Episode 63 – because all good things should sparkle, right? (shownotes)

Announcements/In The Burbs:

• Thank you to everyone who sent messages asking me if I was OK after the flooding in Texas.  We are safe 🙂
• Star Spangled Kit is live!  Go check out www.vintageroseloves.com to get one of the few that are remaining for sale!
• Around Your Neck KAL is ON!  I’m loving seeing everyone’s projects so far…keep up the great work!  Please use the hashtag #aynkal on all social media and make sure that you are a member of the group to be eligible to win prizes.
• The Nordstrom Poncho

FOs:

• I finished my Follow Your Arrow 1 by Ysolda Teague

WIPs:

• Yowza Weigh It Shawl 1
• Starshower.  I’m knitting this for Camp Loopy #1
• Tan House Brook Shawl.  I’m knitting this from yarn that I was given for review by A Good Yarn Sarasota.  The yarn is Three Irish Girls Glenhaven Cashmerino Sock yarn in the shop exclusive Octopus Garden colorway.
• Grampa’s Flood socks.  Yarn is Kirbywirby Yarns in the Grampa’s Rainbow Suspenders colorway
• Xeriscape socks.  Yarn is Voolenvine Yarns in the Stellar Banshee colorway
• Dale socks.  Yarn is Hedgehog Fibres in Pheasant and Spun Right Round in Holy Crow colorways.
• Lacey Transitions Shawl.  Yarn is by Blue Ridge Fibers.

Hello Lovelies:

• Into the Whirled Luxe Club May 2015 fiber shipment – Great Minds colorway
• Lhasa Wilderness yarn from Bijou Basin Ranch sent to me for review
• Allure Fine Fiber and Fabric wash sent to me for review

Episode 62 (shownotes)

Detailed shownotes (and show title!) coming soon!

Episode 61 – no more good show titles (shownotes)

Announcements:

• Around Your Neck KAL.  Starts June 1.  Check out the Ravelry group and the official rules {here} on my blog.
• PAL KAL info can be found in their group in this thread
• Collaboration Kit with Vanessa/vintage rose, Dianne/Suburban Stitcher, and Susan/Desert Vista Dyeworks!  More info coming soon, but sale date will be on or around June 6.  Patriotic/Americana themed kit.

NO FOs…It’s hardcare StashDash/Around Your Neck prep time!

WIPs:

1. Boo Knits MKAL.  Link is to her site with no spoilers…just in case you are participating and don’t want to be spoiled!
2. May DVD socks.
3. Xeriscape socks.  
4. Aisling
5. Nick’s Neon socks
6. Nuvem

Spinning:

• still trying to finish up the 1 oz punis that I’ve been working on for SOOOOOO long.  Ready to finish these up.

Episode 59 – No FOs (shownotes)

Announcements/In the Burbs:

• Please join the Suburban Stitcher podcast group on Ravelry.  It can be found {here}.
• Around Your Neck KAL.  Much Much More info can be found {here}.

NO FOs for me this week

WIPs:

1. sock blank socks.  I started the 2nd sock of this pair (after months and months and months of not working on it) and I’m super excited about this project again.
2. Dale socks.  I have detailed project notes about saga of this sock!  The stitch markers I’m using are from sucresucreminiatures on etsy.
3. Asunder.  I had a bit of a blunder this week while knitting this one.  I accidently forgot that there were rest rows…so now I have to rip rip rip back about 6 rows.  Boo.
4. Yowza Weigh It Shawl 1.  Picked this up again and it’s going smoothly.  At the time of the taping of the show I have about 170 grams left.
5. Follow Your Arrow 1.  I didn’t show it this week…but I have about 12 rows left and a bind off.

Spinning:

I worked on my Second Spring fiber from Into the Whirled.  I have spun up the first 2 oz, and I’m ready for the next 2 oz.

