Knitting Traditions Podcast Ep.37- New Mitten Pattern And Lots Of Knitting And Stuff To Show

Hello and welcome to the knitting traditions podcast. My name is inga, and this is my little corner on the internet. Where i talk about mostly knitting um, i hope you're doing well. I hope you're sitting down with some thing to drink. I am drinking a almond. I think it's an almond latte in my knit swag mug, which is getting a lot of use um. It keeps my coffee warm for hours, which is great because often, if i'm in the middle of a row, i will just keep knitting, and then i forget that i have a beverage and it goes cold. So in honor of this episode i brought this so that i have something warm to drink for the entirety of the episode um. If you're returning you're welcome back i'm continuing to trying to use this new setup, i am trying to look into the lens. I don't know where i'm at, but hopefully it's okay and if you're new you are here, you're, so welcome. I hope you enjoy this content all right, so um we can start with what i'm wearing uh. This is a very old sweater, i'm going into i'm starting to use a lot of my old sweaters now to show you. This was a sweater where i used the stitch count from a book that i had called viola knits. I think that's what the name is. I don't have the book anymore um and then i was playing around with cable, so i just created a lot of cabling that wasn't in the pattern like this cable in the front here: um you're, usually you have some purl stitches at each side of a cable To make it pop out of the fabric, i was new to knitting cables. I didn't know that i didn't do it, but i think it still looks okay, even though it doesn't have those uh indented purl bumps on the sides. I also did a cable underneath the arms on the side here, and it has a split hem that i decided to make, and it also has some faux cabling instead of ripping at the bottom, i was really just playing around with with stitches um. I made a mistake at the beginning here that created like a bigger hole than the eyelets were supposed to um. I don't mind: i don't wear this sweater a lot just because i don't i don't like the sleeves of this design, it's a balloon sleeve and that has a very long tight cuff. I think it looks a bit funny um, so i don't wear it a lot, but it's it's comfortable. It'S a woolen sweater of an unnamed yarn that i bought many many years ago on sale. I think the name of the yarn might have been kitten, something like that. It doesn't matter. It was a fingering white wool. Yarn um, i don't know. I found a simple raglan sweater and i modified it with adding lots of cables. That'S something you can do if you want to play around. If you have a simple pattern: uh just add some cabling. If you want to um, sometimes i find that easier than following a very complicated cabled pattern, because then i know that it's a simple sweater and then i'm just doing this one thing right here to practice and somehow i found that easier as a when i was A beginner knitter um, all right, so that's what i was wearing today is an episode filled with actually many finished objects, some whips and a lot of acquisitions due to it. Having it's been advent, i have some packages open and also things that have been sent to me so uh, the acquisition part will be at the end and we will start with the knitting. So maybe we can start with um the largest finished object, which is my nordiskar. So i talked about this in the last episode and the one before i think this is the nordiska by caitlyn hunter. It'S a top-down v-neck construction with color work at the bottom of the body as well as on the sleeves, and i did some modifications to this um by accident. I made the v-neck slightly steeper. I talked about how i did that in previous episodes. I i'm not going to repeat everything because it will be a very long episode but um. It worked out great. I knit the body longer before starting the color work in in the original version of hers. The color work starts pretty much right after the sleeve and body separations, and i did probably uh 15 to 20 centimeters of stockinette before starting the color work. I did the color work exactly as in the pattern the ribbing at the bottom. Where is the camera? I actually did slightly longer than hers. I first did it as instructed um, but i have knitted this in ask which is a wool um yarn from hilliswog, a norwegian producer which is very rustic and rustic. Wool, which is minimally processed, have a lot of memory, which is great because when you wash it it'll bounce right back to where it's supposed to be you, don't it doesn't lose its shape. But that also mean that it has a lot of memory when it comes to a short ribbing. Stockinette has a tend to roll up on itself, which is why we often have ribbing at the ends of our sleeve neck and body, to prevent that rolling up from happening, and because this has a lot of memory. What happened is when i knit those few rows of ribbing as instructed the rolling effect was still too strong, so it was flipping up like this um and with washing it. It helps and blocking, but it was rolling over so much that i felt like every time. I washed it. I would have to make sure to pin it down and be careful because if not it would roll up. So i ripped back my bind off and i just knitted two or three rows longer um. So i have this much of a ribbing now and it works beautifully. It'S not it's not going up on itself. This pattern has a beautiful cabled detail going down the raglans the sleeves. I also wanted to have longer full length. The in the pattern they're like a three-quarter length sleeve, you start the color work straight after splitting almost um. So what i did is i knit the sleeve portion just as long as the body portion before starting the color work and my arms are longer than my torso. So i knew that by doing this probably my sleeves would be too short, but my plan was to just do the ribbing for, however long i needed to get the right length in the pattern the color work chart for the sleeves are is a longer chart than The body, so that also helps compensate a little bit, so i didn't actually have to do that much of a longer ribbing at the sleeves um to make it the right length just a little bit more than on the body in the pattern. There are also some