May 29, 2022
Kelly’s restored 1950 Westcraft Coronado trailer, “The Club Car,” finally comes home after snow related delays. Plus, we have project updates and our Summer Spin in starts June 1st.
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Marsha’s Projects:
Depth Hat by Talitha Kuomi I finished this hat. The yarn is The Fiber Seed Sprout Special Speckles DK, in the colorway Dirty Seahorse. I could not get the yarn to pool in the way that attracted me to the pattern in the first place. The colors spiral, but I still like it.
Meadow Stripe Socks using Patons Kroy Sock in the colorway, Meadow Stripes and Lang Yarns Jawoll Superwash fingering for the heels and toes. I finally found the misplaced yarn for the toe and was able to finish these socks.
Garter Squish Blanket On color fourteen of sixteen. I’m ready for this project to be done!
Unpattern Top Down Raglan Pullover by Karen Alfke. I finished the Fibonacci Sequence striping of the body except for the ribbing. I’m waiting for Ben to try on the sweater. Picked up and knit the neck band and started the first sleeve.
Troyggja við Mynstur (Sweater with Round Pattern) by Tora Joensen (translated by Kate Gagnon Osborne: I knit my swatch and got gauge with size 8 needles instead of the suggested size 9. I plan to knit colorwork yoke with size 9. I cast on the sweater while at the beach and knit the ribbing, the colorwork and about an inch of the body. Decided the size was too small, frogged, and cast on the next size up. At about 9” I put the body on waste yarn and washed and blocked to be sure gauge and size are okay. The ball of red arrived for Navia that will be in the yoke.
I’m spinning a 2lb bag of Manx Loaghton in my stash. This is a protected breed from the Isle of Man. I am using a woolen spun technique and have spun 5 skeins or approximately 400 yards. Spun three more bobbins that are ready to be plied.
Kelly’s Projects:
Finished the Garter Squish blanket using handspun leftovers.
Mother Bear time!
Mielie vest using Schaeffer Yarn Company Little Danya mohair. This sat in the knitting basket for the last two weeks. Color is Rosa Parks and it was spirit yarn from NoCKRs retreat in 2018.
Shortie socks out of Tomato and Mink Falkland handspun yarn. 3-ply chain plied yarn.
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Show Transcript
Marsha 0:03
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Kelly 0:10
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Marsha 0:17
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Kelly 0:22
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Enjoy the Episode!
Marsha 0:43
Hi, Kelly.
Kelly 0:43
Hi, Marsha.
Marsha 0:45
Okay, big news.
Kelly 0:47
Yes.
Marsha 0:47
Talk. Big news.
Kelly 0:49
Big news. So the trailer pickup finally happened.
Marsha 0:54
Yay.
Kelly 0:55
It was so much fun. It was so much fun. So we went up to, no down.
South, south of us to Pismo Beach. They have the Pismo trailer
rally. And it's Pismo Coast Village, which is an RV park in Pismo
Beach. And, oh, it was so fun. It was all vintage trailers, you
have no idea how many different varieties of vintage trailers there
are.
Marsha 1:29
Mm hmm.
Kelly 1:31
It was amazing. You know, most of the park there was... there are
some sections of the park that were just regular modern RVs. And
probably the majority of the park was full of vintage trailers of
all shapes and sizes. And they have...And one of them, I guess I
should be more specific. And one of them was ours, because the
people who worked on our trailer go to this rally every year. And
it's kind of like NoCKRs, you know, like the retreats where if you
go one year, then you have priority to get in and to actually get
that same trailer spot the following year. And so, I mean, there
are actually people who weren't there. But, you know, bought their
spot, didn't cancel and get a refund. So they, so they'll have it
for next year.
Marsha 2:25
Okay.
Kelly 2:26
So and there are people who have been going for, you know, 5 6 7 8
years. I don't know how long it's been going on. But you know,
they've been going for a number of years and since everybody stays
in their same campsite once they get the one they want, they're
like neighbors you know. They they know each other there, they know
the people camping around them. And so it's this whole community. I
was talking to one man, I said, Oh, this is like a giant rabbit
hole. And he's like, Oh, you you have no idea how deep this rabbit
hole is! [laughing]
Marsha 3:00
It's like a version of spinning learning to spin, right? Like they
don't even want to drop spindle because they're gonna go down that
rabbit hole. So this is this kind of the same thing.
Kelly 3:06
And the people there had, like, this was the trailer that they
bought to brought to the rally, but the one they usually bring is
something else. Or the one they camp in or, or I was talking to one
couple and they said, Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna be at the one
in November. But we're not sure if we're going to bring this one or
we'll bring our other one. So they have like trailer stash.
Marsha 3:40
I was just thinking that. Trailer stash. Yeah. [laughing]
Kelly 3:45
So yeah, and then people would talk about, well, this is my
"forever trailer." So like, you have a trailer, but you have
aspirations for a different trailer. And then, you know, you sell
one trailer and buy another trailer. And anyway, it's a whole world
that I didn't know, you know, we had not ever done rallies before.
And so this is a whole world that that we are entering into. And
the reason we got to enter into it. I mean, we had talked about
going, you know, going to one or you know, getting a reservation or
trying to get into one. But we got kind of thrown into the deep end
because they were coming down, and they were going to be bringing a
different trailer. But since we hadn't been able to pick up ours in
April. They said, Well, what if we bring yours down and then we'll
just stay, you know, stay in hotel and you can stay in the trailer?
So that's what we did. And then they showed it during the open
house, you know, so that the public could see it. But we were kind
of mean, we didn't have the public traipsing in and out of our
trailer.
Marsha 4:56
Well it's like getting a new car and everybody else gets to drive
it, right?, Before you get, right, like you, you don't want
people driving it.
