@MakerMarkKnits I added to my Ravelry favs. At first I thought it might have been the Flax sweater but the neckline is different. Love the shoulder detail.
I can't even imagine choosing twelve colors for one project. No wonder it took 3 hours. For a non knitter 3 hours in a yarn shop must seem like an eternity. Kudos to Ned for his patience.
Haha absolutely 😄 I'm not great with deciding on color, so I'm grateful we had our list of potential options at the ready. It would have taken us days had we gone in with no idea in mind.
In traditional, 19th century-style (wool) rug hooking, we call that special color, "poison." It's meant to be a little snippet of unexpected color that adds a bit of spark to the work. It does, indeed, sing! 🎶 It's always a pleasure to watch your channel!
When my children were too young to go to school I sewed more than knitted, and I’ve always loved antiques! One day, my 4 year old son recognized what direction we were going and yelled “ if you stop at the antique shop or that stinky fabric store, I’m jumping out of this car and running away!” Needless to say, but I went there alone from then on!
First: Your reason for a return trip is you loved it! Reason enough in my opinion. Seeing those lovely yarns in the montage, I’m struck by the subtle nuances within most colors. Stunning!
That's a great thing to point out 🙂 we look forward to our next trip! And yes, the colors are so nuanced close up. It was amazing to see them all in person 🙂
A sweater is gonna be so beautiful and so much fun to knit, you have so many colors you’ll never get bored. I look forward to seeing the end result. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I tend to buy single balls first and knit a sample square of it so I can put them side by side to see the effect of one colour with another .I have always had from being a small child a strong emotional connection to colour so this visual approach helps me to make my colourways sing. Love the channel ! It’s my Saturday morning treat with a cup of coffee, thank you so much .
Thank you for sharing this wonderful yarn haul with us! Instead of envy I felt the joy of your Shetland experience through your color choices. Spindrift is lovely to work with in fair isle projects. I'm looking forward to more videos from you two.
My biggest swatches are when I am planning a fair isle sweater. What you think will work when the yarn skeins are side by side somehow doesn’t work in knitting. I so look forward to see the progress of all your fair isle sweater and vest journeys!
That makes sense! I've had people recommend that I make hats or other small projects with the colors I think I'd use in a sweater. I'm a bit nervous to get started, but I know I'll enjoy the experience of working on these projects 🙂
Having other crafters help with color choices is amazing. I turn to my aunt for a second opinion when choosing yarn. She does not knit or crochet, but she makes quilts. She spends a lot of time in fabric stores holding different colors, patterns, prints, textures together to see what is going to play well together. She says in the quilt world you are auditioning colors. Sometimes there are colors you love, but they still don't make the cut because it's just not the right color for the project. You'll find another project to use it in if you really love it. I love that it's called auditioning colors. Such a fun way to think about the process of choosing colors.
Also, take a photo of your colors together and then turn the photo black and white, it really helps to get an idea of the color values, or degree of saturation, for contrast.. Looking forward to your Fair Isle knitting saga!
So fun to see more about your Shetland trip and get an idea of the yarn from Jamieson's. Also fun to dream with you about the projects you will knit. Cracked me up when you talked about trying to make friends with sheep. Don't take it personally! My grandparents had a farm and so I was exposed to what 'working' livestock is like as opposed to hand raised pets. Livestock is closer to 'wildlife' than to pets. In other words, they are on the look out for danger and they don't trust people much. Why would you when contact means being herded around by a dog, run through chutes and thrown on your back to have your fleece buzzed off? But if you really would like to make friends, then go to one of the fiber festivals where many prized sheep are on hand or to a local farm with a small band of sheep who interact more closely with people. You're looking for sheep with names 😀. And finally, I was wondering if you have a Ravelry page for Ned's Weekender. I'd love to know how you got the neckline to be a bit less boat necked and also what yarn is used. Love the color!
Haha thanks for the story about sheep! I haven't made a Ravelry project page for it yet - but I used Vivacious DK in color 805 Deep Forest and I didn't make any changes to the neck! The only adjustment I made was to make the body longer than the pattern called for.
@@MakerMarkKnits Sheep are silly. I used to help a local rancher during the lambing season and it was so fun to see the older lambs running and jumping in packs while their mothers were fed. Thanks for the info on the sweater. I was looking at the pattern and I'd forgotten that she made a Crew Weekender for those who wanted DK and a less boat neck. I make just have to give that a try after seeing how nicely the one you made looks.
This must be my 11th video in the last few days lol! Discovered you and am slowly hopping and jumping thru your videos! You have a great voice and calm feel to your videos, I love your authenticity! ❤ I can’t wait to visit Scotland one day and buy beautiful yarn…! Thankyou for taking us with you! 💕
I think you won’t know the true colours until they are mixed. The colours changed to me while watching. There is probably a lot of the tones I don’t see. Thanks to you and Ned for sharing.
I love that you had such a wonderful time and the colors that you picked out are stunning! I really love the cardigan that you are wearing, it is beautiful. I love burgundy and navy together.
