EPISODE 2: INTERRUPTIONS ALL OVER

Stuff on Sticks

FOs –

Hazel the Humpback Whale by Bec Brittain – Holiday Yarns grab bag yarn, Merry Little Lamp handspun, hand dyed wool in green, red, and grey – US 0/2 mm aluminum DPNs – 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 in “Mulberry” – US 8/ 5.0 mm interchangeables
Graham by Jennifer Adams – The Ugly Room (80% SW merino, 20% nylon) in “Mermaid Tails” – US 4/ 3.5 mm and US 6/ 4.0 mm – http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/graham-2

WIPs –

Christmas Soldier Socks – Soldier Socks by Jessica Day George – Red Heart Heart & Sole with Aloe (70% Superwash wool, 30% nylon) in “Christmas” – US 1/2.25 mm aluminum DPNs –http://www.jessicadaygeorge.com/Books/PrincessOfTheMidnightBall/KnittingPatterns/SoldiersSocks.aspx
Age of Brass and Steam Kerchief by Orange Flower Yarn – A Hundred Ravens (Merino) in “Rohan” – US 4/ 3.5 mm fixed circulars – http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-age-of-brass-and-steam-kerchief

Stuff on Hooks

FOs –

Tunisian Crochet Washcloths – basic Tunisian crochet stitch/improvised – Lily Sugar and Cream, Lion Brand Cotton Ease, and Bernat Hadicrafters Cotton DeLux (scraps) – US I/ 5.5 mm – http://www.purlbee.com/2013/04/13/tunisian-crochet-basics/
Crochet Lace Eggs – Crochet Covered Easter Eggs by flax & twine/ Annie B. Weil – off-white crochet thread – 1.5 mm – ravelry.com/patterns/library/crochet-covered-easter-eggs

WIPs –

Round Floor Poof – improvising the pattern – thick black acrylic mystery yarn – US J/ 6.00 mm
Granny Square Odds and Ends – Based off of a square seen on Attic24 – misc acrylic worsted weight – US H/ 5.00 mm

Stuff on Spindles and Wheels

FOs –

Trapper Keeper – 2 ply fractal spinning – Greenwood Fiberworks Pig Tails (Merino) in “Arcade” – drop spindle – 13 WPI, 64 yds, 14 g
Cappuccino – chain ply – Greenwood Fiberworks Pig Tails (Merino) in “Cappuccino” – drop spindle – 14 wpi, 51 yds, 14g
Trapeze (subject to change for the shop) – 2 ply fractal spinning – Frabjous Fibers (BFL) in “Trapeze” – Ashford Kiwi 2 – 216 yds, 104g

WIPs –

Blue/Orange/White/Yellow (definitely subject to change) – 3 ply – Dragonwool (Superwash BFL) with no colorway listed on the label – Ashford Kiwi 2

Stuff with Thread

FOs –

Zipper Project Bags – 1 striped back with a 14″ zipper, 1 Star Trek bag with a 12″ zipper

WIPs –

Christmas Cross-stitch from the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery
Dragon quilt

New Stuff

Raw Wood Elm Drop Spindle from sunniefairy on Etsy
Gear wheel drop spindle from Snyder Spindles on Etsy
Millinery Head
DPN Case from rosevans on Etsy
Sewing machine! Singler Talent
fat quarters and zippers for project bags and notions zip pouches

Stuff for Etsy

Handspun labels
Planning on a shop update at the beginning of April

Other Stuff

Stuff I’m Watching: Vikings, Peaky Blinders on Netflix, multiple Craftsy classes

Stuff I’m Reading: All the Wrong Questions Book 3: Shouldn’t You Be In School?

