What are you knitting, you ask? I live in the U.S. Since it's 2024 (if you know, you know) I have been stress-knitting a flock of Emotional Support Chickens. I'm on my 8th one. Yep, can't stop.
Great podcast! Thanks for the episode even when you are feeling under the weather. Sometimes it's nice to slow down, take care of yourself, stay cozy and knit. Right now I'm knitting a striped cables baby blanket as a gift for a couple at church. I look forward to seeing you again in 2025!❤🧶❄️😊
What a great podcast! I live in Kitchener and I had no idea the Flying Squirrel existed, so thank you Leanne . I will check it out this week. Merry Christmas to you & your family.
Hi Holly! Yay! Enjoy your visit to your new LYS! Tell Erin the Knitty Stew says hiiii 👋🏼. The local farm yarn she had REALLY wanted to come home with me but I stayed strong… this time.
When I knit colorwork socks, I turn the work inside out, working on the inside of the tube. That leaves the floats on the outside. The outside of the circumference is slightly larger than the inside circumference of the sock, thereby keeping the floats at just the right tension!
Very late to the party, Leanne! Thanks for all your interesting vlogs, I always enjoy. Wishing you a very Happy, healthy, peaceful 2025 and safe travels. ❤
Thanks for your footage of The Flying Squirrel. This is my LYS!!! I love having a knitting circle to join in on. Galt House of Yarn is another great shop. Hope you can visit Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge again in the future. Feel better soon!
Thanks so much for another amazing episode ❤️ what a beautiful yarn store, Flying Squirrel 🐿️. Love the cat Sweater. Great idea cat Christmas stockings 🧦😻
Love all your beautiful FOs and WIPs. Hope you are enjoying the crochet journey. I’ve been having a lot of fun playing around and learning new skills. The granny stripe blanket is gorgeous and I have always wanted to make one. X
I want to say, 'Thank you!' for reporting how much/how many pairs of the Woodland Loafers you have made. Since your high remarks about them, I gave them a 'knit' and I find them relatively quick,fun,and a gift for just about anyone! Happy Holidays- I love watching your podcast!
Lovely knitting and kitties! I too go to St. Jacobs every visit home (from Tokyo), my sister lives in Acton and we head there for the cheese and sausages too. Hope you can get there sometime.
Oh I love your cats! I'm onboard with the stockings for the cats idea.. I may have had a slightly mad moment and sewed up stockings for all the horses and dogs on the property where I grazed my horse a few years back.. There were 10 horses and 3 dogs.. and I wasn't even a sewer! 😂
Hey Leanne! Thanks for powering through a cold to show us all the beautiful knits and crochet projects! I’m working on a scrappy blanket that takes 3 strands of fingering weight yarn at a time and you just knit 2 or 3 panels of these multi colored garter stitch pieces of art , then seam together into a blanket. Joji’s pattern. Uses up a ton of scraps and is super squishy and colorful. Merriest of Christmas’s to you and your family ❤
Thank you for another wonderful podcast! I'm so happy you made it to the Flying Squirrel! I don't know if the St. Jacob's market has any outdoor vendors at this time of year, but there is plenty of good stuff inside! Thank you so much for mentioning Traci Scott, I have several friends in my Friday Knitting Circle at the local library who will love to know about her free colourwork designs. Also, I love Little Bear! My niece is expecting their first in April, and I'm gathering all the baby patterns to knit! This will be a gorgeous addition to the basket of knitting goodies I'll be gifting to her. Feel better soon! No flying with congestion! I know about that. We adopted our first of 2 baby girls (29 years ago!) from China, and a couple of days before our flight back to home (London, Ontario), I developed a terrible headcold. I took meds, but for the half hour it took to descend into Vancouver, I was crying in pain. I am so lucky my eardrums didn't burst! So, take care! 💗
Looks like a nice shop. I'll have to check it out. If you ever fly into Hamilton, there's a lovely yarn store downtown, Handknit Yarn Studio on James St North.
You can get puffy fabric paint at some place like Michael’s. The paint comes in a small squeezy bottle. Then put dots on the sole of the loafers to prevent slippyness.
I love the cat stretched out on the stair behind you! So much lovely green knitting. I'm going to have to cast on those fingerless mitts. And, gasp, crochet!!! What has happened to you??😂
Hi Melissa! I just learned lastnight that I’m going to be a Great Aunty again so now I DO have a little one to knit it for. Yay! Are you going to do intarsia in the round?
I was in Knit 1 Chicago and bought a skien of yarn, to my surprise the girl asked me would I like it wound. I said hesitantly yes if you have time. Being from Ireland I was surprised and delighted as we are not offered that service here. Hope to get back to Knit 1 in 2025 and visit my son.
It’s a nice gesture isn’t it! I worked at a yarn shop from 2014 to 2021 and I absolutely loved doing that for people - but sometimes the ball winder would act up 🤦🏻♀️ I hope you get back in 2025 Orlagh!
Loved watching you and all your makes, but my eyes were glued to your steps watching your cat and my Gary’s lookalike. As a fellow cat mom, and with sock knitting on repeat lately, I may be working on cat socks soon 😁 Hope your feeling better, xx
Thank you Leanne for another enjoyable episode. I trust that you are recovering well. It's not ideal knitting weather in my part of the world just now but I received a large quantity of scrappy yarn for charity so have been doing mindless, garter, corner to corner lap blankets which will go to a local care facility. Best wishes for 2025. Judy, Nelson Bay (just north of Sydney) Australia.
