-release it as a paperback. Anyway, so happy to have found you. I have now subscribed to your channel and look forward to future episodes. Thank You!
I am glad you already have it. Check our her 12 pattern e book on ravelry... so many mittens for $18.
Love your podcast and your mittens! I stumbled on your podcast and I’m so glad I did! I, too, have 4 cats and love to knit😻😻😻😻
Yay, thank you! Cats and yarn just go together!
Your interview with Nina was an eye opening! Your mittens are beautiful!! Inspired me to knit color work. Thank you❤❤
Wonderful! Making your mind up to do it is most of the battle. ♥
YAY! Watched your older videos today waiting for this one!! 🩷
Thank you! I am trying to make them all different!
Good to see you again, and loved the interview!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you..
Hi Julie,
This was so amazing. I thank you so much. My Grandfather was from Norway and my Grandmother (paternal) was from Holland. When they met his last name was Larsen and her last name was Larson, she just changed her "o" to an "e" and they lived happily ever after😺. She taught me a lot of pastry baking when I was young, I was really better at taste testing😹😹, but no knitting.
I am getting a pattern and making a pair of those mittens!! I was going to say for next winter but since I'm sitting in 8 inches of snow I think I will still be able to use them for awhile.
You are amazing!!
Take care
Thank you.. I had so much fun doing this one. I love learning about "'how our craft evoved" I am glad you enjoyed it. It is funny how they changed their names. I have watch documentaries on it on you tube. So interesting.
Great episode. Fascinating to hear about the norwegian knitting, the mittens and then your tips on chart reading, which has always terrified me! I thing of the busy looking patterns actually being the simpler ones is a bit of an eye opener. Thank you so much x
Glad it was helpful! Go for it! you can do it.
Amazing pod cast, loved it very much. Also loved the interview with Nina. I live in New Zealand and my husband is also part Norwegian. I started knitting when I was 5 and knitted my first Jersey when I was 10. I am 70 years old and am still knitting profusely.
Oh wow! That is wonderful. I can only imagine you are an absolutely fantastic knitter! Thank you for watching. ♥
I’m so happy to say I’m going to Norway in March to join Arne & Carlos and Kate of The Last Homely House for a knitting and quilting cruise on the Hutegruten. My plan is to choose a Norwegian mitten pattern before I go, buy the yarn in Bergen the day we arrive and work on it while we’re all together. For that reason, this was a really fun episode that popped up for me today. 🎉
What a dream trip. I just downloaded Nina’s e book on ravelry last night. It says there are 4 patterns but there were 12. She is correcting the description- it is such a value - less than $2 a pattern, they are all darling. Have a wonderful trip
My first watch with your podcast. So Good!
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you for watching ♥
I enjoyed your Norwegian knitting podcast. My parents emigrated from Norway to Canada. I knit continental as my mother did. I also love charts.
Hooray. When did they come over? It is amazing how many people left Norway.
@@TheKnittyKatstheir final emigration was in 1961
Thank you, this episode was so extremely helpful with chart reading and the tools to help. Enjoyed listening to your guest speaker “Nina”. She was so sweet and I just love her patterns on ravelry. Now I’m inspired ❤❤❤❤to
Wonderful. Yes - I thought Nina was just amazing. Thank you very much for watching. ♥
I have been wanting to make some Nordic mittens! So this episode was perfect! It was so informative and has given me the courage to just do it. Thank you!
Go for it! If I can do it... so can you. ♥♥
What a wonderful episode full of amazing information. I always learn something when I watch you. Thank you for taking your time for sharing.
I am looking for the great mittens book but right now the lowest price is $337!! I will certainly keep looking ❤
You are so welcome! Oh my GOSH.. What in the world. Check out your library. I am sure they have it.
Thanks Julie! Great and interesting interview ❤
Thank you Christa! I will have another one up later today!
I really enjoyed the interview and thank you for the tutorial. Much appreciated.