decreases in the chart of the sleeve, but i know that i prefer a straight sleeve after having knitted several sweaters. Those are the ones i wear the most um. I don't know why i just i love the look of it and i love the feel of it and i find it practical um for me. So i just didn't. Do those decreases and i knitted it completely straight um. I did my color work on half a needle size larger than my stockinettes, just so that it wouldn't be cinched in, and i did my ribbing at as in the same needle as the color work, because i don't almost every pattern with ribbing tells you to use A smaller needle size for your ribbing to make it cinched in, but i don't like the cinched in look. I want it to be straight, so i either use the same needle as my stockinette or i even go up. So that's what i did here. I went up a needle size uh the same so i had one needle size for the stockinette and then half a size larger for my color work and ribbing, and it created the kind of look that i wanted and honestly i love this design of her um. It'S a stunning color work. I really enjoy the v-neck. I don't really have many v-necks uh in my wardrobe um, and i found that when i lift my arms up in this because of the v-neck it moves in a bit. So my sleeves go up a bit. So if i'm doing something with my hands, that kind of gets the sleeves out of the way on its own, so it's great um and i've been wearing this almost daily. The fabric with the ask from hilliswog is amazing. It'S so warm, and it's just like a comfort to wear it. I don't find it scratchy. I wear this next to skin, with just underwear underneath and it's just great. I think i will definitely make more in the future. I love this color combination, which is very similar to what caitlyn hunter used in her pattern, and i love it. I have other combinations that i can do. This sweater is my new favorite, if not at least my top three um, and i just love it so much so yeah. That is my nordiska sweater with a few modifications. But honestly, i feel, like those modifications just make the color work shine even more especially on the sleeves. So she made a great pattern and now it's the perfect fit for what i want it to be so yeah. So that was my nodisca, which i had to stop wearing, so i could show it to you guys and um what else i finished another project. So last time i had shown this hat, and now i forgot the name again, but this is a free pattern from pearl soho, it's one of those classical fishermen, ribbed hats and i used um. I think it was the may uh box from my knit crate, which is a monthly subscription which is i'm an affiliate member of and each month you get two skeins. You can see what kind of skein, but you don't get to choose the color, and i think this was forget me not um was the colorway and i knit one hat which was supposed to be the small adult. But to me it looked like a large adult. So that one has been gifted for christmas and i still had enough yarn, so i cast on the toddler size which fits me. So that's the toddler size. Apparently i am a toddler. At least my head is, which is probably why i have a horrible memory. No space um but yeah, i'm really happy with how this turned out. This was an alpaca camel and i think wool blend um. I say it in the previous episode and i have gotten two hats out of those two skeins and i still had a little bit left. So i cast on a headband and this was 120 stitches and i knit two purled two until i completely ran out of yarn, i had to rip back almost the whole round because i had this many stitches left to bind off when i ran out and uh. I bound off with like this much to go so now i have a new headband um, i'm sorry! If i keep looking down, i have like a mirror to see what the screen sees just so that i know i'm in frame but yeah. So i now have. I did not think this hairdo through. I now have a headband to keep me warm when i go skiing. If i want to keep my hair up - which i really do prefer, because it can sometimes get a bit warm with like a thick hat if you're skiing, because when you go cross-country skiing, you do start out quite cold. But then you get really warm from moving a lot, so a headband is nice to keep your ears warm. This is great if you're not moving too much when it's really cold outside. So both of these are some nice additions to my winter wardrobe and i have a lot of people in my life who are having little children or babies. I think that's what they're called and i feel like. They know that i am a knitter, so i feel like they should get something: knitted um. I don't enjoy knitting things for babies, just i. I really enjoy the knitting in the round without having to think for a few hours and when you knit tiny garments, there's always something happening. So it's not as mindless for me, but i had some left over zakami yarns. I think it's the fluff sock base and i made some newborn socks. This is a free pattern on ravelry um. I think it's called the perfect newborn socks, but i will put everything in this description box below this youtube, video, so yeah. I made these little socks with the leftovers, so it's those it's a it's a ribbed cuff and then it's a heel, flap and gusset. And then you continue those um ribbed stitches across the top of the foot and then it's a kitchener toe construction. So yeah it's a really cute little pattern. I hope they fit. I know a lot of newborns tend to kick their socks off, so i don't know if the if the ribbing is tight enough to keep them on um, but yeah, i'm gifting this to one of those people. Yes, that was some of my finished objects, but i have more. I'Ve done quite a bit of knitting since last time. So after i finished my nordiska and ask, as you can see the colors here, i had some some leftovers from the yarn. I think i have yeah, so these are the three colors that i used. So i had some leftovers and i've. I i drive to work and it's really cold here in norway in the winter and i don't have heating in my driver's wheel. I have a really old car, so my fingers get really cold, so i've been wanting to knit some fingerless mittens and then we were out. We were without internet last weekend. So the inspiration came to me and i cast on and knitted up these um fingerless mittens right here and i wrote up the pattern i called for testers and a lot of testers