I love your podcasts! I met you on Saturday at Papamoa Creative Fibre wool gathering. Came home found you and have been catching up from the beginning. I really enjoy your "waffling" I feel like you are a friend crafting with me in my lounge 😊
Thank you for the fresh picked flowers...perfect for a rainy, snowy, cloudy dark day in Coquitlam, British Columbia. Love hearing about your little woollen mill.
I loved your podcast and I agree, you don't waffle. I enjoyed every part of it. Loved all your finished knits. Looking forward to more of your spinning adventure. I don't own a Spinning wheel but recently I have become more interested in Spinning. I think watching someone spin, the sound of the wheel is very relaxing. looking forward to you next Podcast. Thank you. 🙂👋
I really enjoyed listening to you and seeing all of your beautiful knitting! The flowers were beautiful! I can't wait for spring and summer! I just ran across your channel today and I'm so glad I did! Your mill sounds like alot of work, but also alot of fun! It's really hard to believe people were just throwing the wool away! Hey from Hiddenite North Carolina!!💜💚🌻🌻
Thank you for sharing your mill adventure with us. I admire your determination and will to get it up and running; so exciting. Reminds me of when my husband built and planted and vineyard totally from “scratch.” There were a lot of things that went wrong (mostly nature related - weather, birds), but so many that went just as planned. The day that we got a handful of grapes was awesome, and so, the day that your yarn is produced will be special. One day, when you have lots of yarn, I will be lucky enough to purchase some. Thank you for sharing your beautiful flowers from your garden. In North Carolina, my daffodils are showing and a few have bloomed. I am looking forward to your next episode and hearing all about the mill and your knitting. Cheers!
Loving this journey with you and your fiber mill. The children's knit wear are so cute. It was a delight to see your beautiful flowers, we won't see flowers here for at least another couple of months. Take care
Lovely to see you again tonight here in Ireland. Love your knitting for the little ones. The magnolia jumper is beautiful. So nice to see sunshine, it's a very rare sight here at the moment but it is getting warmer. My daffodils are beginning to poke out of the ground so spring is coming. By the end of my decade as a practicing midwife, I couldn't manage the night duty. In those days we did a seven night, ten hour shift once a month with seven nights off afterwards. By the time I left I still hadn't been able to return to my normal sleeping pattern by the end of the week off. So glad those days are well behind me. As I watched you, I was finishing the last cable section of my stash using striped throw, only the ribbing to do & it will be finished. I'll be very glad to see the back of it, it's six foot long so heavy & awkward to move. The plan is that it'll help keep our toes warm on these cold nights. Good luck with the mill, I love hearing about it & look forward to seeing your wool. Take care, best wishes from 🇮🇪
Wow! Thanks for sharing. Night shift is so bad for our health in so many ways. There were midwives 20 plus years ago that ONLY did night shift and perhaps that worked for them. I think because I am such an early bird it really has never been easy for me.
To me the daisy are my mum. Her favourite flower. It made me so happy to hear your story about them. Those daisies are a cuddle from the past for me. Thank you.
So enjoyed your video, especially the ‘wandering’ 😊of conversation! Lovely flowers too! You are finding such good resources through such nice people. 🤗Washington state, lol,not Seattle! 🇺🇸
Such a lovely podcast….thank you for sharing! Oh, I also enjoyed your beautiful flowers, my yard is covered with snow which I love because it means spring flowers!
Hi Dinnie, I too am a knitter and a midwife. I live in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia which can get quite nippy for many months of the year so wooly knits are a must. I identified with you when you spoke of the night duty shift that you did and how long it took to recover. I too found it not a problem when going into the hospital for a birth, ( I was a caseload midwife for many years), I was busy and occupied with the birthing mum, then once the babe was born, the things we do post birth, then home again. But doing a full shift....when you get to 5am and you just want to lie down...but you have to wait til 7am.....by which time you are delirious with fatigue!!! Never again for me. It's lovely listening to your voice, so glad I have found your podcast.
Oh yes. The hour between 5 and 6 am is the hardest on night shift!! I much prefer caseloading midwifery but like I say…. In my 60s now and time to slow down. Hard to get the balance.
Thanks Gina. Judy is an amazing help and is pretty focussed to hehe. Hope to see you at creative fibre if I can just get myself into gear. I feel I should be spending whatever time I have trying to problem solve!
