DAY 12 - Getting My Life (Knitting) Together | Vlogmas 2022 | Knitty Natty

[@vickieley7024]

Oh, Natalie, I'm so so happy that you have learned that it's OK to focus on what brings you joy rather than just plodding through to get stuff done, please feel proud of yourself for this.

[@chrissy24-7]

Indeed! This is one of the most important things we can do for ourselves ❤️

[@jilljarvis94]

I completely agree and have used allowed myself more grace to knit on what is truly bringing me joy too!

[@kristinahill3708]

Yay!!! I’m almost 50 and a recovering perfectionist and I’m so proud of you!!!! Giving yourself permission to pause a project or pivot midway through can be so freeing. I’m still a work in progress here. I practice saying things like it’s not right or wrong, it’s just different. Life is more joyful when we take the pressure off ourselves. ❤️

[@cantbelieveit304]

Kent had way too much fun editing this one. Love hearing your thought process when it comes to advents! I'm feeling like I'm not doing it the "right way" because I don't have a pattern chosen. Thanks for reminding me there doesn't have to be a right way.

[@mendezcher]

“That’s a choice?” 😂😂😂😂 I love that you didn’t realize there were more than 2 choices on advent.

[@juliefox5137]

Funny furby story. My Mom needed to return something at the store and when she got to the counter the clerk gave her a furby to purchase… she looked at him weird and he said “you were in line for the limited amount of furbys right?” She said “sure what the heck, I’ll take one” lol. She put it under our tree without a tag told us all it was from Santa, and it drove Dave and I nuts all day till finally my Grammy told her to just tell us! Lol. And I have to agree, it was pretty creepy, haha.

[@All.things.grandish]

I watched a vlogmas the other day where the knitter is working an a color a day FROM LAST YEAR’S ADVENT! She had the colors open and lined up (not sure if they were in the same order as they came) and is doing one a day. Which sounds like a win-win to me.

[@marykestrydom8358]

Saw the litte wolf knit doing it also that way. That's such a cool idea

[@laurenhobson374]

I had several Furby's growing up, we moved when I was young and they were packed in several boxes and stored in the garage at the new house. They would go off randomly when you entered the garage (I'm pretty sure they used to say things like "I see you"). There was one that kept going off and we could never figure out which box it was in. I still have a slight fear of going into my parents garage because I honestly don't know if they ever found it.

[@suetupper9162]

Oh Natalie...I needed the guidance in regards to all the Wips today....I have too many on the needles....I need to reevaluate!...thank you....loving sweet Toaster!

[@MsPenelope10]

It's so freeing when you decide to change projects! Good for you for walking thru the steps, love it! We all do it!

[@deborahhuss9579]

Like hearing your thought processes when deciding what to knit and what not to knit. I usually just have a couple knit projects going so not a problem with me. It all applies to other areas of my life and if I get two or three things done each day, I am happy and do what I want with the rest of the time. I am retired and it took awhile to get used to having more time. When working life was just easier if I was more organized. Today's toy guess was so funny. I love seeing you two together. Thanks for all your videos, sleep well.

[@pamleverette3860]

Knitting is to be enjoyable and if it isn’t bringing you JOY…put it in a rest basket….LOVE LOVE LOVE❤️thank you for helping me talk myself out of thinking I have to stick to a schedule with my knitting! I love that Kent cooks!

[@KnitVenturous]

LOVE that you’re doing what brings you joy. Also, if the hat doesn’t get done you can TECHNICALLY still wear it. Put the stitches on thread (or something soft that can be tied so it doesn’t get undone and it doesn’t scratch your head), double it up and have the stitches on the inside. No one has to know 😉

[@jennyvonderruhr5403]

You two are the absolute cutest.❤️

[@pamelamatt1441]

Love love love your vlogmas! Kent and toaster bring great joy to it as well! 🥰

[@annabellavampirella]

Toaster is chasing rabbits. Lol my dog practically jumps when having chase dreams.

