23 May, 2012

Episode 154: Slacker



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Age of Brass and steam
Age of Brass and steam Trust me- El Paso

Socks
Spinning fates- Space cadet Vanilla sock

Bookmark

Color Affection- Change of plans

Portion control:

ITW May Colorway

ITW

Highland Handmades

Highland Handmades

Wolfe Farms

Knit Picks Bare Yarn- TY MIL

Gnome Acres- Franklin & Hulk Smash

Gnome Acres Franklin

Gnomeacres Hulk Smash

Fiber Exercise:

Vanilla Blush Merino
Vanilla Blush 335 yds
My exercise:

Good to go from the doctor

Weight loss!

Cooking School:

Before a fiber festival:

Planning

--Homework!!
Memory bag

Yardage w/o a pattern

In the Kitchen:

Apricot-Balsamic Chicken

Pot Luck:

Patty's Shawl

not so green shawl

Comforting

Cool Waves Bermuda

Taste Testing:

On Hold until I get home

A La Carte:

Hornshaw Woodworks

Recipes:

Interweave sale

Friends- Invitations & Thank you’s

Box out to Sarge and 40th Birthday cards.

On the Menu:

LittleBear’s Birthday

Fiber Train

Tour de Fleece

Ravelympics

Stitches Midwest

Knittin’ in the Mitten

Gadget Corner:

Roku Box!

14 May, 2012

Episode 153: Discombobulation



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Started: Comfy Jeans- Color affection in denim.

Finished: Under the Rainbow
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Still going: The Medallion Travel bag, Rams & Yowes, Raglan Sweater

Frogged: Retreats aren't everyday
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Portion control:

Received ITW club- Serenity Plus 2 extras
ITW
ITW

Knitting in circles- Sal fiber from Gnome acres (picture is somewhere)

Wolfe Farms colorway from Desert Vista Dyeworks
Wolfe Farms- Desert DyeWorks

Plays well with colors fiber- Peach chutney
Peach Chutney- Plays well with Colors

CTAA- SAL loop batt in kaleidoscope eyes
Loop

Highland handmades: Eadha and Growth spurt
Eadha- Highland HandMades

Growth Spurt- Highland Handmades

Last trifecta fiber club in the last battle
Trifecta Club-

Bar Maids- For feet sake

Fiber Exercise:

Spinning merino in Vanilla blush- Not sure from where. – getting fingering weight
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Videos:

Wheel cleaning

How to spin- talking to Boo.

My exercise:

Joined WW again- I am down 5.8Lbs

Writing down everything that is going in my mouth.

Moving treadmill this next week to make it easier to use.

Lab work on Monday- Doctor’s visit next week

Cooking School:

Recess

In the Kitchen:

Chicken patties-

1 lb lean ground chicken

1 cup orange bell pepper

½ cup Vidalia onion

2 tsp black pepper

2 tsp low sodium lowery’s season salt

1 large egg

1 cup panko bread crumbs (or a bit less, just enough to firm up the patties.

Mix and form into patties on a wax paper sheet (wet hands help)

Spray pan with olive oil. Fry up patties until crisp on outside- cooked on inside.

Makes 6 patties- 3 pts each.

Pot Luck:

Franken socks

Shawl project

Towels and cloths

Wedding Shawls!


Deployment:

Saying goodbye was hard.
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He is doing ok- training hard.

Thank you to KigeliaKitten, AuntSuze, AppleblossomSF, Kimberlolly and Madaboutmatisse!

Taste Testing:

Norwegian I spun last week

A La Carte:

Market bags!

Knit

Crochet

Recipes:

Spinning wheel on the road- did not stop. Kicking myself now!

Bear moving house- hope this is the deployment fall out.

Boo taking summer classes

House cleaning! 1 month goal- 1st week met!



On the Menu:

Fiber Train- Next week!!

Team Sasquatch:

Tour de fleece:

Jasmine of the Knitmore girls has put up the training schedule.

Saturday June 30th through Sunday July 2nd. Spin every day the Tour rides, if possible. Days of rest: Tuesday July 10th and Tuesday July 17th. (Just like the actual tour)

Spin something challenging on the challenge day -usually the toughest high mountain stage:

Ravelympics:

Official Dates: 27 July-12 Aug 2012

Mass cast on coincides with start of Opening Ceremonies in London: 7:30pm (BST)

Stitches Midwest

Wedding Weekend

Knittin’ in the Mitten- 6 months!!!

Gadget Corner:

Knitting all the Day- Melanie Gall
Bryson Distrubiting
Eugene, OR
(800)544-8992
KAREN@BRYSONKNITS.COM



07 May, 2012

Episode 152: Farewell Sarge

Show notes- hm mm.
Not a normal show- here is what I remember. I will do better next week, please forgive me.

