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Episode 40: New Craft Room Scatterbrain

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Filming on Saturday 5/20/17

Podcast Stuff

  • Blanket MAL 2017 – Started Jan 1st! There is a chatter/encouragement thread up in the Ravelry group and I’m planning on pulling prizes once a quarter for this MAL. #2017BlanketMAL
  • #sithandspin – Coming soon! June 1st to August 31st! Spinning while entertaining yourself with tales from a galaxy far, far away.

 

Life Stuff

  • Craft Room – Welcome to the new carpet!!
  • New phone – Filming with the new phone, so the image and sound might be a little different than usual.
  • Weather – Ugh hot and also ticks, which are ridiculous right now. We’re taking all precautions – Pen is on flea/tick meds and a natural fragrant oil spray for dogs, and we’ve got a fresh can of Off! Deep Woods for the humans – but man, you know the tick situation is bad when you come in from taking the dog out and she flops over to have you check her belly and chest for ticks. This dog has had so many hitching rides in her fur that she checks her feet and her back for them herself.

 

Knitting Stuff

WIPs

  • Find Your Fade by Andrea Mowry – US 3/ 3.25 mm – Once Upon a Corgi “But It Could Kill You,” “His Name is Shirley,” and “Coconut Cream Cake,” Legacy Fiber Artz “Sweater Weather”, Voolenvine Yarns “Mooncusser”
  • Anakin socks – Must Stash Yarns “Anakin” Self-Striping – US 0/2.0 mm needles
  • Boba Fett socks – Must Stash Yarns “Boba Fett” Self-Striping – US 0/2.0 mm needles
  • Afterthought Everything socks – Legacy Fiber Arts Advent yarn – US 0/2.0mm needles

 

Crochet Stuff

WIPs

  • HDC Scrap Blanket – worsted weight scrap yarns – US H/5.0 mm hook
  • Fingering Weight Granny Stripe blanket (by Lucy of Attic24) – fingering weight minis – US B/2.25 mm hook
  • Corner to Corner Blanket by Lauri Bolland – fingering weight scraps – US B/2.25 mm hook

 

Fiber Stuff

 

Sewing Stuff

 

New Stuff

  • Package from Sherry!
    • Into the Whirled – 80/10/10 SW Merino/Cashmere/Nylon – “Possumhaw”
    • Groovy Hues Fibers – 75/25 SW Merino/Nylon – “I’ve Got Batik in My Belfry!”
    • HaldeCraft HandDyed – 80/10/10 SW Merino/Cashmere/Nylon – “Kate Crackernuts”
    • KnitMona – 75/25 SW Merino/Nylon – “Satellite:
    • Bits and bobs
  • Once Upon a Corgi – ASoUE Club – 80/20 SW BFL/Nylon – “Murderer Attempts to Murder Murderer”
  • Shanea (shay-nuh) from FatesThread on Etsy
    • Star Wars project bag and keychain for me
    • Constellation project bag and stitch markers for you!

Other Stuff

Stuff I’m Watching: Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Father Brown

Podcasts:

  • The Message
    • The Message is a new podcast following the weekly reports and interviews from Nicky Tomalin, who is covering the decoding of a message from outer space received 70 years ago. Over the course of 8 episodes we get an inside ear on how a top team of cryptologists attempt to decipher, decode, and understand the alien message.
  • Lif-e.Af/ter
    • When you die in the digital age, pieces of you live on forever. In your emails, your social media posts and uploads, in the texts and videos you’ve messaged, and for some – even in their secret online lives few even know about. But what if that digital existence took on a life of its own? Ross, a low level FBI employee, faces that very question as he starts spending his days online talking to his wife Charlie, who died
      8 months ago…But what feels like an unbelievable gift starts to bring up some very real moral and ethical predicaments, as Ross discovers LifeAfter,
      the program that brought his wife – and countless others back to life online. But what is “life” if you can be preserved digitally? And if you
      live online, where do you spend eternity?
  • Thrilling Adventure Hour – “Beyond Belief”
    • A new time podcast in the style of old time radio!
    • The episodes were live events in a sort of radio variety hour and each segment was split out into a podcast episode. There’s a bunch of different shows on here, but the one that really appealed to me is “Beyond Belief” which is a series about Frank and Sadie Doyle who are high-society drunks that go about solving paranormal problems. It’s full of hilarious word play and ghost jokes.
  • Limetown
    • Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again.In this seven-part podcast, American Public Radio host Lia Haddock asks the question once more, “What happened to the people of Limetown?”
  • Wooden Overcoats
    • RUDYARD FUNN RUNS A FUNERAL HOME ON THE ISLAND OF PIFFLING.It used to be the only one. It isn’t anymore.On the overlooked Channel Island of Piffling, obstinate undertaker Rudyard Funn runs his family’s failing funeral parlour. But when new and sexy undertaker Eric Chapman sets up shop across the square and becomes an immediate sensation, Rudyard realises he’ll have to take drastic steps to stay in business.

