My heart aches so bad. I am bingewatching all podcast and realizing that Andrew is no longer with us is so gutwrenching. I love that he finally finished the scarf. I downloaded the instructions but dare not start it. Too difficult. So good Andrew that you pulled it off. Your laugh is so mesmerizing. I will never forget you.

Hello there, my name is Ivan, I'm from Italy and I've been knitting for about 38 years.I asked my grandmother to teach me when I was 6 and I've knitted since then. I love your podcast and to be onest it was by seeing Andrew that made me stop and watch your podcast for the first time. Unfortunately is not very common to see a man knitting..... I think your knitting is fantastic and it doesn't matter the speed of your knitting as long as you enjoy it. It is the process that is facinating and to me it is a sort of meditation as well. Ivan

It is totally my way to knit with historical heritage, to find out how people in earlier times knitted. Thank you for twined knitting, I have done this as a decorative element on a hat.

I am a huge Fruity Knitting fan. I rarely read the comments people post but I was shocked to hear that some folks have chosen to comment about the speed of Andrew’s knitting. Truly inappropriate! I too am a slow knitter - life happens and I don’t have much time to sit for long stretches and knit away. But I enjoy the process and the finished project - it is not a race. So Andrew keep plugging along at your own pace and continue to produce brilliant finished objects!

All I can say is WOW. this interview with the Shepherdess is the best interview I've seen and I have loved them all. She is one amazing woman, her conceptual approach to the sheep, her love of them and the way she interweaves (see what I did there!:-) ) the sheep with all of the other areas of commerce is just ingenious. Thank you so much Andrea for finding her. Lu

I love how you take your time and do outstanding beautiful pieces. Quality over quantity, Andrew. Kudos!!!!

I love love love the Venezia shawl! I also love your podcast! So glad I came across it!😊

What an interesting and wonderful chat with Alison. Her love for the sheep and herding shines out of her !

Andrew what a guy, what a knitter , love that scarf.

Andrew your scarf is gorgeous! Great job! Who cares if you knit slowly as long as you enjoy the knitting! I love your banter with one another. It is so refreshing.

Hi from Mexico City. A am a fan of your program and avid viewer. I just found you last mouth. and every day a view one of the old. your program are full of good tips and I love the interviews with so talented and accomplish knitters. Thank you very much. Andrew with his smile bright the set, and you with your beautiful voice just make very enjoyable the already very good program. I would like to became a patron but with my reduce income me es impossible to do it in full, for that I would like to proposed in do it one mouth yes and the other mouth not if that is no possible I will not feel insulted, I will understand it. God give you many talents thank you very much for sheering with us.

I could sit all evening long and watch Alison O'Neill talk! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful treasure with us!

I watch several knitting podcasts and like them very much but fruity knitting is so professional, informative and just brilliant. I Love everything about it. Well done Andrea and Andrew. X

The history in this video is fascinating.

Your episodes just get better and better all the time. The topics, the photography, tutorials, and well-organized interviews are a treat each time. I'm so looking forward to meeting you at EYF. I'll likely be shopping yarns for my Kammebornia mittens :)

I loved the segment on the Shepherdess. Wonderful show!

I just found your podcast and truly enjoy your interactions. You look so loving and funny, so many couples could take you as role model. I also like your choice of music!

Great episode. Truly fascinating hearing about two-end knitting. Thank you!

Love your podcasts Andrea and Andrew, yours is the only podcast that I watch and not knitt at the same time, because there is so much to learn and focus on, thank you!

I so agree with you Andrew about knitting slowly and enjoying the whole process..it is meditative! I also am not in this for the number but the quality of my projects! Go Andrew!

I totally agree with Ryan Jones. Getting to your destination isn’t important, it’s the journey. Ignore all negative comments Andrew. I believe knitting is a form of meditation. To have completed your brioche scarf is a massive achievement and it looks flawless. Love to you both from Angela ,South West Wales.

Congratulations to all the winners. Wonderful work by all.

Thank you so much for listening to the comments & showing the blocking of the Tegna! Your sweater is beautiful and I cannot wait to see the finished object, mine is much more cropped - I am wishing I had knit it a bit longer now but will block it today thanks to your tips. Another lovely lovely podcast. Thanks so much Andrea and Andrew!

