Gentle Knitter Episode 34-All the usual suspects

[@freshwindbrightsky]

Oh my goodness such a delight to watch your episodes and learn about all these gorgeous yarns! I knit while watching, of course, and wonder how I'll ever find the time to knit all the things I dream of. I'm knitting Emily Foden's Barn sweater right now, and looking forward to her next shop update so so much! Thak you for your podcasts.

[@dorothygareau6078]

Just found your podcast and I just love them. Love the referrals you do and to try. Love the work you do and suggestions for yarns. Great job! Dorothy

[@thegentleknitter]

Thanks and welcome

[@simonestork4457]

Dear Nicole Every time when you speak about the technique of using 3 purl stitches to make it easier to take up stitches in socks I am so pleased because you reinvented something that seems to be taught in Germany for a long period. My husband owns socks that were made by an elderly lady obviously in the 90th using this method. I adopted it 20 years ago and I am still happy with it. It is so nice to think that we knitters are confronted with the same problems for decades and are sure to find the best solution no matter where and when we knit. Thanks for your lovely podcast which I enjoy to watch. Simone

[@edytheneumann4656]

What a treat as usual - thank you Nicole! The two shawls and sweaters are exquisite. I have also fallen down the Nutiden warren and I couldn't agree with you more about Caroline and Knut's yarns, her artistry and charm. I feel enriched following your yarn and knitting journey as well!

[@chrisb1682]

Thank you for sharing... The colours you choose are always so restful. So nice 😊🌿

[@charcerv1]

Hi Nicole! I've been following your podcasts, and they're such a joy to view every time you put another out for us. Thank you. I want to promote an idea, if you don't mind. I watch several knitting podcasts from time to time, and I wonder why no one ever shows any donation knits. I'm not saying that we as knitters are obligated to donate any of our work, that's an individual choice. But, one thing I love is knitting for donations. Here in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, there are several homeless encampments and I've been knitting some scarves, mittens, etc. for the tenants. It's such a great opportunity to try colors or yarns that I wouldn't necessarily pick out for myself, like knitting with bright colors (not my personal taste), but it's so much fun to try new things when I knit for others. Thank you again for your contribution to the knitting community.

[@thegentleknitter]

Thank you for watching, and for your kind words. I think knitting for donating is a wonderful idea, and something I plan on doing more when I retire and have a bit more free time. And as you mention, it's a wonderful opportunity to keep others warm, and play with new colours and designs.

[@ramyavanmaele9643]

Hi Nicol , your hair style is so beautiful you look beautiful and podcast very enjoyable and love love thank you have a beautiful weekend

[@mairead5891]

You have made and are making some beautiful things Nicole. I also like to work a three stitch garter edge on my heel flaps. Not only does it make a nice decorative edge, and an easier stitch pick-up, but it stops the heel flap from curling round the edges too.

[@dianemh1779]

Thank you, Nicole for another lovely episode. So good to hear you're healthy and well and knitting away. ❤️ As always, your projects are so inspiring and adding to my knitlist! Lots of love from Ireland. 😘

[@danielleboots7032]

Love all your projects. Nice to see you again. I am glad you are doing well and safe.

[@OneBookMore]

You have been working on so many lovely projects! I love your shortie socks. I would love to knit a pair or two for myself for the summer. I just learned the German twisted cast on and I love how stretchy it is. I love the color of your Girlfriends Cardigan - gorgeous!

[@lisalepage5363]

Hi Nicole, So love the sweater. It is perfect!! Also those are amazing buttons. I so glad you are here to podcast. Your corner is so homey and inviting.

[@zanelaizanepuncule8040]

You inspire me a lot! Thank You for creating this podcast. Keep healthy 🌱

[@ciasbod]

It is always a pleasure to visit you. Love to see you working with Nutiden yarn, I made a sweater last summer, also knitting it with a single thread. It was perfect. Take care - Cia

[@TheCrimsonStitchery]

Such beautiful projects as always Nicole! It's lovely to spend time with you whilst knitting :)

[@catygen]

I love all the colors you choose for your projects. So dreamy.

