EPISODE 3: SCATTERED

/ freakishlemon

Show notes:

  • Wooly Dryer Balls

Stuff on Sticks

FO –

WIPs –

Stuff on Hooks

FO –

WIP –

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

Stuff on Spindles and Wheels

FO –

  • Enting – chain ply – Greenwood Fiberworks (merino) “Sherwood Forest” – Raw Elm drop spindle
  • Fitz – 2 ply – Greenwood Fiberworks (merino) “Lavender Hedgerow” – Gear Drop Spindle

Stuff with Thread

  • Christmas Cross Stitch by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery
  • Dragon Quilt

New Stuff

  • Allure wool wash from Bijou Basin Ranch in Woodland Mist
  • 100g braid of 75% BFL, 25% camel from Hill Top Cloud in the UK
  • WPI Gauge from Hiil Top Cloud
  • Mini skeins from Gnome Acres
  • Mini skeins from Kristin/Voolenvine Yarns

Stuff for Etsy

  • Stitch Markers – the Doctor Who SMs are on hold until I revamp the designs
  • Moleskine notebooks
  • Project Bags
  • Handspun

Other Stuff

Stuff I’m Watching – Daredevil, Lost Girl, Ken Burns documentaries
Stuff I’m Reading – Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
Stuff I’m Playing – Lego Lord of the Rings
Podcast Recommendations –

Follow me as freakishlemon on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Ravelry!

 

Transcription

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Am I recording? Is it good? Is it going? Oh

my god. What the hell is going on? Okay. Hello!

 

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Welcome to the Freakish Lemon video podcast

thing. I am your host, the Freakish Lemon.

 

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I go by Adrian and I use male pronouns.   I

practiced that part. I’ve forgotten what I

 

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say next. Oh, you can follow me on Twitter,

Tumblr, Ravelry, and Instagram at ‘freakishlemon’

 

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and the show notes for this episode will be

found in my blog over at FreakishLemon.com.

 

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If you are new to my video thing, welcome,

and if you are returning, thanks. I know it’s

 

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been a trial. It’s going to be even more of

a trial today because I don’t know if you’re

 

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able to tell in this video but this is a new

camera. I got a raise at work and the last

 

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time I bought a camera was…   We were in

the single digit aughts. Was it 2009? Something

 

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like that. It was while I was in college and

I graduated college in 2010, so it’s been

 

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a while. Thought I’d treat myself to a new

camera, which has the little flippy video

 

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view screen thingy over there, so if I’m distracted

and looking off the side, I’m seeing my stupid

 

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face do things on the little view screen so

I know where I am in frame and if the camera’s

 

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in focus. Also, I got lights cuz I went a

little crazy with the Amazon cart button.

 

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So I do have continuous lighting which is

exciting, but I also do have finger shadows

 

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you can see on my face. So if that becomes

a problem, let me know in the comments because

 

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I’m trying not to look at myself while I’m

actually filming.   Yes. So we’ll see how

 

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this new camera goes. I have to stand much

closer to this camera than my old camera because

 

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it’s got a crazy awesome telephoto capability

so I’m like right up in the lens right now.

 

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Like it’s less than an arm’s length away.

And it takes some getting used to, so forgive

 

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me if I see scattered and ridiculous. Although

really, how is that any different from any

 

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other video I film? Scattered and ridiculous.

That is me, okay, stop talking to myself.

 

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Talk to the camera. Let’s get this show on

the road. I finished a thing. Well, I made

 

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a thing. I say finished; it took me an afternoon

to do, but it doesn’t fit into any my categories

 

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so I’m going to show it to you now before

I get into my different segments. I have to

 

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be so close to this camera that all my stuff

is spread out throughout the room, so I’m

 

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going to be ducking in and out of the frame

a lot. I’ll try to edit some of it out but

 

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I mean, that’s a lot of work and I don’t want

to do it. I made a thing. I made many things

 

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actually. I made felted dryer balls, which

are really easy to do. You get some 100% wool

 

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and you wind them up into little balls. You

tie them individually into their own pockets

 

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in a set of cheap pantyhose. I bought mine

at the dollar store. And then you throw them

 

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in the wash, preferably with something heavy.

I did one cycle through with a pair of jeans,

 

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went through the dryer twice with the same

pair of jeans because my dryer’s not that

 

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great. Sometimes you have to go through the

dryer cycle twice in order to dry things,

 

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even on like a half of a full load. So, yeah,

and then I wash them with another pair of

 

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jeans afterwards and then dried them a couple

more times. And then took them out of the

 

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pantyhose, let them go through the dryer couple

times all on their own. So I have a set for

 

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black clothes, colored clothes, and white

clothes. Most of my clothes are black or navy

 

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blue, but like if I’m doing a load of colored

T-shirts I’ll use the light grey ones and

 

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for white clothes, I use the white ones. And,

I mean, I made them on a whim just to see

 

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how they were different from dryer sheets

and I actually like my clothes better dried

 

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with the wool balls than the dryer sheets.

They feel softer when they come out of the

 

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dryer, which is nice. Also, cuts down on trash,

so that’s always a plus. But since there is

 

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no actual crafting involved with that other

than winding a ball, I didn’t know where to

 

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put it. So, there you go. Felted dryer balls.

On to the next segment, which is STUFF ON

 

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STICKS. I have a finished object. Well, I

have several finished objects, but I have

 

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one finished object here for Stuff on Sticks.

It is my Age of Brass and Steam kerchief thingy.

 

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Can I strep back so you can see how big this

is? Aw yeah. The lens on this camera’s awesome.

 

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You can see it’s nearly my total wingspan

here. I did one more set of the – because

 

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the pattern calls for stockinette up until

the eyelet rows and you end up with 3 eyelet

 

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rows on the pattern, I went on to do a fourth

eyelet row to use up – are you in focus? Are

 

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you in focus? Not really in focus. Are you

focusing? Yes. Okay. So this is my Hundred

 

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Ravens yarn in the Rohan colorway, my Lord

of the Rings yarn. Stop looking at the screen,

 

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look at the lens. Sorry. It’s merino wool

and I’ve been wearing it alot in the morning

 

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when I go to work because it still chilly.