Oh, those garments will be so beautiful! I hope you will have a lot of fun knitting them. And in the end you will have a lot of leftovers, which you could use to make a Sea Glass sweater or cardigan 💜. Looking forward to the videos where you will show us updates of the knitting and please, keep showing footage of your trip to the UK!
The Jamieson's wool is GORGEOUS!!! O myyy. I hope there is a way to get it here in the US. 🙏Your sweaters are beautiful. I can't wait to see what you wind up making with the wool from Shetland! I'm sure whatever you decide to make with it will be breathtaking. ☺
I’m with Ned on the monochrome moment. I commonly buy every shade of a color for a sweater. I think the difference between knitting something and wearing something is huge. I always say the process of knitting is the literal version of being too close to a problem.
Hi Mark and Ned, I was in Shetland this summer too. As a knitter I loved iT as much as you do. You inspire me and I love to see your vlogs. Thanks Anja from Holland
I adore knitting with and wearing Spindrift, and can’t wait to see your projects unfold! Also couldn’t agree more about Shetlanders. My first visit was Wool Week this year. Even during a week-long event that is “all hands on deck” 24/7, every person I encountered was unfailingly warm, patient, and welcoming.
This was such a cute video!!!!!! I hope you have more videos with Ned- it was so fun to watch the yarn haul and can’t wait to see the finished sweaters.
Beautiful yarns! Thank you for sharing your Shetland trip! I’ve started making yarn my souvenir when I travel, and when I wear the finished projects, the memories come flooding back!
Another lovely episode, I love your adventures on the Islands 😊 for your sweater, what immediately came to my mind was some sort of fuschia/hot pink color as an element of surprise and make the moody colors shine. 🎉
Now you are really talking my language!! Working on the Dahlia sweater (close to your vest), but after seeing Ned's pick I'm going to have to get that book now! At this point I'm just collecting yarn & patterns bc there is no way I'm ever going to be able to knit all that I want to! Oh well, there is happiness in that as well!
What an adventure you packed into 4 days! Poor Ned -three hours!! How very patient he was!! He will be handsomely rewarded with his fair isle sweater. The beauty of the heathered colors is that they interact with each other in a very painterly way. It’s hard to make a mistake because they are naturally friendly to each other. You have such a fun time ahead working on these projects. Thanks for sharing your journey with us!
Yes, Ned is a star! And that's a wonderful point about the colors- I often think that colors in a cohesive line should work together in that way. That makes me feel better about my choices!
It's funny, because already looking at your intro (and the later your videoclips) I thought, there's such a colour palette in each of them ❤ I loooved seeing the yarn, and wanted to knit with all of it 😂 but it looked like very dark colours on my phone, so I can't imagine what I'd do, if I was in the shop, and could see them. It must have been amazing 😊 Thank you for sharing ❤
I am in awe of your colours! What an inspiration.... and what a wonderful way to start my weekend. Snow outside, Xmas knits on my needles, and your vlog - bursting with yarn, landscapes, your voice - and great music. Xoxoxo a relatively new knitter, who recently moved to a farm with sheep - most of them standoffish. (My only sheep friends are the ones that we had to hand rear, so don't feel bad ;-))
Thank you for the sheep insight! That definitely makes me feel better 🙂 I'm jealous of your snow. We're currently in Arizona where it's beautifully sunny. I'm sure we'll get to enjoy some Cleveland snow soon 🙂
Wow!! 200 colors. I would have been there for days just deciding on 4 colors. I think you made some excellent color choices. Thanks for sharing your travels.
The vacuum bags are just gold. I use them for long term storage, storing seasonal items and they are a great way to protect your yarn if you are in the process of moving
My Jamieson ‘a delivery arrived yesterday ! I use their shade cards to help me decide on colourways . I am planning a project where I design a Christmas sweater of holly and perhaps ivy from scratch so it’s a winter sweater I can wear throughout the season . I haven’t designed like this for a long time so looking forward to it!
I have trouble picking colors too. My advice for Ned is next time, eat take a stroll, meet the local people by then color choices should be almost done. Love the sweater choices. Maybe one day I will tackle a sweater and the later tackle Fair Isles color work.
That's great advice! And yes, colors stress me out so much. I always remind myself that it's just knitting, and it won't be the end of the world if I end up with a combination. That's not quite perfect.
What a wonderful trip! And I love all of the colors for your vest, I'm sure everything will work out fine I can't wait to see when you are working on it😊
So nice to see and hear from your trip to Shetland, the scenery and of course all of the yarn! I went there myself in the summer of 2023 on and organized knittingjourney from Sweden and I especially enjoyed viewing a little glimps of Uradale Yarns again as we also went there. So many nice projects you have signed up for and all the nice coluors of yarn to just start crafting with. On our journey we also had the good fortune to meet up with the knitting legend mrs Wilma Malcholmson and her gifted granddaughter Terri Laura who in her own right is a fantastic knitting designer. Shetland is really the place - kind, creative and crafty people, sheep everywhere, and spectacular knitting projects in coluours that really represents the nature and the ocean! Love to see more from your creative and inspiring channel, thanks for sharing.