[@emilydobbins5154]

Such a fun vlog! All the furby content had me rolling 🤣🤣

[@danamcmorris788]

Thank you for another great Vlogmas video. I am using yours and Little Wolf's videos to finish my last of 5 stockings. Tonight I guessed it was Glow Worm and then you said Furby. I remember having Furbies. They were cute and creepy all at the same time.

[@Nicky-1293]

I did have a Furby as a kid, and at one point it started creeping me out so bad I buried it in the deepest darkest part of my closet, and covered even that with other toys, so the pile i buried it in was properly covered even more. Found that thing 10+ years later

[@kendram7511]

I’m working on last years advent and it was great to be able to arrange the colors myself!

[@sarahondocsin6588]

As a self identified “control freak” I have NEVER been able to knit along with an advent without seeing the ENTIRE thing because “what if I don’t like the colors?” Or “what if the project I pick doesn’t work with that yarn” lol so it’s funny to me that you “trust” your advents enough to commit to a project before knowing the colors! So funny how brains work differently. I also have a lot of stress around picking the right project lol. Luckily this year Diane of suburban stitcher and tellybean took the guesswork out of it for me and included a pattern with the advent and I am absolutely loving it! First time I’ve ever kept up knitting day by day!

[@Midnightpigeon666]

This is my first time watching your channel after Primrose Knits recommended you in her channel! 💖🎉 I’m so glad to be here as a new subscriber, I absolutely love your style. You are such a warm, bright and loving soul, I feel like I need to go back and watch all of your videos now! X

[@debrademusz731]

I love the music you use on podcasts. It’s light and fresh. Thank you.

[@knittingtipsy6025]

Recovering perfectionist here too!!! Super proud of you for making the decision to slow down and focus on what's bringing you joy!!! 💕👏💕👏. We don't have to do it all and deadlines are often just arbitrary. It's ok to let go of that needless extra pressure 💕💕💕💕. Also, y'all freaked me out with that final furby at the end 😂😂😂😂😱😱😱😱

[@bethpaschal7859]

Oh Natalie! I felt sad when you said you were moving, and I also feel excited for you. I will miss the familiarity of the podcasts. However, I hope you keep knitting and podcasting. Wherever you go on your travels I bet it will be a great adventure!

[@leelee771000]

I have fallen behind with my big advent, I am now a day behind on both my sock ones too. I’m now okay with that after beating myself up over it. I am focusing on my Sockmas socks this week and then I’ll go back to my advents, they won’t evaporate. It’s so easy to get overwhelmed with it all.

[@neonsolofficial]

Thank you so, so much for mentioning my little pouches!! 🥰

[@demonpeepers4310]

I understand living small, I live in a semi truck with my husband and our two cats! Also my giant yarn and fiber stash that takes up our top bunk ❤😂

[@tovalieberman8326]

Oh my goodness, I was also inspired by the Calico Quilt Shawl that Kay is often wearing! I started it the other day! It’s a great pattern. Can’t wait to see what you decide to do. Love your knitting!

[@Graceygoodies]

Yes, after seeing Kay's Calico Quilt Shawl with my advent. I waited until about day 10 before making the decision, after I saw her shawl.

[@amandamcd3803]

I loved hearing your thought process with your projects. At the end, when Kent pulled you to him, it looked like you were going to get a cuddle, but NOPE! Toaster’s turn! 😂

[@wildflowermagicknits]

Kent, I didn't appreciate the nightmare fuel that is that ending cut scene 🤣 I did have one and the only thing I remember about it was I kept it in my closet and it would wake me up laughing multiple times a week 😅

[@allyg8846]

I do the watch later then hit random order when I have time to watch. Vlogmases are crazy out of order but it's kind of fun overall! lol

[@shellygrimsley7809]

I am feeling the joy in my cozy knitter advent socks! Saving my advent yarn because I wasn’t happy with the project I chose. Sadly I am probably not going to finish my sockmas socks but that’s ok! I have one nearly done and will finish the other when I can. It’s just been fun to be a part of the group!!

[@Blaize24]

The new mic sounds fantastic. Much fuller and richer.

[@stephanielockwood4256]

I did not decide what to do with my advent calendars from last year until recently. I am doing the anthology throw with one of them. So less stressful.

