Episode 123: Travel Knit Tips, Highlights from Our Trip to Japan+Taiwan | Edible Thoughts Makes
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Hello!
Welcome to Edible Thoughts Makes. My name is Stephanie (she/her/hers). This episode is a little different from my “full episodes” or my other mini-episodes. This episode recaps some of the highlights from our recent trip to Japan and Taiwan and also includes what I packed in my knitting notions pouch and what project(s) I brought with me!
What you'll find when in this episode:
00:00 Intro/Welcome/What I’m Wearing and Working On During the Video
07:50 Knitting Notions and Finished Project (related to travel chat)
20:45 Japan Highlights
37:26 Taiwan Highlights
Closed captioning and video descriptions are included for accessibility (choose the non-auto-generated option).
Cheers!
Stephanie
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DESIGNERS/YARN/MAKERS MENTIONED
Yu Ra of KnitBoopStudio: www.knitboop.com/
Reshma of Hello Lavender: www.hellolavender.com/
Knit Picks: www.knitpicks.com/
Purl Soho: www.purlsoho.com/
Tori Yu (Ravelry page): www.ravelry.com/designers/tor...
Midori Hirose: knit-cafe-midori.com/
For the stitch stoppers I showed in the episode, you can search for "hexagon silicone beads" at a craft store, online, etc. The holes are too big for anything smaller than a US2 needle but work fine otherwise! I like them better than round ones because these won't roll off a table.
MAKES IN VIDEO (links to Ravelry project pages)
Skyline Tee (testing): www.ravelry.com/projects/Edib...
Ranunculus 5.0: www.ravelry.com/projects/Edib...
Far+Wide Hat 4.0: www.ravelry.com/projects/Edib...
Soiree Scarf: www.ravelry.com/projects/Edib...
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Thanks for sharing, Stephanie! As a 65 year old mother and grandmother with children in other parts of the world, I know your family appreciates the effort you’ve made to travel and see them, and make memories for your children as well. No worries about getting emotional - you’re just tired! Also, as a fellow Minnesotan who thought we were going to sneak through this winter without snow - not this year!
I agree with you Linda on Stephanie sharing. It is important to pass on the importance of family to future generations.
I so enjoyed your sharing of your lovely trip to see family! There is nothing wrong with emotions, thank you for your genuineness.
Thank you for sharing a bit of your adventures with us, Stephanie. What a wonderful gift to be able to spend time with 4 generations of your family. ❤
If,if we do not factor in that part of each of us that is connected to who we are ,from where and when we entered, we miss the tears of joy celebrating in the glory of life moving forward.
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Oh Stephanie! Thank you for sharing your family trip. Beautiful sights and all! And the eats!!! You're so blessed with an extended family! So sweet , your emotions for seeing them all. ❤ I'm so happy you had such a memorable time!❤
Thank you so much Rosemary! My extended family is very very close and at all big/important events, everyone (when possible) shows up! It's pretty incredible.
Thanks for another lovely podcast. Your time together with your extended family is such beautiful gift and one that touched many lives for years to come. We so appreciate your willingness to share and make our day better as well.
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I’m so glad you shared a bit about your very special trip! That sheep fabric is perfection, nine stories of stationary sounds delightful, the food looked amazing, and the family time takes the cake! Thanks for giving a window into your time ❤
Sharing your trip abroad with us makes us get to know you better. Your videos about knitting will definitely have a perfume of Asian culture and charm.
Thank you so much for sharing…what a wonderful trip and so, so important from a family perspective! I could listen to your stories and knitting adventures all day! Thanks again!
Thank you for sharing your trip! I'm so glad you and your family were able to be with the family that is geographically far away, but close in your hearts.
What a loving, beautiful tribute to your culture and family! So glad you and your family got to make the trip and hope you have the opportunity for many more.
❤thanks for the podcast about ur special trip🎉🎉🎉
What a great trip for ur whole family!!!wow!!!your grand parents sound amazing !!!!
Love all the tips for packing ur knitting for ur trip!!!!