are have already finished, so i'm hoping to release this pattern by christmas eve. This will be my new pattern and the name will be huldras. Mittens hildra is um a creature from folklore here in norway and my cabin i've actually named huldra um, so yeah, it's just a name of a character that has several meanings in my life. My father wanted to name me huldra as a baby, and he swears he's serious about this. So that's weird um but yeah. These are hindra's mittens and it's in my opinion, it's a quite easy pattern for beginners. If you want to try color work because there are no complicated color work, it's quite intuitive once you've knit like four or eight stitches, you kind of know what's going on and you can just keep going, don't need to follow the chart at all times and it Uses three colors: it's great for scrap yarn, i think so far all the testers have gotten back and the pattern is made for heavy fingering to sport weight. So this used ask which has 315, i believe, meters per hundred grams. So that's a sport weight and the gauge is 24 stitches and i think nobody has used more than 40 grams for the main color and then the two contrast colors. I think almost everyone has used less than 10 grams and 5 grams for those two colors. Almost this is the smallest size, because i have tiny hands. I have a size, 6, 6.5 in glove size and in the pattern i include a sort of a picture where you can measure across here to find out your glove size and then pick the size based on that. So this is the smallest size and then this is the second smallest size. I have not washed these, yet these are knit in final from rauma and they are 350. meters per hundred grams, but these come in 50 gram balls. So if you have three balls of final, you can get away with three pairs of mittens and i have tested these because i made the second smallest and the second largest using so much yarn using these colors right here. So the the beigey white one is color. 40, 78 and the green one is color 4129, and the golden aspects to them is the color 4125, and i am working on the third pair also making the second largest size, because i'm thinking these will make some great gifts for men in my family, who have The second largest size, um and yeah, so this one used the beige for the main color and here for the second largest amount. So i don't i on the third mitten. It will be used for the smallest amount, which is less than five grams, and i have plenty enough for that. So that's how i know that you can get three mitten pairs out of three balls of phenol. Maybe if you were to make three of the largest of the sizes, which is like a glove size 8.5 then maybe maybe it wouldn't be enough, but it might be enough uh. Somebody else would have to try that, but definitely for the second largest sizes. It'S fine um and yeah, and this is the largest size in the pattern which is as men's, size, uh 8.5. So, as you see my hand, is quite tiny compared to this, if you were to compare those two mitten sizes from the smallest to largest for this one, i used four different scrap yarns, just to show that you can combine. I think i had 28 grams of this gray, which is tuva by sanskar, which is a fingering weight, and i quickly realized after casting on that wait. 28 grams. That'S not gon na be enough for the largest size, so i used some phenol for the ribbing at the top of the thumb and fingers and i just made it um. I thought i had saved my scraps, but maybe i didn't oh wait. Yeah i did. I had this much left um after doing that, so i'm glad i didn't play yarn chicken and the red or rust. That'S, i think, that's also a phenol and the green is a british braids by marie wallen, which i used for my chestnut cardigan by marie wallen. So yeah, i am really happy with this pattern. Uh i've knit a pair a day, so it's it's quite a quick knit um and i'm gon na make more because then i have gifts to give, and i know that not a lot of people have a lot of fingerless mittens, but they are really great for When you need your fingers, but still want to be warm - and these are really warm - i have not washed the two samples knit in final yet um, but the the ask - and this one, which also is a lot of fino lentuva, has softened up beautifully and by Using the non superwash 100 wool yarns, if you knit them too big, you can always felt them a little um. So that is an option and everyone has very different color work gauge. So this is a nice way to practice and figure out how to carry your floats across the thumb or you can just do color work on the thumb too. Of course yeah. I catch my floats every stitch, but that is because i don't like having long floats inside and also what part of the reason of catching the floats. Is you get this double fabric inside, so it's double double the warmth oops and by catching every stitch there is no floats to catch your thumb or fingers on when you put them on so yeah. I i like to do that, and i am working on my last uh pair of these three finger balls, and i should i know this. I should have picked some some balls with more contrast to them, because you can barely see the color work with the green and the gold and next to each other. But i just picked three colors that i liked and i don't mind that the color work isn't very visible on this, because it's not just about the color work. It'S also about the functionality and the warmth. So i could have omitted the color work, but i chose to knit it because it gives that double layer of yarn which gives it warmth and uh, maybe in the future i'll, do a tutorial on how i knit, but i need continental, which means i hold the Yarn across my left index finger - and usually i knit holding it in this position right here, but when i do two two stranded color work. I have one on each side of my knuckle and that allows me to pick the stitches and i use the contrast. Color closest to my heart, because that makes it the most dominant color in the color work and it will pop out more than the strand held here, furthest away from my heart. And then i just knit over and underneath this strand to pick the main color and that catches the floats automatically. So it's quite speedy and also when you catch your floats, often that you don't have long spaces between that. Make sure that your floats aren't too