[@cyndylee544]

I love the sweater you are wearing and it turned out beautifully. It looks so soft! Also I love the Girlfriend Cardigan you are working on now. I love garter stitch patterned designs, so this is definitely one I might want to work on at some future date as well. Love your podcast!

[@kimwatts5750]

Hi Nicole, Lovely to see you again😀 So pleased your feeling better:) Love your shawls, especially the lace work shawl😃 The socks are very cute❤️ Can’t wait to see the finished cardigan on you:) See you next time Take care KimX😘

[@CatalinaPapadia]

You are so sweet! I am glad your thyroid I s better! I love your choice of colors and yarn :)

[@yarncurator]

Love love love the shawl and your cardigan together. The grey suits that steely blue so well. Glad to hear things are working out well with work, even if that means no extra time “off” for knitting. I also work in a museum and am waiting for our government officials to decide what our budget looks like moving into the new year. Not fun waiting for answers but always promising to see others in the professions receiving the aid needed to keep things financially afloat.

[@MelanieAsato]

Your shawl is so beautiful! Thank you for another wonderful podcast Nicole 😊

[@ericallerton809]

Glad ur well,, Nice to see you,,, Love all UR Knits! Elaine🏘🏠🏘🏠

[@judithdenise5983]

I was about to start shorty socks when I watched this episode. I am now adding a 3 stitch garter edge to the heel flap, and it's turning out nicely! Thanks for letting me know there was such a thing.

[@megcarr3126]

Hi Nicole, it's great to see you again, it is great to see you looking so well and happy. As I believe I have said before, both my sister and my mother-in-law suffer with thyroid problems. My sister's is over active and my mother-in-law's is now under active, but it was over active when her children were little. I got rushed into hospital myself recently with a heart problem, I have Marfan's syndrome which does affect my heart and I have had three lots of heart surgery during my life. This time though scared me, mainly because I didn't know what was going on. I had a resting heart rate of 120 bpm, that was when I was laying down, then when I stood up it went up to over 200 bpm. Thankfully they transferred me from Accident and Emergency to my usual heart hospital. There they told me that I had atrial fibrillation and would need a procedure done but with general anaesthetic. They went in through a vein in my groin fed the wire through to my heart and burned a little section of the wall that was causing the disruption in my heart beat. I was sent home the day after which I was amazed at, but told that I needed bed rest for 10 days. My family have been fantastic at looking after me which I am very grateful for. One of the weirdest things about being in hospital now is that you can't have visitors. Thank goodness for mobile technology, it was the only way I could keep in contact with family and friends. Oh and so much rest time, means lots of knitting time, I love your cardigan,the one you have on, it's simple and pretty. I also love the three coloured shawl that you have finished. I may make one myself. Sending you lots of love from Liverpool UK! 😀💖💕

[@thegentleknitter]

Oh my goodness, sounds like you have had a very tough time with your health! Sending you wishes for healing! xoxo

[@dales2913]

Another dreamy episode Nicole. I saw you post on Instagram about being furloughed so I guess it’s good news that you will not be laid off - but I can imagine it’s also disappointing when you were mentally ready for two months to do other things. Your shawl in the Nutiden yarn is stunning - It was through you that I found their gorgeous shop and yarns so thank you! I was waiting for you to talk about those beautiful plates sitting behind you 🙂. . I had a sweater in mind for the yarn I have but am now rethinking it - that shawl looks so cosy. Glad to hear you are feeling better as well. 🙏

[@marinamarchese9876]

OMG...You mentioned your grandmother's name was Albina..goodness! Mine too had that name..I used to call her Nonna Albina us being Italian and all. Okay...I should have opened up by saying how much I love your podcasts and how inspiring they have been to someone like me, a novice. So imagine that that's how I started. And wow...Albina, not a common name at all! Now that doesnt happen often. Okay...so, Nicole, great podcasts. Im going through them slowly. Loving every minute of them. Grazie e a presto!!!