Mark, you and Ned are musicians, you sing, in choirs even! So that quote about a 'wrong colour', a colour that you don't like which can make a project sing should touch you to the core. I sing, in choirs even, and I delight in the times when the sop and I, alto/tenor, really 'clash' to then enjoy the resolve even more. (In our church choir - which should really be called a quartet - there is one of each voice, me being the alto in that case.) So make those sweaters sing, like you do, by using a colour that is not quite to your liking to make those sweaters really sing out! Love your videos BTW! 🎶❤️🎶
When talking about the surprise color you might think of it in terms of story telling where “conflict” is what makes the story interesting. Perhaps in this case the word “tension” provides the correct level of interest without being too difficult. (Reading further in the comments, I like the use of poison as well). As a side note, on my Scotland trip we bought a lot of wool clothes (most in Stornaway on Lewis) and mailed our dirty clothes home because we weren’t worried about losing those. 😊
I'm looking forward to these knits and thank you for the close up montages - very useful and may help me in choosing colours for a MW vest I hope to knit for one of my daughters.
When you're looking at contrast when choosing colors, do you ever look at it in black and white mode with your phone? Sometimes, things look like they have contrast when they don't and vice versa. I find it useful for shopping for fabric and for yarn. 😊
Hi Mark! Hi Ned!😊 I absolutely love waking up to your videos each Saturday morning!❤ I love (& giggled) when you talked about trying to make friends with the local sheep !! 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 Here’s to you & Ned! An entire flock( is that what you call a bunch of sheep? 🤔) I am sure that these sheep will be more friendly! 😂🤭😂
Ohh what gorgeous colours. And what a range! I am looking forward to seeing them being transformed in the coming months. Thanks for sharing more of Shetland with us.
loved the episode, always great to watch, loved all the Shetland videos so far! Ppl who are jealous and mean will always say negative stuff. just ignore them. You do you and enjoy it! Sorry you keep having those internet trolls say nasty stuff. Part of society today it seems to be a keyboard narcissist.... . Thx for sharing all the colors and the patterns names. I have written down a few to go to my LYS and check out. I agree it is hard to decide on colors as they do look diff in person up-close and then from across the room, choosing the base color is also hard. That eesit color 120 is gorgeous! I have 1 hat waiting to be made, have had the yarn for a year...lol.... Also have some lower weighted cones to make a few pairs of patterned mitts. I can see now that some of the colors you guys have chosen would really accent the mitts I plan to make. I fell in love with colorwork years ago when I first started to knit. I am slowly getting better with each piece I make. I love Marie Wallin, Shetland woolweek patterns, and anything listed as Fair Isle.... I say just knit! Do what brings you joy! Happy knitting.
I love this video, I’m usually choosing my Shetland wool colours from the website or the shade cards, so great to see the actual balls of yarn and how you put the colours together. The wonderful thing about Fairisle knitting is you can always find another project for the colours you decide to swop out, and as you have a shop near you selling Spindrift you get to see the colours before buying. Happy knitting, looking forward to seeing the vest and jumpers being made😊
I'm glad you appreciated the close-ups 🙂 I always think it's so nice to see fiber close up under a good light. So I'm very glad to know someone out there appreciates it!
You could swatch the colours using the patterns on a panel just wide enough to accommodate one of the larger units it would give you a chance to look at the colour mixing overall a long swatch but worth it
Love your yarn choices! But if for any reason you need more yarn, my local yarn shop, Heritage Spinning and Weaving in Lake Orion, carries the full line of both Shetland yarns. It is just a 3 hour drive away. Come and spend the day with us!
I understand your admiration for Marie Wallin's fair isle patterns - I've made many of them myself including 2 of your planned pieces - and her colour and pattern management is superb. She created her own wool brand to add to that special understanding of working many colours with a lot of pattern and making it look cohesive and also beautiful. The colours in the photographs although lovely, don't do full justice to those colours. What I don't understand then, is why you just didn't buy her British Breeds wool, either when you were over in the UK or from somewhere like the Wooly Thistle in the US? I appreciate though that being in the middle of all that colour in Jamieson's must have been a mixture of overwhelming and absolutely fantastic!
I enjoy you guys so much! I so wish you’d make it over to Toledo one day! I do love everything Shetland and it’s toothy yarn. Aren’t Jamieson’s colors amazing? I love your sweater choices, and I have to ask, has Ned learned to knit?
What a great idea that vacuum pack bag is! I’m doing a week in Hungary in January with only a carry on bag and hope to take advantage of the exchange rate by stocking up on some yarn - do you have a recommended brand/type of vacuum seal bag that can be easily re-vacuumed while in the other country? Without a large vacuum sealer apparatus so it doesn’t take up too much space in the carry on
Your trip sounds wonderful! Taking advantage of the exchange rate is also a great idea 🙂 I purchased my vacuum bags on Amazon and chose a set that included a medium sized hand pump. The pump does take up some of my space, but I appreciated that I could tightly vacuum pack things without an actual vacuum!
Absolutely loved the video. Those colors are luscious. Loved Ned’s sweater. What is the patten name please and the yarn used? Can’t wait to see the next video.
