Wonderful that Rachel was selected to represent crofters. Corrine thanks for realizing that if you wanted the yarn so would we. Maggie you are not the only one who hasn’t made Hermione’s Everyday socks.
I love you ladies. I really enjoy seeing what you make, what you’re working on and what you’re wearing. The segment with Rachel is alway wonderful to watch. Then again all your segments are fabulous. Thank you.
Thanks for another fun shopcast! Corinne, the wristlets are darling and I loved hearing TWT’s origin story. Rachel’s scenes were lovely and the government piece fascinating - my dad has a small family farm in Michigan so it is always interesting to learn how policy impacts farms of varying sizes across the world.
What a lovely episode. I thoroughly enjoyed Caitlyn’s advice on yarn substitution. Love her new Cardi. It is always a joy to get Rachel’s updates and I always love your chit chatty news. How nice is that highland thistle pullover and shawl?!😍 Thanks everyone 🧡🧶
I’m mostly a superwash merino kind of gal, but you guys made me want to dip into woolly wools, starting with Biches et Buches in a beautiful dark blue with turquoise flecks. I was not disappointed! That gorgeous yarn made a gorgeous Felix pullover. Thank you!
Thank you for such a wonderful podcast. Talking about the beginning chapters brought back many memories. I remember meeting Corrine at the NH Sheep and Wool festival and listening to NHKnits audio podcast . Moving forward, you all impress us. I loved it all especially the lamb! As usual Rachel pulls at my heartstrings. Thanks so much, Eileen
My gosh a great shopcast....thank you for all the inspiration. Love Love the sheep Maggie! and Corrine I love those wristlets. I just knit my first fingerless mitts so I think wristlets may be one of my next projects. Thank you for the Q&A's, so interesting. And yes you have a great team! always helpful to any questions I may have. And as always, love seeing Rachel's sheep!!
Lovely episode. I just love everything about it...the projects, what you're wearing, what's new in the shop ~ all those Lucious colors ~ and Caitlin & Rachel. Thank you Corinne & Maggie. 💖
I always enjoy your podcasts! I love Caitlin's and Magggie's sweaters, and I appreciate Caitlin's information on alternating yarns. Corrine, I agree that I am not a weaver or a spinner. I just like knitting with all the pretty yarns! I so enjoyed Rachel's section! We are going on a UK cruise in the fall that will include Shetland and Edinburgh. Can't wait!
Thank you for the tale of how the store came to be. Funny how things work out sometimes. I'm glad you reminded us about the cones, and I'm glad Yarnadelic came back in. Rachel: How unfair the world of commerce can be- the smaller crofts need the incentives! But it's the same here in most things. The rich keep getting richer, the poorer seldom get the help to dig out. I hope the counsel listened to you folks.
Nice to see Rachel got off the croft and represent the crafts. Your companion that smiled for the still shot!!😊😊 Thanks TWT for offering diverse fibers for weaving, such as the cones! Mentioning John Arbon, they could send their combed top for spinners?? I love when contributors like Emma mention her spinning and this episode of Maggie's handspun hat. Please consider!! Great show.
Hello from western Canada. The Woolly Thistle shopcast is such a favourite podcast of mine it has kept me company for quite some time now. I'm always inspired by what you show and this week's episode was no exception. Corrine's wristwarmers, Maggie's Sheep and Caitlin's Maja Cardigan in Alafosslopi... oh my!! So much goodness. REALLY excited for the Vest KAL!!
Thanks for today’s Shopcast. Nice to hear how the Woolly Thistle began. Great sweater Caitlin. Glad you got chosen to represent crofters Rachel. Hope you see green grass growing soon.
Corinne, I LOVE, and am so grateful, that you started The Woolly Thistle! For many years there was such a need for a woolly wool online shop here in the US. I learned how to spin 40 years ago because I couldn't find 100% wool yarn anywhere. The support that Maggie, and others, have given you has truly enriched your business in many ways. You are much loved.❤
Yes I would love to hear Maggie's process for her making. I too and a sometimes spinner, sometimes knitter and sometimes quilt maker, who is a voracious reader. Love Audio books. Listen while knitting, spinning or sewing. You guys are great. I admire Rachel. Her life is so challenging. Makes me grateful for my warm life Full of wool and cloth.
Have to write again! I so enjoy you two and your banter/chats about your knits and shop offerings. One of my favorite segments is seeing Rachel in Fair Isle. She seems to be such a sweet and hearty soul, and I wonder if she has help on her property. It often looks so wet and bleak and like such a tremendous responsibility and huge amount of work to keep it up. Just curious and caring...
This is my first time watching. I found you on Instagram and had to see if there was a podcast! So happy to have found you here! I love your color work wristlets, Corinne. Have a great day!
Would love to see and or hear more of Maggie's spinning adventures. Love to hear of your TWT beginnings and how you grew to the wonderful presence you are now, bringing the crofts and mills together with the people who love what they do. What a really interesting segment from Rachel. It seems to be the way, that the behemoth "farms" get the lion's share of subsidies, while the wee croft that really needs them receives scraps. I wish them the best of luck for more fair and equitable treatment. Love that Rachel seemed to be wearing the Barbour jacket she designed for the contest when she went to Edinburgh :) It's so beautiful.
thank you another great podcast. I so appreciate how you describe your yarn its so hard to make the right decision sometimes on picking the right yarn. Looking forward to the shawl kal . 😊 love your yarns and of course Rachel's podcast and Caitlin's interesting how she uses different yarns and gauge. Thank you again
Another wonderful podcast! I LOVE Corinne's colorwork mitts! What a great idea to wear mitts when sweater sleeves are too short.❤ Maggie's Hirne cardigan is lovely. It's great to see you both share knitting "Oops," mistakes in knitting. We all learn from mistakes and sharing them helps all knitters.
