Fruity Knitting Podcast - Episode 5 - Canadian Designer Elizabeth McCarten, Ireland's Jo Kerrigan
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2016
- Program Notes: fruityknitting.com/2016/05/17/...
In Episode 5 you will see the Norbu cardigan by Marie Wallin, the Amelia jumper by Alex Pengelly as featured in the 2013 Rowan Design Awards, and an interview with talented Canadian knitter and designer Elizabeth McCarten.
Full program notes at the Fruity Knitting website.
Under Construction
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Norbu, by Marie Wallin
Andrew's next socks
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The yarn for Andrew's next pair of socks is the Rowan Fine Art, in the Waxwing shade.
Knitters of the World
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Presented by Jo Kerrigan or West Cork, Ireland. You can find Jo at:
the Celtic Memory Yarns blog.
Music for this segment is "She moved through the fair", a traditional Irish folk song, performed by Andrea Doig (singing and piano), and Nils Nolte (flute).
From the Archives
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Amelia, by Alex Pengelly from the Rowan Design Awards 2013
Rowan Felted Tweed
Shades:
Andrea’s jumper - Watery 152 and Ancient 172,
Madeleine’s jumper - Pine 158 and Avocado 161
Interview - Elizabeth McCarten
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Our interview is with Canadian Knitter and Designer Elizabeth McCarten.
Garments shown
- Brookline
- Wolfe Island Gansey
- Buttonbox
- Harriet’s Jacket
- Glenora
- Trellis Waistcoat
- Zora
The books mentioned during the interview were:
- Knitting Around, published in 1989 by Schoolhouse Press, an autobiography by Elizabeth Zimmermann, edited by her daughter, Meg Swansen.
- Knitting Ganseys, by Beth Brown-Reinsel, published in 1993 by Interweave Press.
Andrew is so cool! It is so awesome to see a husband knitting side by side with his wife. Love your socks Andrew!
Having been watching your videos for a while now and fighting secondary breast cancer myself, I have recently been enjoying watching from the beginning, because I have time ATM. I am very interested in texture as well as patterns but love Tunisian crochet, as it bridges the divide between knitting and crochet. Thank you for continuing to make and share these enchanting and wonderfully informative videos.
Another great podcast. As an Irish woman living in Canada I enjoyed seeing my country of birth and learning about a knitter/designer from my country of residence.
AND you sing too! I'm astounded, so lovely and exquisite voice Andrea. Bravo! I've watched this episode a few times. You do it so beautifully; music, photography, personality. So thankful you are doing this and sharing your talents. XOXO
I am addicted to your podcast. thank you so much for all the information.
Beautiful vocals...so glad to learn the name of this lovely Irish song.
You should see if Rowan will support your podcasts. Your work is a wonderful showcase for their products. I'm looking for my back issues of the Rowan catalog now. And I'm looking forward to catching up on the podcasts.
I just found your podcast today. You and your husband are just lovely!
Hi there from South Africa! Watching all the old episodes and nice surprise to hear about our proudly South African mohair!! I am absolutely in awe of Andrea's gorgeous cardigans! so enjoying your podcast!
Hi Adele. Great to hear from South Africa. Thanks for watching, A + A.
Loved the featured designer section....just purchased one of her patterns after watching your podcast. As always fabulous :-)
I loved learning that others watch TV and notice the knitwear the characters wear. My favorite is the knitwear in the Miss Marple series and of course Miss Marple is a knitter.
Thank you for that, thoroughly enjoyed the interview with Elizabeth McCarten.
I only discovered your podcasts last week and I love them. They are so informative and inspiring, you're not only introducing great new patterns but it's also wonderful to listen to the interviews with other knitters and designers, am definitely heading over to Elizabeth McCarten's tutorials. So happy that there are still so many more of your videos to watch, it's like a Netflix binge! :)
Thank you Andrea and Andrew - another wonderful episode! Every bit of it was interesting and informative, but particularly your interview with Elizabeth McCarten :)
Hi, Just found your podcasts and love them. So entertaining and inspiring! Am watching them in order and even get up an hour early to have time with you and my knitting.
