The Bobbles & Berries Podcast · Ep.26 | Midland Neck, Irene Headband, Miles Shirt Jacket, and socks!

[@xusblasco5563]

Thanks so much, Aude! The longer the episode, the more delighted we are 🍂🍁🤎🍄 Lovely everything! 🧶📚

[@bobblesandberries]

Aw thanks! ❤️❤️❤️

[@elainebyrne3081]

Thank you Aude for another lovely episode. 🫖🥂🔦🔥

[@bobblesandberries]

Thank you for watching! ❤️❤️

[@HeidiSpear-oz6rw]

😊❤ who doesn’t love cozy, murder mysteries? Historical fiction my absolute favorite, however, and I appreciate all your knits and book recommendations.

[@bobblesandberries]

Historical fiction is probably my second favourite! Love it too! ❤️

[@almutbonner4031]

Thank you Aude for another great hour. I am currently knitting the Sweet Shop Blanket with the Zakami organic Merino advent. For the sewn bind off with unspun yarn, you can rub the yarn tail first to make it more sturdy and then start sewing. You can also use this method before casting on stitches. Have a great holiday once it's there. It is important to recover from all that work.❤

[@bobblesandberries]

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[@truditrubl]

Lovely episode, Aude! Thanks for including audiobooks, I too listen to the while crafting and face the same problem; Libby to the rescue of my yarn budget 🗡🔎📖

[@bobblesandberries]

Thank you! Libby to the rescue indeed! 😅😅

[@lamamanpoisson]

Thanks you for this episode. ☕️🫖

[@bobblesandberries]

Thank you for watching ❤️❤️

[@roseb4988]

Thankyou for a wonderful podcast 🧶

[@bobblesandberries]

Thank you for watching! ❤️❤️

[@somewhere_in_the_woods_]

🔎📖🧶 Merci Aude pour ce super podcast.

[@bobblesandberries]

Merci! ❤️ J’adore les emoticons!

[@donnalittle6963]

📘thank you for the episode 😊

[@bobblesandberries]

Thanks for watching! ❤️

[@gaychil930]

🧶🧣🐱 thank you Aude, never too long 😊

[@bobblesandberries]

❤️❤️❤️

[@ainasjokvist4648]

🔎 Such a cozy episode. I'm home for a sick leave due to heavy migraine and I'm so glad that I at least for some days I can sit up and knit. Love the colourful socks, the pink and orange is a great combo. I don't suit bright colours but with the socks I can go crazy with all the colours, like Stephen West style. I'd love to try some unspun yarn soon especially Nutiden, but it's kind of hard to get your hand on.Looking forward to see that cardigan ready. Currently on my needles is a test knit for a Swedish local for me designer (Annas Artificia on ravelry) and it is a neck/dickie for children 2-6 years called Gråvacka. I also have a long term Jacket in houndstooth pattern slowly knitting on that. Always a pair of socks this time with some moose motif for a friend who hunts. The THEA top but I'm going to frog that and a ribbed top in merino. Happy Holidays I hope that you do some really nice things to charge up. 🧶🤎

[@bobblesandberries]

I'm so sorry to hear you have a migraine! I get them sometimes too and they're the worst. It does sound like you've got many wonderful projects to work on while you recover though! ❤️ Happy knitting and happy holidays! I hope you feel better soon. ❤️

[@michellem7180]

🧶🫖☠️lovely podcast. Purchased a few of your recommendations with my unused credits 😊 thank you for sharing

[@bobblesandberries]

Aw that’s so lovely to hear! I hope you enjoy them! ❤️❤️

[@stephanienorwicz1366]

🔥📙📚♥ Thanks for all the knitting and reading inspiration! Have a great holiday! (that's supposed to be a fireplace - lol)

[@bobblesandberries]

❤️❤️❤️ Have a great holiday too!

[@karyncook4291]

Thank you for another enjoyable episode! Your projects are lovely. I love mysteries. I go back & forth between cozy mysteries and thriller/suspense mysteries. 🍰🔪

[@bobblesandberries]

Thank you! ❤️ Mysteries are the best. 😃

[@maggieanderson592]

🕵️‍♂️ Great to hear about your Laura Penrose test. I’ve been eyeing up that pattern. Just the thing to fend off the Edinburgh wind!

[@bobblesandberries]

❤️❤️ Oh yes! It is perfect for the Edinburgh wind!

