A Very Palpable Knit

My Projects:

• The Swedish Heartwarmer Shawl - I suppose you could call this my ‘bucket list’ project. I’m stalled at the first chart, after an intarsia/fair isle debacle. This project is from Handknit Holidays, and I am using the recommended yarn, Mountain Colours Bearfoot.
• Cara’s Socks - birthday present for my friend Cara (Date of Birth: April 10). This project is from Favorite Socks, using All Things Heather Yarn.

My Food:

What can you make in a crappy staff accommodation with just a hotplate?

• Apricot, Walnut, & Quinoa Salad - very very tasty, and very fresh. Fruit man comes to Banff every Wednesday with fresh fruit from the Okanagan, which made it even better.
• White Beans in Creamy Sauce

Fibre Fun:

• Make 1 Yarns - My LYS
• Ravelry link to the scarf that contains my first handspun
• Hobbledehoy Batt Club - the club I joined.
• Ladybug Wheel - the wheel I am currently lusting over.
• Olds Fibre Week - my very first fibre festival! A bit smaller than I thought, and of course I was too late to get in on any of the classes.
• I bought undyed silk hankies from Legacy Studio
• I bought 80% Merino/20% Silk in ‘Midnight Magic’ from Aurelia Wool & Weaving
• Shuttleworks is near to my home, I hope to get out there some time soon.

Etsy Revue:

Scotts Mountain Crafts - The makers of my wonderful new swift, which works like a dream. If I put a towel down on my uneven countertops, that makes it perfectly stable

Music:

Today’s music is Drunken Sailor by Blaggards.

As always the theme music is Greensleeves by Lee Harris and the Tijuana Trumpets.

Both pieces are from the Podsafe Music Network.

 

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…. and I’m afraid that means no podcast.

But a quick update: my job is wonderful, I love the opera I am currently working on. I also loved the one that kept me so busy in March. Right now I’m living at my parent’s house, which is part of the reason for not podcasting. I just don’t want to have to explain why I’m talking to myself, it’d just be awkward. I will some time, I just don’t want to deal with all that now.

I’ve updated Wordpress, so when I do get to podcast next (maybe I’ll do two in May to make up?) everything should post smooth like butter.

No pictures because I’m not home in daylight.

I’ve started one new project, and the first moment I have when I get home, I am casting on for a big one.

My Knitting Progress
Cara’s Socks (modelled by my hand, as Cara has teeny feet).

Zen Yarn Garden - I’m in the semi-solid sock yarn club.

News

• I am in Vancouver!
• In Audacity, go to Preferences, and choose your microphone. Make sure it isn’t on Built-In Audio. Yes, I feel dumb.
• My Etsy Store! Home of a new generation of stitch markers. (Is that too pretentious? I suppose this is my podcast, so I can talk about myself how I want…) Also home to the iCozy, keep your iPod warm, cozy and protected, all while using recycled materials.

My Travel Knitting…

(if I can get over the whole motion-sickness thing)

• Cara’s Socks (Embossed Leaves in All Things Heather yarn)
• Millicents (in Louet Gems Pearl)
• Eyelet Rib Bandeau (in Rowan Cashsoft DK)

…And Travel Books

• Terry Goodkind
• Under the Black Flag
• First Among Sequels

The Knitator!!

• Knitting is Fun. No Crying Over It.

Etsy Eloquence

• I believe I have mentioned my Etsy store?

Yay Stuff!

• In which I admit my obsession with graph paper.
• And Post-It Notes.

Knitteth Thou?

• Did Shakespeare leave us an encoded message about the type of stockings he wore? Discuss.
• If you haven’t seen it, rent Rome. It’s a great series, plus you’ll learn some history too!

From Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, sc 2:

To hold you in perpetual amity,
To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts
With an unslipping knot, take Antony
Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims
No worse a husband than the best of men;
Whose virtue and whose general graces speak
That which none else can utter. By this marriage,
All little jealousies, which now seem great,
And all great fears, which now import their dangers,
Would then be nothing: truths would be tales,
Where now half tales be truths: her love to both
Would, each to other and all loves to both,
Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke;
For ’tis a studied, not a present thought,
By duty ruminated.

Music:

Today’s music is River Driver by Great Big Sea.

As always the theme music is Greensleeves by Lee Harris and the Tijuana Trumpets.

Both pieces are from the Podsafe Music Network.

 

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My Knitting Progress

Millicent Socks - still working on ‘em.

All Things Heather - the yarn I’m using for my friend Cara’s socks.

Embossed Leaves from Favorite Socks - the pattern I’m knitting for Cara

Elfine’s Socks - a pattern I still want to make, just not right now.

Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series - this has been keeping me from knitting. SO. GOOD. Do you really need these show notes? I need to go finish book 7…

News

My 101 things in 1001 days list is here. Remember to yell and scream if I don’t have a podcast out every month.

And here is the site that started it all. But the Ravelry group is where I found it.

THE KNITATOR!!

Amazon. Use it, yes. But check your local independent bookstore first, and buy there if possible.

Etsy Eloquence

Cabin & Cub Design - Wonderful service, great product, and they still have some bulletin boards in stock…

Yay Stuff!

TransGlass - recycled, good for the environment and chic! What more could we ask for? Well, I suppose I did get mine for 50% off.

Knitteth Thou?

From A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, sc 2:

O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!
Love takes the meaning in love’s conference.
I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit
So that but one heart we can make of it;
Two bosoms interchained with an oath;
So then two bosoms and a single troth.
Then by your side no bed-room me deny;
For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie

Late-Breaking Knitting News!
3 socks with holes! Even more thinning!

Hopefully with the help of this tutorial, I’ll be back in business (and warm toes) soon.

Music:

Today’s music is Good Ol A Capella by Danny Fong’s A Cappella Quartet.

As always the theme music is Greensleeves by Lee Harris and the Tijuana Trumpets.

Both pieces are from the Podsafe Music Network.

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Show Notes at vpk.rycrafty.com!

(pressing that pink play button doesn’t seem to work, but clicking ‘download’ does)

A little explanation about “Half an hour later in Newfoundland”. Canadians will find it funny. Promise.

My Projects:

1. Cookie A’s Millicent Socks

2. Fiery Bolero - Interweave Knits Summer 2005

Bloglines, CraftLit and Ravelry got me through my boring temp job.

Wondering how much stash I have in miles? Here’s a website for you: km to miles conversion

My Hibernating projects:

1. Dollar and Half Cardigan - about half done or so.

2. Sidewinder Sock - needs ripping, sigh.

3. Simply Lovely Lace Socks - if it is a UFO after a year, I should rip it, right? Why haven’t I?

4. The Infamous Capecho - arghl.

If you haven’t heard of Knit Wars yet, check out Lime & Violet, they’ll get you started.

The music is from the Podsafe Music Network, and is by Lee Harris and the Tijuana Trumpets.

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