So excited for the Curator Sweater! Loved knitting the Beginners Welcome!

The joy for your sweater design absolutely translates ☀️ Thank you for all of the thoughtful and inspiring videos you've continued to share throughout 2024, and wishing you happy holidays and a wonderful new year!

Thanks Lily - what a delightful podcast ! I love your new pattern and just as much your great joy in it ! - it looks like a charming design which I will patiently wait for. I share many of your podcast likes - especially Nicole - the 'Gentle Knitter' who I was also so happy to see in that recent interview. There is no doubt in my mind now that we do not have to meet someone in person to feel admiration for, and connection and empathy with. This online 'knitted together' world of artists and crafters is a huge exemplar of all this ! Hope you have a delightful holiday ! Best wishes from Western Australia.

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I'm looking forward to knitting the Pohjola Pullover by Sari Nordland, which has a beautiful colorwork yoke! Such a lovely podcast and Happy Holidays! ❤

Omg Lily! The sweater design….yes! I loved hearing about your other knits and the vlogmas! Happy Holidays!

Very grateful for your color palette inspiration on the Celeste Sweater. I started it shortly after your Oct 5th podcast. I don't think I would have attempted it otherwise, and now its my absolute favorite knit garment ever! Another colorwork pullover I made this year was the 'Model May' by Hanne Rimmen. (also inspired by another youtuber who made a great version of it, Orsa Makes ). The colorwork pattern reminds me of an old-fashioned wrought iron fence/gate with spiky tips. Have a great holiday!

LOVE your sweater design. I actually have been searching for a simple sweater with a cable on the raglan. Excited to learn about a new (for me) construction. Can’t wait to see the final!!

Thank you Lily for a quiet and reflective vlog. Happy holidays. Happy New Year.

I loved your "vlog"! So fun to see your gallery and little glimpses of the bay area. I used to live in SF years ago and I always enjoy seeing and hearing about the area. I'm excited to see your new sweater pattern progress and especially like hearing about your process of designing and writing it. Is it possible to knit it without the cable? Hope you have a wonderful, relaxing holiday ❤

Lapwing by Marie Wallin has had my eye for a while though being a small-sized human I have to think carefully about how I style “pretty” or “decorated” garments. She has so many designs I would love to knit though know I would never wear but the chart for Chestnut on a sofa cushion may scratch the itch I’ve been feeling. Happy holidays - I hope they are filled with joy and memory making of the richest kind.

one of my favorites is the celeste sweater by Petite knits and the Lunenburg Pullover by Amy Christoffers. Thank you for taking the time to make your podcasts. They are always such an inspiration.

thanks for sharing your home decos and outside vids lovely sweater you are wearing wishing you and yours a great festive season and a good 2025 keep taking care xxxxx

What are your favorite color-work sweaters these days? I'm missing stranded color work on my needles, and dreaming of some color-changing yarn patterns for 2025--let me know your recs!

It's so interesting to hear about your design process! I discovered Marriage Freres when I lived in France in college. Their ginger green tea is still my favorite!

This is great. Have watched several tutorials in the past but yours really helped me to understand and execute this cast on finally!

I am verbal or external processor too… not for everything but for many things I just need to talk it through ❤❤❤

So happy I found you! Buying your hat pattern now! It’s gorgeous.

LOVE everything in this episode Lily! Just, wow. Thank you so much for sharing your creative process, your favorite things, and approach to the perfectionism streak - I was nodding along to everything you said! Bird by Bird has been on my to read list forever. I'm saying now 2025 is the year I read it!❤

Ahh such lovely knits, as always 💕 I'm so excited that the hat is taking off by storm! I'm still on the hunt for the perfect hat so I'll give it a try! I am so excited for your sweater design! I do have a very knit-worthy sister with a 60-62" bust, and I know that is often a size that is tough to find testers for so......I'm available in Jan/Feb! I am exactly the same way where I have to talk things out. I'm convinced that hearing myself say my thoughts sends it through auditory processing and puts it in a different part of my brain. I'm sure it's just that there's so much bouncing around that it's nice for an idea to be outside of my head, if only for a little while haha.

I just discovered your podcast Lily! Loved it, now I want to go back and start watching from the beginning!

I have thoroughly enjoyed your podcast today. I wrote down your favorite things for knitters. I also wrote down Ann Lamont book. My daughter is a professor and she dabbles in some writing on the side. Just a great idea for a little extra Christmas gift.

