{"id":769,"date":"2010-12-12T23:21:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T04:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2010-12-13T21:57:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T02:57:13","slug":"episode-38-christmas-knitting-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/episode-38-christmas-knitting-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 38 &#8211; Christmas Knitting Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only 2 weeks until Christmas, Laura &amp; Leslie are powering through some gifts. Laura reviews 2 books and a magazine and Leslie shows off some goodies she got this week.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"720\" height=\"430\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYKT%2BhMA\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"720\" height=\"430\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYKT%2BhMA\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Laura is knitting on Mittens for Wheezy out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitpicks.com\/yarns\/Merino_Style_Yarn__D5420104.html\">Knitpicks Merino Style<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1580176461\/?tag=thek04e-20\">Never Knit a Man a Sweater<\/a>. \u00a0If you find my mojo, tell it to come back home please.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie is knitting on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/nicholetta\"> Nicoletta Socks<\/a> out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectdayyarns.com\/\">Perfect Day Yarns<\/a> in the Mermaid Tavern Colorway. \u00a0Side note: Perfect Day yarns is having a sale right now.<\/p>\n<p>Laura is done with<a href=\"http:\/\/dangercrafts.etsy.com\/?ref=em\"> Iris <\/a>in the Zombie Barbeque colorway, Matt&#8217;s Regia Socks, and the Noro Shawl.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie is done with Mittens in her own made up pattern out of yarn that I dyed. \u00a0The base was Shirley from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraemeryarns.com\/Yarn\/yarn.asp?YarnIdnt=11\"> Kraemer Yarns<\/a>. \u00a0She has also finished a Gloria Cowl out of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaknit.com\/\"> Lisa Souza<\/a> in the Joseph&#8217;s Coat colorway of Max base.<\/p>\n<p>Laura is spinning the Pioneer Woman colorway of Lorna&#8217;s Laces Roving for Suzanne (Same Verse, the same as the first, a little bit louder and a little bit worse).<\/p>\n<p>Leslie is spinning some CLoudlover fiber for CP in the Merino base, &#8221; Decay&#8221; colorway. \u00a0Don&#8217;t be fooled Lynn, It&#8217;s a race. \u00a0You may not know it, but it&#8217;s a race.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite Things:<\/p>\n<p>Knit Simple is a magazine. \u00a0It has cute things, but they won&#8217;t fit me. Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I taught a fun dyeing class with Nichol (Bluegoosefarm on rav).<\/p>\n<p>Perfect Day Yarns is reopening her sock club. \u00a0You can find more info about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/discuss\/perfect-day-yarns\/1426390\/26-50#34\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beth1313 sent Leslie an awesome FOP package. \u00a0That soap is sooooo awesome. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/FiberOptic\">Fiber Optic Roving<\/a> is also very pretty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_29?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=never+knit+your+man+a+sweater&amp;sprefix=never+knit+your+man+a+sweater\">Never Knit Your Man a Sweate<\/a>r is a tad more conservative of the two &#8220;man&#8221; books. \u00a0It also has a creepy model. \u00a0Sweater sizes range from 38-50&#8243; (not all patterns come in these sizes, these are the largest ranges of those listed). \u00a022 total projects are listed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B001QFY2LQ\/?tag=thek04e-20\">Knitting With Balls.<\/a> This book is a little bit more trendy. \u00a0Sweater sizes range from 30-60&#8243;. \u00a022 total projects are included.<\/p>\n<p>If y&#8217;all know any other good &#8220;guy&#8221; knit books, let me know.<\/p>\n<p>ccaj \u00a0(Cyndi) sent us some awesome stuff. \u00a0Thank you sooooooooo much!<\/p>\n<p>Leslie got more <a href=\"http:\/\/cloudlover.com\/\">Cloudlover fiber<\/a> (surprise!)<\/p>\n<p>Last week of school! \u00a0We&#8217;ll have an episode next week, but not the following week (at least not filmed on Sunday). \u00a0We also put up some bonus footage of Arkansas Fiber Extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p>You can find us on Plurk, Twitter, Facebook, Ravelry, and Itunes (leave a review or a star).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only 2 weeks until Christmas, Laura &amp; Leslie are powering through some gifts. Laura reviews 2 books and a magazine and Leslie shows off some goodies she got this week. Laura is knitting on Mittens for Wheezy out of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/episode-38-christmas-knitting-looms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[230,316,248,7,186,177,249],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-finished-objects","tag-knitting","tag-podcasting","tag-spinning","tag-theknitgirllls","tag-videocast","tag-work-in-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}