Finnish Knitting Stories - Episode 104: Cloudy Nora Shawl, another Lento sweater & a tiny cast-on

[@karaoverman7818]

I am overjoyed with your pink knitting plans. All of my plans are on hold and I am suffering from idle hands. I broke my arm in a rather serious fashion last week and still don't know if I will need surgery. I did make a single granny square just to prove I could but it was too much. And I think there must be Hobbits who are artists.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Oh, no! I hope you heal quickly! Take care! Sending big hugs! ❤️

[@alovelyyarn]

I love watching your episodes! You bring joy to my day, so thank you! You've also inspired me to knit a Cloudy Nora shawl. I have just the yarn for it!

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you, Amber! Cloudy Nora is such a fun knit and you can use any yarn for it. Isn't it great? Can't wait to see your version!

[@debbieharman1160]

Love you Jana you always cheer me up, great vlog thankyou 🙂🌼⭐

[@ingermalmberg7138]

Watching your channel from Central Wyoming, USA I love your humor and your Lento is stunning 👏👏 . Always inspired by your channel, thank you

[@A_knitters_suitcase]

Thanks so much Jana! It's always good to see you 🥰

[@annaseverinpersson751]

Jag blir alltid så glad av dina avsnitt ❤

[@lynnniemi3053]

I loved hearing about your accidental cast ons! I know you will bring your very own magical twist to both projects and I can't wait to see the FOs!

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

The mushrooms are ready and they are craaaaazy! 😄🍄🍄🍄

[@jeanettebelle2224]

You make my day! I enjoy watching you so much! I cannot wait until you can ship your yarns to the USA. I drool over what you have in online shop and sigh. Have a wonderful week.

[@ednaquintana6201]

Hi Jana. I think this V-neck sweater looks very nice on you. I liked the colors of green and purple looks beautiful. You knitted it so beautifully. You are very talented. Take Care. 😊

[@barbaraireland6772]

You are so lovely to watch. I am winding some new yarn listening to you and laughing. Thank you!

[@RogerGilder]

You are so funny and whimsical, your videos are such fun.

[@helenw889]

Love your finished shawl it turned out so different then to what I thought it would look like. Lento colours are so pretty. You are so creative Jana, the teapot is just magical. I guessed you cast on the mushrooms because I saw 👀 them on instagram.😊

[@lisaml7411]

I enjoy your lovely bright face…. Thank you for a cheerful podcast! ❤

[@Palouseweaver]

Jana, I really enjoyed watching you chat with us about your knitting. I love your scrappy Lento sweater-it’s so bright and cheery! ❤

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you so much! ❤️

[@mandyhague6363]

The shawl and the Lento are lovely.👍😊🧶

[@TinaSpencer-mr1cp]

The Cloudy Nora Shawl is beautiful. I wasn’t too sure about it when you first showed us after casting on, but it turned out fabulously. As for your Lento, the “happy yarn” is perfect. I vote for mismatched sleeves by the way.

[@lydiadaugherty5171]

Happy Wip And Hump Day! Just thinking it's time to get my knitting gloves on for crocheting my pumpkin, lol Copper gloves help so much for the pain in cold weather artheric conditions of too much time practicing and even knitting with bigger needles. Joy!.

[@kandybowden8444]

I love all your knits, fell in love with your scrappy jumper. X

[@uterick-seleck2541]

Accidentycal cast on, love it.

[@andreat1752]

Thank you so much for recording. As you already know I enjoy and appreciate it tremendously. 🌺 As slways I find it super interesting when you tell about the weather. Right now here in the south of Germany it's very warm. This weekend we have over 20 degrees celsius. Next few days it'll cool down again, but we have a mild spring this year. Your Lento looks beautiful! It's like art with wool. 😍 And I I find it very interesting and inspiring how you do the marling. Your Cloudy Nora Shawl looks so cuddly and squishy and you finished so super fast. 💖 Greetings, Andrea

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you, Andrea! 😊❤️ It dropped to 0°C over here and it's raining. Brrrr!

[@kimludy130]

Love your Lento! How creative and colorful- great way to use up scraps!

[@astridschultheis35]

Dear Jana, I LOVE your Nora Cloudy Shawl, ❤, and all the other things, and especially YOU! Saludos de La Palma, Canary Islands 🌴

[@lindaturner2980]

Love your Lento sweater and your Cloudy Nora shawl. Simply fabulous! Love from Linda in the UK 💕🧶💕

[@MJay77-u9z]

Hello Jana and Clucky. Beautiful outfit. Beautiful wips.

[@etoylemckee6832]

So much fun. Got the mushroom pattern an ❤ your dream knit. Thank you so very much

[@kerstinbuettner6076]

The colors of the Lento are absolutly wonderful !!!! Greetings from Germany

[@thebooknitter]

Love to see you are better ❤ the lento looks lovely and you are almost done with the star wars sweater you can do it 🎉 so much pink goodness for your knits and I love it too 🩷🩷

[@cabritachera2465]

Another lovely episode!! You make me laugh a lot, you're so sanely crazy! I hope you never change! Thank you for sharing! Hugs from Argentina

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

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[@alecsgirl]

Spring is in my head too, Jana. 😂 Have a good week! I hope you get to gardening soon.

