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Episode 256

September 14, 2020September 18, 2020 by Sara

NEW DESIGN — COMING SEPTEMBER 20th!

Deep in the Forest, a cowl in fingering OR worsted weight yarn, will be released with tiered pricing. This is your final chance to purchase the first design in my Women Who Run with the Wolves collection, Taking Back the River socks (RAVELRY LINK), at tiered pricing. Thank you for your purchases and your support of the podcast.

NEWS & EVENTS

Creative Advocacy & Networking Retreat – September 18-20
Farm to Fiber Tour in NY and VT – October 3 & 4, 10 & 11
Tatter: BLUE Textile Library Virtual Classes & Lectures

ON THE PORCH

socks with mushroom motif (RAVELRY LINK)
Tokonatsu by Bernice Lim (RAVELRY LINK)

OFF THE SHELF

Naomi Shihab Nye & Simon Shaheen in concert and conversation at the Arab American Museum in Dearborn, Michigan — make a donation to get the link — September 18th
“Different Ways to Pray“

“To counteract negative images conveyed by blazing headlines, writers must steadily transmit simple stories closer to heart and common to everyday life. Then we will be doing our job.” — Nye in an interview with Children’s Literature Review

AND SEW FORTH

Mississippi Avenue Dress from Sew House Seven
Amy Jumpsuit from Closet Core Patterns
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- Esme Tunic from Lotta Jansdotter
- Washi (now Trillium) dress from Made by Rae
hamiltonhousehomestead
- Calendar Dress from Frankie & Ray
momdiggityknits
- Endless Summer Tunic from A Verb for Keeping Warm
- Cabot Dress from By Hand Look Book No. 9
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- Scout Tee from Grainline Studio
- Robbie Pants from Tessuti

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 256

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