Hello Lovelies:

1. Nomadic Yarn cheeseburger bag and yarn
2. Cookie A April 2015 shipment.  Yarn is Mrs. Crosby and I’m in love with the two patterns for this month!
3. Voolenvine yarn, Blitzed base, Stellar Banshee colorway.  I will probably use this yarn to make some of the new Cookie A socks that I just got the pattern for.
4. Must Stash yarn Ritz Sock in the Vintage and Whisper colorways (with coordinating stitchmarker!)
5. Loop Batt

Episode 58 – how it all got started (shownotes)

In the Burbs (aka announcements):

• thank you to everyone who stopped by the shop update on Friday 4/10!
• Around your Neck KAL June-Aug.  This is a KAL that I’m hosting with Stacie of Must Stash Yarns/Must Stash Podcast fame.  More details to follow…but GET READY!!!
• Houston-area get together.  Are you interested?  Leave me a comment in the show thread, or here, so I can get an idea of who might be interested.

FOs:

• Yowza Weigh It Shawl 3
• Cotton Candy Zombody socks
• Cup Cozy Mug Warmer for my swap partner

WIPs:

• Follow Your Arrow
• Asunder
• Narrangansett
• Neapolitan Dale socks
• Newborn Vertebrae

Hello Lovelies!:

• bags from Freckled Whimsy on etsy
• KirbyWirby Epic Bling yarn in the Damn it feels good to be a Gangster
• Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery Fibery Friends Kit

Lastly…I shared a bunch about my early knitting adventures & extravaganzas.  You’ll have to hear it to believe it.

 

Episode 57 – frankensocks (shownotes)

Announcements:

• I am drinking some David’s Tea Silk Dragon Jasmine green tea and it is LOVELY
• Shop Update on 4/10/2015 time tba
• Thank you so much for all of the birthday love and well wishes!

FOs:

• Solid Chocolate Zombunny socks.  Yarn is from Desert Vista Dyeworks.
• Bluebonnet socks.  Yarn is from Vice Yarns.
• Barnraising Quilt Square.  Yarn is The Cyborg’s Craft Room in the Space Oddity colorway.

WIPs:

• Barnraising Quilt Square.  Yarn is Must Stash Yarn in the Dark Side of the Moon colorway.
• Yowza Weigh It Shawl 3.  Yarn is Miss Babs Yowza in the Sugar colorway.
• Follow Your Arrow 1.  Yarn is Madelinetosh tosh merino light in the Hickory colorway.
• Cotton Candy Zombie socks.  Yarn is Desert Vista Dyeworks in the Zombody’s Eating Cotton Candy colorway.

Spinning:

• I showed off two little mini-skeins of navajo plyed fiber.  I will probably use these for making little ornaments or stuffies
• I started spinning my Second Spring fiber from Into the Whirled.  This will be a 2-ply yarn.

New Stash:

• Wollmeise Lace…2 skeins
• received a patchwork drawstring bag from my friend Tammy (karamat) and the fabric is from Lecien’s Flower Sugar line
• sucresucreminiatures stitchmarkers from etsy
• stitchmarkers from Little Skein
• Miss Babs mini skeins in Sugar and Sugar Bear colorways (for blanket squares)
• Arne & Carlos sock yarn from Jimmy Beans Wool

2015 Goals Recap:

1. Knit 1 pair of socks per month.  So far I’ve knit 6 pairs this year.
2. Spin 2 lbs.   So far I’ve spun 0 finished yards.
3. Knit 15,000 yds.  So far I’ve knit just under 3000 yds.
4. Knit 2 sweaters.  So far I haven’t finished any.
5. Stash Down.  FAIL.
6. Develop new products for the shop.  I’ve introduced a zippered project bag for the shop, and have several more ideas in the works.

Episode 56 – all the mauve (shownotes)

Announcements:

• Just returned from the DFW Fiber Fest…and life is good!  If you want to hear a very detailed rundown of events, please check out my special appearance on the Must Stash Podcast…found {here}
• I have not yet mailed out the prizes for the Rainbowalong but those should be going out this week.

