Happy belated birthday. Looks like a great time celebrating you with friends.

So many good and exciting things in this episode! I had so much fun at the first Knitty McPurly retreat and would highly recommend it. I met so many genuinely nice people, and the optional classes were fantastic. I love how the new colors go together. Charlotte’s bowl turned out great! Happy to hear that you had a wonderful birthday vacation. 🥳

So lovely to see your video today. Your sweater is beautiful, I think it is the colours of the yarn which bring the design alive. As an English style knitter I knit colour work with the background colour in my right hand and the second colour in my left and knit it continental style. 🇬🇧

So excited for the 2025 retreat! I signed up asap!

@lori6404

4 ай бұрын

Me too!

@jenv6846

4 ай бұрын

YES! I am excited to see many of you, again.

Charlotte is so sweet, funny and cute, cute.. Loved the podcast with her. Loved the smack to the hand and then a loving pat to the back. Whole video was great!!! sending love,hugs,prayers.

Awesome podcast! Thanks for sharing and you were missed.

I have to admit I was lost last Sunday without you but I’m happy you enjoyed a well deserved vacation. My birthday was today 3/10, and it was a lovely day with my grandkids. I love the new color way and I’m considering a sock set since I’ve become addicted to sock knitting. Charlotte was just adorable and as a Grandma, I would love that bowl - a treasure of the heart.❤️

@knittymcpurly1549

4 ай бұрын

Happy birthday Pam! 🎉

hi i always enjoy watching you glad you enjoyed your holiday

I am jumping up and down down for the Chrism balm! I will order several for all my Catholic friends (and myself)!

Charlotte is so cute! I feel the same way about FB. You were missed last week, but so glad you had a fun time! - Kimberly

River rock is beautiful! It matches your hair perfectly too. 😂

So glad you had a nice vacation! I’m with you on the color dominance thing. I totally don’t get it and it takes the fun out of the knitting to be so OCD about it. I’m so impressed with Charlotte’s crochet, she did a great job! Judith’s story is why I’m not concerned with AI taking over the world 😂 Prayers for your husband’s surgery on Friday ❤

Apparently I should’ve reserved commenting until watching the whole episode…so many good things here! (In addition to the new balm scent) 1) Charlotte’s bowl for Grandma turned out great! Also, I miss Gigi! 2) The March colorway and River Rock are absolutely gorgeous…which is making my yarn diet extremely difficult…. 3) Judith’s story this week was fantastic! I also love to travel AND get yarn to remember my trips when I can. Luckily, my husband indulges me when we do travel…I even made it to 4 or 5 yarn stores when we went to Scotland last August! 4) I live in Ohio and have been to Black Locust in Lodi a few times. It’s a great store with a wide selection. Unfortunately, they have limited hours, but I’m glad the owner opened specifically to let Judith (and Monica!) shop! 5) I find the same issue when looking for yarn shops when traveling…many fabric stores are put into the results…luckily for me, my hubby is an avid sewist, so it always works out for us! 6) Finally, I’m really hoping I can make it to the retreat next year…it may be my birthday present to myself!

Yes, I do follow color dominance rules and also use jaquard ladder- back technique for long floats. Love the River Rocks color. 😊

Hi Devin! I don’t really see yarn dominance either! I am a thrower but learned continental many years ago because I wanted to be faster. I’m still faster as a thrower though, but now I can knit colorwork with one color in each hand. Keeps my tension great and easy to catch floats. So much fun stuff going on at Knitty Mcpurly!

Just signed up for the retreat.. so excited. Will be the first one I attend and feel like I picked out the best (somewhat local..only a 3 hour drive). Can’t wait to meet some other knitters…let the countdown begin! Thank you Devin for putting this on again.

It's always great to watch your new episode. Your new river rock colorway is amazing. I love the March colorway so much, too. Char's little bowl is so darn cute. She's been bitten by the crochet bug. I had such a great time meeting new people at your first retreat. I'm looking forward to next year's. Looks like you had a fun birthday/girls weekend away.

