Episode 300: Sum-Sum-Summertime
Update: 2025-06-30
Description
Thank you for tuning in to Episode 300 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
- From the Armchair
- Crafty Adventures
- Knitting in Passing
- In my Travels
- KAL News
- Events
- On a Happy Note
- Quote of the Week
Thank you to this episode's sponsors:
- Stitched by Jessalu- See Jessalu's bags at the The Warm Ewe in Chatham, NY through July 5, 2025 & at Fiber Revival in Newbury, MA on August 16th
- Yumi Yarns whose Coastal Bloom Wrap Skirt is now available
Off the Needles, Hook or Bobbins
Miles' Montessori Toy
- Pattern: Montessori Colour Sorter by Lexie Warren. Free crochet pattern available on Ravelry & on Crochet River)
- Hook: D (3.25 mm)
- Yarn: Big Twist Value Solids in Purple, Orange, Teal and Cyan. Knit Picks Brava in Canary, Rouge and White.
- 7 balls and 7 cups. 6 to create hexagon and white in the center.
- Stash Dash: 234 meters
- SPP-116 grams- 2 entries
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
- Stash Dash- 280.5 meters (306.8 yards),
- SPP- 75 grams
- 9.5 inch leg, 9.25 inch foot
Let's Get Basted Socks
- Yarn: Hypnotic Yarn Plush Sock in the Let's Get Basted Colorway (Yarnable November 2024 colorway)
- 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 colorway- cream with gray, purple, tan/brown and small blips or orange. Spiral pooling.
- Stash Dash: 256 meters
- 64 grams- 1 SPP Entry
Ball Band for Rachel #2- for Starbucks Venti Cup
- Pattern: Ball Band with a Twist by Jennifer Lassonde. $2 Crochet pattern available on Ravelry & LoveCrafts
- Hooks: F (3.75 mm) & G (4.25 mm)
- Yarn: Loops & Thread Classic Cotton in Pewter, Midnight Blue and Bubblegum
- Ravelry Project Page
- Midnight blue hdc through 3rd loop. 1 round of pink sc, body in pewter sc, one round of blue at top.
0.37 skeins = 40.3 meters (44.1 yards), 25 grams
- Stash Dash: 40.3 meters
Ball Band for Starbucks Venti Cup (Jen)
- Pattern: Ball Band with a Twist by Jennifer Lassonde. $2 Crochet pattern available on Ravelry & LoveCrafts
- Hooks: F (3.75 mm) & G (4.25 mm)
- Yarn: Loops & Thread Classic Cotton in Pewter and Bubblegum
- Project Page
- 0.57 skeins = 62.1 meters (67.9 yards), 39 grams
Adrift on an Inland Sea Socks
- Yarn: Woolens & Nosh SW Targhee Sock in the Adrift on an Inland Sea colorway
- 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: 2 lighter/medium grays, cream, mustard and a thinner stripe of a charcoal bordering on black. Used the CC gray for cuff and will use for the toe.
- Finished on the ride to ME for camping.
- 0.8 skeins = 300.8 meters (329.0 yards), 80 grams
- 8.5 inch leg. 9.5 inch foot
Urth Yarn Hat 2 of 2
- Pattern: Turn a Square by Jared Flood ($5 pattern available on Ravelry & Brooklyn Tweed website)
- Yarn: Urth Yarn Uneek Worsted
- Needles: US 5 (3.75 mm) for ribbing. US 7 (4.5 mm) for body.
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