Hi Lisa! So happy to see you each week, brightens my day! I love your shawl colors...looks like so fun to explore your stash and colors!! Look forward in seeing its fruition 😊🎉 Love the vacation pictures...lovely time. Enjoy your week and Thanks for your podcast 😀
Welcome back from your vacation. I'm so glad you guys had such a lovely time. I LOVE the flower you've made in the center of your shawl. It's so beautiful. And the colors are so pretty. Happy knitting and spinning! 💚🧶🐑💚
Really, what a wonderful video, I'm overwhelmed 🙈 I have to watch it twice to absorb all the impressions and informations. Amazing, really. Peace and love for you and everyone else 💚
Thank you for including the Turkish spindle tutorial. I wasn’t interested in trying it but you’ve changed my mind. I just found your channel recently and you’re so good at teaching. Thank you.
Im glad you had a lovely holiday and how lovely to have the whole beach to yourselves. Thank you for the Turkish spindle tutorial. I make my leader on a top whirl spindle but I will try your method now. Your Stephen West shawl is looking great and such pretty colours. What a treat to hear you playing the piano. Looking forward to your next video. Take care Lisa.x
Thank you for this gorgeous and peaceful episode! I enjoyed seeing all the projects you are working on and the vacation footage was amazing. I tend to drink both coffee and tea in the morning, the order depends on my mood each day.
Your shawl is going to be absolutely beautiful. Thank you for a great episode, again. Lake Michigan is so beautiful. So happy you got to end your summer there.
I love how you decided to use your flower square for clue 1 in the mkal. I love Turkish spindles, my favorite style of drop spindle. Your piano playing is beautiful! I'm busy this weekend with canning applesauce and knitting a fisherman's rib scarf for my son in law.
Lovely podcast. I purchased a Turkish spindle from Snyder Spindles after seeing yours. I love it! You are inspiring me to try another Turkish spindle maker.
Loved getting another Turkish spindle lesson. Wonderfully peaceful- loved scenes of your vacations scenes. What were you looking for in the water? Stones are beautiful. So relaxing hearing the water wash over and tumble the rocks. I play piano too so enjoyed that as well!
Hi Lisa, your clue 1 is amazing! I started clue 2. Your flower is a perfect fit🎉. I also added a 5th color. Everything always works out right.?! I am looking forward to seeing everyone’s square. We all but our love into this one ❤
Hello from a very sunny - but cold! England! I’m watching you on Sunday afternoon, sitting knitting my first Fairisle garment and loving it,with my headphones on watching you while my husband watches the England - Fiji rugby match. Every now and then he updates me on the score…😄 I love to watch you spin, it’s why I found your channel, fairly recently, because I’m going to have my first drop spinning lesson at the end of this week, when I come back from a knitting retreat! How lucky am I! I think even if I don’t become a spinner, I would love to collect spindles because so many of them are really things of beauty, aren’t they? I’ve thought for a long time that Stephen and Kaffe have a lot in common, but mainly that they are self taught innovators and colour geniuses. On holiday on Wales some years ago we drove to Lampeter to see Jen Jones’ antique Welsh quilt collection (I’ve been a quilter for decades) and along side it was the travelling Kaffe Fasset collection - the juxtaposition of the old and new quilts was just marvellous. Have a lovely week, I’m looking forward to your next posting.x
I spun 2 singles of gray Finn (from Marti at Walking Cloud Farm) with one single of white mohair for socks. They are beautifully soft and warm with lovely hello. The singles were very thin and the yarn came out to be about fingering to sport weight, so the socks are wearable in shoes and boots. I am sold on this method as an alternative way of blending.
Thank you .....really lovely finish. x Thank you also for the revision on the Turkish spindle. You replied last time to my question on spinning singles, suggesting Romney as a good fleece to try. I live in the UK, in south east London. I am close to Romney Marsh: an hours drive a guess. So, I found Romney Marsh wools, and have ordered a little from their beautiful flock of Romney's . Excited to try it.
