Stash and Burn

Episode 27: Color Me Badd

Episode 28: Color Me Badd (32:15)

We talk about our color palettes, how color influences our knitting choices, and why we buy when we buy.

Color Me
We talk about what colors we obsess over and what turns us off, then wonder what color season each of us might be.

Jenny's red post
Molly Ringwald
Gloria
Artfibers Whisper
Betty Edwards Color
Hamburglar
Color Me Beautiful (which Nicole has since found and purchased)
Tulip & my aunt
Tilted Duster
Peruvia in Acquamarina
Ribbon X-back

Badd
We buy. Here's why.

Peruvia
O-Wool
Our recent binge may be related to some of the following:

• Release of new magazines
• Certain LYSOs elicit the desire to buy
• Going to a new LYS
• Feeling virtuous for not buying? Then buy!
• Suckers for a sale
• Nicole deliberates; Jenny is more of an impulsive buyer

Cottage Yarns
Stash in Berkeley
Elann Highland Peruvian Wool
Artyarns Ultramerino (in color UM109)
Jaeger Siena
Prairie Tunic (scroll down)
Dad's cardigan front

Are you making one skein projects? Yes, then enter our contest by taking a photo, posting it to the Stash and Burn Flickr group with the details and the tag "oneskein" and letting us know. Enter often!

Music:
Dig Me Out: Sleater Kinney
Shangri La: Versus
Sharpshooter: The Mary Timony Band

Episode 26: The Lone Skein

Episode 26: The Lone Skein (38:45)

Follow-up on adjusting patterns
Faux seams
Courtney's question
Stitch-n-Bitch Nation
Big Girl Knits
Duct tape dress form (not the one Nicole talks about, found this later)

The lone skein
Half Dome Hat
Tychus
Ganomy hat
Thuja
John's ribbed Seaman hat
Hats on!
Fetching
Colrain
Knucks
Mountain Colors Bearfoot

CONTEST!!

• Running between August 17-September 21.
• Knit a one skein project
• Submit it to the Stash and Burn group on Flickr (if you can)--tag it with "one skein"
  
• Comment here or email us to let us know that you have knit one
• For every project finished you get an entry

5elementkntr contest

One skein patterns
Odessa
Shedir (in the PDF)
Fuzzy feet
Soy Wool Stripes
Lamb's Pride
Harold's fingerless gloves
Kate
Knitflix!
Bobbi Bear
One Skein Wonders: Honey Tangerine Scarf, Aran Tam, Jamaica Bag
Swallowtail Shawl
Calorimetry
Lorna's Laces Angel
Elisa Nest Tote
Everlasting Bagstopper
Aija's Everlasting Bagstopper

Music:
Dig Me Out: Sleater Kinney
Lion's Mane: Iron and Wine
River: Versus
High Beam: Continental

Episode 25: Changing the Recipe

Nicole and Jenny talk about the how's and why's of pattern modification and drool over the fall IK preview...

Episode 25: Changing the Recipe (35:09)

Boss around your knitting!

Why do we change patterns?

• Wanting to use a different yarn than called for
• Finished versions found online
• Accounting for ease
• Changing the shape to fit your body
• Not getting gauge...
• Modifying to knit in the round: take out seam stitches and cast on!

What do we do?

• Know your measurements! Hips, waist, bust, armhole and the distances between...
• Know your gauge! Stitch and row!
• Look at the schematic and figure out where changes are needed
• Damn those armholes!
• Barbara Walker's top down set in sleeves
• Nicole's first attempt at armholes
• Know your fiber and how it will stretch...
• Less ease in the bust, more ease in the hips...
• Nicole's boobholder
• Getting raglan seam lengths right: increase until you get your upper arm stitch count?
• Wicked
• The eyelet hole conundrum

Adjusting patterns as your go

• Example: Molly Ringwald
  • Getting a different gauge. Decide on your size, times the gauge by the number of inches. Follow the shaping by figuring out how many inches are decreased and increased and then work out the numbers with the new gauge. Figure out how wide the ruching is by figuring out the width by the stitch count. Adjust your count accordingly.

• Example: Josephine
  
  • Changing the amount of ease at the bust to account for yarn stretch. To get negative ease in the stockinette portion: make more decreases under the arm and accomodate for fewer stitches at the top.

The next challenge: Knowing what shapes suit your body...

The Fall IK Preview!

Yarn shopping for Norah Gaughan's Tilted Duster...
Cirilia's mission: what do the Berroco Peruvia colors really looks like?
The Minimalist Cardigan by Ruthie Nussbaum: For Ming?
Deborah Newton's Hedgerow Coat: made in O-Wool!
Tangled Yoke Cardigan by Eunny Jang in Felted Tweed
Ann Budd Tyrolean socks
Mary Jane Mucklestone's Mirepoix bodice: bust bisection... in style?
Fair Isle 101 from Winter IK 2005
Bauhaus pullover from Spring IK 2007
Miss Interweave is back!
What happened to the redheaded model?

Some podcast resources for pattern readjustment and technical issues in knitting:
Christa Knits!
Knit Science

Thanks for listening!

Music:
Dig Me Out: Sleater Kinney
All I want to Know: The Magnetic Fields
Stella: Continental

Episode 24: Giving the Gift of Knit

Episode 24: Giving the Gift of Knit (37:22)

This week we contemplate the act of giving your knitting and talk to the ladies of Y2Knit about their ECOnnection club.

The Slippery Slope of Gift Knitting
The Holidays are right around the five month corner. Are you knitting gifts?

Sunrise Circle Jacket (soon to be Jenny's!)
Neck Down V-Neck Sweater
Ron's hat
Jenny's Dad's sweater
Jenny's Dad's hat
The shirt Nicole made
Fetching
Trendsetter Blossom

Tips for gift knitting:

• For big projects, work with the recipients
• Ask for requests
• Otherwise, stick with small projects

Connect with your yarn!
We talk to sisters Susan and Jill Wolcott about their new socially responsible yarn club, ECOnnection. We apologize if it is hard to hear Susan, we were working with new (to us) technology.

Y2Knit
ECOnnection
O-Wool
Yak
Frog Tree
Ashland Sky Bags

Thanks Susan and Jill Wolcott! Thanks for listening!