Such fabulous plans …so existing…and what amazing favourites……..my favourites…..that’s easy…you two :-) …….did I mention how very proud I am of you both 🤗xx
After all of the ways you are both going to organize, plan, and commit to using stash, not buy yarn, use the books and patterns you have, I love how you ended the podcast with a reminder that it is a hobby that you love. I think the dice method is definitley worth a try. Have fun with it all...
Love the show of your favourite makes of 2024. It's good to look back and remember the lovely patterns and yarn used. I need to use my books and stored patterns more. It's all too easy to be led by what you see online when you possibly have something just as good or better in your 'stash'.
Thank you again for your lovely podcast! Next time could you tell us a bit about yourselves? Do you work outside the home? How did you meet? Etc. Etc. Of course, only if you want to. I gathered up all of my wooly wool stash and have hooked on a simple blanket, using chain one, SC one, chain one, SC, etc. It already looks stunning. I also have plans to hook my acrylic yarn into a large laundry basket. Plus, continue to work on blankets for my nieces and nephews, and finally up the game to crochet a more complicated fitted crochet sweater than the one I just finished. Love you guys! Crocheting in Canada...❤
Oh yes, we havnt done that for a while. I will try and remember for next episode 😁 Your blankets sound lovely 😍 The sc, ch1 stitches make a beautiful fabric. Happy crocheting! 💕
Hi, Kirsty, I love the categories of your types of knitting, to look at before you start knitting. I tend to do that, except for your final category of something that you can actually wear frequently, with most of your wardrobe. I actually tie that in with each of the other categories, because, before, when I had it as a seperate category, I got bored with it and it would sit by the wayside and not get worked on because it wasn't as exciting or fun as some of the other categories, or as relaxing as the others. Also the other categories didn't get used or worn, because they didn't go with my wardrobe or what I felt comfortable wearing, or found useful. Now if I, for example want a learning project, an exciting one, or maybe a mindless one, I also choose that category in a pattern, yarn type, and colour, that I think I will frequently wear, that will go well in my wardrobe or that I will use a lot. The exceptions are just if something would give me so much pleasure either making it, or just looking at it afterwards, that it doesn't really matter to me if I don't wear or use it a lot. Hi Tracy, I don't think it will be boring watching your progress on the same projects for a month because we will see a good chunk of progress and likely some finished objects. I laughed when you said you didn't know how well it would work because you had the mindset of "you can't tell me what to do" even if it was you telling yourself to do it. I'm exactly the same way.
That is fantastic advice! 😀 Thank you! You've inspired me to have a look at all my makes and see which ones I want to wear most and if they were also exciting to knit etc. 😍 Thank you for spending time with us, hope you are having a great weekend! 💕
What a great episode. Thank you. I loved the sweaters you were wearing. The Whitmoor has been on my list for a awhile. You have inspired me to use my stash and get it made. Kirsty, if I would have seen your Penguono when that pattern first came out, I would have made one. It's the best one I've ever seen. Your Soft Shoulder Wrap goes perfect with the sweater you are wearing, the colos are so pretty. I'm so happy to see Jugen, he just makes me smile. Your Black and White Neon socks are so fun!! The Shawlography is a masterpiece. You have a great eye for putting colors together. Tracy, your Painting Honeycombs shawl is also a work of art. I love, love, love the Litmus Cowl, and the Nightshift. Thank you for all the great ideas for working through all my wips. Take care, I'll look forward to seeing you both next time
What a fantastic episode! I love it. I am excited to see how you enjoy the rolling of the dice. I need to rewatch this episode just so I can make a list of things I want to make, you guys just shared some gorgeous projects. Thank you so much for the inspiration.
Thank you for another lovely podcast - I had such a good giggle when you said you had 18 wips & 5 blankets - made me feel so much better - so I paused, went to my stash & am now casting on a cowl to add to my 10 wips & 2 blankets 🤣🤣.
THANKS girls for the really nice knitting company I enjoyed here in my armchair❣️ Loads of projects ongoing but in my lap I have a Vest no.8 by My Favourite Things Knitwear Knitting in Mayflowers Honey Bee Print, colour 1003 held together with a light-peach-coloured mohair from Temu. My adjustment will be to make it much longer. Using needles 4,5 mm Hugs and love from Sweden 🧶💖✨ //Titti
Lovely to look back at all your favourite makes from 2024 and hear your thoughts going into 2025. I have done a list of things that I'd like to achieve and one is 'try a new technique', whilst others are definite projects. Initially I struggled to think of 6 things to aim for, but actually have ended up with a list of 10! Hope that at least one of your episodes will feature you rolling your dice xx
That's great Ruth! Not buying patterns until you're ready to start the project is brilliant! I am constantly doing that and then not actually knitting them 😅 I think I'm going to add that to my list too 😁💕
Hi Kirsty and Tracey- thanks so very much for a really enjoyable visit! I loved seeing your favourites and your plans- I absolutely love your Pinguano Kirsty - beautiful colours ❤ It must be the year for knitting from stash- I was very strong and didn’t buy any advents last year- instead I made up my Stash Advent; lovely yarn I’d purchased ( much of it single skeins or small amounts) and matched it up with patterns so now I have 24 projects ready to go 😊 My next project is a cardigan for me - “Fly away Home” by Bronagh Miskelly- from one of my many Knitter magazines- that’s another goal of mine that’s the same as yours- to use my books and magazines more! Enjoy your knitting until next time 😊
This was so cool!!! I think this year I’m going to let my stash inspire me. I’m going to look at what I have and choose patterns based on that instead of getting excited about a pattern and then being bummed I don’t have whatever in stash :) also, I’m going to knit more for myself. In 13 years of knitting, 2024 was the FIRST year I’d ever knit something for myself.