Your videos are such a joy. Thanks for all the things you do. I love the spinning content you are so inspiring. I too love my turkish spindles from IST crafts. ❤
Thank you for another wonderful episode Lisa. Love watching you spin on your spindles and the scenes of your walk on the beach and piano playing are soothing and relaxing. Always uplifting!
PS I play that piece that you ended with. I’d love to see the cover of the book. The one I play out of is an offertories book from years ago with a red cover.
Love the film clips by the lakeside - so lovely and peaceful. Peaches looks so happy and relaxed too. Another delightful podcast. Thank you for sharing your crafty adventures with all of us. - My MKAL Geogradient is going ok. I’d finished the OG Clue 1, and only just this evening finished the v.3 Clue 1. My mods were to add eyelets and some texture. (Face palm) haha.
Was that Gallagher's Farm Market you guys stopped at because they have the best cherry butter and preserves, oh my goodness amazing!! I used to live in Michigan and I am in San Diego now but I still mail order cherry goodies from them because they are the best!
No, it was Jollay Orchards. I purchase the best tart cherry preserves. That area of the country is a wonderful source of produce especially Peaches and cherries that I love so much.
I love your start to the geogradient shawl, your colours and hearing about your inspiration. I’m having a crocheting phase so have incorporated a granny square diamond with 4 triangles to make a square for mine ( it’s fun seeing peoples personality in their centre square) I reused most of my small bits of yarn from the original clue, because some of it was handspun. One stripe is handspun mohair. I’ve spun mohair and plyed it with alpaca and that works well but haven’t tried it with Finn I will be interested to see what you think. If you want lots of halo you can brush the skein it with a soft brush. Thankyou for a wonderful podcast.
The yarn advent I ordered for this year includes 2 days of hand spun yarn from the dyer so I’ve been keeping my eye out for colorwork designs like the sweater you showed! Thank you for the inspiration 💛
Enjoyed your video, as usual. I really liked your interpretation of Stephen West's new MKAL, and look forward to seeing his and yours evolve. I bought the same Spanish Peacock spindle, which just arrived yesterday! There is some magic in his spindles!
As a SW Michigan resident, I am glad you enjoyed your stay in the area. I got a Turkish spindle at the Michigan Fiber Fest and am really enjoying using it! I am trying to learn to spin as consistently as you do, but there is a ways to go yet.
You asked about tea. I get a lot of tea from Harney & Sons, which has a huge selection. I tried all the breakfast teas and came back around to English. They have a black tea called Russian Country, which is just a little bit smoky (but not too much). It would be a bit much first thing in the morning but is great in the afternoon. There's a kind of quirky weird tea called Milk Oolong, which I first tried on the recommendation of Selma at Little Big Knits. I get mine from Genuine Tea in Toronto, and if you've never tried it before but are interested, I would definitely recommend just getting the sample size at first, because I suspect it's one of those that you will either really love or really hate!
Beautiful video as always. I’m spinning some gorgeously fine Shetland on my tiny IST Turkish spindle atm and getting around 20 WPI when plied back. I have two of these fleeces, one white and one very dark brown so I’m going to experiment with colour mixing and blending and hopefully end up with super fine shawl yarn 😀. I will also be taking this little spindle on holiday when we go next month. I’d never heard of using one as a supported spindle though; I can’t wait to have a go at it.
I think your original Turkish spindle video was the first one I ever saw of yours! And then it was the drop spindling from start to finish and I continue to recommend that video to lots of people. You truly have taught me and inspired me in so many ways, Lisa! to the point where I was a spindling demonstrator at the Virginia Fiber Festival last weekend ❤️🧶🐑 The CVM for your arboreal is stunning, btw. and don’t our sons just 💔?
Hi it is one of my 100mm (the length of the arms) Turkish, I do 2 in what I call the mid range, the 100 with 3mm brass weights and the 110mm with 4mm weights. Ian IST Crafts.
