Ep. 28 - I'm from Los Angeles

We're back!  We've missed you!


Our Current Fix:
Jill finished a bunch of stuff over the last month.  She made two sets of Knitted Knockers out of Cascade Ultra Pima (Rav page here).  She finished the Stoney Brook Top by Rusty Baker out of Knit Picks Hawthorne Fingering in the Belmont colorway (Rav page here).  She knit a Bunny Beanie by Noe Knit out of Blue Sky Alpacas Worsted Cotton and Red Heart Creme de la Creme for Kimberly from the Twisted Stitches podcast (Rav page here).  She also finished a Peasleeville hat by Melissa LaBarre out of Rowan Lima in the Aztec colorway with a Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Astrakhan pompom.

Jill is working on an adult Garter Ear Flap Hat by Purl Soho out of Gnarledpaw Proper DK in Mexican Blue Wing Butterfly.  She is also working on the Route 99 hat/turban by Lee Meredith from the Stranded Magazine: Warm Weather 2016 in KPPPM in pink and KP Bare Hare. Michele asked about a previous turban and that was the Knit Yourself a Turban (Moss Stitch) pattern.


What We're Jonesing For:
Michele wants to be knitting anything!  She recommends Breathing Space by Veera Valimaki for Jill.
Jill has queued Ondawa by Michele Wang from the Brooklyn Tweed 14 Collection based on seeing suskyre's version of it at the retreat.  She is into the Venn cowl by Ella Austin from the Colour and Line collection.  She also finally bought a Northbound Knitting pattern, Diaemus shawl by Lisa Mutch.

Uppers and Downers:
Captain America: Civil War
The Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
Vogue Knitting Live in Pasadena
Heritage Square Museum
Face Swap

Handel's Ice Cream in Huntington Beach
L.A. County Yarn Crawl
NoCKR and podcasts: 2 Knit Lit Chicks, Yarniacs, Stash and Burn, Double Knit, Hollywood Knitter, Two Ewes Fiber Adventure
Zauberball - Skacel
GnarledPaw
Leading Men Fiber Arts
A-Major-Knitwork store
Compatto Yarn Salon 
Windsor Fashion

Ep. 27 - Like Jennifer Aniston on Friends

Our Current Fix:
Jill finished her Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmerman in Zauberball Starke 6 in the Olivenstrasse colorway.  She added a hood using the EZ instructions.  Here's how her yarn changed partway through her project:

Jill also made one DD Knitted Knocker out of Cascade Ultra Pima.  She sewed a project bag using the In Color Order lined drawstring bag tutorial.  She just started the Stoney Brook Top by Rusty Baker in Knit Picks Hawthorne in the Belmont colorway.
Michele is working on her baby blanket out of Red Heart with Love in Boysenberry

Scene from Jill's window:

Baby Craft-a-Long:
Come join our craft-a-long.  Enter in a baby project that you've made since March 15.  There will be prizes of some sort.  This will be an on-going CAL through June.

Uppers, Downers, Miscellaneous Links:
Concealing Petal bras on Amazon
Bad Enabler on YouTube
Lang Mille Colori Baby yarn
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 
Batman v Superman
Key and Peele - Gremlins 2 skit

Knit Artichoke pattern by Susie Johns

Michele's 3 favorite projects: her Piper's Journey, her Owls sweater and her Nora's First Love baby blanket for her friend.  Jill's favorite 2 projects are her #21 Lace Dress and her Trefoil shawl.

Ep. 26 - Feels for the Acrylic

We're doing a baby craft-a-long!  Join in at anytime, it is casual! 

Finished Items:
Michele has finished-finished her Red Heart Team Spirit Tyson hat.  The yarn softened up a lot with washing.
Jill has finished but needs to sew on buttons to the Maile Sweater by Nikki Van de Car in Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Mediumweight - Rare Gems Fire.  She used the leftovers to make the Fleegle's Seamless Saartje Booties by Susan Glinert Stevens (modified version of Saartje's Bootees by Saartje de Bruijn.)

Our Current Fix:
Michele ripped out the Cascade baby sweater she was making and is using the Red Heart with Love in a baby blanket, the Crocheted Starburst Baby Blanket by Sara Rivka.
Jill is working on the Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmerman in Schoppel-Wolle Zauberball Starke 6 in the Olivenstrasse colorway.  She spun a bit on her Malabrigo Nube.

