Sunday, March 30, 2014

Episode 18: Spring Knitting

You can listen directly to the podcast here!

Place Your Order
Sipping
Spilled Beverages
Your Drink is Ready
Specialty Drinks
On the House
Drive Through
Tips

Sipping 
Jeck Sock by Reggina Sata
Highland Handmades Sugar Maple Sock Yarn, Aegir colorway
US 2's = 2.75 mm

Ribbon Hat
My own design fin worsted weight yarn with US 8's.

Specialty Drinks
Stitch Surfer KAL
Diane, Knitabulls on Ravelry and the podcaster of the Knitabulls podcast is hosting a Stitch Surfer KAL through the month of March and April.  Diane has done some wonderful video tutorials which are very helpful.

Cynthia's Too Charity Hat Drive 2014
Year long hat drive with a goal of 175 hats by the end of 2014.  You can mail or drop off your hat(s) at Cynthia's Too Yarn Store, 420 East Mitchell Street, Petoskey, MI 49770.

Spinzilla 2014
Possibly hosting a KnitSip Spinzilla team.  Let me know if your interested.  For you non-spinners I will also be hosting a thread in the KnitSip Ravelry group if you'd like to participate and see how much yardage you can knit, crochet, tat, etc.

Spilled Beverages
Frogged a cowl that just wasn't working.  Will re-purpose the yarn, Yarn Hollow Chrome based in the Chili Red colorways.

On The House
Congrats to Imecoll aka Linda!

Drive Through
Gaylord Knitters
Every Thursday from 4-8 pm at the Bigbby coffee shop in Gaylord, MI.  Fiber lovers and muggles alike are encouraged to come and hang out with us.  (Guys don't be shy, we have gentlemen in the group too!)

Cynthia's Too Open Knit
Come to Cynthia's Too, 320 E. Mitchell Street, Petoskey, MI on Saturday April 5th from 11 am - 3 pm.

Tips
Thank you so much for listening.  Come back in 2 weeks for our anniversary episode and until then I hope you find plenty of time to knit and sip.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Episode 17:Post Olympic

You can listen directly to the podcast here!

Hello and welcome to the 16th episode of the KnitSip podcast, a beverage themed knitting podcast.  My name is Shannon, your host and I can be found through the following social media sites as:

snotestine - Ravelry
KnitSip - Plurk,Twitter, Tumbler, Everlapse
KnitSip2013 - Instagram

Place Your Order
Sipping
Spilled Beverages
Your Drink is Ready
Specialty Drinks
On the House
Drink Menu
Drive Through
Tips

Sipping
Dash Hat (test knit) for Kimberly Gintar of The Giving Flower Designs
colorwork hat, fingering weight yarn
Regia sock yarn (light blue),
US 1 = 2.5 mm, US 3 = 3.0 mm

Arm-inArm Hat (test knit) by Jessy Austin Design
colorwork brimmed hat, worsted weight yarn
Vanna's Choice in Royal Blue, Linen and Rasberry
US 6 = 4.0 mm

Jeck Socks by Regina Satta
Free Ravelry download
Highland Handmades Sugar Maple Sock yarn in the Aegir colorway
US 1 = 2.5 mm
1st sock done!

Snuggles
Finished 8 snuggles total.  One sewn (by little man) and 7 either knit or crochet.  Huge thank you to Sadie, aka blueruin on Ravelry, for organizing and spearheading this wonderful KAL/CAL/SAL.

Spilled Beverages
Done on purpose this time!  I participated in the Aerial Unwind portion of the Ravellinics games and got a few projects frogged and now have some extra needles available.

Frogged Projects include:
February Lady's Sweater

Mittered Square Shawl Wrap

Another Sweater

Your Drink is Ready
Slip Up Socks by Dee Bramford (Posh Yarns)
North Cabin Fiber Crafts Dog Sled base in the Maple Leaves colorway
US 2=2.75 mm

Candy Shawl Wrap by Kimberly Gintar (The Giving Flower)
LOVE IT!!!  Test knit for Kimberly
Cherry Tree Hill DK wt, US 7 = 4.5 mm

On The House
Last episodes prizes finally sent out to the winners.

Leave a comment on the blog or the KnitSip Ravelry group for a chance to win one of Kimberly's downloadable pattern of your choice.

Specialty Drinks
Knitabulls Stitch Surfer KAL
Diane of the Knitabulls podcast is hosting a KAL through March.  It's the Stitch Surfer Sock from knitty.com and Diane has provided video tutorials to help you knit the sock.  (They're very good and I highly reccomend you try this).

Drink Menu
Faux Mocha
2-3 Tbl. cocoa mix (or 1 packet of cocoa mix)
2 Tbl. Creamer of your choice (or milk)
Coffee

Place the coca and creamer in a large mug and mix well.  Add coffee in thirds mixing well.  Enjoy!

Drive Through
Gaylord Knitters
Every Thursday from 4-8 pm at the Bigbby coffee shop in Gaylord (by I-75).  Everyone is welcome! Besides fabulous coffee and non-coffee drinks there is also free wi-fi.

Cynthia's Open Knit
March 8th and March 22nd from 11 am - 3 pm.  This is a free event held at Cynthia's Too Yarn Store located at 320 East Mitchell street in Petoskey, MI.  Everyone is welcome.  Come sit and knit with some wondeful people and see what's new and going on at Cynthia's yarn store.

Tips
Thanks everybody for listening.  If you'd like head over to the KnitSip Ravelry group to introduce yourself and see what's going on.  Shownotes can be found on the blog or under the episode 17 thread of the KnitSip Ravelry group.  you can listen directly from the blog or suscribe via iTunes.  Again thanks for listening and until next time I hope your able to have plenty of time to knit and sip.