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This video is a look into craft projects and creative work accomplished during the month of September.

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— Machine Knit Cotton Shirt – Silver Reed LK 150 Mid-Gauge machine – Sheepjes Catona 100% Cotton 517, 189, 208, 412, 164, 521, 157, KnitPicks Comfy Fingering 75% Pima Cotton 25% Acrylic Black

— Pumpkin Pin Cushions – improvised patterns. One is two circles sewn together, stuffed, and threaded so that the sections of the pumpkin stand out. One is six wedge shapes sewn together and threaded to squish down the top and bottom. Made with scrap linen/rayon fabric with a little felt for the leaves/stems.

— Salazar Slytherin 990 AD – hand sewing the shirt

— Harvesting marigolds from the garden for drying to make dye

— Lichen dyeing – locally gathered lichen that fell from trees in the early spring has been sitting in an ammonia and water solution for months. Mordanted with alum. More notes will be available at my dye blog later.

— City Limits by Samantha Guerin – Classic Elite Yarns MountainTop Crestone “5144 Gray” – US 6/4.0 mm – https://www.samanthaguerindesign.com/city-limits

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Transcript:

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[Buzzing and telephone tone fades in and out]

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Hello and welcome to

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my craft room.

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I go by Adrian and I use

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masculine

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pronouns.

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It is September,

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2020 and it’s the beginning of the month,

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so it’s time to

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go over the board.

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So not much is

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changing

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in the first column.

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My deadline knits

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are still

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there.

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Still working on the same things

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for Salazar Slytherin 990 AD.

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Hoping to get those dye samples done

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this month.

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I know I’ve said that for the

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past

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three months now, but it has been

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record-breakingly hot in Connecticut.

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Now that it’s starting to cool down, I

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can probably stand to be around

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a hot dye pot in an unair-conditioned room.

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So there’s going to be a little bit of

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changes to the dye column here.

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I believe I said it at the end of last

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month’s video,

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but I’m going to erase

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black beans since I have done black bean

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dyeing and i don’t yet have a project

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in mind for my actual natural dye

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samples.

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I’m just going to leave it as

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marigolds

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and lichen.

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I do have a plan for the marigolds.

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I

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want to dye a sweater’s quantity of yarn

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in that lovely kind of mustardy yellow

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that you get with marigolds.

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The lichen

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need to get done because they have been

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sitting in jars of ammonia water

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for months now, which means they need to

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get done.

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Unfortunately, I have had to put that off

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because of the heat.

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It’s not advisable to be doing this kind

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of lichen dye

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inside because of the ammonia fumes.

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So with it being so hot outside, it was

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just not feasible to

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get a burner out there and stand over- or

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stand relatively near a burner-

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in those upper 90s – 100 degree

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temperatures.

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Not fun.

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been going down, hopefully I’ll get to

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that

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in the next month or two.

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column, To Do,

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needs a lot of cleanup, so let’s get

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started on that.

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Took care of the swatching of the

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machine knit shirt and the

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pattern drafting and completed some

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projects

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that were- where’s my full eraser?

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That were added to the

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list part way through the month.

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Top of the to do, I think for this month

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is the quilt.

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So I need to finish the quilting.

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I’m gonna call that blue one, red,

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and blue two for the borders, which is

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the part that I have left to do

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for the actual quilting of these squares.

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Then I have to trim

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squares, which I realize is not a step on

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the previous one, but it is something

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that I’ll need to do.

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Then I need to cut sashing,

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assemble, and then bind the quilt.

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That is not likely to all get done in

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the month of September, but I’m hoping to

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make

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more progress crossing these off since

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I’m kind of focused on the project right

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now.

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I’m gonna add the black vest back on

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here

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and just add the mock-up bullet point.

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I can switch between quilting and

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regular sewing,

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as I am lucky enough to have two

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different sewing

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machines that are in working order.

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I

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have my

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Singer- what are you?

