Spin with me: combed spotted sheep | 1 year anniversary edition!

[@MijnWolden]

So a year, huh? Are you an OG chaos goblin or just a fletchling goblin? Also, post your TdF questions here!

[@breec]

I am an imposter! I only came across your channel 3 weeks ago with the tablet woven trim for your cote, but I always go watch, from oldest to newest, the channels of people I subscribe to. TIS A RUSE but I'm happy to be here now. Happy 1 year!!!

[@MijnWolden]

No impostors, only goblins 😎

[@samanthamorrissette5211]

Congrats!! So happy that you started your channel, it's always a joy to watch your shenanigans. Personally, I never mind watching more combing, it is soothing to watch the floofs be formed. Beautiful skein too!

[@MijnWolden]

Next week there shall be more combing! 😁

[@jacquelinewalters3940]

🎉gefeliciteerd🎉. Ik geniet iedere keer weer van je filmpje! Ik zie nu ook een bonte schaap te spinnen…zo zacht 😍.

[@MijnWolden]

Dankje! Bont schaap is echt wel afhankelijk van schaap tot schaap heb ik de indruk, deze vacht was niet zo zacht als de vorige die ik gesponnen heb

[@kirstyhill1248]

Congratulations on a whole year of chaos goblin shenanigans! 😍 I must have found you after your second video I think and was hooked on your fun style since then! It's just so lovely to see someone enjoy things so thoroughly. Any video you put out, we will watch it because we love you and all your craziness that comes with it ❤ Thank you for continuing to share your beautiful, wooly chaos with us!

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@salliesoltysiak6783]

One year is good for us!!! You are always a lot of fun and I enjoy watching. Thank you for sharing your chaos with us.

[@MijnWolden]

So more years are even better! 😁

[@pattykuchera3368]

Congrats. You can always make us smile

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

congratulations!

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@ginaheutink968]

The yarn looks nice. I have enjoyed your videos. Thankyou.

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@TheMayLight]

Happy Anniversary! May the Wool be with you, as always 🥳

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@serenaserenade9617]

Congrats! You’re part of the (very) short list of creators who’s new videos I actively look for, and I’m so happy that you’re continuing to share your fiber shenanigans! Thank you!! I think the fist video of yours that got me hooked was the iconic “spinning and knitting a hat for my local sheep farmer”, because the only thing that I love more than spin-to-knit projects are hyper local spin-to-knit projects. Anyway, may the chaos goblin ever reign supreme :)

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰🥰🥰

[@raevynwoods9403]

I've watched all of your videos multiple times by now (you're very comforting on bad mental health days), so I'm not entirely sure when I found your channel. I think it was with your first of maybe second video. So congratulations, and thank your for making these video's! With every video you make I fall in love again with sheep and all the things you can do with their fur. Some questions for Tour de Fleece: how did you get into Pathfinder? Are you a reader? And if so, what genres do you like, and what are some of your favourite books?

[@MijnWolden]

Maybe I should listen to myself on bad mental health days then... Sheep and wool is a longlasting lovestory!

[@OrcaFPV]

Congratulations! Next Level: spinning while a drone is filming you 😀👍

[@MijnWolden]

Maybe on the 21st 😉

[@jw8223]

Happy anniversary!!!! I started watching your videos nine months ago. So, not from the VERY beginning, but close. Absolutely love your chaos goblin. I don’t mind multi-part series. Anything and everything fiber related I will watch. I’m a sponge absorbing anything and everything related to textiles and fibers.

[@MijnWolden]

My visual brain loves this sponge reference 😁

[@alexvanderpol1]

Oh and of course congratulations on your first patreon member! 😁

[@MijnWolden]

😉😉😉

[@LadyValkyri]

Hi, Jente! I started binging your videos either one or two videos after your muti-creator collab with Evie. After the first video, I was hooked and went back and watched as much as I could. By no I have seen most of them, although I may have missed a handful... there's always time for more, though! The skeins (both first and now) turned out beautifully. Well done! Congrats on your one-year achievement! Here is to many more years to come! (clinks glasses with you!) Hugs, always.