Thank you! Woah, 13 years! Yes you deserve some knits for yourself 🥰 Letting your stash speak to you is a great plan! It's so fun searching in ravelry for projects to fit your yarn choices. 😁💕
Loved watching your new podcast and like another of your followers im crying with laughter at im not going to buy yarn going to use your stash haha we will see !! i know you both so well 😘 looking forward to your next podcast xx take care you lovely ladies xx
Great episode, thank you. I'm hoping to knit from stash as long as I can this year. So far, I've made it through January with no purchases and it actually feels great. I'm loving the challenge of it. I have so much yarn and lots of patterns waiting for me, that I'm looking forward to busting through some stash! 😊
I so enjoyed seeing your favourite projects of last year! I'm rubbish at planning ahead, but you've both inspired me to think about what I want to knit this year. ❤❤
I’m so happy that I watched this!!!🎉 I bought some yarn for a project that was too complicated for me. Your ZickZack pattern will be perfect to show off the colors in this yarn. ❤ thank you
Great podcast, thanks both! For 2025, I’m planning on finishing multiple WIPs and endeavouring to use as much stash yarn as possible! I have a budget in mind for Unravel which I hope won’t come unravelled on the day.
I enjoyed this SO much and of course want to make everything. Next on my list is a(nother) Simon Shawl using a main and some Advent yarn - a fun shawl this time! Thankyou both so much! Xx
What a fabulous collection of projects, love all the shawls, you have both inspired me to make a lot of them. I've knit a couple of Shift Shawls which ae my favourite My car knitting is the Zic Zac shawl, its such a great knit, cant wait to unravel it from the bag as it is now nearing the end of the yarn !!
❤❤love you guys so much ,,,,🎉 What a treat to see you both and ur beautiful makes from the year,,,,, ❤️ So much inspiration ,,,,thank you !!! I have a lot of wips to get thru and mostly smaller projects and socks ,,,,which is not stressful ,,,and love socks,,, I have rolled the dice for scrappy socks which is so fun,,,but never thought of wips!! Great idea,,,,, Want to use from stash ,too,,, Take care And thank you for brightening up a dreary January day ELAINE 💗🏠⛄🌨️
Lovely video, it's great seeing your favourite makes and hearing about your creative plans for this year. You could use some of your cotton stash to make your wee creatures. I use cotton to make soap sacks (include soap) and face scrubbies which I leave in little free pantries in my area or at the homeless outreach. I have been doing a no buy January and am looking forward to it ending! This year I am weighing the yarn in and out (finished objects) of my stash just for fun - January statistics looking good because of the no buy 😂 I want to make some wearables this year, a Billie blanket by Insomnia crochet, and continue crocheting for charity (I make small cat blankets and donate to the local shelter). I also made myself some challenge cards and will pull out two per month, this month was to do the no buy and to make something from a kit - I managed both, yay!
Thank you! ☺️ Your plans sound great and that's good you achieved both of your goals this month. Soap sacks for charity is such a lovely thing to do and the blankets for the cats too! Thanks for spending time with us! 💕
I enjoy the favorite things knit and it is better than the "all things I knit" because it hones in. I love seeing what you have done in the past over and over actually. What a special sweater to have from your Grandmother, Kirsty. It is beautiful and I think I want to knit the beautiful pink Whitmoor, Tracy. You make it look so appealing and are so optimistic about the level of difficulty! Thank you so much for this lovely podcast.
That was fun seeing your favorite things. I think I'll try the dice trick each month to pull out and work on a wip. I hadn't heard that before but think it's a fun idea. I'm currently finishing my second gnome and have The Never Too Late sweater on hold while I finish the gnome. I just bought Laura Penrose's new cardigan as I really want just a staple cardi. I like the idea of making some plans for 2025 especially using books I already have, knitting the patterns I've already bought and using my stash. You both are very inspiring.
kirsti i remember the first time you showed those fantastic socks you designed and were not happy with the jog at beg of round, was thinking you could do a stripe of either color of 2 or 3 sts at beg of round and on the opposite side to eliminate the jog. thank you both for taking the time to share your projects, you're very inspirational for me with knitting, spinning, and using my handspun. I'm on year 3 of stash down, which is harder than it sounds when you spin! but it's keeping me conscious that I'm fortunate to have overabundance of yarn. An idea for a knitalong, make a project using a book you own that you've never used?
Thanks Donna, that's a great idea for my socks. It is great to have a good stash of yarns to choose from. I agree stashing down whilst spinning is difficult 😅 well done for 3 years of it! 😁💕
Lovely podcast as usual thankyou - first week of each month I am knitting a gnome from Imagined Landscapes year of Gnomes 2025 then for 3 weeks I can work on wips then treat at beginning of next month is another gnome. box of gnomes and toadstools at end of year for advent!
Love seeing you ladies. Great episode as always. I joined Ange for her 12 cast ons so my projects are set for awhile. Kirsty you could use up some cotton by making wash cloths and soap sacks for donations to homeless shelters or women’s shelters they can always use stuff like that
Great fun podcast and do full of ideas and inspiration. Like you guys I am trying not to buy too much yarn. Haven’t bought anything for 2 whole months, ignoring the tempting sales … amazing what you find instasj
Great to see you ladies. The one thing I want to fit in this year is a Jethro cardigan. I love it and can’t wait to get started. But I’m still finishing up Christmas socks. And I want to find the perfect yarn for it.
