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Video #31 Knitting, Quilting, Rug Hooking, Embroidery with my sister
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This episode was recorded on November 5, 2019. I've had technical and personal issues that delayed publication.
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Paula and Gayle
This episode was recorded on November 5, 2019. I've had technical and personal issues that delayed publication.
Paula and Gayle
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Episode 335 Shades of Indigo
Note: I am having problems accessing photos to put in the blog. I'm going to post without photos so you have the links and will keep trying to add them in.
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Pipeliner Notes
Welcome to our newest Pipeliners who have said hello to us
on the Welcome thread.
iTunes
dvandalen 12/13
mdelmare in VA 1/8/2020
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research.
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Events
Links to retreats and registration materials are in the Knitting
Pipeline Retreats Group on Ravelry. There is also a sticky
thread with all upcoming retreat dates.
Georgia Retreat Registration is up. Links in the Knitting
Pipeline Retreats Group and on the blog. Registration started but we still have
room for about 10 more.
Needle Notes
Cobblestone
#3 by Jared Flood. Finished! Cobblestone #4 is halfway done.
Barrett Wool Co
Woolen Spun in Rain Shower colorway.
Northeasterly
by Melissa Alexander-Loomis. I have a plan which I may yet abandon. If I do abandon
the project, there are two potential takers.
Toadstool
Doll and Leaf Set by Susan B Anderson
Sublime Yarns Baby
Cashmerino Silk
In The Pipeline’
The
Infinite Pieces of Us by Rebekah Crane
(YA free on Amazon Prime Kindle) 3 stars
Nothing
to See Here by Kevin Wilson YA? 3 stars. Bizarre story. Children catch on
fire.
Voyage
on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912
(Dear America Series)
The
Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd only .99 on Kindle. 5 Stars!
The
Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson 5 stars
Lilac
Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly 5 stars
Saving
Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay by Julie Zickefoose (do not buy Kindle Edition due to many color
photos and paintings. 5 stars
Blethering Room
Tree Stump
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Episode 334 Do All the Good You Can
Please help me fund research for ovarian cancer. It is one
of the lowest funded of all types of cancer.
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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
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Pipeliner Notes
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iTunes
amykjensen on Oct 23
carolshue on Oct 27
Why I’ve been taking a break from podcasting. After 11 months of treatment, the ovarian cancer returned and I’ve started a new regimen of chemotherapy. You can follow me on Caring Bridge.
Events
Links to retreats and registration materials are in the Knitting Pipeline Retreats Group on Ravelry. There is also a sticky thread with all upcoming retreat dates.
Georgia Retreat Registration will be released in when I get to it.
Needle Notes
Cobblestone #3 by Jared Flood. Finished!
Barrett Wool Co Woolen Spun in Rain Shower colorway.
Northeasterly by Melissa Alexander-Loomis. I’m on 5 out of 10, maybe 12. Going to abandon this project and give it to someone who wants a head start. No longer interested.
Toadstool Doll and Leaf Set by Susan B Anderson
Taproot Magazine #10 Tend
Miss Marple by Nadia Crétin-LéChenne
Book Notes
To The Point: The Knitted Triangle by Leila Raven Highly Recommended 5 Stars!
Triangular Shawls have been maligned. “Point directs attention to the derriere”.
Trend now toward bigger shawls and crescent shape. Stretchiness of triangle. Crescent shawl tends to have tight top edge no matter what you do.
Bob gives a mathematical lesson on triangles.
The Great Shawl Giveaway
We talk about nature, our succulents and especially my Christmas Cactus.
Thanks for listening!
Paula
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| Christmas Cactus flanked by Flapjack |
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Video Episode: Antique Quilts with Jo Glass
Jo is Qwiltnknitnut on Ravelry and Instagram
Paula is PrairiePiper on Ravelry and Knittingpipeline on Instagram
www.knittingpipeline.com
Books:
Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns by Barbara Brackman
https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Pieced-Patterns-Barbara-Brackman/dp/0891458158
Dating Fabrics by Eileen Trestain
https://www.amazon.com/Eileen-Trestain-Fabrics-1800-1960-Paperback/dp/B01FOC9RPC
Please leave questions on the Ravelry Thread or on YouTube.
Thanks for watching!
Friday, October 25, 2019
Episode 333 Embroidery Meets Knitting
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Show notes are found at www.knittingpipeline.com. You can find me on Ravelry as PrairiePiper and on Instagram and YouTube as KnittingPipeline. There are two groups on Ravelry, Knitting Pipeline and Knitting Pipeline Retreats. Come join us there!
You can also find me here:
Ravelry: PrairiePiper Feel free to include me in your friends.
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Twitter: knittingline
Pinterest: Paula Emons-Fuessle
Ravelry Group
Knitting Pipeline Retreats Group.
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Pipeliner Notes
Welcome to our newest Pipeliners who have said hello to us on the Welcome thread.
byhookandstix who is Sue in NSW Australia, Nsmerkt who is Nikki from Northern VA (Nikki’s Notables on Etsy---window bags), Linda Chamberlin in NH. Welcome! Thank you to the wonderful moderators in our group especially TwinsetJan who have said hello to those who posted in the thread.
iTunes
Groovy D on 10/22 “Like an Auntie in my Living Room” Listened from beginning and is now current.
Events
Links to retreats and registration materials are in the Knitting Pipeline Retreats Group on Ravelry. There is also a sticky thread with all upcoming retreat dates.
Eagle Crest Retreat October 30-Nov 2, 2019. Also will collect mittens for Threads Hope and Love.
Georgia Retreat Registration will be released in November.
Needle Notes
Cobblestone #3 by Jared Flood.
