Snowflake Angels, Gingerbread & a Swiss Woollen Mill - Ep. 139 - Fruity Knitting
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
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0:00 Intro
3:29 Christmas Snowflake Angel - Alan Dart - Bring & Brag
10:17 Tutorial - Christmas Snowflake Angel
18:33 Christmas Balls - Arne & Carlos - Bring & Brag
23:38 German Gingerbread - Christmas Traditions!
29:12 Makers - Gingerbread Bakery Hatzel
43:12 Barbroe Blouse - Knitting For Olive - Under Construction
49:35 Gladden - Kim Hargreaves - Bring & Brag
55:20 Patron Discount - Wollspinnerei Vetsch
55:55 Interview - Wollspinnerei Vetsch
Whether you are a beginner or an advanced knitter, the Fruity Knitting Podcast will open you up to a vast world of knitwear designers, knitting patterns, yarns, knitting techniques, sheep breeds, and other fiber animals! This episode features an interview with the Wollspinnerei Vetsch, a family-run woolen mill in the countryside of Switzerland! We also visit a German gingerbread bakery in North Bavaria. Andrea shows you how to knit and sew up a Christmas toy by Alan Dart, which Andrea made as a Christmas gift. Madeleine talks about the 3 Christmas balls she recently knitted, designed by Arne and Carlos. In Under Construction, Andrea discusses why she is reknitting her Barbroe Blouse by Knitting For Olive. In Bring & Brag, Madeleine shows off her "Gladden" sweater, a design by Kim Hargreaves, which is covered in lace and bobbles and has oversized sleeves. For a moment, Madeleine worried the sleeves turned out too large. Wondering what other people thought of oversized sleeves, she discovered that in 16th-century Venice, your sleeves were confiscated if they were too large!
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Nice to learn the name of the introductory piano piece. It’s incredibly refreshing!
WOW realt interesting hearin about the swiss wool mill
Catching up on episodes I missed these past few months. Watched the Knitting for Olive yesterday (oh goodness, if ever there is a heaven of hues on this Earth, it must be their boutique!! *GASP*), and now watching this Christmas special while having inordinately high summer temperatures in my little corner of Québec. I am completely enamoured with your Gladden, Madeleine, as well as both of your lace tops from Knitting for Olive. I will need to take time away from your channel or I'll be finding myself purchasing even more yarn for projects for which I don't have the skills yet! *laughing* What a wonderful episode, again. Thank you for the enchantment. Hope you are well xx
Fabulous episode!
Andrea and Madeline, would you consider doing a snippet on proper care and laundering of your sweaters to keep them lasting a long time and looking beautiful? I have never made a sweater but I feel like a big fear of mine would be putting in all that work and then not getting to wear it very many times due to some mistake that results in my sweater shrinking or getting felted or pilly.
Lovely episode!
Andrew would be so very proud of his two girls. Merry Christmas to you both, sending love from Australia 🎄🎄
I think fondly of Andrew every episode I watch. I love that he is still such a dear part of our hearts 💕
@@newmoonjlpmoi aussi !
Il serait fier de vous !
Andrew comes to mind whenever there is drone footage. He would be elated to see how things are going. 💙
I really miss him 🌺
Madelain is doing a superb job, and the show is a pleasure to watch, but still..
@@biaberg3448 Agreed. I think of Andrew each episode and am amazed at how they have carried on.
P.S. I loved the segment with the Wollspinnerei…. He was so charming, the owner .
Merci ❤
Thank you so much for this! I'm Californian but was stationed in Germany and then Spain with the U.S. Air Force. I studied German in college and planned my parents' first trip to Europe. Big fun getting a hotel room in Heidelburg when I heard Mom and Dad would have a two-person room. I asked the innkeeper "What about me?" and was told "You can sleep with me!" and quickly my mouth answered "Nay, nicht heute Nacht!" and the look on the innkeeper's face was priceless, my folks smiling the whole time. . . My best friend in San Francisco was a Swiss lady. I learned so much from her. . . . Boot socks! Bartlettyarns in the US is a fascinating old mill. I used their worsted weight black sheep (pretty brown, actually) natural color to make traditional fisherman/mountaineer mittens which the end user has to felt down to fit -- and his hands never feel cold -- even if the mittens get wet. I sold them on eBay. I used the same worsted weight yarn to make boot socks for the Native American "water protectors" who were suffering frostbite as they demonstrated against an oil pipeline. I had the white color on hand and sent 6 pair to the authorities in North Dakota. As you were saying on the program, this wool is "scratchy" but makes wonderful outer garments.