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I have a

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Singer Talent that is set up for

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quilting because I created a

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foam and poster board sort of-

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what do you call- extension table for

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quilting for this machine

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and I just have the walking foot set up

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on it with quilting needles and

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quilting thread.

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And I inherited my

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grandmother’s

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Janome Quilt Companion,

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I think is the name of that machine,

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which I have set up for regular sewing.

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However, when you’re in a groove,

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especially doing

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batch quilting with simple lines,

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my brain wants to tunnel vision in on

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accomplishing those

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batch steps.

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So we’ll leave the vest as

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just a mock-up piece.

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If i feel motivated

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to actually do the mock-up,

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then that will be a significant enough

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step that

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I don’t anticipate doing a lot more than

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that in the month of September if I’m

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focused on the quilt.

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Another thing I want to add on here is

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pumpkin pin cushions.

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I’m at the point

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where I’ve done enough different kinds

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of sewing

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that there are different types of pins

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that I like for different things.

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For

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example,

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I have, you know, standard,

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you know, just regular sewing pens that

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I’ve had for a million years,

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which are great for most heavyweight

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fabrics or

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household goods things that,

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you know, I don’t really care so much if

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it pokes a hole in them.

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But I’ve noticed doing more apparel

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sewing

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that I want finer pins for clothing

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and I have recently gotten in

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some extra sharp pins

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with the glass heads to basically use

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for apparel sewing.

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And then I have quilting pins.

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I have

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like two different sets of these that I-

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that came into my stash from my

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grandmother’s stash.

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My grandmother was a

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an avid quilter.

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extra long pins with very visible

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heads so that you can see them on a

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quilt.

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I don’t know if you can even see this.

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You can see this is a regular

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pin and this is the quilting pin.

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So it’s a lot longer than the regular

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pin.

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So I’d like to have- refocus on me

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camera.

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a few more pin cushions.

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I had the

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regular pins

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and a set of the quilting pins in this

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one pincushion tomato,

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but i was often reaching for the wrong

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pins.

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It would just be

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easier in my brain to compartmentalize

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the different types of pins with

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different pin cushions.

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Also, I have a bunch of leftover

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orange fabric from that linen rayon

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bathrobe, so

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might as well use up some of that in

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stash.

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I’m gonna stuff it with

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bits of scrap.

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I have a bag that’s almost

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entirely

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just chopped up yarn ends and

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maybe some rice to kind of weigh it down

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so it doesn’t

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blow away in the breeze.

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I want to

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get a start on the machine knit

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cotton shirt.

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I’m just gonna mark down the back piece

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for now.

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When I machine knit

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a sweater, I like to start with the back

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first.

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It has the least amount of

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shaping in it and it makes for a really

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good

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giant swatch.

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So I will,

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you know, do all my normal swatching

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things, figure out what I need to do for

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my pattern,

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knit up the back piece, wash it as I

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would the finished garment,

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dry flat, and then compare it

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to an existing garment that fits me well.

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So i’ll just lay it on over and if it’s

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about the same size,

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then we’re good and I can go on with the

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rest of the garment.

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If it is different, then I will take new

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swatch measurements

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off of the back piece because the back

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piece,

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you know- in comparison to your swatch,

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your back piece has a lot more weight to

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it.

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It is hanging on the machine for

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longer than you know a little swatch.

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It may behave differently, but it’s also

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not the worst thing to

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scrap off and re-knit since it’s mostly

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a rectangle.

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Especially

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if you knit sweaters like me where

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there’s no waist shaping

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or there’s very minimal waist shaping.

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There any other projects that i need to

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get in on?

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No.

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I think we’re going to

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leave it

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there.

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I think that’s enough to do things

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to start with.

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I will add things as I find things to do.

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I’m just looking in the camera now at

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how straight that list is and it is

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crooked.

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do it for beginning of the month

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check-in.

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I will see you at the end of

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the video.

