Always such a pleasure to sit with you for a bit. I hope you have a wonderful vacation!

Dear Lisa, As usual, all the projects are just lovely and the Jacob sweater came out beautiful... I'm sure you will be very cozy in it this winter. I have so much enjoyed the slow and gentle pace of the video and it is exactly what I needed today..... with a perfect ending of you playing that beautiful song. Have a lovely time away and we'll speak when you get back. Lots of kisses. Ivana ❤️

Just returned, yet again, to this podcast of yours like reaching a haven on the internet, breathing a tangible sigh of relief as soon as the music started. Hoping you are safe and well xx 🤗🙋🏼

That was so beautiful ❤️ on the piano. I really cried cause I truly miss my daughter, and how she used to play.

Multi-talented Lisa...enjoy your vacation!

Lisa the music you played at the end was beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. And there are a lot of us that are not technical spinners. It does not make us bad people!😄.

I rewatched this and I love your piano playing👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

If you end up with a usable yarn that you love, how important is it to be a “technical” spinner? I doubt that our grandmothers kept track of their angle of twist. Not to detract from those who are technical spinners, as I am, but I really think we get in the weeds too much sometimes about angles and such.

Another wonderful show with some lovely piano!! Guess I’ll have to get back to playing as well, Soul Sister!!!

Since I've started watching your videos, I've prepped my own wool, from scouring to carding and combing. I've also started spinning with a top whorl drop spindle. I'm totally loving the whole process and your channel has been instrumental in helping me!! So I just wanted to say thank you so much and I can't wait to see what you'll have this year!!

Awesome episode. Thanks for sharing and have a lovely vacation. 🧶

Very enjoyable you play very well please add more of your piano Enjoy your vacation be safe

Love seeing the Turkish spindles 🥰

The piano is beautiful.. Thank you for sharing

Lovely spinning & lovely piano! Thank you❤

Beautiful video and piano was so peaceful. Thank you!!

Lovely Music and fleece. I look forward to your next podcast.

Loved everything about this episode 🥰 the Jacob jumper is so lovely and your piano playing is spectacular 👏🏼 Hope you have a wonderful holiday

Hey, are you alright? I just wanted to drop a line to tell you I miss you and your videos. You have been on my mind. Your videos have been really helpful when I wanted to start spinning. Your video about your spindle collection, and which you like best and why really helped me decide which spindle to buy. I got one from IST and so glad I did. I love my little spindle frim Ian so much I got another slightly bigger one from him too. Anyway, wanted to send you a hug in case you needed one. You matter and you are missed. Xxx

I have now officially watched all of your episodes and leaned so much 💗 This one was especially beautiful! Your piano solo was wonderful. Looking forward to all the new episodes 💕 Enjoy your retirement and all the fun projects I know you are looking forward to ; )

This is so calming to watch

Hi Lisa-- That Gulf Coast Native is springy! Spun up beautifully. Love you piano playing at the end. Have a wonderful vacation! Today I am spinning some shetland on my Turkish drop spindle while visiting with you. Hugs from Oregon!

Fellow Illinois, Springfield to be more exact. I’m new to the spinning and wool world. I would like to thank you so much for these videos, they are so helpful 🥰💐

I found your channel recently and I got inspired enough to start spinning! I have both a drop spindle and a wheel now. I enjoy your videos and hope you come back and make more videos soon!

Nice video, Lisa. Hope you are having a lovely vacation.

Beautiful shading in your sweater. Love it, you do really nice work.

Hi Lisa, this is my first time to comment. You did a wonderful job with your piano song. I listen to Pandora a lot and you play The Secret Garden beautifully! Hope you had a restful vacation! Be safe in the new school year!

Oh Lisa, that piano piece is amazing! great job. I just love how your videos are always so peaceful and beautiful, your playing is no exception. Thanks so much for sharing such a precious moment of your life with us.

Hope all is well. Miss your podcasts.

Wow! I have just found your podcast and am so excited about all you have to share. I am a newer spinner and hope to knit myself a sweater from handspun sometime in this year. Congratulations on your last year of teaching in the classroom. Way to go! Also, I was so encouraged by your piano playing. I, too, used to play piano and have taken some time off of regular practice. We are having a family heirloom piano restored, and I look forward to playing on it soon. Thank you for a lovely podcast!

