Laura has also worked on a mitered crosses blanket out of Silk Garden and Cascade 220 on size 6 needles. Sorry y’all couldn’t see the pattern layout! Laura has stared the Holly Berry Stockings out of Vanna’s Choice and Woolease. She is also knitting on after thought heel socks out of Vesper in Hocus Pocus on size 1.5 needles.
Leslie has cast on some Single Malt Woolmeise 100% for the Make a Wish socks. She is using the pattern, Bavarian Cables, by Wendy Johnson. She is going to knit them on size 1 needles. She is also knitting an Abalone by Beata Jezek out of Tempted Sly Girl in a Sweet Red held doubled on size 8 (5.0 mm) needles.
Leslie has performed surgery on her sweater knit using Jared Flood’s class notes about EZ’s sweater percentage system (You can find more details about it in Knitting without Tears). She is knitting in on needles from Glass Pens and Signature.
Laura has finished a Trillian in Wollmeise Lavendal on size 4 needles. Her other patterns including 22.5 can be found here.
Laura has spun Dyeing Arts in Goblin Elbows. It is around 250 yards of a 2-ply
Next up for Laura is the Loop batt from Carin! It has aluminum in it!
Lelsie is spinning C.J. Kopec fiber on her Support Spindle from Deerfield Creations.
Next travel plans: Arkansas Fiber Arts Extravaganza.
Book Review: 60 More Quick Knits by Sixth and Spring
Thank you so much to everyone we met at Fiber Space, Graves Mountain, and Little Rock!!!!!!!!! We had so much fun!
Goodies were from: Kid Hollow Farm, Sunshine Yarns, Loft, Viola Yarns, Little Red Bicycle, and Kama Suutra Fiber Arts.
Ro is having a fiber giveaway in our group!
Leslie has read Ready Player One and Post Mortum (not sure which one this is)
Laura has read Drink Deep, Death Magic, Heart of Steel (steampunk!)
Stash Dash buttons: Please pm Laura your address if you completed stash dash.
SSK update: Knitalongs in the SSK Rav group
I have been waiting for the podcast ALL WEEK to see the sweater adjustment. Great job! I was wondering if you could talk about how you select a new project. I have so many things I would like to start and the obligatory stash but seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to match stash to the perfect pattern – and vice versa.
Laura–The mistake square is actually a tradition in quilting, my grandmother call them the devil’s square–she said it was to keep the devil away from the creator and the user–I guess being perfect is not good for our soul.
Absolutely -I’ve heard it called the “humility block”. The quilter might make a deliberate mistake to show she wasn’t guilty of an overabundance of pride. I prefer the term “design feature”, myself. 😉
I love Teaberry gum! Sounds like a great store. Thanks for showing all the yummy fiber and yarn. It makes me want to run out and buy more fiber and yarn (forgetting I need to knit what I already have), I justify it by telling my friends/hubby that a yarn famine is coming.
Umm…just like you can use an ipod or keep a cell phone on in airplane mode, you can in fact read your kindle during taking off and landing with the 3g or wifi off. I do it all the time. What airline said you couldn’t? Delta has never bothered me about it.
Thanks for listing the books you mentioned on the podcast. I love paranormals, steampunk, etc. I just recently discovered Good Reads. Please mention any books that you read. I find that as interesting as the knitting and spinning.
SandyL
That puppy head hat is the perfect hat for mountain lion country. I read that wearing a mask on the back of your head is one way that people in India protect themselves from being attacked by tigers and it would probably work with cougars too.