Knitting Tools As Art, 5 Great Celtic Knits - Ep. 103 Fleece & Harmony Knitting And Crochet Podcast

Hi everybody, it's kim from fleece, in harmony, welcome to the fleece and harmony knitting and crochet podcast, we're recording in our yarn shop. That'S in our woolen mill on our sheep farm in belfast, prince edward island and if you're new here welcome to kind of a crazy podcast for video. Whatever that talks about our life on our sheep farm and the mill and all the knitting and crocheting and everything else that goes on around here, if you're back for episode 103. Thank you very much for sticking with us all this time and if you're watching this on the day that is published on youtube, it is august 19th, as usual, we're going to start with the farm update, which is now becoming a renovation update, because we i promised, I would show some pictures about our farmhouse renovation, so i'm going to do that. We have some whips, still no fos, even though i said that i wanted to have an fo for, or almost have something fo'd for the next podcast didn't happen. Nobody that's been following me for a while. I was surprised at that at all and i have um the list of five as usual and this time it's celtic knits. I was feeling interested in cables for some reason. The last couple days, so i'm going to show five great celtic knits that i found and i am going to talk about wall flowers, but unfortunately betsy couldn't be here tonight. So um, i'm recording on my own and she will be back again in the next podcast. But i'll show my wall, flowers, just with the whips and rips. I think, rather than doing a separate section for my part, and we will have a shop update as well as usual i'll talk a little bit about aaron and carlos, and i have a fiber festival. Update and this week i'm going to talk about custom, fit knits and the harmony part is been filmed or recorded in fisherman's harbor in nova scotia, which is where i have a cottage which i'll talk about more before when we before we put on the video and The peaceful relaxing music to bring us all down from a rough week, maybe a rough week, wasn't really that rough, just kind of really busy right now. So, first of all for the farm update, we'll start with that and everything's going well on the farm. Actually, my project for the last two weeks has been bunny brushing, so the anger rabbits have started to molt, so rabbits shed their fur about every once. Every three months and my little gang of eight has started to molt their fur now and you have to really bright. You have to brush them when that's happening, because if you miss it and you don't brush out all of the hair that's coming loose, then you end up with a big blob of messy fur on a poor animal that is this size but looks about this size. Well, actually, they're about this size, and they look like this, so i have been busy busy busy brushing them every single morning to make sure well, there's eight, so i do one one a morning usually or two and uh. That'S just part of the chores right now and but you know what that might mean is that coming up sometime soon, there's probably going to be some iona bunny being made. There is a lot of fur this time or wool actually from an anger or a rabbit. They call it wool and i'm just not sure when we'll get to get to it, to start spinning it. But there is there's a big batch, a big batch bigger than usual, because i've been very disciplined about keeping their fur really smooth and free of mats. In the last little while so it just means that the wool harvest is going to be bigger and i don't shave them. I actually do comb them and so it's all hand combed by moi, when you, when you get a chance to buy the iona, bunny or shop for the iona bunny. It'S all been combed out rabbit by rabbit by me. So that's exciting and then the house renovations are coming it's still in demo mode, but within the next couple weeks we'll be starting to build back ken and i were getting a little a little bit uh. Well, we're not really worried, but now we have a house with no insulation and they disconnected both heating systems that we have. We have an oil furnace as a backup and a wood-burning furnace as a as our main source of heat in the winter and both of those are now disconnected because they had to put a beam in the basement. So it's still august so we're not in any danger of freezing to death, that's for sure, but it did get down to 15 last night. I think and uh. So with no insulation and all of the the house, there was no plywood when they built the house in 1860, whatever so, the wood in the house is all wide boards about like this wide and um. But it's not a solid thing. It'S planks so there's cracks everywhere where the woods wood has dried up over 160 years, and so we were talking to our construction guy who's, doing a great job, but we're like. So we are going to have some kind of at least insulation before it gets really cold because i'm always cold even in the summer, i'm cold. So they said yes. Yes, don't worry, don't worry, so we're not worried much so we'll see what we'll see what happens? What that brings, but i am going to show you some pictures so the before pictures are when we came to look at the house when we were going to buy it, so that was uh in 2012. We did a little bit of work inside after that. So this is not exactly what we're renovating from, but you get a pretty good idea of what the house was like and then you'll see uh where we are