I enjoyed the newsletter so much. I look forward to them. I always find your list of websites to visit especially interesting. And I Love the gloves. I personally love to make mittens and gloves even though I live in south Texas. My opportunity to wear my creations is very small, a day or two each year! However, I continue to make them for the sheer pleasure of it. I wore my polka dot gloves, made from a pattern of yours, this past weekend and enjoyed the moment. Now I want to make the new gloves. I have lots of sock yarn. What size needles did you use? 4? I can hardly wait to get started. Thank you as usual for the inspiration. That Silver Swan was incredible!
The lambs. under the tree are adorable! And it's fun to see Julia when she was small on the cover of the Best Friends pattern. I hope you and Mark are doing well.
Thank you for the lambing story. Raising sheep on a farm in Indiana, I appreciate your truth telling about the realities of trying to keep the babies alive. Lambing is a trying time and having lambs, pigs and baby calves living in our kitchen/dining room was common in January-February. At least we have our knitting to relieve the stress of caring for animals.
Hi Kristen . Greetings from sunny QLD in Australia. Love your newsletter. It is filled to the brim and overflowing with the fullness of a life richly lived and loved. God bless😀🙏. Thank you for the tip about knitting working farm gloves. I am casting around in my mind for a pattern for my daughter who is a veterinarian in cold Tasmania. She and her partner welcome all gloves or mittens to work in. I can knit however my chosen weapon for craft is crochet ( it is so easy to stop and pick up whether it be 2 minutes later or 2 or 20 years later). Thank you for your newsletter again. You are a delight with all your interests and home- making pleasures. Keep writing and sharing.
Kristen, I am a recently new subscriber and looked forward to receiving the January Newsletter with the beautiful photos on the farm. I live in Illinois where baby pigs and calves have had visits to our warm kitchen for bottle feeding and/or special care to aid their survival. Our family certainly relates to the marginal at best housekeeping standard, supplemented during emergencies with a less than marginal standard! Life comes first always and I would not have it any other way. (Except when unexpected visitors arrive during the less than marginal times, but then they get so caught up in the animal goings on, they forget all about the house keeping too). The whole Christmas tree story fits us as well. I cannot tell you how nice it was to see there is someone else in America who barely gets the tree up by Christmas, a real one of course, and delays its departure for a month or two keeping it watered, fresh, decorated and enjoyed into February and beyond! I peruse the newsletter from top to bottom, relishing each story and link! The wonderful pictorial journeys to far off points of interest are beautiful travelogues to places I would not otherwise see. Thank you ever so much! I hope to someday tackle your hexagon blanket pattern!
I enjoyed the newsletter so much. I look forward to them. I always find your list of websites to visit especially interesting. And I Love the gloves. I personally love to make mittens and gloves even though I live in south Texas. My opportunity to wear my creations is very small, a day or two each year! However, I continue to make them for the sheer pleasure of it. I wore my polka dot gloves, made from a pattern of yours, this past weekend and enjoyed the moment. Now I want to make the new gloves. I have lots of sock yarn. What size needles did you use? 4? I can hardly wait to get started. Thank you as usual for the inspiration. That Silver Swan was incredible!
The lambs. under the tree are adorable! And it's fun to see Julia when she was small on the cover of the Best Friends pattern. I hope you and Mark are doing well.
Thank you for the lambing story. Raising sheep on a farm in Indiana, I appreciate your truth telling about the realities of trying to keep the babies alive. Lambing is a trying time and having lambs, pigs and baby calves living in our kitchen/dining room was common in January-February. At least we have our knitting to relieve the stress of caring for animals.
Love reading about the lambing. I have retired from it now, along with my 7 elderly ewes, and can totally relate to everything you said.
Hi Kristen . Greetings from sunny QLD in Australia. Love your newsletter. It is filled to the brim and overflowing with the fullness of a life richly lived and loved. God bless😀🙏. Thank you for the tip about knitting working farm gloves. I am casting around in my mind for a pattern for my daughter who is a veterinarian in cold Tasmania. She and her partner welcome all gloves or mittens to work in. I can knit however my chosen weapon for craft is crochet ( it is so easy to stop and pick up whether it be 2 minutes later or 2 or 20 years later). Thank you for your newsletter again. You are a delight with all your interests and home- making pleasures. Keep writing and sharing.
Kristen, I am a recently new subscriber and looked forward to receiving the January Newsletter with the beautiful photos on the farm. I live in Illinois where baby pigs and calves have had visits to our warm kitchen for bottle feeding and/or special care to aid their survival. Our family certainly relates to the marginal at best housekeeping standard, supplemented during emergencies with a less than marginal standard! Life comes first always and I would not have it any other way. (Except when unexpected visitors arrive during the less than marginal times, but then they get so caught up in the animal goings on, they forget all about the house keeping too). The whole Christmas tree story fits us as well. I cannot tell you how nice it was to see there is someone else in America who barely gets the tree up by Christmas, a real one of course, and delays its departure for a month or two keeping it watered, fresh, decorated and enjoyed into February and beyond! I peruse the newsletter from top to bottom, relishing each story and link! The wonderful pictorial journeys to far off points of interest are beautiful travelogues to places I would not otherwise see. Thank you ever so much! I hope to someday tackle your hexagon blanket pattern!
Those mittens came out lovely! Glad I ran into you
Kristen, I am a recently new subscriber and so