Don’t fall off your chairs, but I came into 2025 with 47 wips!! I am using the dice method from Tonya at Karma’s a stitch, and it’s working brilliantly. I haven’t listed the projects, just the bags so I won’t reject it before I even pick it up. I work on it for a week, but do my temperature blanket every day, 10 rows on a sock and periodically a dishcloth/tea towel so I don’t get bored. In January I have finished 3 garments, which is amazing for me plus a fair amount of smaller projects. In an effort to reduce my stash, I’m allowing myself 10 grams in for every 100 gms out. I look forward to your podcast every month, and loved seeing your favourites. You give me lots of inspiration, and Kirsty I think you have an amazing eye for colour and I agree best penguono I’ve ever seen. Tracy everything you do is so perfect. Thank you both 😊
Thanks so much Shelley! Wow 47 wips sounds a lot, but love that you have so many things on the go! 😍 10grams in for every 100g out sounds perfect and much better than a complete yarn ban. Thanks for spending time with us! 😁💕
Once again a wonderful podcast 🎉full of amazing projects ❤Thank you so much 😊I am knitting on the Paul Klee Sweater it is my second sweater the pattern is so addictive 😊
Great podcast. Some of the projects were new to me as I must have subscribed partway through the year. You both have amazing plans and I hope you succeed with lots of them. Things change throughout the year but it’s nice to at least have a list. I haven’t a list as yet. I usually do but my big thing this year is to not knit for the sake of knitting, but make something that is needed or really wanted. I also have a cross stitch throw that I started in 2001 and left sit for many years in between then and now and this year it is going to be finished. Looking forward to more podcasts.
Thanks so much for showing us all your fabulous makes, and your plans for this year 🥰. I have just finished my first cable cardigan, the winters beach by Andrea Mowry, with pockets! I made it in budget friendly Yarnsmiths dk merino, held with Rico make it tweed, and it looks amazing with those yarns, I am so pleased with my first attempt at this. It was so very easy because Andrea walks us through every step and holds your hand all the way! Happy new year to you both, will look forward to seeing your projects this year, happy knitting , kind regards 🥰🙏. x x
Your winters beach cardi sounds amazing! I have the pattern for that too and you saying that you found it easy, encourages me to get it cast on! With all the tweedy bits yours sounds beautiful! Thanks for spending time with us! 😁💕
Thank you for another lovely podcast. I always enjoy what you make, knit while you two banter. I'm working on 2 cardigans atm, the Midland Cardigan by Laura Penrose and Pressed Flowers by Amy Christoffers. The Midland, I'm using my own hand dyed yarn held with a mohair and it's an easy garter stitch but a sideways construction. The Pressed Flowers is a mosaic knit, which I haven't done before. really enjoying both patterns
Duplicate stitch is a mystery to me. I am baffled by it. Your creations are amazing. Thanks for sharing your talent and creativity with us. God bless you!❤
working on a hipster top as I watch, doing mine in one colour cotton/linen yarn with a feather and fan lace at the bottom, Have made 3 riptide v necks, just love the pattern and it fits so well, just be sure to check armhole depth as I found it was a bit deep on me, but I was making them to wear as singlets, ie nothing underneath. Kirsty, there is a free pattern called Ambiente which has a contiguous shoulder that might be a good make with your cotton yarn, I am using the very simple lace pattern from that at the bottom of the hipster.
Hi Ladies! Another great podcast. What I am doing this year to use up some of my cotton yarn is taking part in a KAL . It should be on Ravelry but it’s a temperature dishcloth. They give you the temps in 12 ranges and they show Celsius and Fahrenheit. Each day of the month you knit only 2 rows per day with the color you assigned for that temperature. At the end of the month you have a dishcloth. At the end of the year you have 12 dishcloths. I am also giving myself a goal of knitting a pair of socks each month in various sizes so I can give them for gifts. Take care.
Beautiful work ladies 🤩 I was starting to hyperventilate when you said you had 19 / 20 wips on the go 😲😂 thank you for sharing take care xx happy crafting
Great podcast as usual, loved your ideas for next year. I've now added more ideas to my plans.😅 Cotton is good to use for amigurumi or the wee creatures you want to make.
Well I thoroughly enjoyed your video ladies. 👍It was lovely to see your makes again as they are always so nice! You have some nice fun ideas too for this year. I did chuckle though when you talked about not buying much at the up coming yarn festival; yeah yeah, 🤣 ❤❤
Great podcast girls! Absolutely loved all last year’s makes. Your pattern and yarn choices are amazing. Tracy I loved the Shortbread hat but I can’t figure out which color you used from the wool warehouse site. Do you remember which color it was and let me know? I just love that shade of green. Kirsty that machine knit sweater is just gorgeous, is there a pattern? Your plans for 2025 sound wonderful!
Drops Lima 0705 was the colour Tracy used for the Shortbread hat 😁 No pattern available for my Grandma's machine knit sweater. Thanks for spending time with us! Hope you have a great week! 💕
I enjoyed seeing your favorites. I am planning to shop my stash this year and I placed an order on New Year's Eve too! I have a ton of acrylic and I am going to make blankets and hats for a homeless shelter. I am a crocheter, and new knitter - I would love to figure out some mittens, but I only know how to knit and purl.
Thanks Linda! 😊 The charity blankets and hats sounds like a great idea! Check out very pink knits on UA-cam for knitting tutorials. I've found that her tutorials have been very helpful. Anytime I don't know how to do a technique, I watch her tutorials. Even now I still watch them. 💕
Very fun watch tonight. Love your plans, isn’t January fun? I’m participating in Alice’s soxalong she’s doing with Diane and instead of putting them in market I’m gifting myself a box of socks for Christmas. And with any luck I’ll win wool as I’m not buying either 😂. I have a substantial stash so unless I’m willing it to my kids I best get at it lol. I have been in 2 stores with wool this month and didn’t buy. My husband was shocked and told me how proud he was 😂. The second one I actually said to the cashier “This is the first time I’ve left here without wool, I am not okay!” 🤣. I had baby gifts to knit for the 18th, 4th grandbaby, so market prep was delayed. January plan was knitting heads, yes, heads, the piddly part of dolls and animals. I think I’m at 35 in the basket and 2 days left! Yes, I’m that lister type lol. Love your plans, the projects and the using the already owned patterns and books. Good luck with your plans! Looking forward to seeing your progress. Edit I’ve been using up the cotton stash on baskets combined with acrylics and wool. 9mm hook, 7 strands, very colourful and functional. I find if I throw in an ombré or two the outcome is very nice.
