I have been spinning for 55 years and have knitted uncountable numbers of garments, each time I watch your videos I learn something new. Thank you for your infectious passion on the whole fiber craft. On a personal note the colours that you wore on this episode are beautiful on you I think you are a beautiful person inside and out.
The story about that little girl learning to spin really touched my heart. Traditions are so important. Not just our cultural traditions, but also the ones we hold in our family. I’d love for my daughter to learn how to spin. I also knit, it’s something I learned from my mother and grandmother. I make mead because my grandmother taught me and she learned from her mother and grandmother. One of my proudest moments is when my daughter made mead for a science project in school. You gave that little girl a wonderful gift. She might learn to spin. She might not. But she has a chance to connect to her culture, her mother and her grandmother.
I love this video, as a whole and oh how emotional it makes me to see textile traditions from all across the world but when it came to the spindle sizes my mind was blown. I'm an archaeologist. And the implication that the whirl size could be linked to plying instead of yarn thickness is so simple but so brilliant. Definitely going to bring it up in conversations and see if anyone I know wants to follow that thread (pun fully intended) Thank you so much for sharing this and making us aware of it!
The way you talk about the craft, and the importance of heritage and tradition and the way that those things express themselves THROUGH these crafts is always just so beautiful. You are fostering on your channel a curiosity and passion for the craft as well as a respect for the history behind it. You always make such lovely videos, and though I would be more than happy to just watch you sit in silence spinning yarn or weaving or anything else for hours, I absolutely love and appreciate the time and effort you so clearly put into your videos
LOVED THIS! I’m half Peruvian and I’ve been crocheting on and off for years. Started knitting a year ago and using natural fibers. I cannot wait to go back to Peru and see it with my new fiber eyes. Need to call my aunt to have her send me some fresh Peruvian wool. Thank you for this video, I’m looking at my culture in a new way. I love it. I feel like that girl at the train station with the spindle. Gracias! 😄
I so enjoyed your video!! I lived in Peru (Lima and Cuzco) for 18 months when I was a teen and it was life-changing. I’m still in touch with my host family. A treasure. It makes me happy to see how much you appreciated and enjoyed your time there. 🇵🇪. And your Chinchero manta and the runners are gorgeous!!
This video hit so many spots gor me! I desperately want to find a community of textile enthusiasts near me. I'm the only spinner/dyer I know, and my partner just does not get why I enjoy it so much, so having a community of people who are able to appreciate the craft just sounds like a dream!
I have such dear memories of my Sitti (grandmother) teaching me how to crochet that I was tearing up at your story of the little girl and her mother in the train station. I hope she goes on to learn from her grandmother and keeps that spindle you gave her for a lifetime! thank you so much for this incredible video!!
The coordination of 4 people scooping the yarn out of the dye pots with the forks was amazing. I went to school with kids who's family had an alpaca farm. Our class visited and an alpaca sneezed on him. It was a lot of mucus! Kinda lucky it was him and he was able to just duck into the house and wash up and change.
I'm supposed to be getting my car emissions checked for registration right now... but I got distracted by Peruvian textiles while knitting a sweater (merino and suri - omg what a combo!). Totally worth it
@49:10: It's because acrylic is filled with microplastics, is un-unique, cuts into the local communities economy, enables unfair globalization, isn't handmade, and other reasons too. Love that you went there, learned so much, _and_ had a ball (no pun intended!) 😅
I gave up on my turkish spindle because I spin rather fine and was always breaking the fiber on it, and now I now what I can use it for - plying! Thank you! You should write that paper!
I'm known for "dirt fine" spinning. Usually on my Russian supported spindle. I'll ply on it if the plied yarn needs it, but I'll use my Turkish for most plying of slightly "heavier" yarns. I'm not really good for "chunky" yarns.
