Wherein we go to DC!
I'm sick... (no episode May 9)
Vlog #4 - April 30, 2017
Wherein I make curtains!
10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 63 - Only 8 more months to Christmas!
Question of the Week
What are your summer knitting plans?
10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 62 - Mismatched shorties
Question of the Week
What is your preferred method for carrying unused yarn along your work while doing stripes?
Vlog #3 - April 1, 2017
Vlog #2 - March 24, 2017
10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 61 - No time for knitting
Question of the Week
Do you celebrate Easter/Passover/any other spring holidays? If so, what do you do to celebrate them?
Vlog #1 - March 18, 2017
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.
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:
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?
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
Question of the Week
How do you store/use your yarn scraps? (And mini-skeins too, I suppose.)
10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode #57 - Murder mystery socks
Links to things I mentioned:
Question of the Week
How far ahead do you plan out your knitting? What tools do you use?
10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 56 - We have a cat hat!
- 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
Question of the Week
What is one good thing that happened to you this past week?
10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 55 - Just the FO's
Links to things I mentioned:
10,000 Stitched Podcast, Episode 54 - Mysteriously out of breath
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?
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)
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?
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
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.)