now and it's uh. It'S pretty amazing. It'S kind of like right back to the bear boards and uh ken, and i, as most of you, know, if you're regular viewers that um we had the house temporarily divided in two. So there was like, like two apartments there but easily convert it back to a single family home, because we knew at one point. We would want to renovate the whole thing and just bring it back to one one house. So now we're living in half the house. But everything from the other half is now in also in the half that we were living in, and so it's like twice as feels twice as small as it did before, which was already pretty small. So my kitchen is, i maybe i'll, take a picture of the kitchen because right now, that's the kitchen, the laundry room and we also had to store some other things in there. That'S our dining room as well, and it's pretty teeny tiny with a lot of stuff. With my big washer and dryer and everything so anyway, it's take a look at the pictures. I did a little uh a little side show slideshow, which is a side shoe. It'S like a circus anyway. Take a look at that all right, so i wasn't joking. It'S really we're preserving all of the woodwork, because the moldings and everything are like super thick and to have them redone or to replace them they're in really good condition for the most part. So you see like the and they tried not to remove um as much as they they left as much as they could in situ in the doorways and everything, because we're not really changing the way the rooms are laid out. We'Re just trying to be really sympathetic to the design that it was was done and we don't want to go open concept, because that's really i mean it's a victorian old, an old victorian house, so you'll notice that you might have noticed that there's doorways still standing But there's no walls around them anymore and for the most part, and that's because we'll just rebuild the the walls around we didn't want to start pulling off all the woodwork, because it's so old that we were afraid it might crack and everything. So um we'll see what happens next but and i might not show pictures every episode because they are. We are like taking our time and they're doing uh demo and then there's other like things that are gon na insulation. Guys are coming and then heating and stuff like that. So it's not necessarily very interesting from a decorating point of view, so i won't show pictures every time, but i will try to keep you updated. So that's that's the house. So that's what we're living with and that's kind of been uh, taking up a lot of space in our brains for the last uh for the last uh few weeks for sure. So i guess we'll go right to the works in progress, so i have been still sticking to my plan, i'm only working on one sweater project and the wall, flowers, so the two projects and in the last episode i knew it when i said it, i shouldn't Be saying it, but i did anyway, and i said hopefully i'll have the sleeves done by the time. The next episode is aired not going to happen. So. However, i did get quite far. I have been working on them every day, but, to be honest, i don't have more right now getting ready for the um, the fiber festival and everything i really don't have more than an hour to knit uh in the evenings. So this is where they are. The the increases, the sleeves are two at a time and there should be a picture of tungsten here somewhere in this segment. So everybody knows what we're talking about. So there's no design on these sleeves. It just has the contrasting cuff and i'm working two at a time, and i only have four sets of increases left to do and then it's straight knitting to the top and this weekend i have to go back to halifax. It'S my dad's celebration of life. This weekend actually - and so i'm not going to get any knitting done on the weekend and that's when i get any little chunks that i get done, that's usually when i get done so i'll be busy with family things on on the weekend. So here is the here are the sleeves for the tungsten. So it's going according to plan, except at some point. I i'm really happy that i always do sleeves two at a time, because, honestly, it is true that once you had one uh, one done and you'd be really kind of depressing to have to start a second one and your sweater's still not finished. So i'm i'm happy that i choose to do that. So that's that and i am going to make a mention that if you see things flying around, that's still the house flies. So we have had rain every second day in the last uh three weeks and every time it rains it's like, there's a whole new crop. So we're trying not to be too obsessed by it, because it's just the way it is. There'S house flies around everywhere. So you're not seeing birds in the in the shop, so i'm going to show one more project. This is a project that jennifer hicks is working on and somebody asked who jennifer hicks was so jennifer hicks works with us and she's been working with us for about. Well, a year and a half - i guess almost two years by now and she is doing the dying for the most part and she's also the one that packs up all your orders. So when you do an order, it's actually jennifer, that's handling. Most of that and she's a really prolific knitter and a great knitter. She knits some knits samples for the shop and she also has done some test knitting for a lot of different designers and she test knits for susan cluston, who designs with our yarn, and she it was her