Stuff I’m Playing: Lego Lord of the Rings

Podcast Recommendations: Junkyarn Podcast (youtube.com/users/junkyarn) ; HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast (hppodcraft.com)

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Transcription:

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alright folks let’s do this thing again or

something

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hello and welcome to the Freakish Lemon talks

about stuff video series podcast thing I suppose

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one of these days I’ll have to come up with

the name for it but here we go episode 2 of

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the stuff so welcome if you’re a new viewer

and you’ve stumbled upon this mess and welcome

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back if you were a previous viewer or something

I’m not very good at getting these things

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started hello I am the Freakish Lemon I go

by Adrian and I use male pronouns for whatever

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I’m about talk about you’ll be able to see

my show notes over at my blog at freakishlemon.

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com and you can follow me on Twitter, tumblr,

Pinterest, Ravelry, places under the username

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freakishlemon yeah so so that’s the thing

I am a little bit of a different view from

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the last video I made because it is raining

and cloudy outside so the light is a little

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weird but I think I’ve got it figured out

to go with my camera and all the things you

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just gonna see different parts of the shelves

and also some blank wall over there it’s a

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very rare piece of space for a blank wall

all the other walls are filled with things

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that’s the only one that’s blank sometimes

things are there for holidays but there’s

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nothing permanent that goes there so far maybe

one day but until then this is the view you’ll

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have to live with I guess who cares what my

wall looks like right you’re here to see the

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things that I’ve been making so let’s get

started with the first segment which is stuff

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on sticks I finished a few things huzzah first

of which is Hazel the Humpback Whale and I’ve

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written down a cue card for myself this time

so I won’t forget everything and have 50 million

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freakin’ jump cuts so I’m using the pattern

Hazel the Humpback Whale by Bec Brittain I

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knit her on US size 0 / 2.0 mm DPNs using

Holiday Yarns grab bag yarns you know odds

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and ends from her dye lots and some Merry

Little Lamb green, red, and grey here for

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the tail which is a handspun hand-dyed wool

that I lost all the labels for so I don’t

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have any more details than that other than

it’s from the Merry Little Lamb and here she

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is in all of her glory with her floppy tail

fins and her floppy fins and I’m really pleased

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the how she turned out as she lives on my

printer over off to the side and just kind

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of perched there in being a whale and I really

enjoy her maybe one day I’ll make another

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one in actual whale colors but until then

this is what I have and she’s lovely and I

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would definitely recommend this pattern if

you really want a whale if you’re a beginner

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maybe not so much because there are very few

repeated rows but it was an interesting exercise

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in plush construction I also finished that

Mulberry Lion Brand Wool-Ease Chunky hood

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scarf using a pattern of my own design I do

not have it here because it has gone to it’s

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new home because it was a commission for a

co-worker but I will put a picture up here

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if I can do the fancy things

and that was knit on US 8 / 5.0 mm needles

and I will be writing out that pattern at

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some point so it will be in my Ravelry patterns

someday if you want to make one for yourself

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I also finished that hat commission with the

Mermaid Tails yarn from The Ugly Room the

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superwash merino and nylon blend and I did

a Lion Brand white acrylic pom pom to go on

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top of it again I do not have that finished

item here because it has gone on to it’s new

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home but I will put up a picture and I used

to the Graham pattern by Jennifer Adams which

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is I believe free pattern on Ravelry I started

out with US 4 / 3.5 mm needles and I upped

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it up to US 6 / 4 .0 mm needles I do have

a loose gauge so I tend to be several at least

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one or two needle sizes lower than what’s

recommended for the pattern so make sure you

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check your gauge with the patterns before

doing anything that I’m doing because I know

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my my needle sizes are weird for the things

that I’m making sometimes I also finished

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another commission mostly I just have to wash

and block these but these are fingerless mitts

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using a slightly altered version of the pattern

