Twixmas Casting On: Starting a Cornish Gansey and Embracing Slow Living for 2025, + A Giveaway!
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Hello. I am Jane, from Falmouth in Cornwall, UK. I am an avid knitter and the owner of Stitches and Cream, a yarn shop specialising in natural fibres and British yarns.
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It’s that funny time between Christmas and New Year, and I wanted to share my Christmas Eve castings on my Cornish Gansey plans for 2025 and why I am embracing slow living more in 2025.
I am also offering a giveaway to thank you for reaching 6K subscribers. Watch to the end to find out more.
Thank you for watching, and please like, subscribe, share with friends, and, of course, comment! I will try to respond to as many as I can.
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On the Spice Market by Melanie Berg www.ravelry.co...
Twixmas Cast On’s:
Mosaic Carpet Project Bag by Marie Wallin www.ravelry.co...
Spot Sweater by Anne Ventzel in Filcolana Yarn www.ravelry.co...
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Oh Bailey you are lovely, you should sneak in to the podcast more often.
I will try! Thank you 🥰
I love the sea, my great grandfather was a sailor many years ago, my grandmother did a beautiful job keeping her Scottish heritage alive for our family
Thank you Mary. Scotland is beautiful and my daughter now lives there 🥰
Being Cornish and still live in the village I was born.
My dear Dad had a small fishing boat and I loved going out with him from Mullion Cove when I was young.
The sound of the waves crashing over the harbour wall and on the shore, always fascinates me.
A traditional gansey I would love to knit.
It’s been a difficult year where I have lost two dear friends, knitting has been my solace.
Love your podcasts.
Thinking of you and wishing your dad a speedy recovery.
Thank you Mary. So sorry you have lost some dear friends. Cornwall is the place to heal though isn’t it. I love your memories of going out with your dad. Hopefully my gansey journey will encourage you join me 🥰
Thank you for sharing your honest thoughts on life… I visited Cornwall once and I still remember the feeling of walking the coastal path: land on one side and the sea on the other, the sense of eternity and endless possibilities
Thank you. That sums up cornwall perfectly! 🥰
Oh my goodness, your plate has definitely been full. My heartfelt sympathy for your dad, mum, you and your sister. Last I was in Cornwall, my grandparents and I went on a road trip and sat at the shore line eating fish and chips and having 99p ice cream with a flake. That was in the 1970's. Donkeys years ago😮. I love looking in the rock pools for sealife and shells. It's so calming and lovely. I think you actually sleep better after spending a day at the seaside. Intentions for 2025... instead of resolutions to do this or that, mine is simple, it's to love myself better, to not be so harsh and demanding. To be truly kind. I can do it for others, why not for myself? I like your intention and approach to slowing down instead of the opposite. Happy twixmas and hoping that in 2025 there is a greater sense of peace. Aren't our furry families the best. They know exactly how to live and just be❤. Zen masters extraordinaire
Thank you. Oh my I can remember when a 99 cost 99p too 😂 your intentions sounds so like mine. Let’s hope we can achieve that in 2025 🥰
I’m following from 🇺🇸and very much appreciate your comment ❤❤. The jargon, the memories , the intentions … all of it . What is a “flake” on ice cream ?
@ it’s a chocolate bar really but quite ‘flakey’ and light. ☺️
@ ahhh I know the bar .. thank you 😂
Jane - so thoughtful and honest. Thank you for your personal insights as they give voice for many. I'm so sorry for your dad's accident and the stress for all. On knitting, I love, love your Spice Market shawl and Marie Wallin bag! Both have been on my to-knit list 🥰
Thank you I know from talking to many women my age that I am not alone in struggling with this time of life so I thought I would share my own experiences and thoughts. Love that shawl. The colour is sooo good 🥰
Hello Jane, I love watching you and see what new projects you are working on and there's nothing more relaxing to me than to sit by the sea and knit. I hope you have a very Happy and Prosperous New Year!!!
Thank you so much! I plan to do more knotting by the sea in 2025! 😜🥰
Took your advice Jane by sitting to watch this and not doing anything else at the same time. For me, Cornwall is all about its history and heritage. So far, my favourite sea experience was Tregantle beach on Boxing Day after a heavy rain storm. The sun poking through all the greys and blues, reflected in the rain soaked beach like a mirror was just magical.
Wonderful! Thank you 🥰
I do live near the Baltic Sea, living by the sea means being able to breathe freely,looking out and wonder at the sea and sky,dreaming of places to be. Cornwall to me is going back to the best memories in my life! Meeting with friends and feeling happy in bad times, climing up to Tintagual castle and imagine going back in time! Sitting in a pub by the fireplace and as said before felling save and warm in troubled times😊
Thank you that sounds wonderful. I love Tintagel too such a special place 🥰
Gosh Jane, life is supposed to calm down the older you get. You are doing so much even without your caring commitments. As lovely as it is to see all the knitting and community projects, something has to give before your health is affected. I have lived by the sea now for 20 years and love it’s capacity to calm my soul. Firstly on the Isle of Wight and now Cleveleys in Lancashire. The colour of the light in Cornwall though is very special and not found in other coastal areas. The scenery and never ending coastline are spectacular. I would hope to always live by the sea now. It makes such a difference to my life and coping with the bad days that consume us all at some time. That and the calmness that knitting brings to my life. Take care of yourself Jane x
Thank you so much. I have definitely been implementing some changes and feel the benefits already 🥰
I appreciate your openness in sharing life’s joys and challenges. It will be so enjoyable to go on your gansey journey with you and learn more about your part of the world. What I appreciate most about Cornwall are the cliffs overlooking the sea, the sound of which is always so calming to me.
Thank you so much! 🥰
I had several holidays in Cornwall with my children, now in their later 30’s. Loved Fowey, Polperro and Lanhydrock.
I recently found you on utube . I am a similar age and find knitting soothing. I don’t have a t.v. but enjoy various podcasts, especially crafting ones.
Current research has shown the therapeutic benefits of knitting, crochet and hand sewing. I am an enthusiastic, but not very talented knitter and am keen to learn to crochet. My local yarn shop is offering a beginners course.
I live near the East coast of Northumberland. Beautiful countryside, stunning beaches. Yes, I agree with you about the calming , healing and joyful power of the sea.
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Thank you and welcome 🤗 do learn to crochet. It is a great alternative when you want something that works up quickly and is easy when you make a mistake. Only 1 stitch to worry about 😜🥰
Loved my previous visits to Cornwall, so much history, myths, beautiful land and coast. For me the sound of the sea, especially at a pebble beach, has a healing quality. I am someone who needs to visit the coast every so often.
Thank you and keep on visiting the sea 🥰
My husband and I just returned to the states after 7 days in St Ives over Christmas. We had never been to this part of England and loved it! The light is spectacular, the weather was quite temperate and we did a lot of walking. We just loved it. Love your podcast.