Kelly 5:03
And so we had, you know, we had barriers. So, and a lot of people,
a lot of people in the park did that or at least had one part of
their trailer that had barriers. Or like they knew to have, you
know, multiple rugs that are normally not on the floor when they
are camping, but they use on the public day where everybody was
coming in. You know, just to protect their floors and stuff. And we
had none of that, because we were just, you know, literally just
arriving with the bare minimum camping equipment, so that we could
spend the night in the trailer before we brought it home. So
anyway, but it was really fun. And so they spent a lot of time with
the public and answering questions and all that and Robert and I
didn't really have to deal with the crush of people. You know,
coming to the coming to the site to look at the trailer, but it was
like the belle of the ball. You know, it's the new trailer on the
block the, you know, there aren't very many 1950 Westcrafts. And so
when a new one is restored and comes out, you know, sort of like
its debut.
Marsha 6:13
Yeah,
Kelly 6:14
There's a lot of excitement, there was a lot of excitement at the
park. So we had a lot of people coming by. Not during the public
open house, but the rest of it. Coming by and talking to us. And we
met so many fun people and they, it was just it was a really nice
event. So, and the trailer is nice. It's beautiful. It's so
big. I mean, it's not really that big. When I first saw it, I
thought okay, good. In my head, it had grown to this enormous
proportions. And when I saw it, I thought Oh, good. It is still
kind of small. You know, it's way bigger other one, but it's not
enormous.
Marsha 6:53
Yeah. Yeah, way bigger. So your other one, you know, one person had
to sit while the other person moved .
Kelly 6:59
Right. Kind of you know, this one, you can both move around
without... to me it doesn't feel too big inside.
Marsha 6:59
Like it's not it like those big fifth wheels that people have, you
know. Those are huge things that stick... What do you call
those pop outs and stuff. Those become huge, right? This is still
really small.
Kelly 7:20
Yeah, yeah. Right. But it feels really open. Just like the other
trailer, it feels a little more spacious, because of the layout.
The other trailer felt more spacious because of the windows. And
this one feels that way because of the light wood and and kind of
the layout. But anyway, it was a lot of fun. And I think there's
going to be there's going to be more trailer rallies in my future.
You know, it's not the kind of camping I'm used to, but it was a
fun event. Yeah, it's like a big party.
Marsha 7:56
Yes. I'd say you're gonna have a whole new set of friends. Right?
Yeah.
Kelly 8:01
Work friends.
Marsha 8:02
I'm your your one college friend. Like I guess I'm leftover from
college.
Kelly 8:09
Leftover friends. [laughing]
Marsha 8:14
you know, knitting-- your work people, knitting people, trailer
people, bee people. I'm not sure. Anyway,
Kelly 8:23
Just a whole new adventure. And it was interesting how much I
learned talking to people who knew a lot more about this particular
make of trailer than I did. Robert knew more than than I did. But
but we we both learned a lot from people who came by and told us a
little bit and and then the people who did their own work on the
trailers. Oh my gosh, so impressive. All this work that that people
did, you know, on their own in their garage?
Marsha 8:56
Yeah,
Kelly 8:57
You know, so that's a different-- that's a whole different aspect
of it from from what we did when we bought it and had it restored.
So yeah, it's a whole other world to enter. Which will be really
fun. I'm looking forward to camp we're going camping in June. So
I'm looking forward to actually camping in it you know, regular
camping trip and, and, and just seeing what it's like to be in this
trailer. The bed is nice. It's bigger. It's not as big as a regular
double bed it's slightly smaller. But it's a lot better than
slightly bigger than a single with two people and...
Marsha 9:43
So your other was was it the size of a single bed?
Kelly 9:47
It was a little bit bigger than a single bed but not much. I
couldn't get a twin sheet on it.
Marsha 9:54
Really?
Kelly 9:54
I mean I can--I could fudge it to get a twin sheet on it, but it
was it was deifinitely too big for a twin sheet, but not much. So
maybe maybe a couple of inches wider than a twin bed. But this one
is is much more comfortable.
Marsha 10:11
Yeah. Yeah.
Kelly 10:13
So that's nice. And we have a bathroom. Which is also nice. And the
a shower. Which I didn't--I mean, that wasn't something that I
really cared about, but Robert wanted the shower. And actually, I
didn't know they did this in trailers, but it's like a, like on the
train where the whole room, it's called a wet bath. And the whole
room becomes the shower.
Marsha 10:36
Mm hmm.
Kelly 10:38
I don't know how that's gonna work. Exactly. But yeah.
Marsha 10:42
Yeah. Well, and also you actually have a refrigerator, right? Where
your other trailer was an ice box?
Kelly 10:49
That's true. I had forgotten about that. Yeah, that's the other
upgrade that we have is from an icebox to an actual refrigerator.
It's a small, you know, it's a small refrigerator. But I'm used to
a small refrigerator at home too.
Marsha 11:03
Yeah.
Kelly 11:03
Yeah, it runs on the electricity. So if we don't have shore
power--its called shore power, where you can plug in--we won't have
a refrigerator, because it won't run with the 12 volt or the ...
you won't get enough power from the inverter solar power to run the
refrigerator. But that's okay. We're used to camping with dry ice
and an ice box so we can manage with that. That's not a
problem.
Marsha 11:33
Well, very exciting. And then. And then I'll see it when you come
up to Albany, Oregon for the Black Sheep Gathering the end of
June.
