Finished sweater and my Cascade 220 Fingering stash / the republic of me knitting podcast
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Welcome to the republic of me.
My name is Ivana and this is a channel about slow living and making things... with focus on fiber arts like knitting and spinning, as well as painting, growing a garden and living on an island in the Mediterranean.
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Beige Sweater:
Cascade 220 fingering in colour 8012 (Doeskin Heather)
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What really worked for my hypoglycemia? Giving up coffee completely, even decaf. Like getting my life back. I love coffee, and it wasn't an easy decision, but wowza, it worked.
me too! I loved it, if someone told me a year a go I would stop drinking coffee I would say that's crazy! But yeah, I feel better, no more shaking and headaches as I used to have.
Thank you very much for that tip... it sounds difficult but I might give it a go if other things don't work. I'm so glad you feel so much better.
Ivana ❤️
Caffeine stimulates the pancreas to produce more insulin. The insulin then ‘eats’ sugar from your bloodstream so you aren’t left with enough to function on. Result: low blood sugar. I found this out from my own low blood sugar. I drink black or orange pekoe tea which has less caffeine than coffee. I used to drink it very strong and too often. When I cut back on the frequency and strength, I was okay and still get to enjoy it. Also, yes, eating proteins and vegetables and limiting carbs, you will feel better. This is all from my own experience. I love the sweaters you make and watching you spin your luscious fibres. Your podcasts are always enjoyable.
Hi Ivana❤ Glad you are doing well! Loved your vlog! So happy you will be doing a sock video. Absolutely love your socks. You look great and seem like a healthy mindset. So glad for you❣️Love to you.
Thank you very much Linda. I think that systematically going through all my yarn will help me get a better overview of everything I have. Ivana ❤️
I have a lot of sweater quantities but not a single one in cascade…. I may need to change that 🤣 thank you for 40 minutes well spent my dear! 😘😘
Thank you dear Selma... I think you'll like it ❤️❤️❤️
I find your approach to knitting extremely refreshing. There is beauty in simplicity.
Thank you very much... that means a lot to me ❤️
I like the colors
Thank you very much Gina xx
Always enjoy your podcasts, thank you. What about making a simple colour-blocked jumper with the top 25% in the doeskin colour so it's near your face and the rest all in that gorgeous blue yarn? The best of both worlds, yet still embodying simplicity?
That does sound nice Diana... thank you ❤️
Love this turtleneck. I have some fingering cashmere that I’d love to make it out of
I just finished one in fingering cashmere and it came out lovely. ❤️
@@therepublicofme would love to see it!
Nice episode! I would love to knit with that "dirty" aqua
Thank you Alise ❤️
Wonderful Ivana...The Sweater is Soooo Classy & Very Chic, Beautiful Colour....Thank You 💐💖
Thank you so very much dear Sally... I'm glad you like it (I'm very please how it came out). Ivana ❤️
Just found your channel! Lucky me. Loved it ❤❤
Thank you very much... I'm glad you like it. Welcome to the channel. Ivana ❤️
Have a blessed and great cruise. 👼
Thank you very much ❤️
Thank you for a wonderful podcast 💥beautiful energy as always 💥fabulous jumper (colour looks scrummy on you) 💥I really want to use up some of my cascade 220 now 💥and also want to find and try that fruit 😋🙏💥💃🧶❣️
Thank you very much Nicky ❤️❤️❤️
I just love your podcast...so soothing and calm...and then there's your spinning, knitting and weaving. So beautiful! Thank you for what you do to put your podcast out there for us! Have the best time ever on your cruise!!! ❤
Thank you so very much dear Debbie. ❤️
That sweater is beautiful! I totally agree with you about simple designs with beautiful yarns.
Thank you! 😊
Ivana ❤️
I can’t wait to see your soft aqua hand spun knit up into a sweater. Thank you for another wonderful episode.
Have a wonderful time on your cruise.
Thank you very much dear Diane. ❤️
I had a white yarn which I dyed after spinning. I more or less speckle dyed it with a similar blue base to yours.. The speckles were browns, tans, golds, and the tiniest bits of cranberry. I have knit with it now holding one strand of mohair silk in a purple blue. It does not not muddy, but is prettier than I could have hoped. Thank you for your podcast, and have a wonderful trip.
That sounds like such a fun combination Trudy.... thank you for your wishes. ❤️
Hi, Ivana. I love the sweater that you are wearing. The blue yarn that you have spun would be flattering on you. I hope that you enjoy your cruise❤️
Thank you very much Carol. ❤️
Good Morning - another lovely, relaxing podcast - thank you so much. I look forward to hearing all about your travels and how all of your planning made it the best. I love your creations and colors and am grateful you share so much about modifications in knitting and your life and oh my goodness, butter in the coffee....who would have thought? Stay safe and well. 🧶
Thank you so very much dear Barbara.
