Thanks for tuning in! This week’s segments included:

• Off the Needles
• On the Needles
• Brainstorming
• In My Travels
• From the Armchair
• Events
• Contest, News and Notes
• Ask Me Stuff
• Crafty Adventures
• On a Happy Note
• Quote of the Week

Off the Needles

Clicks for Kiley Hat

• Pattern: Magic Coffee Baby Hat by Tracey Kay
• Needles: US 5- 3.75mm
• Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Mystic Purple
• Very simple stockinette hat with a ribbed brim. Mailed off to Kiley for her Clicks for Babies project to be donated to her local hospital.

Wolf Scruff 

• Yarn: Alpaca from farm in Maine. Purchased weekend of NETA: SPA in Feb 2014
• Needles: US 7- 4.5mm
• Pattern:   Test knit for my friend Jennifer Sheelen called Wolf Scruff (not yet released). Top down triangular bandana style. cowl.

Trickle Shawl

•  Yarn: Mountain colors (need to find ball band)
• Needles: US 7

OMG Rainbows

On the Needles

Kirby Wirby Socks

• Yarn: RAF: Fraternal Twin Brother to RBF- Self striping colorway from Kirby Wirby. 75% Superwash BFL, 25% nylon
• Needles: US 1.5- 2.5mm
• Pattern: OMG Heel Socks by Megan Williams
• First sock done. Past the heel on second.

Friendship Socks

• Yarn: One Twisted Tree- Shimmer Base- 93 Diagon Alley Colorway
• Needles: US 1.5- 2.5mm
• Pattern: OMG Heel by Megan Williams

Stripey Leftovers Hat

• Pattern: Turn a Square Hat by Jared Flood
• Yarn: leftovers- Dragonfly Fibers & some mystery black yarn…
• Needles: US 5- 3.75mm

Hallow Moon Shawl

• Pattern: Hallow Moon by Dieuwke van Mulligen
• Yarn: Ashton Studio Arts Genoa Fingering- Almost Black & trio of peach/salmon mini skeins
• Needles: US 7- 4.5mm
• Modification- edge: RS, s1wyif, k1, s1wyif. WS: k1, s1wyif, k1.

Brainstorming

Bonnie Banks Shawl by Beatrice Perron Dahlen

Fuller Craft Museum

• Visited for a fundraiser for a friend who is riding the Pan Mass Challenge (raise funds for cancer research)
• Night at the Brewseum- local brewers of beer and hard cider did tastings, raffles etc. Lots of fun. Also got to look around the museum. Not much in terms of fiber arts (at least in the current exhibit) but I loved the feel of the museum, they had beautiful pieces and I appreciate their definition of craft.
  

From the Armchair

• Landline by Rainbow Rowell
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Events

• World Wide Knit in Public Day– June 13th- Join my local knitting group in Christopher Columbus Park in Boston near the Longwharf Marriott anytime after 11:30a.
• Stitches Midwest in Shaumburg IL August 6-9
• NY Sheep and Wool– Oct 17-18

Contest, News and Notes

Trickle Shawl is now available for purchase on Ravelry. $5 US.

I do hope you’ll check it out! It’s a simple top down, heart-shaped shawl. All garter stitch except for some slipped stitches. No purling at all!

Trickle Shawl Kits are still available from Infinite Twist!  Kits available in single colors and five-color gradients and include 500 yards of hand-dyed yarn, a bamboo circular knitting needle, stitch markers, tapestry needle, pattern marking pencil, and a zippered brocade notions pouch. and free shipping for the U.S. and China. Canada and UK shipping is now $10 (formerly $20), other international is $20.

Trickle KAL Instagram Contest (Starting now and running through June 30, 2015)

• Use a Infinite Twist kit or your own yarn (when pattern is published separately later this month).
• You don’t have to finish your shawl to be eligible to win.
• Post photos of your progress and  use #trickleshawl. If you’re using the Infinite Twist Trickle Kit be sure to use #tricklekit.
• Prizes:
  • Two Infinite Twist yarn prizes- any who tags their photos with #trickleshawl will be eligible to win
  • Those who knit with the Infinite Twist kit and use #tricklekit will be entered to win $100 gift certificate to Infinite Twist.

Michelle Actually Knitting– will be doing PAL KAL again this year. Check out her Ravelry group. I’ll be offering a discount code! Code for Dianne, Suburban Stitchers Around YourNeck KAL.

Ask Me Stuff

This week I answered 3 questions from the Ask Me Stuff Thread in the Down Cellar Studio Podcast Group on Ravelry- posts 2, 3 & 4. Thanks for writing in! It’s a lot of fun to answer these.

Crafty Adventures

Will and Aila sleepover this weekend. Aila got a loom for her birthday back in April. I play a clip of audio from Will and I talking about it in the car and then give an overview of it.

• Craftabelle– sold at Target but don’t see it on their website now. Found on Amazon for $40 (Org $60).
• Kit to make 1 pair of hand warmers. Box includes 1 frame loom, 1 yarn comb, 2 shed bars, 1 long plastic needle, 1 short metal needle, 1 shuttle, 4 bundles of yarn, 2 bundles elastic cord, 30 wooden beads, 2 buttons, 1 bundle embroidery floss.  Box says for 8+  but after I warped it and showed Aila who just turned 6 she did well.
• Instructions are ok but not great.

On a Happy Note

• Chicken Soup Designs bag– LOVE it!
• Fitbit One= obsessed.
• White Birch Fiber Arts– Nothing Says Screw You Like a Rainbow and Electric Slide
• Aila and Oisin coming over to knit with me.
• Thankful for this amazing country we live in and for those who have fought and/or given their lives to protect the freedoms we all too often take for granted. To any of you out there who have served in the armed forces or supportive those who have. Thank you!