Really enjoyed the Harmony Part in this episode. It was fascinating seeing the grave of your 5G ancestor who came from Scotland over 200 years ago to settle in PEI - and now you're there too. Respect to you! Reminded me of the graveyards I've been visiting over here in recent years to understand more about my ancestor (3G-grandfather) who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1771, spent about 14 years soldiering in India and then settled in the eastern Cape region of South Africa in 1820 with (possibly) his third wife and children from the Nottingham area. All the scatterlings of Scotland were driven away from the class-ridden British Isles by tough economic times and they were even tougher folk to settle and thrive in relatively unknown and wild corners of the world. Probably your ancestor was driven away in the post-Culloden purges of Scottish clan culture and famine. I think my ancestor was just longing to recreate the warmth and freedom he experienced in India and so he (and countless others) was tricked by Whitehall's offer of some farmland - which the 1820 settlers soon discovered was really barren and also the border land or war zone contested by the local tribes and the Cape colonial government! It's amazing that the family managed to survive at all!
Yes - there are stories here that the forests grew right down to the beaches when they a landed here. So, yes, the land was at least arable, but you had to clear it first. Apparently the first potatoes that were planted here were planted amongst the stumps. It took years to actually clear the farmland. Now we go into a panic if the internet is down for 5 minutes. LOL
I think I will wear that sweater a lot. It is really comfortable. The swatches are the only way to really appreciate the Felted Tweed Colour. Thanks for watching, Nicole!
Way to go Kim on your Evendoon! It looks great on you, & I love your creativity in solving the yarn shortage. It's like a little, secret surprise in the sweater. Thank you for all the cowl/swatches on the Felted Tweed Colour yarn. That is so helpful. Thank you as well for bringing in crochet items. I looked up the Rowan hooks & they look great. The Harmony moment was lovely as always. What a pretty cemetary. Thank you for another fun episode. See you in two weeks. 🤗
Your sweater turned out beautiful and your solution to running short was genius! Very cute if noticed, but I'd bet the majority of people would never even see the difference in the sleeves! I really enjoyed watching your mill dying segment and the harmony section this week was just the soul soother I needed at this time! Thank you!
What a gorgeous sweater Evendoon has turned out to be and it fits you superbly, Kim! Loved your ingenuity with the sleeve, this can well become a fashion statement. The dyeing part had me staring in fascination as the colour got picked up by the yarn leaving the water clear. The Harmony part was calming and interesting, with all the history woven in, all in all a superb podcast!!
Wonderful episode Kim; the sleeve fix, and sweater look great(!), and the dye room is fascinating. I find the harmony part of your podcast very calming, thank you.
Kim, your FO sweater is really exquisite! It looks very well on you with those colors. The dyeing was interesting to see, and I really loved the Harmony part. The harp music was so pretty; my mom played the harp, so I've always loved it!
Enjoyed the podcast as usual. Your Evendoon is beautiful. Can't wait to see the paisley finished. Seeing the swatches (cowls) for the Felted Tweed Colors was very helpful. So thanks for that.
I like your solution to the sweater, it's like a bracelet. Also, I like the big swatches of felted tweed. So many beautiful colours. Thanks again for another great episode.
Hello Kim I love your podcast you are so down to earth and I love that you are human being that makes mistakes like all of us do and feel so silly afterwards you are so knowledgeable about knitting and helpful always love the harmony part . I truly hope I get to come to your shop one day love from Gerri in Tennessee
The fix on your sweater sleeve is a really good design feature and looks intentional. The shop update was full of lovely yarn. The cemetery was peaceful and is a credit to the local people who maintain it. How interesting to find out about your ancestors. 🇬🇧
The very first thing I noticed was your neckline was finished on your sweater and it looks great! Love the seafoam color. Beautiful handwork, as always.
I really liked meeting Jennifer Hicks and learning the dyeing process for the yarn. The evendoon sweater is gorgeous and I love the seafoam around the neck. I had originally thought I would prefer the watermelon but boy was I wrong. The seafoam is perfect. I can hardly tell the difference on the sleeve it was so skillfully disguised. Thank goodness you were able to get the hole patched above the window. And all the wood is ready to go for the stoves. Winter will be upon all of us before we know it. The harmony part was lovely. It is an interesting historical discovery for you and your family to find your 5th great grandfather on PEI only a few miles down the road. Thanks for a lovely podcast.
Looks like a very comfy sweater, bet you will wear it a lot ! Congratulations ! So nice to see the Paisley out of hibernation. Wow ! This is a lovely way to present the new Rowan Felted Tweed Colour, thanks, it is so gorgeous !!! A cowl is a great idea ! I bet someone could knit a great cushion with two skeins. Thanks for the peaceful Harmony part, lovely music.
