Stuff on Sticks:
FOs –
Scrap Yarn Christmas Ornaments – multiple patterns – Scrap yarns –https://freakishlemon.com/theoddorchard/2015/2/9/january-2015-scrap-yarn-christmas-ornament-round-up
Ribbed brim beanie My own pattern – First handspun I ever bought probably a decade ago at the NY Ren Faire (white and navy blue barber pole) – US 5/3.75 mm
Ribbed Cowl – My own pattern – Buffalo Wool Co – Splash of Color Buffalo Skies Mini-skeins – US 5/3.75 mm – http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/buffalo-linen-stitch-cowl
WIPs –
Hazel the Humpback Whale – Holiday Yarns grab bag – US 0/2 mm –http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hazel-the-humpback-whale
Mulberry Hood Scarf – My own pattern – Lion Brand Wool-Ease Chunky – 80% acrylic, 20% wool (Mulberry) – US 8/5.0 mm interchangeables
Christmas Soldier Socks – Soldier Socks by Jessica Day George – Red Heart Heart & Sole with Aloe – 70% Superwash wool, 30% nylon (Christmas) – US 1/2.25 mm aluminum dps –http://www.jessicadaygeorge.com/Books/PrincessOfTheMidnightBall/KnittingPatterns/SoldiersSocks.aspx
Hat for Coworker – Graham by Jennifer Adams – The Ugly Room – 80% SW merino, 20% nylon (Mermaid Tails) – US 4/3.5 mm aluminum dps – http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/graham-2
Stuff on Hooks:
WIPs –
Granny Square Odds and Ends – Based off of a square seen on Attic24 – miscellaneous acrylic worsted – US J/5.00 mm
Tunisian Crochet Washcloth – Lily Sugar and Cream (Hot Green and Psychedelic) – US I/5.5 mm – http://www.purlbee.com/2013/04/13/tunisian-crochet-basics/
Stuff on Spindles and Wheels:
FOs –
Sammath Naur – 2 ply fractal spinning – worsted – Highland Handmade SW BFL 4 oz (Edge of the Inferno) – Ashford Kiwi 2 – 100 yd skein and 20 yd mini-skein
X-34 – 2 ply fractal spinning – fingering/sport – Yarn Crafters Hand Dyed CT Grown Merino Top 3 oz – Ashford Kiwi 2 – 100 yd skein, 20 yd mini-skein, and 33 yd chain ply mini-skein
Carnival Batt – chain ply – fingering/sport – Greenwood Fiberworks merino w/ sparkle – $10 drop spindle – 20 yd mini-skein
Simmons – 2 ply gradient – Greenwood Fiberworks merino (Retro Girl) – 1.2 oz drop spindle
Giant Ball of wool handspun – plan on 2 ply fractal spinning – Spinners Hill blend of Corriedale, Finnish Landrace, Rambouillet – prepped for spinning
Stuff with Thread:
WIPs –
Christmas Cross Stitch – The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery – http://thefrostedpumpkinstitchery.bigcartel.com/product/christmas-celebration-sampler
Dragon Quilt – The Weekend Quilter
Stuff to Stash –
Greenwood Fiberworks Mini Fiber Braids
Tunisian crochet hooks in varying sizes
Stuff for Etsy –
New stitch marker packaging
New washing direction cards
New Thank You cards
Other Stuff –
Stuff I’m Watching: Agent Carter, The Flash, and Arrow – behind on everything else
Stuff I’m Reading: All the Wrong Questions (#2): When Did You See Her Last? by Lemony Snicket
Stuff I’m Playing: Lego Lord of the Rings
Podcast Recommendation:
Yarngasm Podcast with Kristen from Voolenvine Yarns – iTunes, podcasts aggregators, or Youtube – http://www.voolenvine.com/
Little Bobbins Knits with Dani – Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF4l3ITRsJq9xKLmXn1s3-A
The Phileas Club – Hosted by Patrick Beja – http://frenchspin.com/
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Hair’s not cooperating, giant bags under my eyeballs,
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terrible skin…
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It must be time for me to make another video.
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[cheerful music with guitar and bells]
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Hello!
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I am the Freakish Lemon
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I go by Adrian and I use male pronouns.
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Thank you for watching this video.
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I’ve got almost 200 subscribers
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and I haven’t made a video in a million freakin’ years
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So if you’ve stuck around, thanks.
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And if you’re new, welcome.
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I used to make videos on this channel
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a few years ago
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I did mostly book reviews
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and uhh… vlogs
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but
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they started to fee like work I didn’t want to do
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and I kind of fell out of love with YouTube in general
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so I just
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stopped making videos
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but
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I’m a huge podcast listener
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and I had cut down my podcasts around the same time that I had stopped making videos
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but I’ve been recently upping my podcast subscriptions again
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and
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I started watching the Yarngasm podcast with Kristen from Voolenvine Yarns
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and the Little Bobbins Knits podcast with Dani
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and I really like their videos
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I mean, they call them podcast, but they remind me of the old school vlogs
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that everybody used to do where they just
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sat down and talked about all the stuff that they had done
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over the week or couple of weeks or whatever
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based on video schedule
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and
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it kinda hit a, you know
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nostalgic feeling in my brain
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for those types of videos
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and
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since I’ve stopped making videos, I’ve become more and more
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the yarn crafting world, so
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the knitting podcast
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types of videos really appeal to me right now, so
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Here is the plan –
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I am going to attempt to do one video a month
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about my knitting stuff
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and I’ll include some of the stuff that I used to include in my vlogs
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what I’m reading and all that
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but mostly it’s going to be about crafting because that’s what I do these days
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and I really like how knitting videos are
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right now, in this state of things
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I mean, lots of poeple have them now, so this isn’t anything new, but
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I’ve made videos before and I really like knitting
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and crocheting and spinning and all these fun things
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so
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if any’ve you have any interest, stick around because
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I’m hoping I’ll at least do one of these a month
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if I can do one of these a month
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I might up it up to two a month
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later in the year because there’s a lot more stuff that I do
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that’s knitting related from September to November
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but we’ll see how it goes.