[@MijnWolden]

Ching ching! (One of the many things we say when raising glasses) 😁

[@torifgonyer9871]

Congratulations on one year! I've enjoyed every single video and have laughed tons! You make me feel like I'm not the only one that has a chaos brain, and I've been appreciative of that. 😆I love the idea of multi-part projects. Any sort of project too, doesn't matter, though I do loooove the fiber shenanigans.

[@MijnWolden]

Chaos goblins unite 😎

[@SensiblyTina]

❤Happy First Birthday!🎉

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@reannejarvis9464]

I first watched the recycling yarn into spun wool. I think as far as I could tell. 🇦🇺🎸⚡️🤘🏼🤘🏿💋❤️

[@MijnWolden]

nice :D

[@LittleHelper5]

Just found your ideas/ videos.started with your spindle unboxing. Subscribed now.🎉

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you ☺️

[@lajsa8160]

One year, wow congrats!! I'm sort of new here, I was searching for vintage knitting videos and found the 40s sweatervest-video, and a lovely Jente talking passionately about fiber and history and wool! I was hooked and quickly binged everything on your channel. Your chaos energy has been so good for my brain, which thinks that everything has to be perfect and that I shouldn't even bother to try because it will suck. Having embraced more chaos is lovely! So I want to thank you so much for that! I'm also very limited in my energy (I have chronic pain/illness) so sometimes when my body wants to craft but can't, I watch some of your videos and just soak in the creativeness. Thank you so much for your content! As a sign of my gratitude I will give you a Swedish fact. If you put a short "a" instead of the "e" at the end of Jente it becomes "jänta" which is an old-timey Swedish word for young girl!

[@MijnWolden]

I think in Norwegian and Danish Jente still means girl? It's a fact I particularly love because where I live the name Jente is used for all genders, though more prominently for boys. So I get a lot of letters adressed to ''mr.''. at least the Nordics have the right idea 😅

[@AndreaAlexander]

Congrats on 1 year of KZbin! I think the first video of yours that I watched was your second video, and I've been a fan ever since Cheers to many more!!

[@MijnWolden]

Cheers! And thanks for inspiring me to get into weaving 😁

[@stillarobyn]

I actually think I found you via your first Tour de Fleece video last year! It's been exciting watching you grow more comfortable with the camera, and watching the channel grow!

[@MijnWolden]

Nice, and now we're back at the tour! 😁

[@debohare674]

Happy anniversary I really enjoy your channel. I love watching your projects grow.

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@Pinguinpullover]

happy anniversary, nice yarn, as usual. stay safe, bye

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@locomademoiselle]

I love your chaos goblin vibes, never change that! 🎉 I started watching after the Evie video and binged watched all of your videos straight away ❤ Q: do you prefer spinning & preparing woollen or worsted style? Have you tried spinning flax? What is a dream project of yours? Requests: could you do some historical weaving projects? And yes, more than happy to watch multi video projects 😊👍🏻xxx

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰 I'm really thankful Evie gave me and some other smaller fiber friends the opportunity to collab with her!

[@alexvanderpol1]

The first video of yours I saw was the video of your first cycling sweater. It was so much fun to watch! I have seen all your videos since, and all of the ones before. I think all your fiber shenanigans are wonderful and I enjoy them immensely! Looking forward to whatever you come up with next!

[@MijnWolden]

Yes, you are one of the first and most loyal subscribers here ☺️

[@alexvanderpol1]

​@@MijnWolden🙈😊

[@StephanieMayfieldDIG]

Congrats on your anniversary!

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you!

[@conandufour638]

Woooo! Congrats on one year! Keep it up!

[@MijnWolden]

I shall 😎

[@eddavanleemputten9232]

Fully blown 100% certified chaos goblin as I’m neurodivergent (and absolutely at peace to be so, it is what it is). As I’m still bingeing my way through your videos I can’t pick a favourite yet. Although from the first year’s “crop” I really resonated with the one about painting your spinning and with your rant about Flemish wool being inferior. 😊

[@MijnWolden]

Neurodivergent high five!

[@fleurigfamke]

Congratulations on the one year anniversary! 🥳 I’m here from the first video! And I just joined the Chaos Goblin Tribe on Patreon! 🙌🏼 Yay for more shenanigans!! 🎉 Two weeks ago I aquired an old rigid heddle loom which can be transformed to a 4-shaft table loom. So I’m looking forward seeing your weaving experiments as I also will be experimenting myself!

