Gentle knitter episode 29 - I'm a Wool Scout!

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hi welcome to episode 29 of the gentlemen or podcast my name is Nicole and I'm coming to you from Ottawa Ontario today is Sunday September 22nd so happy fall to everybody I'm so excited that it's autumn and that the slightly cooler temperatures have started we definitely have been having cool cool evenings and mornings which has been wonderful today is a bit muggier it's it's not as cool as it has been so I'm not wearing any hand that's unfortunately but but it's definitely it's definitely getting there and I loved fall I think most knitters do it's just a wonderful time to really get going on the needles and I have a lot to show you it's been so long since I've recorded I'm sorry I've been away for so long it was not intentional but most of you if you saw my last episode I talked a little bit about some health and mental health issues I was dealing with and basically just comes down to I needed a lot of rest I still do and I am working on feeling better and finding better strategies for coping with stress anxiety and some some physical ailments are nothing nothing serious but things that I'm sort of trying to adjust to which means that I've just been not very present and active in social media and obviously here on YouTube but I'm really glad that I have a chance to talk to you today and I have lots and lots to show you and tell you about it was a busy summer despite me trying to kind of take it easy and get a lot of rest there were several fun adventures that I had which which I will tell you a little bit about and picked up some really lovely wooly goodness along the way so so why don't we just jump on in so one of the adventures I had earlier in the summer was visiting Emily photon's studio emily is the dire behind viola yarns I've talked about her a bunch of times I really love love her work and we become friends and she invited me and a bunch of other people to come up a little bit early to help her with with her open house and and spend time together so I was really excited to to visit her again her home is just absolutely amazing and her her family also I got to meet her sister and we just had a really great time tagging yarns and and stocking the shelves and it was such a great event there was amazing turnout and I got a chance to meet a lot of you who had come to to viola's open house and so that was really really a lovely surprise I kind of didn't expect that I would meet some viewers but that was lovely and yeah it was it was a great event there was so something different that Emily did this year is she invited some other makers to be part of the festivities so there was aronia of Baku and she was there selling her beautiful bags amanda ratash who's a really lovely weaver she was there and she picked up something beautiful from her and I'll show that to you in a bit and also sis Chico and Kiyomi Birkin they are actually the models in Emily's beautiful knits about winter book so they're sisters and they are super super talented so young geez designer I think they both actually design knitting patterns so Chico also does jewelry design and actually I bought this beautiful silver pendant from her I don't know if you'll be able to see it very well so I'll insert a picture right here when I saw this pendant I just couldn't resist I don't know there was something about it I kind of felt like it was very symbolic for me because it's sort of the way somebody would wear a cross or a Star of David for me having a twig that's in the form of a key just held a lot of meaning for me because especially this summer especially going through a bit of a tough time going in nature is always a so healing for me and it really is the key to to a lot of more positive feelings for me so it's it's really how I connect to spirit and to you know higher power if you will being in nature really makes me feel just it's super cheesy to say but at one with the universe that kind of thing I just feel very peaceful when I'm in nature when I'm in the woods so when I saw the necklace I don't know all these things came to me and I I really wanted to to get one so so thank you so chico for such beautiful work of course i couldn't go to a yarn event with mounds and mounds of beautiful viola yarns without picking some up for myself and there were a bunch of samples from nits about winter Emily had her samples there and I tried on two versions of the soirée sweater which was originally published in pom-pom magazine it's a beautiful sweater and I'm sure you've seen lots of other versions on other podcasts um and I saw some yarn that just I thought would make the most beautiful ethereal soiree sweater so I couldn't resist I picked up enough of this which is the her pull worth alpaca this is in the Silver Birch colorway and the color is not bad actually for the amount of sunlight there isn't here you can see that it's kind of beige egrave with blues and purples very very delicate colorway and then so that pull birth alpaca is 70% pull worth and then 15 percent white alpaca and 15% brown alpaca mixed together it's blended and so it really gives a lot of warm depth to the yarn it's super