Kelly 11:40
So yeah, yeah, we'll be having a get together for anybody who's
going to Black Sheep gathering that Saturday. So Black Sheep is the
weekend of June 24 through 26th. And so that Saturday, which I
guess will be the 25th that afternoon, late afternoon, maybe 3:30
or 4 o'clock, we'll be having a meet up at the-- we're calling it
The Club Car. You know, like the trains have a club car. So I...
who suggested that... oh, the father of the woman who bought The
Clubhouse. He asked me who is your new trailer? Does your new
trailer have a name? And I said, No, we haven't really haven't
thought about that. And he's oh, you should call it the... first he
said you should call it The Caboose. And then he said, No, I know
what you should call it, you should call it The Club Car. And so
that's perfect. So we're going to be calling it The Club Car. And
I've gotten train placemats and couple of train menus. So that
stuff has been arriving in the mail. And so it'll have a little bit
of a theme, a little bit of a theme. Not as much as as the other
trailer was Giants themed but anyway. Yeah, we're gonna have a meet
up at The Club Car at the Black Sheep Gathering. So come in, say hi
and show us what you bought. And have some food and drink and
gather with other crazy yarn people. [laughing] Who are on their
way to maybe becoming crazy trailer people. [laughing]
Marsha 13:22
Yes. Really Yeah. Yeah! Well, shall we? Should we talk projects
or?
Kelly 13:30
Let's go ahead and, and talk projects.
Marsha 13:32
Do you want me to go first?
Kelly 13:33
Go ahead.
Marsha 13:36
I have a finished project. I wish I could say it was my garter
squish blanket. It is not. I needed a break. Because I have to say
you remember I think the last time we recorded I was struggling
with some of my projects. It's been a couple... it's been months
now that I've been struggling with my projects. And I think you
said oh, just cast something on. So I cast on the Depth Hat by to
Talitha Kuomi. And to remind people this was the yarn I bought at
Stitches. And it's the Fiber Seeds Sprout Special Speckles DK and
the colorway is Dirty Seahorse. And to remind people it's like
they've taken the hank of yarn and dipped one half in solid, solid
teal, and the other half is speckled with teal and brown and some
black. And so when you knit the hat, it pools. It's supposed
to pool so you have you know, the dark sections going up the side
of the hat and the speckled sections going up the front and back of
the hat. So let me just say, that did not happen for me. And
there's this whole technique that you're supposed to do about how
you find the place where you start. You just don't cast on any
random place in the yarn, there's description about how, where
you're the point where you're supposed to find in the color, I
think you're at the halfway point in the solid color yarn is where
you cast on. They tell you what type of cast on you do, I did all
of that. It's an interesting hat. You knit I don't remember
how many rows, but you knit and then you put in a purl row, and
then more and then pick up the the cast on edge. So it becomes--
it's knitted into the body of the hat. I'm not describing Do you
know what I mean? I'm not describing that very well.
Kelly 15:42
Well, I I sort of saw the pictures. It's folded into a hem,
right?
Marsha 15:47
Yeah, yeah. So that looks really nice. I like that. I could not get
the pooling to work the way they say it's supposed to work. The way
I was so captivated by when I saw the yarn and the pattern at
stitches. It spirals. And what they tell you to do is to go down a
needle size, or up a needle size to control the pooling, so that it
all stays in that one section.
Kelly 16:17
So like you're switching needles in the middle?
Marsha 16:22
Yes.
Kelly 16:22
Okay.
Marsha 16:23
And also and the other technique to do that, is to pull the yarn
really tight. So if you're knitting along, when you get to the
solid section, pull that yarn really tight onto the needles or go
down a needle size, or the opposite,
Kelly 16:40
But it didn't tell you to like pull out yarn. If you get to the
part that's supposed to be solid, and you're still on speckled
yarn, just pull it out to you have solid yarn and knit with
that.
Marsha 16:50
No.
Kelly 16:51
Okay,
Marsha 16:51
So I'm a little disappointed that I did not get that look. It's a
spiral, it's fine. I mean, it looks okay.
Kelly 16:58
Did you swatch?
Marsha 17:00
Yes, because it also said in the pattern, they said you have to
swatch and your gauge has to be accurate, because that will affect
the pooling? And my gauge? My swatch and the gauge was correct. So
I don't know what I did wrong?
Kelly 17:15
Probably nothing.
Marsha 17:18
Yeah, I don't know. It's like they are individually hand dyed. So
maybe that has something to do with it. I don't think so. But
possibly. The other thing I would say about this pattern, it does
not say... there's no description on the print of the pattern about
how the, it tells you how to finish the you know, to close up the
top of the hat. But it doesn't give you a description of it. Like
when it's talking about like, oh, this hat has a you know, a hem, a
folded hem and there's nothing. So in the picture does not show the
top of the hat. And the reason I'm saying all this is I had no idea
how it was supposed to look. And so what it really is like, imagine
you have you're on the top of your head, now you're gonna have
1990s pleated khakis. There used to be a pleat on khakis. And now
that is out you know, now it's back. I think pleats are coming
back. But it's basically-- it's like you have four pleats on top.
So I'm not even explaining right because
Kelly 18:19
It's kind of like, I mean, in order to keep the pooling happening.
Right? And not change as you decrease, you really can't have
decreases. So you have to make the top of the hat like the pussy
hat. But then instead of having those points on the ears, on the
sides, they have to do something to make it come to and end.
Marsha 18:44
So when you get to the part where you're going to close up that
hole. You put some of the-- you put groups of nine stitches:
nine stitches on 4 double pointed needles. So you go nine stitches,
and then you put 21 stitches on your circular needles, nine
stitches on the double pointed needle, nine stitches on a double
pointed needle, another 21 stitches on the circular needle, and
then another nine stitches on the double pointed needles. You then
do a three needle bind off on the first and fourth double pointed
needle. And this is where I got screwed up is you you continue on
two needles, a double pointed needle number three and number two,
excuse me two and three, and knit across to the end binding those
off. So they become joined and then you have your 21 stitches on
half of the circular needles and the other 21 stitches on the other
half of the needle and you do a kitchener stitch too.
Kelly 19:55
So that's what's covering up...
Marsha 19:58
Yes so... These, these two sets of nine stitch bindoffs then are
underneath that 21 stitch flap. I don't know if that makes
sense?