What We're Jonesing For:
Michele likes the Circle-T Top by Shannon Mullett-Bowlsby from the Malabrigo website.  She also likes the Laxo hat by Laura Nelkin.
Jill has queued some shawls: the Evanthe shawl by Corrina Ferguson and the Red Rock Canyon shawl by Romi Hill.  She finally got some MadelineTosh Tosh Lace in Oceana to make the Amille shawl by Emily Ross.  She also bought a couple kits from Willow Yarns (Herrschners!).  One is the Off-the-Grid Stranded Cowl by Alastair Post-Quinn (not on Ravelry!) and the other is the Tartan Mitts and Cowl by Rae Blackledge,which are chevron striped mitts and cowls in two long color repeating yarns.

Uppers, Downers and Miscellaneous Links:
New York, New York hotel in Las Vegas
Cafe Jack in Korea Town
Jed's Hard Orange Cream soda
Longmire
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Armada by Ernest Cline
The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: An American Crime Story
This American Life: Too Soon?
O.J. Simpson Ungloved (what!?!)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Monuments Men
Rape of Europa
22 Jump Street
Meru
The Exact Moment Ben Affleck Realizes that Batman v. Superman Sucks:

Ep. 25 - To the Bone

There's a lot of chatter in this one.  If you just want knitting content, you can say goodbye after the first 30 minutes!

 

Our Current Fix:
Michele finished her hat!  It was the Tyson Beanie by Robyn Devine in Red Heart Team Spirit.  Her Rav page here.  She also started her Cascade baby cardigan by Raya Budrevich in Red Heart With Love.

Jill made two little Garter Ear Flap Hats (pattern by Purl Soho) out of Nerd Girl Yarns Clever in Met Him on the River colorway.  Her Rav page here.  She's mostly finished the Sweet Pea cardigan by Mary Scott Huff in Knit Picks Comfy Worsted in Pea Pod.  She's also given up on the Eliot-the-Elephant baby bib pattern.  She's started the Maile sweater by Nikki Van de Car out of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Mediumweight in a Rare Gems - Fire colorway.

What We're Jonesing For:
Michele is liking colorwork hats.  She loves the Revespor Lue fox hat by Berit Lokken.  She's also into The Force Awakens Hat by Mrs Luedeke LLC.
Jill is into Ningyo, a colorwork cowl, by Thea Eschliman.  She also likes Gocce by Paola Albergamo in the Knitty Spring & Summer 2016.


Uppers, Downers and Miscellaneous Links:
Keilo Ren - Undercover Boss
Bath and Body Works candles
Glamtwinz on Youtube
candlewarmers
Tree Hut sugar scrub
Clarisonic face brush
Rich Eisen running the 40yd dash vs. LaQuan McGowen
Chris Jones "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2016 NFL Combines - I couldn't find a video that wasn't NSFW.  You can do a google search but I didn't want to embed the video!
End of the Tour (2015)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (but also my mom's which I know sounds weird) by Michael Ian Black.
Stone Brewing
hard root beers
Red beers

Ep. 24 - A Beanie for the Planet

Our Current Fix:
Michele finished her Celtic Cabled Beanie by Cecilia Famili!  It looks great out of Knit Picks City Tweed in Blue Blood.  Her Rav page is here.
Jill finished her Kernel scarf by Bonnie Sennott out of Koigu KPM, but still hasn't blocked it.  She also made the Valentin rabbit by Anisbee Anisbee for Lucas out of Caron Simply Soft and Red Heart Super Saver. Her Rav page here.

Michele has cast on a Tyson hat by Robyn Devine out of Red Heart Super Saver Team Spirit in Orange and Black.
Jill's in-progress projects include the Sweet Pea cardigan by Mary Scott Huff in Knit Picks Comfy Worsted in Peapod, an Eliot-the-Elephant Baby Bib by Justyna Kacprzak in KP Comfy Sport in Sea Foam, and some spinning of Malabrigo Nube fiber in the colorway Candombe.
We also mention the Umbilical Cord Hat by Jennifer L. Jones.

What We're Jonesing For:
Michele has been looking at baby sweaters including Cascade by Raya Budrevich (she'll use Red Heart with Love) and the Fuss-Free Baby cardigan by Louise Tilbrook.
Jill likes a couple projects from the Interpretations Vol. 3 collection including Breathing Space by Veera Valimaki and Timeless Henley by Joji Locatelli.  She likes the silly Wonder Warmer pattern by Sick 'Lil Monkeys.  She also likes the Waiting for Rain shawl pattern by Silvia Bo Bilvia. Jill queued the Villi Pohjola baby blanket by Terhi Viinikanoja (in Finnish!)