Giving is Receiving by Uma Padu its in the

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Lion Brand Wool-Ease Chunky in colorway Mulberry

to match the hood scarf because it’s for the

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same person and I did alter the pattern a

little bit I cast on fewer stitches and I

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made the palms just straight ribbing instead

of the sort of broken rib that she has in

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her pattern and also I think they’re shorter

than the pattern calls for but this is what

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I had done with the brown ones that I talked

about I think I talked about in last episode

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if I didn’t I’m sorry for another person who

had a discontinued yarn for her hood scarf

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and gloves so I had to make the yarn fit and

the person who’s getting these tried on the

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brown ones at work and said she wanted the

same thing so I did the same alterations and

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they’re they’re very squishy because it’s

chunky yarn this will be very warm not that

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she’s going to need it now because it’s been

warmed for the past week it’s been 40 degrees

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Fahrenheit which I mean we’ve had its been

averaging out to about 0 degrees Fahrenheit

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for all of February and the first couple weeks

of March so it feels really warm and all the

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snow is melting it makes me very sad because

I love winter but everyone else happy so I

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guess that’s alright and I knit these on US

5 / 3.75 mm DPNs I think they were just bamboo

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ones that I picked up at Joann’s so I have

two works in progress on sticks right now

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I have my Christmas sock that I showed you

last episode I worked a little bit on it last

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night it’s in the Red Heart Heart & Sole with

Aloe in the colorway Christmas it’s just a

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plain vanilla sock pattern it’s the Soldier

Sock by I forgot who Jessica Day George these

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are US 1 / 2.25 mm aluminum DPNs they’re pretty

worn I don’t know if you can see in this light

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but you can see that that paint has started

being rubbed off on the ends cuz I use these

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all the time for socks but it’s a simple sock

and I’m really liking how this is actually

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a turning out you can’t really tell from the

skein what the color pattern is going to be

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and it doesn’t say that it’s a striping anywhere

I don’t think nope no it doesn’t say it’s

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a striping anywhere so I wasn’s sure here

it looks like a variegated but it’s turning

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out to be a little more stripey than I thought

it would be and I actually liking it itlooks

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like a bunch of Christmas-y scraps and so

far there hasn’t been an exact color repeat

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I mean there’s a couple of greens that are

very close this red and this red are very

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close but it’s not in the same order so far

I’ll be interested to see how the color progression

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continues when I get closer to finishing this

sock and you might see these socks for a few

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episodes because it’s my I don’t want to think

while I’m doing anything socks so not as often

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worked on as other projects and I have one

more other project on sticks and I cast this

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on because I wanted to do a bit of selfish

knitting after all these comissiong I’ve been

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doing it is the Age of Brass and Steam Kerchief

by Orange Flower Yarn

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this is in Hundred Ravens yarn which is a

merino in the colorway Rohan at Stitches in

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2013 Stitches East she had a booth and in

her booth in the center table was Lord of

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the Rings inspired colorways so I immediately

bought two my mother immediately bought one

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it was the first booth we stopped at at Stitches

East and when oh boy this is this is how it’s

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going to be because if we walked away and

came back they’d be gone so here’s Rohan which

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is this kind of a kind of a muted red a muted

pinkish red and grey which I really like

and the stitch markers I’m using are ones

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I made out of a couple of plastic beads I

don’t know if they’re actually doing anything

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these are beads that I got in my sophomore

chemistry class I don’t even know what we

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were studying but he passed out these little

packets of beads they look white after they’ve

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been in the dark but when you put them in

the sun they turn colors I don’t know if the

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chemicals that do that in these beads still

work because I keep these in a bag but maybe

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I’ll leave these out and see if they’ll change

colors in the sun but it’s just a couple of

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jump rings and some plastic beads to mark

where I need to do my increases and I’m doing

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this on US 4 / 3.5 millimeter circulars and

here is the Hundred Ravens tag what are you

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doing she doesn’t want to come on camera you

wanna say hello to YouTube say hello look

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at the camera look look right there look shes

very excited about the windows this is Penny

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she’s a Pembroke Welsh Corgi who doesn’t want

to be up in my arms right now she was born

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in October so about five months old and she’s

being a little snot right now yes she is I

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thought she needed something that apparently

she just wanted to play so that’ll have to

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wait ’til after this video so we’ll move on

to my next segment stuff on hooks so I mentioned

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in my last episode that I bought some Tunisian

crochet hooks and I was looking forward to

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Tunisian crocheting well I went a little bit

crazy and I made a whole bunch of wash clothes

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that are going to go into the bin for things

to gift or things to sell at a future date

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whole bunch of them I just basically spent

a day doing that and I used the size I / 5.5

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mm Tunisian crochet hook and a whole bunch

of scrap cotton that I have a lot of Lily

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Sugar n’ Cream and some Bernat Handicrafter