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Thank you so much for sharing about your trip! I could tell how meaningful it was for you and you did inspire me to make sure to maintain those connections no matter how far apart we may be. ❤
Thanks so much for being so open and sharing with us Stephanie! As a first generation daughter of immigrants, the sentiment of not being quite of one place or the other definitely resonates. We were lucky that our extended family was much closer and we made our yearly trip down for the summer as an “American cousin contingency” as we call it and the memories I have of sharing extended periods of time with my grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins are absolutely priceless. ❤
Hi Mia! 100% this. I am also the first generation born in the US to immigrant parents and I feel less alone in the "in between" as many have shared similar sentiments in the comments here. As the only ones from my Dad's immediate family to live in the US, we're the "American cousins." Thank you for sharing and sending so much love to you my friend ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful podcast. Thank you for sharing your knitting, your trip and your life!
I think it’s precious to see you get emotional over something so important! Please don’t ever apologize for that. Thank you for sharing something so close to your heart. Wish I could go to Japan and Taiwan where you went.
What an amazing trip to share with us all. Thank you!
Just going to say what others have said, your genuine emotions are special, important and shared.
I heard something a few months ago that really stuck with me. "We are all living without someone that we cannot live without..." yet we do. They live inside us.
Cheers to you, dear heart ❤
Thank you so much! 😭🥹❤️
Thank you for sharing 🙏… what a very special trip , you spoke from the heart today, 😊the importance of family and being together …..creating memories that will last forever 😊
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Thank you so much for sharing this trip with us, Stephanie! I just got back from Arizona (the other side of the country from me) for a quick trip to visit my 95 year old grandfather and I got emotional right along with you when you were talking about how special and important spending time with extended family is. This was the first time since I was a very small child that I'd had a visit with a grandparent *without* my parents and siblings also there and it was such a different but sweet experience, hearing stories from him and my aunt and uncle and watching them get to know and love my husband who they'd only met at our wedding. I'm so glad you were able to spend time with such a lot of your family on this visit.
Oh how special of a trip!!! I'm so glad you had the opportunity. Sending so much love Gillian!!!
My DIL & grandchildren was just in Taiwan for over a month helping a family member deal with a death in the family. She loves & misses her family so much. Taiwan is just such an amazing place filled with amazing people. I am honored to have been part of family gatherings in the past.
Thank you so much for cheering! Such a lovely episode 🧶 I am a fan 🥰 a fan from Denmark !
Thank you for sharing such an amazing trip with us! I loved all the photos & can't wait to see what you make with the beautiful fabrics! What fun to be in a fabric store in Japan! I loved the photos/video of the bamboo trees & all of the parks you shared! It was special to see where your grandparents walk every day. Lots of memories for your entire family!! Take care! (Back to snow! Our puppy loves it!)
❤️Thank you so much Joan❤️!!! The sunshine + snow is beautiful today! Roads were awful yesterday….
That was a such lovely journey into another part of our world. Thank you for sharing it with us Stephanie. I enjoyed every minute : )
Thank you Stephanie. You took me to two places I always wanted to travel to, but I am afraid I will not get the opportunity. You have reminded me how important spending time with family near or far is for so many reasons.
Many thanks for the podcast! You are delightful and sharing your trip is extremely kind.
Stephanie! What a sweet, heartfelt and genuine podcast. You are very brave to share such intimate feelings. I lost my parents as a young woman and was tearing up with you. So wonderful to appreciate the extended family you have. You are very blessed. Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤
Thank you SO much for sharing about family and culture. ❤️ So important! I really appreciate the detail that you put in every episode that you do.
I had such a wonderful time armchair traveling with you! ❤
Thank you so much for sharing your special trip! I’m so glad you and your family had such a wonderful and memorable time together 😊
Thank you for sharing you trip with your wonderful family.❤🙏
Thanks for sharing your trip. Thank you also for sharing your heart . Cheers to caring neighbors near and far ❤
Thanks Stephanie for being so genuine and sharing your family trip and your culture with us. Everyone should experience a country besides their own and learn from it and you are so lucky to still have elderly grandparents in their native country which looks absolutely beautiful. What a wonderful experience for your children as well. Gorgeous photos. Thanks again
Thank you so much for sharing your trip and time with family. I appreciated it very much.
That was so lovely, thank you and so happy you got to see everyone.
Thanks for sharing your trip with us! I greatly enjoy all your podcasts, and find them very helpful. Greetings from another Minnesotan!
What a beautiful trip and so important to take opportunity to have special time, it’s very precious ❤️
Thanks for sharing Stephanie. As someone who also moved from another country to the US I totally understand the feelings you expressed. So glad that you had such a wonderful trip. The photos were amazing and made me want to visit someday.
