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A Christmas Story takes place in the late 1930s early 40s. Interesting that the hood/scarf is coming back into style! Great video - I live in Calgary so it's so fun to see it viewed through a visitor's/vacationer's lens.

Your podcast popped up today and I watched while making Almond Roca for my son who is arriving this afternoon. The mail strike in Canada meant no care packages over Christmas. I skied Lake Louise in 1974, which gives you some idea of my age- lol! About 10 years ago, a local yarn store carried quiviet which was collected by her father in the North West Territory and she spun it. I purchased a tiny skein for an outrageous $45 at the time, but it made a lovely warm hat for my other son who was working on and off in Nunavut. It even felt warm in my hands as I knit. It’s way too expensive now. I live in Kamloops, BC, so we are in winter, but it has been a very mild winter so far and the snow keeps coming and going. Loved your podcast. Will keep watching! ❤

Wow one of those ice skaters is really good !

I keep forgetting that you are Happy Hands now, so it was such an exciting surprise when I clicked on your video and exclaimed, “Oh boy! It’s Nadine!” I loved seeing all your gift knits, and I laughed along with you as you tried on the balaclava. I like that you’re a mom like me who will knit whatever their child asks for, no matter how different it is from what they would choose for themselves. I live in the very hot, humid southern United States. I have been to Banff and Lake Louise once. It is very different in climate and terrain than what I am used to, but it is so beautiful! I can’t wait for your next podcast, but enjoy your time with family in Canada.

I love balaclava too, More backlava though please

Merry Christmas Nadine. Beautiful gifts. Enjoy your frosty break.

Lots of lovely projects as usual (both yours and your daughter's this time - love the hungry caterpillar hat especially). Have an amazing trip - I look forward to seeing some snow in your videos

Bonjour Nadine ! Thank you for this lovely épisode ! Love from France

I loved your Hilja dress before, but the lace panel just makes it even more stunning! I always enjoy seeing all your projects, and will remember the tip for laddering back the next time I have forgotten a purl stitch. Thanks for sharing your making!

New watcher today and I enjoyed the episode. I am interested in making one and even cast on and got into the yoke and I couldn’t tell it if was right and put it down and never picked it up again. I’d like to make one but I don’t know how to do some of the stitches . I will revisit it again after the holidays. Thank you for sharing yours with us.

Two minutes in.... Your dress is rock star gorgeous.

Thank you Nadine! The thrifted dress looks even more pretty without the sleeves. Currently also in love with brown, knitting a self drafted Sophie shawl with holst supersoft in color coffee two strands hold with one strand of brown mohair that I dyed myself many moons ago! Have a great week!

The dress looks fabulous. Well done 👏.

wow, your husband must do lots of squats to get such THICK legs 💪💪💪

Lovely podcast. Your Salvo finds are gold. I reckon the dress would look great sleeveless or with the sleeves slightly capped. Again, you have given me inspiration - with the hat pattern and the designers' other patterns leading me down the rabbit hole. With the pineapples, I throw the tops into established garden beds, and, like Topsy, they just grow. The offshoots are called pups. We have a wonderful pineapple grower locally who puts up a roadside stand every year with his small and very sweet pines. A lot of travellers rip off the tops and leave them, so locals will quite often buy a couple of sweeties and take 2 or 3 tops to add to their pineapple patch. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for your entertaining and inspirational podcast.

Hi Nadine. I would take the sleeves out and then if you aren't happy then make it in to a skirt. It is a lovely dress. Great op shop finds. :)

Love your brown dress and would choose the option A. I think the dress will look better without the sleeves ❤

From here your brown dress looks great...drapey and flattering, but you do you...both ideas would be nice.

What was the pattern for your hat please?

Op shops are fabulous places for finding treasures. I'd wear the brown linen dress sleeveless. It would be perfect for Byron Bay in summer. With your black dress, your idea of lace at the hem is terrific. I'd make it wide not narrow as in your top. Another place to include some lace would be on the sleeves, if, you intend to have them. Love your hat. I too don't use cable needles either. Watching from NZ. We call the Salvos here, the Sallies!!