Cotton Deluxe and some Lion Brand Cotton-Ease

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all scrap bits I also went digging around

in the craft stuff upstairs and I found these

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wooden eggs so I did some crocheted lacey

egg things I used the Crochet Covered Easter

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Eggs pattern by flax and twine and Ann B Weil

something and I used a 1.5 mm hook there wasn’t

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a size a US size on the hook just 1.5 mm and

some spare crochet thread I had now a couple

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of these eggs are naked because I like how

wooden eggs look and I did one decoupaged

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egg with some paper from an independent bookstore

that no longer exists I think I bought one

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book from them and it came in this pretty

paper bag dog is crying hang on I gotta go

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see if she has to go out out for real turns

out she did have to go outside so now I’m

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a little waterlogged from being out in the

rain but we can keep going I talked about

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my finished stuff on hooks I have done no

new granny squares for the collection of granny

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squares but I have started something new I’ve

started crocheting one of those round floor

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pouf thingies right now it looks just like

a giant circle I have started the up the side

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bits but I have a whole bunch of this mystery

black acrylic yarn and I figure I can do something

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for upstairs in the craft room for when I’m

digging through my yarn cubes so a floor pouf

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I’m not using a pattern I’m just I did a big

circle and then I’m going to go straight up

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and then I’m going to do some more circle

I’m using a size J / 5.0 mm 6.0 6.0 mm I couldn’t

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read my card from over there I will continue

to work on this that I believe is it for crochet

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stuff okay so next I have stuff on spindles

and wheels I’ve done a bit of spinning since

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my last episode and I have a couple of finished

things and a couple of things in progress

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first thing I finished was this little mini

skein it is from the Greenwood Fiberworks

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merino mini braids this is the arcade braid

which I’m going to put up in my shop and called

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Trapper Keeper because it reminds me of the

Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper colors the flying

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dolphins in the sky in the cat unicorns and

things that’s what it looks like this is 64

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yards with a 13 wraps per inch weight so about

a light sport weight and very soft and super

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Bright and I’m very pleased with how this

turned out this was on my drop spindle I’m

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dropspindling all the little mini braids I

also finished this mini braid from the same

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thing this is the colorway cappuccino I haven’t

decided what to do with this yet I did this

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one a chain ply which I had limited success

with in the past but this actually turned

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out really nicely this ended up being about

51 yards and it’s got a 14 wraps per inch

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so maybe a heavy fingering weight I’m going

by the Ravelry wraps per inch guide so I think

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15 is a fingering weight 15 or 16 is a fingering

weight according to that so it’s a little

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lighter than a sport weight and I really like

how the color blends turned out cuz it goes

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from this dark almost gray brown out to the

white and back and then I just finished this

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on my wheel this is spun from a braid from

Frabjous Fibers in their Trapeze colorway

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it is hand-dyed Blue-Faced Leicester spun

two-ply fractal spinning on my Ashford Kiwi

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wheel it’s a little bit damp yet because I

just finished it this week and it was drying

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overnight so it’s still got a little ways

to go for the drying but I do like how it

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turned out I haven’t done a wraps per inch

guide yet but I think it averages out to about

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a worsted weight and this one when I spun

it I did a very relaxed spin for this I wasn’t

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trying to get it to a specific weight I just

kind of let the fiber do what it wanted to

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do so it’s actually a little more woolen then

what I normally spend so it’s it’s pretty

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soft against a little damp so it might be

