Episode 6: My first hand dyed yarn!

Hey everyone! Here’s this week’s episode! Hope you enjoy!!

Knitting

• lots of working on the secret test knit!
• The Pondhopper hat by Alicia Plummer of Two Little Plums out of Malabrigo Rios in the Glazed Carrot colorway
• The sweater I was wearing is the Rosemont Cardigan by Hannah Fettig (KnitBot) out of Berroco Ultra Alpaca in the Potting Soil Mix colorway ! It is out of the Home and Away collection that Hannah Fettig published in 2015!

Spinning

• fiber from Three Water’s Farm in the Summer Jubilee colorway (which was their Tour de Fleece 2016 colorway!) It doesn’t look like Summer Jubilee is being sold anymore, but all the other colors are absolutely amazing!!

Dying (!!!!)

• Two colorways that have been a result of experimentation! Nebula will be one of the names and the other one is still undecided!
• Dyed on Knit Picks Bare on Bulky, Worsted, DK, and Fingering

Thats it for this week! Hope you guys enjoyed the episode! I’ll be back next week… hopefully with some more knitting content, haha! <3

 

 

Dyed yarn and an announcement

I’m so proud of these little guys right now…

Which might be slightly confusing… As theres no real connection with anything, they’re just a bunch of mini skeins in different sizes sitting on my couch.

What makes them special… is that I DYED them MYSELF. And this was my second try (first try wasn’t anything big at all, all one color) and I’m SO excited with how it turned out. 

and I had a lot of fun doing it… Oh my goodness, so much fun. All the color possibilities, the various ways to do it…

The name ideas were all over the place in my head, but my fiancé said that it reminded him a lot like something in space! Which made me think of Nebula or Milky Way or even Guardians of the Galaxy (he suggested that ;P)

So, as I made a slight reference to in my last podcast episode and my big announcement…  I’m going to start dying and eventually selling it (hopefully)! I’ve still got a lot of learning and experimenting to do, but if this is my second try… I’m really looking forward to the results of other color ideas!!

These are just little tester skeins of Knit Picks Bare I ordered and wound off into mini skeins. But I’ll be ordering the actual big, sellable skeins of yarn soon! I’m in the process of working on labels and getting the website up and running and all that jazz. So many things! I’m going to keep the name and the logo a secret still… but I’ll tell you its super cute… If I do say so myself, haha.

I’ll do another post soon with pictures of where I dye and what it all looks like because thats always fun to see.

Cool enough to wear hats…

I can’t wait till the weather cools down enough to wear hats.

I know its coming, but knowing Texas, it’ll take it’s sweet time getting here, haha.

In the meantime, I’ll just live vicariously in the cold through pictures on Instagram of people who are already getting to bundle up in knitwear ;)

Episode 5: I have guests!

Here’s this week episode! I have a couple of guests with me ;)

We have FO’s!!!!

• Mine – Buccaneer by Justyna Lorkowska out of Madelinetosh Merino Light and in the Unicorn Tails!
• My mom’s – Ennui also by Justyna Lorkowska (free pattern!!) out of Malabrigo Silky Merino

Works in Progress

• Mine – Ennui (see above) also out of Malabrigo Silky Merino (see above)
• My mom – The Wanderer Cowl by Sheryl Means (pattern from Yarntopia) out of Savvy Skeins in the Jekyll and Hyde colorway
• Also my mom – Thessaly Cardigan by Hanna Maciejewska from PomPom Quarterly: Autumn 2016 out of Madelinetosh DK in the Cardinal colorway

Things we want to knit…

• Katie wants to knit chunky cowls! Very instant gratification, and if you don’t finish them in a timely matter, its not like you’ve failed!
• The new Brooklyn Tweed Fall 2016 Collection *heart eyes*
• Tamarack by Jared Flood (this would be for my fiancé) // Mohar by Norah Gaughan // Auster by Michele Wang (my mom wants to knit this but isn’t sure about the turtleneck!) // Spearheads by Jared Flood (ahhh, that colorwork!!)
• My mom – has questions about the pleats about Tavia by Ann Budd from Quince and Co. ! What do you guys think? Do you have any opinions about the pleats and how they would knit up?

What were we all here celebrating??

• Aggie Ring Day!! Its a big tradition here at A&M as are our A&M Class rings. You can read about it here! And then read about the celebration afterwards (its called a Ring Dunk!) that is done many different ways, but this is the traditional way.

Also the sweater Katie is talking about…

• The Open-front Batwing Cardigan from Gap!

 

Thank you guys so much for watching this week’s episode! I had a lot of fun having my mom and sister with me!

Sorry this is so late in uploading! I had major uploading issues this week… but I think I’ve smoothed it out and it should be fine next week!! <3 <3

Puzzles of Color

Its been another one of those weeks that started off really slowly, then once Tuesday was over, its just flown by. I have gotten a fair amount of knitting done, but its been on a secret test knit.

But, after knitting around 7″ on it yesterday, I decided I could knit some on my Buccaneer shawl.

I have less than 10 repeats till the end!! I’m going to try and get it done today. Thats the goal, haha.

I love how these colors have knit up so much. Seeing how stuff like this can turn out (even if its just haphazardly adding colors) makes me want to do all the colorwork projects, haha. Which colors go best? What colors would be unexpected choices but really make it all pop? Its like a big puzzle of color… and I love it so much ^_^

Also! Be on the lookout for this week’s podcast episode! There’ll be a fun surprise this week!

My Autumn Playlist

I always have music playing. No matter what I’m doing… if I’m getting ready in the morning, working in the afternoon, when I would study…

So I’ve put together a playlist of tunes that I’ve been listening to at the start of this fall season!

You can enjoy the playlist too! I’ll still  be adding songs to it!

EDIT: So, for some reason its not letting me embed the playlist into the actual blog post, BUT if you click the link right above the playlist, it’ll take you to the playlist and you can listen there. So sorry! <3 

Every life speaks bliss to me,

Fluttering from the autumn tree…

— Emily Brontë

Episode 4 – All the Westknit things

Hey everyone!! Here’s the next episode of my podcast!

Here are the show notes for this week’s episode! Thanks for stopping by! <3

Knitting

•  Buccaneer by Lete’s Knits – no progress… but hopefully next week it’ll be done!
• Pondhopper Hat by Alicia Plummer. I’m using Malabrigo Rios in the Glazed Carrot colorway.

Things I want to knit

• The Stephen West 2016 MKAL – all the kits are sold out now, but you can get the pattern and also pick your own yarn! I’m super excited about getting to knit it!

Other things I mentioned in the episode…

• The Exploration Station KAL run by the Dyer’s Notebook podcast and the Yarngasm podcast!
• The Stranded Podcast and Amy’s yarn, Stranded Yarns! (I want some of her yarn so badly!!)

Thank you guys so much for watching and hanging around! Hope you enjoyed this week’s episode!!