I’m so grateful to you, Corinne, for starting The Woolly Thistle and bringing all these gorgeous, woolly wools to us! Your dedicated work together with all that of your team is much appreciated by all your fans.
I'm a spinner. I'd love to hear Maggie's process in spinning for a specific project. my spinning has fallen by the wayside since I retired, I spun a lot while working, it is how I released all the stresses of my job. thank you for another fun and informative podcast. If you want to knit for a foot with a high arch, whilst knitting top down socks w/heel flap and gusset, delay the instep dec's and dec ev 4th row as opposed to ev other row. this will give you more room in the instep area.
I cannot imagine life without The Woolly Thistle now! So grateful for all of you and the wool! Caitlin, gorgeous sweater! Beautiful knitting and a perfect fit! Great podcast! Glad Rachel had a break from the challenges of Fair Isle and its weather!
Thanks for the fun episode. I always enjoy our visit to Fair Isle with Rachel. I have had the unfortunate luck of being in the middle of projects using TTW yarn when you announce the theme of the next knit-along, which matches the projects I have already casted on or just finished. 🙃
Another inspiring episode. I am a relatively new spinner- in my first year. I am loving it and would really love it if I could buy woolly fiber from TWT! LOVE the idea of a vest KAL. Fascinating to join Rachel on her travels.
Another great episode! Corinne, don’t get discouraged about weaving. An empty loom can look daunting, and setting it up is time consuming, but once you have a warp on it, the inspiration and joy will flood back. Maybe Maggie can help you get your first warp on and then you’ll be off. I feel like the 2 of you are my friends. It was terrific to see Rachel flying to Edinburgh to work with other Crofters to try to get a better deal from the parliamentarians. Go Rachel! The early spring flowers in Shetland and Edinburgh were a tonic. Just today in Calgary the temperature is above freezing and the snow has started to melt. Happy Women’s Day
Another great Podcast filled with woolly squished and colours! It’s spectacular hearing about how the Woolly Thistle was born and all the great employees that we meet along the ordering path! What we need, is every ones first and last names and if they are in Ravelry or have Podcasts of their own! We have to fill Our weeks between Woolly Thistle Podcasts with something and having a ready-made set of Thistlers, who are Podcasters makes the time go by that much faster! I’m still campaigning for Weekly Woolly Thistle Podcasts! There are so many wonderful shop additions, Colourful new yarns, Books, and of course, Whips to share! Rachel and the Lovely Lambykins are always a treat! It was fun to hear about Rachel's adventures in the Big City❣️ I’m so sorry Rachel, but I couldn’t stop laughing when you found that sneaky “Mr. Macho” Nick, in with the girls! How does he do it?! Is he part Magician?! He looked like he was right at home❣️🐑🐏🤭❣️I can’t wait to hear more of your adventures and hopefully Naughty Nick, will be more the Gentleman now that he’s sowed some oats❣️😆 By the by, did you say what you were knitting?! You have lots of cute-as-a-button helpers on your knitting🐈🐈⬛🧶❣️🌻🌤☀️
Thank you so much! Busby is such a terror - I went round and round trying to find where he'd got in and can only think that where I have double-height fencing wire (to stop him jumping in) he had somehow wriggled himself under the top layer and over the bottom layer - he's nothing if not resourceful! 🙄🤦♀
Corinne, I'm totally with you being "just a knitter," no "just" about it! I'm addicted, it's one of my favorite therapies, and I love, love, love knitting! Also, I too am enjoying a calm, homey, peaceful feeling these days. It feels so good! Thanks for sharing.
Great shop cast as always! I just managed to finish on the 19th, watching it in 3 segments. I always look forward to it. While watching I am working on my March socks and a color work cowl. I just took my first color work class at the Carolina Fiber Fest.. I enjoyed seeing Rachel’s adventures in Shetland and Edinburgh (sp?). Corinne, I love your wrist warmers, they are VERY cute and Maggie the sock recipient is a lucky soul indeed! Looking forward to seeing the finished little sheep!
Wow! I was going to cast on the Ebba Vest for a long drive the beginning of April, but now I will wait for the Vest KAL and maybe join the sweater KAL instead.
Thanks for another lovely shop cast and for sharing all of your makes and future knitting plans. Caitlin’s segment was interesting, and I love her sweater; adding it to my ever-growing list. Rachel is to be commended for everything that she does for the animals in her care and for the industry as a whole. Wishing everyone a gentle and restful week. Cheers!
Thanks for a great episode and the reminder that I have a JS cone in stash... Maybe a colorwork vest is in my future. I enjoyed Caitlin's gauge adventure and seeing her gorgeous finished sweater. Rachel's subsidy adventures were equally fascinating and frustrating. I wish her the best.
Hi Everyone!! Another wonderful episode of TWT! I love looking at all the WIP's & FO's everyone is working on or have finished. Rachel I am so happy that the weather has been better on the island. Too bad Busby had a one night stand with the ladies & now more lambs may arrive. How long are the sheep pregnant for? Do u help the sheep birth their young by urself or is some sort of vet available if there is a problem? Good luck to u & ur furry & woolly friends!
