Jan 17, 2022
Kelly’s “Tossing of The Stash” is in progress and we have a discussion of what to do with all that handspun! Plus, project updates and the announcement of our Crochet Along winners. Full notes with photos and links can be found in the podcast section of our shop website: TwoEwesFiberAdventures.com Join the community on Ravelry or become a patron and support the show on our Patreon Page.
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Nanny Meier’s Tea Cozy by Amelia Carlsen. I am using Cascade 220 Heather in Red Wine Heather (9489) and green Irelande (2429). I’ve knit about half of the second side.
Pebblebrook Beanie by Wish Upon a Hook (Ravelry link). I started this beanie using Little Sheep in The Big Woods. I was trying to finish this for our Two Ewes Crochet Along, but after ripping it out three times, I admitted defeat and set the project aside.
Meadow Stripe Socks using Patons Kroy Sock in the colorway, Meadow Stripes and Lang Yarns Jawoll Superwash fingering for the heels and toes. Finished the first sock and worked on the second sock.
Quick Switch Hat by AbbyeKnits. My son liked the hat so much I cast on another for him using Meeker Street Olives Outerwear DK in the colorway Sage.
Phrancko Designs crew neck from Phrancko.com by Frank Jernigan. I’m using my green and brown handspun merino. I joined under the arms and knit five stripe repeats (3 rows brown, 6 rows green). Looking at the amount of yarn I have left I was concerned I would not have enough for green. I called Kelly and we designed stripes using Fibonacci Sequence. The plan now for the stripe sequence will be:
Four repeats of 3 brown, 6 green
Three repeats of 5 brown, 6 green
Two repeats of 8 brown, 6 green
The ribbing will be brown. After the body is complete I will knit the collar in green and then assess the yarn situation and decide how to finish the sleeves.
Last minute crocheting: I finished the Pebblebrook Beanie (Ravelry link) out of my Invictus club yarn from last year. It’s a green and gray and yellow variegated yarn and it turned out great. It will join the other charity hats that I have to get sent out.
I also finished two crocheted Mother Bears. One was half done and I found it during the stash tossing and finished it up (Ravelry link). Then I got inspired to make one last one (Ravelry link) to go with the last tag I had. These need to get into the mail, too.
Two more crochet projects were finished for this episode. I made a cat bed (Ravelry link) using lots of my spirit yarn and then fulled it a little. The starting point for the pattern was Crochet Round Cat Bed by Humbug Designs (Ravelry link). This will go on the porch for Minnie to sleep on.
Then I made an ear saver to use with my masks when I’m teaching. The pattern I used was One Button Mask Ear Saver by Robin Kline (Ravelry link). I wear it up near the top of my head, but you can also wear it behind your neck. I’ve already worn it for several hours and it was comfortable and stayed put.
I’m still working on a pair of socks (Ravelry link) in Bob Ross Happy Little Mistakes yarn from Weird Sisters Wool Emporium in Aberdeen. I’m using the stitch pattern from Blueberry Waffle socks.
Finally, I started a sockhead hat (pattern by Kelly McClure) using some leftovers from the Rachel pullover.
Thank you to everyone who participated. Listen to the episode to hear who won a pattern of their choice up to $12.00
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Marsha 0:42
Hi, Kelly.
Kelly 0:43
Hi, Marsha. How are you?
Marsha 0:45
I'm doing well.
Kelly 0:46
I'm doing great too. I have been decluttering, purging.
Marsha 0:52
You know you've been doing you've been tossing of the stash
Kelly 0:55
Tossing of the stash. That's right. That is what actually I am
doing.
Marsha 0:58
Is any tossing going on? Or is it just been reorganizing the stash?
Well, let's just talk about it. Okay, so tell me everything
Kelly 1:05
Last time we... last time we recorded I think I had already
started. I had taken everything downstairs and laid it out on the
studio floor, all the knitting yarn from various places in the
house, because I keep it in various places. I had dug stuff out.
Then I decided I needed to move it upstairs to the spare room where
I could close the door and nobody could see it. Nobody meaning
Robert couldn't see it. Just because I wanted to leave it messy for
a while. And he likes things cleaned up and neat. So yes, and he
was cleaning the living room, taking down the tree throwing away
Christmas ornaments. So we did do some some tossing of the
Christmas ornaments. So you know I was in that mood. So I brought
it all upstairs and I laid it out on a tablecloth. It's about the
size of a double bed sheet, flat sheet. And then I started
organizing it and I did a little bit more organizing today. It's
been out for more than... well for two weeks essentially. It's been
sitting here inspiring me and also making me wonder about myself!
[laughing]
Marsha 2:21
okay, well Dr. Marsha is here listen to it. So tell me all about
it.
Kelly 2:26
Okay, well, I decided to-- we talked a little bit about what how I
should go about the organization process and and so the first thing
I ended up doing was taking all of the commercial skeins,
commercial hand dyed, well, just commercial skeins that I had
purchased on purpose. I had obtained on purpose. And I put-- It
ended up that -- I thought this was true. And I was right. It's a
very small batch! Not quite as small as I thought. Because I still
have all that Rauna. The Finnish yarn that we got crazy about the
year I was making argyle socks and we got all these different color
combinations. So I had quite a bit of that. I had quite a bit of
that still unused, but it fits in-- I have this wooden, like rice
basket I guess it's called. I got it at a garden show. It's a
wooden basket that came from, I think it came from--they said it
came from Vietnam or someplace. Anyway. It's not that big. And it
fits all of it.
Marsha 3:03
Mm hmm.
Kelly 3:42
So that's my like, "I got this intentionally" kind of yarn. And
then the rest of it is a combination of handspun, leftovers, some
of which are handspun, and spirit yarn. And then a little bit. like
a small amount of like farm yarn that I didn't include in the
commercial skeins. It's all natural colors and it went-- it seemed
like it went better with the batch of yarn that was all handspun so
I put it in that batch. but I... you know... So I have. ..I have
over 13 skeins of Rug Yarn plus extra balls leftover from previous
rug projects. I have five skeins of extra bulky yarn. I have over
six skeins of white handspun-- you know natural creme handspun.
Seven skeins of cotton handspun for a cotton project. I have about
six skeins of luxury-- what I would consider to be luxury yarn.
Some of that is leftovers. There's silk and silk and cotton and
silk and wool angora, and that kind of stuff. I have three skeins
of handspun from commercial dyed braids. That's it. And lots of
leftovers. Some Wensleydale skeins, some suffolk skeins, a bunch of
CVM leftovers. Anyway, so what am I going to do with it? The
problem with that is, what am I gonna do with it? You know, like I
was thinking with the handspun like, I don't want to get rid of it.