super soft it's just the most beautiful yarn it's got a really lovely halo and speaking of hello it's mixed with so you hold two strands of yarn together with her silk mohair base and this is in the color elephant so did I mention this is silver birch yes I think I did an elephant and so I'm holding these two together and I think that goes so beautifully together and so right now I have finished the body and we'll be tackling the sleeves next so here is my soiree and I mean the showstopper on this sweater is really the sides because it's features this beautiful simple cable and then honeycomb a textured pattern and it's just so pretty I don't know if you can see just see the halo and the sheen on that it's a bit difficult because it is so bright in here but I'm making a fairly loose and I've kind of lengthened the body it is meant to be more of a cropped sweater but I the the one one of the ones that I tried on was a bit longer in the body and I really like the way that fits so so that's what I'm going for and I've tried it on it fits great so I will be casting on the sleeves next and I just it's you know the kind of knit where every stitch is just heavenly you're just looking at your the fabric you're producing and it's like this is so decadent and so beautiful and I just feel so fortunate to be able to work with Emily's gorgeous gorgeous yarn I really recommend the pattern I think it's it's just really beautifully written it's got just a very simple slightly rolled hem and you know the rest of the body is stockinette and you can just see this kind of shimmery quality of the yarn of the the colors playing together so anyway I'm really excited to finish this and if weather permits I hope to wear it right back this year so I am going to Rhinebeck I'm very excited I'm going to be meeting up with Elizabeth and it was a Elizabeth Doherty my friend an incredible designer we always get a house together her and lower E her one of the people she works with who's also a very dear friend and so we're going to have our little little sister wives we joke it's not really that but our little our little get-together I'm back so I cannot wait but anyway I'm hoping that it'll be cool and I'll be able to wear my soirée sweater but we'll see you'd never know with Rhinebeck sometimes you know it's t-shirt weather and other years you know it was snowing and I had four layers on so so we'll see but hopefully I will get to wear this if not I will definitely get to wear it this winter is there anything else I need to tell you about I think that's pretty much it for the the weekend at violas at Emily's it was really really lovely so the other mean main haha adventure I had sorry was a name I had the most incredible time going to wolf scouts this is a retreat that is organized beautifully by my dear dear friend I really count her as one of my best friends Sara Hunt of fiber Trek [Music] [Music] [Music] she has been organizing this retreat at Bradford camps which is in the North Woods of Maine it's a really really very remote you actually have to take a floatplane to get there and if you want to see a really great video that kind of highlights all of the incredible things about Bradford camps ninja chickens was there last summer and she did an awesome video I've got video footage of Bradford camps that I might have already inserted or I will insert but you know I didn't take a ton of video I did take some photos and I also got photos from some of the other participants and thank you so much for for that because I have to admit when I met events I'm just the kind of person who's so wrapped up and what's going on that it's really hard for me to kind of step out and document what's happening I just I just want to be in the moment and half the time my phone is you know back at the cabin and it's sort of it's just not natural for me to to take a lot of footage and that kind of thing so I always come back from holidays wishing I had taken more documented more but luckily there were people there that took some really beautiful pictures and so that's really great because now I'll have these memories captured but anyway it was it was heavenly I had such a great time I felt so lucky that Sara invited me to be part of the the crew so I was actually teaching a class I talked about it I think in the last episode I'm not 100% sure no but basically I did a class I wanted to have a class that combined knitting with Natural History because as you probably know I work at a Natural History Museum and I really wanted to just kind of have those two aspects of what I do in life knitting and nature so I decided to do a class that's based on some of the the mushrooms that I showed you I think two episodes ago I knit them to make Christmas decorations and I thought wouldn't it be fun to to choose real mushroom species and knit them so I knit a bunch of samples and then I wrote a basic pattern that was sort of you know knitting a standard mushroom if you will kind of look like your typical porcini or you know CAF Brown mushroom but the class was really I wanted people to explore ways of shaping to create different different shapes that would mimic a real mushroom so I had some mushroom identification guides