A snowy walk and a new knitting project ... Mitred? Double decrease? Domino? What do you call it?
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2021
- 14th February 2021
The snow was too beautiful to ignore, so the mat will be finished next week!
The Mitred Knitting pattern I use is from the Knitting Squirrel
www.theknittingsquirrel.com/h...
and I'm sure you'll find many other tutorials on Pinterest, that great time waster!
Its a great way to use up all your yarn scraps
The next 'ALONG' starts here on Tuesday 16th February
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today's music is from Epidemic Sound
Thank you for watching!
Love
Kate
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I so enjoy your videos. Whenever I feel down, lonely, or just need to unwind, all I have to do is watch any one of your videos and calls right with the world again. Love you, kate and all your kitties and Eileen. Stay safe and well.
When I am feeling lonely and want to hear a chatting voice, I turn on Kate's videos and feel like I have a friend here with me.
Loved it all but especially the ice and water at 6:45. We should all enjoy life enough to make a snow angel ❤️ Thank you Kate.
It was a perfect Snow Angel. It made you happy and it made us happy. Can’t think of anything more perfect than that.
You are an absolute delight,,, such a beautiful walk..thank you for sharing ❤️
This really is your little piece of paradise isn't it Kate?? No matter the season, it's just so beautiful.
If we stop loving snow we have lost the child in us. I never want to be that old! Dear Lord,let me enjoy what you have made. I enjoy the winter season best
I love that
And thank you Anna for doing the filming! You are both treasures!
Having grown up in Michigan, you can tell when it’s cold when the snow squeaks when you walk across it😍
Yes, we had very squeaky snow last week! xxx
I love how you surround yourself with what makes you happy and joyful x thank you xx
I love making snow angels as a child. 👼
And now it's HOT in mid July here in the U.S. South, and I've drifted back to this lovely video to see the cool snow and the cracked ice and listen to the mesmerizing music. I don't know why this particular video is truly a go-to video for me, when I want peace. I'm knitting away still on my mitred square blanket here on my couch, dreaming of snowy weather and jackets and winter.
You encourage me to continue being young at heart! Like wine, getting better with age!
November 25 2022: Anna is such a very beautiful daughter joining in on your walks and sharing such a beautiful scenery of the snow. Yes, I enjoined the “walk” with both of you.
Thank you for talking about the Spoon Flower company. I looked at their website and have fallen in love with their designs. Ordered fabric to make two sofa pillows. Love your shows.
I just Love your videos when you're outside showing us your Beautiful country, with such Beautiful music.
Those lines you see are pressure cracks. If the ice gets thicker you will see the ice raise up there. It has to do with ice expanding. Very common in colder climes. Sometimes you can hear them expand.
I was hoping someone would comment.
Where are you Freda Farley. I am a Farley in Canada
In my area, we called them "stress cracks", and when they happen, if you are skating, they scare the heck out of you!
Thank you for satisfying this curious mind.
I used to call it, "the ice is talking" when we lived on Lake Cocolalla in Idaho. I used to leave the bedroom window open a tiny crack at night so I could hear it...
Dear Kate, I've come full circle now. This was the first video I saw of yours and I've been hooked ever since. Any woman our age who still has the joy and whimsy of life in her to lay down in the snow to make a snowangel is the kind of person I'd liked to know! So I went back to the beginning of it all and today I watched you make a snowangel again! So many things I saw in past videos I loved and thought about leaving comments but didn't know if you got new comments on past videos much less have time to read them if you did. But at any rate, I've enjoyed them all and I've had a wonderful time visiting The Last Homely House. Thank you for inviting a kindred spirit from the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia and her three cats in! I wish you every continuing suceess and am looking forward to future visits! Thank you for all the time and effort you have spent bringing pleasure to my world!!!😺
Kate, I so enjoyed the snowy day walk and your beautiful chickens. The one eating from the container gave me a chuckle. So many good memories for me of enjoying a winter day.
Thank you, thank you, thank you...from Florida where I miss snow season every year. And especially, so glad you made a snow angel. You fill my heart!
One is never too old to make a snow angel. Isn't it gorgeous to see geothermal at work. How the inner warmth and the outside temperatures make things crack and move. Just like our own tectonic plates we live on move. Love the snow, what worries me is the difference in temperatures, from minus 20 to plus 18 degrees Celsius in one week here. But my snowdrops survived the pressure of all the snow! That's a plus, Kate.
Love you Kate, you are so charming. And you look far taller than 5'4". It must be your large, beautiful personality.