It's funny because it forced me to do something I would have never done but I like it. Sometimes you need to get out of your comfort zone to learn new things!
What a beautiful ending. The Harmony Part was so peaceful and so serene that I kept coming back to it, with my hand propped on my chin. I could almost feel the slight breeze and the sun on my back. What a beautiful spot. The choice of music was perfect. How serendipitous to actually end up living close to where your ancestors had lived and were buried without knowing it. It's as though you have come full circle. There were other parts that I kept coming back to watch over and over again. I could not stop looking your sweater!! It looks SO good on you. You even chose the right shade of lipstick to go with it. 😄And the fix!!! That was so ingenious. It's as though you did it on purpose, giving it a slight edge. I believe Kate Davies herself would be impressed. You could have opened up another skein but instead worked out a solution so that you worked with what you had and ended up with a stunning sweater. Even the neckline worked itself out. A valuable lesson for us all. My eye kept wandering around to the skeins of yarn behind you and the lovely pictures of the sheep. Nice choice of the shop to film in - the lighting was perfect. I really liked the big swatches of felted tweed. Oh my, but that Haunted Woods shade is just gorgeous! I stayed put with the keyboard though this time lol Glad to know that the damage was contained in your home, and that the sheep are now in their winter paddocks. Now you can start throwing wood in the furnace again for those first chilly nights and continue on your Sidsel Høivik sweater. How is Grace doing? Thank you for yet another lovely episode. I look forward to the next episode from the Harmony Meadow Farm. 😊
Another lovely podcast Kim. Love your sweater and creative fixes. Thanks for being so real about making mistakes, running short, and making it work. It’s only the first or second time I’ve seen ads in your podcasts; congratulations on being monetized. The Harmony Part was peaceful and interesting. Look forward to the next one. Take care!
I love old graveyards! So thanks for that! Thank you for showing the dying. (No relation to my previous sentences intended. :) ) That's one thing I've not had a hankering to try. But I like to see it, and the stunning results. I like the "fix" you did for your sweater. Those serendipitous touches make for a one-of-a-kind result.
Your sweater turned out beautiful! And the harmony part was very nice. You live in a beautiful area. I have always loved the ocean. Thanks for another motivating podcast!
Your new sweater is wonderful but I can't get over the "compromise" you made on the sleeve! great job. I enjoy your podcasts so much thank you for sharing. (say hello to Jennifer we miss seeing her)
Enjoying myself playing podcast catch-up here in NB (not North Britain 😉) on a lovely sunny afternoon. Your Evendoon sleeve solution looks great and is a great reminder to seek out a creative way to problem solve! Take care and enjoy the beautiful fall weather we’ve been having.
Thanks for proving that I'm not the only one making dumb mistakes, laughing. I think the Seafoam looks lovely at your neckline. That dyeing process was interesting. Enjoyed watching how it was done but have no desire to do it myself! Lovely Harmony! HUgs
Another great episode Kim, it was great talking to you and Jennifer last weekend In the shop. Started my Kate Davies Evendoon cardigan using "Gale". Loved seeing how Jennifer dyes all the beautiful yarn. So cool that you could find your 5th Great ancestor so close to you. 🥰Sharon.
You did a great job at making the stripes match the body. I wouldn’t have known that you did a little finagling on the sleeves. I’ve experienced not seeing my error on what should have been a simple section. Sometimes I just go one and sometimes I rip it out 3 or4 times making the same mistake!lol I love my swift. Anyone interested will not be disappointed.
@Fleece & Harmony thank you, I enjoy the podcast a lot, I like the collaboration with Betsy, and specially the news about the gang (sheep, horses, and bunnies)!
Hi! Loved your solution for your sweater..looks really cool. Glad your roof was fairly straight forward to fix. I remember the days of getting wood set up for the winter on the farm. Your harmony graveyard looked like a lovely and peaceful resting place.
Hurray - I received the calendar from you this week and I ordered to new book! Since my husband passed away, I have taken to ordering myself Christmas gifts. My sister and I are looking forward to the yarn festival next summer. It will be her birthday that weekend so we will be celebrating 🥳
Beautiful sweater Kim. Excellent work. Two friends at 14 came to PEI from Lake Ainslie to work in the lobster factories. They made their home here and their grandchildren ended up marrying, (My Mom and Dad).
Great episode! I think this is your best solo one yet. Awesome and creative FO. Also loved the harmony part. I recently discovered that I’m 45% Scottish. Maybe we are distant cousins. 😉💚
I was thinking the same thing as my DNA shows I’m from the British Isles (53% from England, 33% from Scotland and 8% from Ireland with a bit of Sweden and Denmark thrown in for good measure.). Genealogy is so interesting; I love to see how people are connected.