Barrett Wool Co Woolen Spun in Rain Shower colorway.
I am starting sleeve #2. Body complete to armholes.
Odette Hoodies for girls. Odette Hoodie by Carrie Bostick Hoge.
Both sweaters needed length in body. About 3 “.
In the last episode I explained how I lengthened the hoodies that were knitted from bottom up. I didn’t have enough of same dye lot so there is a wide stripe on the larger sweater. To fool the eye with the dye lots I presented a few options:
- 1. Add a big pocket, small side pocket or two side pockets.
- 2. Embellish with embroidery.
- 3. Both of above
JanMarie said large pocket with embroidery too. Butterfly on sleeve.
I added a kangaroo pocket on each in garter stitch since there are garter stitch details on sweater.
- Marked middle of sweater all the way down with waste yarn.
- Picked up right leg of stitches along bottom just above ribbing, making sure you stay in the same row all the way across. Start picking up about 1” from side “seam” and end about 1” from left seam. Decreased 1 stitch on each side until width of pocket looked right then straight up.
- Used a modified 3 needle BO to join top of pocket to body of sweater. Again, picked up right leg of each stitch in row. (This is where marker in middle comes in handy because you want the same number of stitches on both sides of pocket and body of sweater. Worked really well and looks very tidy and sturdy.
Embroidery
In order to hide the dye lot change I fooled the eye with embroidery. Flower stems look as if they are coming out of the sides of the pocket. Flowers are different heights and colors. Leaves and buds on some, blooming flowers on others.
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| Helene's sweater size 4 |
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| Pocket detail |
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| Butterfly and More flowers |
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| Maeve's sweater with butterfly on sleeve. |
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| A blue butterfly landed on her sleeve |
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| Bunny on back of Maeve's sweater. |
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| Can you see the carrot? |
Duplicate stitch bunny from My Knitted Doll by Louise Crowther. Grass with carrot in the ground. Duplicate stitch good for repairs and small areas. This came out rather bulky and stiff…but I think she will love it.
Tip: If you are using a grid pattern from a book, make sure it is for knitting or convert. Reason is that knit stitches are not square: the are wider than they are tall; so, if you took a pattern from a cross stitch book, for example, the resulting image would be distorted.
Helene's Sweater Backside
Fluffy bluebird in backstitch. Branch and worm on the ground (bullion stitch with antennae in black embroidery thread.) Much quicker than duplicate stitch.
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| I used backstitch to outline the bird. |
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| This little caterpillar in bullion stitch might be my favorite thing! |
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| Detail of 3 needle bind off to join pocket to sweater. |
Embroidery stitches used:
- Fly
- Backstitch
- Outline
- Lazy Daisy
- Chain
- Bullion. New to me and I love it! Looks like caterpillars.
- Palestrinian knot. Learned from Anna Zilborg. Works better than French knots on knit, although you can do French knots if you are careful where you put them. Can fall in ditch between vertical rows so don’t stand out much.
- Algerian Eye ( little bulky but I left it in)
Tips for embroidery on knitting:
- Use a practice swatch before you start.
- Easier to do straight lines than curved lines. Knitting makes a grid.
- Use a yarn equal to or thicker than base yarn. Shows up better.
- For bird I cut out a simple shape using freezer paper and pinned it to the back of the sweater as a rough guideline.
Blethering Room
I have been doing quite a bit of quilting which I will show in the next video, coming soon.
Nature Notes
- Lots of rain!
- Peepers on our windows and at the creek.
- Wildflowers: self-heal, rudbeckia, daisy fleabane,
- Johnny Jump Ups self-seeded from our pots in the spring.
- Goldfinches are molting into their winter plumage.
- Last hummingbird sighting October 4th.
- Lots of butterflies:Painted ladies, Buckeyes, Monarchs
- Revived our deck for fall with mums, winter pansies.
- Planted bulbs. Scilla and crocus in our Stump Garden.
Hiking in Forest Park and Eureka Lake
William Bliss Carman, FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years. 1861-1929
A Vagabond Song by Bliss Carmen
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood --
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.
There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill of flame
She calls and calls each vagabond by name.
--Bliss Carmen
In the Pipeline
Watching
- · This is Us
- · Survivor
- · This Farming Life on Britbox
- · DCI Banks
- · Durells of Corfu
- · Poldark (the Final Season) Boo hoo!
- · Press
- · The Victim (Britbox)
- · The Great British Baking Show
- · Schitt’s Creek on Netflix
- · Keeping Faith Season 2
- · 800 Words
- · Missing (Joanne Froggatt)
- · The Yorkshire Vet
Paula
·
Just
Get it Done Quilts by Karen Brown
·
Steph and
Momo Show (quiltswag)
Reading
Paula
The Song of Hartgrove Hall by Natasha Solomons
The Woman who Walked in Sunshine by Alexander McCall Smith
One Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives by Bernd Heinrich
Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter
Listening
The Minimalists Podcast
Everything Happens by Kate C Bowler
The Joycast by Margaret Feinberg (Christian)
The Minimal Mom (Dawn)
High Note Low Note
Bob:
High: Paula’s excellent CT Scan on August 8
Low: Coming of winter
Paula
High: Marco Polo app
High: Fed and Fit: Wellness and Healthy Living
Cook Once, Eat All Week: 26 Weeks of Gluten-Free, Affordable Meal Prep to Preserve Your Time & Sanity by Cassy Joy Garcia
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About Me
- Paula
- I play the Great Highland Pipes, knit, observe nature, and read. My name on Ravelry is PrairiePiper. Find me on Instagram as KnittingPipeline.