Finnish Knitting Stories - Vlogmas 2023 - Day 1

[@pattihensley1159]

I just love your color work sweater, it is beautiful

[@ApplesandPeanutButter]

I love that cabled cuff! I had a coworker who put a packet of hot chocolate mix in her mug then poured coffee over it. I don't like coffee, but it smelled so good☕

[@redaleta]

The pizza looks amazing!

[@karenannallard7278]

Looking forward to another vlogmas!

[@irenelo2405]

Loved your vlogmas. Thanks for making them.

[@uterick-seleck2541]

Hope you get well and enjoy this time of the year.

[@bertieandpoppet-8837]

I’m so happy and honoured that the little bag has returned to carry your advent socks 🥰

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

It always returns. (Imagine me saying that in a very dramatic voice). 😄 There is something so magical about that particular bag. Must be all the little houses with a silvery snow sprinkle. 🥰❄️❤️

[@pennygreenfield8418]

Hi Jana, loved your vlog I'm feeling excited too 😊. The snow looks fabulous and you are nice and cosy indoors. Your sweater is amazing suits you beautifully. I really enjoy seeing you open your Advents. ❤

[@MikiCrespo]

Your Festive Yoke Sweater is absolutely beautiful ❤️ your nails 💅🏻 look amazing 🍒 Excellent vlogmas ❤

[@mandyhague6363]

Lovely advents, look forward to seeing what you make. 👍😊🧶🎄🎅🏻

[@nicolacockett7523]

I always love your volgmas videos. Thank you for putting in the time. I get to enjoy vicarious advent calendars and see your wonderful knits and moomin mugs ! xx

[@mariamclauchlan8180]

I hope the pizza and Christmas doughnuts made up for no internet 😂🧡🧡🧡

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Definitely! 😄

[@denisevettraino7916]

Merry Vlogmas, Jana...your excitement is contagious and advice to thyself wise ❣

[@frandefleurs5116]

Thank you Jana, I hope you feel better tomorrow and your cold goes away quickly 💞

[@jackielowery119]

I just absolutely adore you!!! I started watching you’ve Vlogmas I think three years ago and I have never missed an episode!! You are just so sweet and you help me get into the holiday spirit 🥰🥰

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you so much! ❤️

[@ericallerton809]

Thanks Jana! 🏘🏡🎄 Feel better ,,, Elaine⛄

[@vivianpowell1732]

I appreciate your doing a Vlogmas this year, Jana. Yours is the best I've seen so far this Christmas season. Others don't seem to have much of a Christmas feel or look to them. I like the set of minis with the tangerine color included. All of those colors look great together. Your Christmas sweater is lovely. I'm so glad you've included the little Christmas cabin again this year.

[@lynnniemi3053]

thank you for vlogmas 2023! It is big commitment and we appreciate your time and efforts! How can it be a year ago that we were enjoying vlogmas 2022??

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

I have to idea. 🤷‍♀️ I was just knitting my festive sweater and it's December again. 😄

[@wynonacarroll4362]

Happy Vlogmas, Jana! I’m so excited. I love watching your podcasts and I’m happy to get to see yours every day. So much fun. Happy holidays to you and family from Chicago Illinois, USA.

[@Woollykindknits]

Very happy to spend this month with you, Jana! Especially love hearing about and seeing all the snow! xoxo

[@dorothysmith8368]

Happy Vlogmas Jana, What A beautiful start for the season.

[@elizabethlittler4472]

Happy Vlogmas 😊 really pleased to see the return of the Advent House. Saw it last year and thought it was wonderful. Feel better soon xx

[@hirzst]

Happy Vlogmas 2023 Jana! Looking forward to more. Get well soon❤

[@etoylemckee6832]

She is adorable. I look forward to watching her set up the Christmas cabin

[@juanakavelmann9378]

Thank you dear Jana for so excellent vlogmas, have a nice knitting time with so much beautiful wool 🧶 See you in the next vlogmas, lovely regards 🙋🏼‍♀️

[@bettykaropczyc6019]

Looking forward to spending December with you - as I did last year ! ❤🎄

[@naomie2300]

I love your weather channel updates. 😁❄️❤️ Thank you for doing Vlogmas again! I hope you feel better soon.