I mean, I don't want to throw it, right? I don't want to toss it. I
want it to be used but when I think about using the rest of the
yarn from all the handspun sweaters that I made, and I've got quite
a bit of yarn, I think I have five handspun sweaters that I have
leftovers for. And when I think about you know making a hat or I
can make mitts or I can make a scarf. Like that feels like making
an adult layette. [laughing]
Marsha 6:19
Yes, funny! [laughing]
Kelly 6:26
I just, I don't feel like that's an adult thing-- to wear a hat and
a sweater and mitts and socks that all match.
Marsha 6:37
Yeah. So well because it-- because I even sometimes question if I
have on hand knit socks, hand knit sweater, hand knit hat. Like
then put a scarf on it seems like it's too much. Like too much hand
knit. And they don't even match. So if it's all matching like...
and you don't want to make something for Robert because that's not
cool having matching--husband and wife matching outfits.
[laughing]
Kelly 7:02
Out of the CVM that I made the Orcas run sweater, I did make him a
hat with the Orca pattern on it, which he likes. But yeah, we don't
actually dress alike! [laughing] I have made some charity hats with
some leftover handspun but you know it's not washable. So anyway,
that's kind of my my, my dilemma with this yarn. I like it and I
want to use it but I don't know what I'm going to use it for. What
I did do though, is that a lot of the partial skeins I did collect
them all. And I put them into my mother bear kit for making Mother
Bears and I had... I realized when I did that, that I had a half a
bear in the bag. And I haven't made a mother bear in a really long
time. And I realized why when I put the additional yarn into the
bag. It's because I was making a bear and I was using like three
skeins of different weird... some handspun leftovers to get to the
right weight of yarn for the bear. You know it's holding two
strands together holding three strands together, running out
because I was using these little you know, hazelnut sized balls of
yarn, and then having to splice in the new one. I thought, why was
I making my life so hard? Why not when I get down to that little
amount of yarn? Or if I have something that's really so fine that
it doesn't make a good bear? Like why would I put it in the kit. So
I... so I cleaned up that bear Mother Bear kit put in new, threw
away some stuff from there, put in new yarn into the Mother Bear
kit and then I actually got inspired to finish that bear and make
it make another bear which that's getting into my projects. But I
did get a little bit inspired by stuff. So that was good. But it
does kind of show me just some kind of gaps in what I have or
overages overages in skeins. Like do I really need this much of my
leftovers? No, because I don't know what I'm gonna do with them.
And why do I spin so much yarn for a sweater? I guess because I
don't know how much I'm going to need and I don't want to run
out.
Kelly 7:02
Well, actually, I would say that's true. I for me, that's true.
Okay, so right now I'm knitting with with my handspun which I'll
talk about this project later on, but I didn't have enough for a
sweater. I'm always trying to do enough for a sweater but I didn't
have enough so I had to spin up another color to make stripes. So I
mean I think too, with your spinning, you're not... You're spinning
the yarn to be spinning the yarn.
Kelly 7:10
Yeah
Marsha 7:24
Not spinning the yarn necessarily to make a sweater. Isnt' it
true?
Kelly 8:40
Right.
Marsha 8:40
You talked about this before is that the fiber tells you what it
wants to be. What type of yarn it wants to be. And you spin that
yarn and then you figure out what project right? You're
just...you're caught up in the, you know, you're spinning yarn,
you're not thinking about what to make
Kelly 10:26
Yeah, and the difference too, is like, you're spinning braids.
Marsha 10:32
Mm hmm.
Kelly 10:33
And I'm just spinning what comes off my drum carder.
Marsha 10:36
Right.
Kelly 10:37
And so you know, if you have a full fleece, and you just card and
card and card, then you feel like you have to spin everything you
carded. And that might be more than what you need for this sweater.
So I am not complaining at all! I have a wealth... A wealth of
yarn, including a wealth of my own handspun. But it was good to see
for example, with the Rug Yarn, like, Okay, I have really some
really nice Rug Yarn. But a lot of it is leftover from a wall
hanging project that I did that was in greens and grays. Mostly.
And so that's what I have most of-- green and gray. And then I have
that and a little bit of Burgundy. And then I have the combo spin
that I did. That's more blues. But it's all really super dark. And
I think I need something light. Because otherwise the values are
all going to be the same and whatever pattern I do in a rug, a
punch needle piece, is gonna... you won't really see the pattern, I
think.
Marsha 11:47
So they're too dark to overdye another color.
Kelly 11:50
Yes.
Marsha 11:52
Okay.
Kelly 11:53
In fact, a lot of them are dark gray overdyed. Dark green, dark
gray overdyed with burgundy. Yeah, yeah, they're too dark to
overdye. So I just--I need to spin more rug yarn in a lighter
color. [laughing]
Marsha 12:09
Okay. So I'm going to inject here with a few... Dr. Marsha has a
few comments. I'm not a licensed therapist. No, as you say. So
we...
Marsha 12:22
Marsha I'm going to interrupt you. However, you are a licensed yarn
stasher.
Marsha 12:32
Yes,[laughing]... some of the yarn from your... the adult layette
yarn? [laughing] All that leftover sweater yarn and whatnot. Can--
and I don't know what the weight of it is. It's pretty fine. It's
not like it's worsted weight. But anyway, here's my point, can it
be combined to be my go-to project, the garter squish blanket. It
can be combined in some ways to make doubled up or added to... let
me just back up. This is not how you have to do the garter squish.
But the idea is you have one main color that goes through the whole
blanket that's worsted weight. And then you have you keep changing
out the other worsted weight yarn that you're carrying along with
it to make the stripes or the pattern or whatever you decide to do.
But it doesn't have to be that way. You know, right. So I don't
know, if you have enough yarn that could be enough of a background
color? Or, like my case where I didn't have enough yarn. There was
sort of that camel colored yarn that I was using as the background.
But I didn't have enough it in the same shade to do the whole
thing. So we did a gradient. Do you have enough of the handspun
that could be the background color? That maybe you overdye to make
it more similar and do like a gradient? And then you know what I'm
getting at?
Kelly 13:59
Yeah, yeah,
Marsha 14:00
just need to spin more yarn to well, to use up the sweater
bits.
Kelly 14:08
Yeah, that's an idea.
Marsha 14:11
If you have a lot of the... Because didn't you say one sweater you
have like three skeins leftover?
Kelly 14:18
Something like that.