I might have to borrow that phrase when you referred to the book which "came into the house". Its quite interchangeable right? "The fleece came into the house" 😂
Thanks again for a beautiful video. Autumn is a calming season, I love it 💚 stay safe
Thank you for another lovely episode.
Thank you for the extraordinary gift of your podcasts and soulful creativity. May all suffering be alleviated and may we all find joy. xo
Loved the beach clips and particularly the shot of the waves on the pebbles, divine!
Hi Lisa!
So happy to see you each week, brightens my day! I love your shawl colors...looks like so fun to explore your stash and colors!! Look forward in seeing its fruition 😊🎉
Love the vacation pictures...lovely time.
Enjoy your week and Thanks for your podcast 😀
Welcome back from your vacation. I'm so glad you guys had such a lovely time.
I LOVE the flower you've made in the center of your shawl. It's so beautiful. And the colors are so pretty. Happy knitting and spinning! 💚🧶🐑💚
Thank you for spinning and piano playing👏👏♥️🇫🇮🇸🇪
Really, what a wonderful video, I'm overwhelmed 🙈 I have to watch it twice to absorb all the impressions and informations. Amazing, really. Peace and love for you and everyone else 💚
Thanks for this peaceful - and colorful! - interlude, keeping me company while weaving in the (many) ends of my Paul Klee.
Peaches loves the beach. Your shawl will be beautiful
i love your piano playing.
Thank you for including the Turkish spindle tutorial. I wasn’t interested in trying it but you’ve changed my mind. I just found your channel recently and you’re so good at teaching. Thank you.
Im glad you had a lovely holiday and how lovely to have the whole beach to yourselves. Thank you for the Turkish spindle tutorial. I make my leader on a top whirl spindle but I will try your method now. Your Stephen West shawl is looking great and such pretty colours. What a treat to hear you playing the piano. Looking forward to your next video. Take care Lisa.x
Really, really enjoyed the variety of topics in your show! thank you and I look forward to catching up with you again soon.
Thank you for this gorgeous and peaceful episode! I enjoyed seeing all the projects you are working on and the vacation footage was amazing.
I tend to drink both coffee and tea in the morning, the order depends on my mood each day.
I have finally had time this week to sit down and get to the end of the episode. Wonderful thank you for sharing 🙏🐏🧶🌸
Your shawl is going to be absolutely beautiful. Thank you for a great episode, again.
Lake Michigan is so beautiful. So happy you got to end your summer there.
Beautiful sunset, and piano music to, can’t ask for anything more.😊
Thank you so very much!
I love what you've done with your clue 1! love the throw back to the Birlinn blanket and it's amazing
Lisa, I love love love your Geogradient!!!
I am also a coffee in the morning and tea I the afternoon 😊
Amazing, thank you. Hi Peaches!!
Your flower beginning square for the geogradient is beautiful and the r
Beautiful episode ❤.
💗🐏🐑💗Merciii
The colors you ended up with for the MKAL are beautiful
You doing your Berlinn Blanket squares on the other videos got me going on the pattern. It's one of my favorite things to do also!
I love what you've done with Clue 1!
I love how you decided to use your flower square for clue 1 in the mkal. I love Turkish spindles, my favorite style of drop spindle. Your piano playing is beautiful! I'm busy this weekend with canning applesauce and knitting a fisherman's rib scarf for my son in law.
I love your floral center start to the shawl. Very creative!
I love your soft pink gradient colors in yours, too. So pretty 🌸
Enjoyed your Turkish spindle demo, looking forward to getting my first one
Lovely podcast. I purchased a Turkish spindle from Snyder Spindles after seeing yours. I love it! You are inspiring me to try another Turkish spindle maker.
Amen
Loved getting another Turkish spindle lesson. Wonderfully peaceful- loved scenes of your vacations scenes. What were you looking for in the water? Stones are beautiful. So relaxing hearing the water wash over and tumble the rocks. I play piano too so enjoyed that as well!
