A Knitting chat: The year of green

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  • Опубліковано 1 січ 2024
  • Welcome to the first video of 2024. This is a chat about my very general knitting (and more) plans for this year.
    I wish you to have a beautiful beginning!
    My Ravelry www.ravelry.com/people/wegrowild
    and the colorwork knitting boundle: ravel.me/wegrowild/c1
    other LINKS:
    PATREON: / wegrowwild
    INSTAGRAM: @wegrowild
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  • @fionadouglas
    @fionadouglas 6 місяців тому +24

    Less knits. Thank goodness because I just cannot believe the amount of finished knits that some people show each week or month. Enjoying knitting isn’t just about the number of things you complete. Well done to you. Less pressure is always good.

  • @carolineroberts8490
    @carolineroberts8490 6 місяців тому

    I am so happy that you say that you will take time to enjoy whatever the day brings and not worry about meeting other peoples expectations. I love to see your projects and am quite amazed when you finish so many beautiful projects but- I just love your visits and the fact that you treat us, your audience as friends to express joy and sadness and whatever you feel. That is a real friend and we as real friends truly understand that you don't feel like impressing all the time. I couldn't do it and I'm glad you realize that you shouldn't have to do that for us to keep visiting with you. I love going on the journeys to places that I will never get to go in the countryside of Italy! It is so beautiful there and I appreciate your view! Love your dogs and am so happy for you both to have found your home and have let us come along- Just wish I was there to help you!!! Smell the Roses Each and Every Day....that is truly the secret for a lovely life and a lovely You!

  • @KelseyBullen
    @KelseyBullen 6 місяців тому

    What a beautiful reflection. This resonates with me, not only with knitting, but with life in general. Thanks!

  • @MerryweatherKnitting
    @MerryweatherKnitting 6 місяців тому

    What a breath of fresh air you are, as always, Martina.

  • @bluejay5531
    @bluejay5531 6 місяців тому

    Martina cara, what a lovely, calming moment together, it’s like hanging out to knit, talk, be together. I resonate so much with this calm, slow, mindful energy, a space in which something in me can finally settle, exhale, allow my being to unfold…yet it is still so hard for me to actually let myself be…sometimes it is pressure from the world as there is no “pause” button…many times it is an inward pressure, which is just another internalized push…and still other times, I almost feel an explosion of all the life wanting to be lived..for knitting it could be all the patterns and colors and yarns, reading all the books and in general creative explorations, and many other things…but actually slowing down, and being fully present into one chosen intentional resting place is so wholesome, and healing. I am a very slow knitter, and have realized that I really need to think things through because there is only so much I will be able to knit… much love towards your year if green 💚💚💚💚

  • @dieboervroumariette
    @dieboervroumariette 6 місяців тому +8

    Lovely video Martina. It is also for me a struggle to not compare myself to other people. The amount of things some people make is just mindblowing. I tell myself I have to be a slow knitter... 🤭 Now I can also say it is okay to take your time.. 💜💜💜

  • @HeidiSpear-oz6rw
    @HeidiSpear-oz6rw 6 місяців тому +1

    Love your podcast and your deeper conversations about intentions, craft, balance and growth. Just love it. 2023 was my year of green, without intention but on reflection, and the variation and beauty of green never lost its luster for me. My knitting was also at times quite rabid, so your focus in this video is very on point for me. I wish you (and me) the tranquility and joy of savoring this year. ❤

  • @twpsy634
    @twpsy634 6 місяців тому +3

    Totally agree with you. Knitting should never become a pressure! Savouring the meaningful moments in life is vital.Simple pleasures .