      With his frustrated sister Antigone, dogsbody Georgie, and a mouse called Madeleine, will Rudyard ever defeat his charming rival?

Fanfic Recommendation –

  • Stand the hazard of the die by KeelieThompson1
    • A plot from the future to save the past effectively ends Anakin Skywalker’s career as a Jedi knight.
    • Old Ben Kenobi sends seven-year-old Luke Skywalker back in time with a message for this younger self – “Do not let it happen again. The boy will save Anakin, but I cannot predict how that will change things. Vader died the moment he had to choose between the boy and his power. Luke is the key and he is all you will need to save us.”

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Episode 38: New Wall

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Filmed on Saturday 4/15/17

Podcast Stuff

  • Blanket MAL 2017 – Started Jan 1st! There is a chatter/encouragement thread up in the Ravelry group and I’m planning on pulling prizes once a quarter for this MAL. #2017BlanketMAL

 

Life Stuff

  • Filming in my bedroom again! Which has changed since the last time it was on the podcast. I rearranged the furniture a couple of weeks ago. The library is a bit crammed with all my craft stuff stuff in the corners and the craft room is still carpetless at the moment.
  • Work has been crazy town, so I really haven’t been doing much of anything else

 

Knitting Stuff

FOs

  • Snow Day Shawl by Mina Phillip – Quince and Co Chickadee in “Crow,” “Stork,” “Egret,” and “Frank’s Plum” – US 6/4.0 mm

WIPs

  • Grand Central Socks – NYC Socks Collection from Mina Phillip – Junkyarns Smooth Socks (75/25 merino/nylon) “Rey” – US 0/2.0 mm
  • Find Your Fade by Andrea Mowry – US 3/ 3.25 mm – Once Upon a Corgi “But It Could Kill You,” “His Name is Shirley,” and “Coconut Cream Cake,” Legacy Fiber Artz “Sweater Weather”

 

Crochet Stuff

Frogged

  • Crochet Backpack

WIPs

  • C2C Blanket by Lauri Bolland – US B/ 2.25 mm hook – scrap yarns

Fiber Stuff

New Stuff

Other Stuff

Podcasts:

  • Mabel
    • a podcast about ghosts, family secrets, strange houses, and missed connections.
  • The Bright Sessions
    • The Bright Sessions is a science fiction podcast that follows a group of therapy patients. But these are not your typical patients – each has a unique supernatural ability. The show documents their struggles and discoveries as well as the motivations of their mysterious therapist, Dr. Bright.
  • Within the Wires
    • Set within an alternate reality, “Within the Wires” tells stories in the guise of instructional audio programs. Season One, “Relaxation Cassettes,” is a 10 part scripted fiction podcast that takes the form of an audio course on full body relaxation issued by The Institute to you, (the listener) a nameless medical inmate. Who is this narrator? Is she relaying something more than just relaxation techniques, and is she to be trusted? And are there subliminal messages hidden within the music? As listeners move through the relaxation curriculum a deeper and more personal story unravels.
  • Wolf 359
    • WOLF 359 is a radio drama in the tradition of Golden Age of Radio shows. Set on board the U.S.S. Hephaestus space station, the dysfunctional crew deals with daily life-or-death emergencies, while searching for signs of alien life and discovering there might be more to their mission than they thought.
      Tune into your home away from home… seven and a half light years away from Earth…
  • The Bridge
    • It’s an alternate 2016, and Watchtower 10 sits in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, keeping lonely watch over the Transcontinental Bridge. Each watchtower sits hundreds of feet away from the Bridge, broadcasting regular traffic reports to ensure that proper safety precautions are taken. These lighthouses (for cars) are filled with a carefully selected (and very capable) crew.Watchtower 10’s necessary personnel happen to be: a generalist DJ who spends her free time relaying folklore from abandoned parts of the Bridge, her supervisor (who’s only there because he lost a bet), an unfailingly optimistic Bridge Travel Agent, and a groundskeeper who has a thing for romantic comedies.Unbeknownst to the general public (but totally knownst to each watchtower’s crew), these stations also hold a secret that could potentially destroy the world…or save it.