Kelly 20:09
I think that would be really challenging to actually knit without
knowing what it was supposed to be doing. Like now that you're
done, and you know what it did. But that would be a really
challenging thing to knit without any picture to say, Oh, I'm doing
a really thing weird here.
Marsha 20:29
Yes, and it looks nice, you know, and to your point, they, it's a
great solution to keep that patterning right. Otherwise, if you
did, to your point, if you did the decreases, you'd throw off all
of the pooling, of which I did not get but anyway. [laughing] But
again, a shout out to Ravelry. And all the people who've made this
hat who posted pictures of their hat is by looking at their
pictures, I was unable to figure out what I had an a visual of what
I was trying to do. Where the pattern there's no picture of the top
of the hat. Right and no description of it kind of other than just
the the instructions about how to close this up. So do you remember
I call I think I texted you. Oh my god, this looks odd because I I
bound it off. And it looked like a four corner hat kind of. It was
terrible. It looked terrible.
Kelly 21:27
Basically, it looked like yeah, you had you had like four points.
Yes. And a really funky seam.
Kelly 21:36
And they were not even even
Kelly 21:39
Yeah,yeah, they were
Marsha 21:39
Yeah, cuz some were really tight because they were the three needle
bind off, the two sets of nine and then the 21 stitches that were
Kirschner was all kind of lose because they were kept... not
Kershner, kitchener stitch. And anyway, I poured myself a beer got
onto my bed with the dog next to me, and started looking at Ravelry
to see and there was no notes. But just looking at people's the
photographs on people's projects, I was able to figure it out. And
so I made myself rip it out, and then re knit up a little bit and
then thought okay, I think I understand the concept of what's
happening. Anyway. So that's what beer is for. [laughing]
Kelly 22:31
Yes, yeah. Oh, my goodness.
Marsha 22:34
Okay. So anyway, that's done. But I have to say, again, it sort of
goes into this. I was thinking, Oh, I'm just, you know, okay. It's
not, I'm disappointed. It's not pooling the way it's supposed to
pool. I'm getting this spiral. I can live with it. It's okay. And
then that end of the hat, I thought, I really am struggling with a
lot of my projects.
Kelly 22:54
Yeah.
Marsha 22:55
Anyway, I will then go on to the garter squish blanket, I have not
a whole lot to report on that I am really ready for this to be
done. I do apologize too. I was listening to the last episode where
I was knitting on it while we were recording. And I was listening
as I was walking Enzo and all I could hear with those needles,
bang, bang. It's all like they were so loud. So I do apologize for
that. So I'm not knitting on that. Now, as I'm sitting here. It is
also too big for it to sit on my lap. But anyway, I'm on color 14,
about halfway through color 14 of 16.
Kelly 23:31
Oh, you're almost done.
Marsha 23:33
I'm getting close. I'm ready for it to be done. I'm beginning to
just hate this project. Because I really like it, but I'm sick of
it. I want to move on to something else. So but we have, I'll just
put there's a good time to put this in here that the our blanket
along ends May 31. So what is today we're recording on today is
Kelly 24:03
the 25th of May.
Marsha 24:04
So Okay, not quite a week. So I will get it done. I'm pretty sure
I'll get it done. But I'm ready for it to be done. Okay, um, I have
nothing new to report on the the unpatterned top down Raglan
pullover by Karen Offski that I'm making for Ben. I have nothing to
report except he's coming home today. This is the, you know,
Memorial. This is the Wednesday before Memorial Day. So he has a
long weekend. And so he's coming home today at some point so
hopefully in the next couple of days he can put it on and I'm going
to say...
Kelly 24:40
Yeah, you can pin him down.
Marsha 24:43
Yes. To see how it's how the body is and etc. So not much to report
on that. Then my next project is the sweater that I'm making for my
brother and Kelly and we before we started recording We looked it
up on. We Googled that in the end it's "Tro-cha."
Kelly 25:06
"Tro-cha minstur"
Marsha 25:07
Troyggja Við Mynstur, which we believe means sweater.
Kelly 25:10
sweater pattern.
Marsha 25:13
sweater with round pattern and which, I have to laugh because
guess what it says in parentheses after Troyggja Við Mynstur, it
says sweater with round pattern. So we finally figured out that
that's what it is. And if anybody wants to give us feedback, if
we're not saying this the correct way...
Kelly 25:38
Our foreign correspondent could tell us how to pronounce that in
Faroese a little bit better and maybe the translation but we did we
did find a Faroese translation site, a pronunciation site online
and we're probably not doing it justice but but we're trying!
Marsha 26:03
So I just have to give you a little update on this. So I
unravelled...
Kelly 26:09
How many times have you start restarted this sweater?
Marsha 26:15
Well, I will tell you! So. Okay, so we're not counting the Atlas
anymore. So I knit the whole body of Atlas. And honestly, I mean, I
pretty much knit the whole sweater, didn't I?
Kelly 26:28
Yeah.
Marsha 26:29
Did I do the sleeves? I didn't do all the sleeves I don't think but
because he tried it on it was way too small. Moving Beyond that,
that's how Cat actually inspired me to look at a Faroese sweater.
Since the yarn is Navia Tradition which is a Faroese yarn. So I
found this pattern and I did my swatch. I did not get gauge on the
nines, it's supposed to use a size nine needle.I did not get gauge
with that I got gauge with the size eight. So Kelly, I got gauge,
okay! Yes. So I don't know. I don't know what my problem is. So I
got gauge and when we went down to the beach, two weeks ago, I
guess we were down there, I cast on the size I think it was going
to make, I don't know, I don't remember now what size I was going
to make for my brother. I've got the pattern right here, it'd be
like I was gonna make the medium size. There was like an extra
small, small, medium, and then a large and then it keeps going up.