What a treat it's been to watch this - thank you Andrea and Madeleine, and Happy Christmas! I think Christoph totally enjoyed his interview with you, and the footage taken inside the mill was great. I could stand and watch that carding machine all day! The Snow Angel is an absolute beauty, and I admire both of you so much for your patience in making these smaller items. Best wishes to you both for 2024. ❤❤
That light color in the sample looked beautiful on you, Andrea. The dark color is pretty, but doesn’t show the design as well. But that lighter color will be good.
Feliz Navidad!! gracias❤❤❤
My husband walked by as I was watching this and got intrigued by the lebkuchen story. He found a German store in Burlington (Canada) and we are now enjoying lebkuchen! My favourite is the plain one. Thanks for another interesting podcast.
i wish we still had the old wool mills in the uk
Hello, dear Andrea and Madeline, and thank you so much for your generosity, talent, beauty and elegance that you offer us with every new episode. All the sequences for your travels, all of these wonderful interviews that you realise and all your beautiful and sofisticated choices in knitting are irresistible. And also the music you choose is always a pure delight. Madeline entering in a nice yarn shop on the Peggy Lee accords reminds me of young Audrey Hepburn or Ingrid Bergman in classic movies. You two, beautiful ladies, are the image of harmony and kindness and thank you again for this charming and unique podcast. Thank you, too, for your warm greetings! I wish you a happy new year, with health, joy, inspiration for new and wonderful projects, beautiful travels and good friends! 😊🤗❤
Your Angel is beautiful and enchanting.
Hello Madelaine and Andrea,
I have put up some old Christmas photos
, and there is a photo of my Mum wearing a jumper almost identical
To Madeleine,s Knitting for Olive blouse. It must be from early 60,s
Looking forward to seeing Madelaine in hers. Wishing you both a
Very merry Christmas & a happy new year
Thank you for this christmas episode, which gave me a lot of pleasure. I was born and grew up in Aachen and could almost smell the scent of the "Printen". The candy sugar "Gerümmel-Zucker", which you can taste very clearly, is typical of the Printen. Just like the "Nürnberger Lebkuchen", the "Aachener Printen" can only be baked by Aachen bakers. I wish you, Andrea and Madelaine, a blessed and peaceful Christmas! 🎄⭐🎄 🧶
I too was excited to see a mention of the Aachener Printen! I spent time in Aachen for a school exchange over Christmas time many years ago. The printen is delicious.
Amazing episode. One of my favorites. I couldn’t believe the process of creating the gingerbread! Checked the website- they’re all sold out for 2023!😊
To the most beautiful ladies on the internet- I wish you a blessed Merry Christmas. My thoughts to your beloved Andrew during this time. He had the greatest smile. He is missed but never forgotten.
Thank you for bringing me joy everytime I watch your beautiful videos! I feel it's a bit of Heaven, listening to beautiful music, seeing countrysides and villages I'll never see in person, learning new and interesting things, being inspired by artists who are willing to share their knowledge. You two feel like family to me and I appreciate your dedication to creating informative and fun experiences! Excellent work!
A very Happy New Year to you both!❤
I've only just started watching your videos and I am blown away by the production quality and the interesting things I learn! Thank you for interviewing so many interesting people on your show. As an American, it utterly boggles my mind that one company, still in existence, is like 2/3 the age of my country. Happy New Year!
Your interview with KFO inspired me to get the Barbroe Blouse. Very happy I did and thank you Madeleine for explaining how to count the gauge! Could you get back to us about the sleeves to Barbroe once you are knitting them? I'm on one of them and can't for the life of me understand how to increase the shell pattern correctly, even though I've read the description many times over. Almost want to give up on the blouse. 😢
This was a very special episode for me. My mother grew up in Bavaria. We just made Lebkuchen for the 2nd year in a row, eith and for my Mom. AND, my brother was born in Switzerland. So many feel- good moments for me. Thank you.
Thank you once again. Your podcasts are always so unique and I learn of so many new ideas and places to visit for knitting.