and the other amazing thing is that for some reason the woodland trails around Bradford were just I mean overrun with mushrooms and different species of mushrooms so as people were going on hikes and kind of exploring their surroundings they were coming back with all these photos of mushrooms and so it was very inspiring to kind of want to create what we actually saw in nature so that was super cool and I just had a so much fun I mean everybody was really lovely I wasn't sure how the class would go over there actually really really fiddly I'm gonna be making a bunch too for my Christmas tree this year because the ones that I made last year and also the ones I made for the class are all gone they've all been given away when I was at Bradford's one of the really special things about Bradford's is the staff they are just incredible people and they take care of their their guests so well and I just had wanted to basically give them little thanks and a lot of them just seemed to be really charmed by the mushrooms so so I ended up handing them out to the staff as little thank you for taking such good care of us so I don't have any to show you I have you know there's a few photos of them but I will make some for my Christmas tree and I am thinking I don't know I'm thinking of maybe writing up the patterns more in more details so like for the class I just have the one basic pattern and with instructions on how to make the modifications to kind of get different species but what I might end up doing is write like a little collection of patterns that really kind of spell out how to how to knit for instance a fly agaric or a Shelton or a porcini what else did I have I had a bunch of different species you know some with really tall cap and some of the flat cap and ruffled and then of course all the embellishments that you can do to add the gills and little the little dots on the caps and that kind of thing so I brought a ton of to apply the the fine Shetland yarn in the million different colors and just everybody just basically chose the colors that they wanted to kind of mimic specific species of mushrooms or just invent their own so that was really cool and and what I was gonna say earlier is that I was a little bit worried it's very very fiddly to start with but once you get going it's super satisfying and really quick to knit you can knit a mushroom in like an hour and and they really come alive once you start stuffing them and at first yeah I was like I could see that a few people who were a little like oh yeah okay I guess I'll try it and by the end some of the ones that were the most sort of hesitant ended up knitting like seven or eight mushrooms throughout Thursday at Bradford's so so yeah it was super exciting I really enjoy teaching and it was a lot of fun to to prepare that so what I did was in my workshop it was a lot of the Knitting and how to how to make the details that that you know end up with a realistic-looking mushroom but I also gave them a natural history lesson on mushrooms on my ecology and so that's you know that was what I was interested in doing is kind of marrying the natural history side of me and the making sides so it went really well and like I said I mean thinking about maybe releasing the pattern I'm not I'm not sure yet but for now um I'm gonna make a bunch for myself and then see you know how I'm feeling and what my energy level is like and if I if I want to go through with writing writing a pattern let me know if that's something that you're interested in what else can I say about Bradford's it was it was if you have get a chance to go it's it's really a special place well I mean Bradford's is a special place but the the retreat that Sara runs is so wonderful there's just this perfect balance of classes so Sara taught some classes her was her focus was embroidery and embellishments on wool and there her class I mean I just had this moment of discovery for myself I discovered that I love to embroider and I made a little cuff so that the focus of her class was making cuffs with some felt that the students had made in a previous class that was taught by Jami of Starcross fibers so she taught us how to make the felt and then Sara taught us how to make these beautiful wool cuffs people did you know different widths and some of a lot of felt was very colorful and that's what most people used and they did some really beautiful work you I of course went for the very neutral very natural felt so I use the brown side of the felt and I embroidered a a mock I'll insert a photo of it because it's kind of hard to see the details in this light but basically it's a little wool embroidered moss so then the thread is actually wool thread that Sarah had some beautiful stunning materials that she had available to all the students and then I embroidered this is all kind of freeform I didn't have a pattern I just Sarah had brought all these books as inspiration so there was just so much to look at and to be inspired by I went ahead and just embroidered almost did enough just enough I guess they call it free-form embroidery but I stitched out my outline and then just kind of filled it in with with with the yarn in sort of just in a very painterly way and