Intro
Me
Welcome to The MoonBound
ArtisanShip Podcast, I am your host Julia. As this is the first episode I want
to start out by chatting a minute about me. I am coming to you from Wisconsin
in the US, where I live with my husband, Jim, four kids – 8-18 – and one aging
cat who hasn’t come to terms with having no upper canines. My degree is in
Anthropology and Museum work and my training in Archaeology. I am interested in
most anything. Especially, if it used to be commonly done and now produces
something most people just go buy. Among those interests are Spinning,
knitting, weaving and all things fiber-y. I also brew and bake and regularly
get it in my head to try something I am reading about. Sometimes this leads to
a great (or not so great) recipes, sometimes to spending a week learning how to
weave fishing nets. I intend to chat with you about all of that!
Why I am starting these videos?
I dream of owning a little brick
and mortar gallery and teaching studio. The kind of place where people wander
in to see a work up close and end up staying for a cup of tea and taking a
class or just chat and craft all day. I long for the ideal of community
involved in a quilting bee. Having drawn this feeling from the podcasting
community I have decided to join in. Hopefully, you will learn from me and I
from you.
Knitting
On the needles
I
have three projects on my needles right now.
Mouse’s sweater
Elizabeth
Zimmerman’s Percentage system
Key number is
162,
gauge is 5
stitches to the inch.
Junghans Wolle,
thifted and old 79cents a skein.
on fourth skein
and have four left.
knitpicks
interchangeables in nickel size 4 us or 3.5mm
Second tryat
knitting a Pikachu Colorwork into the yoke
Socks!
Mina Philpp’s Two at a time sock
pattern – morphed into her vanilla sock recipe
Mystery stash busting – inventoried
all of my stash yarn and ordered buddy balls for sock yarns I found there.
Patons
Kroy Cascade
Knit
Picks interchangeable size 2.5 us or 3mm
My
Milk sweater
Knit
picks size 9 us or 5.5 mm
Gyre
Cardigan in interweave knits spring 2014
Vicki
Howell Craft in Carol colorway 65-35
Organic cotton-Milk Fiber
Finished
I have finished exactly zero
knitting projects this year! But I did inventory my yarn stash so that is
something.
Spinning
On the wheel
Montadale
sheep’s wool that I picked up at Garfield Farm Museum’s rare breed show from
the sheep farmer she had the fiber processed mildly some done into roving some
mill spun and was selling them to support her daughter’s 4H project. I really
enjoyed spinning this wool, it is fluffy and wanted to spin very fine, I used a
supported long draw to spin it and Navajo or Chain plyed it. I also talked
about the cabin projects – log cabin style knit blocks afghan and welcome mat –
using breed study fibers.
Finished
Confetti
Skein
66
yard
2oz skein
Bulky thick thin
Kettle Dyed
One more lot
Spin box
Inspired
by Grace Shalom Hopkins’ Spin Hanukah series, I have asked my kids to put this
box together. Hoping it will be a regular series here. I gave them a bin of
random stashed fiber from my stash, Nope not letting them loose in my stash!
Some of the fibers were leftovers some from a guild member’s de-stashing event
where I bought a big box of random, mostly at least partially unlabeled stuff.
I did not include cotton or silk hankies, but there was angora, alpaca,
multiple breeds of sheep, and rose (rayon), plus sparkle. The only rules for
them was the final weight had to be about 4oz, if they chose to add sparkle
they could only pick one color, and they needed to tie the box up with string
and return unselected fibers to the bin so I could not guess. I was then kicked
out of the kitchen and went to take a shower. My rules, I have to use whatever
is in this box to make one skein of yarn, I can’t skip anything but VM, if
present. Everything was washed but some of the fiber was not milled.
Acquisitions
Hat
block
Fancy
light box for better pictures – I forgot to mention this so I will add it to
the next one!
Sock
yarn for matching to stash inventory yarn