Loving your posts! Love what you choose to knit, and your yarn choices are so beautiful! Lucky family who gets to wear them! I think you're amazing to figure out the mill, I'm not a techie either so it's all Greek to me! On my needles right now are a Lala shawl, a lempi sweater and a cosy vest for the hubby. Happy Knitting!! 🧶💕🌼
Thank you so much! Good to hear what you are knitting. I had a quick look in Ravelry. I see I have the shawl in my library. It is a great one to show nice yarn. Is the pullover a quick knit? I reckon that would be good in plotuloppi or Nutiden
Yes! I'd love to knit with either of those yarns, I'll have to see if any of our local yarn shops have either of those yarns! Yes, the Lempi is knitting up quickly, and the Lala is a quick one too, have knit it many times, sort of has become my go to pattern when I can't find one I want to knit! I forgot to tell you that we have the same problem going on here on the west coast of British Columbia, farmers not knowing what to do with their sheared raw wools, there was a big story here on the news the other night. The problem is no mills locally and I think they said there was only one or two in the whole province. I'm hoping someone like you is out there locally with the knowhow to do something, it just hurts my knitters heart to see the waste!! Anyway, rambling here, big hugs to you and your family from us here in Canada 💕🇨🇦🧶
I congratulate you on your perseverance with the mill. I imagine that you are constantly learning, which must be a great thing, & that you are having to exercise patience in getting to the finished product. I am so pleased to think that the older crafts won't die out while there are people like you in our community!
Oh the accidents that have happened with the items I have knit for family. So far they have shrunk in such a way that another member of the family now wears it.
Good to you again Dinny, sounds like the mill is starting to pay off even after all the frustration and now you are able to pick up Fleece is Great. I have to Disagree with The Magnolia Jumper, I think it looked lovely on you even though I understood where you were coming from with the light Grey, and even more so when you out your Cowl went perfectly…❤
Fingers crossed! That the mill is sorted soon. It is a common theme that I start something and then find the ‘true’ recipient of the garment. I do much prefer stronger colours though….
Good to see you again. Your mill progress is so exciting. How awesome to have some support and knowledge from the other mill. I'm knitting a 2nd Magnolia Little cardigan for my youngest daughter, and plan to make the chunky sweater for me. Don't worry about the waffle, it's interesting too😁
Hi again from Australia. Thank you. I really enjoy all of your videos. I've been spinning. Finished a small blanket for me in cotton. Your knitting is beautiful. I hope 2023 is a wonderful year for you. Please don't say you are waffling lol. The stories are why I visit. When you have some product please let us know. I'm happy to pay postage to Australia.
Your videos are super fun to watch. I am so excited for you to get your mill running! I watch thr Junction Fiber Mill videos too, they are quite ambitious. It is impressive. I can't wait to see your yarn.
I love your podcast, it feels like sitting and chatting with my New Zealand mother in law who is also a wonderful knitter. We haven’t seen each other in person for almost 4 years, but she arrives to stay with us in 2 weeks! Can’t wait for all the cuppas and chats.
I am absolutely confident that you will have yarn! No doubt so fun to watch your journey. Now I want to make a magnolia. I love the sleeves on the one you put on in the podcast. And your grandkids are so lucky to always get knits😊
Hopefully you get the machines running. Dont take fleeces until you look at the quality of wool and make sure the staple length isnt more than 10cm as it will wrap around the rollers. Check with your American Mill contact what the absolute maximum length of wool the machines will process. I retired as an RN. 10 hr shifts were full-on in Endoscopy Day procedure ward. Trying to keep up the required Australian CPD points was hard.
I love listening to you as I knit or sort dinner or washing or whatever is to hand. Great to hear everything. Sometimes I talk back and almost expect a reply lol
Kia ora Dinie - I love seeing these updates so much and am very excited about the mill! I'm sure lots of people have already mentioned her - but just in case - have you been put in touch with Sandra Owen? She is wonderful, has sheep in Silverdale and is very knowledgeable about fleece for spinning. Last time I saw her she mentioned that it was sometimes very hard to move on all her fleece so had lots in need of a home, especially the darker colours. Not sure if it's a useful connection, but might be! xx
So interesting following your journey with the mill. I watched Miss Evil Knits and really enjoyed it… do you have any plans to produce an unspun yarn? For a country with so many sheep, we have so few small mills…I have only found Little Wool Co and Wild Earth Yarns so far.
I don’t have the right machines but I am sure both of them do. It is pretty much the process before they spin the yarn and their machines make rolls of the unspun. I thought about contacting them to see if they would sell some to try. Could be a new opportunity for them
With a busy life, when do you find time to knit all these wonderful things???? I find that I can't knit in the evenings--even with good lamp light--so I wonder when you knit?