I'm really really happy with the results Sarah had a little bone button that she gave me I was off of a an older bracelet of hers and I just love that I have that as a little little enclosure for my wrist cuff my little Wooley wrist cuff I absolutely love it so yeah that was just such a fun class married a muckle stone was there teaching sneaking and color work and so that was it was just there was so much inspiration and so there's that part of the retreat but also just the time that we had to spend outdoors to spend with the other participants and you know it's just that the location is just so beautiful it's on a very remote Lake were the only people on the lake and so we went swimming and kayaking and hiking and there was some you know fires at night and it was quite cool so everybody got to wear their beautiful hand and we just had an amazing time so thank you thank you Sarah for bringing me along on this adventure I just loved every minute of it and I am scheduled to go back next year so I'm really excited about that I'm not quite sure what I'll be teaching next year I have to figure that out but anyway it's it was really exciting and I just yeah it was great so for there's a couple of things that I knit before I went to Bradford's kind of wanted some some new pieces to keep me warm and one thing I knit was I wanted a new hat because I I don't know I just seem to always be losing my hats I had a collar Herron hat a colorwork hat that I need knit a long long time ago that just ended up having a bunch holes in it and it was always a little bit tight on me so I just wanted to knit myself a new stranded colorwork hat so I made this charming color work at and oh it's so blown out but it is the curlew hat and curlews are these really funny little shoreline birds this pattern is actually a free pattern on Ravelry so the pattern is by let's see the curl you hat by Linda Shearer and she designed the pattern for the Royal Society for the Protection of birds so they had a kind of an awareness program to to let people know about the Korea W and their efforts to to restore their habitats and this pattern is just so darling I'll put it on it kept me very warm well of course it's just got stuck in my uh in my hair sorry okay let's try this again so here is the cute Curly's and I love this little tree here a little tree detail the yarn I used the white is actually yarn that I bought at the farmers market there is a cheese producer that they also sell some of their their use lease they have it spun up into a yarn so it's just kind of a non it's not available commercially I this year they actually haven't been carrying the yarn but they had it I bought it several years ago and then the other colors they're all left over from I've got some Jameson some Jamis and then Smith there's a little bit of loft in there Brooklyn tweets loft so just just leftovers and so I just chew up chose very kind of sandy pale colors this is more of a blue like a kind of a steed last greenish blue it's not very well but and then some sand colors and then this is more of a charcoal but just a really charming simple hat I don't know I just wanted something beachy and fun and and it's just super sweet the other thing I knit was totally on a whim I think in the last podcast I was talking about I had done some swatching for a color work sweater by by Mary Wallen and that just I don't know I just lost lost steam on that I think it was just too involved I did a bunch of swatching and I wasn't happy with my color combos and I just I just set it aside what I really wanted was I had seen in a store it was a an Eileen Fisher pullover that was just super drapey and really fuzzy and crazy expensive and I thought I couldn't hit something like that and just so happened that V Ravel Mac he was um put out a pattern this cut summer called grip and it basically looked more or less like the sweater I saw the Eileen Fisher sweater so it called for a bulky bulky yarn and I had some some blue sky fibers a blue sky fiber now it is blue sky fibers and it's their techno yarn so it's a mix of alpaca silk merino and I had a sweaters quantity in the club gray colorway so I knit a grip in in this yarn and I'll show it to you it is just super simple Raglan E construction but it's got the it's sort of Raglan construction but the there are ton and tons of stitches on the shoulder and so it it's basically instead of a very sharp Raglan point it's it's it comes down a bit more almost like you sometimes you see sweatshirts that are made this way but yeah it's like the most basic sweater in history of the world it's quite boring to look at just like this but it fits beautifully and I made mine much much much longer than what the pattern calls for and the sweater had seen the Eileen Fisher sweater I'd seen had a split him where the back was much longer than the front and so that's what I did so the pattern doesn't have that I made it super duper oversized as you can see and it comes down to like mid thigh so it's really almost like a tunic and so you can imagine how cozy and warm this sweater is and it's just like I said it's it knit up in like five seconds because it's bulky yarn and it's knit at a fairly loose gauge and this