All the best to you too. Ivana ❤️
Loved your podcast and als just subscribed. Listening to you from Melbourne Australia
Thank you very much Irene... I'm glad you found me.... welcome to the channel. Ivana ❤️
Thank you for sharing your spinning footage. Enjoyed the video 🇨🇦
I'm so glad Kelly... thank you ❤️
Thank you for the review of Cascade 220, I’ve never used it, but I will now. Your turtleneck is perfect on you. Enjoy the cruise ❤
Thank you... I hope you like the yarn... I was very happy with it. ❤️
I was just going text you to see if you feel better!! 😊
Well thank you friend... you suggestion was taken on board and I already feel the difference. Thank you for taking the time to watch. Ivana ❤️
I have never used cascade 220 for a sweater but I definitely am going to give it a try, I just love the green and the navy colours . Beautiful podcast again ❤
Thank you very much. I am very pleased with the yarn and fully recommend it. Ivana ❤️
Hi Ivana, I used to have very low sugar and low blood pressure. So bad that I would wake up after passing out not knowing where I was 😒 Having my children helped fix that a little bit but my blood pressure is still very low. I found the last few years 1 ½ tsp of good quality salt, pink Himalayan or Celtic sea salt through the day has helped as I had low sodium levels. And I eat a fair bit of fat, cheese, avocados, nuts, butter and oil - so contrary to how I was raised but that has also helped a lot, not so light headed and haven’t fallen over for many, many years now! It’s a mission learning about ourselves and what works….and what doesn’t 😬😳🤦♀️
Love your shrug colours, I’m about to jump on that wagon soon, they look so good (and practical) and what perfect gifts.
What I like to knit and what I like to wear I’m finding are different things, so I have give away some things that I wasn’t reaching for and I need to now concentrate on what I like to wear. There’s a few too many people running around inside me wanting all their needs met 🙃 the creative knitter, the practical wearer, the plain girl, the colourful one, the frilly one 😑😆
Love the latest jumper, the colour is so good. Your handspun aqua, I actually thought it would look lovely woven into a stripe section in a shawl, it looks really nice sitting on your lap with jeans and the jumper you’re wearing. But a jumper would be lovely, it suits you.
Thanks for sharing and happy cruising 🛳🥰 Karen
Dear Karen,
Yes, these new eating habits seem so counter intuitive but it does work and I already fell the difference. I'm just so used to always being tired and not having energy, that when I do, I don't really know what to do with it. :)
The shrug is going to look soooo good on you.
Sending you lots of kisses from somewhere in the sea near Spain ❤️❤️❤️
I truly enjoy your videos! Happy to see your creativity with jumpers and your spinning. My neighbor is quite generous with me by gifting me her extra Cascade 220 yarns. She is so supportive with my knitting.
Enjoy your holiday!
Part of my favorite quote: "... some really nice kick-ass shoes"😂
:) you made me smile... thank you ❤️
Another beautiful jumper Ivana, so looking forward to your jumper recipe. Have a wonderful time on your cruise. 😊❤️
Thank you very much dear Sue ❤️
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Thanks for all the good information. I love the blue you are spinning & you will look beautiful in it. ❤
Thank you very much Pati ❤️
That sweater is gorgeous! I have hypoglycemia and limiting carbs really helps me. I don’t get the crash after eating protein and veggies. Bulletproof coffee is awesome and keeps you full. Have fun on your cruise. Can’t wait to hear all about it.
Oh wow... I'm glad you are saying that Therese because I don't know many people that have hypoglycemia, so I'll be a bit more conscious of what I eat from now on. Ivana ❤️
Beautiful sweater! Have A wonderful cruise.
Thank you so much Frances ❤️
I really love your podcast. The sweater is so beautiful. Have a wonderful cruise.
Thank you very much Wynona ❤️
Good morning Ivana. Your sweater really is perfect. It suits you so well. Like everyone else I am off to try out Cascade 220!
Enjoy your cruise. ❤
Thank you very much Annie... I hope you like the yarn, I was very pleased with it. Ivana ❤️
He)o Ivana, beautiful podcast, I am knitting my second Saturday shrug, that cascade held double would be a beautiful shrug, I think that blue is beautiful and will look stunning on you with your dark hair, I hope you have a beautiful and safe trip, o and you could make a lot of socks. Hugs to you my friend 🤗 ❤️
Dear Kimberly, I have managed to finish the Saturday shrug and oh my... it's perfect... such useful and beautiful item. ❤️
My first one is a little tight, I am using size 8 needles and cast on 148, if this one fits better I am planning on making them all summer for Christmas, have a wonderful day 😀 😊
Hello from Ireland 🖐 I am new to your podcast and I found it most interesting, I love your turtleneck jumper, I was fascinated with your spinning process, I hope you enjoy your cruise.