tight. So you don't get that very cinched in um. Look that you can get with color work if your floats are too tight. So that also helps - and one of the reasons i catch it all the time, even when you don't have to so yeah uh four pairs of fingerless mittens, the huldras mittens, hopefully coming out by christmas eve. If anyone wants a christmas eve cast on yes, i have a half finished object as well. I have knitted one sock. This is my typical vanilla sock. I have two sock patterns morse hell because of the heel, construction and the rustic cable socks which uses the same heel construction, but it has a rounded toe. So technically, this is a vanilla sock. That'S based on my rusty cable socks, because i do love the rounded toe construction because it doesn't have you don't need to do a kitchener toe you just knit two together and there's no seams to step on it's just nice and smooth all over so yeah. I basically knit the rustic cable socks with my morse head construction, which is in that pattern as well. I just didn't do the cables, i was contemplating doing the cables, but again i've been feeling the need to just do. Stock connect um, and i have knit this in the lovely mondeem yarn by retrosaria pomar, which i got in my advent calendar from sarah from day to day knits. Another podcaster - and i must say i love knitting with this and i love the fabric. It gets when knitted up it's just so smooth um, it's beautiful and i've knit this on 2.25 millimeter needles. This is the color 302 and i've already cast it on cast on my second sock um and i'm using small circulars, which are about 11 inches long from. I think i bought these from sana's garn. I find that nine inch circulars, they're too small. It paints my hands a lot more than the 11 inch. The 11 inch feels a lot more comfortable in my hands and they are still small enough for the circumference of my leg and foot, so that is one whole half-inch object. Uh work in progress. I have also gotten a little bit of progress done on my petite knits, oslo hat, which i keep in my very beautiful christmas bag from the urban stitcher, which i got last year, because it's a christmas ish color, it's a bit brighter. This is a hat that i intend to use when going skiing so that i am quite visible in the forest when i go cross-country skiing and i have finished the section for the brim and i'm now working on the top part of the head and yeah. It'S just stuck in that, so it's quite mindless. I still have a bit to go before starting the decreases, but this is a nice word. It'S a nice whip to take with me if i'm going somewhere, where i can't use too much of my brain power. So that's gotten some rose in and, let's see, um i was at the cabin uh trying to go skiing, but it actually got pretty mild. So a lot of the snow melted. So i got a lot of knitting done and um. I have these beautiful woolen cones from. I think it was willing it it's it's a british wool cone that i heard about from creabea and cat weaver from heather and hopps. So this is 500 grams of british wool and this is the light gray natural, which is the favorite color out of all the cones that i got. I think i showed it two episodes ago. So i brought this and the gray merino with me to the cabin, and i left that one at the cabin - and i did some swatches, because i wanted to figure out what to make essentially, so i find that it's a it's a light, fingering weight yarn. I did first a swatch here in three millimeters. I knit three purl bumps to tell me which needles i used for the sample, and then i did one with four millimeters um and i preferred the fabric of this one. But still the gauge was quite. It was quite a tight gauge and i was struggling to find a pattern that i wanted to use for it, and i didn't really want to mix this color with ammo here, because i really loved the color of this yarn in itself and when you mix it With a silk mohair, the color of that will always the colors will blend. So you will not get this exact, color right um. So i wanted to just use this and i wasn't sure if i could get a garment um out of this held double. Maybe i would have, but i didn't want to play yarn chicken with this, so i also checked um the merino held together with uh hasagawa, silk mohair and it created this fabric, which looks more of like a dk fabric um. So i have kept this watch so now. I know that i can knit something with that combo, so i've left that combo at the cabin, but then i didn't want to knit with this color right now i wanted to knit with this color. I just finished a gray sweater and i really wanted to make something with this. So i looked through my patterns and i ended up with casting on the ranunculus again. This is my third ranunculus now um the neckband is a bit tighter than i want it to be, so i'm just going to stretch it out when it's drying to get it to look how i want it to be. I cast on in 5.5 millimeter needles, which is smaller than in the pattern, and my gauge is a lot tighter than in the pattern, but it's an oversized garment. So i think it's fine it's gon na fit me um. I think. Maybe i did one more increase to to make the sleeves a bit bigger, so they wouldn't be completely tight on my arms and hopefully it's enough. I can also just pick up a lot of stitches underneath the armhole to make the sleeves wider. Just do some modifications to make sure it fits. I have not measured my gauge, i'm just knitting along after separating for the sleeves and body. I changed my needles to these beauties right here. This is the hiahaya sharps um i have. I have this hayahaya sharp, which i bought in japan two years ago, just before the outbreak, and in this one it ranges up to five. It'S either five or five point five millimeter needles in this set, and they are great for knitting with, especially when i have yarns that tends to split. I really enjoy these because they have those sharp points, so they catch the stitch very easily, and i was experiencing with this yarn that it's a two ply and it split quite easily so changing to these slightly sharper tips really helped with catching the stitches and knitting And so this is an ad for hayahaya because they got in contact with me and sent me this kit, which is basically the same as this high high sharp kit, just twice the amount of needles. So i