yarn is beautiful I've worn this a ton and there's zero pilling and it's light as a feather because it's some the yarn is a chain construction so it's a strand of silk that has been more or less knit like an i-cord and then they blow alpaca fiber into this tube and so it's it's a really interesting construction have some here so you get this super fluffy and off you'll be able to see it my camera won't maybe there you can see sort of the whitish threads that's the silk and then like I said they've blown some alpaca fluff in the tooth and it just creates the most lovely light it's just like air it's so so light but so warm and quite durable and it what's nice is so alpaca is often very droopy but because it's an i-cord type of chain that's got a lot of elasticity so it's really it doesn't droop at all it's it drapes beautifully but it's it has a lot of body too so yeah the grip sweater and maybe you know this winter I will wear it on an episode so you can see how it fits on me but I absolutely love it and I highly recommend the pattern and like I said the modifications were just super simple I just did kind of a high-low hem with with a split on the side I finished a pair of socks and this was I was contacted by a Christian vehicle of Liz optics to do tennis Quetta she's a hand Iyer here in Quebec and she does some really beautiful work I would highly recommend you check out her her Etsy shop she contacted me because she knows that I'm interested in exploring new options for for non superwash socks and she had this idea which is a brilliant idea of developing any a silk thread that you would knit in conjunction with a non superwash wool to make a nice durable socks and she asked me if I would be interested in kind of she's still kind of in the testing process she wanted to send the yarn out to a bunch of different knitters and kind of get their feedback on how the how this performs so I knit myself a beautiful pair of socks she sent me the silk yarn as well as some non super wash sock yarn well it's not specifically sock yarn but you know it was suitable for that I will show you instead of just talking about it so she sent me asking well two skeins of Rama you know on guard and then this is all I have left but this is the silk that she hand dyed hmmm it's a really pale delicate pink with this more dusty mauve of the Rama and so you hold them together and I ended up with these beautiful marled socks and I know if you can see I've worn them a bunch and they are just doing so well I've hand washed them I would not throw them in the washer and dryer because the silk would do fine but the wool probably wouldn't so but I am really really really tough I think this it makes such a beautiful fabric and it's super comfortable it'll be really warm in the winter and I'm really hoping that Kristen goes ahead and and puts this this beautiful silk thread into production because I think it's a brilliant idea so if you think it's a brilliant idea and you would like Kristen to go ahead with that I would highly suggest you maybe send her a little message on Instagram and let her know I think like I said I think this is a brilliant and just so so versatile because you know you could mix and match it with any number of yarns and the silk just adds incredible durability to to the fabrics so and just beautiful - I just love how how beautifully speckled how beautifully marled that ends up looking so yay just basic socks that I made up more or less I did my little garter the sides of my heels I always do three stitches of garter before I pick up for the gusset and it just makes it incredibly easy to pick up I've talked about that a million times but anyway I love these speaking of non superwash stock yarn I recently made a bit of an impulse purchase and I blame melodie Hoffman of mandarines you all know melody and her beautiful designs she posted on her patreon she posted a pair of socks that has actually just been released the the sock pattern is called into the woods and it's a beautiful beautiful sock pattern and I definitely intend on knitting it she knitted in this yarn which I've kind of coveted for a while and could not resist getting us gain its the its yarn dyed by Libyan Emmy in Paris and it's on the mounting base which is by Rose upon are the retro Rosaria yarn company and so it's a hundred percent Portuguese wool so it's a non super wash blend and like I said it's been hand dyed by Libya Nene and melody knit her socks in this exact yarn the colorway is quail and I just fell in love with the yarn and the socks just the combo was just so beautiful so I went ahead and ordered some for myself and so I'm really excited to cast on in this yarn I've knit some socks before in this yarn and they've held up beautifully again I hand wash them but but they this this is really special it's just it's this gorgeous kind of grayish color with rusty and yellowy specks and it really does have that sort of speckled egg quality to it so kind of like a quail egg so very excited to cast on a pair of sweaters with this beautiful yarn so one of the awesome things that Sarah does for her wool Scouts if she always does an incredible gift bag or goodies bag and this year it was a gorgeous matter