Loved the snow angel wish I could do that again the snow is so beautiful and peaceful and calm loved it
We are having lots of rainy cold weather in SE Tennessee. To fill time while knitting I'm watching old LHH videos. On one you made a 70's dessert with ginger biscuits and flavored cream. My sweet grandmother made the same with thin chocolate cookies. She'd make individual ones standing up. So good and great memories. Thank you
Your new knitting project could be used to time your pancakes! Arne's is 18 stitches. Loved the video and scenes. Thank you.
Thanks you so, so, so much for the snow video. We don’t get snow where I am in Australia (Melbourne) so I LOVE any snow pics/video. It’s so magical and special to me. Thank you lovely Kate and gorgeous Anna xx. I’ve knitted a blanket like that and love it - so much fun to do and no stitching up! Win, win!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Kate, for sharing your world with us...........
I could watch everyday just sitting. You are beautiful, You made me laugh when you made the snow angel.
Winter is my favorite time of year. Due to he weather changes, it is not as cold and a lot less snow if any. I am in Pennsylvania, USA.at the Great Lake. Just listening to you walk through the snow and hearing the crunch brings happiness to me.. thank you
You are never too old to make snow angels.
Loved it! I've never made a snow angel in my life...but I am only 61, so there is still some time left...^^
Love a bit of domino squares! What larks!
By the way, love the snow angel...if I tried it they'd find my frozen body in a few weeks because I can't get up without help anymore!!
Same!
Me too!
I'm sorry, I know it's not funny, but it made me chuckle... I'm so bad.
@@northernexpanse_art7213 But sometimes I just have to laugh, right?!
@@lynnlange1147 absolutely! 😀
I really enjoy your walkabouts Kate. Beautiful, peaceful and mesmerising vistas. Thank you so much. 🦘💚
Snow days are the best!!! Sending hellos from snowy Canada. We have 35cm of snow coming by tomorrow for us❄ Lovely to see the fur and feather babies 😀 I think the lines are perhaps movement and under current of water. Thank you for taking us on your walk Kate 😇 and hello to Anna. Taking a moment to enjoy the simple things prove to be the most joyful.
The snow looks so beautiful and there is nothing better than wrapping up warm and snuggly and walking in crispy crunchy snow, well maybe with a nice mug of hot chocolate too. Loved your snow Angel, do you know I’ve never ever made one of those, even though I’m in my 70’s next time we get snow deep enough I’m going to do that, God willing. Lovely video Kate, stay warm x
I love coming to visit ...you bring such joy to me!!! I loved the walkabout...the knitting squares...and the beautiful snow angel. You are so loved.
Hi Kate, I discovered you whilst watching Arne & Carlos last year . So I thought that whilst I was making a crochet blanket for one of my grand daughters after Christmas I would pop you on UA-cam and have a look !! Well I’m still here and started back at your first video three years ago and today I am up to date.. I have 140 4x4 inch squares to crochet and am now at no. 98. Love your videos, I am not a sewing person sadly, I don’t have a sewing machine but am tempted by your English paper piecing hexagons, who knows in time.....!!!. So thank you Kate Norma Prudence Sadie Rita and of course Eileen and the rest of your family for being my support and company for the last six weeks and more to come....stay safe and best wishes to all. Mary, Tipperary, Midwest Ireland, and yes it is a long way as you said on New Years Eve......I was watching.☘️
Love you, Kate. Love the snow and cats and quilting, too!
Hi Katie & Anna:-) Loved the snowy walk. Bet you & Anna had a hot drink when you got back home. The chickens & Eileen are looking well:-) Loved the snow angel. showing a very agile side to you there Kate. Tfs. Hugs to all the pets. :):):):)
Good morning from down under, its 8am here slow morning no school today so just had my porridge in respect for your snowing morning, usually have fruit first thing here in summer it a cool 15 degrees Celsius out side we have had a rather cool summer only a couple of days over 40. For someone who has only experienced snow melting as it hits the ground I appreciate your snow walks and angel, thank you Kate. More fruit cutting for drying, cut figs before breakfast now some pears and apples, this year we have an abundance and because of a fruit fly outbreak in our area we are unable to give any away so drying it all for use later in the year, apricots, necterines, peaches and prunes all finished now so onto the next lot.💞
Ok Grace...............that snow angel was wonderful! Hahahahaha!! Good to see you havlng fun!!!
Great winter walk....my husband really liked the snow angel (me too)! Thanks Kate....
Those melted lines in the lake ice were VERY cool!
Another wonderful video. I live in Kansas, USA, and we also have snow with minus temps and some wind. The music with this video was so relaxing and soothing which I love; it did not send me to the moon as some music does in videos!! LOL. I find the lines in the top of the lake interesting as well; like you, I assume it has something to do with the temps and the various depths of the water, Mother Nature is a wonder unto her self. Thank you so much for doing your videos; they are always a bright spot in my life, especially with all of the Covid restraints and living alone. Enjoy your Valentine’s Day and happy knitting............