The story about that little girl at the platform reminds me about how my grandma who barely new how to spin showed us how the old spinningweel from the attic worked. She just spun a few meters rough singles but I'll never forgett. She would be happy to know I am now spinning myselfe. Thank you for this doku. 🤗
In Ballarat, Australia, we have the Ballarat Rare Trades Centre! Where you can learn all sorts of crafts like spinning and weaving, as well as woodworking, building stone walls, and blacksmithing! I hope there are many other centres around the world
It has been my dream for nearly a decade to go to the Traditional Textile Center of Cusco and to participate in the lessons and workshops there, but I cannot tolerate altitudes that high, and my health would suffer badly from it. So I thank you for sharing your experience and your thoughts and feelings about these textile traditions that I would so love to learn about from those who have learned from their families over many generations. I learned to spin on a drop spindle during a 9-week textile arts class in ninth grade from an art teacher who had spent most of the prior summer attending fiber preparation, carding, spinning and weaving classes at the John C. Campbell Folk School, and created the class that started me on a 40+ year long journey that began with that bottom-whorl drop spindle to the present day when I'm now learning to spin on an electric spinner, and most of those years trying to learn about the textile techniques from other cultures that my teacher introduced me to way back then. I love your videos, and I love that you don't just show how to do something, but educate us on when and where it originated (if known) and the history about it. I might not be able to find time to watch your videos the day you post them, but be sure that I do come and watch them when my life allows me to, and I enjoy them thoroughly!
I am a brand new spinner and I found this video SO informative and fascinating. It makes me feel so much connection and appreciation for my grandmother who lent me her spinning wheel and who first showed me the world of fiber arts. I am going to go visit her soon and show her this video, she is going to love it!
I happened to pause right in the middle of you introduce the bit about the dyeing workshop and you look SO smugly excited 😂 and I mean, I would be too!!! So cool 💜
This video is just awesome ❤ seeing those adorable women in their colorful dresses teaching their traditional craft is just priceless. Nice job on this video!
You have really made one of the best podcast videos I have had the pleasure of seeing. I wish I knew how to share it with the wider community. Such a delight. I’ve had the, ‘Why would you bother when you can go to Asda and buy one.?’ comment many times and it does hurt. I’m 75 years old, been spinning since the mid 1980’s and you have given me the urge to go on a textile tour in Peru. Thankyou, Thankyou Thankyou.😊
so about the bigger spindle being for plying, I just wanted to say I have a set of 3 bulgarian supported spindles, one of which is larger, and in the listing on Etsy when I bought it, it stated that the largest one was a plying spindle. so that's another culture, from another continent, which apparently might have had a similar principle.
Omg the end of the video where you see how she is meticulously weaving all of this beautiful colors wow. Also why did this make me sooo incredibly emotional ❤
Thank you Evie for such an amazingly interesting and beautiful video! I think what you said about it being important to carry the tradition of crafting is so true! I am from Finland and fortunately fiber crafts are very much a tradition that still lives strongly in our society here. You can find good quality wool yarn an other basic crafting supplies in even the smallest of local grocery stores and everyone is taught to knit in school, even if not everyone picks it up as a habit later on. My mom taught me to knit when I was seven and since then I have been knitting my whole life. Lately I've been interested in spinnig yarn, and I did buy a spindle to learn it. I also inherited my grandmother's spinnig wheel when she passed away last winter, but I'm yet to aquire it to my home from my parents' place, and since my mom never learned to spin yarn, I have to learn it myself through UA-cam. Thank you for all your interesting and insightful content!
Oh my goodness i have enjoyed this video so much. Thank you for sharing your adventures! Not all of us get to travel but i think you should compile a video diary of spinning weaving traditions from all over the world. Yes we need to keep the traditions alive, we have lost so very much with the industrialization of everything. Even here in the states each region has different traditions. All so very interesting. I have always cherished hand crafted items. And i am really glad to know i am not the only one who loves fiber and textiles and spinning and weaving and all those fuzzy faces! Again thank you for your videos!
During the pandemic, I was introduced to a number of natural dyers in the US through the Friday Zoom meetings (now videos ) of Botanical Colors. So many people growing dye gardens or harvesting in their localities. What a fabulous experience. Thanks so much for sharing it.
Please show the other things you bought that's not boring! All the pretty things to admire! What a wonderful video, this is easily my favorite UA-cam content of 2024. Very cool!!!
Welcome back, Evie. Your time in the Andes seems to agree with you. You look so refreshed and blooming. Thank you for the video. What were you eating at the end of the video?
what a beautiful encounter with the little girl, she will certainly be changed after meeting you. a great trip, thanks for sharing. I love dyeing with plants, all colors are possible
I’m so thankful to be living in an age where we have the ability to learn from different cultures even though we’re halfway across the world. Thank you for sharing this, it’s giving me so much inspiration and I’m eager to try some of the techniques shown in the video and perhaps incorporate them into my own (self taught) way of spinning and weaving.