Marsha 14:21
Can it be.. is that the sort of terracotta color for dark green
forest?
Kelly 14:27
Yeah, I have three skeins of that plus a ball, plus another skein
that's undyed of the exact same yarn.
Marsha 14:36
So even though you have say--you have three possibly four skeins of
that yarn dyed that terracotta color, can you overdye it so make
something? Now it's a pretty deep terracotta but can you make one
like brown and one burgundy or something and then use those as the
contrasting color for a background color.
Kelly 14:59
You Yeah, that's a good idea. That's a really good idea.
Marsha 15:05
Because you sent me a picture of all these bits.
Kelly 15:11
You can put it in the show notes if you want.
Marsha 15:14
I'm looking at...you have a lot of natural colored yarns that maybe
you could just dye. Well and what is that? So, this is not good
podcasting because people cannot see this picture. But the picture
of the... there's a whole bunch of natural colored yarn. That's
undyed. It looks like it's your handspun undyed which I don't know
what the yarn is. Okay, so I'm looking at the picture that shows
the right hand side of the sheet in the lower right hand
corner.
Kelly 15:41
Oh, uh huh.
Marsha 15:43
I don't know how much is there. But if you could just take all
those and you could maybe dye that if that's enough for your
background color.
Kelly 15:49
That might be. There are six skeins. The two balls in the front of
that picture are bulky, so they won't work. But there are six
skeins of the Oxford that I spun this summer and three skeins of
the Columbia that I spun the summer before, I think in the summer
spin-in. So there are six skeins there. They're roughly the same,
they're three ply, roughly the same weight. And also they have the
same kind of the same feel to them. They're not identical, but they
would go together in a project. That's a really good idea I hadn't
thought about a blanket of handspun
Kelly 15:50
Well that garter squish is just a great way to use up a lot of
yarn, because you're using it held double, even if it's worsted
weight, you're holding it double. Right?
Kelly 16:39
And, and people had mentioned, people had been mentioning that, you
know, like, oh, that sounds fun. And I thought it sounded fun, too.
But the thing I always thought was I don't have enough. I don't...
that sounds funny. I don't have enough of the same kind of thing to
be able to do it. But I do if I think about my handspun in using
the sweater leftovers.
Marsha 17:01
Mm hmm.
Kelly 17:02
I do have enough, I think, Oh, that's interesting. Okay.
Marsha 17:07
And then I'm, I'm going to... I bought a pattern. So it's Lily
Scrap Blanket.
Kelly 17:13
Oh, I'm going to look it up, too.
Marsha 17:15
The Designer is Jen Peck. And it's like a chevron pattern. It's
knit with fingering weight. And I don't know what all... I mean,
this may not work that great. And so what you do is you basically
take all of your sock weight scraps, and you just wind them into
one big ball. Just randomly wind all the colors into a big giant
ball. And you just loosely knot them together. So you can either--
you can put them together like with a long tail and then choose to
weave them in. Or you can put just a loose knot. And so when you
get to that point, you can take it apart and rotate it if you want,
you know, spit splice it. And so I'm looking at the pattern because
I actually printed this out and I've been gathering up my yarn.
It's a free pattern.
Kelly 18:01
Yeah, I'm looking at it right now takes about 1000 to 1400
yards.
Marsha 18:07
Yeah, so it's a nice pattern, because it's all... it makes a
chevron. And as I say, I have been ...all my socks scraps I've been
saving to make this blanket. And then also I have skeins of yarn
--sock weight yarn-- that I bought that I don't think I'm ever
going to make socks out of it. And so I was thinking just breaking
those apart and putting them into the blanket.
Kelly 18:34
Right.
Marsha 18:35
But anyway, that's another idea. I don't know if it's the right
weight. But maybe,
Kelly 18:42
yeah, yeah, actually, that would work. Because all of my handspun,
I mean, it's the same-- the Targi lamb is heavier, but the rest of
my handspun is all about the same weight. Mm hmm. That's an
interesting idea. Or holding them double. And then in some places
using just one skein of a heavier yarn.
Marsha 19:06
Because you know, the other thing, too, is that this is... I don't
even think that they have gauge. Yeah, it says gauge is not
important for this product. So it wouldn't. So you could just take
and you could figure out what your... if you have a heavier weight
yarn, you could just figure out how many stitches to the inch
you're getting and then figure out, you know, how wide you want?
How many you would want to cast on? Well, you know, that whole
conversation we've had about using up yarn for the garter squish. I
mean, I think the same idea with this is that you're probably not
locked into a certain weight of yarn. Right? You'd have to just
figure out
Kelly 19:41
how to make whatever you're using roughly the same.
Marsha 19:44
Right. And then also, didn't somebody in our crochet along did a
sort of Chevron shaped blanket and that's crocheted. Yeah, so
that's another thought.
Kelly 19:54
Yeah. Yeah, it's a really nice. The chevron pattern is a really
nice kind of traditional crochet pattern. It reminds me of my
grandma's. She made millions, millions of Afghans out of that
pattern. Okay, well, that's cool. That gives me some ideas.
Marsha 20:14
It's better than putting it in a compost pile.
Kelly 20:16
Yes, exactly.
Marsha 20:19
And and also, you're getting a new trailer, you might need a
blanket for the trailer.
Kelly 20:23
Well, that's, that is something that I thought of, too. Yeah. And I
want to finish that quilt. That's another thing I dug out was my
pieced quilt top.
Marsha 20:34
Mm hmm.
Kelly 20:35
I think I want to finish that quilt for the trailer. So we'll see.
Yeah, that's a good idea. I did get inspired to make one more
thing. Moving into my projects. Besides the two bears, I did get
inspired. And I used up quite a bit of yarn that have been hanging
around for a while to make a cat bed for Minnie. She had been
sleeping on a sample woven piece, a narrow piece that I had, we had
just folded and positioned it, but it kind of looked messy. And so
I made a basket inspired by some of the people in our crochet
along. I made a basket for her out of some various old yarns from
the weaving room and the early 2000s when those felted bags were
kind of popular.
Marsha 21:31
Mm hmm.
Kelly 21:33
And I had some leftovers from that. And one of the yarns-- I did
call you about this, but I wanted to tell people about the yarn
that had cow hair in it. I thought that was pretty cool.
Marsha 21:45
Yeah, we were gonna talk about this.
