{"id":979,"date":"2011-05-24T23:06:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T04:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2011-05-27T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T21:20:43","slug":"episode-60-just-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/episode-60-just-because\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 60 &#8211; Just Because"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Laura &amp; Leslie recap some of the goodies we bought at Kentucky Sheep &amp; Fiber Fest. We also review Spud &amp; Chloe at the Farm, and announce the details of our &#8220;Just Because&#8221; contest!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/h5A_gr3EdQA.html\" width=\"720\" height=\"510\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/a.blip.tv\/api.swf#h5A_gr3EdQA\" style=\"display:none\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Laura is knitting on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/shetland-pi-shawl-kal\">Shetland Pi shawl<\/a>(size 5 US\/3.75mm needles)\u00a0by Wendy Johnson. \u00a0It is out of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberry-ridge.com\/yarnprod.htm\">Blackberry Ridge Silk Blend Laceweight<\/a>. I&#8217;ve begun the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wendyknits.net\/2011\/05\/26\/more-mystery-shawlette\/\">Summer Mystery shawlette <\/a><\/strong>out of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/yarns\/library\/sleeping-dragon-wooly-bamboo-hand-painted\"> Sleeping Dragon<\/a> in Key Lime. \u00a0I\u2019m also working on a stripy sock out of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/theamyleeshow?ref=pr_shop_more\">Amy Lee Show\u2019s Canon Hand Dyed Yarn <\/a>in the Arthur base in the \u201cWe are for the Night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leslie is working on the S<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/senneh\">enneh socks<\/a> using the Silk Road Sock book. \u00a0She is using Hazel Knits in the Cherry Fizz colorway on 2.5 mm (1.5 US) needles. \u00a0Leslie has also started\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/leadlight-2\">leadlight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FOs ( 8:45 )<\/p>\n<p>Laura has knit up some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rebeccadanger.typepad.com\/rebecca_danger\/\">monster chunks<\/a> out of scrap yarn and some afghan squares and all have gone to new happy homes.<\/p>\n<p>Spinning (10:00)<\/p>\n<p>Laura has started spinning Twisted Fiber Arts. \u00a0Leslie has started spinning a <a href=\"http:\/\/kimberbaldwindesigns.com\/category\/MerinoSilkRoving.html\">Fiber Optic gradient BFl\/Silk blend<\/a> in &#8220;Bitter Lime Rose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Book Review (28:00): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1579654304\/?tag=thek04e-20\">Spud and Chloe at the Farm by Susan B. Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Favorite Things (20:00)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckysheepandfiber.com\/\">Kentucky Sheep and Fiber<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liz of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macyarns.com\/\">Mackintosh Yarns<\/a> (pay no attention to me, I&#8217;m crazy)\u00a0is helping us with our Just Beacause Giveaway. \u00a0Check out the ravelry group to enter!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/DyeabolicalYarns\">Dyeabolical Yarns!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.temptedyarns.com\/\">Tempted Yarns- Prissy Girl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joplin Tornado Relief: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.convoyofhope.org\/\">Convoy of Hope<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/\">Red Cross<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entangledmagazine.com\/\">Entangled Magazine<\/a>: We&#8217;re in there first issue!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday Julia, Alisha, and Phobbs!<\/p>\n<p>Leslie got an awesome afghan square swap package!<\/p>\n<p>Stash Dash has begun! All the info is available in theknitgirllls group on Ravelry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Laura &amp; Leslie recap some of the goodies we bought at Kentucky Sheep &amp; Fiber Fest. We also review Spud &amp; Chloe at the Farm, and announce the details of our &#8220;Just Because&#8221; contest! Laura is knitting on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/episode-60-just-because\/\">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":[316,211,248,294,7,186,177],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-knitting","tag-podcast","tag-podcasting","tag-reviews","tag-spinning","tag-theknitgirllls","tag-videocast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}