Loved this video! For myself specifically for my crafting studio I realized that I have a surplus of "stuff" so what I do is not start a new project until I finish the other. And I only purchase additional items if I need them to complete that project.
What an incredible trip and opportunity to learn and immerse yourself in the culture of the craft. Loved this video! Late to watch just due to the length and wanted to be able to sit and watch it. 💖
Thank you for this wonderful and educational view into the Weaving traditions of Peru. Hope you make another short video of the other items you bought there. Visiting Peru is definitely on my bucket list! 👍👍👍
Thank you so much for sharing your trip and fiber experience. You did a great job with your video. I have done vacation videos in the past and it takes patience, lots of hours and love! You look great! Your passion just glows through you.
What a wonderful trip! I've been watching you for quite a while, you look so much healthier. I'm glad you and your doc worked together to get you better!❤️❤️
What a fascinating video! You were so spot on with your thoughts about these traditions. Giving the little girl a spindle may spark a whole new interest in generations to come. Also, love your sense of humor! Thanks for all the hard work you put into sharing with your viewers.
This episode is immensely fascinating!! I've found out some of my heritage comes from Peru and as the years go by and I learn more about the country, people and their lives ... it explains a lot! I'm so glad you went and spent so much time learning their ways/techniques. I'll bet they were extra intrigued that you were already an expert spinner/weaver. Thank you so so much for taking this trip and sharing it with us. OH!! And I DO want to see ALLLLLL the knick knacks you bought there !!! I hope they make an appearance in later videos :D I also want to mention that that purple/burgundy sweater is absolutely GORGEOUS on you!!
Hi. Thank you so much for a fascinating video on your trip. I have long been fascinated with the Peruvian ladies and their hand-painted yarns. I am a knitter who is very passionate about pure, organic yarns. I dont wear anything that is not pure cotton pure wool, pure mohair etc. Unfortunately I am elderly now with Rheumatoid Arthritis Arthritis, so I don't knit nearly as much as I'd like to. So glad you warmed my heart with this lovely video. Thank you!
this is the the universe inspiring me as it was you first teaching on the spinning wheel and then watching all of your other vids, as prior to this video i was watching a doco on Peru as i love the fibers from South America and Mexico and Tibet, so that's my mission to learn to do my own, so thank you for your passion and wisdom and teaching to a 50 yr old semi truck driving hippie lol , mark , the "unconventional hippie!"
What a wonderful video and thank you so much for taking us on the adventure with you. You looked like you really enjoyed immersing yourself in their fibre culture. Really lovely and informative video.
Absolutely wonderful vlog. I love thinking about community and crafting. Also was thinking about trying out different plants to see if we can make dyes.
Thank you Evie for sharing with us. I have been waiting for this video since you announced your trip. That looks sooooo fun!!! Did you go to the woven bridge? If so can you post a picture? I thought as someone who LOVES color, Cusco would be heaven for you! I am totally looking forward now to your processing of the VICUNA fibers. Do you need to card or comb it first? Are there guard hairs to remove? Thanks so much again. Your videos and experiences do enrich our lives. I know that sounds cheesy, but it really is true and I want you to know that. Thanks also to your hubby for helping make all this happen. Speaking of him and the coffee...You can buy beans online and have them shipped and oh, I don't know...MAKE IT YOURSELF!!! Don't go to coffee shops. 😅 Think of it s a dye project. Coffee grounds actually is a natural dye...Grandma would dye her doilies in coffee or tea if and when they would ever get a stain on them. The color is a beautiful brown or tan. She'd use the used coffee grounds and or tea bags she saved and dried from when she would make coffee or tea. I use my used coffee and tea grounds in my garden. You can too...and your flax will grow much better! Hugs! 12:11
Tea is a good dye because it contains tannin. I'm surprised that your grandmother was able to get coffee to work as while it is dark it doesn't stick to the fabric (unless you're talking about coffee with milk) the way tea does.
We didn't go to the rope bridge unfortunately. It was an 8 hour bus ride from where we stayed and after all the switchbacks on the mountain roads, we weren't looking forward to more travel time. The coffee I'm missing is the espresso to make a Peruvian Americano, and I don't have a way to make that at home. The search continues...