had just a smaller range of needles and this is their deluxe plus set. So there are 16 uh different tips and they are four inch tips, so they're slightly shorter, which is great because then i can knit sleeves in the round on the s'mores circular, and it just makes life easier on me and also it has more cables than the Small set that i had from before - and this also came with some stoppers - is that what you call it these little um things that you can screw on to your your needles, so that your stitches don't run off, which i thought was really great, because my previous Set didn't have that uh. What i will say is that if you look at this the until the 5 or 5.5, the join for the cables is a thin joint, so you can join them directly with the cables but for the larger needle sizes. The joint is larger, so you need to screw on this extra piece right here that modifies it to fit the cable and that there's only one set of these joiners. So if you have several projects going with larger needle sizes, you can only use one from this set at a time, so that's kind of a downsize. I don't know. Maybe you can get more of these joiner pieces, but if you're knitting with the smaller sizes, you can use them all. At the same time it doesn't matter um, but yeah. I'M really happy with this kit. I'M really honored that they wanted to send it to me, because i really love my hair um and the plus size side to the higher higher sharps is that they go down all the way to, i think it's 2.5 or 225. Let'S see 275 all the way down to 275 and the sets that i have in other from like knitter's pride knit pro. They only go down to 3.5 and that's not enough for me because i do knit a lot with 2.5 275 and 3 millimeter needles. So this set allows me to also knit socks and things that has a smaller needle size, which is great yes, so i'm using that for this one and because they are shorter tips, i can also use them to knit the sleeves after i finish the body, i Don'T know how long i'm, making this body um, i'm just gon na make sure that it's the same length as my favorite sized sweaters before doing the ribbing, and i think this is gon na bloom very nicely with washing uh. But it's still gon na be a very light fabric. That'S see-throughy! So it's not gon na, be something that i wear with nothing underneath at least i need some underwear, but because it is such a light fabric, it's the perfect sweater to scrunch up and bring along with me in a purse for those times of the year where You might get a little bit chilly, but maybe not all of the day, so it's going to be great for that. Yes, so that was all that i have knitted. I want to get into some acquisitions. So if that's not your cup of tea, then i will see you next time. If you do enjoy acquisitions like i do, then um buckle up. So i had this beautiful set from uh hiahaya and i will include a list or a link to stockists below. If anyone wants to try them out um, then i will put a link below where you can see where you can get it or who ships internationally etc, and i also have some other things to show. Maybe we can do it in like a chronological order. My cousin took me to the yarn shop, not against my will um, but i was being nice and came with her because she needed some yarn for christmas gifts, and i saw this in their um on sale basket. It was like half off, so this is uh. The reggia perfect design line by zuchermeier and it's an rna and carlos colorway and i think, there's a photo of how they will knit up here. So this ball is designed to give you two perfectly matched socks. It has like this yellow um strand and that's where you start knitting where that ends and in the middle of the ball there's another one of these. So you get the exact same matchy, matchy, um pair of socks, and i looked - i was looking at this last year because it's very christmasy to me, but it's not the cheapest sock yarn. So i didn't get it and then now when it was half off, i had to get it, so this will go into my stash. I don't know if i will make this pair this year, because i do have some other socks that i want to knit up. As well, but if not, then i can make this pair um next year, maybe like in the beginning of december, to get into the christmas spirit and um. Maybe we can start with uh some advent um. I do have two mini skein advents this year, both in non-superwash yarn, because i really wanted to support that. There'S not a lot of non-superwash mini skein advents out there. So i have one from crooks fibers, which is brittany from canada, and i have one from zakam yarns, which i'm also a huge fan of, and i bought a lot of yarns from them. And i can't show you because i've put everything up in a very intricate system on my wall, but i will put a photo here. So i have the crooks fibers on top in a chronological order and then the zakam yarns below, and i have no idea what i'm going to make with them, but i might put them into some future uh hilda, since it's the perfect pattern for scraps and minis. But me and sarah from day-to-day knits we have been doing a sort of four sundays in advent swap so i sent her four parcels and she sent me four parcels and the last two sundays. I now have to show you so she sent me this beautiful, marled yarn. This is a knit picks yarn. What else does it say it's a simply: wool twist, which is a worsted weight and it's 218 yards per 100 grams. So she sent me one uh last sunday and two this sunday, so i have three of them now, so i can make something with these. I don't know what i will make yet um. It'S a hundred percent eco wool. So i don't think it's super wash because it would stay on it right if it was superwash and it this is made in peru, so yeah, i'm not sure what i'll make yet, but i'm sure it will be something beautiful and she sent me this, which is The francis i am butchering that name, but this is for a special kind of dish and there are instructions for preparations on the back here. So i'm really excited to try this i'm assuming this is a portuguese dish, sara um based on the language on this, but i'm really excited to try. It me and my boyfriend will make something or make that she also sent me this stunning bag, which is extremely lightweight. This is the wool enemy number, one is what it says on it and it has a moth which i thought it's so