Episode 204: Rhinebeck Reentry

Episode 180 Forgetting

Finished Object:
Skew Socks, String Theory Colorworks 75/25 BFL/Nylon in Ribbes Nigrum colorway

Knitting:
Viajante in Nest Vorfrude SWM/M/Silk

Spinning:
Nest SWM/M/Silk in Jolly

Random and All Over the Place:
Recording again the 6th or 7th
What I forgot . . .

That's all for now, take care guys

Molly : )

Episode 70: Shortest Day

I hope you enjoy the 2014 retrospective. I thought it would be fun to pull everything out to show off.

KAL:
The Something Special KAL is live!
Starts January 1, and ends March 31.
Start a new, special project as a treat for yourself in the new year.

Knitting:
Moonstone Shawl 89g left 19%
Viajante 205g left 32%

Spinning:
Chocolate Shetland Fleece

Stashquisitions:
Wollmeise Pure in Saami

The 2014 Retrospective:
Fingerless Gloves
Grandpa Socks
Lizard Socks
Handspun Socks
Nuvem
Standwanderer
Walk on the Moon
Frangipani
Wild Apple Bohus
Halelea
Stella Scarf
Fail Scarf
Chocolate Shetland Fleece
Mystery Merino
Nest Superwash merino
Fat Cat Knits BFL
Fiber Optic Polworth
Fiber Optic Merino Silk gradient

2015 Plans
Neutral Sweater
Finally finishing the Shetland spin
Knitting Fragile Hearts in Merino Silk
Flash Your Stash

Episode 34: Slightly Green

Woo hoo! It's done!


Finished Object:
Wild Apples Bohus!

Knitting:
Halele'a
Walk On the Moon

Stashquitions:
Wollmeise DK in Feldmaus

Spinning:
Fat Cat Knits Variegated BFL in Let's Go Crazy
The Spinning Wheel Project

Random and All Over the Place:
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Private Selection Vanilla tastes funny
Sweater sleeves, and how they drive me nuts
A good price for Wollmeise destash skeins
Wool post is heading to a friend
The Oldest Anything KAL starts April 1
I didn't get in to the Knitting Pipeline retreat
Recording again Tuesday March 25th.

As a side note, YouTube has really improved and streamlined their upload video interface since last week, kudos to the development team!

That's all for now, take care guys!

Molly : )

Episode 33: Winter, I Hate You

Big Announcement! The Oldest Anything KAL. The first 15 minutes go over the rules, and some ideas on how to justify your project.


Knitting:
Wild Apples Bohus

Spinning: 
Fat Cat Knits Variegated BFL in Let's Go Crazy

Stashquisitions:
Pigeonroof Studios Merino Silk
Wollmeise Lace

Random and All Over the Place:
Crafty Night
A Homespun House Podcast
Winter Sucks
Another tour of the stash
Knitting Pipeline retreat looking unlikely
Enabling
I keep switching between Anything Old, and Everything Old, but join us, it will be fun!

Episode 32: Doubtful but Hopeful

Not a lot to show this week, but quite a bit to talk about


Knitting:
Wild Apples Bohus

Spinning:
Chocolate Shetland Fleece (skein 2 done!)

Stashquisitions:
Nest Fiber Club
Wollmeise DK (grab bags are in stock, take a gamble you might like it)
Pigeonroof Studios 70% SW Merino 30% Silk

Random and All Over the Place:
March is Pi Month!
Completely Twisted and Arbitrary Poundathon Challenge

Knitting Pipeline retreat is still not for sure
Come introduce yourself!
A cheater friendly, knit what you intended to already KAL is coming
Recording again March 11th

That's all for now, take care guys

Molly : )

Episode 31: Ravellenics Update 3

So, I got halfway, which isn't all the way. I was on topic and somewhat linear today. Surprise!

No victory lap today, but soon, soon.


Knitting:
Wild Apple Bohus Pullover

Spinning:
Chocolate Shetland Fleece, skein 2

Random and All Over the Place:
Recording again March 4th
Halele'a and Walk on the Moon are on hold so I can try finishing the bohus.
I am wearing my Simplicity cardigan

That's all for now, take care guys

Molly : )

Episode 30: Ravellenics Update 2

Today is warm! Yay! Progress on the Bohus!

 Look at how snowy it was Monday, likely the most snow since 1982. I think at least half melted today.



Knitting:
Wild Apple Bohus Yoked Pullover

mods:
used pesto green instead of farn for half a row because I ran out of farn
smaller sleeve and bottom, 2 inches a sleeve instead of 4 inches
adding waist shaping
the colors for the last 20 rows weren't really following the pattern in the yoke
I cast on underarm stitches using Judy's  Magic Cast On for sleeve and body underarm
tipping for the cast off

Random and All Over the Place:
Beautiful Day!
Gortex boots are awesome.
Knitting Pipeline Retreat
Sleeves never fit me, they are nearly always too big

That's all for now, take care guys!

Molly : )

Episode 29: Ravellenics Update 1

Hello happy knitters! I am really all over the place this week, but the ravellenics is the main theme.


