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Episode 283

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 by Sara

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Zimmermann! Dr. Lilly Marsh and I will be hosting a zoom session for YAYH listeners, 7pm EDT on Sunday, August 8th. You can send me a personal message via email or IG or RAV to request the zoom link. I will also post the zoom link in the Yarns at Yin Hoo group on Ravelry about an hour before the event. Dr. Lilly will be sharing some fun anecdotes and images that did not make their way into our conversation. We will have time for some Q&A as well. Celebrate by making your favorite dessert featuring ginger (or just brew a cup of ginger tea). I will also be announcing the winners of the EZBSJ (you don’t need to be in attendance to claim your prize). If you have completed your BSJ, post a photo on THIS THREAD! I will also be giving out one prize for chatter!

The Back Porch

Another Amy jumpsuit hack, this time in double gauze. I’m wearing it with an
upcycled belt that I removed from an Anthropologie top, and my Bryr clogs.

Outline Tee designed by Jessie Maed knit it Shushan linen/wool blend spun by Battenkill Fiber Mill

630 yards / 300 grams 3-ply combo s pin

Ever-expanding Skill Set

simple syrups with herbs from my potted garden — HERE is a good overview from allrecipes

no-churn lemon ice cream — DIVINE!

Atlantic Beach pie

Off the Shelf

“Black Berries” from a more perfect Union by Teri Ellen Cross Davis

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 283

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