Glad it was helpful! good luck with your mitts.
Always enjoy your podcasts, this one was so interesting, might even try color work now! Thank you!
Oh please do. The hardest part is figuring out your colors. ♥
So happy that RUclips offered you up to me this morning. Very inspiring episode. I love your passion for this art form. So often I find myself amazed by the ingenuity of knitters, especially when I’m knitting socks as I think I would never have lived long enough to imagine I could make a sock with string and sticks. ❤️. Happy Knitting, stay warm-it’s winter here on the east coast of Canada too but we haven’t had any double digit negatives on the Celsius scale yet! Regards, Roxanne.
Thank you so much! I agree. Knitters (crafters) are the best!
Wonderful podcast. I have that book I bought it from the woolly thistle,a shop in Maine . They carry mostly yarns and books from Norway, Scottish,England etc. they put together some kits for the socks and mitten from that book. Of which I have. ❤️ loved the interview. Thanks
Wonderful! It is an awesome book. You are lucky to have found it.
OMG. the mittens are beautiful.
They certainly are. How do you choose?
Interesting podcast and thank you for sharing the info on colourwork.
You are welcome.
Oh goodness, what a great video. I am one of those knitters that says, ' I could never do that'.. Not sure I still understand the charting but, now I'm willing to give it a try. thank you so much for this video and your gloves are so beautiful. Take care with love,hugs,and prayers always.
You can do it! It is soooooo easy. Just try something flat.
@@TheKnittyKats 🥰💝
What a delightful interview. The mittens are so pretty. Now I really want to make a pair. ❤
Thank you Wendy. I am so glad you enjoyed it. She was amazing. ♥
Happy New Year! What an enjoyable episode, love learning the history behind some of our knitting! Thank you for doing this.
You are most welcome.
I enjoyed the interview! Love your podcast so…
Glad you enjoyed it! It means a lot to me that there are people who want to watch the things I find interesting. It inspires me to keep going so thank you for sharing. ♥
Loved the interview! I think I will make mitts this year using one of those beautiful Norwegian patterns. Thank you for sharing your color work knitting technique too.
Have fun! Hey - I recognize your name. So nice that you are still enjoying the podcast. It means a lot to me. ♥
Enjoyed so very much!!❤❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it. It was so much fun for me too! Nina was awesome.
Thank you for this video. I am a Norwegian knitter...my relatives are from Selbu, Norway....and I live in Colorado. I love listening to the dialect! Will buy her book. Thanks again.
That is awesome. I am headed to your country in 3 weeks for a trip I have dreamed about for 37 years.
@@TheKnittyKats OOHH..how exciting! Good for you!! 😃
Such a pleasure to watch, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching and commenting. ♥
Wonderful interview, thank you and Nina for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful mitts and what a great interview. Thank you Julie. Happy New Year 💖
You too. Thank you for always being so kind to comment and support me. I love your podcast too. ♥
I loved this so much! ❤❤❤
Thank you! It was fun. Nina is an amazing person. ♥
Thank you ! I enjoyed this video so much!
Thank you... Nina is amazing for sure.
Great interview and tutorial.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much. I hope you give it a try. ♥
Your mittens are beautiful! We are crawling out of our cold spell up here in Montana. So, many sympathies on your cold. Have you noticed that converting from Fahrenheit to Celsius is very dramatic on the Fahrenheit side when it's hot, and the opposite when we drop below 0. I understand why, but it still makes me smile. These temps encourage us to start knitting warm things! My paternal grandmother's family also emigrated from Norway in that same time period. My great grandmother grew up speaking Norwegian, and learned English at school. She did not keep up with her Norwegian. My father has some Irish, and my mother is Irish with a bit of English. Is it any wonder I love to knit?
You have a great mixture. It is what made America! ♥ Yes... knitting is in your blood.
Very interestin. Thanks for a wealth of information
You are most welcome.