Thank you and so glad you enjoyed your visit. St Ives is beautiful 🥰
I love Cornwall because my ancestors rest there. I love the sea around Cornwall because it inspires creative people!
Thank you. It definitely is a creative place to live 🥰
I live in Australia and enjoy going to the sea. The relaxing sound of the waves calms and relaxes me. The time spent with friends by the sea is extremely important to myself.
Thanks for sharing I agree the sea can unite you with people in all sorts of ways. Thank you for watching 🥰
Cornwall for me is wild winter walks along long sandy beaches, accompanied by the sound of crashing waves and sea spray. With my dog by my side (always optimistic that he can catch a seagull - he never does!). It’s my tranquil thoughtful place ❤xxx
Ah that sounds lovely (apart from the seagull) They are a pest aren’t they? By March they will be making so much noise and become aggressive when I walk my pooch. 🥰
When I think of Cornwall I think of my family tree - I know my strong female lineage comes from the hard graft of the tin mines - somewhere along the line that transported its way to the north of England -that lineage is also very much like the continuation of the seas and oceans - one part belongs to the other in an endless connection of strength and beauty. Look after yourself and your best friend should always be you x. ❤
Thank you and so beautifully put 🥰
I love the sea, it’s essential to my well-being, the place I turn to for peace. My grandmother was a Scottish Herring girl so perhaps it’s in my blood.
Thank you and I am sure the love of the-sea is ingrained in you! 🥰
Hello Jane. I've just discovered and watched your video and I loved it ❤❤. I agree with many things you said. I'm a mother, part time teacher and crafter and like you I think self care and slow living are both very important. I'm French but deep down my heart belongs to the UK. I've never lived by the sea but I would say that what I like the most about it is the relaxing sound of the waves on the seashore. As for Cornwall well it immediately makes me think of Cornish cream tea with scones and Agatha Christie 😊.
I wish your dad all the best for his recovery. Watching the end of your video sent me back to England for a little while and that felt like a real treat. Thanks for sharing. ❤❤
Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts. Keep stitching! 🥰
I fell in love with Cornwall 20 years ago 😍 It cast its spell on me and my family!! It felt like home (Worcestershire/Herefordshire/Shropshire borders) but with the sea. It’s our happy place. I love the sea as it can call on all your emotions. I love its rhythmical presence, ever changing colours and power. I love the wellbeing being you get from just being by the sea but especially dipping in it at anytime of the year 😃
Loved the content of this video and the newsletter. I too aim for a more quieter/mindful life. To slow down. Detox from technology as I too have to act upon a message or email that comes through straight away. I too am going into the New Year with new intentions 😌
So lovely to hear from you Jo. Happy New Year and let’s commit to slowing living together this year! 🥰
@ most definitely and there’s no better way than to have a WIP for on the go 😌
Oh Jane, your poor poor dad! Must have been awful for him and for all of you witnessing him so badly injured. I do hope he is healing well and making good progress. I’ve only been to Cornwall twice. Once, in 1965, when I was 15. Coming from Scotland, it was like another world to me. My mother was obsessed with cream teas with clotted cream! 😅, and the second time was in the early 80s with my husband and twin sons. I think there is something quite magical about Cornwall. Quaint villages and towns and sandy coves. I bought paintings and pottery from local artisans, and still have them. One of my favourite books is Rosamunde Pilcher’s - The Shell Seekers, and I do believe Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca was set there too. Does the hauntingly beautiful Manderley really exist? I, too, am embracing a slower lifestyle these days. I walk every day with my two dogs, and whenever it sit down, I knit. I do hope the New Year brings some peace and calm into your life Jane. My very best wishes to you and your family. ❤
Thank you. Yes Daphne Du Mauriers books were set along the Helford River just a few miles up the road from me here. life hasn’t changed too much really here which is part of its charm. Happy New Year 🥰
Congrats on 6,000 subscribers! There are so many things to like about Cornwall - the history (all that smuggling! 😊), the coastal hiking path, the beaches, the quaint towns and villages, Bodmin Moor…. As what I like about the sea - the smell, the sound of waves crashing on the shore, but I think the thing I like best of all is the sense of peace I feel being near the water.
So so true and thank you. 🥰
I am looking forward to seeing your Gansey! I always thought thst different areas had traditional patterns. However I have just read The Golden Fleece by Esther Rutter. Esther spent a year travelling the British Isles, researching knitting history. She discovered that the herring girls, who also travelled all over Britain, collected stitch patterns and sold ganseys all across the British Isles. So what we think of as traditional patterns, is actually a little dubious!
I forget the lady's name now, but it wasn't until the 1970's that a lady gathered gansey stitch patterns and wrote them down gor ghe first time! I couldn't believe it was so recent, before that, they had always been passed orally.
What fo I love about Cornwall? Our 3 daughters were born there, we spent the first 25 years of marriage (plus my teens, a little longer for Steve). For years we lived without a car, but cycled everywhere, I loved being rewarded with views of the sea after riding up a hill!
Happy New Year to you and your family! I hope your Dad makes a good recovery from his fall. I remember the scare my mother in law fell down the last couple of stairs, she broke her neck, but was probably saved by her lack of movement caused by arthritis! She made a full recovery😍
Thank you. Mary Wright was the lady who wrote about the history of the gansey (especially Cornish) but I have been researching them and the patterns too. Such interesting stories. I cycle in Cornwall and it is no mean feat! I now have an electric bike for the hills 😂🥰
Cornwall - I have never been but it has a magical quality in my mind because the associations with King Arthur and Poldark. I lived my entire near the sea on the opposite side of the Atlantic on Canada’s east coast. I love it ❤
Thank you. Cornwall is full of mystery and legends and I think that’s what makes it special 🥰
I too am of Cornish descent (surname Petherick) I love the sea and coastal areas around the Cornish coast and have managed to visit every year until health problems curtailed that. I live near the sea now , up north. This is a wonderful group to be in and knitting is my favourite hobby. I hope your dad has a speedy recovery.
Thank you and that’s a good Cornish name! 🥰
This is my 1st time watching your channel and I loved it! Jane, you already feel like a kindred spirit to me, with your love of the sea, knitting, coffee, and dogs! Bailey is a real beauty, and I enjoyed seeing him on his walk. I look forward to watching previous and upcoming videos from your stunning part of the world! I hope you are able to enjoy a slower pace in 2025, it isn't easy, especially when you are used to being so busy and responsible, it takes effort to give yourself the grace to slow the pace - I am still learning, so don't really have a lot of advice, other than try a little something each day that is just for you, and pretty soon, it may become a habit!