rocket tee that we were showing she was the first One that made the the rocket tee and she's knitting another design by tanis fiber arts who designed the rocket tee. So this is not our yarn, it's actually tennis, uh tennis, fiber arts yarn, but the the i'm thinking that it's kind of like the last little chance to do a summer top and to show one. So i'm going to show it's called the floodlight tea and it looks um kind of similar in a way to this shaping some of the shaping of the the rocket t and jennifer's just to the point where she would be separating for the sleeves. It'S also um knit with a fine yarn and alternating with a mo kid like a kid mohair blend and the little point of interest in this sweater, the little detail that's really cool is this is the back and you start i'm just gon na hold this up. So you start the sweater flat, so you create this little notch in the back and then what happens is you attach an i-cord around the the top of the sweater and that gives edging to around the neck, but you also create a little string or a ribbon And you tie a little bow at the back, so it's really really cute and it's just as another lovely light top. If you're, if you've knit your rocket tees - and you want something different but kind of similar, then i would suggest this. This pattern is really sweet. The floodlight tea by tanis fiber arts, so jennifer's working on that and um when she gets that finished, we'll show that that as well in one of the next podcasts, so i think we'll go right to the list of five right now and this week. I don't know why i've been thinking about cables like i said, and i wanted to do a list of five celtic knits. So it's not all sweaters. I picked a bunch of different little items that you might want to knit as well and some bigger projects that are sweaters, but they all have cables and have a celtic feel to them and a lot of them. A lot of cable knits use like a worsted weight, yarn or sometimes an errand weight. I didn't choose any that are an errand weight because that's pretty heavy, but i chose some projects that would work really great with our worsted weight and people that know our selkirk wursted know that it's a two ply and two ply is not normally recommended for cables Because you want like a really round yarn when you're doing cables, it's usually they really pop with a three-ply. But i'm really happy to say that our worsted weight gives you great, cable, cable definition as well. And i think that it's because of the spinning of the actual yarn itself, because it's semi-wursted, so it's quite lofty and i think that's how come we can get away with getting some great cable definition, even with our selkirk worsted, which is a two ply. And if you don't believe me, i dug out my jobat's arm and i have it here and i'm going to show you because this was knit from uh our with our selkirk wursted. So it worked great for the color work and it definitely worked great for all of these cables and if anybody doesn't know jobette's arm, if you, if you haven't watched past episode, it took me a year to knit this sweater and it is a beautiful jennifer. Beale sweater jennifer, of course, is from newfoundland and she names all her all of her patterns after places in newfoundland. So this is joe bat's arm and jobat's arm is close to fogo island or maybe on fogo island. I'M not sure, but it is a. It is a place uh in newfoundland, and this sweater, of course, is just stunning. I was in love with it the day that i saw it come up on ravelry because you have these inserts with the color work, and i thought when i started to knit this. I was kind of afraid to knit it because i thought wow. Your tension has to be perfect because you have to fit in all of this. This color work with the sleeves and the bot, the pieces, and but the crafty and very smart jennifer beal has made a pattern that actually it works. You don't have to have uh. My de gauge is not always perfect and it works in this, but all this to say, i'm just talking about the cables, but i got off the off the track there for a second but um. This is a good example of how selkirk worst it looks in cable, so you it's absolutely doable and i'm gon na just put this over here and we'll go right to the list of five. So the first uh sweater on the list of five is a long cardigan with a hood and it's called piscatawa piscatawa and it's by alison, green and, as always, all of these patterns are available on ravelry, because i want to choose things that can be bought individually. On ravelry, so the most people, if you see something that you want to try you're going to have good accessibility to it and i'll giving you the price in canadian dollars. But of course, if you're shopping from the us, because in ravelry it's usually u.s dollars. But i'm converting it to canadian and i'll tell you what it is in in the us dollar as well, so piscata or what yes piscata aqua. I can't i can't say it again. Did i say piscataway the last time: that's not it! It'S piscataqua piscataqua! I think piscataqua, so it's uh i'll have the title below anyway: allison green nine dollars, canadian - and there is just this great hood on it and it has its tunic length. But i just love the back. So i'm going to show a picture of the back of this, because there's that tiny little insert in the back with the cable in that triangle and that's how she craftedly has done some of her shaping in the sweater by by doing that. Using that insert