Bless his heart. R.I.P. I am, at nearly eighty and still learning, also a slow knitter. Feeling better about it now!

this episode was so fascinating thank you for sharing , love the colour of the new top you are making x

Oh those girls! That was a real treat. Allison O'Neil was a delight.

This was so delightful. My absolute favorite moments were at the very end when you showed us the sheep running across the field...with that divine music! So well done. Thank you!!!

What a lovely episode 💛🙏💛 Thank you all! Hugs & sunshine 🌞 N

The interview with the Shepardess was AMAZING! What an incredibly interesting woman. Thanks for bringing us such wonderful content. (I’m a patron 😎👍.)

Oh my. I loved it all, as I always do. Keep up the wonderful work, and thank you.

What a wonderful interview with the shepardess. Thank you so much.

yeah Andrew...proud of you!! looks good.

Just wonderful, wonderful interview with Alison O’Neill.

Wonderful episode! Thank you, you two! 🙏🏻💙

It's not slow knitting, it's savoring every stitch.

What a wonderful episode! So informative and lovely, I can't say enough good things about it. Keep up the good work :)

The scarf is amazing, bravo!

Amazing episode as always! Who would downvote this?!

Fascinating podcast. I love the historical pieces . I had no idea that knitting has such incredible facets through the centuries. I have learned so much watching Fruity Kitting. I also wanted to comment on Andrew slow kitting. I am also a slow knitter now. I have found that after knitting for over 30 years that my fingers are beginning to have problems. Knitting slowly seems to help. I am a Continental knitter and I think that had I knitted slowly through the years that I might not have issues now with my hands and fingers. Knitting is very relaxing for me and I think Andrew has the right speed to enjoy every stitch. Ann from Va. USA

Two-end twined knitting - just when you think you've seen everything......fascinating!

Another splendid episode! Always worth watching a second time.

This is the most interesting episode I saw until now. I discovered Fruity Knitting not so long ago and am binge-watching older episodes. The Swedish twine knitting, the other Scandinavian designs and the English tweed ... I LOVE them all!

Brilliant, as always! x

That's a beautiful scarf. I am considering making it, since I admired it on the TV show. But it looks so hard! You did a great job, Andrew. What a cute herding dog!

Thank you for posting this video. I’ve been exploring my Scandinavian and English heritage and have been teaching myself (via Utube videos) how to knit in various traditions. I love that in The middle of a pandemic we can learn from people all around the world and stay connected. Thank you for sharing your knowledge - being in the US, I would have probably never had an opportunity to learn this! Sending love and thanks from Michigan!

Living in enland my mother taught me to twist my carring yarn. I have never seen floats wide like north America. Very interesting interview. Good podcast thank you. BrambleKnits 🇨🇦

Oh wow! What a great podcast. Thank you for such great content. Loved the interview. So encouraging! What a brave woman. Pia's patterns and podcast are beautifil as well. Andrea your new sweater is gorgeous. Wonderful podcast!

Thank you Andrew and Andrea, you are making such a great job! this episode is one of your bests. You bring knowledge and beauty to us, each time, this is wonderfull. As a professional violonist I also really apreciate your musical choices! i am very found of the Kammebornia podcast, so when I saw the lovely Pia in this episode I was very happy. Thank you so much. And now I am very proud to be one of your patreons, since today! Catherine, (I am french, I apologies for my poor english writing)

You two are such wonderful fun to watch.

I have always loved tweed😍

That was just such a beautiful podcast > did I ever tell you guys ,that I really appreciate your work and putting together such a great hour for us > packed with knowledge and inspiration , and a gentle ay of life around sheep and wool ....I am very happy to be a supporter of your show .🐑🌳🌻🌵🌻

Oh I love this episode so much! Thanks Andrea for the wonderful jaunty music at the end...I felt like I was at a Ceilidh and it made me smile. One day I hope to own a Shepherdess Hacking jacket...gorgeous!!

I must go to Cumbria!!! I truly enjoyed your interview with the shepherdess! What an incredible story and place! I am looking up her walks and hoping too one day get myself over there! Thank you for the podcast!!

Very lovely episode.

I love the Shepherdess, her work, her sheep and her tweed. Just perfection​. I just wish I could afford to buy some.

I sure enjoy your videos, thank you

Beautiful show and interview with the shepherdess. Congratulations to Isabelle from Switzerland!