Genealogy is fun. You actually don't need to go very far here on the Island to find distance relatives. When the local people start talking about their family lineage, it gets pretty intwined and confusing. Then there are all of the other interesting things, such as families raising children from other families where the parents died young or from accidents. It seems that happened more than you would think in the early 1900's. So people are "related" but they are not really related.
I bought that yarn swift and it's fabulous. It puts very little pressure on the yarn cake. I used to wind twice in order to relieve some of the tightly wound cakes when using the wooden umbrella style swift. There is a bit of an adjustment in figuring out the height differential of your yarn winder. I think one thing that would make it better is longer pegs.
I am glad you are enjoying the swift. They are so beautiful and work so well. I hear you on the peg length. The pegs are the only part of the swift that Scott doesn't mill himself. He purchases them unfinished and does the finishing on them. His supplier doesn't make them longer and he could mill them himself but it would add cost to the swift. They are pretty fiddly to make by hand apparently take a long time and hard to get consistent.
Love your Evendoon and the neck I think looks great on you. Are you thinking of doing a video for when you steek your Paisley? Thank you as always for doing the podcast.
Lovely episode, u really like the harmony part today. Love old historic gravesites. I always wonder what those people were like and wish I could go back in time to talked to them and get a real insight for their lives at the time. The swift looks like a great gift for Christmas.
I would love some of the Haunted Woods yarn, I will be there in October so will definitely come by the shop for some, would look amazing in a crochet mosaic blanket with a cream as the contrast colour, just have to decide which pattern!
You should let us know ahead of time how many you want and when you are coming. None of it has made it out to the store shelves. We are selling out every batch we make. Send us an email if you like.
Regarding crochet books, it is important to know if they are UK editions or North American editions, as the names for basic stitches differ. I learned that the hard way making a doll for my granddaughter.
Your sweater looks great, fix and all. Loved the segment in the dye room. Next, can you show how a variegated yarn is dyed? On a separated topic, when will the Wildwood book by Marie Wallin be back in stock? Is she coming out with a new book?
Another great episode! Love your specially artistic sleeve ;) Thank you for showing the dyeing section...I go to my Mom's tomorrow to dye wool and will have her put the mordant in with the dye this time...we usually dye/cook/mordant/cook/rinse....so I will be interested to record the difference this time mordant & dye/cook/rinse and see if it gives more depth to the colour. We had so much to dye last time we forgot we had one pot with leftover water and the mordant already in it when we added more water and dye...then when we put in the new fibre to dye. It was a much richer, deeper colour even though we'd used the same recipe and water amounts. Will post results on Instagram....cheers, NancyKnot
We soak the yarn first for at least a half hour before putting it in the dye vat. That may be an important step. Jennifer H. puts the mordant in as she showed in the video, I put it in after the yarn has been added, but I do think it makes the yarn more semi-solid looking. Have fun experimenting!
@@FleeceHarmonyPodcast Yes, I always presoak as well as per Mum's instructions. The very first time I misunderstood Mum's instructions and brought the cardigan to her soaking in a 1/2 filled cooler of water after 24 soaking in water...LOL. She's 3 hrs away and I was worried about how to transport still soaking in a bucket especially since I'd TOTALLY misunderstood her instructions. Needless to say she'd meant I was to bring it 'before' knitting the garment and soaked but squished out...made for a very interesting dye day. But I kept gently turning the sweater every 7mins or so and we miraculously didn't have any over saturated spots. It was beautifully even. LOL life is much easier when you listen to your Mum. ;) NancyKnot P.S. It Killybegs in my Raverly projects.
I have always liked being at a Cemetary and perhaps it is because of the quiet since I thrive in the quiet. Thank you for a lovely another lovely episode of F&H! Is Jennifer well? I missed the reason why she is absent from the podcast. Also, will you be having the beautiful blankets/throws available this year? Stay well, take care, Patricia.
Thanks Patricia. No blankets this year I am afraid. There is a big waiting list for weaving at that mill. Jen is working on her own company no. She talks about it in episode 73. She is most definitely well.
great episode ! loved the rowan felted tweed colours. your samples show it off beautiful. woud i just need one ball to make the cowl? i know you said stitch count but was wondering needle size.? maybe i missed it .thanks !
Yup - one ball to make the cowl. Some of the samples cast on 120 stitches and some had 110. I wouldn't go below 110. I knit mine on 3.75mm because I like Felted Tweed at a sightly tighter gauge. The other girls used 4mm needles.
The link goes to the 10 Years in the Making book which we sell and contains the pull over pattern. I have just updated the show notes with the link to the pullover pattern that you can buy individually from Ravelry if you don't want to purchase the book. Here is the link: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/evendoon-pullover
Question regarding the dye process: When you heat up the yarn to near boiling why doesn't the wool shrink up to child size as it does when you wash a sweater in hot water? Thank you for all you do.