I decided I was gonna make it the medium because I thought that
would be okay with the with my gauge. So I cast on and I did all
the ribbing I did the color work that's just above the ribbing, and
I did about an inch of the body and I started looking at it.
I thought, this looks awfully small. So I thought screw it,
I'm ripping it out. So I ripped it out and I recast on the next
size up. So I'm making the large. So I again did the ribbing, the
color work. I knit about I would say probably nine inches of the
the body. And when I was home, I decided to put it on waste yarn
and wash and block it, which I did. And it's going to fit and be
roomy enough.
Kelly 28:19
Oh. That's good news.
Marsha 28:20
Oh my gosh. So now I'm knitting on it. And I have knit about, I
think I've knit about 13 or 14 inches on it. And I have to knit
till about 18 inches, set it aside and then I'll do the sleeves and
attach them. So it's been a bit of a nightmare. I have to say this,
this whole project-- I don't know. Anyway. And then the other thing
I'll say is that with this sweater, I need four colors. Where with
the Atlas I needed three: the main color and two contrasting. With
this pattern, Sweater with Round Pattern, I need the main color and
three contrasting colors for the color work. And I have the color
work as like a light robin's egg blue, and a navy. And the body of
the sweater is like a bright grass green, kind of, so when we were
together when I was down there, I think for NoCKRs, I think it was
, I ordered just a natural color, a white or cream color,
which arrived. And Mark didn't like that. He wanted a color.
So I think I have mentioned this before that I ordered that ball
from Navia on the Faroe Islands, and it took about a month. But it
arrived and he wanted red, it's a bright red. I'm not sure. I have
to say I'm not sure I like the red with a bright kelly green. A
robin's egg blue and a navy. He really liked it.
Kelly 29:57
Havae you put the red in already? Or is it only in the neck color
work?
Marsha 30:03
I have not put the red in. It's only in the yoke. Yeah, just a
couple of rows. It's not gonna be very much. So we'll see. I've got
a ways. But I have to tell you about the the package from Navia. It
came in an envelope, it was all when I got it, the envelope was
wrapped with yarn, instead of twine, and a piece of Navia Tradition
yarn wrapped around it and tied with a little bow on the outside of
the package.
Kelly 30:33
The part that went to the post office, still on there.
Wow.
Marsha 30:35
And it stayed on nice. Yeah, it stayed on there all the way from
the Faroe Islands. It stayed on there, that yarn wrapped around
there and the bow and everything and then opened up and beautifully
wrapped in tissue paper with a little sticker on it that said,
thank you. It's just super, super sweet and very exciting to get
that dropped off on my front porch. So that's what's going on with
that. And then I go down every day, I spend for 10-15 minutes, just
a little bit on that Manx Loaghtan. But I'm still spinning on that.
So and I am Kelly, I am going to bring my spinning wheel to Black
Sheep. Because I'm planning on doing... I've never been able to
bring it because we've either taken the train or something. I've
not had space, but I'm bringing that wheel so I can sit in the
spinning circle, or sit by the trailer and spin. So anyway, that's
all I have for projects, and I'm really hoping I've now moved past
my problems.
Kelly 31:35
Oh, me too.
Marsha 31:36
Do you think? Because I've kind of gone through kind of a hard
time. It's been around two months now. It's like, I've had some bad
juju. I don't really know what that's about. But it's
just,
Kelly 31:48
Yeah, it's been a little bit rough patch with your knitting. Yeah,
maybe you need to do some crochet
Marsha 31:59
Well, maybe it's like I just crochet placemats or something, you
know, or
Kelly 32:03
switch to another spinning project? Well, I don't know if you have
enough bobbins. But you could get yourself some braids and switch
to some different, you know, have a couple of different spinning
projects going because it is going to be time for the summer spin
in.
Marsha 32:20
Yeah, so I think I am going to. I was thinking about that before we
started recording. So I'm going to try and finish for the summer
spin. And I'm gonna try and finish this Manx Loaghtan. I'll try and
finish that, and then I think I'm gonna try and do a combo spin or
I have some braids, two braids I was thinking of combining. So do
something with that.
Kelly 32:40
Yeah, nice. That might be a nice, that might be a nice way to kind
of just put an end to the the bad knitting. By not knitting at
all.
Marsha 32:50
Oh, you know, I think part of it is... I'm gonna say is I think I'm
making... It's all making stuff for other people. Yeah, I'm
thinking about it. I'm making this sweater for Ben, the sweater for
my brother. And then
Kelly 33:03
when doing those tea cozies
Marsha 33:06
Tea cozies. I have another tea cozy I have to make... and it's like
this is knitting for other people. You know? Because like this, I
have to say this Navia Tradition, this yarn. I have to put hand
cream on when I knit with it, because it's so drying to my hands.
It's and I'm not saying that in a bad way. It's just like, this is
the type of yarn it is. It's not super pleasant. It's not like, you
know that the handspun I was knitting with. I love knitting with
it. This is a woolly wool.
Kelly 33:36
Right. Right.
Marsha 33:39
So it's, it's not a yarn I ever would have purchased. Yeah. So
that's sort of part of it, too, I think it's I'm not really, not
really into it.
Kelly 33:49
Yeah, I mean, the yarn. The yarn wasn't your choice. The original
pattern wasn't your choice. No, yeah. And then with Ben's sweater,
you had some challenges with your first pattern. And then you've
had some challenges just having him try it. Like knitting for
someone who's not there. And I know there are people who do that,
you know, they knit for people that they don't have them try it on
all the time. But I, I mean, I constantly try things on when I'm
knitting for myself.
Marsha 34:19
Yeah.
Kelly 34:20
And so I think that would be really challenging to be knitting
something that you know, especially when you're knitting it for the
second time because the first one didn't work, and you really don't
want to have to rip out again. So you want to make sure it's
right.