Thank you and what great advice. I think that has to be my approach too. I am glad you enjoyed the podcast 🥰
So much of what you said resonated with me. I wish your father a speedy recovery. In 1970 I met a boy whose mother was Cornish. I was just a young girl of 19yrs old when we moved to Cornwall. For a young city girl it was like stepping back in time; peaceful and full of long held traditions. My mother-in-law would never hang washing out on a Sunday was just one of them. We married in a tiny church in a small village outside Truro. My son was born in Redruth in 1974; a tiny maternity unit run by midwives. The summers were bustling, but it was the winters I loved. We would watch the storms out at sea or walk along the beach wrapped up against the wind. Sadly we had to move for work. My son is now 50 and I would love to knit him a jumper to remind him he is a Cornishman with a long Cornish Heritage. Wonderful memories of my younger days. In 2025 I intend to just take care of myself a little more. Our own needs sometimes get lost in the needs of our families. 😊
Oh what a lovely story. Thank you for sharing it with me. Your son is a Cornishman so I am sure he would love a gansey 🥰
I live on the East Coast of Nova Scotia by the Atlantic. Each summer fishing boats fill the harbour near us and two beautiful and relatively untouched beaches allow for year round beach walking and even swimming with the grandchildren in the warmer months. Cornwall is in my opinion the most beautiful area of England to visit(I could be biased 🙄).Cheers and happy knitting!
Haha. Me too 😜 that sounds idyllic and how lovely to share it with your grandchildren 🥰
I have visited Cornwall every year since I can remember from my childhood. I am a 60s child. Going with my mom and dad and my children, now grown up. I remember when Cornish Clotted Cream Ice cream actually tasted of clotted cream! It is such a magical place full of myths and mystery. I live in the Midlands so couldn't be further from the sea but I feel the pull of Cornwall all the time and visit at least twice a year. I love wild and windy walks along the coast where you just can't help yourself taking huge deep breaths of sea air and if you are close enough you get a salty kiss from the spray of the sea. The sound of Seagulls, watching Dolphins, Seals and Gannets is a joy. I have to admit I get tearful when we arrive and even more so when we have to leave. I have no Cornish connection but I feel it's the place for me to be. I love the sense of community and togetherness of the Cornish people too. If the stars were to align and everything were to fit we wouldn't hesitate to move down there, it would be joyfull. If you do get a chance to look up your family history go the records office in Truro, to is a very useful tool and the staff there are very helpful too, they helped my husband to look into his Cornish ancestry, he found he had connections to St Ives and to Marazion, tracing back to ancestors of the Uren name. Looking forward to seeing your progress with your Cornish Gansey. Thank you for taking time to create your channel, it is a joy to watch xx
Thank you so much. I have cousins who have the ‘Uren’ name so it is common in Cornwall. You sound like Cornwall is in your blood so I hope you do eventually make it your home. It has that way of hooking you in. Thank you for the info about Truro I may go and follow that up 🥰
My first time watching your podcast and it was lovely. I'm sorry to hear about your father. My mother fell over her garden hose watering in the early morning. She couldn't get up and had to yell for a neighbors help. She broke her arm pretty badly. She was 80.
I'm listening from the west coast of USA. I've never been to Cornwall, but I read a book, I believe the author was Maeve Binchey, and the setting was Cornwall. I could almost smell the sea air and feel the cat winding around my legs as I read.
Looking forward to your gansey project. I wear a med/lg in sweaters. Good luck for your father and continued healing.
Thank you so much and welcome! They are a worry aren’t they. Fortunately my mum was around otherwise dad would have been the same. Live a bit of Maeve Binchey 🥰
Cornwall has special memories as this is where we used to holiday, along with another family, many years ago. Walking along the beach, playing games and paddling in the sea were enjoyed by all - special times. I am so pleased I found your channel.
Thank you and so am I! Cornwall appears to evoke some special memories which makes me happy 🥰
Well Cornwall is certainly My Home even if I'm not currently living there, I think that anthem resonates with me a lot. For me the sea is peace and meditation. I love it especially on stormy days, when the rollers are really pounding and you can't help but feel the power of it standing on the beach. The continuous cycle of the sound of the waves breaking and pulling back is so grounding for me. I store it up for all the time I have to spend away from it. I did a gansey design class a couple of years ago and I would love to put that into practice with some proper Cornish yarn!
Thank you and I certainly agree on the sea being grounding and I love the way you describe it too. Ooh a gansey design class that sounds amazing! Do give one a go it will make it easier for me if I know others out there are doing it at the same time 🥰
In our 60’s we seem to have more to juggle with elderly parents, our immediate families, work & trying to balance it with some slow living & mindfulness takes effort too! Much as we love them we need to pause that merry-go-round. We visited Cornwall from NZ in 2019. Both have Cornish ancestry through our gt grandparents. Loved our time staying at Gylly Beach. Loved all of the fishing villages around the coast. Pasties & cream teas. All the very best for 2025.
Thank you and what lovely memories you have. I agree and lesson to me is that I mustn’t make slow living another ‘task’ otherwise it defeats the purpose of it 🥰
I visited Cornwall many summers when I was growing up travelling from Newcastle upon Tyne with my parents with our caravan! Growing up in Newcastle I loved the sea and have many happy memories of exploring the Northumberland coastline. I now live in New Zealand - at the top of the South Island - and again love the proximity to the coast and the sea…
Thank you. NZ is on my wish list 🥰
Yes life can be very hard at times, my motto is out of your head and into your hands which helps me greatly I was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in both lungs , plus husband diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and osteoarthritis. Lost our beautiful sister inlaw 12 months ago , I have never needed my craft so much it's been very helpful and mindful. Hope 2025 is much easier and prosperous for you.
Thank you for sharing such a personal story Angela. It sounds like you have needed your craft during these times. I wish you a happy new year and I hope you and your husband enjoy some lovely times together next year x🥰
@thecornishknitter ❤ yes it certainly does help, I knit, crochet, embroider, quilt, mixed media, cross stitch and felting ,I am very privileged also love our garden a collect of 21 acers our piece of heaven . Love your videos thank you so much 😊
Hi Jane, so sorry to hear about your dad and hope he recovers soon. My mom fell down two years ago at Christmas and broke both legs and her arm, it was a awful time, she was in hospital for four weeks and we couldn't visit because they'd got covid doing the rounds in the hospital, when she came out she came to stay at my house . I have a disabled son so it was easier for us all to be in one house and then I could look after both of them. I think knitting definitely helped me get through that period as my mom was bed bound for the first eight weeks so I had to do everything for her. I wasn't sleeping so was getting up at all times and knitting 😊We have holidayed in Perranporth for 23 years and obviously love it, we usually visit Falmouth for a day. A few years back we used the Park and Float which was great but they've stopped the service now much to the dismay of my son, he loves going on boat trips so of course we always go one one when in Cornwall. Looking forward to another podcast, look after yourself x
Thank you and oh my goodness that sounds so much worse than my experience. I am so glad your knitting helped get you through. Do come and visit next time you are this way 🥰
I’ve only ever visited Cornwall once and I loved the daylight, can’t explain it but it was somehow different. The sea was a gorgeous colour and the whole holiday is a beautiful memory. My grandson playing for hours on the beach and splashing in the sea. Going on the local bus to St Ives and the shops, loved it all.