The floof is aloof... And balance in the universe is restored❤ My sweater is from Bolivia😊 Ty what a great trip Evie! Oh her face when she sees the Whites with spindles too... I've got tears. And then you gave a spindle of yours to the girl? Literal chills i love it so much. Thank you Evie you made my day!!!
Early in the pandemic, I bought a set of Natural Dye Day yarns from Abby's online shop, and I've been fantasizing/stressing about what to knit out of them. I have a whole bundle of possible knit or crochet sweater patterns on Ravelry. I look forward to seeing what design you choose, because maybe it will help me escape my paralysis!
this video has great meaning to me. thank you for the thoughtfulness. my hub and i are relocating to one of three countries in Jan. Peru is one of the three. I’m so encouraged by your video.
Sounds like you have an absolutely fabulous time there. I completely understand the itch to "smoosh" the alpacas--but they're a really nervous species, even the ones up here in the states. Llamas are rock solid next to them. I do a lot of drop spinning like those ladies ere doing. I've also been looking into Natural Dyes for 30 yrs. and have a notebook almost full of all my trials. Time was, i could be found nipping through ditches, fields, grocery stores and weed patches looking for things that might give good color. Getting better at it. Have gone from "weeds" to mushrooms and lichens these days. Have recently done some back-strap weaving with some of my heavier yarns--to good effect. Set up one with really fine alpaca warps: made a mess of it, had to tear it all down and am knitting with it all. With the yarns you came home with: might I recommend trying something along the lines of the wider animal band you bought. You can use that one to pattern from with your own yarns, not necessarily identical, but Evie-flavored.
Oh how I would love you go to Peru. As a former keeper of flocks, growing cotton, flax, and other fibers and dye plants, spinning, weaving, and all needlework, it would be so enriching.
I have been spinning for 55 years and have knitted uncountable numbers of garments, each time I watch your videos I learn something new. Thank you for your infectious passion on the whole fiber craft. On a personal note the colours that you wore on this episode are beautiful on you I think you are a beautiful person inside and out.
Wow, what an experience! Thanks for sharing. I would be very interested in learning how you planned this trip.
So fantastically said, totally agree
I accept your theory of alpacas being too powerfull if they were also snuggleable. This is universal truth now.
The story about that little girl learning to spin really touched my heart. Traditions are so important. Not just our cultural traditions, but also the ones we hold in our family. I’d love for my daughter to learn how to spin. I also knit, it’s something I learned from my mother and grandmother. I make mead because my grandmother taught me and she learned from her mother and grandmother. One of my proudest moments is when my daughter made mead for a science project in school.
You gave that little girl a wonderful gift. She might learn to spin. She might not. But she has a chance to connect to her culture, her mother and her grandmother.
22:00 True
I love this video, as a whole and oh how emotional it makes me to see textile traditions from all across the world
but when it came to the spindle sizes my mind was blown. I'm an archaeologist. And the implication that the whirl size could be linked to plying instead of yarn thickness is so simple but so brilliant. Definitely going to bring it up in conversations and see if anyone I know wants to follow that thread (pun fully intended)
Thank you so much for sharing this and making us aware of it!
I highly recommend the book “Prehistoric Textiles” by Elizabeth Wayland Barber!
"Just because something isn't unbroken doesn't mean it's unchanged." - Well said. 💯🙂
The way you talk about the craft, and the importance of heritage and tradition and the way that those things express themselves THROUGH these crafts is always just so beautiful. You are fostering on your channel a curiosity and passion for the craft as well as a respect for the history behind it.
You always make such lovely videos, and though I would be more than happy to just watch you sit in silence spinning yarn or weaving or anything else for hours, I absolutely love and appreciate the time and effort you so clearly put into your videos
Crafts (and other skills) will only continue if they are learned by younger people.
You know they are expert dyers when they are using red color, white shirts, and NO APRONS!! 😮
LOVED THIS! I’m half Peruvian and I’ve been crocheting on and off for years. Started knitting a year ago and using natural fibers. I cannot wait to go back to Peru and see it with my new fiber eyes.
Need to call my aunt to have her send me some fresh Peruvian wool.