and the way the cables work to be able to create that beautiful design, it's been out for quite a long time, so there were quite a few projects and, as always, i read the project notes and i look at all the different pictures of People that have knit the sweaters or the items so that i can see like is it reproducible? It'S not just the test, knitters that we're able to get get the sweater or thing to look like it's supposed to, but that everyday knitters can do it. So this that's kind of my test for these um for these patterns, so that you can, if you see something that you like you'll, have pretty good confidence that it's been uh vetted with the well. I'Ve been looking at the project, notes and everything. So i'm not going to try to pronounce it again, but allison green did a great job on this. This pattern - and this was my number one for celtic knits. The second project that i picked is actually a pillowcase like a pillow and it's the celtic oak pillow and it's by the designer barbara, a pot, and it would be about dollars and fifty cents, canadian, if you were buy, to buy it at on ravelry. And it's also good in a worsted weight. I just love this design with the oak leaves and then the celtic braids around the outside and the buttons it but closes with buttons. On the back and and the picture she has like wooden buttons are just beautiful and it's just a really good pattern and perfect and worsted weight yarn, but not a lot of yarn, so you could probably use it. It was make it out of something that you have in your in your stash, so you can check that one out. The third one is quite a. I think it's fairly well known pat pattern and it's the stone away, throw or blanket because it comes, but the pattern comes with two sizes, one for throw size and one for blanket size, and it is by anita designs - and i remember when this pattern was launched On rally - and i remember saying wow so you have um it's kind of they describe it as dece deceptively easy, and i think i would agree because that center all of the center field is really knit just knit and purl and it's the cables around the outside, Which might be if you haven't done cabling, it might be. That might be the part that you might find a little bit more challenging, but it is uh overall, it's not cable everywhere, so um. I think that this would be a pretty doable pattern for for most people and uh that sells for about eight dollars, canadian and for the small, throw you need, 990 yards of of yarn and for the large size blanket you need 2 640 yards. So the blanket does take quite a lot, but there's lots of samples of the throws, and this is uh this, like i said this, i remember when this pattern was launched because i just thought it was was so beautiful at the time. So the next one number four is the kurdok cardigan and i think saying that one right - and this is a carol feller design and carol. Feller - is just a fantastic designer. I mean she makes really really great patterns. She also does some great tutorials and she's a short row expert, i would say - and this cardigan is just beautiful and obviously like a much more traditional kind of aaron aaron looking cardigan and i have to say for the number of people that have done this project. This pattern had the highest rating that i've i've seen, i think in any of these projects. So there's a lot of projects that have been done and her rating for the overall rating for the pattern is 4.9 out of 5 and her rating for the clarity is really really high as well. So this is just a a rel she's, a reliable designer and it's a beautiful, beautiful sweater, cardigan and very traditional but just lovely, and i think it looks great in the natural natural color which would be like super traditional and but you can do it in other. I saw some pictures in it with in a light gray, and it was just beautiful as well, so that's it the kardash, i'm putting my gaelic in there. I'M not i'm not sure if i'm really even pronouncing it right again but uh. This is pick number four and then pick number five was. I actually found this on pinterest and then it directed me to ravelry, because i didn't see it on ravelry when i was doing my search there. But it's called interlochen and i think it's a play on words because of the way that the cables work and the design of this wrap. So it's a wrap and it's designed by carol sunday and you're, seeing it next to me and i can just see all kinds of possibilities with this wrap. I think it's so cool, especially the way that the end tucks in with those loops that you have there. I'M picturing you could even do contrasting colors on the loops would be really cool, and it's just. I just thought it was uh, really nice and stunning, and definitely fits the description description for a celtic style. Knit it's made in quite a fine yarn. She used a sport weight and i looked around the shop to see what yarn i would suggest to use it with and our selkirk worst. It would be too heavy and i don't think you would want to knit it out of lace, but the island blend by island blend fine by rowan would be perfect for this. It will be beautiful and drapey and that yarn is so lovely and soft and just a beautiful, beautiful yarn, unfortunately, rowan is discontinuing it and but i have all of the colors that they make and i have them in sweater sizes. So i check to see how many skeins of island blend fine. It would take to make this this wrap and 10 skeins makes the