The Bluebird Box Knits | Episode 20: 2 months of knitting and spring knits!

[@eeeveeelieeen]

I am happy you are not knitting all the patterns everyone else is knitting. Makes you podcast more fun, more unique and authentic to watch.

[@thebluebirdbox]

Ohhh thank you! That’s so encouraging!

[@maureenklettl4865]

Another great podcast, thank you! No need to apologize for infrequent videos - you are one busy lady and I don't know how you fit it all in (family, farm, birds, knit designer, etc). Makes me appreciate every new podcast you're able to put out 🙂 Your Mala tank top is in my queue to knit this summer - so pretty.

[@pamroebuck4764]

Love your new sweater design Anna. Really enjoy listening to your talk about your designs.

[@cozyupknits9077]

Soooooo good to see your face again!!💙💙💙 Your episodes are always a joy and I LOVE your knits as usual!!!! Loved hearing your farm news as well... hope you guys have been well with all these fires and you weren't too close to anything crazy. I'm mentally going through my wooly stash to see if I have something appropriate for your new sweater!!!🤩🤩😍😍😍 It's gorgeous!!

[@betsyford4101]

Very nice knitting Anna I love the Mala scarf look so precious 👏 2 cute little girls 😛 your friend is such a nice person Happy bluebirds 🐦 hope you 're back soon Take care 🙋🇫🇷

[@jochalder-royle9130]

Hi from New Zealand. Your podcasts are great and I appreciate being privy to a designers point of view, way more interesting! Thank you.

[@chrissy24-7]

I'm so excited to see more of the mystery design, with the fisherman's rib 😊😻. And I'm in love with the buttons your daughter insisted upon for her sweater ❤

[@thebluebirdbox]

They are pretty great, aren’t they. One of a kind!

[@gilainevanwezel6278]

Hi Anna, can you imagine I must have overlooked your podcast of 5th May. I guess my nose must have been to deep in yarnstash and stitches 🤪. How nice to see you again on the podcastscreen. 🌷 What a lovely pile of FO and designs you showed us. 😃 I am looking forward to the June release of the garment you showed us your swatch, so beautiful. And the 2 absolutely cute cardigans of your girls. WOW. You really should write down the pattern, you know. I enjoyed every single minute watching. Looking forward to you WIP designs you showed us. Now I am off to episode 21. I feel extra spoiled this evening ! 😉 Take care. 🎶

[@lchubert9207]

Love your podcast and really enjoy glimpses of your environment and news of your farm. I admire your perseverance with your designing and knitting during such a busy time of your life. Keep it up. Your designs are lovely.

[@thebluebirdbox]

Thank you for sticking with me! 🥰

[@mindfulmelbournemaker]

A lovely episode again, thank you for sharing ❤

[@sarahjanewheatley5472]

I appreciate that you take the time out of your day to podcast for us! It’s a great way to publicize your designs; which I love, btw. I don’t find time to knit even a few things each year so am in awe. I also live on a small homestead in southern Spain, with sheep and chickens. We are facing a terrible drought here too. We need to buy in hay for the sheep and this year it is expensive and in short supply. We are having to consider reducing the number of sheep we have drastically.

[@A_knitters_suitcase]

Awwww, Anna, thanks so much for mentioning my little podcast 🤩🤩🤩🤩you are such a special, caring person😍thank you! congratulations on securing the "secret" pattern release!!! you are so talented and put so much heart and hard work in what you do that you deserve this success and many others!!! The mala scarf is very beautiful, but I don't wear skinny scarves either. Still I feel like a lot of people may enjoy it. that colourwork jumper is stunning!!! and I am really intrigued by the shoulder construction you have been using lately. Looks great and I am pretty sure it fits like a dream. So much to enjoy in this episode ❤❤❤❤❤thanks so so much for your support xxx

[@thebluebirdbox]

Awe, thanks Daniela! You’re a gem 💎 🥰

[@tacistudio]

I just found you and love listening to you. Thank you for the podcasts suggestions. As a new designer and podcaster it’s so nice to get to know other people that have the same interest I do. This is such a great community. 💕

[@SamAnnL66]

Lovely podcast Anna 👍🏼❤️

[@lorikoury120]

Great episode! Worth the wait! All of your designs are beautiful. I wish I was a good enough knitter to test knit for you. You’ll be fine, I know!