Hello from northern British Columbia, Canada. To knit Norwegian mittens is on my to-do list. I also follow Arne and Carlos on RUclips; recently have bought some of their patterns to make Christmas stockings for next year
I love Arne and Carlos! So talented.
Thank you for this! I just found and purchased the book from Books a Million!!
Wonderful!
Hi Julie! I have that book & have corresponded with Nina too! My dad's family (Anderson) came from Norway in 1861. I wanted to make the mittens from the region they were from and of course, they were the very plain Striped Mittens (pg 159)😂 I've made a selbu mitten pattern from Skeindeer knits, but reinspired by you, I pulled put my book to plan a project! Hope you're well...thanks!!❤❤❤
So cool! It is such a small world. I love it.
❤️ from Norway.
You are so lucky! Thank you for watching.
What a great episode! The interview was great and very educational. I don’t know why I haven’t thought about using liners inside my knit mittens- genius! Have you seen Andrea Mowry’s alpine bloom? It looks like a similar flower to your mittens. She has a hat, along with a sweater.
I did see her pattern. I need to buy it b/c it is beautiful, but I had such a small amount of yarn left - It was "yarn Chicken" time. ♥
I just seen your podcast, great interview
Glad you enjoyed it!
Enjoyed this video - especially the interview. My library has two of Nina’s books so I am excited to borrow them.
Wonderful! I know you will enjoy them. Thank you for watching. ♥
Great episode Julie, i just purchased the "Selbu Patterns" book by Anne Bardsgard. It has some basic sock, hat and sweater patterns in it that you make up your own pattern with. I would say it would be for experience knitters. I also have a book by Jenny Alderbrant called Winter Knits from Scandinavia. It has a
pattern called Missy C- cat Mittens which i think you will love❤ ,🇨🇦🥰Sharon.
I'll check it out! You can't have too many Cat patterns!
I want that book but it is now $175 Canadian. Think I'll just order it in from the library, enjoy and return it. I would like to knit the same "Cat" mittens you want to knit. Lovely!
Oh my gosh.. That is too much. Once you get it from the library have a good look. If you love it like I did, there are many on line used that are under $50 USD. I think it is a treasure. Thank you for watching. Share your cat mittens when you get them done!
Hello 😊 I would recommend you try out the yarns from the Norwegian mill Rauma, especially "Finull ". Wonderfull yarn for colourwork.
Oh thank you! Will do.
beautiful mittens!
i did a mystery stocking KaL with Arne & Carlos over the advent & totally enjoyed the colour work, which i haven't done since my eldest was a toddler (34 now) thoroughly enjoyed it
great podcast too
thanx for sharing
Wonderful! Wellllll maybe a pair of Mittens are in your future!
Loved your podcast. They are always full of ideas and content about a particular subject. Your mittens were just fantastic. The one question that i had for Nina was how she holds her yarn. Since she is a continental knitter, i would imagine she keeps all the strands in one hand. She said she doesnt use any of the tools. How do you hold the two colors.
She holds her strands in her left hand. I don't use a tool either. I find they get all tangled. I saw a really good instagram post about that. I will see if I can find it. I have never done colorwork with more than two colors at at time though. Give them a try!
You have knitted some nice mittens and I really like them. Since I'm Norwegian, I want to engage in a bit of nitpicking. Hope you are not offended, but this is not the traditional Selbu rose. It consists of eight pointed parallelograms assembled into an octogram. I will immediately add Nina's mitten book to my wish list for Christmas.
I am never offended. Thank you for the correction. I love your country and your culture.
I would love to buy the Robin bag.
They are the best little bags. I wish she was still making them.
Really enjoyed this podcast and your interview with Nina. I just subscribed to your channel. I'd love to have a copy of Nina's Mittens From Around Norway book, but I'm not finding any affordable used copies in good condition. I'm wondering if you asked her if she could make any of her older books available as ebooks?
I did ask her and there was not a plan. Check out the library. So many have it. Also her e book on ravelry is awesome.