I agree with you on Big Birdie. I don’t like how my stitches look even after blocking.

algorithms can be such a lovely concept...so happy they brought me to you! ("follow your nose...it ALWAYS knows!" said the fruit loops toucan)

Thank you! Wishing you the best in your sweater design adventure and I hope your son loves the one he's getting - so sweet to hear what a fan he is of your making for him. I loved hearing about your favorite things!

Why don’t you block the magenta sweater now to see if you’ll like the finished fabric.

Lovely episode and so interesting to hear how you are approaching design. I was knitting a lace shawl whilst watching

Love to test knit for you so will be on the lookout. I just ordered the gauge tool for my stocking! As always, enjoyed your podcast.

Always refreshing to listen to your take on making. Can’t wait to see your project work up in that Sonder Yarn combo - I recently used her fingering weight with Halo in a project and every time I wear it someone stops and asks me about it.

Wow I just loved this podcast! You’re a great thinker and entrepreneur. Thank you.

This is SO exciting. I really do believe in the just getting it out there, starting somewhere, being ok with a crappy first draft. Yes! I’m cooking up a concept, not a knitting design, but fiber related, that I believe in and will be talking to some people about. And I feel a little intimidated. I’m new to the fiber world. Your thoughts here, expressed out loud, has boosted my confidence!

Great episode, already added a couple things to my Amazon cart! Side note, what is your wall paint color behind you? Love it!

Congratulations 🎉 on your hat! Love your mod #18 awesome! Love your cloud sweater. The fashion color is burgundy I read is the color for winter this year so you in style girl lol. I think Jody of Grocery’s Girls showed hers this week and it was done in Drops Air. You yarn is beautiful I think but understand how you feel just go with it. You can always make another.

Loved your episode today! Not that I don’t enjoy all of them but especially liked your sharing at the end! Thanks❤!

I've knit with the big birdie and it's my most worn sweater. It's the coziest sweater, absolutely next to skin soft. I made the Fancy sweater after seeing the multiple versions that Leslie Friend made.

I do the same thing.... my family calls it "thinking out loud."

Hi Lily, Re your Big Birdie question, I haven't used Big Birdie, but I have used Farmer's Daughter Oh Dang DK in Andrea Mowry's oversized drop shoulder recent release (sorry, forgetting the name) and feel the same as you -- it's scruffy but delightful for a casual oversized item, as this is for me. I also knit Andre's Brume using Oh Dang, but I doubled the thinner version instead of using DK, and it solves the scruffy-ness problem! Love your episodes and congrats on your successful pattern release!

It doesn't matter if I'm not a perfectionist in my jobs, but I want my surgeons to be perfectionists.

Love the recs! Bird by Bird and her words of wisdom are exceptional tenets. I wavered on the Merit specials in Nov and didn’t purchase. Will have to reconsider. I really just want that caramel corduroy bag. 😂 Looking forward to your sweater design. Cheers!

Great episode. Loved the favorite things at the end. Best wishes for your new design.

Hey! I’m only a few minutes into the episode and wanted to comment on the Suri DK before I forget. And as you were talking (or thinking through talking) more, you mentioned something related to my thought. :) The suri at that bulky weight will likely stay “scruffy” as you describe; I don’t think you’ll get even stockinette stitch, if that is what you prefer. My suggestion is to try the reverse side as the “right” side. The purl bumps will likely make a fabric your eye likes better, and it also helps any semi tonal dye or speckled yarn to look more visually blended. And as you mention the Weekender, note that it’s knit for the reverse side to be the “right” side. I have a very oversized sweater WIP in suri DK that I’m changing to be purl side out. Also going to throw it in the dryer so some of that fluff will stop flying around my house and stick to everything. 😂

I loved hearing about your design process and am super excited about the sweater. I have pretty square shoulders and find some types of sweaters just don’t fit right. I would love to test it! I’m working on a test for Alicia Plummer right now, as well as multiple Christmas gifts (hello five Ranunculus sweaters for my bookgroup). I love watching knitting podcasts while knitting so I’m looking forward to your podcast list next time. Oh, and I went right over to Amazon and added a couple of things to my cart 😂

What a super honest episode! Really enjoyed it. Thank you ✨

I’m in awe of the design process and how designers plan the delightful sweaters etc that us knitters so love to cast on. Love your podcast. Just casting off a Christmas stocking for one son in law. 1more to knit. Keep on chatting and talking through stuff. I so enjoy it. ❤

Great tutorial! Can you also do a tutorial on tubular cast off?

Thank you! This is a fabulous tutorial.

Thank you! You make it look so easy and beautiful!

Awesome tutorial! I’ve never seen it explained in a way that allows me to check myself along the way. Bravo!

Great! Thanks