Rainbow Blankets and My Knitting Grandmothers // Casual Friday #8
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- In this Casual Friday video, I share my newly-finished rainbowlicious Lizard Ridge blanket (a UFO since 2006) for Finish it February. I then tell the story of my knitting and crocheting grandmothers, and the knitting-related items I have from them, including another rainbow-licious blanket.
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Introduction 0:00
My knitting grandmothers: 13:31
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For some reason, I found myself watching this podcast from five years ago. I’m sitting in my living room, knitting and listening to you as you reminisce about generations of family crocheters and knitters. My 92 year old dad passed away last month. He was an incredible knitter and was self taught at the age of 19! He was working at Sun Valley ski resort that winter and after watching one of his coworkers knit every evening, he decided to teach himself to knit…I’ve been lucky enough to inherit his last, half finished project: an Irish fisherman’s sweater. It’s still on the needles and is an incredibly complicated sweater. I cherish every knitted stitch. Thank you for sharing…I was crying right along with you!😇
I realize this is an older video, but I just watched it. What a fabulous story about your grandmothers! My maternal grandmother crocheted and made me a lovely afghan for my high school graduation. I still have it and use it on my bed in the winter... I won't tell you how many years ago she made that! I recently found a card she sent me promising me to make it for me. I can't imagine how long it took her because it was all single crochet and it's as big as a twin sized mattress. Think about the number of stitches, and the love that went into every single one of them. You have such great memories of your knitting grandmothers. Thanks for telling the stories.
I loved the story about your knitting grandmothers, thank you very much for sharing it. I really enjoyed listening to it while knitting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love stories of families and knitting traditions. We too have several in our family they're my favorite! Thanks for your many podcasts, so good.
You are so welcome!
Just love listening to you talk about your family. My grandmothers were also superb at knitting, crochet, sewing. And I have the knitting needles -- the perks of being the only knitter in my generation. All best wishes to you and your kin!
This is five years old. Love so many coincidences (crafty grandmothers, I lived in New Zealand 5 years, I love the process of knitting, love family history, etc). I’ve been watching Casual Friday two years-you feel like a friend now. My daughter lives in St. Cloud. And I love your haircut in this episode-flatters you. Glad this old episode popped up in my feed.
Roxana this was an exciting and fascinating recount of your family’s history. Thank you for sharing!
Ahh, what a beautiful story about your family. I chuckled at the "see ya" divorce. My maternal grandmother had many children with different "husbands." How amazing that you have the patterns to trigger so many beautiful memories.
As a fellow genealogy enthusiast I can relate to your emotion and excitement over each new discovery. The knitting “force is strong in you”
Hello there, I was just sitting knitting having watched the how to pick up stitches tutorial and bumped the phone on to the next post, which was this one. I really enjoyed hearing about your blanket fiasco and that you are similar to me in that you put things down temporarily, well maybe 5 years and see it again and think that I should really finish this thing but walk out without giving it another thought. My project is now finished but has been replaced by another.
I absolutely loved hearing about your Grandmother's and the rest of your family, so very personal and lovely to hear. Thank you for sharing your story. Take care.
Glorious grandmother blankets in acrylic! Let's here it for them. Mine is in simple garter stitch squares -- a straightforward leftovers blanket where no one fussed much about a theme or which colours are best. While it made me flinch in my teens, my Mom got it out again years later and it was such a joy to me. Still is!
Just really enjoyed your reminiscing, I’m from Scotland and it was so interesting hearing about the culture and America. Tassie 🧶
This is one of the most beautiful knitted blankets I have ever seen… Seriously. The ripples..or waves are wonderful.
I crochet most of my blankets, and have begun a series of wavy Chevron smaller blsnketd, using brightly colored self striping yarns… I;m loving this project.
Oh yes, I return to this video every once in a while.. Judt to hear about this lovely creation..and be inspired.
Sandy, from Cincinnati…Birthplace of Professional Baseball
I could listen to Rox talk about her family history for hours! I loved this connection to the past. I couldn’t help but remember my own family members as she ‘unraveled’ the tale. Seems like the whole discovery process would make a good memoir.
Love your grandma stories!
I love this story! Thanks for sharing.
I know this isn't really a recent video but I wanted to let you know this was wonderful. I'm thankful that you shared some of your funny childhood memories and things you've learned about your ancestors. You almost made me cry. Such a touching video.
P.s. wow that lizard ridges blanket is A-MA-ZING!
I love the blanket. I learnt to crochet 4 yrs ago now, and l find it so much more relaxing than knitting.