      The Bridge is a fictional serialized fantasy podcast about the monsters we fear, the monsters we can become, and the stories we leave behind.

  • Ars Paradoxica
    • ars PARADOXICA is a love letter to physics, fiction, and the future. It’s a disorienting journey through spacetime and the Cold War. It’s a tome of secret history you stumbled across in a library in the dead of night.It’s an award-winning serial audio drama.When an experiment in a time much like our own goes horribly awry, Dr. Sally Grissom finds herself stranded in the past and entrenched in the activities of a clandestine branch of the US government. Grissom and her team quickly learn that there’s no safety net when toying with the fundamental logic of the universe.

Stuff I’m Reading –

  • Dreams from the Witch House – Dark Regions Press
  • Star Wars Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders by John Whitman
  • Star Wars Galaxy of Fear: The Swarm by John Whitman
  • Star Wars Galaxy of Fear: Spore by John Whitman
  • Star Wars Galaxy of Fear: The Doomsday Ship by John Whitman

Fanfic Recommendation –

  • A Standard List of Questions Laura JV (jacquez)
    • “Luke’s not gonna lie to us,” Biggs said. He knew Luke — odd, awkward, space-mad Luke — almost as well as he knew himself.
    • It’s mostly a conversation between Biggs Darklighter and Rebel commander about Tatooine and Luke’s intake into the Rebel Alliance, but it’s delightful.

 

 

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Episode 37: Ramble On

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Filming on 4/1/17

Life Stuff

  • Health – Doctor adventure due to shortness of breath and a dry cough. Nothing came up on x-rays, EKG, or bloodwork, so antibiotics and prednisone for a week and an emergency inhaler as needed. Likely a sinus infection that got weird and aggravated my bronchial tubes. Made me change how I sleep and now I sleep much better. Weird.
  • Dogs – Audrey stayed with us while Gabby/Once Upon a Corgi was on vacation and she’s a troublemaking sweetheart. Penny hurt her back jumping into my mom’s car leaving a routine vet appointment and hurt her back, but she’s feeling much better on the anti-inflammatories/pain meds.
  • New Craft Room – No update! Some plumbing issues and the weather postponed the carpet purchasing.

 

Podcast Stuff

  • New Website – It’s live! New website is over at freakishlemon.com and freakishlemonpodcast.com
  • Blanket MAL 2017 – Started Jan 1st! There is a chatter/encouragement thread up in the Ravelry group and I’m planning on pulling prizes once a quarter for this MAL. #2017BlanketMAL
    • First Quarter Prize Drawing! – 79 qualifying entries!
    • Ravelry Pattern up to $10 — post# 107 LarinaValarin – Cosima from Minnesota
    • Ravelry Pattern up to $10 — post# 42 amberlindemann – Amber from Illinois
    • Physical Prize Package — post# 53 pacasha from New Mexico
  • Attack the Sock pattern is out now! Free colorwork sock pattern designed by my featuring patterns of the glowing teeth of the aliens in the British scifi movie Attack the Block.