[@MijnWolden]

Awh yessss for weaving!

[@biblioknitting9695]

Congratulations on the one year anniversary and on launching your patreon! I am a pre-teen goblin I think, but I've enjoyed so many of your videos, and I can't wait to see more in the years to come. Also Marce from Heybrownberry keeps saying "normalize slow making" and it's such a great saying. I would definitely like bigger projects over multiple videos!

[@MijnWolden]

Yes for slow making! All the ''I made a bazillion things in one hour'' posts are giving me anxiety 😅

[@elizabethstreeter2145]

Show us from the beginning with your table loom mistake’s and all plus what ever else’ you want we will watch, can’t do patreon unfortunately but will keep watching and enjoy all you do. Benn watching a while and have seen all your videos .nice heathered yarn you have just made.congratulations on one year and over 1000 subscribers and hope by this time next year it will be 3000 plus

[@MijnWolden]

My studio is a bit to warm right now, but I have filmed the first bits of warping 😁

[@BearsCrochetCritters]

Happy slightly belated anniversary to you! I only recently found you but glad I did. I love how the yarn came out too, but that maybe because I am fond of greys and back. May the tour de fleece go well for you this year and may the patreon launch do well too. ❤🐻

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you very much 🥰

[@christinazook593]

Gefeliciteerd!! Did I spell that correctly? My parents emigrated to the US from Holland before I was born, but my brothers and I can still understand Dutch. I like your videos very much. I'm a knitter, spinner and weaver. Your granny square cardigan has me considering trying crochet again. We'll see...

[@MijnWolden]

You did spell that right 😁 happy crocheting if you start again!

[@jenniferbrighty5120]

Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️ Congratulations on your 1st Anniversary 🎉🎉🎉. I think I've been watching you from the 2nd or 3rd video podcast. I know I subscribed before I'd finished watching the video though. I know it was before TDF started. You're are a total breath of fresh air, and I love you and All of your Chaos Goblin Shenanigans.🐑🐑🐑 Your Spotted Fleece looks amazing and the difference in the 2 Skeins of your Handspun Yarn is amazing too. I'm definitely a Chaos Goblin too and I'm loving the fact that I am. Thankyou so much for sharing All your video podcasts. You're very much appreciated and loved.🌟🌟❣️❣️❣️ Happy Spinning Sweet Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰🌼 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🐑🐑🐑🫂🫂🫂🐕

[@MijnWolden]

Yes, you were one of the very first subscribers! Thank you for tagging along on this journey 😁

[@jenniferbrighty5120]

​​@@MijnWoldenHi Jente, sorry for the late reply. I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️❣️ I thought I was one of the first subscribers but wasn't sure. I've have enjoyed tagging along with you on your journey. I hope to tag along with you as you carry on with this Wonderful journey. 🎡🚲 Happy Spinning Sweet Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂 🐕 I've been meaning to ask did your Mum like the Scarf you Wove for her for Mothers Day 🎉🎉🎉

[@jenniferbrighty5120]

@@MijnWolden Hi Jente, Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥ Sending Heart ♥ back to you ❤️💞 Good Luck in the TDF 🎡🐑🚲 Happy Spinning Sweet Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🐕

[@elynapege6467]

Congratulations on reaching this milestone🎉 Wishing you another fun year of discoveries! Bigger projects, yes! Multi part projects, yes! Any and all your shenanigans are welcome! Thanks for sharing them with us ❤

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@MagdaKnits]

I subscribed to your channel last year during TdF! I think it's fair to say I'm one of your earliest fans 😆 I've just washed a sample of Spotted Dutch so I will be spinning this soon too

[@MijnWolden]

That's really early indeed! Have Fun with your Dutch spotted 😁

[@anikagroen4592]

Gefeliciteerd! Ik hoop dat je nog een tijdje door gaat met leuke filmpjes maken. Ik ben benieuwd wat je tour de fleece project gaat worden. Hier wordt het zo veel mogelijk verschillende soorten vacht spinnen voor in mijn stalenboek.

