Episode 167 EZ's Baby Sweater on Two Needles

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This episode is sponsored by my Longaberger Home Business, Quince & Co and Klose Knit.

Quince & Co wool yarns are sourced and spun in the US. All our wool and wool-blend yarns are spun in New England mills with venerable histories. By sourcing our wool in the US and manufacturing our yarn locally, we minimize our carbon footprint. Find Quince wool and the other Quince fibers at www.quinceandco.com.

Fine Fibers and Friendly Service is the motto of Klose Knit and that is exactly what you’ll find in our store in Urbana IL. We have a great selection of yarns including Rowan yarns and patterns, Blue Sky Alpacas, Art Yarns, Tahki, Dream in Color, Malabrigo, and Spud and Cloe.  Sock yarns include Opal, Austermann Step, Trekking; and more. Klose Knit is a quick hop off the I-74 in the heart of Urbana IL.  311 W. Springfield Ave. Urbana, Illinois 61801 (across from Strawberry Fields).

You can find my Longaberger Home Business at www.longaberger.com/paula.  Please send me a personal message or visit my web site to sign up for my customer email list.

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Ravelry Group

Knitting Pipeline Retreats Group.

Events:

Prairie Arts Fiber and Friends

Saturday April 12, 2014

9 AM to 4 PM

Three Sisters Park, Chillicothe IL

Among the vendors are some of our own Pipeliners:

·        Heritage Hill Farm (Leicester Long Wool)

·        Yarn Geek Fibers

·        Daizie Knits

Registration for Maine Retreat opens April 14 (postmark date).

Sept 21-25, 2014

Franciscan Guest House, Kennebunk ME

Susan B Anderson is Guest Artist in Residence.  Fee includes one workshop with Susan.

Single is $590, Double or Triple is $440.

 

 

Nature Notes

·        Mourning Cloak Butterfly

·        Goldfinches are moulting.  Eating a lot of seed.

·        Our Phoebe is back.  Raspy Fee bee call and tail flick.

“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”
― John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir

Needle Notes

Magic Cake Ruffle Shawl with Cherry Tree Hill Broad Band

 

Another Magic Cake Ruffle Shawl (and the last one for a while)

 

Elizabeth Zimmermann Baby Sweater on Two Needles (February) in Knitter’s Almanac

 

PrairiePipers Baby Sweater on Two Needles

 The Blethering Room

Leslie Wind Designs

Domesticating Kat Bags

Don't you love that flower that matches the fabric?

 

Katbierma on Ravelry

Kat made lots of new friends at the retreat.

Kat at her vendor table with all the pretty bags.

Kitchen Counter Crafter

Jennie's bags have a unique closure on the top.  Jennie is amazing!

JavaJennie on Ravelry

In The Pipeline

Watching

Two new videocasts:

In a Sknit (a silly knitting podcast) with Sarah and Kristi

Dark Matter Knits by Elizabeth Green Musselman

Drawn2Life by Drawn2Knit on Ravelry (Jennifer) recommended by our own Jaxie985

Jennifer Edwards web site

Reading

The Forever Girl by Alexander McCall Smith

Such a Pretty Fat or Why Pie is not the Answer by Jen Lancaster

The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott

North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo

Listening

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon.  2^nd book in Outlander series.

Catching up on podcasts Yarns at Yin Hoo, 2 Knit Lit Chicks, knit.fm.

Knitting

Incredible Expanding Gnome Hat by Ravenous Knits/Maureen Hefti  (Free)

Infinitude Scarf by Jeni Chase

Leksak (Tunic Pattern) by Yarn-Madness

Cassis Shawlette by Collete Audrey

Fireflies Rising Shawlette by Helen Stewart

 

Haste ye back!