Thanks for sharing! What lovely memories of Cornwall 🥰
Jane I would love to join the Gansey knitalong with the flock but I really shouldn't cast on another thing nor buy more yarn😂. Cornwall holds decades of lovely memories for me around Treyarnon Bay, rides on the Camel Trail, hot pasties on the beach behind windbreaks, crabbing in rock pools, wetsuits and belly boards.My most favourite memories are in the sea with my dad, swimming out for mussels at low tide, later by the tent, all sharing them with crusty bread under starlight..... Lovely times to treasure ☺️
Oh what lovely memories and you are describing my childhood so it makes me feel nostalgic. Haha I know what you mean. Who needs another cast on! but heyho I am a sucker for a new project Thank you for being part of the flock 🥰
I follow several RUclipsrs from around the world and enjoy it when you show the Cornwall coast and historical buildings. It is reminiscent of the east coast of Canada at White Rock, BC.
My heritage is English-Irish, have often thought of making my own Gansey.
I hope your Dad hears quickly from his mishap.
It reminded me of the story my parents told of my Dad, his parents and a sibling getting in a car accident the day of my parents’ wedding. Dad was 2 hours late for the wedding and in the wedding photos, he has two very black eyes.
Haha. At least it will have enhanced the stories afterwards. So many have talked about the similarities to Canada. I have only ever been to Quebec for a week long work trip so I would love to visit one day and see all these lovely sounding places. 🥰
I have only experienced Cornwall on the internet. But i can see from your videos and others that it is truely a beautiful place.
I have moved a bit but have always lived near one of the Great lakes. Although it can't compare to Cornwall there is still a beauty and calmness of living on the shore and watching the ebb and flow along the shoreline and listening to the shore birds and the freight boats and the fog horns. Currently i live on a smaller lake and the ebb and flow has been interrupted by the cold ice is forming on real cold nights the lake talks - it groans and cries as the ice thickens.
Wow. That sounds awesome. Although the sea is my first love just being near water calms me. Thank you 🥰
I was born and bred in London but always felt such an affinity with the sea and, after a family holiday to Cornwall, I fell in love with it when I was a child.
In my early 20s I moved down here and raised my family. I’m in Falmouth too. I was 70 on Monday and still love Cornwall as much as I ever did and am proud to call it home. ❤
Thank you and it’s lovely to hear that you are local to me. Happy birthday for Monday 🥳 I hope you are going to celebrate 🥰
Good on you for making time for you also ... Always remember to give yourself some grace ❤ ...
From what I've seen of Cornwall it has kept it's original or historical charm & has kept it's authenticity & Traditions!
What I love about being by the Sea is everything ... It really does attack all of your senses, the smell of the sea, the feel of the salty wind, sound of the waves & seagulls, etc and you do get the taste of the salty air. It is always so refreshing & invigorating. There's nothing like the feel of squishy wet sand between your toes & the sea washing up over them ... Argh ... And sea air always makes sure you have a good nights sleep! ❤
Thank you. Yes, when my children visit, they always comment about how good their sleep is. I am sure it's the sea air! 🥰
Best wishes to your dad for a speedy recovery! Sounds like you've had a time of it. Hopefully things are easier going next. Hopped down to Cornwall for a family wedding last August and it's just beautiful. Will be going back! We managed some coastal exploring near Perranporth and I think my favourite part was walking (scrambling at places) the coast path there with the wild salty wind that just made us feel alive. Favourite thing about the sea is the sound of the waves - if your swimming, relaxing on the beach or walking along the coast, you can close your eyes a moment, float, and just listen to the power it holds.
Thank you. Yes there is something about the sea air here that is invigorating. If you do come back do come to Falmouth! 🥰
I have always had a draw to Cornwall as we had so many camping holidays there when I was a child. I have returned many times as an adult. I especially fond of Boscastle and Penzance. The Cornish sea has always been called to me from my earliest visits, especially to Tintagel. The winter seas crashing against the rocks are particularly evocative to me, and I remember the thrill of swimming in the sea at Newquay and riding the huge waves to shore or just letting them crash over my head! My dad was a sailor and we scattered his ashes in the sea per his request so the sea is an ever present part of my life. Even though I don’t live near to it, we are near the river Severn which can be just as as nice in its way.
Thank you Stella. I love Tintagel and the wildness of it. Very different to the South coast of Cornwall. Most of my family have had their ashes scattered off the point on Falmouth so I can feel them there when i need to reflect and just be 🥰
I’ve never been to Cornwall but I live in North Carolina and when I go to the ocean I’m reminded how powerful and constant the ocean is and how small my worries are in comparison. I feel the beat of the waves and the tide soothe my mind and calms me.
Thank you. Thats one of the things I love about the sea too 🥰
I have fond memories of 1st visiting Cornwall - specifically Padstow - when I was about 14yrs (now in my sixties!) and meeting 1st hand the ‘Obby ‘Oss in the 01 May festivities. Responsibility for one of the ‘Osses was traditionally in the family of my uncles’s wife’s family - and I have some great photos of when I met the ‘Oss in person!
Also in relation to Cornwall - my late husband’s paternal forbears emigrated from the tin mines of Cornwall to seek work in the coal mines of the Rhondda valley - South Wales.
The sea is such a solace - I now live in Pembrokeshire and in my retirement feel fortunate that the sea is never far away from my heart and home.
Thank you. What a great story about the ‘Obby Oss’! I have never been to Pembrokeshire but I understand it is beautiful 🥰
We always used to go to Cornwall when I was young, usually to the Hayle area. It was always very exciting to get up at 4am and for Dad to drive from Somerset to Cornwall . It took us forever , no motorways then! However, when we got there, my parents always insisted that we went to bed again, mainly because they were exhausted. I just wanted to go to the beach. A great time was had by all. More recently, I’ve been down to the Porthleven area in the Winter, watching the waves crash across the harbour walls. Walking over the causeway to St Michaels Mount and catching the boat back. Beautiful sunsets and generally glorious light. Must start coming back down .
What lovely stories and memories of Cornwall. Thank you for sharing 🥰
Cornwall is so very beautiful, Jane, and I love to see all of your travels throughout Cornwall. I live on Lake Ontario in Canada, and love to watch the tall ships coming into port. Every summer my grandparents would take us to visit family in Newfoundland and the ocean is so very beautiful. To visit Cornwall would be a dream come true for me.