[@janet7640]

Oh dear Anna, thank you for your eloquent story of the rams. Such an honor to them for your family to enjoy their meat. I’m so glad that you kept it. And that vest! I can hardly wait to knit it. Praying for you to get rain. Would that I could send you some of ours.

[@thebluebirdbox]

I know! We could all use a little balance in this weather!

[@mynorthknitcorner]

So good to see you on the screen again, Anna🥰 Your knits are as always so lovely. Love the colorwork sweater. I have been knitting on the collar for the Garti Cardi while watching. And I got my self a copy of your beautiful Mala top. Can't wait to cast it on😊 Thank you so much for the mention,It means so much❤ Hope you have a wonderful and blessed May❤️

[@thebluebirdbox]

Thanks for the support Anne, I hope you don’t get discouraged by the length of that collar!! It’s a commitment 😆

[@professorpurl]

I just love the sweaters for your girls!! so so sweet!

[@tacistudio]

I buy an individual Alcalan little pouch and write a care instruction label and give with the gift which everyone says it reminds them to not machine wash their knit gift and há swashbuckling it. I think he will really love and appreciate this gift. 💙

[@julissaknits]

I can't wait for the test knit call to go out! 😍

[@mrspilgrim327]

Your vlogs are always worth waiting for Anna, that colour work jumper looks amazing and your daughters cardis were very cute. I love hearing about your farmlife and regarding your rams, it sounds like you have a healthy respect for what you consume. For some reason we are left feeling like we have to be one extreme or another these days, either anti anything to do with consuming meat because an animal must perish for it or the other end, to be entirely detached and without care, which is how we are used to treating it when we buy it from the supermarket. Its a true reality check when you have to aknowledge you are a human being with compassion and common sense and that you still need to eat. Your situation is a wonderful one to be in and you are approaching it all in a perfectly normal way as far as Im concerned. I hope you enjoy your summer, your weather sounds quite warm but everywhere else, europe, uk and most of the US, Im hearing its unseasonably cold, you may get rain yet. Happy knitting, Cheers, Tara

[@thebluebirdbox]

Well said! We have learned and grown so much since trying to raise more of our own food.

[@janloughran1503]

You're prioritising what you need to do, never apologise for that. The girls' new knitwear is gorgeous ❤ Can't get over the price you paid for that yarn and shipping though, that's madness. Anyone who says handmade is a cheap option needs to take up a craft and find out for themselves! Lovely to see you again ❤

[@thebluebirdbox]

I just about choked on the price myself 😂 but when the pay cheque comes in it will be worth it!

[@stephaniebardwell7104]

I love watching your podcast whenever you can fit us in. Your designs are wonderful. I’m looking forward to knitting your garti cardi. I have to finish up some wips first. Keep up the good work!!

[@debcigna6732]

such an intriguing shoulder construction. I will be awaiting your published patterns that use it.

[@beverlythompson3246]

Thanks for another great episode Anna- it is amazing that you find the time with your busy busy life. I admire your ability to sit down and come up with designs so quickly (like the girls’ Easter cardigans). I really like the lace design but personally not a big fan of the skinny scarf. Hope your family is not affected by any of the wildfires and that your well and pond fill up!

[@thebluebirdbox]

Thanks Beverly! I appreciate your honesty about the scarf, they are not very functional IMO

[@hollyscott8772]

You do such lovely work, Anna, Thanks for sharing; you are so worth waiting for! I'm hoping to throw my hat in for your Brooklyn Tweed design. I have some handspun yarn that I'd love to use!

[@thebluebirdbox]

I would love that!! I think that design would be amazing in handspun, so honoured that you would consider using your precious yarn for it 😍

[@carolerath1129]

Anna why are you so hard on yourself? People understand life is busy and you do what you can. Also you did what was necessary with the rams and you got some fine wool from them also. Thanks for the recommendation I’m going to have to check them out. Great job on all you knits. They are beautiful. Thanks again for a wonderful episode and take time to relax a bit.

[@lovannahsirois4932]

You do not disappoint 😊! And thank you for sharing some of your design process and thoughts with us. The Mala top is the next thing on my needles, as soon as I over dye some silk/linen so not all my summer tops are mint green 😂

[@alecsgirl]

Beautiful designs, as always, Anna!