[@yellowblue3337]

🕵️‍♂️ Always to the very end, I love your podcast! ❤

[@bobblesandberries]

Aww thanks! ❤️❤️

[@vickifenlon2235]

“more evenly wonky” What a great descriptive phrase!! 👀

[@bobblesandberries]

😄😄😄

[@ajborthwick7239]

I had to start using the Libby app too as I listen as I knit and go through a lot!

[@bobblesandberries]

I’m glad I’m not the only one. 😅😂

[@julieknitsandspins]

Wonderful episode! I too switched to DPN’s for the heel flap and turn as the Crazy Sock Lady showed in her video and it worked for me. I’ve also used a small crochet hook to pick up stitches for the gusset and it makes for a neat pick up. Happy relaxing holidays 🎄❤

[@bobblesandberries]

Thank you! ❤️ I'm so glad the DPNs worked for you! Happy holidays to you too! ❤️❤️

[@sara.gardinier]

🔪🔪🔪 I love a good cozy murder mystery, thanks for all these recs!

[@bobblesandberries]

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[@nicolelafontaine1720]

For your "Midland Neck" you could maybe crochet a little chain over the ribbing where it meets the garter stitches, in the front and back.🔍 🎬 📖

[@bobblesandberries]

I did think about that and then got worried that I wouldn’t be able to get it over my head. But it would be much nicer and neater than a bit of elastic… I might still try it. It’s easy and quick to rip back if it doesn’t work. Thanks! ❤️

[@teresitasotomayor8074]

🕵🏻Aude, thanks for another wonderful podcast …. Love your creative journey 🤗 thanks also for all the book recommendations ❤️ I’m always looking for good easy reads to accompany me while knitting 🧶

[@bobblesandberries]

Thank you!! ❤️ I hope you'll enjoy the books!

[@belindacarroll4973]

New mystery series I’ve been enjoying and recommend is The Thursday Murder Club Mysteries 🦊 by Richard Osman

[@bobblesandberries]

I love these books!! I’m so glad you’re enjoying them. They’re currently making a film adaptation!

[@daniellejohnson3364]

Lovely episode, your FOs are beautiful! 🕵️🔪📝😂

[@bobblesandberries]

Thank you! ❤️

[@GabiO-r4h]

🔦🧨Dear Aude, thank you for your wonderful knitting podcast but also for your book recommendations. Maybe I will try to get some and read them in English. But I will also have a look, if there are translations to German. (Like the Thursday Murder Club.) Have a nice advent-time! 🔫🖋

[@bobblesandberries]

Thank you for watching! I hope you find some translations of the books. Surely at least the more popular ones must be translated. 😊 Have a nice advent time too! ❤️ Love the murder mystery emoji! 😄

[@MarieMadeThis]

Made it!!! 🔪 Thanks for a fun podcast!

[@bobblesandberries]

😄😄 Thanks for watching!

[@corteofs]

I have some Manchelopis that I am wanting to knit a cardigan with and I really appreciate your comments about the Miles cardi as I have not used unspun yet

[@bobblesandberries]

I'm really glad this was helpful! I hope you enjoy knitting with it. ❤️

[@sheila-13]

Cozy murder mysteries I’ve listened to while knitting: Book retreat mysteries (series by Ellery Adams), Knit and Nibble Mysteries (series by Peggy Ehrhart ), Yarn retreat Mysteries (series by Betty Hechtman) and Knitting Mysteries (series by Maggie Sefton)

[@bobblesandberries]

Thanks so much for the book recommendations! Adding them all to my list. The only one I know is the Knit and Nibble Mysteries so that's wonderful! Thanks again! ❤️❤️

[@jilllang3679]

I also like cozy murder mysteries. Did the recommendation for Lessons in Chemistry come from you? Just finished that and enjoyed it very much. Love the Laura Penrose Midlands "dickey". The yarn you used looks so lovely.

[@bobblesandberries]

I don't believe it came from me... Although I did read it a while ago and enjoyed it very much as well. 😊❤️

[@angelastarcher9279]

▶📚❓🔬⚰I listen to audiobooks daily and I use the libby app. It's wonderful. Some recent reads I've enjoyed: My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem, Historical fiction: The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel, Murder mystery series by Harlan Coben, first book is Deal Breaker. Two very entertaining and well written books: A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure by Angela Bell and Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. Love your Stick Season sweater. I'm putting it in my queue.