Thanks Tami! 😁 The socks for yourself for Christmas sounds great! Well done for keeping to your goal of not buying wool! It is hard to resist 😅 love the basket idea too! Hope you have lots of fun with the market makes and the making for you too! 💕
Thank you Margaret! ☺️ A few tips I can think of would be, read patterns carefully. Most mistakes I make are because of me misreading things. 😅 Learn to Tink (unknitting stitches). Use stitch markers between pattern repeats, and use lifelines to save your work 😁 I hope these are helpful. 💕
Brilliant video today ladies and I loved seeing some of your wonderful projects again and your plans for this year. I was wondering Kirstie if you could recommend an oversized easy knit cardigan/ jacket using handspun in appx Aran weight? I have several multi coloured skeins which I think would look ok knitted up but I’m failing to find anything suitable With your spinning knowledge I thought you might possibly know of one. Many thanks xx thanks for a very entertaining hour!
Thanks so much Heather! I can't think of a recommendation for an Aran weight cardigan. I've only knit the ramona cardigan in that weight and it's quite fitted. Although I did find the pattern very easy and relaxing. Hope you find something that's just right! 😁💕
Oops forgot to say, I’ve got yarn to knit my first colour work sweater the Mariette by along avec anna Ive bought drops Alaska as I couldn’t justify buying expensive yarn , hopefully it will be a good choice.
I forgot to ask…Kirsty for the Wooly Waffle, did you hold two dark blue 4 ply yarn and one thread of the Dundiga together? I’m trying to figure out what I could use to get a similar effect with this pattern, your shawl came out perfect!
I used one strand of 4ply blue and 1 strand of 4ply long colour changing yarn. Although I think scraps would work well too! Hope you find a combination you like and that you have fun with yours! 😁💕
O my, I have so many new pattern ideas now!! 😂😂 don't forget to check out our Sox-A-Long 2025 and enter your socks in Ravelry! We are doing a pair of socks a month for the whole year ❤ also I'm going to use uo scrap cotton to make wind spinners, they look like fun projects. Take care! Xo
Thanks for spending time with us Alice! We will check those wind spinners out 😍 Is your knit along on instagram too? We don't really use ravelry, other than for patterns 💕
Such fabulous plans …so existing…and what amazing favourites……..my favourites…..that’s easy…you two :-) …….did I mention how very proud I am of you both 🤗xx
Thanks Mum 😘
After all of the ways you are both going to organize, plan, and commit to using stash, not buy yarn, use the books and patterns you have, I love how you ended the podcast with a reminder that it is a hobby that you love. I think the dice method is definitley worth a try. Have fun with it all...
Thanks Paige! Hope you have a great weekend! 😁💕
Love the show of your favourite makes of 2024. It's good to look back and remember the lovely patterns and yarn used. I need to use my books and stored patterns more. It's all too easy to be led by what you see online when you possibly have something just as good or better in your 'stash'.
Thank you! Yes that's it, hope you have fun looking through your books and stash! 😁💕
Thank you again for your lovely podcast! Next time could you tell us a bit about yourselves? Do you work outside the home? How did you meet? Etc. Etc. Of course, only if you want to. I gathered up all of my wooly wool stash and have hooked on a simple blanket, using chain one, SC one, chain one, SC, etc. It already looks stunning. I also have plans to hook my acrylic yarn into a large laundry basket. Plus, continue to work on blankets for my nieces and nephews, and finally up the game to crochet a more complicated fitted crochet sweater than the one I just finished. Love you guys! Crocheting in Canada...❤
Oh yes, we havnt done that for a while. I will try and remember for next episode 😁 Your blankets sound lovely 😍 The sc, ch1 stitches make a beautiful fabric. Happy crocheting! 💕
Hi, Kirsty, I love the categories of your types of knitting, to look at before you start knitting. I tend to do that, except for your final category of something that you can actually wear frequently, with most of your wardrobe. I actually tie that in with each of the other categories, because, before, when I had it as a seperate category, I got bored with it and it would sit by the wayside and not get worked on because it wasn't as exciting or fun as some of the other categories, or as relaxing as the others. Also the other categories didn't get used or worn, because they didn't go with my wardrobe or what I felt comfortable wearing, or found useful. Now if I, for example want a learning project, an exciting one, or maybe a mindless one, I also choose that category in a pattern, yarn type, and colour, that I think I will frequently wear, that will go well in my wardrobe or that I will use a lot. The exceptions are just if something would give me so much pleasure either making it, or just looking at it afterwards, that it doesn't really matter to me if I don't wear or use it a lot.
Hi Tracy, I don't think it will be boring watching your progress on the same projects for a month because we will see a good chunk of progress and likely some finished objects. I laughed when you said you didn't know how well it would work because you had the mindset of "you can't tell me what to do" even if it was you telling yourself to do it. I'm exactly the same way.
That is fantastic advice! 😀 Thank you! You've inspired me to have a look at all my makes and see which ones I want to wear most and if they were also exciting to knit etc. 😍 Thank you for spending time with us, hope you are having a great weekend! 💕
What a great episode. Thank you.
I loved the sweaters you were wearing. The Whitmoor has been on my list for a awhile. You have inspired me to use my stash and get it made.
Kirsty, if I would have seen your Penguono when that pattern first came out, I would have made one. It's the best one I've ever seen. Your Soft Shoulder Wrap goes perfect with the sweater you are wearing, the colos are so pretty.