Thank you! He's wearing "The Weekender" by Andrea Mowry. It calls for worsted weight, but I used Vivacious DK which is a fairly heavy dk merino. His color was 805 deep forest!
That's a great idea! I'll make a video for sure. To answer you now, Shetland is definitely toothy - and can feel scratchy or somewhat rough to the touch. I know lots of people choose to wear a layer between their knits and skin. This will be my first garment knit with Shetland wool, so I'll find out how it feels in my experience! So far, I think this wool feels fairly standard - but I'll report back as I'm knitting it up!
Different parts of our brains are engaged in the first 15 minutes than in the 3rd hour. I challenge you to some day make something that you haven't researched. That you walk into a LYS, march up to a display and pick 5, 7, 9 colors to make into a scarf or cowl. Throw a little Stephen West in there. Maybe after a champagne brunch. I bet it would be amazing.
You quickly learned how to drive a manual car? 🤯 Dude, I actually had all of my driving lessons in a manual car (in Germany), but haven't driven one in 9 years and now I'm afraid to go back to manual.
Quickly yes, but I didn't know how to drive it well! We stalled out so many times. Ned's job was to hit the hazard lights while I restarted the car and tried to get us moving again 😵
Ok, now a question...Will they know all the colors that Ned picked out for his sweater if I call or email them? Sorry to copy you Ned, but I loved every single color you picked out!! Great minds in sync? Lol
That would be awesome!! I hope your hubby doesn't mind me copying. You are wonderful & I'm glad I found your site. You give tips as well as inspiration & I'm finding that so refreshing!! Keep up the great work!! Maybe someday I will visit your neck of the woods...eastern PA isn't that far away!!
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I think that's an amazing idea! If we could take the time off, and afford the trip I'm sure we would go often. We may need to wait a couple more years before returning- but wool week is a great reason to go!
I love the sweater Ned is wearing now. Gorgeous!
Thanks! It's a Weekender by Andrea Mowry - that's become my go to "gift sweater" because I can get them done while filming, flying, and in rehearsals!
@MakerMarkKnits I added to my Ravelry favs. At first I thought it might have been the Flax sweater but the neckline is different. Love the shoulder detail.
I can't even imagine choosing twelve colors for one project. No wonder it took 3 hours. For a non knitter 3 hours in a yarn shop must seem like an eternity. Kudos to Ned for his patience.
Haha absolutely 😄 I'm not great with deciding on color, so I'm grateful we had our list of potential options at the ready. It would have taken us days had we gone in with no idea in mind.
I agree, 12 colors, oh my goodness! I have trouble picking out two or three colors for a shawl. It’s gonna be awesome!!!
Your channel is my new favorite knitting channel, and i look forward to each new episode. They’re very calming and informative.
That's the nicest thing to say! Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and for sharing such a kind comment :-)
Agreed!
In traditional, 19th century-style (wool) rug hooking, we call that special color, "poison." It's meant to be a little snippet of unexpected color that adds a bit of spark to the work. It does, indeed, sing! 🎶 It's always a pleasure to watch your channel!
Wow, I love that! Thank you so much for sharing! 🙂
That's how it's called in Fair Isle knitting too
When my children were too young to go to school I sewed more than knitted, and I’ve always loved antiques! One day, my 4 year old son recognized what direction we were going and yelled “ if you stop at the antique shop or that stinky fabric store, I’m jumping out of this car and running away!” Needless to say, but I went there alone from then on!
First: Your reason for a return trip is you loved it!
Reason enough in my opinion.
Seeing those lovely yarns in the montage, I’m struck by the subtle nuances within most colors. Stunning!
That's a great thing to point out 🙂 we look forward to our next trip! And yes, the colors are so nuanced close up. It was amazing to see them all in person 🙂
I love clout work patterns! And the sweater that Ned has on is simply wonderful with all the subtle details.
Thank you! It's a Weekender by Andrea Mowry ☺️
A sweater is gonna be so beautiful and so much fun to knit, you have so many colors you’ll never get bored. I look forward to seeing the end result. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Thank you so much!
I tend to buy single balls first and knit a sample square of it so I can put them side by side to see the effect of one colour with another .I have always had from being a small child a strong emotional connection to colour so this visual approach helps me to make my colourways sing. Love the channel ! It’s my Saturday morning treat with a cup of coffee, thank you so much .
That sounds like a wonderful approach! Thank you so much for taking the time to watch 🙂
Thank you for sharing this wonderful yarn haul with us! Instead of envy I felt the joy of your Shetland experience through your color choices. Spindrift is lovely to work with in fair isle projects. I'm looking forward to more videos from you two.
The sweater you're wearing is absolutely gorgeous - I love your video!!
My biggest swatches are when I am planning a fair isle sweater. What you think will work when the yarn skeins are side by side somehow doesn’t work in knitting. I so look forward to see the progress of all your fair isle sweater and vest journeys!
That makes sense! I've had people recommend that I make hats or other small projects with the colors I think I'd use in a sweater. I'm a bit nervous to get started, but I know I'll enjoy the experience of working on these projects 🙂
I didn't know you two were newleyweds, many Congraulations!!!! May you live and love in joy.