Whenever I can. Sometimes early in the morning. I rise about 5. Although in the summer when it is light I prefer to be out in the garden. Also middle of the day in summer I don’t go out because of the high UV but a bit hot and winter I hibernate haha. Mind you I think I will be busy in the mill this winter
It’s a real pleasure to see and spend time with you Dinnie ! You don’t waffle at all! You are having a conversation with us and it’s a delight you are so interesting, love hearing about your family life, your work, and the updates on your mill. If you have a water beetle brain ( never heard of it) but i must have one too! Always going off on a tangent and forget what i started talking about! I love the magnolia sweater who is the pattern from and where do you purchase it? I wanted to ask how your daughter is and when her baby is due? So enjoy seeing Red, and especially love it when you show areas of where you live, i have never been to NZ but it looks very scenic. Take care, till next time. Suze. 🧶🐑🥰 x
I love your podcasts! I met you on Saturday at Papamoa Creative Fibre wool gathering. Came home found you and have been catching up from the beginning.
I really enjoy your "waffling" I feel like you are a friend crafting with me in my lounge 😊
Cool sheep yarn possibility 🏡nice sweater for your daughter. Love your living room back drop. UA-cam Waynesville NC USA 🇺🇸 Veteran 💜
Thoroughly enjoyed hearing about the progress you are making with your mill. Thank you for sharing your sunshine and flowers.
Thank you for the fresh picked flowers...perfect for a rainy, snowy, cloudy dark day in Coquitlam, British Columbia. Love hearing about your little woollen mill.
I loved your podcast and I agree, you don't waffle. I enjoyed every part of it. Loved all your finished knits. Looking forward to more of your spinning adventure. I don't own a Spinning wheel but recently I have become more interested in Spinning. I think watching someone spin, the sound of the wheel is very relaxing. looking forward to you next Podcast. Thank you. 🙂👋
Loved hearing from you again! I think your style of podcast should be called ‘conversational’ rather than waffly; and I love it!
Love that!
I really enjoyed listening to you and seeing all of your beautiful knitting! The flowers were beautiful! I can't wait for spring and summer! I just ran across your channel today and I'm so glad I did! Your mill sounds like alot of work, but also alot of fun! It's really hard to believe people were just throwing the wool away! Hey from Hiddenite North Carolina!!💜💚🌻🌻
Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing your mill adventure with us. I admire your determination and will to get it up and running; so exciting. Reminds me of when my husband built and planted and vineyard totally from “scratch.” There were a lot of things that went wrong (mostly nature related - weather, birds), but so many that went just as planned. The day that we got a handful of grapes was awesome, and so, the day that your yarn is produced will be special. One day, when you have lots of yarn, I will be lucky enough to purchase some. Thank you for sharing your beautiful flowers from your garden. In North Carolina, my daffodils are showing and a few have bloomed. I am looking forward to your next episode and hearing all about the mill and your knitting. Cheers!
Ohw i love the magnolia sweater it fits you so perfectly! Love the colour lucky daugther in law! ❤️
Loving this journey with you and your fiber mill.
The children's knit wear are so cute.
It was a delight to see your beautiful flowers, we won't see flowers here for at least another couple of months.
Take care
Lovely to see you again tonight here in Ireland. Love your knitting for the little ones. The magnolia jumper is beautiful. So nice to see sunshine, it's a very rare sight here at the moment but it is getting warmer. My daffodils are beginning to poke out of the ground so spring is coming.
By the end of my decade as a practicing midwife, I couldn't manage the night duty. In those days we did a seven night, ten hour shift once a month with seven nights off afterwards. By the time I left I still hadn't been able to return to my normal sleeping pattern by the end of the week off. So glad those days are well behind me.
As I watched you, I was finishing the last cable section of my stash using striped throw, only the ribbing to do & it will be finished. I'll be very glad to see the back of it, it's six foot long so heavy & awkward to move. The plan is that it'll help keep our toes warm on these cold nights.
Good luck with the mill, I love hearing about it & look forward to seeing your wool.
Take care, best wishes from 🇮🇪
Wow! Thanks for sharing. Night shift is so bad for our health in so many ways. There were midwives 20 plus years ago that ONLY did night shift and perhaps that worked for them. I think because I am such an early bird it really has never been easy for me.
You are on an amazing journey. Hang in there. There's a light at the end of the tunnel!
There sure is! Wink wink
Thank you for a lovely podcast.
Beautiful space, beautiful knitting and beautiful flowers!
Thank you!