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And if you’re familiar at all with
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yarn video podcasts or yarn podcasts
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they tend to have segments, and this wiil be no different
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because I just found it easier to take notes on everything I wanted to talk about
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if I broke it down into segments
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so the first segment is Stuff on Sticks
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I’m gonna start with some finished objects
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I’ve got a box here, um…
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Not all of these are from sticks, but uh…
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but most of them are, so I’m going to count them in Stuff on Sticks
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After Christmas, I decided I was going to go on a crusade to use all
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or most of
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my odds and ends yarn, my unfinished skeins, my scrap yarn
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so I started making Christmas ornaments
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Here is a bell.
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Here is a nautilus.
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Here is a small sweater.
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Here is a bluebird of happiness that is not actually blue.
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There were a big thing
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I did these… the first one of these as part of a thing with the Yarngasm podcast
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She had a little Ornament-along
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and I had submitted
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this
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blue bird of happiness
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for her Ornament-along
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What else do I have in here…
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I have a funky looking owl
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I have a pair of small mittens
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I have a star
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This one’s a crocheted star, but
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I’m including it in this section
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Is there anything else? Yes.
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And I have a 1-Up mushroom
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from Mario
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It’s black because I didn’t have any green
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when I was doing it, so
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there is that
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And they are varying types of yarns
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many of the yarns I don’t even know what they are anymore
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because they’ve been scraps for so long
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But all the patterns are in a big blog post
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that I’ve put up on my blog and I will put a link for that in the show notes
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but it would take me too long to go through each of those ornaments and what the patterns were and everything, so
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I have a box of ornaments
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and I’m hoping to continue that
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This is a
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beanie that I made, um…
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This is actually the very first handspun that I ever bought
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I bought it from a stall at the New York Renaissance Faire
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about a decade ago
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I have no idea what it’s made of. I have long since lost the tag.
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But it’s
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It’s a very rustic handspun
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You can tell that there’s varying thicknesses
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and color balance between the two
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It’s a white and
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I don’t know how it’s looking on the camera right now, but it’s a navy blue
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The white is very fluffy
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The navy blue, not so much.
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This is
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not really a pattern, I just improvised. I did some
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1×1 ribbing for about 1 1/2″ on the bottom
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Just stockinette stitch all the way up to the top
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I did a little bit of decreasing on the crown, but
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not very much. I just gathered the end.
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Mostly.
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I knit this on US 5 / 3.75 mm circular needles
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and it’s very warm and I’m very glad of that because
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it’s been very cold this past week in Connecticut
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feels like -20 F yesterday, is what it was
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I mean, actual temperature was about 4 F
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but wind chills felt like -15 F to -20 F
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I also knit this ribbed cowl
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out of scrap yarn from the Buffalo Wool Company
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I had bought one of the Buffalo Skies – Splash of Color mini-skeins collections
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at Stitches East last year
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and I used most of it to create
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this linen stitch striped cowl
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which I’ve actually written up the pattern
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and you can get the pattern for free on Ravelry
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for this particular cowl
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and I really enjoyed how it knit up
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and while I was writing up the pattern last week
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I had pulled out the rest of the scraps for the yarn details
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and just cast on a cowl while I was waiting for things to sort themselves out
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wait for my computer to load
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waiting for my work computer to load while I was working form home in a snow storm type of thing
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So I just used up the rest of those mini-skeins doing a ribbed cowl
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No pattern
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just cast on, I think, 88 stitches and
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1×1 rib all the way around
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until I ran out of each color
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Buffalo wool is very interesting wool
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It’s not the softest, I mean
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it looks pretty fluffy here
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it’s not as soft as a
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a very, very soft soft yarn
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There are some blends that they have, though, that are super soft
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but this is, um…
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just buffalo and I don’t know if they specify which type of sheep wool, but
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just buffalo and wool, so it’s a little scratchy
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but buffalo wool is really interesting because
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Straight up, you can throw it in the washer and dryer and it won’t felt
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That’s how I quote-unquote “blocked” this
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is I threw it
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I put it in a zippered pillow case and
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put it with a pair of sweatpants in the washer and in the dryer
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and it fluffed right up
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and shrunk all the rib in
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and that is a really interesting way to be able to do things
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because usually when you throw things like this out of sheep
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into the washer and dryer it becomes a felted mess
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so it’s really interesting and I like playing with the buffalo a little
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I’m hoping to save up my pennies for the fancy-fancy buffalo wool that’s really soft
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so I can play with that next year
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and then I have a whole bunch of works in progress on the knitting needles
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First one I have is
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is in – whoops, yarn escaping
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this project bag, a sock bag from Tangerine Designs
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Hopefully, you can see that tag
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but if you go to Tangerine-Designs.com, you’ll find the link to her shop and everything
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and it’s got space ray-guns on it
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because I’m a huge dork
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but I’ve got a pair of socks in here that I cast on in the car
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on a trip down to my sister’s house because I needed something to do
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So these are in the Christmas colorway from Red Heart Heart and Sole with aloe sock yarn
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which is a 70% superwash wool and a 30% nylon
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It’s on a US 1 / 2.25 mm DPNs
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And it’s my go-to vanilla sock pattern, which is the Soldier’s Socks by Jessica Day George