[@alecsgirl]

And I love knitting heavy wool sweaters in the summer 😂

[@thebluebirdbox]

You’re my kind of knitter! 😆

[@lauriejarboe6087]

I love the skinny scarf and it is perfect for all the pretty fingering weight hand dyed skeins. I think including an i-cord edging would take care of the rolling garter edge. Looking forward to seeing the publication of the pattern in that lovely Farmer's Daughter Fibers yarn, it is gorgeous yarn.

[@thebluebirdbox]

Good idea about the I-cord!

[@skillgore1850]

I love your podcast! Loved the swatch for your upcoming published pattern. You give so much information that I’m learning a lot from you. Thank you!

[@jean-jn3nq]

I really enjoy the gentle approach you take to life and to your fiber arts. Thank you so much for sharing. I too have wool and other “allergies” and will definitely subscribe to channels you recommend. Have a wonderful Spring and hoping to see your podcast again soon. Also your daughters are lovely ♥️

[@audetouzot1519]

It was so nice to see you pop up in my feed this afternoon, it was a nice treat. I do enjoy your episodes no matter the frequency of them. I just wish I could share the rain we just had this past week in NJ (USA) with you.

[@thebluebirdbox]

Me too! British Columbia has had floods, I’m sure they’d like to pass on some rain! Thanks for being here 🥰

[@dorisenderle5857]

We have had 3 weeks of rain. The sun was out yesterday so I finally got the yard mown. Sun again today and at 12:30 am it is 60F after a lot of cold weather.

[@thebluebirdbox]

Parts of British Columbia, our neighboring province, is drowning in rain. We could use some balance!

[@StudioNora]

Great to see you again! That swatch is just so lovely! Excited to see what it will become ❤ currently thinking about what yarn to use for your lovely mala tank 🎉

[@thebluebirdbox]

Ohh exciting! Squeeze that babe for me 😍

[@Lavendare1023]

🙏Praying you get rain 🌧️. ❤

[@thebluebirdbox]

Thank you so much 💕 I’m so grateful for the little we have gotten since I published this video

[@goldenknits2]

Your colorwork sweater with the Brooklyn Tweed looks absolutely amazing!❤

[@lynncharlesworth8561]

Hi Anna Great to have you back on KZbin. Just started your Mala top - its so addictive! Have got some Cashmere/Possum/Silk lace weight yarn to try. Its knitting up beautifully. Would love some footage of your Bluebirds some time. No pressure!!! Kindest wishes Lynn Albany Western Australia

[@thebluebirdbox]

I was waiting for someone to ask! 😂🐦 I’ll be sure to take some bird footage just for you!

[@wildcottageknitting]

Love your designs, Anna! Bought your newest, and the Garti Cardi, though I probably won’t get to cast on for several months. I really want all my long term WIPs finished this year & so that’s my main goal…. if I can refrain from succumbing to test knits😅 But I was very good and told myself I must not apply for your lovely colourwork one. I’ve got a cable jumper test on the needles due in July 🥵😁Thanks for creating so many beautiful patterns & sharing your processes!

[@thebluebirdbox]

Well done! Good luck with the test knit, hopefully you can find some A/C to knit it in!

[@lisettefuller2285]

Hi Anna...I love your podcast...just wondering if u are going to publish your "cardigan vest"...I love it soooo much and would love to make it❤

[@thebluebirdbox]

Yes! It is being test knitted right now and I hope to publish it at the end of may or beginning of June. I will announce its release through my newsletter if you are signed up. If not, you can do so at TheBluebirdBox.ca ☺️

[@christineosterbuhr3264]

I love the pattern on your thin scarf but I would love to make it as a spring to fall wrap. What pattern did you say the chart was from?

[@thebluebirdbox]

The one twisted lace stitch pattern is from Norah Gaughn’s Twisted Stitch Sourcebook (an in-print book) but the charts for the scarf are mine. I’ll consider turning it into a wrap, that would be more functional I think!

[@katherinehill3958]

Hi Anna, have you been impacted by the wildfires? I hope you, your family and your home are safe.

[@dorisenderle5857]

I am a slow knitter, and I am a fussy knitter. I can’t let mistakes in my knitting go; I have to fix them. If I have a long deadline, I would like to test your color work sweater. Have a 38” chest so I’m not sure of your sizing.

[@thebluebirdbox]

Wonderful! If you go to my website, TheBluebirdBox.ca , you can sign up for my newsletter. I announce test knitting calls through email first ☺️

[@cuddlingcuddles]

Nice to see another episode from you, but please don't feel you've disappointed the audience by not podcasting move often - life happens!