I love your podcast ! I have found them by the 13 episode , now I'm watching back all the episodes , and im so trilled ! All around amazing I believe that is your voice , am I right ?! Thank you for sharing such a wonderful podcast Emilia
Entertaining and helpful. I enjoyed all of the segments. Thank you!
I am just going through older show and I am learning so much. I especially love the interviews with knitwear designers. So inspirational!
Thanks, Anne.
This is the first episode of your podcast that I've seen. So enjoyable. And wonderful to see such inspiring guests.
I absolutely adore Ireland! Thank you for posting Jo Kerrigan. Cork is a wonderful place to visit and Dingle is tons of fun.
It's been delightful watching all of your podcasts since reading about them on Lene Alve's blog last week. Tonight I was again thrilled to see another dear blog friend, Jo Kerrigan.
Your knitting, interviews, outdoor excursions and chats are enjoyable and inspiring. I also love the beautiful accompanying music. Keep up the wonderful podcasts! They are fabulous.
Thank you!
Hello, Guys, I just wanted say BIG THANKS for Your podcasts!!!!!! I like Your music... forest... and knitting...and Your smiles. I am kitting maniac from Lithuania, but living in London...and knitting 52 years every day...
Irena - music, forest, knitting and smiles - you've got us covered, and 52 years is impressive! Thanks for getting in touch. A + A.
Love your podcasts with their musics and your co-operative style of explaining.Thank you so much. - What boring monocultured forests! Can't believe they haven't heard of mixed forests so far; apart from getting acid grounds, it's dulling, anway, whole swathes of pines will be mowed down, once a unusual hefty storm is raging... The huts were built solely for hunters, nobody had knitters in mind...
I'm enjoying your podcasts so much. I've started back knitting a few months ago (I was was so obsessed in younger years that I knitted my hand into a surgical procedure to correct it) and you are putting coals on the fire! I'm so thrilled to see you both, and your guests have so much enthusiasm! Thanks... :D
Andrea, is that your voice in the vocal music interludes before and after the interview with Ms. McCarten? If so, my goodness, so beautiful!!
Wow!!! This was a great program to watch. I absolutely loved the interview with Elizabeth McCarten and loved her designs and her inspiration. I love history and enjoy watching BBC productions.
I am trained in fashion design, though I haven't practiced it for a living (but am excited to be able to avail my expertise soon for people who enjoy hand made items of clothing), therefore, I tend to not avoid seaming.
I think that seaming has lots of advantages in knitting, especially in sweater construction. Seaming offers a better structure for garments that fit the figure in a more flattering way. I liken it to a tailored jacket versus a non tailored and less structured blazer. One will accent and enhance the shape of the body, the other will let the figure be looser and less confined. In school, we learned to design to fit the figure as opposed to force the figure into a design. At times that may require more seam lines than not. In knitting, certain bodices fit people better than others and construction has a lot to do with that.
There is a place for both techniques in garment design/construction, so one has to choose what works and what fits better.
In knitting, I find it fascinating to knit from the top down/or in the round as much as I find it fascinating and exhilarating to knit in sections.
Thank you for your podcast :)
Just found your podcast - taking your advice and going back to the beginning. Such rich content!
Thank you for all the wonderful content! Loved hearing you refer to the series "The House of Elliot", I bought the dvd's way back and it was my go to place for inspiration for a long time, the work room pictures always gave the push needed for the extra effort in sewing. Everything in this episode was once again fantastic. xx
+Lene Alve Thanks Lene, I'm glad you liked it.
Wonderful interview!
I'm just loving your podcasts -- so inspiring and interesting. Very well done. Thank you! Mary from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA.
Hi Mary. That's great - keep watching the back-episodes! There's lots of fun to come.
I have seen several podcasts done by others and think you have the best variety of information and education. I particularly enjoy meeting the “experts”. Thank you.
Thanks Elaine. Glad you found us!
loved every bit of it as always ... the best was #extremeknitting part ...
Love your Podcast -Creative colourful & greetings from my Yarn Shop in Switzerland, Ain
Your podcasts are so informative. Thanks
Thanks, Debra. A + A.
Beautiful podcasts! I just found out about them on a Worldwide Knit in Public Day when I went to this even to Los Alamos, New Mexico (USA). A very nice lady that I met there told me about Fruity Knitting. I started watching from episode #1. Andrea, you are amazing! I enjoyed the video about Jo Kerrigan. I also love to mix yarns of different textures, styles into one piece and see what happens. Will follow your knitting journey and will learn a lot!