Between, you know, 30 degrees and 40 degrees

 

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when I go to work, but it’s warmer by the

time I get to work because I have an hour

 

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commute, so this is nice to have in the morning

when it’s still chilly when I leave my house.

 

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I knit this on US 4 / 3.5 mm circular needles,

which is smaller than what the pattern calls

 

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for, but I think the pattern also calls for

DK weight yarn and this was a fingering. So

 

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I finished that and I love it and I look like

such a hipster in it, but I think I might

 

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make another one with the other Lord of the

Rings yarn. Not Age of Brass and Steam, but

 

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another triangle kerchief thing so I have

a couple of hipster options. I also finished

 

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a small cable knit key card holder. I make

these for people at work for five bucks because

 

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everybody’s losing their key cards unless

they are attached to them. So I make these

 

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little key card holders and I’ll show a picture

here so you can see what that looks like.

 

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It’s for the same coworker who did the fingerless

mitts and the hat in that color yarn, so she

 

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was real excited to have it for her key card

holder as well. I also finished another hood

 

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scarf commission and I finished another fingerless

mitts commission using a modified version

 

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of the Giving is Receiving fingerless mitts

pattern Uma Padu on Ravelry. I’m not going

 

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to go into the details about those because

I think I’ve shown a pair of those on this

 

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video podcast series every time I’ve made

one because everybody at work decided they

 

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wanted some of those things, but those are

the last of my workplace commissions, so you

 

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won’t see anything for workplace people until

much later in the year, probably. So that

 

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is very exciting that I finally finished that

list and I can actually work on stuff that

 

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I want to work on. I’m sorry if you’re hearing

motocycles going by outside. There is a biker

 

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bar a few miles down the road, so we get a

lot of motorcycles. Works in Progress for

 

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the knitting. I’m still working on my Christmas

socks. I’ve turned the heel and am working

 

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on the foot now on this pair of socks. And

I’m still liking how this Christmas yarn is

 

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striping up. This is the Red Heart Heart & Sole

with Aloe and they’re still not- Well, there’s

 

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some exact color repeats now, but it’s interesting

that some of it seems to be random but some

 

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of it is repeatable or easily repeatable.

So I’m working on that. That’s the Soldier

 

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Socks pattern by Jessica Day George on US

1 / 2.25 mm aluminum DPNs and this is a trick

 

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that I picked up recently. Because recently

I’ve been having a hard time with keeping

 

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stitches on my aluminum DPNs when they’re

just jostling around in a bag for multiple

 

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things. I don’t know why I suddenly have this

problem. So I’ve started putting rubber bands

 

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on them to keep things from sliding around.

So I know there’s DPN holders. There’s some

 

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really cool ones out there that people make

and there’s some cool ones out there that

 

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companies sell, but if you’re cheap and it’s

not budget, rubber bands are great. Especially

 

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for something like socks because this is just

one rubber band. So you know, I’d take it

 

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off the needles, put it on my wrist, and then

when I’m done with the soccer just put it

 

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back on. I also started a pair of leg warmers.

I finished one. So here’s one leg warmer.

 

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It is the Leg Warmers pattern by Jane Richmond

on Ravelry. It’s a free pattern because it’s

 

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basically a 2×2 ribbed tube. There’s no shaping

or anything, just a tube, and I’m using Loops

 

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& Threads Impeccable, which is an acrylic

yarn but it was cheap so I have it. So I’m

 

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using the Teal color and the Aqua color. That’s

the Aqua. And I am on – Oops knocking things

 

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over all over the place – I am on my second

leg warmer.  And this is a little Kamina

 

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phone charm from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

that I found so I thought I’d stick it on

 

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here as I progress keeper. So I can measure

the middle from Kamina to the end to find

 

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out where I need to start doing my color rows

again. I’m using US 8 / 5.0 mm DPNs. Again,

 

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here’s the rubber band trick. This one has,

because these are fatter needles, two rubberbands

 

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– one of each end – to keep everything from

sliding around. And I decided to make some

 

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leg warmers because the past couple winters,

we have had really really bitterly cold February’s

 

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in Connecticut with high winds and this year

especially because it got so cold so fast

 

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and the winds picked up so fast, my legs from

the knee down were completely chapped because

 

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the wind would blow right through my work

pants. Everything else I can layer up. I can

 

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have a long coat, I can have layers up here,

but it’s warm where I work. My coworkers would

 

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not agree with me, but I can’t layer my legs

at work without being it a huge hassle and

 

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after this winter, I need something I can

put on under my work pants to keep the wind

 

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from blowing right through them because I

work in Hartford. So you know, if you’re in

 

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a city in the winter, the wind just magnifies

through the buildings and it’s terrible. It

 

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just blows right through my work pants. My

legs were completely chappen up, just terrible.

 

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So I’m making leg warmers that I can put on

under my pants and then take off when I actually

 

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get to work and I’m sitting at my desk so

I don’t die of heat. And I put that in my

 

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bag that I showed last time that I made, the

floppy one with no interacing, but it’s a

 

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good size. I can fit both the skeins of yarn

in here and the project so it actually worked

 

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out well, this bag. I wasn’t sure if it would.

And I also started another pair of socks,

 

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but this is unusual because while I’m sticking

it in this stuff on sticks section, it’s not

 

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actually on knitting needles. A couple of

Christmases ago, my mom bought me a sock loom

 

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because she thought that it would be a cool

tool that I’d want to try and this past Christmas

 

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my friend Lainey bought me this book, Loom

Knitting Socks. So I decided to try a pair

 

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of socks from this book The Single Rib Socks

– it’s a basic sock pattern – on my sock loom.