[@CristineAkemi]

You are so inspiring and lovely, Nicole! Thank you for one more podcast episode

[@yraymond6960]

Always nice to see you and your beautiful knitting

[@hannedaniels4942]

Hi Nicole, hope you are well. I really enjoy your podcast. Hope to see a new episode soon. Take care, best wishes from Ghent (Belgium).

[@teresaallan6841]

Love your aesthetics! I have some nutigen yarn left over from a Felix cardigan. I never thought of knitting it in a lace pattern. 🇨🇦

[@radhikam2401]

New sub here. Loved your podcast. So calming. Loved all your work.

[@amyb4730]

Hi Nicole. I only recently discovered your channel and absolutely love watching all of your videos. I really hope you are feeling better these days. You have been an inspiration to me in many ways. I fell in love with your girlfriend's cardigan on the video where you were wearing it. I also love the viola yarn that you used. I bought the pattern yesterday and I am trying to decide which color of Polwarth Alpaca I want to use. I was wondering how many skeins of yarn it took you to make yours. I'm thinking I could probably do it with four but I'm not sure. I'm planning to make the medium size.

[@TheAutumnAcornKnits]

It was fun to be knitting with Nutiden and watching you talk about Nutiden!! I've also been a long time fan of Caroline and Knut, as well as of you!! Thank you for another wonderful episode Nicole. : )

[@ullamullis8544]

Enjoyed your podcast so much, very nice shawls and cardigans 😊🇩🇰

[@jenniferrich5292]

You sock heel and toe are just lovely🥰

[@irishflutegirl9022]

This is so nice Thank you ! ❤️☺️

[@renatemeneghini-knitalittl2730]

Salut Nicole I found you right now and i’m so pleased about that! I love to look your podcast. I’m living and knitting in Switzerland. 🇨🇭 I’m sending you “les meilleures et cordiales salutations de la suisse Bisou Renate 😘

[@honerocheirmaranghusetc.he1405]

Thank you Nicole ❤️

[@headythreads]

My great grandmother’s name was Albina, too! Your unspun shawl is so beautiful!

[@joannecrate1486]

Caroline’s Swedish yarn is so beautiful and so are your podcasts. 👏🙏🏼💕🇨🇦

[@lynnettetaylor4314]

so glad to see you Nicole

[@constanceremhof3891]

Lovely Podcast as always. I think I have to try the girlfriend cardigan too, yours look so pretty.

[@Anna-mh9pg]

Hi, it was nice to see you :) (it was also hard to watch this episode with commercials every 5 minutes😱🙊)

[@thegentleknitter]

Yes, I'm sorry about all the ads. I'm not sure why there were so many. KZbin puts them in automatically, but luckily I can edit that manually and will do so in future episodes!

[@TheSabinewalkden]

Have you tried Adblocker. I never see ads!

[@spinningdreams]

Lovely! All your projects make me itch to cast on! 😊 Thanks for another wonderful episode. ♥️

[@jessd4048]

Hi there, I’ve really been enjoying your podcast as a way to unwind after long shifts in the ER. I’m curious whether you would share where you have your beautiful forearm work done, I’d be very happy to travel to the capital city once all this is over for an artist that is so talented at botanical line work. Many thanks 🙏

[@thegentleknitter]

Hi Jessica, first of all thank you for the important work you do! Health care professionals are true heroes in my book!!! My big botanical tattoo was done by Nelson at Espada Tattoo in Rockland Ontario, just outside Ottawa. Xo

[@Satrangi]

Thanks for shearing 👍 👍

[@katdef100]

My maternal grandmother was from Eel River Crossing in New Brunswick and she was also called Albina along with her childhood friend from the same village. I think of it as an old-fashioned name that people don't know about unless they have a family member with the name. My sister was named after her but it is her third name so only shows up on baptism certificate:-)

[@thegentleknitter]

My grand-mother was from Bouctouche New-Brunswick, so perhaps it was common in that province.

[@teriadams7398]

Undies buttons...nice 😆

[@user-yc5is1sq7m]

Love this show. The shawl by Ailbíona, how many cakes of Nutiden did you use?

