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Episode 36 – Sleeves, Socks, and Shawls

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Here we go… quickie notes today!

Summer Lovin Craft-along!  Join it! Chat here! (I just now came up with craft-along.  After a month.  I’m so clever.)

East Tennessee Yarn Crawl!  It’s gonna be awesome!

Tour de Fleece!  Starts June 29! Let’s do this!

Sallyfromidaho is the awesome for cranking out this In The Pink!

Elise Shawl (crochet) in the CCC Tealish Purple!  FINALLY.

Koi Rama in the laceweight alpaca from Annadele Alpacas (they have a facebook page!)

Serpentine Socks out of handspun from Tempted for the Tennessee Valley Handspinner’s Guild challenge for this year.

Cerisara in Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool.  SLEEVES!  YAY!!

Spinning Moonwood Farms Big-A**-Kicking Batt.  Should I ply with thread? Or together?  Eh?

Acquired a Doctor Who project bag!  Yay! From Star Knits.

Botanical Knits came in the mail.  Such a pretty book.

Proper review of the Wolf Farms products.  Love.  Swoon.  Etc.  I will be making more purchases in the future.

 

Episode 35 – The Week of Crafting Fails

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Announcements:

  • **I forgot to remind you of the Summer Lovin’ K/C/S/W/NP-Along! Only one person is done, and some Color Wheel Yarn is up for grabs if you post in the FO thread by June 25!**
  • Middle Tennessee Fiber Festival in Dickson Tennessee this weekend – I’m still considering going!
  • East Tennessee Yarn Crawl – June 1-15 – if you’re interested, contact one of the shops to reserve your passport!

WIPs:

FOs

Acquisitions:

Episode The Big 3-0!

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Festivals –
SMFAF in Townsend, Tn April 15-20 (rav group here)
KY Sheep and Fiber Fest in Lexington May 18-19 (rav group here)

Featured FO-
patternwhisperer’s Trillian

Wips-
Baltic Drizzle
Mandikat’s Evergreen Lace
Red Ceri
Neon Koi Smiles

Spinning-
for my Bigger on the Inside shawl, out of this fiber right here

Resurrected-
Noro Pogona

What’s Next-
Blue Lagoon by Lily Go in my Wolle’s CCC tealish purple as seen here
Check out Lily Go’s other patterns here

Summer Lovin’ K/C/S/W-along!
Find something that makes you think of summer and jump into the -along with whatever fiber craft makes you happy! We’ll officially begin the crafting in May!
The thread for the -along is here! There may be prizes, but I haven’t thought that far ahead yet.