Weigh in
I made a yellow dishrag. It is a dish rag and is yellow I am sure you can picture it. I gave it to the housekeeping lady with her tip and did not get a photo. I know, I suck!

Fiber exercise
222 yds DragonFly Studio
222 yards Dragonfly studios

Potluck- from the group pages.

Recipes:
Wedding
Blog post here

Met MadaboutMatisse
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Purchases blog post here

Farewell
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Safe safe Sarge!!

26 April, 2012

Episode 151A: Special- Knit-topia-At the Retreat

No show notes for this one. Photos can be found of the retreat here and of the sweater here.

Episode 151: Grandma



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Finished: Shazam Socks
Shazam socks

Ball Sack,

2 dishrags
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Still going: Rams & Yowes, Medallion bag,

Started: Handspun Sweater
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Songbird Shawlette

Fiber Exercise:

Suzie’s Fiber
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Green Fiber
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Dragon Fly Fiber
Highland Handmades- Roo got hungry, silk bits

Wheel Whisperer! Cleaning wheels
Portion control:

I did well! Never went to Mary Maxim’s, did hit Jo-Ann’s though, but softly.

Goodie bag

Prizes- color card, Hipster

Yarn swaps- 2 sweaters worth of yarn!!

Cooking School:

Classes I taught:

Dye Work- Self striping (Loom and swift), gradient yarns (swift and ball), spot dyeing with liquid and egg dyes, blanks, dry dyeing and regular squirt painting.
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Steeking- Sweater from a thrift store, actual project.
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In the Kitchen:

Amazing food!

Love infused granola- Michelle

Cold veggie pizza-Sue

Vegetarian chili-Tina

Mock lasagna- Lynn

Crepes with lemon- Margaret

Lemon cookies from a cake mix- Laura

Bobby Flay Harvest margaritas- Angela

Pot Luck:

Poinsettia Wreath-Angela
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Lots of socks- everyone

Sweater blocking- Linda

Drill Sergeant:

A week- How did it go?

Asked by LouisejHunt- Do you name your weapons?

This might be the last cast with Sarge for a while.

Taste Testing:

Finished Shawl 1 at Merino- Blocked.
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Norwegian- LOVE!

A La Carte:

Swirl sweater- Winter Waves- Knit! Swirl book
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FluffyDogOwner- Sorry for the name screw up!

Recipes:

Tom Tom- South Park and 90 yr old Hungarian woman

Shitty day at the retreat house

Sarge stole me away

7 steps to going to bed

Trash Diving-
Oh darning! socks

Pompeii’s Pizzeria

Alpaca Farm
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Laughter and fun

Buffalo Farm
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Lunch on the way home- Met Amy’s mom!

On the Menu:

Bear’s wedding

Deployment ceremony

Fiber Train

Stitches Midwest

Knittin’ in the Mitten

Gadget Corner:

Salad Spinner

09 April, 2012

Episode 150: What Segments?



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Barn storming square-
Barn Raising Square #1
Shazam socks-
Shazam sock
Rams &Yowes-
Rams & Yowes
Chelsea- not touched

Portion control:

Trifecta of Awesome Fiber club
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M. Sotherden Art Glass Stitch markers

Fiber Exercise:

Ordered corresponding color from Into the Whirled- spun it up- resting
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My exercise:

Yoga and deep breathing

Cooking School:

Knit-a long- Medallion Bag!- I have decided on Patons classic wool in Peacock and Winter White. You can purchase the pattern here for $8.30.

Stranded knitting flat- Not a pleasure!

In the Kitchen:
Parm bites!

Tube of Grand’s

Butter

Chopped garlic

Parmesan cheese

Bake Temp on package about 8-10 minutes

Pot Luck:

Little Cinnamon

Wrapsody in Blue

Spring Break Katika

Drill Sergeant:

Flash light poster
iPod woe


Taste Testing:
Finishing Shawl with these fibers.
Merino
Masham

A La Carte:

Kalinumba

Recipes:

Favorite numbers-Narcissistic numbers

Fiber day in Fennville/South Haven – 
Quilt Shop
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Alpaca farm.
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8 ounces of alpaca
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Beautiful Garden!
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Clemintines
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Needle in a Haystack
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8 sig’nits- Acorns
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Flying Saucer of wool
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T-Shirt for Sarge

Wanted a basket & a coffee mug

On the Menu:

Knit-Topia

Bear’s wedding

Stitches Midwest

Knittin’ in the Mitten

Gadget Corner:

Scrap ma bob
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