Episode 20 - Anatomy of a Sock

City Sheep/Country Sheep

Pam
-Organized my stash & cleaned the office
-Put curtains up & bought a rug for the living room!!
-Rain
 
Meegan
-Walmart story
-B/F from high school moved back to town

-made new needle & cable holder
-Saturday went to Barns & Noble & then to Borders for Lego event

In & Out of the Bag 

(please click on our names to visit our Ravelry project pages) 

Pam
Out -Kaitlyn's little girl shrug
In- Ballband Dishcloth
In - Seagrass Socks 

Meegan

Out - Freddie the Platypus
Out- Pants for Freddie
Out - Shirt for Freddie
In- Sock 1 almost done
In- Incognito
Starting:
Tricera Tops Hat - handspun
Joe's coat from Easy Kids Knits 
Freddie's Rain Coat 

Knotty Knitting

Meegan

My sock is too big but it'll work.  May need to use smaller needle size.
  
Cuppa

Pam
- Grandparents wedding family flying in & driving from all over the US

Meegan
New books:
Spud & Chloe at the Farm
Easy Kids Knits
Music - give a listen to The Decemberists!
Retzlaff Winery - not sure which day June 4th or 5th (most likely the 4th) Spinning at the Winery & knitting too!  Come join us!
CampKIP - April 6-9

Oh Knit Dr
Anatomy of a sock - check out this neat tool!

Anatomy of a Sock Tool

Spinsanity

Pam
-Meegan thinks I need a new spring for my tension but I'm going to try using a little hair rubber band first!

Meegan
Still working on Christina Marie Potter Kaylee colorway!
Don't have as much time to Spin because I have been knitting so much!

Episode 19 - Socks in a Box, with a Fox?

City Sheep/Country Sheep

Pam

-Cleaned and organized the bathroom

-Keeping house clean

-New faucet

-Craft weekend out at the farm house

Meegan

-Craft Weekend at my "Cottage"

- Huge Storm

-Super Moon

-My house is Legoland

-Made Yummy cake - smitten kitchen

In&Out of the Bag

(please click on our names to visit our Ravelry project pages) 

Pam

Out- Crochet cloth

Out- Rin's Clapotis

In- February Lady Sweater

In- Seagrass Socks

Meegan

nothing out
everything from last week still in!
Worked on my socks the most!

Knotty Knitting

Pam

-Knitting inside out in magic loop...again

Cuppa

Pam

-The lil Stitch

-Cruise

Meegan

Freddie's Blanket & Phoebe's Sweater
Last chance on teas at Fall Creek Fibers & Tea
CampKIP - April 6-9th
Spinning at the Winery - Retzlaff Winery in Livermore - June 5th

Oh Knit Dr

Startitis!
When you don't know what you want to cast-on, 1 option is to go with necessity - cast-on something you need!  Or option 2 is cast-on 1 of everything & see what you gravitate towards! :) 

Spinsanity

Pam

-spinning my bfl dream from Fall Creek Fibers

Meegan

Spun up 1st bump & 1/2 of 2nd bump of my Christina Marie Potter Kaylee fiber.
Spinning wheel treadle was bumping on the frame when at the park but was fine at home so the ground must have been too uneven at the park.

Thank You's

-Knittinwolf for her iTunes review!!

Episode 18 - Operation Organize

City Sheep/Country Sheep

Pam-

Sick

Operation clean house going very well!!

Kicked the soda habit...again

Baked a cake

Tsunami warning

Meegan- 

Tsunami 

stepdad home & doing great

tummy ache :(

Quilting - found AWESOME fabrics downtown SLO

going to make project bags & chart keepers

In & Out of theBag

Pam-

In: Crochet cloth for year long dishcloth swap

In: Kitchen Spring Time Towel

In: February Lady Sweater

In: Rin's Clapotis

In: Punky Brewster socks

Frogged: My Clapotis

Meegan-

STARTITIS!!!

Organizing my patterns

Out: My cowl

In: Tea Leaves - hurting my hands still :(

In: Alice in Wonderland Cardi A.K.A. Flair

In: Incognito for Jojo

In: Freddie the Platypus

In: Mossay Laminaria Shawl

In: Socks in Box Socks

Knotty Knitting

Meegan-

Buttonhole fix on Tea Leaves

Sleepy knitting confusion on Laminaria

Monkey Sock confusion 

Cuppa

Pam-

Etsy shop news- post office helping me with shipping!!