Marsha 34:35
So Mark's I've ripped out twice. So I'm on my third attempt at this
sweater for him. Yeah. Okay, that is love or stupidity I'm not
quite sure which it is. But anyway, Okay, nevermind my project. Let
me hear about your projects, okay? Because you do have... Yeah, let
me hear about yours.
Kelly 34:54
Okay, it's going. So yeah, actually it's a good thing I have the
trailer to talk about because I don't really have much to talk
about in terms of my projects. So I can tell you that the garter
squish blanket, which was already done, but I have it in the show
this time because I actually slept under it. We used it. We used it
in the trailer, I brought it for the trailer's bedspread. And I got
lots of compliments on it. So some of the trailer people are also
yarn people.
Marsha 35:30
Of course, of course, there was some overlap. And, yeah, chicken
and bees too. I bet. Right.
Kelly 35:36
Well, yeah. I mean, I don't know how much of how much of that there
is. But there were a couple of people who recognized that I had
made it and asked me, Did you make that blanket? And some were
working on their own. Or saw me knitting while I was there
and asked about it. So yeah. So yeah, we slept under. It was great.
It looks, it looks really nice in the trailer. So I'm super, I'm
super happy about how it turned out and being able to use it. I
was... Oh, go ahead.
Marsha 36:11
Oh, I was just going to say the picture you sent me. The colors
work really well in there. Because you have all that sort of light
wood with all the panels, the light wood, and then some of the
burgundy kind of in there and the floor. And so the colors look
really nice in there, I think.
Kelly 36:29
Thank you. Yeah. I like it, too. I think it looks good. I actually
think you know this, the thing about the Garter Squish, is that
they can fit into a lot of different schemes, color schemes.
Because you've got those, that one color going, going throughout
with all the different colors that you add in. I have not finished
the Mother Bear, the headless Mother Bear that I talked about a
month ago. She's still headless, because I need to get some
stuffing. And I started another one. So I have now have two
headless Mother Bears. One flat one is totally flat, and the other
one has some stuffing in it. So I need to get get some stuffing so
I can finish those up. And what I'm knitting on right now is the
mohair vest, which I like it, but then sometimes I look at it and I
think is this actually really ugly.
Marsha 37:37
And what have you decided, I mean, do you have a definitive
answer?
Kelly 37:40
No decision or I'm not really sure. I'm not really sure. It's not
pooling or anything. I mean, there's a couple of places where it
looks darker and a couple of places where the red shows through
more, but it's not doing any kind of funky pooling. I'm about now
maybe eight inches down from the armhole. And it's just-- it's very
hairy. This is a very hairy vest. And I'm not sure what I'm gonna
do about the collar. Because I seriously cannot imagine having this
against my neck. Like my other vest I wear I zip it all the way up
and I have like a turtleneck kind of. I don't think I would ever do
that with this one. So I'm not sure. I've thought about using
something that's not mohair. But I'm still not sure what I'm going
to do I might just get a black yarn and do a, you know, do the
border all in black. Which, knitting with black? I'm not sure I
want to do that either.
Marsha 38:47
How much... I will say something. Do you think you'll ever wear
this?
Kelly 38:54
Yeah, I do.
Marsha 38:56
Okay. I'm sorry. That's so mean of me. I don't mean to be mean like
that. But it's like, Do you love it? You don't know. I mean, you're
unsure.
Kelly 39:04
I love mohair yarn. You know that. So I love the yarn. I'm not sure
I'm loving how it's knitting up. But I don't hate it either. It's
it's just, let's just say it will be unusual. It's not, it's not,
you know, "on trend" exactly. It's not the, you know, a strand of
kidsilk haze that you carry along with your other yarn. This is
full on mohair.
Marsha 39:40
Right. There was a reason why it's in the destash. Kelly.
[laughing]
Kelly 39:44
Exactly. But I do like mohair and I have in my memory-- one of my
fond memories of clothing. I have lots of good clothing memories
from my childhood. In fact I have more clothing memories than
I have food memories. So we were talking about that. Aunt Betty and
I were talking about that, and I really don't have a lot of food
memories from my childhood but I have a lot of clothing memories.
And I have the fondest memory of this vest. And I think it was an
argyle type pattern that I got in the boys department. When I was
in, I think seventh or eighth grade. And it was this kind of full
on mohair. Probably not wool mohair probably that Orlon acrylic
mohair, because, you know, it was a kid's vest. And I wore that
thing all the time. And it was unusual. It was one of those things.
It was not one of those things that all the kids were wearing, you
know?
Marsha 40:51
Yeah. All the cool kids were wearing it.
Kelly 40:55
It was one of my, one of my many clothing items that was definitely
not on trend. But I really loved it. So I have a feeling that I
might, I might not feel quite the same way about this as I felt
about that. But it has the same vibe to me. So I think that's why,
why I decided to make this vest. And I think it would be good.
Like, it'll be warm for sure. I think it'd be good for camping.
It'll be good for walking the dogs when it's cold outside. So I
think I'll get I think I'll get some wear out of it. I don't know
that it will be my go-to piece. So we'll see. But I'm working on
it. It's the Rosa Parks colorway from a yarn company called
Shaeffer that isn't making yarn anymore. And the the name of the or
the type of yarn was Danya mohair. And the really odd thing about
it is that it's hardly taken any yarn to make this. I thought I
had-- I mean I kind of debated whether I had enough to make to make
the vest. But I also am making a vest that calls for, I think, DK
and this is at a bulky gauge. So I had, you know, I had to
reconfigure the pattern somewhat. So we'll see the, the jury will
be out for a while on this one. And I may, it's so hot to knit on.
It's not super warm here. But it's you know, it's kind of hot and
sticky to knit on and mohair flies up my nose and stuff. So it's
not the thing I grab and knit the most often either. I don't have
that much to choose from. So that is my only project besides Mother
Bears. That was my only project and I wasn't grabbing it to knit.
