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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 63 - Only 8 more months to Christmas!

April 25, 2017

Links to things I mentioned:

  • Blueberry Waffle Socks
  • Flying North
  • Paulie
  • Coffee Cantata
  • Speckled Space Socks
  • Garter or something yellow KAL chatter thread
  • The Dorito Effect
  • Grunt

Question of the Week

What are your summer knitting plans?


If you want to see more of my knitting, feel free to befriend me on Ravelry or Instagram.  

There's also a Ravelry group that can be found here, if you enjoy that sort of thing...

Tags blueberry waffle, flying north, paulie, kal8, kal9, 2017 goals
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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 62 - Mismatched shorties

April 11, 2017

Links to things I mentioned:

  • Blueberry Waffle Socks
  • Traveling Cable Hand Warmers + my project page with notes
  • Flax Light
  • Flying North
  • Paulie
  • Garter or something yellow KAL chatter thread
  • Powhatan Festival of Fiber + my vlog from last year
  • The dressing recipe I mentioned

Question of the Week

What is your preferred method for carrying unused yarn along your work while doing stripes?


If you want to see more of my knitting, feel free to befriend me on Ravelry or Instagram.  

There's also a Ravelry group that can be found here, if you enjoy that sort of thing...

Tags blueberry waffle, traveling cable, flax light, flying north, paulie, kal8, fiber festival
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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 53 - Snowpocalypse 2017

January 10, 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?


If you want to see more of my knitting, feel free to befriend me on Ravelry or Instagram.  

There's also a Ravelry group that can be found here, if you enjoy that sort of thing...

Tags blueberry waffle, show-off stranded, business casual, broken linen stitch, kal7, 2017 goals, stash
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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 52 - New year, new hair color

January 3, 2017

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.)


If you want to see more of my knitting, feel free to befriend me on Ravelry or Instagram.  

There's also a Ravelry group that can be found here, if you enjoy that sort of thing...

Tags piece of my heart, traveling cable, zigzagular, advent socks, hermoine's everyday, christmas, shawl, little cable knee highs, blueberry waffle, business casual, kal7, kal6, 2017 goals
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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 51 - Last one of 2016

December 20, 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

Question of the Week

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


If you want to see more of my knitting, feel free to befriend me on Ravelry or Instagram.  

There's also a Ravelry group that can be found here, if you enjoy that sort of thing...

Tags hat, shawl, traveling cable, zigzagular, advent socks, hermoine's everyday, scrappypotamus, little cable knee highs, blueberry waffle, kal6, 2016 goals, 2017 goals
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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 35 - A long one

August 16, 2016

Links to things I mentioned:

  • Blueberry waffle socks
  • Friends in Fiber yarn
  • Broken Jack
  • Videos for twin knit stitch and twin purl stitch, as well as how to do wrap and turn short rows
  • Euclid
  • Lancaster Yarn Shop
  • Looped Yarn Works
  • PhD Yarns
  • Stitched by JessaLu
  • Unusual construction KAL thread
  • Dying yarn with drink mix
  • The Pen Addict
  • Story Supply Co notebooks
  • The recipe I use for scotcharoos

The other video I mentioned:


Question of the Week

How do you feel about selfies?  Do you take them?  Do you get annoyed when other people take them?  I love selfies because I think they really capture the moment I am in without feeling stuffy or staged.


If you want to see more of my knitting, feel free to befriend me on Ravelry or Instagram.  

There's also a Ravelry group that can be found here, if you enjoy that sort of thing...

Tags blueberry waffle, broken jack, euclid, kal4, unusual construction
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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 34 - If it smells like fall...

August 2, 2016

Links to things I mentioned:

  • Stripe Tease
  • Peppermintoes
  • Blueberry waffle socks
  • My other Blueberry Waffle socks
  • Friends in Fiber yarn
  • Broken Jack
  • Unusual construction KAL thread
  • The recipes I used for puppy chow and scotcharoos

Question of the Week

When counting rows completed on your knitting, do you count the row of loops currently on the needle as a completed row?  Whichever way you do it, do you have a real reason or is it just because that's how you've always done it?  (I don't count it but I don't have a real reason why...)


If you want to see more of my knitting, feel free to befriend me on Ravelry or Instagram.  

There's also a Ravelry group that can be found here, if you enjoy that sort of thing...

Tags stripe tease, peppermintoes, blueberry waffle, broken jack, kal4, unusual construction
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Sometimes, I take pictures of things...

Just finished my first pair of “work socks” here in AL! These have lived in my desk drawer since the start of the year and I get a few rows done when I’m in meetings or debugging code. The stripes matching up after the gusset was 10
Spherical farm animals found in the wild!
New podcast is up! Wherein I only talk about ~one~ project and why I’m going to shift my focus to being a very monogamous knitter for a while. Curious? Links to everywhere you can find it are in my profile. :-)
The body is finished! I kitchenered all 221 stitches of ribbing to the bottom because apparently I hate myself *a lot* but I really like how clean the bottom edge looks.

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