Hi Judith!? Oh my gosh yes it is hot down there right now isn't it. We had a warm Christmas here in Calgary where I live, but last week was a cold snap -20C. How lovely to donate beautiful handmade lap blankets to your local care facility!
Thanks, Leanne 😊 Your podcast is so soothing to me, I enjoy your projects, the music, the new places you take us to, everything. Hope you had a lovely Christmas. Happy New Year 😊. Ps: Lovely cats
Socks for grandbabies!! Squeeee!! How sweet to keep their toes toasty. I really embrace that kind comment Linda. Also, sidenote: I was in my Initial Training with a Noseworthy. He and I are both still flight attendants 16 years later.
Lovely meeting you in person on Sunday at the Beehive. As a fellow Brook Farm gathering yarn enthusiast. I will definitely be your friend even without an apple fritter. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Hi Leanne, I have been a long time viewer of your podcast and I appreciate all the effort you put into your crafting and sharing this out with the world on this platform. I admire your generous heart and the love you put into each and every project. I am a gift giver. I appreciate the time and effort that goes into every stitch and the ability of our hands to create something special and unique with two sticks and yarn. Those ornaments are classic and last the test of time. I usually knit accessories for my family and loved ones. Wish there were more hours in a day and I could make bigger projects for every one. Hope you feel better soon. Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and blessed holiday season.
Aw thank you so much - that is so kind of you to say! 💗 Thank you for being a long time member of this warm community. It really is a blessing to have you here. Lots of love to you Anita. 🙏🏼
The test knitted cuffs look beautiful. I’m currently knitting a cardigan with filcolana arwetta held together with filcolana tilia in christmas red. I wish you health and a wonderful advent season, Leanne! Thank you so much for your joyful episodes. See you in 2025.
Thank you so much! I would love to try the Tilia. Beehive in Victoria has recently started stocking it… I will be in that area soon so I might have to get some
You are amazing!!!! Thank you! I’m finishing up a shawl from last year’s advent and using the 5 gm leftovers from this shawl to knit a matching Musselburgh hat and crochet fingerless gloves, and then knitting Christmas socks with self striping yarn! ❤
Thanks for all the recommendations. Lots of patterns to browse and things to look up. Your husband’s sock look like they fit beautifully. Get well soon.
Thank you for your lovely podcast, Leanne. I always enjoy seeing all your makes and your travels. Yes, I am making 2 e.s. chickens for friends and hope to make a little scarf for a cousin; it's just knit, knit, knit around here!
That tip about the fray check on the magic knots is genius! Thank you so much, my magic knots always seem to come undone 😢Little Bear is adorable! Personally I'd do the muzzle by Swiss Darning (aka duplicate stitch) to make life easier!
Yeah, I was definitely thinking about that too. Duplicate stitch is a lot easier. We’ll see if I’m feeling adventurous and wanting to learn a new technique. I just learned that niece of mine is expecting. Yay so now I have someone to make a little bear for!
Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed your knits, the cats in the background and the upbeat pace of the podcast. I knit on a super bulky weight beanie while watching; modifying a pattern from Lion Yarns. It’s a super quick knit. Tomorrow it’s back to socks. I hope you feel better and continue to enjoy your holidays. No gift knitting for me. Rather no holiday gift knitting. I do random gift knitting usually not related to a holiday or birthday. No pressure and rarely a deadline. 😊
Working on a Musselburgh, love this pattern. Next, I will be starting a cardigan, Bookworm by Heidi Kirrmaier. And of course, socks on the needles. Always socks on the needles
Socks, socks socks! I’m using the Wintery Woods heel (Nancy Wheeler) you featured last year, just love the fit. I find sock knitting when I travel calms me down amidst crazy drivers or midair turbulence. My husband is a great driver, some others not so much. Also knitting a Gramps cardigan by Tin Can Knits in a lovely Cascade Heather in Turtle Green. Hope you’re feeling better 😊
Great to see and all your knitty goodness. I am busy making hats for gifts and stripey sock with an advent self striping yarn, 24 different stripes. Merry Christmas 🎄
Good afternoon. Thanks again for another wonderful podcast - you kept me company while knitting the Antler Toque for one of my son-in-law’s Christmas gifts. Also, thank you for sharing Traci Scott’s designs - I truly enjoy colorwork hats and mittens! I hope you feel better soon, and I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas.
I’m in the process of knitting a Colorwork sweater which usually means that by the time I get it done I’ll be over Colorwork for a long while but then you went and showed that beautiful Nocturnal sweater by The Petite Knitter, so, it looks like another on the horizon for me. Gee, thanks, hon (lol).😊
I’m right there with you! I say that after colourwork projects but then jump right back in 😂 There is just too much inspiration everywhere. It’s hard to resist a beautiful sweater like that. 😉
Hello Knitty Stew. Yes, I do lots of gift knitting, but not on account of holidays. Currently I'm getting started on the Porto blanket with a cone of Purl Soho merino yarn, and see I've got a little mistake to fix about five rows back. .Here's wishing you a complete recovery in time to fly. x x x
Hey Leanne! Wow look at you powering through having been ill. I hope you went to sit down and get cozy and knit or crochet after. I am in for all the greens, bring them on! I was spinning (until my husband wanted to go to sleep) so currently working on socks and a cowl from March using a stash advent swap I received. But you gave me an idea for a new cast on, so now down a hole I go to see if it will work out. Thanks for the chat and all the goodness.
