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Notes:
–June 1st garden
–Yoke Sweater by Susan Guagliumi (https://guagliumi.com/) – yarn reclaimed from a previous sweater – KH 836e, dial 8 – hand knit garter band using US 1/ 2.25 mm needles
— Garden labels using paint stirrers and acrylic paint (DecoArt Patio Paint)
— Rainbow Jelly Roll Rug by RomaQuilts (https://www.etsy.com/shop/RomaQuilts) , Kona cotton roll in rainbow colors
–Machine knit hat – Brother KH836e, dial tension 8 with punch card pattern – Cloudborn Highland Fingering in Black, Once Upon a Corgi yarn “Queequeg” from the Series of Unfortunate Events club colorways
— Tablet weaving samples from the book Card Weaving by Candace Crocket
— Tailor Ham and Sausage from https://blog.elewa.co.uk/
— Daily Pages for my planner
— City Limits (modified) by Samantha Guerin (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/city-limits) – US 6/4.0 mm – Classic Elite Yarns Mountaintop Crestone “Gray
— Pinwheel Scrap Blanket by Knitting Expat Designs (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pinwheel-scrap-blanket) – fingering weight scraps held double, US 4/3.5mm needles
Attributions:
Title card images taken by @freakishlemon
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Transcript:
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Uh hello. It is Wednesday,
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June 10th and just thought I’d give you
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a little update for what’s happening in
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the
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craft room. I’m in
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a sort of finish my works in progress
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type of mode. I don’t really have the
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brain space to start
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new things at the moment. So it’s
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sort of a round up of
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things that I’m trying to finish in the
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craft room
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these days. As you can see here,
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my case for my little Singer Sew Handy
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machine is not yet finished.
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We are taped and ready for staining.
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I’m waiting for the stain to come in for
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that. Um,
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this is not advisable, by the way.
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Everywhere tells you to take the
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hardware off.
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I just don’t want to have to deal with
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trying to replace the hardware
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because this stuff is super old
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and I will end up breaking it if I
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remove it.
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So I’m just kind of going around it
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and since it’s a small box, I don’t think
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it’ll be that big of a deal.
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But i’m waiting for my stain and top
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coat to come in for that.
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I have the two cloth panels finished.
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I will be stitching those on with this
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undyed crochet cotton
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through the holes that already exist in
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the cardboard
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of the box. So I’m going to try to fit
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these old panels
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into the insides just so that
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they’re still a part of the piece. If
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that doesn’t work,
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I’ll just cover the inside with fabric
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where all the stitching is.
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And below this tripod- there we go-
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this plying project. I don’t think I’ve
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talked about it.
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This blue cone right there
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is a cone of, I believe it’s cotton.
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That’s what I determined from
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a burn test- singles
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that a friend of my sister’s
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picked up at a closing mill.
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She had picked up a whole bunch of cones
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of stuff
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and they ended up going everywhere. I did
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try
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to machine knit with this as it is,
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but the twist of the single is enough
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that the pieces that I tried to
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knit skewed wildly.
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It was clearly not meant to be a single.
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So what I’m doing is I’m plying it
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as a three-ply, which I started doing
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just to maintain and like build up the
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strength in my shoulder again after
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my shoulder pain, but something that’s,
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you know, real quick and easy to to start
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and stop
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and doesn’t require a lot of drafting
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motions with that right shoulder
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since it’s kind of haphazardly being
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plied.
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Some parts of it are a tighter ply than
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others. Putting this into a hank
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and washing it will help set that
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skein so I’m not too worried about it.
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This right here
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is a pile of things that are going to be
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frogged.
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Um I went through my winter wear
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kind of packing everything away and
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these were items that I just
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don’t really wear. I mean I love this
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alpaca,
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but it can be used better. This was a
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very early knitting project
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and alpaca is not great for cables. It’s
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very hard to see them.
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Um, these are just tools that need to get
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put away.
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These sort of slipper socks are
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not great. They need a really hefty wash
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and I just never used them.
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This scarf, while I love this yarn, this
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isn’t the best
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use of this yarn. You cannot see the
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cables
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and I don’t really wear scarves. I’m more
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likely to wear
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cowls or shawls, so
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I can make this up into something
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different.
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And then this machine knit shawl
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for my machine knitting shawl shapes
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projects,
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this- because of the gauge of my standard
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machine-
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this is just too small for me to
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comfortably wear.
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Uh I mean somebody else
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could wear it, but I do want to play
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with this
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sort of gradient yarn more.
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I think I’ll just pull this out and use
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it
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for another one skein shawl project.
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You know, hand knit at a gauge that’s
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much looser than this.