Thankyou for sharing your past, and your family history with us. 😊 💕
1960's and 70's were WAY before the internet, and yet, both my grandmothers made me one of those chevron blankets, too. I still have both. One is red, white, and blue, the other is rust, gold, and ecru. My great aunt made me the pancho. So funny!
This just came up in my feed - I loved it! Both the blanket story and your grandmothers. I have a crocheted blanket by my husband’s grandmother - she could knit too and cross stitch. She always bought acrylic yarn that was on sale - hideous - and made blankets that will never wear out!
I also had white go go boots! It was so fun to hear about your family. And I “met” your daughters this morning from last Friday’s episode. It’s nice to know the person behind the knitting too. Thanks for sharing!!
Thoroughly enjoyed hearing about your grandmother's. Congrats on finishing the blanket!
Re your reverse engineering project I love the cable you've chosen for the centre of the back. I'm very impressed by your creativity and ingenuity. Also thank you for the tip about a provisional cast on with lifeline. Sounds brilliant and I'm off to watch the video about it now.
Loved these stories about your grandmothers - the fiber history and knitting photos, but also the story and photos of your grandmother who was the athlete. What a special woman she must have been!
These stories are wonderful! So heartwarming! Thanks for sharing them with us. My paternal grandmother taught me how to crochet when I was a kid. I am a few years older than you. She was also a knitter and a painter. My maternal grandmother died when my mother was a year olds we never knew her. I learned to knit as a kid by a neighbor. I too had white go go boots and thought I was the coolest thing! Your rainbow blanket that your grandmother crocheted you reminds me both of the psychedelic 60’s and the earthy crunchy 70’s! Brings back great memories! I’m sure you do treasure it. My mom has crocheted and knit blankets for my kids and my grandkids as well as quilts. She has been concentrating on quilting for the past 15 years. She has made 2 bargello pillows recently, another blast from the past. She turns 91 this Tuesday and she and my Dad are still going strong after 68 years of marriage. And her favorite color is yellow! Anything I make for her I try to make in yellow. Listening to you brings back wonderful memories of my grandmother. She was great. Your grandmother’s swimming was amazing! And with The Olympics on too! She sounds remarkable! Thanks again for sharing! My Dad did a lot of genealogy too!
I always thought my grandma was pretty cool, but it wasn't until I started doing research and finding her yearbook and the newspaper articles, that I was able to really understand how important swimming had been in her early adult life.
A beautiful blanket
Engaging episode! Not sure many comments touched on the wonderful patterns shown starting around minute 33 and continuing delightfully with the poncho and the “gentleman prefer” Spinnerin edition-the poses and hair styles-! Could watch you show and talk about those patterns in another episode…wonderful that those were passed on to you, along with some of the hooks..and the treasure of the photos you found of your knitting and swimming ancestors 🧶. The child’s hat and sweater photo and notes on the back!!! Marvelous !
I've loved hearing about your grandmothers, the genealogy, and your Lizard Ridge. I grew up in SE Iowa myself. This year I was introduced to Lizard Ridge as part of a short rows class, and love knitting the squares. I have had my own saga of finding 21 distinct, different colors of Noro.
Gorgeous
Rox, I have the same blanket my mom made me! Crochet in acrylic. I have the "Hue Shift Blanket" kit with all the yarn that I've been wanting to make because I've never knitted a blanket before. I'm doing an icord cast on now. I've never done an icord cast on before.
I love you're generous stories.
UA-cam is really mixing up the videos now just found this older episode. Still great and timeless content.
I just moved back to Christchurch, NZ after living in Wellington, NZ for like 5 years and I'm staying with my folks while looking for a place; the only thing I have taken into my room to unpack are my boxes of wool/knitting stuff and I've been literally just categorising my yarn, winding everything on my nostepinne & knitting swatches for each major kind of wool...... and your back catalogue of casual friday podcasts is just the best accompanying background! It's still C19 time so I am working at home too, and I'm trying to be productive cos I somehow have almost an entire shop's worth of yarn (hahah) so just thank you for making this technically tedious job so doable ^__^
Edit: apparently both my grandmothers, who died before I was born, knitted. My mum doesn't, so I still had to teach myself. My rheumatoid arthritis makes it hard sometimes (I'm 27 but get regularly & justifiably mistaken for being 72 instead) but still the process of knitting gives me so much joy. My dad is also suuuuuper into genealogy, so it's so nostalgic hearing someone else's family history stories as usually I only can talk to him about the topic (I think the genealogy thing is mainly cos we are Mormon tho, to be honest, but he has spent my entire life with this as his main hobby, and he has written at least 7 books about genealogical research and his/my mum's families, and he taught himself Swedish, Latin and Old English just so he could do more research.... Nerd!! But really, my mum is a librarian, and her dad was a history professor, and my dad is a geologist/vulcanologist by trade but is now mainly in scientific research management, so a lot of the stuff you talk about is very familiar to me, but transplanted in NZ!)