 

Knitting Stuff

FOs

  • Space Cadet Hat – used stitch count and decreases from Barley by tincanknits – SpaceCadet Cressida (100% merino) in “Crowned with autumn” – US 4/3.5 mm and US 6/4.0 mm
  • Obi-Wan Socks – Must Stash Yarns “Obi-Wan” – US 0/2.0 mm Knit Picks circulars – cut in heel, Smooth Operator Socks by Susan B. Anderson

WIPs

  • Grand Central Socks – NYC Socks Collection from Mina Phillip – Junkyarns Smooth Socks (75/25 merino/nylon) “Rey” – US 0/2.0 mm
  • Snow Day Shawl by Mina Phillip – Quince and Co Chickadee in “Crow,” “Stork,” “Egret,” and “Frank’s Plum” – US 6/4.0 mm
  • Afterthought Everything Socks – Knit Picks Stroll Fingering in Black and Legacy Knitz half-skein from the Advent Calendar – US 0/2.0mm

 

Crochet Stuff

FOs

  • T-Shirt Yarn Basket – improvised pattern – 25.00 mm hook from Loopy Mango
  • Polwarth Handspun Sock Needle Pouch – US G/ 4.0mm- 222 Handspun Polwarth chain ply

WIPs

 

Fiber Stuff

 

New Stuff

 

Other Stuff

Stuff I’m Watching – Escape to the Country Collection (Netflix), Logan, Beauty and the Beast, Mystère à la Tour Eiffel

Stuff I’m Reading –

  • Star Wars: Dark Disciple by Christie Golden (audio) narr by Marc Thompson
  • Liminal by A. Sieracki
  • Dreams from the Witch House – Dark Regions Press
  • Star Wars Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders by John Whitman

Fanfic Recommendation –

 

 

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Episode 36: Not Much Knitting

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Filmed on Sunday, March 12th

Life Stuff

  • New Website – In the process of changing domain providers and I’ve created the basics of the new site. Switching from Squarespace to WordPress because when I ended up using the website for isn’t worth the amount of the Squarespace subscription and I’d like to be more familiar with WordPress as a platform. Currently freakishlemonpodcast.wordpress.com.
  • Depression Spiral – Started setting in Friday with just lagging, tried to counter it with getting things done, spiraled down and kind of hovered at the bottom for a few days and then started coming out of it Friday.
  • House Guest – Miss Audrey gets to stay with us while Gabby/Once Upon a Corgi gets to go on vacation.
  • New Craft Room – Painting is mostly done. Dad will be getting the carpet next weekend.
  • Blanket MAL 2017 – Started Jan 1st! There is a chatter/encouragement thread up in the Ravelry group and I’m planning on pulling prizes once a quarter for this MAL. #2017BlanketMAL
    • First Quarter Prizes!

 

Knitting Stuff

WIPs

 

Crochet Stuff

FOs

  • HDC Fingering Weight – Uhh… tablecloth? – US B/2.25mm hook

WIPs

 

Fiber Stuff

  • Dryer Balls
  • Classy Squid Fiber Co – Venice 2 ply
  • Loop – Cherry Pit – chain ply

 

Sewing Stuff

  • Star Wars Cross Stitch patterns by Dinosaur Spaceship dinosaurspaceshop.etsy.com

 

New Stuff

  • Once Upon a Corgi – ASoUE Club – S.O.R.E
  • Once Upon a Corgi – ASoUE Club – Pinstripes are in

 

Other Stuff

Stuff I’m Watching – Great British Bake Off (American Netflix), Lord of the Rings, Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold (Complete Edition Cover)

Stuff I’m Reading –

  • FINISHED Ashlesha by Jer Keene – book 1 of the Awaken the Stars series – Amazon and Altered Nature Press alterednaturepress.org
  • Star Wars: Dark Disciple by Christie Golden (audio) narr by Marc Thompson
  • Galaxy of Fear: Nightmare Machine by John Whitman
  • Galaxy of Fear: Ghost of the Jedi by John Whitman
  • Galaxy of Fear: Army of Terror by John Whitman

Fanfic Recommendation –

 

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Episode 35: Warm Weather Quilting