I'm so happy to see Jugen, he just makes me smile. Your Black and White Neon socks are so fun!!
The Shawlography is a masterpiece. You have a great eye for putting colors together.
Tracy, your Painting Honeycombs shawl is also a work of art. I love, love, love the Litmus Cowl, and the Nightshift.
Thank you for all the great ideas for working through all my wips.
Take care, I'll look forward to seeing you both next time
Ah Thank you so much! Hope you have lots of fun working on your wips! 😁💕
What a fantastic episode! I love it. I am excited to see how you enjoy the rolling of the dice. I need to rewatch this episode just so I can make a list of things I want to make, you guys just shared some gorgeous projects. Thank you so much for the inspiration.
Thanks so much for spending time with us Tonya! Hope you have a great week! 😁💕
Thank you for another lovely podcast - I had such a good giggle when you said you had 18 wips & 5 blankets - made me feel so much better - so I paused, went to my stash & am now casting on a cowl to add to my 10 wips & 2 blankets 🤣🤣.
😂 Love that! Hope you have fun with them! 💕
Fabulous podcast ladies. I’m looking forward to Unravel xx
Thanks Sharon! Say hello if you see us there! Hope you have a great time! 😁💕
@ I will if I don’t go shy ☺️ xx
THANKS girls for the really nice knitting company I enjoyed here in my armchair❣️
Loads of projects ongoing but in my lap I have a Vest no.8 by My Favourite Things Knitwear
Knitting in Mayflowers Honey Bee Print, colour 1003 held together with a light-peach-coloured mohair from Temu.
My adjustment will be to make it much longer.
Using needles 4,5 mm
Hugs and love from Sweden 🧶💖✨
//Titti
Your vest sounds lovely Titti! 😍 Reminds me I need to add a vest to my list too! Hope you are having a great weekend! 😁💕
Lovely to look back at all your favourite makes from 2024 and hear your thoughts going into 2025. I have done a list of things that I'd like to achieve and one is 'try a new technique', whilst others are definite projects. Initially I struggled to think of 6 things to aim for, but actually have ended up with a list of 10!
Hope that at least one of your episodes will feature you rolling your dice xx
Thanks for spending time with us Jan! Hope you have fun knitting through your list! 😁💕
My thoughts regarding my knitting, at least to start the year….
1) use yarn stash 🥸
2) don’t buy patterns til ready to start the project 🤓
That's great Ruth! Not buying patterns until you're ready to start the project is brilliant! I am constantly doing that and then not actually knitting them 😅 I think I'm going to add that to my list too 😁💕
Hi Kirsty and Tracey- thanks so very much for a really enjoyable visit! I loved seeing your favourites and your plans- I absolutely love your Pinguano Kirsty - beautiful colours ❤ It must be the year for knitting from stash- I was very strong and didn’t buy any advents last year- instead I made up my Stash Advent; lovely yarn I’d purchased ( much of it single skeins or small amounts) and matched it up with patterns so now I have 24 projects ready to go 😊 My next project is a cardigan for me - “Fly away Home” by Bronagh Miskelly- from one of my many Knitter magazines- that’s another goal of mine that’s the same as yours- to use my books and magazines more! Enjoy your knitting until next time 😊
Thanks for spending time with us Elizabeth! I love your 24 project advent idea! 😍 Having all those projects ready to go sounds perfect! 💕
Kirsty, your hair looks lovely ❤
Thank you ☺️💕
This was so cool!!! I think this year I’m going to let my stash inspire me. I’m going to look at what I have and choose patterns based on that instead of getting excited about a pattern and then being bummed I don’t have whatever in stash :) also, I’m going to knit more for myself. In 13 years of knitting, 2024 was the FIRST year I’d ever knit something for myself.
Thank you! Woah, 13 years! Yes you deserve some knits for yourself 🥰 Letting your stash speak to you is a great plan! It's so fun searching in ravelry for projects to fit your yarn choices. 😁💕
Loved watching your new podcast and like another of your followers im crying with laughter at im not going to buy yarn going to use your stash haha we will see !! i know you both so well 😘 looking forward to your next podcast xx take care you lovely ladies xx
Thank you! 🤣 I know, what are we thinking! I've already bought yarn! 😅💕
Great episode, thank you. I'm hoping to knit from stash as long as I can this year. So far, I've made it through January with no purchases and it actually feels great. I'm loving the challenge of it. I have so much yarn and lots of patterns waiting for me, that I'm looking forward to busting through some stash! 😊
Yes! It's great to look at what you have and be inspired by that 😁 Glad to hear you are enjoying it! Thanks for spending time with us! 💕
I so enjoyed seeing your favourite projects of last year! I'm rubbish at planning ahead, but you've both inspired me to think about what I want to knit this year. ❤❤
Ah Thank you! Hope you have lots of fun deciding what things you want to make this year! 😁💕
The litmus cowl by Jude beautiful do you watch him in his new cottage pure magic love love your podcast like 2 friends popping in xx
Thanks Judith! We do watch Jude in his new cottage 😍 it's lovely seeing all the projects he's working on! 😁💕
I’m so happy that I watched this!!!🎉 I bought some yarn for a project that was too complicated for me. Your ZickZack pattern will be perfect to show off the colors in this yarn. ❤ thank you
Thanks Melissa! Hope you have fun knitting a zick zack too! 😁💕
Super inspiring as always! 😊❤️
Thank you! 😁💕
Great podcast, thanks both! For 2025, I’m planning on finishing multiple WIPs and endeavouring to use as much stash yarn as possible! I have a budget in mind for Unravel which I hope won’t come unravelled on the day.