Thank you so much, Karen! Sheep are pregnant for just under five months and most of them will lamb without any intervention but, if there are any problems, I'm lucky that I have a very experienced neighbour here as there aren't any vets!
I appreciate you all for soothing my woolly lust! I enjoyed Kaitlin sharing yarn substitutions.. And that sweater!! Love the “saddle” shoulders 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧❤️
I always look forward to your podcasts, the enthusiasm and excitement with which you present all the knitting and products. Love seeing Rachel and her wonderful menagerie. Knitting on!
To answer your question, Corinne, I am a spinner. A long-time spinner who wrote articles for Spin-Off and a book for Schoolhouse Press. I LOVE that Maggie is a spinner.
The Fridays that have a new shop cast are the best!!! Thank you for sharing all these woolly treasures and inspiration. I am one of those that found you through your audio podcast years ago and followed you onto YT. I loved listening to you while I was out for a walk and it was the catalyst for my love of woolly yarns. Wishing everyone on TWT team all the best.
Love making fingerless mitts or “wristers” (or pulse-warmers), great for scraps and testing out color patterns! I’m trying to get various J&S cones in my fave colors, plus greys + oatmeal shades into my stash. Perhaps grab bags of various colors for added color pops! Thanks for the trip off Isle, Rachel! Keep making sure your voices are heard, must be very frustrating. Glad you got some Kitty Hugs upon your return! Love that cardigan, Caitlin! Such an interesting construction! Thanks for all the woolly inspiration!
Thank you to all the team for the work that you do promoting woolly wools. It is always a delight to watch the videos and to follow members on Facebook. 🇬🇧
Great shop cast! I love seeing all of your finished objects and WIPs. I would love to hear about Maggie’s process for intentional spinning for a specific project. I am a knitter, not a spinner; but I am fascinated by spinning.
I look forward to your videos so much and I enjoy every minute! Love the idea of a vest KAL!!! Can’t wait to see the finished lamb and donkey Maggie is working on! Also I’m excited to see what Corinne comes up with next!!
I'd like to add today how grateful I am to The Woolly Thistle. The wools you sell are superb and exactly the kind of yarn I love to knit with. Your shopcasts are fun and informative to watch, and this is from someone who generally doesn't listen to podcasts/etc. I feel welcomed by you all, and I know others feel the same way. It matters not that you don't have a brick and mortar store for us to visit. Your website is always a joy to peruse. Thank you, Corinne and Maggie, and all the WT gang.
Another amazing episode. Thanks to Caitlin who is always so informative about yarn and gauge. Her sweater was stunning . Rachel’s episode was so clarifying 😢and I hope her platform from the woolly thistle affords exposure to improve the lot of all crafters. Thank you for helping us to help her with your inclusion of her words and videos. I enjoyed your responses to viewed questions and your backstory for the shop. Happy spring and fingers crossed I finish my color work project…….
Another fun and informative video. You are so right Corinne - every knit deserves to be finished! I’m glad you and Maggie have supported the growth of The Woolly Thistle!
I love all your WIPs and FOs - sweaters you’re all wearing - and the story of how it began. I want a one-color hap; I saw one in the background of a (I think) Shetland Trust video and fell in love with it. Maybe for the hap-a-long. Rachel: maybe the strong winds are something to be thankful for, as they dry out the soggy earth. I remember realizing that the reason Shetland knitters put their haps outside to block was because they had a natural drying system (I have to use electric fans). I continue to be fascinated by your crofting and am thrilled about your Edinburgh trip. So glad you went. Thanks to all.
Thank you for showing the KAL FOs. I loved the trip to Fair Isles and Rachel’s trip to Edinburgh! I have to add the sweater Maggie is wearing to my (very long) que! ❤it😊
I always look forward to these shopcasts. I really like Caitlin’s sweater and her discussion of using different yarns than what the pattern suggests. It is always a joy to see Rachel. I’m happy the Fair Isle is getting some signs of Spring!
So wonderful for us to know, really, what a small and personal operation you are running! I know you have thousands of customers and participants in the KALs. I want you to know what a difference this very special community has made in my life! Thank you for not only providing a consistent source of quality wool and other products but fostering an incredible supportive community!
I'm a new spinning and very much inspired by Maggie's amazing handspun projects. At the moment I just spin and stash but am keen to work up to a sweater spin.
Thanks for another great episode. I was especially struck by Rachel’s visit to Parliament and saddened to learn that the small farms and Crofts aren’t given priority for subsidies. Backwards thinking.
I always find such inspirations from all the ladies on the shopcast. I love the sweater Maggie is wearing, seriously wanting to cast that one on!! And Caitlin's cardigan is to die for!!! Such choices!! Can't wait for the vest KAL. Thanks ladies, fabulous as always
Everyone seems excited to have Spring close by! A Friday shared with you at The Woolly Thistle is a good Friday for me. That sneak peek at a vest KAL is very exciting. Oh, and spinning! I spin on my Louet S-10 wheel, so I look forward to more on that topic.
Maggie. Your spinning is lovely. I am a spinner first and a knitter last. I so enjoy seeing your spinning as well. Spinning is growing really well in Pennsylvania. Our guild is growing We have a lovely time. LOVE your podcast Corrine. I look forward to it!!