FOs:

• Follow Your Arrow 2

WIPs:

• Solid Chocolate Zombunny socks for the Desert Vista Dyeworks Official Unofficial KAL
• Kama Sutra socks
• Yowza Weigh It Shawl 1
• Yowza Weigh It Shawl 3
• Follow Your Arrow 1
• I cut off and threw in the trash can my Color Affection.  Done. With. It.  And it feels good 🙂

New Stash:

• Into The Whirled club fiber
• Ply Magazine
• The Lemonade Shop in the Magically Delicious colorway
• One Twisted Tree yarn in the Soul of the Tardis on the Glimmer base
• October House 100% merino fiber in the Dried Petals colorway
• Signature Needle Arts size 8 circular needles
• Miss Babs Yowza in the Sugar colorway
• Two if by Hand Finn fiber braid in the Bertie Botts Every Color Beans colorway
• A Thing For String merino/nylon fingering weight in the Swamp Thing colorway
• Must Stash Yarn Perfect Sock in the Polka Dot Afro Circus colorway
• Western Sky Knits sparkle sock yarn in the Boysenberry colorway
• Western Sky Knits merino/nylon sock yarn in the Light It Up colorway
• Western Sky Knits MCN Worsted weight yarn in the Patina colorway (sweater quantity for the Narrangansett sweater)
• Lost City Knits Oak Barn Merino Lace in the Desert Rose colorway (to knit the Giovannina stole that I won at the Franklin Habit talk)

At the end I showed the bags that are left over from the festival that will be up in the shop soon.

Episode 55 – tangents (shownotes)

Welcome!!!

I open with a lot of random chatting…including how I have been doing the Whole30 program.  Today is day 23, and I’m feeling confident and AMAZING!

Rainbowalong WINNERS:  (if you are a winner PLEASE contact me via Ravelry message with your mailing address)

1. Oh Loops yarn – Post 198 – jamadren
2. Bambewe yarn – Post 142 – knottygnome
3. TrekkingXXL yarn – Post 193 – agirlfromcarolina
4. Studio in the Green bag – Post 183 – marshatf
5. notepad1 – Post 173 – knitamy
6. notepad2 – Post 106 – Shawna

FOs:

1. Loch Hat
2. Banasik Hat
3. blanket square out of Desert Vista Dyeworks Zombody’s Poppin’ the Cork colorway

WIPs:

• Solid Chocolate Zombunny socks
• Yowza Weigh-It Shawl
• Follow Your Arrow 2

What I’m Reading/Watching:

• I’ve been participating in the Oh Loops! book club this year (and was sent some AMAZING yarn from the girls of Oh Loops!) and keeping up with the books.  So far we’ve read The Girl Who Came Home, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, and The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society.  Please go over to their Ravelry group and join in the chat!
• House of Cards season 3…oh.  so good.

DFW Fiber Fest:

• I will be in the Must Stash Yarn & Fiber booth throughout the entire weekend.  PLEASE come say hello and check out Stacie’s amazing yarn, and some super special and exclusive kits that we will have available.
• Podcaster Meetup is Saturday at 1:00 pm by the huge tree in the lobby.

Thank Yous (for gifted patterns):

• Winter Breeze pattern by Sara Lozzi
• Blether socks pattern by Emily of Fibretown
• Just Another Vanilla Sock Pattern by Sarah Stevens

New Stash:

• 2 skeins of associkilate sock yarn in the Ain’t No Party Like A Cyborg Party from The Cyborg’s Craft Room
• Into the Whirled fiber from the club
• 1 skein of Holy Crow sock yarn from Spun Right Round

Episode 51 – KALtastic (shownotes)

What I was wearing in Episode 51:  My Echoes of Color shawl.  All details can be found {here} in my ravelry page.

Announcements:

1. #craftforyourcause KAL is over!!!!  Make sure that if your name was called on the show to message me on Ravelry!  Thanks!  I want to thank Stacie of Must Stash Yarn.
2. Rainbow-along  Here’s the rules:
   1. Feb 1-28 (officially…but feel free to have this be a motivation to finish up a rainbow WIP too)
   2. 50 grams or more
   3. anything yarn related and also quilting.  No totebags please.
   4. If you have to ask if the yarn qualifies as rainbow…then it probably doesn’t.
   5. Have fun!
3. I’m participating in the #wipknitdown2015 and #csc2015.  As of today I have 17 WIPs.