You two are fantastic, I like your humor so much 😅💞

You may be slow but your project is a beauty !❤️❤️❤️

We dont need to speed knit we need to enjoy what we do Andrew you just fine go at your speed take no notice of the silly remarks you are a great knitter keep up with the great work you do i love you both .

Thank you for your interviews and thoughts on blocking. I so agree about blocking should not be about stretching it out except for lace. . Such an informative show. I think the shepherdess was my favorite piece.

Totally enjoyed your show, especially your guests. Twined knitting is fascinating. I am a thrower and when doing fair Isle, I work both colours in my right hand. Will try to twine them now.

Truly Lovely I would wear these all the time Love the Greys ❤🎉

You rock Andrew! You knit perfectly, you keep doing “you”

An amazing accomplishment Andrew, Well Done! It doesn’t matter how long it takes, it is the journey. You should be very proud. I've only done a small 2 colour cowl.

Love ❤️ the Shepherdess she has style . Lambs are slaughtered about 6 m old ,so young I didn’t realise , I do love lamb 🐑. I like the fact she loves her girls . My Grandfather 👴🏽 was a farmer and they had land girls when he went to war and my Grandmother 👵🏽 had a yarn shop in Portsmouth England.

Found your channel from Josephin Waltin's twined knitting WIP, and am very excited to try this new-to-me technique! I'm a thrower already, this doesn't look too difficult at all to pick up. Hmm... something non-stretchy and dense? I'm thinking a poncho! :D Thank you so much for all your hard work to show us these wonderful slices of the fiber world, and I am going to be happily following you from now on! Stay warm!

WONDERFUL episode! It was very upbeat and everything was inspiring. I love watching Andrew knit, and Andrea. Thank you for the work you put in to producing the show, and all the interviews. Hugs!

Very intrigued by the two-end knitting, may have to try it!

Andrew it doesn't matter, it's all about the process!

Your Paris scarf is gorgeous!! I'm STILL working on mine.....and probably will end up making it cowl length instead of scarf length, but I'm using the same light green as on your scarf and a beautiful gradient yarn for the other side which is turning out beautifully! :)

Your comment about English throwers made me chuckle. I'm an American thrower, and Pia's method is how I change colors.

I just wanted to say that I finally started my first colourwork (a Fern and feather sweater by Jennifer Steinglass) empowered by the weave in/weave out method you showed in your last episode. I am a patreon now after watching all your videos in a few weeks last year. My parents are aussies who moved to Germany when they got married in the 60s and ended up in Canada so I really love your story and enjoy watching your podcasts! Thanks so much & keep up the good work!

I love how Alison’s 3 breeds were so washed and groomed for display. They looked gorgeous and made me want to hug them for their cuteness. I would have a hard time with the turning them into meat though. I guess I can’t be a butcher 😭. Although I do love a lamb steak with a rosemary, garlic, salt & pepper, red wine, rub down, medium rare. I am fascinated by the two end twisted yarn method. I do need very hardy mitten/half-finger gloves here in New York. We need easy finger useable here in the metropolis, so I make mine half-finger flap mittens. I want to make Pia’s Roses are Red Mittens, but with a twist to it.

Fantastic episode, especially the profile on The Shepherdess - she is SO inspiring! And it's appalling that people would comment on Andrew's knitting: I think he's also an inspiration to anyone wanting to try. Just look at all his lovely creations!

Piecework's 25th Anniversary Issue, March/April 2018, arrived in my mailbox the same day I viewed this episode. Lo and behold the issue includes a pattern for twined-knitted gloves from Sweden by Beth Brown-Reinsel. She mentions that she teaches a lot of twined knitting. Fabulous episode.

I just fell in love with Morag the Herdwick 💗

You go boy! I am so excited that you are doing it at all. I would love for my husband to pick it up but when he watches me rip a half of s hat because if a mistake he says he doesn't have the patience. So, the way i see it, yiu gave double patience!

I love Andrew’s smile 😊

Very interesting, the two-end-knitting! I think it was also a good technique for making clothes, weich hold very warm in a very cold weather!

How beautiful these Tweed clothes are. Wonderful! It seems unbelievable to me that the wool used to be burned. Now I'm longing for a jacket made out of this Tweed, warming and slightly scratching me. I don't mind.

This double end red work looks like something from the queen of hearts court.

I am back to watch more of the episode: Blocking: I have been having problems with garments growing a lot with wet blocking. Any suggestions? Twined knitting: So interesting, but I think I would lose my mind trying to do it. I loved watching it, though. It's fantastic that she is preserving these ancient garments and techniques.

