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Episode 282

July 11, 2021July 11, 2021 by Sara

FIBERWORLD — Saturday, July 24th

Knitting History 101 @ 11:30 EST

Knitting History 102 @ 3:30 EST

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Hudson Valley Textile Project SUMMIT & Marketplace on Friday, July 30th in Albany, NY

The Back Porch

Craghill Shawl (Ravelry link) by Cheryl Toy knit in Distelfink Fibers Farm-raised Fingering

The Front Porch

Outline Tee (Ravelry link) by Jessie Maed knit in Mill Street Textiles Shushan linen

I’ve been working on a combo spin during Tour de Fleece. My three fibers include: a braid from Miss Babs in the Bookworm colorway, a set of Rose Quartz rolags from Green Goat Ranch and a braid of wool/silk/flax from Inglenook Fibers. Most of the fiber has been spun on Turkish spindles over the course of the year. Now I’m using my Louët to complete the plying. Hopefully, this will be enough yardage for an outline tee or a shrug with long sleeves.

Off the Shelf

Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas

Wayward Threads: Techniques and Ideas for Upcycling Unloved or Discarded Garments by Lori Ann Scott

Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

Threads of Life: A History of the World through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter

Mystical Stitches: An Intentional Embroidery Book by Christi Johnson

A More Perfect Union by Teri Ellen Cross Davis

Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

2 thoughts on “Episode 282”

MiniSkeinMaven says:

July 12, 2021 at 1:24 pm

I look forward to your podcasts as they always make me think harder about my creative pursuits. Even though I mainly knit vanilla socks I can still dream!
asteride says:

July 12, 2021 at 10:53 am

Thank you for another enjoyable podcast! While I was listening today, I was hand stitching the final details on a top that I designed and sewed. Your dress á la Alabama Chanin is beautiful. Hope you will talk more about it.
Have a nice week!

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

Episode 282

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