Kelly 21:47
Yeah. And I didn't I didn't put that in the show notes. But I'll
just I'll just say that there was this one singles yarn from
Sweden. That yeah, that was like 20% Cow hair. And you looked
something up on it. It suggested that it was Highland cow. So that
was very interesting. But the main point of this is I got rid of
probably...Let's see... I got rid of two balls and three pretty
close to full partial skeins. So that made a big dent. One of those
little piles that was laying on the tablecloth is gone. Totally
gone, because I used it in this cat bed. So that's nice.
Marsha 22:38
That's very good. Yeah.
Kelly 22:40
And then I felted it so it's sitting on the sitting on the porch
right now. So that's a... besides the two Mother Bears that was
another finished project. So I finished... Well, I finished the
Pebblebrook Beanie that I was working on last time out of the
Invictus club yarn. And then I finished the two Mother Bears and I
finished the cat bed. So I've been crocheting up a storm during my
vacation from school. So it's been really nice.
Marsha 23:08
Nice. Yeah.
Kelly 23:11
Oh, and then one other crochet project that I did as as a nod to
our crochet along which we'll talk about our winners later in the
episode. I'm going to be teaching in the classroom on campus this
semester, as everyone knows. I'm so excited. And I'm going to have
to wear a mask and the masks don't really fit my face very well.
And the ear loops, I always have to shorten them. And I usually
will shorten them with a little knot. I tried twisting them but
that didn't work very well. I tried shortening them, the ear loops,
with a little knot. And that works okay, but it makes my ears stick
out. And I don't need my ears to stick out any more than they
already do. So my vanity! And I saw this ear saver, it's called One
Button Mask Ear Saver. And it actually holds for me, I put it going
up over the, kind of, the top back of my head. Kind of like the
actual N95 masks have two elastics one goes behind your neck and
one goes over your head.
Marsha 24:25
Mm hmm.
Kelly 24:26
And so I use it like that. It connects to the ear pieces, but then
it straps across my head. And it works great. And I got to use a
button from my button stash.
Marsha 24:37
Yay! Very nice.
Kelly 24:38
Because you know it's adjustable. You close it with a button. I
wore it while I unpacked boxes and threw away stuff. Again another
organizing and throwing away project. I worked for about four
hours. One day while I unpacked things in my office at school, and
it it didn't slip off. It was comfortable. I didn't have that ear
pain that you sometimes get from wearing the mask for too long and
I didn't have to really adjust it or anything. So it was nice and I
get a nice tight fit. It feels like wearing one of those you know
the N 95. Because it's actually holding on from the back of my
head. So anyway really nice. That was my last crochet--most recent
crochet project so... That did not use any stash to speak of. It's
a very small project-- took me about an hour, including sewing on
the button. So and then I'm working on the pair of socks that I was
talking about last time out of the Bob Ross happy little mistakes.
And the other thing I got inspired to do... Now this is with
leftovers, but I promise never to wear it at the same time as I
wear the sweater. [laughing] The the yarn is again, Invictus yarn.
It's the Yak Luxe that I used for my Rachel sweater.
Marsha 26:08
Mm hmm.
Kelly 26:09
And then that yarn that you got me.
Marsha 26:12
Oh, right.
Kelly 26:12
I can't remember what it was called. But it was anyway, it's all in
kind of blue green.
Marsha 26:18
It was the yarn from Iceland from Iceland.
Kelly 26:21
Yeah. And so anyway, I saw those scraps were sitting there. Pretty
significant amounts were leftover. And so I put them all in a
knitting bag. And I'm making a Sock Head Hat to replace the Sock
Head hat that I have that I have been wearing since 2015.
Marsha 26:45
Mm hmm.
Kelly 26:47
And it's so faded that it's pretty much unrecognizable--the
difference between the outside and the inside of the yarn. So I'm
almost to the to the crown decreases on a sock head hat.
Marsha 27:02
Whoa, nice.
Kelly 27:02
Yeah. So it'll be nice. This will be for you know, going on walks
and stuff. Not to match my sweater. AlthoughI guess I could but I
don't know. I don't know about that.
Marsha 27:13
There's no crime in wearing it to match. Yeah, yeah. What a
knitting fashion patrols going to come and arrest you?
[laughing]
Kelly 27:19
Well, we'll see. Yeah, after I've laughed so much about adult
layettes. [laughing] Oh, dear. So yeah, that's my new start-- this
sock head pattern. So that's... so I've got two things on the go,
the socks and this Sock Head hat pattern. And all the rest of my
stuff for this week is finished objects.
Marsha 27:46
Yay. Very nice.
Kelly 27:48
Yeah. As you say, though, it's still in my house. Actually, the
Mother Bears are going and the beanie is going so those are all
those are all to be sent away. I haven't done it yet.
Marsha 28:04
Well, let me ask you, I'm just going to go back to the tossing of
the stash. Because the other thing too, I guess I wanted to ask is,
do you even want to-- do you want to make anything out of that
yarn? I mean,...
Kelly 28:19
The yarn I've already knit with... mm hmm yeah. I don't know. I
don't know. I mean, I don't want it to not be knitted.
Marsha 28:31
That's another possibility is pass it along to someone else.
Kelly 28:34
Yeah, yeah. And let it be their problem
Marsha 28:40
Well, it may not be their problem, it's spirit yarn, right?
Kelly 28:43
Exactly.
Marsha 28:44
I don't think so negatively.
Kelly 28:46
That's true. It would be there it would
Marsha 28:48
Someone might really want it.
Kelly 28:50
It would be their... I don't know it always feels like a great find
when you when you find a good spirit yarn so so yeah, it'd be
someone else's great find.
Marsha 29:01
I'm gonna just say something... This has absolutely nothing to do
with knitting but about what other people value or want that we
don't want. And I don't know if they have this in the rest of the
country but here in Seattle there's this Buy Nothing. It's Buy
Nothing and then fill in your neighborhood. And so I live in the
Maple Leaf Neighborhood so it's Buy Nothing Maple Leaf. And you
cannot sell anything. It's all stuff that you give away for free or
you can ask for things. And so I've been posting up things you
know, like I got rid of a toaster. Like things that were duplicates
that I didn't need, you know, like combining households. So it's
surprising to me sometimes the things that I thought actually
people would want-- nothing. Crickets. So I just bring it to the
goodwill and and then I've also had a problem--and I hope I have no
Buy Nothing Maple Leaf listeners listening to this--but sometimes
it's really difficult to get people to come I'm in a timely manner
to pick things up. And so then it'll be like seven days, and then
I'll text and they're like, Oh yeah, yeah. And then they never show
up and so I just take it to the goodwill. But I had all those
Styrofoam pellets that you use as packing material, and I had been
saving it. Because with the new deck, my thought was I was going to
put in the bottom half, fill half the pots... I have very heavy
concrete pots that were going to go on the deck and so to reduce
the weight, I've heard that you actually put in styrofoam pellets
in the bottom of your pot. Not loose, but I had bought like a mesh
bags that I was going to fill the pellets and put in the bottom of
the pots. I ended up not doing that because I used smaller pots.
