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  <title><![CDATA[Comment on 1930s Triangle scarf]]></title>
  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/709/#comment1503</link>
  <description><![CDATA[I absolutely love your Friday letters Jane and this was no exception. I had a real treat - empty house, mug of tea and watched it while I crocheted another round of the base of a shopping bag - perfect timing. I definitely tuned into the concept of using up left overs straightaway. I have left overs going back 40 years! I am a basic knitter - but will download the pattern and give it a go - soon.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:25:09 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Comment on 1930s Triangle scarf]]></title>
  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/709/#comment1502</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Thank you for your recent video and for sharing the beautiful scarf pattern. I too hold the tension between supporting creators, and not spending reflexively for her enjoyment-- or the dopamine hit! I was balanced with this until I started watching knitting channels on YouTube. I finally understood what is meant by influencers! Now my stash has grown and is actually a source of anxiety, not joy. I have decided I need to curate what I truly love from my stash and gift the rest. It will bring( for me) more peace. I really enjoy your channel for the thoughtful reflections on how how we engage with our craft as expression of our creativity, curiosity, and values.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:23:29 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Comment on 1930s Triangle scarf]]></title>
  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/709/#comment1501</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Jane, I love the scarf and more importantly the knitting, the woven pattern you chose, type of weol, the charming retro element of it. Here's an American style question for you: I never found that style to be of any use, as I tend to need a longer scarf to keep the vitals warm, neck warm, etc. Have you considered a slightly expanded version of it, or conversely do you ponder going 60s retro and wearing it as a strapless top these days. Your comments about shopping are spot on - I find myself falling into it, as "browing online" seems harmless enough for style ideas. Wrong. I find that it becomes like my 500th procrastination tool to avoid the fulfillment of painting or writing or sewing, etc. - not to mention the paperwork. Thank you for being yourself.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:56:30 +0100</pubDate>
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  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/709/#comment1500</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Ah this is lovely, thanks for the pattern. I am an avid Ravelry user but I try to limit my pattern buying. I was a bit sad that there is no pattern page on Ravelry for it but I'm learning that not every pattern I use has to be available on there. I'll add a link back to this blog post from my project page then people can find it and your post & video.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:23:10 +0100</pubDate>
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  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/709/#comment1499</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Thank you for making this available it is much appreciated.  At the present time my knitting is making summer tops using silk and linen yarn which is quite an adventure.  I imagine this scarf could be knit in silk but I think I will try some good old fashioned wool first. A September cast on probably.  Im always interested to hear your thoughts on life this time consumerism. As I write this I am without my iPhone because of a technical failure and Im surprised at exactly how anxious I am at the loss.  After all the situation will get fixed.  I’m 68 not 18!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:22:24 +0100</pubDate>
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  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/709/#comment1498</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<div class="commentreply">In reply to <span class="commentlink" data-id="1497">Susan Hadden</span></div>I kept the language exactly the same in the PDF as it is in the pattern - it’s a completely different format to modern patterns I find - much more concise and also replies in you being able to ‘read’ your knitting as you go. No stitch markers.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:52:40 +0100</pubDate>
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  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/709/#comment1497</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Read again instructions and now think I understand  what "in this manner" is referring to!
Please ignore my last request for explanation!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:58:48 +0100</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[I downloaded your pattern for the triangle scarf and wonder about the instructions first line "continue decreasing in this manner....".  No instruction for "in this manner", am I not seeing something that really is there??]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:55:58 +0100</pubDate>
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  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/709/#comment1495</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Thank you for once again such a timely video, Jane.
A couple of years ago I had to make some major life changes due to some health issues. As a result, I've had a lot more free time and less contact with other people, and this has been a very difficult adjustment for me to make. I have found, sadly, that I turn to shopping to try to fill some of this void. It of course, doesn't work. Your video has really, once and for all, clarified that for me.
I too feel that it's important to "support" local businesses and entrepreneurs, and thus I justify a lot of this spending. I'm going to try your lovely suggestion of putting that money in a special place and when enough accumulates, I have a local animal charity that I support that would be very grateful for the contribution. And going out for a dog walk, texting a friend, or just sitting down and actually using some of the many art and craft supplies I have bought over the past two years is a far better use of my time that going out on yet one more errand because I'm bored or feeling lonely.