[@thegentleknitter]

Hi, I think I used 3

[@pattymcreynolds2720]

It's always good to see you; I'm glad you're doing well. I love everything you showed on your podcast; the colors are all wonderful. I bought the first shawl pattern, so that will be coming up soon...thank you! And the Viola and Nutiden yarns...oh, my! I wish I could shop with you the next time I buy yarn. Take care Patty

[@colettebouvier9201]

Bonjour Nicole! I just happened on to your podcast this morning and subscribed right away. Would it be possible to leave the yarn references / names a little longer? I like taking notes as I watch. ;-) All in all, a very nice discovery on this hot July day. Thank you!

[@thegentleknitter]

Bonjour Colette, thank you so much for watching and for your kind words. I'll make the captions longer moving forward. It's a very easy thing to do. Thanks for your feedback! I really appreciate it!

[@mcoknits856]

It would be even more helpful if you could list the yarn name and links in show notes left below.

[@thegentleknitter]

​@@mcoknits856 Yes, I realize that it would. However, show notes are time consuming to do, and a task I always disliked doing. I plan, record and edit the podcast in my limited spare time; hopefully viewers don't mind too much having to google on their own.

[@mcoknits856]

I just discovered your podcasts which I find very enjoyable and I appreciate the time you spend making them. What I have found however is that I often don’t recall which podcast in which I saw a particular yarn or object and it’s hard to find the reference because you have to go back and listen to each and every podcast then pause and rewind to record the item.I don’t think it’s necessary to actually include links to things. I agree is helpful but time consuming, but even a list of yarns and items in the notes would be helpful. Regardless, thank you for the time and effort that you spend making an enjoyable podcast.

[@nancyfischer9931]

My mother’s name was Albena, she was from Italy. She changed the spelling from Albina to Albena because people would say it wrong, have never heard of anyone else with that name. Great podcast and your projects are all so beautiful!!

[@ОльгаЛяус-е7ы]

Здравствуйте, Николь! Я с большим удовольствием слушаю Вас, я немного вяжу и интересуюсь новинками в вязании. Нравится. Ваши зарисовки природы мне очень близки. Привет из Санкт-Петербурга, самого красивого города России🤗

[@svitlanadoroshenko4285]

Hello Nicole, Thank you for episode, always enjoying watching you. Please tell what needle # did you use to knit Criostal shawl ? I have Briggs&Little country rowing . Is it a good substitute for yarn you knitted with?

[@thegentleknitter]

Hi Svitlana, I used 6mm needles. I think the B&L country roving would work very well, they are quite comparable!

[@hannievanballegooy7180]

Hallo Nicole love your podcast what is the name off the podcast from Caroline i love her yarn.

[@thegentleknitter]

Hi Hannie, her podcast is only available through her Patreon account, here: www.patreon.com/honerocheir/posts

[@missystitcher6366]

Love your cardi.

[@johannevinet5083]

Bonjour Nicole. J’espère qu’il y avait de l’air conditionné dans votre maison car il faisait chaud aujourd’hui dans notre coin du pays. 😂 My great grand-mother first name was Albina.

[@thegentleknitter]

Oui, heureusement nous avons un climatiseur depuis l'année passée et je ne pourrais plus vivre sans!

[@CleverestStitch]

Shouts over bass and megaphones at a rock concert ( i love you Nicole !!!!!)

[@MrMonet111]

Tyne Swedish 3

[@thegentleknitter]

Love you too, boo

[@williamgair3230]

Cork is not a renewable recourse. Actually harvesting it destroys the tree.

[@joanbertok4877]

William Gair Hi there. I did some googling and from what I’ve read, cork is very eco-friendly and renewable. Perhaps I’ve missed something. Please refer me to what information you have so that I can educate myself. Thanks!