a little softer when it fully dries but this

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will be up in my shop when it’s dry and ready

to go and I do a shop update it’s about what

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did I measure it out to be it’s about 210

yards for this and then I did have one single

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that was longer than the others because that’s

how I roll and I chain plied it it’s it’s

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like 16 yards it’s nothing it’s going into

my odds and ends to work with I haven’t washed

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it yet so it might fluff out a little more

this is it on my interchangeable niddy-noddy

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and I think this is the first time I’ve chain

plied on my wheel and I’m not sure how I like

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how this turned out but I’m going to next

time I start a new bunch of fiber I’m gonna

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chain ply it and get some practice in on that

and right now the only work in progress I

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have on the wheel is this this is something

I didn’t write it down this is superwash BFL

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from Dragonswool.com they must’ve had a booth

somewhere where I bought from them maybe from

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the Coventry farmers market maybe from stitches

but it’s this beautiful it goes blue to yellow

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to orange you can’t really see the orange

on this is bobbin this is one third of the

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fiber I’m going to do a 3 ply on it I brought

it’s in a plastic bag because I divided them

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all up here is 1/6 so I do two I split the

fiber into six pieces and two of them are

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going into each of the plies so you get orange

down to yellow down to a greenish blue where

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it blends with the yellow to a blue and there’s

some you can see some kind of not really dyed

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pieces so you get a little bit of white in

there too it’s really pretty and I’m excited

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to see how three plies of it will look when

I ply them together but I’m using some refined

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techniques this thing over here is going to

fall again spinning this more worsted with

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a short forward draw stop it and it’s more

worsted so I’ve actually squeezed some of

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the air out of the fiber so it’s going to

be a sleeker which I think is how it got so

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thin is this is probably the finest I’ve ever

been able to consistently spin any fiber so

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I’m excited to see how that will turn out

and next I have stuff with thread which I’ve

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actually been doing quite bit of this past

week and I’ll tell you why in the new stuff

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segment but I did make some progress on my

Christmas cross stitch from the Frosted Pumpkin

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Stitchery you see I just have the “a” square

in the “s” sqaure left before the border there’s

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a little Mrs. Claus which is new some toys

which are new I think I had the snowman done

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in my last video but if not I have snowmen

so just an angel on a tree is going here and

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Santa Claus is going there in the “s” because

there is no Santa here yet on this Christmas

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cross stitch and then it is the white border

which I think I’m going to outline in red

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and then I will be done with this finally

that’s exciting I’m gonna push to finish the

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letter this week and have this thing finished

by my next video but I also started some new

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things that may eventually end up in the shop

I have to do a little bit more tweaking and

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experimentation but I started an attempt at

simple project bags here is the first attempt

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using a couple of fat quarters and a 14″ zipper

this is a little big for my taste I mean it

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might end up being shawl project bag it’s

just got white inside and you can see where

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I got sewing machine grease on it but it was

pretty simple to make and I wanted a simple

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project and there’s my little Freakish Lemon

tag but it’s kind of floppy and it’s kind

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of big and not really what I wanted out of

it so I made another one where’s the front

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so I made a Star Trek one out of my Star Trek

fabric and inside there is the Enterprise

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fabric hope you can see that it’s the Enterprise

and I do have a couple of sock skeins skeins

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of yarn for socks in there because I wanted

to see how much room would be in this thing

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there’s my little Lemon this one I did I put

some interfacing on the back of this fabric

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so that it’s a little bit stiffer it will

stand up on its own even without the yarn

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in here which is nice cuz if you just want

to put it down next to your chair it’s not

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gonna flop all over the place while you’re

knitting so I really like how this one turned

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out I might experiment with making it a little

bit shorter there’s still a lot of air up

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here I mean some people will like that but

it seems a little bit too tall for me so just

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a little bit shorter I don’t know I have some

things that I want to try out first and I

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haven’t put it through the wash test yet so