Your podcasts are always so comforting to view, and so informative. I love learning about all your wooly wool products, their properties and the types of projects they can be used. Particular to this podcast, I would love to hear more about Maggie’s hand spinning, how she selects and manages colors, how she preps fibers for spinning, favorite drafting techniques, and types of spinning equipment (what type of wheel(s), drop or support spindles). My fiber adventures are primarily spent knitting and spinning, with weaving coming in behind; at present my looms are pouting because they are not being used. Cheers to all the Wooly Thistle podcast team!
It's so inspiring to see everyone's projects and yarn choices. Thank you Rachel for another update. It was so good to see you in Shetland and Edinburgh and back home safely.
Another great way to end my week. I love to see all the woolly things and hear about the neat things you're up to. It's light-hearted, fun and I really enjoy watching. Thanks for sharing some background on your shop. I am so happy to have found TWT and to be a part of the community you've created. Have a great weekend!
Thank you for your pod cast. While I love hearing from the regulars and learning all that’s new. I love the gallery at the end. It always inspires me and I love seeing what everyone is making.
So enjoyed this podcast, seeing all of your projects that you're working on. I enjoy all of your guests that you have on, but sometimes it's nice to just listen to Corrine and Maggie and what you're up to.😊
Great episode, and I'm really looking forward to hearing from some regularly knitting citizens in their videos soon. Caitlin's discussion of yarn substitutions is really helpful. I'm feeling really grateful for The Wooly Thistle these days, too; it's so lovely to find like-minded enthusiasts for natural wools!
Such a great homey episode of the shopcast this and every time. It feels like we're sitting in the same room with you and Maggie. Thank you for bringing us such great yarn, books, patterns, kits, contributor segments, KALS - the whole kit and caboodle!
Excited to have another wonderful and interesting podcast. Still working on my color work KAL project, but I’m very excited to hear about the upcoming KALs for shawls and vests. Yippie😊
Thank you for another fun shopcast! I especially enjoyed hearing the story of the origin of the Woolly Thistle. Yours was the first knitting podcast I watched a couple years ago, and I have enjoyed each one since. It’s so nice to know that there is a global knitting community that loves all things knitting as much as I do!
Beautiful podcast as always and so much colour to see. I myself is knitting bousta socks by Gudrun johnston and it is not completed yet so I cannot enter in the colour work MAL.
Another great podcasts of woolly wools! I am knitting with a Woolly Thistle Rauma yarn for the first time and must say I am enjoying the yarn. Loved learning how the Woolly Thistle came to be!
Wonderful that Rachel was selected to represent crofters. Corrine thanks for realizing that if you wanted the yarn so would we. Maggie you are not the only one who hasn’t made Hermione’s Everyday socks.
Thank you so much, Nancy!
I love you ladies. I really enjoy seeing what you make, what you’re working on and what you’re wearing. The segment with Rachel is alway wonderful to watch. Then again all your segments are fabulous. Thank you.
Thank you ever so much, Carole!
Thanks for another fun shopcast! Corinne, the wristlets are darling and I loved hearing TWT’s origin story. Rachel’s scenes were lovely and the government piece fascinating - my dad has a small family farm in Michigan so it is always interesting to learn how policy impacts farms of varying sizes across the world.
Thank you so much, I'm really glad you found it interesting and hope that your father's farm is doing well!
All the blethering made me so happy! Rachel, she is amazing!
Aw thank you so much, Marcia! 💐
I am so glad you started before Covid because during Covid is when I discovered my Love for Wooly Wool!!! 😀🧶
What a lovely episode. I thoroughly enjoyed Caitlyn’s advice on yarn substitution. Love her new Cardi. It is always a joy to get Rachel’s updates and I always love your chit chatty news. How nice is that highland thistle pullover and shawl?!😍 Thanks everyone 🧡🧶
Thank you!!
Thank you so much!
An enjoyable Shopcast, as always. I appreciate the tips and knowledge everyone at TWT shares. See you in two weeks!
I’m mostly a superwash merino kind of gal, but you guys made me want to dip into woolly wools, starting with Biches et Buches in a beautiful dark blue with turquoise flecks. I was not disappointed! That gorgeous yarn made a gorgeous Felix pullover. Thank you!
Love seeing all the new yarn and all the updates from Rachel in Fair Isle. Thank you!
Thank you so much, Janet!
I really enjoyed the shopcast. It’s like sitting and chatting all things fiber with friends.
Thank you for such a wonderful podcast. Talking about the beginning chapters brought back many memories. I remember meeting Corrine at the NH Sheep and Wool festival and listening to NHKnits audio podcast . Moving forward, you all impress us. I loved it all especially the lamb! As usual Rachel pulls at my heartstrings. Thanks so much, Eileen
Thank you ever so much, Eileen!
Caitlin's segment on gauge was SO helpful, and I love Maggie's sweater with the Norwegian clasps!
Glad you thought so! Thank you!!
Fabulous episode. Love the wrist warmers, that picot edge makes them irresistible. I for one would love to learn more about Maggie’s planning process.
So much woolly goodness! Love the wristers, Caitlin’s and Maggie’s sweaters…good to see Rachel’s trip, and the sheepy (and kitty) shenanigans!❤
Thanks Wendy!
Thank you so much, Wendy!