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and I’ve got a TARDIS stitch marker
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I don’t know if you can see that, I hope that you can see that, bring that as close to the camera as possible
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I make stitch markers out of Shrinky Dinks and I sell them on my Etsy shop
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and that was one of the duds because it was mostly an oval and not actually a circle
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That’s a basic sock
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I pretty much have that pattern memorized, so that’s my driving
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when other people are driving the car project
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I also have this, which is in a bag I made out of scrap jeans and an old t-shirt
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it is a hood scarf, a hooded scarf
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for a coworker of mine who commissioned me
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to make her one
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Here is part of the scarf
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It’s on US 8 circulars
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so, 5.0 mm needles
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Here’s the hood
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which is a rectangle
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and it is out of
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Lion Brand Wool-Ease Chunky in the colorway Mulberry
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I prefer to use acrylic blended yarns for commissions for people that I know in real life
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especially for big things like this where if this gets really dirty and you want to wash it
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I’m not entirely sure my coworkers aren’t going to just throw them in the washer and dryer anyways
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so might as well make it out of yarns that are easy to care for
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It is a pattern of my own design
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It’s nothing big; it’s two rectangles that are sewn together
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but I will be writing up a quick pattern for it because my mom wants a copy of it
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so that she can make a hood scarf at some point as well
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I also have this, which is in another bag that I’ve made out of old jeans and a t-shirt
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It’s another commission for a coworker
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who is moving at the end of March, so I have to get on it
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It is a hat, it is the Graham hat by
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Jennifer Adams
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I am knitting this currently on US 4 / 3.5 mm DPNs
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This is another stitch marker that I made, it was
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– whoops, a hair –
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It was a set of beads that I saw at Jo-Ann’s in a clearance bin, so I just put a jump ring in ’em
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I say beads, it’s really charms, but it’s just a bunch of red stars
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so I put jump rings in ’em and I use them as stitch markers
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This yarn, I love this yarn
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I knew I wasn’t gonna make anything for myself with this yarn
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but it is a beautiful, beautiful purple/pink/blue/green sort of tonal variation
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It’s called Mermaid Tails
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It’s by The Ugly Room, who is a local spinner/dyer type person
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I believe she’s part of a local Connecticut guild
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because the only things I’ve ever bought from The Ugly Room, I’ve bought at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire
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Here’s the tag
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Her shop is no longer at Etsy.com, but there is a link I believe to her new home
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and it’s 80% superwash merino and 20% nylon
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but, yeah, it’s going to be a Graham hat that’s kind of slouchy
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and it will have a big white pom-pom on the top of it
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because that’s what my coworker wants
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I’m sure it’ll look fantastic when I’m done with it because everything in that yarn looks amazing
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She had commissioned a pair of Vancouver Fog fingerless gloves out of that yarn
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and it was beautiful, so
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I’m excited to see how the hat knits up
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and my last work in progress on sticks
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is this, which is in my Yarn Chicken bag
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which I got out of the Knit Prints Kickstarted from Gusler Designs
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I believe they have this bag up in their shop, but
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but it just cracks me up because it’s a knitting chicken
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the Yarn Chicken
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I also got some really cool postcards out of that Kickstarter
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And this project is Hazel the Humpback Whale
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which is a free pattern on Ravelry and I forgot to write down the name of the lady who wrote it
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This whale is really kind of sad looking right now because she has no fins attached
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She does have eyeballs, though, and I’m very proud that I had eyeballs in the right size
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for my humpback whale here
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This is out of Holiday Yarns
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I don’t know specifically the yarn content or the colorways
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because this was from a sort of grab bag from Stitches East a couple of years ago
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She had a booth and in front of her booth was one of those 16 gallon tubs
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full of mini-skeins and ends from skeining up her usual yarn
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and she was selling them for $20 for whatever could fit into your hand
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That was a fun booth to shop at because everybody was comparing the size of their hands
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“Oh, my hands are so tiny. Your hands are so much bigger-
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Here’s $20 and I will fill your hand with yarn.”
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So… I think I held somebody’s yarn for them because they had very tiny hands
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But here’s the whale so far
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I do have fins in here, here are
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her yellow fins that are going to be attached
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towards her upper body
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and I am finishing up the yellow in the tail fins
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and I’m starting to finish the tail fins in this handspun hand-dyed yarn from The Merry Little Lamb
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who is another local Connecticut spinner/dyer
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but I haven’t seen her at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire in a few years now
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so I don’t know if she still has a working website or what
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I believe these are US 0 / 2.25 mms
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Maybe a 2 mm? A 2 mm
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but it’s a little loose in the needle gauge for the US 0, so they might be US 00
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which I guess would be a 1.75 mm
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but the needle gauges I have don’t go less than US 0, so I’m not entirely sure
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I have another stitch marker I made on here. It’ll be hard to see.
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Let’s see if I can get that to focus
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That is the Freakish Lemon standing around doin’ nothin’.
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I had a brief comic strip about the Lemon and his friend The Angry Sheep
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so I have these doodles of the Lemon and I like to put them on things
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This next segment is Stuff on Hooks
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I have no finished hooky things to show you today
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but I do have two works in progress
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This first one I started last night because I couldn’t help myself
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I started learning how to Tunisian crochet
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so I’m practicing on just a wash cloth
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I have a lot of leftover cotton from the great Washcloth Fiasco of a couple of years ago
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so I figure I’ll make a bunch of them and either sell them
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or I will keep them around for housewarming presents
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since I did that for my sister when she moved out a couple of years ago
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It’s just the basic Tunisian crochet stitch
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in Lily Sugar n’ Cream “Hot Green” and with stripes of “Psychadelic”
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from Lily Sugar n’ Cream
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I’m using a size I 5.5 mm bamboo crochet hook
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Tunisian crochet hook, and I’m really enjoying it so far
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The front looks like what you’d expect from Tunisian crochet
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if you’ve seen it around
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but I was surprised by the back
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which looks like reverse stockinette. Nobody ever shows you the back of stuff.