OMG I use the word schwack all the time 😂 and I get razzed every time I use it. Glad it’s in your vocabulary repertoire😊 love a schwack of colour. I hope you’re feeling better. Happy holidays & knitting 🧶
Thank you for your podcast, i am definitely going to try the slippers with lettlopi yarn. I am currently knitting gifts for my sisters: Winter walking mittens that have an inner layer made with alpaca.
love your green mitts. hope you feel better soon ✨✨ I'm actually crocheting, well right now sewing in the lining of a purse ( the corfu purse) and I make my little pup toys all the time, he is very grateful and plays with them all so yes to the cats 🧦
A friend has been married for the second time and I am knitting a shawl, from a free pattern named ‘Upstairs’ using lace weight ‘Wagtail’ cashmere held double with Malabrigo lace weight. I’m taking a break for summer here in Australia and crocheting Lillabjorncrochet’s small gifts make along in Bendigo Woollen Mills cotton. Love your vest, thank you for your lovely podcasts.
Thank you for the tour of the new yarn shop near me. If you manage to make it back to KW in the future prepare to line up for the apple fritters at the market but they are worth it. You'll enjoy a trip to the Galt House of Yarn.
Hi Leanne, thanks so much for a wonderful episode, I love going on your yarn shop explores and am inspired by your knits and yarns. Right now I’m knitting K2P2 hats for my sons and husband with gorgeous yarn from Les Moutons de Richard in Quebec, and for me, the Skovbund Shawl by Fiber Tales, with an alpaca and wool blend from Custom Woolen Mills. I’m so loving knitting the shawl, wishing you all the blessings of this wintery season🌲✨❤
I sure hope you are feeling better by now Leanne. I’m stress knitting too, starting with my FIRST colorwork hat. Which was so successful, I went straight into The Bluebird cardigan and it is making me very happy, plus the advantage of being just absorbing enough to distract me from what is about to happen in the US. 😳
Thank goodness for our knitting hey to keep us sane!! One stitch at a time … one breath at a time. 🙏🏼 Also CONGRATS on your first colourwork hat. This is excellent!
I do hope you're feeling better and wow thank you for podcasting with everything going on. Love watching and seeing all that you're doing. I so enjoy when you travel and take us along but also when you're home. Happy holidays to you and your family and I wish you health, happiness and fun knits during the holidays.
It's always so fun to see what you're working on! I'm in awe of your magic ball, that'll make for such a unique knit. I'm working on an Odetta shawl for a friend. I made one for me a few years ago, and the pattern is just so lovely. Hope you feel better soon, happy holidays!❤
Always great to see what you’re up to, Leanne. I’m knitting the Vanilla sweater, I got a kit from the wooly thistle, and pair of vanilla socks with Christmas yarn (think candy canes). I recently finished a contribution of hats and blanket squares for a charity knit, and the flambé shawl, which will be for a fundraising auction. Happy Holidays!
Hi Leanne, I started this morning with the Jeju sweater of Aegyoknit. I use Rauma finull. I can’t wait to see how it goes. Thank you for another lovely podcast. I live in the north of the Netherlands. Have a nice dag❤
Thank you this episode. I love all your green. This fall, I took on too many gift-knitting projects (socks and two Simplicity scarves) and I am behind!!! I also wanted to finish a WYS Christmas yarn pair of socks for me before Christmas. That's not going to happen. I'm looking forward to your visit to Galt House of Yarn. I had a very nice time there almost two years ago when I visited Cambridge from Las Vegas.
I made an Emsworth - never took a photo - will have to do that…love it but laughed when you said it was A-line…apparently I just read knit so many repeats or until so many inches and done 🙊 but love it…did the lace pattern both sides. Very satisfying knit…
Isabell Kraemer’s patterns have ALWAYS been a sure thing. Even when I didn’t know what I was doing her patterns have turned out for me 😂 Can’t wait to have this classic in my wardrobe!
If you’d like a solution for slippery socks, and or slippers, I have sprayed the bottoms with Plastidip on the balls and heels. It’s kind of an expensive product and I try to stay away from sprays so, recently, I apply six dots of puffy paint, which you can buy at big box craft stores like Michael’s, to the ball area of the foot and 3 dots on the heel. It doesn’t affect how you wash them. Thank you for another great episode! Merry Christmas.
Oh fun to find you online! Such lovely makes; it's always lovely to see what you've been up to. I'm currently making teddy bears from thrifted flannel and embroidered faces. They are donations. Keep healing - and I hope your postal strike is resolved soon. Happy Holidays.
I am knitting the gingerbread house socks and a pine green Love Note for me. All my gifts are complete- mostly cowls for my 12 great nephews and socks for my adult kids. Love from Chilliwack
I am busy knitting a sparkle tank for New years Eve. Who would have thought to do that! It is very soft though in Lana Gatto scintilla yarn Thank you for another lovely video. Going to have to knit the woodland loafers
I have gift knit in the past: socks, slippers, mittens, hats, shawls. But I'm not this year. I miss the satisfaction of a quick finish like a pair of mittens or a chunky hat, but OTOH I'm looking forward to wearing the sweater I'm making for ME, soon!
Wow that’s great. Well if you are ever out this way (Montreal)we live in a small town about 40 minutes from the airport. It would be lovely to get together and have a chat. Cheers. Have a lovely Christmas.
