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I didn't write down the date.
What's today?
Today is Saturday, October
27th as of filming this and that's gonna
bring us to the first thing in Podcast
Stuff -- other than hi, it's been longer
than a month since I last podcast.
I'm
really sorry.
There was some health stuff going on and
it just wasn't gonna happen, so late
episode and bullet point number one for
Podcast Stuff does mean that it's going
to be even later than today's date which
is the 27th of October and that's
regarding transcripts and closed
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Podcast episodes are
going to be released slower from the
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or deaf or have audio processing things
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I'd - you know - just want
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So I
did discover that YouTube is providing
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than 45 minutes which was -- I don't know
when they started doing that but there
was a 45 minute limit last time I looked
which is probably a year ago, but they
are doing automatic captioning on longer
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I'm going to use that automated
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When I upload
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I - it is a lot
more work for me, unless these YouTube
closed captions are pretty good.
I've
heard they've gotten better.
but it's
it's just something that I want to do
for my podcast.
So that's item number one.
Item number two of the Podcast Stuff is
the 2018 Blanket Make-along that is still
ongoing.
If you go over to the groups
tab on Ravelry, there's a thread in the
Freakish Lemon Ravelry group for the
2018 Blanket Make-along and it's just
encouragement and posting updates about
blankets that we're working on -- any craft,
any state of progress.
Just you know
post if you need some encouragement, if
you need some opinions on what color to
do next in your blanket -- you know, feel
free to come join us over there.
So I
really should have grabbed some water.
I'm gonna go do that now.
Whenever I
see other podcasters do that or they say
I'll be right back,
it always makes me chuckle because I
know every time I do it, I catch myself
saying it and I have to remind myself
this is not live.
You can just edit that
out.
There's no reason for you to tell
them that you're gonna be back in a
minute while you go get some water.
That's - it's just - I don't know a thing
that happens I guess when you're talking
to a camera as if it's a person.
So
Podcast Stuff, done.
Next we're gonna move
on to finished objects.
I do have a lot
of them because of health stuff going on.
I - this is really two weeks' worth of
finished objects but I had a whole bunch
of things lined up to finish
for the end of September and then I've
just started getting back into things
past week/week and a half, so it seems
like a lot, ut it's been like two months
since my last podcast so I don't know.
Trying
to keep this episode reasonable in
length.
That never happens, but I'm trying.
So the first finished object is my
Sweater Blank sweater.
This is the
Sweater Blank pattern from Renee
Callahan who is East London Knits.
I know
this is kind of blowing out the black,
but otherwise you can't really see the
sweater if I just hold it straight up.
So
this was knit on my Brother kh836e and
with the KR 850 ribber.
The dial was set
to tension 8 for the stockinette
stitches
I think ended up using a 7 for the
rib stitches.
I didn't want it to pull in
too much, but you know enough.
I'm not a
fan of a real tight rib on the the cuffs
and the waistband of a sweater.
The black is Knit Picks Stroll Fingering.
That's an easy black to get a hold of
and this coppery color is from The
Grinning Gargoyle.
It's their Khaleesi
sock base, which is a merino, yak, and
nylon.
I don't know if you can read this.
Let me try to focus.
There we go.
I know it's crooked, but I'm not gonna
fit it in the frame otherwise.
It's in
the colorway Shiny Penny and this was
Rhinebeck sweater number one.
It's all
knit on the machine.
The shoulders and the
kind of sleeve seam
is done on the machine.
I just did a
rolled hem for the neck and then I hand
stitch the seams from - the long seam was
from cuff to waistband and I like how
this fits.
I did end up putting in some - I
think I talked this up about this on my
last episode - some short rows on the back.
Look at all that dog hair - short rows on
the back to kind of loop - loop?
Kind
of dip the waistband down because I have
found that these sweaters end up being
shorter in the back then how the pattern
is intended to fit.
So it's down by about
two inches and when I'm wearing it, it
looks like it's the same length all
around so I don't know what's up with my
body shape where that's happening, but um
Yeah, this was Rhinebeck sweater number
one.
I wore this on the first day of
Rhinebeck.
It was very comfortable.
Everybody liked it.
Huzzah.
And I really
do like wearing a fingering weight
sweater on a fall day.
That was nice.
So success!
And finished object number
two is what I'm wearing today.
This is
the #05 Open Front Cardigan by
Rosemary Drysdale.
It's from a Vogue
Knitting issue, I want to say fall 2015,
but I didn't write it down because I'm
good at that.
It is a pieced sweater.
I
knit it on my LK 150 - the Silver Reed LK
150 - using this yarn which is - this- you
know, this yarn.
I'm talking to the yarn
sitting here.
This yarn which is from
Briar Rose, is it fibers?
Yes, Briar Rose fibers and I can't recall
whether the skeins are called the fourth
of July or if the colorway is called the
fourth of July but they are a vendor at
Rhinebeck.
I bought this at Rhinebeck
last year.
They have some of those big
250 gram worsted weight skeins that are
enormous.
I bought four of them and I'm
gonna stand up real quick
and I can't even see how long this
cardigan is.
If the little tiny waistband
wasn't flipped up because it's four rows
of ribbing for the waistband, it would
cover my butt so it goes down mid thigh.
It's just a really simple cardigan with
some rib detailing in the front and I
have about 240 grams left of yarn.