 

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I didn’t get very far. It’s a little slow

going, but I have a bit of the cuff. And this

 

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is with Loops & Threads luxury sock in the

colorway Canyon. What is it made out of? It

 

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says cashmere blend. There we go. 60% fine

merino superwash wool, 30% nylon, 10% cashmere.

 

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Here is the color. Here are my stitches. I

can’t really tell how well this is going to

 

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  1. The pattern calls to cast on 64, but this

loom only has 60 so I cast on 56, but it seems

 

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really stretched out on this loom. I’ll see

where I am once I get further along in the

 

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cuff to see if I actually like it, but it’s

an interesting experiment. I can always rip

 

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it out if I hate it and make a pair of socks

on some needles but I figured I’d give that

 

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a try. We’ll see. I mean it is slow going

on the sock loom because you do have pick

 

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each individual stitch and take it off the

little peg and put it back on. But I’m starting

 

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to speed up with it. I’m just not sure how

the fabric’s gonna turn out. But I also think

 

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part of my problem might be the space between

the pegs. I think – I think this book was

 

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really written for a sock loom that had pegs

closer together for that weight of yarn. I

 

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don’t know. It’s an experiment. And that’s

it for Stuff on Sticks. Now it is time for

 

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STUFF ON HOOKS I do have a couple of finished

objects in Stuff on Hooks today, which is

 

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surprising because the things that I have

been working on are larger projects. It’s

 

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neither one of those. I was part of the – I’ll

reach over here and grab it – Little Bobbins

 

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Knits cup cozy swap. So I decided to crochet

cup cozy for a partner. Now, I tried the pattern

 

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first with I think the hook that was recommended

and it’s the Mug Cozy Pattern by Lisa Charbonneau.

 

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And I used that Loops & Threads Impeccable

acrylic yarn in Teal as my partner’s – one

 

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of my partner’s favourite colors is teal – and

this is the first attempt. It’s a little big.

 

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This is a big mug. I will compare it to this.

It doesn’t look that different on the screen

 

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there, but this is a much smaller mug. This

is my cup cozy I got from my partner in the

 

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swap. But this one I felt was a little big,

so I did the second one with a smaller needle.

 

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Needle? Hook. I did this one with a size J

/ 6.0 mm hook and then the other one in a

 

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size I / 5.5 mm hook and I gave her a pink

and kind of brass button for hers. It fits

 

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a much more standardized mug. This is kind

of a big mug and you can see in how far in

 

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the button has to go in order for this to

work on there. And this was an easy pattern.

 

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I mean, it’s basically a rectangle with a

smaller rectangle that has a button hole and

 

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then you do a crochet border. That was fun.

And I sent it off to my partner and I can

 

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talk about it now because we confirmed this

week that we each received each other’s packages,

 

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so my notes were pretty vague there for a

while, just a mystery. I didn’t want to show

 

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evrybody before she got her package. She lives

in Scotland so it took awhile for it to get

 

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there. Yeah, and this – I showed it for comparison

– this is the one she sent me which is knit

 

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and I really like it. It has lovely colors.

My mom was tempted to steal it when I got

 

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it in the mail. So I finished two cup cozies,

one for myself because why not and one for

 

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my cup cozy swap partner. Same yarn,just changed

the hook size for the size of the cozy. I’m

 

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still working on my black floor pouf thing.

Where did that bag go? I’ve lost it. There

 

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it is. There’s too many things scattered around

right now. Here it is. It looks about the

 

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same as the last time I showed you. Probably

even less. Because I found out that when I

 

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was joining the round up the side, I was accidentally

adding a stitch so it wasn’t staying the same

 

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stitch count all around. So I had to rip it

all back to the circle increases. Thankfully

 

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I put a stitch marker there. And I had to

start the sides over. I’m doing this with

 

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a J size hook which is a 6.0 mm. I feel like

I’m spending not enough time actually looking

 

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at the camera. I’m just looking at everything

else in the world. I’m sorry. I’m really kind

 

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of scatterbrained trying to manage everything

with this new setup, which is a terrible set

 

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up right now and I’ve got to figure something

else out. Yes, so it’s just single crochet

 

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US – I think it’s a double in the UK – with

this mystery black acrylic yarn to bust some

 

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stash. I’m just kind of taking my time with

  1. I’m not in a hurry to get this finished.

 

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But I have made progress on my busting stash

granny squares. I have done all of these in

 

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the past two weeks while watching Flash, Arrow,

and Agents of SHIELD. I also went up to the

 

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craft room with my mom because she was putting

together colors to go together for blankets

 

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because she has a lot of acrylic stash up

there – about 20 years worth of acrylic stash

 

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up there that she just hasn’t done anything

with for years. And she loves making blankets.

 

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That’s her best thing that she loves to do.

She’s quick with them and they always look

 

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great, so we were digging through and I took

a bunch of scraps because I mostly have browns

 

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and grey. So, in order to get some rainbow

action, I stole some scraps from my mom. And

 

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I did a bunch of squares. They’re on these

rings so that I can show you which ones I

 

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did new. I will take them off the rings and

dump them into the bag now that I’ve shown

 

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you. And this is using a US size H / 5.0 mm

rosewood hook. And it’s based – I don’t think

 

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there’s really a pattern. I mean, there’s

probably a pattern out there for it. There

 

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are only so many ways you can make a square.

But it’s based off of the granny squares that

 

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I’ve seen on Attic24’s blog, which is a blog

that I really like for crochet. And I do want

 

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to try one of her grannys tripe blankets,

but I think what’s going to happen is I think

 

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I’m going to cast on – cast on? I’m going

to start the Weekender crochet hexagon thing

 

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that Dani’s been doing over at Little Bobbins

Knits podcast because that looks amazing.