Thank you for the time and effort you put into your videos; love your enthusiasm. Thanks too for putting in the comments, links to all the content that you’ve finished. Hope you are better. Jennifer- Norfolk, England
That bear would be wonderful if you put a little bag of rice inside and you could warm the bear up and snuggle if you get cold of have a sore neck. Lovely little gift too. Love your podcast!
Hi Leanne Such a great podcast - i love to look all the time 🥰 Wish you and your family a very nice and cozy wintertime and ss well very beautiful Christmas 🎄 🌟🎅🏽🌟🎄 Until 2025…sending you lots of kind regards from Switzerland 🇨🇭 Renate - the knitting planespotter 🥰✈️🥰
What are you knitting, you ask? I live in the U.S. Since it's 2024 (if you know, you know) I have been stress-knitting a flock of Emotional Support Chickens. I'm on my 8th one. Yep, can't stop.
You and me both, sister!
Hope you feel better soon. Change what you can, leave what you can't ❤
I can imagine
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Great podcast! Thanks for the episode even when you are feeling under the weather. Sometimes it's nice to slow down, take care of yourself, stay cozy and knit. Right now I'm knitting a striped cables baby blanket as a gift for a couple at church. I look forward to seeing you again in 2025!❤🧶❄️😊
What a great podcast! I live in Kitchener and I had no idea the Flying Squirrel existed, so thank you Leanne . I will check it out this week. Merry Christmas to you & your family.
Hi Holly! Yay! Enjoy your visit to your new LYS! Tell Erin the Knitty Stew says hiiii 👋🏼. The local farm yarn she had REALLY wanted to come home with me but I stayed strong… this time.
When I knit colorwork socks, I turn the work inside out, working on the inside of the tube. That leaves the floats on the outside. The outside of the circumference is slightly larger than the inside circumference of the sock, thereby keeping the floats at just the right tension!
Thank you Carol! I have watched one tutorial on this method and am DEFINITELY going to give it a whirl.
I do enjoy your tours around Yarn Stores and the Cities/Towns you visit . Thank you so much
@@nannabetty1323 thank you for travelling with me! ✈️
Very late to the party, Leanne! Thanks for all your interesting vlogs, I always enjoy. Wishing you a very Happy, healthy, peaceful 2025 and safe travels. ❤
Hi hello Janette! Welcome and thank you for the well-wishes and for spending time with me here. ALL the best to you in 2025 as well. :)
Little bear looks like a good pattern for a hot water bottle cover!
Yes!!! Genius!!!
Thanks for pointing out Traci Scott’s designs. Such colorwork fun! Get healthy and knit on.
You got it - I'm feeling much better, thanks for the well wishes! 🩷
So glad to finally get to spend some time with you Leanne!! Christmas socks for kitties!! I won’t be sharing that with Yoda!!!
Thanks for the virtual hang out Selma! I will do my best to bid for a decent YOW layover so we can have an in-person visit in 2025.
@ that would be awesome!! 🤩
Thanks for your footage of The Flying Squirrel. This is my LYS!!! I love having a knitting circle to join in on. Galt House of Yarn is another great shop. Hope you can visit Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge again in the future. Feel better soon!
Wonderful! Wish I could make a Thursday knit night one day!
Thanks so much for another amazing episode ❤️ what a beautiful yarn store, Flying Squirrel 🐿️. Love the cat Sweater. Great idea cat Christmas stockings 🧦😻
I’m getting started on those stockings today!
Love all your beautiful FOs and WIPs. Hope you are enjoying the crochet journey. I’ve been having a lot of fun playing around and learning new skills. The granny stripe blanket is gorgeous and I have always wanted to make one. X
Thanks Tash!! I am so enjoying crochet! The learning curve feels gentle so far!
I want to say, 'Thank you!' for reporting how much/how many pairs of the Woodland Loafers you have made. Since your high remarks about them, I gave them a 'knit' and I find them relatively quick,fun,and a gift for just about anyone! Happy Holidays- I love watching your podcast!
That is wonderful to hear! Thank you so much. I hope everyone on your gift list has cozy toes this Christmas! Including you ;)
Lovely knitting and kitties! I too go to St. Jacobs every visit home (from Tokyo), my sister lives in Acton and we head there for the cheese and sausages too. Hope you can get there sometime.
I love cheese and sausage! I simply must get back there and try it. Are you coming home for the holidays?
Oh I love your cats! I'm onboard with the stockings for the cats idea.. I may have had a slightly mad moment and sewed up stockings for all the horses and dogs on the property where I grazed my horse a few years back.. There were 10 horses and 3 dogs.. and I wasn't even a sewer! 😂
@@nadineveitch5837 love that you did that!!!!
Hey Leanne! Thanks for powering through a cold to show us all the beautiful knits and crochet projects! I’m working on a scrappy blanket that takes 3 strands of fingering weight yarn at a time and you just knit 2 or 3 panels of these multi colored garter stitch pieces of art , then seam together into a blanket. Joji’s pattern. Uses up a ton of scraps and is super squishy and colorful. Merriest of Christmas’s to you and your family ❤
That sounds amazing!!
