January 2015 Archives

Welcome to the Yarnings Podcast, episode 44. Recorded Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Using up leftover yarn, gathering leftover balls, and thinking on leftover food. Conversation KAL gets some prizes, and Harmonize KAL is coming soon. Giggly Geeky bits throughout!

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Welcome to the Yarnings Podcast, episode 43. Recorded Tuesday, January 20, 2015

A look at my new pattern, "Harmonize", coming out soon! Lots and lots of knitting has been coming off my needles; many FOs and all of my WIPs are new. Zipped through Geeky, Cooking, and Happy stuff, too.

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I am really proud of my knitting last year. I took on new challenges for techniques. I knit with yarn I had deemed "too precious to knit yet". And my purchases stayed on target with what I was wanting to knit, for the most part.

some stats and details for last year's knitting adventures:

• yardage knit in finished projects: 25,349 in 43 projects + yardage of several samples not tracked.
• yards added to stash: 20,634, with 5,678 of that knit within year (which means almost 20k from finished project yardage was from old stash!)
• I knit with notable stash as old as from Oregon Flock and Fiber 2008, a Knit Picks warehouse sale from 2009, the second Sock Summit in 2011, my handspun from Tour de Fleece in 2011, among others.
• types of projects: NINE tops (over 10k of yardage was in that category). 15 shawls, 7 pairs of socks. 4 kid/baby items, 4 hats, 5 cowls, and 4 others which included a blanket. Among those counts were samples and test items, as well as prototypes for my own designs, with a couple of gifts and commissioned items.

2014 tops, in newest to oldest order... Dec: Regency, Nov: CustomFit Alta, Oct: Rhinebeck, Sept: Hitofude, Aug: Beekeeper, Jun: Handspun, Apr: Laneway, Mar: Lovegood, Feb: Halele'a

• I learned a new favorite heel (Fish Lips Kiss Heel). I knit fair isle. There was much striping, to use stash and because I love stripes. I did my first real seamed sweater and used the CustomFit system.

my first Fish Lips Kiss Heel

• I spent time with my niece in her knitting most months of the year. And I taught my first class in public, two sessions of it!
• I attended the Rose City Yarn Crawl, Zombie Knitpocalypse, and Rhinebeck. I participated in event KALs for each of those, the Ravellenics games, Tour de Fleece, and bunches of podcast KALs too. I participated in the knitting community more, with conversations on podcast forums and Instagram (@kdlb).
• I re-started my podcast and found a new format in video that fits my bubbly self. Episodes 26-41 came out between mid-September and the end of the year.
• I found that I love having a pair of socks, an accessory like a shawl, and a garment on the needles. And when I keep conversation knits at hand, I get accessories done while traveling, worshipping, and playing board games.
• knitting makes me very happy!

... and that's the story :)

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Welcome to the Yarnings Podcast, episode 42. Recorded Tuesday, January 5, 2015

Episode 42 is "The Answer" because 42 is the Answer to the Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything according to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - I wore my hitchhiker in commemoration!

I'd love to know more about YOU, visit the "Introduce Yourself" thread and get to know other group members too.

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