Thank you. I think Cornwall is beautiful too but I am somewhat biased 😜We host tall ships occasionally and they are such an impressive sight. They also come in for safe harbour in bad weather too. 🥰
Happy 2025 Jane, thank you for your podcasts. My family has always loved the sea, whether for work or leisure. Cornwall has a mystical quality to it and is so beautiful in all its seasons. Thank you again.
Thank you for watching too 🥰
What an emotional video at the end. Cornwall is Cornish. Your dog is so devoted to you as you are to him, I love my jack Russell/Lakeland and she is part and parcel of the family, tho my husband of 60+ years has not long passed away after quite a long session of his illness. Like you, I look forward to creating whilst it’s so meaningful and isn’t that what life is for rather than wasting on what if. Cornish guernsey sounds fun, can’t wait. See, something creative to look forward to. Thanks lovely lady, I could watch and listen to you all day. Put the kettle on I’ll get the biscuits. ❤️💚💛🇬🇧Somerset x
Thank you. So sorry for your loss. Tea and biscuits with some knitting sounds lovely 🥰
I live on Anglesey so surrounded by the sea and can't imagine now not living in sight of the sea despite or perhaps because I was born in Birmingham! Cornwall for me is blissful family holidays setting off at 4am from Birmingham a 13 hour car trip in those days to Mevagissey. Blissful days when you could actually park on the harbour, playing on the beaches, mackerel fishing and a holiday treat of an enormous Knickerbocker Glory. The sun always seemed to shine 2 weeks of utter joy with my Mom and Dad sadly now departed. Love the channel and can't wait to see your special Gansey xx
Thank you. Oh how i loved Knickerbocker glories back in the day. Jelly, fruit and ice cream really is a fab combo 🥰
Been coming to Cornwall since before l was born! I’ve always loved it in burning sunshine or a gale and a walk by crashing north Cornwall waves - rain or shine - is one of my favourite things ❤ I hope your parents are ok - my MiL is 93 and managed to fall down the side of her sofa the other week 🫣😯. Embrace the slow living, we can all do with that 🥰
Thank you. It’s a worry when they are elderly isn’t it? Haha. That’s why you love it so much it is literally in your blood 🩸 🥰
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Best Wishes for 2025! I just watched 'the Cornish Knitter' for the first time and I loved listening to you. Your dog is very cute. In the past we had also a Boxer dog, but she passed away. We have warm memories of her. I never was in Cornwall, but I hope to visit it some day. I love Great-Britain, the little villages, the sea, the harbors, the sheep! I live in Antwerp in Belgium and I like to go to 'water places'. I like 'Zeeland' in the Netherlands very much, it's just 1 hour driving from here. Good luck with the knitting of your gansey! Natascha
Thank you Natascha. Boxer dogs get under your skin. I have always had one in my life. I have only been to the Netherlands twice but never near the sea. Hope you enjoy watching me with the gansey project 🥰
What a beautiful part of the country you live in, Jane, St Ives is my favourite part of Cornwall.... I love the sea - I find it very relaxing to watch and listen to ❤
Me too. Thank you 🥰
You are so very talented and beautiful when you are doing your podcast. my favourite County is Cornwall. I remember going to St Austell and climbing to the cliff walks. We went to Bude on our last trip to visit my Aunt. My husband and I stopped at the Old Post Office in Tintagel and I bought a Lilliput House a replica of the post office. We actually went to the old church that faces across the Water. I had lost my brother and my aunt that year and wrote in the book there donating money to the church. It was beautiful. I was born in England. My parents emigrated to Canada. I would say my favourite was going to the Cornish pasty place and eating the most delicious steak pastie. I now have grandchildren. They tease me when I say something very British. The view you have is breathtaking. I have walked the beaches and collected a Little Rock from each. The singing in your video is absolutely beautiful. Only the Cornish can sing so beautifully. It brought a tear to my eyes. I want to wish you a wonderful NewYear. If we ever travel to England I will definitely visit your shop..It has so many varieties of wool. Love to you from Ontario Canada. Yes you do have friends all over the world
Thank you for sharing your stories of your visits to Cornwall. Tintagel is one of my absolute favourite places to go to, especially on a blustery day. I love the view from my window and can just watch the sea for hours just sitting there and knitting. Happy anew Year and if you do ever come to the UK do visit us! 🥰
Hi, I love Cornwall's history, its myths and legends and its rugged coastline. I live in an area rich in lochs and open waters. I cannot imagine a life away from the sea, having never lived more than thirty minutes away from a coast. My work desk looks down the Clyde and out to Arran. A busy highway for military, merchant and pleasure craft, it is rich in wildlife and on a sunny day it sparkles. It is untamed, unpredictable and cannot be taken for granted. A dark, stormy day with salt in the air and waves crashing a high as they can reach fills me with energy,
Wow that view from work sounds amazing. I love the Scottish coastline and I am hoping to get to the Isles at some point. 🥰
@@thecornishknitter Argyll is a beautiful and diverse area well worth a trip, although I'd like to take much time in the Outer Hebrides and Northern Isles. Scotland has much in common. with Cornwall, I always think, including poor phone and wifi connectivity in many rural areas!
Just came across your channel. Cornwall is the sound of the sea and the colours of sea and sky. That feeling of being on the edge of the island, isolated but connected. What I love about the sea is that it's still largely a mystery to us. Which is as it should be. Am enjoying returning to knitting after concentrating on patchwork and needlepoint. So much gorgeous yarn! I could - if I had it - spend a fortune.
Thank you. That’s why I opened a yarn shop 😜😂 i so agree about the sea, we still have much to learn 🥰
Why do l love Cornwall…..l have no birth connection yet from my first visit l felt a spiritual peace that has drawn me back for more years than l care to mention! The sea is ever changing never still and l have spent many an hour on Porthmeor Beach just watching the waves……x
Beautiful place Porthmear beach. Thank you ☺️
I always feel I have escaped when visiting Cornwall and can enjoy the simple pleasures of hearing the gulls and the waves. My mum was born and bred on the Isle of Wight and I always feel I have an affinity to the sea through her. What a wonderful and generous giveaway and your video at the end was a delight to watch 😊
Thank you and I am glad you enjoyed my mini vlog at the end. I never know what people find interesting so i am always happy to hear that someone enjoyed it. 🥰
Cornwall and the sea. I have not been to Cornwall but one of my hiking dreams is to walk along the Cornwall coast path. I live by the sea in Gothenburg, Sweden. The big sky is what I love by the sea. Thank you for podcasting.