Yes, I do knit with color dominance in mind. I am a perfectionist and being one can be oppressive at times.😂

Happy you had a great vacation! Happy you are back - you make my Sunday Devin! I feel the EXACT same about facebook! The new balm scent sounds amazing- can’t wait!! March sock set looks beautiful… off to order one for myself!! Have a skippy week!!😊

DEVON! Thank you so much for the shout-out. I’m so glad you like them. I’m excited to line all the socks up next to each other at the end of the year. SOMEHOW, I lost one of my February socks! What? I think this proves that there is a gremlin in our house eating socks. Because I always put my hand knits in a particular spot, and it still went missing somehow! This probably sounds ridiculous, but I’m going to go back and knit another one because I still have plenty of the February color of the month left, and it’s just that important to me to have them all at the end of the year. I can’t wait for March’s color to be here! I am about to place my order for the March color and then I’m just going to get full skeins of dusty and the new river rock color- because I’m going to knit a bunch of Mother’s Day socks for my best best best friends with it. Thanks for another great podcast! We missed you last week but I'm glad you had a good trip!

Ah! The word "perfection" again. I like ur style. Keep it loose and adapt. I'm continental and good info on right hand loose. U r the first pro knitter to show that method in my knitting journey. I'm going to buy the lip balm stick. Can I preorder? ❤ the pod.

I wish the retreat would have day passes for shopping the yarns. That would be awesome.

@knittymcpurly1549

4 ай бұрын

Well, that’s a good idea. Let me think about that…

Welcome back Devin. Glad you had a great time with your besties. Will be praying for your husband. I had surgery on my back a few years ago. So i feel for him. I'm with ya on the time change. I get up a 4am to go to work, and I'll tell ya, you kind of drag alittle bit thru the day. Love you new color! So beautiful. Had to purchase some already. I do color work with both hands. Thats the way I was taught. I am an english style knitter. Now doing more than 2 colors is quiet a problem for me. Did miss your podcast last week, but glad you had fun and glad to see you back.

Hello from Swansea, Illinois.😊

I’m looking forward to getting some Sanctum! I get some amazing soap from an Orthodox monastery that smells like incense. I love the churchy smells. Also, I love River Rock and will need to figure out what to make with it. I love a good brown. I also have a husband who doesn’t like to travel so we tend to argue about vacations, and he didn’t even go on the last one I planned. I’m looking forward to seeing you at the AYC retreat, and of course, I want to attend yours! Grapevine is a good choice as I lived there many, many years ago. I’ll need to go to El Fenix!

@selfishknitter

4 ай бұрын

@Yarn_Chicken_and_Sh1t I immediately thought of you when she showed the River Rock!

@Yarn_Chicken_ETM

4 ай бұрын

@@selfishknitter ❤️

I very much see color dominance and I can readily tell. It's very easy to do, just a matter in being consistent with how you hold your yarn or choose to hold your yarn. I love in a multiple color work sweater piece thinking about the parts I want to pop and the parts I do not.

Happy belated Birthday.

I worked when my youngest started kindergarten. My 4 kids, ages 11, 9, 7, and 5 would meet me at the door. I had spent 8 hours working and their dad got off at 4, at least an hour before I did. I can remember saying “Where’s your daddy?” Of course I had supper to cook as well!🤦🏼‍♀️

Yes! I love the idea of the new balm scent! My husband burns incense he got from a monastery while at seminary and I love it!

I literally gasped when I heard you say your next scent will be Chrism based. As a Catholic Mom, I'm a bit of a Chrism addict and think there is nothing better than a newly baptized baby with a Chrism anointed head to sniff 😂 I can't wait to get my hands (literally) on that balm! -Tricia

@knittymcpurly1549

4 ай бұрын

Tricia… it is so good!!!! It goes up in the shop on Friday and I hope you love it! ❤

I’m a continental knitter who does my colorwork using both hands. That’s the most comfortable way for me. I guess I am fairly proficient doing both continental and English methods although I’m much slower with English purling than I am with continental purling. I’m with you. I’ve read all the information about the importance of color dominance, but I really don’t see that it makes much difference. Usually I do my background color in my left hand and the accent color in my right hand. For consistency. But I don’t get my panties in a twist about it 😂 Missed you. Glad you had a fun trip

@jenv6846

4 ай бұрын

SAME!!

So glad you had a n8lice vacation! The knitting retreat sounds awesome but a little far for me right now. Will he praying for your husband's surgery and recovery! Have a blessed week!

How fun…wish I was local! Enjoy!!

I just joined this morning. Love your site! I see you went to Ave Maria. My favorite place to go. Hopefully you went into Secret Ingredient Boutique. Maybe you were able to attend the style show/luncheon. I no longer live in Florida so I don’t visit Ave Maria anymore. Your story about the lady visiting Lodi, Ohio touched me as well. I lived in that area for 33 years. I truly miss Amish country. You have a new subscriber and going to visit your online shop. Charism scent will be in my bag.