wrap. So if you want to, if you want to purchase the yarn from for the for this, the island blend, fine, i do have enough skeins, at least for one one wrap in every color that that's there. So you can choose your color some of the some of the colors. I have enough, probably for two. If two people wanted to buy it, but i will give a 25 discount on the yarn for this because, like i said it is going to be a yarn, that's going to be discontinued by rowan and it would be perfect for this cool wrap. So when you put 10 skeins in your cart, you'll get automatically 25 off of of that yarn, and the name of the pattern again is interlaken and the designer is carol sunday and it's just beautiful it would be beautiful, an island blend. I really hope somebody knits it because it's it's uh, i'm sure it's going to be lovely and that's about it. So that's the top five. It was kind of a fun one because uh just when you do a category like celtic knitting, then that opens up. You can look at other things. It doesn't all have to be the same type of garment or shawl or wrap or whatever. Okay. So in the introduction i said that i was going to do wall flowers with the works in progress, and then i forgot, because i don't usually sit here and do wall flowers. So i'm going to do. I am doing now a section on wildflowers. So, as i said, betsy wasn't able to come and record today, so we don't have her example, which means that uh i'm now i'm on pressure at a lot of pressure to talk about mine and i haven't gotten as far as betsy has but it'll just be All the more uh of a surprise and more to talk about next time when betsy comes back with her her wall flowers. So i did do quite a bit of work on this uh this week as well, and what i'm going to do is i'm going to show you what i've done here, but i will take a picture of the wall. Flowers laid out on the my work table. So that you can see how it all looks, because i don't have anybody else to help me hold it and it's still in two pieces, and i think that i will be able to get more done before this actually airs. And if i have more done when i'm doing the editing i'll insert a picture, um i'll insert a picture of the piece as far as i have it done and i'll try to take the picture as late as possible. So i've got as much done as possible in the picture. So what's happened is this is the garland that i had the last time with betsy and now there's two of the large flowers inserted in there, and i think you can see it but you'll see it better on the picture anyway. So i had mentioned in the last podcast when i was with betsy that i was kind of working on this garland as far as i could before it had to be joined, and then i started working on the other half of the garland. But i had a lot of the pieces done, so i've been joining a lot of pieces, so here's the other garland. So you can see that this is actually up to the point where you would join the other big flowers again. So that's that's mostly done. There'S a few other little pebbles that have to go here, there's still some holes in the center of it, but i have all of these small 3d flowers done. So it's just a matter of putting them in and then after this you attach with the large flowers and then you've got a circle of the two garlands and the large flowers, and you have the middle, which sue from the nursery calls the void and i've actually Started doing some of the components that go into that void and for me i have lighter colors on the outside and it's going to go darker in the center and if you've been following us, you know that betsy's is the opposite. She has darker colors in her garlands and it goes lighter to the center. So that's why it's so great when we're both both here to show it, but the parts that i've started to do to work on that are going to go in the center already. I can see that there's going to be a wow factor, because it's like the darkest and brightest colors that i have in my selection of colors and it's really going to change the whole. The whole look of the thing right now. It'S kind of soft and muted, and that's what's great about this project - is that each little layer that you put on changes the way that uh the way that it looks the overall impression of it. I should mention as well is that sue it will be starting a new wallflowers course in november and she's already taking registrations for the next course. So if you've been inspired by watching betsy and i with our wall, flowers sue is offering the course again in november and um. If i'm invited to participate as a stockist, i will be giving the same offer uh for anybody that buys 10 skeins of felted tweed. For their for their project, there is a code that you can use to get a discount a 10 discount off of the off of the yarn, and i will continue that for sue's november classes as well. All right! So that's it and now it's a shop. The shop update, so i was um inspired by all that cable talk, so i dug around the shop and i found some books and i actually had just received some new books as well that had dealt with the cables. So the first book that i'm going to show that we've carried before and have had for a while is the noragon knitting, cable source book and knitted cable source books. So this is a stitch dictionary for cables and there's 150 different designs in here and at the end of each little section. She'S got the book divided up in in sections of different types of cables like two by twos, and she goes in