[@officialchriskingnotary]

I bought a 12 day advent. If I’m feeling stressed out, I open one of the bags. Right now, my plan is to cast on a cowl on Christmas Day. After all the gift knitting is done. It’s my reward😁❤️

[@jopena1612]

Hi Natalie, I was laughing by myself while watching your Vlogmas. When you asked your Alexa to do something for you, my Alexa heard you and was doing her own thing here in Michigan. 🤣😂

[@sarahkania8461]

I’m a perfectionist and your videos just have the best nuggets of wisdom sprinkled throughout, I so appreciate that in my day! I never had a furby, maybe I was a little too old. But lovedddd the visual effects on this one! 😂

[@KaySellsVA]

Loved this so much! I was feeling a little pressured with my advent projects. Just had the idea to have “Christmas in July” to revisit any I don’t finish in December. They will all seem new to me then!

[@annahase]

Your skin always looks lovely! I noticed you take daily collagen with your coffee. 😊 me too! I also was told to use daily retinol 1% after turning 30 to help turn skin over and stimulate collagen production. Random thoughts! 😁. I enjoy your vlogmas!

[@followin_Jesus]

My daily win yesterday was admitting that I need to let my body rest more than I'd been planning on. And accept that one of the presents I was planning to gift, probably won't even get started before Christmas. I've been knitting and crocheting so much lately that my wrist is starting to get mad at me. The bonus is that I've already told my mom that I'm not going to be able to finish a cowl "on time". After talking about it and letting her know what was going on, she was able to give input on the color, yarn weight and design. My idea-worsted weight, probably red, cabled and knit. New plan-fingering weight, off white, crochet = double loop playtime cowl.

[@blindgirl_life]

Natalie I just found your channel a couple weeks ago and I am so enjoying your vlogmas!!!

[@TheStephaniejane93]

I’m working on the calico quilt shawl with one of my advents but I didn’t decide on the pattern until I had opened 12 days of the advent :) so I’m still on day 1 but I’m loving it :)

[@ewecreekcottage7411]

so interesting how you brought up choices for advents-heres what i did and was feeling guilty until u shared today - so this is my first advent calendar and i chose a dyer who i've bought from consistently the last 2 years- well opening up the first three days i didn't like them skeined up i didn't like the bags they came in left all kind of strings all over them - I began to think i made a big mistake and wasted a bunch of money so i made the decision to open them all up on day 4- wasn't feeling much better so i decided to center pull wind them all up and I FELL IN LOVE i knew exactly what i would do with them and started knitting but i was designing it myself so it took 3 days to get the yardage to pattern right but now my day is filled with joyful exciting advent knitting and now i don't feel guilty for breaking the "rules" thanks to you.

[@Lisa_Flowers]

I actually love vlogs where you chat a lot! This is my second time watching this one. That said, I also love the beautiful footage and calming music, so I'm sure I'll enjoy the next couple of days 😊

[@raquelallgood5744]

You got a lot of the furbees together and they would sing songs

[@rachelraye285]

I love this vlogmas! It is great to learn I am not the only crafter that thinks about the rules and dealing with project boredom. I say this as I am reevaluating my project plans for this month and pushing myself to focus on what projects are bringing me joy. For example, I love to crochet a blanket and I am itching to start a new one! But I have two active sweaters and just did a gauge swatch for a new one😮😊🎉. Also love all the snacks Kent picked up!!

[@rebeccaluppold4788]

I just love your intro music and scenery.

[@ambernagel7486]

I still have my Furbies in my yarn room!

[@jennifer_beaulieu]

Bonus points for the editing on this one!

[@Megan-knits]

Yay! The long video today is like a little birthday present!

