Nice gnome!

The Kitchener stitch was named after Herbert Kitchener, famous for Britain's colonial victories in the Sudan and South Africa. Aspects around Kitchener’s involvement with his ‘stitch’ remain uncertain. Some claim that Kitchener himself helped to design a sock pattern that included a new seamless method of grafting the toe, however, others say that Kitchener’s actual involvement is rooted more in lore than fact. Kitchener is blamed for the darker aspects of the British victories in Africa, including the use of scorched earth tactics and concentration camps against Boer women and children. Because of this, many folks in the crafting world now prefer to use the term "grafting".

You have adorable critters !! The cats are SO pretty !! Your Gnome adventure is fun to watch !

Love your gnomes.! And your furbabies❤

I so enjoy your weekly check-ins, Jen and it’s lovely to catch a glimpse of your beautiful part of the world. If you are ever able to record yourself knitting I would love to see it - you must be so fast to produce such beautiful work so quickly!

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OMG! Love your gnome…

Thanks Jenn! Based on what you mentioned in a previous episode, I am enduring those ads in support of your house painting 😅. Paint is not cheap anymore!!

Thanks for the video!

Love the gnome 🥰

I’m 100% in agreement about casting on! I’m working on a pair of gloves that I had to cast on three times before the gauge and everything was just right (just call me Goldilocks, I guess 😂) and it immediately went into 1*1 color work. Talk about fiddly! They’re looking great now, so it’s definitely worth it, but I’m not looking foreword to starting the second glove…

I wish I could keep up with casting on 12 projects at once. I would lose the first 4 projects before I got done with day 12!

Hi! Just found you and was curious who your favorite sock designers were so I watched and then liked and subscribed! I love Nanci Wheeler and Helen Stewart. I also like Summer Lee. My favorite though is Carlie Perrins - Northwoods Knit Co. I've lost count of how many Test Knits I've done for her! My newest find is Marie Elyse Dugal.

I was inspired by your 12 days of cast on to get on my needles all the knits I wanted to make changes to eg add length, shorten sleeves, add elastic to the neck. It has really helped me to make the changes I've been meaning to make for ages. I've already cast one of them off. I also did some project planning to come up with ideas to use up my stash. Thanks for sharing your ideas

Your 12 days of cast ons inspired me to cast on more projects than normal. I would like to knit more accessories for myself while it is still cold enough to wear them. It is nice to have WIP options!

Love watching your podcasts, you're so down to earth and I can relate to you because I grew up in Nova Scotia.

The lonely knitter and Giddy Yarns are doing a gnome along where they are aiming to knit 8 gnomes throughout the year. If you'd like to check it out . Think it's called friends who grimble together x

I love your videos, you‘re great just as you are!❤ I also send you a message on instagram some weeks ago but you didn’t accept the invitation. Perhaps there are more messages from other knitters waiting for you? 😃

I am currently knitting a sock in KFI Collection Teenie Weenie wool. It is toothy but I am enjoying it. The yarn doesn’t have a whole lot of stretch but I have figured a way to work around that. Good luck.

Don’t know how much you have of ech. Could also be shorties.

Stripes with the speckled and either blue or red . Then use one of them for contrast cuffs, heels, and toes. I can see them right now in my head. So cute. At less I think so.

I look forward to your weekly podcasts and today resisted the urge to skip the adds but watched them to help with your plans to repaint the house..

I enjoy your podcast because you knit interesting things and are a pleasure to listen to. I wish I didn’t enjoy casting on! That’s how too many WIPs are started at my house. I’m reorganizing my stash and then will factor in some stash specific themes for 2025. I like having monthly or quarterly goals. One thing I’ve noticed lately is I am hoarding my more expensive yarns and want to change that this year. Knit the good stuff after I finish some projects.

Your tale of woe reminded me of the time I was knitting a first sock. Although I liked the color, I decided I would never wear it as socks. So… I ripped back past the heel and made fingerless mitts instead. Just a thought. Anyway, I love watching your channel. Toothy yarns are my favorite so I’m with you there! And I had a blast casting on 12 new projects. Thank you for doing what you do. ❤

If someone wants to get down on the ground and count the rows in your great striped socks - step on them!

Your flying geese mittens are wonderful!

I love my Coorie In Poncho ❤. I knit it 2" longer than in the pattern.

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Hi Jenn! I am on cast on 12! I’m so excited to get working on them. Todays cast on is the Garter Marler by Stephen West. I have 2 pairs of socks, 2 hats, 1 Earwarmer, a wrap, and 6 sweaters! I love all of them. I love your mitts!