cute, and this is the project by wool enemy with screwdriver. I don't know who it's from. Oh, it's from nitpicks it's from nitpicks too. This is my first encounter with nitpix. We don't have it here in norway, so i'm really excited to try some of this out, and this is maybe what i'm the most excited about that she sent. This is also from nitpicks. This is wool of the andes, unspun roving and it's 100 peruvian highland wool, and i think the color is amber. Heather um. I am not sure i think i'll have to open it and see, but i will keep them in this to protect them from the wool enemy. I'M not sure if this comes as like a pencil roving or if it's completely oh yeah, so it's more like fiber. So i will have to spin this up myself. I think i'm gon na have to save this, for when i have a little bit more experience, because this feels really nice and the color is everything that i love. So i want to be able to spin this of a better quality than what my spinning is right. Now, oh, but it's such a beautiful color. It reminds me sort of of the cinnamon color um that i have in wool comb. So yes, beautiful beautiful! She sent me more things um during these two sundays. I got this wool soap. I have never tried a wool soap bar i've only tried the liquid kind of wool soaps like soak and what's the name of the other one, that's my favorite. I don't remember now, but it has like lavender scent and eucalyptus um, but this doesn't seem hard uh. You can either put it on your hands first and then go across your woollens or you can um take the bar across your woollens and then rinse out afterwards. So i'm really excited to try this. This is from twig and horn in the rosewood. It smells really nice. So i'm excited to try that out and she also sent me a beautiful wine mug. I asked her what this translated to, but um i've already forgotten i'll, have to check uh, bebe, um and also some lovely tea. I'M always scared to send tease, because the post office, lady here told me once that they will burn it when they see stuff like that in there. I don't know if they think it's cocaine or something, but ever since i've not been daring to send almost anything that can look scary in my yarn parcels, and i also got this loopville miller loop bill yarn loop will yarn, which is uh. One of those gauge gauge rulers, but also for your needle sizes - uh, oh wow, 19.. I don't think i own a 19 size noodle. I don't think i would knit with the 19. that sounds like tendonitis or some something very painful for my um for my wrists and fingers 1.5. I oh, i do have a 1.5 needle, so i can actually use this for all of my needle sizes. So that is really great and also she sent me five tags from twig and horn horn. Not warm and they say, stay warm, so you can sew these onto your knitting. Uh. Both ways works. I think no, it has to be this way out because if not, the writing is in the wrong direction. So those were my lovely advents sent from sara and then i have some more so if we're doing chronological order, then i went to the cabin and my father and i went to the city closest to the cabin. It'S like half an hour drive because we needed some christmas gifts for my grandmother and she's the one who taught me how to knit. Hence the name: knitting traditions, that's passed down through generations, so i wanted to get her some yarn for christmas, some sock yarn because she doesn't really get out of the house anymore because of problems with her legs. So i figured i would buy her some yarn and they had this store. This is going to crinkle sorry called strikiglera, which means knitting joy, um in that town and i've never been there i'll put some footage at the end, because, once i went through the doors i was in awe, this was a really great knitting store um. They had a little bit of everything and they had yarns that i hadn't seen in norwegian knitting stores before a lot of norwegian knitting stores have like the same brands and um where i live here. One of the stores have rama. One of the store has hilles vlogs. Usually you don't get them both in one store, but this store had rama hillisworg. They had easter, they had knitting for olive, they had hedgehog, they had fjord fibers um, just a lot of different yarns, and they also have like some knickknacks that i love. So i had to support this store. I just had to because when something this great exists, you don't want them to go bankrupt, so i supported them and i think i will just empty the bag now, so you don't have all the noise all right. So i started with the most important thing i found some yarn for my grandmother: um she's, mainly a sock knitter these days - and i saw this yarn that i have never seen before in this beautiful color and it's called melon ragi yarbo, oh it's from yarbo. So it's a swedish brand that i have yet to try. But now i can try it because i got one of these for my grandmother as well as a turquoise one and the same because she likes those colors a lot as well. So i got her those two balls and then i had to get this color for myself, it's the color 283.99. So this is a swedish yarn which i've been tr. I'Ve never seen this yarn brand in other norwegian stores. So this was a nice surprise. This is a traditional nordic sock yarn and it's 260 meters per hundred grams. So i'm excited to try and see how this knits up it's 75 wool and then it's 25 polyamide and the wool is super washed yeah. I could feel that i was feeling it. It was a bit like you know that kind of noise - it's um, but the color is stunning and it will make a great pair of socks, probably for gifting. And then, when i came into the store, they had this beautiful table with all kinds of accessories for knitting, and i saw this and i have a lot of interchangeable needles. But i also have some circular ones, and this one is perfect for putting those in if you're traveling and you want to bring them with you and specifically i'm thinking about um sock needles. I don't know what happens to my needles. They get caught up in projects and then i don't find them for a while. But i got some more of the chaogu premium stainless steel because i really love the cord that these have for magic loop and i use magic loop for the toes of my socks. So i got these and i plan to keep them in here together, without without the