vlogtober 2023 - episode 1
Вставка
- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Welcome to vlogtober 2023, once again perfectly timed to coincide with the @StephenWest ‘Mystery Knit-a-long’ (MKAL).
This year’s MKAL kicks off on Thursday 5th October so join me as we kick off vlogtober with a lazy Sunday in Cardiff.
If you want to join in with the MKAL you can get your copy of the pattern here:
www.westknits....
www.ravelry.co...
If you want to join in with the community collaboration with Irina from @Fiberchats, we’re hosting two zoom cast on parties this Thursday, 5th October: at 12pm EST/5pm BST and 5pm EST/10pm BST.
Future Humans of Westknits MKAL Zoom knit together will be on
October 7, 11, 14, 18, 25, 28 at 1pm EST/ 6pm BST.
For our Australian and New Zealand friends and anyone else who can join, we’ll also do October 13th and 27th at 8pm EST/1am BST (which will be October 14th and 28th at 10:30am Adelaide time)
Please join any of them or all of them:
Zoom ID: 6283878981
Password: MKAL
Vlogtober content suggestion: knit/crochet items you used or wore this week, items you made that aren’t being worn and how you can fix that (repair,donate, frog,whatever),
I love this idea!!!!
Hej Martyn ! Oh so precious of you to help special need kids. Adore yours Vlogtober. 👻💙👻
Thank you Martyn, it was so lovely to see the harbour. Very excited for the MKAL and for being a part of the journey with you again. I love yours and Mark's colours. Well done on the health changes! 😊
Thanks SO much for sharing the “behind the scenes” moments. Vlogtober is always a treat! What a lovely idea to knit the hats and hand warmers (polish the halo). Making healthy changes is ALWAYS a good idea 👍🏻! Cardiff seems such a beautiful city (someday I hope to visit). If I remember correctly Stephen said something about needing to put stitches on hold…..maybe more needles is a good thing 😂. Oh the anticipation……….
Good on you knitting for the children. I enjoy when you take us on your outings.
Lovely place where you live Martyn , and hello Mark , lovey to see you , and yes Martyn I agree Mark is a little cutie , love seeing you together xx ❤❤❤❤
I’m so excited your doing this again! You kept me motivated to keep working on last years MKAL -
And I’m so glad you mentioned how you never seem to have the needles you need for a new project! Same here so I made sure to buy them the other day😂
Thank you for all you do it’s an amazing job👍🏻❤
Love Vlogtomer because we get more of You and Mark -- thanks for all you put into it!!!
Hello Martyn; Always lovely to see what youv'e been up to. Really enjoy Vlogtober because October is my favorite month and.....so fun to see more of you! The craftin', cookin' and scenic tour were amazing. Such a generous gift you are givng to those childeren; the hats and mitts look great! Congrats on your healthy changes! Take care and happy creating!! ~Lori
So excited for vlogtober and mkal
Hi Martyn. I had said to husband that it looked like you had lost some weight at the beginning of the video. Well done. It's not an easy thing to do.
Thank you for the bay tour. Loved it. We went over to our daughters last weekend and we travel up the M6 to the Lake District and then across the A66 over to Scotch Corner. It's a beautiful route. All the hills and mountains laid out in all their arrange of colours, this time accompanied with a gorgeous blue sky.
We really do live in a beautiful country. We are so lucky.
Looking forward to seeing your progress through October on the MAL. Enjoy and remember to embrace your pace and don't panic if life gets in the way.
Love the hats and hand warmers. Take care xxJane 🐑🌈
Thank you so very much for all of your time and work to bring us smiles, Martyn. Very much looking forward to Vlogtober and the MKAL this year 😊.
Yeah! Vlogtober is here! I'm so happy about that because I really enjoy your videos. You live in such a beautiful spot. That hill you walked up, that they reclaimed. I think you should buy a couple of young fruit trees and plant them up there on top of the hill. Then when they start to grow and fill out, you would have a shady spot to sit under to knit or have lunch. Then when they produce fruit, everyone who goes there can have something from the fruit trees.
It is definitely an advantage living by water and having some nature to walk through next to where you live, without having to get into a car.
I love it when you show footage of your city during vlogtober ( and also on your travels)
Lovely episode with the walk through nature and along the waterfront of Cardiff!
Looking forward to Vlogtober. I have my yarn caked for the MKAL. Swatching ahead.
Thanks for sharing the locks, my daughter was just learning about the historical locks near our home in Pennsylvania and enjoyed seeing the modern locks.
Love Vlogtober! Well done on your healthy regime, looking great! Looking forward to following your Mkal progress #teamembraceyourpace
So happy that you do Vlogtober! Thanks for taking us with you around Cardiff. The wool looks fantastic both kits! 😊
Loved it when you called Mark a whippet 😂. You're so lucky to live by the water.
Great to see you are now taking such good care of your health, it is inspiring.
Well done on your Silver Martyn you and I Scream really deserve it xx
Loving the photo of Mark and the wrist warmers! Excited to see what adventures you both get up to this October and learning more about your health journey (10km walk is super impressive)
Thank you for taking me on your walk lovely place, you have a very good model looking forward to more blogs⭐️
Hi Martyn! MKAL & your Vlogtober vids are perfect combo for my fave time of the West Knits year! The roast chicken looks delish!
Love the Vlogtober…….love the walk about.
Hi Martyn, Love the hats and hand warmers, and thank you for taking us on your walk up the hill and along the bay. ❤
Thank you for sharing a bit of Cardiff with us!
