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Episode 233

October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 by Sara

It’s knitting season! Feeling invigorated by the chill in the air and the changing colors of leaves, I have been finishing projects and have lots of ideas about what to cast on next. In anticipation of the upcoming New York Sheep & Wool Festival, I have talked to some of my favorite vendors and prepared a segment filled with special things to look for this year.

The Back Porch

Can you believe it’s finished? I’m still getting my head around it. Hope was kind enough to snap this photo of me wearing Yell when I visited Hope’s Favorite Things to drop off printed patterns of Forest Floor socks.

COMING SOON!

#homedecmal a home dec make-along November 1 – December 31

The Back Porch

Yell by Marie Wallin
vanilla socks knit with Knit Spin Farm Targhee Sock
Morning Fog by Yuko Shimizu

The Front Porch

handspun 3-ways socks
Ursa cropped sweater by Jacqueline Cieslak
Burra cowl by Marie Wallin

And Sew Forth

Farrow dress by Grainline Studio
York Pinafore by Helen’s Closet

Yarn Lover at Large

Keep your eye on the 2019 Vendor Thread on Ravelry.

The Yarn Shop at Foster Sheep Farm — Building 31 / Booth 30
Battenkill Fiber Mill — Area 27 A
- Karin Kennedy & Ensign Brook Farm
- Midnight Mercantile
- Hudson & West Co.
- Oysters & Purls
- Wobble Gobble
The C Word with Cal Patch and Erin Von Holdt — Building 39 / Booth 11

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Gillian Wallis says:

October 7, 2019 at 2:26 pm

Sarah-one comment on dyeing a finished garment that I learned by experience. If there is top stitching, and the thread has polyester in it, the thread may not dye the same color as the garment. Just a heads up!

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 233

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