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August 22, 2013April 14, 2017 by Sara

This week’s episode includes segments titled: Backstory, A Little Bit of Learning, Ever-expanding Skill Set, The Back Porch, and Gratitude Journal.

Backstory

Here are a few podcasts I enjoy. I hope you give them a chance and let me know if you enjoy any of them.

Good Food

The Splendid Table

To the Best of Our Knowledge

Knitting Pipeline

The Knitmore Girls

Never Not Knitting

A Little Bit of Learning

This is the book that really has me thinking this week — Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking.

Ever-expanding Skill Set

I’ve been working on my Shaelyn Shawl by Leila Raabe. After knitting almost the entire shawl, I decided that it looked a bit sloppy on size 9 needles. So I switched to size 6 and began the shawl again. For this project, I’m using handspun yarn that transitions gradually from pale gray to deep rust.

The Back Porch

This week, I completed the Oak Trail cloche by Alana Dakos. This is a stylish little design and I love the hat. It’s nice to knit such a great design in worsted weight yarn. There’s a great little oak leaf design and overall nice fit. Here you see it blocking on one of my ceramic porch lamps.

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” — Harper Lee

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Lara Moody says:

August 23, 2013 at 2:59 am

Listening is a whole lot like breathing; we do both involuntarily and mindlessly but we’re not actively or fully doing either until we think about and practice these essential skills. Loved this episode and all the enriching resources you provided, including referencing your favorite podcasts.

Favorite bit: imagining the sounds of acorns falling onto and rolling off of the roof at Silver Lake tea house.

Arrows and Doorways

The design for this super-cozy cowl was inspired by textiles in a hotel lobby. Concentric geometric shapes kept playing in my mind until finally I was able to chart the pattern and get it onto my needles. The interplay of this chevron-like patterning has a mesmerizing effect–while you’re knitting and when you wear the finished accessory.

Knit up a cowl with yarn from your stash, adding some magical new mini-skeins from your advent calendar, or exchange leftover yarn with a friend. The design invites frequent color changes, and makes an ideal knit for the advent season. It could be just as striking knit with two high-contrast colors.

While most cowls of this type are seamed within a band of a single color, this pattern incorporates a technique called stranded donut grafting, an incredibly clever and completely seamless graft that allows you to maintain colorwork patterning so that your starting and ending rounds are undetectable. Really! With many possibilities for color play and a new technique to add to your skill set, this cowl pattern is really an opportunity for knitters to level-up!

NEW PATTERN DESIGN!

ONE DARK BLUE NIGHT

This hat is the third in a series of patterns inspired by teachings in Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run with the Wolves. This time, I drew inspiration from Estés’ retelling of a Japanese tale, Tsukina Waguma or “The Crescent Moon Bear,” in which a young woman travels to the cave of an incredibly intimidating and ferocious bear. She makes several journeys to the cave, leaving food and quickly retreating, until “one dark blue night,” she musters the courage to stand her ground and ask for what she seeks--one hair from a moon-shaped patch on the bear’s chest--which she is granted. The young woman returns, triumphant, to the old healer who has sent her on this quest. She believes this single hair is the magic ingredient in solving the problem that plagues her. She holds it forth, but the healer tosses the hair into the flames. The young woman is in despair until she realizes the true lesson of her quest: that using her determination, courage, and patience, as she did with the crescent moon bear, will help her to confront the challenge at hand.

The moon phase motif of this colorwork hat is meant to capture the magic of a dark blue night--when the moon shines brightly overhead, the frosty air sparkles with possibility, and we succeed in summoning accumulated wisdom from deep within ourselves so that we can apply it to our own healing. Choose colors to conjure a wintery night sky, or select a palette of your signature colors.

Available on Ravelry December 20th.

Yarns at Yin Hoo

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