I
could have easily done this in three
because I did this whole sweater, seamed
it, and also did about four swatches - and
I have nearly a full skein left.
I mean,
it would have been tight.
I would have
had to unravel a couple of those
swatches for a couple of cuffs or
whatever, but what?
One thing about this
sweater pattern, the sweater pattern has
ribbing kind of like in the middle to do
waist shaping, but I just omitted that
detail.
I found this pattern through the
Mid Gauge Machine Knitters group on
Ravelry.
I was just browsing through the
projects that were linked in the group
and a bunch of people had done this
sweater and said it was really easy to
do on the machine, which it was.
I did
head I did hit one snag, which was that I
was so excited to get this done that I
neglected to read the instructions
properly and there's a portion of this
ribbing from the front - because this is
all one piece
for the front- where you're supposed to
knit three inches more so that it
connects in the back as a kind of a
shawl collar, but I neglected to read
that part.
So I - what I ended up doing
which you can see more from the inside
is I just knit a six-inch piece in the
ribbing pattern and just seamed it in
there.
So you can see there's a seam
there.
It's not even so it doesn't show
up in the same place from the front, but
you would never know it because of where
it's placed - oh, my pillow fell down -
but you would never notice it because of
where it's placed.
That's not a spot your
eye is drawn to.
I didn't match up the
ribs correctly.
Nobody noticed and I wore
this kind of under my coat Sunday at
Rhinebeck.
I had finished seaming and
weaving in the ends kind of late
Saturday night/ early Sunday morning with
my housemates kind of cheering me on to
get it finished.
I have noticed- this
hasn't been washed or anything yet.
I
just put it on and haven't really taken
it off, but I have noticed that there is
some pretty substantial pilling at the
cuffs already.
Probably just from in and
out of the coat walking around around
Rhinebeck and buying things, but that's
something to be aware of if you are
buying this yarn.
I mean, it's not that
big of a deal.
Wool is gonna pill unless it's a really
long staple length and I don't remember
what the content of this yarn was, but
it's probably a merino blend of some
kind.
But yeah, I am really pleased with
this sweater.
I really love how it fits.
I
don't know if anything will - I - because I
haven't washed it so I'm unsure at this
point if anything will sort of stretch
out in blocking just because of how the
yarn behaves and
because I haven't referenced what my
swatches did, but I do really enjoy this
sweater.
And I didn't think I would like
a cardigan as much as I do.
I'm gonna have to make more of these.
I
don't know -bfor some reason I
thought I wouldn't wear a cardigan, but
really I've been wearing it every day
since I finished it.
Who knew?
Some more
finished objects.
I did finish my band.
My
tablet weaving band.
Let me get it up there
and then focus it.
That's what the
majority of the band looks like.
I mean,
there's obviously some places where I
just started going off the wall.
This is
a cotton- did I write down?
Yes.
Nazli
Gelin Garden 3 in black, red, yellow, and
white.
The chart was from a partial - it's
from a piece of a section of a chart in
the Candace Crockett Card Weaving book.
I
did this on a tablet weaving loom from
ChuckJones on Etsy and I wouldn't say
this yarn was the best yarn for tablet
weaving.
It did kind of pill a little bit
as you were moving the cards around and
as you were beating back the weft.
I mean,
it's not bad, but it was pilling a bit so
it was- periodically had to pluck the
cotton pills out.
I didn't measure how
long this is, but it's long enough to tie
around my waist kind of at this point.
So
more than a yard and then I just braided
the ends just because I don't know what
this band is going to be used for at
this point, but I'm very happy with how
it turned out and it's definitely
something that I want to do again.
I've
got some projects kind of half formed in
mind, but definitely worth learning for
me.
I really enjoyed it.
Next finish object is my Half Square
Triangle Quiltalong quilt.
I- the Half
Square Triangle Quiltalong was quiltalong
that we did here.
There was a few
of us I think, four or five of us?
working on half square triangle quilts
for the Quiltalong which ran from March to
the end of September.
I finished this
probably the 28th of September.
Like, I
was cutting it real close.
Yeah, last you saw it I had done some of
the quilting.
I do remember talking about
the quilting.
I don't remember if I
completed all of the quilting, but I kind
of alternated patterns in the main half
square triangle shapes and I did these kind
of infinity loop things and I did these
squiggles and I did a flanged binding
because I really like how that looks and
I did finish it off.
I- I had one section
at the back of this quilt where the
tension wasn't right on my machine so it
pulled the top color, I think it was red,
through to the bottom.
By the time I
realized, I wasn't going to redo it, so I
made a patch and quilters always tell
you that you should do something like this to
kind of sign your quilt.
It's my initials
than half square triangle quiltalong
2018 and just sewed that on there.
So
this is done.
It's about a twin size
quilt.
um, I can cover most of the top of
my full-sized bed, so that's about a twin
size which is kind of the size of quilts
that I go for to make because they're
manageable and it's done and it's lovely
and it's been kind of my huddle on the
couch, huddle on the chaise, huddle in my
dad's recliner blanket while I've been
unwell, so I was really glad to have
finished this one I did.
Because we
hadn't yet dug out all the blankets when
I started when this health stuff started -
sorry, I'm ducking out a frame.
I knocked
something over.
So, really this quilt
been getting a lot of use
and a lot of dog hair because dog
snuggles.
And then I have some sewing
things cuz when I was starting to feel
unwell, I was not really up for knitting
on the machine or weaving and I wasn't
up for standing for knitting but I did
get some sewing in.