Thanks Linda! Hope you have fun working on wips and that you have a great time at unravel! Say hello if you see us 😁💕
I enjoyed this SO much and of course want to make everything. Next on my list is a(nother) Simon Shawl using a main and some Advent yarn - a fun shawl this time! Thankyou both so much! Xx
Thanks Carolyn! Hope you have lots of fun knitting your Simon shawl! 😁💕
Your sweaters are so lovely!❤
Thanks so much Pam! 😁💕
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 🎉🎉🎉🎉🍀🍀🍀🍀
Happy new year Carolyn! 😁💕
What a fabulous collection of projects, love all the shawls, you have both inspired me to make a lot of them. I've knit a couple of Shift Shawls which ae my favourite My car knitting is the Zic Zac shawl, its such a great knit, cant wait to unravel it from the bag as it is now nearing the end of the yarn !!
Thanks Julie! The Zick zack is perfect for car knitting! Hope you enjoy wearing yours! 😁💕
Loved this podcast, thank you. You’ve given me a few new ideas to put in my ravelry library 😊
Thanks so much Dawn! Hope you are having a great weekend! 😁💕
I am definitly going to knit cowls, yours are beautiful!
Thank so much! Hope you have lots of fun with yours! 😁💕
That what so lovely. I need to make a pan too as I spend way too much time just thinking about what’s next.
Thanks for the great ideas ❤
Thanks so much for spending time with us Deborah! 😁💕
Great to see your beautiful faces and your beautiful projects. Always inspiring!!
Thanks so much Susan! ☺️💕
❤❤love you guys so much ,,,,🎉
What a treat to see you both and ur beautiful makes from the year,,,,, ❤️
So much inspiration ,,,,thank you !!!
I have a lot of wips to get thru and mostly smaller projects and socks ,,,,which is not stressful ,,,and love socks,,,
I have rolled the dice for scrappy socks which is so fun,,,but never thought of wips!!
Great idea,,,,,
Want to use from stash ,too,,,
Take care
And thank you for brightening up a dreary January day
ELAINE 💗🏠⛄🌨️
Thanks so much Elaine! Hope you have lots of fun with your knitting! I love scrappy socks too! 😁💕
Lovely video, it's great seeing your favourite makes and hearing about your creative plans for this year. You could use some of your cotton stash to make your wee creatures. I use cotton to make soap sacks (include soap) and face scrubbies which I leave in little free pantries in my area or at the homeless outreach. I have been doing a no buy January and am looking forward to it ending! This year I am weighing the yarn in and out (finished objects) of my stash just for fun - January statistics looking good because of the no buy 😂 I want to make some wearables this year, a Billie blanket by Insomnia crochet, and continue crocheting for charity (I make small cat blankets and donate to the local shelter). I also made myself some challenge cards and will pull out two per month, this month was to do the no buy and to make something from a kit - I managed both, yay!
Thank you! ☺️ Your plans sound great and that's good you achieved both of your goals this month. Soap sacks for charity is such a lovely thing to do and the blankets for the cats too! Thanks for spending time with us! 💕
Like the purl soho half and half shawl, I knitted half and half wash cloths in cotton and they are great, make good gifts as well.
Love that idea! Thank you Sheila ☺️💕
I enjoy the favorite things knit and it is better than the "all things I knit" because it hones in. I love seeing what you have done in the past over and over actually. What a special sweater to have from your Grandmother, Kirsty. It is beautiful and I think I want to knit the beautiful pink Whitmoor, Tracy. You make it look so appealing and are so optimistic about the level of difficulty! Thank you so much for this lovely podcast.
Thanks so much Trudy! Hope you have lots of fun with the Whitmore, if you decide to cast one on 😁💕
Another great podcast. I’m always so happy when I receive a notification that you have a new podcast. Great projects and both talented ladies!
Thanks so much Nancy! 😁💕
That was fun seeing your favorite things. I think I'll try the dice trick each month to pull out and work on a wip. I hadn't heard that before but think it's a fun idea. I'm currently finishing my second gnome and have The Never Too Late sweater on hold while I finish the gnome. I just bought Laura Penrose's new cardigan as I really want just a staple cardi. I like the idea of making some plans for 2025 especially using books I already have, knitting the patterns I've already bought and using my stash. You both are very inspiring.
Thanks Sharon! Those little gnomes are very cute! Hope you have lots of fun with looking in your stash and pattern library too! 😁💕
kirsti i remember the first time you showed those fantastic socks you designed and were not happy with the jog at beg of round, was thinking you could do a stripe of either color of 2 or 3 sts at beg of round and on the opposite side to eliminate the jog. thank you both for taking the time to share your projects, you're very inspirational for me with knitting, spinning, and using my handspun. I'm on year 3 of stash down, which is harder than it sounds when you spin! but it's keeping me conscious that I'm fortunate to have overabundance of yarn. An idea for a knitalong, make a project using a book you own that you've never used?
Thanks Donna, that's a great idea for my socks. It is great to have a good stash of yarns to choose from. I agree stashing down whilst spinning is difficult 😅 well done for 3 years of it! 😁💕
Lovely podcast as usual thankyou - first week of each month I am knitting a gnome from Imagined Landscapes year of Gnomes 2025 then for 3 weeks I can work on wips then treat at beginning of next month is another gnome. box of gnomes and toadstools at end of year for advent!
Thanks Susan! Gnomes and toadstools sound so fun, love that! 😁💕
Love seeing you ladies. Great episode as always. I joined Ange for her 12 cast ons so my projects are set for awhile. Kirsty you could use up some cotton by making wash cloths and soap sacks for donations to homeless shelters or women’s shelters they can always use stuff like that
Thank you! The 12 cast ons sounds fun! 😍 Love the idea of knits to donate too! 😁💕
Great fun podcast and do full of ideas and inspiration. Like you guys I am trying not to buy too much yarn. Haven’t bought anything for 2 whole months, ignoring the tempting sales … amazing what you find instasj
Thanks so much Helen! Well done on the not buying yarn 😁 💕
Great to see you ladies. The one thing I want to fit in this year is a Jethro cardigan. I love it and can’t wait to get started. But I’m still finishing up Christmas socks. And I want to find the perfect yarn for it.