So fun to hear from a viewer in NZ! I spent several wonderful months on the South Island when I was traveling around NZ (after working for 6 months in Auckland). I did the Abel Tasman walk, spent a week at Christmas time up in Arthur's Pass, spent some time at Mt. Cook, hitchhiked up the west coast, and ended up back in Arthur's Pass again. Truly one of the best times of my life. :-)
I am also the family genealogist, along with my brother, and absolutely loved this episode. It does give us such a sense of being connected and part of our families before us when we can find these wonderful stories and many times find details of similar interests, skills and passions. Thank you for sharing this, and OH MY, the photos............
I love genealogy and history. My grandmother was a prolific knitter, but she was 43 yrs old when she had my dad who was the youngest of 8. She passed away before me or any of my siblings were born so we didn't receive any knits from her, which makes me so sad. I know some of my cousins still have baby knits she made for them. I did learn that she loved to make feather and fan baby blankets, so at least I have that.
I love your Friday shows... I could listen to Uluru talk fir hours... I love that you were able to learn so much about your grandmothers... Thank you for sharing your family history..especially as it applies to knitting and crocheting...and how these amazing women touched your life..
Sandy from Cincinnati...
Ohh yes.. I love the blue sweater you are wearing... . It looks so warm and comfortable...
Thank you! (FYI, the sweater is green! There is something about my green sweaters, combined with my camera and viewers' screens that makes them look blue, I don't know why!)
I see a green cardigan for sure. Did you go to Uluru? I live in Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 a long way from Uluru.
How incredibly wonderful that you have all those memories and experiences you have of your Grandmother. My father's parents were gone before I was born and I only met my Mom's parents a few times. I did have one aunt that we would see ever so often but I missed having that connection to other generations or a connection to my past. It is great you can have that and pass it on to your children.
Have been loving casual Friday, I am also into genealogy so this one was especially fun. Many of my ancestors were spinners, weavers, and seamstresses, but aside from my grandma who did some crochet in the 70s I haven't found any knitters.
Hi Roxanne. Thanks so much for sharing this. It was just lovely to sit and knit and listen to you.
So enjoyable learning about you. Your life story and family would make a great book, thank you for sharing.
I loved hearing about your family and fiber connections. That is very special!
Truly fascinating to hear all of your discoveries of your family’s history. Thank you for sharing!
Bless you Roxanne! I love those pictures of your knitting Grandmas.
I am enjoying Casual Fridays very much. Thanks for sharing your interesting stories
What a sweet trip down memory lane. Thank you
Reminds me of quilts. Beautiful
Great video, thanks for sharing your stories!
Thank you for sharing your family. I enjoyed this so much.😊Sally
Oh my goodness I am watching this through Covid19 so you didn’t take as long as I first thought. Found you the first time today because the colours attracted me.
AgainTHANKS!!!! Love Love your videos
Love these stories!
Lovely story and beautiful blanket!
Lovw Love Love your videos. Thank-you!!!
The Lizard Ridge is great...I'm inspired to start one :)
It's a lot of fun to knit those squares. If you find your attention waning, try knitting a square as a knitting palate cleanser after you finish another project. You'll have them done much faster than I did (11 years is too long!)
Your sweater is beautiful, Love your channel so fun hearing you tell stories
I adore that blanket, so inspirational Well Done💐
I really enjoyed your family stories. Thank you.
I really love your stories..
I love how proud and sassy you felt in your knit garments. So cute.
Thank you! :-)
Loved this episode! Your family history is fascinating to me, especially since my ancestors came to Virginia and never left!
Awesome video!! I've been doing my family's genealogy since 1968. So love your videos!!!
Enjoyed this Casual Friday. I am also a family genealogist. Another great sweater you were wearing too!
Thanks! It's a big ole oversized sweater, but I love it. (Isn't genealogy so fun?)
Thank you for this very personal and touching episode. I wanted to let you know something that popped in my head when you showed us the photo of your ancestor Hester Anne (Salley) Bassett. You mentioned the ring upon her right hand and said that perhaps the photo is reversed and maybe it was really on her left (implying, I assumed, that it was her wedding band). My mother, now 80 years old, has always said that women (in Belgium, where she was from before emigrating to Canada) switched their wedding rings from their left to their right hand upon the death of their husbands. So maybe that was a fashion in your part of America at the time and Ms. Bassett was a widow? Just a thought. :) Thanks again for a super interesting piece.
