There needs to be more Willie’s in the world!! He’s so positive and inspiring!! 💚☘️

“I AM the man!” 💥 A true teacher - enabling creativity in others 🌱

Wow, Willie knits is truly amazing. Thanks for bringing him on to help him continue to spread his positivity with the world!

Wow, Willie was AMAZING, thank you for having him on as my Alga rhythms have not picked him up. Going to check out his KZread channel.🥰🇨🇦Sharon.

Loved, loved, loved this podcast Emna! Thank you for bringing Willie to us, amazing! ❤

Great podcast. Thank you for inviting Willie to chat. Fabulous interview - so inspiring to hear him talk about the wool and history.

Great interview!! It was so interesting and lovely to hear about Willie's knitting journey and told from a male perspective. Thank you Emma.

What an enthusiastic young man. Enjoyed this podcast.

Love your podcasts and love Willie so what a delight this episode was! Wishing you an early Happy St Patrick’s Day!🍀🌈

This is my first time hearing about Willie Nillie knits. Love the sweater with cables.

@alliehabib1654

27 күн бұрын

Me too! Thanks for introducing us to him and for an incredible interview ❤

This guy is brilliant. Thank you so much for this interview.❤

How cool!!! I’d never heard of him. Wonderful interview. Thanks Emma

That was a really inspiring video. I loved it. Willie is glowing motivation.

@woollymammothfibres

4 ай бұрын

100% agree. Willie's enthusiasm is so motivating!

This was so much fun! I love the enthusiasm and am now heading to Willie’s channel. Thank you. Happy knitting 💚🧶💚

Well done Emma! Fun podcast!

Love Willie! He’s a giver for sure. Another great interview Emma. Thank you and take care❤

Was fun hearing him rave about the lanolin. I got into lanolized wool for cloth diapering my little ones. Wool covers are ah-may-zing.

@woollymammothfibres

4 ай бұрын

Just did some research on this a few days ago. Want to try it with one of my swatches and see what happens!

That was just brilliant. Thank you.

Wow fireworks and stars!!! Absolutely great interview ❤❤ Thank you

Nice to hear Willie Smith. I haven’t heard him before. Enjoyed the interview.

What an inspiring episode, thanks so much to both of you ❤

A very interesting interview. I was also fascinated by the RTE broadcast programme on the link you provided. I am so pleased to see an increased interest in knitting, dyeing and spinning. When I was a younger woman, these looked like disappearing skills so their resurgence pleases me. Creative crafts are so underrated and undervalued. I firmly believe that we humans need to create - we need to be able see things we have made and feel a sense of satisfaction and achievement in doing so. It's no surprise that knitting, crochet, sewing etc. have been shown as beneficial to mental health. Thank you for sharing your creativity. ❤

Ohhhhh how great to have a class like that!!!! Especially when you don’t have a Local Yarn store to get help

What fun! Can't wait to see what this collab brings about. I also can't wait to see the yarn. So many good things happening!

Spinning sheep’s fleece in the grease keeps the lanolin in the yarn. Really enjoyed this podcast. Will have to follow Willie now.

A very positive, fun and inspiring interview. I really enjoy these series of interviewing fiber artists and other creators, it is really inspiring to hear about their journeys and ways of creating. I am looking to the next interview!

Fascinating interview! Thank you, Emma!

Great podcast❤

So cool you choose to interview Willie, he's a great guy and very funny 🤩 i always see knitting as a mathematical activity. It is very logical. Also the difference in both your accents is really funny to listen to. And the difference in culture and the way we here in Europe go about things versus the States ? i know i'm generalising ,but it is what it feels like to me The dutch also have a long history of fishermen's sweaters with each village their own pattern. Very tight knit thin yarn. Works of art. I also love to knit with people ,via zoom often, who want to learn how to make certain things. I will work ahead a little bit so i know what is coming up. I just don't have to overhead camera, so i share short YT vids that explain the various stitches i thoroughly enjoyed this episode. So many things i could connect to. My family used to go on holidays to Ireland many years in a row. Cycling around (we're dutch lol ) I am a third generation knitter , maybe more, and my mom used to spin, dye and knit her own wool. She used to have a woolshop here in the town where i live. So many woolly connections. Thank you so much

Great podcast! I am a little older than prob most of your demographic but back in the 1980s there was a NYC fashion designer named Willie Smith and I was like, no way could be the same guy haha he was in college in the early 2000s!

Love what you do here and I really appreciate this interview. I do think we should be a bit careful how much grind culture we support though. I don't want to be too critical of other people's life choices but I don't think it's amazing to hear about that kind of grind lifestyle, especially in this slow fashion context. I know time is a privilege but I just had to give my two cents here.

@woollymammothfibres

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Everything you do is at the expense of something else. Willie goes to bed really early so he can do what he loves and therefore doesn't have an evening. But I really respect his choice to do that.

Willie needs to learn to spin in the grease. Great job Ema! Where did you find Willie? And how have I missed him. Oh yes, I’m not on instagram. Too old me. Thank you .

@woollymammothfibres

4 ай бұрын

Blatnaid from the Galway Wool Co-op said I should get in touch with him! :)

Thanks for the amazing interview! Willie knits is a great part of the knitting community. One question - could someone please explain to me how cultivating wool is carbon negative? I don't understand this. In order to have wool we need to deforest, sheep usually graze land in a way that degrades it. Can someone leave a link to a trusted source that might convince me otherwise?

Some companies sell yarn with spinning oil still in. You have to wash it out. So does the lanolin get washed out too?

I found Willie from Zelda from zeldanrj3