I need to wash it and I have made no progress

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on my quilt my quilt has sat there and done

nothing and here is my segment for new stuff

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which is going to be a long segment today

because I went a little crazy and I got a

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bunch of new stuff first new thing got was

a new DPN needle case I was keeping my DPNs

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in my straight needle case which is much taller

but they kept falling out everytime I opened

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it so I got a new DPN needle case from Roslyn

Evans on Etsy let me just open this up so

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it’s this blue red orange grey chevron pattern

on the front it’s grey on the inside there’s

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a flap and I don’t want to spill my needles

everywhere so it’s a little awkward right

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now there’s a bunch my DPNs and they stay

in here very comfortably and don’t fall out

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when I open this normally and not on camera

I wouldn’t be surprised if they fell out right

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now I also got two new drop spindles that

came in I think I mentioned them in the last

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episode this is a raw elm drop spindle from

sunniefairy on Etsy it doesn’t have a notch

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which I found a little confusing when I started

to spin with it but I spun the Trapper Keeper

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on this and it actually ended up working very

well so I like this spindle and this is a

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gear spindle from Snyder spindles on Etsy

there of a similar weight you can see this

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one’s a little shorter than this one this

one’s a little bit lighter than this one too

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you can see if I have no shortage of notches

to spin from I spend the cappuccino on this

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and it took a little bit of getting used to

there’s a couple of rough edges here along

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the hook and one of these gears the fiber

of getting stuck on one of the little teeth

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is a little rougher than the other ones that

keep getting stuck on there but I think with

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continued use this will be a great drop spindle

to work with and I really like how it looks

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because it’s a gear and that’s really cool

the weirdest thing I bought recently is this

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thing it is a milliner head thing used for

blocking out you know crowns of hats got it

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off of ebay for $38 I won a bid I never won

a bid on eBay before so $38 dollars isn’t

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that bad a brand new one usually sells at

least for my my research was like $60 for

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a wooden head to put hats on so almost half

price for a used one off of ebay is not bad

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does have a lot of pin holes in it but I’m

going to use this for blocking hats and photographing

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hats cause my stupid little foam head that

I photogrash all my hats on is so much smaller

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than my head so anything that I’m making for

me or for a human with a head that is not

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child size looks like a giant hat on this

foam head even if I stuff a wig under there

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so it looks giant so this is more head sized

here’s a hat I made a while back and well

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this hat is kind of long because this is made

of some of my very first handspun so I wasn’t

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quite sure how it was going to react when

I knit it so it’s longer than the head but

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you can see it’s a much better fit on the

crown than my foam head which I had like 3

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inches of a gap when I put this hat on the

foam head I also stopped at Joann’s on Thursday

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for some new project bag making stuff nothing

in my fabric stash was really calling to me

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to make project bags out of it yet so I stopped

and got some fat quarters because fat quarters

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were on sale and zippers so I’ve got these

fat quarters with monsters and then this will

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be the inside lining fabric this orange and

red fabric with a blue zipper 12″ zipper everybody’s

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so loud in my house I got this owl fabric

with this kind of turquoise color to go in

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for the lining with just a white zipper I

couldn’t find an off-white zipper that I liked

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to go with it but the white zipper will work

fine

and I got this fast food fabric with red to

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go in for the lining with a red zipper

and also I got a bunch more zippers I got

some 6″ zippers for the little zipper pouches

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that I sell on Etsy I have one more 12″ zipper

in case I do find anything in my stash that’s

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blue that will make a good project bag and

I got one 4″ zipper it was the only black

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4″ zipper for those tiny zipper pouches I

do everyone in my house is laughing really

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loudly I’m sorry if you can hear it on camera

but I did get a whole bunch of zippers because

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the most exciting new stuff that I got since

the last episode is a brand new sewing machine

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my old one was dying my old one was a singer

inspiration I got it probably a decade ago

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and it’s been through some rough times it’s

been through college it’s been through high

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school a little bit of high school probably

senior year of high school and no matter what

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I did the tension would not a just and about

every 30 or 40 stitches the needle would jerk

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to the left which you know if I could get

some stitches going they would inevitably

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be crooked because something in the machine

was yanking the thread so that it yanked the

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needle to the left it just there’s nothing