Once again, Jane, you've sent me just the message I needed to hear!  Happy knitting!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:53:20 +0100</pubDate>
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  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/709/#comment1494</link>
  <description><![CDATA[That is a another really interesting video Jane. I try to buy most things locally, ideally from an independent business, but even if it is from a chain store I am giving work to somebody - Amazon etc are my last resort! I buy a lot from charity shops and other second hand outlets. So far as knitting patterns are concerned I have been using patterns from books , either books I bought years ago when I had a bit more spare cash or from the library. But I have often been disappointed with the fit. So now I am trying to learn to design my own starting with simple rectangles and then how to introduce more fitted shaping. I have just bought 2 patterns from Natalie in Stitches because she gives instructions on how to adapt them to fit different body shapes. I reckon if I knit those it should help me learn. And I am experimenting with different stitch patterns so thank you for the download! We have all been trained to support GDP and it really isn't good for us or the planet!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:35:35 +0100</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[What a beautiful scarf and how generous of you to make the download. 
I watched your film over breakfast in the sunny not too sweltering yet garden. I really resonated with what you said about shopping culture/addiction. I am ashamed of my acquisitive  nature but am so often entranced by another lovely ‘thing’. Your idea of the separate pot for things/experiences you have thought about and really want is an excellent one - will try it. I’m remembering standing next to an old lady in a queue to pay. I must have had something indulgent in my basket and she asked me if it was ‘an impulse buy’ - well of course it was and boy, did I feel guilty (though still went ahead and bought whatever it was). Thanks again for your words of wisdom]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:34:48 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Comment on Red Lipstick Myths: What the History Actually Says]]></title>
  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/708/#comment1492</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<div class="commentreply">In reply to <span class="commentlink" data-id="1490">SnapdragonJane</span></div>Yes. Come to think of it, most of the pictures I have seen of Eva Braun did portray her as wearing lipstick. I think he wanted German women in general to follow the Aryan stereotype (although he certainly wasn't) and touted modesty and motherly figures as being ideal. Also, it has been said that he was a vegetarian, and the cosmetics industry up until the last few years ago were made with animal extracts; lipstick being made with a red pigment from crushed cochineal insects!  Later though, he was claimed to have said that it was attractive and most people wanted to see it. ???

Whatever you are mixing is most attractive. I like using a brush, even though I have lipsticks in tubes. I remember that my mum, who was a WREN during WWII, told me that most things were heavily rationed; and what they had at the beginning of the war probably lasted that long; since they were indeed scarce and extremely hard to get.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:54:14 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Comment on Red Lipstick Myths: What the History Actually Says]]></title>
  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/708/#comment1491</link>
  <description><![CDATA[I don't think I ever another video by you (I've been following you on YouTube for about a year now, and watched several other Videos from before that) that moved me as much as this one did. What lipstick can do to self-esteem reminded me of the time around 30 years ago, when I spent a year doing anthropological fieldwork in Brazil. When I arrived there - a young intellectual woman from Austria, accustomed to hide her femininity with oversized T-Shirts, short hair, and no makeup at all - I was shocked by the way Brazilian women dressed, and styled themselves. When I returned to Austria one year later, the culture shock worked in the opposite direction, and I could not believe how little women - or rather: female students at the University of Vienna - cared about themselves, or their bodies. How shrunk and with little self-esteem they seemed. Whereas the Brazilian women I got to know did not adorn or dress themselves to make an impression on men, but to feel good in their own bodies. So I completely understand your point what impact makeup and lipstick can have for a woman's self-esteem. Most days, nowadays, I don't wear makeup, because I look beautiful enough without it. ??  But I will start wearing lipstick again, especially when recording videos (which I will have to do in the near future), because it boosts my self-esteem. I love your lipstick and your nailposlish, and I love to accompany your journey to more self-love in the last years. Thank your for your research, and for introducing women (artists and others) who it is so important and interesting to learn about.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:13:40 +0100</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[<div class="commentreply">In reply to <span class="commentlink" data-id="1489">Claudia Owens</span></div>Hi Claudia I also read that Hitler hated lipstick and that it was banned from his houses - and yet some photos of Hitler and Eva Braun or Unity Mitford clearly show them wearing lipstick.  So I don't know how accurate that was.  It certainly wasn't something publicised at the time . . . . I could only find a single secondary source from 2014 which had been repeated over and over.