We too have a landfill that local neighbours call Mt Trashmore. Always an invigorating walk there. I have one skein hand wound and need to get on that train and finish the other five. Only need four but having second thoughts about one colour so it’s backup time. Thank you for your podcasts and doing Vlogtober.
Loving the Vlogtober. You live in such a beautiful area. Thanks for taking the time to do this!
This was really fun. Loved the walk and the hats a mittens you made for the kids 💚🧶💚
Yay, vlogtober. Brilliant 👏👏
Loving Vlogtober and looking forward to seeing all of them. Your looking great can really see the difference. 🙌🏻well done. Pass the healthy tips on could do with a few. Happy swatching. 😜🧶🧶x
Thanks you two for doing Vlogtober - Cardiff looks awesome. My hands are getting so bad now it can be days between being knitting sessions and I am incredible slow - so I am watching MKALs now not joining in - too frustrating lol - doesn't mean I don't love watching you...
Yours is probably the only Vlogtober I always watch even if I am not doing the mkal this year ❤
Happy Vlogtober! Great idea to make the hats and mittens as a stash buster!
Thank you for bringing me so much joy and inspiration! Adore you both! Happy Vlogtober!
Awesome video, I love seeing your home town. Maybe one day we could see the lock gates in use?
Lookin slender! Keep it up!!!
Thanks for the tour and information
Happy vlogtober 🎃🍁 loved seeing you out and about around Cardiff. Making me very nostalgic for when I lived there!
Love vlogtober.
Would like to see some of your whips.
Always interesting. S
Happy vlogtober!! I've walked up that hill a few times with the kids and other half. Not sure if it's still held there but there used to be a Park Run each week on the path that goes through the site.
Hi Martyn from Down Under in Queensland. This will be my third mkal watching your vlogs. I’m looking forward to starting. 🎉
Those vegs look amazing.
So excited to start mkal 2023....I have started my project to fill in time between clues. Its the stewarta pullover for my brothers 60th birthday ( its already months late but he'll get it in time for Christmas)
I remember as a kid watching the hoo-har about the Barrage on 'Wales Today' and us up in the North saying "Brilliant idea - get on with it!" 🤣 I've visited it a few times and it never disappoints.
Loved this! Thank you so much. It was so nice to see your city. Would love to see more of that. And what do you two do for a job? Thanks again, Martyn, nice channel😊
I absolutely love Mark’s expression when modelling the hat and hand warmers 😂😂😂 priceless. And the roast, I don’t know about needing to smell it, I needed to be handed a plate 😂😂
Have been looking forward to this. Love your Vlogtober❤️ so nice to see more of the town you and Mark live in. Looking forward to the MKAL we all are going to work on together😊
More! More! I love this.
You live in a lovely part of Britain
Hello from Mounds Illinois.
Hi, Martyn….I’m really looking forward to Vlogtober 2023. Happy knitting until next time. 🤗❤️🙋
That dinner looked delicious!!
So happy you and Mark started October vlogmas….dinner looks delicious, mitts and hat looks great!
Wow Martin you’re looking great. You can really see the weight loss 💪
I am so glad you are doing Vlogtober. Our crafting group does Hats for Head Start. Sounds very similar to what you are doing for the school. We only do hats, no mittens. But good for you. I love knitting for charity, love gift knitting, and of course, knitting for me.
Oh how I miss Cardiff bay and Bute Park and Cardiff in general so many great place to walk and to sit and knit can feel a holiday coming on lol
Looking great Martyn! Was so nice meeting you in the zoom last week. I have a very similar blue cobalt that I loove for the Geogradient! Can’t wait to “ kick off” time!
Hi from. A first warm day in South Africa 🇿🇦. I enjoy the flog
I am going to Ally Pally on Saturday with my daughter ❤love your walk. Well done
Hi I like to See your flat😉and a lot of knits 🧶Hello from switzerland 🇨🇭
Question. The brand of the metal swift please?Now that the weather is cooling, would love to see Mark's jumper get a work-out 😈 ❤
Thank you for the walk scenery. Cut out all carbs, bread, sugar, potatoes from your diet. With intermittent fasting of 12hrs+. I lost 4kgs not that I really needed to. More for high cholesterol.
I may need a sweater out of that blue!!
Hi and thank you for all your lovely videos. I’m super excited to start the Mkal, I’ve been ready for 3 weeks now and the waiting is killing me 😅!!! Please would you send me the link to the kids beanie you are making ? I’d love to make some for donation. I also have some style craft and would love to use it up. Thank you.
I have to wind three more skies and I don't have a swift so I'm hand winding, love both kits see you when we can seeyour swatches. Good luck team two at a time
☀️🌅🌺😘
Like video
Love to watch your videos. Please don't dubble up with the suri (or mohair). Your shawl will turn out much too big. Kind reagards from the Netherlands.
H I Martyn 😊
Hi Martyn, when you go to Ally Pally can I ask you to slow down on the video and stop zooming in and out. It is far more pleasant when the screen is slow enough to actually see what we are looking at. I know you are a very excitable chap and I do appreciate your vids. Unfortunately I just cannot watch the ones at the shows. I end up feeling sick and dizzy. Hope you don’t mind my saying ❤
You can slow down the rate of how you watch you tune in the controls
Yes I slow the speed down especially for tutorial videos. Works really well. Just click on the cog wheel symbol in the top right corner and change the playback speed.
@@anner651 I’ll give that a try. Thank you.
I hope to do a bit of knitting after work tomorrow. In preparation. I am worried that I am not in shape to work during the day and knit until 11 pm at night. 🥱