My gosh a great shopcast....thank you for all the inspiration. Love Love the sheep Maggie! and Corrine I love those wristlets. I just knit my first fingerless mitts so I think wristlets may be one of my next projects. Thank you for the Q&A's, so interesting. And yes you have a great team! always helpful to any questions I may have. And as always, love seeing Rachel's sheep!!
Thank you so much, Mary!
Lovely episode. I just love everything about it...the projects, what you're wearing, what's new in the shop ~ all those Lucious colors ~ and Caitlin & Rachel. Thank you Corinne & Maggie. 💖
Thank you so much, Susie!
I always enjoy your podcasts! I love Caitlin's and Magggie's sweaters, and I appreciate Caitlin's information on alternating yarns. Corrine, I agree that I am not a weaver or a spinner. I just like knitting with all the pretty yarns! I so enjoyed Rachel's section! We are going on a UK cruise in the fall that will include Shetland and Edinburgh. Can't wait!
Thank you!!
Thank you so much! Ooh that's so exciting to hear about your cruise - do let me know if your ship is planning to call in at Fair Isle!
Thank you for the tale of how the store came to be. Funny how things work out sometimes.
I'm glad you reminded us about the cones, and I'm glad Yarnadelic came back in.
Rachel: How unfair the world of commerce can be- the smaller crofts need the incentives! But it's the same here in most things. The rich keep getting richer, the poorer seldom get the help to dig out. I hope the counsel listened to you folks.
Thank you so much, Roberta!
Nice to see Rachel got off the croft and represent the crafts. Your companion that smiled for the still shot!!😊😊
Thanks TWT for offering diverse fibers for weaving, such as the cones! Mentioning John Arbon, they could send their combed top for spinners?? I love when contributors like Emma mention her spinning and this episode of Maggie's handspun hat. Please consider!!
Great show.
Thanks Maribeth! We had John Arbon’s tops a few years ago and it’d be interesting to gauge interest again!
@caitlinjohnson9945 🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️ count me as one!! Any other spinners interested?..
Thank you so much, Maribeth!
Hello from western Canada. The Woolly Thistle shopcast is such a favourite podcast of mine it has kept me company for quite some time now. I'm always inspired by what you show and this week's episode was no exception. Corrine's wristwarmers, Maggie's Sheep and Caitlin's Maja Cardigan in Alafosslopi... oh my!! So much goodness. REALLY excited for the Vest KAL!!
I love hearing how TWT started. My how your inspirational idea has grown! Thanks for another great podcast😊
Spinner here Especially love the rare breeds. Shout out to the Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SM program. Links providers with fiber artists!!!!!!!
SE2SE. Shave ‘em to save ‘em 🐑🐏
Thanks for today’s Shopcast. Nice to hear how the Woolly Thistle began. Great sweater Caitlin. Glad you got chosen to represent crofters Rachel. Hope you see green grass growing soon.
So glad you enjoyed the episode! Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much, Denise!
Corinne, I LOVE, and am so grateful, that you started The Woolly Thistle! For many years there was such a need for a woolly wool online shop here in the US. I learned how to spin 40 years ago because I couldn't find 100% wool yarn anywhere. The support that Maggie, and others, have given you has truly enriched your business in many ways. You are much loved.❤
Yes I would love to hear Maggie's process for her making. I too and a sometimes spinner, sometimes knitter and sometimes quilt maker, who is a voracious reader. Love Audio books. Listen while knitting, spinning or sewing. You guys are great. I admire Rachel. Her life is so challenging. Makes me grateful for my warm life
Full of wool and cloth.
Thanks so much for the feedback! I'll see what I can put together about my process as I make decisions for my next spin. - Maggie
Thank you so much, Beverly!
Have to write again! I so enjoy you two and your banter/chats about your knits and shop offerings. One of my favorite segments is seeing Rachel in Fair Isle. She seems to be such a sweet and hearty soul, and I wonder if she has help on her property. It often looks so wet and bleak and like such a tremendous responsibility and huge amount of work to keep it up. Just curious and caring...
Thank you so much, Barb! There isn't really any help here and it is an awful lot of work, but we just keep plugging away at it!
This is my first time watching. I found you on Instagram and had to see if there was a podcast! So happy to have found you here! I love your color work wristlets, Corinne. Have a great day!
Would love to see and or hear more of Maggie's spinning adventures. Love to hear of your TWT beginnings and how you grew to the wonderful presence you are now, bringing the crofts and mills together with the people who love what they do. What a really interesting segment from Rachel. It seems to be the way, that the behemoth "farms" get the lion's share of subsidies, while the wee croft that really needs them receives scraps. I wish them the best of luck for more fair and equitable treatment. Love that Rachel seemed to be wearing the Barbour jacket she designed for the contest when she went to Edinburgh :) It's so beautiful.
Thank you ever so much, Meg! Well spotted - yes, I finally gave the Barbour jacket a proper outing and it kept me really cosy and warm on my travels!
Loved seeing Racheal’s trip to Edinburgh & what’s been happening on the Croft. Thanks 🏴
Thank you so much, Christine!
thank you another great podcast. I so appreciate how you describe your yarn its so hard to make the right decision sometimes on picking the right yarn. Looking forward to the shawl kal . 😊 love your yarns and of course Rachel's podcast and Caitlin's interesting how she uses different yarns and gauge. Thank you again
So glad you enjoyed the podcast! Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much, Ruth!
Another wonderful podcast! I LOVE Corinne's colorwork mitts! What a great idea to wear mitts when sweater sleeves are too short.❤
Maggie's Hirne cardigan is lovely. It's great to see you both share knitting "Oops," mistakes in knitting. We all learn from mistakes and sharing them helps all knitters.