 

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And I need more modular freaking blankets

in my life, right? I know I’m going to start

 

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  1. Probably even this weekend while I’m editing

this video, I’ll probably start it. And then

 

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I’ll have this. And then I’ll probably soon

be starting a cozy memories sock blanket knit

 

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thing. So I’ll have three blankets in progress.

But yes, I’m really digging the crochet right

 

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now because I think I burnt myself out during

those workplace commissions so it’s nice to

 

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just do stuff I don’t even have to think about

because I’ve done it a million times before.

 

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Now it is time for STUFF ON SPINDLES AND WHEELS

which isn’t very much this month. I really

 

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haven’t done anything on the wheel so I still

just have that one bobbin of the blue, orange,

 

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and yellow fiber that I’m spinning. I did

spin this mini mini-braid. It’s the Sherwood

 

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Forest merino pigtail braid from Greenwood

Fiberworks and this will be up in my shop

 

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and I’m calling it Enting because it’s like

a little Ent and it’s a sport weight yarn.

 

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And I chain plied it. And I did this on the

raw elm drop spindle. And I liked how it turned

 

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out. I’m practicing my chain plying. I think

I did pretty good on this one and I also finished

 

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spinning the two ply yarn that I think will

be the companion yarn to my Simmons handspun.

 

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If you’ll remember, here’s Simmons from Agents

of SHIELD – the pink, the white, and the brown.

 

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And this is the merino…. Oh my god, I can’t

remember any words right now. The merino mini-braid-

 

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I forgot what it’s called. Hang on I’ve got

a thing. Ah, I just kicked the camera. Lavender

 

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Hedgerow is what it’s called. And here it

is two plied. I haven’t washed it or measured

 

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it or anything yet. There’s green and lavender

and blue and brown, just kind of muted, which

 

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reminds me of Fitz. It’s a lighter weight

than the Simmons handspun so. I don’t think

 

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I have an accurate gauge of the Simmons handspun,

but I think I’m getting closer to an actual

 

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fingering weight yarn. So the Fitz yarn is

much thinner than the Simmons yarn, but I’m

 

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still gonna sell them as a pair in the shop.

Probably not this shop update, but the next

 

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one. Because I have to finish this one out

and get it all ready to be sold. But I had

 

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fun. It was quick as I did it this week, basically,

to do something else other than shop update

 

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stuff, which I will show you in the shop update

section. But that’s really it for spinning.

 

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I didn’t really do anything else. I have in

my notes… I’lll just talk while I’m off

 

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camera. I have in my notes that I started

the Durango mini-braid, but here’s my drop

 

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spindle and here’s the mini-braid. All I’ve

done is unbraid the braid. I don’t think that

 

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counts as in progress, so hopefully that’ll

be more exciting next month. And I really

 

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want to get back up and work ont he wheel

some more because I just did not have a chance

 

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to do that this month. Because I’m not great

at regulating where my time is spent. So we

 

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can move right on to the sgement NEW STUFF

which I have some new stuff which is very

 

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exciting. First thing I have is some Allure

fiber wash in the Woodland Mist scent. I bought

 

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this because I’ve been really just kind of,

well not this month, but last month I was

 

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doing a lot of spinning, or at least it felt

like a lot of spinning, and I have this fiber

 

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upstairs that has wool content but it also

has silk and camel in it and I listened to

 

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the interview with- I forgot her name, the

person who invented this stuff over at Bijou

 

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Basin Ranch – on Marly Bird’s Yarn Things

Podcast. And she was talking about how different

 

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washes affect different fibers, so I wanted

something that I knew I’d be able to wash

 

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that wool/ camel/silk blend in without damaging

the camel or the silk. So I got this and it

 

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smells good and I’m excited to use it. I haven’t

used it because it’s just been sitting in

 

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the bag to talk about on the podcast because

that’s how I don’t lose things for the podcast.

 

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I sequester them away and I do not look at

them. It’s really quite something. I also

 

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got- Stop talking to the table. Talk to the

camera. I got an order from Hilltop Cloud

 

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over in the UK. Where do did you go? I was

really looking for a wraps per inch guide

 

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and this one has, you know, it has the little

notch to measure wraps per inch and it has

 

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little guides for what weight that is and

also the card at the bottom, you can lay your

 

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yarn across it and get a kind of idea of where

the wraps per inch is so you can get an idea

 

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of the weight of the yarn. That’s primarily

what I went shopping for when I went to the

 

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Hilltop Cloud site on Etsy, but they’re in

the UK so it’s pretty- it’s a shipping cost

 

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that’s not small, so I also bought some BFL/camel

blend wool because why not? And I’m excited

 

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to spin this when I get back up to the wheel.

Because I’m pretty sure that’s going to be

 

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wheel dealio. It’s not as soft as I expected

it to be, but I imagine it would be pretty

 

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warm BFL and camel and I feel like I’m gonna

sneeze. Nope. Now that I’ve say that, I don’t.

 

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So I got that from Hilltop Cloud. And this

is the only thing out of my stuff in the bag

 

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for the podcast that I’ve actually taken out

and used because this has been very helpful

 

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in getting some details for my handspun. I’m

gonna go hang it up on my wheel or near my

 

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wheel upstairs as soon as this podcast is

over. So that’s very cool. I also soft of

 

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bought some yarn. I say sort of because I’m

on a yarn diet and I feel like these don’t

 

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count. Okay? Have I talked about my yarn diet

here? I know I have on my blog but, okay.

 

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So, my yarn diet. I have a lot of stash – who

doesn’t have a lot of stash – but I have a

 

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lot of stash primarily because when I started

learning to crochet and knit my grandmother,

 

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my Aunt Kathy, my neighbor, and my mom just

kind of gave me a bunch of stuff. My Grandma

 

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had a huge box of yarn that she just gave

to me. My Aunt Kathy has two – she had a garbage

 

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bag full of yarn and then another box full

of yarn that she found later that she wasn’t

 

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going to use and just gave them to me. My

neighbor found out I was crocheting and brought

 

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down a box of yarn and just gave it to me.