I did some quick
sewing projects.
I did - found this
tutorial from Sew So easy for an easy
serger scrap catcher.
I don't have a
serger, but I do I did want something to
throw thread scraps in just next to my
machine so I didn't drop them all over
the floor so that they could become
embedded in the carpet and never come
out again.
So that was a free tutorial
that I found on Craftsy.
It was not my
favorite tutorial.
It kind of gave up
instructing you at the very end, but I
muddled through it and I made this scrap
catcher.
It's white on the inside.
Their
the example had it quilted, but I just
took two pieces of cotton fabric and
interfaced both sides of everything so
everything is interfaced all over the
place.
Some things are not neat like the
corners and things because I didn't
really understand the last couple of
steps what they wanted me to do, so I
just kind of said, screw it!
I'm nearly
done.
I'll just - this looks fine, which I
mean it does.
You'd never noticed if
you didn't use it constantly which I do
so whatever.
It's just to catch thread
scraps ins so that was a quick project
that I was able to knock out and then I
also made
4 reusable Swiffer duster cloths
This is from a tutorial - a really like
easy-peasy small tutorial - these are the
two pattern pieces.
They're two
rectangles from Sew Much Ado and I just
used some really heavily discounted
flannel from Jo-ann Fabrics whatever's in
the clearance section- went to the
70% off clearance section
and I made - here's just three of them
hanging around - oops, well okay.
I don't
know how that came off.
Whatever and then
here's one on the thing I haven't really
used them yet.
They've just kind of been
through the wash.
Oh, this is probably a
different scrap because you kind of have
to trim them lengthwise before you cut
them into the little thingies, um yeah
they could probably do with another wash
because I know they've been sitting
around gathering dust just sitting there
instead of being used to dust things so,
but I'm excited because I do like
swiffers but I'm not too keen on the
disposable-ness of the Swiffer so we'll
see how these go.
And then one more quick sewing project
that I did is - I used the 5 out of
4patterns pajama pants to make
myself a pair of pajama pants.
This is also
a free pattern that I found on Craftsu,
but I took that Rebels cotton fabric
that I bought the remaining three and
some change yards off of a bolt and I
made myself some pajama pants.
I do need
to put like a tag or something in to
mark the back because I always guess
wrong the first time.
The front pieces
are a little bit narrower than the back
pieces because of the way the human body
is shaped and here's the front not that
it matters because all you can see is
bright Star Wars fabric.
There are
pockets on both sides and it does fit me.
I may have to redo the elastic - um, just
rip out some seam and make it shorter
because it is a little bit loose, but I
figure I'll wear them a bunch and see how
it goes.
Yeah, this is a fabric from the
Star Wars Rebels TV show, which is a show
that I really enjoyed, even though it was
bonkers, but I enjoy both Star Wars and
weird things at the same time.
Um, I'm
very happy about this.
Now I have an
excuse for, you know, if I find something
great in the clearance and there's three
yards of it, it can always become pajamas.
That's dangerous thinking and then
there's one more quick finished object.
I
finished some hand-spun.
This is some
unlabeled, unknown pumpkiny
wool that I had in my stash.
I was drop
spindling it on the
Turtle Made Turkish spindle.
I plied it
on my Black Foot spindle and on another
drop spindle that I have that's bigger
than the ones I usually do the singles
on.
The color's starting to grow on me
a little bit, but I still might over dye
it with some orange just to kick it up.
It's a little - it's not as bright as it
looks on screen here.
It's a little more
muted, more of a kind of creamsicle
orange as opposed to a proper pumpkin
orange, but it's spun so that's better
than nothing.
Um, I'm gonna put it in my
pile to consider whether or not to over
dye it and that's it for my finished
objects.
That's more finished objects
than you've seen from me probably in the
whole year.
That's a lot of things to do
all at once, but again like I said, a
whole bunch of stuff was lined up to be
done by the end of September, so that's
just how it worked out.
So now we're
gonna talk about some works in progress.
Grab the first one - first one I'm gonna
show you is the progress on my granny
stripe marled scrap blanket.
Okay, the
hook is falling into the bottom, so
where's my - I may have changed the
progress keeper from last time you saw it.
So from that little egg on toast, I've
added this many.
You can actually pretty
well see I ended the Legacy Fiber Artz
advent mini skeins from their first year
advent calendar and moved on to a
different magic ball with
other scraps and minis and that ball
currently looks like this.
So I've got a
lot of this kind of gray to go before
the next colors and it's a mystery to me
what's in this.
I don't remember.
I
remember winding it but I don't remember
what I wound into it, so that'll be fun.
Yeah so it's just mini skeins marled
with black Knit Picks Stroll Fingering
because that's easy and cheap to get
ahold of and I'm using the pattern by
Lucy of Attic24 for the granny stripe
blanket and I'm using a size G four
point two five millimeter hook to do
that with.
Then I have two knitting
projects to show you because I've been
hand knitting.
Gasp!
Which is exciting.
It's exciting that I'm hand knitting, so
let me get this notebook out of the way.
You may have seen this on my Instagram
if you follow me there, but this is my
Marled Magic Shawl by Stephen West and
it always takes me ten years to get it
situated because it is a tangle of yarn
and placeholder cords right now.
So this
side was all finished before, this was
all finished before, this was all
finished before, that little um progress
this little plate of Halloween cookies
right there was where I was last time
you saw it.