I love your 'waffling'. You are such a cute personality! Flit on girl!
To me the daisy are my mum. Her favourite flower. It made me so happy to hear your story about them. Those daisies are a cuddle from the past for me. Thank you.
So enjoyed your video, especially the ‘wandering’ 😊of conversation! Lovely flowers too! You are finding such good resources through such nice people. 🤗Washington state, lol,not Seattle! 🇺🇸
Thank you. I’ve had a bit of a break but will be back soon!
It's lovely to hear your progress with the mill. The wee jumpers are so cute. Also liked the cowl and magnolia jumper.
Thank you! 😊
Such a lovely podcast….thank you for sharing! Oh, I also enjoyed your beautiful flowers, my yard is covered with snow which I love because it means spring flowers!
You must be looking forward to spring. Whereabouts do you live?
Hi Dinnie, I too am a knitter and a midwife. I live in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia which can get quite nippy for many months of the year so wooly knits are a must. I identified with you when you spoke of the night duty shift that you did and how long it took to recover. I too found it not a problem when going into the hospital for a birth, ( I was a caseload midwife for many years), I was busy and occupied with the birthing mum, then once the babe was born, the things we do post birth, then home again. But doing a full shift....when you get to 5am and you just want to lie down...but you have to wait til 7am.....by which time you are delirious with fatigue!!! Never again for me. It's lovely listening to your voice, so glad I have found your podcast.
Oh yes. The hour between 5 and 6 am is the hardest on night shift!! I much prefer caseloading midwifery but like I say…. In my 60s now and time to slow down. Hard to get the balance.
Are you caseloading now?
I've been wondering how your mill is going. Glad your back, now I need to settle in and watch
Thank you. Hope you had a relax and laugh :)
Love your podcast!
Great kiwi stick ability and problem solving Dinie- I’m sure you and Judy will get the mill humming before too much longer
Thanks Gina. Judy is an amazing help and is pretty focussed to hehe. Hope to see you at creative fibre if I can just get myself into gear. I feel I should be spending whatever time I have trying to problem solve!
Loving your posts! Love what you choose to knit, and your yarn choices are so beautiful! Lucky family who gets to wear them! I think you're amazing to figure out the mill, I'm not a techie either so it's all Greek to me! On my needles right now are a Lala shawl, a lempi sweater and a cosy vest for the hubby. Happy Knitting!! 🧶💕🌼
Thank you so much! Good to hear what you are knitting. I had a quick look in Ravelry. I see I have the shawl in my library. It is a great one to show nice yarn. Is the pullover a quick knit? I reckon that would be good in plotuloppi or Nutiden
Yes! I'd love to knit with either of those yarns, I'll have to see if any of our local yarn shops have either of those yarns! Yes, the Lempi is knitting up quickly, and the Lala is a quick one too, have knit it many times, sort of has become my go to pattern when I can't find one I want to knit! I forgot to tell you that we have the same problem going on here on the west coast of British Columbia, farmers not knowing what to do with their sheared raw wools, there was a big story here on the news the other night. The problem is no mills locally and I think they said there was only one or two in the whole province. I'm hoping someone like you is out there locally with the knowhow to do something, it just hurts my knitters heart to see the waste!! Anyway, rambling here, big hugs to you and your family from us here in Canada 💕🇨🇦🧶
Love your podcast and listening to your stories 😊
Yay, thank you!
I congratulate you on your perseverance with the mill. I imagine that you are constantly learning, which must be a great thing, & that you are having to exercise patience in getting to the finished product. I am so pleased to think that the older crafts won't die out while there are people like you in our community!
Thank you!
Oh the accidents that have happened with the items I have knit for family. So far they have shrunk in such a way that another member of the family now wears it.
I feel your pain
Good to you again Dinny, sounds like the mill is starting to pay off even after all the frustration and now you are able to pick up Fleece is Great. I have to Disagree with The Magnolia Jumper, I think it looked lovely on you even though I understood where you were coming from with the light Grey, and even more so when you out your Cowl went perfectly…❤
Fingers crossed! That the mill is sorted soon. It is a common theme that I start something and then find the ‘true’ recipient of the garment. I do much prefer stronger colours though….
Good to see you again. Your mill progress is so exciting. How awesome to have some support and knowledge from the other mill. I'm knitting a 2nd Magnolia Little cardigan for my youngest daughter, and plan to make the chunky sweater for me. Don't worry about the waffle, it's interesting too😁
I will have to look up the magnolia cardigan and add it to my extensive magnolia patterns hehe
Which chunky sweater?