You are right the sea does have a 'big sky' and I love it too. Thank you 🥰
Cornwall has a lovely coastal place of walks the sea air is invigorating and I always think I sleep better after a day at the seaside Hope your Dad improves
Thank you. You are right the sea air does help you sleep better 🥰
I love Cornwall - always have since childhood holidays - I need to visit at least once every year - 2025 it will be twice - the sea is something I could look at forever in all its changes - I can do both there.❤
Thank you Jean. Make sure Falmouth is on your visit list! 🥰
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I love the carefree feeling when in Cornwall:- time to dream, creating stories within a sense of timelessness and rich history and tradition.
The sea infuses this sense of freedom for me , it colours my creative imaginings of characters and communities. It sets the tone for tales with its moody display of colour and emotion.
Cornwall , in tandem with the sea and the natural beauty brings me back to my place in this world. ❤
Wow. That is so true. Thank you 🥰
Living in Plymouth, I have to say it’s the Cornish beaches that have my heart, but especially in the winter when they are deserted and a long walk in wellies and woolies by the sea in winter does wonders for the soul ❤️
I prefer the winter time too. Thank you 🥰
…..So enjoyed watching this particular podcast- life is one big journey a learning curve that continues to ebb & flow I connected entirely with everything you spoke of ….
I’m a lover of the ocean & also live my the sea in Instow North Devon where the Taw
meets the Torridge …. Living by the sea soothes the soul I always feel at peace when I walk the beach whether it’s a sunny day or blustery windy atmosphere it’s a giver of all sensory sensations watching the sun set over the horizon is the ultimate is the best visual ever the joy it continues to bring is priceless
Do make time to be more mindful throw a pot enjoy the pottery class be kind to yourself …….wishing you love & light for 25
Bailey is adorable he loves you ❤
Thank you Rose and so well put. I think as we get older we appreciate the ebbs and flows of life and know we must learn to adapt. North Devon is gorgeous. We are so lucky to be able to live near the sea 🥰
Watched you from day one on your very first podcast 😊 always a pleasure to catch up.
I grew up in a town on The North East coast. It still feels like home when I return to visit my Mam.
The call of the Herring Gulls whisk me straight back.
Great view from your window Jane.
I can spend hours looking at that view ❤️ Thank you for watching 🥰
What a wonderful idea to resurrect the Cornish Gansey! I am a quarter Cornish, from Falmouth / St Mawes area. My connections to Cornwall are deep, though I live far away and was never a good sailor! I spent the most idyllic times with my grannie there, messing around in boats.
What lovely memories and you obviously know the area well. Thank you 🥰
I find your podcast to be a lovely change from the slick over produced fast-talking ones. Thank you! I live in prairies of Canada where the sea is of wheat oats and barley blowing in the breeze. I have been to the east and west coasts of my country. On the coasts as well as in my beloved prairies I can see to the horizon; such an amazing feeling. There is something about the textures of a gansey that speak to my soul. I would love to knit along with you. Cheers
You are so welcome! Thank you and your scenery sounds stunning. I hope you join me when I start knitting it 🥰
Hi Jane. It's so easy to say what I love about Cornwall as I've been going for many years on holiday mainly to Praa Sands. It's magical, it's wild, it's timeless and like a different country with it's own landscape. I love the sea as it is so stunninly beautiful in all it's different moods. It smells like heaven and it just makes me feel so alive. Lovely to watch your videos and so sorry to hear about your Dad - hope he's recovering.
Thank you so much ☺️
When I think of Cornwall I think of you Jane,my only connection to this part of England. I love hearing about your knitting adventures. I live on the other side of the world on Vancouver Island. We are near the sea and I love go down to the sea to walk or just enjoy nature. Knitting brings me happiness!
Thank you. I am glad I can bring you a little part of Cornwall 🥰
I visited St. Ives once, on a rainy day, but it was such a pleasure. I love the beach anyway, but that magical combination of an art community and a lovely harbour, it was just such a wonderful afternoon. The ocean, well, it's new every minute, isn't it? I love watching it, and I love walking on the beach, with the water, the birds, the sandbars (here), just, always changing.
Totally agree! Thank you 🥰
I knitted a big shawl with frangipani yarn and loved it❤ I visited Cornwall with my son almost 10 years ago. Can't decide where to begin, what i love about it. The little harbours, the step cliffs, the ever changing colours of the sea, the old towns with those tiny shops and the long walks across the moors ❤❤❤
Yep I think you have described it so well. 😜 thank you 🥰
I have visited Cornwall only once (Northern girl here) but I remember loving the coastlines particularly. And the sea! I love watching the tide move and trying to decide whether it's coming in or going out. Perched on a rock with the water moving round me was a priceless sensation.
Thank you and what a lovely image you have created! 🥰
Never been to Cornwall but have always lived by the sea. First, growing up in the Ocean State, RI and now have been on the West Coast in CA since the 80’s. The sea has always brought me peace and I think it’s because of my Portuguese heritage, I am definitely drawn to it. I absolutely hated the time I had to spend in AZ and CO, where there was no ocean. Looking forward to exploring the sea surround Scotland this summer. I’ve been to Shetland and that was magical. Enjoy your quiet time.
Thank you and enjoy Scotland. It is beautiful 😍
Cornwall for me is childhood holidays at Treyarnon Bay. Getting sunburnt, wonderful Cornish icecream and swimming in the natural rock pool. The sea is something I miss, as we have lived in Surrey since 1982 and prior to that in Liverpool and then the Wirral (where I am as I write this), My heart soars as we go over the crest of the hill down to the Dee Estuary, But most of the time i have to content myself with Surrey Hills and heather commons, at least we do have a small river close to our house!
Thank you. I expect the Surrey Hills has some stunning views too. I love Treyarnon Bay. Such a great beach. 🥰
I love Cornwall simply from the beautiful scenery featured on the Doc Martin series and your podcasts. The cliffs and wild sea views are stunning and a visit to the area is definitely on my bucket list!