Thank you so much for sharing the details of your trip, such beautiful sights. I'm happy for you that you got to have the whole family together. That is not easy to do these days when people live in various places. Isn't that a strange experience, the exhaustion of travel and time changes, and the joy of seeing new things and being together, kind of a mixed salad of experience. But so special.
Thank you Barbara! That is absolutely how I would describe the emotional experience and physical experience. Not even quite a roller coaster because it isn’t necessarily up-and-down, but definitely all over the place and intense!💜💜💜
Thank you so much for sharing your trip. I understand about family and how important is to connect when is possible. The food looks delicious! Glad you and your family had a wonderful time on your travels❤❤
I'm so glad you had a lovely trip and appreciate you sharing it with us. The pictures/videos were wonderful. You never have to apologize for getting emotional. It's hard to realize when we say goodbye that some of our loved ones may have left us before we can visit again. I lost my G-pa while stationed in Germany w/no way of getting home, so I understand.
Thank you for sharing!!! Also I found the knitwear travel info particularly helpful for travel planning myself. Glad you had such a memorable, special time with your family!
Thank you for sharing! What a special trip and so many wonderful memories for everyone.❤
Now I need a tissue! That was such a beautiful and refreshing post.
How awesome that you are instilling the importance of honoring family and traditions to your children. That is priceless! Thanks for sharing❤
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Thank you so much for sharing about your precious trip! I feel like I know you so much better and was tearing up with you at the end! We live in the US & we have family in Australia so we definitely know how you feel. Family is what it’s all about. ❤️❤️
So many Thanks!!! Truly special and poignant! ❤❤❤❤
Oh wow, this resonated with me so much. I currrently live on the opposite side of the world from my family, in a place my family originally came from, so I’m connected to it, but not totally and I’m definitely considered an outsider here. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience, we are all truly more alike than we are different.
Wow Stephanie, I really enjoyed hearing about your trip. So many things to say, but I'm truly happy for you and your family that you all got to have this experience and visit with family. You are right, being with your family in your ancestral country helps tremendously in learning who you are and confirms your identity. I love your outfit ensemble! Gorgeous colors and everything just looks good together. I took notes for Japan, in case I get to go there soon. Thanks so much!!
Thank you so much Stacy!! RIGHT?!!? So so much. Thank you!!! Hope you get a chance to go to Japan!!! ❤️❤️❤️
What a beautiful beautiful trip. Thank you so much for sharing it with us! ❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and emotions with us, what you said was beautiful❤
Thank you for sharing your trip
I left my home country (Portugal) to Australia
When i was 10 yrs old
Im nearly 65 yrs
And i understand how you feel
My home is Australia with my husband 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren
But everytime i have gone to Portugal it feels so good to be there
We have been to Japan when i turned 60 with my 2 daughters and i loved it hope to go back one day
Oh thank you so much for sharing!!! We can have our hearts in many different places for many different reasons. Home is where the heart is hm? Sending love to you and yours!❤️
Oh you are so sweet❤❤❤make me cry , too
Stephanie, I really loved this episode, it connected with me on so many levels ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for sharing! Looks like it was an amazing trip and the memories you and your family will carry from it are precious.
Thank you so so much Jen!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Such a lovely episode, I appreciate you sharing such a heartfelt journey. My dad is from Greece and we have always cherished our time connecting with family. You put it so well that we need to have those roots to understand ourselves and have an identity.
Thank you so much Anne. ❤️❤️❤️Thanks for sharing a bit of you!
Thanks for sharing your trip!! Hoping to take my kids back next year. Totally feel you on your emotions at the end. I think having my own kids drove that impact even deeper the last time I visited Asia in 2019, and got to see my grandparents interacting with my kid. A bittersweet feeling for sure.
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I do get exactly what you meant! It made me cry😢. And….now I want to go to Japan for the fabrics, stationaries and food!! Nice to see you again!!❤
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Beautiful!! Nature, trees, paths, vistas… sigh
The food… making me hungry!
Thanks for a little peek into your fabulous trip! You will all have wonderful memories forever!
What a lovely trip. Thanks for sharing it with us! And on the practical side.... I love that little travel screwdriver for your glasses. We often need those for my 8 year old son's glasses. Who you can imagine is not very gentle with his glasses!
I got one of those eyeglass screwdrivers in a box of 2 spray lens cleaners at Costco. The set is their Kirkland brand, and I found it in the optical section of the store.
Lovely. Thank you for sharing your trip with all of us.