Thank you for another wonderful podcast! I'm so happy you made it to the Flying Squirrel! I don't know if the St. Jacob's market has any outdoor vendors at this time of year, but there is plenty of good stuff inside! Thank you so much for mentioning Traci Scott, I have several friends in my Friday Knitting Circle at the local library who will love to know about her free colourwork designs. Also, I love Little Bear! My niece is expecting their first in April, and I'm gathering all the baby patterns to knit! This will be a gorgeous addition to the basket of knitting goodies I'll be gifting to her. Feel better soon! No flying with congestion! I know about that. We adopted our first of 2 baby girls (29 years ago!) from China, and a couple of days before our flight back to home (London, Ontario), I developed a terrible headcold. I took meds, but for the half hour it took to descend into Vancouver, I was crying in pain. I am so lucky my eardrums didn't burst! So, take care! 💗
Thank you Marg! I am on antibiotics now as it just couldn’t shake it. Congrats to your niece and happy baby knitting!!
Glad you enjoyed the visit to KW and our newest yarn store. Hope you can stay for Knit Night next time.
I'm so glad I got to visit, it was so inspiring! I’m trying to bid to go back to YKF for January.
I really like your Hapkerchief and Woodland Loafers. I hope you feel better, Leanne! 💜
Thanks Roshelle!!
Looks like a nice shop. I'll have to check it out. If you ever fly into Hamilton, there's a lovely yarn store downtown, Handknit Yarn Studio on James St North.
Oh yes indeed. It’s lovely I set foot in there every time I go to YHM. I’d like to go to The Needle Emporium in the coming year.
You can get puffy fabric paint at some place like Michael’s. The paint comes in a small squeezy bottle. Then put dots on the sole of the loafers to prevent slippyness.
Thank you!
You are very welcome! 😄
Love your mitts! They look like Christmas trees! ❤
They just need a little star at the top!
Your kerchief cowl is beautiful. I love your color choices.
Thanks, it was such a fun one to make and I am wearing it more than I expected !
Great video and I hope you are feeling better ❤ love you sister and I can’t wait to get together and start working on our Jethro’s
Yes!!!! Thanks for watching sis!!!
I love the cat stretched out on the stair behind you! So much lovely green knitting. I'm going to have to cast on those fingerless mitts. And, gasp, crochet!!! What has happened to you??😂
Bugs is a perfect angel isn’t he? 😆 First crochet and now a sock obsession.. I don’t know what is happening!!
I’m knitting Christmas socks with West Yorkshire Spinners Yuletide Yarn and some vanilla socks for my Dad ❤
Perfect holiday knitting imo!
I totally feel the same about gravitating to smaller items….! I have even created an ad hoc Ravelry bundle named “all the small things” ❤
I’ll be adding that Bundle to favourites ♥️
Get better soon. Have a great holiday season and enjoy your making. You have wonderful completed projects.
Thank you! And Happy holidays!
Thank you for another enjoyable episode!❤ Nelly from mid Michigan USA.
thank you Nelly! Happy holidays to you in Michigan. Would love to visit that area one day!
Great episode as always!!! Thank you for mentioning that Little Bear pattern, I love it so much and have two babies to knit for!
Hi Melissa! I just learned lastnight that I’m going to be a Great Aunty again so now I DO have a little one to knit it for. Yay! Are you going to do intarsia in the round?
@ might as well! I learned how to do intarsia flat this summer so hopefully in the round won’t be too much more complicated!
I was in Knit 1 Chicago and bought a skien of yarn, to my surprise the girl asked me would I like it wound. I said hesitantly yes if you have time. Being from Ireland I was surprised and delighted as we are not offered that service here. Hope to get back to Knit 1 in 2025 and visit my son.
It’s a nice gesture isn’t it! I worked at a yarn shop from 2014 to 2021 and I absolutely loved doing that for people - but sometimes the ball winder would act up 🤦🏻♀️ I hope you get back in 2025 Orlagh!
Great to see you. Glad you are feeling better. See you soon
Thank you Robyn! 🩷
Wow! This episode was chucky jam packed with good stuff. So many things I need to check out. Thank you Leanne. Happy Holidays.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching !! Happy holidays!!
Loved watching you and all your makes, but my eyes were glued to your steps watching your cat and my Gary’s lookalike. As a fellow cat mom, and with sock knitting on repeat lately, I may be working on cat socks soon 😁 Hope your feeling better, xx
Cat socks oh yes !!
Thank you Leanne for another enjoyable episode. I trust that you are recovering well. It's not ideal knitting weather in my part of the world just now but I received a large quantity of scrappy yarn for charity so have been doing mindless, garter, corner to corner lap blankets which will go to a local care facility. Best wishes for 2025. Judy, Nelson Bay (just north of Sydney) Australia.
Hi Judith!? Oh my gosh yes it is hot down there right now isn't it. We had a warm Christmas here in Calgary where I live, but last week was a cold snap -20C. How lovely to donate beautiful handmade lap blankets to your local care facility!
Thanks, Leanne 😊 Your podcast is so soothing to me, I enjoy your projects, the music, the new places you take us to, everything. Hope you had a lovely Christmas. Happy New Year 😊. Ps: Lovely cats
Oh wow thank you soOo much I really appreciate that. Happy New Year. Hope you’ll keep travelling with me
I love your podcast. I’m knitting 8 pairs of socks for my grandbabies. On number 7. Keep doing this. You are a natural and your heart comes through.
Socks for grandbabies!! Squeeee!! How sweet to keep their toes toasty. I really embrace that kind comment Linda. Also, sidenote: I was in my Initial Training with a Noseworthy. He and I are both still flight attendants 16 years later.
Lovely meeting you in person on Sunday at the Beehive. As a fellow Brook Farm gathering yarn enthusiast. I will definitely be your friend even without an apple fritter. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
@@sqrrlzview It was awesome to meet you too - made my day!