  • @dianegordon2702
    @dianegordon2702 6 місяців тому

    I really appreciate your perspective and watch for that as much as enjoying your knitting. Happy to see the progress on the property as well.
    You do you😊

  • @tiempoentreagujas
    @tiempoentreagujas 5 місяців тому

    I am so into your vibe, Martina. I love to hear you listening your body and soul and doing whatever you feel right to. Be proud of yourself, you are a great human beeing. Lots of love ❤️

  • @tonybrockhurst5093
    @tonybrockhurst5093 6 місяців тому

    Much love and best wishes to you both.
    So many love things to look forward to and work on together making your lovely new home.
    You have made a great start. All of your lovely things that you have found are perfect for you.
    I wish you both the best for 24
    Annie 🌞

  • @susanmarshall3709
    @susanmarshall3709 6 місяців тому

    Oh, it is so nice to see your “new to you Purchases” from the thrift store! I love the red stove. You have set up your new home so nicely!! Knitting should be about pleasure, not a race to completion and competition. Good for you for recognizing this it is wonderful to have the completed projects but no race…. I think I am going to start my summer knits now in the cool season so I have them for the warm season instead of racing to get them done in 4 weeks or less…. I look forward to the greens you will show us!! Happy Hew Year to you and Mika

  • @rmlrhonda
    @rmlrhonda 6 місяців тому +3

    This was nice, quiet, contemplative. Thank you and wishing you an awe-inspiring 2024.

  • @kimmyk3640
    @kimmyk3640 5 місяців тому +1

    I love your sentiments. You are hitting on some things that I have been feeling as well. My aching body craving movement has too often been ignored, and multi-tasking is draining. My mind needs more peace, and that's what knitting should be--a calming place.

    • @wegrowild
      @wegrowild  5 місяців тому

      Exactly 🤎I wish you to find and live in that peace 🤎

  • @dreamcreate116
    @dreamcreate116 6 місяців тому

    Happy New Year to you both. A more conscious life is the true gold for some of us. Not overworking or achieving but conserving our precious energy and connecting as much as possible with the flow of nature. ❤

  • @sheamichaelmarshman3793
    @sheamichaelmarshman3793 6 місяців тому +2

    I am so proud of you two. Your courage to build your dream life together is lovely and inspirational. You are both in my thoughts and prayers that the struggles you face will bring you strength to seek your joy more and more fully. It is hard to slow down when the world says success is only found in speeding up, but you are wise beyond your years. It is so kind of you to share your wonderful journey with all of us. Thank you for giving us an opportunity to encourage you both.

    • @bluejay5531
      @bluejay5531 6 місяців тому

      I love the way you put this into words and resonate so much ❤

  • @cloudyclaudi681
    @cloudyclaudi681 6 місяців тому +6

    Happy new year Martina! I love your knitting but also how versatile your whole channel/content is. For me (who knits like a 🐌)it’s amazing how fast some people knit (like it’s a race). 😅😊

  • @bodilmattsson2053
    @bodilmattsson2053 6 місяців тому +1

    I love your videos and your channel so much! They give me such a calmness and peace and your whole personality just radiates warmth ✨ whenever I’m feeling a bit under the weather I always watch some of your videos and I instantly feel better, thank you for all your hard work Martina 💕 I love your knit theme for this year 🌱 green is an absolute marvelous color

    • @wegrowild
      @wegrowild  6 місяців тому

      Your comment made my day brighter and more purposeful🤎🤎thank you🤎😍

  • @ExtraBoldPhoto
    @ExtraBoldPhoto 6 місяців тому +3

    My favourite colour is green and I have been so excited about colour work! Also appreciate your vulnerability around taking things slow and taking care of yourself ❤. I have loved the variety of videos you post and the off grid series, so I’m excited for what the new year will bring, whatever that means for you. Happy new years to you all!