My cosmos are not that golden -now I have to find some to add to my gardens!! Love that fiber - but then again I love most fibers! You will be missed if you aren’t posting but we get it - gotta take care of you and yourself!! OMG I LOVE that blue you got from Inglenook - I might need to order something from them!! Heck they are all beautiful! Love the last one too!! Love the piano playing - I wish I had continued to practice!

I'm a long time knitter, and terribly fascinated by spindle spinning. One day, I will take the plunge and purchase my first spindle and some fiber! Jacob totally has my interest because of its beautiful variation in natural color! 💕🧶👵🧶💕

Beautiful melodious playing Lisa

Really enjoyed the piano music!!

Beautiful. All the way around. I've worked my way into the weeds, and now I'm finding my way out. It seems that when I just relax and spin, I get exactly the yarn I want. AND you're inspiring me to sit back at the piano again. Thank you.

Love to watch you spin and the piano at the end was lovely!👏👏👏

This video came right on time :) Just started processing a Tunis/Romney/Gulf Coast Native cross fleece that is hyper crimpy, and I'm planning on using my new drum carder. Very helpful to see someone else's process before I start carding! EDIT: Watching to the end I realized you asked about the Presto loom-- the 10" was my first rigid heddle loom, and I also have a 24" Ashford loom. I like the Presto more because it has metal pawls/magnets, which feel more secure + long lasting than the plastic parts on the Ashford.

Such a great video! So relaxing and I’m feeling very inspired to get some time at the wheel today. The piano at the end was beautiful. 😊

Ive been just getting into spinning after wanting to for years, and I knew nothing about processing wool, and I'm learning so much from watching your videos. :)

Oh yes please a new smaller loom would be great....we would all benefit from your learning .

What a beautiful episode Lisa. Your piano playing is beautiful, the flowers in your yard a joy, and your spinning an inspiration. As a new spinner, I am happy to hear your comment about not being a technical spinner. I am loving spinning by intuition and feel.

Thank you for another wonderful podcast. I don’t play piano, I wish I could play as beautifully as you. So soothing to listen to. ❤️

Lovely podcast so enjoyed your piano playing. Hope your holiday is lots of fun 😊

Hello love your videos, gentle and inspiring, i tend to watch and listen to you while i spin or crochet. hope you enjoyed your vacation. are you going to be posting anymore videos?

Very nicely edited and put together episode. Well done with the piano, I have had my last lesson in June and I am looking forward to the September one (I am also picking up the thread - so to speak - of playing after 40 years). I have been given sheet music for piano written by William Gillock by my teacher to look at over summer - I have finally managed to have someone over to tune my piano, so I am working on that now. Wishing you a beautiful summer!

So delighted that there's new episode. You do such a beautiful podcast!

Thank you for everything ! Secret garden is one of my favorite album, you play So well. You have So many talent. Have a lovely holyday and take care ❤️

Hi Lisa! Lovely episode, I loved seeing your work on the gulf coast native. I just spun some as well, a nice chunky thick and thin woolen spun yarn. I’m thinking of weaving it into a small tapestry piece.

So happy to see how your gulf coast cleaned up so nicely. Your jumper is so nice. Your thoughts on using different breeds of hand spun for a single garment as I'm not sure if I have enough of any one breed to make a whole sweater, nervous about that. Nice to see your work and precious dog in the flower garden.

Lisa, that song you played was so beautiful. How lovely that you have started playing again. I’ve recently taken up spinning and knitting again after thirty or so years and had forgotten how much pleasure I derived from them, but life’s responsibilities get in the way, don’t they? How lovely that in the not too distant future you will have more time for the things that bless you and make you truly happy. Have a lovely vacation.

Wow, finished last one and you have the next one out! I was thinking Utube was messed up because it showed you as having a new show, and I thought I had watched the new show this morning. Loved this episode also. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful piano playing Lisa and some lovely projects

I'm a long time knitter, and terribly fascinated by spindle spinning. One day, I will take the plunge and purchase my first spindle and some fiber! 💕🧶👵🧶💕

Your yarn is lovely, I hope to spin like that someday, your piano playing is wonderful and I dont ever expect to play the piano.