I know one reason Andrew knits slowly, in addition to the important reason that he wants to. Andrew seems to be learning a new technique with every project he makes. That requires concentration, especially to produce such well knitted projects. I work the same way, since I learned as a young woman that a 7 foot double sided scarf done with fine needles in stockinette stitch is boring for a long time. Lizzy M

Thanks..

Wonderful show as always Andrea and Andrew. Andrew, you have a “slow knitter” partner here, so ignore the “grumblers”. They would apply those same epithets to me. I love the quality you put out and nobody can call my knitted product mediocre. I don’t have a lot of time to knit, so my small garments take a long time to finish. I have some basic sock designs I put together, but they are all Toe Up with Afterthought Heel. I just can’t do plain boring socks and I get “second sock syndrome”. I get bored with repetition of the plain, so all my socks have some stitch patterns put together from Barbara Walkers books. Of course the patterns have to work with the 32 and 32 stitches. I have not worked out the reverse engineering of the stitch patterns in Top Down. That would be interesting. I think I had posted some of my sock pictures on Ravelry. My boring handle is beebeebee. And Andrew, you are always doing something new which means you are always learning new techniques for each project that you do. You are constantly improving on your knowledge and not stagnating. So keep doing that and don’t worry about speed. Everything I do is an Alpha project with some pattern from my own brain, and I get bored if I have to repeat it again. I do have to get over that if I want to eventually Beta and Theta test any of my patterns with the view to grade them. I think I will have to wait for retirement.

Love the twined knitting interview, do you know if Karin has any plans to make an instructional dvd? Or teach in the US?

I enjoyed this episode very much, as I do them all. I watch all of Pia's and have grown very fond of her and her husband Dennis. I have always been interested in Twined Knitting. I didn't catch what the yarn is called and the spelling of it.?? I would love to try making something very basic. It was so interesting to learn about it. I enjoyed seeing all of her samples, new and old. Andrew, your scarf is amazing and beautiful!! Also, your sweater Andrea, is so lovely and I love the color. I hope your daughter is doing well. Your guest the Shepherdess was fun to listen to as she described her life. Her sheep were wonderful and so fun to see. I wish you all the best until I see you again, Sharon / Elvensknits on Ravelry xx

Brilliant episode. I second all the other positive comments you have received. Whilst you were interviewing Karin about double knitting, I was hoping you would ask her about the sleeves on the garment she was wearing. I wanted to know if they were a modern take on the twisted double knitting style.

could you please give us a closer look at how Karin prepared her ball for making untwisting easier? I can quite catch how she locked the inner and outer threads together

In the Netherlands a vest is a cardigan!

love the vest/tank top discussion!! So funny... in the States what you are knitting is called a vest. A tank top can be any sort of scoop necked sleeveless hot weather top (not necessarily slinky!!! haha)

Nice

So proud of these two Australians (is Andrew a proper Aussie?). You're both lovely ambassadors for this land downunder!

I didn’t realise that there is a speed you are supposed to knit at. I just wish I could produce knitting like andrew

That’s okay...I knit slowly because I just want to enjoy it 😃. Maybe start the Turtle Knitters Club

I am really enjoying your video's, & im not even a knitter (yet)! Loving all the incidental learning, like the special Swedish sheep with extra long staple.....is this the special yarn the vikings used for their sails? I'm wishing you would explain also what the interesting fossil-like bag hanging on the back of the couch is...thanks!

The diamond tweed jacket at 1:13:23 is beautifully designed, should be on the runways with the best haute couture labels. And i would love to have a caped jacket made out of the (herringbone ?) tweed on the wall 1:14:35 or the hog tweed

In the Netherlands a vest is a cardigan. To make the discussion complete. Andrew, I tried brioche 1 time and not even serious. But enough to realise that I find it confusing. My question is, do you now think that you master this knitting method? Andrea, the knitting sample you showed look like krogbragd (weaving method also Swedish). That particular weaving method gives also a dense fabric. Alison in Yorkshire was so lovely. When looking at the countryside I could not stop thinking about ' Wuthering Heights' , thank you.

I'm sorry, I posted unexpectedly. But I am wondering the titles of the books Andrea mentioned she was reading during the shepherdess interview. I'm so happy I am a patreon of this show!!