• Off the Needles
• On the Needles
• From the Armchair
• Knitting in Passing
• In my Travels
• KAL News
• Events
• Life in Focus
• On a Happy Note
• Quote of the Week

Off the Needles

• Yarn: Fibernymph Dye Works Bounce base in The Darker Side of Pi(e) colorway
• Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
• Pattern: OMG Heel by Megan Williams

• Pattern: OMG Heel by Megan Williams
• Yarn: Queen City Yarn NODA Sock (75 Merino/25 nylon) in the Huddle is Real Colorway (Pigskin Party ’18 Exclusive colorway)
• Needle: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)

• Pattern:Alan the Alien & his Flying Saucer by Moji-Moji Design
• Yarn: leftover DK/worsted weight scraps
• Hook: C (2.75 mm)

• Pattern: Christmas Stockings to Knit and Crochet from Family Circle Magazine
• Yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in Red, Everglade Heather and White
• Hook: F (3.75 mm)

• Pattern: None. Details on how I made it listed in project page notes.
• Hook: C (2.75 mm)
• Yarn: Lion Brand Re-Up cotton

• Pattern: Dragon Belly by Johanna Lindahl
• Aussi Wool Worsted
• Hook: I (5.25 mm)

On the Needles

• Pattern: Hedley the Hedgehog by by Moji-Moji Design
• Hook: B
• Yarn- Mystery yarn from stash (maybe wool/alpaca from Long Island Livestock co)

• Pattern: Dragon Belly by Johanna Lindahl
• Hook: J (6.0 mm)
• Yarn: Berocco Ultra Wool in Heather (purple) and Charcoal gray.

• Yarn: Unknown
• Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
• Pattern: Non-Euclidian Heel by Sarah Jordan (Knit-Wit Designs— Pigskin Sponsor)

From the Armchair

• Dolly Parton’s America. Click here for an article about this in Rolling Stone
• The Office Girls Podcast 
• The Good Place Podcast 
• Enjoyed watching the final season of The Affair on HBO

Knitting in Passing

In My Travels

• Fort De Soto– we explored on 2 person bicycled
• Myakka River State Park
• Enjoyed our Kayaking excursion booked through Airbnb 
• Owen’s Fish Camp in Sarasota is a total gem

KAL News

“I love repetition. Repetitions turn time into a place, turns the days into a house, where the repetitions form the walls, floor, and ceiling.”

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Thank you for tuning in to Episode 173 of the Down Cellar Studio Podcast. This week’s segments included:

• Off the Needles
• On the Needles
• Brainstorming
• From the Armchair
• Crafty Adventures
• KAL News
• Life in Focus
• Ask Me Anything
• On a Happy Note
• Quote of the Week

Thank you to this episode’s sponsors: Fibernymph Dye Works & JDStudios480 

Off the Needles

Knit Picks City Tweed Dragon Belly Shawl

• Pattern: Dragon Belly Shawl by Jo
• Yarn: Knit Picks
• Hook: J
• Melville – City Tweed DK Value Pack.  Needs to be blocked.

Aila’s Orange Crayon

• Pattern: Crayons Amigurumi by StringyDingDing
• Yarn: Plymouth DK?
• Hook: D (3.25 mm) Start at top. Moved down to a C Hook.
• Thanks to  SaraKnitsKC for mentioning this pattern

On the Needles

Darker Side of Pi(e) Socks

• Yarn: Fibernymph Dye Works Bounce base in The Darker Side of Pi(e) colorway
• Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
• Pattern: OMG Heel by Megan Williams

The Huddle is Real Socks

• Pattern: OMG Heel by Megan Williams
• Yarn: Queen City Yarn NODA Sock (75 Merino/25 nylon) in the Huddle is Real Colorway (Pigskin Party ’18 Exclusive colorway)
• Needle: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)

Alan the Baseball Playing Alien

• Pattern:Alan the Alien & his Flying Saucer by Moji-Moji Design
• Yarn: leftover DK/worsted weight scraps
• Hook: C (2.75 mm)

Scrunchies

• Pattern: Perfectly Ruffled Scrunchies by Miranda Dielsen
• Yarn: Bernat Velvet in the Spruce and Mulled Rose Colorways
• Hook: J (6 mm)
• Thanks Melissa for tip on free pattern for Velvet Ruffled scrunchie

Sport Weight Scraps Dragon Belly Shawl

• Pattern: Dragon Belly by Johanna Lindahl
• Hook: G (4.25 mm)
• Yarn: leftover sport weight yarn

Kaylee’s Christmas Stocking

• Pattern: Christmas Stockings to Knit and Crochet from Family Circle Magazine
• Yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in Red, Everglade Heather and White
• Hook: F (3.75 mm)

Brainstorming

• I’d like to crochet a Hedgehog for my niece Hattie to go with books her parents have been reading to her by Steve Wilson I am leaning towards Hedley the Hedgehog  by Moji-Moji Design.

