(with apologies to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this episode we recap the upcoming chock-full month of October, our recent FOs and the glorious (and wet!) fourth annual Great London Yarn Crawl, as well as having a bit of an inpromptu chat with Linda Lencovic from Kettle Yarn Co. about her new collection for her amazing Baskerville yarn, Dusk to Dawn.

Shout outs, news and events:

24th September-2nd October: Shetland Wool Week 

1st October: Cheshire Fibre Festival

2nd October: Perth Festival of Yarn

5-9th October: Knitting & Stitching Show, Ally Pally

8th October: Little Grey Girl birthday party, Countess Ablaze Studio

9th October: YARN the movie, various locations - we'll be at Hackney Picturehouse.

10th-16th October: UK Wool Week

15th October: Stitch Solihull stitch up

22nd-23rd October: Bakewell Wool Gathering

29th-30th October: Kendal Wool Gathering 

What we're working on:

Rachel has finished, at long last, her Dark and Stormy by Thea Colman in SweetGeorgia Superwash Worsted in Wasabi - woot! She is also finishing a pair of Espresso Macchiatto socks from Coffee with C.C., and is trying to figure out what project she's going to take to Yarndale for working on at the Porpoise Fur booth.

Allison finished the shawl part of Because Sock Yarn and has started the Lambton Panes Shawl from Cowtown Knits.

Yarn Crawlers of the Baskervilles:

2016 GLYC Statistics:

100 yarn crawlers 15 volunteers 13 shops 20 sponsors 112 knits collected for Knit for Peace

And £1185 raised for our charity, Refuge. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! That's almost £3,800 to date!

Many thanks too to Kettle Yarn Co. who generously let us grill her at the GLYC after party on tape and in front of the assembled Yarn Crawlers about her new(ish) yarn, Baskerville, and the just launched collection of patterns in her collection, Dusk to Dawn.