And free yarn is great, but a lot of it is

 

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acrylic yarn and a lot of it is yarn that

I would not have chosen on my own. So as I’m

 

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buying yarn, I’m using it but all this stuff

has been sitting there since 2005 , 2006 when

 

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I really start picking up the craft, so for

the past two-and-a-half years I’ve put myself

 

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on a yarn diet. So I’m allowed to buy whatever

I want from the New York Renaissance Faire,

 

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which is in August usually, but there’s usually

a gap. So I say September, but I mean the

 

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New York Reinaissance faire because one of

the silk dyers sometimes has yarn, but thtat’s

 

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really the only place at the New York Renaissance

Faire I buy it. September-ish, August/September

 

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through January, I can buy whatever I want.

All the local yarn events happen at that time.

 

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There’s a yarn crawl with the local yarn shops.

There’s a farmers market that has a yarn day.

 

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There’s the New England Fiber Festival up

in Massachusetts. There was Stitches East,

 

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but that’s not there this year so my mom and

I are probably going to do our own fiber crawl

 

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or our own yarn crawl through as many local

yarn shops as we can. That’s what we say we’re

 

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going to do. We’ll see how that actually pans

out, but… so I can buy whatever I want from

 

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September through January. Because January’s

my birthday. But February to August, I can

 

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only buy yarn if someone has commissioned

me for a project, it is for something for

 

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the shop, and I waffle about it if I find

sock yarn on sale for less than a dollar at

 

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Joann’s because I know I’ll use sock yarn.

But those are my only three conditions for

 

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buying yarn from February until August. That

being said, GnomeAcres had an update where

 

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she had Avengers miniskeins.  I feel like

miniskeins don’t count, right? They don’t

 

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count against my yarn diet? Because I am eventually

going to cast on one of those cozy memories

 

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blankets and I really wanted The Avengers

miniskeins, so there’s- I’m hoping I get all

 

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these colors right. There’s a couple where

I’m not sure but there’s Captain America.

 

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There is Hawkeye. I’ll just curl them up.

I’m pretty sure that’s Hawkeye. There is Iron

 

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Man. There is a Black Widow. I’m dopping all

my minis. There is Hulk Smash. Oh my God,

 

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I’m incapable of holding these minis. I;m

just dropping them. I’m pretty sure this is

 

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Thor. It’s either Thor or Ultron. I’m not

sure which is which. I want say this is Thor

 

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because it’s a brighter red and he has a red

cape, but this one might be Thor. And then

 

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Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. And she had

a big update where she updated with these

 

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many skeins and I needed the Avengers desperately.

I also because I hadn’t bought yarn in a long

 

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time, got a grab bag of miniskeins from GnomeAcres.

I don’t know what colorways these are. They

 

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didn’t come labeled. And this one is on her

sparkly base, SparkleGnome, so I’m excited

 

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about those. And because I could, I picked

up the Easter set because those were going

 

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to get out of the shop pretty soon. It’s a

blue, yellow, pink, and I think that’s the

 

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Little Bunny FooFoo colorway. Does it say?

Yes it does on this package that you can see.

 

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I figured I might as well pick that up, too,

since it was limited edition and Easter was

 

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ending that week. I think it was Good Friday

when that update happened. I also participated

 

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in a miniskein swap with Kristen from Voolenvine

Yarns and the Yarngasm podcast. She sent me

 

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a lovely package with a card and some goodies

and a pin. Reflections are hard, okay, there

 

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we go. Focus. It lost it. And here are the

minis she sent me. She included a list. This

 

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one’s one of hers. This is the Wicked colorway,

but I haven’t actually spent time matching

 

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her descriptions and everything to the actual

yarns so I’m not entirely sure which ones

 

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are which right now, but I’m sure I’ll talk

about them when I actually start my cozy memories

 

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blanket. So that was exciting. And since we’re

talking minis, these next ones aren’t new

 

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but I figured I’d show you what I’ve gathered

from my own stash and put in a bag to eventually

 

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be part of my cozy memories blanket when I

start it. So far it’s in my Star Trek experimental

 

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bag. And these are kind of haphazard because

of the actual labels attached to them. Here’s

 

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some Patons Kroy socks. Here’s some Merry

Little Lamb green handspun. I haven’t seen

 

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them for long time. They used to have a booth

at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire every

 

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year because they would kettle die while they

were there, but they haven’t been there in

 

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years and their website is broken so I don’t

know if they just stopped doing it or what

 

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but here’s some green handspun from them.

I have all that is left from my Hundred Ravens

 

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Rohan yarn. Some more Patons Kroy socks. There

was a Christmas a couple of years ago where

 

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I made pretty much everyone in my family socks,

so I have… This is Premier Yarns Deborah

 

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Norville collection. I’m just chucking mini-skeins

on the floor. I think this is also Premier

 

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socks. This is some Shibui. The last of the

Mermaid Tails. Some Gnome Acres Mustache

 

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Manifesto. This is a part of the – what was

is, 2013? Steampunk yarn club with Gnome Acres

 

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and Tangerine Designs. The very last of some

hand dyed yarn from the silk dyer I was talking

 

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about at the New York Renaissance Faire. Don’t

actually know what the yarn content of this

 

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is because their yarn dyeing was kind of an

afterthought because they mostly dye silk

 

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and they just thought one year – we have all

this dye left over, let’s throw some yarn

 

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in it – so they did and it’s actually been

a good seller for them, so I’m excited about

 

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  1. Here’s some Red Heart Heart and Sole.