root custom madder root bag that had the fiber Trek wool Scout logo on it and so it's been housing the project that I brought with me to wool Scouts I had seen this kit it it's a kid that I ordered through the night ography farms on a website and it was a collaboration done with Patricia poor feet P for ten of Netaji fee and Sofia camel born it's for the diamond English all I will insert a photo right here because mine is all in a crumpled it's on the needles and it's a kind of mid bro of course but I wanted a really simple kind of rustic project to take with me and so this shawl is basically a striped triangle that I chose the kind of neutral option of course so it's a mix of a pale gray and a natural cream color and then there's a lovely simple lace border that's done in this soft natural brown just a color I absolutely love so just a really lovely simple shawl very mindless it's kind of just a simple triangle with some yarn overs to create the the increases so that the shawl will grow and I really really enjoyed working on this I actually really like the back side of the fabric it's just once it's blocked I think it would create some really soft stripes that I really like but I really you know the original is quite beautiful too so I don't know I'm not sure yet what side I will I will I will use but I guess it can be a reversible thing so I'm really enjoying as always as Sophia's patterns are beautifully written and just lovely and delightful to work on so I've been really enjoying that speaking of shawls and striped garter shawls I cast on something that I could not resist when I saw it and when I saw the name of it I I just had to do it you know sometimes you just even though I have a million other projects on the go this was something I couldn't resist it's a shawl by time Swedish who's also the cleverest stitch on Instagram and it is this gorgeousness here it's it's a triangular shawl with with stripes that are kind of not there they're sort of not random but there they're not evenly spaced which I really like and it's alternating between garter and stockinette stitch and the pattern is called the tur Lonnie shawl and I mean I love the look of the shawl but it was really the name that got me because professor Trelawney for those of you who don't know is a character and the Harry Potter books and movies and to be honest like I think professor Trelawney in the movie is probably my favorite character and it's probably mostly due to the portrayal of Emma Thompson who plays professor Trelawney I think she's a brilliant actress and I don't know just something really there's she's really funny and kind of pathetic and there's a lot of pathos in her character but I don't know I just I absolutely love her portrayal she's really really eccentric she's a professor of divination so she's always reading you know signs and importance of the future and always very dramatic and doomsday II but it's just there's just something so bubbly and funny about her I just loved her character and so time is doing a series of shawl designs all based on Harry Potter characters and this is her first design and I really really am enjoying it so much one change that I made is instead of doing the eyelet increases because I'm knitting the other shell the Sophia Canon born pattern the sky meaning shell I felt like I just didn't want another soil that had the exact same construction so all I ended up doing was left and right leaning increases instead of the yarn-over but I did keep the yarn-overs on the edge because I do like that's release the edge but I'm really really enjoying knitting this I chose some beautiful viola yarn to make this it her it is her Persephone base and the colors are Bronte which is a brownish pinky color and then silver birch which is just a gorgeous very delicate kind of beige and so far I'm absolutely loving this I might have to change the kind of the striped sequins towards the end because as you can see I have a lot more of the Bronte than I do the Silver Birch only because the yarn I'm using has slightly less yardage and is thicker than what was called for in the pattern and the Garter stitch obviously takes up more yarn than the than the stockinette and as you can see proportionally there's more garter than stockinette so I think I'm gonna end up doing quite a thick section of stockinette and then finish up with the rest of my Silver Birch so so yeah so I'll be modifying it slightly but I think it still will have the essence of of this beautiful shawl and if you're interested I mean we're closing in on the end but time is having a knit along for her Trelawney shawl and so if you search for Trelawney cowl Ortolani shawl Cal you'll see you'll see lots of really gorgeous projects of this show I believe the knit along ends at the end of September so you still have a few weeks to get on board it's a very easy and quick knit so I recommend it another work can progress that I have that I'm just going to sort of show very briefly because it's say I'm knitting it's not a sample it's actually a garment that I will get to Keith but I'm knitting a beta a knitter for the fibre company and they are I've talked about them before I've shown you another sweater that