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It worked great for samples, but it’s not
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something that I
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wear. So those need to be taken care of.
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Scoot you over here. This is a project
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that I have resurrected from the dead. I
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was working on this when
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my shoulder really started to hurt, so
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this has been
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languishing for a couple of months and
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has been languishing for a long time
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before then because
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it is such a pain to
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stitch this by hand.
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What is this- this is a rug that I’m
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making out of
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jelly roll strips of quilting cotton and
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inside is a thin strip- like a two inch
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strip of
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cotton batting. The
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pattern that I used for this, which I’ll
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find and include in the show notes,
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tells you to do it by machine and zigzag
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across.
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My old Singer machine- old Singer machine.
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My Singer machine which is currently not
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functional
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had a timing issue where it couldn’t do
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zigzags
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and then I got my grandma’s Janome
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and while it can do zigzags, it is very
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difficult to get the zigzags
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through essentially four layers of
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fabric and two layers of batting
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consistently enough to keep going. So I
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decided I’m gonna hand sew it.
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However, I went about it very
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naively, um, thinking that I had to
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stitch the final stitches and coil it
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all in one go. And it
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lightning flashed in my brain a few days
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ago,
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uh, baste it and then do all the tiny
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stitches.
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So I’m in the process of basting it. I
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did take an iron to
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what I had already done, which makes me
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very
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happy, because it was not flat at all.
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So now it’s much more flat. I’m basting
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the coil. It’s a rainbow.
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A little appropriate that it came
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back into my brain
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during Pride Month. Um, I have
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now on my little
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to do board a tracker so that as I
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finish each color
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basting, I do a little black bar at the
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bottom
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and then as I finish each color
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stitching,
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I can cross it off and hopefully that
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will keep me on track to keep
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working on it.
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Other items of business-
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so just scoot in here-
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I finished
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this cardigan that I did by machine.
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Is it perfect? No.
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But it is wearable. I have worn it
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when the evenings have gotten chilly, um
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because Connecticut weather is all over
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the place.
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Um, the knitted border was a much better
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choice. I like how it looks.
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Um this yoke still doesn’t lie
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quite right and I’m sure that’s just
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because
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I was fudging my decreases all over the
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place.
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The pattern that I used by Susan Guagliumi
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basically used the same-
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just said decrease by a third
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every time you decrease,
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so the exact numbers weren’t there
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and I didn’t bother doing out the math.
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She gave you the machine knitting
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technique to decrease by a third, but
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because
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the numbers didn’t always evenly go in
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and you needed to not do knit togethers
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on a seam edge,
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there there was a lot of fumbling around
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when I would get to the end of a row.
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So
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that’s just a matter of learning how to
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do things better for me
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and actually, you know, pay attention to
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what my patterns say.
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Um, but overall it’s definitely a
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wearable sweater and one that I have
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liked
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uh throwing on um in the evenings
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if it’s dropped down temperatures. So I’m
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happy with
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this. Um, I only have this much of the
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Knitpicks that I pulled out of the
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original sweater,
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um and i have a lot more of this left, so
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that makes me happy.
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I also finished a machine knit hat.
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Um, I have done a machine knit hat that
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I’ve drafted myself before and this is
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basically the exact same pattern with a
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different
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card for my Brother KH836e machine.
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It’s a smaller brim on the hat,
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but it fits fine. I did run out of black
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yarn at the
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very tippy top, but
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what are you gonna do? When I do the hats
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on machine,
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instead of doing eight decrease points, I
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do
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four decrease points with a center
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double decrease so it has like a
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square. That’s just easier for me to
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math- having four decrease points
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rather than eight, um because when I do
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it by machine,
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I have to offset the decreases from the
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seam edge.
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Because on machine it’s knit flat. Um,
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so it’s just easier for me to have four
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points of reference
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where to do out the math instead of
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eight.
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Um, but that’s busted up some stash which
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is nice.
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Um, I have to record all my
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Ravelry notes and things for this.
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I have done a little bit more tablet
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weaving.
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I don’t believe this one was done when I
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last
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uh spoke to you, but um
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again, you can tell that I basically
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threaded this wrong um because
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the wrong side is much clearer,
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but you can see how
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this would look if i had used the
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correct
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threading. So I’m not worried about this
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sample.
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I redid this sample
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and when I did, I went back to the
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threading portion
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of the card weaving book by Candace
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Crockett.
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I will grab it out of my bookshelf here.
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Card Weaving by Candace Crockett. I
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revisited
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the section on how you thread the
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cards or how she threads the cards and
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I was doing it backwards. I was coming at
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it from the wrong direction.