I love your projects, your travel bits, and your Motley Crue t-shirt! Happy holidays and hope you are feeling 100% soon!
Thanks, Heidi! Rock on! 🤘🏼
I am fighting the same bug , hopefully we both get better soon , thanks for another great podcast
Oh no! Sending healing thoughts your way! I am turning a corner 🙌🏼
The cat stockings!! I always think about making those and maybe one day I'll get my act together. Loved this episode and hope you're feeling better!
Great minds think alike! I think bagel and tuna would love stockings. 😂
@@theknittystew hehe they definitely would, mostly so they can knock them down and steal them 😂
Hi Leanne, I have been a long time viewer of your podcast and I appreciate all the effort you put into your crafting and sharing this out with the world on this platform. I admire your generous heart and the love you put into each and every project. I am a gift giver. I appreciate the time and effort that goes into every stitch and the ability of our hands to create something special and unique with two sticks and yarn. Those ornaments are classic and last the test of time. I usually knit accessories for my family and loved ones. Wish there were more hours in a day and I could make bigger projects for every one. Hope you feel better soon. Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and blessed holiday season.
Aw thank you so much - that is so kind of you to say! 💗 Thank you for being a long time member of this warm community. It really is a blessing to have you here. Lots of love to you Anita. 🙏🏼
Love your stockings..
Make the bear for the cats🐈🐈⬛
Good idea!!
The test knitted cuffs look beautiful. I’m currently knitting a cardigan with filcolana arwetta held together with filcolana tilia in christmas red. I wish you health and a wonderful advent season, Leanne! Thank you so much for your joyful episodes. See you in 2025.
Thank you so much! I would love to try the Tilia. Beehive in Victoria has recently started stocking it… I will be in that area soon so I might have to get some
Hi! When I knit colorwork in small circumfrences I turn the work inside out, so that the floats have to take a longer way. Have a nice holiday!
Great tip! I looked up a video on UA-cam on how to do it.
You are amazing!!!! Thank you!
I’m finishing up a shawl from last year’s advent and using the 5 gm leftovers from this shawl to knit a matching Musselburgh hat and crochet fingerless gloves, and then knitting Christmas socks with self striping yarn! ❤
Great job! Love it!
Thanks for all the recommendations. Lots of patterns to browse and things to look up. Your husband’s sock look like they fit beautifully. Get well soon.
Thank you Hilda!
I enjoyed your podcast.
I'm so glad you liked it Patsy!
Feel better SOON! In the meantime, enjoy your knit staycation! Love all your podcasts!
Thank you so much Linda! 🤗
Hope you feel better soon, lovely podcast as always Leeanne. I am a gift knitter too. Greetings from Edmonton.
Aw, thank you so much - I really appreciate that, especially from a fellow gift knitter. 😊
I feel like making all the little things too! No big WIPs started here.
Yes and I currently can’t stop with the socks!
@ I’m making little raglan sweaters!
Thank you for your lovely podcast, Leanne. I always enjoy seeing all your makes and your travels. Yes, I am making 2 e.s. chickens for friends and hope to make a little scarf for a cousin; it's just knit, knit, knit around here!
I'm right there with you! It's definitely KNIT KNIT KNIT for me right now too! I need to make some more chickens!
Hope you feel better soon..
Thank you ☺️
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Leanne to you and your family!
Merry Christmas and HNY to you too Janice - thank you so much for the well wishes!
@@theknittystew You are so welcome! :)
That tip about the fray check on the magic knots is genius! Thank you so much, my magic knots always seem to come undone 😢Little Bear is adorable! Personally I'd do the muzzle by Swiss Darning (aka duplicate stitch) to make life easier!
Yeah, I was definitely thinking about that too. Duplicate stitch is a lot easier. We’ll see if I’m feeling adventurous and wanting to learn a new technique. I just learned that niece of mine is expecting. Yay so now I have someone to make a little bear for!
Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed your knits, the cats in the background and the upbeat pace of the podcast. I knit on a super bulky weight beanie while watching; modifying a pattern from Lion Yarns. It’s a super quick knit. Tomorrow it’s back to socks. I hope you feel better and continue to enjoy your holidays. No gift knitting for me. Rather no holiday gift knitting. I do random gift knitting usually not related to a holiday or birthday. No pressure and rarely a deadline. 😊
Thank you Patricia! 😊 I like that strategy!
Working on a Musselburgh, love this pattern. Next, I will be starting a cardigan, Bookworm by Heidi Kirrmaier. And of course, socks on the needles. Always socks on the needles
The Bookworm looks like a cozy and quick cardigan!
Happy holidays Leanne. Great collection of knits today. 🇬🇧
Thank you Elaine! Same to you!
Socks, socks socks! I’m using the Wintery Woods heel (Nancy Wheeler) you featured last year, just love the fit. I find sock knitting when I travel calms me down amidst crazy drivers or midair turbulence. My husband is a great driver, some others not so much. Also knitting a Gramps cardigan by Tin Can Knits in a lovely Cascade Heather in Turtle Green.
Hope you’re feeling better 😊
I love that Nancy‘s patterns are my go to!
Great to see and all your knitty goodness. I am busy making hats for gifts and stripey sock with an advent self striping yarn, 24 different stripes. Merry Christmas 🎄
Self-striping yarn is SOO addictive and fun!
Good afternoon. Thanks again for another wonderful podcast - you kept me company while knitting the Antler Toque for one of my son-in-law’s Christmas gifts. Also, thank you for sharing Traci Scott’s designs - I truly enjoy colorwork hats and mittens! I hope you feel better soon, and I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas.