I did in their Bay their pattern they contacted me and asked me if I was interested in knitting a new garment and of course I said yes because I love their yarn so the yarn I'm using is their air and more blend and it is a beautiful Tweedy yarn you can see here it's a dark chocolate brown and there's little flecks of kind of rust and some a little bit of teal but it's really subtle and this is their Donegal heritage so it's a tweety blend of fine merino cashmere and silk and it is divine it's so beautiful to work with and I can't really show you the garment because it's not been released yet but I can sort of just give you a little a little taste so there's a lot of texture and a lot of fabric so it's you can kind of guess that it might be something to wear on the body but I just wanted to give you a little heads up I will be posting fo pictures on my Instagram I believe the pattern will be released in early October so I will be sure to show you all the details but but I did want to talk about how beautiful the yarn is it's it's Tweety and lofty and not all Scratchy but it yields a really beautiful plump fabric and I've been really really enjoying working on this I will no doubt be wearing this at Rhinebeck too so if you see me you might get a chance to see this finished object lastly I wanted to just talk quickly about some yarn that was sent to me for a giveaway and I thought because it had been so long since I've recorded and I've had this yarn for quite a while and I really wanted to give it its due because it's beautiful I thought I would host a little fall giveaway and I think this yarn and when you see it is absolutely perfect for a fall giveaway so it is this beautiful yarn by fire burnin fiber nymph dye works and there are two skeins here I will be giving them away separately one is a it's a fingering weight yarn and the blend is called rich top so it's a custom milled blend it's 80/20 Romney falkland and there are four hundred yards it's a three ply fingering and it is a semi-solid in the lighter green color it's a little brighter than what it's showing it's quite quite beautiful no that doesn't help but it's um just a little bit richer than what it's showing on this on the screen and then the other scheme I adore this this is the ridge top DK again cus milled 8020 romney falkland this is a DK weight so there's 220 yards and it's in the cinnamon colorway and again it's getting slightly blown out it's a little richer than that this is a bit pale but it's really beautiful and I just love how the dye is so beautiful it's beautifully semi solid I don't think you would get major pulling or anything like that it would be quite subtle and quite rich so I'm going to give these two skeins out like I said they'll be separate prizes and let's see what could I what could I do why don't I do this because I talked about professor Trelawney being one of my favorite movie characters tell me who is your favorite character in Harry Potter either the books or the movies and I will pick a randomly pick the winners but I think it would be really fun tell me who they are and why if you don't read Harry Potter and you don't or you're just not a big fan of that series maybe just tell me who your favorite character from a movie or book series is you know that way I might discover some new things to read or watch but yeah I think most of you probably have read and/or seen the Harry Potter movies so yeah so that'll be my little fall giveaway and I will create a thread in my rivalry group so that's where you can enter to win and just you know with a very simple little entry please try not to just post once and the thread just so that it's fair when I do the random number generator to pick the winner if everybody has one entry then it'll be fair so basically most people will will comment once to enter the the contest but sometimes people will forget and will also reply to other people's posts which I totally understand because sometimes somebody will post something and you really want to reply to it because either it's something you're like yeah me too or oh wow that's really great but if you do that in a contest thread then it kind of screws up all the numbers and I would have to remove that post that extra post so please try and remember to only post once in the giveaway thread and I will be announcing the winners on the next episode which hopefully will not be in three months like I mentioned I will be going to Rhinebeck and so that's in a couple of weeks so I will definitely want to podcast when I get back from Rhinebeck so expect a new episode towards the end of October which is in one month so hopefully I mean that's still a few weeks away like I realized that's you know not a very I'm not a very frequent podcaster but but hopefully when I do podcast hopefully you find it enjoyable no excuses no apologies I'm here all as well anyway on that note I think it's time for me to go have some lunch I'm feeling quite hungry and a little bit shaky frankly I had probably too much coffee this morning but it was just great to catch up with you and I hope you're doing well and I will talk to you soon

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Published: Mon Sep 23 2019