Pompeii- Episode 651- The Knitmore Girls

     

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One Minute Health update: Boosters for us, and first shots for the kids

On the Needles:(0:45)

• Grandma Naheed got her shawl in the mail. Girls got their socks and our book

• Jasmin finished the first sleeve and started the body on the test knit for Ellie Skeinanigans in Knitcircus Daring DK “All the Bacon and Eggs You Have"

• Gigi is working on autopilot socks for Jasmin: Online SuperSocke 2317 from Black Squirrel  in Berkeley next pair with turquoise at J's house, lavender at mine  

• Jasmin finished the sleeves on her Rainbowgan test knit by Saffiyah/DrunkKnitter in the Frost Yarns Lisa Frank gradient kit.

• Gigi cast on a Musselburgh hat  by Ysolda out of Oink Pigments. the next color came  in the mail: “Sting operation” 

• Jasmin finished the back of the Whitby cowl and is about halfway up the front in Nicole Frost’s MCN worsted in “Jasmin Yellow with speckles”

• Gigi broke up with the Rocky Coast cardigan. Pulled out the needles so G can harvest the stitch markers

• Rex had cardigan envy. Jasmin swatched in Seismic Yarn's "Black Widow" colorway.

In Stitches:(12:19) 

• Gigi wore hand knit socks, and the Pointed Pines shawl 

• Rex wore his fox hat, lionheart hoodie, and hand sewn masks

• Jasmin wore her yellow silk/merino hat, resistance hat, 

Events:(19:57)

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

• Digital COVID19 Vaccine Record website

Mother Knows Best:(21:28)

Don’t work when tired.

When Knitting Attacks:(25:59)

Gigi had no fiberfill for ossicones.

Also : Musselburgh hat. Emily Ocker circular cast on.

Jasmin reversed the directions on the Ellie Test Knit.

Jasmin felted her entire Reignbeaux sweater set in the washer.

Straw into Gold:(41:10)

Jasmin spins some of Perry Cormo on the Daedalus Falcon

Knits in Space:(44:32)

Jasmin worked the district-wide vaccination clinic!

Jasmin's "M is for Medicine" blogpost here

And Sew On: (51:18)

• Trouser Construction class at Cañada College