Stephen is a genius and is handling this mkal amazingly
Hi Lisa, your clue 1 is amazing! I started clue 2. Your flower is a perfect fit🎉. I also added a 5th color. Everything always works out right.?! I am looking forward to seeing everyone’s square. We all but our love into this one ❤
Hello from a very sunny - but cold! England! I’m watching you on Sunday afternoon, sitting knitting my first Fairisle garment and loving it,with my headphones on watching you while my husband watches the England - Fiji rugby match. Every now and then he updates me on the score…😄
I love to watch you spin, it’s why I found your channel, fairly recently, because I’m going to have my first drop spinning lesson at the end of this week, when I come back from a knitting retreat! How lucky am I! I think even if I don’t become a spinner, I would love to collect spindles because so many of them are really things of beauty, aren’t they?
I’ve thought for a long time that Stephen and Kaffe have a lot in common, but mainly that they are self taught innovators and colour geniuses. On holiday on Wales some years ago we drove to Lampeter to see Jen Jones’ antique Welsh quilt collection (I’ve been a quilter for decades) and along side it was the travelling Kaffe Fasset collection - the juxtaposition of the old and new quilts was just marvellous.
Have a lovely week, I’m looking forward to your next posting.x
I spun 2 singles of gray Finn (from Marti at Walking Cloud Farm) with one single of white mohair for socks. They are beautifully soft and warm with lovely hello. The singles were very thin and the yarn came out to be about fingering to sport weight, so the socks are wearable in shoes and boots. I am sold on this method as an alternative way of blending.
I think that’s a brilliant idea! And isn’t Marti’s fleeces amazing?
Thank you .....really lovely finish. x Thank you also for the revision on the Turkish spindle. You replied last time to my question on spinning singles, suggesting Romney as a good fleece to try. I live in the UK, in south east London. I am close to Romney Marsh: an hours drive a guess. So, I found Romney Marsh wools, and have ordered a little from their beautiful flock of Romney's . Excited to try it.
I look forward to hearing about your experience with it!
Would love one day to be able to get my hands on a Spanish Peacock spindle...
Another beautiful episode! Your spinning with spindles videos were how I found your channel.
Your videos are such a joy. Thanks for all the things you do. I love the spinning content you are so inspiring. I too love my turkish spindles from IST crafts. ❤
Thank you for another wonderful episode Lisa. Love watching you spin on your spindles and the scenes of your walk on the beach and piano playing are soothing and relaxing. Always uplifting!
You are so welcome! I hope you have a lovely day. 🥰
We're always so lucky to get a new video from you. Ahhh, lovely lake and your beautiful piano. So peaceful. I really like how the shawl is going!
Always good to hear from you, Dana. Thanks so much for watching!😝
PS I play that piece that you ended with. I’d love to see the cover of the book. The one I play out of is an offertories book from years ago with a red cover.
The book I use is an introduction to Chopin that I have had for 40 years. Where does the time go?
@@SoulfulSpinning IKR?!
You are such a phenomenal spinner. I watch your videos for inspiration
Thank you so much 😀
Love the film clips by the lakeside - so lovely and peaceful. Peaches looks so happy and relaxed too. Another delightful podcast. Thank you for sharing your crafty adventures with all of us. - My MKAL Geogradient is going ok. I’d finished the OG Clue 1, and only just this evening finished the v.3 Clue 1. My mods were to add eyelets and some texture. (Face palm) haha.
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Was that Gallagher's Farm Market you guys stopped at because they have the best cherry butter and preserves, oh my goodness amazing!! I used to live in Michigan and I am in San Diego now but I still mail order cherry goodies from them because they are the best!
No, it was Jollay Orchards. I purchase the best tart cherry preserves. That area of the country is a wonderful source of produce especially Peaches and cherries that I love so much.