Thank you so much!! That's very kind.
Having other crafters help with color choices is amazing. I turn to my aunt for a second opinion when choosing yarn. She does not knit or crochet, but she makes quilts. She spends a lot of time in fabric stores holding different colors, patterns, prints, textures together to see what is going to play well together. She says in the quilt world you are auditioning colors. Sometimes there are colors you love, but they still don't make the cut because it's just not the right color for the project. You'll find another project to use it in if you really love it. I love that it's called auditioning colors. Such a fun way to think about the process of choosing colors.
It's so valuable having crafting friends!!
Also, take a photo of your colors together and then turn the photo black and white, it really helps to get an idea of the color values, or degree of saturation, for contrast.. Looking forward to your Fair Isle knitting saga!
Such a great tip!!
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing. It's nice to see you and your husband you look cute together.
So fun to see more about your Shetland trip and get an idea of the yarn from Jamieson's. Also fun to dream with you about the projects you will knit.
Cracked me up when you talked about trying to make friends with sheep. Don't take it personally! My grandparents had a farm and so I was exposed to what 'working' livestock is like as opposed to hand raised pets. Livestock is closer to 'wildlife' than to pets. In other words, they are on the look out for danger and they don't trust people much. Why would you when contact means being herded around by a dog, run through chutes and thrown on your back to have your fleece buzzed off? But if you really would like to make friends, then go to one of the fiber festivals where many prized sheep are on hand or to a local farm with a small band of sheep who interact more closely with people. You're looking for sheep with names 😀.
And finally, I was wondering if you have a Ravelry page for Ned's Weekender. I'd love to know how you got the neckline to be a bit less boat necked and also what yarn is used. Love the color!
Haha thanks for the story about sheep! I haven't made a Ravelry project page for it yet - but I used Vivacious DK in color 805 Deep Forest and I didn't make any changes to the neck! The only adjustment I made was to make the body longer than the pattern called for.
@@MakerMarkKnits Sheep are silly. I used to help a local rancher during the lambing season and it was so fun to see the older lambs running and jumping in packs while their mothers were fed. Thanks for the info on the sweater. I was looking at the pattern and I'd forgotten that she made a Crew Weekender for those who wanted DK and a less boat neck. I make just have to give that a try after seeing how nicely the one you made looks.
😂 so sorry about not making any sheep friends. I’m dying to visit Fair Isle and to knit a Fair Isle yoke sweater! Great video and thank you!
This must be my 11th video in the last few days lol! Discovered you and am slowly hopping and jumping thru your videos! You have a great voice and calm feel to your videos, I love your authenticity! ❤ I can’t wait to visit Scotland one day and buy beautiful yarn…! Thankyou for taking us with you! 💕
I think you won’t know the true colours until they are mixed. The colours changed to me while watching. There is probably a lot of the tones I don’t see. Thanks to you and Ned for sharing.
That's a fabulous point!
I love that you had such a wonderful time and the colors that you picked out are stunning! I really love the cardigan that you are wearing, it is beautiful. I love burgundy and navy together.
I think the scotch bloom is really going to make that sweater sing as you say
Yes! I'm glad it made it into our purchase!
Oh, those garments will be so beautiful! I hope you will have a lot of fun knitting them. And in the end you will have a lot of leftovers, which you could use to make a Sea Glass sweater or cardigan 💜. Looking forward to the videos where you will show us updates of the knitting and please, keep showing footage of your trip to the UK!
So true!! I'm really excited for the leftovers ☺️
The Jamieson's wool is GORGEOUS!!! O myyy. I hope there is a way to get it here in the US. 🙏Your sweaters are beautiful. I can't wait to see what you wind up making with the wool from Shetland! I'm sure whatever you decide to make with it will be breathtaking. ☺
I’m with Ned on the monochrome moment. I commonly buy every shade of a color for a sweater.
I think the difference between knitting something and wearing something is huge. I always say the process of knitting is the literal version of being too close to a problem.
That's a great way to put it!
That was absolutely gorgeous! Many thanks for sharing your magnificent haul. I especially liked the colours for Ned's sweater - delicious! 🧶😋
Thank you!!
Hi Mark and Ned, I was in Shetland this summer too. As a knitter I loved iT as much as you do. You inspire me and I love to see your vlogs.
Thanks Anja from Holland
You are so kind! Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and say hello 🙂
I adore knitting with and wearing Spindrift, and can’t wait to see your projects unfold! Also couldn’t agree more about Shetlanders. My first visit was Wool Week this year. Even during a week-long event that is “all hands on deck” 24/7, every person I encountered was unfailingly warm, patient, and welcoming.
I'm so glad you had a great visit!!
This was such a cute video!!!!!! I hope you have more videos with Ned- it was so fun to watch the yarn haul and can’t wait to see the finished sweaters.
Thank you! I think it's fun having Ned on the channel! He's a great sport ☺️
Beautiful yarns! Thank you for sharing your Shetland trip! I’ve started making yarn my souvenir when I travel, and when I wear the finished projects, the memories come flooding back!