Grandparents Wedding April 2nd

Cuise April 24th-30th

 

Meegan-

Chai from Fall Creek Fibers

CampKIP

Donation Incentive (look for the Tip Jar @ www.theknitknackspodcast.blogspot.com

Wanting a Schacht Cricket - getting a bit of the Weaving bug! Especially for Scarves!

Oh Knit Dr

Question comes from Monique (moemoe on Ravelry) and moemoeknits on Twitter

"Can you talk about designing your own charts for color work? Where can I find information?"

I suggest using graph paper or excel.  Can print out graph paper for knitting that is a box per stitch or box per 2,3,4 etc. stitches depending on what you decide. See www.theknittingsite.com & www.needlepointers.com

Here is a great tutorial from Marnie Maclean on charting!

Here are the tutorials

PS I found this stitch paper on Rav for $1 HERE

Spinsanity
Pam-
Pre-drafted my BFL from Fall Creek Fibers in the colorway Dream

Meegan- 
hard decisions on picking what to spin next.  
Spinning Cristina Marie Potters Corriedale right now! Will be a 3 ply with same colorway in 3 different fiber bases.

Episode 17 - Ruching for your Pleasure

City Sheep/Country Sheep

Pam-
Operation Clean House
Sewing
Gardening

Meegan-
Sanding & Painting 
Sewing & Redecoating & Quilting
John Jacob (our big black lab) brings us our chickens eggs!  ;)
We're not in Kansas anymore! So much wind!
Jojo is sick
Moved Creatures 

In & Out of the Bag

Pam- 
out: Shamrock cloth
out: reverse miter dishcloth
out: 3 basic crochet cloths (hee hee Pam is a Happy Hooker)
in: February Lady Sweater
in: Clapotis

Meegan-
in & out: clapotis
in: Tea Leaves
nothing else because of house stuff 

Knotty Knitting

Pam-
My gauge is knotty in a good way

Meegan-
Forgetting  to change yarns every other row.
Rouging - 1st of 3 rouging sections looks more flat than rouged :(
My hands were hurting until my acupuncturist helped me!
 

Cuppa
Pam- 
etsy shop - need to take pics & set up store
no CampKIP :(  

Meegan-
Creative Knitting - I knit the tunic on Pg 50 - literally the one that is in the magazine!!!  Woo Hoo!!!
CampKIP
Dream Shop - less than 1 month!
Saw BLACK SWAN
 

Oh Knit Dr

the knit dr is taking a mental health day 
please contact me for ideas!!!

Spinsanity

Pam-

getting ready to spin Dream from Fall Creek Fibers

Meegan-

Having a hard time picking from all my lovelies to spin next!

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Episode 16 - Sweater Extravaganza

City Sheep/Country Sheep

Pam-
Dad came over so I cleaned like a mad woman!
Got a new shower head


Meegan-
Toby
Snow
Cleaning
Dentist

In & Out of the Bag

Pam-
out: horse shoe lace cowl
in: shamrock cloth
in: clapotis
in: February Lady Sweater


Meegan-
out: Handspun Effortless Cardigan

in: top secret Clapotis
in: cowl (still)
in: casting on for Tea Leaves Cardigan

Knotty Knitting

Meegan-
blocking & drying  :(

Cuppa

Pam-
Stitch Markers (the lil stitch)
CampKIP


Meegan-
CampKIP 
designing

Oh Knit Dr

Our ? comes from Sarah (lilyshoppp on Ravelry). She wrote in on the Oh Knit Dr thread in our Ravelry group!
"I’ve got one. It’s a question about splitting a hank of yarn in half by the weight by grams (more precise than ounces) or by yardage. I’m talking handspun, or any yarn. I recently spun yarn, separated it by grams, then knit my two socks. Sock #1 has a cuff maybe 5 inches (which is long for me, but hey, it’s handspun! I want to use it!). Sock #2 has a cuff of maybe 2 inches. What a difference! I don’t care enough to under part of the first to add to the second and re-do the cuffs, but I wonder if both ways are equally prone to error big enough to make a difference?"

Also a ? about spinning from Sarah!
"I’ve got another too! Are you a spin doctor too? The question refers to STATIC!! I’m drum carding alpaca/silk and wool, blending the two, and there’s SO MUCH STATIC. Is there something I can do or do I just need to deal with it? :)"

Spinsanity
Pam-
pigeonroof studios falkland - Fruit Salad