Let's spin the Easter (angora) Bunny and knit my First two-colour Brioche hat!

[@MijnWolden]

I know, I know. Block your gauge swatches. Research what angora does when in contact with water and/or vinegar. But deadlines+choas brain sometimes equals cutting corners, so please be kind 😬

[@jirup]

I was just happy to see a little of the Ardennes and someone brave enough to tackle brioche on camera.

[@MijnWolden]

@@jirup Oh, but it wasn't the Ardennes, it was the Ardèche (FR). While beautiful, the Ardennes doesn't have as spectacular mountains nor castles 😅

[@paloma_hill]

I have a rescue mini angora and he is the softest thing in the whole world. like milkweed fluff with a wriggly indignant bunny inside. so this is making me happy in a OOH FLUFFY BUNNY way.

[@MijnWolden]

Sounds like a very characterful bunny 😁

[@raevynwoods9403]

Don't worry about having two not-as-successful endresults in a row! Most of us are here for the shenanigans :) When you did the final reveal shots I couldn't help but think of a mushroom hat... I don't know if you're into fantasy fairs, but if you stuff the border of the hat it would make a magnificent mushroom I think! Or maybe a bag, if you turn it upside down and put a lining in it? But I can also imagine your disappointment, the hat was so nice when you had it on in the car.

[@MijnWolden]

OOOOOOOOH MUSHROOM HAT WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THAT. (Sorry for the shouting)

[@raevynwoods9403]

@@MijnWolden hahahaha you're welcome :)

[@DorkSideIndustries]

It can be so frustrating when a project turns out unexpectedly, but thank you so much for sharing it anyway! The process is still so lovely to watch and honestly, I think we're all here for the shenanigans and your unfiltered content style, it's nice to see sometimes that things don't always turn out perfectly (though I am still devastated for you, of course). You still learned a new knitting skill and got to spin some different floof, and the headband is adorable.

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@retrocraftdreams]

I don't know what you're talking about, this video was delightful! A bummer that you don't get to have the adorable hat you wanted, but I learn just as much from watching the process - even when it doesn't go to plan - as with anything else. In fact, I think I learn MORE this way than from watching tutorials. It gets into my brain is such a different way, makes connections, triggers problem-solving, and all that. Can it be felted a little to get smaller again? I think I've seen people trying to control the felting process to this end. But I don't know how it works with angora, or if it would just kill the softness. We also had a pet bunny when I was a kid. Not angora, just a grey floppy eared one. But we took him for walks on a leash.

[@MijnWolden]

I had a friend that took her cat for walks on a leash 😁 our bunnies could hop around in our garden as much as they like.

[@kristalburns3490]

I look at my spinning and knitting as an adventure. I find your adventure very succesful. You got to spin a new fiber. You learned a new knitting technique and lesson for next time. Upside, if you ever have a giantess in need of a hat, you are prepaired.

[@MijnWolden]

Ok, now where do I find the land of giants tho? 🤭

[@jenniferbrighty5120]

Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️❣️ and that you've recovered from your disappointment with the Brioche Hat. 😢 We all learn by our mistakes. But that's what helps us in the end. I'm so glad that you still shared this video podcast, so we can learn from your experience. 😮 I think i can speak for us all when I say that, we all love your Shenanigans and your Chaos Brain. 😊😊 Your Headband looks amazing and beautiful. Hope you had a lovely and Blessed Easter Weekend. 🌟🙏 Happy Spinning and Knitting Sweet Fibre Friend 🎡🐑💝🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Huge Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕

[@MijnWolden]

I have recovered by now yes, thank you ☺️ I hope you had a happy Easter as well!

[@jenniferbrighty5120]

@ mijn Wolden, Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥ Sending Heart ♥ back to you ❤️ Love, Blessings and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🫂🫂🐕🫂

[@jenniferbrighty5120]

@@MijnWolden I'm so glad that you've recovered. It's hard sometimes when we put so much hard work into something and the outcome isn't what we wanted. I did have a lovely Easter Weekend, thankyou for asking. Hope this Weekend will be a good one for you. ☀️🌟 Happy Spinning and Knitting Sweet Fibre Friend 🎡💝🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️💝💝🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕

[@nancytielens5195]

I sure love it too Jente, daughter of mine😍 It’s soooo beautiful!! I've already worn it, along the coastline 😊 Proud mom ❤

[@MijnWolden]

And how did it perform in the seabreeze? 😁

[@nancytielens5195]

It is so soft and warm 🤗

[@afoxgloveshandiwork]

I’m glad you still shared the video! Like someone else said, I’m also here for the shenanigans just as much as the wool. I didn’t know what brioche knitting was so I learned something new!

[@MijnWolden]

Yay for learning new things!