Just subscribed to your channel and wanted to thank you for pushing my knitting skills. You are excellent at this.
I'm a new knitter so i have to say that I was extremely suprised to hear you say that you were going to graft (?) the sleeve BACK on. I have to look this up here on youtube because that is a necessary to learn, even if I never have to use it. Although I'm sure that somewhere along the line I'll have to utilize it. You are just so knowledgeable I' m amazed by people who are so passionate about things. Especially knitting because I find that I'm absolutely in love with it and can't believe that I didn't stick with it when I was first learning all those years ago. Anyway, loved seeing you and Andrew again. You guys are so terrific to watch together.
I've done that too, with a sweater that had sleeves too long for me. Cut the sleeve at the cuff, make it shorter, and then graft it back on! Not as hard as it seems. Try it.
I am new to your channel and must say I am loving every episode
Videos are nice and friendly ... if they truly come from Fruity knitter ... and the knitting is beautiful
Thank you!
I’m new comer/knitter thank you for your channel.
I am 63 and have been knitting all sorts of stuff (maybe patterns, maybe quasi patterns, maybe my crazy knitting mother who "had her own patterns--yeah, in your head, babe) (but at least she taught me to knit, crochet, tat and embroider) and I actually have a completely seamless way to join pieces, I know I have to do a video, and works great. I will work on the video. Nice thing about it? super easy to rip which would have easily solved the problem. I also cast on with crochet because it's much easier and then I just pick up stitches. Use a daisy chain if you only need or want a bit of stretch, and then you can also do a hdc or dc edge and pick up stitches from that if you want a total stretchy cast on, and it also helps to prevent that pib (pain in behind) curling. great video. love it. australians in germany
Catching up with the early episodes - I love that Andrew's socks for Andrea are differently striped!
A peplum usually is a distinctive lower part of a top and it is usually a distinctively flared separate piece.
Hi guys, just watched your podcast for the first time, I love it :) I subscribed as I'd like to be a regular viewer:) I live in N.Wales (not far from Snowdon) so it was great to hear you talking about it! I'll check out that episode. Thanks for a lovely podcast, look forward to seeing more, Kate (loopandbar)Happy knitting :)
Ah Wales my favourite place in the uk, when I was a child we went to Snowdon whilst hiking about we saw an eagle, the wildlife and the views were stunning
haha It's always furnny when your phone rings. :D
I've only compleeed a couple of projects (still really a beginner), so i haven't not wanted a project to end yet. When you all get that feeling , does it feel happy-sad when you finish? That remindsme of finishing a novel.
Wow Carole sewd you notions bag and made sure to use the same Harry Potter themed fabric! haha That's really cool.
Such a great couple
I'm binge watching your podcasts. Loving them. What are your favorite needles? I love Chiagoos & Knitpicks.
It's so difficult to watch, because I think you are such a nice couple!
You have the patience of Job Andrea. I think I would have ditched it long ago.xAngela
OMG!!! Cork is NOT in Kerry. Cork is the largest county on the island of Ireland and is NEXT TO Kerry on the South Coast of Ireland. Other than that I am enjoying your podcasts a lot.
(Hiding head in shame. Neither of us are great geographers...)
Fruity Knitting no worries. You're both forgiven. I really love your podcasts, you two are brilliant. Watching them all now from the start. Keep up the good work. 😉 xxx.
I subscribed 🌟 Just found you, and glad I did. My husband and I will be visiting Ireland this fall. I can't remember all of the towns we're staying in. Kilkenny, Dingle, Cong, Dublin.
Do you ever knit socks flat and seam them?
That's okay Andrew. I can't get the hang of kitchener stitch either. When I am down to 6 or 8 stitches at the toe, I thread a needle and run it through those stitches. I've never had a problem with the toe area of my socks done that way.
Love the socks Andrew is knitting
Спасибо.
Hi, I am now inspired to knit Amelia. Please advise did you use 4 or 5 balls of Felted tweed, for your sleeves and bottom rib.
I am loving your pod cast. I knit along with your pod cast. So it is like a knitting group.