And again, I’ll go over these in more detail

 

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when I actuall start that blanket. And here’s

some Robot Patina from that Steampunk Club. Those

 

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are all the minis that I’ve collected for

myself. I do have some minis that are up for

 

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swap. I do have an entry up in the Yarngasm

mini-swap thread and the Peggy Mae Yarns podcast

 

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mini skein swap thread. I think I said all

those words correctly. I’m not sure. Right

 

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now it’s US shipping only until I get a couple

more paychecks. Because shipping overseas

 

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can be expensive and I don’t want to send

things First Class overseas. I don’t know

 

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if International viewers know this but then

there’s different tiers of the US Postal System.

 

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There’s First Class, there’s – now I’ve forgotten

– Priority, and Express. Express is the most

 

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expensive and it’s the fastest. First Class

for domestic US and Canada- it’s cheap. It’s

 

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usually for a small package, it’s $3 around

there and it’ll get to its destination within

 

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a week, even in Canada. I don’t know, our

customs border crossing mail systems agree,

 

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so it doesn’t really take that long to send

things to Canada, but anywhere else in the

 

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world – anywhere else in the world – sending

a First Class International item. I’ve sent

 

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one to Greenland, to England, to Australia,

to I think Germany… through my Etsy Shop

 

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and we’ve all run into the same problem. With

a First Class order, you get a tracking number,

 

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but you can only track that package in the

United States. Once it leaves the US borders

 

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that tracking number is useless. I live in

Connecticut. Everything International from

 

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Connecticut get shipped out of JFK airport

in New York, which is like a 3 or 4 hour drive.

 

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So that tracking number’s useful for a day.

They even say on the website for First Class

 

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International orders can take to six to eight

weeks to arrive at its destination. Everything

 

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I’ve sent overseas has taken 8 weeks. 8 weeks!

That’s two months. Even to populated, well

 

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– you know – sending things to London takes

8 weeks for my First Class orders. I don’t

 

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know why that is. So you can’t track it, it

takes 8 weeks, you can’t follow a claim until

 

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something like 90 days, and there’s no way

for the countries that it’s being shipped

 

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to to verify where this packages is because

that tracking number is useless. It’s a United

 

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States tracking number. You can’t use it to

check if it’s going to end up in the hands

 

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of Royal Mail or wherever. It’s useless. So

my standard now is the Priority Mail flat

 

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rate boxes. Because Priority Mail you get

a tracking number that works from point A

 

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to point B no matter where it’s going. You

can look and see where it is. And it generally

 

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takes about two weeks to get there. So if

you’re interested in yarn swapping, check

 

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out Kristen’s thread on the Yarngasm Podcast

on Ravelry. Check out the Peggy May Yarn podcast

 

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thread on Ravelry. Right now it’s domestic

shipping only until I can get fit it in my

 

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budget to do Priority Mail Packages to International

folks. That is also why you’ll see the International

 

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shipping on my shop is so high. Because it’s

a fixed rate box. Because otherwise the shipping

 

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is useless. You never know when you’re going

to get your stuff. Sorry. I get really ranty

 

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about international shipping because I don’t

get that many international orders and it’s

 

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always a pain because of First Class. Like,

First Class shipping a package to say, London,

 

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probably $9 to $10, but it’s gonna take 8

weeks. So instead I have to do a flat rate

 

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box which is, if I go into the Post Office,

$25 to ship it to London to get there in a

 

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reasonable time span and trackable. So, it’s

a problem. I have feelings about international

 

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postage. But yes, that was a really long segment

of New Stuff wchi was mostly not even new

 

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stuff. Now for STUFF FOR ETSY. This going

to be a long segment this week. I feel like

 

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I need to rush everything so I can get everything

in without it being a million years long.

 

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I’m doing an Etsy Shop update this weekend.

By the time this video goes up, the shop will

 

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be full of things. So I’m going to show you

all the things since my shop’s been mostly

 

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empty since Christmas. And I will try to be

as quick as possible so I don’t bore you all

 

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the tears. In a previous video I showed off

the packaging for my stitch markers because

 

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I changed the packaging. Oh, dropping things.

And now I’ve got pretty much all my stitch

 

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markers made for the shop update. I have these

Firebender Stitch markers. Everything’s nerdy

 

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by the way, so be aware. I have Batman and

Robin stitch markers. Focus. That’s mostling

 

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in focus. There we go. I have Waterbender

stitch markers. The waterbender and the firebenders

 

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are the only beaded ones I have right now

because I have a lot of beads for some reason

 

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as well. Here are my Superman stitch markers.

Here are my  Star Trek stitch markers. Come

 

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on camera. Do the thing. Can you focus? Let’s

try that again. Apparently, it doesn’t want

 

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to focus. Foucs. There we go. Here’s some

Supernatural Stitch markers. Here is the gentlemen

 

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set of stitch markers. There’s top hats, monocles,

pocket watches, mustaches, and bowties. Here

 

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are my Star Wars stitch markers. Here’s the

Deathly Hallows stitch markers. Sorry about

 

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the glare on the packaging. But there’s nothing

I can do about it. Here’s some Captain America

 

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stitch markers. Focus, thank you, and yes

I am throwing them on the floor. That is the

 

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sound you’re hearing. Here’s my SHIELD stitch

markers. I still have some Lemon and Sheep.

 

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It is the Freakish Lemon and his friend the

Angry Sheep, although there are some in there

 

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that are the Fancy Sheep. Fancy Sheep has

a top hat.  All my stitch markers, except

 

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for the Firebenders and Waterbenders,are Shrinky

Dinks with seal over them put on jump rings,

 

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if you’re interested in what they’re made

  1. I also have in the shop these Fancy Sheep

 

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buttons where it’s the sheep in a top hat

and a monocle. So my big seller in my shop,

 

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which I sold a lot of over November and December

for Christmas are my embroidered Moleskine

 

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notebooks. I use these personally for knitting

notes and things. There is the Deathly Hallows,

 

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which I changed the color of. It used to be

gold but it didn’t really show up well against

 

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the cardboard. There’s the White Tree of Gonder.

There’s Robin. There’s Batman. There’s Superman.