I learn so much when I see you spin. I hope you will have a lovely vacation. 🌸

So enjoyed my long (retired) morning tea break with you Lisa. Your Jacob jersey is inspiringly beautiful. I didn't know that the toothed brush sharpens your carder, I have never heard of it. That spiral plied fibre is fantastic I will have to card up a batt and spin some myself. What a gift you gave us when you played piano for us. Retirement is wonderful and just maybe we will see you more regularly next year? Your "slow TV" segment was so relaxing, in fact the whole cast was. Enjoy your holiday. :) Thank you. Jenny(NZ)

Hi Lisa everything was lovely, the spinning, especially love seeing you with the drop spindles and your collection is super lovely. The piano playing was great. It gives me hope that my daughter will go back to it. All bodes well for your retirement. Catherine

That fleece looks luscious.

When I first started spinning everything I did was over spun ad over plied and now it seems to be that I tend toward the opposite. lol Lovely spinning and beautiful piano playing. Very relaxing podcast. Thank you.

Lisa, I love your podcast. The piano piece at the end was wonderful. I have picked up my drop spindles. I just bought a Bosworth Moosie. That is so fun to spin. Congratulations on your last year of teaching. Then you will have endless vacations. I retired in 09 and haven’t regretted it at all after 34 years teaching first grade.

I hope your summer vacation is awesome! I love your jacob sweater, it will be so nice. Id love to meet you ay WI sheep and wool.

Yay so happy to see the Jacob jumper make a return. Love those beautiful braids that you treated yourself too. Also thank you so much for sharing your piano playing what a soothing way to end the video xx

Hi Lisa, thank you for this lovely little visit. It's wonderful to see you're getting joy from playing the piano too! That was a beautiful piece. Enjoy your holidays!

wow, retiring, now that's exciting.... looks like you'll have more time fibre play ... yay us, that means more podcasts. :)))))) love how easily the hand crank on clemes&Clemes spins so effortlessly... i too am a spinner by feel and eye, not much of a technical spinner (yet), rules kinda make me wanna run far, far away.... thanks for another great podcast and enjoy your vacay!!

Aww so beautiful…your piano playing. I am sat in my garden surrounded by bees and I am so relaxed after listening to your piece🙏 Wonderful video, as always, thank you. I love your podcasts. Have a great time away.

You have inspired me enough now. I just ordered my first fleece. She is a Shetland lamb. Her first shearing. I am sooo excited. Thought it was best to start small. Thanks for your encouragement.😘

I just found your podcast. Love it! Beautiful playing. I recently took up guitar, myself.

Hi Lisa, love the fluffy fibres that you made and Spun. It looks so soft and very squishy. Love the Spiral plied yarn so very pretty. Hope you have a wonderful vacation. Take care and stay safe dear friend ❤ Lots of love Jen xx 💖

You play beautifully. I love your spinning its so beautiful. Have fun on vacation and enjoy your spinning. I also love your sweater

My head exploded when I watched Rachel also lol, I'm spinning yarn to try my hand at a sweater wish me luck never made a sweater before but you inspired me thank you really enjoy your pod cast.

The filmography on your vids are so good. Captured the squishiness of the fleece easily. It looks like a cloud!

Thank you for another lovely podcast . How I love to spin and watch! The piano piece was a beautiful little gift too - thank you! Wishing you a very nice, easy, happy vacation! ❤️🐑❤️🧶❤️

Just wanted to say hi and hope all is well. I’ve been missing seeing what your up to with wool and knitting 🧶.

GCN Yarn and piano playing -beautiful! ❤️

I lived in Michigan several years ago and every one had cone flowers in their yard whether they wanted them or not they were every where. I live in San Diego now and cone flowers won't grow worth a darn here it is way to dry in the summer. We do have massive amounts of citrus trees every where and when they bloom all over my area the aroma fills the air.

Hi Lisa, I love your channel. Watching it from Germany, during last winter, nearly every late, late evening till night (yes, again and again 😀) while spinning with my spindle. Amazing pianoplay, thanks a lot!

When I saw the little blue flowers in your garden. That is remember my grandmother's garden when she had, forget-me-not flowers. I'm slowly getting my Ashford spinning wheel finsh. I will try send you a picture. My brothers are teachers and they to are getting ready for classes soon. I'll be camping with my one brother on the 1st week of August.

