Late April 2024: Knitting, Cross Stitch, Quilting, Reading and Baskets?

[@nanettekroupa1371]

Your carpet bag…. *chef’s kiss* so good!!!

[@WhipporwillsongMA]

Yes! Come back to Massachusetts in the fall and wear your Estava sweater! 😄

[@celestedouville2529]

I used to plan non credit classes and the Willow Furniture making classes always sold out in minutes. I had to bring a couple who taught the classes over the mountains from the valley in Oregon to Central Oregon. Students could make a chair or a table. It was so much fun. They came with kits of sorts, all the branches cut for the chairs and tables in piles and all the willows to bend into shapes and piles of cutters.

[@anneleonas7813]

I laughed out loud at your duck description! As well as so much of the rest of your video! 😝😜🤪

[@nanettekroupa1371]

Girl, THAT BASKET!!! Gorgeous!! Estate sales always get one in trouble. At the last one I went to, I wound up buying my current wedding ring! Here in San Francisco, you can go at the end of the day and still find amazing stuff. I wish I was in the aquiring phase of life…I need my own estate sale!

[@amywalker9553]

I just have to say..I love your podcasts and your amazing rabbit holes you go down, so like what I do too!! 😂 thankyou for giving us your time and energy ❤😊

[@margreffle]

I love seeing our naturalized Forget-Me-Nots at the edge of our shade garden and in the stone pathway. They are so reliable, the bees and I can always count on them to pop up. 🐝 😊

[@charitealove]

The ducks on the country blue border so often had like, a straw bonnet with a little peach ribbon. :) My grandma also had like a set of plates that had the same kind of ducks.

[@betternpopcorn]

Delightful as always. In Florida now, retired from Elkhart, IN so you’re always a reminder of what season I’m missing.

[@ColoradoKnitter]

I love your energy and truly enjoy watching your channel . Thanks for bringing me smiles 😂

[@kathymccann8412]

Here’s a tip I love for steek stitches. Use an odd number, 5 or 7 , is usually enough. Purl the middle stitch leaving a perfect runway for cutting. 😊

[@maryannw5289]

Your baskets are fascinating and beautiful! You can fill them with potatoes at the end of the season. Maybe cut flowers would be a better choice? 🤔 Your cross stitch Henrietta is very cute! I just finished crocheting an Emotional Support Chicken, and named her Henrietta. 😊

[@rosiebill2817]

I support all the basket love. they are a heritage craft, you're basically saving the world.

[@rosemaryshirley5561]

Another great episode - thank you for this! As always I loved the book reviews - but the trying on of the pink hood made me hoot out loud! ❤

[@knitsocks2424]

The table square was made by Mox Nix Textiles. The overshot pattern is called “Lee’s Surrender “. Excellent weaver, her work was used and sold at Williamsburg and other historical sites.

[@fatsquirrelfibers]

Thank you so much! I lt is awesome that you are able to recognize the weaver and pattern.

[@TheCorvidae]

Omg I said country blue at the exact same time you did! Definitely a genx/millenial cusp thing.

[@karmakauffman7445]

I can’t remember if you’ve tried free motion quilting before, but my sister just worked her way through a class from String and Story here on KZbin that she really liked. Her practice quilt came out really cool. I’m still working up the courage (and trying to find space and time) to try quilting. I even have the fabric for an easy starting project (placemats) and fabric for my first quilt. 😄

[@aimeec5276]

The ducks! - when my husband and I moved into our first home (in Canada, we now live in New Zealand), my mother-in-law gave us curtains for the kitchen - they were cream-coloured with ducks just like you described - maybe the ducks had blue bonnets... She also gave us matching duck ceramic plates, bowls and mugs. This was in 1999/2000 - I hadn't thought about those ducks in years! :)

[@applecrafts615]

On my way to Metropolis I found myself in Paducah and Tuscan Rose last week after seeing your last podcast and you mentioned them. Wow, that place is big and their hand dyed fabric is beautiful. I don't sew but I wanted to buy it all. They have cute sitchmarkers that I ended up buying as well as some cotton linen yarn.

[@laurelrobbins8673]

I LOVE James Herriot’s books!

[@Linda-ku4xq]

You know you always have someone in Canada that wants you to visit!! I promise we can go look for beavers (wild) and bison (domesticated). Also kayak and camp, and visit the petroforms, and forage for stuff, all while getting completely devoured by mosquitos... so there's that.