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[Music: Romantic Piano by Rafael Krux]

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So I nearly finished the back of the

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sweater over there on the

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LK 150 knitting machine and I realized

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that I had

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miscounted the number of stripes

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on this sweater, which means that all of

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the stripes that I’ve knit thus far are

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the wrong size.

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I have to rip it back down to the

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ribbing

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and re-knit the whole back.

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It’s a good thing that knitting on a

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knitting machine is

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fast because that would be really

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disheartening

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if I’d done all that by hand.

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Hello. It is the end of September,

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so we’re gonna go over the board.

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So for knitting deadlines, I am

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this close to being finished with my

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City Limits sweater.

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I actually have it here. So here it is, I

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am

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about three rows away from finishing the

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second

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cuff.

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This is a pattern by Samantha Guerin. I

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have altered it so that this

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cabled ribbing at the bottom is a lot

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shorter. This is knit out of Classic Elite

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their Mountain Top series the

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uh weight, which is a wooorsteeed?

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I think it’s a worsted and the color

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five one

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four four. I am on the last ball of this

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yarn.

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This much left, so score! I had enough

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because if I didn’t there’s nowhere to

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get more unless I happen to have

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luck finding somebody’s destash. I’m

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probably going to finish this tonight.

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If I get good video finished object

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footage,

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I will add that in to October’s

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video montage middle part of the video.

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But overall I am very excited that this

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will be done by

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my Rhinebeck deadline, which means I need

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to start looking

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into that Star Wars Christmas sweater

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pattern and how I’m going to do it.

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Salazar Slytherin –

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still hand sewing the shirt. I don’t do a

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ton of hand sewing the shirt

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at a time because the linen thread does

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have a very

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significant drag in comparison to cotton

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or polyester thread, so

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my shoulder cannot do as much of it and

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I was

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also distracted by a different hand

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sewing project that

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you will see in its own video sometime

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in October. Also, a running theme with

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these monthly videos, I still have not

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done the

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dye samples for Salazar Slytherin. Still

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on the to do board.

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The jelly roll rug project has not made

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any progress

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either due to these other hand sewing

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projects that I’m focusing on. Let’s go

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to the middle here

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to To Do. Not a ton has been crossed off

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because of that distracting

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other hand sewing project that you will

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see later on in October.

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Quilting hasn’t made as much progress as

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it could have.

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I was using my table that I normally sew

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at

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to hand sew this project. I have finished

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quilting

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the first blue border and the red border.

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I just need to finish quilting the blue

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border and can continue on with this

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list. I have crossed off the pumpkin pin

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cushions.

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Here they are, if you didn’t get a great

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look at them

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over the course of this video. One for my

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extra sharp

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glass head pins. One for my

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primary color- not primary- my saturated

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colored quilting pins.

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I’ve crossed off two items for my

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machine knit cotton shirt. I’ve finished

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the back piece and I’ve done one

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sleeve. I did not bring any of the

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labels over here for this

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shirt, so if you really want to know that

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information check the show notes

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down below the video. Here this is the

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back piece of the sweater. These are the

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colors of the

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Philadelphia Pride flag. This is the only

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section that’s going to have

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big stripes like this. Here is one sleeve,

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which has one line of each color in the

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stripes.

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The second sleeve will be the same. The

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front will be plain

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black. And then during the month you can

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see that I added

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a last bullet point item here, which is

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masks. These are just

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personal masks for me. I have

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some Halloween fat quarters that I

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wanted to turn into masks

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and I think I need to make myself just a

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plain black mask

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for adulting purposes. And nothing from

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the future column

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is moving to the To Do column

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at this point. That’s it for the board,

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but I wanted to touch base with you

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folks with

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a couple of other items that didn’t fall

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into

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board craft stuff. As you’ve seen with my

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videos here during the year 2020, I am

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trying new things with videos. If you’re

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new here,

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welcome. I’ve been trying new things with

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videos. I’m learning

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my software better now that I have a new

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software. I’m now using Davinci Resolve,

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so I’m

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learning how to use Davinci Resolve

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and what kind of features it offers. I’m

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relearning audio stuff.