the packaging, of course, and it's going to be a great accessory to keep my needles stored away. Oh and the this was a local maker who created bags um from her home and it says stricte, which means knit it it's designed by tkg. I haven't heard of her before, but her products were beautiful and then um i saw i saw this yarn. This is a yarn by camarosa, which again another uh yarn brand, that i've wanted to try, but i don't really see them in stores here. So this is camarosa and the base here is called mona stroller, which has stelina in it. So it has like a bit of sparkle. I chose this color because the sparkle was gold and not silver, which is my preferred and the color is light: beige 9008 and it's 68 baby, alpaca 12 merino, 16 polyamide and 4 polyester, and i'm thinking i wanted. I don't know what i'll make with this yet, but this essentially could work as a silk. Mohair would work in other garments that you can pair it with another strand and i think that's what i'm gon na do so i'll put it into my stash, because my silkmo hair stash was low on neutral colors. So now i have five balls. It should be plenty for a sweater to pair it with some other yarn like, for example, this once i finished knitting, my ranunculus i'll have one garment in this pure color, and then i could pair them together, and i think that would be really beautiful as well And they had um, they had knitting for olive. I was looking at their marina, which i know a lot of people have knit with, but it was like 450 meters, so it's quite thin and honestly i don't know what i would make with it. I don't think i could have held it single, i don't really make children's clothing and holding it double would be very expensive. So, instead i got some of their silkmo hair, which they also carried, and i got this in the marzipan colorway again a neutral, because i am low on the neutrals in my little mohair stash um and i have a lot of patterns that i want to knit Which are held together with a silk mohair, so yeah. This is going into my stash for some future knitting. The last two things that i got from this store were some hedgehog fibers. I saw this on the wall and i've never seen or felt hedgehog fibers before, but i think it was jonathan from jonathan's days. I think he knit something with this, or maybe i'm mistaken, but he's irish at least - and i saw these colors and i i specifically saw this color and i just had to get it. This is the rusty nail. So this is a 90 merino and a 10 nylon um, i'm i'm assuming that it's super wash, but it doesn't actually say that it is super wash. So maybe it isn't. Maybe it doesn't have that uh plastic coating feel that some superwash has so it might actually be without. I am not sure, but the color is stunning, so i don't care what it is. It'S just beautiful and i wanted to get it and then next to it, they had this colorway, which isn't typically my color way but aesthetically. It just looks so beautiful, so i had to get it and i was thinking they would make a really nice pair of socks where this is the contrast, heel, cuff and toes, and then i can make another pair with this. I don't know one of the reasons i don't usually gravitate towards these yarns. Is that i don't. I don't love the way, variegated yarn knits up that it's like blotchy and stripey, and i prefer the either like a solid color or like a solid color with a little bit of interest or stripes over this. But again it was just so pretty. This is the bridget brigid and yeah. I just had to get them. I thought they were too pretty to not try and i've never tried hedgehog fibers before so. I'M excited to give it a go, and these are the same same base. So um, christina and patricia are two sisters behind the company twister and they got in contact with me asking if i would like to try their new invention. So this is an ad for them. They have created a knitting tool that allows you to knit on the go, so you can walk and this tool carries your ball and it rotates around. So you can knit without any troubles and they asked me if i would be interested to try this and if you've been with me, you know that i love to knit uh when i'm walking, especially in the summer, it's too cold to do it now, but in The summer i like to go on walks and i'll knit socks when walking, but it is a problem with the yarn how to carry it and it gets a bit tangled. So i said that i would love to try it and it came in this beautiful box and i just wanted to show it before opening up, because i thought it was packaged so nicely. So it's twister with two sets um and - and i have to admit this was very new to me when they got in contact with me. I had never seen anything like this and i had to go to their page to really understand how this works. But essentially you will you can hold this on your wrist or you can hang it on something. If you want to sit and knit and just not have your ball all over the place and then this goes, you can separate this and then maybe i can show you with this ball. So you push push this through and then i'm not. I can't hold this up and show and then once you've pushed it through the ball. You put it inside and you have this. So if you have the ball band off, you just pull the needle and as you knit it will rotate without any problems. So you can walk and knit at the same time. So i'm really excited honestly to try this. I think it's gon na make my walk and knitting experience a lot smoother and also like in the future when the world opens up again and it's possible to fly somewhere. I can have this on the plane and just hang it on that. Little thing on the chair and that will prevent my ball of yarn, of falling on that nasty floor and rolling across and yeah it'll just it'll be really nice. So thank you so much for letting me try this. I will put a link below if anyone else is interested um it's made in sweden, because their father was swedish. I think their mother was puerto rican. If i read correctly um, it says on their website. They have their whole story on there, but essentially their father created this for their mother um, but yeah really really excited to knit using this. So the last thing that i have to show you is a very generous gift sent to me from sue wilkins. Who is the maker and creator behind the prairie bag works, or is