10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 60 - "Back to you, future me"

Links to things I mentioned:

• Project page for my scrap hat
• Mirkwood
• Sheep and Pickle Mock Cable Sock
• Traveling Cable Hand Warmers + my project page with notes
• Flax Light
• This is the yarn that I bought for dyeing
• My dyeing tutorial
• Yarn to Table Podcast (youtube, ravelry group)
• Garter or something yellow KAL chatter thread

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Question of the Week

How do you pick yourself up from moderately bad news?  Not death-in-the-family bad news, just something that's sort of a bummer.

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Tutorial - How to dye yarn (in your kitchen!)

There's not really anything to link here, but definitely share your results if this spurs you to dye your first skein of yarn!  I can be found on Twitter, Instagram, and Ravelry as @purlbug and you can find the Revelry group for the 10,000 Stitches Podcast here.

10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 59.5 - KAL winner and new KAL rules

The chatter thread for this KAL can be found here.

10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 59 - Wesley says I need more yarn

Links to things I mentioned:

• Speckled Space Socks 
• Sheep and Pickle Mock Cable Sock
• Pattern page for my short socks
• Tube Socks for kids
• Mirkwood
• Marywarmers
• This is the bookshelf that we now have two of in our living room
• Cables and something blue KAL thread 
• Packing for Mars and The Man Who Touched His Own Heart

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Question of the Week

Where do you draw the line between "mistakes" you are willing to live with and times when you need to rip back/frog and do it again?

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 58 - Four slices of pizza

Links to things I mentioned:

• PussyHat Project
• Speckled Space Socks + my project page with notes
• Project page for my scrap hat
• Shirsty Cat yarn
• Cables and something blue KAL thread 
• Here's a very well-written take on the four burners concept and how we can approach the limitations it presents
• More information about the Millikan oil drop experiment
• Packing for Mars

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Question of the Week

How do you store/use your yarn scraps?  (And mini-skeins too, I suppose.)

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode #57 - Murder mystery socks

Links to things I mentioned:

• Speckled Space Socks + my project page with notes
• Knitting B
• Skyp Rib Socks
• Little Cable Knee Highs
• Cables and something blue KAL thread 

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Question of the Week

How far ahead do you plan out your knitting?  What tools do you use?

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 56 - We have a cat hat!

Links to things I mentioned:

• My project page detailing my short sock recipe
• Pussyhat Project (I forgot to mention it in the video but I knit mine in the round and then kitchenered the top closed)
• Simple Skyp Socks
• Speckled Space Socks + my project page with notes
• YinYang Kitty Ankle Socks
• Bleaberry Tarn
• Cables and something blue KAL thread 
• My recipe successes: crockpot carnitas and crockpot buffalo chicken
• 2017 Goals thread

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Question of the Week

What is one good thing that happened to you this past week?

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 55 - Just the FO's

Links to things I mentioned:​

• Business Casual
• Tube Socks for Kids
• Simple Skyp Socks
• Yarn to Table Podcast​

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10,000 Stitched Podcast, Episode 54 - Mysteriously out of breath

Links to things I mentioned:

• Show-off Stranded Socks
• Shirsty Cat Designs
• Stroop Stroop Socks
• Business Casual
• Tube Socks for Kids
• Cables and something blue KAL thread 
• 2017 Goals thread
• Your Inner Fish and Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

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Question of the Week

How do you store out of season knits?  Is there a good way to keep them fresh and ready to wear once proper weather rolls around again?

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 53 - Snowpocalypse 2017

Links to things I mentioned:

• Blueberry Waffle Socks
• Lancaster Yarn Shop
• Show-off Stranded Socks
• Business Casual
• Broken Linen Stitch Socks
• Shirsty Cat Designs
• Cloudborn Dyeables
• Cables and something blue KAL thread 
• Going Clear, The Disappearing Spoon, and The Fattening of America
• Minimalism trailer
• Hobonichi planner (here is a US retailer if you want to order domestically)

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Question of the Week

Think about your stash.  Are you happy with it?  Do you wish it was bigger/smaller?  If one of your goals in 2017 is "to knit more from stash," what are you doing to actually achieve this?