I could do my sister’s machine had a similar

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problem in August September or August and

she brought it to a machine shop and they

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told her that I was not worth fixing they

have to destroy the chassis in order to fix

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it in which case you can’t really use it because

it’s just naked machinery when you destroy

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the chassis so since mine was having same

problem and we had the same model of sewing

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machine I decided it was time to retire that

machine I will be putting it up on freecycle

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for parts or if anybody wants to try and fix

it so if you are local to Northwestern Connecticut

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keep an eye out for it I will put it up there

if anybody wants it so I got a new sewing

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machine it is Singer sewing machine again

because I like singer sewing machines and

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it’s a singer talent so it’s kind of the if

you go on the spectrum of singer sewing machines

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it’s not at the beginning where it’s super

cheapy cheap and basic it’s kind of in the

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middle and I played with it a lot when I got

it I went through all the stitches and different

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stitch length and made little swatches and

I learned how to make a buttonhole since I’d

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never learned how to do that before on a machine

I learned how to make a buttonhole I learned

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how to sew a button on using the machine it

was very exciting which is why I started making

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project bags so now I can replace the zipper

pouches that have sold out in my shop and

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start a bunch of new things for the shop and

eventually get back to my stupid quilt which

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is sitting upstairs hanging out stuff for

etsy I haven’t really done anything specifically

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for Etsy other than some handspinning and

the project bags the only thing I’ve really

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done is made up some new handspun labels I

will when I’ve finished the handspun setting

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up for the shop I print out a label with the

name of it and all the information and I stick

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it in here and on the outside it’s got my

little Lemon on it using different kinds of

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paper and things but that’s really all I’ve

done specifically I am going to do more for

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the shop before the next episode I want to

do a an April shop update with a bunch of

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new stuff all the Christmas stuff has expired

so I can just retire that for now but I want

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to get some stuff back in the shop for April

because I am the end of my commission list

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is near I finished those fingerless gloves

I have one more hood scarf to do and I have

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a small key card holder which will take me

an afternoon so I can stop doing that which

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is giving me some little bit of income and

start doing the other thing that gives me

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a little bit of income so I be working on

that stuff and I will be some stitch markers

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and I will be doing some a whole bunch of

moleskiene notebooks that I embroider and

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I have some new designs that I want to get

out there like for the Black Widow and probably

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Captain Marvel and hopefully Ms. Marvel some

lady superheroes to add to the mix cause I

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don’t really have any lady superheroes in

my shop yet so I will be doing that hopefully

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soon hopefully and finally reached other stuff

stuff I am watching right now I am mostly

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caught up on all the ongoing shows Vikings

started back up since the last episode so

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I have a couple of episodes of that that I

need to watch I started marathoning on Netflix

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the show Peaky Blinders starring Cillian Murphy

which I’m really liking so far I’m a couple

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episodes into season 2 and I’m really enjoying

it so far I also went on a bit of a Craftsy

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class tear for about week and a half I bought

and watched Ply to Knit: Spin the Yarn You

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Really Want with Jillian Moreno I bought Drafting

from Worsted to Woolen with Jacey Boggs Faulkner

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which I haven’t quite finished but I watched

a whole bunch of it all at once and Sew Ready

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Machine Basics with Amy Allen to get ready

for my brand new sewing machine so loud over

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there oh my god okay and then Stashbusting:

Make the Most of the Yarns You Have with Clara

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Parkes? Parker I can’t read my handwriting

I’m going to guess that’s Parkes my camera

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made a noise I was afraid it shut off so yes

all things relevant to my interests right

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now that I’ve been watching it like a crazy

person thing’s that I stuff that I’ve been

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reading mostly just All the Wrong Questions