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful holiday with us. Paula ❤
What a special trip! Thank you for sharing it with us
sounds like you had the most wonderful trip. Many of us never have the opportunity to go back to the country of our origin, or are lucky enough to be able to ever see our older family members again. It is extremely emotional to talk about. But it is wonderful that your children got to see their great grandparents and other relatives, as well as to experience your culture in Taiwan first hand. Thank you for talking about your trip. I saw what we call custard apples in one of the clips and I was thrown back to my childhood. My aunt and uncle had a tree right outside their dining room and we children would wait anxiously for them to ripen!
Such a lovely episode. Thank you for being so vulnerable. It is so difficult when our family is far away and not able to just run down the street to visit. So happy you had the fortune to spend time with your family a far ❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing. It looks like a beautiful trip full of special memories.
Hello Stephanie. Thank you so much for sharing your trip. I'm living in Germany and the oldest Brother of my mother moved to Australia when I was a toddler. Two Cousins came Back to Germany, after two decates. But the youngest and her parents still live there. It is not the same, but I can unterstand your feelings a bit.
(I'm sorry for the mistakes I made. It is over 30 years ago, I learned english at school.😅)
Thanks for sharing!! It's so hard when everyone is so far away!!! The reunions are so precious.
Thanks for sharing! I understand about family in far away places.
Thank you so much Stephanie for sharing your beautiful trip. I loved every minute !
Such a great trip! I totally understand your emotional reaction. Thank you for sharing because I really enjoyed it!
Thanks for your emotional journey❤
I love Japan! Glad you had a great trip.
Stephanie, what a lovely episode. Thank you for sharing some of the places you and your family went. Your heartfelt thoughts really make me realize how I should take every opportunity to talk to those I love. ❤
Thank your for beautyfoul Video 😍👍🧶
Stephanie, I so enjoyed hearing about your trip and seeing wonderful scenes from Japan and Taiwan. The bamboo forest brought back a long-forgotten memory from my childhood. There was a small bamboo forest in the Hampton Park Zoo grounds here in Charleston SC back in the 1950s-60s. I loved that little bamboo patch as a child, because it was so different from the big oaks and palmetto trees all around Charleston. Thank you for this enriching hour!
Thanks for sharing! We are in the early stages of planning a trip to Japan! I may email you for more details on your itinerary. Glad nothing got confiscated at the airport. Always a fear for knitters! Good tip on bringing along the cord in case you needed to take needles off
Lovely podcast. Thanks for sharing ❤
AWWW! haven't listened yet. but so happy to hear about your trip!
Oh Steph u making me tear up too 💕 i totally relate to your sentiment. My grandfather is from Taiwan and migrated to the Philippines to find a job. I feel that connection with you.
Who's cutting onions??? ❤️Thanks for sharing❤️
Absolutely beautiful, thank you always for your inspiring content.
Thank you so much for your kind words ❤
So glad to hear of how things went--not only because it's fun to hear about, but my family and I will be flying from Florida to Australia in June (a dream of mine and even my doctor said to go now, don't wait), so it's 2.5 hours to Texas and then 17 to Sydney...I cannot wrap my head around being on a plane for 17 hours and then as you said, the time change, I know I won't really sleep, hoping the kids feel okay... I also am still unsure of what to take as travel knitting....everything else, we pack as light as we can I just have to use my carry-on for all my medical supplies so that's not really easy to work out but I will have space as it's used up to bring home some fibery souvenirs (no Kangaroos though). Anyway--you don't want to hear all that 😂 What a wonderful opportunity for your family to come together! Glad it all went well Stephanie and hope you can do it again soon.
Hi Jessica!! The time on long flights pass in a really strange way since you don't really move and can't really sense what time it is. The hours seem to pass by strangely fast (unless a kid is upset...then 30 seconds feels like an eternity ...for everyone...lol). I mean, it's still a REALLY long time but often not as long as I think it'll feel?? Maybe?? Or maybe it's because I'm still a little jet-lagged that I'm not remembering...lol. Though it was really funny, on one of the flights, we sat at the gate for some time after boarding and then taxied for some time before taking off and when we were taxiing, we heard a kid say "are we there yet??" It was hilarious. Not even close kid lol.
SO excited for you and your family though!!! It'll be all worth it!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Such a cute little travel bag! The orange edging is so cheerful. Your trip looks amazing!! I love the cloud desserts.😁
Thanks so much! 😊 Yes so cheerful!! The orange edging also makes it easier to find inside a dark bag!