• I want to use up the Bernat Velvet Yarn I’ve purchased. Searched by the yarn name on Ravelry in the Advanced Pattern search and found the Velvet Valentine Crochet Bear by Sarah Zimmerman.

From the Armchair

Tune in to hear reviews of the following 2 items:

• JDstudios480 Pigskin Project bag and Football Notions pouch.
  • Football Zippered pouch
  • Knit Love Football Large Knitting Bag
• Nomadic Knits: Issue 5 Vermont by Becky Beagell and Melissa Kemmerer
  • Check out this link to see where you can buy Nomadic Knits in a shop near you.

Crafty Adventures

Thank you Jen for gifting me this beautiful walnut stained Kromski Minstrel. I’m so excited to get spinning. If you know of any great resources for a beginning spinner please send them my way!

KAL News

Slay the Stash 2019

• Each month you can declare a skein of yarn to knit/crochet/weave to its very end. Let’s use up those older special skeins (purchased before 2019) – and maybe win a new beautiful skein of yarn from one of our sponsors along the way!
• Check out the November Post 
• Use and follow #slaythestash2019 on Social Media
• Tune in to see if you’re the October Slay the Stash Winner.

Slay the Stash Sponsor List- 2019

Official Rules for 2019 

• January- Fish Belly Fiber Works
• February- KnitCircus Yarns
• March- Holly Press Fibers
• April- Fibernymph Dye Works
• May – Another Crafty Girl 
• June- Flying Finn Yarns
• July- Sponsored by WindsweptMonique– yarn TBD
• August- Knit Style Yarns
• September- Artistic Lilly 
• October – Infinite Twist 
• November- 716 Knit 
• December –  Hypnotic Yarn

Pigskin Party ‘19

Pro Shop Sponsors

• 2 Guys Yarn Company
• Abstract Fiber
• AdoreKnit
• agirlandherwool
• Designs of Acadia (Pigskin Logo Bag)
• Fibernymph Dye Works
• Holly Press Fibers
• Imagined Landscapes Designs
• Infinite Twist
• JDStudios480
• Jennifer Lassonde Designs
• Knitosophy Designs
• Knitters Brewing Company
• Knit Style Yarns
• Prairie Bag Works
• Progress Keepers by Meliabella
• Sunsoaked Yarns
• Yarn Love

Snack Shack Sponsors

• Anne Beady Designs
• APLCrafts
• Birch Hollow Fibers
• Brenda Castiel Designs
• Creations of the Anomalous Mind
• Designs by Meliabella
• Fish Belly Fiber Works
• Geektastic Fibers
• IrocKnits Designs
• Kino Knits
• Kitchen Counter Crafter
• Knit/Wit Designs
• Leading Men Fiber Arts
• Legacy Fiber Artz
• Lilliput Yarn
• Lolodidit
• Love in Stitches
• Mint Rain Hand Dyed Yarns
• Nicole Simmons Designs
• Queen City Yarn
• Remade By Hand Designs
• Shanalines Designs
• Tangerine Designs
• Teal Torch Knits
• The Project Bag
• Tin Can Knits
• UNICORN CLEAN
• Wild Branch Design
• Windswept Designs
• Woodsy and Wild

Tune in to hear the October Interception Winner & the October participation winners.

• The November Interception is sponsored by Queen City Yarn. The theme this month is to Put in Your Back-up Quarterback. Find all of the details in the thread linked above.
• Tune in to hear the Pigskin Party 19 Grand Prize Details!!

Life in Focus

• I shared the blackberry dressing recipe I use sometimes for salad.
• I’ve been enjoying doing weekly meal prep for both Mom and me. Proud of myself for being able to flip the 215 pound tire at Tabata class.