Ah Thank you! The Jethro cardigan looks amazing! Hope you have lots of fun searching for the perfect yarn! 😁💕
Don’t fall off your chairs, but I came into 2025 with 47 wips!! I am using the dice method from Tonya at Karma’s a stitch, and it’s working brilliantly. I haven’t listed the projects, just the bags so I won’t reject it before I even pick it up. I work on it for a week, but do my temperature blanket every day, 10 rows on a sock and periodically a dishcloth/tea towel so I don’t get bored. In January I have finished 3 garments, which is amazing for me plus a fair amount of smaller projects. In an effort to reduce my stash, I’m allowing myself 10 grams in for every 100 gms out. I look forward to your podcast every month, and loved seeing your favourites. You give me lots of inspiration, and Kirsty I think you have an amazing eye for colour and I agree best penguono I’ve ever seen. Tracy everything you do is so perfect. Thank you both 😊
Thanks so much Shelley! Wow 47 wips sounds a lot, but love that you have so many things on the go! 😍 10grams in for every 100g out sounds perfect and much better than a complete yarn ban. Thanks for spending time with us! 😁💕
Once again a wonderful podcast 🎉full of amazing projects ❤Thank you so much 😊I am knitting on the Paul Klee Sweater it is my second sweater the pattern is so addictive 😊
Thanks so much! Ooo I love the look of that sweater! Hope you have lots of fun! 😁💕
Oh the beautiful colors - they’re like pieces of art - loved it! Xoxo
Thank you! 😁💕
Great podcast. Some of the projects were new to me as I must have subscribed partway through the year. You both have amazing plans and I hope you succeed with lots of them. Things change throughout the year but it’s nice to at least have a list. I haven’t a list as yet. I usually do but my big thing this year is to not knit for the sake of knitting, but make something that is needed or really wanted. I also have a cross stitch throw that I started in 2001 and left sit for many years in between then and now and this year it is going to be finished. Looking forward to more podcasts.
Thanks so much Darlene! Hope you are having a good weekend! Knitting things you really want is great! 😁💕
Thanks so much for showing us all your fabulous makes, and your plans for this year 🥰. I have just finished my first cable cardigan, the winters beach by Andrea Mowry, with pockets! I made it in budget friendly Yarnsmiths dk merino, held with Rico make it tweed, and it looks amazing with those yarns, I am so pleased with my first attempt at this. It was so very easy because Andrea walks us through every step and holds your hand all the way! Happy new year to you both, will look forward to seeing your projects this year, happy knitting , kind regards 🥰🙏. x x
Your winters beach cardi sounds amazing! I have the pattern for that too and you saying that you found it easy, encourages me to get it cast on! With all the tweedy bits yours sounds beautiful! Thanks for spending time with us! 😁💕
Thank you for another lovely podcast. I always enjoy what you make, knit while you two banter. I'm working on 2 cardigans atm, the Midland Cardigan by Laura Penrose and Pressed Flowers by Amy Christoffers. The Midland, I'm using my own hand dyed yarn held with a mohair and it's an easy garter stitch but a sideways construction. The Pressed Flowers is a mosaic knit, which I haven't done before. really enjoying both patterns
Thanks for spending time with us! Those patterns look great! I'm very tempted by the pressed flowers 😍 Hope you are having a great weekend! 💕
Duplicate stitch is a mystery to me. I am baffled by it.
Your creations are amazing. Thanks for sharing your talent and creativity with us.
God bless you!❤
Thanks so much Kimmie! Duplicate stitch is very easy and similar to cross stitch. Hope you're having a great weekend! 😁💕
working on a hipster top as I watch, doing mine in one colour cotton/linen yarn with a feather and fan lace at the bottom, Have made 3 riptide v necks, just love the pattern and it fits so well, just be sure to check armhole depth as I found it was a bit deep on me, but I was making them to wear as singlets, ie nothing underneath. Kirsty, there is a free pattern called Ambiente which has a contiguous shoulder that might be a good make with your cotton yarn, I am using the very simple lace pattern from that at the bottom of the hipster.
Your hipster sounds lovely! Thanks for the tip about the arm hole length too! Hope you are having a great weekend! 😁💕
Hi Ladies! Another great podcast. What I am doing this year to use up some of my cotton yarn is taking part in a KAL . It should be on Ravelry but it’s a temperature dishcloth. They give you the temps in 12 ranges and they show Celsius and Fahrenheit. Each day of the month you knit only 2 rows per day with the color you assigned for that temperature. At the end of the month you have a dishcloth. At the end of the year you have 12 dishcloths. I am also giving myself a goal of knitting a pair of socks each month in various sizes so I can give them for gifts. Take care.
Thanks Marilyn! 😁 The temperature dishcloths sound fun. I've always liked the idea of a temperature project. Hope you have lots of fun with yours! 💕
It was great to revisit your beautiful makes!
Thanks for spending time with us! 😁💕
Lovely knits. Nice to see them all again. Take Care.
Thanks so much for spending time with us Donna! 😁💕
Beautiful work ladies 🤩 I was starting to hyperventilate when you said you had 19 / 20 wips on the go 😲😂 thank you for sharing take care xx happy crafting
Thanks so much Jenny! Yes, it is a lot of wips 😂 Happy crafting to you too! 😁💕
Great podcast as usual, loved your ideas for next year. I've now added more ideas to my plans.😅
Cotton is good to use for amigurumi or the wee creatures you want to make.