Thank you for this video, I’m looking at my culture in a new way. I love it. I feel like that girl at the train station with the spindle. Gracias! 😄
I so enjoyed your video!! I lived in Peru (Lima and Cuzco) for 18 months when I was a teen and it was life-changing. I’m still in touch with my host family. A treasure. It makes me happy to see how much you appreciated and enjoyed your time there. 🇵🇪. And your Chinchero manta and the runners are gorgeous!!
This video hit so many spots gor me! I desperately want to find a community of textile enthusiasts near me. I'm the only spinner/dyer I know, and my partner just does not get why I enjoy it so much, so having a community of people who are able to appreciate the craft just sounds like a dream!
I have such dear memories of my Sitti (grandmother) teaching me how to crochet that I was tearing up at your story of the little girl and her mother in the train station. I hope she goes on to learn from her grandmother and keeps that spindle you gave her for a lifetime! thank you so much for this incredible video!!
The coordination of 4 people scooping the yarn out of the dye pots with the forks was amazing.
I went to school with kids who's family had an alpaca farm. Our class visited and an alpaca sneezed on him. It was a lot of mucus! Kinda lucky it was him and he was able to just duck into the house and wash up and change.
I was 7 minutes into the video before I realized why you kept holding the spindle 😂
I'm supposed to be getting my car emissions checked for registration right now... but I got distracted by Peruvian textiles while knitting a sweater (merino and suri - omg what a combo!). Totally worth it
@49:10: It's because acrylic is filled with microplastics, is un-unique, cuts into the local communities economy, enables unfair globalization, isn't handmade, and other reasons too.
Love that you went there, learned so much, _and_ had a ball (no pun intended!) 😅
I gave up on my turkish spindle because I spin rather fine and was always breaking the fiber on it, and now I now what I can use it for - plying! Thank you! You should write that paper!
I'm known for "dirt fine" spinning. Usually on my Russian supported spindle. I'll ply on it if the plied yarn needs it, but I'll use my Turkish for most plying of slightly "heavier" yarns. I'm not really good for "chunky" yarns.
The story about that little girl at the platform reminds me about how my grandma who barely new how to spin showed us how the old spinningweel from the attic worked. She just spun a few meters rough singles but I'll never forgett. She would be happy to know I am now spinning myselfe. Thank you for this doku. 🤗
In Ballarat, Australia, we have the Ballarat Rare Trades Centre! Where you can learn all sorts of crafts like spinning and weaving, as well as woodworking, building stone walls, and blacksmithing!
I hope there are many other centres around the world
I live in Brasil! I am not aware of very organized centers like that... i wish i could go visit!
I visited Peru in May and saw many local people spinning it's so cool that made me want to learn how to spin.
It has been my dream for nearly a decade to go to the Traditional Textile Center of Cusco and to participate in the lessons and workshops there, but I cannot tolerate altitudes that high, and my health would suffer badly from it. So I thank you for sharing your experience and your thoughts and feelings about these textile traditions that I would so love to learn about from those who have learned from their families over many generations. I learned to spin on a drop spindle during a 9-week textile arts class in ninth grade from an art teacher who had spent most of the prior summer attending fiber preparation, carding, spinning and weaving classes at the John C. Campbell Folk School, and created the class that started me on a 40+ year long journey that began with that bottom-whorl drop spindle to the present day when I'm now learning to spin on an electric spinner, and most of those years trying to learn about the textile techniques from other cultures that my teacher introduced me to way back then. I love your videos, and I love that you don't just show how to do something, but educate us on when and where it originated (if known) and the history about it. I might not be able to find time to watch your videos the day you post them, but be sure that I do come and watch them when my life allows me to, and I enjoy them thoroughly!
I am a brand new spinner and I found this video SO informative and fascinating. It makes me feel so much connection and appreciation for my grandmother who lent me her spinning wheel and who first showed me the world of fiber arts. I am going to go visit her soon and show her this video, she is going to love it!
Looks like this was the trip of a lifetime. Really interesting! Thank you for sharing your adventure.
Your enthusiasm is contagious, thank you for the inspiration!
I happened to pause right in the middle of you introduce the bit about the dyeing workshop and you look SO smugly excited 😂 and I mean, I would be too!!! So cool 💜
This video is just awesome ❤ seeing those adorable women in their colorful dresses teaching their traditional craft is just priceless.
Nice job on this video!
You have really made one of the best podcast videos I have had the pleasure of seeing. I wish I knew how to share it with the wider community. Such a delight.