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Life Stuff

  • WTF Weather – It’s been so warm and it makes me sad. February is supposed to be bitter cold and below 0, but it reached 70F (21.1C) the other day D:
  • New craft room? – 95% sure that my craft stuff will be moving down stairs and we’ve started redoing the family room with some painting. Parents are thinking about turning this corner into a library nook, which should be nice. Didn’t stop me from reorganizing my corner again anyway.
  • Blanket MAL 2017 – Started Jan 1st! There is a chatter/encouragement thread up in the Ravelry group and I’m planning on pulling prizes once a quarter for this MAL. #2017BlanketMAL

Knitting Stuff

FOs

  • Re-FO – R2-D2 Socks – Must Stash Yarns “R2-D2” – US 0/2.0 mm circulars – Susan B Anderson’s heel from the Smooth Operator Socks pattern
  • Rainbow Dangling Conversations Shawl – pattern by Mindy Ross – US 2/ 2.75 mm needles – Case of the Silent Six gradient carded roving from Bitsy Knits – 50% SW Merino, 30% Silk, 20% Seacell

WIPs

Crochet Stuff

FOs

  • Crochet Basket (improvised pattern) – Knit Picks Mighty Stitch Super Bulky (6 skeins) – US U/25 mm hook

WIPs

Fiber Stuff

  • Brown Cormo sweater spin on Ashford Kiwi 2 – Finished first 3ply skein

Sewing Stuff

  • Hawkeye Quilt – reducing the size to a wall hanging, disassembled the basted squares, 1 quilted square not going into the wall hanging will have binding added and be used as a mug rug or table decoration
  • Halloween Quilt – Took it out of the hoop and did the ditch quilting. Did detail quilting on one square.

Other Stuff

  • Stuff I’m Watching – Clone Wars, A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix), Long Way Round, Long Way Down
  • Stuff I’m Reading –
    • Rereading Ashlesha by Jer Keene – book 1 of the Awaken the Stars series – Amazon and Altered Nature Press alterednaturepress.org
    • Star Wars: Dark Disciple by Christie Golden (audio) narr by Marc Thompson
    • Galaxy of Fear: Nightmare Machine by John Whitman
  • Fanfic Recommendation –
    • Swung by Serafim by Flamethrower        
    • “In 1993, Gilderoy Lockhart points a stolen wand at Harry Potter and Ron Weasley with the intent to Obliviate them.  The wand doesn’t backfire. Gilderoy’s “”discovery”” of the Chamber of Secrets is a short-term success. Other consequences are not short-term at all.”
    • AU where HP loses his capacity for bullshit and flamethrower rounds out Snape as an interesting and actually redeemable character. Lots of calling adults out on their inability to adequately care for and guide children.

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Episode 32: 2017 and VKL

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Life Stuff

  • Happy New Year!
  • Vogue Knitting Live
  • Blanket MAL 2017 – Started Jan 1st! There is a chatter/encouragement thread up in the Ravelry group and I’m planning on pulling prizes once a quarter for this MAL. #2017BlanketMAL

Knitting Stuff

Frogged – 

  • Le Moelleux Shawl by Mina Phillip

FOs –

  • Barley by Tin Can Knits – Handspun fiber from Highland Handmades “Edge of the Inferno” – US 4/ 3.5 mm and US 6/ 4.0 mm 

WIPs –

  • Afterthought Everything Socks – US 0/2.0 mm  needles – Biscotte Yarns Bis-Sock bas in “Gazania”
  • Cobblestone Socks by Mina Philipp – US 0/2.00 mm DPNs – Plymouth Yarns Happy Feet –
  • Cozy Memories Blanket – US 1/ 2.25 mm needles – 40 stitch mitered square
  • Rey Striped Socks – Must Stash Yarns “Rey” – US 0/2.0 mm circulars – Susan B Anderson’s heel from Smooth Operator Socks
  • Rainbow Dangling Conversations Shawl – pattern by Mindy Ross – US 2/ 2.75 mm needles  

Crochet Stuff

FOs –

  • Box o Socks Box – US I/ 5.5 mm  – improvised 

WIPs

  • HDC Scrap Blanket Worsted – US H/8 – 5mm hook
  • HDC Scrap Blanket Fingering – US B/ 2.25mm hook
  • Granny Stripe Fingering – by Attic24 – USB/2.25mm hook