So I am nearly done
with the final section.
I had originally
planned to do the larger size with the
additional wedges but because I'm
knitting this at a loose gauge with
hand-spun that is thicker than fingering
weight yarn, it ended that it's ending up
being pretty giant so I'm just gonna
finish this section and then do the
icord border
and probably block it out a little
bigger.
I'm gonna knock everything over.
-block it out a little bigger and sleep
under it at the movie theater.
I can see
this getting a lot of use at the movie
theater cuz our movie theater doesn't
have the greatest heat retention in
some of the theaters, so I love to bring
along a big show like this and just kind
of wear it like a blanket while I'm
watching the movie.
So this is nearly
done which is very exciting, especially
because that's a whole heck of a lot of
hand-spun that's no longer in the stash
including some of my oldest hand-spun.
I've been spinning for 10 years now?
Over
10 years?
I don't think over 10 years.
Probably
about 10 years.
Close to it anyway.
Close
enough that it doesn't matter.
Old handspun
that's just been sitting around all
lumpy and weird.
Nope, forgot to put the notebook back in.
and then I did go to the western Connecticut Yarn
Crawl at the end of September.
It was a
little shakey, but I did make it and I
did go to Rhinebeck, which was less shaky
and more painful, but that means that I
have unpacked from no man's land the Jyn
Erso socks that I was working on when I
hurt my hands last year.
This spoon
progress keeper -
It was top down, so this spoon progress
keeper is where I was the last time I
showed you these socks.
So I've done the first sock and I'm
gonna put in an afterthought heel and I
already had the cuff done for the second
sock I just did a row or two to get it
on the needles because I do the ribbing
cuffs on dpns and then I just hold them
on dpns until I'm ready to knit that
sock.
So then I do the circulars cuz that's
easier for mindless stockinette in my
brain.
So we have one sock almost done -
starting on the second sock and
surprisingly it doesn't look like my
gauge has changed that much
like there's no noticeable like really
weird thing.
I think it's a little looser
in the newer stuff, but that's pretty
good.
I'm impressed with that.
Good job me.
This has probably been close to a year
since I've worked on these socks.
Uh that's it for knitting.
I did start
some spinning for the pumpkin mal which
is hosted by Gabby from the Once Upon a
Corgi podcast and my sister and Johanna
from the Stitching the High Notes podcast.
I
had these batts from a farm stand booth
at the Coventry farmers market last year
called pumpkin patch.
So I've spun the singles up.
I need to
ply this.
I don't know when that's gonna
happen cuz it hurts to spin right now,
but if I have to drop spindle ply it for
the mal, I will.
I hope that's not the
case.
So yeah.
Just - it's not very even but
I'm not always aiming for even in my
handspun.
I spun these on my Hitchhiker
wheel and if I ply them on the wheel
it'll be on the Ashford Kiwi.
Then I
also started some new drops spindling
because I finished the other pumpkin
yarn and I found some kind of test
battling things.
This is leftover from
the giant ball of fiber that I bought to
spin for a really big shawl that ended up
becoming a sweater that I had the rip
out and is pending it's new sweater
pattern.
Um but I had played with it on
the drum carder and added some sparkle
and I had these battlings, so I figured
might as well spin them up.
So I've got
these storage bobbins in here just to
figure out you know kind of the two-ply
situation as I spin them and I'm
spinning it on this top whorl drop
spindle from Turtle Made which I'm
really liking.
There's no hook but
there's like a series of notches carved
into the top here that feeds it through
the center of the shaft there and that's
super cool and it's Halloween colors
with a spiderweb whorl
because I love Halloween.
So this is my
new travel spinning slash I need to walk
around spinning in this Halloweeny bag.
I
don't remember who it's by.
Do I have a
card?
Zigzag Stitches.
mm-hmm.
Left the
card in this bag because this is the
one that people will ask me about.
So new
spinning project there and then I have a
new sewing project
kind of in the works.
Ritual Dyes has
this knitters backpack tote.
If you watch
Gabby from Once Upon a corgi's podcast,
she bought the limited-edition seasonal
kind of cranberry burgundy colored one
at Rhinebeck.
So she was walking around with it and
our friend Lauren had one that she was
also walking around with and we were
talking about you know how great a bag
it was and and everything and it looks
really simple to make.
So I asked Gabby
to lend it to me for a few minutes so I
could take some measurements and there's
a couple of modifications that I want to
do.
I want to make the straps thicker and
I want to add in like a pocket for you
know like a wallet or change or
something just near the top so you don't
have to go digging
so I've drafted out my pattern pieces
this is the piece for the bottom.
I'll
put a photo up of what the actual bag
looks like somewhere on the screen, but
this is a this is my approximation of
the bottom and then my kind of sides.
It
doesn't have a top that closes.
It's
actually really- it's a really cool
design.
I just wanted the challenge of
doing it myself and also making some
modifications.
I'm just making the one
for me or maybe two for me if this one
goes really terribly and if you, you know,
if you see one and you love it
absolutely spend the money on it.
I just
want to play with that kind of bag
construction and so what I'll do with-
this is on Swedish tracing paper which
is almost like a fabric.
It's kind of
like interfacing- between an interfacing
and a fabric.
So this is my first
pieces.