I’ve had the, ‘Why would you bother when you can go to Asda and buy one.?’ comment many times and it does hurt. I’m 75 years old, been spinning since the mid 1980’s and you have given me the urge to go on a textile tour in Peru.
Thankyou, Thankyou Thankyou.😊
so about the bigger spindle being for plying, I just wanted to say I have a set of 3 bulgarian supported spindles, one of which is larger, and in the listing on Etsy when I bought it, it stated that the largest one was a plying spindle. so that's another culture, from another continent, which apparently might have had a similar principle.
I think you are right. I have some antique Bulgarian spindles too and the larger ones are certainly more useful for plying!
Omg the end of the video where you see how she is meticulously weaving all of this beautiful colors wow. Also why did this make me sooo incredibly emotional ❤
Thank you Evie for such an amazingly interesting and beautiful video! I think what you said about it being important to carry the tradition of crafting is so true! I am from Finland and fortunately fiber crafts are very much a tradition that still lives strongly in our society here. You can find good quality wool yarn an other basic crafting supplies in even the smallest of local grocery stores and everyone is taught to knit in school, even if not everyone picks it up as a habit later on. My mom taught me to knit when I was seven and since then I have been knitting my whole life. Lately I've been interested in spinnig yarn, and I did buy a spindle to learn it. I also inherited my grandmother's spinnig wheel when she passed away last winter, but I'm yet to aquire it to my home from my parents' place, and since my mom never learned to spin yarn, I have to learn it myself through UA-cam. Thank you for all your interesting and insightful content!
Oh my goodness i have enjoyed this video so much. Thank you for sharing your adventures! Not all of us get to travel but i think you should compile a video diary of spinning weaving traditions from all over the world. Yes we need to keep the traditions alive, we have lost so very much with the industrialization of everything. Even here in the states each region has different traditions. All so very interesting. I have always cherished hand crafted items. And i am really glad to know i am not the only one who loves fiber and textiles and spinning and weaving and all those fuzzy faces! Again thank you for your videos!
👍👍 trip sounds amazing, train station story is really beautiful and llamagurumi is just darling 😄👌
This looks like it was SUCH an incredible adventure 🤩 Seeing the entire process of textile creation was so inspiring. Thank you for sharing!!
During the pandemic, I was introduced to a number of natural dyers in the US through the Friday Zoom meetings (now videos ) of Botanical Colors. So many people growing dye gardens or harvesting in their localities. What a fabulous experience. Thanks so much for sharing it.
I just loved this video! Amazing amount of information- loved every moment!
This is so cool! I'm so happy you got to do this
Thanks for sharing this with us ❤❤❤
Please show the other things you bought that's not boring! All the pretty things to admire!
What a wonderful video, this is easily my favorite UA-cam content of 2024. Very cool!!!
Welcome back, Evie. Your time in the Andes seems to agree with you. You look so refreshed and blooming. Thank you for the video.
What were you eating at the end of the video?
I wondered if it were guinea pig.
Cuy 🫣
So excited to see your video! Abby Franqmont's work is amazing. What a wonderful experience. Thank you for sharing.
A sponsership! We love to see it! What a great video as always Evie❤
Great video! Thank you for taking us on your trip
what a beautiful encounter with the little girl, she will certainly be changed after meeting you. a great trip, thanks for sharing. I love dyeing with plants, all colors are possible
So happy you shared your wonderful trip with us. Thank you!
Such an amazing experience, Evie! Thanks for sharing it. Happy Thanksgiving! Very grateful for this craft you've helped me learn
Thoroughly enjoyed watching your trip Evie!
I’m sure you all had an unforgettable time that you will treasure forever.
I’m so thankful to be living in an age where we have the ability to learn from different cultures even though we’re halfway across the world.
Thank you for sharing this, it’s giving me so much inspiration and I’m eager to try some of the techniques shown in the video and perhaps incorporate them into my own (self taught) way of spinning and weaving.
What a fantastic experience! Thank you for taking us along & sharing your impressions!
Thanks so much for sharing your stories and footage! What an incredible experience.
This was so fun to watch🥰 thank you for taking us along on you’re trip and I learned so much watching this🥰
Jillian is that Foreo for skin? Ty!
Loved this video! For myself specifically for my crafting studio I realized that I have a surplus of "stuff" so what I do is not start a new project until I finish the other. And I only purchase additional items if I need them to complete that project.