I know - you would think it would felt. It is actually not hot water than felts wool. It is hot water, soap and agitation - the three together. And if you then change the water temperature dramatically - say rinse with cold water while the yarn is still hot, you also can get felting. That's why I was emphasizing that the yarn was actually cool during the video. I could see a bit of steam coming up while Jennifer was rinsing and I didn't want people to think you could hit hot yarn with cold water. The bottom of the vat retains heat, and the steam was coming from that.
Hi Kim, I dont manage to watch all of your podcasts but I’ve noticed the last several that I have caught that Jennifer isnt there. Has she moved away or ???
LOVE the colors of your Evendoon sweater and what fascinating genealogy you've uncovered!!
I love my Evendoon! Fun and cheerful to knit and to wear.
Beautiful Evendoon and beautiful Harmony part. I find graveyards incredibly peaceful... solemnly tranquil.
Yes me too!
Really enjoyed the Harmony Part in this episode. It was fascinating seeing the grave of your 5G ancestor who came from Scotland over 200 years ago to settle in PEI - and now you're there too. Respect to you!
Reminded me of the graveyards I've been visiting over here in recent years to understand more about my ancestor (3G-grandfather) who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1771, spent about 14 years soldiering in India and then settled in the eastern Cape region of South Africa in 1820 with (possibly) his third wife and children from the Nottingham area. All the scatterlings of Scotland were driven away from the class-ridden British Isles by tough economic times and they were even tougher folk to settle and thrive in relatively unknown and wild corners of the world. Probably your ancestor was driven away in the post-Culloden purges of Scottish clan culture and famine. I think my ancestor was just longing to recreate the warmth and freedom he experienced in India and so he (and countless others) was tricked by Whitehall's offer of some farmland - which the 1820 settlers soon discovered was really barren and also the border land or war zone contested by the local tribes and the Cape colonial government! It's amazing that the family managed to survive at all!
Yes - there are stories here that the forests grew right down to the beaches when they a landed here. So, yes, the land was at least arable, but you had to clear it first. Apparently the first potatoes that were planted here were planted amongst the stumps. It took years to actually clear the farmland. Now we go into a panic if the internet is down for 5 minutes. LOL
I love your sweater and your solution to not having quite enough yarn. Thanks for another great and informative podcast.
I think I will wear that sweater a lot. It is really comfortable. The swatches are the only way to really appreciate the Felted Tweed Colour. Thanks for watching, Nicole!
I really enjoyed this episode. The sweater looks great! I was sincerely moved by the Harmony part. The music you chose was perfect!
Thank Mary Anne!
Kim I loved the Harmony part in the cemetery and hearing about your connection to the Island. Thanks for sharing your lovely part of the country
It's my pleasure to share PEI with the rest of the world. It really is a beautiful place to be.
Kim, that sweater fits you so well! I would never have noticed the sleeve if you hadn’t pointed it out. Another great video.
Yes, I quite like it. Wasn't sure at first, but it's a little surprise.
Way to go Kim on your Evendoon! It looks great on you, & I love your creativity in solving the yarn shortage. It's like a little, secret surprise in the sweater. Thank you for all the cowl/swatches on the Felted Tweed Colour yarn. That is so helpful. Thank you as well for bringing in crochet items. I looked up the Rowan hooks & they look great. The Harmony moment was lovely as always. What a pretty cemetary. Thank you for another fun episode. See you in two weeks. 🤗
See you in two weeks Michele!
I love the sweater and I love the creativity of the different stripe. The seafoam is gorgeous at the neck and it looks lovely on you...
Thanks Karen. I think I will wear it a lot.
This is a much better view, please sit here again, yippie. Love the colours in the sweater
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Love your design feature for your sweater. A wonderful podcast ....enjoyed all the segments. Thank you.
Thanks Donna.
I love your sleeve solution! Thanks for sharing your creativity.
You are so welcome!
Your sweater turned out beautiful and your solution to running short was genius! Very cute if noticed, but I'd bet the majority of people would never even see the difference in the sleeves! I really enjoyed watching your mill dying segment and the harmony section this week was just the soul soother I needed at this time! Thank you!
Thank you for your lovely comments Patricia. I am happy you enjoyed the Harmony Part.
You look so beautiful in your stripe sweater! Thank you for such a lovely podcast. Made a very pleasant Saturday watch.
I am happy you enjoyed it Margaret!
What a gorgeous sweater Evendoon has turned out to be and it fits you superbly, Kim! Loved your ingenuity with the sleeve, this can well become a fashion statement. The dyeing part had me staring in fascination as the colour got picked up by the yarn leaving the water clear. The Harmony part was calming and interesting, with all the history woven in, all in all a superb podcast!!