The bigger pots went elsewhere. So I had... I think I had eight
trash bags of pellets.
Kelly 30:50
Oh man!
Marsha 30:51
You can't get rid of that stuff. It just goes in the... it can't be
recycled, it just goes in the garbage. Yeah, and so I went to to
UPS stores and they wouldn't take it because they can't take it
anymore because of the pandemic. I went to a UPS and FedEx store
and they wouldn't take it and so I thought I'm just going to post
it up on Buy Nothing Maple Leaf. And within 20 minutes a guy said,
I think we can use that at work. Let me check with my boss. He
checks with his boss and he comes and picks it up that evening.
Kelly 31:23
Wow!
Marsha 31:23
He comes by and he picks up eight bags of this stuff and I was like
all this stuff like it's so weird the stuff that I think has value
nobody wants but the stuff that has like it's actually a burden to
me.
Kelly 31:35
It's acually garbage!
Marsha 31:36
It's actually a huge burden to me. It is literally garbage. Well I
don't want it to be garbage but if I was to dispose of it I would
be considered garbage. But I thought somebody can use it, I just
can't find anybody.And he was so prompt he was the fastest of any
of my Buy Nothing people.
Kelly 31:54
[laughing] Oh my gosh!
Marsha 31:55
One man's junk is another man's treasure. Okay, but moving on the
the infamous Nanny Meyer tea cozy for Brian. I'm halfway done with
the second side. I do a couple rows a dy
Kelly 32:09
Oh, yay,
Marsha 32:09
So I'm making progress on that. Still working on my socks, nothing
to report there. I'm three quarters of the way done with the Quick
Switch hat by Abby Knits. The one I'm making for Ben the yarn is
Meeker Street Olives Outerwear DK. So I'm working on that
intermittently. So I have kind of moved on. What I'm really sort of
obsessed with now is this phrancko.com sweater. I don't know what
to call it. I'm just calling it my Phrancko Designs sweater or the
striped sweater for Ben. But this one I'm making for my son, Ben.
And just to remind people, it's the handspun in a kind of a
barberpole green and brown and then a solid, three ply Brown. And I
talked about this in the last episode that I knew I had measured
Ben and entered all the information into phrancko.com. And printed
out my pattern. And I forgot last Saturday to join their group, I
completely forgot. So I'm going to try... Every Saturday at 2:30
they have a Zoom call. And I'm going to try and join that again.
This Saturday, I made a note to myself, because I forgot last
Saturday but to show them my progress. But what I started, the
reason I had spun the solid brown is I didn't have enough of the
brown and green. So I'm just gonna call it the green. But I didn't
have enough of that to do an entire sweater. So I spun the brown
and the idea, I was gonna do stripes. So Kelly, you and I had a big
conversation about this because I had joined under the arms. And at
that point, I started-- I did one stripe before I joined under the
arms and then joined under the arms and I knit another four brown
stripes separated by.... So my was my stripe sequence was going to
be three brown, excuse me, three rows of brown, six rows of green,
three rows of brown, six rows of green, and I was going to do that
all the way through the sweater. But after doing five repeats of
that, I got concerned about how much yarn I was going to have. I
didn't think I'd have enough green to finish the whole sweater and
the arms and the collar and everything. So I called you and we had
a really great conversation and of course, your go-to striping
sequence, right, which is the Fibonacci sequence.
Kelly 34:44
Go Fibonacci.
Marsha 34:46
So I ripped back and Kelly how should we describe this? Well, you
explain Fibonacci.
Kelly 34:53
Okay. So the Fibonacci sequence. It starts with one and then the
second number to the sequence is also one. And then the third
number of the sequence is two, because if you add one and one, you
get two. And then the next number in the sequence, you take the two
and add it to the previous number, the one, and you get three. And
then three plus two is five. And so each number in the sequence is
the sum of the two numbers prior. And all of those numbers are
called Fibonacci numbers. You don't have to use them in order. But
I like to use them in order. And so you have your stripe, you're
using them for your stripe sizes, right? So three rows, a three row
stripe is one size. A five row stripe is another size. That's
another Fibonacci number. The next Fibonacci would be three and
five is eight. So an eight row stripe would be another Fibonacci
number. And then eight and five is 13. And so that's another
Fibonacci number. And they get bigger as they... the stripes get
bigger as they go.
Marsha 36:04
Right
Kelly 36:05
Depending on how many stripes, you know how many stripes you want,
and how you organize them. So so tell us what you're doing,
Marsha.
Marsha 36:14
So first, I'm going to say that the green is considered my main
color. So every stripe, brown stripe is separated by six rows of
green, that's going to be consistent through the sweater,
right?
Kelly 36:27
Yeah.
Marsha 36:28
But then my brown, I'm doing four stripes of brown with three rows
of brown. So a three row, brown stripe four times, then a five row
brown stripe three times, and then an eight row stripe twice, then
the plan is to do six rows of the green, and then my ribbing will
be all in the brown. And so the next sequence should be 13 rows,
which I think is going to be enough for my ribbing. That's what we
talked about. Yeah, that makes sense to what I'm saying now. And I
think this is all going to work out perfectly. Because if we add up
all these rows, it's 97 rows, which will be about what I need. That
plus the yoke equals about 21 and a half inches.
Kelly 37:34
Perfect.
Marsha 37:35
I'm sorry, I said that wrong. Those stripes sequence plus the yoke
equals 19 and a half inches which is what I need for the body
before I start the ribbing. And then the ribbing will be the extra
two inches to make the body length the 21 and a half inches. And I
hope I'm saying that in a way that makes sense to people, that
people can understand.
Kelly 37:54
Yeah, I think you did. Although I mean, I was there with you when
you were working it out.
Marsha 37:59
I know!
Kelly 38:00
But I think it'll be nice, because you'll have, you'll have four
small stripes, and then you'll have three medium sized stripes. And
then you'll have two large stripes, and then you'll have one really
large stripe in the ribbing. And so it's kind of getting heavier.
You know, the weight of the dark brown is getting heavier as you go
down. It's getting less frequent, but they're getting, but the
stripes are getting wider. So I think it'll look really nice. I
have never been... I have to say I have never been disappointed by
Fibonacci.
