Welcome to the Yarnings Podcast, episode 96. Recorded Monday, October 31, 2016. It's rainy and 55° in Vancouver, WA this afternoon.
October has wooshed by, and lots of things have been crafted and gamed and watched in the meantime!
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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: visited OFFF (stash stories, plus my awesome bag from miss purl). went to northern CA. new couches. family birthday parties.
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Yarnings: Adventures in Knitting
- FO: 2 red witches socks in 716knits yarn "bored now" colorway. PALKAL for the bag and sock ruler.
- FO: pile-o-hats, for gifts. each has it's own rav page, using up scraps.
- FO: Risen, for the bigbadbergalong. with Dancing Dog Dyeworks in Chile Verde and an accent with Knit Picks Imagination.
- WIP: Kaylee Walks on the Sun - Sunwalker for the bigbadbergalong. Uses my handspun Kaylee's Parasol from Hobbledehoy and some Wollmeise from a destash.
- WIP: cast on new socks, will use Lamby Toes and the Euglassia Watsonia socks by Dami Almon of the Geeky Girls Knit videocast.
- NAP: need to swatch for NaKniSweMo sweater, Princess Fiona, in STR Mediumweight.
- Yarnings: Knitting Community:
- Knitalong/Craftalong! Yarnings Summer School. Take a class, in person or online like Craftsy (affiliate link) and craft along with the class if possible. prize drawn!
- Sagas of Geekery: Now Playing: boardgamegeek:
- played many games in October, with a variety of people even! BG Stats app says 18 plays in October, including multiple plays at a sitting of Firefly (epic!) and Legendary with the new Civil War expansion. Played at Endgame Oakland (mentioned Amy the Cartoonist and cartoon kristine). Went to Guardian twice and met up with Lane (lanenerd) and her husband on their vacation.
- Sagas of Geekery: Now Watching: just finished The Good Wife. rewatching the end of Gilmore Girls, and turned on Scandal for fun.
- Fanciful Chatter: Colourpop lips.
- Book of Cooking: my Instant Pot's name is Yuna (of Final Fantasy X and X-2) - pumpkin oatmeal this morning, simmered apples for on top of pancakes last week, and many other things. love cooking in the fall!
- Happiness Continues: back to yoga after PT completed!