[@Melia-77]

Hi Jana - what a terrific intro to your vlogmas day 1! The flow of images is simply delightful and really creates the perfect Christmas ambiance. If the spirit wasn't there yet your intro inspired the Christmas spirit big time. All I needed was a cup of hot cocoa or steaming hot cider. And that pizza looks delicious. Hope your sniffles and scratchy throat subside. Thank you for the best vlogmas day 1. ❤

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you so much! I'm very happy to hear that! 😊❤️

[@lollygolden3822]

Love all these advents!! Merry Hollidays

[@angelikaschwab2122]

Thank you Jana for making you wonderful christmassy Vlogmas. It makes my Advent season so much atmosheric. 😊

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

❤️

[@jolandahennig5763]

I love this time with you Jana. Happy vlogmas❤

[@TinaSpencer-mr1cp]

This was just what I needed today! 😁 I have been waiting for vlogmas to begin. All week I have been baking and making various Christmas goodies to share with family and friends and finished the last of it earlier today so vlogmas is the icing on today’s cake, so to speak.

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

Wonderful intro, Jana. I felt like I had received a hug in a warm house that smelled like cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla. If that is the feel for 2023's vlogmas, I am very very happy. ❤The advents are beautiful so far and I am quite impressed by this young dyer from "down under". When I saw that blue as one of your mystery gnome colours I wondered who you are and what you did with original Jana. 😂Thank you for brightening my day. 💖

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you so much! ❤️ I'm happy I can still surprise you. 😄

[@catherinecunningham7126]

Thank you, Jana. I always enjoy your Vlogmas posts! Your hubby’s pizzas always look soooooo good! 🎄

[@AnnieDaddo]

What a joyful first episode if Vlogmas,Jana👌❤️.I think an Aussie Helen Stewart cowl with Max's yarn is perfect.Hide it from Sofia..but maybe make a mini one for Frannie too.Feel better soon.xx👋🐨🌏xx

[@barbaralindeman1820]

I like the your second choice for your mystery gnome, can’t wait to see it made. Happy Holidays to you & your family .

[@nanetteilling7311]

Another great vlogmas please send some snow to us down Under, just for a change. Haven't seen it in years. Love your son's house he decorates for the advent. Warm hugs to you all.😊❤

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Sending some snow your way... ❄️

[@zetsubou1960]

🎅 now it's christmas time again, thank you! 🤶 Get well soon, I'm having same symptoms as well, not nice! probably covid... again, oh well... life! See you tomorrow!☃

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Get well soon! ❤️

[@blairdestro]

happy to see you for Vlogmas!!!! Thanks for the hard work to making this for us.

[@kimmagella7032]

🎉🎉🎉Happy Vlogmas! ❤

[@lisaml7411]

Yay! Vlogmas is here! Love watching you open the advents and wish I had done a fiber one. Maybe next year….And your hubby’s pizza looks amazing!

[@sunidollfun]

I vote for the tangerine orange in your gnome palette.

[@Mindfulnessification]

Beautiful podcast! I so enjoy all that you share!!!!♥️🐑♥️🐑♥️

[@janicemims9799]

Merry Vlomas. Thank you so much for sharing your Christmas with us

[@gemmarutherford2010]

Advent colour is gorgeous, ambah o brien has some stunning advent garment and wrap patterns on ravelry 🥰 hope you and little one feel better soon ❄️

[@bernbee1679]

You’re Festive yoke sweater is just beautiful ❤

[@catherinethomes2910]

I love your sweater❤The colors you chose for your gnome are great!! Feel better ❤️‍🩹💐

[@zirpzirp3646]

I love your vlogmas, thank you very much and it's so exciting to see you opening the advents!

[@MJay77-u9z]

Love all of your Advents and decorations!!

[@thebooknitter]

How cute is your sweater ❤ I loved the beginning real is su cute and Christmasy. And the. Homemade pizza 🍕

[@joycenavarro7697]

I watch a few vlogmas each year and always, in my view, leave the best till last ..yours. This year doesn't disappoint. Just love your cosy advent intros. I would choose the darker orange for the gnome. Hope you and Bruno feel better soon (best to have these viruses now so you are healthy for Christmas).

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you! 😊❤️

[@sally9123]

So nice to join you over this festive time ~ I love mixi moo yarns so much fun. I knit the Land of sweets cowl last year and I love it.

[@jillipepper5353]

So happy to see your Vlogmas come up, I loved the advent yarns you received, so pretty and the one from Max is amazing. Hope everyone feels better soon. Take care of yourself, drink some hot drinks with Vitamin C and snuggle in , maybe watch a Christmas movie. 🙏🏼for Finland🙏🏼🥰🙋🏼‍♀️

[@kathrynbarry9416]

Coming from Australia I love it when you chat about snow 😂

[@luanejones4987]

Thanks for a wonderful episode. I love the 🏠🏡🏘️

[@natashabarlow4311]

I've just discovered your channel and absolutely loved this. New advent tradition for me this year - watch your vlogmas and work on my imagined landscapes gnome!