[@fatsquirrelfibers]

I mean, my immediate thought was that the mosquitos here love me too, but then I remembered watching a Canadian experimental archeology farming show and, well, damn, I think you might have a different class of mosquitos.

[@louisbar5734]

Henrietta (I think that's the chicken's name) would be such an adorable sachet!!!

[@suzannabond5849]

OMG. we made such fun of my SIL’s Bridal Shower choice of peach in the 90’s. Oh that I could have been born early enough for mushrooms and avocado appliances. Mine was regrettably Rose and CBlue

[@beckybramlett3515]

Enjoyed this very much

[@kimberlyhailey22]

24:32 time frame you describe my whole entire childhood of all my Aunts and Moms homes. Including handy craft store visits on Saturdays with my mom.

[@mywoolmitten]

I hear you about growing pole beans it's what Grandpa did, it's what Mom did, so it's what I do 😂 I swear they taste best ❤

[@angiemcdermid4845]

I would love you to visit me in Chilliwack BC, just an hour north of Bellingham Washington. Canada’s colonization was mainly based on the beaver. One pelt was a unit of currency and we still have a beaver on the nickel

[@jenahyslip8292]

Wiring for hogs or goats has holes big enough to get tomatoes out of. It's heavier wire too. Oh, I love your baskets!

[@fatsquirrelfibers]

Oh yes, the cattle panels are clearly superior.

[@belindagritter1572]

Oh, the estate sale hole! When we both retired we went to estate sales every Friday. I got some amazing stuff! The lyre end table I got at an estate sale for $5!!{. Ok, I spent $100 getting it refinished but it is gorgeous. Thick, heavy wood with delicate wood spindles for the lyre “strings” are so unique. So many of these unique item as make up a lot of my eclectic decor and fed my passion for vintage linens and mid-century white pottery. Wouldn’t have missed those times for the world. We had to stop because we were running out of room. Go figure, huh? Enjoy it while you can. Once I saw a little corner shelf in a kitchen. It was hand painted and adorable. No price so I asked and the man had never noticed it so he asked for $1 for it. Then it was painted onto the wall so he had to get it off with a putty knife. It s in the corner of my kitchen to this day with a salt and pepper set from my grandmother and a few other small things. It still brings me so much joy. I feel like the guardian of something precious from a generation now gone. If that makes any sense at all. Oh do I remember the peach and green era but I didn’t like it so I never got into it but I was all in with country. I taught tole painting for years. I sold most of it at a shop in a resort town. Baskets . . . I had baskets until hell wouldn’t have it! We moved into a condo 13 years ago after living in our home for 34 years so most of them and my huge collection of fancy tins got sold then. I kept a couple of baskets from my grandmother but all the new ones went to new homes. Burned my britches when I had to buy some tins to pack cookies in when we made Christmas cookies as a family. That’s one of the best memories, decorating cookies with my kids and grandkids. Oh well, they were cheap enough at Target. Take care!

[@nanettekroupa1371]

Seafoam green and peach!!🤣🤣🤣I had to design a paint color scheme for a client in those for a giant Victorian in the Haight! I was 9 mos pregnant, literally gave birth while working on it!

[@suelowther5104]

I remember the first IMAX movie that I saw was called “Beavers-The Biggest Dam Movie You Ever Saw. “ Such a great one to see! Thanks for your videos, I look forward to watching them.

[@kaitlynabney1108]

If you ever want to walk around a small wetland area with beaver, check out the Marian University eco lab! There is a summer and a winter dam, and there are several spots where you can see where the beaver are working or where professors and students have noted an abandoned dam or something they used to be working on.

[@JuliaEdge-u6j]

Apparently, willows have been around here in the UK since the glaciers melted after the last ice age and the islands were still part of the mainland. Our climate with moist soils and a lowish temperature is perfect for its needs. It is one of the fastest growing plants, and can grow up to 3 metres per year and is very hard to destroy! Cricket bats are made of willow, too. Jinny - UK

[@fatsquirrelfibers]

I didn’t know that cricket bats were made of willow! Thank you!

[@elizabetharpino5035]

you are hilarious. i left the room and came back to see this pink thing over your entire head and began to laugh.

[@lizstraw8041]

Beautiful baskets!