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Um, I was threading from
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the furthest point down through the card.
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She threads them from closest point to
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you
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up through the cards. So I wrote myself a
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little note.
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Hello.
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[What’s up?] I’m filming so I’m waiting for
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you to leave.
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So I wrote myself a little note so that
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I know,
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um, which direction to thread going
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forwards. And when I did thread it that
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way, it did come out
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clearly uh when before I did, come out
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this way. So i’ve solved my threading
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problem.
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Hooray. These
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are waiting because I have to do a
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little bit of
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just clean up and you know machine
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tlc with my sewing machine because I’ve
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been using it a lot lately.
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I did borrow a tailor
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ham from my sister Gabby a while back.
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She has since retrieved that piece of
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equipment
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and i need
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that if i’m going to go forward with my
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sewing, pressing seams on curved edges.
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Oh phone. So what i have here
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are templates for a
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tailor ham and a sausage. So, I think I
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found these patterns
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on Craftsy.com um as
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free patterns, but you can download them
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straight from her blog. The link to it will
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be down below. I went over there to check
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to see if there was any specific
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directions.
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Um she does have more information on the
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blog than in the
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pattern download, such as what to stuff
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these with. I guess it’s traditionally
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sawdust, but i’m going to use
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uh cotton fabric scraps and just pack
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them in real tight.
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So that’s my plan with these guys. Um
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just using up some of my
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naturally dyed fat quarter experiments
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for that so that i can press curved
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seams again.
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And then once I oil my machine and all
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that good stuff,
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I’m going to be revisiting this
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work in progress basket. Um this
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is fabric from my vest that I will be
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using to put in
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welt pockets in the vest I made for my
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sister’s wedding. There is a
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quilt in here that
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I have uh several
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squares to finish. So I want to have the
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quilt square motifs done with their
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borders attached so that
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they’re ready to prep for quilting as
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you go.
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Um they will be quilted each motif
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separately and then joined with
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sashing. I will probably need a break
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from this
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once I get it prepped for quilting as
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you go.
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We’ll see how my momentum goes. Um
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I have to wind up this yarn to get it
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ready for
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um sampling and
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that looks like it might be it
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for the craft room itself at the moment.
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I have been doing some knitting which
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I’ll show in a later clip
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but I’ve gotten to a point where
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if I do a little bit of knitting every
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day on one thing,
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then I see progress so I’m kind of
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monogamously going through my works in
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progress
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at the moment. So you’ll see that later.
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Hello. This is Adrian. Hopefully
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wrapping up this video for June. I
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haven’t started any of the editing
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for it yet, so I don’t actually know what
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this video is going to look like
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by the time it comes out. But I figured I
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would do a little bit of a wrap up with
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some just talking about some projects
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that
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I don’t know have even been shown on
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this video.
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I need to do a better job of keeping
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track of what I’m filming.
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This um
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is what I’m gonna call a completed
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pinwheel
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scrap square. I had to look at my
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works in progress for knitting and I was
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like I thought this was going to go
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quicker.
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I thought these would make decent seat
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covers for my car.
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This is bigger than the seat of my car.
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So I’ve seamed these four squares
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together and they’re gonna be
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it. Uh I don’t know what I’m gonna do
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with this at this point. I could turn it
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into
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one side of a pillow cover. I could
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keep experimenting with scrappy blanket
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projects and just make
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similarly sized squares and have a
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scrappy scrap
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square blanket. That might be interesting
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to do
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but at this point
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four squares is enough for me.
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And part of it is because I do keep
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having to
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look up the pattern to start and stop
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certain things, especially if I’ve not worked
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on it in a long time.
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And I’m more finished object focused at
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the moment
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um because I am limiting the time that I
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am knitting.
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So this is going to go somewhere
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down in the craft room with a note on it,
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but this is done. I’m gonna mark it
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finished on Ravelry.
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This is the project that I’m focusing on
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for
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knitting. This is the City Limits sweater
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by Samantha Guerin.
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Um, I have modified it. I –
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new trick for me- put a progress keeper
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on this sweater somewhere
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on the 1st of June
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and I have knit
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up to where you split for the front and
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back.
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I finished the front. I’m working on the
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neck
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shaping for the back in the month of
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June.
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So it’s tangible progress that I can see,
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which I think
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was very helpful in getting this project
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out and working on it,
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um especially when you’re in the
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giant area of stockinette in the round.
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So hooray for
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progress, which is very exciting. The
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closer I get to finishing this sweater,
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the closer I get to tackling
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some of my other WIPs. Which
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after this sweater, I will only have
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four,
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which sounds good to me. So,
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I don’t know what this hair is doing.