Such a lovely episode. The Lebkuchen looks and sounds absolutely delicious, and I love Madeline's historical research it makes the story so fascinating. The thing about sleeves was hilarious. Loved the interview with the small woolen mill in Switzerland. What a privilege to be able to pop out and deal with our children if there is a problem. There is a definite plus in that! Beautiful delicate colours in their finer yarns as well as the interesting tough yarns. I also love the idea of the old machine talking to you. Thankyou
Thank you for the beautiful episode. I was especially delighted to hear the christmas carols by the childrens choir. It is a very old recording that accompanied my childhood christmases fifty years ago and is still a "must" in our household.
Andrea and Madelaine, Jack and remembering Andrew, wishing you both a lovely Christmas and all best wishes for 2024
I really enjoy the hometown small family business structure, it makes knitting with their yarn so much more special. History in you garment.
Merry Christmas to you both.
This was an extremely interesting episode to me! I spent a lot of time in Germany and Austria as a young child, and always loved lebkuchen, later the Swiss version, biber. My Swiss husband‘s ancestor opened one of the first spinning mills in northeastern Switzerland around 1798, then left his brother to run it while he took a large group of Swiss workers, on foot (!) over the Alps to Naples around 1812, where due to Napoleon‘s Continental Blockade limiting imports of colonial cotton, they had begun to produce cotton themselves and needed a means of spinning it… Eventually several of these Swiss and German entrepreneurs‘ mills amalgamated to become a cotton cooperative that still exists today.
I often look at our early 19th century portrait of this charming-looking pioneer smiling down at us - as it happens, the family‘s village of origin is only a couple of kilometres away and he will have known the mill we now live in! (We have a lot of milling history!) Sadly, almost all of the textile mills are gone now, only the old grain and sawmill buildings often remain, so it‘s great to know Vetsch is carrying on the tradition a little further south.
Wow, thanks for sharing this interesting bit of family history with us!
What a nice and "full/complete" episode, loved it. 😊Thank you girls, looking forward to the next one 🥰🐑🐐🦙🧶
Thank you Andrea and Madeline. I hope that you are enjoying the holiday season and looking to forward to a very knitty 2024. ♥♥
What a delight, Andrea and Madeleine! As usual, you brought us to some beautiful places, especially in Switzerland at the Vetsch mill, and shared some fantastic knits and how you made them. The Christmas spirit was truly here, and I relaxed and enjoyed it all while knitting along with you. Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy new year to you both.
What a wonderful episode. I loved learning about the two historic companies and seeing their mix of traditional and modern equipment and techniques. Woollen mills are fascinating!!! Thank you for featuring them.
Madeleine, thanks for your tip about the floats in the A&C Christmas balls. I made a few a couple of years ago but gave up because I was so unhappy with how the carried yarn was showing through. I will try again!
Andrea, using good dpns for the structure in the angel??? No bamboo skewers in the house? 😂😂😂
Happy new year to you both from Vancouver Island, 🇨🇦
This is one of your best episodes ever! Congratulations!
Oh that dreamy Mill location in Switzerland. How breathtaking and so much work in the mill. Fascinating.
Wishing everyone a season filled with warmth, joy, and endless moments of happiness! May your holidays be merry and bright, surrounded by the love of family and friends. Merry Christmas
Lovely episode as always! I would LOVE an episode where you show all your favourite hand knitted garments and accessories😍
Thank you Madeleine for the advice on the Xmas balls ...I had the same issue with the yarn showing through a little. May God watch over you both this season and beyond.
Lovely episode, I love seeing the segments on small, family owned businesses. Marketing's completed sweater is beautiful, I love the full sleeves, and the stories of the journey to completion of your finished projects is always informative and comforting as we face our own challenges. I think there will be Christmas ornaments on the knitting list next year! I hope you are feeling better soon and have a wonderful Christmas.
Thanks, Andrea and Madeleine, for this interesting, seasonal episode. It’s perfect Boxing Day watching. Madeleine, I think the full sleeves of your sweater are beautiful, not excessive at all, and make it more contemporary. Well done, it suits you!
Our Scottish family developed the taste for Lebküchen when we spent some time living near Heidelberg over twenty years ago. They really are delicious, and the interview with Herr Hatzel was fascinating. Ich muss auch sagen, dass er hervorragend gut Englisch spricht!