 

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There is a Death Eater, though I’m thinking

of discontinuing that one because it’s really

 

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hard to do and those don’t really sell as

well as the others. It’s a Penny puppy dog.

 

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Hello. Do you want to- hey, leave that alone.

You wanna say hi to YouTube? You wanna say

 

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hello? Say hello to the camera. Penny says

hello. Penny, look at the camera. She’s not

 

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really all the interested. She just woke up

from a nap. There is the Devil’s Trap from

 

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Supernatural. There is the Angel banishment

from Supernatural. I now have dog hair all

 

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over myself. I have your hair all over me,

Penny. There is a TARDIS. I did have Doctor

 

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Who stitch markers but I’m going to redo the

designs on those because some of these designs

 

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are hard on my hands. There’s the Doctor

Who. Because I had stitch markers that basically

 

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had the Tardis and that Doctor Who logo but

it’s really hard to draw those straight lines.

 

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I need to work on some revamps on those. Here’s

the Galactic Empire. Here is the Rebel Alliance.

 

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Are you still sleepy? Go back to bed. Here

is the engineer from Star Trek. Here is command

 

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from Star Trek. Here is science from Star

Trek. Here’s Captain America. Here is Spider-Man.

 

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And here is SHIELD. I do have 4 new designs

for the individual moleskine notebooks. There

 

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is Captain Marvel. They’re mostly yellow.

There’s Wonder Woman. There’s Ms. Marvel.

 

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There’s the Black Widow. So those are brand

new that will be added to the shop this week.

 

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I also have packs since there was, you know,

some themes. There’s the Star Wars pack, which

 

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has both the rebel and the Empire. There is

the Marvel pack, which has Captain America,

 

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Spider-Man, and SHIELD. There is the DC pack

which is Superman, Batman, and Robin. There

 

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is the Doctor Who pack, which has the Doctor

Who logo and the TARDIS. There’s the Harry

 

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Potter pack, which has the Deathly Hallows

and the Death Eater. What are you doing Penny?

 

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You can’t go up on my bed, it’s full of stuff.

And there’s the Supernatural pack, which has

 

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the Devil’s trap, the angel banishment, and

the anti possession tattoo, which I reworked

 

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for this time around, too. I can open this

up and show you. I might start selling that

 

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one individually, but usually it’s a part

of this. Did I not so a Star Trek? Apparently

 

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I didn’t do it a Star Trek pack. That’ll be

in the next update. Because in Star Trek pack

 

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I do the three – command, engineer, and science

– and I also do a variation on the command

 

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where it has the avocado green that Captain

Kirk wears. Apparently that wasn’t on my list

 

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to do and I only noticed it just now. I also

have little notions pouches that will be up

 

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in the shop. I have these teeny little 3 inch

ones – Spider-Man, Superman, and some Batman.

 

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And I have these like 5 inch ones. There’s

some Superman, Spider-Man, another Spider-Man,

 

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two Batmans, and two Avengers. And new to

the shop this update are four project bags.

 

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Here is a Captain America bag. It’s like my

Star Trek bag but a little shorter, soyou

 

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can fit a small show project or socks or something.

Here’s Avengers. Here’s Star Trek with the

 

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Enterprise fabric inside. Here is the owls

I showed you on the last show with the kind

 

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of robin’s egg blue inside. And here’s some

grey owls. I really liked how this one turned

 

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out at the bottom. I could only find one fat

quarter of this owl fabric and it wasn’t enough

 

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for full sides of both panels. It’s got the

same pattern on the bottom in the inside.

 

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01:01:21,109 –> 01:01:28,549

The Avengers one just has some off-white fabric

inside. And then there’s all the handspun

 

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that I put up in the shop to see if anybody

wants it before I decide if I want to do anything

 

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with it. There’s a lot of it. Some of it is

stuff you’ve seen on the show before. Some

 

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01:01:41,329 –> 01:01:55,650

of it is older so some of it might be retired

after this run. Here is the Lollipop Guild. I

 

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01:01:55,650 –> 01:02:05,569

Kool-aid dyed this. It is my first dye experiment

and all the details with the handspun will

 

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be up in the shop but that’ll take too long

to go through each one individually. I’m just

 

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going to show you what they look like and

you can look them up in the shop later. So

 

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that’s the Lollipop Guild. This is Smaug or

Smaug. The dragon from The Hobbit. This is

 

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01:02:34,989 –> 01:03:24,329

Sammath Naur, which I showed on this podcast. This

is the Tesseract. This is x-34.

This is bard. These are Delirium from the

 

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Sandman comics. It’s a little darker than

what’s showing up on my screen right now.

 

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01:03:32,920 –> 01:03:37,410

I don’t know how the actual video will turn

out, but it’s a little bit darker than what

 

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I’m showing you. Under the Sea, which is sort

of a gradient for that 1 ply. It goes green,

 

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01:04:10,130 –> 01:04:52,209

blue, purple. Mahna Mahna. Anduin. Delenn.

The Last Son of Krypton. And then The Dreaming,

 

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01:04:52,209 –> 01:05:00,849

which is the sparkly mini I showed you on

this podcast and Trapper Keeper. And like

 

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01:05:00,849 –> 01:05:21,869

I said, where did it go. I’ve lost it now.

It’s buried. And Enting will be up. And I

 

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do have a bunch of minis for the rest of that

hand spun. Those will all be up there in little

 

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01:05:27,729 –> 01:05:40,160

mini listings, but I won’t go through all

of them individually. Chuck that back in the

 

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01:05:40,160 –> 01:05:45,569

box. And I think that’s it. I think that’s

everything that the shop will be updated for.

 

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01:05:45,569 –> 01:05:50,849

For? With? Words are hard. So now it’s time

for

 

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Stuff that I am watching.

 

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I mainlined the Netflix Daredevil series and

I really enjoyed it. I watched it in two days.