[@MijnWolden]

Wat een leuk project! Hier zal het één grote vacht worden 😁

[@retrocraftdreams]

Happy anniversary! You've done so well and it really makes me smile! I'm so happy for you! I think I've only been here for half your journey so far. Since I don't spin (...yet?...) and wasn't looking for spinning channels, the first one to catch my attention was the dog fur gloves video! (I've got a jar of my cat's fur that I'd love to do something with one day). But I didn't realize until just a couple weeks ago I wasn't subscribed because youtube diligently showed me all your stuff, anyway. I just really enjoy watching people work through making their creations, whether or not it's a craft I also do (which is why I make the kinds of videos I make) so whether you do that all in one video or spread out to several makes no difference to me! And yes, that also means that if you had to comb the floofs, it makes sense for us to see you comb the floofs again. (Also, I often feel like watching youtubers do things like that is like growing up watching a grandma or aunt do the crafty things. When you decide to do it yourself, you don't need tutorials because you've seen it a hundred times. And I just love that.) Here's to another year of growth and shenanigans! 🥂

[@MijnWolden]

I love the idea of being the crafty aunt/grandma. Both my grandmom's are super skilled. My maternal grandmom with knitting and embroidery, and my paternal grandmother was a professional seamstress (she designed for lingeriebrand Etam, up until she became a stay at home mom for my dad and his Four siblings - as was sadly still costumary in the 1960s)

[@retrocraftdreams]

​@@MijnWolden That's so fantastic (well, maybe not the giving-up-a-career part, but the skill, definitely)! One of my grandmas made her own clothes and my aunt crocheted, but I saw them too little to ever witness them working. My stepmom did teach me to cross stitch. But that's the end of my crafty relatives (they're more artists and musicians and chefs). So I love that youtubers like you can be my stand-ins. And I hope I can do the same for others eventually.

[@jennifermiller7986]

Congratulations on your anniversary! I just found you today and really enjoyed your video. ❤

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@jirup]

Gefeliciteerd met jouw KZbin-verjaardag! Hieperdepiep hoera! Achter de schermen? Behind the curtains? Fencing? Oh, I understand now, 'behind the scenes'.Bedankt voor weer een nieuwe zin. Mijn vragen voor 'tour de fleece' zijn: hoeveel talen spreek je en welke is je favoriet?

[@MijnWolden]

Yes, behind the scenes is actually behind the screens for us 😁

[@lisabelfield1691]

Happy Anniversary 🎉 You bring a lot of joy and smiles to many ❤

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@Sarahgetsdressed]

The first video of yours I saw was one of last year's tour de fleece!

[@MijnWolden]

Oooh that's very early on!

[@darlenelester9577]

My 8 year old grandson asks to watch you because your personality reminds him of his cousin, who is in the military and he misses her

[@MijnWolden]

🥺 awh this is so precious

[@bethholness5153]

Oh oh , weave some tablemats or cushion covers, they would look great in these skeins.

[@MijnWolden]

Great idea!

[@gemmaf_]

Woohoo!! A whole year of chaos. I think I found you about 6-9 months ago. Now I'm going to have to check and see if I can figure out the video that got me here. Edit: no idea. What a beautiful fleece!! Im looking forward to seeing what you're planning for TdF

[@MijnWolden]

TdF planning under way!

[@genier7829]

I don't spin, but as watch this I'm picking through lichen and cleaning it prior to dying yarn for a colorwork project.

[@MijnWolden]

That's a thing I really want to try one day as well, do you have a favorite resource for lichen dyeing?

[@Suze2233]

Happy Anniversary!! 🥳 Beautiful yarn!❤️

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you 🥰

[@radkagajdikova9118]

Yay to one year! Yes to multi part series. I love your passion for crafts and would like to see more of wool/any other material dyeing (my favorite videos are the ones where you are using natural dyes. Always makes me want go out and collect some and then I realize I don't have non-food pots). One question, how did you get into fiber arts and spinning? (sorry if it was already answered). You have inspired to want to learn spinning and weaving, so last week I did try it on a friend's spinning wheel and started save for my own. Thanks for sharing yourself and your life with us.

