Welcome to the Lemmon Juicer Podcast, pick up a knit and get settled down!
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Ravelry: sockbug97
Ravelry Group: Lemmon Juicer Podcast
Blog: www.lemmonjuicer.blogspot.co.uk
Extended Shownotes you will find on the Blog or in the Ravelry Group.
So Zo What Do You Know: http://sozowhatdoyouknow.blogspot.com/
Finished Objects:
Cancun Boxy Erin Kate Archer: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Sockbug97/cancun-boxy-lace-top
- Alacey top that I knitted with a DK weight Sirdar Seafarer in a navy blue colour, on 6mm straight needles. I am quite pleased with the outcome, and hopefully it will get some wear over the summer months.
Socks for Mam: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Sockbug97/mams-afterthought-socks
- A pair of socks knitted without a pattern. The needles are 2.5mm DPNs and a 64 sts count. They make just the right size for my Mam (as well as me!) The main colour yarn is West Yorkshire Spinners signature 4 ply in the Kingfisher colourway, and the contrast heel and toe is also in WYS, but in their Bo Peep 4 ply base in the colour Tin Man. This is also the first time I have done an afterthought heel - neat huh!
Leftovers Sock: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Sockbug97/leftovers-sock--mams-afterthought
- A shortie sock made for myself out of the leftover yarn from my Mam's socks above. Quick and simple, again on 2,5mm DPNs, a 64 sts count and a german short row heel! (Maybe one day I'll write up the pattern)
Spinning: Dark Jacobs fleece.
- A fleece given to me when I bought my wheel, spun up into a simple two ply, mainly a dark brown colour with a lovely few specks of the lighter coloured fleece.
WIPs:
Baby Cross Stitch: https://www.sewandso.co.uk/product/train-birth-record-cross-stitch-kit/1001851
- Another little something for my soon-to-be nephew. I'm getting more and more excited as the project moves on!
Galewood Gauntlets:https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Sockbug97/galewood
- Made out of Devonia in the Bleeding Heart colourway from the John Arbon mill, which is here in Devon. I am feeling slightly underwhelmed by the project so far, but I'm hoping that if I just carry on and give it a good blocking all will work out fine.
Lyne Socks: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Sockbug97/lyne-socks
- Lyne by Dawn Henderson, and yak sock yarn from the lovely Gamercrafting in the Lagoon Mist colourway seems a match made in Heaven! Super soft and super enjoyable.
Delphine Skirt: From Tilly and the Buttons book Love at First Stitch
- Not sure if this is available as a pattern on its own (not sure it is sorry!) but I am making my own version of this simple a-line skirt out of a orange and cream houndstooth type fabric found at a fabric shop near to my LYS. Hopefully this will be a nice make and get me into wearing skirts more often.
Spinning: Green Batts
- I picked up two lovely green batts from a shop called Wool-On-The-Exe in Exeter on my last visit there. I have no idea what they are, they came out of a basket labelled "Wool Batts" so there we go. :P I've spun each batt up separately and am going to ply them together again into a simple two ply.
In The Shed:
Heddle: Trying to make a heddle for my loom.
- We are on the closing stages, and the heddle will get glued together this episode and hopefully if all goes well, it will be finished and tested next time.
Real Talk:
These are some links to the people leading the conversations around racism and inclusion in the
knitting community, take a look at their stories and discover some new people:
@su.krita - https://www.instagram.com/su.krita/?hl=en
@thecolormustard - https://www.instagram.com/thecolormustard/?hl=en
@ocean_bythesea - https://www.instagram.com/ocean_bythesea/?hl=en
@booksandcables - https://www.instagram.com/booksandcables/?hl=en
@ggmadeit - https://www.instagram.com/ggmadeit/?hl=en
Layla F Saad's workbook: https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/
Unfinished Object: https://www.unfinishedobject.com/
Vox Article: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/25/18234950/knitting-racism-instagram-stories
Music:
"Inspired" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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