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But that’s really interesting, that it’s
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fairly crochet looking on the front and knitting looking on the back
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That’s pretty cool.
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And then I have an ongoing crochet project in this t-shirt bag
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old t-shirt, it’s my Heavy Metals bag from ThinkGeek
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an old t-shirt where I wore out the arm holes
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and this is a scrap
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acrylic yarn, worsted weight granny square something
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It will probably be a few lap-sized blankets
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when I’m finished going through all of my worsted weight acrylic yarn
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A few years ago I made this blanket based off of blankets I saw
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on the Attic24 blog
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and everybody I’ve shown this to really enjoys it
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so I might make a bunch of smaller ones to sell
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since people seem to like this type of blanket so much
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And I have a crazy ton of leftover acrylic worsted weight yarn
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since the start of my stash
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was basically
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family members and neighbors finding out I was knitting and crocheting
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and just giving me all of their leftover stuff that they’ve had around for years
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I’m trying to use all that up so I just have the stuff that I bought
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because most of that stuff I’m not going to use for very much
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so I figure a bunch of granny square
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rainbow randomized
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lap blankets or kid sized blankets would be a good way to use up all that acrylic worsted weight yarn
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And now for Stuff on Spindles and Wheels
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I also spin yarn, so I’ve got some finished handspun to show you
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and a couple of works in progress-ish
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So the first thing I finished the other week
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was this beautiful worsted weight handspun
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This is a 100 yard skein and this is about a 20 yard mini-skein
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That’s how I break them down in my shop, this one will go up in my shop
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it is Highland Handmade superwash BFL in the “Edge of the Inferno” colorway
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but this finished yarn I’m going to call “Sammath Naur”
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which I’m guessing is how you say that
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which is the name of the forge
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or the platform where the forge was located
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where Sauron forged the One Ring
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“Edge of the Inferno”
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It seemed like the logical nerdy leap to make
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and this is beautiful yarn
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I’m very pleased with how this spun up
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I did the fractal method
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so I split it in half and I spun one half as is
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and I split the other half into a whole bunch of little pieces
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and spun them individually which made this beautiful, beautiful yarn
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which will find a very happy home I’m sure
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And I spun that on my Ashford Kiwi 2 wheel
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I also spun this on my Ashford Kiwi 2 wheel
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Let’s get the 2-plies up here
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This is from
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Yarn Crafters, which was a booth at the Coventry Farmer’s Market
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This is hand-dyed merino top
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There was 3 oz of it in total
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This is again 2-ply fractal spinning from my wheel
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and it’s this beautiful like rusty
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red color
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100 yard
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It’s about a fingering weight
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Fingering/sport, it’s kind of inbetween
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and this is a mini-skein at about 20 yards
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weight and wraps per inches will be in the Etsy information when I put these up
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But this color
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There was no colorway written on the tag
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but this color reminds me of
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Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder in Star Wars
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so I’m going to call this X-34
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which is the
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make and model of the landspeeder
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I also have
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this which was a
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Yes, this is the chain-ply leftover single
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because I always end up with one single much longer than the other one
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in about 33 yard
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This will also be up as a mini-skein
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as an X-34
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That spun up really nice
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And then I have this extremely sparkly mini-skein
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It’s about 20 yards
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It’s from
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Greenwood Fiberworks
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It was about a .5 oz
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mini-batt with merino and a whole bunch of sparkly stuff
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I don’t have a name for this yet. It will go up in the shop.
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Any handspun that I make I tend to put up in the shop
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because I have far too much yarn as it is, so
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somebody else should get a chance to play with it
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because it’s going to take me years to get around to it anyway
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even if I end up using it
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So I haven’t come up with a color name for this yet. It was a carnival batt
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that came with
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a thing I’ll show you later
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And I think that’s about a fingering/sport weight
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I’m trying to practice to get down to a fingering weight
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for an upcoming project
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And then this is mostly finished
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I need to wash it and reskein it, but
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This was a mini merino braid
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from Greenwood Fiberworks
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Here is the tag
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In her colorway “Retro Girl”
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I did it as a gradient
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so it’s like a neapolitan gradient
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and I’m actually going to name this one
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“Simmons” after agent Jemma Simmons from Agents of SHIELD
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This reminds me of Season 1 Agent Simmons
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It’s kind of soft, but the colors
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you know, they’re…
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They’re very lovely and soft
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Just kind of nice
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and
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wants to make you happy
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like, that was Season 1 Jemma Simmons
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I have more fiber braids, which I’ll show you in a minute
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in merino from Greenwood Fiberworks
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and if one spins up and it looks like a Fitz
