She Can Make

http://shecanmake.libsyn.com She Can Make Episode 5 Show Notes It's a Knit Along! - Episode 005 is live and ready for your listening pleasure! Today’s segments include: In the workroom Alterations Skills Lab A review, or two Crafting with Kids A Knit Along Announcement And from the Mail Bag Thank you so much for joining us! We’re celebrating our 1000th download this week. Thank you so much for being an amazing and supportive community.   In The Workroom: Lindsey is discussing her newest project.  The Feather and Fan scarf by Kelly Faller, it can be found as a free download on Ravelry.  This project is using up some Regia Cotton sock yarn that she wasn’t going to use for socks.   Kate is finishing the last bits of the Jayla Shawl, all that’s left is a bath and a block.  She is also doing a little window shopping for the find-your-fade shawl --- because Kate loves an oversized shawl. Kate is starting to think about getting set up for a little bit of christmas knitting -- time to make the spreadsheet.   Alterations: Lindsey deals with the problems that come from trying to rush a sewing project.  Time is running out and she needs an anniversary present for her husband.  It goes all wrong, find out if it works out in the end.   Kate discusses one of the things that frustrates her most.  Sleeves on sweaters, especially all the baby knitting she is up to lately.  She offers a couple of suggestions she hopes to try in the future.  Maybe they will be helpful for you too!   Kate also discusses an alteration that her mom had to do this week with a bulky weight cable blanket.  The cables got crosses and she has an ingenious way to fix it.   Skills Lab: In this episode we talk to Megan Dougherty from One Stone Creative.  She is a specialist in online learning and training media and we’re going to discuss the intersection of crafts and online learning, and how to identify and make the most of a great online learning tool in your crafting adventures.     A Review or Two:  Lindsey reviews Knitter’s Pride Nova Cubics Platina Circular Needles --- Size 8 - 5mm. Purchased from Llama Laine in Hanover, ON for around 12$.  Lindsey discusses what she does and doesn’t like, and whether she would buy them again.   Crafting With Kids: Lindsey is sharing her top five tips for sewing with kids.  She’s sharing what she has learned so far, there will be more to come.     Knit Along Announcement: Starting September 1st we will be hosting a Knit Along on our Ravelry page celebrating the return of our knitting mojo thanks to that crisp fall weather. Rules are as follows: Knit Along will run from Sept 1 - Dec 1 Pick 3 patterns from Alla Saenko from Island Knit Design on Ravelry.  She’s a designer from Victoria, British Columbia and we’re excited to be working with her. You can choose any 3 of her patterns you like,  and knit up one per month. You should pick 3 that challenge your skills, but don’t feel obligated to pick anything so hard you’re going to pull your hair out. Each month you declare what you’re working on the thread in Ravelry, and anyone who finishes their project will be entered into a draw for one of our great prizes. Everyone who finishes for all 3 months will be entered into a special additional drawing in December!  Kate thinks she’ll be working on: Frozen Skies Let it Flow Sunset Frost Lindsey thinks she’ll be working on: Twilight Mist Scarf Before Sunrise Frozen Skies Island Knit Designs is currently running a promotion on their page that will let you get 35% off if you order 3 (or more) patterns form her pattern store on ravelry, so this is a great time to do a little shopping. They have also been kind enough to donate a set of patterns for a lucky participant. You’ll be able to pick any three patterns you want, and you can enter using our rafflecopter contest on our facebook page by joining our facebook group, ravelry group, and using the rafflecopter link to tweet about our giveaway.   From the Mail Bag: How does one escape from a button shop?   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have questions, comments or feedback you can join our ravelry, instagram or facebook at She Can Make Podcast or email us at shecanmakepodcast@gmail.com  Thanks for listening and talk to you next week!          