[@Pharm2be]

I had a furby and I loved it but looking back… they were a little cursed. You could teach them though and that’s what I really liked

[@samburch1321]

I love watching your vlogmas every single day, it makes me really look forward to my lunch break each day 😅 the catalog colors look a lot like buzz lightyear, so maybe Toy Story?? Love your channel!! 🥰

[@debbyjo123]

I’m having so much fun binge watching all your vlogmas videos!!! It’s so funny all the things I remember from who knows how long ago. I remember you making your overnight oats when you were still teaching. I pretty much eat that all the time too. And, I totally remember when you moved to NY and poor Toaster was settling into learning about elevators, no grass… i even remember a few videos where you waited for the next elevator hoping to get an empty one. Those treats worked miracles… plus, you and Kent are excellent parents!!! I think I’m on day 12, so I’m going through these one right after the other. They have been fun!! QUESTION: do you still have your other channel? I can’t even remember the name of it, but I always enjoyed it. I don’t knit or crochet, so it’s totally out of character for me to be watching your knitting videos. Thank you.

[@seiryumiko]

I'm glad you're knitting what is fun, these projects should all be fun and if you aren't enjoying. I got hung up on being behind when opening my Halloween advent this year and then my 4yo decided she wanted to reorder things. Heh kinda forced a new perspective but I think I enjoyed the colors and project more cause the reorder was more 'me'. Loving vlogmas this year, your videos have been relaxing during the busy month.

[@patiharville8210]

I love your scrappy crochet blanket so much that I started one today. ❤

[@Lacy_P]

Catching up on Vlogmas-es … I know what I hope to make with my Advent, but it needs a contrast colour, so I’m waiting for the end (24 and 12 days) to see what the outcome will be. 💜

[@juliekennedy1296]

The wool colours are pretty close to the colour my daughter’s was. You could teach them to say things. My teenage son never managed to teach it to swear, but he tried 😂

[@jillianroger7744]

My kids are afraid of Furbies because of Mitchells vs. the Machines. I do have a Furby still at my parents' house!

[@kristinahill3708]

Commenting again on the same video 🤣 but Kent you’re the real MVP!!

[@knittingghost]

I currently have my childhood furby in a storage bin underneath other stuff. I don't know how I played with that thing, it's so creepy. No way am I pulling it out ever again. It used to come on in the middle of the night saying, "Feed meee!"

[@juliekennedy1296]

When I bought Furby for my two youngest, I had a teenager who tried to teach them to swear! Don’t know if it worked but they went through lots of batteries 😂

[@knittingghost]

@@juliekennedy1296 hahaha that's pretty funny! You know, minus all the batteries. 😂

[@katrinascrochethookandloops]

New to your channel. Subscribed thank you for sharing all your stuff with us all. Love your videos.

[@Jan34]

Hey pretty lady I’m new to your channel from New York City the Bronx happy vlogmas

[@beckybruns2872]

Love your intro song. I will miss it after vlogmas. Lol

[@audreyh3809]

I really love your crochet blanket and have been thinking of starting one with a yarn advent that I got last year. I’m sure you’ve mentioned this in some previous video, but I was wondering what your favourite brand of crochet hooks is.

[@michelemick4565]

Merry Christmas 🎄 So will the blanket done when the advent skeins are done this month?

[@katumlang8265]

The other cool part of the watch later playlist is that you can tell it to remove watched videos all at once, I’ve been doing this every day of vlogmas 😂

[@emilymiller40]

Wait, how do you tell it to remove watched videos??? I need to clean out my Watch Later 😂

[@kerryhurst7919]

Yessss I had a furby! It used to say it’s name was nooloo 😂 I still have it. It’s in my loft. They were cute 🥰

[@zarac2107]

Another fun vlogmas Natalie! I am so pleased that your granny stripe blanket is sparking joy! Keep going with what you love to do x

[@diannecarter1754]

I love the FGF color today ❤

[@conniewiseman5630]

Great video

[@irishbelle34]

Posting my guess before you play the game with Kent- I think it's Troll dolls. 😊

[@irishbelle34]

Totally wrong but I still had fun playing along. The toy that inspired the colorway definitely creeped me out. My friends would bring theirs to school and you would randomly hear them make noise from the lockers (that were in the classrooms) throughout the day!

[@melissalampman7214]

Green Slime😮

[@meghanshackleton9461]

It’s so interesting that your mind went to needing to knit in the order that the advent comes. I feel like my personality is too controlling to allow the randomness to dictate the pattern 😂 So I would have waited until the end to decide the order. It’s so interesting how everyone’s minds work differently!

