Ep573 – Forewarned

Leslie is knitting on some South Marysburgh Slippers by Sam Lamb.

Laura  is working on the Out of Winter shawl by TamyGore.  She is using size 6 needles and knitting it out of some Koomasee BFL that she spun. She finally started spinning the contrast color! She has also started a Cloud Cover by Heidi Kirrmaier out of handspun on size 4 needles.  The handspun was a mashup spin from Hello Yarn in Rambouillet.

Laura has finished a pair of Knit Spin Farm  Sport Weight socks in Zinnia, Warrior Princess  colorway on size 1 needles. 

Leslie finished Erradale out of Wandering Flock fingering in Cosmic Tye Dye and a pair of sport weight socks in KnitSpinFarm’s Coloring Book Day.

Spinning Laura has finished:

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Still on the bobbins:

Sweater spin out of HY patchwork kit (second half is being plied now

Hobbledehoy battlings

Loop Bump in purple sage

ITW Corriedale 

Three Water Farms in polwarth/silk. Brocade colorway

Hipstrings Superwash Targhee in Magically Delicious

Embroidery floss silk spin

Leslie is listening to The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher (young adult fairy tale) and reading Seed by Ania Ahlborn (gothic/occult horror). Also the Chronicles of the Warlands series by Elizabeth Vaughn (m/f fantasy romance).  

Laura has been watching Father Brown and Death in Paradise plus lots of hockey.  She has been reading a middle grade ghost story, Too Bright to See by Klye Lukoff.  She also started rereading the Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs (m/f werewolf adult urban fantasy)

Favorite Things

Stash Dash will be hosted on Discord again and will be from May 27th-end of August.

Discord link: knit girllls discord

SSK 2022

Need long arm quilting services?  Contact inthecottagewithbarb@yahoo.com

Laura’s school library Amazon wishlist link: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1O3PV9JCCJDQ1?ref_=wl_share

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Ep572 – Is it Fine?

Leslie is knitting on Erradale out of Wandering Flock fingering in Cosmic Tye Dye and a pair of sport weight socks in KnitSpinFarm’s Coloring Book Day.

Laura  is working on the Out of Winter shawl by TamyGore.  She is using size 6 needles and knitting it out of some Koomasee BFL that she spun. She finally started spinning the contrast color!  She also started a pair of Knit Spin Farm  Sport Weight socks in Zinnia, Warrior Princess  colorway on size 1 needles.  She has also started a Cloud Cover by Heidi Kirrmaier out of handspun on size 4 needles.  The handspun was a mashup spin from Hello Yarn in Rambouillet.

Laura has finished nothing

Leslie finished some sewing. A versa cami and two pairs of Scrundlewear from Stitch Upon A Time. She also finally put snaps on the Ramona Shacket and made some cpap mask covers. 

Spinning Laura has finished:

Finished the first 10.5 oz of the flax light sweater spin out of Hello Yarn.  It is 1,000 yards of a 2-ply.

Still on the bobbins:

Sweater spin out of HY patchwork kit

Hobbledehoy battlings

Loop Bump in purple sage

ITW Corriedale 

Three Water Farms in polwarth/silk. Brocade colorway

Hipstrings Superwash Targhee in Magically Delicious

Leslie is relistening to the Tales of Verania series (m/m fantasy romance) and is on book 5- The Damning Stone. Also the Chronicles of the Warlands series by Elizabeth Vaughn (m/f fantasy romance).  

Laura has been watching Father Brown and Death in Paradise plus lots of hockey.  She has been reading a middle grade ghost story, Too Bright to See by Klye Lukoff.  She also started rereading the Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs (m/f werewolf adult urban fantasy)

Favorite Things

Stash Dash will be hosted on Discord again and will be from May 27th-end of August.

