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Episode 328

June 16, 2024June 17, 2024 by Sara

Second quarter prizes for Ko-fi contributors have been generously contributed by:

Woolen Waves: handmade socks and more — a pair of socks knit to the winner’s specifications

Battenkill Fibers — a skein of Granville sock yarn / plus a skein of self-striping yarn + mini in the Kohlrabi colorway from KnitSpinFarm (Sara’s stash)

Register for Slow Down & Stitch classes — upcoming this summer at Orange: coffee. art. music. There are three different classes, each focusing on hand sewing.

It was such a thrill to have Cal Patch visit Orange and teach her Mending = Love course. We stitched and chatted and kept our clothing out of landfills.

Seven batts of Kerry Hill fiber are ready to spin with thanks to Emily for a share of her fleece and Hope for loan of the carding equipment!

Complete KnitSpinFarm socks with extra tall cuffs at the recipient’s request.

A swatch of 2-ply, sport weight handspun Lenore (fiber from Sheperd’s Hey Farm). A bit short on row gauge but still under consideration for the RibWave sweater designed by Joanna Ang.

The first stage of Milkweed Simple Syrup (recipe from Taproot Issue 22: GROW).

Off the Shelf

“A History of Sexual Preference” by Robin Becker

2 thoughts on “Episode 328”

Sara says:

June 30, 2024 at 3:18 pm

Thanks, Gabriele: I wish you well on your hand-sewing journey. In episode 329, I’m linking a book that has been very helpful and a joy to read!
Gabriele says:

June 18, 2024 at 11:04 am

Belated happy birthday!
Your description of the upcoming craft classes sounds so inspiring – if I were close to your location I would want to attend all of them! Unfortunally you are far out of reach for me. Instead I will pull out my books about hand sewing to capture the inspiration that you brought. Thank you for all the effort you put in this podcast!
Greetings from Munich in Germany! 👋

Arrows and Doorways

The design for this super-cozy cowl was inspired by textiles in a hotel lobby. Concentric geometric shapes kept playing in my mind until finally I was able to chart the pattern and get it onto my needles. The interplay of this chevron-like patterning has a mesmerizing effect–while you’re knitting and when you wear the finished accessory.

Knit up a cowl with yarn from your stash, adding some magical new mini-skeins from your advent calendar, or exchange leftover yarn with a friend. The design invites frequent color changes, and makes an ideal knit for the advent season. It could be just as striking knit with two high-contrast colors.

While most cowls of this type are seamed within a band of a single color, this pattern incorporates a technique called stranded donut grafting, an incredibly clever and completely seamless graft that allows you to maintain colorwork patterning so that your starting and ending rounds are undetectable. Really! With many possibilities for color play and a new technique to add to your skill set, this cowl pattern is really an opportunity for knitters to level-up!

NEW PATTERN DESIGN!

ONE DARK BLUE NIGHT

This hat is the third in a series of patterns inspired by teachings in Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run with the Wolves. This time, I drew inspiration from Estés’ retelling of a Japanese tale, Tsukina Waguma or “The Crescent Moon Bear,” in which a young woman travels to the cave of an incredibly intimidating and ferocious bear. She makes several journeys to the cave, leaving food and quickly retreating, until “one dark blue night,” she musters the courage to stand her ground and ask for what she seeks--one hair from a moon-shaped patch on the bear’s chest--which she is granted. The young woman returns, triumphant, to the old healer who has sent her on this quest. She believes this single hair is the magic ingredient in solving the problem that plagues her. She holds it forth, but the healer tosses the hair into the flames. The young woman is in despair until she realizes the true lesson of her quest: that using her determination, courage, and patience, as she did with the crescent moon bear, will help her to confront the challenge at hand.

The moon phase motif of this colorwork hat is meant to capture the magic of a dark blue night--when the moon shines brightly overhead, the frosty air sparkles with possibility, and we succeed in summoning accumulated wisdom from deep within ourselves so that we can apply it to our own healing. Choose colors to conjure a wintery night sky, or select a palette of your signature colors.

Available on Ravelry December 20th.

Yarns at Yin Hoo

Episode 328

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