@knittymcpurly1549

4 ай бұрын

Welcome! Yes, one of my good friends has a house in Ave, and her daughter goes to the university. We didn’t do any shopping; it was mostly exercise, and then laying by the pool talking. It was WONDERFUL!

Happy you had a great vacation but so glad you are back, my Sunday isn't the same without you! I want to go to the retreat sooo badly, I got to start bargaining with my husband now.

@knittymcpurly1549

4 ай бұрын

Oh for sure!! You HAVE to come! ❤❤❤

I am also a Continental knitter who holds two colors, one in each hand. My left hand normally has a tighter tension than the right, but both are getting closer to one another. I'm so glad to hear that others have the same stranded colorwork tension challenges that I do. I have to admit, I'm a little jelly of the VA knitters meet-up! Are there any Central-to-Easter NC knitters who want to venture out for a localish meet-up? As far as the retreat Facebook group, for knitters on Insta - anyone up for a chat group? I killed my FB page right before the pandemic, but I still want to chat will all of you! (And Devin, you're right, the Google mail serve was a lot last time.) 💛💛💛

Woo-hoo, sign me up!

First, your color of the month is a real beauty! Second, oh my goodness, I figured there was something wrong with me not being able to see the color dominance at all! Anyhow, I'm a colorwork newbie continental knitter trying to improve enough to knit as pretty a sweater as you are wearing or the one your knitting.

I do colorwork with both hands and the color I hold in my left hand (yarn will lay under the other one) will stand out as dominant, so I hold what I think of as the accent color in that hand and the background color in the other. I suspect the color dominance will show up more with some knitters than others, depending on how they knit. I would love to come to the retreat, but hubby reacted to the cost, especially when added to what the airfare looks like it will be. I know things are expensive all around and the price is the best it can be, so I’m not criticizing it. I am going to pray all week and revisit it with my husband next weekend and trust the result to God’s influence. Prayers for your husband this week too. 🙏

@knittymcpurly1549

4 ай бұрын

I get it. Times are definitely leaner than they were two years ago. I hope you can make it but totally understand if you can’t! ❤❤❤

We don't do the time change in Arizona. I love not changing time. We have plenty of sunshine here, but it still causes trouble since other states do. Part of the year we are on Mountain time, and then we are on Pacific time.

@karendavis7278

4 ай бұрын

I’m so jealous. I’m in PA and the time change is so annoying. Wish it would be abolished

Your new color is so sophisticated and gorgeous! And that March colorway… 🤤 Also thank you for your comments about color dominance in stranded knitting. I totally agree. I just can’t be bothered! I swear I heard Arne and Carlos say once that there is no concept of color dominance in Norwegian knitting, so I went with that. After all, if the Norwegians aren’t the kings of colorwork knitting, I don’t know who is…right? 😊

@aspahrkle808

4 ай бұрын

I’ve heard them say the same!

I would be interested to know what started your knitting retreat? It sounds amazing. I have been to several knitting conventions and fiber festivals as a vendor employee: it was so awesome to go without having to pay for it, but since I was working I didn't get to mingle or learn or absorb the vibe, but I always enjoyed meeting all the knitters and crafters that came into our booth. :)

❤❤❤❤ you new colours Yummm I’m in Canada and wonder about shipping costs We are so high to ship here Your sweater is gorgeous on you !!!😊🥰

@knittymcpurly1549

4 ай бұрын

It’s not bad! I have many Canadian customers and orders ship for about $12-$15 USD.

I wish they would pick a time and stick to it😊

Devin, so excited about the chance to go to one of your retreats. I am a little confused some of the comments are saying people have already signed up? Also how do the rooms work 149.00 double or single occupancy.

@knittymcpurly1549

4 ай бұрын

Hi Patti! There was early registration for people who attended the last retreat. But don’t worry - there are plenty of slots left when regular registration opens on Friday! You book your own hotel room, so you can stay there alone for $149 per night, or you can have a roommate so you two can split the cost. If you want a roomie but don’t know anyone, I can help you find one! ❤

My husband is like you he is also on Facebook but tells me not to friend him. He told me he won’t even friend his mom. 😮 He just wants it no drama. The world is full of drama he just wants to be left alone there. 😂

@knittymcpurly1549

4 ай бұрын

Yep. That’s exactly it. I can’t handle the drama.