What an interesting idea! I just re-checked my family tree, because I was pretty sure that she died first, and I was right about that, so if the ring was on her right hand, it wasn't because she was widowed. I do know that in many European countries, the ring is worn on the right hand from the start, but their families were both long-established in this country, prior to independence, so that can't be it, either.
Roxanne Richardson I love learning about different traditions! Thank you for replying :). Cheers!
Very cool story. I have been wondering about how I have no family knitting history. My maternal grandmother was a dedicated nurse. She would work all day, cook for her family and then would go out and spend evening hours visiting the poor the old the home bound, visiting soup kitchens and missions for the homeless providing her nursing skills for free...so she gets a pass on not spending time knitting. BUT my paternal grandmother was a North Dakota farmers wife, 5 children, came from Denmark with a first name of Ulla. How do you have a name like Ulla and not knit? I feel a tad cheated that I had to discover this passion for yarn on my own in my late 40’s.
Loved this show. I have a crochet hook that was my great grandma's. It's so fine that you can hardly see the hook on it,. She must have made some beautiful work but sadly there is nothing left or that I know of. But I'm proud to have her hook. xxJane
Just watched your show and I have to tell you how much I enjoyed your stories and the connections of knitting and crocheting. My mother did both, she had 4 daughters and I'm the only one who took up both. I have 3 daughters and they are not the least bit interested. I taught two grandsons one summer one knit, the other preferred crochet but they both gave it up, same with one of my granddaughters. The interest to learn is just not there. However, they request and love the items I make for them.
My kids finally appreciate the things I can make (when they went to college and their friends were impressed with their hand knit socks, they started to "get" it). I am ever hopeful that one of them will take up knitting, but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe it'll skip a generation.
hi Roxanne, those stories were super interesting!!! how blessed you are to know so much of your family. those photos are precious. grandma sure was a remarkable woman. her story is one that needs to be told. thanks for sharing those. what about the sweater that was unraveled to be made into a babies sweater and hat.i could go on and on...and to find those magazine pictures of the patterns made for you and your brother. always looking forward to watching and learning from you. beautiful afghan! stacy
Congratulations that is a beautiful blanket . The colour squares are stunning. Is the pattern still available?
I am in the Coachella Valley just up from the Imperial Valley. Our areas are great produce growers. I am about an hour and a half from San Diego where we would take the family in the summer where we got some relief from the Desert heat. We would go to the beach in Carlsbad and Encinitas. I have been a bit remiss in working on my genealogy. I do have a valuable resource through my Church so I have no excuse whatsoever.
Watched again March 11, 2020..
I started knitting Lizard Ridge about the time it came out. I ended up doing another Noro based blanket - I know i didn't post it on Ravelry, but I need to locate the pictures. Gosh I haven't thought about that one in a long time.
So..... have you cast on the poncho re-make yet? HAHA I think you should!
Oh, but don't they say you can only wear a fashion trend once? ;-)
Where do I find the lizard ridge pattern and the article and video on the German short rows thanks, bernadette
The pattern is a Knitty pattern (knitty.com). You can either search for it there, or you can search on Ravelry, or you can go to my profile on Ravelry www.ravelry.com/people/Rox and then look at my project notebook for my project, where you can then find a link to the pattern, as well as my notes on how I converted the W&T short row instructions to GSR instruction. The notes are dated 2/13/2016. From my Ravelry profile, you can read the About Me section to get a link to all of my old Ask a Knitter columns. The one on German short rows is at the top of the list (you can also find them on the Pages tab in my Ravelry group Rox Rocks). I have a bunch of videos on German short rows on my channel. There is an entire playlist of videos on short rows. ua-cam.com/play/PL1AZxTfSCe2cN-DX80Al56SnjN4Um1Uvr.html
And Acrylic 😂😂😂😂😂
I remember asking my mom if we could have "store bought" clothes in 1953. The Japanese had started sending over ready to wear clothing here as a part of their economic recovery program after WWII. To that point, if you were not dressed by a family member or second hand, you had no clothes. I'm another one who didn't recognize how incredible my grandmother was until I was an adult. She taught me to knit when I was still in diapers. She ran the University of Wisconsin Hospital kitchen for over 30 years. When the women returned to the University after the war, she was asked to run their Women's Studies Program. For many years after her death, here in Michigan, we have had her secondary legacy through fabric arts programming on PBS. My biggest loss in 1953 was a retired school teacher named Mrs Parent. She was born in 1861 and died before she had a chance to teach me to tat.
Those losses are hard to bear. There are so many times I wish my grandmother were still here, either so that I could watch her knit, or to tell her what I found out about our family history. She would have been so fascinated.