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Episode 227

July 7, 2019 by Sara

It’s hot, humid, and I’m working on house projects at Yin Hoo. My limbs are tired and I can only muster the energy for easy fiber projects at the moment!

#yogisockskal

Thank you to everyone who has been using the pattern, posting photos, and telling me about your knitting experience. Yoga socks make great gifts and are a good idea for a portable knitting project. Keep posting to the Ravelry thread and using #yogisockskal when you share your projects on IG. I will be donating one dollar to SoulFire Farm for each post you make — let’s work together to make this a sizeable donation!

#mariewallinkal

I’ve been seeing the progress and even some finished projects — wow! You knitters are amazing. Keep using the hashtag to post photos and share with other Yarns at Yin Hoo listeners on our Ravelry thread. I’m a little stalled out on Yell at the moment, but I will regroup in a few weeks’ time.

Hudson Valley Textile Project

Thread Counts is the newsletter of HVTP and a great way to receive updates about events in the Hudson Valley. I recommend that you check out the calendar of summer / autumn events and subscribe to the newsletter!

The Front Porch

Niamh by Isabell Kraemer — now in Blacker Yarns Lyonesse!
test knit DK weight hat designed by Meghan of Distelfink Fibers

le Tour de Fleece

Oh, my goodness. I’m having so much fun spinning up this beautiful braid from Inglenook Fibers. My goal for the tour is 3-ply two ways as laid out in the “sock yarn” issue of Ply magazine by JoAnna Spring of Knit Spin Farm.

Off the Shelf

“Report from the Subtropics” by Billy Collins

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Zoe Primrose says:

July 19, 2019 at 6:24 pm

I Just discovered you via a Facebook group. How do I find your designs again? Through ravelry under what name?

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.

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Episode 227

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