10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 68 - Stranding

Links to things I mentioned:

• Simple Skyp Socks
• Speckled Space Socks + my project page with notes
• Driftwood 
• OctoMitts 
• Cornwall Spring Mittens
• Perianth + Dancing Leaf Farm
• Pink and intricate KAL chatter thread 
• CGP Grey links: most recent video (as of June 25), as well as his podcasts Cortex and Hello Internet and the blog post I mentioned 
• Irresistible 
• Other links: Veritasium on attention, Cal Newport on how you don't need social media to be successful, Time Dorks on making your smartphone distraction free (I've done this except for removing email, since having email available on my phone makes me less tethered to my desk at work) and the danger of "infinity pools"

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Question of the Week

What is something new you have tried lately?  How did it go?

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 67 - Swamp thing

Links to things I mentioned:

• Simple Skyp Socks
• Speckled Space Socks + my project page with notes
• Driftwood + seaming a seamless sweater
• KnitPicks interchangeable needles (these are the specific tips and cords I bought)
• Pink and intricate KAL chatter thread
• Trailer for the 2017 version of The Mummy

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Question of the Week

What is something (book, movie, yarn, pattern, etc) you have encountered recently that didn't quite live up to expectations?

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 65 - When it rains, it pours

Links to things I mentioned:

• Traveling Cable Hand Warmers + my project page with notes
• Broken Jack 
• Paulie
• Flax Light
• Simple Skyp Socks
• Speckled Space Socks + my project page with notes
• Greystone
• Pink and intricate KAL chatter thread
• Books I mentioned: Essentialism, Simple Matters (the author of this book also has a pretty good blog), Stumbling on Happiness, Rabid, Much Ado About (Practically) Nothing, The Violinist's Thumb, The Disappearing Spoon
• Yarn to Table Podcast

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Question of the Week

Show me your technique for weaving in ends!  Either in pictures, video, or paint a picture with words. :-)

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10,000 Stitches Podcast, Episode 64 - I've bought a lot of yarn lately

Thank you to everyone who let me well-wishes while I was sick!  They definitely helped to pull me out of my funk and I appreciate it.  :-)

Links to things I mentioned:

• Tailwind
• Flying North
• Broken Jack 
• Paulie
• Speckled Space Socks
• Greystone
• Pink and intricate KAL chatter thread
• Vlog #4 and vlog #5

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Question of the Week

What do you do to pick up your mood when you are sick?  For me, it's anything that makes me feel productive, even if that's just taking a shower.

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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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