a lot of depth into how cables affect your knitting like as far as gauge and everything. But at the end of each little section in the book there are patterns as well and you can see on the back, for example, there's one of the sweaters that she has in the book. So this if you're interested in cables. This is really the go-to uh on cable, knitting and nora has just done a wonderful job with this book. So we have that in the shop we've had it for a while, but uh it's we always stock it and i did get um another book uh. This is a carol feller book uh it's well. I should say it's published by stolen stitches, which is uh carol's um company, but it's uh, there's contributors to the patterns from different different designers, so it's called sorry echoes of heather and stone and there's some really lovely patterns in here. I think there's eight patterns all together and carol has done one, but isabelle kramer is featured in this book and then a bunch of uh like really woolly worm, wormheads, jennifer, wood, katie, westerman and other designers. So there's shawls, there's sweaters and they all have this really kind of celtic feeling. So i could have actually chosen any design from this book and put it in the celtic list of five as well, but i wanted to feature this separately, the book so um. So that's the echoes of heather and stone published by stolen stitches and with control other contributors, besides carol feller, and then the latest book that i got was cable knits from nordic nordic lands - and this is a pretty cool book um, mostly swedish uh. It'S done by a swedish designer, a knitting uh phenom and he is uh learned to knit from his grandmother and has taken some of the things that he's learned to put together this beautiful book with uh 20 patterns in it and instead of flipping through randomly i've. Actually bookmarked some of the ones that i wanted to show, so you know after 103 episodes i finally have gotten smart so or smarter at least so. This is one of the patterns in the book. I think i might have looked at this one first, because it's red because, as you know, i'm a red fan and then what he does here is. He starts off with pretty easy designs, um and then he gets it gets more difficult as you go through the book. So here i am flipping so there's some some um headband and a scarf and everything, and then you get to a hat which is fairly fairly simple, so you're, building up your skills with the knitting and then um the next one that i really liked is this Uh this, it's called appearances, can be deceiving, the the appearances can be, dece can deceive sorry, appearances can deceive sweater and it's because it looks really complex. But if you take a good look at the pattern, it's actually fairly straightforward. So you're, like i said, you're building up your your skills, another cute little one with uh that has the notched collar and then you do the i-cord uh to tie it and then, when you've gone through the book - and you get close to the end, you have This uh beautiful, beautiful design that he's put on two pages, so i hope you can see it. I didn't give the names of any of these, but i'll put them in the in the titles. Underneath look at that. It'S just gorgeous! So if you're an experienced, cable knitter, this is really like. This would be like a a heritage type uh project and if you're not experienced and you've gone through the rest of the book, you should be able to knit by the time you get there to the end. So that's cable knits from nordic land. So that's a really nice book, and the last thing i want to show in the shop today is something really really special, so um. If any of the regular viewers know that i had a career before i became a sheep farmer and a mill operator - and i worked my very first job with the company that was with my my career - was with l'oreal and i was a sales rep. I started with l'oreal as a sales rep with lancome, and i can tell you that wasn't yesterday and uh the when i was a baby that was a baby. I met another sales rep with lancome called her, and her name is elise dufour and elise is a beautiful friend of mine and elise's career at l'oreal is also complete. She has retired, just like i retired, and she is now uh makes ceramics so she's a ceramist. I think that's how you would pronounce it and she her and her husband bought an old captain's house in lunenburg and lunenburg nova. Scotia is actually a a historic national, historic site, the whole town or a unesco historic site. There'S a lot of history in that town and lots of sea captains houses because there was lots of fishing that went happen that happened from that that port in lunenburg, so elise and her husband have renovated an old sea. Captain'S house and elise has a ceramic studio in a loft um in the in that house. Next to that house and uh, i was just thrilled when elise moved to nova. Scotia was going to be in my neck of the woods because we've been for friends forever and uh always kept in touch, but not um, not really close to each other. So now we're we're pretty uh. Well, almost neighbors. I guess sorry. I get to see her. Every time i go to visit my mom, we touch base, so it's been great and she follows the wabi-sabi principles of uh with her ceramics. So perfect, imperfection is kind of her motto: she's been featured in east coast living magazine and that's a magazine. Lifestyle magazine mostly focusing on architecture but also lifestyle and home design and