I currently wear a mix of Tom Ford and Guerlin reds - stubs melted, rather like the women of 1940s, into a little tin and applied with a brush!]]></description>
  <author>Katie</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:47:06 +0100</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Great reading today, Jane. Since we are on the subject, I always wondered what shade lipstick you used. It is such a lovely colour and soft looking. I love lipstick myself. I do remember reading that Hitler hated lipstick, and it did spur some Allied woman to wear it. The white, purple and green colours in clothing used for the Suffragettes were from Emmaline Pankurst's choices symbolizing white for purity, purple for majesty (as in "the royal blood that flows in the veins of every suffragette") and green for hope; as in the fresh green shades of springtime; the season of hope and new beginnings. In America Alice Paul changed the green to gold or yellow. Your Emmeline Pankhurst played a large part in right for women in the U.S. Alice Paul studied in England and came back fired up for women's rights due to hearing Ms Pankhurst. It wasn't all glamour though; remember the force-feeding and incarcerations of those brave women. Interesting though how things get skewed over time.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:34:41 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Comment on My Garden in May: Why Looking at Nature Changes How You Feel]]></title>
  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/701/#comment1487</link>
  <description><![CDATA[I could feel my shoulders drop and my muscles relax watching that Jane. Utterly beautiful and calming . xxx]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:10:29 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Comment on A Maker’s Wardrobe: Swatching a WW2 Knitting Pattern]]></title>
  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/707/#comment1486</link>
  <description><![CDATA[That green is lovely. Plus you already have the other colors in your sweater collection!
I'm no knitter but I love listening to you talk about your projects - I look forward to every Friday and it's my break-time at work! Thanks!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:40:25 +0100</pubDate>
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  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/707/#comment1485</link>
  <description><![CDATA[I love swatching for its own sake and not necessarily for a pattern. I learn so much about different yarns that way. Last winter I must have knit over 100 tiny swatches mostly from handspun yarns, and I ended up making a breed display for my local fiber guild (picture attached). As for what yarn to use; use your hand-dyed cotton! You can always use the lambswool another time.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:38:36 +0100</pubDate>
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  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/707/#comment1484</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Most impressive and a great example to us all! I am not a knitter - I crochet, and usually Scrumble (see the books by Sylvia Cosh and James Walters from the 1980s) - and, as you describe yourself, I too have never been in the habit of  planning things out in advance - serendipity often provides a not necessarily expected but interesting outcome. But not always. And there is a certain reluctance to undo once done, so any original vague intention at the outset often evolves with the 'work in progress'.  I very much admire your reformed approach but I'm not convinced this particular leopard is about to change her spots, at least not any time soon; my approach to most things is too chaotic and random, so it's an excellent example I ought to follow...

As for your choice of yarn for the cardigan it's lovely to use own-dyed because you've been involved in the entire process. But I can't get away from wool as top favourite, it's just so lovely to work with and wear. So I'd go for the tweedy lambswool. That said I've finally just begun to spin some of the undercoat from our Welsh Springer Spaniel (now coming up to his eleventh birthday, so I've been collecting for a while). And as a mindful activity, as well as being more easily portable than a spinning wheel, (currently inaccessible but that's another story) I'm using a drop spindle. The fibre is unbelievably fine and the yarn is so soft, but nothing has the 'bounce' and elasticity of wool. What it will eventually become, assuming I spin it all, is another matter, a story for the future.

Thank you for your inspirational website and videos. They've got me back out of a crafting desert and into making things again.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:06:30 +0100</pubDate>
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  <link>https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/707/#comment1483</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<div class="commentreply">In reply to <span class="commentlink" data-id="1482">Alison Grave</span></div>? Should have been a star!]]></description>
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