Thanks Elizabeth! That's a good idea 😁💕
This was such a fun episode! I love all your makes and your plans for 2025. Hope you're staying warm and having fun creating. Happy creating 🩷🧶💚
Thanks so much Meredith! Hope you are having fun with your knits too! 😁💕
Well I thoroughly enjoyed your video ladies. 👍It was lovely to see your makes again as they are always so nice! You have some nice fun ideas too for this year. I did chuckle though when you talked about not buying much at the up coming yarn festival; yeah yeah, 🤣 ❤❤
Thank you! 🤣 You know us too well 😆💕
I absolutely love the machine knitted top Kirsty ❤
Thanks Nina! Hope you are having a good weekend! 😁💕
Thankyou for a wonderful podcast, it was great to see some of your finished projects 🧶
Thanks so much Rose! Hope you are well and having fun with your knitting! 😁💕
Great podcast girls! Absolutely loved all last year’s makes. Your pattern and yarn choices are amazing. Tracy I loved the Shortbread hat but I can’t figure out which color you used from the wool warehouse site. Do you remember which color it was and let me know? I just love that shade of green. Kirsty that machine knit sweater is just gorgeous, is there a pattern? Your plans for 2025 sound wonderful!
Drops Lima 0705 was the colour Tracy used for the Shortbread hat 😁 No pattern available for my Grandma's machine knit sweater. Thanks for spending time with us! Hope you have a great week! 💕
I enjoyed seeing your favorites. I am planning to shop my stash this year and I placed an order on New Year's Eve too! I have a ton of acrylic and I am going to make blankets and hats for a homeless shelter. I am a crocheter, and new knitter - I would love to figure out some mittens, but I only know how to knit and purl.
Thanks Linda! 😊 The charity blankets and hats sounds like a great idea! Check out very pink knits on UA-cam for knitting tutorials. I've found that her tutorials have been very helpful. Anytime I don't know how to do a technique, I watch her tutorials. Even now I still watch them. 💕
@@woolandwishes thanks !
Very fun watch tonight. Love your plans, isn’t January fun? I’m participating in Alice’s soxalong she’s doing with Diane and instead of putting them in market I’m gifting myself a box of socks for Christmas. And with any luck I’ll win wool as I’m not buying either 😂. I have a substantial stash so unless I’m willing it to my kids I best get at it lol. I have been in 2 stores with wool this month and didn’t buy. My husband was shocked and told me how proud he was 😂. The second one I actually said to the cashier “This is the first time I’ve left here without wool, I am not okay!” 🤣. I had baby gifts to knit for the 18th, 4th grandbaby, so market prep was delayed. January plan was knitting heads, yes, heads, the piddly part of dolls and animals. I think I’m at 35 in the basket and 2 days left! Yes, I’m that lister type lol. Love your plans, the projects and the using the already owned patterns and books. Good luck with your plans! Looking forward to seeing your progress.
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I’ve been using up the cotton stash on baskets combined with acrylics and wool. 9mm hook, 7 strands, very colourful and functional. I find if I throw in an ombré or two the outcome is very nice.
Thanks Tami! 😁 The socks for yourself for Christmas sounds great! Well done for keeping to your goal of not buying wool! It is hard to resist 😅 love the basket idea too! Hope you have lots of fun with the market makes and the making for you too! 💕
Such a fab video, your such talented knitters, how long have you been knitting? Any advice to us beginner knitters would be welcome.
Thank you Margaret! ☺️ A few tips I can think of would be, read patterns carefully. Most mistakes I make are because of me misreading things. 😅 Learn to Tink (unknitting stitches). Use stitch markers between pattern repeats, and use lifelines to save your work 😁 I hope these are helpful. 💕
Take a look on Ravelry at the pattern Joinery. I love this top and wonder if you could use your cotton stash to make this.
Oh that looks fun! 😁 Thanks for the suggestion 💕
Brilliant loved it x
Thanks so much Elaine! 😁💕
Brilliant video today ladies and I loved seeing some of your wonderful projects again and your plans for this year. I was wondering Kirstie if you could recommend an oversized easy knit cardigan/ jacket using handspun in appx Aran weight? I have several multi coloured skeins which I think would look ok knitted up but I’m failing to find anything suitable With your spinning knowledge I thought you might possibly know of one. Many thanks xx thanks for a very entertaining hour!
Thanks so much Heather! I can't think of a recommendation for an Aran weight cardigan. I've only knit the ramona cardigan in that weight and it's quite fitted. Although I did find the pattern very easy and relaxing. Hope you find something that's just right! 😁💕
@ thank you, I’ll find something eventually! X
Oops forgot to say, I’ve got yarn to knit my first colour work sweater the Mariette by along avec anna Ive bought drops Alaska as I couldn’t justify buying expensive yarn , hopefully it will be a good choice.
Yes, I like drops Alaska and have used it for a cardigan too 😁👍
I forgot to ask…Kirsty for the Wooly Waffle, did you hold two dark blue 4 ply yarn and one thread of the Dundiga together? I’m trying to figure out what I could use to get a similar effect with this pattern, your shawl came out perfect!
I used one strand of 4ply blue and 1 strand of 4ply long colour changing yarn. Although I think scraps would work well too! Hope you find a combination you like and that you have fun with yours! 😁💕
O my, I have so many new pattern ideas now!! 😂😂 don't forget to check out our Sox-A-Long 2025 and enter your socks in Ravelry! We are doing a pair of socks a month for the whole year ❤ also I'm going to use uo scrap cotton to make wind spinners, they look like fun projects. Take care! Xo
Thanks for spending time with us Alice! We will check those wind spinners out 😍 Is your knit along on instagram too? We don't really use ravelry, other than for patterns 💕
Lily kate Calm down cardi would be lovely..in beigeI just done great pattern
That Cardigan looks perfect Gwyn, I've added it to my list. Thank you! 😁💕