Ask Me Anything

Thanks JenKPhillips on IG for reaching out to ask what knitting audio podcasts I listen to

List of knitting podcasts I listen to (thought of a couple after I recorded so I’ve added them here too)

2 Knit Lit Chicks

Backstage Knitting

Bede Sisters Podcast

BHooked

Collage Knits with Amy Small

Cook Craft Read Repeat

Doubleknit

F This Knit

Fiber Knitche

Imagined Landscapes

Keep a calm and Carry Yarn

Knit Picks’ Podcast

Kino Knits

Knitmore Girls

The Knitting Hook-Up

Knitting on the Run

Knitting Pipeline

Knitty McPurly Podcast

Maine Yarn

Just One More Row

Prairie Girls Knit and Spin

Salty Jo Knits

Skein Enable Podcast

Spin Control Podcast

Stash and Burn

The SweetGeorgia Show

Teaching your Brain to Knit

Traveling Stitches POdcast

Two Ewes Fiber Adventures

The Unraveling Podcast

VeryPink Knits

The Woolly Thistle Podcast

The Yarniacs

Question for YOU!

Do you have thoughts on whether you’d be interested in joining as a patron (though Patreon) if I started one? Come share in the Down Cellar Studio Ravelry Group.

On a Happy Note

• Lots of family fun at my cousin Mike’s wedding – got a red, lace Ann Klein dress for $18 at a consignment shop!

• Atticus birthday Party- sat with a couple whose youngest child has the same parts in the Nutcracker as Aila!
• Went to see Oisin perform in Seussical. He did a great job as Thing 2 and when Hattie saw him on stage, she lit up!
• Halloween- my friends and I dressed up at gym (as our trainer) for a contest. At night I went out to Trick or Treat with Will, Aila, Oisin and Hattie.

Quote of the Week

“Perhaps it is the simplest and most popular truths which are also the deepest after all.” – Thomas Merton

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Thank you for tuning in!

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• In My Travels
• KAL News
• Contests, News & Notes
• Quote of the Week

In My Travels

Tune in to hear my Rhinebeck recap with Mom

• When we picked up Megan at Hudson train station and met Stephen West!
• Indie Untangled
  • Loved seeing and chatting with Pigskin Sponsors- Leading Men Fiber Arts, Woodsy and Wild. Cori aka Irocknits

• Mom bought a “this is my Rhinebeck sweater” enamel pin from Shelli Can
• I bought mom some beautiful yarn from Brooke of Fully Spun 

• Mom bought me the one thing I really wanted to find— a Stitch Marker Necklace in the Paige the Framer Booth. The maker is Heidi and Lana. I got the 36″ inch silver chain with the Pewter Stitch Markers.
• Thank you Sue and Chelsea of Legacy Fiber Artz for joining up as a Pigskin Party Sponsor and for the beautiful donation of sock sets for prizes
  
• I bought a skein of self-striping from Fibernymph Dye Works for socks for Mom. It was great seeing Lisa’s rainbow version of Tan House Brook shawl in the FIbernymph Booth! 

• Sweitzer’s Fiber Mill
• I bought a beautiful basket
• Barn 31= the magical barn
  • Loved the Stowe Away sweater by Rose Beck & was so happy to meet the ladies behind Nomadic Knits. Tune in to episode 173 for a review.
• We found Laura who brought her Grace & Frankie shawl to show me.
• Ran into Lisa and Anne!
• We saw some llamas. 
• No line at Kettle Corn! Bought 2 bags!
• Podcaster Meet-up at 1p on the hill. It was so great seeing and chatting with so many of you.
  
• After the meet-up we headed to the beer garden to catch up with friends. We ran into Melissa- Progress Keepers by Meliabella, cute project bag tag with Pigskin Theme. Progress Keepers- 2. Mom stole one immediately and put it on her bracelet.

• Check out the Episode 172 Thread to guess what progress keeper Mom stole looks like? I’ll pull a random winner on November 8th.

• Loved seeing Shelly and Judy- wearing their World of Difference and Emelyn Mae Shawls & my friends from Gather Here.
• We did some more afternoon shopping in barns. We always love visiting the Ross Farm booth to see Sarah Jordan- PAKnitWit– Pigskin Sponsor and of course Amy & Scooterpie. 
• Mom loved petting bunnies
• Mom bought sweater quantity- Battenkill Fiber Mill in NY. $10/skein 
• Mom enjoyed apple crisp and ice cream. We sat and knit with Ryan and Nicki before we left the fairgrounds.
• We enjoyed dinner (and/or beer and kettlecorn) and then did show and tell. So funny! 