Thank you for watching and Merry Christmas to you and yours!
This was just the perfect start to my relaxed morning! I just adore all the greens! 💚
Thanks Lily!
Happy New Year. Hope you are feeling better. Looking forward to your projects and travels in 2025.
Thank you. Hope we all have lots of great yarn adventures in 2025!
I’m in the process of knitting a Colorwork sweater which usually means that by the time I get it done I’ll be over Colorwork for a long while but then you went and showed that beautiful Nocturnal sweater by The Petite Knitter, so, it looks like another on the horizon for me. Gee, thanks, hon (lol).😊
I’m right there with you! I say that after colourwork projects but then jump right back in 😂 There is just too much inspiration everywhere. It’s hard to resist a beautiful sweater like that. 😉
Hello Knitty Stew. Yes, I do lots of gift knitting, but not on account of holidays. Currently I'm getting started on the Porto blanket with a cone of Purl Soho merino yarn, and see I've got a little mistake to fix about five rows back. .Here's wishing you a complete recovery in time to fly. x x x
Happy tinking !! PurlSoho is so nice you get to knit it twice lol
Hey Leanne! Wow look at you powering through having been ill. I hope you went to sit down and get cozy and knit or crochet after. I am in for all the greens, bring them on! I was spinning (until my husband wanted to go to sleep) so currently working on socks and a cowl from March using a stash advent swap I received. But you gave me an idea for a new cast on, so now down a hole I go to see if it will work out. Thanks for the chat and all the goodness.
Thanks Jess! I actually ended up taking antibiotics to get over this thing! Crazy!
OMG I use the word schwack all the time 😂 and I get razzed every time I use it. Glad it’s in your vocabulary repertoire😊 love a schwack of colour. I hope you’re feeling better. Happy holidays & knitting 🧶
I'm so glad someone else uses "schwack" too!!!!
Feel better soon and have a great Christmas 😊
🙏🏼 Thank youz Merry Christmas to you as well!
Thank you for your podcast, i am definitely going to try the slippers with lettlopi yarn. I am currently knitting gifts for my sisters: Winter walking mittens that have an inner layer made with alpaca.
Oh those sound glorious!!!
love your green mitts. hope you feel better soon ✨✨ I'm actually crocheting, well right now sewing in the lining of a purse ( the corfu purse) and I make my little pup toys all the time, he is very grateful and plays with them all so yes to the cats 🧦
This purse sounds cool!
A friend has been married for the second time and I am knitting a shawl, from a free pattern named ‘Upstairs’ using lace weight ‘Wagtail’ cashmere held double with Malabrigo lace weight. I’m taking a break for summer here in Australia and crocheting Lillabjorncrochet’s small gifts make along in Bendigo Woollen Mills cotton. Love your vest, thank you for your lovely podcasts.
Oh my goodness, that’s a gorgeous combination of yarns. Thank you so much for your feedback!
Thank you for the tour of the new yarn shop near me. If you manage to make it back to KW in the future prepare to line up for the apple fritters at the market but they are worth it. You'll enjoy a trip to the Galt House of Yarn.
The Apple fritters are a must I’ll bring something to knit on while standing in line 😆
Hi Leanne, thanks so much for a wonderful episode, I love going on your yarn shop explores and am inspired by your knits and yarns. Right now I’m knitting K2P2 hats for my sons and husband with gorgeous yarn from Les Moutons de Richard in Quebec, and for me, the Skovbund Shawl by Fiber Tales, with an alpaca and wool blend from Custom Woolen Mills. I’m so loving knitting the shawl, wishing you all the blessings of this wintery season🌲✨❤
Oooh that ALL sounds lovely. Big FAN of Custom Woolen Mills. I should do a mill tour out there. It’s less than an hour from my house. Happy knitting.
To get a looser start row, try using the long tail crochet cast on. It’s much prettier as well
Yeassss!!!
I sure hope you are feeling better by now Leanne. I’m stress knitting too, starting with my FIRST colorwork hat. Which was so successful, I went straight into The Bluebird cardigan and it is making me very happy, plus the advantage of being just absorbing enough to distract me from what is about to happen in the US. 😳
Thank goodness for our knitting hey to keep us sane!! One stitch at a time … one breath at a time. 🙏🏼 Also CONGRATS on your first colourwork hat. This is excellent!
Leanne💐Hope you feel better soon! Love Love all your podcasts!! Thanks for all you do, Happy Holidays to you and your family… kitties too🎄🎄🎄🎄
Aw thank you so much - you too!! 🙏🏼💗
Dave is The. Best. Sock model. Ever. ❤️🧶🌈😻😻😻
I can’t wait to tell him!!!!!
I do hope you're feeling better and wow thank you for podcasting with everything going on. Love watching and seeing all that you're doing. I so enjoy when you travel and take us along but also when you're home. Happy holidays to you and your family and I wish you health, happiness and fun knits during the holidays.
Thank you so much Sharon 🩷🩷
All the best to you this holiday season!!
It's always so fun to see what you're working on! I'm in awe of your magic ball, that'll make for such a unique knit. I'm working on an Odetta shawl for a friend. I made one for me a few years ago, and the pattern is just so lovely. Hope you feel better soon, happy holidays!❤
Hi Corinne! Looking up Odetta! Thanks for hanging out with me 😃
Thanks for a nice episode 😊 I hope you get well soon 🙏 Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you! You too!