I'm going to cut this out in some
cotton then I have that I don't have any
plans for and just kind of get the idea
of the construction right, see if my
numbers worked out for the pattern
pieces, see if there's any tweaks I need
to make for the changes that I want to
do, but I've already been to Joann's to
look at duck canvas and I'm just like
mm-hmm
ideas, which is dangerous, but that's the
sewing project that's kind of ongoing
and kind of what I'm focusing on right
now.
Although I do need to make some
long-sleeve shirts out of knit fabric.
I
don't know which one I'll do first.
Probably this cuz I'm excited about this
right now, but I'm gonna play with that
um and kind of make a knockoff - a knockoff
version of that bag cuz you if you've
ever seen one in person and you've ever
made bags before it's I mean it's really
lovely in its simplicity but if you've
made bags before you can look at it and
go yeah I know how to make one of those.
So
just something that I'm playing around
with.
And then I have a swatches segment
and this will be the last segment before
I talk about Rhinebeck stuff and Other
Stuff so if if you don't want to hear
that stuff you can duck out now after the
swatches or if you're not interested in
this swatches duck out now.
So these
swatches came about because as I was
shakily stumbling my way through the new -
no, not New England fiber fest, that
hasn't happened yet - in the western
Connecticut Yarn Crawl, I didn't really
have too many ideas for what to buy on
that crawl, but I figured one of the
things I could do is look for fibers
that I wouldn't usually knit with and
see how they weave and how they knit on the
machine, so things like linen and cotton
and plant fibers which I don't really
like knitting or crocheting by hand.
I
wanted to see what they would be like
for weaving or for machine knitting so
with a cone of white cotton yarn which
I bought from WEBS.
It's the eight-two
valley fibers corp cotton I worked a
sample on my 10 inch cricket loom and
started playing around with swatches.
So
each type of fiber got a knit swatch on
the machine and a woven swatch on the
cricket loom and I washed all of these
swatches twice in the washing
machine with my clothes and dried them
to get a better idea of what they would
feel like after finishing.
So the first
one is just that Valley Fiber Corp cotton
on a cone eight-two.
So here's my woven sample
and it softened up a lot.
It is not
pleasant to play around with straight
from the cone.
There must still be some
spinning oil or something on it
to make it easier to go through machines
because the way it feels washed up is very
different to how it feels just straight
off the cone.
So all these swatches
weren knit at a gauge dial 8 on my brother
kh836e just because that's what it
was set to for my sweater and it knit up
really well too.
Smooth through the
machine.
Wove really easily.
Softened up
nicely.
Definitely worth using
for garments.
This is next to skin soft
so you could absolutely use this for
garments and then I did a sample with
Knit Picks Comfy Fingering, which is a
cotton yarn that I had already purchased
to weave with, but I was curious.
So again,
I knit a swatch and it's a 40 by 40
swatch, I believe, so there's my little
swatch.
It's thicker than the coned yarn,
but it they didn't this is really soft.
It's softer than the coned yarn and then
again I kept the same coned yarn warp
and with it.
Again softened up really
nicely definitely, next to skin soft.
I
really like this for a garment and then
I have this little weaving swatch.
I
didn't knit with this, but I have- well
Gabby from Once Upon a Corgi and who is
also my sister got from somebody I think
in her a SCA group who had bought a cone
or had bought several cones or scavenged
several cones from a closing mill and I
think it's wool.
I'm not too sure.
It
didn't felt when I washed it, but I think
it's - I'm not sure what it is, but it's
really super thin um and she wasn't
gonna do anything with it and I said
give it to me.
I'll play with it see if I
can use it for weaving and down here at
the bottom it's just one strand of the
yarn from the cone.
Here it's two strands
and then up at the top here where I like
it the best its three strands, so it's a
significantly large cone.
I don't know
whether it would be best to just wind
singles onto bobbins and then ply them
or what, but I do like how it turned out
with the
three strands together.
I didn't finish
the swatch at all which is why it's
coming at the top, and then it didn't
felt when I washed it in the washing
machine.
So that's interesting to know.
Useful little swatch and then I was
curious to see how weaving with wool
with a cotton warp would react if I
threw it in the wash.
So I took some
leftover non superwash wool and wove it
and then it felted down probably an inch.
All
the - all the cotton swatches shrunk a
little bit in the wash, but yeah like
nearly an inch it felted down, which is
really interesting, and is a nice kind of
controlled felting.
It didn't warp at all
which has happened to me when I felted
things in the past things.
Things will warp
weirdly and depending on your tension
and things, so that's really interesting.
Also handy to know and then the other
things that I tested for swatches are
all things that I got on the yarn crawl
at various yarn stores.
So the next thing
I tried was, I think it's Plymouth Nettle
Grove fiber which is 45 percent cotton
28 percent linen and 12 percent nettle
fiber.
So here is the knitted swatch,
which did soften up a lot, and here is
the woven swatch.
This is a lot more
sturdy than the Knit Picks or the other
cotton, but it is still nice to skin soft
for me, so that's really good to know.
I
only only bought the one ball of it to
play with.
I might combine all these
scrappy things later into something, but
I don't know.
And then the next one is
Queensland Collection United.
It's a New
Zealand?
New Zealand wool or company?
Oh
man, I should have looked this up.
It's
either New Zealand or Australia and I'm
really sorry that I don't know which one
it's from, um, but they have one that's
55% lamb's wool and 45% cotton.
They do
advertise on it that it won't shrink in
the wash.