She Can Make - Episode 4 Show Notes Welcome to She Can Make - A podcast making Canadian content, one stitch at a time. This is Episode 4. We’re your hosts, Kate and Lindsey. Today’s segments include: In the Workroom Alterations Skills Lab A Review or Two Crafting with Kids Event Spotlight And from the Mail Bag Thank you so much for joining us! We’re celebrating our 500th download this week. We’ve actually hit 575 as of recording. Thank you so much for being an amazing and supportive community. We’re going to get a knit-a-long in the works for you starting next week, so keep your ears perked!   In the Workroom: Lindsey is rediscovering the joys of Fall Fairs.  She’s finding inspiration in all the home crafting categories, and plans to participate in future fairs. Kate is continuing work on her Jayla shawl while helping her friends get ready to move and preparing for cycling in the Kawartha Classic. Kate had the pleasure of speaking with Tamy Gore (Jayla shawl) on instagram this week, she has given us a 20% discount on the pattern from today through to Sunday, August 27th, using the promo code: SHECANMAKE   Alterations: Lindsey has had a kitten disaster with her produce bag.  It has been chewed into shreds… literally!  She is trying again and running into more problems, maybe this will get shelved until she gets more appropriate yarn. Kate has been off on vacation last week.  She planned a giant knitting festival, but friends needed some help getting ready for a big move, and it was 7 days of non-stop packing and organizing. By the end of the week she was able to make some interesting changes to her Jayla shawl in an attempt to use up the yarn set aside for it.   Skills Lab: Lindsey discusses the iOS fashion drawing app Pret-a-Template.  She’s explaining how it works, what’s great about it, and whether it is worth the high price tag for a hobby crafter.   A Review or Two: Kate is reviewing her first Craftsy class, Drafting from Woollen to Worsted with Jacey Boggs Faulkner.  It’s an intermediate level spinning class, costing around the $25 CAD.  Kate discusses what’s included and the quality of the content.  Kate also discusses how she feels about taking future Craftsy classes.   Crafting with Kids: It’s a very exciting week with Miss O, perhaps the most exciting.  She used her new Janome machine for the first time this week, and the result are amazing.    Event Spotlight: Woodstock Fleece Festival ---- The Woodstock Fleece Festival is an annual event that invites fibre artists, spinners and knitters to join together in an atmosphere of appreciation, learning and camaraderie. ​The show incorporates workshops and demonstrations from top instructors.  Exhibition booths will be selling everything from raw fibre to quality finished goods.  It is also a great place to have lunch!       ● Saturday October 14th, 2017 ● 9am - 5pm ● Woodstock Fairgrounds, Woodstock Ontario ● www.fleecefestival.com ● Classes range from $40 - $85 and may have additional materials costs.   And from the Mail Bag:  Mark wants to know how long you store materials for a hobby you no longer actively pursue?   Thanks for Joining Us  If you have questions, comments or feedback you can join our ravelry, instagram or facebook at She Can Make Podcast or email us at shecanmakepodcast@gmail.com   Thanks for listening and talk to you next week!    

She Can Make - Episode 3 Show Notes   Welcome to She Can Make - A podcast making Canadian content, one stitch at a time. We’re your hosts, Kate and Lindsey. Today’s segments include: In the workroom Alterations Skills Lab A Review or Two Crafting with Kids And from the Mail Bag In the Workroom: Some of Kate’s knitting and spinning has been put on hold this week to get in some much-needed cycling time. Kate is getting ready for the Kawartha Lakes Classic Cycling Tour.  She is plugging along on the Jayla shawl by Tammy Gore that she talked about last time, and is about ⅓ of the way through the first panel, very vanilla garter stitch initially, which is helping her fit knitting in when she's tired or distracted. She has also booked the hotel and classes for her visit with her mom to the Woodstock Fleece Festival in October. They're going to take an natural indigo dying class. Lindsey is still not fully unpacked, but has decided that it’s time to get sewing.  She’s working on a favourite shirt pattern to get her started.  McCalls M7191. She has decided to try one with back yoke and flowing lace. Alterations: Kate discusses the complications of dealing with husky hair when knitting and spinning.  She offers a couple of solutions, and hints that Lindsey’s sewing skills might be able to help her out. Lindsey discusses how her sewing room set up isn’t going as planned.  She discusses what went wrong and why, and talks about how she’s actually happier with the outcome so far. Skills Lab: Kate gives a great explanation of the differences between woolen and worsted yarns, including why they are different and the best ways to use them. A Review or Two:   Lindsey reviews Crochet Magazine: Autumn 2017 issue, available until October 2nd, 2017 from Chapters / Indigo for $8.  Crafting with Kids: The adventures with Miss O continue.  Lindsey discusses the pros and cons of the felting machine (Sew Cool), and what she felt Miss O learned, and did not learn from the experience.     From the Mail Bag: Does anyone ever buy anything from Joann’s / Michael’s at full price? Thanks for Joining Us If you have questions, comments or feedback you can join our ravelry, instagram or facebook at She Can Make Podcast or email us at shecanmakepodcast@gmail.com Thanks for listening and talk to you next week!      

