Thank you for tuning in to Episode 228 of the Down Cellar Studio Podcast. For full show notes including photos check out my website by clicking here.

This week’s segments included:

• Off the Needles, Hook or Bobbins
• On the Needles, Hook or Bobbins
• Brainstorming
• From the Armchair
• Some Years Later
• Crafty Adventures
• Knitting in Passing
• In my Travels
• Life in Focus
• On a Happy Note
• Quote of the Week

Off the Needles, Hook or Bobbins

Megg’s 40th Birthday Socks

• Yarn: Hypnotic Yarn in Raspberry Cream Colorway (from my Yarnable February 2022 Subscription Box). Check out my YouTube Unboxing Video here. 

Unicorn for Millie’s 10th Birthday

• Pattern: Unicorn Amigurumi by Amy Faulkner 4.90 Euros. About $5.50 crochet pattern (US & UK terms) Available on Etsy.
• Hook: C (2.75 mm)
• Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver (white). Knit Picks Brava Worsted Minis (tail & mane)
• My Ravelry Project Page

Bunny fix

• Ravelry Project Page
• Pattern: Best Bunny by Tamie Oldridge. Free crochet pattern from Lion Brand. Available as a PDF directly- click here.
• Hook: C (2.75 mm)
• Yarn: Berrocco Vintage in purple. Repaired with Knit Picks Brava Worsted 
• Knit in October 2016

Milly Doll Makeover

• Pattern: Mary, Millie & Morgan by Susan B. Anderson
• My Ravelry Project Page
• Knit in 2015. 
• 7 years later she’s getting a makeover. 

Garret’s Nana Blanket

• My Ravelry Project Page
• Hook: I (5.5. mm)
• Yarn: likely Red Heart Super Saver
• Fixing Garret’s Nana blanket. I shared more on a blog post on my Down Cellar Studio Patreon!
• I used the Crumpled Griddle stitch, which I believe is what my Nana used, to redo the side panel that I ripped back.

On the Needles, Hook or Bobbins

Blue Kamakaze Socks

• Yarn: ThreadHeadKnits Co. Plump Sock (100% Superwash Merino 4 ply- 438 yards/100g) in the Blue Kamakaze Colorway. 
• Pattern: OMG Heel by Megan Williams $5 on Ravelry. 
• Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
• My Ravelry Project Page

Dance Shoe Legwarmers

• Pattern: Dance Shoe Legwarmers by Sherry Katherine Vernon (free knitting pattern)
• Yarn: Charming Ewe Suki Sock in the Mystic Topaz  Colorway
• Needles: US 1 (2.25 mm) & US 2 (2.75 mm)
• My Ravelry Project Page
• If you’d like a good afterthought heel pattern, consider Susan B. Anderson’s Smooth Operator Heel pattern (Ravelry Link) For a video tutorial, check out this video from the EarthtonesGirl YouTube Channel

Pumpkin Patch Socks

• Pattern: TBD
• Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
• Yarn: Hypnotic Yarn Plush Sock in the Pumpkin Patch colorway 
• Ravelry Project Page

Kim’s Christmas Stocking

• Pattern: Christmas Stockings to Knit and Crochet from Family Circle Magazine. Available in this web archive link. I’ve also saved it to my podcast Gmail Google Drive in case it disappears! You can find that PDF here. 
• Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver in Cherry Red, Hunter Green and White
• Hook: G (4.00 mm)
• My Ravelry Project Page

2022 Fun with Fiber

• Kingdom Fleece & Fiber Works 100% Tunis Pete’s Fleece (light blues, dark blues and whites)
• Check them out on Facebook
• Check out my Ravelry Project Page
• Mom’s tried on Jessica’s Shift Cowl- pattern: The Shift by Andrea Mowry available for $7 on Ravelry. I might turn some handspun into this project.

Brainstorming

Inspired by PliedYarnCo’s Instagram post- this Log Cabin Pillow. Check out this free pattern “Little Log Cabins Recipe” on their website.

From the Armchair

Love is Blind Season 1 on Netflix

Some Years Later

• Mezzo Cardigan by Alexis Winslow. $9 US Knitting Pattern available on Ravelry or directly from their website.
• Knit in March/April 2018
• My Ravelry Project Page
• Can’t really wear it with a coat but I do wear it several times a season in fall/winter/early spring. Add some fun jewelry, leggings, heels. great for a date night. Great for chilly winter day when you just want to be wrapped up in many layers!

• Caesious by Hunter Hammersen
• Curls: Versatile, Wearable Wraps to Knit at Any Gauge- book details on the Pantsville Press website.
• Knit Feb-April 2015
• My project notes do not say, but think I used close to/all of fingering weight skein and yet it wasn’t big enough to wrap around my neck and stay put.
• In the end, I frogged it to use the yarn for something else.

Knitting in Passing

Stephanie @farmsteadknits on Instagram sent mom a very special car package including a pair of handknit socks & a shawl. Shawl pattern: Around Every Corner by Stephanie Lotven (tellybeanknits). Check out Stephanie’s Ravelry Project Page for full details. Yarn: Sea Panda Yarn- click here for their website. Looks like their Blue Lagoon Mini Set.

In My Travels Russell's Garden Center- March 2022 Farm Fiber Days Event

• Purchases-
  • Fibery Jewels Teal Speckle Sock Yarn
  • 4 oz of Falkland Fiber Jewels Spots
  • Friends in Fiber on Etsy
  • 2 skeins of Lillian from Dirty Water Dyeworks- in Mediterranean and Sea Breeze
  • Subito Farms yarn for Millie- pink yarn gradient set- 35 yards each pf the pinks and 90 yards natural- 100% cormo raised in Montana, dyed in MA
  • A Hundred Ravens for Millie- Vanir 100% merino DK in the Fantasia Colorway
• Lunch across the street at The Local afterwards

  Visited The Goodwill Bins location in Hudson, NH. Life in Focus

• Checked off another item on my 22 for 2022 list- check out new trail. I’ve also done yoga several times in March- towards my goal of doing yoga every month. 

On a Happy Note

• Garret had a scare with appendicitis but didn’t need emergency surgery!
• Booked basics of our trip to Ireland, Scotland and Barcelona.
• Millie’s Birthday Weekend
• Dinner in an igloo with a tiki theme
• Decorated for Easter 

Quote of the Week

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply: by the lives they lead.

–James Baldwin

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