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I might sell them as a matched set of a “Fitz” and a “Simmons”
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I’m thinking this one actually made it down to a fingering weight
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which is nice
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And I don’t have any handspun that is actively being spun
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but last week I spent a whole evening dividing up
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a pound and 4 oz of a blended roving
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Here it is
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It’s a blend of
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Corridale, Finn, Rambouillet
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cross sheep
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or something
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or maybe the sheep and have been crossed and this is the wool that they produce
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but it’s a pound and 4 oz
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that I bought in a giant ball
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that I bought at the New England Fiber Festival up in Massachusetts
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and I’m going to
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fractal spin that, too
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except I divided into quarters
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so two quarters I’m going to spin as is
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and then the other half is broken up into tiny little
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little bags
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But I don’t know if I’m going to spin this on the wheel or on a drop spindle yet
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because I might be a crazy person
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but I want to spin this for the maple leaf shawl
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that I don’t remember who it’s by
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but it’s a beautiful shawl and it needs, like, 900 – 1000 yards
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of fingering weight yarn
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so I’m going to spin some fingering weight yarn and knit it up
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00:28:11,720 –> 00:28:13,160
but I don’t know if I’m
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crazy or very crazy yet
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00:28:16,829 –> 00:28:19,149
but I’m going to practice some more
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before I actually start spinning this giant bag of fiber
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This segment, because I’m a crazy person and I have to have my hands in as many crafts as I can
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is called
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Stuff with Thread
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There’s not going to be much here and there’s probably not going to be much updated from month to month here
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Well, I’m hoping next month that there will be a finished object
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but the other one might take me a while to finish
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00:28:45,320 –> 00:28:48,360
The first stuff with thread is
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this very sadly behind Christmas cross-stitch
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00:28:52,040 –> 00:28:54,010
from the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery
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00:28:54,010 –> 00:28:56,388
It was a mystery cross-stitch pattern
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00:28:56,800 –> 00:28:58,680
that I fell very behind on
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00:28:59,240 –> 00:29:00,400
very quickly
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00:29:03,000 –> 00:29:09,560
It’s on an off-white 18 count Aida
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00:29:09,560 –> 00:29:11,218
however you pronounce that fabric name
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00:29:12,386 –> 00:29:15,346
I’m using all the colors that she recommends
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00:29:15,499 –> 00:29:18,539
The only change I’ve made to the pattern at all
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00:29:18,760 –> 00:29:24,080
I’ve outlined the white in one strand of the blue
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00:29:24,080 –> 00:29:26,324
I don’t know if you can see that in this camera
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00:29:26,324 –> 00:29:28,566
It’s kind of hard to see in real life
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00:29:29,080 –> 00:29:30,280
It’s easier to see
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00:29:32,440 –> 00:29:33,560
if I cross my eyes
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00:29:34,661 –> 00:29:39,941
because the white and the off-white ended up being very very close in color
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00:29:40,289 –> 00:29:41,809
so I think in the future
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00:29:43,600 –> 00:29:47,840
I’m going to add some additional tea dye on top of this off-white
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00:29:47,922 –> 00:29:50,562
just to differentiate it from the white
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00:29:50,562 –> 00:29:54,460
I think the border is also in white, but I’m going to outline
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00:29:54,600 –> 00:29:58,960
that in red, I think, to make the border stand out
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00:29:58,960 –> 00:30:00,962
because the border’s so intricate, whereas
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00:30:00,962 –> 00:30:05,575
in the panels themselves, it’s snowflakes and snowballs and things, so
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00:30:06,280 –> 00:30:10,160
it’s not as necessary for it to pop out as much
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00:30:11,080 –> 00:30:14,080
but I’m hoping this will be finished by March
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00:30:15,680 –> 00:30:19,120
because it is a Christmas pattern
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00:30:19,440 –> 00:30:21,040
Also, I have this little
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00:30:21,040 –> 00:30:23,229
needle holder hedgehog magnetic guy
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He’s from Tangerine Designs as well
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She’s got a couple. She’s got an owl, I think, and a hedgehog
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There might be something else, I don’t remember off hand
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00:30:34,553 –> 00:30:36,233
but I find that very handy
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00:30:36,640 –> 00:30:40,640
so I don’t lose my embroidery needle constantly
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00:30:40,640 –> 00:30:42,997
And the other thing I’m making with thread
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00:30:42,997 –> 00:30:47,403
will probably take me a long time to finish, especially because I’m fighting with my sewing machine
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00:30:47,403 –> 00:30:48,787
We’re having a disagreement
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00:30:49,080 –> 00:30:50,760
It is a quilt
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Here’s my quilt notebook
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The pattern is from this book, The Weekend Quilter
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00:31:00,480 –> 00:31:02,200
and it is called
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A Piece of Summer
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00:31:04,880 –> 00:31:08,510
That’s what it looks like in the book. It’s about a twin sized quilt.
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00:31:10,520 –> 00:31:11,400
Put that down
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00:31:11,808 –> 00:31:16,608
But I made up this notebook for when I went to the fabric store to get stuff
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00:31:17,060 –> 00:31:21,940
Some of this is scrap fabric from my mom and some of it is stuff that I bought
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00:31:21,960 –> 00:31:24,560
It’s based off of these dragons
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00:31:25,330 –> 00:31:29,730
My mom also started a quilt based on this dragon fabric that she had
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00:31:29,730 –> 00:31:34,670
so it’s pretty hilarious that we both have unfinished quilts upstairs based on
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00:31:36,054 –> 00:31:37,254
the dragon fabric
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00:31:39,434 –> 00:31:41,114
This is the basic pattern
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00:31:41,777 –> 00:31:44,977
The dragon goes where these green triangles are
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00:31:44,977 –> 00:31:46,480
and then here are all the
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00:31:47,009 –> 00:31:49,009
fabrics that are going with it
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00:31:49,200 –> 00:31:55,600
This is on the front – blue, green, pink, the yellow, the red, the white, and the purple
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00:31:55,600 –> 00:31:56,354
are all on the front
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00:31:56,640 –> 00:32:01,360
This starry blue fabric is for the back
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00:32:01,760 –> 00:32:04,960
and I have upstairs some orange
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00:32:05,160 –> 00:32:07,560
that blends in really well with
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00:32:08,920 –> 00:32:11,600
this red to do for the border
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00:32:11,600 –> 00:32:13,647
but I might change my mind on that, who knows?