I love that! I think it makes for a wonderful souvenir - like you said, full of memories!
Another lovely episode, I love your adventures on the Islands 😊 for your sweater, what immediately came to my mind was some sort of fuschia/hot pink color as an element of surprise and make the moody colors shine. 🎉
Oh that's beautiful!
My goodness I like all those colours ! I can't wait to see them knit up . Thank you for another lovely video
Thank you!
I like seeing you both together ❤️
Aw thank you!
I like the heathery texture of your choices.
I absolutely love your channel. You guys are so calming, and I l❤ the thought process behind how you decide on colors
You are too kind! Thank you so much for watching and leaving such a nice comment 🙂
Now you are really talking my language!! Working on the Dahlia sweater (close to your vest), but after seeing Ned's pick I'm going to have to get that book now! At this point I'm just collecting yarn & patterns bc there is no way I'm ever going to be able to knit all that I want to! Oh well, there is happiness in that as well!
What an adventure you packed into 4 days! Poor Ned -three hours!! How very patient he was!! He will be handsomely rewarded with his fair isle sweater. The beauty of the heathered colors is that they interact with each other in a very painterly way. It’s hard to make a mistake because they are naturally friendly to each other. You have such a fun time ahead working on these projects. Thanks for sharing your journey with us!
Yes, Ned is a star! And that's a wonderful point about the colors- I often think that colors in a cohesive line should work together in that way. That makes me feel better about my choices!
Such a beautiful podcast. I’ve knit since I was about four years old and you taught me so much today. Thank you so much.❤❤
Thank you so much for being here!!
Awesome yarns 🥰Thanks to you and Ned for sharing this
Thank you for watching!!
some of those colors are insanely beautiful wow!!!
I agree! There are a couple of the colors that I would love to make a full sweater out of.
@@MakerMarkKnits Mist immediately comes to mind, what a lovely shade!
It's funny, because already looking at your intro (and the later your videoclips) I thought, there's such a colour palette in each of them ❤
I loooved seeing the yarn, and wanted to knit with all of it 😂 but it looked like very dark colours on my phone, so I can't imagine what I'd do, if I was in the shop, and could see them. It must have been amazing 😊 Thank you for sharing ❤
I love that! Thank you so much for taking the time to watch 🙂
I am in awe of your colours! What an inspiration.... and what a wonderful way to start my weekend. Snow outside, Xmas knits on my needles, and your vlog - bursting with yarn, landscapes, your voice - and great music.
Xoxoxo a relatively new knitter, who recently moved to a farm with sheep - most of them standoffish.
(My only sheep friends are the ones that we had to hand rear, so don't feel bad ;-))
Thank you for the sheep insight! That definitely makes me feel better 🙂 I'm jealous of your snow. We're currently in Arizona where it's beautifully sunny. I'm sure we'll get to enjoy some Cleveland snow soon 🙂
Wow!! 200 colors. I would have been there for days just deciding on 4 colors. I think you made some excellent color choices. Thanks for sharing your travels.
Yes! It's an overwhelming range of colors. I'm excited to make my first projects - and hopefully many more down the line ☺️
The vacuum bags are just gold. I use them for long term storage, storing seasonal items and they are a great way to protect your yarn if you are in the process of moving
The last time I used them was in college to help make the most of limited closet space - they are a great solution!!
@@MakerMarkKnits we live in a 3 bedroom flat with virtually no storage space. So we couldn't do without them.
I love the choices you made for the hungry time sweater. In the end you just have to make swatches.
Although I am Scottish I’ve never made it to Shetland yet but you never know. Great video guys ❤
You'll have to go one day! We really thought it was a special experience.
My Jamieson ‘a delivery arrived yesterday ! I use their shade cards to help me decide on colourways . I am planning a project where I design a Christmas sweater of holly and perhaps ivy from scratch so it’s a winter sweater I can wear throughout the season . I haven’t designed like this for a long time so looking forward to it!
That project sounds great! And yes, the shade card is a fantastic resource 🙂
I have trouble picking colors too. My advice for Ned is next time, eat take a stroll, meet the local people by then color choices should be almost done. Love the sweater choices. Maybe one day I will tackle a sweater and the later tackle Fair Isles color work.
That's great advice! And yes, colors stress me out so much. I always remind myself that it's just knitting, and it won't be the end of the world if I end up with a combination. That's not quite perfect.
What a wonderful trip! And I love all of the colors for your vest, I'm sure everything will work out fine I can't wait to see when you are working on it😊
Thank you so much!
So nice to see and hear from your trip to Shetland, the scenery and of course all of the yarn! I went there myself in the summer of 2023 on and organized knittingjourney from Sweden and I especially enjoyed viewing a little glimps of Uradale Yarns again as we also went there.
So many nice projects you have signed up for and all the nice coluors of yarn to just start crafting with.
On our journey we also had the good fortune to meet up with the knitting legend mrs Wilma Malcholmson and her gifted granddaughter Terri Laura who in her own right is a fantastic knitting designer. Shetland is really the place - kind, creative and crafty people, sheep everywhere, and spectacular knitting projects in coluours that really represents the nature and the ocean!
