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Episode 249

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 by Sara

Test Knitters Wanted!

I have completed a draft for a toe-up sock pattern, the first in a four-pattern collection that takes its inspiration from Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run with the Wolves. I need test knitters for 56, 64, and 72 stitch circumference socks in solid or tonal yarn. You will have approximately one month from issue of draft pattern to complete at least one sock. Contact me via IG or Ravelry, indicating your preferred size.

The Back Porch

Combo spin: 616 yds. 2-ply (singles spun on Turkish spindles; plied on Louët S10DT

The Front Porch

It’s a Chard Sock Life on Targhee sock from Knit Spin Farm. I love this yarn! Working to get at least two pair of shortie socks that will be gifts for my mother and sister.
Bressay by Marie Wallin will be on the needles this weekend.

#powerpantry

Wild Rice Pancakes from The New Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook
Rhubarb Gin Fizz
Rhubarb Ginger Upside Down Oatmeal Cake
Creamy Asparagus, Lemon and Walnut Pasta

Off the Shelf

“Topsy Turvey World” lyrics by William Brighty Rands (1823-82), featured on Natalie Merchant’s Leave Your Sleep

CLAP HANDS VIDEO PREMIER

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admin says:

May 23, 2020 at 11:30 am

Hi, Silvia. Thank you so much for taking the time to write a detailed and generous note about your podcast listening. As I sat down to post Ep 250, I discovered this and it is just the thing to remind me why it’s important to share our voices and our stories. A compliment like yours, coming from a sensitive and smart listener, is a gift indeed. I’m so pleased that you’re a listener.
Silvia Stoddart says:

May 18, 2020 at 10:18 am

Thank you Sara for another lovely episode. I have been listening for years but have seldom commented. I thoroughly enjoy your content, the melodic nature of your voice and always feel inspired to try something new. I am going to try making the wild rice pancakes and the creamy asparagus pasta as we have several people in our family who are lactose intolerant. I am intrigued by your explanation of “Women Who Run With the Wolves”. I am going to order a copy as two of my five children are young women now (the other three are adult sons) and as per your description, it would give us all much food for thought and reflection. When I discovered your podcast perhaps 3 or 4 years ago, it was so refreshing to listen to ideas that reached into my soul and settled. We are all on our own journeys and I appreciate you and your podcast being a part of mine even though we will probably never meet in person. My deepest thanks.

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!

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

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