The Angel is so beautiful with the dove also. Lovely show,
I am taking time for myself just after the first of the year and absolutely relishing the interviews. And I am hoping the two of you had the most joyful Christmas holiday. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the joy of your scintillating programming. ❤
Lovely episode! Merry Christmas from Canada❤
Love you 2…. Great episode. Beautiful music 🎶. You are very brave to restart that sweater that was almost finished 🙈 sending love
I am Dutch And have two wooden Gingerbread casts from my grandparents. In the Netherlands we have this kind of gingerbread too. It is called taai taai
Lovely episode.I wish you both a very Merry Christmas. May the new year bring us all Peace, Health, Compassion, Connection, Love and Joy !
Merry Christmas Andrea and Madeleine! 😊❤️🎄
Loved watching the traditional gingerbread segment. I love Christmas for the food and spices. Merry Christmas to you both 🎄
fabulous! The sheep at the end are beautiful, music heavenly and the interviews very informative. Get well and enjoy your holidays!
Thank you ladies!
Liebe Andrea, Liebe Madeline,
vielen Dank für die vielen schönen Stunden mit Euch. Vielen Dank für Eure Inspirationen. Eure Videos sind einzigartig und fantastisch. Ich habe Euch erst vor etwas mehr als einem Jahr entdeckt und innerhalb von 6 Wochen alle bis dahin erschienen Videos der Reihe nach angeschaut. Ich habe mit Euch gelacht und geweint.
Ich wünsche Euch ein gesegnetes Weihnachtsfest und ein glückliches neues Jahr.
Ich freue mich jetzt schon auf das nächste Video.
Ganz herzliche Grüße, Bea❤
Love this episode so much. Particularly the Lebkuchen bakery. I love getting my German fix with you. Frohe Weihnachten.
Lovely episode. I was so glad you decided not to ripe back the blue and instead started with another colour in the smaller size. Such a treat to see the Woollen Mill and beautiful scenery in Switzerland. Wishing you both a very happy new year 😊😊
❤Lovely episode. Alway full of great content. Madeleine's research and history segments reminds me of Andrew. Well done!
I adore your program and it's so lovely to be watching your Christmas special on the eve of Christmas Eve while I finish my Christmas knitting. I wish you both a very merry Christmas, and I hope you get over your cold soon, Andrea.
Katherine,
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
P.S. I believe Santa is bringing me a pattern book from a designer you introduced me to, #rabbitholeknits. 🐇🎄🕯🌟
So nice! living in Bavaria and discover every time something new and anknown! Thanks and all the best wishes for a serene holiday!
Loved this episode, Andrea and Madeleine. Have a good and happy holiday. May 2024 be an abundant one.
Hi Ladles,
Just had a thought.
Wooden skewers might be good for your angle next time.
Have the greatest of xmas, prosperous new year.
Yonie
Down under
I hope you both had a wonderful Christmas 🎄! The angel was just stunning and the ornaments were darling. Happy New Year! Happy knitting 💚🧶💚
Thank you so much for showing how to finish the snow angel. I was dreading the hair part but now I know how to do it. I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas. I live in Germany but the angel is travelling with me to Canada. ❤
Great holiday watching.at 😅Daylesford in the van, with peacocks and cockatoos screaming as we come to dusk and a kookaburra watching for twilight dinner.a bit different from Germany.hugs WAHx
Wonderful views in Switzerland! I thought it very funny the way the baker kept away his recipy book🤣🤣
Happy Blessed Healthy New Year to you both!!! Always enjoy your video's you make them so interesting! The Angle looks beautiful you do Beautuiful work Andrea and so dose Madeline! Thanks to you both for sharing your talent and for all you do for us all!!!! Hugs Liz x
Merry Christmas! Loved this episode too, full of Christmas spirit and delight ❤❤❤
What beautiful Christmas treat, although I watched on the 3rd January. It was most enjoyable and interesting. Wishing you both a healthy and happy 2024.
Merry Christmas ladies! Your sweaters are gorgeous as usual! Your beautiful smiles warms my heart.
Thank you so much. Lots of love from Lisbon and a very merry Christmas to you ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Merry Christmas to you both! Sending love and best wishes for a healthy and peaceful New Year. Thanks for another wonderful episode filled with great makers of high level craft.
One of the most enjoyable episodes! Thank you and Merry Christmas. 🎄😊
Wow, you've done well I love his patterns I love knitting toys. love all that you made love your video winter wishes sent your way.