[@marianneotger6758]

I am in love with your colors, the scrappy one is my favorite 😄❤️

[@debracubitt6191]

Oh the mushrooms. SO CUTE😊

[@thisknittylife9364]

Just found your podcast and think you like colour as much as me. Happily watching old episodes ❤

[@Eiaknits2012]

I love your color choices they are so happy! Glad you’re feeling better. God bless you and yours.

[@catherinethomes2910]

Your scrappy Lento is beautiful! I can’t wait to see what you decide to do for the sleeves…scrappy or matching??!!❤ your tea cozy is adorable 🥰🥰 🫖

[@Ann-ed1bq]

Your vlogs always bring a smile into my day 😊 I just love your teapot cozy!

[@annaliljabjornsd7209]

Hello from Iceland. Love your podcast, glad you are feeling better lots of love ❤

[@AnnieDaddo]

Hello Lovely👋Spring is indeed around the corner for you💐🎉☀️Enjoy.Loving your teapot...hope youve found a large bell to replicate the teapot roof on your own home.Hobbit home complete 🤭🍄🏡.Enjoy your week,Jana.❤️👋🐨🌏xx

[@heatherfowler4041]

Love the colours in your Wervel dress.

[@SarahRankin-fj8cw]

I love your scrappy Lento. It's absolutely gorgeous. Because it "has a lot going on," I think I would like it best with matching sleeves. (Since you asked...)

[@handmadebyflorence]

Oh wow, I love that light pink jumper! It looks very much like it was knitted with Noro yarn or something like that. I was hoping to work on something with a similar colour change technique and I'll be very happy if it turns out half as pretty as that one

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you! It gives me Noro vibes as well.

[@mandyrawlinson7687]

That hot pink cardigan will be your favorite ever!!! It will be GORGEOUS!!

[@Codythefnafnerd]

Your knitting is so fun and beautiful!

[@ChloeNicholls-e5h]

I need a Lento now after seeing this 😀 🧶

[@noreenlou]

Such a gorgeous bold choice, love it

[@noramcdonald2669]

Love your silliness! Don’t ever stop! I guessed hot pink yarn for your sweater and I was right! 🤣 Always excited to see your KZbin video posted. 👏👏👏

[@heatherallan9767]

🌱thank you...lots of love from durban, south africa....we are just going into autumn, and I am hoping to be able to wear a cardigan again ✨

[@jennifersteeves910]

Jana, I am glad to see you feeling better. Please do rest. It is not selfish. If you are not healthy you cannot do all the things you do for your family and your customers and for us! Love your lento. It is stupendous. ❤

[@kaloriebear3044]

Thank you Jana for your lovely podcast. Like your new shawl. Poor hubby still waiting for his jumper. 🙁

[@ligamara]

No one appreciates mushrooms like us Latvians!😊

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Oh, yes, we do love those mushrooms! 😄

[@joysoumis221]

I love all the pinks in your life! I would be "overjoyed" to own such beauties!😉😍

[@janicemacdougall1844]

Your teapot cozy!!!

[@cherylvarey8661]

Your lento is beautiful!

[@AidaBoza]

Hi Jana, the lento is beautiful, matching sleeves 💕

[@julieanng3585]

Your Lento jumper is gorgeous💗 great colour choices

[@paperandtwine]

Matching sleeves 😊

[@jossywhite3003]

I love sunday morning when you pop up. Keep up the lovely chanel.

[@ligaosth5101]

Tik super skaists lakats! 😍 Ideāla krāsu kombinācija un kopā ļoti labi izskatās 💚💖 Arī Lento džemperis ir super! 😍

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Paldies! 😊❤️

[@janetjroberson2581]

Hello from Swansea, Illinois.

[@KKnits]

I love to hear the birds singing! And Yes! Cloudy Nora shawl is a spring/summer delight! It’s beautiful. Your so called sill8ness is delightful, happy and always brings a smile! It’s what brings me here each week. The new scrappy sweater is also a delight, and beautiful. And so lovely seeing your adorable tea cosy! I’m working on a Whitehorse by Caitlin Hunter, and finishing up a knitting Christmas stocking for a friend. I also have a delightful pink mohair cardigan I am hoping to finish. Spring and the blossoms always brings out the pink love! Warm and cheerful! Hope you get feeling full of vigour once again, very soon. It can be a long haul when the lungs aren’t at their best after being ill. Takes time for sure. Thanks for the cheerful visit! The mushrooms are so cute, can’t wait to see yours! My ESC is also a great pal, keeping me company. Who would th8nk a knitted chicken would be so fun and a comfort! 😄❤️

[@ivettabauman]

Hello, just watched:) love your color choices, always makes me think about mines:) And how I understand you, this tiredness, it seems just need to get more sun and fresh air and then energy will come back:) be well!