I’m so grateful to you, Corinne, for starting The Woolly Thistle and bringing all these gorgeous, woolly wools to us! Your dedicated work together with all that of your team is much appreciated by all your fans.
I'm a spinner. I'd love to hear Maggie's process in spinning for a specific project. my spinning has fallen by the wayside since I retired, I spun a lot while working, it is how I released all the stresses of my job. thank you for another fun and informative podcast. If you want to knit for a foot with a high arch, whilst knitting top down socks w/heel flap and gusset, delay the instep dec's and dec ev 4th row as opposed to ev other row. this will give you more room in the instep area.
I cannot imagine life without The Woolly Thistle now! So grateful for all of you and the wool! Caitlin, gorgeous sweater! Beautiful knitting and a perfect fit! Great podcast! Glad Rachel had a break from the challenges of Fair Isle and its weather!
Thank you so much, Leslie!
Wonderful, happy episode. And I have fallen in love with those colorful wrist warmers!
Love seeing your FOs and WIPs. Those wristlets are so fun and Maggie’s color work socks are going to be beautiful. ❤
Thanks for the fun episode. I always enjoy our visit to Fair Isle with Rachel. I have had the unfortunate luck of being in the middle of projects using TTW yarn when you announce the theme of the next knit-along, which matches the projects I have already casted on or just finished. 🙃
Thank you so much, Pat!
I love that Rachel was able to participate in the Scottish government’s view of crofting! Congratulations to her!
Thank you so much!
Another inspiring episode. I am a relatively new spinner- in my first year. I am loving it and would really love it if I could buy woolly fiber from TWT! LOVE the idea of a vest KAL. Fascinating to join Rachel on her travels.
Thank you so much, Anna!
Another great episode! Corinne, don’t get discouraged about weaving. An empty loom can look daunting, and setting it up is time consuming, but once you have a warp on it, the inspiration and joy will flood back. Maybe Maggie can help you get your first warp on and then you’ll be off. I feel like the 2 of you are my friends. It was terrific to see Rachel flying to Edinburgh to work with other Crofters to try to get a better deal from the parliamentarians. Go Rachel! The early spring flowers in Shetland and Edinburgh were a tonic. Just today in Calgary the temperature is above freezing and the snow has started to melt. Happy Women’s Day
Thank you so much, Jennifer! I hope the snow continues to melt for you and you get spring flowers soon!
Another great Podcast filled with woolly squished and colours! It’s spectacular hearing about how the Woolly Thistle was born and all the great employees that we meet along the ordering path! What we need, is every ones first and last names and if they are in Ravelry or have Podcasts of their own! We have to fill Our weeks between Woolly Thistle Podcasts with something and having a ready-made set of Thistlers, who are Podcasters makes the time go by that much faster! I’m still campaigning for Weekly Woolly Thistle Podcasts! There are so many wonderful shop additions, Colourful new yarns, Books, and of course, Whips to share!
Rachel and the Lovely Lambykins are always a treat! It was fun to hear about Rachel's adventures in the Big City❣️ I’m so sorry Rachel, but I couldn’t stop laughing when you found that sneaky “Mr. Macho” Nick, in with the girls! How does he do it?! Is he part Magician?! He looked like he was right at home❣️🐑🐏🤭❣️I can’t wait to hear more of your adventures and hopefully Naughty Nick, will be more the Gentleman now that he’s sowed some oats❣️😆
By the by, did you say what you were knitting?! You have lots of cute-as-a-button helpers on your knitting🐈🐈⬛🧶❣️🌻🌤☀️
Thank you so much! Busby is such a terror - I went round and round trying to find where he'd got in and can only think that where I have double-height fencing wire (to stop him jumping in) he had somehow wriggled himself under the top layer and over the bottom layer - he's nothing if not resourceful! 🙄🤦♀
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Maybe you should put a bell on him!😂 It might work! Maybe it would drive him crazy!
I’ll keep brainstorming!😊
Corinne, I'm totally with you being "just a knitter," no "just" about it! I'm addicted, it's one of my favorite therapies, and I love, love, love knitting! Also, I too am enjoying a calm, homey, peaceful feeling these days. It feels so good! Thanks for sharing.
just a comment….great job!
Great shop cast as always! I just managed to finish on the 19th, watching it in 3 segments. I always look forward to it. While watching I am working on my March socks and a color work cowl. I just took my first color work class at the Carolina Fiber Fest.. I enjoyed seeing Rachel’s adventures in Shetland and Edinburgh (sp?). Corinne, I love your wrist warmers, they are VERY cute and Maggie the sock recipient is a lucky soul indeed! Looking forward to seeing the finished little sheep!
Thank you so much, Kathy! 💐
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Wow! I was going to cast on the Ebba Vest for a long drive the beginning of April, but now I will wait for the Vest KAL and maybe join the sweater KAL instead.
Thanks for another lovely shop cast and for sharing all of your makes and future knitting plans. Caitlin’s segment was interesting, and I love her sweater; adding it to my ever-growing list. Rachel is to be commended for everything that she does for the animals in her care and for the industry as a whole. Wishing everyone a gentle and restful week. Cheers!
That's very kind of you, Delores, thank you so much!
Another great shopcast. Love Maggie’s sweater and also that Highland Thistle sweater. Always finding inspiration when I watch you two! Thanks!