I hope you get back to normal health soon Leanne! I’ve got 3 sweaters on the go and 2 in waiting☺️
Thanks Maryann I ended up getting on some antibiotics and starting to turn a corner 🤗
Always great to see what you’re up to, Leanne. I’m knitting the Vanilla sweater, I got a kit from the wooly thistle, and pair of vanilla socks with Christmas yarn (think candy canes). I recently finished a contribution of hats and blanket squares for a charity knit, and the flambé shawl, which will be for a fundraising auction. Happy Holidays!
Oh how I wish that shipping costs were lower and our Canadian dollar was stronger… I want to buy ALL the kits at the wooly thistle!
feel better
Thank you Cynthia! I am now, but ended up having to get antibiotics!
Hi Leanne, I started this morning with the Jeju sweater of Aegyoknit. I use Rauma finull. I can’t wait to see how it goes. Thank you for another lovely podcast. I live in the north of the Netherlands. Have a nice dag❤
I’ve never made any of her patterns beautiful colour work and yay for Rauma Finull!
Your cable mitts are gorgeous okay gotta find the pattern❤😂
Yes Bonnie you need these!
Thank you this episode. I love all your green. This fall, I took on too many gift-knitting projects (socks and two Simplicity scarves) and I am behind!!! I also wanted to finish a WYS Christmas yarn pair of socks for me before Christmas. That's not going to happen. I'm looking forward to your visit to Galt House of Yarn. I had a very nice time there almost two years ago when I visited Cambridge from Las Vegas.
Time is just going way too fast! Faster than I can knit all the gifts I want to!
I made an Emsworth - never took a photo - will have to do that…love it but laughed when you said it was A-line…apparently I just read knit so many repeats or until so many inches and done 🙊 but love it…did the lace pattern both sides. Very satisfying knit…
Isabell Kraemer’s patterns have ALWAYS been a sure thing. Even when I didn’t know what I was doing her patterns have turned out for me 😂 Can’t wait to have this classic in my wardrobe!
Hope you feel better soon and your ears don’t pop. Your finishes are all looking lovely. 🙋🏼♀️
Thank you so much 😊
If you’d like a solution for slippery socks, and or slippers, I have sprayed the bottoms with Plastidip on the balls and heels. It’s kind of an expensive product and I try to stay away from sprays so, recently, I apply six dots of puffy paint, which you can buy at big box craft stores like Michael’s, to the ball area of the foot and 3 dots on the heel. It doesn’t affect how you wash them. Thank you for another great episode! Merry Christmas.
That’s a great tip!! Thank you for sharing!! 🎄
Oh fun to find you online! Such lovely makes; it's always lovely to see what you've been up to. I'm currently making teddy bears from thrifted flannel and embroidered faces. They are donations. Keep healing - and I hope your postal strike is resolved soon. Happy Holidays.
That's so kind - and what a wonderful project, you're amazing! If you’re on Instagram send me a pic of these flannel bears :)
@@theknittystew I didn't realize that I have 2 ig accounts! LOL. I tagged you in one. The next batch will be more heavily stuffed.
For color work patterns, check out Jamie Lomax and her Doodles. Such a fun idea. I made a cowl with sea creatures.
Oh yes those decks look like so much fun!
I am knitting the gingerbread house socks and a pine green Love Note for me. All my gifts are complete- mostly cowls for my 12 great nephews and socks for my adult kids. Love from Chilliwack
Wow, what a gift-knitting machine! That is awesome!! 🤩
I am busy knitting a sparkle tank for New years Eve. Who would have thought to do that! It is very soft though in Lana Gatto scintilla yarn
Thank you for another lovely video. Going to have to knit the woodland loafers
Sparkly everything! You’ll be the best dressed on New Year’s Eve!
I have gift knit in the past: socks, slippers, mittens, hats, shawls. But I'm not this year. I miss the satisfaction of a quick finish like a pair of mittens or a chunky hat, but OTOH I'm looking forward to wearing the sweater I'm making for ME, soon!
Absolutely!! Anna Daku of @thebluebirdbox once said in her podcast “I am the most knitworthy person I know” and I never forgot that.
Wow that’s great. Well if you are ever out this way (Montreal)we live in a small town about 40 minutes from the airport. It would be lovely to get together and have a chat. Cheers. Have a lovely Christmas.
Thanks Linda!
Thank you for the time and effort you put into your videos; love your enthusiasm. Thanks too for putting in the comments, links to all the content that you’ve finished. Hope you are better. Jennifer- Norfolk, England
I appreciate that! Thank you Jennifer!
That bear would be wonderful if you put a little bag of rice inside and you could warm the bear up and snuggle if you get cold of have a sore neck. Lovely little gift too. Love your podcast!
That's a great idea!! I might just have to do that!
Hi Leanne
Such a great podcast - i love to look all the time 🥰
Wish you and your family a very nice and cozy wintertime and ss well very beautiful Christmas 🎄 🌟🎅🏽🌟🎄
Until 2025…sending you lots of kind regards from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Renate - the knitting planespotter 🥰✈️🥰
Thank you so much Renate! I am so glad you enjoy the podcast. I hope you get lots of knitting done this winter! 😊 ❄️
What a wonderful video❤ I have made ten stockings with the Annie’s Woolen pattern. I’m currently making a dog stocking.
Ten stockings is amazing! That’s quite the accomplishment! Yay for dog stockings!