[@serenafardin7441]

Don't be disappointed..... When I was a kid my mum knitted for me (she is very very good in knitting ) a beautiful sweater with a pale porcelain pink/white super soft angora wool. With a beautiful lurex wire in it (I was a kid in the 80's I love everything that's lurex, pailettes,glitter). After all that work I finally wore it, just to discover after an hour that I'm allergic to angora wool 🐰🐰🐰. By the way, I really enjoyed your video, and really enjoyed the result however. I understand that we do have a thing in common, when something we are working on is not satisfying we "destroy" it and do it again from the begging.... 🙈

[@MijnWolden]

Destroying a thing we made is so heartbreaking 😅

[@josieposie1]

I have so many more misses than hits. i made a vest for my Mum once that was so small it wouldn't fit a 7 year old, hats that the yarn pools so horribly I couldn't look at it. I tried knitting it differently but it still pooled. Its all part of the learning process. In other news, I have just been given some angora to play with. I was going to card mine with some Blue face leicester to make a batt of clouds.

[@MijnWolden]

Yay for cloud batts!

[@ElizabethKendall-bu6lt]

You make me smile, love your shenanigans! From the u k.

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@alexvanderpol1]

Thank you for putting this video up, even if you think it was a failure, it was not! People on social media (including youtube) tend to only show the perfect successes (I'm guilty of this too, on my reddit account). But it is so valuable to show where you went wrong! Also, maybe imposter syndrome can make you feel like you should not have posted this, but even someone like Evie from JillianEve has posted videos of failed projects on her channel.

[@MijnWolden]

Ha, you put the finger right on the sore spot there! But posting projects online is scary to begin with, let Aline if they're failed. And as An HSP my brain is constantly in overthinking modus, toxic cocktail when mixed with the slightest hint of impostor syndrome. This was quite a long winded way to say thank you, you are absolutely right 😁

[@practicallymedieval2027]

I have been knitting for years. I still have projects that don't turn out. It happens! I learn more from watching peoples struggles and mishaps than I do watching perfect people do perfect projects. I love this channel for its down to earth nature.

[@Suze2233]

Happy Easter! You have more successes than not. ❤️🙏🏻🐰

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@Suze2233]

@@MijnWolden 👍🏻

[@Janet-ov7zx]

Sometimes, it just doesn't work. But you got to learn how to do brioche knitting, and that will stay with you long after the hat is turned into a cat bed. (It would make a good cat bed. Add some stuffing and gather the ribbing to hold it in.) somewhere you must know a cat who would love a soft angora bed. Keep up your shenanigans! harpingJanet

[@MijnWolden]

Sometimes it indeed do be like that :)

[@NorthernLassxx]

I love your cardigan❤❤❤ do you have a pattern link for it? Also I watch and enjoy your videos, really inspiring 😄 I'm also a spinner😉

[@MijnWolden]

KZbin doesn't like link posting, but it's the Bookish cardi by Annie Lupton 😁

[@elizabethstreeter2145]

Try again on two needle sizes smaller maybe and vinegar wash your indigo yarn first enjoy your Easter eggs

[@eddavanleemputten9232]

Bummer about the hat growing… but that headband is perfect! 😊

[@motracey5866]

This makes me wish I'd saved my buns shed too...probably gonna start saving my dogs fur since she's nine in august

[@MijnWolden]

Dog's fur is lovely too!

[@tori7635]

This was my favorite of your videos so far. It made me feel like a “normal” human goblin. That we can all make mistakes and learn. It’s not just me and the constant mistakes. 😅 So grateful for you and your shenanigans. So grateful. 🖤

[@MijnWolden]

thank you :D

[@elizabethstreeter2145]

The hat will take no time next time as you now know how to do brioche and the pattern for the hat come on you can do it

[@simonamaloney5258]

I am glad that you posted your fail, we learn from them too!!!

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@KristiesHooked]

I made a slouchie pizza hat 🍕 that turned out huuuge. I'm talking two dread heads would've been needed to wear that thing. I followed the tutorial to the letter but... 😆🤷

[@MijnWolden]

People having different preferences for the amount of slouch maybe? 😂

[@Kenji1234Animelover]

How do bells bring eggs? Do they get the bunnies to pull them on a sleigh? That would make me feel a bit better than bells moving on their own. Are you doing something while you spin on the couch? It doesn't matter that the result isn't the best. But I enjoyed the process!! I'm here to listen to you talk and watch you make stuff! If you do something else with it that would be fun to see you remake it!

[@MijnWolden]

I don't know how exactly the Bells store the eggs on their flight from Rome back to their respective parishes, but that's the explanation they give children as to why there's no bells tolling from white Thursday until Easter. And a lot of decorations show them just dropping the eggs from the open end while flying through the skies, sometimes with wings. When I spin on the sofa I'm mostly watching television or KZbin ☺️

[@Kenji1234Animelover]

@@MijnWolden Must be some sort of magic to keep them in. But if they're full of eggs they can't ring. I thought so! Great that you're comfortable enough with it to multitask.

