my favourite project: the "trick you into watching me knit a stockinette sweater" sweater! Because it makes me happy to see a not so successful piece remade into something more successful!!!! my 2024 plans (more like what's on my currect want to do list): do some alterations on thifted knitted pieces. There are so many more useful pieces that I want, but for know, I just want to see those beautiful pieces fit me the way I want, because I really want to wear them!!!! Bright yellow sweater with embroidered pink flowers!!!! HELLO YES!!!!

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

HELLO YES I AM HYPE TOO 😁

i love all u made. u are fun to watch too! i see u come on with a new video and i get so happy to see what u are up to next. My fave is the knee high lace socks! I knitted and crocheted everyone in the family slippers and socks for xmas and our handyman always comes for the holidays. Our handyman got teary eyed cause of the slippers i made him. i love all your knittings.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Oh how nice you made a pair for the handyman too!

Fantastic knitting for the year, let’s hope I get more knitting and spinning done in 2024

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

You're definitely one of my favorite channels that I started subscribing to in 2023!

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️♥️

Amazing work! Just beautiful, and it's impossible to pick a favorite from your collection! I can't wait to see what you make this year! I made 20 hand processed and spun projects in 2023. 18 were hats, scarves and neck warmers. I gave away 18 as Christmas gifts, and I let everyone pick out what they wanted which was so much fun watching what they chose! I also made myself a beautiful baby alpaca sweater that I took on an European vacation with me, and I also kept one super fuzzy baby alpaca scarf for myself. I'm off and running in 2024, and almost finished with a scarf for next year's Christmas gift pile.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

What a great idea!

I couldnt even pick a favourite item you have created. They are all amazing.. I am a complete sucker for anything granny square being a crocheter (its almost compulsory lol) but I am always blown away seeing your knitting creations and you are literally the only person i follow on here who I can happily sit down and watch your videos one after another for my shenanigans fix lol. I look forward to seeing where you take us in 2024 ☺️

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Haha compulsory granny love, that's a first 😁

First of all: may happiness and health be always with you and your loved ones in 2024! Crafting for mental health - I hear you. Just call it productive therapy. The side effects are so much more bearable (and wearable 😁) than with pharmaceutical choices! 😊 I haven’t knitted as much as you did, but that is just because of my fulltime job. It always seems to interfere with my creative side. 😅 So you turned 30 last year… in other words: you were born when I graduated from University. Jeez, I’m old! 😂

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Yes, fulltime jobs do make knitting time more sparse than we'd like 😁

Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm ... I feel the same way about fiber and textiles... Love, Love, Love!!! you are such an inspiring fiber artist.. so pleased I found your channel. I am a hand-spinner, knitter, quilter from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁 happy crafting!

I like the scarf you made for your mom - that was a sweet video. I think in 2024 you should challenge yourself with a larger project: handspin fingering yarn, weave it into several large enough pieces that you can make yourself a A-line skirt.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Ok, so in the video that is scheduled two weeks from now I utter that same idea ... Great minds or something?

@CaticusUniverse

6 ай бұрын

@@MijnWolden Very much looking forward to this one! 🤗

I recently found your channel and have been binging your videos. Love them all. You are a chaos goblin queen and chaos goblin is a new phrase I happily add to my vocabulary

@MijnWolden

2 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

My plans for 2024 are to make a double knitted scarf that matches the hat I made. I also want to finish the shawl I am knitting for my sister. And I want to finish the sweater for my daughter. I also want to do more spinning, so I at least want to spin something for my youngest kid with the wool I got in October. Oh yeah, I also want to weave something on my loom. I still haven't woven any of my handspun, so that's something I want to do too... Where I am going to find the time to do all this, I don't know. 😂

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Time is a problem yes haha 😅

I think my favorite of your projects from 2023 would have to be the marzipan pullover. I now want to make one myself. My 2024 plans involve spinning to knit my Fiance a hoodie out of a blend of Finn wool and a mystery fleece I got from the Australia sheep and wool show last year. I also want to knit myself an Orenburg lace shawl, and my first ever cardigan for myself, probably also out of handspun.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

He'll be delighted with the hoodie!