Thanks for a great episode and the reminder that I have a JS cone in stash... Maybe a colorwork vest is in my future. I enjoyed Caitlin's gauge adventure and seeing her gorgeous finished sweater. Rachel's subsidy adventures were equally fascinating and frustrating. I wish her the best.
Thanks Sara!
Thank you so much, Sara!
I enjoy hearing about and seeing your spinning, Maggie. I think I might have my first sweater quantity spun! Here's hoping!
Hi Everyone!! Another wonderful episode of TWT! I love looking at all the WIP's & FO's everyone is working on or have finished.
Rachel I am so happy that the weather has been better on the island. Too bad Busby had a one night stand with the ladies & now more lambs may arrive. How long are the sheep pregnant for? Do u help the sheep birth their young by urself or is some sort of vet available if there is a problem? Good luck to u & ur furry & woolly friends!
Thank you so much, Karen! Sheep are pregnant for just under five months and most of them will lamb without any intervention but, if there are any problems, I'm lucky that I have a very experienced neighbour here as there aren't any vets!
It was really interesting hearing how TWT got started. Love the backstory!
I appreciate you all for soothing my woolly lust! I enjoyed Kaitlin sharing yarn substitutions.. And that sweater!! Love the “saddle” shoulders 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧❤️
Thanks so much!!
I always look forward to your podcasts, the enthusiasm and excitement with which you present all the knitting and products. Love seeing Rachel and her wonderful menagerie. Knitting on!
Thank you so much, Becky!
To answer your question, Corinne, I am a spinner. A long-time spinner who wrote articles for Spin-Off and a book for Schoolhouse Press. I LOVE that Maggie is a spinner.
The Fridays that have a new shop cast are the best!!! Thank you for sharing all these woolly treasures and inspiration. I am one of those that found you through your audio podcast years ago and followed you onto YT. I loved listening to you while I was out for a walk and it was the catalyst for my love of woolly yarns. Wishing everyone on TWT team all the best.
Love making fingerless mitts or “wristers” (or pulse-warmers), great for scraps and testing out color patterns!
I’m trying to get various J&S cones in my fave colors, plus greys + oatmeal shades into my stash. Perhaps grab bags of various colors for added color pops!
Thanks for the trip off Isle, Rachel! Keep making sure your voices are heard, must be very frustrating. Glad you got some Kitty Hugs upon your return!
Love that cardigan, Caitlin! Such an interesting construction!
Thanks for all the woolly inspiration!
Thank you so much!
Love the image of you two rocking out to 80's music getting stuff done! 😊
Thank you to all the team for the work that you do promoting woolly wools. It is always a delight to watch the videos and to follow members on Facebook. 🇬🇧
I look forward to your Podcasts. There are always great ideas and products... and your wonderful friendships ❤. You always make me laugh...Thank you!!
Rachel had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb... everyone sing!
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Great shop cast! I love seeing all of your finished objects and WIPs.
I would love to hear about Maggie’s process for intentional spinning for a specific project. I am a knitter, not a spinner; but I am fascinated by spinning.
I look forward to your videos so much and I enjoy every minute! Love the idea of a vest KAL!!! Can’t wait to see the finished lamb and donkey Maggie is working on! Also I’m excited to see what Corinne comes up with next!!
I'd like to add today how grateful I am to The Woolly Thistle. The wools you sell are superb and exactly the kind of yarn I love to knit with. Your shopcasts are fun and informative to watch, and this is from someone who generally doesn't listen to podcasts/etc. I feel welcomed by you all, and I know others feel the same way. It matters not that you don't have a brick and mortar store for us to visit. Your website is always a joy to peruse. Thank you, Corinne and Maggie, and all the WT gang.
Another amazing episode. Thanks to Caitlin who is always so informative about yarn and gauge. Her sweater was stunning . Rachel’s episode was so clarifying 😢and I hope her platform from the woolly thistle affords exposure to improve the lot of all crafters. Thank you for helping us to help her with your inclusion of her words and videos. I enjoyed your responses to viewed questions and your backstory for the shop. Happy spring and fingers crossed I finish my color work project…….
Thank you so much, Sheri!
Another fun and informative video. You are so right Corinne - every knit deserves to be finished! I’m glad you and Maggie have supported the growth of The Woolly Thistle!
I love all your WIPs and FOs - sweaters you’re all wearing - and the story of how it began.
I want a one-color hap; I saw one in the background of a (I think) Shetland Trust video and fell in love with it. Maybe for the hap-a-long.
Rachel: maybe the strong winds are something to be thankful for, as they dry out the soggy earth. I remember realizing that the reason Shetland knitters put their haps outside to block was because they had a natural drying system (I have to use electric fans). I continue to be fascinated by your crofting and am thrilled about your Edinburgh trip. So glad you went.
Thanks to all.
Thank you so much! That's very true, the wind does indeed help to dry the ground out!
Perfect way to celebrate International Women's Day!
Congratulations on your successes 😂
Thank you for showing the KAL FOs. I loved the trip to Fair Isles and Rachel’s trip to Edinburgh! I have to add the sweater Maggie is wearing to my (very long) que! ❤it😊
Thank you so much, Robin!
I always look forward to these shopcasts. I really like Caitlin’s sweater and her discussion of using different yarns than what the pattern suggests. It is always a joy to see Rachel. I’m happy the Fair Isle is getting some signs of Spring!
