Episode 69: Relaxing

In which I talk about the relaxing and meditative aspects of spinning, do some fibre preparation and sampling, go over lopi for Level 4, make a bit of progress on knitting projects but no finishes yet, am making pretty poor fabric on the Autoknitter, and make some progress on the Accolade. Thanks for listening!

Shownotes:

Relaxing

• Deb Behm’s Ravelry profile.

Fibre Week

• Master Spinner Program.
• Fibre Week at Olds College.
• Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Bog Jacket
• My math is bad; faux lopi is 75% merino, 20% mohair, and 5% camel hair/other long coarse fibre.

Fibre Notes

• Grinsheep Fibre Productions, where my wedding shawl fibre came from.
• In the Night Garden by Lidia Zigninova – the pattern for my wedding shawl!
• Vanilla is the New Black socks by Anneh Fletcher (Ravelry link).
• Sea Turtle Fiber Arts.
• The two double-knit patterns I’m considering: Counting Sheep Scarf by Lisa Hannan Fox and Clockwork Dragon by Tania Richter.

Cranking on the Fibreside

• Some information about the Autoknitter machines.
• This one looks a lot like mine (the before restoration photos).

By The Wayside

• The Accolade kit from Bucilla – so old it’s out of print.
• Based on the painting The Accolade by E.B. Leighton.