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00:32:15,188 –> 00:32:16,868
The quilt top is finished
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00:32:16,868 –> 00:32:19,628
and I started the actual quilting part
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00:32:20,008 –> 00:32:26,168
but I’m fighting with my sewing machine, so I don’t know when I will be making progress on that
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00:32:26,720 –> 00:32:29,680
This is my Stuff to Stash
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00:32:30,200 –> 00:32:33,720
This is new things that I bought that I want to show you
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00:32:34,080 –> 00:32:38,800
that are either going in my stash or tools to use to use up my stash
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00:32:38,880 –> 00:32:41,720
First thing I bought was
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00:32:41,800 –> 00:32:44,360
A bunch of Tunisian crochet hooks
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00:32:44,880 –> 00:32:48,160
You saw one of them earlier. I got some more sizes
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00:32:48,163 –> 00:32:51,727
because I got a JoAnn’s gift card for my birthday in January
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00:32:52,080 –> 00:32:55,360
and I wanted to do Tunisian crochet
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00:32:55,523 –> 00:32:57,283
So I bought a bunch of hooks
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00:32:57,640 –> 00:32:59,880
So I had a range to start with
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00:33:00,200 –> 00:33:04,400
I also bought from Greenwood Fiberworks a sample
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00:33:07,000 –> 00:33:07,500
mini
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00:33:08,040 –> 00:33:08,540
braid
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00:33:09,320 –> 00:33:09,820
fiber
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00:33:10,640 –> 00:33:11,600
extravaganza
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00:33:12,200 –> 00:33:15,920
You saw “Simmons” and the sparkly
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00:33:16,440 –> 00:33:19,200
mini-skein were a part of this group
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00:33:20,363 –> 00:33:21,963
Here are the rest of them
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00:33:22,120 –> 00:33:25,680
They’re .4 to .6 oz
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00:33:26,520 –> 00:33:30,080
I listed them on Ravelry as .5 oz since that’s
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00:33:30,080 –> 00:33:30,880
the average
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00:33:30,880 –> 00:33:33,440
but, yeah, I’m hoping that there’s going to be a “Fitz” out of here
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00:33:33,440 –> 00:33:35,601
I’m thinking this one might be “Fitz”
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00:33:35,920 –> 00:33:38,520
This one is “Lavender Hedgerow”
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00:33:39,080 –> 00:33:42,400
It might turn out greyer than it looks here
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00:33:42,400 –> 00:33:44,880
but I’m thinking this might be “Fitz”
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00:33:44,880 –> 00:33:51,720
You know, muted greens and browns and blue and purple that’s almost grey
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00:33:52,072 –> 00:33:53,512
That might be a “Fitz”
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00:33:53,760 –> 00:33:54,640
But we’ll see
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00:33:55,040 –> 00:33:58,480
I have ordered two more lightweight drop spindles
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00:33:58,480 –> 00:33:59,746
that have not come in yet
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00:34:01,560 –> 00:34:05,400
Because these are the drop spindles that I currently have
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00:34:07,400 –> 00:34:09,000
I have one more upstairs
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00:34:09,440 –> 00:34:12,520
that is too heavy to do lightweight yarns with
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00:34:12,520 –> 00:34:17,749
This is my go to lightweight yarn drop spindle, which I bought for $10 at a farmers’ market
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00:34:17,880 –> 00:34:22,200
and the wheel is, you can see, very loose and is coming unglued
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00:34:22,200 –> 00:34:24,900
I’m just gonna break it if I try to do much more with it
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00:34:25,640 –> 00:34:30,200
I spun the sparkly batt on it and I think that was too much
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00:34:30,680 –> 00:34:32,000
This is
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00:34:32,772 –> 00:34:35,092
light-ish weight, it’s about a 1 oz
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00:34:36,480 –> 00:34:38,400
drop spindle, but it wobbles
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00:34:38,400 –> 00:34:40,240
It’s not quite even
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00:34:40,640 –> 00:34:44,080
I didn’t intend to buy this, but it came as a set with
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00:34:44,360 –> 00:34:45,320
my niddy noddy
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00:34:45,320 –> 00:34:47,477
My niddy noddy is interchangeable
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00:34:47,754 –> 00:34:51,114
I can take off the ends and put longer dowels inside
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00:34:51,555 –> 00:34:53,555
and it came with a drop spindle
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00:34:55,840 –> 00:34:57,280
Not my choice exactly
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00:34:57,325 –> 00:34:59,965
but I have two more drop spindles coming
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00:35:00,112 –> 00:35:02,192
which I will show you next month
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00:35:02,192 –> 00:35:05,180
because I probably will have spun many things on them by then
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00:35:05,180 –> 00:35:07,671
And another segment because I am a crazy person
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00:35:07,720 –> 00:35:09,160
This is Stuff for Etsy
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00:35:09,160 –> 00:35:10,447
I do have an Etsy shop
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00:35:10,447 –> 00:35:12,426
I have embroidered notebooks
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00:35:12,426 –> 00:35:13,505
I have stitch markers
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00:35:13,892 –> 00:35:15,092
I have my handspun
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00:35:15,092 –> 00:35:16,664
I have little zipper pouches
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00:35:17,040 –> 00:35:20,280
but I’m fighting with my sewing machine, so whatever’s up there is it for now
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00:35:20,828 –> 00:35:24,988
Right now I also have Christmas ornaments and Christmas cards
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00:35:24,988 –> 00:35:26,613
until those listings run out
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00:35:26,613 –> 00:35:30,217
and then I’ll renew them again towards the season next year
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00:35:30,760 –> 00:35:35,000
I don’t have any new inventory except for the finished handspun
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00:35:35,000 –> 00:35:38,177
but I have been working on some stuff for the shop
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00:35:39,176 –> 00:35:41,256
Little behind the scenes stuff
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00:35:41,256 –> 00:35:44,268
but I thought that would be interesting to share with you
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00:35:44,600 –> 00:35:48,920
The first thing I did was redesign the stitch marker packaging
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00:35:48,920 –> 00:35:51,339
There was a problem with a couple of orders
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00:35:51,339 –> 00:35:54,680
where the stitch markers were getting crushed in the mail
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00:35:55,040 –> 00:35:58,120
and I’ve been padding them pretty heavily
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00:36:00,452 –> 00:36:02,052
but that’s no guarantee
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00:36:02,320 –> 00:36:06,560
So what it used to be was a tag that folded over the top of this edge
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00:36:06,560 –> 00:36:08,117
and it was just a bag of stitch markers
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00:36:08,200 –> 00:36:11,000
Now the label is in the stitch marker bag
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00:36:11,109 –> 00:36:14,469