Love watching you 😂🎉❤,you make my day, I smile through all of this video, because I watched you make all of these items, I loved your lace socks, maybe this year you could spin up and dye yarn for a shawl or wrap ❤️ hope you have another fun full year for 2024, I will be watching you from south Australia with my sheep and alpacas

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Oh say 'hi' to the sheep and alpacas from me 😁

Good morning from Australia lovely informative video as always I do like your pattern choices, especially when you 'do your own thing' successfully. RE: Angora hat (fail). Some ideas: only frog the band below the indigo work, and use smaller needles/more frequent decreases to make the beret style fit you but be looser. The body of the hat is lovely. OR Hold the brim in hot water and shrink it back down. I really like the Giant's sweater. I enjoyed the whole process and he looked so impressive posing to show it off. Cheers for 2024 Sally

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

The body is quite a bit too large for my liking too, still not sure what to do

Wowser, that's a lot! My favorite is the chaos goblin socks (at 16 min in), Gorgeous 😻

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

you did so great , thank you for a wounderfull year , I look farward to what you will make in this coming year , thank you

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Thank you :D

Wow, that's so much yarn and so much crafting! Congratulations on a year's worth of work and happy new year!

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Happy new year and happy crafting to you too!

Thanks for the very fun review. I look forward to your version of the husband knit. I love the natural dark wools and one day I will be able to buy some, I hope.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

I hope you do too!

I enjoyed every single one of your videos this year. You just make my days brighter and inspire me a lot! I wish you lots of luck and fun and good health for 2024 and I'm looking forward to your new projects a lot :) I'm currently knitting rainbow socks that make my queer heart really happy. And I'm looking forward to many more spinning/knitting/crochet/embroidery projects this year!

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Rainbow socks!!!

Happy 2024. Finally found time to watch the video. I love your marzipan sweater. But I am overall impressed by all tge spinning and knitting you have finished. I don't have concrete crafting plans for the year. But being in Vietnam right now I plan on some summer tops. Have Saris sunkissed top on the needles right now. Have a great day

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Happy 2024 for you too. Summer Knits are probably more useful in Vietnam than warm winter knits indeed. Have Fun traveling!

OMG happy 30! me too!!!!!!!!

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

A good year 😎

You are prolific! Congrats on a great year.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Not half a henley in 4 days, but yeah I'm pretty fast 😉

Hi Jente, Happy New Year to you and Dries 🎉🎉🎉. Wow, that's a lot of Handspun Hand Knitted projects. I think the Colour Work Sweater you made with the yarn you bought in Barcelona is my Favourite, favorite but then I have 2 others, one is the Sweater you Handspun, Hand Knitted for your Giant ( sorry, I mean Dries) and the last one is the Super Chunky Handspun, Hand Knitted you finished last week. Mmm, somehow I think Dries and your Mum conspired together for your Christmas Presents 😅😅🎁🎁 Can't wait to see what you make with them. Happy Spinning and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love, Blessings and Big Hugs to you both Jen xxxx ❤️❤️💖💖💖🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

You would think they conspired, but no my mom was totally surprised by it!

@jenniferbrighty5120

6 ай бұрын

@@MijnWolden Hi Jente, I'm glad that they hadn't conspired, makes more of a surprise for your Mum and Dries. Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥ Sending Heart ♥ back to you ❤️💞🎀 Thankyou for sharing All of your video podcasts and your Fibre Shenanigans in 2023. 🐑🐑🐑🌟🌟🌟 I wonder how much you'll get done this year. Happy Spinning, Knitting and Crotcheting Fibre Friend 🎡🎉🎉🐑🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️💖💖🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕

Happy 2024! I really hope it's better for a lot of people than 2023 was. Regarding the alpaca - I think of alpaca in relation to Peru and I then think of those big jackets that were knitted in Peru and very fashionable back in the 1970s. So I'd suggest you find a 1970s pattern for the alpaca, strikes me as a nice confluence of concepts. I look forward to seeing your projects and chaos goblin shenanigans. My project plans: I'm working on a rather intricate colourwork hat at the moment, it's going to be part of a set but I'm going to need to order more wool before I can finish the set. (That wool is really bad, it's in all these colours and I look at them and use a little for this and a little for that and suddenly I need more.) A number of my projects will have to wait until my knee is back in working order and I can drive again, as I need some audio-visual-electronics related things. That leads me to the elf sock project. It began with a simple modification of a full-sized, adult sock pattern and I have written that out - and done most of the proof-reading corrections! But then there's going to be the colourwork version of the elf sock pattern, which is not yet written down and, indeed, not yet knitted. So that will need to be workshopped and written down (and I need some more wool, see above, that's where some of the wool went). When the patterns are written out correctly I want to publish them on Ravelry and also do an instructional video. The AV stuff is needed for the instructional video. Then I want to do a simple Introduction to Vintage Knitting, also as an instructional video, intended for people who have never done any vintage knitting and who may be a little unsure of how to get started. I've just finished spinning 382 yards of "natural medium" Corriedale (Ashford combed top), not quite sure what I'm going to do with that, but I also have a packet of the natural white and the natural light to spin, so I've got some time to think about it. As to what I will *_actually_* end up doing in with fibre and yarn in 2024 is anyone's guess. I was astonished to discover that I can buy zwartbles fleece in Australia. Maybe, when my knee lets me drive again, I will get some alum... there are some things in my garden that I think might create interesting natural dyes...

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Fantastic plans! Even if in the end you end up doing something different 😁

My favorite is the 1940s wartime one, you looked adorable in the shot with the camera! ❤

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

☺️

Ooooh, I'm SO excited to see you tackle those bright red colors! That's going to be so much fun. Everything you made is stunning, I genuinely can't pick a favorite! I do really like your 1940's re-knit, and how the colors subtly shift throughout it.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

(secret: I'm tackling the bright reds as we speak, I'll dm you a sneak peak over discord ;) )

Happy New Year! I'm excited to see all your projects coming up ❤

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Happy new year to you too!

I love every single one of your projects. When I know you have a new video out I can’t wait to sit down and watch it! Your fiber shenanigans are so fun, you inspire me, and it gives me joy to watch you create. I can’t wait to see what you’ll do in 2024.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁🥰

My highlight of 2023 was finding your channel! 2024 plans: dive into plant and fungi dyed wool experiments! Im currently making mini skeins to practice my spinning techniques that will be perfect for small batch dying. I'm now also inspired to make my own niddy noddy - did you make yours? Its gorgeous

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

I made my niddynoddy indeed, it's just a couple of twigs rigged together 😁

ALL of your knitting is AMAZING especially considering the majority of your knitting is with your hand spun yarn!! Hard to choose my favorite, but the Marzipan it is!! I live in the USA, Southern part, so not much need for sweaters sadly, I tend to knit 90% socks, planning to crochet a blanket this year!! So enjoy your podcasts!!!!

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Happy that I'm in western Europe then, I love my sweaters too much 😁

So much work!! I love your descriptions! Enjoy 2024!!!!

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

My gosh, that are a lot of projects! You must be the fastest knitter I know! I really love the basic ariadne sweater. I'm a succer for a simple sweater and it fits you very well!

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Having KZread deadlines sure helps 🤭

So happy I found your spinning and knitting content! Happy 2024 I can't wait to see what you make next.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️♥️

I went to edit my comment because i think i referred to things being amazing 4 times, and i realised i needed skme other vocabulary, but then i found that youtube had deleted my comment and editing it yielded it a 404 not found. So apologies if my comment comes up twice. It might be because my comment had a link in it. I wanted to suggest a 1950s pattern to you that i think you would enjoy in your handspun and that would look spectacular IMO. The same idea was also reused in the 1980s by Patricia Roberts in her Spectrum pattern, but i like the 1950s one better. Have a happy rest of your holidays!