P.S was the woollen mill in N.Wales called Trefriw? It's in my local area and I love to go there :)
Yes, that's the one. We interview one of the weavers in episode 2.
Dear Andrea, thank you so much for your great podcast! I was looking for the free patern of Amelia, but I did not find it. can you help me? I love this pullover!
Where are the show notes? I cannot seem to find them. Please help.
Hi Elaine. We have all the show notes at fruityknitting.com. I've added a link to the notes for this Episode to the video description.
Your Daughter should do modelling, my Grandson models for Burberry.
Casting off staying in pattern was tricky for me before , I kept messing up, had to turn off TV and hyper focus .
Ladder stitch rather than backstitch is vital if cotton yarn 🧶
Hi, I have found all the missing Episodes on my iPad, This one is very interesting too.
Great. Thanks for letting us know.
Ohhh, I want to go to Dingle, for the view and the dolphins, I also want to go to Knock (Irelands Lourdes) which isn't too far from there.
The wood structures are used for hunting.
They’re called „Hochsitz“ those little log cabins in the woods and the edges of some fields. The hunters sit there and wait for wild boars, deer or hares, to shoot them. I am not a hunter, I am just saying.
Is there a way to get captions on your videos? :)
Hi. For our later videos, there are automatically created captions available. It seems that this function is not available for the earlier videos.
here in Nova Scotia we call them deer blinds and no they are not friendly,they are for hunting however they may be used for something entirely different in Germany.
Hi Bonnie. Andrew here. I just heard today at work that they are called "Hochsitze", which is pretty much "high chairs", and yes, they are by the hunters here as well. There are signs in the forests telling about the great conservation work that the hunters do, together with their organisations. It's not our thing, but I suspect that it is very heavily regulated here.
Thank you so much, this was and is a great podcast again! I am admiring your yarn choices. I life in Germany too and I am wondering: where do you buy the Rowan yarn? I got some on eBay once, but it is not easy to find.
+DrTietze Thanks for watching the episode and for your kind feedback. I buy all my Rowan yarn at a yarn store around the corner from where I live. I interviewed the owner in episode 3 and in the show notes I have the contact details of the store. Good luck.
+Fruity Knitting thank you for your kind and fast reply! Very helpful 😀👍🏻
You say that during the war years it was more economical to make your own garments. I wonder why that's different now. I find that when I crochet a big item I pay more for the yarn to finish the project than it would cost me to go and by something similar. Why do you think that the opposite is true now?
Corporatism and consumerism. Remember when it used to be cheaper to eat at home than to eat out. That's reversed in most cases also.
Joni Mitchell has a beautiful song about Amelia Earhart....listen to that song wearing your beautiful Amelia sweater! You will get tears in your eyes...promise!
Andrea, now that you have no doubt finished the green cardigan (I'm just now catching up, so I don't know yet), do you despise it for all the trouble it caused you? I'm chuckling, but I do have to wonder if it prompts unpleasant knitting memories.
😂😂 if Cork people heard you say it was in Kerry they would go mad 😱😱😱😱😂😂 people of Cork consider it the capital of Ireland, there unique and very proud of their heritage. They have nothing to do with Kerry which is a county beside it. Ireland ha 36 Counties and Cork people are like a kingdom to themselves 😂😂
I am very fond of greens and I Love your daughters colours and yours also but hers jumped out at me
Although it's unlikely those log "cabins" aren't likely to be used by hunters nowadays but that was their purpose in the 1900's. That was where they would spot deer and elk through the scope on their rifles and then shoot them.
you have a very beautiful daughter) she works as a model?)
looks like crochet crab stitch
Shocked that you can wear the Rowan felted Tweed next to your skin, I find it unbearably itchy.
Great interview! Consider NOT talking over your guests. Just favourited about 6 of her patterns, thanks!
Hello from Virginia! I’ve been an avid knitter since 1954 and I do so wish to knit the Amelia! I’ve searched Ravelry as well as Rowan and the page no longer exists for the free pattern on Ravelry. I’m hoping you can help as I really want the pattern! Many thanks-I love your episodes and plan to see them all! My husband and I lived in Germany from 1977-1984 and loved it!! We used to go back each year! Keep up the great work-you are both very special!!
Angela Gill. agill3@verizon.net