Knitting:
Wild Apples Bohus

Walk on the Moon #2

Spinning:
Fat Cat Knits Variegated BFL in Let's Go Crazy

Random and All Over the Place:
Ravellenic Games!
Almond Avalanche coffee from Espresso Royal
Knitting Pipeline Retreat registration ends Feb 15
Swatching for colorwork
Getting floats just right
My 20-something knitting friends
Why half and half is the reason why eating vegetarian before 6 is easier than vegan before 6

That's all for now, take care guys!

Molly : )

Episode 28: Bohus! Bohus! Bohus!

My Olympic goal is a Bohus Sweater. It will be a stretch to finish, but I would like to try.


Knitting:
Halele'a
Walk on the Moon #2
Wild Apples Bohus

Spinning:
Fat Cat Knits Variegated BFL in the Let's Go Crazy Colorway

Stashquisitions:
Knitter's Pride Karbonz Needles in US 00 1.75mm

Random and All Over the Place:
I am wearing my Bohus
Color Theory . . .
9 inches of snow!
Recording again Tuesday February 11

That's all for now, take care guys!

Molly : )

Episode 27: Pajama Party

Hopefully next week things will be returning back to normal.


Knitting:

Halele'a
Walk on the Moon #2

Random and All Over the Place:
Refinishing the floor
Bohus! Bohus! Bohus!
The bedroom

That's all for now, take care guys!

Molly : )

Episode 26: Somewhat Somber

I am more somber than usual. I explain why at the beginning.


Finished Object:
Pretty Thing Cowl

Knitting:
Halele'a
Walk on the Moon

Spinning:
Fat Cat Knits variegated BFL in Let's Go Crazy, second skein
Chocolate Shetland Fleece is now all clean, as in washed. The ubiquitous hay still seems to remain.

Random and All Over the Place:
I was in Dallas when there was a shooting in the building and floor I work on as a teaching assistant
Sweater spinners support threads in the Whatcha Swatching Podcast group and Completely Twisted and Arbitrary group
I will be getting new coffee soon, and the strange ways my coffee maker fails
Color theory
Recording again on Tuesday January 28th.

That's all for now take care guys!

Molly : )

Episode 25: Random Molly is Random

Sorry about all the nonlinear thinking. I dart all over the place this week


Finished Objects:
Walk on the Moon

Half Finger Gloves

Knitting:
Halele'a

Spinning :
Chocolate Shetland Fleece
Fat Cat Knits Variegated BFL

Vague Plans:
Maurits
Wild Apples Bohus
Walk on the Moon

Weaving:
Tabby with Stella Polaris and Blue Curacao

Stashquisitions:
Zealana Air

Random and All Over the Place:
Coffee, Hazelnut, with almond cashew hazelnut milk

Classes started, life continues on
The walls are yellow now, instead of brown
Walk on the Moon, of future and past
Trying to knit a glove in a single day in Detroit

 Recording again on the 21st of January.

Molly : )

Of Stashing and Knitting

Hello All!

With all of these stash down resolutions flying around I thought it would be fun to show the data. Since I am still on vacation I had some time to figure out how much I knit and spun in 2013 along with the annual flashing of the stash.

So, to start, what did I finish when?



There were a couple of spikes, sweaters in January, June and December and shawls in May, August and December. Spinning starts with my second project, and there is a cluster in June when I took the class.

If you look at the accumulation though, there is a slightly different story.



Apparently I knit on average 31 yards a day, and spin about 6. I am pretty consistent. This makes it a lot easier to say, set a goal on how much I want to knit and spin. Vaguely speaking 2800 yards knitting and 522 spinning for the first quarter of 2014. Is anyone interested in doing this too? Of course it would be more sporting if I upped that total a smidge, or decreased knitting in favor of spinning. I will probably talk about this on my next podcast.

Of course in a clever turn, the stash graph is in miles, which is a different unit. I knit nearly 7 miles and spun a little over 1 mile.

I knew this last month, but this month was an uptick all around.










And now for the fun part, the photos.

I have artfully de-emphasized what disaster the yarn room is in at the moment. There are 33,000 yards of yarn in rainbow formation.

Of course, 2013 was the year of handspun.

The leftmost is my latest skein the Fat Cat Knits BFL, the rightmost is the leftovers from my third project the Fiber Optic Merino-Silk Gradient.

And my favorite, the Wollmeise.

At this point I have a lot of leftovers.Most of the taste of Wollmeise skeins are probably not in the stash, whoops, or they are in, but I never change that number. Maybe after the second Bohus. The brown is going to be the MC, and I will likely be using all of the shades of red.

My full skeins of Wollmeise

There has been a decent turnover since last year. I didn't knit as many projects in Wollmeise as I did last year. I am participating in the 12 Wollmeise KAL. In 2012 I did get the number of skeins in, but I fell pretty short in 2013. The object is to knit 12 skeins, or 12 projects, or 12 something. Cheater friendly ; )

If I can make a dent in the partial balls of lace I suspect I will be in pretty good shape. I would like to do a red, green and blue Walk on the Moon, but I would need to mod the pattern a little for how much leftovers I have.

So that is the state of the stash. Lace on the fourth shelf, fingering on the third shelf, worsted on the second and some of the fiber on the first.

That's all for now, take care guys

Molly : )