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The Yarniacs: A Knitting Podcast

The Yarniacs Episode 239: Knitting and Fiber Festival Nostalgia!

The Yarniacs: A Knitting Podcast

Gayle Billat & Sharlene Goings

Hobbies, Leisure, Crafts

4.7615 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We share a little nostalgia for an annual fiber event, cancelled due to the global pandemic. Really, it is nostalgia for seeing friends, meeting new ones, and sharing our experiences with other knitters and fiber enthusiasts. Our lives have been made richer by these experiences and we hope to be able to share time together in the future!
 

What are we wearing?

Confetti by Veera Valimaki
Sharlene's Confetti
Big Sister by Hintern Stein 
Gayle's Big Sister
 
What are we stalking?
Rustic Little Heart by Heidi Kirrmeier
Circle & Square by Marina Behm
Unbearable Hoodie by Les Garçons
Mini-Unbearable Hoodie by Les Garçons
Unbearable Hat by Les Garçons
Stripes by Andrea Mowry
Super Simple Summer Sweater by Joji Locatelli
Schneeflocken by Sarah Solomon
 
What are we knitting?
Bento Boksy by Åsa Tricosa
Lead the Way by Megan Doherty
Lee Blanket by Kate Oates

 

Thank-you to our sponsors, 
 

 
What have we finished?
Sharlene's Basic Hat
Susurrus by Joji Locatelli
Sharlene's Susurrus
Brightfeather by Jennifer Steingass

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast. This is episode number 239, which we are recording on

0:15.0

Sunday, February 21st, 2021, which if you write it out, is 02121.2021. I love that. I'm Gail. And I'm Charlene.

0:25.7

And what are you wearing today? I am wearing an oldie but a goody. And actually, now that I look at my

0:32.8

rivalry page, it's not that old. I made it in 2017. This is a sweater that you and I have made

0:41.4

multiples of. It's called confetti by designer Vera Follimaki. And this one I made in Dragonfly Fibers

0:53.4

Pixie.

0:54.2

It's a single-ply yarn and one skein of neighborhood fiber company rustic fingering.

1:02.0

And if I remember correctly, I bought both of these skeins at stitches, two different stitches events, and managed to put them together for

1:13.6

one project.

1:15.1

Nice.

1:16.0

Which is very cool.

1:17.0

Gotta love it when that happens.

1:18.6

Yeah.

1:19.2

I mentioned that Gail and I have both made this sweater multiple times, and it's a very,

1:24.9

very basic top-down raglan with a-line shaping.

1:30.8

We've made variations on stripes, solids, fades.

1:36.4

And it's just one of those patterns that is basic enough that you can do a lot of different things with it.

1:47.1

And it's extremely wearable and I do wear it a lot a lot it's a good blank canvas sweater I think it would be a great

1:53.9

first sweater pattern for someone yeah it absolutely remains one of my favorites in fact I

1:59.4

have been considering making another one.

2:01.6

So that says a lot.

2:03.6

Confetti by Vera Valamaki.

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