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So sweater. And then these two
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little things are
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my preliminary swatches for
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the Salazar Slytherin tunic to find out
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what weight of warp and weft
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I would like to weave with.
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Which one is which? This is on the 12.5
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dent heddle for my Ashford 24 inch loom.
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Um I warped a fingering weight cotton,
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fingering weight BFL, lace weight BFL,
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lace weight
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cotton and linen, and then did half the
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warp in a fingering weight
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BFL and half the war- um warp- half a weft
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in a fingering weight BFL and half the
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weft in
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a lace weight BFL
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and then I did the same on a
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15 dent heddle for the same
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loom. I’m liking the fabric of the 15
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dent heddle more.
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um
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And I am leaning towards the lace weight
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weft. I’m just- I’m
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waffling in this area. I may do another
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swatch doing
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half the warp lace weight BFL,
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half the warp
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lace weight cotton/linen, half the weft
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lace weight cotton/linen, half the weft
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lace weight BFL to see if maybe I would
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like
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this green as a weft instead of a warp.
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I’m not a huge fan of
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using a cotton
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warp at this point. I don’t think I’m
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that great at
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actually winding on the warp
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to keep the tension even. I don’t think
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I’m very good at that, which
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means I need more practice before I
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really
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can enjoy weaving with
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a plant-based warp because there’s no
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stretch
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at all. With a- with a wool
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yarn, it’s a lot more forgiving because
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there is stretch. You can always
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tighten or loosen the tension so that
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you can get the
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shuttle through the shed.
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So I may do a little bit experimentation
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in this sort of
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area of um,
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because I am thinking about this is
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going to worn over
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an under tunic
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and I’m likely mostly going to be
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wearing it
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in warm weather to Renaissance Faires
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primarily, so
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I know it’s the wrong time period for
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Renaissance Faires, but
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nobody cares at Renaissance Faires. You
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just do you.
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So yeah I’m gonna play around
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a little bit in this area. I think um
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maybe a bigger swatch with just these
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two, so that I can get a real
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drapey feel. Kind of pin some of my um
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or maybe tack down some of my weaving
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samples to it to see how they behave.
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Tablet weaving samples- tack down some of
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my tablet weaving samples to the swatch
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to see how the two different weaves
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behave.
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So that is
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that. I don’t have
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anything else currently to talk about?
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No, yes I do. My website. I have
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made a post about it on Instagram, but if
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you don’t follow me on Instagram,
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this information will not help you. There
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have been some changes to my website. Not
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a ton of changes, but i’ve added some new
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pages.
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There’s, first of all, a youtube video
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advertising page
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for any black creators or business
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people
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uh or other persons of color
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uh who would like to advertise
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in my videos. I’ve created a landing page
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on my website where you can see all of
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the information available,
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along with the email address to contact
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me, and all of that jazz.
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So there’s that. There is also now a
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Downloads page
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on my website. Up there are
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the smattering of knitting and crochet
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patterns that I have
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produced. Um,
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there’s been a whole hullabaloo with
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Ravelry’s
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new redesign, which is
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painful to for me to look at and I have
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no known disabilities, so I
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know that it is a hard place for people
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to look at. I don’t know if my website is
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any better.
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My website is certainly simpler.
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So if Ravelry is
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not something that you can use right now
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and you can use my website,
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all of my patterns are there. They are
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all available for free
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because in order to put up a store on
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wordpress these days,
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I would need to invest a lot more money
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in the structure of my website,
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which I’m not going to do because I
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don’t make any money off of these things.
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I think I’ve had a grand total of seven
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pattern sales for the two
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patterns that I have produced that cost
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money. Um so you can get all my stuff for
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free on my website,
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um but you know, if you would like to
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kind of tip for those patterns that are
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available for purchase elsewhere,
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I do have a link to a ko-fi –
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coffee- ko dash
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fi- page um
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that you can tip me if you really want
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to. But you don’t have to.
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This- I’m clearly not making any money
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off of those two
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dollar pattern sales. And lastly there is
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a link
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in the navigation menu of my website
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for Black Lives Matter resources
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and links.
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I ended up creating a google spreadsheet
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of just
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resources that people were throwing
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around um
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particularly- particularly at the
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beginning of last month-
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nope, particularly
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at the beginning of june. Uh so i started
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collecting links
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and brief descriptions of what things
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are um
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for my own sake of mind and I’ve made
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that google sheet available
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should you need some place to start
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looking into this stuff. Um so that’s
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available
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up there as well.
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And that-
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that’s gonna be it for this video. I’ll
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see you in the next one.
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Goodbye.
Freakish Lemon 