Episode 62: Spinning Pride

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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: normal stuff afoot!
• Yarnings: Knitting Adventures: - all of these are #convokals! And Stashdash2015, provided I finish things!
  • WIP: Over the Top Top. for Actually Knitting PALKAL.
  • WIP: well-traveled viajante in peruvian alpaca. for Knitmore Girls' #behmalong and #summeroflaceandbeads.
  • new WIP: pink stripe socks - Berry Colorful Yarnings in a Yarnings inspired colorway! decided this yarn was too awesome and needed to be around my neck!
  • WIP: Sushi (on the) Go! trillian for the Fiber and Dice #sushiquestyal
  • NAP: handspun top - Poison Oak - talk about with the yarn for it in spinning
  • kinda hybernating WIPs: cashy sleeves for #behmalong; bumblebead neckie: necklace with leftover Bumblebirch yarn and leftover nuvem beads

• Yarnings: Spinning a Tale - It's Tour de Fleece, and I'm Team Sasquatch all the way! I had a summary post on Team Sasquatch, and my Play-by-play was in the Sun Valley boards. Also counting for Stashdash based on the final yardage of the yarn spun (1522 yards/1392 meters).
  • previous FO: hawkeyes from Daizie Knits.
  • FO: One of a Kind American, plied with a silver laceweight for optimum yardage. 678 yards, heavy fingering weight.
  • FO: plying old Blarney Yarn singles in Chambord colorway from the summer of 2012. 2-plied, then decided to cable ply that for a more usable yarn. 664 yards, sport weight. Also, talked about my new Label maker I used to label all my individual skeins.
  • WIP: Purple Ply on the Fly, sent spindle back to trindleman.
  • WIP: finishing singles for cheesecake from Woolgatherings from last summer. Almost done with singles, spun about 2 cops full during this tour and 2 1/2 were done before.
• Yarnings: Knitting Community:#convokal ended for Q2, with a pattern prize from AnitaT and yarn from Berry Colorful Yarnings! tune in to see if you won! please claim within 30 days.
  opening Aug/Sept Q3 thread and opening thread for awesome 2-skein BCY prize.
  
• Yarnings: Knitting Community: Stash Dash runs 5/22-8/14. At just over 5k, if I finish my Sushi (on the) Go! and my Over the Top top!

• Sagas of Geekery: Now Playing: boardgamegeek:
  • played Manhattan Project, Legendary, and Harbour.
• Sagas of Geekery: Now Watching: continuing Agents of SHIELD season 2, continuing Stargate SG-1/Atlantis.
• Sagas of Geekery: Now Reading: comic books!
  Ms. Marvel, vol 2. Looking through a character guide. and listening to I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett again. I'm kdlb on goodreads.
  Mention of more comics on my Comixology account to read - if you use that link and sign up to read, I'll get a little bonus!
• Book of Cooking: big beautiful salad with Chicken stripes. Fancy oatmeal. Cold Brew Stumptown coffee with Chocolate Chai concentrate. Mexican nachos with garbage bowl.
• Fanciful Chatter: Now wearing: made-over Laar cardi. Karen Hallion "I Know My Value" Agent Carter card, signed by Hayley Atwell! for my wall of geekery.
• Happiness Continues: great yoga class thoughts this week about considering my target. Where am I aiming? If I don't know, I can't hit that goal!

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