Marsha 38:33
So I have my little cheat sheet that I will take a picture of and
put in the show notes.
Kelly 38:40
Oh, good.
Marsha 38:41
Yeah, visually what I'm doing, and I've checked off, you know what
I've done so far, people will see what I'm doing. It'll be obvious,
I think when you see, when I take a picture of it and post in the
show notes. And then the plan is when I finished the body, I'm
going to go back and do the collar next in the green. And then
we're going to do I'm going to do another assessment of the, of the
yarn supply and then we're gonna have to figure out stripes for the
the sleeves. And I'm not sure if I will just... I only have a bit
of a dilemma, because well, that's not exactly true. I guess the
sleeves are about the length...Well, the sleeves are about the
length of the entire body. So that means my stripe sequence is
going to be a little bit different. Because the entire body of the
finished sweater is 21 and a half inches. A part of that is solid
green. Right? The sleeves are 21 and a half inches of stripes. Mm
hmm. So we're going to have to do something there. There's going to
be another phone call. [laughing]
Kelly 39:53
Another consultation.
Marsha 39:55
Yes, a consultation. But I have... Yes. So I will have to talk... I
will actually talk to Dr.Locke who really is a doctor of
mathematics. So to help me through this, and because the math will
work, right?
Kelly 40:11
Yeah. Yeah. So your only constraint for the sleeves is going to be
how much yarn you have left.
Marsha 40:19
Yes. And so Ben may get a short sleeve sweater. He may have what
they call like a wrist...
Kelly 40:33
bracelet length!
Marsha 40:34
Bracelet length
Kelly 40:39
Oh my gosh. Well, I think you'll have it. I mean, I think you'll
have enough it's just a matter of how you how you can figure it.
Yeah.
Marsha 40:48
Actually, I'm sort of laughing because he might actually wear a
bracelet length sweater because he was home last weekend. And I
said, what he was wearing, I said it's so bizarre but it's kind of
stylish in its own way.
Kelly 41:08
Oh, yeah?
Marsha 41:10
So he had on like long underwear or something. He'd gone for a bike
ride so he had on like, I don't know if it was long underwear or
leggings or something. I guess you wouldn't call it leggings for
men but it's like some sort of warm pants like... I guess long
underwear. Socks that are... like he has these Christmas socks you
know those those acrylic socks that you can buy that have like
designs on them? He had some Santa socks on his Teva sandals,
cut-off shorts over it like those Carhart work pants that he'd cut
off. That's over it. And then he's drawn with like, permanent
marker all over them. And then where their are holes? He's sewn up
the holes, hand stitched up holes, and then... [laughing] a hand
knit a hat that I had made for him. Oh, no, it was the... I was
think it was the one I made out of sock scraps. No, it was the very
first handspun. I made a hat for him. And my handspun is like
rope.
Kelly 42:17
Oh yes. The five pound hat!
Marsha 42:20
The five pound hat and it has no life to it at all. It does is just
saying it's just like sits on his head like a bucket hat. Yeah. And
then something on the top and I've completely lost track of what
was on the top. But anyway, he looks kind of stylish in sort of a
bizarre way. So maybe he might wear a bracelet length sleeve.
Kelly 42:42
Oh my gosh. Yeah.
Marsha 42:43
Anyway.
Kelly 42:44
Well, they don't get in the way. You know? If you have your sleeves
a little shorter.
Marsha 42:49
So then my last project is the beanie, the Pebblebrook Beanie by
Wish Upon a hook. And I started this using Little Sheep in the Big
Woods. And so I was... I started this...was going to try and finish
it for the crochet along. But sadly, after I ripped it out for the
third time I thought I can't. I can't rip it out. I can't do it
again. And so it was...now I had 24 hours. And I thought you know
what, it's okay. Even though it's it's our... It's like my crochet
along, like ours that we're doing as part of our podcast. I I can't
do it. I couldn't do it again. So it's all right.
Kelly 43:40
Yeah. Next time.
Marsha 43:42
I don't know the thing about is I did really well on the the brim.
I got that figured out. I did really well. I had to call you about
picking up the stitches, I guess I would say to start the... I have
to say I don't know how we ever learned to knit or crochet without
YouTube because I watched tons of tutorials about how to make the
bobble. We talked. And I'm just like these bobbles are not working
right. And I still was doing them wrong. And then I ripped it out.
We had a conversation I ripped it out I started again... like
that's not right. So I ripped it out and like that's when I thought
I can't start again. So...
Kelly 44:22
Yeah, the thing about crochet. I like charts, this doesn't have a
chart. I like charts because the thing I always found the most
difficult about crochet is where... which hole do you put your hook
in?
Marsha 44:35
Yes, right.
Kelly 44:36
It's a it's a fabric full of holes. And then you have to figure out
which hole is the right hole to put the hook into for the, you
know, for the next stitch. And I always found that to be really
perplexing.
Marsha 44:50
And so with mine, my Bobbles were stacking on top of each other
because I was putting... I was picking the wrong whole. So my
bobblrd just stacked on top of each other, and like, that doesn't
look right. And because they're supposed to sort of nestle into
each other, so it ends up sort of looking like basket weaving,
right?
Kelly 45:09
Yeah.
Marsha 45:10
So anyway, I did take a class years ago on crochet. And I made-- I
did make a shawl.
Kelly 45:18
You made the virus shawl.
Marsha 45:20
Yeah, I made that. But I, I'm not that familiar with crochet. Like
I've been looking at like sweaters and stuff, but I don't even know
how you get gauge. I don't know how you-- like the hat is not that
critical, but like I don't really know enough about crochet to do a
sweater for sure. I need to at least figure out how to do the hat
before I would move on to a sweater right? No, there's some great
patterns out there in crochet you know, so
Kelly 45:52
Yeah,
Marsha 45:52
beautiful things!
Kelly 45:54
Those are interesting to me because I never thought of crochet
really as garments. You know, growing up my grandma crocheted
blankets. She crocheted doilies, she crocheted those modular
bedspreads out of little tiny, small hexagon things. You know, with
crochet thread. But crochet in a garment, excepted a garment for a
doll, you know, doll clothes, was not something that I had ever
thought of. So that was new to me when you know, as an adult, I
came back to crochet. Yeah, yeah.
Marsha 46:30
Yeah, cuz I had sort of this sense that crochet was not
particularly fashionable, you know, But it is, I'm completely wrong
on that. It's, there's some really, really nice patterns. And so I
would like to know more about it, but I need a bit more hand
holding.