You can see here my Batman and Robin stitch markers
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00:36:14,720 –> 00:36:18,400
So this top zipper/ ziploc part
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00:36:18,520 –> 00:36:23,880
can be folded down and put into a jewelry box
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00:36:27,528 –> 00:36:30,648
So now your stitch markers when they come to you
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00:36:30,840 –> 00:36:32,600
will be safe and sound
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00:36:32,905 –> 00:36:36,105
My Etsy shop still hasn’t reflected this change
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00:36:36,105 –> 00:36:40,913
because I haven’t restocked all of the different stitch markers that I make
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00:36:41,197 –> 00:36:42,637
so once I have them all
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00:36:43,240 –> 00:36:47,840
remade I will do a photoshoot for all the new packaging
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00:36:48,080 –> 00:36:49,040
and put them up
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00:36:49,520 –> 00:36:50,880
in a shop update
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00:36:51,430 –> 00:36:53,030
So that’s very exciting
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00:36:53,040 –> 00:36:56,560
I also updated a couple of packaging things
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00:36:57,023 –> 00:36:58,223
My thank you notes
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00:36:58,680 –> 00:37:01,000
They used to be little folded cards
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00:37:01,000 –> 00:37:03,994
little half-fold cards and then for a while it was little cards in envelopes
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00:37:04,138 –> 00:37:06,218
because they were on clearance
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00:37:06,280 –> 00:37:08,840
But now it’s just a thank you card
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00:37:08,840 –> 00:37:12,335
with a button sticker because I love my button stickers
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00:37:13,029 –> 00:37:14,549
and my lemon on the back
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00:37:15,360 –> 00:37:16,640
Nice. Easy.
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00:37:18,600 –> 00:37:21,440
But shows my appreciation when you buy something from me
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00:37:21,760 –> 00:37:25,080
And then I updated my washing directions cards
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00:37:25,920 –> 00:37:28,600
My wash directions for any scarves that I sold on there
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00:37:28,600 –> 00:37:31,023
because I do Doctor Who scarves occasionally as well
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00:37:31,535 –> 00:37:34,575
and I did a couple of Gandalf scarves last year
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00:37:34,757 –> 00:37:36,197
that sold really well
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00:37:37,000 –> 00:37:38,920
But I always hand wrote the directions
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00:37:39,320 –> 00:37:42,640
Now my handwriting, people have told me, is very
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00:37:44,680 –> 00:37:46,160
is nice to look at
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00:37:46,720 –> 00:37:47,280
but
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00:37:47,760 –> 00:37:50,240
It is hard to read individual letters
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00:37:50,240 –> 00:37:53,131
or words if you don’t know what it’s supposed to be
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00:37:55,300 –> 00:37:57,060
Because I do write cursive
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00:37:57,463 –> 00:37:58,903
and it’s not very neat
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00:37:58,903 –> 00:38:01,500
It’s very stylized, but it’s not very neat.
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00:38:01,560 –> 00:38:02,520
So I made up
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00:38:02,920 –> 00:38:06,000
some printed out washing direction cards
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00:38:06,401 –> 00:38:08,001
which I throw in with any
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00:38:09,680 –> 00:38:11,240
scarves or
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00:38:11,439 –> 00:38:13,439
knitted or crocheted objects
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00:38:13,840 –> 00:38:15,520
That you might buy from me
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00:38:15,529 –> 00:38:17,129
That’s it for shop stuff
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00:38:17,421 –> 00:38:18,461
Short and sweet
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00:38:18,600 –> 00:38:22,640
Usually it’ll just be if I have anything new for the shop
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00:38:22,640 –> 00:38:24,669
or if I’m doing a shop update that month
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00:38:24,669 –> 00:38:26,203
I’m not doing a shop update this month
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00:38:26,203 –> 00:38:27,604
because I haven’t have the time
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00:38:27,604 –> 00:38:29,560
because I’ve had crazy start-itis
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00:38:30,455 –> 00:38:31,575
but in the future
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00:38:32,280 –> 00:38:35,600
I will announce a shop update in this video
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00:38:35,920 –> 00:38:36,720
Other Stuff
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00:38:36,720 –> 00:38:39,500
This is where I’m going to talk about stuff that I’m reading
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00:38:39,840 –> 00:38:42,960
or playing or watching or any of that
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00:38:43,120 –> 00:38:45,360
So what I’m reading currently
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00:38:45,920 –> 00:38:48,800
is Book #2 of All the Wrong Questions
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00:38:48,800 –> 00:38:51,760
When Did You See Her Last? by Lemony Snicket
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00:38:51,760 –> 00:38:53,960
I really enjoy Lemony Snicket’s writing
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00:38:54,120 –> 00:38:56,720
It’s a kids book, but it’s really fun
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00:38:57,000 –> 00:38:59,800
and ridiculous and I love the way he writes
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00:38:59,844 –> 00:39:01,204
and this is about his
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00:39:01,680 –> 00:39:03,800
mystery adventures as a kid
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00:39:05,160 –> 00:39:09,680
You might know Lemony Snicket as the author who wrote the Series of Unfortunate Events
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00:39:09,680 –> 00:39:12,664
where he was kind of in the book, but not really in the book
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00:39:13,197 –> 00:39:16,397
but this is about him as a kid when he got his start
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00:39:16,397 –> 00:39:18,103
doing whatever it is that he does
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00:39:18,411 –> 00:39:20,251
I’m almost finished with it
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00:39:20,251 –> 00:39:21,642
and I have the third book
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00:39:21,642 –> 00:39:23,304
that I’m gonna read after this
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00:39:24,146 –> 00:39:26,546
and I’m really enjoying this series
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00:39:26,880 –> 00:39:27,960
I am playing
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00:39:28,731 –> 00:39:30,171
Lego Lord of the Rings
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00:39:30,440 –> 00:39:32,040
I’m nearing completion
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00:39:32,160 –> 00:39:34,320
I’m at 83% or 84% done
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00:39:34,760 –> 00:39:38,880
I pretty much play exclusively Lego games these days
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00:39:38,880 –> 00:39:39,840
I like
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00:39:40,320 –> 00:39:40,960
that it’s
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00:39:41,200 –> 00:39:43,120
There’s some skill involved
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00:39:43,681 –> 00:39:46,481
but not enough that you’re gonna get stuck
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00:39:46,800 –> 00:39:49,280
absolutely, completely stuck
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00:39:49,720 –> 00:39:53,000
and not be able to progress any further in the game
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00:39:53,240 –> 00:39:56,920