[@marinamorales5049]

Que lindo tus tejidos ,el perrito 🐕 siempre esta durmiendo 😁🤔esta enfermo? es viejito??saludos 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾

[@p_broom426]

My daughter had a furby. They are creepy. I just reevaluated my wips also, a few had to go to the back of the line lol

[@LeiMaier]

Natalie, I'm right along with you on hitting reset button on our plans! I do love the hat you are working on ... are you doing some kind of color work on the one side of it or are you just using a striped type yarn? I'm loving the design!

[@neferetri]

I'm not sure what year of Retro the calendar is from but when I saw today's yarn I totally thought of Glo Worms cartoon/toys. Does anyone else remember those?

[@neferetri]

I found the old Christmas Special on YT! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqDPq6d4iJuEocU

[@followin_Jesus]

Totally random question. Did you ever get enough of the squares for your HP advent granny square blanket?

[@anissiabalistreri9612]

The yarn looks like buzz lightyear

[@denisafurr5672]

Interesting fun fact about Furbies is you can teach them to talk, the first year furbies, had a glitch you may say because people were teaching the furbies to curse. So the company behind furbies basically added a moral clause with the next round of furbies were that could not happen.

[@rdeniserhinehart7512]

How do you knit while walking or not looking at your knitting

[@elizabethburley7954]

You guys are so cute! I love your vlogs. Please forgive me for saying so but I’m not loving that pants pattern. That is just my style preference. So, I was glad when you said you were going to set them aside. 😂😂😂 please don’t mind me, I’m sure I’m either your moms age or older… but I totally agree with opening all your advents then arranging the colors in a way you will be happy with. Thanks to you and Kent for your hard work & beautiful energy. 💞💞💞💞

[@shannondwire1058]

Your Vlogmas is such a wonderful part of my morning. Thank you for you amazing videos. You have kept me inspired to keep knitting and creating during the most difficult part of my life. I’ve has 4 strokes between August and October, and you and Kay from The Crazy Sock Lady have been my constant You Tube companions. Merry Merry Christmas to you and Kent and Toaster. ❤

[@heathertucker7056]

I never try and keep up with my Advent yarn because I fail every year! I think it’s OK to wait and consider the colours at the end! I am saddened by the H and M on Netflix. Most people in the UK are so disappointed that they think they were not welcome here! We loved the new royal couple. Don’t want to be controversial, but just feel so sad xx

[@getyaknitsout]

How many stitches do you have in your granny blanket per row?

[@corrinamann67]

Where can I find the black Love in stitches black top?

[@Marqaisa]

Furbies were so creepy. My kids that I took care of had one and one day I was in the house while they were at school and it went off. I checked and there were no batteries! Freaked me out.

[@nancymorgan5505]

The new microphone was a little muted sounding. I prefer the old version.😊 My daughters Furby also would wake up in the middle of the night and start singing so we learned to turn it off at bedtime!

[@debbyjo123]

I can’t seem to find the link for Bethany’s channel. Just wondering what her KZbin name is, because it sounds like a fun channel. Thank you!!

[@beckybruns2872]

Playdoh has to come into play some day...maybe today.

[@kacicruz1474]

Omg I forgot how creepy furbees were!! 🤣

[@atkinsondrangolt4511]

Why is Kent just the best husband.

[@cmahoneybusi2000]

Oh, I would guess Caboodles. Buuut…it’s probably not that lol

[@CPAJESS1980]

Agh! Furbies are really creepy! Crazy the toys that were all the rage when we were kids.

[@hudfamfour]

I currently have 500+ videos in my Watch Later list 😂

[@hudfamfour]

Just kidding. I have 749 videos in my list. 😅

[@rhyesajackson3034]

This episode had my Alexa doing so many tricks. Turning off music, flashing red and green lights. It was... interesting.

[@gwendolenshepard9124]

My Alexa listens better to you than me. So funny!

[@stlonormandie7352]

🐶 ❤

[@lindseyknits]

That Furby content is horrifying.