Kelly 46:45
And I, I, I don't feel like I'm super comfortable with crochet. And
I especially didn't a few years ago when we first started having
the crochet along. But I have to admit, I did a lot of crocheting
growing up, you know, I mean, like making doll clothes and doll
blankets and blankets for stuffed animals and giant long strips
that I didn't, you know, have a purpose for. I know, there was a
lot... I did a lot of crocheting as a kid. And so the learning part
of it, I don't really remember. I didn't learn all the details, but
the kind of the sort of basics, you know, the kind of basics of
crochet and the language of croche, I don't remember learning it. I
just have known for a really long time. So yeah, so I, you know,
that it's, it's challenging.
Marsha 47:39
I learned the just the basics, like how to chain stitch. I didn't
even know what the names were. My great aunt showed me. But I don't
know how to increase and decrease and yeah, you know, so I am
interested, though, and what I would say... What I do like about
crochet, and I've said this before, when we were having a
conversation many years ago in the podcast about crochet, is you
only have one live stitch. So if you do make a mistake, it's really
easy to get back and get back on track. Because you're not having
to, you know, knit back stitch by stitch or rip it all out and then
pick up those stitches. It's very easy to correct anything. To rip
back and get started again. But not under a crochet along
deadline.
Kelly 48:32
Right.
Marsha 48:34
Anyway, so that's it for me for projects. All right. So Kelly, we
need to talk about the crochet along.
Kelly 48:42
Yeah, it just finished up a couple of days ago. And we have some
prizes. So we had one thread for chatter and finished objects. We
had 14 people participating in the discussion. And there were 20
projects that were linked. I'm not counting them up. I'm just...
there at the top of the Ravelry thread it talks aboutit, so if you
link your project it counts it. Nine patterns were linked, and 84
total posts. So lots of people had multiple projects in the in the
crochet along so I think it was a success.
Marsha 49:25
And we had some new people participating.
Kelly 49:27
We did and that's always fun. I like when we have a different kind
of along and end up with some people that we haven't seen in the
threads before. So that was a nice thing to see.
Marsha 49:39
So let's just say, we have four winners, and each has won a pattern
of their choice up to $12. So Kelly, do you want to announce the
winners?
Kelly 49:51
Sure. And winners should just get in touch with I guess me and then
let me know the pattern that you want. Our first winner is
JoyLaine1, Joy. She made a basket that was partially my inspiration
for... she and Natalie's baskets were my inspiration for making the
cat basket when I saw that pile of orange yarn that I had when I
did the tossing of the stash. So she's our first winner. And then
we have Shelly, Purpledogwood. She's the one that made all of the
pumpkin and Santa hats.
Marsha 50:43
Yes,
Kelly 50:43
That we talked about last time. And then our third winner, Misnim,
Missy. She's the one who inspired me to make the ear savers. She
posted about making the ear savers. And then that reminded me that
I had saved that pattern for the one with the buttons long ago, and
that I needed to get busy on that for for my, my school semester,
this coming up. And then finally, our last winner is SuperKip,
Natalie. And she made quite a few things. We talked about her baby
toy. And she made a moses basket that she is using for yarn and
made quite a few things. So those are our four winners. So Joy and
Shelly and Missy and Natalie, message me on Ravelry or email me,
Two Ewes at Two Ewes Fiber Adventures dot com. And let me know what
pattern you'd like. You've won the pattern of your choice.
Congratulations!
Marsha 51:56
Yes. Congratulations. And thank you for participating. It's fun.
Well, what do I know? It was not fun for me. [laughing]
Kelly 52:08
I'm sorry. But I do think it's a cool hat. And I do think you
know,
Marsha 52:15
I did too. But another time. Let's not go.. let's not go back
there, right.[laughing] But anyway, just laughing!
Kelly 52:25
And then we still have our winter weave along going on. It started
in October, but it will go through the end, through the end of
March.
Marsha 52:37
So Kelly, we need to talk about our next giveaway that we're doing.
Yes. So this is going to be this is inspired by the tossing of the
stash.
Kelly 52:48
Yes, it is.
Marsha 52:50
So one of the things that you found in your stash is I don't know
how many years ago it was that I had acquired a whole bunch of
cotton yarn, mercerized cotton yarn. And we did a big dye-A-thon
when I was at your house one summer. And we still.you found that
you still have this cotton yarn in your stash, some of it because
you have made dish cloths out of a lot of it. But we still have
quite a bit, several skeins, quite a bit. So it is inspired our
next giveaway which is we're going to put a thread on the Ravelry,
our Ravelry group and just let us know your favorite dish cloth
pattern. And you'll be entered to win a skein of our hand dyed
cotton yarn. Hand dyed by the Two Ewes. And you'll also receive a
Two Ewes Fiber Adventures dish cloth pattern. And if you've never
made a dish cloth, just tell us if you're a dish cloth newbie, if
you just just check in on that in the thread, and then we'll have a
drawing for a skein of our hand dyed cotton yarn and a dishcloth
pattern. So we're recording this on January 13. So it'll be posting
in the next couple of days. So it'll start as soon as you hear this
and it ends February 28. So go into the thread and let us know your
favorite dish cloth pattern and or if you're a newbie, and you may
be one of the lucky winners!
Kelly 54:37
And I am going to... I'm going to lower expectations just a little
bit about the dish cloth pattern. Because okay, because it's mostly
just a stitch pattern. I'm not a pattern designer. You know, it
won't be tech edited. I'll just let you know how I started. You
know, what size needles I use, what the stitch pattern is that I
use, and how I bind it off.
Marsha 55:08
Okay, so it'll be... so yes, we will lower the bar on the
pattern!
Kelly 55:14
It's not a professionally designed and tech edited pattern. It's
the the kind of pattern that your that your grandma would pass
alongto you.
Marsha 55:26
Yeah. When you're sitting next to each other on the sofa,
Kelly 55:29
I'll send it to you on a scrap of paper, on the back of a
receipt.[laughing] Oh, I'm sorry, no, it will be-- I will write it
nicely. But yeah, it's not an official like designer kind of
pattern because I'm not a pattern designer. And then one other
thing that I just have to disclose about this yarn if you win it.
Some of them-- because it was our--we were experimenting with
dyeing cotton. Some of them have quite a bit of bleeding happening.
And so if you're doing your dishes, the first time, you may find
that the water turns, whatever color the dish cloth is. But after
you've done that, first, you know, after you've done that first
round of dishes, I can verify. Or if you don't want to deal with
that you can just toss it in the washing machine before you even
use it.
Marsha 56:25
But not with your whites!