[@MijnWolden]

Probably *divine* magic as well 🤭

[@rmlrhonda]

So disappointing after so much effort! But the spinning was successful, and you learned Brioche, and you learned what NOT to do with angora :), so lots of positives in there, too! Just not the blinkin' hat! :)

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you ☺️

[@leslieambailey]

Oh you poor dear!! I’m so sorry for your disappointment, but I don’t think it’s bad to post this kind of project video. It actually teaches us something. Your brioche knitting was beautiful… I hope that you can salvage the yarn and use it for something else? I wonder if it would felt…

[@MijnWolden]

Well I've already shown it frogs readily and easily. So when I get over the initial dissapointment I will most certainly salvage the yarn!

[@StephanieMayfieldDIG]

Thank you for sharing this. I have angora in my stash. Now I am forewarned how to treat it. Much appreciated! The 100% cheingora hat I made my husband did a similar thing.

[@MijnWolden]

Yes, learn from my mistakes 😅

[@jirup]

Soms werken dingen niet, maar stop niet met proberen.

[@MijnWolden]

🥰

[@eiszapfenkobold]

Uhhh lala fold up brim and le grande PomPom for ze nice Beret Bunny hat ;)

[@MijnWolden]

Honhon oui oui baguette 😉

[@lelalu101]

If its any consolation, I designed and sewed up a skirt made in deadstock denim. Despite triple machine washing it with bleach my hands WERE STILL BLUE. Indigo is a tricky creature 🤣

[@MijnWolden]

Ohno! What a nightmare

[@linr8260]

Oh no, I'm sorry, it was so cute too :( Although it's gotta be said, that hat did not look that velu to me 🤔

[@MijnWolden]

It was indeed a bit below expectations in velu-ness... But extraordinarily soft!

[@linr8260]

@@MijnWolden that's what truly matters :D

[@MijnWolden]

Indeed 😁

[@TheHistoryHikers]

Failures are good learning experiences, keep it up! ❤

[@MijnWolden]

It's true ☺️

[@Sarah-tq2jx]

I find brioche quite tricky for accessories. I knit a cowl to gauge, but it’s such an unstructured stitch it just kind of -bleghs- over my shoulders instead of standing up to keep my neck warm 🥲

[@MijnWolden]

Right?!

[@biblioknitting9695]

I also recently tried to spin angora (not for Easter purposes, I don't celebrate, but because I realized it had been in my stash for...mumblty years since I last went to MDSW). I ended up failing out of that spin, so I appreciated you sharing your project, even if it didn't turn out the way that you expected. It's nice to feel like I'm not the only one!

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you, also for sharing your experience ☺️

[@micahmilne]

I think it's the brioche more than the angora. The ribbing didn't grow enormously. But I've always heard that when you block brioche, it relaxes tremendously and grows in width. This is the precise reason I fear brioche knitting. You are braver than me and your efforts were beautiful and fun to watch.

[@MijnWolden]

It might be both because the ribbing did grow significantly as well, but not as much as the brioche part indeed.

[@sabrinajudt5719]

🐰❤

[@kathrynbassett1535]

Your videos make me so happy😊 please never apologize for being real and honest. Hay for those who love shenanigans whose own lives and makes are also full of shenanigans and occasional imperfections ❤ hugs from Katy from NZ 😊

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you for your beautiful words and support 🥰

[@Cate-and-Maddielion]

😢 thank you for sharing anyway even though the hat was a flop. Like other commenters have said it's actually in a way nice to see other people have fails and disappointing projects too. The headband is very cute, so at least you have something nice from the yarn

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@countbaldwiniv]

Seems like a hat that would fit your boyfriend!

[@MijnWolden]

What boyfriend? I only have a husband 😮

[@gemmaf_]

Well the headband turned out perfectly, so thats a win! I've never knit or spun angora, so I wouldn't have a clue how it behaves either. And brioche. Pfft. Lets just say I've ripped out and re-knit the one single thing I attempted MANY times. It's currently waiting for ends to be woven in and a wash. Hopefully this time it fits. Do you think you'll re-knit your hat or do you have other plans for the yarn? Also it was a great video, so absolutely nothing to apologise for.

[@MijnWolden]

I'm not quite sure what to with it. I paid for the pattern, so I guess I'll eventually start over, when the sting of the dissapointment is over.

[@gemmaf_]

@@MijnWolden You could use different yarn instead of the angora. Maybe brioche needs a stretchier yarn? 🤷‍♀️ Then find something else for the Angora to become. I'm sure whatever you do, you'll fly through the brioche, now you've done it once already.

[@ginaheutink968]

Nice

[@MijnWolden]

Thanks!

[@Eastybeastyy]

Could you felt it down?

[@MijnWolden]

Flemish sheep is known to resist felting quite a bit. So I think frogging is the better solution here

[@Eastybeastyy]

@@MijnWolden Ah yeah probably best