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

That's so lovely! ❤️

[@pennydavies6253]

Hello, I’ve been so looking forward to your Vlogmas again!! Your Advents are wonderful! I’d give anything to have the confidence to have a go at a colour work jumper like yours as it’s stunning! Hoping to do a workshop in the Spring (with the wonderful Jane from Purl&Jane). Happy knitting!🧶

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

This sweater pattern wasn't too complicated, definitely suitable for a confident colourwork beginner. You should give it a go. 😉

[@Hanneblack23]

Love your mails🥰 thank you for doing vlogmas🤗 happy December to you and your lovely family

[@tanjascholten4336]

Yes I enjoy! ❤ Thank you!

[@susanmyrawills]

oh my gosh, that pizza looks soooo good…you just want to roll it into a ball and knit it!

[@rodeanphilip7780]

Hi, Jana! I, too, am enjoying a nice virus that's going around here (Northern California). I've had it for 9 days and my doctor says it'll probably be around for another week or a bit less. Drinking ginger tea and watching the clouds low to the ground bringing rain. Have a wonderful Advent, Dear! Love & Light!

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Oh no, get well soon! ❤️

[@knittingwithemilionstyle]

Love you vlogmas, I have been waiting a year for this🎉🥰. When you added the duck noise I honestly thought my husband had brought one of our ducks into the house😂😂. I laugh so hard when I realize😂😂. It will be so much fun to follow you this year.🥰 I'm doing vlogsmas myself for the first time this year😅

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

😂 Oh, I laughed so hard! 🦆🦆 I hope you have fun making your vlogmas! ❤️

[@wollbullit1632]

I will enjoy it❤

[@elainemassey1848]

Lovely video. Sophia is adorable.

[@gwynhigginson4871]

Yay the Xmas jumper

[@catardif4158]

Happy 1st day of December! 🎉

[@turninggroundyoga]

Thanks for day one! I hope you feel better soon.

[@jbulldogmom]

I like the darker orange 😉

[@heatherfowler4041]

Great idea to knit a cable cuff. I must try that as it looks so nice.

[@noreenlou]

I’m a little late watching, but definitely enjoying the first day.

[@colleenraymond623]

That's a beautiful sweater you are wearing, Jana - lovely work! I know what you mean about wardrobe colour palettes - mine is spring and is determined by my skin tone. Luckily most of 'my' colours are ones I love to look at, too. So the blue and orange might have been my first choices for a Gnome. But this would be a great opportunity - because it's for a Gnome and not a sweater for me - when I might choose something out of my comfort zone - just like you did. :D

[@mindfulmelbournemaker]

I love the tangerine mini

[@grietjegroeneveld8604]

Leuke vlog Yvonne verheug me er iedere dag op hopelijk gaat het gauw beterder met je rug rustig aan en warm houden ,trouwens wat een leuk kadootje van je zoon heel lief tot morgen ❤

[@maureenklettl4865]

I bought some yarn!!! Thanks for giving me permission (wink)

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Yaaay! Like we ever need a permission. 😄 Another knitter told me to is a perfectly good reason to buy yarn. 😂

[@sarahashley13]

Just found you because of vlogmas and I am definitely here for the SNOW!!! and the knitting and spinning of course, but mostly the snow! 😊

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

❤️

[@jenniemills5093]

Hi Jana, Great episode. I’m drinking my tea and working on a Christmas sock! Love your socks!

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Yaaay! ❤️

[@jackiewheaton4199]

I like the orange you chose for the gnome. And I hope you didn't go out to shovel the snow. You are sick so stay inside where it's warm and rest.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

I didn't do any shovelling, just enjoyed the fresh air and snowy trees.

[@MJay77-u9z]

HAPPY Vlogmas! Happy December!!! Youve got one of my favorite sweaters on. Molly at Homespun House is so sweet!!

[@MJay77-u9z]

The kids look so excited for Friday Vlogmas advent too!!

[@spikeandsally]

Yay Vlogmas!

[@MySweetT1]

Your nails and earrings match though. Too matchy matchy can look flat anyways. You look fabulous!

[@traceybos6106]

Your daughter has beautiful hair❤

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you!

[@Button24]

I treat myself to my first ever project bag a Bertie & Poppy one like yours 🤩 x

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

How wonderful! ❤️

[@hawthorngrove3629]

I have been spinning my Advent Rolags that my daughter blended on my Drop Spindle

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

That's so much fun! ❤️

[@MR2spyder100]

Happy Vlogmas!