Looks like you had an awesome experience! Seems like there's no end to finding new things to learn! 😊
I’m obsessed with this video!! This is such an amazing experience and I am super jealous!🥰
This was fantastic! You gave us a glimpse into a different culture and way of thinking, and it was fascinating.
What a nice nice episode. I just love the way you put so so much information info this, Into all of what you do. Thanks very much.
What an incredible trip and opportunity to learn and immerse yourself in the culture of the craft. Loved this video! Late to watch just due to the length and wanted to be able to sit and watch it. 💖
Thank you for this wonderful and educational view into the Weaving traditions of Peru. Hope you make another short video of the other items you bought there. Visiting Peru is definitely on my bucket list! 👍👍👍
What an amazing trip you had. Thanks for all the pictures, videos and explanations.
wow i think this is your best video so far. that was absolutely fascinating to watch! so vivid and interesting, educating and inspiring!! wow!
Thank you for sharing your amazing trip with us! It's going on my bucket list for sure! 😍
Best video ever in the whole world. Thank you for making it !!!
That was really cool! Thanks so much for sharing. ❤️
What an incredible trip!! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. 💜
Thank you so much for sharing your trip and fiber experience. You did a great job with your video. I have done vacation videos in the past and it takes patience, lots of hours and love! You look great! Your passion just glows through you.
Thank you for this very informative journey, I used to weave- so textiles are close to my heart.
Can you share resources for courses you took and organizations you met? Would love to make a similar trip one day!
I’m going to be watching this one again! Sooo much to learn. You are so pretty, I love watching your videos. Thank you for educating me ❤
This video was awesome. I really enjoyed your trip! I learned so much.
What a wonderful trip! I've been watching you for quite a while, you look so much healthier. I'm glad you and your doc worked together to get you better!❤️❤️
What a fascinating video! You were so spot on with your thoughts about these traditions. Giving the little girl a spindle may spark a whole new interest in generations to come. Also, love your sense of humor! Thanks for all the hard work you put into sharing with your viewers.
THIS WAS THE COOLEST VIDEO! Thank you for sharing it all😊
So fascinating! Thank you for sharing. ❤
Amazing wonderful video. Education at so many levels. I’ll never handle Peruvian yarn the same. Awesome. Thank you for all of this!
THIS. Both fascinating and educational. I do not spin or weave, but I love learning from you - AND THIS IS AMAZING!
This episode is immensely fascinating!! I've found out some of my heritage comes from Peru and as the years go by and I learn more about the country, people and their lives ... it explains a lot! I'm so glad you went and spent so much time learning their ways/techniques. I'll bet they were extra intrigued that you were already an expert spinner/weaver. Thank you so so much for taking this trip and sharing it with us. OH!! And I DO want to see ALLLLLL the knick knacks you bought there !!! I hope they make an appearance in later videos :D I also want to mention that that purple/burgundy sweater is absolutely GORGEOUS on you!!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful experience! ❤️❤️❤️
Great video. What a wonderful experience for you and very inspiring. Thank you from Scotland.
Wow, this was wonderful. Thank you for sharing your amazing trip with us. Happy creating 💚🧶💚
Hi.
Thank you so much for a fascinating video on your trip. I have long been fascinated with the Peruvian ladies and their hand-painted yarns. I am a knitter who is very passionate about pure, organic yarns. I dont wear anything that is not pure cotton pure wool, pure mohair etc.
Unfortunately I am elderly now with Rheumatoid Arthritis Arthritis, so I don't knit nearly as much as I'd like to.
So glad you warmed my heart with this lovely video. Thank you!
That was unbelievably spectacular!! OMGoodness!!!❤❤❤
I first learnt how to weave on a back strap loom I made myself. I have a 4 shaft loom now but I’ll always love a back strap loom
this is the the universe inspiring me as it was you first teaching on the spinning wheel and then watching all of your other vids,
as prior to this video i was watching a doco on Peru as i love the fibers from South America and Mexico and Tibet, so that's my mission to learn to do my own, so thank you for your passion and wisdom and teaching to a 50 yr old semi truck driving hippie lol
, mark , the "unconventional hippie!"
What a wonderful video and thank you so much for taking us on the adventure with you. You looked like you really enjoyed immersing yourself in their fibre culture. Really lovely and informative video.