She Can Make Episode 2 - Show Notes Welcome to She Can Make - A podcast making Canadian content, one stitch at a time. Today’s segments include: In the workroom Alterations  Live from the Skills Lab  A Review  Crafting with Kids From the male bag In the Workroom Lindsey is working on a storage bag for her garlic and onions fresh from the farm using Loops & Thread Jeany Denim. The girls will get a pattern put together when Lindsey finishes her project. Kate is doing a lot of spinning, as her Tour de Fleece mojo arrived about two weeks too late. She's spun about 15 oz of fiber in the last week and put some serious miles on the treadle. Alterations Lindsey alters a banana bread recipe to make it a little healthier.  Kate rips back a Taine shawl by Melanie Berg she had been working on in favour of the Jayla shawl by Tammy Gore. She is using Shelridge Yarn for both the shawl she ripped out and the shawl she is working on now.  Kate mentions Yarn Over Sleep Over, which is knitting camp for grown-ups. You should totally go.  Live from the Skills Lab Kate talks about how to make the most of a Ravelry search and refers to a Ravelry Blog post from August 3, 2017.  A Review or Two The girls compare and contrast their very different sets of interchangeable circular needles. Lindsey's are the Needle Master Interchangeable Needle System by Boye and Kate has Addi Click Turbo Interchangeable Circular Needles. They have very strong opinions about both sets, and the results are a little surprising.  Crafting with Kids Lindsey is helping Miss O with a simple skirt to help get her started on her Janome Derby machine. They have negotiated the design, and are waiting for the right moment to get started. Lindsey talks about expected challenges when sewing with a kid as young as Miss O. From the Mail Bag A new segment in which craft-adjacent partners and friends can submit their questions about why exactly crafty things are the way they are.  This week's question is about pinking shears. 

She Can Make Episode 1 - Show Notes Welcome to She Can Make - A podcast making Canadian content, one stitch at a time. Today’s segments include: -Introductions to Kate & Lindsey -How we ended up podcasting -in the workroom -Alterations  -Live from the Skills Lab  -A Review  -Crafting with Kids About Kate: Kate is a 30-something year old knitter and spinner, originally hailing from Fenelon Falls, Ontario, now settled in Oshawa and celebrating her first year of home ownership. By day she's your friendly neighbourhood insurance broker, and most evenings Kate can be found behind my spinning wheel, drop spindle or knitting up a storm. She pretends to be a cyclist and spends a lot of time hanging out with her husky, Miss Finnegans.  About Lindsey:  Lindsey is married with a 3.5 year old daughter.  She is originally from small town, and have recently moved back after 15 years in Toronto. Most of her craft time is spent sewing or knitting, but she also enjoys crochet, scrapbooking, colouring, and cooking and baking.  When not crafting or chasing Miss O, she loves roller derby and board gaming. So, How Did We End Up Podcasting? Kate texted Lindsey in the middle of the day about a month ago and asked her what she thought about putting together a podcast. Lindsey was in the middle of a move and unpacking.  She thought Kate was completely crazy, but the more Kate bugged her about it and the more she gave it some thought, the more she thought it sounded like fun. In the Workroom: We’ve spent a few weeks working out the kinks and the whats and hows of how to put a podcast together and get it out to listeners, so fingers crossed this all goes smoothly, but we hope that you’ll be patient with us while we work out the kinks. Outside of podcast prep, Kate has found out recently that there are some new babies coming in late fall in her family. She has spent a lot of time knitting tiny baby sweaters. Recently She finished the Pomander Baby Cardigan by Whistling Girl Knits, the bouncing baby bonnet from Homespun Handknits.  