Could you not re-attach the sleeves after cutting back the shoulders/armhole of the dress? Otherwise I think you choose the option that you would wear most. Lucky finds!

I am yet to knit my first Ranunculus but I have yarn I bought in Barcelona waiting for it. I also live in MNC NSW so very interested to hear your thoughts for Summer wear. Also my first time finding your podcast - really enjoyed it.

Your channel just showed up in my feed a few days ago. I've just realised tonight that you are also a viewer of Barbara from Bondi Fibre Crafter. I saw a comment you left on her vlog. It's a small world 😀. Probably because we both watch Barbara's channel, that's why yours showed in my feed. I'm off to binge watch a few more of your videos! 💜 PS I bought some linen and the pattern a few months ago to make my first Hinterland Dress. I haven't done any garment sewing for myself for years, but have seen a few things for my grandchildren. You and Barbara are both very inspiring!

I found this comment on reddit "thiox thiourea dioxide will discharge silk in dilute form Kraftkolour in Australia have a discharge powder which is Sodium salt of Hydroxymethanesulphinic Acid. kraftkolour excellent with silk It is recommended to do any discharge process outside due to fumes Do not mix the above two items with anything else but water Edit: Actually dont mix ANY discharge chemicals with another chemical even bleach" I'm sure there are other commercial dyes that you could then use on the silk to colour it after you've stepped the colour out.

Oct 27. Hi Nadine I've made my first Hinterland dress and Im so surprised at how well it fits and how good it looks. Mainly thanks to you who gave me the incentive push to cut and sew. I made it all today and Im bushed. I used green linen from Tessuti here in Sydney. Sleeveless dress and I didnt line the bodice...its too hot in Summer for 2 layers. Ive videoed the sewing and hope to upload it tomorrow. Thank you for talking about your making

You can never have too many Ranunculi!! So far I've made 6, but only one of those is for myself. The others went to my 3 daughters, a sister and a friend. Five have been long sleeve versions in wool or alpaca...so cozy in winter. The short sleeve one was a linen/cotton blend. For the first long sleeve version, I did the shaped elbow, but for the others, I just knit the sleeves straight, and then made rapid decreases and an I-cord bind-off. For the last 5, I did long tail cast-ons and they look just fine. It's such a pretty pattern. I might have to make one like your beautiful black version for myself!

Hi Nadine. New subscriber. Loving your podcasts. I loved your previous Ranunculi. So much so, that I purchased some bc garn from the Yarn Bowl. It's coming next week. On no 2 of the Ranunculus. Crazy hot mama in far North Queensland ❤

I'm knitting my first ranunculus with a blown yarn..im loving it for now..

I have knitted 2 of this pattern. I plan on knitting another one again sometime in the near future. As much as I like the pattern, it gets a little boring knitting the same thing all the time as I am a serial knitter 😬. I agree with you in that this pattern is so unassuming until you see the many ways it can be knitted since the pattern is so forgiving ❤.

I don’t do the short rows in the front, and looks good. !! 🌞🌎

My reaction to seeing the Ranunculus the first few years was very much like your’s. But at that time I crochet so it really wasn’t on my check the projects on it. Then last year I got back into knitting after 30+ years. So this year I saw several pot casters about their’s and I had to check it out. I knitted my first one a few months ago. The eyelets aren’t perfect. I didn’t realize it for a bit. And decided I wasn’t going back. I just got yarn for my next one. This one will be short sleeve with bamboo/wool yarn. The first one is alpaca/wool 3/4 sleeves. I haven’t worn it yet. It’s still too hot in San Diego.

What size is your latest Ranuculas?

Thank you for the video, it was helpful. I'm about to start my 1st! Approximately how much yarn does it take for your size?

Im knitting my 5th one now as I watch your video. Great pattern and enjoyed your podcast

I bought the pattern when it first came out and haven’t cast one on. I plan on casting it on this week.