It's a lie.
While this didn't felt up like the non
superwash wool, it did felt a bit.
I don't
think I can demonstrate to you exactly
what the the difference - like it's not
fully felted but it's definitely more
felted than it was before I washed it.
I
mean it's nice.
I do like it, but if you
knit something with this and expect it
not to felt, it felted for me a little
bit.
So it's interesting.
and then I use this skein of Hempathy-
or not a skein, a piece of a skein of
Hempathy ,which is a cotton hemp modal
blend.
I don't have the percentages in
front of me for that one, but this one
this one's thicker than the other ones
and it didn't soften up as much in the
wash.
It's still pretty rough and my
knitting machine did not like it at all.
It was not happy.
It was making grinding sounds as I was
finishing this so not knitting - I mean it
could be the tension - but not knitting
anything on the knitting machine in this
yarn.
I do like the fabric that it makes
woven, but this is much more of like a
dish towel, maybe a fancy napkin, type
fabric than shirt or something that I'd
wear.
And then these next two yarns - they're
Classic Elite Yarns.
I got them out
of clearance at one of the yarn stores
and from my understanding Classic
Elite Yarns is no longer making yarns so
I can't buy any more of these particular
yarns unless somebody has them, but I
figured it would be good to get a test
for the type of blends that they are.
So
this one is Classic Elite Yarns Bella Lino
which is 58% linen 26% viscose and 16%
cotton.
Again this did soften up in the
wash, but it's not as soft as the Knit
Picks.
Woven up, especially with this kind
of cotton warp, I could definitely see
making a garment out of this woven
fabric, but I'm not sure how comfortable
it would be in the knit fabric.
It didn't
soften up as much in the knit fabric as
it did in the woven fabric.
I don't know
if that has to do with the way the
fibers play with surface area because
you can reach a lot more of the fibers
in a woven fabric than in a knit fabric
because they loop, loop all over each
other.
And then this one is Classic Elite
Yarns Firefly which is 75% viscose 25%
cotton and this one did soften up a lot.
You can see this this swatch I didn't
iron.
You can tell it's plant fibers
because it wrinkles, but it did soften up
a lot.
This particular yarn, though, there
are some kind of shlubby bits where - not
like actual schlubs, but like you know
you get veg matter in your wool and you
just have to like pick a piece of grass
out?
There was a little bit of that
happening with this yarn
which is surprising because it's viscose
and cotton.
Yeah, see I'm pulling out
this chunk of grass... so I don't know what
that's about, but it's good to know that
this particular blend does soften up a
lot and how it feels in some swatches.
So
that brings us to a little bit of a
Rhinebeck recap.
I'm sure everybody's
kind of sick of hearing about Rhinebeck
both on this video comes out
but yeah me and mom- Mama Gergs and my
sister Gabby from Once Upon a Corgi went
up to Rhinebeck.
Gabby went up to
Thursday to help Nicole from Hue Loco
set up her booth because she was going
to be assisting in vending.
She was
providing all the vending materials for
Nicole like she did last year at Indie
Untangled and she ended up staying with
a friend Thursday night.
We and a few
other people rented a house in Rhinebeck,
which started out being kind of worrying
because there was one key for seven of
us and half the light bulbs didn't
work.
yeah it was kind of half of a
disaster
while Mom and I were there because we
have terrible memories and we had been
told that we had met everybody who was
staying in the house, but we couldn't
remember who everybody was necessarily.
It was a little bit of a mess, but as
soon as Melissa and Jamie got there,
it was, you know, we just clicked and
everything worked out and we all kind of
kept to the same schedules a bit after
Friday because Friday was kind of a
madhouse cuz you know a couple folks
were over at Indie Untangled, a couple of
us were over at Needles Up.
It was just
kind of that first day, but then Saturday
and Sunday we kind of had the same
schedule so it didn't really matter.
So
yeah we checked into the house.
Me and
Mom checked out the Knitting Garage,
which is a local yarn store there
in Rhinebeck.
It was very crowded on that
Friday in the Knitting Garage, so we
didn't actually see very much in there,
but it was a pretty cool little yarn
store kind of in the back of a general
store.
It was really neat.
Um checked into
the house, grabbed Chipotle for food, and
we went to Needles Up for the last hour.
We didn't stay till the end, but you know
we got there probably an hour and a half
before they were set to close and we
went in and we talked to people and
that's where I made the most substantial
purchase because Classy Squid Fiber
Company was there and I found out while
we were talking to her that she wasn't
going to be vending at New England Fiber
festival, which is usually where I buy a
bunch of stuff from her.
So I bought a
bunch of stuff from her.
I bought two
batts.
She had two versions of Quoth.
Version 1 which has Corriedale, Romney cross
mulberry silk, firestar, carbonized
bamboo, and sari silk, 2 ounce batt and Quoth
version 2, which is just the Romney Cross,
the carbonized bamboo, and Firestar.
I thought that would be fun to have both
of them so I got both for them and then
I also got one of these guys, which is
new this is a Cuttlefish.
This is number
33 and the contents listed are
everything under the sea - er
everything under the sun and sea but
these are new so I wanted to grab
one of these to play with.
So I bought
that from Amanda and we caught up with
Chelsea and Sue a little bit and had a
look at the other vendors.
I don't
remember if Mom bought anything, but I
didn't buy anything else.
I just grabbed
the fiber.
And then Rhinebeck day one on
Saturday.