[@deborahjones9412]

I remember the advent house from last year - it so cute 🥰 I love it ❤ I still use my salt vases/tea light holders you showed us how to make last year and when I light them I always think of you ❤

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Oh, that's so sweet! I have mine from the last year as well.

[@deborahjones9412]

@@FinnishKnittingStories They are just so effective and maybe you could show your new viewers how you made them ? ❤️

[@houseinnorthcarolina9439]

Happy holidays!

[@prettysimplemum]

In Qld Australia and I’ve only ever seen sleet once in my life, it’s highs of 37 deg C and so humid. I love snow updates!! Ps you are my favourite yarn blogger. Xx

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you so much! 😊❤️

[@live4god4]

Go with the neon orangey pink.

[@jessicaolney4900]

Love the nails! So fun watching you open advents! As a new spinner, I am dreaming of a fiber advent one day...). What about the Radvent cardigan by Ambah O'Brien as a possibility for your minis? Any Helen Stewart wraps/cowl would also be great. I like your Gnome color palette especially with the tangerine (more saturated) orange. I am puzzling over what we just knit in Clue 1...lots of fun ideas, but we shall see! Take care and stay well!

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you! I think that's the best part of the mystery gnome - you have no idea what you just made. 😄 It's always so much fun.

[@sunidollfun]

Happy Vlogmas from Down Under ! Oh how I wish it was Winter here so I could wear a festive Christmas sweater like yours. I love it so much!! Maybe I should just knit one to motivate myself to travel to Europe at Christmas time.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Is festive summer top a thing? 😄 I think it should be, if you celebrate Christmas in summer. Or you could come to us with all the festive sweaters. ❄️

[@lavendercottagefibrearts]

I'm knitting a pair of socks with Maximoo right now. His Ultra Soft Sock yarn is soooo soft and I love his colours. A Homespun House is on my advent wishlist for a future year.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

It will be my first time knitting Maximoo yarns, but I think I will really enjoy it. 😊

[@sunidollfun]

You might need a wi-fi extender / signal booster to help the internet reach your craft room. I think they're pretty easy to setup.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

You wouldn't believe, but we have that. My husband just didn't have time to set it up. 😄 Now it's done! 😊

[@friendlypersuasions2640]

Happy Christmas time!🎄You mentioned a wrap: check out the Lulu popover by Petite Knits! I’m knitting 2, I like it so much.❤

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Thank you for the suggestion!

[@ligaosth5101]

Kā man patīk Tavs džemperis! 😍 Gribēju togaed sev tādu arī adīt, bet būs vien jāatliek uz nākamo gadu.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Vari droši iesākt jau tagad. Es tā arī darīju. Iesāku 2021. gada decembrī, pabeidzu 2022. g. decembrī. 😄

[@ligaosth5101]

@@FinnishKnittingStories es šobrīd Ziemassvētku vesti adu pēc cita apraksta. Mums te Zviedrijā kopadīšana. Bet lai tā bez steigas un panikas, tad var jau pamazām adīt visu gadu.

[@annebyrne7379]

Will you again show us how you grow your salt candle jar from last year

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

It's in the last year's day 17, if I remember right. 😊

[@weijourn1970]

I hope you feel better soon. Have you seen Kauneimmat Käsityöt's Valotalot CAL? When they are lit from behind they remind me of your row of houses.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

Oh, yes, I've seen them. 😊

[@veroniquesterckendries9143]

Hi Jana, Your sweater gives me itching fingers to start one for myself ;-). I love your Gnome yarn but would choose the two orangy-red ones in stead of the blue. Just my opinion, no judgement. :-D Perhaps I will join you in making socks. Your cables are so beautiful! Thank you for an inspiring episode again. We appreciate the effort you make!

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

You should soothe those itchy fingers by casting on a festive sweater. 😄

[@veroniquesterckendries9143]

I'm already looking into my stash! o dear 😀@@FinnishKnittingStories

[@deborahalchin3360]

My husband wants a tractor from Santa for Christmas too! I’m sure it won’t fit in the sleigh. Maybe next year.

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

😄 We have the same dreams. Maybe Santa could drive it to your husband.

[@FrauGothi]

Hello, I am new to your channel and I am very happy to have found another knitter who makes vlogmas. Tell me, what's with the snowwork you talked about in the video? I'm curious. best regards isabell

[@jessicahuwer781]

❤

[@deborahalchin3360]

Oh what stretchy cast on did you use for your socks? I’m always interested to see if there are new ones

[@FinnishKnittingStories]

This is definitely not a new one. My grandma used it at least 70 years ago. 😄 Just a simple single cast-on. I find it the most stretchy of all.