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I had done some audio stuff a few years

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ago

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when I was really kind of heavily

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looking into what goes into making

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an audio podcast or podfics or

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audio books that kind of stuff. So I’m

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relearning some of that audio stuff.

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Hopefully it’s been improving the

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speaking quality in the past couple of

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videos, but

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if you haven’t noticed that’s fine.

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Sometimes we just don’t

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notice that audio stuff.

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There’s a delivery. Penny is going to

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bark at the delivery person.

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So what I’m saying is that I’m

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experimenting with the different aspects

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of making videos, which

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I’m finding really enjoyable right now.

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And I would also like to know what you

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folks think of

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these changes that I’m making to these

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videos. Please comment down below,

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especially if you are a long-term viewer.

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What do you think about the changes that

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I’m making? Do you

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like how I’m doing the videos now?

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Is there anything missing from the

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videos that

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I used to incorporate or that you would

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like to see more of?

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Is there anything you’d like to see me

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try with these edits that I’m making to

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my videos or

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sound or how I’m filming my projects?

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Any feedback you have for me is welcome.

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I’m also curious about a weird thing

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that I saw in my

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analytics while uploading the last video.

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I don’t usually pay attention to that

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stuff

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because this is for fun and not my job,

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but i noticed that my subscriber count

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is holding, steady growing and shrinking

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as it normally does,

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but my view counts are half or less

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of what my videos used to do

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which seems weird because my videos are

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shorter now

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and not two hour plus

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epics of me rambling

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with extremely long pauses between every

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half of a sentence. So that’s part of the

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reason why I’d like your feedback

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on how I’m doing my videos, but also how

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do you

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get to my videos? Do they come to your

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subscription box? Are you seeing them

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there?

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Do you come here from Instagram? Are you

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seeing my posts?

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My gut feeling is is that this is just

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YouTube changing how

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view counts work. They do this

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periodically and it

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throws everything off, but I’m curious to

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see if there

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is a traceable reason for why my view

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counts are so

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off. If you have any thoughts, let me know.

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And then the last thing that I wanted to

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talk to you folks about is

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a new section on my website. I know,

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another change to

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your website, Adrian? It’s- I’ve got the

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time and energy to do it right now.

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And this is something that came into my

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brain after watching

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uh one of Caleisha’s videos a few weeks

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ago.

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She’s the host of the Quirky Monday

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Craft Cast or you may know her as

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@nadiratani on Instagram.

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She mentioned that she wanted to get

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into more natural dyeing experiments and

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that she was going to

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revisit some of my older stuff for some

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information

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and it clicked in my brain that I have a

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place to put

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information. I keep a physical dye record,

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but it

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didn’t occur to me that anyone else

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might want to

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have access that information? Probably

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because I feel like I’m just

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haphazardly making things up as I go, but

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it’s relatively easy to

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take that physical information that I

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have and translate it into

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something that can be posted out there

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in the internet for anyone to find if

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they want to.

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The new section of my website is called

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Digital Dye Book.

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So this will basically take you to a

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linked external blog.

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You can follow that blog on its own, if

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you’d like. I’ll throw the link down here

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if

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you’re interested in just going straight

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to the blog, but that just makes it

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easier for me to manage

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the grouping of information

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because each of my dye experiments

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basically has one or two

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index cards associated with it. So

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each entry will have pictures of my note

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cards, including any

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samples that I’ve stapled to them, a

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typed out version of the handwritten

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information there because

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my handwriting is not always legible, and

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alternate text for screen readers for

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those images of the note cards.

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And that’s going to do it for the month

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of September. Thank you for

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watching, if you watched all the way to

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the end. If you are not subscribed, please

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consider subscribing below so that you

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00:22:19,250 –> 00:22:21,610
will know when I post new videos to this

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channel.

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I don’t really have a set posting

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schedule, so that’s really the best way

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to find out

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if there are new videos from me. And I

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guess that’s it.

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So… goodbye.

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