Episode 92: Yarning is my Superpower!

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FO: Finished Object; WIP: Work in Progress; NAP: Needle Adjacent Project, soon to be cast on; SAP: Spindle Adjacent Project, soon to be spun up; Queue: a list of what's up next; KAL: knit a long; Stash: yarn I own waiting to be used.

• Lifestories: ankle is getting stronger, walking is still a challenge for more than 10 minutes.
• Yarnings: Adventures in Knitting
  • FOs: Superpowers Shawls
  • WIP: sock blank socks in Alexandra's Craft blank I picked up on the Rose City Yarn Crawl this year.
  • WIP: Summer Vines - inverting!
  • WIP: You're Beautiful by Melanie Berg in Sun Valley Fibers and Quarae Fibers

• Yarnings: Spinning a Tale: It's Tour de Fleece! #teamsasqatch through 7/24.
  • FO: Huckleberry Knits BFL in Orchid Thief - spun in 2012, plied on new bigger turkish
  • WIP: Santa Creek Creations polwarth gemtones - 12oz purchased at the Columbia Gorge Fiber Festival last November.
  • WIP: Rock and String Creations polwarth in Aura from Kentucky. on my akerworks spindle!
  • NAP: next singles to ply are my kaylee - Hobbledehoy battlings in the Kaylee's Parasol colorway
• Yarnings: Stitch Through Time:
  • WIP: english paper piecing for me. using a Moda fabric that I got in charms, mini charms, and a jelly roll to make a quilt or wall hanging that incorporates the hexagons.
  • NAP: want to pick another Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery project to make.
• Yarnings: Multicraftual: coloring challenge #thedailymarker30days with my friend Emilia
• Yarnings: Knitting Community:
  • New Knitalong/Craftalong! Yarnings Summer School. Take a class, in person or online like Craftsy (affiliate link) and craft along with the class if possible. In the thread, share a summary of what you learned and a picture of your crafting or knitting while learning to be eligible for a prize or two. We have a pattern sponsor and some yarn. I attempted to watch Piece by Piece: Quilt-As-You-Go Techniques (affiliate link), but I had a hard time connecting with the hostess. I knit on my Summer Vines while I watched. Also read Short Row Knits by Carol Feller.
  • KAL for Superpowers Shawl. The thread is now opened! There's a coupon code in the episode.

• Sagas of Geekery: Now Playing: boardgamegeek:
  • Race for the Galaxy. Viticulture and Istanbul while spinning. Roll for the Galaxy.
• Sagas of Geekery: Now Watching: finished Numb3rs (had to finish on Amazon Prime). nearly done with s3 of Fringe. Installed PBS app on AppleTV to watch new Great British Baking Show. returned to Bones - finished s7, started s8. started Gilmore Girls. restarted The West Wing with the podcast commentary. Survivor (Milla Jovavich/Pierce Brosnan), Jurassic Park and Lost World, Eve of Destruction (disaster mini-series with Steven Weber, Christina Cox)
• Fanciful Chatter: superhero jewelry - earrings and bracelet from Bomb Dot Com Geekery. new fav Colourpop eye shadow: Sugar.
• Book of Cooking: We've had a lot of easy food that doesn't take too much standing and waiting to complete.
• Happiness Continues: "I am the one thing in life I can control... I am inimitable, I am an original" from Hamilton's Wait For It (Leslie Odom, Jr. as Aaron Burr).

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