Somehow ended up here today. Glad I did.
Oooh, I made these mitered squares years ago. I have some leftover sock yarn bits and some hand spun yarns in a similar weight. Most of its varying shades of white. Guess it's dye pot fun time again. I have plenty of food coloring and vinegar and it doesn't need to be light fast or wash fast. So since it will not matter if the colors fade and get muted over time, food dye is quite alright to use. I just need an extra small blanket for a shoulder wrap. I really like the shades when you deliberately break the black dye and a color way I call tequila sunshine. Make a light yellow orange dye bath the color of orange juice. Start dyeing the yarn once the yarn has taken up enough dye to color the yarn but still plenty left, drop in red dye here and there randomly Not too much but just enough to variegate the yarn. It gives a nicely orange/red variegated yarn that just pops. You could do the same thing with acid dye. There are a few color ways I dye that way. I have a lot of white sock weight yarn I bought and knit up a lot of white socks. However, in a wool sock, I much prefer a thicker sock. I like Lion brand Fisherman's wool and knit up thick winter socks for my winter boots. They hold up well to washing and when they get worn out and felted a bit, I recycle them into hand warmers by cutting off the toe and making a thumbhole. So I skeins and skeins of white sock yarn left. I will hit the bargain bins at the local yarn store for odd skeins of sock weight yarns. Since it's modular, if a yarn isn't quite the same gauge it is easy enough to fudge it and as long as the end result works, a few stitches more or less or rows It will only matter to get the same gauge on the beginning edge squares. The rest can be adjusted on the fly. I believe that is what I did before.
Hi Kate enjoyed a walk in the snow and your snow angel , will have a look at the knitting squirrel , I like just to have busy hands as you say nice to see you , thank you , Jean X
Beautiful when I just get to look at it, but don't have to be out in it or drive in it!!! Thanks for the walk in it.
Kate, thank you so much for the Valentine's day gift of your beautiful video...
Joanne Abernathy ❤️
I am so thrilled I just happened upon your channel as I was sitting here, all comfy and cozy, in our home in Alaska, knitting 🧶 a pair of baby socks for a great nephew that will be making his entrance into the world mid April. Thank you for sharing your home and the beautiful walk around the lake. I may have to see about making a snow angle myself! We certainly have enough snow ❄️
Thank you for taking us with you. Thank you for calm enjoyment of beauty everywhere. Snow is
deeper here than cats are tall, so kits cant go out to play, and its too cold, too windy for their little ears. Neighbor's horses have open barn but prefer to romp about with manes flowing, looking like shampoo commericals. Lime green is a good color for a couch. I'll bring my quilting and some brownies to share.
Watched another of your videos where you asked to tell you where I “found” you. I watch a lot of flosstube videos and Pumpkin Hollow quilts asked us to comment on other UA-cam channels we watch and your channel came up in the comments several times. So I gave it a look and love it. 😁
😂 love it ! I too like to walk in the snow…. It is so peaceful…
Hello, Kate. Nature is so beautiful. West coast of Scotland only got a wee bit of snow, but my daughter over on East coast, and up north, got heavy snow. I love making these memory blankets with my sock scraps. I use circular needles. I have made a double bed size, and four small lap blankets. I gave away the small ones to family. That shows you how many pairs of socks I have made! I am addicted. Myself and daughters have small feet so always loads of wool left. And husband has smallish feet as well, ha ha 😀 🏴🌈
Oh to live were you live Kate , Thank You for that 🥰xxxx
Love you kate! I feel like we are right there with you!The snow is beautiful....
I totally agree with you on the knitting. I always pick easy garter stitch patterns. It's more meditative than having to think. I could do complicated things...but just like to keep hands busy. I'm glad to hear you say this also.
I LOVE ❤️your snow angel, Kate. And I live in Florida so I don’t get to see this kind of day so thank you.
Tallahassee, Florida
We in Canadian got a couple of weeks mins. 21c and _17c day. But the wind that's what you can't get out of. Thanks for the good winter pictures. Me as a srn. Being staying in. Thanks for your weekly visit. Stay Healthy Anita
I enjoyed the walk with you and Anna...loved the Snow Angel.
Such a beautiful walk. We, here in the Pacific Northwest of Washington state USA, are also enjoying snow for Valentine's Day. 13" of snow is pretty rare for us. The music you chose for video is so appropriate for the footage. Life is sweet when you let it be. Thank you, Kate, for being a part of that sweetness.