  • @rebecca-72
    @rebecca-72 6 місяців тому

    Dear Martina, Happy New Year! I’m glad to see you are feeling better! I enjoyed this chat with you so much ❤. I can really relate to your plans for the new year. It’s a good time to reflect on how we’ve been doing and what we need and want to change. Knitting has been a huge source of comfort for me in the past years, it was a safe place I could go to when so many other big things were out of my control. Having to wait on institutions for answers and actions which determine the direction my life will go has been so frustrating and scary. Knitting allowed me to pass the time in a way that felt meaningful and calming to me. But now, looking ahead, it seems 2024 will finally be a year in which I can actually implement steps in other areas of my life which are important to me, plans and dreams can take shape. For this, I will need time and energy not knitting… gardening, making a small home and spending more time with family will be at the forefront instead, I hope! I wish you a year of joy ❤ and look forward to being inspired by your greens 😊. Love from grey Berlin

  • @ChristieArcher
    @ChristieArcher 6 місяців тому

    Hi Martina. I’m so excited for your year of green and I love your idea behind it. I look forward to seeing more of your foraging and your knits as well. I’m really liking the bottom up sweater you’re currently working on. I’m going to go check it out and see if I have any yarn in my stash that I can use for it myself. Thanks for sharing and I’m glad to see you feeling better too my friend. ❤

  • @marianeill9360
    @marianeill9360 6 місяців тому +3

    Happy New Year, happy life… thank you for your gift of sharing of your days. Winter is my favorite season… never understood why, but I think that you just explained the reason….

  • @dianejohns8648
    @dianejohns8648 6 місяців тому

    Happy New Year. I loved this podcast Martina. There a season for everything and taking time to nurture yourself, your family, your knitting practice is all part of it. Wishing you all good things in your year of green. ❤

  • @inawenzel4461
    @inawenzel4461 6 місяців тому

    Martina, i just wanted to tell you that your Videos really changed my perspektive on life. They really have an impact on my planning for the future und how i want to live. Thank you.

    • @wegrowild
      @wegrowild  6 місяців тому +1

      Wow, thank you so much for writing me this. I'm so honored that my journey is making a lil impact on your life. Thank you so much for being here

  • @Wheeloftheknitter
    @Wheeloftheknitter 6 місяців тому

    Martina thank you for sharing your true feelings, I really needed to hear this. Everything you said resonates with me so much. Happy new year 🤍

  • @mondayswithfran
    @mondayswithfran 6 місяців тому

    Ohh I love the plans for the green! I just did my first podcast episode also about how I love green, and how I just feel green is making me happy in any season. 🌻 Looking forward to see more of it 💚

  • @allyinsweatpants
    @allyinsweatpants 6 місяців тому

    This was lovely 🩵

  • @ivettabauman
    @ivettabauman 6 місяців тому +2

    Hi, Martina:) happy new year to you and Mike! You both are so cute couple, love to see your team work even gentle love moments. So sweet! Wish you that all your ideas and plans come in real! I belive this year will be so big for you both! I will follow home progress, everything:) I just love vibe, personalities, nature, two white babies:)
    I want to tell from my side: knitting for me is a therapy, when my kids therapist offered me to visit her too, I think a moment and said:” you know I better will knit at home “ it gives me calm, peaceful feeling, I am quite calm and slow original, but this craft give me inner peace! Even now when I have struggles “ going to employment ir not” becomes I feel it’s a trap….something wrong happening. And I am so positive that I will fine right way, because I have this mainful process, knitting. I will get to the right point with it:)

  • @The-Vintage-Needlecrafter
    @The-Vintage-Needlecrafter 6 місяців тому +1

    Very good Martina. Yes take care of yourself ❤

  • @norma94
    @norma94 6 місяців тому

    My goal is to knit more this year (compared to my last year). Last year, I knit one sweater and one accessory 😅😊. I was really happy with my sweater and I came ro terms that I'm a slow knitter and other stuff regarding knitting and focusing on myself instead of how much others do. I do love seeing what others knit but I feel much more content now. I realized that 😂I like to knit sweaters in spring/summer, so I had an idea, that (because I do want to knit a summer shirt or spring things) to knit for summer in mind during autumn and winter and to knit for fall/winter in mind during spring/summer. Haha I think it's perfect for me. Last month I started knitting my first "shirt" for summer. I'm still working on it and that's fine. I think my goal will be one more piece to wear in warm weather, and at least 1 winter sweater for the year. We'll see.