Glad you like them! I’m how you get to visit at some time. You will have such a lovely holiday 🥰
This is the first time that I’ve watched the Cornish knitter on RUclips and as a keen knitter myself, I was totally absorbed in your creativeness. I too would love to knit a Cornish Ganesh sweater for myself. My mum was born in Penzance so very proud to say that I’m half Cornish and whenever we travel down from North Somerset to Cornwall, I always feel a certain calmness with the first view of Saint Michaels Mount, I certainly share with you the feeling of living near the sea although for me it’s the Bristol channel and estuary I see every morning from my bedroom window, with the big ships entering the lock into Portbury dock and if I catch a glimpse of the ship, I have to stand there and watch the whole process and the several tugboats that are guiding her into the safe harbour or port. I have been Knitting for over 50 years now I would still class myself as intermediate never mastered colour work although in February I have booked a stay at the Knitting hotel in Dawlish Devon and hopefully I will be able to try and master colour work I was intrigued by your abstract Piece that you showed at the beginning of the video more intrigued that it was all worked in garter stitch. Great colour colour choice of the green for your Cornish Gansy, if I was lucky enough to win, I think I would go for a blue I will definitely be subscribing to your channel. I already receive the newsletters and hopefully in 2025 a visit to your shop. Sending special wishes to your dad and to you for a healthy 2025. T x
Thank and I hope you have a lovely time in Devon at the Knitting Hotel. The Mosaic Carpet Bag is done in garter but it’s ok because it’s mosaic. I wouldn’t have been as keen on stranded knitting it in garter stitch! 🥰
I love Cornwall for the childhood memories it evokes of long ago camping holidays with family, including my Grandma; we would go the the harbour in Padstow, long before it was trendy with Rick Stein restaurants and expensive tourist boutiques. Grandma would be eager to meet the fishing boats coming back laden with their catch of mackerel, she would buy several large specimens with their beautiful glistening skin and hurry back to the campsite in Harlyn Bay where she would fearlessly and with a no nonsense manner head and gut the fish. I can still remember, 5 decades on, the smell of them frying outside in the pan as the evening sun dipped behind the trees.
I love the sea, no matter where in the world I happen to be, for the way the water endlessly, tirelessly ebbs and flows, back and forth, bringing with it fragments of shells, whispers of seaweed and if you are lucky treasure in the form of sea glass, ruby red and cobalt blue the most sought after. I love the sea for the way it never ceases to make me feel calm and grounded and like I have come home.
Sorry for the very long comment, would love to join you on your Cornish Gansey journey
I love your long comment! Such fabulous memories. We always used to get mackerel straight from the quay and cook it on the beach so it reminded me of that. 🥰
My favourite thing about Cornwall is the coastal views and warm welcome. We spent the most wonderful Christmas,in Falmouth and swam in the sea on Christmas Day.
I love a swim on Christmas Day. It sets you up for all the overindulgence to follow! Thank you 🥰
We used to holiday regularly and stay in a cottage on the coast path at Porthcothan. I loved washing up - I know am I mad? But to watch the waves come up into the bay, sometimes with surfies on boards, sometimes high tide, sometimes low, everytime a different sky. Just amazing. Love it.
Thank you. I confess I love washing up too. Can’t bear to see dishes in the sink. Happy memories of Cornwall 🥰
I've been to Cornwall many times, but my favourite memory is a week spent in St Ives, where I also led the worship at The Salvation Army and did an open air service on the pier on the Sunday morning/afternoon. Happy times.
Thank you Andrew. Sty Ives is lovely and that sounds amazing. I ma so happy you watch along as I follow your adventures too and always find it a great watch. Happy Hogmanay to you 🥰
Oh how I feel what you are talking about in this video. We have 3 adult daughters, 4 elderly parents living near by and, in our late 50’s, retirement is still a few years away.
I’ve never visited Cornwall but I live on the Fife coast in Scotland and see the sea from our home and love to walk on a beach. A group of work colleagues and I go for monthly sea swims and saunas. And funnily enough I gifted a daughter’s partner a voucher for a hand knit jumper for his birthday earlier this month and he has chosen a fisherman’s gansey style (I am using a Dutch gansey design book I saw at a fisherman’s gansey exhibition in the Fife fishing village of Anstruther a few years ago.)
Thank you and Scotland is beautiful. I visit often as my daughter is in Edinburgh. I have been sea swimming today and it is brisk to say the least! 🥶🥰
😀💕xx thanks for your lovely podcasts. We go to Cornwall every year in our caravan in September. Once we saw what we thought were porpoises from our cliff walks. What I like most about the sea is the beautiful colours of blue and green, and the Cornish walks. Sadly your days are numbered as my husband has stage 4 cancer. Maybe no more holidays. Happy new year. 🥰
Oh I am so sorry to hear that. Thinking of you and I hope that knitting helps bring you some peace and solace as you navigate life. I hope you have lots of support and friends around you. Sending a virtual hug 🤗🥰
I've never had the delight of visiting Cornwall but I believe there are similarities to where I live, at the very opposite end of the country. Which is also beautiful I must add. I'm really hoping I'll be able to visit Cornwall at some point in the future, and hopefully, your shop too. As I also live in a fishing community, I've been interested in knitting a gansey for quite a while but haven't got around to it as yet. It's a dream knit for me. Thank you so much for your podcast, it's one of my favourites. Very best wishes to your Dad and I hope he recovers quickly. My Dad also goes outside in his slippers!
Thank you so much. If you live in Scotland that is stunning and I hope you join me on my gansey knit. Haha what is it with these blooming slippers! They should sound an alarm when they venture outside! 😜🥰
Like you I took a break from knitting when I began full time work whilst juggling raising a family. My husband was in the military and often away so things could get quite stressful. Not knitting was a mistake because it is such a relaxing mindful thing.
It really is isn't it! I just couldn't fit it in when the children were young but so glad i came back to it. 🥰
Just come across your lovely channel and sat whilst learning to knit listening to you. I thought my 50s would be a easier time, sadly for us it hasn't been the case, losing and looking after parents, complex relationships.. just not how I imagined life to be. Thankfully my solace is crafting otherwise I'd go nuts! We love holidays by the sea, especially Cornwall, we have been going yearly as we fell in love with it a long time ago. Cornwall is like a hug, a friend you never get tired of. The beautiful beaches and scenery, the people, we are going again in May and can't wait. I find the sea calming, if I'm troubled the sea seems to ease me. I also find it a happy place, memories of long dog walks and sunsets. Your boxer is beautiful ❤ 😊
Thank you so much and welcome! 🤗 think we all feel that life should be easier by now as we will have ‘worked it all out’ but that’s just not the case is it. It likes to throw curveballs and test us. So glad you have found knitting and crafting to help. 🥰
So sorry to hear about your dad's fall and the terrible experience in emergency. Sounds like our emergency departments here in Canada. I have never been to to Cornwall or even the UK. I do love visiting the sea, either on the east or west coast. Listening to the crash of the waves is such a soothing sound. I do wish I lived closer to the sea.
Thank you. If it helps I will continue to share shots of the sea so you can enjoy it on screen 🥰
I so relate to the stresses of looking after elderly parents and grown up children issues. I came into Xmas feeling really washed out and sadly my dad died on the 21st. I have decided to like you make more time for myself in 2025, and try to slow down. Wishing you a very happy and more relaxed lifestyle in 2025 Jane. I would also like to make time to get back down to Cornwall and visit your yarn shop and swim in the sea along the lovely coast!