elise, has been featured in this magazine with her. I guess i'm going to call it art because it's ceramics, but it really is uh. It is really like art. I hope that you can see it, but i will put the link to elise's website down below and i would also direct you to check out her instagram feed because she's just has a beautiful aesthetic in her feed as well. So we wanted to do a collaboration together and the thing that seemed the most obvious was to do a yarn bowl. So elise has designed this beautiful work of art as a yarn bowl, and i'm going to show this to you. I don't want to drop it. So um it's a shallow. You never i've, never seen a yarn bowl like this and we actually used. I did had a prototype and i tested it out knitting because i wasn't sure because most yarn bowls kind of enclose, the yarn and but elise looked at it. A different way because she was looking at it from the artfulness of it, and she did this just beautiful. It'S got this beautiful creamy glaze inside, but the raw ceramic is on the outside and the just every one is different, because everything that elise makes is done. One by one by hand and she's, just i'm just thrilled that we have this in our in our shop, so it's the fleece and harmony yarn bowl by elise, dufour, so um. These will be. I have six precious copies of this and well they're, not copies or each one is an individual uh, an individual piece and uh. Those are available on my website. Right now, um i was planning to bring them to the fiber festival, but i'm not sure that i'll have any left uh at the at the end, so um. I hope that you take a look at that and take a look at elise's other thing. She does like um uh all kinds of things like um, like really cool pictures. Like you know, water pictures she does place settings of dishes, so she's been commissioned to do a lot of those those as well and just beautiful, like old, fash fashion, candle, stick holders and things so check. It check it out, because it's really really wonderful and she's. My one of my oldest and most beautiful friends so beautiful inside and out i mean so if you can check her out. That would be great and i'm really happy that we had a chance to collaborate on something we always worked together. It seemed at l'oreal so every time um every time, uh l'oreal is pretty famous for moving people around in the company. We always seem to be end up together. So so we worked a lot together and it's just great to be able to continue that in. Even though we're no longer in our corporate careers, so that's uh, that's the end of uh. What we have for the shop update today and i'm going to just talk about like for literally two seconds about arno and carlos, because the tickets are almost sold out, but we do have some availability, um left and uh. The knit and purl the norwegian way is sold out, but i have a waiting list. So if you and some of the other classes are about to be they'll, sell out fairly soon, but i'm happy to put keep your name on a waiting list. If you want one of the classes - and there have been people that have had things have come up because the event takes place in november, so things are going to come up. So some of the people on the waiting list have already been called to get tickets. For the classes that they want, it so check that out and um. I should say that if you're looking at the website on mobile you'll, see that you see the you see the description of the event and it says, talks about the hotel and there's a link to book your hotel. But you have to keep scrolling and the tickets are all there underneath. So i had a couple people ask me: i can't see where i can buy the tickets, but i figured it out it's because they're looking at it on a mobile phone, probably and you have to scroll down quite a ways. Unfortunately, the way that the website is set up, there's a whole menu on one side and you have to go down to the bottom of that menu to see the rest of the where the tickets are. So just you can check that out and i hope we see a lot of you there. It'S going to be really really fun. Um the sit and knit a bit live event is almost sold out, but i've checked with the hotel and i'm able to add some more tickets. So we're we're good if you want to. If you want to attend that the lecture that they're doing as well and now i will talk about the fiber festival, as you might have noticed in the last three or four episodes, i'm featuring uh talking about one of the presenters of the workshops in this section. For the fiber festival, so this week i wanted to talk about meg anderson, kilfoil and meg is actually the owner of custom fit knits. So people that have been following me for a while know that i loved amy herzog's or i love them amy herzog's book in the present. I still love them. The ultimate sweater book and her other two books about getting your sweaters to fit have just been. I just i just think they're fantastic, so amy has decided to sell her. She has a software called custom, fit knits and she decided to sell her company and meg actually purchased the company and we're delighted, because meg is coming to the fiber festival and she's, giving a cut two classes so um. I think everybody deserves a sweater that fits and if you can get the hell any help to do that, then i think that that's fantastic, so custom fit knits is um is the the method that was developed by amy and uh. Meg, like i said, is continuing on that on with that tradition and she's going to