Today’s episode is sponsored by Dizzy Blonde Studios. For beautifully hand-dyed yarns and inspired knit design, please visit DizzyBlondeStudios.etsy.com. Look for us at Stitches West in Booths 906 and 908!
Podcaster Throwdown (1:18)
We have at least 1038 hats contributed for the Throwdown total! We are in third place with 180 hats.
It’s crunch time!
There is virtual way to participate. You can now donate for your favorite team. Click here and choose your team. $5 is equal to one hat for your team! Each $5 lets Halos of Hope to ship 16 hats to cancer centers and hospitals around the country. The board is all volunteer, so all the money goes to shipping.
Halos of Hope plans to send the hats collected at Stitches West to cancer centers and hospitals in the Bay Area.
Check out Episode 8.5 for Throwdown information.
Check out the Podcaster Throwdown group in Ravelry. There will be prizes for participating in the Throwdown group on Ravelry, courtesy of XRX. Check out the Halos of Hope website and Ben’s interview with Pam Haschke on Fiber Hooligans.
The January incentive pattern is Assquack. Post your finished hats in this thread to get your incentive.
There are prizes for donating to Team Knottygirls. Check out Episodes 10, 11, 12, and 13, as well as the Prize Page for prize listings. New prizes include a custom-dyed skein of Dizzy Blonde yarns.
Send your hats to Purlescence Yarns, tagged for Team Knotty. Shipping information is here.
Purlescence Address:
Purlescence Yarns
your name & the name of your team
564 South Murphy Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Catching Up: (5:58)
Laura and her husband took the weekend off to recuperate after having family visit. She’s working to catalog her stash. She is also preparing for her last round of Nerd Wars for a while. And she’s getting ready for Stitches West.
Jen has been working seriously long hours because of Flu season (stay healthy). The only good thing is that the extra lab time has given her more podcast listening time. She saw several movies, including The Hobbit, American Hustle, and Nebraska. She’s been seeing her friend’s band play. She and Ron also had a Disney Day to see the Winter World of Color and the last performance of Billy Hill and the Hillbillies.
In the Knitting Bag: (17:08)
Laura made a stripey hat out of acrylic remnants for Stripe it Up January. She’s also making a premie hat for the Knitmore Girls Head to Toe collection. She’s also working up the Olivia’s Butterfly Hat, reworking the pattern to be done in sport weight yarn for the Stitches West Passport Game. And she worked on her 22 Leaves Shawlette by Lankakomero, out of Mean Girls Yarn Club in Heart in a Box. She is still struggling with bead placement.
Jen is working on her Sweetheart of the Rodeo sweater (her own design) out of Wollmeise DK in So Long Kitty (pink), Shalimar Breathless DK in Snopea (green), and Dream in Color Smooshy in Butterpeeps (yellow). She is also working on Twistygoo by Lisa M. Beamer in Knitpicks Brava in Wine. And she is working on a secret cowl.
Finished Objects: (23:37)
Laura finished two stripey hats. One was out of mystery acrylic and one was out of Dizzy Blonde DK mini skeins.
Jen finished a Twistygoo out of Delicious Yarns Frosting Worsted in Blueberry and Pistachio, leftover from the gramps sweater she made for her nephew. She striped them for Stripe it Up January. She finished the California Poppy Shawl by Lydia Tsymbal out of Baah La Jolla in My Sweet Valentine for Melissa and a Gerri Hat in Peter Pan Wendy Yarn in the colorway speckled blue. And she finished her vanilla socks in very old Opal Sock Yarn (the Rainforest series, colorway Flamingo, which is pink).
Frog Pond: (26:50)
Jen had lots of gauge issues this week. She frogged her Kently Socks by Heather Ordover from Hitch: Patterns Inspired by the Films of Alfred Hitchcock because they were too big.
She also had to completely frog her entire sweater, because her Wollmeise DK and her Shalimar Breathless DK do not give the same gauge on the same needles. She would have known that if she had swatched with both yarns.
On Deck: (31:38)
Laura is planning to do many stripey knit hats and crocheted hats and something for the Ravellenics.
Jen will be making another stripey Twistygoo out of yellow Plymouth Encore Yarn and something else. She will also make other hats, she will make two pairs of Kently socks for the Knitmore Girls #matchymatchyKAL (a pair for her and a pair for Ron). She will also have her Ravellenics project.
Knit Culture: (35:19)
One of Jen’s favorite Yarns
We answer questions from our Knotty Talk Thread about stash and yarn. We talk about stash and how we store it. We also talk about our favorite yarns (Laura: Brooks Farm Primero (her oldest stash), Jen: Vice Yarn Paradigm in Drunken Cherries, also 1000 yards of white cashmere laceweight), needles (Laura: Hiya Hiya, Jen: partial to Knitpicks needles (affordable and sharp tips), Karbonz, and Chiaogoo, and Addi Lace), and knitting bags (Laura: Namaste Zuma Bag and Jordana Paige Bella Bag, Jen: Namaste Harlowe also Slipped Stitch Studios bags, but she also uses grocery totes and clear bags from Loopy Ewe).
Don’t forget to Flash Your Stash to win a digital copy of of Doomsday Knits courtesy of Cooperative Press. And post your stripey FOs for a chance at another TBD prize.
We talk about the Ravellenic Games and Team Sasquatch. Knit for Ravellnics, Team Sasquatch, or both. Laura will be working on Down the Garden Path by Michele DuNaier and Jen will be doing a one-skein shawl of her own design.
Geek Culture: (1:01:10)
Neat Doctor Who baked goods picture gallery from a BBC America party.
We want to know if you have thoughts on casting Michael Douglas in Ant-Man (which also has Paul Rudd).
And we both love the Muppets Most Wanted trailer and are super excited!
Events: (1:07:06)
We will be at Stitches West, which is February 20-23 in Santa Clara, CA at the Convention Center. Dizzy Blonde Studios & Skeindalous Yarns are sharing a booth (booth 906 and 908). The Dizzy Blonde booth is a collection point for Halos of Hope hats for Team KnottyGirls (the final collection point!). With prizes! Shout out to the Purlescence Girls (who have the booth across from us) and we are right next to Halos of Hope (Booth 904). We will be doing a meet and greet Saturday 12:00-1:00 at the Dizzy Blonde Booth.
We will be at the Friday Fashion Show and Banquet. Jen has a sweater in it (made with Laura’s lovely yarn).
We will be doing a World Wide Knit in Public event sometime between June 7 – June 15, 2014, location to be determined.
Our next milestone prize will be at 1000 members, so join the Ravelry group! And don’t forget to knit hats and donate.
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