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Welcome to the Yarnings Podcast, episode 49. Recorded Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
Thinking about how I use my stash after watching a Craftsy class. No FOs but slow progress on all the things. Introductions for another group of people on the forums. And quick geeky, cooking, and fanciful thoughts!
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FO: Finished Object; WIP: Work in Progress; NAP: Needle Adjacent Project, soon to be cast on; Queue: a list of what's up next; KAL: knit a long; Stash: yarn I own waiting to be used.
- Lifestories: a good mail day with a bag from The Silver Shed USA. Getting ready to go on the Rose City Yarn Crawl.
- WIP: Spirited Clouds in Bumblebirch cocoon.
- WIP: New growth socks
- WIP: #convokal Nuvem in Knit Picks Shadow. Conversation KAL. in my JavaJennie Kitchen Counter Crafter bag.
- WIP: handspun harmonize for the harmonize KAL
- new WIP: sample for one of my designs
- NAP: swatched for Flare in Dancing Dog Dyeworks.
- Queued: Balinese Cardi by Elizabeth Green Musselman of Dark Matter Knits.
- Spinning a Tale: another mini skein from my trindle, talked about containers for carrying them around with me.
- Knitting Community: The Yarnings group on rav has 2 KALs going on now, Conversation Knits, Harmonize - and AnitaT finished her Harmonize!
- Topic: Stashbusting. Prompted by Clara Parkes class on Craftsy (I'm an affiliate but it doesn't cost you anything to click the links to the classes!).
- Ideas for using stash: my Laneway Tunic, and 3 shawls that were good stashbusters: Color Affection, Piper's Journey, Roman Laurels
- organizing my stash: my Expedit (now discontinued, but IKEA sells the Kallax that is similar) with bins and boxes. I sort by yarn weight for the most part.
- destashing: I have some yarn available for destash or trade, this sometimes is a helpful way to get yarn out of your stash you don't have the same excitement to use, but is still great usable yarn.
- how do you organize and use your stash? is it all on ravelry? comment on the thread for this episode in the rav group.
- Sagas of Geekery: Now Playing: started a geeklist for my 10x10 challenge. getting ready for Gamestorm. and The DoubleClicks performance!
- Sagas of Geekery: Now Playing: boardgamegeek: Legendary, Castles of Burgundy, Among the Stars at our Local Game Store.
- Sagas of Geekery: Now Watching: Lost, Agent Carter.
- Book of Cooking: Mac and Cheese, awesome sandwich cookies. Heart-shaped Pizza. Fried Chicken Soup, Soda Bread. Visited Penzey's and got an array of lovely spices.
- Fanciful Chatter: Kristine's Closet: arranged my earrings a little better. Reading about Capsule Wardrobes on Hey Eleanor.
- Happiness Continues: thankful for a weekend out with Eric.
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