So sorry for your loss Sharon. this must have been especially hard at this time of year and I hope you have lots of friends and support during this time. Do try to come back to Cornwall. Maybe we can say hi in person 🥰
@ Thank you Jane, It is certainly one of my intentions to get back to Cornwall and I am also enjoying being part of the flock, such a lovely group of like minded people ❤️
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Wow! I can hardly believe that I found a podcast that checks so many boxes for me. More than twenty years ago, I spun for and designed and knitted a gansey using the Beth Brown-Reinsel book Knitting Ganseys. It wasn't particularly hard wearing and eventually became a lovely pillow. I have wanted to knit another ever since. The sea is a calming influence on me as well as a never ending source of fascination. I have only visited the Atlantic and Pacific on the Canadian coasts but my heart lies in the Nova Scotia shore. Cornwall is a source of much beloved literature and lore and I hope one day soon to visit there. Your yarn shop will be a definite stop! Greetings from London, Ontario, Canada and thank you for podcasting.
Thank you for watching! If you ever visit the UK make sure Cornwall is on your itinerary. I like the idea that you could repurpose your gansey 🥰
Cornwall looks like a beautiful place . I am from Perth Western Australia and now live in Souther California. Seeing the sea makes me very homesick 😂.
Thank you 🥰
I agree with you on the slow living. The past few years have been super draining. Never thought that my spouse, my elderly parent, and my kids would be too much for me to handle… and it hasn’t been really… just draining- lots of health issues, new phases in life and dissolution of relationships requiring them to need extra support means I’ve put my needs and more importantly, my joys, on the back burner. So I think I’ll join you in making a concentrated effort to slow down in life.
I’ve never been to Cornwall (or England for that matter) but I’d love to experience that outdoor sing a long. Seems like a great sense of community. Love it. Take care in the New Year. I’ll be here in Canada trying to watch podcasts and enjoying my knitting more often. Maybe do a puzzle or two. I used to always have one on the go and I realized I haven’t had a puzzle table for about 10 years now. Definitely time to bring that back.
Thank you for sharing how you are feeling and I hear you. That pretty much sums up my last few years too. Get that jigsaw out and enjoy a slower pace of life. 🥰
Jane, I love watching your podcasts! Love your inspirations and your teachings, or should I call them thoughts. They really help me to 'think' a little differently, and that always helps me. Love your way of looking at the new year! Thank you. I actually have lived by the sea most of my life and vacationed in Cape Cod ever year. I love to visit the beach and just listen to the waves and watch the many shapes they form. I actually love going off season! And I love the pictures you show o Cornwall. I don't think I will ever have the chance to visit but I imagine the beauty of your area - you are very lucky. My family is Irish and I have always wanted to knit a sweater like a Gansey - something with a story and beauty mixed with a history.
Thank you Mary. I love the ocean off season too. It can be wild and stormy and you will find me out watching the sea. I hope you feel inspired to kit a Gansey in 2025 🥰
You have been through a rough time, Jane and I"m glad you are going to slow down a bit next year. Walking in the countryside and listening to classical music (as well as knitting of course!). all help me. There is so much to love about Cornwall, beautiful countryside and history. What I like about the sea is walking along the coastal path and seeing the sun reflecting off the water - magical!
Thank you. The sea is magical isn’t it. And timeless too. I enjoy listening to music and a walk as a means of relaxing so that is one of the things I am going to try to do more of next year 🥰
You are always so busy and so interesting. I'm so sorry to hear about your dad's fall, its horrible when things like that happen but on the upside most of the family rally around. I had a similar thing happening, the family rallied and I comforted myself and my surrounds by knitting..... to me Cornwall is the wildest sea, the cliffs overlooking this wild sea and the tin mines / chimneys sticking their necks out here and there And the Pasties! I'm so looking forward to your gansey adventure, maybe, just maybe I'll make one too 🎉❤😊
Thank you and I agree thank goodness we are a close family who can rally around. I hope you give a Gansey a go 😉🥰
The first holiday that my husband and I went on together was in Cornwall, and in spite of camping in a small backpackers tent in appalling weather I have loved Cornwall ever since. I also have a strong affinity with the sea which I can’t really explain, because I live in a very beautiful but landlocked county. We have returned to Cornwall on holiday many times since then, but fortunately not in a small tent.
Haha. We always used to camp when the kids were younger. thank goodness they grew out of it! I hated camping as I was continually cold, wet and dodging bugs 😜🥰
Hi Jane. I so hope you manage to get a few days to rest and recharge your batteries before the start of another busy year. It can be overwhelming trying to keep all the plates spinning. And you have done it so well particularly this last few months with family and parents and work etc.
I always love your podcast and all the inspiration you show in your knitting and following you about on your trips out with your husband and lovely Bailey. He appears to be a real cuddle monster😂 and nothing else brings joy like the cuddles of our much loved pets.
What an amazing project your venturing on designing and knitting a Cornish gansey. What a wonderful giveaway you’ve offered. It would be lovey to win but whether that happens or not I will get such pleasure seeing yours progress and all the chat / information/teaching you share along the way.
I haven’t seen much of Cornwell but have got to visit the Eden project which was amazing. But having lived in the island of Ireland all my life I have never been far from the sea. And when ,y children were younger we lived in Youghal Co Cork which is a sea side town. It’s so therapeutic to watch and listen to the waves regardless of whether they are little ripples or huge crashing waves🌊🌊
Happy New Year and prosperous 2025 to you.
Thank you, and yes, Bailey is the perfect cuddle monster (haha, better than my hubby, for sure). Talking about the gansey will make me do it, and if I can help others have a go, then that will be great. I plan to visit Ireland next year as I haven't been there and my dad's family originates from Dublin, so I want to go and see it for myself and understand it is beautiful there. 🥰
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Love your dog what a sweet soul i love your video and love the singing may your dad soon feel alot better hugs sent to him i am from Hastings East Sussex.
Thank you so much! 🥰
I am in 🇺🇸 and my husband and I some day plan to visit Cornwall off season and visit your shop . I grew up on the “shores” of New Jersey here and woke up to the sounds of the Atlantic Ocean waves breaking on our sandy beaches, and the herring gulls .. oh how I love the herring gulls ❤. There would always be one chicken hawk sized gull perched on our garage roof we saw out the kitchen window . As a tween and teen growing up so close to the ocean when I had typical teenage struggles and preoccupations I could always walk across the street and walk the beach and by the time I got home I had forgotten what was bothering me ❤.
Thank you and I love your story 🥰
Oh I love traditional gansey’s 😍 Cornwall is a magical place I love the old ruined tin mine buildings which look so atmospheric against the beautiful coastline. The only time I’ve ever swam in the sea in the UK was Carbis Bay. Warm, clear water like nowhere else in England 🥰
I plan to go to St Ives before the season starts and when it’s quiet. Carbis Bay is beautiful. Thank you for watching and commenting too 🥰