Thank you Navneet. I am glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful episode Kim; the sleeve fix, and sweater look great(!), and the dye room is fascinating.
I find the harmony part of your podcast very calming, thank you.
You're welcome. I am glad you enjoyed it.
Kim, your FO sweater is really exquisite! It looks very well on you with those colors. The dyeing was interesting to see, and I really loved the Harmony part. The harp music was so pretty; my mom played the harp, so I've always loved it!
Thanks Lynn. I am happy you enjoyed it!
Evendoon looks great. I had forgotten about the haunted woods trail. The yarn colour is great!
Sometimes we have to dig deep for those yarn colour names! LOL
Enjoyed the podcast as usual. Your Evendoon is beautiful. Can't wait to see the paisley finished. Seeing the swatches (cowls) for the Felted Tweed Colors was very helpful. So thanks for that.
I can't wait to see the Paisley finished too, Brenda! LOL Once the knitting is done, there is the embroidery... might be awhile yet.
Love your sweater, especially the Sea Foam stripes and the neckline.
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I love your sleeve solution. Very unique. Thanks for this episode. Always informative. Keep safe
Thank you Orit. Did your grand kids like their hats?
My grandkids loved the puffin toques. They wore them despite the heatwave we were in!
Love the podcast Kim. Loved the dying lesson. That is on my bucket list! Beautiful job on the sweater. I have loved the Kate Davies KAL.
Thanks Debbie!
The sea foam looks beautiful on you, Kim! A lovely sweater!!! I enjoy your podcast so much.
Thanks Kathy!
I like your solution to the sweater, it's like a bracelet. Also, I like the big swatches of felted tweed. So many beautiful colours. Thanks again for another great episode.
Thank you for watching and commenting, Andrea!
Hello Kim I love your podcast you are so down to earth and I love that you are human being that makes mistakes like all of us do and feel so silly afterwards you are so knowledgeable about knitting and helpful always love the harmony part . I truly hope I get to come to your shop one day love from Gerri in Tennessee
You must visit Gerri! Yes, I make lots of silly mistakes - this was just a pretty ridiculous one.😜
The fix on your sweater sleeve is a really good design feature and looks intentional. The shop update was full of lovely yarn. The cemetery was peaceful and is a credit to the local people who maintain it. How interesting to find out about your ancestors. 🇬🇧
It is so interesting...
That was absolute beautiful; so special to find your ancestry! Love your sweater and the mill snippets are amazing!
Glad you enjoyed it Klaske!
I'm very touched seeing your ancestor's resting place. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
The very first thing I noticed was your neckline was finished on your sweater and it looks great! Love the seafoam color. Beautiful handwork, as always.
Oh thank you!
Love your solution for the yarn chicken on one of your sleeves.
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I really liked meeting Jennifer Hicks and learning the dyeing process for the yarn. The evendoon sweater is gorgeous and I love the seafoam around the neck. I had originally thought I would prefer the watermelon but boy was I wrong. The seafoam is perfect. I can hardly tell the difference on the sleeve it was so skillfully disguised. Thank goodness you were able to get the hole patched above the window. And all the wood is ready to go for the stoves. Winter will be upon all of us before we know it. The harmony part was lovely. It is an interesting historical discovery for you and your family to find your 5th great grandfather on PEI only a few miles down the road. Thanks for a lovely podcast.
Thank you for watch Linda. And thanks for taking the time to comment.
Looks like a very comfy sweater, bet you will wear it a lot ! Congratulations ! So nice to see the Paisley out of hibernation. Wow ! This is a lovely way to present the new Rowan Felted Tweed Colour, thanks, it is so gorgeous !!! A cowl is a great idea ! I bet someone could knit a great cushion with two skeins. Thanks for the peaceful Harmony part, lovely music.
Thanks Nicole. It thing the Felted Tweed Colour would make interesting cushions.
Wow you took playing yarn chicken to a new level. Beautiful sweater!
Yes I did. Yarn chicken is not my favourite game. I prefer to avoid it!
Just started watching and wanted to say - another beautiful sweater!🧶👌😀
Oh thank you!
I love your Evendoon - I wouldn't have put those colors together but I'm in love with it!! Super nice job!
Thanks Lisa.
I enjoyed the visit with your ancestors, love your podcast!
Thanks Louanna!
Brilliant and imaginative solution for yarn chicken glitches. I will keep this in mind. Cheers. xxx
It's funny because it forced me to do something I would have never done but I like it. Sometimes you need to get out of your comfort zone to learn new things!
I wasn’t in love with the yarn in your sweater when I first saw you working on it but I have to say it looks great on you and I really like it now!