@petramanos

6 ай бұрын

I'll PM you on Instagram with the link

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

KZread does indeed not like links in their comments 😬

@resourcedragon

6 ай бұрын

I find KZread doesn't mind links if you paste the link as plain text. Right click and select "paste as plain text" or use [CTRL][shift][V].

I still love the bulky sweater so much haha but the high socks and the marzipan sweater are also favourites. For the alpaca, how about a historical shawl or capelet? It feels like it'd drape nicely. Looking forward to new projects!

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

It does drape very nice, though I'm not really a shawl person 😅

❤

Which project of yours is my favorite? All of the above. My project plans for this year is to make myself a cabled sweater and spin and knit up socks for my men folk.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Cabled sweaters are always a good plan

Just remember if you use only alpaca for a sweater it will drop just what alpaca does as it has no memory a bit like the hat, you don’t seem to have 🧶 knitted any gloves 🧤 or mittens or am I mistaken. I wear my fingerless mitts a lot as well as my cowls, the shawls seem to sit in the cupboard unworn now I am retired

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

I knitted gloves last year, and they still serve me Well 😁

Are you calling yourself a chaos goblin?? I might copy you and use that for myself 😂

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Yes, because I am 😅

I am not nearly as good as a knitter as you, but l hope to eventually be good enough to also knit a cycling sweater. Until then l’ll be glad if l manage to knit a regular sweater 🤣.

@MijnWolden

5 ай бұрын

Oh but, the hardest part of a cycling sweater is that it consists of very large rectangles of really Tiny needles. The most advanced skill you need is Patience. If you know how to knit, purl, increase and decrease, a cycling sweater is actually quite easy.

@ShenanigansinMotion

5 ай бұрын

@@MijnWolden I do know all of these things, but I'm not very fond of TINY needles (I'm not even sure I own any, oops!).

@MijnWolden

5 ай бұрын

@@ShenanigansinMotion I know that the modernised pattern asks for 3.25 mm needles, but I had to go down to 2.25mm to meet gauge

@ShenanigansinMotion

5 ай бұрын

@@MijnWolden I definitely don't own either. I'm going to knit a regular sweater first and then I'm going to venture into my local yarn store and get smoll needles. But first I'm going to finish the 3 cowl balaclavas and that damn débardeurke (and put the corset back in the top I knitted oversized because I'm a doofus) before I cast on anything else. Things are getting silly!

Instead of adding elastic, you should try knitting some garters

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

While a great idea, I'll not do that on KZread for reasons :D

The hat - Musselburgh - is pronounced Musselburra. It is a seaside town in Scotland.

@MijnWolden

29 күн бұрын

When pointed out like that, it does make a lot of sense. Too bad my non-native english brain doesn't always make sense... :)

@alisonforde2001

29 күн бұрын

@@MijnWolden don't worry about it - English/US people often cannot pronounce Scottish names correctly 😅

I'm inspired by your marzipan sweater knit and am planning on doing it in some hand dyed yarn I got in the summer. I have been spinning alpaca fibre for a while and am hoping to make a small skirt with it when I have enough (reasonably short, cabled, negative ease. I just want to look like a mug cosy) Is there a close up of those neon orange socks in any video? (Or image on other social media?)

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Cup cosy is goals. 😎

@saraht855

6 ай бұрын

​@@MijnWolden watching this I was like "wow, 19 projects that's loads" just counted mine and if I include knitting, crochet, sewing and weaving I did 68 this year 😂 only about 4 things if it's handspun only though!

Are you from Belgium? I sense a Flemish accent.

@MijnWolden

6 ай бұрын

Your Flemish spidey senses are correct 😉