[@bonnieschofield2947]

You should go to the Common Ground Fair in Maine in the fall. All about apples, wool, baskets, etc....

[@fatsquirrelfibers]

Oh my goodness, it looks amazing! As soon as this teleportation thing gets worked out, I am there!

[@pamelamcculloch3667]

Two things: - I had that peach/country blue duck wallpaper 😢 - I have a camp in Thunder Bay. Canada… you are ALWAYS welcome!

[@fatsquirrelfibers]

Thank you!

[@rebeccaswanson2736]

Is it reasonable that I jump in my seat with excitement when I see your videos pop in my feed? 😂❤😂. Just know I am going to be thoroughly entertained and informed

[@fatsquirrelfibers]

Awwww, thank you!

[@karenbudnick]

The beaver top hat industry was centered in Danbury CT.

[@andreagillespie7972]

Oh yes- the ducks had country blue ribbon scarves tied around their necks. Classic.

[@laurelrobbins8673]

Fresh tomatoes - we used to pick them, rub them on our clothes and eat them right there! Also couldn’t wait till they got ripe because we’d have blt’s without the “b” lol!

[@beckyshook3526]

I also am a weaver nice piece you got

[@celestedouville2529]

Yes. come visit Minnesota with your bomber jacket.

[@libh8956]

Hi, I really like this person on YT. Obleo Demandre on how to make a willow basket. I wish there were more beavers and buffalo ect. I wish they had free range, like in the past. Wreaking havoc! Thank you!❤🖖

[@fatsquirrelfibers]

Thank you for the recommendation!

[@beckyshook3526]

I am a basket maker and you so will love making them....the ones you have yes egg baskets or also called granny's fanny baskets I feel you laughing at that ....i look forward to seeing what you make feel free to ask me things if I know the answer I shall say....Lyn Siler has great books

[@SuziQZ]

❤🤗

[@karenbudnick]

Don't forget the Mauve that went with the Country Blue.

[@ApplesandPeanutButter]

I would definitely talk to the librarian at Berea College. If you don't want to drive down, maybe the librarian will help you choose the best books for an interlibrary loan. You might even be able to talk to a person who teaches basket making in the Berea College craft department. I was a BC student circa1987, and one of my biggest regrets was not taking advantage of the opportunity to learn weaving or basket making.

[@FirnMamaMakes]

❤❤❤

[@beckyshook3526]

If you can get one book get the basket book by Lyn Siler she has others but this will be your best to learn from

[@callmeLIV]

Going to attempt my first quilt! What is the pattern you used for the table top quilt?

[@fatsquirrelfibers]

I’m so sorry, I thought I had replied, but apparently not! It is a flying geese block finishing at 3”x6”. I make them in the four at a time method and then made their opposite pairing and grouped them together. I think I have seen a quilt pattern that does a similar thing, but I don’t know its name.

[@allgirlreview433]

Re the memoir and sex: many abled people take issue or are put off by the thought of disabled people and sex. If you haven't seen the documentary Crip Camp I highly recommend it.

[@vikkizoo1]

Our high today is 45. Come sit on my dock…we can knit, crochet, or spin and drink coffee in our bomber knits (mine’s crochet). I’m still having to put a jacket on if I’m sitting still. 🌈🌈🦋🦋 I’ve listened to her podcast thanks for the warning about the books. I haven’t really been interested in her’s but am in her podcast partners writings. We have beaver, trout, and hopefully salmon again soon. Our river is spring fed and quite cold year round. The fish have rocky cover and the water is crystal clear. If you are interested it is the Klamath Basin, Klamath County OR. You can Google to see an overview if interested. I haven’t really looked into the beaver angle. The wetlands and native species are huge local issues. They are taking dams down to revitalize the system. One came completely down last year and the change is amazing. The dams went up about 100 years ago. The water system involves both Oregon and California and the Indigenous people of the area are the catalyst.

[@TheDaneYard]

FYI Lily of the Valley are unfortunately dangerous for dogs. Marie Pickard

[@sandrachilds7229]

" I love man the less, but nature more." Lord Byron. This is something I have come to terms with about myself. Always know that I am going to walk away from your podcast inspired by your creations and intrigued by your intellectual musings.

[@justlivindesigns]

OMG...looks like you are in a hostage video with your fuzzy pink hood. 🤣