@Tina Tipping, I'm on the Olympic Peninsula at sea level. We have 11 inches and it just keeps coming down. Crazy. More snow than we've had in ages.
Stay safe, stay warm.
Cheers
Same here in Portland, OR! Our snow is melting now and we have ice here and there. Love the PNW!
I'm in Portland and we have 8" o'f snow and we're now encased in ice.
@@juliemix3373 , safe and warm here. We live in the Puget Sound area. The snow is turning to a misty kind of rain this evening, so things are melting at 28*. Cheers back to you, neighbor on the Lime Green sofa.
I'm in Sultan WA! Not as much snow as some, just a lot wind.
I do what my grandmother did with her tiny bits, cut them up into 6 - 8 inch pieces and lightly snag them on the tree bark in the nearby trees or the branches of our winter bare bushes. Come spring you’ll see brightly colored bits in the birds nests in the area! Neighbors remark on the quirky nests and wonder how that happens. I’ll never tell. But nice to know it brightens the birds and the neighbors days.
Hello Kate! Thank you so much for the beautiful video! Your enthusiasm is highly addictive! Your idea of sensible is on line with mine - nothing too grown up! Aren’t those blankets fun to knit? I came home from a holiday in Norway with a suitcase full of wool. There was a lovely shop in the village, with a big bargain basket outside, so I bought it all, about fifteen different colours, so I made a mitred blanket. It was a much enjoyed project, and brings back great memories of a wonderful holiday! Isn’t it great how snow brings out the child in us? Doesn’t matter how old we get, it’s always so beautiful.
Beautiful to look at though it's good to be in a warm place -numbers remains me is like been in the bottom of the freezer i am enjoying your scenery it beautiful enjoy 😊😊
Thank you Kate. I have been a bit down having to isolate with my husband.....he’s one of the vulnerable ones, although we have had our jabs. But I found your video by chance. What a lovely idea, I’ve got so fed up with faces talking straight at me, but you made me feel I was visiting over a cup of tea, and a chat. I’ve really missed doing just that with all my usual friends, we’ve all been extra careful, as we are all in our 70s and 80s. Then there was the added pleasure of getting outside and seeing the countryside! I’m really looking forward to your video about quilts, as I’m an addict. I love quilting, although because of lockdown, I’ve discovered crocheted Afghan rugs too. I’m now going to catch up on all your other videos, thank you again.
this is all so lovely - thank you - this is why I invented the Sofa - so all you lovely people could meet up virtually and chat xxxx take care xxxx
What lovely snow! Definitely a 'walking snow'! There are views in your video that look like beautiful watercolor monochromatic paintings. So lovely and peaceful. Thank you for the inspiration - that knitting pattern will be perfect for my "Breeds" blanket. I'm spinning samples of specific sheep breeds and want to make a coverlet with labelled blocks. That simple double-decrease block would work brilliantly.
Thank you for the Zen of Snow! And - gotta say - totally impressed with that snow angel!
I admire your ability to make a snow angel and then get up. I'm older than you, but for a long time now I've not been able to get up once I go down. It is bitterly cold here in Missouri USA. The weather man said today that we may get to -30F tonight. Dangerous weather here. I hope everyone is home & safe.
Well this was just lovely. (The best way to enjoy the snow, in my estimation). Thanks for sharing! A snow angel! Lord If I got down I’d never be able to get back up!
You made a snow angel! I still make snow angels!!! Because why not?! LOVE it!
Super snow walk loved it poor Eileen no swim for her think she knew you were going to her swimming lake 😉
Beautiful episode Kate ..... I so look forward to listening to you ......... thank you again x
A peaceful, lovely walk. I especially loved your snow angel...bravo, Kate! Thank you as always.
The snow is so beautiful thank you for showing this God bless you
What a lovely peaceful video. You're so lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the country - thank you so much for sharing with us town-dwellers who are desperately missing wide open spaces!! I love your slow knitting project. At the moment I'm making wash cloths from leftover cotton scraps. As you say, knitting to keep the hands busy and the mind quiet :)
Snow angles never to old
Oh Kate...what a lovely soul you are. Such a joy to watch and listen to. I've not been able to do them for many years. I'm now disabled so wheelchair and crutches are my mode of getting about. I'm still able to make quilts by machine and hand applique. I no longer can knit or crochet. Too much arther and ites... Anyway keep safe and well. See you on the limegreen couch. Cold and snowy in NH.
Such a calming video. The walk was perfect. The knitting will be great on the lime green couch. Take care my friend and happy Valentine’s Day.
Such beautiful nature scenes. Love your snow angel. Love your animals. So pretty.