 

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I would have watched it in one, but I started

it Friday night and then did a bunch Saturday

 

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01:06:09,819 –> 01:06:19,729

morning. No, three days. Did a bunch Saturday

morning then went Table Top Day at my friend’s

 

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01:06:19,729 –> 01:06:23,469

house and then I slept over my sister’s and

I finished the series as soon as I get home

 

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01:06:23,469 –> 01:06:28,400

on Sunday, so technically three days, but

it would have been one day if I didn’t start

 

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it Friday night. But it was really good and

I really enjoyed it. I’m also catching up

 

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01:06:35,349 –> 01:06:41,630

on season 4 I think it is of Lost Girl which

has been on Netflix for a while but I haven’t

 

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01:06:41,630 –> 01:06:51,299

gotten around watching it so I’ve been watching

that. And I’ve been really into- sorry, the

 

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01:06:51,299 –> 01:06:59,759

dog made a noise – into watching Ken Burns

documentaries recently. So I’ve seen the Dust

 

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01:06:59,759 –> 01:07:07,569

Bowl, which I liked, and I’ve seen part of

The War which is really interesting and has

 

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01:07:07,569 –> 01:07:11,039

a whole bunch of stuff that I didn’t even

know happened because the American public

 

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01:07:11,039 –> 01:07:23,289

school system is not very good at details.

At least, where I went to school. Stuff I

 

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01:07:23,289 –> 01:07:32,420

am reading. I’m still reading Night Watch

by Terry Pratchett, which is good but I’ve

 

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01:07:32,420 –> 01:07:37,890

been distracted so I haven’t really sat down

and read a whole chunk of it. And stuff I’m

 

459

01:07:37,890 –> 01:07:44,719

playing I’m still playing Lego Lord of the

Rings but I’m, I think, ninety percent done

 

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01:07:44,719 –> 01:07:51,819

so I’ll have that finished soon. Which I’m

excited about because then I can play more

 

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01:07:51,819 –> 01:08:05,759

Lego games. And podcast recommendations. For

knitting related, I’m going to recommend the

 

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Fluffy Fibers podcast this week. I’ve forgotten

her name. It’s gone. You see how this video’s

 

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01:08:16,770 –> 01:08:25,829

gone. My ability to think is completely gone.

I love her podcast. She’s French and I love

 

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01:08:25,829 –> 01:08:31,319

listening to her take on the different yarns

and the patterns and her sewing and it’s all

 

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01:08:31,319 –> 01:08:40,029

very interesting. You can find Fluffy Fibers

in audio form on whatever podcast aggregator

 

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01:08:40,029 –> 01:08:51,900

you use – iTunes, Stitcher, I think… Pocket

Cast. Pocket Cast is the app that I use. It

 

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01:08:51,900 –> 01:08:58,710

costs money, but I have it on iOS and Android

so I can keep synced up with all my podcasts

 

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01:08:58,710 –> 01:09:04,279

no matter what device I have to listen, so

I really enjoy Pocket Casts. But she’s on

 

469

01:09:04,279 –> 01:09:12,949

there for audio and for video it’s Fluffy

Fibers here on YouTube. And for non-knitting

 

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related – it’s a good choice for this week

since all of the nerdy things you just sa,w

 

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it is the Major Spoilers Podcast. It’s doesn’t

always spoil you, don’t worry. I know the

 

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title is Major Spoilers and there is potential

for spoilers but it is a – the Major Spoilers.com

 

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website is for news, reviews, movies, video

games, comic books. It is basically where

 

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01:09:42,119 –> 01:09:51,150

I go for any news on anything that I want

to hear more about in the nerdy realm. They

 

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01:09:51,150 –> 01:09:55,300

are great with that stuff. And there is a

podcast – the Major Spoilers Podcast – which

 

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01:09:55,300 –> 01:10:01,630

I believe is weekly reviewing comic books,

talking about movies and TV shows they’ve

 

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seen. The last episode I listened to they

were talking about the Daredevil series and

 

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they had an interview with a psychology Professor

about the psychology of superheroes and it’s

 

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01:10:13,320 –> 01:10:16,260

all really interesting stuff. And it’s really

fun to listen to. They have a whole bunch

 

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of other shows on the Major Spoilers Podcast

Network that I’m sure are great, but I’m buried

 

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as it is. I know I’ve listened to pieces of

them cause a lot of them started out as like

 

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little segments on the Major Spoilers Podcast

and then branched out into their own shows,

 

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01:10:38,650 –> 01:10:45,790

but it’s really great podcast. The podcast

itself is more review types stuff, less on

 

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01:10:45,790 –> 01:10:51,770

news because it’s weekly, but the site is

definitely worth worth a checking out if you

 

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are into nerdy things. They’re great. That’s

about it for the show this week, but if there’s

 

486

01:11:01,940 –> 01:11:08,510

anything you want me to talk about on these

shows – I know people have made comments about

 

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01:11:08,510 –> 01:11:12,770

the stuff behind me. If you have any questions

about the stuff behind me, there’s a lot of

 

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01:11:12,770 –> 01:11:28,000

Legos, feel free to put some questions in

the comments or message me on Ravelry. Yeah,

 

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if there’s anything you want me to talk about

any questions you want me to answer – I think

 

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01:11:35,250 –> 01:11:43,110

I’m losing my voice – go ahead and leave a

comment because I don’t know what I’m doing.

 

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01:11:43,110 –> 01:11:53,630

I mean, this is episode 3, so let me know

what you want to see other than the piles

 

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of things that I have all around the floor.

Cleaning is going to be fun. So that’s it,

 

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01:12:00,639 –> 01:12:06,119

I guess. Remember that the show notes can

be found over my blog at freakishlemon.com

 

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and you can follow me on Twitter, Tumblr,

Instagram, and Ravelry. Pinterest if you want

 

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01:12:12,969 –> 01:12:17,899

to… So that’s it. I’m going to end this

now. Goodbye.

 

 

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