• Got some photos with the year’s festival logo and the yarn bombing installation on the way in. They were made by the talented London Kaye
• Tried on some samples. One pattern that was neat was the Love Note done without mohair and modified sleeves.
• Mom got to show Crispina Ffrench the jacket she made.
• We ran into group of friends outside buildings on way over to see my friend Mara at Beer Garden and I finally got to meet the dyer behind Lavender Lune– Sam. 
• Mara brought her beautiful boys and her finished Riley Rose Shawl to show me. 
• We ended the day in Building E (the food building) I bought 2 kinds of jam for Dan. We had a lovely chat with the ladies of Coyote Kitchen 
• Nicki and Amy stayed at my house. Tried out Nicki’s new Electric Eel Wheel Nanoe-spinner. Frustrated but intrigued. 

KAL News

Slay the Stash 2019

• Each month you can declare a skein of yarn to knit/crochet/weave to its very end. Let’s use up those older special skeins (purchased before 2019) – and maybe win a new beautiful skein of yarn from one of our sponsors along the way! 
• Check out the November Post
• Use and follow #slaythestash2019 on Social Media

Slay the Stash Sponsor List- 2019

Official Rules for 2019 

• January- Fish Belly Fiber Works
• February- KnitCircus Yarns
• March- Holly Press Fibers
• April- Fibernymph Dye Works
• May – Another Crafty Girl 
• June- Flying Finn Yarns
• July- Sponsored by WindsweptMonique
• August- Knit Style Yarns
• September- Artistic Lilly 
• October – Infinite Twist 
• November- 716 Knit 
• December –  Hypnotic Yarn

Pigskin Party ‘19

Not familiar? It’s a ridiculously fun make-a-long that runs all through the NFL football season. We typically have a couple hundred participants each year. For each FO you finish, you earn touchdown & field goal points. You also earn points for using sponsor products & fulfilling other challenges. For every 100 points earned, you get an entry into our Grand Prize drawing. We also have lots of prizes reserved for participation on Ravelry and Instagram to keep it fun and light.

 

It is an annual knit, crochet, weaving and spin along.Cast on anytime On/after September 5, 2019- February 3, 2020

 

Everything you need to know is linked in theStart Here Threadin the Down Cellar Studio Podcast Ravelry Group including theRules,Questions Thread,End Zone Dance Threadwhere you post your FOs,Coupon Code Thread,List of Prizes,Exclusive Items from our Sponsors!

 

Pro Shop Sponsors 

2 Guys Yarn Company

Abstract Fiber

AdoreKnit

agirlandherwool

Designs of Acadia (Pigskin Logo Bag)

Fibernymph Dye Works

Holly Press Fibers

Imagined Landscapes Designs

Infinite Twist

JDStudios480

Jennifer Lassonde Designs

Knitosophy Designs

Knitters Brewing Company

Knit Style Yarns

Prairie Bag Works

Progress Keepers by Meliabella

Sunsoaked Yarns

Yarn Love

 

 

Snack Shack Sponsors 

Anomalous Mind

Anne Beady Designs

APLCrafts

Birch Hollow Fibers

Brenda Castiel Designs

Designs by Meliabella

Fish Belly Fiber Works

Geektastic Fibers

IrocKnits Designs

Kino Knits

Kitchen Counter Crafter

Knit/Wit Designs

Leading Men Fiber Arts

Legacy Fiber Artz

Lilliput Yarn

Lolodidit

Love in Stitches

Mint Rain Hand Dyed Yarns

Nicole Simmons Designs

Queen City Yarn

Remade By Hand Designs

Shanalines Designs

Tangerine Designs

Teal Torch Knits

The Project Bag

UNICORN CLEAN

Wild Branch Design

Windswept Designs

Woodsy and Wild

 

We have 3 new Snack Shack sponsors- Legacy Fiber Artz, Fish Belly Fiber Works, Mint Rain Hand Dyed Yarns & Anomalous Mind

 

Tune in to hear the details of the November Interception sponsored by Queen City Yarn

Put in Your Back-up Quarterback- details can be found here. 

Contests, News and Notes 

My latest pattern will be available soon! Sign up for my email newsletter to make sure you’re the first to know when my  Thumper Hat is available and to get the best intro code.

Quote of the Week

“No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.”

— Quentin Crisp

 

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