Ha! I wasn't sure about the colours either until I saw them together when a customer ordered them. It is very cheerful and I love it!
What a beautiful ending. The Harmony Part was so peaceful and so serene that I kept coming back to it, with my hand propped on my chin. I could almost feel the slight breeze and the sun on my back. What a beautiful spot. The choice of music was perfect.
How serendipitous to actually end up living close to where your ancestors had lived and were buried without knowing it. It's as though you have come full circle.
There were other parts that I kept coming back to watch over and over again. I could not stop looking your sweater!! It looks SO good on you. You even chose the right shade of lipstick to go with it. 😄And the fix!!! That was so ingenious. It's as though you did it on purpose, giving it a slight edge. I believe Kate Davies herself would be impressed. You could have opened up another skein but instead worked out a solution so that you worked with what you had and ended up with a stunning sweater. Even the neckline worked itself out. A valuable lesson for us all.
My eye kept wandering around to the skeins of yarn behind you and the lovely pictures of the sheep. Nice choice of the shop to film in - the lighting was perfect.
I really liked the big swatches of felted tweed. Oh my, but that Haunted Woods shade is just gorgeous! I stayed put with the keyboard though this time lol
Glad to know that the damage was contained in your home, and that the sheep are now in their winter paddocks. Now you can start throwing wood in the furnace again for those first chilly nights and continue on your Sidsel Høivik sweater.
How is Grace doing?
Thank you for yet another lovely episode. I look forward to the next episode from the Harmony Meadow Farm. 😊
Grace is doing well. Back to normal and all healed up. Hopefully she stays out of trouble now. Thanks for watching and commenting Rosanna!
Another lovely podcast Kim. Love your sweater and creative fixes. Thanks for being so real about making mistakes, running short, and making it work. It’s only the first or second time I’ve seen ads in your podcasts; congratulations on being monetized. The Harmony Part was peaceful and interesting. Look forward to the next one. Take care!
Thank you Donna.
Another lovely podcast Kim. Your sweater looks lovely. Loved the harmony such a beautiful place to rest.
It is so peaceful there.
I really like to visit old cemeteries! Your sweater is lovely!
Thank you so much!
I love old graveyards! So thanks for that! Thank you for showing the dying. (No relation to my previous sentences intended. :) ) That's one thing I've not had a hankering to try. But I like to see it, and the stunning results. I like the "fix" you did for your sweater. Those serendipitous touches make for a one-of-a-kind result.
Ha. It's like when we wanted to have a yarn dyeing workshop here and were going to call it Dyeing on the Farm. Ha!
I love your creative sleeve solution. You sweater is beautiful
and fits so well.
Thank you Beverly!
Your sweater turned out beautiful! And the harmony part was very nice. You live in a beautiful area. I have always loved the ocean. Thanks for another motivating podcast!
Thanks, Beverly!
Your new sweater is wonderful but I can't get over the "compromise" you made on the sleeve! great job. I enjoy your podcasts so much thank you for sharing. (say hello to Jennifer we miss seeing her)
Thanks Lori. (Will do)
Kim you look beautiful in that sweater 🌸I Love the Mill section. thanks so much for sharing 💗
Thanks Maria!
I thoroughly enjoyed your podcast. Ordered some items from your shop as a result and look forward to future podcasts.
That's awesome! Thanks Roxanna.
The sweater is beautiful! I never would have noticed the sleeve!
Yes, the fix kind of hides in plain sight. LOL
Lovely cemetery! I was hoping we would get to see it.
Yes it's very peaceful there.
that stripe does look cute, nicely done
Tanks Cat!
Enjoying myself playing podcast catch-up here in NB (not North Britain 😉) on a lovely sunny afternoon. Your Evendoon sleeve solution looks great and is a great reminder to seek out a creative way to problem solve! Take care and enjoy the beautiful fall weather we’ve been having.
LOL Dawn - you were paying attention! Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thanks for proving that I'm not the only one making dumb mistakes, laughing. I think the Seafoam looks lovely at your neckline. That dyeing process was interesting. Enjoyed watching how it was done but have no desire to do it myself! Lovely Harmony! HUgs
Hugs to you Brenda. I hope you are doing well.
@@FleeceHarmonyPodcast As long as I can keep knitting, life is just fine no matter what! HUgs
Great job with the sweater, Kim!!! :)
Thanks Heather!
Your Evendoon is beautiful!
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Gorgeous sweater! Thanks again for an enjoyable viďeo.
Glad you like it, Melanie!
Another great episode Kim, it was great talking to you and Jennifer last weekend In the shop. Started my Kate Davies Evendoon cardigan using "Gale". Loved seeing how Jennifer dyes all the beautiful yarn. So cool that you could find your 5th Great ancestor so close to you. 🥰Sharon.
