Laura is working on a pair of handspun socks out of yarn spun from Crown Mountain Farms Sock Hop Roving. She is also working a TGV shawlete by Susan Ashcroft on size 7 needles with unknown sock yarn. Laura has started her HoAloha. She is using size 6 needles and Cascade 220 Superwash Quatro.
Leslie is knitting on some Mabel socks by Sadie Bellegarde in Numma Numma Doppio. She found her Friday Studio socks and has resumed work on those as well. She has is also knitting on HoAloha.
Laura has spun some Fauxlags using David’s method out of English Shetland from Into the Whirled. She is spinning them long draw and then N-plying them. Total yardage was 160 yards. She has also finished her falkland/alpaca accent pack from Southern Cross Fibre. She got 320 yards from the Rhubarb colorway. She is about to begin plying the Old Appliances colorway from Highland Handmades in Polwarth.
Leslie has spun nothing..
Book Review: Literary Knits by Nikol Lohr
Favorite Things:
Beatles Fiber club from Dripping Fiber Studios
Project Runway has weaving
Dublin Tee KAL
Quilt in progress
Kids/YA Books Laura Mentions:
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
May B.by Caroline Starr Rose
Island of Thieves by Josh Lacey
Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carringer
Laura – I hate to tell you this but I got one of the Tangerine yarn bombing fabric sweater bags. I could not believe it when you started talking about it. Sorry about that. It will be my first Tangerine bag. I just started following Casey on Instagram just last week and saw a photo of that specific bag and just loved it. Then by chance I happened to be on the computer when she had her update and I had just clicked on her shop to check it out. I am so lousy at catching things like that – almost never ever happens. I’m so excited about it.
Next, I have to tell you that I have been on a gigantic Laura Ingalls Wilder kick lately. I borrowed my sister’s childhood set of the Little House books and have been reading those along with other historical accounts of Laura’s life. I have also been watching movies, the old tv series and I have a documentary on tap that I haven’t seen yet. I don’t know what brought this obsession on but I am completely enamored by all things Laura Ingalls Wilder for the last couple of months. I ordered the book, May B, you talked about. Can’t wait.
Love your podcast – love you both! Can’t wait to hang out and be together a bit at SSK this summer.
xoxo, susan
After watching your podcast for the very first time I stumbled upon May B. at our library while I was digging around the new books for kids at the library. I am looking forward to reading it, and I hear you, Leslie, I am not a great fan of prose, either. But this book is talking to me.
I recently got my eight year old son to read Little House in the Big Woods by covering up the picture of Laura and her doll with a post it note. I think it was the only thing holding him back.
I look forward to future podcasts.