Im so glad you are doing videos! i feel like my fiber world is getting smaller in a good way as I've been following knittingthestash for a while, and recently found Kim. Your videos are so much appreciated. Thank you so much for showing your spinning and talking about your techniques!

I love how your Jacob sweater is working up! I appreciate your shots of flowers in your yard with Peaches. Simple joys! That Gulf Coast Native sure looks bouncy! I haven't ever spun that variety. What a treasure! I am also a non-technical spinner. I love just doing and trying. Lovely piano, you may inspire me to start playing again. Have a great vacation!

Oh Lisa, I have missed you and your videos! I am so impressed with what you accomplish in both your fiber projects and your piano playing. You are multi talented . Wishing you a fun and relaxing vacation to the UP and will catch you when you return.

Lisa, you are so talented! The music was beautiful, your spinning is amazing, your garden blooms so well. You are such a gentle soul. As always, thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful trip. See you next time, Karen

I have listened to Secret Garden for a long time, and that is one of my favorite pieces! And you did a wonderful job playing it! Have a wonderful vacation and i will look forward to future posts!

Happy to watch your podcast once again!!! You are so inspiring. You play the piano beautifully. Loved the song. Hope you have a happy and safe family trip. Take care. Carol

It’s so nice to see you and thanks for sharing your love of wool. Enjoy your holidays and congrats on your soonish retirement. You must be so happy!

Wondering where she is, just found this channel and noticed she hasn't posted a new video for awhile. Praying she is healthy and comes back for more videos.

Wayne Capar who makes the capar drop spindles passed away in 2018. Didn’t know if you knew that.

Thank you for podcasting before your trip. It’s been so good to see you again and last episode too. Your fibre prep was beautiful. I’ve been cautiously making 20gm batts, so I will try for 30. Loved your new purchased fibers, especially the organic Polwarth colourway. I’ve spun Polwarth, silk blend, Amazing. Enjoy your holiday!

I love that jumper! I bought a small flock of Jacob fleeces last spring and I sent it off to the mill to be made into roving. I hope it will come back to me soon so I can start a project like that.

Thanks for sharing your lovely music and spinning. I join you in the club of non technical spinners. I think I spin mainly by feel! Good luck in your last year of teaching. I hope there will be much less upheaval than last year!

Hi! I just discovered your podcast and I am so happy to find such great spinning content, thank you so much. And the piano piece in the end was delightful and very well played, I really enjoyed it :)

That was absolutely beautiful!!

Hi Lisa- I have never heard of Gulf Coast Native Fleece… I will have to get the fleece bible out and educate myself on this breed. Thanks for a great podcast!

So impressed with your piano playing! I have tiny hands (I wear a size 4.5 wedding ring). Piano always seemed so difficult to me. As for being a technical spinner, I think if you are driven to become a master spinner, then that is great. But if you are spinning for the love of it, then why stress.

Hi Lisa, loved your Slow Video section-really helped my anxiety, I could feel my body relax. I shared this with others. Do you do slow video much? I’ll search that term as it really did help melt anxiety away.

OH, I am so happy for you...I was eyeing the Stepping Stones braids on Inglenook's website, and I very nearly gave into temptation...But, I resisted until this evening, and finally bought some gorgeous fiber! I will gladly join you in being a wool hog!

Hi again, Lisa I’m catching up on older videos. I enjoyed them so much. I also have a schacht flip 24 inch. I thought that would give me the most flexibility but I suspect I would use a ridged heddle a lot more if it were something I could put in my lap. Did you ever end up getting the presto loom? I’ve been checking that one out too. Im a sucker for the folding and flattening space saver features.

I'm jealous of anyone that plays an instrument. Both my kids play several

Your piano piece at the end was lovely. I also have a Lendrum DT, which has fortunately worked out great, after having done no research into the many different brands. Why did you choose to ply using an e-spinner instead of the spinning wheel? I'm still a newvbie and welcome all the information I can get in order to continue improving. Have a great vacation, looking forward to your next podcast.

It’s been 10 months…where are you? Your subscribers are waiting

Лиса, здравствуйте! Давно не было ваших видео. Вы живы? Здоровы? Беспокоюсь. Скучаю за вашим стилем, вашим творчеством. Я из Украины.))