I'm on my second, i love the pattern

I am on my 5th one. I have gifted 2. I didn’t like the look of the huge original one in the photo. So I was late to the party too. ❤

I liked the upside down bits of video. Thought it was done on purpose 🙂. Have never knitted this pattern, I'm not sure of shape of it. Like all your ones though.

Like you I’ve also made 4 Ranunculus (ranunculi???). I really like your idea of making one without the yoke patterning. I think I will try that on my next version- thanks!!

I loved making my first Ranunculus, so much so I have two more on my needles😍🥰🤣

I was late to the Ranunculus party. I made them for the first time this year, starting with an oatmeal coloured long sleeve version out of a blown yarn, and the second, very similar looking to your black one, light and airy. I made it from Holst Garn Lucia in a burnt orange colour and made a sort of garter stitch rolled hem combo on the hem, neckline, and sleeves that I came up with on my own, and looks really pretty. I probably should have made the oatmeal coloured one a size bigger, because I prefer thick sweaters to be on the loose side and mine is more fitted. It still looks nice, just not as loose as I prefer for the fabric. The light airy burnt orange one is so light that it tends to shrink upward as I wear it, until it is sitting just below my bust, so I'm toying with making it longer, even though it starts out the perfect length. I have yarn for a third one out of a really soft worsted weight cotton in apple green, that I plan on making 3/4 length sleeves for with the i-cord cuffs. I'm not addicted to making the Ranunculus. The draw for me is really just that I can make it out of any yarn I want, and it takes so little yarn, often only taking one skein, if it's fingering weight, or two skeins in a medium to worsted weight yarn. Yours all look really pretty and the colour of the second one you put on looks gorgeous on you. They all look great over the white dress.

I love all your Ranunculus but especially your latest one. Funny thing, I've just uploaded my latest video where I'm wearing a Ranunculus too! I've knit 2 and am going to knit more - probably with half the patterning.

Ah Nadine that Ranuculas pattern is impossible for me to knit. 20 pages of so many instructions and sizes all mixed up together plus my dyslexia and 15 attempts at the bloomy thing..I can't say what I did with that pattern. I don't really like the shape either. Not sure why it so popular. Its probably a breeze for right handed knitters who like that type of top down too many pages pattern. Now to a previous podcast about your Hinterland forey. I purchased the pattern after years of see it and compared it to my FEN pattern and they're very much alike in sizes and construction. As I now have the pattern I will make a Hinterland to compare the feel etc. How are you going in Canada? Hope you're videoing. Safe travels

Your hinterland dress is so pretty 😊

Thank you. It certainly is time I made one. Attempted before but had problems with neckband. ❤

Thank you for re-recording this episode and for the little clip at the end... I have neither knit with BC garn (yarn) and I have also see some on sale lately but my stash is bursting at the seam... and I try to resist... I cannot wait for the hilja dress to be finish (as I already said :))... on my queue to start early spring or perhaps earlier in holst super soft...not much advice from me regarding stains or naphthalene smell...Greetings from Sweden!

Hi from the Qld border👋🏻. I have the same question about moth balls. I had the smell in a blanket from my grandmother. I washed it 3 times and dried it in the sun, on the clothesline. The smell was less but not gone. I did hear that if you put brown paper over your oil marks and iron over the top the brown paper absorbs the oil. I haven’t tried it though. Happy making 🧶

Hi! So nice to see what you are doing ❤ about the cardigan, I wouldn’t change the sleeves because they are so wide. I have garments with very wide, long sleeves and I get them tangled into everything and dip them in my food - it’s a mess 😂 ❤ Marie

I also love yours channel. I like the sleeve length on the cardigan but I understand why you would want them longer. I wish I had advice on the silk top! Have you tried finding the brand and style of pant online to see what they look like there?

hi, love your channel. the granny square cardi would look good with extra squares on the sleeves. i wouldn't mess with the silk top. You can not see the marks. i would just wear it.