Discord link: knit girllls discord

SSK 2022

Need long arm quilting services?  Contact inthecottagewithbarb@yahoo.com
Laura’s school library Amazon wishlist link: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1O3PV9JCCJDQ1?ref_=wl_share

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Ep571 – Recalibrate

Leslie is knitting a Windswept out of Sedum lace but it’s in time out. She’s also working on a Bankhead out of  Suburban Stitches in the Happy Accident colorway. She cast on Erradale out of Wandering Flock fingering in Cosmic Tye Dye and a pair of sport weight socks in KnitSpinFarm’s Coloring Book Day.

Laura  is working on the Out of Winter shawl by TamyGore.  She is using size 6 needles and knitting it out of some Koomasee BFL that she spun. She finally started spinning the contrast color!  She also started a pair of Knit Spin Farm  Sport Weight socks in Zinnia, Warrior Princess  colorway on size 1 needles.  She also worked on the Recalibrate top using handspun and size 6 needles.  The handspun is a solid CVM fleece and the contrast is 8oz combo spin from wee chickadee.

Laura has finished: the Recalibrate top using handspun and size 6 needles.  The handspun is a solid CVM fleece and the contrast is 8oz combo spin from wee chickadee.

It was knit on size 6 needles.

Spinning Laura has finished:

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Still on the bobbins:

Sweater spin out of HY patchwork kit

Hobbledehoy battlings

Loop Bump in purple sage

ITW Corriedale 

Three Water Farms in polwarth/silk. Brocade colorway

Leslie is relistening to the Tales of Verania series (m/m fantasy romance) in preparation for TJ Klune’s new book in that series and the Chronicles of the Warlands series by Elizabeth Vaughn (m/f fantasy romance).  She’s reading Set: Gods of the Duat by Alessa Thorn (m/f paranormal romance)

Laura has been watching Father Brown and Death in Paradise plus lots of hockey.  She has been reading a middle grade ghost story, Too Bright to See by Klye Lukoff.  She also started rereading the Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs (m/f werewolf adult urban fantasy)

Favorite Things

Discord link: knit girllls discord

SSK 2022

Need long arm quilting services?  Contact inthecottagewithbarb@yahoo.com

Laura’s school library Amazon wishlist link: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1O3PV9JCCJDQ1?ref_=wl_share

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Ep570 – Backwards Compatabilit-ied

Leslie is knitting a Windswept out of Sedum lace but it’s in time out. She’s also working on a Bankhead out of  Suburban Stitches in the Happy Accident colorway. She cast on Erradale out of Wandering Flock fingering in Cosmic Tye Dye.

Laura  is working on the Out of Winter shawl by TamyGore.  She is using size 6 needles and knitting it out of some Koomasee BFL that she spun. She finally started spinning the contrast color!  She also started a pair of Knit Spin Farm  Sport Weight socks in Zinnia, Warrior Princess  colorway on size 1 needles.  She also worked on the Recalibrate top using handspun and size 6 needles.  The handspun is a solid CVM fleece and the contrast is 8oz combo spin from wee chickadee.

Leslie mostly finished an embroidery piece by GetStitchDoneDesigns.  She also sewed up some quick CPAP mask covers.

Spinning Laura has finished:

Hello Yarn February Club-Beastly Behavior on Targhee

Still on the bobbins:

Hobbledehoy battlings

Loop Bump in purple sage

ITW Corriedale 

Three Water Farms in polwarth/silk. Brocade colorway

Leslie chain plied some old 50% silk/50% merino wool battlings and got 215 yds.  She also 2plied some singles for ~305 yds.

Leslie is relistening to the Tales of Verania series in preparation for TJ Klune’s new book in that series.  She’s reading the Black Witch by Laurie Forest. 

Laura has been watching Father Brown and Death in Paradise plus lots of hockey.  She has been reading a middle grade ghost story, Too Bright to See by Klye Lukoff.  She also read Magic Heir by Ilona Andrews (adult urban fantasy)

Favorite Things

Discord link: knit girllls discord

SSK 2022

Need long arm quilting services?  Contact inthecottagewithbarb@yahoo.com

Laura’s school library Amazon wishlist link: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1O3PV9JCCJDQ1?ref_=wl_share

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