do a lick lecture, it's an hour and a half on the introduction to the custom fit knit. So that's about how you use the um, the programs and things like that and just about fitting and then she also is offering a class called introduction to sweater knitting. So if you're i - i always am amazed by this - that we have people come in and they say i'm amazed both ways of what i'm going to tell you. If they're a sock knitter they say. Oh i've never need a sweater. I don't i don't. I think don't know how i don't know how to knit a sweater if you're a sweater knitter. Sometimes people come in and say: oh, i know i've, never knit socks. I don't know. Excuse me, i don't know how to turn the heel but um, which i always find funny, because i both of them the two camps, think the other one is doing something magical. I guess i don't know if you haven't done, if you haven't done both already so if you wanted to learn how to start a sweater and to to get a course on sweater knitting, then i would suggest that you take a look at this class. That'S going to be at the fiber festival and that's called introduction to sweater knitting and again the instructor is meg anderson, kilfoil and that's about all. I have to say for the fiber festival, so some of the classes are filling up, so we've got quite a few. Now that are sold out, there is waiting lists, though, as well for those classes. So if you see something there and it's filled, then the coordinators of the festival are keeping a waiting list, so they'll be able to help you out there and you're gon na it's getting a little bit more challenging to find a place to stay, but as i've Always said, uh call the department of tourism, they can help you out. They'Ve got people there that are especially there to do that, and the 1-800 number to reach them is always in my video description or my show notes. So you can - or you can just google department of tourism, accommodations and you'll have a 1 800 number that will come up there. They have a great website with lots of information too. So now we get to the harmony part and i went uh to people that are subscribed to the newsletter know this because i talked about it in my last newsletter. I went to um the cottage, so ken and i bought a cottage together with my mom and dad uh quite a long time ago, 30 years ago. Sorry, i can, i keep thinking it was only like 10 or 15 years ago, but i haven't been there for 20 years because we moved away after about 10 years after we bought it. So we always used to joke when we would go to fisherman's harbor. It'S on the eastern shore of nova, scotia and there's it's really funny, because everybody knows the south shore of nova scotia, that's where chester and lunenburg and mahome bay and all of those hot spots are and uh. Northern nova. Scotia, of course, is cape breton. So people have been visiting this, but the eastern shore of nova scotia is pretty well undiscovered. I would say by tourists for the most part - and there was a there's - a firm when you drive on the way to my cottage, which is called the forgotten shore firm, and they have a little shop there and everything and the people that purchased. That farm are from ontario and i thought it's the perfect name for that, because it is the forgotten shore. It'S still the ocean and everything but uh. There'S there it hasn't been um doesn't have all of the development, the tourist development, it's still pretty rustic and i have to say driving to the cottage it uh looked pretty much the same as it did 30 years ago. There'S not been a lot of changes there and we used to joke when we were driving to the cottage. Is that it's the place where they made the fog for they make the fog for the rest of canada? And that sounds like it's an insult. But it's actually not really an insult because the fog and there's a lighthouse with a fog horn and when it's blistering hot everywhere else in the summer. It'S still pleasant at that that cottage um and there is a beach and the beach is uh outside of where the fog usually comes in. So there is, you can still have the beach weather, but if you really want to just cool, be cool and relaxed and enjoy pleasant summer days without being roasting, then uh, fisherman's, harbor, port bickerton, is the little tiny, tiny village, that's the closest village and uh. So that's where i spent the weekend last weekend and i took the uh the video for the harmony part. While i was on a walk with my mom and her dog early one morning and um, i hope i can find the right music to go with it, because it is pretty awesome. I have to say it's very um, so peaceful and uh there's just it was just quiet and i think i got some shots where you can actually hear the foghorn in the background and i'll turn down the music. And let you listen to that. If i can find it in the if i got it in the shot, so i hope everybody has a great two weeks and enjoy whatever it is that you're working on your crafting. Also, i never say i always forget to say this, but if you like the video, then please subscribe, it really really helps uh me and to continue to go on with youtube. Obviously it makes the algorithms happy and, as always comment, i answer all the comments. I'M still answering everyone, and i hope you have a fantastic two weeks and enjoy the fog from fisherman's harbor in on the eastern shore of nova, scotia and we'll see you again in two weeks time bye. 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