Most of us in the house were
not in any rush really to get to
Rhinebeck because we know how crazy it
is on Saturday.
I think Jamie was a
little bit impatient because it was
Jamie's first Rhinebeck, but she had a
great time so it didn't matter in the
end, but um yeah.
We just kind of
meandered on in maybe an hour- hour and a
half before- so doing the time in my head.
Probably like 11 ish by the time we got
in, um so we walked around a bit.
If you
saw me at Rhinebeck you know I was
walking very slow.
I was dealing with
some fun back pain, so that was great.
But I hobbled around a bit with Mom.
Mom stuck with me while everybody ran off to
do their thing.
I mean, we met up with the
multiple times during the day, but it was
mostly me and Mom.
Especially Saturday because Saturday is
crazytown and so crowded.
It wasn't as
crowded this year as it was last year,
but the crowd was kind of dispersed in
places where the crowd normally isn't.
The barns were extremely crowded that
Saturday, which is usually not typical.
Usually it's the main buildings that are
that level of packed.
I don't know.
Maybe
enough people have become quite familiar
with the main buildings and started
going over to the barns.
I don't know, but
I did go to the podcaster meet up and
did say hello to a bunch of people.
The
podcaster meet up kind of makes me
chuckle.
I think two years ago it was
kind of an absurdly large crowd and
that's around the time when YouTube
podcasts were kind of exploding.
Last
year it was a little more contained but
still really crowded and this year it
felt like probably 90% of the people at
the podcaster meetup were podcasters
just catching up with other podcasters
that they know.
Maybe that's just me but
that's the vibe that I got this year,
which was really funny to me, but it was
great to catch up with a bunch of people
and kind of you know tangentially meet
some other people while they get looped
into a conversation that you're having.
It's a - it's a great thing to do
and if you ever do want to meet your
favorite podcasters at Rhinebeck
definitely do it.
That's the place to do
it.
I mean,
you're really not interrupting anything
if you're coming to the meetup and you
say, "Oh hey, hi, I watch your podcast."
You
know, "can I get a picture with you?"
Most podcasters are totally cool with
that especially at the podcaster meet up
so that was fun.
And then I didn't really
do too much shopping on Saturday because
it's crazy town on Saturday.
We kind of
reserve the shopping for Sunday when
it's calmer and you can move, but I did
end up making one purchase from I think
it's Cleme's and Cleme's.
That's the card.
I
bought an orifice hook with a walnut
base.
This is, if you don't know, this is a
hook that you use on a spinning wheel to
kind of pull your leader yarn or your
single if you broke it through the
orifice of your spinning wheel.
I'm also
hoping that this is small enough where I
can bend it enough that I can use this
to thread my rigid heddles for the
loom
because I didn't think to grab them, but
the ones that come with the cricket loom
and the Ashford loom- well first of all,
the Ashford loom one is really cheap
plastic and seems like it's an extra
piece that shouldn't be there, but the
one for my Cricket loom, it is metal with
a plastic handle, but the the hook
doesn't have enough depth to it to
actually grab the yarn.
So I usually just
kind of into poking the yarn through.
It's a thing, so I'm hoping I can use
this.
If not, I'll have to figure out another
solution at some point, but I'm very
happy with this purchase and then on
Sunday,
you know, we checked out of the house.
We
went up to Rhinebeck.
It was noticeably
quieter, um.
Gabby's fiance Jake came up and he was
surprised at how busy it was, which made
us all laugh at him.
We did some more
shopping on that day.
Mom did more
shopping than I did, but I got to help
her pick out cheese from one of the
vendors who was selling cheese which was
real- could have I mean- I could have just
done that and it would have made my day.
But I did buy a couple of things.
I
bought from the Cats View Farm.
They were
selling kind of soap and body products
like that, but they had this package for
soap "cookies" so it's just like- like the
ends when they're cleaning up, you know,
the soap and a whole bunch of different
scents.
So you can try a whole bunch of
their soaps all at once and it was
really affordable.
I don't remember how
much it was, but I was surprised at how
affordable it was because this is like
four bricks of soap in here, so that's
really cool.
Not really yarny things, but pretty
cool.
I do like buying that kind of stuff
from farm stands and then I did buy two
skeins of yarn from Dragonfly Fibers.
I
have a skein of yarn from Dragonfly
Fibers in the colorway Hidalgo that
I've been off and on trying to match
with other things, so I thought I'd see
if they had it.
They didn't, but they did
have this colorway that I really liked
the look of and it's this one.
This is on
the Djinni base, which is 80% superwash
merino, 10% cashmere, and 10% nylon, and
the colorway is called Spooky, which I
really like.
So I don't know what I'm gonna do with
this yet, but I'm kind of hoping to do
like a color work sweater with this is
the contrast.
I don't know what the rest
of the sweater would look like, but I do
really like this yarn.
And that's all the
purchases I made it Rhinebeck.
Once Mom
and I were kind of done, we headed back
home, which is a fantastic drive.
If
you've never watched my Rhinebeck recaps
before, where we live in Connecticut it's
about an hour and a half away from
Rhinebeck, New York, and it's all back
roads.
There's no highway and there's
nobody out there.
There's - the most
traffic you'll run into is literally ten
miles away from the house.
Even once you're
away from the fairgrounds in Rhinebeck,
it's empty, so it's a really peaceful
drive and the drive home is always
quicker than the drive there because the
anti- you know, you're tired and the
anticipation is kind of exhausted out of
you.