  • @Renata_M
    @Renata_M 6 місяців тому +1

    Happy New Year🎉 That's perfect, let's go green! I am fully aware that more than half of the wools in my stash are green. All different weights and blends and shades, but all green 😅 And as I often knit on my porch, full of herbs and tomatoes - they all fit in 💚 I'll be more than happy to GREEN'along with you 💚💚

    • @wegrowild
      @wegrowild  6 місяців тому +1

      Oh goodness this is such a beautiful sight 🍀🌱let's green along together 🤎

    • @Renata_M
      @Renata_M 6 місяців тому

      Stay warm and safe! See you in the next one 📺 Your new space looks so homey and hearwarming ❤️

  • @sujammaz
    @sujammaz 6 місяців тому +4

    happy new year dear ✨
    those were some very wise words on everybody being different in their crafting and also maybe at different stages of the process 🤔
    even though i'm not triggered i do feel a bit called out 😅 seeing as i am totally avoiding any complicated techniques right now (i call it my "garter stitch phase" 😅) for the exact reason of being able to just use knitting to calm my nerves and still be able to multitask and spend mental energy on watching videos while i knit (i do many breaks but every now and then i will go past the pain point, like you describe it). i very much take your words as a kind reminder to look ahead and forward to getting to that level of mindfulness you have achieved ❤

    • @sujammaz
      @sujammaz 6 місяців тому +2

      oh by the way, rauwerk is pronounced raouvehrk. just like you said, except the w is a v in german instead of a u, always ^^

    • @wegrowild
      @wegrowild  6 місяців тому +1

      Oh thank you so much🤎🙏🏼I was having some difficulties 😅

    • @wegrowild
      @wegrowild  6 місяців тому +1

      I love that you are relaxing and in your garter phase 🤎you'll definitely find your balance, it takes time but as long as you are kind and loving towards yourself, everything will find its beautiful rhythm 🌱

    • @sujammaz
      @sujammaz 6 місяців тому

      @@wegrowild 🌱❤️

  • @ullalarsen9971
    @ullalarsen9971 6 місяців тому

    Happy new year.

  • @leslienero7884
    @leslienero7884 6 місяців тому

    Happy New Year! All knitting is good, whether fast or slow, though for me mistakes happen if I go too fast! You have much going on with the house, take care of yourself. All the best to you, Mika and the puppies!

  • @maryglancy17
    @maryglancy17 6 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for sharing the best message to start off 2024. Wishing you both all the best blessings for the new year:)

  • @miekevanreet2544
    @miekevanreet2544 6 місяців тому +1

    A wonderfull year for you and your family, and take your time

  • @tinablair4277
    @tinablair4277 6 місяців тому +1

    More green and colorwork, I'm here for that. I'm casting on the cotton grass jumper today. Wise words said here today. 😊 Happy new year.

  • @editekeditek8600
    @editekeditek8600 6 місяців тому

    💗

  • @valeriearbon926
    @valeriearbon926 6 місяців тому

  • @gabrielawegner3704
    @gabrielawegner3704 6 місяців тому +1

    happy new year! schade heute gibt es keine Untertitel, ich schaue sehr gerne deine videos, brauche aber die Untertitel für Deutschland-Germany.

    • @wegrowild
      @wegrowild  6 місяців тому

      Oh I'm sorry, I'll see if I can fix that🙏🏼

    • @gabrielawegner3704
      @gabrielawegner3704 6 місяців тому

      ❤ danke thanks, du bist wunderbar

  • @sheamichaelmarshman3793
    @sheamichaelmarshman3793 6 місяців тому +1

    I am so proud of you two. Your courage to build your dream life together is lovely and inspirational. You are both in my thoughts and prayers that the struggles you face will bring you strength to seek your joy more and more fully. It is hard to slow down when the world says success is only found in speeding up, but you are wise beyond your years. It is so kind of you to share your wonderful journey with all of us. Thank you for giving us an opportunity to encourage you both.