Fiber Stuff

  • Brown Cormo Sweater Spin – #legacysweaterspin – Clabber Glynn Farm and Marsh Mallo Farms
  • Classy Squid Fiber Co – Venice Batt
  • T-Shirt Yarn

Sewing Stuff

  • Sew4Home.Com — Stylin’ Damask & Canvas Duffle Pattern/Tutorial
    • Grey bag for 2017 Blanket MAL prize
    • Star Wars bag for me
  • Halloween Quilt

New Stuff

  • Leather DPN holder from a friend – BookandSkein.Etsy.com
  • Knit Picks Sock Heels and Toes stash and free tote bag
  • Vogue Knitting Live
    • Shirsty Cat Designs Fiber
    • Biscotte Yarns
    • Loopy Mango US U/25 mm crochet hook

Other Stuff

  • Stuff I’m Watching – Rogue One
  • Stuff I’m Reading – (tracking on GoodReads) 
    • Rereading Ashlesha by Jer Keene – book 1 of the Awaken the Stars series – Amazon and Altered Nature Press alterednaturepress.org
    • Star Wars: Clone Wars: No Prisoners by Karen Traviss (audio) narr by Jeff Gurner
    • Star Wars: Clone Wars: Wild Space by Karen Miller (audio) narr by Jeff Gurner
    • Star Wars: Ahsoka by E. K. Johnston (audio) narr by Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka from Clone Wars and Rebels!!)
  • Fanfic Recommendation – 
    • i guess i’ll know when i get there by Eisoj5    
    • AU: Rogue One and how they fit into the Rebellion after the Scarif mission; focussed on Bodhi Rook and deals with his PTSD, his guilt for the things the Empire has done, and his delightfully awkward non-courtship with Luke Skywalker

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Episode 31: Goodbye 2016

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Filmed on Monday 12/26/16

Guys, it is hard to post this today because of Carrie Fisher’s death this morning. It feels weird to have this go up. Unfortunately, it’s not going to feel any less weird tomorrow or the day after, so just keep in mind that this was filmed before that news broke.

 

Life Stuff

  • Family Medical Stuff
  • Holidays
  • Fic – Posted a fic called An Unexpected Solution 
  • Blanket MAL 2017 – Starts Jan 1st! There will be a chatter/encouragement thread up in the Ravelry group and I’m planning on pulling prizes once a quarter for this MAL right now.
    • Prize Inventory
      • Once Upon a Corgi miniskeins (coming)
      • Stitch Marker Sets (coming)
      • Blanket Sized Project Bag (to be made by me)
      • Ravelry Pattern up to $10
      • Blanket Sized Tote Bag by Sullivan and Wallace Dry Goods sullivanandwallace.etsy.com
      • Ravelry Pattern up to $10
      • Notions Kit from the box of prize stuff from javasuann
      • Mini-skeins from Rachel
      • A Hundred Ravens – Yarn Poppers (bought, not sponsored)
      • Heybrownberry (Marce) – working out the details, possibly hand-dyed yarn or a project bag

Knitting Stuff

FOs –

  • Christmas Gifts Parade
  • Movie Socks 2 – US 1 /2.25 mm Chiaogoo needles – Patons Kroy in “Bramble Stripes” – using the Smooth Operator Socks information for the heels

WIPs –

Crochet Stuff

Frogged

  • Tunisian/Crochet Blanket – Frogged and turning into a plain HDC Blanket – US I/ 5.5mm

FOs

  • Storage/Notions bags – US G/4.0 mm, US H/5.0 mm, and US K/6.5 mm hooks

WIPs

Fiber Stuff

  • Brown Cormo Sweater Spin – #legacysweaterspin – Clabber Glynn Farm and Marsh Mallo Farms
  • Doctor Who Christmas Special Rolags from Classy Squid Fiber Co – Chain ply