And then I needed something for the road going down to pick up the
trailer and bring it back. I thought I would have more time to knit
but it was really kind of a whirlwind, looking at other people's
trailers, talking to people about the trailer, finding out all the
stuff and how it works, you know, all that kind of stuff. So I
didn't have much knitting time, but I did bring some leftovers. I
have a pair of socks there. Tomato and Mink or Mink and Tomato was
the name of the the braid, and it was Falkland handspun and so I
have a pair of regular socks out of it, but I had quite a bit of
leftover yarn. So I grabbed that and cast on a pair of short socks.
So just you know about maybe a maybe an inch and a half to two inch
cuff. And then I started the heel and that's about where I am. I
think I turned the heel. That's all I've done is a tiny tiny cuff
and turn the heel that's all the knitting. And I never--I hardly
took out the vest. So I really didn't have much.. Well and the
dogs. we had the dogs with us and so I did a lot of walking the
dogs at the RV park because they I wanted them to be good and
they're a lot better if they've had exercise. And so we did a lot
of walking and stuff. Yeah. So anyway, those are my projects, kind
of just the vest. Some Mother Bears in the, you know, in the
meanwhile. And then the barest start of a pair of shorty socks. So
I'm kind of I'm kind of in that place where I don't know. I don't
know what to do. I do think... So we sold the other the old trailer
The Clubhouse. And this young woman came and she brought her dad
because he had the truck with the hitch to pull the trailer home
and her mom came too. Really nice people, super nice people. And we
got to talking and her mom has this...she said, I have this sweater
that I started, but I never was able to finish it, maybe you would
be able to finish it. And I at first my thought was like, oh, no,
this, you know.
Marsha 40:55
Oh no!
Kelly 40:55
But, but so I was kind of non committal. I said, Well, you know, I
maybe...maybe I would be able to do that. I don't know. And, and
then she brought it up again. And finally, I thought, You know
what, I'm not super excited about anything I'm knitting. What the
hell, you know?
Marsha 43:04
Yeah.
Kelly 43:04
And so and so I said, Yeah, you know, send it to me, and I'll see
what I can do. I'm not gonna guarantee that I'll be able to, you
know, finish it, but, but send, send me what you have. And I'll
take a look at it and and let you know, and if I can't, I'll send
it back. And if I can, I'll do it. And she's like, of course, I'll
pay you, you know. And so anyway, I haven't heard from her since
the trailer sold. And I'm wondering if maybe she feels like, oh,
gosh, I was a little bit too forward to do that.
Marsha 46:09
Yeah, she thought, Oh, yeah. This woman was just trying to be nice.
She's thinking that about you like, Oh, she's trying to be nice,
but...
Kelly 46:17
One she got home. Or maybe her daughter after they left said, Mom,
I can't believe you did that. So I thought, oh, maybe I'll text the
woman who bought the trailer and say, you know, let your mom know,
if she wants to send that to go ahead. You know, I'm happy to try
it. So we'll see. I don't know, it. Just kind of something
different. It kind of gave me an idea like, oh, well, maybe that'd
be something different and, and fun to do so. And then the other
thing that I did, this isn't a knitting project. But I just wanted
to give a shout out. We have a new member who joined the the
Ravelry group, AJ, and she introduced herself and let us know that
she has the Hooked and Booked podcast. And she has a website too.
It's called... her name is-- she she goes by AJ, but her website
name is KJ Krochet. And the crochet is spelled with a K. And I'll
have links in the show notes. But anyway, she's from South Africa.
And she has just maybe three episodes, but it's just a cute, it's a
cute show. And I listened to it. And I thought oh, this is fun. So
I listened to all her episodes. And then she was talking about
another podcast called Crochet Conversations. And she's interested,
AJ is interested in having more people podcasting who don't have
American accents. She said she feels like all of the podcasts, the
knitting podcasts that she listens to, and maybe a lot of the other
podcast she listens to also, you know, people with American
accents, and there's not a lot from elsewhere. And so, so she was
promoting this other podcast for these two women from Singapore.
And so I went and listened to it too. And it's also very cute. It's
called Crochet Conversations. And it's two women, Inez and Mell
from Singapore. And the most recent episode, they're taking you
through their house, like room by room talking about what crochet
is in their house. And I thought that was really cute. So anyway,
I'd like to give a recommendation for the Hooked and Booked podcast
and Crochet Conversations and I've linked to both of them in the in
the show notes if anybody's if anybody's interested. And I thought
you know, that's maybe why I said to you, maybe you need to crochet
something because I'm thinking maybe maybe it's time for me to
crochet something because I'm just not super excited by anything
that that I'm working on right now. So maybe I just need a new
inspiration. And the trailer is a big inspiration. Because now I
can think of all sorts of things that I could make for the trailer
you know. So you know like the cover for your toilet paper
[laughing] Well, I mean I'm kidding.
Kelly 46:17
Yeah, I got it. [laughing] You need potholders and hand
towels and yeah, and
Kelly 49:41
and especially those potholders and like what your great aunt what
your your Aunt Ruth made, you know.
Marsha 49:53
Oh yeah, Great Aunt Ruth
Kelly 49:54
1950s style of of crochet potholders, those are really kind of
interesting.
Marsha 50:02
She did those really cute potholders that I don't know how she did
it but there's rick rack in there. So you see part-- you see one
point of the rick rack but not the other point of the rick rack. So
it makes all these little triangles kind of
Kelly 50:16
Yeah,
Marsha 50:17
yeah, I've never seen a pattern like that but and I was also gonna
say too that I've seen I had not seen crochet patterns for
pillows, but knitted pillows I see, you know, covers with color
work. And that might be kind of fun, too. Yeah. Because you're
going to need some pillows on the sofa. Knit something--a
cover--or crochet something. Yeah, you did the bee pillow, but
something like?
