Accidental Duck- Episode 646- The Knitmore Girls

     

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One minute Health update 

On the Needles:(0:49)

• Genevieve wound Little Skein, Targee sweater, in Cider Donuts 2x

• Jasmin has finished the first sleeve and started the second on her #RhinebeckSweater- Bare Branches by Alana Dakos in Little Skein in the Big Wool, Targhee Sweater “Cider Donuts”.

• Gigi is working on autopilot socks for Jasmin: Online SuperSocke 2317 from Black Squirrel in Berkeley

• Genevieve worked on a hat at school, Gigi has a flashback

• Jasmin started a silk embroidery project with Little Skein silk embroidery floss from “The Embroidered Garden” by Kazuko Aoki (Join Anne’s mailing list)

• Jasmin recommends Infinite Twist's mailing list

• Gigi finished knitting the green and yellow Changing of the Gourd. Musselburg hat

• Genevieve wound Oink Pigments, Targee Sock, in This is the Weigh, September 2021

• Gigi cast on another Musselberg hat  by Ysolda out of Oink Pigments in the Halloween colorway This is the Weigh. Jasmin called it.

• Gigi is working on the second sleeve of the Rocky Coast Cardigan   Decreases for the upper arm are done. Working on the underarm decreases

In Stitches:(23:15) 

• Gigi snuggled under the Halloween quilt, and the KAL King quilt . She wore the flannel shirt

• from the beginning clothing construction class

• Genevieve wore her Anna cardigan, Gryffindor hat and scarf set, and hand sewn masks,

• Also: Pantasic hoodie, Waters Edge cardigan, Payne Pullover

• Rex wore his fox hat, hand sewn masks and the Lion heart Hoodie

• Jasmin used the comforter that she visibly mended 

Events:(29:04)

Pacific International Quilt Fest 13- 17 October 

• RHINEBECK! October 16-17 2021, and Indie Untangled !

• Stitches West 2022, Sacramento CA (March 3-6, 2022)

• Digital COVID19 Vaccine Record website

Mother Knows Best:(33:26)

Google what you can, ask a friend who knows more when you can’t (fixing the OTT lite)

When Knitting Attacks:(41:16)

Buy a new one, find the old one strikes again (pellon 541)

Purloined: from the Yarniacs :(46:31)

Wear a shawl every day in November!

Knits in Space:(48:55)

Aru Shah books

Percy Jackson books

Rick Riordan Presents

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (m/m regency romance)

And Sew On: (54:33)

• Trouser Drafting class at Cañada  College :

• Gigi finished the basic pants pattern, and from that pattern, drafted a jeans pattern and sewed the muslin. Genevieve helped. Also :Sew painful!

• Gigi traced, and Jasmin cut clear templates for fussy cut masks