I love your start to the geogradient shawl, your colours and hearing about your inspiration. I’m having a crocheting phase so have incorporated a granny square diamond with 4 triangles to make a square for mine ( it’s fun seeing peoples personality in their centre square) I reused most of my small bits of yarn from the original clue, because some of it was handspun. One stripe is handspun mohair. I’ve spun mohair and plyed it with alpaca and that works well but haven’t tried it with Finn I will be interested to see what you think. If you want lots of halo you can brush the skein it with a soft brush. Thankyou for a wonderful podcast.
Your Clue 1 is fabulous! Stephen West couldn’t have done better! You’re the only Podcaster not to have a glum face about it all - well done 🎉
Soooo Lovely !!!
I am just finishing the updated clue 1 for the mkal tonight. Will start clue 2 midnight Saturday
I should be fine with clue 1 today. I am looking forward to the next section!
And the reference to Kaffe Fasset on the dot
I love his work so much!
The yarn advent I ordered for this year includes 2 days of hand spun yarn from the dyer so I’ve been keeping my eye out for colorwork designs like the sweater you showed! Thank you for the inspiration 💛
Enjoyed your video, as usual. I really liked your interpretation of Stephen West's new MKAL, and look forward to seeing his and yours evolve. I bought the same Spanish Peacock spindle, which just arrived yesterday! There is some magic in his spindles!
As a SW Michigan resident, I am glad you enjoyed your stay in the area. I got a Turkish spindle at the Michigan Fiber Fest and am really enjoying using it! I am trying to learn to spin as consistently as you do, but there is a ways to go yet.
You asked about tea. I get a lot of tea from Harney & Sons, which has a huge selection. I tried all the breakfast teas and came back around to English. They have a black tea called Russian Country, which is just a little bit smoky (but not too much). It would be a bit much first thing in the morning but is great in the afternoon. There's a kind of quirky weird tea called Milk Oolong, which I first tried on the recommendation of Selma at Little Big Knits. I get mine from Genuine Tea in Toronto, and if you've never tried it before but are interested, I would definitely recommend just getting the sample size at first, because I suspect it's one of those that you will either really love or really hate!
Thanks for the recommendations! I was drinking Taylors of Harrogate (sp?) English breakfast tea. I’ll definitely try to find some Harney & Sons!
Hi Lisa I think the turkish at 12mins is Laburnum, hope you are keeping well, Ian x
Yes, I remember! Such a pretty wood. So thrilled you caught my video 🤗
Beautiful video as always. I’m spinning some gorgeously fine Shetland on my tiny IST Turkish spindle atm and getting around 20 WPI when plied back. I have two of these fleeces, one white and one very dark brown so I’m going to experiment with colour mixing and blending and hopefully end up with super fine shawl yarn 😀. I will also be taking this little spindle on holiday when we go next month. I’d never heard of using one as a supported spindle though; I can’t wait to have a go at it.
grant us peace
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I think your original Turkish spindle video was the first one I ever saw of yours! And then it was the drop spindling from start to finish and I continue to recommend that video to lots of people. You truly have taught me and inspired me in so many ways, Lisa! to the point where I was a spindling demonstrator at the Virginia Fiber Festival last weekend ❤️🧶🐑
The CVM for your arboreal is stunning, btw. and don’t our sons just 💔?
I love your videos so much Lisa ❤ If you get a min, please could you advise the length/weight of your medium size Turkish spindle from IST 😊
Hi it is one of my 100mm (the length of the arms) Turkish, I do 2 in what I call the mid range, the 100 with 3mm brass weights and the 110mm with 4mm weights. Ian IST Crafts.
@@iantait309 thank you 😊
Thanks for responding, Ian. Those midrange spindles are so versatile!
I hope you’re keeping well.
Love , Lisa
I might have to borrow that phrase when you referred to the book which "came into the house". Its quite interchangeable right? "The fleece came into the house" 😂
Yes, now HOW it came into the house is another question…”I don’t know honey this fleece was just there when I woke up?” 😝
@@SoulfulSpinning 😂