It was great to see you too Sharon. Can hardly wait to see the cardigan in Gale.
You did a great job at making the stripes match the body. I wouldn’t have known that you did a little finagling on the sleeves. I’ve experienced not seeing my error on what should have been a simple section. Sometimes I just go one and sometimes I rip it out 3 or4 times making the same mistake!lol I love my swift. Anyone interested will not be disappointed.
Thanks Elise! Amazing how we can look and not see. Glad you love your swift!
Hi Kim, you're doing an excellent job with this one woman podcast! Hi five to you!
Thanks Valerie!
Love the added stripe! Just makes it yours...
I thought so! Thanks.
Great idea on how to solve sweaters arm!
Thanks for watching Berenice!
@Fleece & Harmony thank you, I enjoy the podcast a lot, I like the collaboration with Betsy, and specially the news about the gang (sheep, horses, and bunnies)!
Hi! Loved your solution for your sweater..looks really cool. Glad your roof was fairly straight forward to fix. I remember the days of getting wood set up for the winter on the farm. Your harmony graveyard looked like a lovely and peaceful resting place.
The wood is a big job. Now we hire some young folks to do the blacking and stacking for us. 12 cords is a lot of wood!
@@FleeceHarmonyPodcast a ton of woood!!
P.S. - fun to "meet" Jennifer Hicks in the dye room. Nice to have a face to go with the name & all the beautiful knitting. 😊
Yes! Isn't it?
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Hurray - I received the calendar from you this week and I ordered to new book! Since my husband passed away, I have taken to ordering myself Christmas gifts. My sister and I are looking forward to the yarn festival next summer. It will be her birthday that weekend so we will be celebrating 🥳
It will be nice to meet you there Leea!
Beautiful sweater Kim. Excellent work. Two friends at 14 came to PEI from Lake Ainslie to work in the lobster factories. They made their home here and their grandchildren ended up marrying, (My Mom and Dad).
Cool! There are a lot of connections with Cape Breton and PEI.
Great episode! I think this is your best solo one yet. Awesome and creative FO. Also loved the harmony part. I recently discovered that I’m 45% Scottish. Maybe we are distant cousins. 😉💚
I was thinking the same thing as my DNA shows I’m from the British Isles (53% from England, 33% from Scotland and 8% from Ireland with a bit of Sweden and Denmark thrown in for good measure.). Genealogy is so interesting; I love to see how people are connected.
Genealogy is fun. You actually don't need to go very far here on the Island to find distance relatives. When the local people start talking about their family lineage, it gets pretty intwined and confusing. Then there are all of the other interesting things, such as families raising children from other families where the parents died young or from accidents. It seems that happened more than you would think in the early 1900's. So people are "related" but they are not really related.
I bought that yarn swift and it's fabulous. It puts very little pressure on the yarn cake. I used to wind twice in order to relieve some of the tightly wound cakes when using the wooden umbrella style swift. There is a bit of an adjustment in figuring out the height differential of your yarn winder. I think one thing that would make it better is longer pegs.
I am glad you are enjoying the swift. They are so beautiful and work so well. I hear you on the peg length. The pegs are the only part of the swift that Scott doesn't mill himself. He purchases them unfinished and does the finishing on them. His supplier doesn't make them longer and he could mill them himself but it would add cost to the swift. They are pretty fiddly to make by hand apparently take a long time and hard to get consistent.
Love your Evendoon and the neck I think looks great on you. Are you thinking of doing a video for when you steek your Paisley? Thank you as always for doing the podcast.
You're welcome!
J’espère pouvoir vous rendre visite l’été prochain 🧶🇨🇦🧣 Lévis, Québec. Merci beaucoup pour la vidéo 🎥
Merci Wanda!
Lovely episode, u really like the harmony part today. Love old historic gravesites. I always wonder what those people were like and wish I could go back in time to talked to them and get a real insight for their lives at the time.
The swift looks like a great gift for Christmas.
I always wonder what the people were like too. It is a peaceful spot.
Great Podcast as always, your sweater is GORGEOUS. Where is your sister?!
Thanks Pamela. Jen is working on her own company. She explains in Episode 73.
I would love some of the Haunted Woods yarn, I will be there in October so will definitely come by the shop for some, would look amazing in a crochet mosaic blanket with a cream as the contrast colour, just have to decide which pattern!
You should let us know ahead of time how many you want and when you are coming. None of it has made it out to the store shelves. We are selling out every batch we make. Send us an email if you like.
Your sweater is beautiful
Thanks!
Regarding crochet books, it is important to know if they are UK editions or North American editions, as the names for basic stitches differ. I learned that the hard way making a doll for my granddaughter.
Yes I did know that about crochet - very confusing!