it just prairie? Bag works, um prayer bag works and she has an online store where she creates these beautiful, beautiful project bags. I believe this is one of her medium sizes and it's just so cute with a little sheep on there and the pastel colors. I thought this was just stunning and it's beautifully made. It has two pockets on the inside as well, and she sent me some sort of project notes that i can put in my project bags in case i were to forget it somewhere. It says who it belongs to and all the details which i should really get better at writing down, because i keep forgetting - and she also has her business card with a ruler on it, which is also really great, because i need it in my life and she Included some tags handmade for from and it has washing instructions on the back. So if you gift someone something you can give put these instructions on there and she also has a little sheep stitch marker or progress keeper um in here as well, and as if this wasn't enough. She also sent me this beautiful uh stain. This is river. Twist 100 merino wool and it's a 100 gram screen approximately and i think the color is trout creek, and this is a worsted weight yarn and it's from mount mount something it has a tag over the full name, but it's hand-painted yarns. Oh, i don't know if i can see the whole name, because it's underneath that tag, but it's it's mounts mount. Maybe it's mountain, something it's mountain, something it says underneath here and it's just a beautiful, beautiful blend of colors. I think this would be really nice to put into a color work project, because you would have the color changes go into there and it's wonderfully soft and squishy beautiful, and that's not all. No, the reason she sent me something to begin with. Is she wanted to send me some yarn bowls which she creates and makes herself, and i just thought that this aesthetic of this was extremely beautiful um and she sent me two. So she sent me one for a single skein project like socks, for example, and it says yarn snob on here, and i think this will definitely stay on my coffee table, because it's just beautiful, i don't understand how she makes this. But i love the simplicity of the natural colors, it's so beautiful and she sends me this one, which is a double bowl, so you can do stranded color work, so this would be perfect for my mittens, where i'm always knitting, except for the cuffs, i'm always knitting With two strands at the time - and you can put your strands through these places - so it keeps them separate - which is great for color work knitting. So i think these are some of the most beautiful accessories that i own and i've seen a lot of um knitting. Bowls or yarn bowls, i have one of those ceramic ones, but in my opinion this is. This is a lot more, my aesthetic than the ceramic ones, because this is also made from fiber, and i love the color of it and it's just so beautiful so yeah. I will put the link to her store below. She has a lot of these in her store right now, and she also has some bags um. I can't wait to try this out. My boyfriend will just have to accept that we now have yarn on our coffee table, because this deserves to be there. So, yes, that was all of today's content. A lot of acquisitions beautifully gifted things bought things lots of knitting, my exciting new project, hopefully coming out soon, and yes, i think that's enough, i hope i've been able to look at the camera. I hope you enjoyed it and um a little life update since last time. I'Ve had some time off because i worked most of the summer, so i went to the cabin with my father and we we are surrounded by a lot of forest and trees. So we found a christmas tree that we brought inside. We decorated a little bit for christmas. We wanted to go skiing every day, but we were a bit unlucky with the weather. I think a month ago it was minus 28 degrees celsius and when we were there it was eight plus. So that's a quite a substantial change in temperature. So all the snow was melting and it wasn't really good for skiing, but we did go once and i'll put a video at the end, showing a little bit from that, and i just got to do a lot of knitting and now i'm back at home. I have a few shifts to work and then i'm going to the cabin again for the christmas weekend before coming back to work again, but it's gon na be really nice to spend some time with family, hopefully go skiing because i need to move. I can't just sit knit and eat, that's it's mentally healthy, but it's not physically healthy. I think i should move probably, but i think it's going to be really nice. Yesterday was sunday. We call it dirty sunday, it's a family tradition and a norwegian tradition for some to eat boiled sheep's head. We call it smallahova the sunday before christmas, together with other side dishes which are very christmasy, dishes boiled potatoes, and then we have some kind of roots. Mashed root thingy and some homemade sausages, so we had that yesterday and it was really nice. It looks quite horrific, but it's it's one of those old traditions, because norway used to be quite a poor country. We were mostly farmers and the norwegian landscape is not very forgiving. We have a lot of mountains and fjords and at least on the west coast, it was quite a harsh life, so the farmers used to use up all parts of the animal and we have a lot of sheep in our way as well as pigs and cattle. But sheeps are quite common because they live outside most of the year. They send them up into the mountains in the summer and they get them back down in the fall and they kind of roam free in the winter they are inside. When it's a lot of snow because they can't get food outside um, so when they would slaughter sheep for the christmas meal which, on the west coast, are dried and smoked ribs of the sheep which are then boiled they would also use all the other parts of The sheep as well so the sheep's head, it's a delicacy where we boil it um after it's been smoked and prepared for further back. You know because they they would prepare the meat, so they could store them for months without it going bad. So you soak the sheep's head for one or two days, because if not it's very salty and then we boil it and then we eat the meat off of it and it's extremely tender quite salty and delicious meat.