Knitting and fitness in 30 min or less.  Shownotes can be found at windsweptknits.com.  You can find me on IG and Ravelry as WindsweptMonique and on Facebook and Twitter as WindsweptKnits.

Ep 91 recorded 2/5/21

Segments this week include: Be A Helper Craftalaong, FOs, Wips, Stash, Spinning, Out and About Virtually, On the Run, and a new segment,  I’ve Got Sunshine

Note on Ravelry – all links to Ravelry are clearly labelled as such.

Be A Helper Craft-a-long

Short reminder on the rules

• Anything you make for any charity counts, doesn’t have to be knit/crochet/woven or spun. ANYthing you make for ANY charity.
  

Link to submit your Finished Object/blood donation: https://forms.gle/QdJuQUSr8uM7GoiF6

Prizes:

3 prizes

1 skein of Cascade Yarns Anchor Bay, that’s a wool-cotton blned that’s on the border between DK and worsted, in color #28, a sage green color.

1 skein of The Fiber Co’s Arranmore Donegal Heritage.  It’s a merino-cashmere-silk blend that is so soft and squishy.  This is an Aran/bulky weight yarn in the Orla colorway, a burnt-siera/dark orange

I am donating a pattern of your choice from my self-published patterns.  I can gift this to you via Ravelry or email the PDF directly.

FOs

Wenlock (Ravelery) from Tin Can Knits.   Knitting done.  Need to weave in ends

WIPs

Galliatt (Ravelry) by JimiKnits – I’m seaming the shoulders, then I just have to knit the turtleneck collar and the side edging.  Nearly done!

Willowbrook Shawl (Ravelry) – pattern by Brenda Castiel in my own handspun cotton.  Fiber from HipStrings.  I used 2 braids, pulled apart the colors, spun them in rainbow order then chain-plied it to maintain the rainbow.  I am nearing the end of orange – there’s a lot of orange.

Slice of Summer – my New Year’s cast on using BaH yarns shawl ball.  I’m probably 2/3 through the pink.

Ozone crochet top – restarted it now that my crochet skills are better; already through the band of hexies that go around your ribcage.  Using Scheepjes Coton 8

Pull  Me Over sweater – This was my Christmas Day cast on, though I haven’t picked it up at all since then!  Pattern by Andrea Black, using leftover Universal Yarns cotton that are leftovers from knitting my husband a sweater many, many years ago. 

Spinning

Buchanan gradient spin – started the 5th and last color of the gradient.  This gradient spin goes from malachite green to a beautiful true blue.  I can’t wait to knit with it!

Out and About Virtually

Lots of fiber events happening online this winter

Pigskin Party now through the Superbowl Ravelry Group  I’m sponsoring for the 3rd year and also participating.

Vogue Knitting Live Upcoming Vogue Knitting Live @ Home Feb 11-14, Mar18-21. 

Stitches At Home this weekend, Feb 5-7

GGKCS podcast is running their annual winter craftaong starting now through the end of Feb 2021, more details on their Facebook page.

Spa 2021 is virtual, sign up for their mailing list for further details.

If you have any events you’d like me to share please email me [email protected]

On the Run

Up until now, we’ve had an abnormally warm winter, but as of 2 weeks ago it’s now just plain cold.  No more walking outside for me until it warms up and the ice t. 

I’ve Got Sunshine

This is a new segment I’m adding, a short segment, but I want to end the podcast on an uplifting note.  After living through a global pandemic for nearly a year, I find that any good news gets lost in all the bad news and I want to change that.  I may share personal stories, or something I’ve found from halfway around the planet, we’ll see how this plays out.  This week I’m starting with a new shoe designed by Nike to be completely hands free.  I’m not talking a sandal, I mean a sneaker-type shoe.  “Called the Flyease Go, it is the first totally hands-free shoe, enveloping and releasing your feet solely through natural motion—a bit like Tony Stark putting on his Iron Man suit.

The revolutionary shoe is perfect, says a top Nike designer, for pregnant women in their third trimester, arthritis patients, or those who have lost some or all of the use of their arms—such as stroke victims or injured military veterans.” You get in and out of the shoe by using the “kickstand tab” at the back of the shoe which opens the hinge mid-foot and allows you to slip the shoe off.  Picture what you do when you take a shoe off without untying it – only these shoes are designed to release the foot easily when you do that.  This is awesome!  For anyone with hand or arm injuries, this could be a game changer.  During my first pregnancy I pulled a muscle in my lower abdomen and could barely lift my legs to walk let a lone put shoes on in October – a shoe like this, well, I probably would have given a kidney for it easily lol