Episode 289: A Sad Goodbye
Update: 2025-01-16
Description
Thank you for tuning in to Episode 289 of the Down Cellar Studio Podcast. This week's segments included:
- Off the Needles, Hook or Bobbins
- On the Needles, Hook or Bobbins
- From the Armchair
- Some Years Later
- Knitting in Passing
- Crafty Adventures
- KAL News
- Events
- Life in Focus
- On a Happy Note
- Quote of the Week
Content Note: I start the episode by sharing news that most of you probably already know but in case not, will set the tone for the rest of the episode. After 3 long years battling Stage 4 Lung Cancer- we lost my Mom, Diane, on New Year's Day. I share a bit more of the story in the Life in Focus segment, but there are small moments peppered throughout so if death and loss is a difficult topic for you right now, that's ok. I just wanted to give a heads up. If this isn't the episode for you, we'll catch you in the next one.
Off the Needles, Hook or Bobbins
Wintermint Socks
- Yarn: Woolens & Nosh SW Targhee Sock in the Wintermint Colorway
- Pattern: OMG Heel Socks by Megan Williams ($5 knitting pattern available on Ravelry)
- Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
- Ravelry Project Page
Peace & Light Mitts
- Yarn: Woolens & Nosh SW Targhee Sock in the Peace & Light Colorway
- Pattern: Soccer Mitts by Erica Lueder. Free Knitting Pattern available on Ravelry.
- Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
- Ravelry Project Page
- About the yarn: 6 stripes in blues/teals, 3 in creams/yellows
- Cast on with 56 sts like socks.
- Gave to Mom for Christmas. She only ended up wearing them a few times but she loved them very much.
On the Needles, Hook or Bobbins
Woolens & Nosh 2024 Advent Socks
- Yarn: Woolens & Nosh SW Targhee Sock
- Pattern: OMG Heel Socks by Megan Williams ($5 knitting pattern available on Ravelry)
- Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
- Ravelry Project Page
- Progress: 1st sock done. 2nd is beyond the heel.
Freckled Whimsy 2024 Advent Socks
- Yarn: Freckled Whimsy
- Pattern: OMG Heel Socks by Megan Williams ($5 knitting pattern available on Ravelry)
- Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
- Ravelry Project Page
- Riley knit a lot on these!
- The 1st sock is beyond the heel.
From the Armchair
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig- Bookshop Affiliate Link. Amazon Affiliate Link.
Note: Some links are listed as Amazon Affiliate Links. If you click those, please know that I am an Amazon Associate and I earn money from qualifying purchases.
Some Years Later
Wearing mostly Mom's handknits because I was there and didn't have all of my own to choose from.
- I wore some of her socks especially when we ended up sleeping in the family room and it was chilly and I couldn't leave her alone.
- Mom's blue Camp out fingerless mitts (Ravelry Project Page link)- 2021
- Mom's Shift Cowl out of my handspun (Ravelry Project Page link)- 2022
- Mom's Carbeth Cardigan (Ravelry Project Page link) - finished night before Rhinebeck in 2023 (while in Vegas)
Knitting in Passing
- Millie loved her lipstick and nail polish amigurumi.
- Hattie didn't get her Christmas gifts until after Miles' Baptism on 1/12- "be off you boring socks" and threw socks across the room and immediately put them on and was showing them off. It was very dramatic and adorable.
- Laura sent me a text of her friend Arielle wearing the socks I knit her. You can find the Ravelry Project Page here.
- Laura and I went back to my house one day to collect some things and Riley asked me to bring ALL THE KNITTING, so I grabbed a ton of stuff. She opened every single project bag and in the end still decided to knit on the Freckled Whimsy advent socks
Crafty Adventures
- We printed almost 400 photos for 11 posters for the funeral home. We broke out the scrapbook supplies and tape gun which I can't believe Laura didn't steal because after an initial skepticism she and Jenny were very into it. Megg, Oisin and Riley were huge helps and had a lot of fun.
- Megg and Laura searched house for memoriabilia stuff to make 3 displays for funeral home- Red Sox & reselling, Christmas and Wiz of Oz. Incredible. Funeral home did it just as well or even better.
- Megg made these Sox and Bruins "tickets" on Canva
KAL News
Pigskin Party '24 #DCSPigskinParty24
- Event Dates: Thursday September 5, 2024- Monday February 10, 2025
- Find everything you need in the Start Here Thread in the Ravelry Group
- Registration Form (you must be Registered to be eligible for prizes)
- Enter your projects using the Point Tally Form
- Find the full list of Sponsors in this Google Doc.
- Coupon Codes are listed in this Ravelry Thread
- Exclusive Items from our Pro Shop Sponsors are listed in this Ravelry Thread
- Questions- ask them in this Ravelry Thread or email Jen at downcellarstudio @ gmail.com
- Tune in to see if you won our Quarter 3 Challenge sponsored by FanGirl Fibers.
- Official Sponsor for Q4: Fibernymph Dye Works- Small Gains Challenge (January 2025). Check out this Ravelry Thread for details.
- Tune in to see if you won a December participation prize.
- Mary's Commentator Updates
- I just finished a sweater--my first big project of the PSP. It took me months and it feels like a great accomplishment. Plus it is enough yards to qualify for a blitz! This got me thinking about blitzes and wondering how the pigskin partiers are doing with blitzes this year. When I just looked, players had already submitted for 202 blitzes this year! Amazing! But even more amazing are a handful of what I am calling super-blitzers!
- 2 players have already completed 6 blitzes so far this year! Can you believe it?
- Spottydogknits finished two sweaters, one cardigan, a vest, a shawl and a scarf. Their Winterwald shawl is particularly pretty. It looks like a lot of fun to knit with a variety of mosaic colorwork.
- Purplemomz has completed 4 blankets! Two were knit and two were crocheted along with two cardigans!
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