Sewing Stuff

  • A smidge of handquilting

New Stuff

  • Patterns from some knitty friends
  • Knitting T-Shirt from a Real Life friend
  • New Kindle!
  • Quilt hoop stand
  • Quilting clips
  • Iron for the craft room
  • Rib Magazine
  • Star Wars Project Bag/Storage Pouch from Amber/Yarn Hoarder
  • Once Upon a Corgi – Series of Unfortunate Events Club – “But It Could Kill You”

Other Stuff

  • Stuff I’m Watching – Rogue One, Gotham
  • Stuff I’m Reading – (tracking on GoodReads)
    • Rereading Ashlesha by Jer Keene – book 1 of the Awaken the Stars series – Amazon and Altered Nature Press alterednaturepress.org
    • Darth Plagueis by James Luceno (audio) narr by Daniel Davis
    • Star Wars: Clone Wars: No Prisoners by Karen Traviss (audio) narr by Jeff Gurner
  • Fanfic Recommendation –
    • Black Mirror by DarthNickels 
    • Rebels (TV Show) era fic, sometime in the beginning to mid-season 2 – Darth Vader goes to investigate the Lothal Temple and gets trapped in one of the Trial chambers that shows you what you want – Gives the Ghost crew and Ahsoka the opportunity to capture Vader and they have to face the fact that Vader is basically just an sad, angry disabled guy who is pretty committed to ruining everything because he has nothing left to lose (while also not excusing what he’s done)
    • 7 Chapters long and ongoing – currently about equivalent to a 300 page book

 

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Episode 30: Star Wars and Christmas

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Filmed on Saturday 12/10/16

 

Life Stuff

  • Week Off – All the craft, all the time.
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Read by Obi-Wan Kenobi and “friends” 
  • Fic – Posted a fic called Open Fire and a companion piece called Shadow – More Star Wars Time Travel, but with a very different outcome 
  • Blanket MAL 2017 – I’m going to be hosting a year-long blanket make-along for 2017. There’s a thread up in the group for prize planning. If anyone has any ideas for prizes that they want to see for the make-along or if anyone thinks that they might want to donate a prize, please go comment in that thread or shoot me a message on Rav. I’m going to be making 1 or 2 big blanket-sized project bags to giveaway and I’ve asked Gabby/Once Upon a Corgi if she’d like to contribute some mini-skeins. I’m aiming to do a random giveaway once a quarter or once every 2 months, depending on the prize pool. It’ll be open to knitting, crochet, quilting, weaving, whatever. WIPs will be welcomed and encouraged. Nothing needs to be finished to qualify for prize drawings. This is just some incentive for us to work on our (many MANY) blankets.

Knitting Stuff

FOs –

  • Christmas Gifts
  • Tiny Hat

WIPs –

  • Christmas Gifts
  • Tube project – US 3/3.25 mm Nova Kubics

Crochet Stuff

  • HDC Scrap Blanket Worsted – US H/8 – 5mm hook
  • Granny Stripe Blanket

Fiber Stuff

  • Mystery fleece spinning on the Ashford Kiwi 2
  • GnomeAcres Destash – SW Merino/Bamboo/Nylon and Hilltop Cloud Blue 75/25 BFL/Camel
  • Classy Squid Fiber Co – “Behind the Rain”

Sewing Stuff

  • Tree skirt
  • Felt Garland

New Stuff

  • Camera stuff – new mic for $12 from Amazon
  • Lion Brand Pound of Love acrylic worsted weight yarn
  • Package from Pacasha with scraps and leftovers

Other Stuff

  • Stuff I’m Watching – The Crown, Gotham
  • Stuff I’m Reading – (tracking on GoodReads)
    • Rereading Ashlesha by Jer Keene – book 1 of the Awaken the Stars series – Amazon and Altered Nature Press 
    • Relistening to SW:TOR Annihilation by Drew Karpyshyn (audio) narr by Marc Thompson
    • SW:CW:Gambit: Siege by Karen Miller (audio) narr by Jeff Garner
    • Darth Plagueis by James Luceno (audio) narr by Daniel Davis
  • Fanfic Recommendation –

 

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Episode 27: Crochet on the Brain