I love your Gnana! 🥰 Geese mitts are lovely too! Homebody socks are gorgeous colours! I will have to look up that pattern. How can you get so much knitting done? Between knitting, spinning, fiddle, reading and my full time job and caring for my Mom, I feel like I cannot get much done. I DID finish mitts. I used a free pattern and doubled white lace weight baby alpaca with a striped fingering. It created a nice pattern. They're also my shoveling mitts but the winter has been good so far. Early storms in December and nothing since except for super cold temps. I discovered that the wonderful sickness I got was COVID. First time ever getting it! ICK!

You are such a joy! Your 12 days of cast on videos were a highlight to my holiday season. Thanks to you, I've cast on a cabled shawl, a long garter stitch coat , a hat and my first pair of colorwork socks. I needed some knits for me after a month of gift knit socks. My brain is knitting faster than my hands, but I'm having a great time. Big love from Chicago <3

Just want to say that you have inspired me to spend January doing the swatching and the math to set me up for 5 projects to work on my very old stash. I am swatching for a trellis cable pattern with eyelet lace in the diamonds, in some worsted weight natural yarn I bought in the 80's, that I want to make a top down cardigan, as well as a colourblock top in fuschia and royal blue, with a repeating motif a la engineering knits, with 1980s Eaton's lady fair super wool, a pair of socks for my husband from an old beehive sock book with the alladin heel, a tea cozy from some handspun that is a bit too rustic to wear, and a scrappy pillow for my neighbour when we realized that the leftovers from a number of baby knits would perfectly match her new tv room couch. I am moving along well, and am finding doing the heavy lifting to adapt patterns, or just work out stitch counts all in the same period, is really motivating. I really enjoy your content, and am thinking about a trip out to the East Coast to visit some of your favorite yarn sources,

When I saw Angela cast on a batch of socks for her first project, I thought about you with your two pairs of socks as one project, and said to myself, 'Jenn doesn't need to worry about breaking the rules', lol. I'll keep in mind when I plan my 12 for 2026, that I'm the boss of my own knitting and anything goes!

I'm really liking the idea of casting on gift socks a batch at a time - going to give this serious consideration this year.

Anyone looking at your socks that closely either lives you deeply or needs a restraining order, just sayn 😊

I love watching your podcasts because you are a very pleasant stotyteller but also you are not like some beige ladys who are almost only knitting petiteknit and i am thankful for that. ❤ I don‘t have anything against petiteknit and beige, but it is just no fun to watch.

Gotta admit I thought 12 cast-ons was nuts, but seeing your rapid progress has me rethinking it. Nice!

Hi Jenn. I don't have a local knitting in person group either so I enjoy watching you talk about your knitting. One of my 12 days of cast ons are 12 pairs of socks. 1 is the monthly Stephen west year of 2025 socks and the other is the 12 months of the summer lee colorwork cuff club.

Lovely podcast! I like the idea of casting on several pairs of socks - I’m not overly keen on knitting them, but everybody loves them and I wear wool socks myself all the time now. I could knit a few rows a day and have a few finished pairs for gifts.

Even when I do not wrote a comment in the past. Watching your content is helping me to feel some sort of company. I am glad that I found your channel.

I enjoy watching your channel. You have inspired me to knit from stash. Your fire season blanket is beautiful:)

I just love the mitts. I have many robin Hansen books. I may have to make a pair

I also love the geese mittens and have some rustic yarn from Maritime Fibers in Maine that will be perfect!

Morning Jen, love to watch your podcast. I'm wondering now if I'm also making my socks to big, hmmm. I'm a newer knitter, I have size 10 feet I use size 2 dpn's with 64 stitches. They fit well enough but at times do get a bit slouchy on my foot. What size foot do you have ? Keep up the wonderful work from your Alberta fan ! 😊

Your geese mitts are lovely.

I love the flying geese mitts! But then again, it's one of my favorite quilt blocks, so I may be biased...

Enjoyed walking through your 12 days of cast on's. I'm be most inspired to do the same but I have so many WIP's already on the needles. Maybe I'll have to do something similar and do 12 days of WIP's and rotate my projects til completion. 😃

I've enjoyed following your journey through the 12 days of Cast-Ons and look forward to seeing all of your projects as you work on them.

Hi, I’ve been watching your videos for like a year, I’ve watched your entire series on your 12 cast-ons trying not to get influenced… but alas… here I am, watching Lord of the Rings extended edition AGAIN… only watched it 3 times last year lol Good luck with all your projects, hope you get lots of time to craft! Looks like you have another snow storm heading your way so some cozy indoor weather 😊

Thanks for sharing your cast ons. Looking forward to watching the projects develop.