Book 3: Shouldn’t You be in School? by Lemony

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Snicket I talked about book 2 in the last

episode it’s been this and you know craft

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blogs and fanfiction but I’m almost finished

with this I only have a couple of chapters

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to go there’s my bookmark next I think I’ll

start Night Watch by Terry Pratchett which

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my sister bought for me for Christmas he sadly

passed away this week so I think I owe it

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to myself to read one of his books that I’ve

always been meaning to read but I never know

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which books I’ve read and I haven’t because

I love Terry Pratchett books and I’ve read

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a lot of them so I’ll do Night Watch next

stuff I am playing still playing Lego Lord

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of the Rings I haven’t gotten much further

since last episode because I’ve been trying

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to get the commissioning stuff done and while

I can do many things together like watching

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and knitting and reading and knitting playing

video games and knitting doesn’t really work

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so that’s been kidn of put on hold but I’m

gonna do some of that today I think because

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I love Lego games and podcast recommendations

I’ve decided between last episode and this

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episode that I’m going to do one knitting

related and one not since I have been watching

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a lot of knitting related podcasts recently

well watching and listening depending on what

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type of podcast they are so the knitting related

podcast I’m goingt to suggest is one that

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I started a couple of weeks ago that everybody’s

into right now is the Junkyarn Podcast here

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on YouTube so if you search for junkyarn you’ll

get her podcast and it’s a great podcast she

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fantastic oh my god they’re so loud I really

hope you can’t hear them because they’re so

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loud uh but the Junkyarn Podcast is a great

podcast and I highly recommend it she’s a

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really funny and I love watching her talk

about stuff so the non-knitting podcast that

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I’m going to recommend has a really great

episode out right now they do everything third

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episode is free there is a paid tier to have

more episodes but it’s generally once a month

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one is free and that’s enough for me but it’s

I think $6.66 per quarter for the podcast

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it’s really not a lot of money and I might

up it and as soon as you subscribe to the

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paid tier you get all of the episodes that

were under that pay tier but it is the HP

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Lovecraft Literary Podcast at hppodcraft.com

right now March is for Dracula so they are

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reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula and talking

about Dracula which is very exciting as they

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do have all the HP Lovecraft episodes for

his stuff free I believe that’s how they started

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the podcast by going through all of HP Lovecraft’s

short stories and novels I think he had one

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or two novels they went through all of those

then ran out of work and then started doing

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works that he had talked about in articles

or works that were adjacent or people he had

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worked with and now it’s kind of weird fiction

stuff it’s it’s a lot of ghosts and weird

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things from other dimensions and Dracula and

it’s really fun to hear their take on these

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weird fiction things there’s some historical

information that they get to look up and relating

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different writers to each other and why this

story might sound a little weird compared

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to the other stories that kind thing it’s

a great podcast to listen to if you love weird

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fiction and I think everyone can use a little

weird fiction in their lives right right or

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something and that is pretty much it for this

episode I know I said in the last episode

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that was probably going to be the longest

I didn’t anticipate doing this many things

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between February and March it is almost exactly

one month since I made that video and I didn’t

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I didn’t expect to be doing so many things

so sorry this episode is so long I tried to

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stream line it a little bit so that I wouldn’t

stop and ramble quite so much hopefully I

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‘ve done a good job of that it will make editing

this video a lot easier so that’s it for me

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right now remember you can find all the show

notes at my blog at freakishlemon.com and

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you can follow me on Twitter, tumblr, Instagram,

Pinterest, Ravelry, all the good places as

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freakishlemon feel free to drop a comment

by that didn’t work feel free to send me a

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direct message or send me a message or whatever

and say hi because I like hearing from people

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who occasionally watch my stuff so I think

that’s it I think that’s what we’re going

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to go with I think I’m gonna guess that is

the end of the episode I guess as if anybody

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is in charge of this but me so yes stop talking

now goodbye

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