So you know, we just got home, we
showed the dog all of the things we've
bought, both for us and for her because
there's a stall that does dog treats.
I
can't remember their name off the top of
my head, but there some of Penny's
favorite treats and Mom bought two bags
of treats to spoil her with.
It was also Penny's fourth birthday last
week, and that was Rhinebeck.
It was a
really good time and I'm so glad I went
Even though I kind of felt terrible at
the start of it, I did feel better by the
end, so that was good, but it was exactly
what I needed after feeling so unwell
for three and a half weeks so... and if you
did come into contact with me at
Rhinebeck
none of the unwell stuff was contagious
stuff, so don't worry about it.
It was all
just, you know, the human body is a
terrible thing and kind of a mess and
wired by a monkey who snorted crack type
issues, so don't be worried that I got
you sick.
You're not incubating anything
that I gave you.
And then I wanted to go
through some Other Stuff real quick.
I
have a pretty big list of things for
Stuff I'm Watching because I was not
great and watching a lot of Netflix, so I
did end up catching up on some things
that I really wanted to catch up on.
I
finally saw Kubo and the Two Strings,
which was really good.
I finally saw Coco,
which was really good.
I finally saw the
second season of the Series of
Unfortunate Events show on Netflix, which
was really good and I loved the
cliffhanger ending.
It cracked me up.
I
also watched the Great Interior Design
Challenge, which is a British interior
design TV show, which was actually pretty
cool to watch.
And
I did watch Comedians in Cars Getting
Coffee, which was a recommendation from
somebody on - from a couple of people
actually, on Instagram I put out a
questionnaire just like - what do you
watch on Netflix when you feel sick?
I
don't want to figure it out.
Somebody
recommended me things.
So that was
interesting.
I don't think I finished
this show yet, but I did watch more of
The Worst Witch,
which is a British TV show about a
school for witches kind of riffing on
Harry Potter, but also kind of winking
and nod at their own kind of middle
school-aged school system.
It's really
funny and I really enjoy it and I love
the actress who plays the kind of Snape
analog character, Mrs. Hardbroom.
I
love that show.
It's great.
um...
I also
watched a show which came out two or
three weeks ago for the kind of
Halloweenie season on Netflix,
The Curious Creations of Christine
McConnell, which is like- it's like a
Halloween Jim Henson Martha Stewart show.
She does these really elaborate like
cakes and cookies and things, and there's
puppets, and she's so deadpan and kind of
vacant, but it makes me laugh.
Especially when like the puppets are a
mummified cat and a kind of Frankenstein
raccoon creation with like a fork for a
hand and like a big hairy monster.
It's
kind of hilarious.
And it's one of those shows where you
look at it you're like, I'm never gonna
make a single thing on this show,
but I admire the artistry of it.
So that,
that was interesting and I- I think at
this point I have watched every single
David Attenborough nature special on
Netflix because I found them really
soothing just sleep to while I was
unwell.
So if it's on there probably
watched/slept to it.
And then I
wanted to talk about a few things that I
am listening to.
I finished listening to
the audiobook The Six Women of Salem: The
Untold Story of the Accused and Their
Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials by
Marilynne K. Roach narrated by Kate
Reading.
I talked about it before where
the narration wasn't quite as dynamic as
I had hoped, but I did really enjoy
listening to the book.
I also listened to,
probably over the course of a couple of
days, Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
narrated by Neil Gaiman and it's, you
know, a retelling of Norse myths in the
style of Neil Gaiman, which you know we
all dig because American Gods is great.
So I really enjoyed that and then I've
listened through a few podcasts since
last episode, one of which is Under
Pressure.
This is a fictional audio log
of Dr. Jamie MacMillan-Barrie while aboard
a deep-sea research facility, mostly
related to the interpersonal
relationships with the crew and personal
musings.
She's there to do like a study
for -
I don't remember exactly what it was.
She
explains it in the first episode and
then it kind of doesn't really come up
all that much.
It kind of becomes a
interpersonal relationships and/or
crisis management podcast, but she's some
kind of a psychology sociology type
doctor down there just kind of studying
people because she needed to get away
from the surface and all the stressors
there.
So, I really enjoyed it and I think
it's complete, so you can just listen
through it one and done.
Then I started listening to the Ghoul
Gang.
I wrote down this is like my
favorite - My Favorite Murder but for
ghost stories.
So it's similar to the
style of My Favorite Murder where
there's two hosts and both women will
pick a story.
They usually have a theme for their
episodes.
They pick a story for that
theme and they retell you a scary story
and they crack me up.
They make me laugh, so I really enjoy
that podcast, so if you like ghost
stories and you also like the podcast My
Favorite Murder, check this one out.
But I'm gonna end Other Stuff there.
Usually I have a Stuff I'm Reading
segment where I talk about books or
fanfiction.
I have been reading
fanfiction, but I know this episode is
gonna be long and frankly it wasn't
worth it to try to pull out some fics
to talk about for this episode when
there was so much other stuff in this
episode.
So we'll skip it.
I might talk
about some fics in the next episode.
We'll
see, but that's gonna do it for this
episode.
Um, I don't remember how I end
the show.
Oh my god, out of practice.
Show
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about is over at freshlemon.com
or freakishlemonpodcast.com, including
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I would
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Goodbye.
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