Kelly 50:44
Yeah, so I think I think I might crochet or weave.
Marsha 50:49
Well, yeah, weaving too.
Kelly 50:52
I think I might make -- Robert brought regular bath towels.
And we used the shower at the at the RV park, not the shower in the
trailer. But one of the issues with the towels is that they take up
so much space. And then you have to get them to dry. And Hetti had
been talking in the winter weave along about the spa towels that
she made. Because in Santa Cruz, it's kind of damp where she lives
and she wanted towels that would dry. She was experimenting with
different weave structures to see if she could get some towels that
would that would dry quickly. You know, be absorbent, but also dry
quickly. And then also they take up less space. You know those
heavy terrycloth towels. They--not that we don't have the space,
but they take up more space. And so yeah, if I could, I could weave
something that might be really kind of a cool idea. So So yeah, I
have some I have some other inspirations that I haven't had in a
while, or haven't ever had really, that's kind of fun. So maybe
someone else's sweater and then maybe some crochet and we'll see.
We'll see. Check with us next time, listeners, to see if we've
improved our attitudes.
Marsha 52:21
Yes, I know. Well, I'm hoping my I'm hoping it might... Well maybe
it is all my attitude, hopefully my attitude will. It's funny
thinking about my attitude because I made the comment that part of
all these projects I've been doing have been for other people. It
makes me sound so selfish.
Kelly 52:36
But you know it's your hobby.
Marsha 52:39
It is my hobby. I've been doing this, but I was down working in the
basement and I pulled out because I finished the the socks remember
that I had lost the blue, the navy blue for the toe. And I found it
in the last episode. So I finished that sock. Oh, I didn't put that
in my finished projects. Yes, I completely forgot. I did not put
that in my finished objects. But I did finish that. And so instead
of putting the Navy away, I knew that I had bought a skein of yarn
for my brother, he had picked it out. And the Navy would work
really well with it for heels and toes. So I pulled out that skein
of yarn and wound it into a cake to cast those on for him. And I'm
thinking maybe I should not do that. Given that. Yes, I'm thinking
that this is... I should have a conversation with myself.
Kelly 53:35
Yeah, maybe you need to do something. Do some self indulgent
knitting.
Marsha 53:41
Yeah, yeah.
Kelly 53:43
To go with your, your projects for other people.
Marsha 53:48
You know what I'd like to knit is I have a combo spin that I
made
Kelly 53:55
oh yeah, that's a pretty one with silk.
Marsha 53:58
I've never knit that up. And I would sort of like to knit that but
there you go.
Kelly 54:03
Start that one.
Marsha 54:04
Yeah, there's no, I don't know. Okay. No complaining. Everyone,
everybody's gonna want me to finish these projects as soon as
possible so they don't have to hear about it anymore. Anyway, okay,
next order of business.
Kelly 54:21
I'm in the process of getting all of the winter weave along gift
cards purchased. So if you won in the winter weave along you'll be
hearing from me or getting an email with your gift card
information. Either already or very shortly. I also have sent out
all of the prizes, finally for the stitches giveaway that we did. I
sent them out today. And I think that's the only business that we
have. We do still have the SpeakPipe. SpeakPipe, they need to
change their name, no one can say it. All right,
Speakpipe.com/twoewes, you can go there and you can leave a
message about your favorite local yarn store. Or you can send it to
us in an audio file, send it via email. Again, that's
twoewes@twoewesfiberadventures.com, you can email us an audio file
from your phone, or your computer or wherever. And tell us about
your favorite yarn shop. We'd love to hear all about your yarn shop
in your area. So I think that's really all. The Blanket Along ends
this week. We talked about that.
Marsha 55:51
Let's just say what's going on. So the Stashbusting blanket along
ends May 31. So and then the summer spin in starts June 1, and
that, and that will go all summer. So one ends on the 31st. And the
next event, or along, or whatever--contest--starts the next day,
June 1, and that will go the entire summer and it ends September 5,
which in the United States is Labor Day. So we've talked about this
before. Memorial Day is sort of the unofficial start of summer,
which is in May, and then Labor Day is sort of the unofficial end
of summer. And so the summer spin-in will be June 1 through
September 5. And then again, we're going to be at the Black Sheep
gathering in Albany, Oregon. And that's June 24 through 26th. And
that Saturday, we'll have a meet up at the trailer. Yeah. And
Kelly, Should we just pick a time? Yeah,
Kelly 56:53
Let's say 3:30 or 4:00. Yeah.
Marsha 56:57
Yeah.
Kelly 56:58
It's not like there's a definite, it's not like, well, you know,
it's a party, so come after 3:30. We might not be there if you come
before 3:30.
Marsha 57:13
Yeah. We know a few people are coming to black sheep.
Kelly 57:15
And maybe we'll see some people who we've met in previous years.
Who are going to be there too. They haven't had black sheep for a
couple of years. So it will be really good. It will be fun to be
back to another fiber festival.
Marsha 57:40
Yes. Okay, Kelly, I think that's everything
Kelly 57:45
I do too.
Marsha 57:45
Or anything else.
Kelly 57:46
Oh, no, I think that's it. Next episode. I want to talk a little
bit more about my plans for the summer spin in. What I'm gonna do
with the fleeces in my garage, maybe. But yeah, that's for next
time. Maybe I'll have a sweater to work. Yes. Maybe it'll arrive in
the mail someone else's sweater.
Marsha 58:08
Yeah, yeah.
Kelly 58:10
Okay. That'll give us something to talk about. Right?
Marsha 58:14
Yes, I know. Well, we'll talk in two weeks and we'll find out if
you have a sweater.
Kelly 58:18
Okay, sounds good. All right. Okay,
Marsha 58:21
bye bye.
Kelly 58:22
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Marsha 58:29
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Kelly 58:37
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Both 58:40
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