Thank you very much Mary... welcome to the channel. Ivana ❤️
oooooh this was so lovely and inspiring! The fact that 200 grams can make an exquisite turtleneck has me looking at my stash in a whole new way! Thanks for that! Can't wait for you to knit the blue jumper! It is one of my absolute fave colors! Maldives blue... sigh. So lovely!
Thank you very much Samira. The yarn I used has 250m per 50g, so have that in mind because I think it is a bit more meterage than average fingering yarn, but yeah... it really didn't take a lot at all and it is so light and lovely to wear. Ivana ❤️
Go for it, the blue yarn you spoon would be lovely on you. Happy spinning and knitting.
Thank you very much Catherine ❤️
Hi Ivanna , I shall pass on your coffee experience to a friend of mine who suffers the same, nothing ventured as they say and no harm to try . The finished jumper its lovely . You have the formula that suits you down to perfection . Always
great to see gardens in different zones as Locquat wouldn’t survive here ….. I believe further South the tree will grow with bigger leaves but not fruiting . Like our choice of wardrobe, gardens are an opportunity for reflecting our individuality so I love a glimpse of something different . As for me Im still processing the very smelly fleeces I got as a “gift “ very kind thought but !!!!! :) a test to my limited skills .
Happy travels and I look forward to your next sharing . Kerrie
Thank you as always dear Kerrie. We are already on the ship and I'm writing to you from somewhere close to Spain. Kisses ❤️❤️❤️
Such a clever talented young lady 🙌♥️
Thank you beautiful Spyroulla ❤️❤️❤️
Ivana cara, I save your wonderful podcasts for moments when I can fully enjoy them, knitting along...first of all with the hypoglicemia be careful because sometimes it can be related somehow to the opposite side, I have always had very low blood pressure all my life, with dizziness etc, and not the easiest energywise in the mornings especially because of this, but doctors always ignored it saying it's better for the heart compared to high blood pressure, and I have mostly always had low glicemia, not sure if hypoglicemia because I never got a diagnose for it, always just under the low level BUT I have discovered in the last years that even though my blood sugar is low, I have insulin resistance, (you can look into that or I would write a novel in the novel and I am not a doctor, but you can check HOMA for insulin/glucose levels ratio) in short I make way too much insulin to keep my sugars so low and the body does not react to the insulin as well so it keeps having to make more, which causes a set of problems, (it is the precursor to prediabetes, so it is insulin resistance that can lead to prediabetes that can lead to diabetes type 2) so I am doing my best to reverse this...any how I am still trial and error because I have different issues that are somehow all interconnected, as the body is, and causing me extreme exhaustion, depression and so on, with autoimmune...I have tried keto and intermittent fasting and I did the bullet proof coffee, at the moment I am doing something else before figuring it all out...just to say, that you are right we need to experiment and feel our own bodies, but it may be worth looking into your insulin as well (I was rather surprised because I consider myself a healthy eater...) I usually feel better in general with low carb, which is a softer version of keto somewhat...be careful with taking sugar for the sugar dips in the long run it can make it worse, but again, look into this, if you feel like it...dr. Berg/ dr. Jason Fung/ dr Mindy Pelz and others on yt. and I already wrote a novel and I am only at the beginning!!! 😂😂😂😂
I'll look into it Barbara... thank you very much ❤️
novel number 2...last time I went to Greece, some years ago they did loose my luggage (here in Italy, then I found it again luckily) and I stayed a whole month with no clothes, borrowing from friends and buying at chinese shops...love the sweater! and I love the whole process of figuring out your own recipe...I do knit patterns but I ALWAYS modify a lot here and there, changing gauge, changing details, changing shape etc. I just cannot follow a pattern as is, although sometimes I wish I did because it would be easier and more mindless...Love the colors you chose! Love the idea of a palette of yarn like the paint...so true... So tempted to try this yarn at some point but I have been hoarding so much yarn that I need to resist until i significantly decrease my stash, because I live in a very small city flat...and I am a very slow knitter...so I got too crazy with my yarn stash and now I have to be good and really work with it for a while...That light blue is really uplifting...I am sure you will make something lovely out of it..have a marvelous relaxing joyful regenerating cruise! much Love and Light to you and all of your family 🌺🌺🌺🌺
Dear Barbara,
Thank you for taking the time and effort you put into your comments here.