Here, today, it has been -22°c. (It feels like -33°c with the windchill.) we have been in an arctic freeze for nearly two weeks now. I think the winter scapes are incredibly beautiful but I am looking forward to warmer weather next week where I can resume my walks and enjoy the scenery around me. I also found those lines on the lake curious...it’s funny how much we can’t see when looking from the surface. I LOVED the snow angel - good on you for taking the moment, and thank you for sharing. Looking very much forward to Part 3. Video. Xoxo
Loving it Kate... that takes the stress away! Wonderful music too...thank you...keep doing what you do xx
WoW What a great snowwalk it remembers me of my favorite snowmovie the snowman of Raymond Briggs the boy That make a snowman that comes alive . Also lol with you making a snowangel have a Nice day Kate groetjes van Marijke
🤗 So good to spend time with you today Kate. Here in East Texas we are having another very bad winter storm with very cold temperatures. This is our second bad storm of this winter! We just don’t have winters like this! Supposed to have awful cold temps until Thursday. Take care.
So enjoy our visits Kate. Loved you angel. Happy Valentine's Day from Madison, Ohio.
I too wondered about the lines on the lake. Lovely walk and snow angels today. Thank you. The mitred knitting is on my list to do. I too like a project that doesn't require counting or fancy stitch patterns for the most part. I use cotton yarn and making dish clothes when I get the itch to knit. Currently working on an EPP quilt with Millie Morsels, quilt blocks with the Lockdown patchwork project, Dear Jean blocks with Truelove quilts for you and the my Hometown block party. So the knitting needles are quiet for the moment. As always love to share a bit with you. My Sunday treat. Thank you.
Well Kate you will have to practice cause Agnes will love Nana being silly with her. My mokopuna all say “Go Nana Go” and fall around laughing it so fun, strangely easier than with our own kids cause we are more relaxed with grandies 🙈🙊
Oh how beautifully peaceful Kate ❤
I love your snow angel! I haven’t made one in decades.
I’m enjoying your visit to the lake in the snow.
I live a little south of Lake Erie and out winter starts in November and ends in March so we have 5 months of winter and I’m tired of it now.
Come soon spring!!!😊
I sorted out all my wool ends a couple of weeks ago and am now knitting Frankenstein socks, who cares what they look like under trousers and I made it super easy for myself by doing an after thought heel. Half way through my third pair with the fourth in my sights. Gather those fragments!
😂😂i love the Frankenstein socks...
Beautiful snowy. Here Southern California no snow but nice sun warm weather.
Mitered square in the USA. Loved your snowy walk and snow angel.
I think you made a perfect snow angel! Fun!
I love your spirit! If I had been there with you, I would have made a snow angel also.
I was curious about those lines, too so I Googled and I think it's something called finger 'rafting.' The article I read said, "Finger rafting occurs when thin ice sheets floating on water collide and push over and under each other alternately, creating what scientists describe as “fingers”." Lovely walk, I enjoyed it. Also really loved the music. Thank you, Kate.
Thank you Laura, for googling this information
So honored to see your wonderful home place and angels.
Hello Kate. This is a lovely video. I enjoyed it. You are right, snow is magical. Take care and see you soon xxx
Thank you for the walk around the lake...it is so peaceful and the snow makes it even more beautiful. And thank you for the link to the blanket pattern, I had no idea those were so simple. Unlike you I can't do much more than basic knitting so it has limited what I'm able to create. This will be fun to use up scrap wool. Today is a winter sowing day to catch up and then sewing. You'll be along for the sewing.
Lovely walk in the snow! So happy to see Norma. Thank you for the video Kate. ~kendra
Love your walk in the snow. I live in Birmingham, Alabama and even a half inch of snow throws us into a tizzy and will shut down the city for three days. Needless to say we don’t get much snow in Alabama.
Thank you Kate. A beautiful little while of peace. 🌺🌸
It's so beautiful, d whole scenery...I've never been to U.K so I wonder at d beauty of nature during winter... love d joy expressed with such enthusiasm in ur outing...tq Kate for this scenery,truly enjoyed it as much as u did n admired ur quilts especially...though I missed d very 1st podcast u started....
It's a beautiful snow Angel! Thank you sharing such a beautiful winter day. Yea it's cold and snowy where I live but I love seeing your wonderful outdoors!
It’s fun to see people get excited about and enjoy snow. I’m from Canada and we are just warming up (-24 C today) after two weeks of -30 to -40 (colder with wind chill). Not so much enjoying going on. 😀. Definitely can’t leave your boat in the water over winter! I do have the same reaction as you to the first snow every year tho. TFS