Boy, (girl lol) I missed you!
Thank you... It had been a while. Thank you for missing me.. I sure missed you all too. ♥
I have wanted to knit those beautiful mitts for years, thanks for showing charts. But I've always wondered does a person line mitts with floats?
They are kind of a lining of sorts I guess. The floats make a double layer and make the mitts warm.
Thanks so much for your review. Norwegian knitting is my favorite also! The book “knits from a northern land” reviews state that the book has a lot of errata. Have you experienced that with it?
Oh My Gosh... I didin't know that. How do I find those? Yikes.
@@TheKnittyKatsI’m not sure which patterns have the errata. But reviews online have stated that they did have problems.
Minus 20 degrees!!!! I can’t even imagine living somewhere that cold, I think the low teens is cold. We are expecting 43 degrees during next week, not that I love it that hot either. Low 20’s is my optimal temperature.
It is cold - but usually not windy and always dry. So it is totally escapable with the right winter gear. It allows me to buy more wool! Thank you for watching ♥
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. OK, one question completely off topic: How do you get your succulent to look so beautiful and healthy? I'm trying so hard not to kill one given to me as a gift, but I'm starting to lose the battle! Appreciate any tips!!! Stay warm!
Dora, thank you... I am a succulant master... apparently. Mine were all getting leggy. So I cut them off, removed the bottom leaves and stuck the steam in soil. If you get a flat container like that and lay all the leaves you took off down on the soil... keep the soil barely damp - sometimes dry - they all sprout into new plants. It takes about a month before you see any action. The pot you see in the photo are my removed the leaves 6 months after I laid them down. Maybe there is a youtube video. I love them. Then I take each little plant and put them in little pots as gifts. ♥
I’m probably the only person who knits faster with English style. I learned from my Irish grandmother when I was 10. I learned continental at least 20 years ago but I’m much slower with continental!
If it is what you like ... just keep on keeping on. It holds good memories for you too!
wow thank you
You're welcome
What I can't believe is both your mittens are the same size!!!
I know! Someone needs to tell me how to do that!!
Do you mean there is only one size in the pattern? That was my hold up too. I used DK instead of the what the patteren called for (worsted). I did use the same size needle it called for - but knit super tight. I could have gone down one needle size to make the smaller. Nina said you can use smaller yarn and smaller needles to adjust the size.
see above ♥
When I knit 2 mitts or 2 socks separately, I'm always concerned that my tension in 1 mitt won't match the tension in the other. So, I'm careful not to let too much time pass between starting the 2nd of any pair. It looks like to knit one mitt right after the other and they are exactly a match. Good going, girl.@@TheKnittyKats
Цікаві кольорові схеми. Обов'язково зроблю щось подібне☕
translation of comment from Ukranian: Interesting color schemes. I will definitely do something similar.
reply: Thank you for watching... I appreciate you watching from so far away! Blessings to you and your family.
Дякую за перегляд... Я ціную, що ви дивитеся з такої відстані! Благословення вам і вашій родині.♥
Use Google translate when you find a pattern in another language. It translates whole pages of text!
Seriously!!!!! I am going to try. Do you just copy and paste on to a document?
Hello from Toronto. I love Norweigan knitting, kitties and your videos. You might want to check out Amanda of Sweet skin o mine. She blogs about her knitting, dying her yarn and her life in general. Her channel is a sweet, cheerful addition to my RUclips videos.
Thank you. will do.
В Колорадо буває так холодно?🐰😱❄️☃️
translation from Ukranian: Does it get that cold in Colorado?
reply: Yes, the following day I woke up to -17 Farenheiht (-27.2 C). In the summer is gets to 100F (37.7C). We have very big swings.
Так, наступного дня я прокинувся при -17 за Фаренгейтом (-27,2 C). Влітку температура досягає 100 F (37,7C). У нас дуже великі коливання.
@@TheKnittyKats Unbelievable!🥴