At this point, I don’t have time for that. I don’t
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00:39:57,735 –> 00:40:00,295
like spending the money on a game where
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00:40:00,320 –> 00:40:02,680
I’m gonna play half of it and
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00:40:02,840 –> 00:40:04,640
never finish it because
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00:40:04,640 –> 00:40:06,091
by the time I come back to it
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00:40:06,091 –> 00:40:08,903
and forget how much I hate that level I’m stuck at
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00:40:08,903 –> 00:40:10,072
I don’t remember how to play the game
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00:40:10,266 –> 00:40:13,306
These are, you know… you pick it up, you play
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00:40:13,920 –> 00:40:14,420
huzzah
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00:40:14,420 –> 00:40:17,020
If you want to complete the game, you can. If not, you don’t have to.
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00:40:17,680 –> 00:40:20,680
But I get a lot of game play time out of
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00:40:21,258 –> 00:40:23,578
the money I spend on these games, so
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00:40:23,578 –> 00:40:27,004
I think this one’s actually my brother’s that he got for Christmas, but
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00:40:27,544 –> 00:40:29,144
I play all the Lego games
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00:40:29,480 –> 00:40:30,840
I love Lego games
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00:40:30,840 –> 00:40:32,352
And I love Lego Lord of the Rings
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00:40:32,352 –> 00:40:32,880
It’s super fun
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00:40:33,320 –> 00:40:38,640
I’m not currently binge watching anything on Netflix right now
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00:40:38,640 –> 00:40:39,140
I am
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00:40:40,760 –> 00:40:43,560
going to stop my Netflix DVD subscription
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but I’m going to finish watching the Teen Titans DVDs
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I think I’ve got two or three more of them
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before I can kill that, so I am watching Teen Titans
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because why not?
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The only shows I’m currently up to date on that are ongoing are
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Agent Carter, Flash, and Arrow
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I watch them with my parents when they’re being aired
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I’m behind on everything else
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It is absurd
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and part of that is due to podcasts
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Part of that is just due to
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not having enough time in the day to sit down and watch shows
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Also in this part of
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my videos I’m going to recommend a podcast
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This month, I’m actually going to recommend three
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because I have to recommend
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the Yarngasm Podcast with Kristen from Voolenvine Yarns
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and the Little Bobbins Knits podcast
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here on YouTube
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because they really inspired me to get back into video making and to
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drop spindling and trying new things and it’s
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It’s thanks to them that
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this mess is up on the internet
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but I’m also going to recommend a non-knitting podcast
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I think most of my podcast recommendations are going to be non-knitting podcasts
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because it’s really easy to find everybody’s favourite knitting podcasts
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but I’m going to recommend this month
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The Phileas Club
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which is a podcast done once a month
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where people from around the world will discuss world news events
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I don’t think they’ve released one for February yet
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but the one from January was about
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was about the shooting in France
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at the
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Charlie
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magazine
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It’s hosted by Patrick Beja who is French
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He’s from France, he lives in France, he is French
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and that episode in particular was really one of the best
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Phileas Club episodes I’ve ever heard
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It had Patrick from France
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It had Randy from California
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There was a fellow from Germany
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There was a fellow from Australia
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and probably the most interesting perspective on the whole thing
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was a fellow named Mahmoud
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from the United Arab Emirates I believe
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It was a fantastic discussion to listen to and really
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had multiple points of view about how
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this event occurred
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Usually these episodes have more that one world even that they discuss, but this one just kind of
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encompassed everything because of
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how it was perceived around the world
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It’s a great podcast
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You can find it on iTunes
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or Stitcher of any of those podcast aggregates
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Or if you can’t find it at wherever you get your podcasts
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go to FrenchSpin.com
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for Patrick Beja and there will be links there for the Phileas Club
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And I think I’ve just about killed my battery in this camera
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so I’m gonna wrap this up
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This will probably be the longest video that I have out of
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any of the videos that I’m going to do in the next year, so
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I’m sorry it was so long, but
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beginning of the month, I was doing January and February things, so
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Gonna be a little long
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You can find the show notes and my blog
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and everything that I do over at FreakishLemon.com
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You can follow me as freakishlemon on Twitter
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Ravelry, Instagram
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My Etsy shop is at freakishlemon.etsy.com
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freakishlemon, I’m around
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And this was interesting
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I’m really hoping I can get this video edited and up
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and not destroy everything
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So that’s it and I will see you in March
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Goodbye
Freakish Lemon 