The Cut Chenille Baby Blanket tutorial from Aesthetic Nest!! I was originally inspired by Grumperina's version.

Uppers, Downers and Miscellaneous Links:
The Natural (1984) movie by Barry Levinson
Armada by Ernest Kline
Welcome to Me (2014) movie with Kristen Wiig
The First Bad Man by Miranda July (also check out You Me and Everyone We Know (2005))
Troublemaker by Leah Remini
Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin and Oryx and Crake
Northern California Knitting Retreat - April 15-17, 2016
Los Angeles Yarn Crawl - April 14-17, 2016
Vogue Knitting Live in Pasadena - May 15-17, 2016

Ep.23 - Singlehood Awareness Day

Our Current Fix:
Michele is still working on her Celtic Cable Beanie.
Jill finished her Alinta Wrap by Ambah O'Brien.  Her Rav page is here.

She used Knit Picks Capretta, Shibui Sock and Decadently Divine Divine Sock.  She's started Kernel by Bonnie Sennot from Knitty, Fall 2009 in Koigu KPPM.  She started crocheting a bunny using the french pattern Valentin by Anisbee Anisbee out of Caron Simply Soft in Cool Green.  She is also knitting the Sweet Pea cardigan by Mary Scott Huff in Knit Picks Comfy Worsted in Peapod.

What We're Jonesing For:
Michele has been obsessed with mandalas.  She likes the ones by CAROcreated Design, her favorites being Overlay Mandala No. 6, Overlay Mandala No. 5, the Coaster in Overlay Crochet and also the Case in Overlay Crochet.
Jill wants to cast on the Kumara Cowl by Francoise Danoy.  She will probably start the Maile Cardigan by Nikki Van de Car as one of the many baby presents she needs.  Michele saw Nikki Van de Car's Baby Cozy and might make it.  Jill went to a lecture/reception for Stephen West and Steven Be at the Knitting Tree LA.  She is now pretty into Parachutey, but likely won't actually knit it.

Uppers and Downers and Misc. Links:
Love Myself by Hailee Steinfeld lyrics
LA Cookie Con and Sweets Expo
Pineapple Malibu Rum 
LA Hot dogs:

Canadian Ruffles - Poutine and Loaded Baked Potato
Assorted Canadian snacks here.  Thanks for all the goodies Gen!

Ep 22 - The Newspeeper

Our Current Fix:
Michele has been working on her Celtic Cable Beanie by Cecilia Fameli in Knit Picks City Tweed in Blue Blood.
Jill finished some handspun yarn.  She spun 8 oz of woolgatherings 70% Oatmeal BFL / 30% Silk fiber into a 2-ply DK.

Jill has been working primarily on the Alinta Wrap by Ambah O'Brien in KP Capretta Cream, Decadently Divine Sock in Speckled Egg, Shibui Sock in a raspberry color.

What We're Jonesing For:
Michele is looking at blankets.  She mentions the Peacock Pretty Blanket by kraftling, also the Daisy Afghan, Surf City Beach Blanket, and Plum Throw, all by kraftling.  She's also been looking at hot water bottle cover, including the Hot Water Straitjacket by brella, Bee Cozy by Melissa Kelenske, Winterberry by gluecksfisch, Budding Branches by Kendra Nitta, and Simply Seamless Cozy by BacoKnitter Designs.
Jill has some favorites including Nancy Merchant's new brioche cowl pattern Bonfire and the Moose Sweater by Lone Kjeldsen.  She also really wants to make the Aumangea Pullover by Francoise Danoy and the Lemon Whimsy Hat by Sara Setters.

Uppers, Downers and Misc. links:
Honda Pioneer
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Knotty Gnome Crafts
Trader Joes Soft & Juicy Mandarins
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Debus III
Michael Fassbender:

From X-Men Days of Future Past: (Fassbender, Hugh Jackman and James McAvoy)

The Ben Stiller Show
GLASG
twisted stitches podcast
Homemade onion powder- Instructables tutorial
Peggy Sweater by Sarah Hurwitz in the Spring 2016 Knitscene
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution on PBS Feb. 16.