Your sweater looks great, fix and all. Loved the segment in the dye room. Next, can you show how a variegated yarn is dyed? On a separated topic, when will the Wildwood book by Marie Wallin be back in stock? Is she coming out with a new book?
Marie is coming out with a new book - Cherish. I just placed an order with her and ordered Wildwood as well.
Another great episode! Love your specially artistic sleeve ;) Thank you for showing the dyeing section...I go to my Mom's tomorrow to dye wool and will have her put the mordant in with the dye this time...we usually dye/cook/mordant/cook/rinse....so I will be interested to record the difference this time mordant & dye/cook/rinse and see if it gives more depth to the colour. We had so much to dye last time we forgot we had one pot with leftover water and the mordant already in it when we added more water and dye...then when we put in the new fibre to dye. It was a much richer, deeper colour even though we'd used the same recipe and water amounts. Will post results on Instagram....cheers, NancyKnot
We soak the yarn first for at least a half hour before putting it in the dye vat. That may be an important step. Jennifer H. puts the mordant in as she showed in the video, I put it in after the yarn has been added, but I do think it makes the yarn more semi-solid looking. Have fun experimenting!
@@FleeceHarmonyPodcast Yes, I always presoak as well as per Mum's instructions. The very first time I misunderstood Mum's instructions and brought the cardigan to her soaking in a 1/2 filled cooler of water after 24 soaking in water...LOL. She's 3 hrs away and I was worried about how to transport still soaking in a bucket especially since I'd TOTALLY misunderstood her instructions. Needless to say she'd meant I was to bring it 'before' knitting the garment and soaked but squished out...made for a very interesting dye day. But I kept gently turning the sweater every 7mins or so and we miraculously didn't have any over saturated spots. It was beautifully even. LOL life is much easier when you listen to your Mum. ;) NancyKnot P.S. It Killybegs in my Raverly projects.
I have always liked being at a Cemetary and perhaps it is because of the quiet since I thrive in the quiet. Thank you for a lovely another lovely episode of F&H! Is Jennifer well? I missed the reason why she is absent from the podcast. Also, will you be having the beautiful blankets/throws available this year? Stay well, take care, Patricia.
Thanks Patricia. No blankets this year I am afraid. There is a big waiting list for weaving at that mill. Jen is working on her own company no. She talks about it in episode 73. She is most definitely well.
@@FleeceHarmonyPodcast I appreciate it, thanks Kim. I remember that episode now…
great episode ! loved the rowan felted tweed colours. your samples show it off beautiful. woud i just need one ball to make the cowl? i know you said stitch count but was wondering needle size.? maybe i missed it .thanks !
Yup - one ball to make the cowl. Some of the samples cast on 120 stitches and some had 110. I wouldn't go below 110. I knit mine on 3.75mm because I like Felted Tweed at a sightly tighter gauge. The other girls used 4mm needles.
@@FleeceHarmonyPodcast great thank you! now to decide which one!
Hi Kim, I would like to also knit the sweater you are wearing, the link you give is for a totally different thing, a Cardigan? Cant find the sweater.
The link goes to the 10 Years in the Making book which we sell and contains the pull over pattern. I have just updated the show notes with the link to the pullover pattern that you can buy individually from Ravelry if you don't want to purchase the book. Here is the link: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/evendoon-pullover
Question regarding the dye process: When you heat up the yarn to near boiling why doesn't the wool shrink up to child size as it does when you wash a sweater in hot water? Thank you for all you do.
I know - you would think it would felt. It is actually not hot water than felts wool. It is hot water, soap and agitation - the three together. And if you then change the water temperature dramatically - say rinse with cold water while the yarn is still hot, you also can get felting. That's why I was emphasizing that the yarn was actually cool during the video. I could see a bit of steam coming up while Jennifer was rinsing and I didn't want people to think you could hit hot yarn with cold water. The bottom of the vat retains heat, and the steam was coming from that.
There are working turntables in San Francisco!
I have actually seen the ones in San Francisco. They are amazing.
You did a great job on the sweater... I love it. Is Jennifer not returning to the podcast?
I was going to ask same Q
Thanks!
Hi Kim, I dont manage to watch all of your podcasts but I’ve noticed the last several that I have caught that Jennifer isnt there. Has she moved away or ???
Hi - She is started another company. She explains in episode 73.
I would like to know the need for knitting panels together and then cutting it after???!!!???
It is so you can knit the sweater in the round avoiding the need to do colour work on a purl rows.
@@FleeceHarmonyPodcast Thank you for your answer! Are you going to show us how you finish it without unraveling?
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What i wouldve done for the sleeves was use a solid color for 3 stripes on both sleeves like seafoam . i dont care for asymetrical looks.
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