Episode 296: Another Openin'
Update: 2025-04-30
Description
Thank you for tuning in to Episode 296 of the Down Cellar Studio Podcast. Full show notes with photos can be found on my website. This week's segments included:
- Off the Needles, Hook or Bobbins
- On the Needles, Hook or Bobbins
- Brainstorming
- From the Armchair
- Knitting in Passing
- KAL News
- Events
- Life in Focus
- On a Happy Note
- Quote of the Week
Thank you to this episode's sponsors: Stitched by Jessalu (2nd Episode of the Month)
Off the Needles, Hook or Bobbins
Pop Tart
- Pattern: None
- Yarn: Knit Picks Brava & Joann Big Twist Value Solids in Natural Colorway + variegated yarn (fingering weight held double)
- Hook:C (2.75 mm)
- Ravelry Project Page
- Made for Eme's birthday as a cute something to open. Gifted with a box of edible poptarts.
Cold Goat Farm Spinning Project
- Fiber: Cold Goats Farm; believe it is a merino/mohair batt (8oz) in a natural, undyed cream color
- Ravelry Project Page
- Twist direction: singles = Z plied = S
- This means when I'm spinning, my wheel is spinning clockwise and when plying my wheel is moving counter-clockwise.
- Progress: All of the spinning of the singles is done- finally.
David... Fold in the cheese socks
- Yarn: Legacy Fiber Artz in the David...Fold in the cheese!!!! colorway (with cream/gray mini skein)
- Pattern: OMG Heel Socks by Megan Williams ($5 knitting pattern available on Ravelry)
- Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
- Ravelry Project Page
- About the yarn- cream, pink and blue to match rose apron David wears in this episode of Schitt's Creek.
- I did a shorter than usual leg- 5.25 inches and 9.5 inch foot. The first sock 28 grams, using CC for toe and cuff, so I should have enough for a second pair of socks with this yarn.
On the Needles, Hook or Bobbins
Hot pink spinning
- Fiber: Mountain Vewe Coopworths Fiber in hot pink (no specific colorway name)- three 4oz bumps
- Ravelry Project Page
- Twist direction: singles = Z plied = S
- This means when I'm spinning, my wheel is spinning clockwise and when plying my wheel is moving counter-clockwise.
- Progress: ~1/2 way through first bump. 1st bobbin nearly full.
Granny Square Tan Top
- Yarn: MC- Cloudbourn Fibers Wool Fingering Twist in Natural (1 skeins), Advent Mini Skeins from Legacy Fiber Artz (Steel Toes Base) & Fibernymph Dye Works (Bounce Base)- both from 2024.
- Hook: D (3.25 mm)
- Pattern: none
- Ravelry Project Page
- 3 round granny squares: Round 1= more tonal color, Round 2= speckled, Round 3= natural
- Yarn organization: I put 2 sets of colors in each mostly clear zippered pouch from my Yarnable Subscription kits. It keeps the yarn from the mini skeins from getting tangled.
- Progress: Squares to date: 25 squares.
Boss A$$ B|tc# Socks
- Yarn: Woolens & Nosh Superwash Targhee Fingering in the Boss A$$ B|tc# Colorway (purposely not spelled out here, though it is on the label)
- Pattern: OMG Heel Socks by Megan Williams ($5 knitting pattern available on Ravelry)
- Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
- Ravelry Project Page
- 90g of yarn to start
- About the Yarn: Self striping with yellow, tan, peach, pink, light aqua, teal & navy
- Progress: cast on 1st sock. Finished cuff and an inch or two into leg.
Dinosaur T-Rex and Pterodactyl
- Pattern: Dinosaur T-Rex and Pterodactyl by Anita Suriaa- $5.99 crochet pattern on Ravelry
- Yarn: Knit Picks Brava Worsted
- Hook: 2.5 mm
- Progress: I've made T-Rex head and body. Thought I'd run out the yarn for the body (25g mini).
Brainstorming
Advent brainstorm- Granny Wrap available on Ravelry. Kristina- foryouandyarn- reminded me that I love Ali's Starryeyesali's Ravelry Project Page.
From the Armchair
- The Crow Trap by Ann Cleves. Amazon Affiliate Link.
- A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan. Amazon Affiliate Link.
- Annie Bot by Sierra Greer. Amazon Affiliate Link.
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Knitting in Passing
My cousin Ava knit the Storm Sweater by Petite Knit for her boyfriend Luke.
- Pattern available on Ravelry & the <a
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