Thanks Melanie!
Thank you so much, Melanie!
So wonderful for us to know, really, what a small and personal operation you are running! I know you have thousands of customers and participants in the KALs. I want you to know what a difference this very special community has made in my life! Thank you for not only providing a consistent source of quality wool and other products but fostering an incredible supportive community!
I'm a new spinning and very much inspired by Maggie's amazing handspun projects. At the moment I just spin and stash but am keen to work up to a sweater spin.
Maggie, your sweater= Hirne - is absolutely beautiful
I am knitting while watching. My Christmas Cast-On is becoming a great lapghan. There is still some winter left in Kentucky. Spring is teasing! ❤🥰💯
Thanks for another great episode. I was especially struck by Rachel’s visit to Parliament and saddened to learn that the small farms and Crofts aren’t given priority for subsidies. Backwards thinking.
Thank you so much, Marina!
I always find such inspirations from all the ladies on the shopcast. I love the sweater Maggie is wearing, seriously wanting to cast that one on!! And Caitlin's cardigan is to die for!!! Such choices!! Can't wait for the vest KAL. Thanks ladies, fabulous as always
Everyone seems excited to have Spring close by! A Friday shared with you at The Woolly Thistle is a good Friday for me. That sneak peek at a vest KAL is very exciting. Oh, and spinning! I spin on my Louet S-10 wheel, so I look forward to more on that topic.
Maggie. Your spinning is lovely. I am a spinner first and a knitter last. I so enjoy seeing your spinning as well. Spinning is growing really well in Pennsylvania. Our guild is growing We have a lovely time. LOVE your podcast Corrine. I look forward to it!!
OMG a vest KAL! I am so excited have wanted to make one and now this will be my time to do it! Thank you so very much for that.
Your podcasts are always so comforting to view, and so informative. I love learning about all your wooly wool products, their properties and the types of projects they can be used. Particular to this podcast, I would love to hear more about Maggie’s hand spinning, how she selects and manages colors, how she preps fibers for spinning, favorite drafting techniques, and types of spinning equipment (what type of wheel(s), drop or support spindles). My fiber adventures are primarily spent knitting and spinning, with weaving coming in behind; at present my looms are pouting because they are not being used. Cheers to all the Wooly Thistle podcast team!
It's so inspiring to see everyone's projects and yarn choices. Thank you Rachel for another update. It was so good to see you in Shetland and Edinburgh and back home safely.
Thank you so much, Cathy!
A vest kal sounds great. I’ve been wanting to do a vest.
Another great way to end my week. I love to see all the woolly things and hear about the neat things you're up to. It's light-hearted, fun and I really enjoy watching. Thanks for sharing some background on your shop. I am so happy to have found TWT and to be a part of the community you've created. Have a great weekend!
Thank you for building such a warm, woolly community of makers and for keeping us all connected! I can always find inspiration here!
Thank you for your pod cast. While I love hearing from the regulars and learning all that’s new. I love the gallery at the end. It always inspires me and I love seeing what everyone is making.
Looking great!❤ Perfect sweater❤Patterns should be adjusted to fit our needs❤
Thank you for your joyful sharing ❤🧶
So enjoyed this podcast, seeing all of your projects that you're working on. I enjoy all of your guests that you have on, but sometimes it's nice to just listen to Corrine and Maggie and what you're up to.😊
Great episode, and I'm really looking forward to hearing from some regularly knitting citizens in their videos soon. Caitlin's discussion of yarn substitutions is really helpful. I'm feeling really grateful for The Wooly Thistle these days, too; it's so lovely to find like-minded enthusiasts for natural wools!
Such a great homey episode of the shopcast this and every time. It feels like we're sitting in the same room with you and Maggie. Thank you for bringing us such great yarn, books, patterns, kits, contributor segments, KALS - the whole kit and caboodle!
Excited to have another wonderful and interesting podcast. Still working on my color work KAL project, but I’m very excited to hear about the upcoming KALs for shawls and vests. Yippie😊
Thank you for another fun shopcast! I especially enjoyed hearing the story of the origin of the Woolly Thistle. Yours was the first knitting podcast I watched a couple years ago, and I have enjoyed each one since. It’s so nice to know that there is a global knitting community that loves all things knitting as much as I do!
Thank you so much for continuing to watch and be part of our community!
Beautiful podcast as always and so much colour to see. I myself is knitting bousta socks by Gudrun johnston and it is not completed yet so I cannot enter in the colour work MAL.
I have been a spinner for 20 years and I love seeing what Maggie has made with her hand spun. You two are just lovely and I so enjoy your video's.
I love your lives always inspiring!❤. Will you have beginner pattern suggestions for the vest KAL? Thank you
Love knitting but also spinning. Making yarn from the raw fleece is so much fun!
Another great podcasts of woolly wools! I am knitting with a Woolly Thistle Rauma yarn for the first time and must say I am enjoying the yarn. Loved learning how the Woolly Thistle came to be!
Love the Broch Beanie with hand spun yarn. I have been teaching myself to spin. I will have to try that pattern. Thanks for all the great ideas.
That little lamb....soooo darn sweet! Great episode ladies!
2 TWT buddies and myself zoomed together last weekend for the first time. It was fantastic to meet these ladies compliments of TWT. Thanks so much!
Hello! I enjoyed the colorwork KAL! I am so inspired to knit more colorwork with your beautiful yarns!