Love to see more from your creative and inspiring channel, thanks for sharing.
Your trip sounds wonderful!! It's such a magical place. ☺️
You both are so adorable. What a beautiful trip to shetland
Aw thank you so much!
Looking forward to seeing your sweaters and the vest.
Thanks! I'll be excited to start the projects 🙂
Mark, you and Ned are musicians, you sing, in choirs even! So that quote about a 'wrong colour', a colour that you don't like which can make a project sing should touch you to the core. I sing, in choirs even, and I delight in the times when the sop and I, alto/tenor, really 'clash' to then enjoy the resolve even more. (In our church choir - which should really be called a quartet - there is one of each voice, me being the alto in that case.) So make those sweaters sing, like you do, by using a colour that is not quite to your liking to make those sweaters really sing out! Love your videos BTW! 🎶❤️🎶
Arwen, that's such a good point!
Love the names of those yarns! Beautiful
Agreed!
When talking about the surprise color you might think of it in terms of story telling where “conflict” is what makes the story interesting. Perhaps in this case the word “tension” provides the correct level of interest without being too difficult. (Reading further in the comments, I like the use of poison as well).
As a side note, on my Scotland trip we bought a lot of wool clothes (most in Stornaway on Lewis) and mailed our dirty clothes home because we weren’t worried about losing those. 😊
I cant wait to see the progress of your projects. The complexity in most of the colours is glorious.
I agree! The detail of the colors is just great.
I love the colours for the vest! Looking forward to your swatches.
Oh good! Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and for helping reinforce the color choices in the comments 🙂
I'm looking forward to these knits and thank you for the close up montages - very useful and may help me in choosing colours for a MW vest I hope to knit for one of my daughters.
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch! I'm glad you enjoyed the close-up of the colors 🙂
When you're looking at contrast when choosing colors, do you ever look at it in black and white mode with your phone? Sometimes, things look like they have contrast when they don't and vice versa. I find it useful for shopping for fabric and for yarn. 😊
Yes! That's such a good tip ☺️
Hi Mark! Hi Ned!😊
I absolutely love waking up to your videos each Saturday morning!❤
I love (& giggled) when you talked about trying to make friends with the local sheep !!
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Here’s to you & Ned! An entire flock( is that what you call a bunch of sheep? 🤔) I am sure that these sheep will be more friendly! 😂🤭😂
Haha! 😄 You're the best! Thank you for sending us the friendly sheep 🐑
Ohh what gorgeous colours. And what a range! I am looking forward to seeing them being transformed in the coming months. Thanks for sharing more of Shetland with us.
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch!
loved the episode, always great to watch, loved all the Shetland videos so far! Ppl who are jealous and mean will always say negative stuff. just ignore them. You do you and enjoy it! Sorry you keep having those internet trolls say nasty stuff. Part of society today it seems to be a keyboard narcissist.... . Thx for sharing all the colors and the patterns names. I have written down a few to go to my LYS and check out. I agree it is hard to decide on colors as they do look diff in person up-close and then from across the room, choosing the base color is also hard. That eesit color 120 is gorgeous! I have 1 hat waiting to be made, have had the yarn for a year...lol.... Also have some lower weighted cones to make a few pairs of patterned mitts. I can see now that some of the colors you guys have chosen would really accent the mitts I plan to make. I fell in love with colorwork years ago when I first started to knit. I am slowly getting better with each piece I make. I love Marie Wallin, Shetland woolweek patterns, and anything listed as Fair Isle.... I say just knit! Do what brings you joy! Happy knitting.
Thank you for a great comment - I love hearing about people's projects!!
So, so, so excited to see this! Thank you so much for sharing! I never realized the depth of colors in this yarn!
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch!
I love this video, I’m usually choosing my Shetland wool colours from the website or the shade cards, so great to see the actual balls of yarn and how you put the colours together. The wonderful thing about Fairisle knitting is you can always find another project for the colours you decide to swop out, and as you have a shop near you selling Spindrift you get to see the colours before buying. Happy knitting, looking forward to seeing the vest and jumpers being made😊
Yes! Great point. I'll be excited to use my leftover colors for lots of other projects 🙂
Thank you for the close-ups of the labels. Absolutely gorgeous.
I'm glad you appreciated the close-ups 🙂 I always think it's so nice to see fiber close up under a good light. So I'm very glad to know someone out there appreciates it!
You could swatch the colours using the patterns on a panel just wide enough to accommodate one of the larger units it would give you a chance to look at the colour mixing overall a long swatch but worth it
That's a beautiful idea!
Love your content. Jimmy Beans Wool distributes for Jameson’s in the US. They carry all the color in the event you need to get more or swap a color.
Thank you so much! I'll keep that in mind 🙂
Love your yarn choices! But if for any reason you need more yarn, my local yarn shop, Heritage Spinning and Weaving in Lake Orion, carries the full line of both Shetland yarns. It is just a 3 hour drive away. Come and spend the day with us!
That's great to know! Maybe we can plan a trip one day ☺️
Like that blueberry
Agreed!