[@bobblesandberries]

Thank you for the book recommendations! I read the Gloria Steinem one a little while ago and really enjoyed it. I’ll definitely check the other ones out! ❤️

[@christiannedewit6423]

Hello Aude, I really love your mug. We have a teckel/ Dachhund. What brand is it? Lovely podcast . Happy knitting❤

[@bobblesandberries]

Hi! It's Wrendale Designs by Hannah Dale: www.wrendaledesigns.co.uk/that-friday-feeling-dog-dachshund-mug If you're in the UK, you can find them at John Lewis. They also have a Christmas one with the Dachshund puppy on it. ❤️ Happy knitting to you too!

[@annscott2282]

Loved your podcast today. What was your friend’s podcast- journey something? Thank you.

[@bobblesandberries]

Journey Through Yarn ❤️

[@jilliankonig2759]

Love to read mysteries, too. I enjoyed Switchboard Soldiers, which is about bilingual American women who were recruited to be telephone operators in France during World War I. 📚

[@juliekoss7038]

I loved that book as well.

[@bobblesandberries]

It sounds amazing! Adding it to my TBR! ❤️

[@theknittingburrow]

I usually use about 12g to make the Perfect newborn socks by Tabitha Gandee :)

[@bobblesandberries]

Ooh thank you!! That's great to know!

[@theknittingburrow]

@ and they fit great but it’s better not to knit them too tight and with german twisted CO :)

[@bobblesandberries]

I will keep that in mind! Thanks! Worst comes to worst, if they’re too tight, they’ll make nice Christmas ornaments. 😅

[@bettygraham818]

I've turne to the radio, mostly Radio 4 extra to accompany my knitting. I enjoy knitting podcasts but increasingly have found that tryinng to count stitches for a cast on is impossible while someone is talking knitting. At times I have found myself doing the wrong stitch e.g. a purl 2 whien I should be doing a knit stitch 🙂

[@bobblesandberries]

😄😄 Yes! I can understand that. I don’t often listen to the radio. Maybe that’s my sign to do it more. ❤️

[@donnarossignol5695]

Hi Aude. I found a free baby sock pattern on Ravelry. Recommended by Katy of the fruitful hands podcast. It's called Perfect Newborn Socks.

[@bobblesandberries]

Hi Donna! Thanks for the pattern recommendation! I'll go and have a look. And I'm realising I never replied to your email about the colourwork knitting ring. I'm sorry about that. Thanks so much for taking the time to send it to me. ❤️❤️❤️

[@HappilyKnitted]

I didn't get an advent this year and I am having severe FOMO right now. But nothing I can do about it.

[@bobblesandberries]

Maybe making your own Advent? Kate of Hawthorn Cottage Craft does this. Pulls scraps and minis from her stash and has someone else wrap them so it’s still a surprise every day. 😊❤️

[@HappilyKnitted]

@@bobblesandberries that is such a nice idea :) But I have a lot of scrappy projects so most of my scraps are being used or planned to be used already and I know exactly what I have. but it is a great idea!

[@astridhult7885]

20 grams should be plenty for baby socks. They’re feet are tiny! 🤏 Another thought about the neck/dicky thing for a new mom: great gift! But don’t use mohair. The long fibers stick to tiny baby hands and they get it in their mouth and eyes. And, if your friend is planning to nurse her baby, maybe try to make it long enough to cover the boobs? It is very important to keep them warm to avoid mastitis❤

[@bobblesandberries]

Hi Astrid! Thank you for all the advice. I will keep it in mind. 😊 Mohair is definitely out of the question, for sure. ❤️

[@ingridklutz5604]

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[@bobblesandberries]

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[@bobblesandberries]

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[@ll29123]

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[@bobblesandberries]

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[@jennifergieber95]

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[@bobblesandberries]

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[@brigitteallain-dupre9931]

Bonjour Aude! Vous me donnez une bonne idée pour rester agréablement en contact avec la langue anglaise!!!! Merci! Brig

[@bobblesandberries]

Merci à vous! ❤️❤️

[@hannavagnell2036]

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[@bobblesandberries]

Yay! Hercule Poirot!

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[@bobblesandberries]

Love it! 😃❤️

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[@SamAnnL66]

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[@bobblesandberries]

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