Yesterday I watched the episode with Sylvester and Benny at the warehouse hunting mice. “…and call them George” had me rolling 😂
Absolutely wonderful vlog. I love thinking about community and crafting. Also was thinking about trying out different plants to see if we can make dyes.
Wonderful, fascinating. Marvelous! Thank you!
Wow ❤this is awesome! I now want to go to Peru! And learn how to weave! I am working on it. Wish me luck! 😊
Thank you Evie for sharing with us. I have been waiting for this video since you announced your trip. That looks sooooo fun!!!
Did you go to the woven bridge? If so can you post a picture?
I thought as someone who LOVES color, Cusco would be heaven for you!
I am totally looking forward now to your processing of the VICUNA fibers. Do you need to card or comb it first? Are there guard hairs to remove?
Thanks so much again. Your videos and experiences do enrich our lives. I know that sounds cheesy, but it really is true and I want you to know that. Thanks also to your hubby for helping make all this happen.
Speaking of him and the coffee...You can buy beans online and have them shipped and oh, I don't know...MAKE IT YOURSELF!!! Don't go to coffee shops. 😅 Think of it s a dye project. Coffee grounds actually is a natural dye...Grandma would dye her doilies in coffee or tea if and when they would ever get a stain on them. The color is a beautiful brown or tan. She'd use the used coffee grounds and or tea bags she saved and dried from when she would make coffee or tea.
I use my used coffee and tea grounds in my garden. You can too...and your flax will grow much better!
Hugs! 12:11
Tea is a good dye because it contains tannin. I'm surprised that your grandmother was able to get coffee to work as while it is dark it doesn't stick to the fabric (unless you're talking about coffee with milk) the way tea does.
@resourcedragon I wish she was still around for me to ask.
We didn't go to the rope bridge unfortunately. It was an 8 hour bus ride from where we stayed and after all the switchbacks on the mountain roads, we weren't looking forward to more travel time. The coffee I'm missing is the espresso to make a Peruvian Americano, and I don't have a way to make that at home. The search continues...
Thank you for this amazing and inspiring adventure, I definitely want to go to Peru
How cool was this video !?!Thank you for documenting and sharing your experience. I love your videos so much!!
I have been looking forward to this video forever. I am so excited. Popcorn is ready...yay!
The floof is aloof... And balance in the universe is restored❤
My sweater is from Bolivia😊
Ty what a great trip Evie!
Oh her face when she sees the Whites with spindles too... I've got tears. And then you gave a spindle of yours to the girl? Literal chills i love it so much.
Thank you Evie you made my day!!!
Fantastic video!!
Early in the pandemic, I bought a set of Natural Dye Day yarns from Abby's online shop, and I've been fantasizing/stressing about what to knit out of them. I have a whole bundle of possible knit or crochet sweater patterns on Ravelry. I look forward to seeing what design you choose, because maybe it will help me escape my paralysis!
TU for a very interesting podcast. I love seeing how other people live❤❤❤
this video has great meaning to me. thank you for the thoughtfulness. my hub and i are relocating to one of three countries in Jan. Peru is one of the three. I’m so encouraged by your video.
Sounds like you have an absolutely fabulous time there. I completely understand the itch to "smoosh" the alpacas--but they're a really nervous species, even the ones up here in the states. Llamas are rock solid next to them. I do a lot of drop spinning like those ladies ere doing. I've also been looking into Natural Dyes for 30 yrs. and have a notebook almost full of all my trials. Time was, i could be found nipping through ditches, fields, grocery stores and weed patches looking for things that might give good color. Getting better at it. Have gone from "weeds" to mushrooms and lichens these days. Have recently done some back-strap weaving with some of my heavier yarns--to good effect. Set up one with really fine alpaca warps: made a mess of it, had to tear it all down and am knitting with it all. With the yarns you came home with: might I recommend trying something along the lines of the wider animal band you bought. You can use that one to pattern from with your own yarns, not necessarily identical, but Evie-flavored.
Hi from Canada! Wonderful video, thank you!
Oh how I would love you go to Peru. As a former keeper of flocks, growing cotton, flax, and other fibers and dye plants, spinning, weaving, and all needlework, it would be so enriching.
Amazing video. Thank you ❤️
Oh my gosh, I loved this video.