WIPs:

1. Zombie Champagne socks.  THANKFULLY I was able to salvage a weird mistake that happened during the afterthought heel on these socks, and now I’m back on track.  I’m knitting this to participate in the Desert Vista Dyeworks sock knitalong.  Checkout her ravelry post {here} for more details on this KAL.
2. Millwater Cowl.  I have decided not to rip this one out and just keep knitting.  It’s going to be gorgeous when it’s all wrapped up and around my neck…and hopefully the colorway differences will not show too badly 🙂
3. Zombies like Fruitcake socks.
4. Caesious.

New Kit/Collaboration!  The Je t’aime kit will be available on 1/17/2015 in www.vintageroseloves.com at 8:00 pm EST.  The price for the kit is $78.50.  This is a collaboration with Vanessa of Vintage Rose and Stacie of Must Stash Yarn.

There will be a St. Patrick’s Day themed kit for sale on Feb. 14, 2015.  This collaboration is with Vanessa (Vintage Rose), Cherie (KirbyWirby) and myself.  No sneak peeks yet, but trust me…it’s another one that is AMAZING!

Mardi Gras bags will be in the Suburban Stitcher shop soon!

New Stash:  a plethora of Miss Babs yarn.  This is the last yarn of 2014 🙂

Possible Upcoming Projects:

1. Follow Your Arrow 2 Mystery KAL
2. Rikke Hat
3. Duotone Cowl
4. Forest Park Cowl

Where will I be in 2015?

• DFW Fiber Fest (March 20-22)
• Houston Fiber Festival (July 17-18)
• Stitches Texas (September 17-20)
• Kid ‘n Ewe (early November)
• maybe a retreat in June…tba
• maybe a gathering in Feb in Houston…tba

Episode 50 – 2015 goals (shownotes)

Spinning:  I finished 2.3 oz of black rainbow rolags from Yarn Geek Fibers.  It is a 160 yd 2-ply skein…approximately sport weight.

WIPs:

1. handspun Age of Brass & Steam shawl
2. Wintersweet by Boo Knits
3. Caesious by Hunter Hammerson.  This is from the new book Curls.
4. Zombody likes Fruitcake socks
5. Merry Merry socks

New Stash & Gifts:

1. Desert Vista Dyeworks sock yarn…I’ve almost collected all of the zombie skeins!
2. The Cyborg’s Craft Room yarn: Snowday and Wildflower both on the Associkilate base
3. Hobbledehoy battlings in Galactus
4. Curls by Hunter Hammerson
5. The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook
6. Magpies, Homebodies & Nomads by Cirilia Rose

2014 Goals in Review:

1. Knit more socks than in 2013.  (I knit 12 pairs in 2013, and 11 in 2014)
2. Knit more sweaters than in 2013.  (I knit 1 in 2013 and 1 in 2014).
3. Spin more on spindle.  (I spun more than in 2013…but only because I had just purchased the spindle at the very end of 2013).
4. Purchase a wheel.  (Purchased a Kromski Sonata on 2/15/2014)
5. Stay consistently at 5 WIPs or less.
6. Complete 1 quilt.
7. Complete 1 cross-stitch.
8. Knit over 5000 yds.  (I knit 32 projects totalling 10,372 yds)

2015 Goals:

1. Finish at least 1 pair of socks per month.  Motivation for this is the DVD unofficial knitalong in the DVD Ravelry group.
2. Spin 2 lbs.
3. Knit 15,000 yds.
4. Knit 2 sweaters.
5. Stash Down:
   1. no yarn purchases until DFW
   2. Incoming yardage can only equal 1/2 of what is outgoing
6. Create new products for the Suburban Stitcher shop.