These were both knit out of Fleece Artist Cottage Sock in the Moss colourway, which is a tonal lime and frog green. They don’t know what flavour of babies the families are expecting, so Kate is trying to keep things neutral, especially because both babies will be first babies to their respective families, so neutral knits have a better chance of being shared sibling to sibling. She's hoping to start the Alaskan Baby Pullover by Ainur Berkimbayeva as part of her August Knit Along. Lindsey has mostly been unpacking after the move and has had much less crafting time than she had hoped.  Alterations: Moving as a crafter presents some unique challenges because there are too many boxes, including 33 boxes of board games. The movers weren't happy about this. The girls have strict moving policies about craft supplies, you don't touch their stuff. Craft boxes are first packed and last unpacked which puts crafting on hold. Lindsey would never unpack and would just furiously sew new clothes, but since that just isn't reasonable, she is madly unpacking and starting to think of new projects finally When working on the Pomander baby cardigan, Kate had a hard time with the pattern. The way pattern was laid out and written made it hard to process the information. Kate found that the conversational style of the pattern really doesn’t work for her brain, and more than once she missed a major step. One of them was bad enough that she had to ask her mom to rescue her. She had knit the body and had come to the place where you were casting on additional stitches for the sleeves, and she just cast them on and continued on her merry way, and then realized when she had knit the yoke and done the trim, that there was one small problem … She didn't have live stitches to pick up for the sleeves. She couldn’t think about how to fix this without creating an obvious seam, and so she went back and checked the pattern, sure enough, a few lines away from the actual cast on instructions it says “provisional”   Funny how one word can changes so much.  Because the cable starts directly after the cast-on row, Kate just wasn’t confident enough in her ability to not lose 20 stitches for each sleeve, so she gave it to her mom and let her spend an entire Saturday night snipping and unpicking the cast on edge and picking up the live stitches as she went. Once that was done it was smooth sailing, but it almost landed the sweater in time out! Live from the Skills Lab Lindsey talks about colouring as a test run for colour design when she is working on sewing or knitting projects. She likes to colour to test out colour schemes before sewing, knitting or working on a project. This lets you really love or hate colours or decide ideal colour ratio, swap colours in and out. She often uses stickers.  It helps her limit waste and she can take the coloured sticker when she goes fabric shopping. Kate heard about a great app you could try while she was listening to the Knitmore Girls Podcast, called ProCreate. It lets you create a basic outline of what you want to create and make that 1 layer, then create a new layer on top to do your colouring or design work, and when you erase it it leaves the first layer alone. A Review or Two Lindsey reviewed Bobbin Mates by Unique Creativ and found that they were a small but smart tool that removes a pain point from her sewing projects. She probably won't switch entirely from her bobbin box today, but as she buys new threads she hopes to replace them one by one.  Crafting with Kids At 9 months old Miss O would stand and dance at the sewing machine, and by the time she could talk and toddle around she had costume and clothing requests and more recently she wanted to sew. Lindsey got her a basic kids “sewing” machine on sale after Christmas one year. It didn’t actually sew, but felted the pieces together. She was able to use it by herself and found it was a great introduction to sewing independently.  She has recently bought a Janome Derby sewing machine to start O off with a great quality kid's sized machine. Kate and Lindsey are both terribly jealous of how cool this machine is.  If you have questions, comments or feedback you can join our ravelry, instagram or facebook at She Can Make Podcast or email us at shecanmakepodcast@gmail.com Thanks for listening and talk to you next week!