This is one of my favourite episodes of Fruity Knitting, right till the end with the ear-nibbling sheep! I've just treated myself to an early Christmas present and become a Patreon member. may you both have a peaceful and happy Christmas !
I had a similar problem with my floats showing through. Knowing I'm not the only one to have this issue gives me hope that I will get it right someday😊
I love your podcast. It's so refreshing and you make me laugh! Merry Christmas and enjoy your break!!
Hi Andrea, I'm not sure how to really write this. In order to make your angle stand straight you used your DPNs. Instead of using your DPNs in future, you could use Schaschlikspieße (those are wooden or bamboo sticks a bit smaller in diameter then DPNs). You get them in the supermarket in a multipack. Greetings from Saarland.
Jessica
Wonderful episode as always!
Have a safe and happy holiday!
Love all your episodes. I hope you have a lovely Christmas and l look forward to seeing what you have in store for us in 2024.❤
Ваши видео всегда очень содержательны. Спасибо за такое интересное знакомство❤
Great episode! I especially loved the final segment at the wool shop in Switzerland. I wish we would all learn how to continue producing and supporting locally.
Beautiful! Thank you 🙏
Another lovely episode, as usual!! Happy holidays!!! xx
Merry Christmas 🎄Andrea and Madeline 🎉! Happiness for the New Year too!🎉🎉🎉
Another great video. Thank you for all your hard work. You two are the best. Happy New Year. Looking forward to to the 2024 videos.
Lovely podcast as usual. Andrea, I think that your second attempt at that pullover will look even better with your new skirt. It appears as a gray-blue on my computer monitor. Happy holidays to you both. I'm recovering from COVID. It's my first time with it. I had 6 vaccinations with the latest only 1.5 months ago. However, I've had a very tough week in spite of the vaccinations. At least I'm alive! I got this from my husband. His case was slightly less difficult, but no walk in the park. We are both in our 70s with no health issues. COVID is still alive and prevalent, so be careful. Merry Christmas!
Wonderful as always.
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 and a very happy New Year ladies.
Wishing you happy holidays and all the best in the new year. My students and I continue to enjoy your wonderful, varied, informative content.
Such a beautiful episode. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
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Thank you for this episode. Merry Christmas!
Mary Christmas and Happy New Year Madeleine and Andrea 🙏🎄🥂🧶🇩🇰🎶🍀🐨🐑🎇❤️
Madeleine, your ‘Gladden’ looks beautiful on you. It looks comfortable and also casually elegant. I love the idea of Andrea making a jumper as a gift and fit is really important. It is one of the things I really like about your show. For those of us who are more generously proportioned in the chest although still have a small back, would you please think about incorporating a tutorial explaining how to achieve a larger or smaller front than back when knitting circularly? I think this is a big sticking point for a lot of knitters and would be very helpful. Merry Christmas to you both. Thank you for the beautiful show you present and many wishes for a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year.
Beautiful ❤
Your angel is gorgeous. I was into figures for a while. Rigid small cardboard tubes are sold to beekeepers to make hives. They are ideal for armature in figures and you don’t worry about the wood. I was using skewers! ❤️
Thanks for this lovely holiday episode. Madeleine, I also made the Arne and Carlos Christmas balls from 2020, or rather all except the last one because I ran out of one of the yarn colors and wool stuffing so I took that as a sign to stop at 23 balls. They are beautiful and I loved making them, but I find them rather too big for the tree so I hand them on the curtain rods in our family room. I'd like to try knitting them to a tighter gauge. I loved the interviews in this episode and now I'm longing for German gingerbread and dreaming of traveling to Switzerland. I hope you both have a marvelous holiday!
Love the Christmas angel, can see a lot of work has gone into the project, well done. Wishing you both a Merry Christmas and a happy New year.
I love this episode! I knitted a lot of Christmas balls from Arne and Carlos and went through the same issues. Here are my tips: I no longer cross my yarn, even if there is a lot of stiches. It's the only way to avoid the other color to poke through. When it's stuffed, everything falls in place. After stuffing, I thread my yarn needle with a long peace of yarn and go from the top to the bottom and back. This helps to avoid the top of the ball stretching and break the nice round shape. Merry Christmas!
Hi Nicole, thanks for the advice. Merry Christmas!
I have gingerbread to eat too.