Your trip looked Great. Thanks for sharing.❤
Thanks for an awesome podcast, Stephanie! What an awesome treat to be able to see Japan and Taiwan scenes! Glad your family had a wonderful trip. Love to be able to go these countries one of these days!
Yes, is priceless, four generations all together! Wowza, your grandparents are super awesome at such lovely age, wishing them continue super health and wisdom! We had the same problem. My kids’ grandparents was in China and we live in US, so seeing them or calling them was kind of hard. Sadly, they since passed when my kids were young.
My daughter wants to go Taiwan for a few years already. I speak some mandarin from one year of Mandarin in college, I read traditional characters ok. I don’t know if I’ll be able to converse. I speak fluent Cantonese. Some of the words in Mandarin are very similar in Cantonese. However, the majority are not. Is November a good time to go? Will there be less mosquitoes? How’s transportation in Taiwan? Are there places you recommend we should see?
Thanks so much for sharing, happy knitting!❤
Thank you so much!!! Thank you so much for sharing part of your story❤️. I've never been in Taiwan in November - but I imagine it's 60's-80's F and really pleasant! Mosquitos are awful year round and worse in the summer....Maybe you'll get lucky and they won't eat you!! In the big cities, you've got trains and the high-speed rail is AMAZING. Otherwise there are always taxis. I wouldn't recommend driving yourself, the roads are hectic and there are lots of pedestrians, scooters, and bikes everywhere (though probably depends on where you go!).
I don't feel like I can really give recommendations on where to go for an entire country (even though it's a small island!!). I would recommend checking out travel guide books on Taiwan and seeing what interests you. There are probably lots of travel vloggers who have videos on UA-cam as well! There are lots of museums, foods to eat, sights to see, mountain and ocean views, etc. Taiwan has a lot to offer!! Take care❤️
Ooh in the clip of fruit from Taiwan I recognized one that I’ve had when I visit family in Chile. The creamy white interior with big black seeds is called chirimoya in Chile….also not sure if that is just how it’s called in Chile or officially in Spanish. Lots of food words in Chile are not used in other Spanish speaking countries.
I also share your feelings about how it really is special when there is the opportunity to see family and get to spend time together especially when it’s not something you get to have that time very often. We got to have a family trip to Chile this year and my cousin was so thoughtful about getting all the family gathered at his house since over time the family in Chile has also spread out across the country and it’s getting harder to see everyone when we visit. So glad you got to go and have that time and that you shared a little bit with us ❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing Giselle!! I believe that fruit is a type of "Sweet Apple" but the English name is so misleading because it's NOTHING like an apple. And there are so many different varieties of it - we had two different ones when we were in Taiwan! YES there just aren't words that go between all languages which makes sense because some things aren't found in other countries!
SO SO special!!!
Enjoyed ur podcast TU❤❤❤for sharing
I loved hearing about your family and trip. So so neat to see how in their 90's, they're doing amazing things. Do you think there's a way to visit and accommodate gluten free diet restrictions? All the best, Stephanie! - Kimberly
To be honest, I think it would be difficult (but not impossible....). Most places did not have ingredients listed at restaurants/food vendors and couldn't guarantee anything not having certain ingredients or any cross contamination. That being said, Google "traveling to Japan with a gluten-free diet" and you'll find some blogs from travelers on their experiences and recommendations! Thank you so much Kimberly❤️
@@EdibleThoughtsMakes Thanks for weighing in. I'd love to visit someday and I always try to ask friends who go for a start on how to handle it. Glad you guys had so much fun! That journaling store was amazing!
Thanks for sharing your trip, looks like it was amazing. PS, I was working on my Skyline Tee while watching… just made it to the bottom ribbing!
Awesome!!! I’m almost there!!!
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Your trip sounds amazing. Do your girls speak any Mandarin or Taiwanese? I want to take my family back to Taiwan sometime. I’m also making the Skyline tee test. I thought of using Linen Quill, but I really wanted to use a hand dyed cotton I had. I hope I like it.
Thank you! Not really, they know certain words but nothing in a sentence. So excited for your potential future family trip to Taiwan!! YAY for testing the Skyline Tee together!! A cotton one sounds lovely to wear in warmer weather. Take care!❤️
Is your family in Taiwan ok after the earthquake?
Everyone is safe and accounted for, thank you for asking!