Kelly 56:26
But not with your whites, correct. Yeah, toss it into a colored
load. And it'll be... it'll be fine. But I just...
Marsha 56:33
We really have-- we really have lowered the bar on this
contest.
Kelly 56:37
Well, it is my destashing really, right?
Marsha 56:42
Yeah. You will be helping Kelly out. [laughing]
Kelly 56:45
Yes. You will be getting cast off yarn! Doesn't that sound good?
[laughing] Actually, I have to say I do love the dish cloths made
out of this yarn. They're kind of stiff and scrubby. Because it's a
firm yarn, you know. So they work really well. And you will like
them. If you win this and you make one of those dish cloths, I
think you will like it. So Alright. And then the last thing, we
have some listener feedback. I just wanted to... I just wanted to
to talk about...Caroline in Somerset, Southwest England, suggested
because we had said, you know, what would people like to hear on
the podcast in the coming year? She suggested that people might
like to hear about yarn stores around the world, and maybe a bit of
the history of the yarn store or the history of the town that
they're in. And she told us about a yarn shop called All About the
Yarn, she says its on a cobbled street called Catherine Hill. And
yes, it is a hill. And it's so called because hundreds of years
ago, Catherine Hill, the street is called that because hundreds of
years ago, there was a chapel called St. Catherine's. So she gave
us a first little snippet of information about the yarn shop and
the street that the yarn shop is on. But I thought that was a good
idea. And so we may we may turn that into something for the for the
new year. So thanks for the idea Catherine. And then Irena emailed
and said that she was so glad to hear us back that she had had
thought perhaps we might not be coming back. She knows a lot of the
podcasts that she listens to have you know, sort of disbanded. And
so she was really glad to hear us coming back. And she did say she
loved it when Marsha would go on long trips. So I think that will
be in the not near future.
Kelly 56:47
Yes, my travel buddy Kim and I have had many conversations about
where we go next. But we're not quite ready to get on a plane yet.
We're not quite ready. I don't know, it will happen. Right? But not
right away. Yeah, not right away.
Kelly 59:14
Yeah. Yeah. But it was nice to hear. It was nice to hear that Irena
was was waiting for us to come back. And I have to also give a
shout out to Kent of Kent on Instagram because when we posted the
last episode... It's so funny when you know the listeners have kind
of inside jokes. Because he commented on the Instagram posts that
it was good that we were... that our episode was up because he had
been sitting and refreshing his podcast app over and over. That
gave me... that gave me a laugh. And then finally, Anna said you
know, cut yourself some slack. That was her message to us because
we were talking about missing episodes. She said, During the
pandemic you are my company, you made my frustrations okay and
normal. She said, Of course, she likes all the, you know, travels
and conferences and knitting event talk. But she also likes hearing
the frustrations of teaching online, dogs, and the isolation that
was what most folks were going through. So she says, you keep it
real. You kept it real, gave me an outside contact and reinforced
all that was essential and made me laugh. So that was really nice.
Thank you, Anna, for that comment. And yeah, we do, we are cutting
ourselves some slack for the the difficulties of the past couple of
couple of years, and probably some difficulties going forward. But
yeah, we'll keep sharing. You'll hear. You'll hear me whine.
[laughing]
Marsha 1:00:54
I am going to take a picture here. I'm sitting here at my desk
thinking about the dogs. I am going to take a picture. I'm sitting
at the desk recording, and I'm just going to take a picture of Enzo
laying on the bed, and I'm going to post this in the show
notes.
Kelly 1:01:09
Oh good.
Marsha 1:01:09
Yeah. He cracks me up. You know, I think it's a poodle thing. I'm
turning away from the microphone. Now. I think it's a poodle thing
that they lay on their... Maybe all dogs do it. But they lay... he
lays on his back. And then he has his head like twisted all the way
back down almost to his hips kind of it looks so uncomfortable.
Kelly 1:01:29
yeah, it's not every dog. I think it must be a poodle thing.
Marsha 1:01:34
Because they're so floppy. Yeah. And yeah,
Kelly 1:01:37
None of my dogs have ever laid like that.
Marsha 1:01:43
Yeah, he's so funny. Very. He's so floppy. Anyway. That's a dog
story. Well, I thought I have to say I thought it was really very,
it felt really good to know that people missed us because...Well, I
wasn't really feeling guilty. Because it's like life gets... we
just are busy in life, you know, the teaching thing and blah, blah,
blah, all of that. But the fact that people were like, Well, where
are they? Refreshing the app! There were many comments about like,
you know, Oh, good! You finally posted! We were getting worried. So
that was nice. And it's also it's nice that that we have been..
we're still in the middle of the pandemic...but that people have
found us so enjoyable during the pandemic too.
Kelly 1:02:29
Yeah, it's nice, it's very nice to hear! It is nice to hear that.
That it's a bright spot, right, for people.
Marsha 1:02:37
Yeah, yeah, we're giving people something. I don't know. I don't
know exactly what we're giving them. But we're giving them
something. [laughing]
Kelly 1:02:43
Yeah, and it's a bright spot for us too, I mean, I always look
forward to
Marsha 1:02:47
Oh, yeah.
Kelly 1:02:47
To getting on and talking to all of you.
Marsha 1:02:53
Yeah.
Kelly 1:02:54
And in fact, we have more to say, we have more in the show notes
this episode than we actually did in the episode. And that's
happened to us the last probably three times. So yeah, that we've
recorded. So. Yeah.
Marsha 1:03:10
Yeah. So. Okay. Anything I think we need to say?
Kelly 1:03:14
I think that's it.Okay, I'm off to professional development for two
hours.
Marsha 1:03:22
Ah, in person or online?
Kelly 1:03:24
Zoom. Yeah, okay. So I'm really not off. I'm off to the downstairs.
First I have to get dressed. And then I have to appear on Zoom for
a professional development day.
Marsha 1:03:37
All right. Well, I'm gonna wake the dog up and take him for a
walk.
Kelly 1:03:42
Oh, my goodness. [laughing]
Marsha 1:03:47
He needs some exercise because he's got his pandemic five that we
still haven't gotten off. So we're working on that. So well, all
right, Kelly. We'll talk. I'll let you go. I'll let you get to your
your zoom call and we'll talk in two weeks.
Both 1:04:03
Alrighty, bye.
Kelly 1:04:06
Thank you so much for listening. To subscribe to the podcast visit
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Marsha 1:04:13
Join us on our adventures on Ravelry and Instagram. I am
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Kelly 1:04:21
Until next time, we're the Two Ewes
Both 1:04:24
doing our part for world fleece!
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