We have just returned from our travels this morning and although I have read all the comments while away, now I'm slowly catching up on replies (internet was horrible on the ship).
I hope you are well and it is always so good to hear from you.
Ivana ❤️
Hi Ivanna. The jumper is really beautiful and the colorway is very elegant. I am eager to get the recipe, but 3 mm needle... In Spanish the fruit is called Níspero. I have two trees in my garden and have been eating nísperos over a month now and there are many still to harvest.
I hope your Nisperos were just as sweet Celia.... it's such a nice fruit. ❤️❤️❤️
Your jumper looks gorgeous on you! Lovely podcast. Thank you!
Thank you very much Sandra ❤️
I had the exact same mishap as you recently with a sweater neckline, and I had to rip it out and redo it, but it's not strangling me anymore so worth the extra effort. Your finished sweater is stunning!
I'm glad it all worked out... I froze when I couldn't pull the finished jumper over my head, but thankfully it is all right now. Ivana
So glad you popped up in my feed today - new subscriber! Love your sweater and will be trying the cascade 220 soon. Also love the idea of a simple wardrobe w kickass shoes! Would love to see your shoes in a future episode!
Thank you very much... I'm so glad you found me. Welcome to the channel. Ivana ❤️
That jumper is so classic! I love this model. You introduced me to the turtle dove pattern, and now it’s my favourite. In my opinion it is flattering for any shape. I’m much bigger than you, and I love that it somehow minimises my bust and flows away and doesn’t cling to my body. Easy knitting too. Such a good design to play with different yarns and colours. I haven’t yet tried Cascade (have to work through my stash), but the colours are amazing. Love your collection! Enjoy your cruise! 🛳️😊
Thank you Margaret. I'm so glad you like the Turtle Dove... I have not tried it yet but it looks so much like the jumpers I knit, that I'm sure I'll love it. Ivana ❤️
@@therepublicofme For some reason I thought you had directed me to the turtle dove. Maybe I just saw the similarity and made an assumption, sorry. Anyway, what you did make me realise, is that if you find a model that suits your body shape then stick to it. Thank you!
@@margarethastings3332 I did mention and link Turtle Dove as one of the jumpers that look like the ones I make ❤
@@therepublicofme Thank you. My memory is not as good as it used to be. I don’t feel so bad now! 😅
Thanks for this episode. Lovely fruits. The light blue color doesn't really suit your complexion but it would be great in a black and blue colorwork sweater, as long as you use the back closer to your face.
Thank you Nicole. That sounds like a good idea, but I also thought maybe to pair it with white in colorwork. Black is my favorite color to wear though. Ivana ❤️
@@therepublicofme White would be just as great, but do you wear white ?
How beautiful! I just subscribed. ❤
Thank you Meredith... welcome to the channel. Ivana ❤️
I love your turtleneck sweater. Did you do your Raglan increases in every other row? Enjoy your cruise.
Thank you Lisa. I knitted it in 4 round repeats.
1st round increase both body and sleaved
2nd round just knit
3rd round increase only body
4th round just knit
Hope this helps. ❤️
Just discovered your videos - so enjoyable !!!
So looking forward to seeing all of your creations... and will definitely try this jumper pattern when it comes out !
Totally off the subject, but I absolutely love your couch/sofa (is there a brand that you could tell me ?)
Thank you very much.
The couch is brand "Kare" and the model is Sofa Cubetto 3 seater 220cm... I believe it is a German brand.
Ivana ❤️
Divna je pesma i tekst na početku klipa...Dome slatki dome...Toliko toga gajiš u svom vrtu, bravo!
Divne i kvalitetne vune koristiš ali pored toliko boja ( bugenvilija i voća na Kipru ) pomislila sam na neke druge boje tvojih radova i oduševila sam se kada sam videla crvenu i svetlo plavu kao tirkiz, pominjala si i naranđastu, samo napred, promene su uvek dobre Puno pozdrava !!👍👏🏻😘🙋♀️😘🌹
Hvala Miro. Neutralne boje su i dalje gde mi srce lezi, ali se polako otvaram i ka drugim bojama i pocele su da me privlace. ❤️
I really like your handspun! I wonder what the blue alpaca would look like spun up with some grey fibers? Regardless, it’s beautiful! ❤
Thank you Leslie. There are so many combinations to play with, that sometimes I feel like a kid in a candy shop. Ivana ❤️
I have a small stash if Cascade 220 but have heard that superwash marino grows so I’m worried about it. Any advise?
Hi, I'm sorry but I wouldn't really know. Cascade 220 that I have is not merino and is not superwash. I don't have experience with superwash yarns. ❤️
What is the pattern for the jumper?
Working on it... I'll have something soon. Ivana ❤️