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Life Stuff

  • Giveaway! The Ravelry Group is nearing 150 members! Thread is open to be entered to win this hat kit with alpaca yarn that I received on the Western CT Yarn Crawl!
  • Halloween party with friends
  • Writing fanfic
  • Real Life Job is taking a lot out of me right now

Knitting Stuff

FOs –

  • Happy Halloween socks – Gale’s Art Sock Blank – US 0 – 2.0 mm Hiya Hiya Sharps – Pebbles Socks by Mina Phillip 
  • Christmas Gift #1 – Apocalypse Friday – 100% SW Merino in Blue Box

WIPs –

  • Christmas Gifts

Crochet Stuff

  • HDC Scrap Blanket Worsted – US H/8 – 5mm hook
  • HDC Scrap Blanket Fingering – US B-2.25mm hook

Fiber Stuff

  • Mystery fleece spinning on the Ashford Kiwi 2
  • Fiber Prep will be up on the Etsy Shop!
    • Salazar Mixed Batt
    • House Organa Mixed Batt
    • Coruscant Sky Spinning Fluffs

Sewing Stuff

  • Halloween costume

New Stuff

Other Stuff

Stuff I’m Watching – CAUGHT UP ON PODCASTS 😀 — The Yarn Hoarder Podcast hosted by Amber, The Piper Nell Podcast hosted by Shanel, Knit Night with Mekamika by Shameka

Stuff I’m Reading – (tracking on GoodReads)

  • Relisting to SW:CW:Gambit:Stealth by Karen Miller (audi) narr by Jeff Gurner

Fanfic Recommendation –

On Ebon Wings, Ere I Breathe by flamethrower 

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Episode 26: Rhinebeck 2016

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Free Halloweenies

http://www.classiccinemaonline.com

  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • House on Haunted Hill

http://www.archive.Org

  • House on Haunted Hill
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • The Screaming Skull
  • Christopher Lee
    • Horror Hotel
    • Circus of Fear

http://www.watchdocumentary.Org

For documentaries about ghosts, vampires, witches, etc.

YouTube.Com

HPPodcraft.com

Weird fiction podcast!

Full Story Readings of HP Lovecraft stories:

  • The Call of Cthulhu
  • From Beyond
  • The Picture in the House
  • The Haunter of the Dark
  • Cool Air
  • The Cats of Ulthar
  • The Hound
  • The Temple

http://www.audible.com

First book is free with sign up and there are tons of audiobooks to choose from.

  • Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber; narrated by Sean Kenin
  • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith; narrated by  Scott Holst

HP Lovecraft Public Domain Works

http://www.hplovecraft.com/

Project Gutenberg – https://www.gutenberg.org/

  • Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Edgar Allan Poe collections
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

 

Life Stuff

Knitting Stuff

FOs –

WIPs –

Fiber Stuff

  • Mystery fleece spinning on the Ashford Kiwi 2

 

Sewing Stuff

WIPs –       

  • Halloween quilt

 

New Stuff

  • Cube Bag from ZigZagStitches – Who got me this so that I can thank them?!
  • **SPOILERS** Once Upon a Corgi – The Bad Beginning – Audrey base
  • Junkyarns – Smooth Socks 75/25 SW Merino/Nylon – Rey
  • Rhinebeck 2016 Haul
    • Loop Bullseye Bump – Cherry Pit – Merino/tussah sil/angelina
    • Into the Whirled
    • Quoth the Raven – Polwarth
    • Ravenswood – English Shetland
    • Mohair Locks from Naumann Angoras
    • Cotswald Locks from Solitude Wool

Other Stuff

Stuff I’m Watching – Stranger Things, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Penny Dreadful

Stuff I’m Reading – (tracking on GoodReads)

  • Relistening to Fatal Alliance (SW:TOR) by Sean Williams (audio) narr by Marc Thompson
  • Relistening to Deceived (SW:TOR) by Paul S Kemp (audio) narr by Marc Thompson
  • Relisting to SW:CW:Gambit:Stealth by Karen Miller (audi) narr by Jeff Gurner
  • Galaxy of Fear series by John Whitman

Fanfic Recommendation –

turn my sorrow into treasured gold by cosmicocean – http://archiveofourown.org/works/7435467

 

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