[@thegentleknitter]

@@joanbertok4877 I agree with Joan, from what I could read online, cork is a great green choice, especially when compared to the plastic foam that is usually used to make stitch stoppers

[@Earnshawfully]

I didn't catch who the artists/yarndyers/podcasters Nicole was talking about, I mean their names - Caroline... but what was the surname and name of the company? who dyed the yarn for the rustic lace shawl, and the teal and rust and storm unspun yarns. Can anyone tell me? I am interested in seeing their podcast. Thanks

[@thegentleknitter]

The yarn company is Honer Och Eir: honer-och-eir.myshopify.com/collections To watch the podcast, you need to be a Patreon member: www.patreon.com/honerocheir You can also find Caroline on Instagram: @maranghuset

[@anneleonas7813]

Funny, my aunt’s name was Albina. Her parents came to the U.S. from Lithuania!

[@carolynblack420]

First time I’ve tried to watch your podcast. The ads popping up every few minutes made it really difficult to watch so I stopped. Would you consider adjusting your settings so that ads appear only at beginning of the podcast? Thank you.

[@thegentleknitter]

Hi Carolyn, thank you for this feedback! I just checked and I was shocked to see that there are 13 ads on this video! I am horrified. In the past, 1 or 2 ads max would be added, but something crazy is happening now, with so many. I wouldn't be able to watch a video that had so many ads either! I have written to KZbin to find out what is going on, and for now I will control the midroll ads manually so that there are never more than 1 or 2 (on a longer video). Frankly I would rather have no ads at all, but KZbin puts them in whether I personally monetize my videos or not. By monetizing, at least I have some control over it. And the small amount of income that I get from them does help cover my podcasting costs. Hopefully you will find the number of ads I have in the future a bit more acceptable.

[@karenevans6978]

Lovely projects! Do you have notes/directions somewhere about how you knit your socks? I especially love the heel

[@thegentleknitter]

I don't have any written-down notes, but it's extremely simple. Basically, use any top-down vanilla sock pattern that has a heel flap that is worked back and forth. You knit the first and last 3 stitches of the flap in garter (knit on right and wrong side rows). That's all there is to it. Hope this helps to clarify things.

[@jenniferjuniper9118]

Found this podcast but the amount of ads on this is ridiculous so I gave up halfway in

[@thegentleknitter]

Hi Jennifer, thanks for your feedback. I think there was a glitch with youtube on this video. I've never had so many placed mid-roll! I totally understand your frustration, I would have the same reaction as you. I've manually removed all the midrolls, and will eliminate them going forward.

[@rebotnie6739]

I need a hair tutorial Please Please Please!

[@thegentleknitter]

I showed how I do my braids in a previous podcast, but I don't remember which one. I'll check and get back to you

[@thegentleknitter]

I found it! It's in episode 23, at around the 50-minute mark. Let me know if you have any questions.

[@rebotnie6739]

@@thegentleknitter thank you so much. I just love how you style your hair.

[@hazysummer72]

Lovely to see you and your knits again. I would like to say I was slightly disappointed that you chose a designer who is not particularly size inclusive when it comes to garments, and that you did not add your voice to highlight Ravelry’s continued poor handling of in-accessibility following their latest updates. I do understand that not all people can take on all causes simultaneously and consistently, especially given how much of year 2020 has been so far!

[@thegentleknitter]

Thank you for your feedback Hazel! I'm sorry that my pattern choice disappointed you. Were you referring to Ankestrick's designs? Before knitting their patterns, I had a look at several of their recent offerings to check for size inclusivity, because I absolutely agree that it's important for designers to make their patterns accessible to all. Recent sweater designs of theirs go up to at least 60", with most patterns going up to the high 60s. So I feel that overall they are size-inclusive, in a similar range to Jacqueline Cieslak's patterns (this may not have been the case for some of their older designs). That said, the Notice cardi I made only goes up to a 51" bust, and it should go higher. I should have mentioned that when I reviewed the pattern. The Girlfriend cardi I am working on now goes up to 56", which is better, but it definitely could be higher. In regards to the problem with Ravelry, I didn't know about it when I recorded this and only became aware of the situation a couple of days ago. But I absolutely agree that they need to improve the accessibility of their website as soon as possible! Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me, I really appreciate you taking the time to do so.

[@joanrehe8039]

Can't hear you

[@thegentleknitter]

Sorry you're having difficulty hearing me. I didn't get any other comments about this, so I wonder if it was a hardware or connection problem?