[@MijnWolden]

More dyeing is certainly on the way! Spring and summer are the ideal months for that 😉

[@linr8260]

That yarn might work well for some woven outerwear 👀 Has it been a year already... I can't remember exactly when I started watching but I believe it was shortly after tour de fleece ; I remember binging those back then. This might feel a bit mushy, but thank you. Having your videos to look forward to has been one of the things that kept me going this year. I know people generally present their best and most cheerful face to the camera and we don't see the hard times and struggles, but the cheer and love of fun and adventure you bring us have always brought me a smile even in the darkest times. And your proud and deliberate chaos has allowed me to start spinning with more excitement than perfectionism and fear, and truly lit a love for natural wool (even if I do also love sparkles and the like). I've never touched patreon (tight budget... But mostly anxiety tbh) but I will see if I can get myself to tackle it once irl slows down a bit. I know it's not *really* related to tour de fleece, but I would love to hear more about the things YOU love about Belgium. Be it places, food, traditions that you enjoy or that make you nostalgic, and of course, textiles, sheep and related topics ;) I just think it's a shame that we don't hear much about it internationally. Happy Anniversary, and I hope to see plenty more shenanigans :D

[@linr8260]

Oh yes and I love the series, no worries there ;)

[@MijnWolden]

Awww thank you 🥺 that made me all mushy indeed! ❤️

[@linr8260]

@@MijnWolden good thing you have a steady supply of fluffy wool to squish!

[@MijnWolden]

Yes indeed!

[@alexvanderpol1]

Congratulations on one year of KZbin!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@MijnWolden]

Thank you! 😁

[@sabrinajudt5719]

I believe it was your vintage toy loom video that I first watched. It's been awhile though lol

[@MijnWolden]

Always welcome on your time 😉

[@josieposie1]

I love watching your videos, congratulations on your first year! It's hard making content, I've been trying for ages to get going. . I do have a bit of a sheep obsession and wonder if you could take us on a field trip to see your sheep? All hail the chaos goblin!

[@MijnWolden]

They're not my sheep, but I'd love to take you guys along to my local neighbourhood farm, great idea!

[@anndiels-creavelina9597]

Congrats! I am a beginner spinner and am trying some things as Well . Am from Belgium as Well, regio Lille/Turnhout 🙂 Love your video's, subscribed tot your channel just today 🙂🐑🧶

[@MijnWolden]

Hi, Limburg here :D happy spinning!

[@anndiels-creavelina9597]

@@MijnWolden 💜🐑

[@hawthorngrove3629]

I think i started watching your channel during tour de fleece 2023. I still feel uncomfortable talking to the camera but maybe that is because i don't have many viewers. I hope to improve my videos and make them more interesting in the new year.

[@MijnWolden]

It keeps being Awkward when they're other people around for me.

[@hawthorngrove3629]

Yes that is awkward too😂

[@micahmilne]

I think I started watching around tour de fleece last year. I do love a multi part series. Would definitely love more natural dyeing experiments... I'm trying to learn to do it lol. I suppose a question I have is whether you're getting more fleece from your farmer this year. I think you still have some from last year too, right?

[@MijnWolden]

I have some dye shenanigans lined up After the tour de Fleece 😉

[@leslieambailey]

Congratulations! I do watch all of your posts. They’re not too long! (on occasion a wee bit short - I enjoy your content and like to sit down with you for a while). Would you kindly share the link to the pattern for your three-quarter length sleeve cabled cardigan? It’s so nice. Keep spinning! And knitting and weaving and all the good things.

[@leslieambailey]

Where did that @ come from? I didn’t create it … ugh.

[@MijnWolden]

That is the Ferndell cardigan by NCL knits, KZbin doesn't like links in comments so I hope you find it!

[@leslieambailey]

@@MijnWolden thanks so much!

[@kristalburns3490]

Happy Anniversary!! Did you eat the lilacs? Have you contemplated knitting pants?

[@MijnWolden]

No, we had a really sudden heatwave and now all the lilacs are dried out. But next year! Next year!

[@kristalburns3490]

@@MijnWolden Always next year for lilacs.

[@maryking5425]

I’m new to you my first video was mental health knitting.

[@MijnWolden]

Yay for new viewers 😁

[@rashna671]

Happy channel anniversary!!! (chann-iversary?) I remember the first vid of yours I saw was this one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5bUpn2LbJd4fas except im pretty sure I saw it in Feb. I love watching those end of year vids so youtube always recommends them to me, and i was watching a lot of JillianEve so the word handspun got an instant click for me, lol. Looking forward to more fiber shenanigans!

[@MijnWolden]

Oooh Nice! 😁 Thanks for letting me now