Hi again from Australia. Thank you. I really enjoy all of your videos. I've been spinning. Finished a small blanket for me in cotton. Your knitting is beautiful. I hope 2023 is a wonderful year for you. Please don't say you are waffling lol. The stories are why I visit. When you have some product please let us know. I'm happy to pay postage to Australia.
Wow! Spinning cotton? Is it hard on the hands? Are you going to weave or knit with it? I am fascinated. Do you buy the fibre all ready to spin?
So happy to see a new video up. You're a great storyteller and I'm quite caught up in the mill adventure. Lovely flowers too.
I take my hat off to you and your fortitude. How gratifying to get your machinery working.
Your videos are super fun to watch. I am so excited for you to get your mill running! I watch thr Junction Fiber Mill videos too, they are quite ambitious. It is impressive. I can't wait to see your yarn.
I love your podcast, it feels like sitting and chatting with my New Zealand mother in law who is also a wonderful knitter. We haven’t seen each other in person for almost 4 years, but she arrives to stay with us in 2 weeks! Can’t wait for all the cuppas and chats.
I am absolutely confident that you will have yarn! No doubt so fun to watch your journey. Now I want to make a magnolia. I love the sleeves on the one you put on in the podcast. And your grandkids are so lucky to always get knits😊
Hopefully you get the machines running. Dont take fleeces until you look at the quality of wool and make sure the staple length isnt more than 10cm as it will wrap around the rollers. Check with your American Mill contact what the absolute maximum length of wool the machines will process. I retired as an RN. 10 hr shifts were full-on in Endoscopy Day procedure ward. Trying to keep up the required Australian CPD points was hard.
Yes. 10cm is loooong. The machines were set up for alpaca although I plan to mostly do sheep and I think they can just manage that length
I love listening to you as I knit or sort dinner or washing or whatever is to hand. Great to hear everything. Sometimes I talk back and almost expect a reply lol
Hehe. I often talk to the screen to when watching podcasts and I like them as background when cleaning etc. great minds eh?
@@myimperfectknittinglife9104 exactly ;)
Kia ora Dinie - I love seeing these updates so much and am very excited about the mill! I'm sure lots of people have already mentioned her - but just in case - have you been put in touch with Sandra Owen? She is wonderful, has sheep in Silverdale and is very knowledgeable about fleece for spinning. Last time I saw her she mentioned that it was sometimes very hard to move on all her fleece so had lots in need of a home, especially the darker colours. Not sure if it's a useful connection, but might be! xx
Wow. Thanks for that. I will look her up!
Lovely to hear your progress with the mill!
More to come! 😂
Your waffling is wonderful :) hope you get the machine running properly!
I hope so too! Thanks
I love your frames! Who makes them? 👓 ❤
Hello. good gryf. They are a New Zealand company
@@myimperfectknittinglife9104 cool, thanks!
You don’t seem waffling to me. Sounds like your big wall. If you’re a midwife, this mill is small potatoes. Be encouraged.
Thank you kindly for the mill start up and filming. Do you know if Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed? Very much enjoyed your highly informative chat!
So interesting following your journey with the mill. I watched Miss Evil Knits and really enjoyed it… do you have any plans to produce an unspun yarn? For a country with so many sheep, we have so few small mills…I have only found Little Wool Co and Wild Earth Yarns so far.
I don’t have the right machines but I am sure both of them do. It is pretty much the process before they spin the yarn and their machines make rolls of the unspun. I thought about contacting them to see if they would sell some to try. Could be a new opportunity for them
With a busy life, when do you find time to knit all these wonderful things???? I find that I can't knit in the evenings--even with good lamp light--so I wonder when you knit?
Whenever I can. Sometimes early in the morning. I rise about 5. Although in the summer when it is light I prefer to be out in the garden. Also middle of the day in summer I don’t go out because of the high UV but a bit hot and winter I hibernate haha. Mind you I think I will be busy in the mill this winter
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It’s a real pleasure to see and spend time with you Dinnie ! You don’t waffle at all! You are having a conversation with us and it’s a delight you are so interesting, love hearing about your family life, your work, and the updates on your mill. If you have a water beetle brain ( never heard of it) but i must have one too! Always going off on a tangent and forget what i started talking about! I love the magnolia sweater who is the pattern from and where do you purchase it? I wanted to ask how your daughter is and when her baby is due? So enjoy seeing Red, and especially love it when you show areas of where you live, i have never been to NZ but it looks very scenic. Take care, till next time. Suze. 🧶🐑🥰 x