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 52 - New year, new hair color

Links to things I mentioned:

• Piece of My Heart Socks
• Traveling Cable Hat (here is my project page with the charts)
• Zigzagular Socks
• Hermione's Everyday Socks
• Dovetail Wrap
• Happypotamus
• Little Cable Knee Highs
• Blueberry Waffle Socks
• Lancaster Yarn Shop
• Business Casual
• Cloudborn Dyeables
• Cables and something blue KAL thread (by the way, the hashtag for this KAL will be #10kstsKAL7 - not very imaginative, but what can ya do)
• Brownberry Chronicles Podcast group (for the Make WIPs Not Waste MAL)
• Inside Number 23 (for the Harry Potter KAL)
• 2017 goals thread
• The Steel Kiss, Going Clear, and Men with Brooms

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Question of the Week

How did you ring in 2017?  We had Thai food and went to bed early.  :-P

(By the way, the winner of the impromptu giveaway from last episode was hookinglitter, so please check your Ravelry messages and let me know your mailing address.)

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 51 - Last one of 2016

Links to things I mentioned:

• Slouchy Candle Flame Hat
• Traveling Cable Hat (here is my project page with the charts)
• 2x2 Ribbed for His Pleasure
• Two by Two
• Zigzagular Socks
• Project page for my Advent socks
• Hermione's Everyday Socks
• Dovetail Wrap
• Happypotamus
• Little Cable Knee Highs
• Blueberry Waffle Socks
• PhD Yarns
• Lancaster Yarn Shop
• Sock yarn isn't just for socks KAL thread

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Question of the Week

What is your favorite fiber-related thing that you made in 2016?

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Winter blues

Quick explanation on why there is not a normal episode *again* this week.

10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 50 - Too many WIPs

Links to things I mentioned:

• St. Nick's Day
• Syncopation Socks
• Traveling Cable Hat
• 2x2 Ribbed for His Pleasure
• Zigzagular Socks
• Project page for my Advent socks
• Hermione's Everyday Socks
• Rye socks
• PhD Yarns
• Lancaster Yarn Shop
• Sock yarn isn't just for socks KAL thread

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Question of the Week

KALs for next year - would you prefer open subject KALs or to continue with the technique-focused themes?

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 49 - Vacation brain

Links to things I mentioned:

• Syncopation Socks
• Traveling Cable Hat
• 2x2 Ribbed for His Pleasure
• Aquaphobia Socks
• PhD Yarns
• Looped Yarn Works
• Sock yarn isn't just for socks KAL thread
• Merzi - highly recommend if you are in DC
• Fibre Space
• The other half of the Air and Space Museum

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 48 - Giant socks!

Links to things I mentioned:

• Hermoine's Everyday Socks
• Rye Socks
• PhD Yarns
• Opal Advent Calendar
• Sock yarn isn't just for socks KAL thread
• Our dream Christmas tree, which I actually got on sale right after recording this episode

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Question of the Week

Do you knit holiday specific items?  If so, do you only use them for that particular holiday?

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 47 - Super secret projects

Links to things I mentioned:

• Magic Zauberball Stripe Socks
• Dovetail wrap (more or less the garter stitch triangle shawl I am making)
• My first super secret project
• Hermoine's Everyday Socks
• Broken Linen Stitch Socks
• PhD Yarns
• Shirsty Cat Designs
• Sock yarn isn't just for socks KAL thread

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Question of the Week

Are you doing any holiday knitting this year?  How on top of it are you?

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Super secret project - Wesley's hat

Nov. 7, 2016

So, this is the first of my holiday knitting.  This project is a hat for Wesley and it is actually a birthday present (his birthday is mid-December) and in reality I will probably give it to him as soon as it's finished.  Because I'm awful at keeping secrets.

And it's not like this project is being kept a complete secret from Wesley.  After all, we live together in a tiny apartment and he has seen this yarn before, but I'm doing my best to keep it out of his sight and he doesn't go poking around my project bags.

The nitty-gritty details:

• Yarn - "Vikings Win" by Holiday Yarns (this yarn was gifted to me and I cannot for the life of me remember who sent it, but thank you so very much)
• Needles - US size 1, 2.25 mm
• Pattern - Ribbed For His Pleasure

I'll make further updates to the project within this post so keep an eye out if you are curious.