[@barbarawatson1667]

Sending big hugs from Calgary!

[@Villapesuohjelma]

Kylläpä tulee ihana lento. Teillä on siellä jo niin keväistä. Kertakaikkiaan ihanalta näyttää.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

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[@sylviagibbs1239]

Another chatty episode. They help me through insomnia nights. 😊

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

❤️

[@jillipepper5353]

I’ve noticed a lot of people who have had that nasty cold have ended up with pneumonia . You just feel like you’re soooo tired and usually have at least a low grade fever with it, usually a cough that hangs on. All the bright spring colours are very cheerful, hope you feel better very soon. Fingers crossed for spring weather to settle down so we can all garden. Take care, be safe and well🥰🙋🏼‍♀️

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you! Luckily, no cough or fever anymore. Just a bit congested and tired. I hope that goes away soon.

[@lavendercottagefibrearts]

your lento makes me happy to! i always love your colour combinations. i'm thinking to make a boucle lento when i get a few projects finished off.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Boucle Lento is an excellent idea! 👍❤️

[@annamariemarasco6273]

Your Lento is beautiful!

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

Your Nora looks so light and airy and will be a lovely bright piece this season. The scrappy Lento is working out quite nicely. I have been trying to steer clear and not make an Emotional Support Chicken, but I think I am headed in that direction... 😉😆 It looks like nature has been doing a little work outside. It used to amaze me how quickly beauty would pop out of the ground as soon as the snow melted. The plants are probably trying to see what is producing the happy birdsong that I had to rewind the end of the video to hear again. 🙂 TFS! ❤

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Heheee, did you start the chicken? We had to refill the bird feeder, as we got more snow and poor birds were starving and freezing. There were probably around 100 birds in the yard today.

[@judithtaylor6916]

Knit the pink colourwork to just above your knees and where with leggings/tights. If below the knees, might feel inhibiting when you walk.

[@noreenlou]

I vote matching sleeves.

[@katherinehill3958]

So glad you are feeling better Jana. I have cast on the lento too. It is my first one. I have not been as fast as you as I only have the collar done. I had to start a sweater for my mother that I promised her and she is now surprising me with a visit so ... I also swatched for the Felix cardigan. That is going to be my May cast on. I hope you are able to get outside and enjoy some lovely spring weather. The birds chirping at the end of the video was lovely. Have a marvelous week!

[@loisworthington5453]

Your lento is fabulous. Perfectly happy.

[@MR2spyder100]

Lovely sweater and shawl as usual, Jana! I still want to make a Vakka cardi a little shorter than yours. Someday!! It seems spring is dragging its feet all over the N Hemisphere. Meanwhile, I was challenged a week ago to work on the oldest WIP from my LYS, and got out a Meadowlark Shibori Jacket from Alchemy Yarns (now sadly defunct) that I started in 2016 (!) and Im determined to finish it now. That's easier, because the Alpine Bloom I started Holy Week has stalled; after dividing for sleeves and a try on, its tight. I need to block it before deciding whether to adjust or start over. Its always something that prevents smooth going!! 😅 Health problems persist, but thats a long story. I was hoping to travel to Finland this summer, but probably wont happen. Glad youre feeling better and can get outside. Im going to have some lunch and walk in the sunshine.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Shorter Vaaka sounds really nice! I've been thinking about it as well. 😄 Oh, the old WIP sounds intriguing! I hope your Alpine Bloom blocks out! 🤞

[@prettysimplemum]

Sleeeevils!

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

😂

[@Button24]

WOW I love the Lento sweater colours 🧐🤩

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you! 😊

[@annebories3093]

Merci beaucoup pour ce partage si joyeux !! 😊😊😊

[@SandyDandyAdams]

I love the colors you choose ❤❤❤ you use like a neutral then add pops of bright clean colors! 💕💖❤️

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you! It always works! Neons + neutrals. ❤️

[@karenannallard7278]

Your shawl and lento are quite pretty

[@FirnMamaMakes]

❤❤❤

[@kaloriebear3044]

Thanks

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you! 😊❤️

[@ingelajohansson1335]

You are wonderful👍🥰🧶

[@judithtaylor6916]

Love the cardi, what is its name please? Varkka or Vakka? Cant find on Ravalry. Cotton will grow. Put on a hanger. Measure the length then leave for a week to see if it relaxes and grows before you decide on a length. Love the shawl. Gives me an idea to use boucle and mohair yarn from my stash. Love the pink striped knit. You should try the Landscape Dye colour "Galah" or "Fushia" - a bright pink. Australian supplier Kraftcolour.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

It's Vaaka by Anna Johanna.

[@gwynhigginson4871]

HOW DO YOU Join your scrappy yarn Jana when change colour????

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

That depends on the yarn and the project. Where it works, I spit splice. 😄 In Lento I thread one yarn through the other and tightly knit over that bit.

[@gwynhigginson4871]

Oo will try.....show us on your utube 😄

[@pakedermsfavs9080]

❤🎉❤

[@linalindholm5623]

💞🧶💞