I understand your admiration for Marie Wallin's fair isle patterns - I've made many of them myself including 2 of your planned pieces - and her colour and pattern management is superb. She created her own wool brand to add to that special understanding of working many colours with a lot of pattern and making it look cohesive and also beautiful. The colours in the photographs although lovely, don't do full justice to those colours. What I don't understand then, is why you just didn't buy her British Breeds wool, either when you were over in the UK or from somewhere like the Wooly Thistle in the US? I appreciate though that being in the middle of all that colour in Jamieson's must have been a mixture of overwhelming and absolutely fantastic!
I enjoy you guys so much! I so wish you’d make it over to Toledo one day! I do love everything Shetland and it’s toothy yarn. Aren’t Jamieson’s colors amazing? I love your sweater choices, and I have to ask, has Ned learned to knit?
He has learned!! But for now it's not for him ☺️ we'll let you know if we're coming to Toledo!
Aaaaw, I think the sheep a more or less feral up there, and the ponies. Shetland ponies are very indipendant
I went to lerwick and took a knitting tour with Island Vistas. Suggest you look at their web sight.
They do amazing work! We consulted them when planning the trip ☺️
What a great idea that vacuum pack bag is! I’m doing a week in Hungary in January with only a carry on bag and hope to take advantage of the exchange rate by stocking up on some yarn - do you have a recommended brand/type of vacuum seal bag that can be easily re-vacuumed while in the other country? Without a large vacuum sealer apparatus so it doesn’t take up too much space in the carry on
Your trip sounds wonderful! Taking advantage of the exchange rate is also a great idea 🙂 I purchased my vacuum bags on Amazon and chose a set that included a medium sized hand pump. The pump does take up some of my space, but I appreciated that I could tightly vacuum pack things without an actual vacuum!
Absolutely loved the video. Those colors are luscious. Loved Ned’s sweater. What is the patten name please and the yarn used? Can’t wait to see the next video.
Thank you! He's wearing "The Weekender" by Andrea Mowry. It calls for worsted weight, but I used Vivacious DK which is a fairly heavy dk merino. His color was 805 deep forest!
@ you made my day. Thank you!
could you talk about the softness of shetland wool? or the itch factor ?
That's a great idea! I'll make a video for sure.
To answer you now, Shetland is definitely toothy - and can feel scratchy or somewhat rough to the touch. I know lots of people choose to wear a layer between their knits and skin. This will be my first garment knit with Shetland wool, so I'll find out how it feels in my experience! So far, I think this wool feels fairly standard - but I'll report back as I'm knitting it up!
I’ve got Jamieson’s envy.
It was very fun to see everything in person. I can't imagine what a treat it would be to live in Lerwick and go all the time!
Hey, Cute video as usual :) I might have missed it and zoned out - but were all the yarns you showed 100% wool? I assume so!
Great question! Yes, they are 100% wool - specifically Shetland wool!
I know there’s an exchange rate, but what does Spindrift cost at the shop? Not counting the travel of course! I know what it costs in the US.
I think it was around £3 per skein!
I am curious what is the cost per skein at Jameison’s in Shetland?
I think it was something like £3 per skein!
Thanks ! That helps with budget planning.
How much was each ball? I live in Canada so if you put the cost in GB, I can convert to CDN dollars.
Each ball was £3 before tax!
Different parts of our brains are engaged in the first 15 minutes than in the 3rd hour. I challenge you to some day make something that you haven't researched. That you walk into a LYS, march up to a display and pick 5, 7, 9 colors to make into a scarf or cowl. Throw a little Stephen West in there. Maybe after a champagne brunch. I bet it would be amazing.
That's a great idea!
You quickly learned how to drive a manual car? 🤯 Dude, I actually had all of my driving lessons in a manual car (in Germany), but haven't driven one in 9 years and now I'm afraid to go back to manual.
Quickly yes, but I didn't know how to drive it well! We stalled out so many times. Ned's job was to hit the hazard lights while I restarted the car and tried to get us moving again 😵
Ok, now a question...Will they know all the colors that Ned picked out for his sweater if I call or email them? Sorry to copy you Ned, but I loved every single color you picked out!! Great minds in sync? Lol
They won't have a record of that - but I can eventually send you a list!
That would be awesome!! I hope your hubby doesn't mind me copying. You are wonderful & I'm glad I found your site. You give tips as well as inspiration & I'm finding that so refreshing!! Keep up the great work!! Maybe someday I will visit your neck of the woods...eastern PA isn't that far away!!
Ihr Lieben!!!! herzliche Grüße aus Germany - ich mag Euch sehr - der Content ist super super sympathisch und inspirierend. Danke dafür. Alles Liebe zu Euch von Ingrid Engelsnaht1112
Thank you so much Ingrid, it's wonderful to meet you here!
If you’re looking for an excuse to go back, how about Shetland Wool Week 2025? I can’t think of a better reason! 😍🧶
I think that's an amazing idea! If we could take the time off, and afford the trip I'm sure we would go often. We may need to wait a couple more years before returning- but wool week is a great reason to go!