just got it uploaded before littleman got off the bus. i’ll try to get shownotes typed up tonight.
enjoy!

thanks to knittingfairy.com for sponsoring december!
podcast donation incentive winner for the month of december was Vivian. Thank you so much for your donations!

This month, I’m offering up some of my handspun! 155 yards of a 2 ply barber pole. hand dyed merino and corriedale, plyed together to create a one of a kind yarn.

now YOU TOO can feel what knitting with handspun is like!

Resolutions:
-drink more water
-slow down and focus on ME (life, projects, when and what I say, etc)
-return to my music
-3 handspun sweaters
-fairisle/colorwork

2 year Contest prizes!!
Reflection hat pattern from Cosymakes, Regia sock yarns, Noro, and more!!! check your email to see if YOU won! thank you again for all of the fabulous submissions!

Babble:
-Conversations with Meghan on Knitajourney Podcast
-time off with littleman

first snowman
-potty training
-holiday recap

Fibery goodness:
-Knittingfool.com has great sweater calculators
-littlemans sweater: gauge, calculations, too big, tearing out, steek video

-moving the fiber room

-playing with the drumcarder

-owls reborn!
-gooseberry cardigan

Favorite thing:

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Townhomesteading:
-seed catalog browsing and seed swaps
-saving egg cartons
-baking for gifts (shortbread cookies, ornaments, pinecone bird feeders, pie in a jar, etc)
-last year’s sweets recipes
doh! looks like i shared the buckeye recipe last year too! dang….i should have checked shownotes…sorry! well, they’re still just as tasty!

Babble:
-missed family party
-2 baths in one day thanks new toy
-bday breakfast party and bday plans
-signing up for yoga classes, for real!
-bikram yoga

Celebrating 2 years Contest:
-listen, think, and comment! Drawing will happen 1/1!

Fibery goodness:
-knitting mittens continued

-new helloyarn squirrel mitten pattern
-knitting ryans hat
-casting on a pixie hat by cosymakes with handspun!

-rhinebeck wool arrived!


-love for the longdraw
-abby franquemont drafting: the long and short of it DVD review

-playing with colors

-different types of sheeps in a single breed
-plying off of my swift

Favorite thing:
Family traditions- cookies, music, Christmas lights, waiting for lights before going downstairs

please support our August Donation Incentive Sponsor
Winter Mountain Fiber
who has graciously donated 2 skeins of hand dyed sock yarn

Plum Pudding & Monkey Green!
all it takes is a donation during August to qualify!

on/off the needles:
-van dyke toe up sock still in the works
-imitating things you see in stores/on people
-started knitting cosy’s baby belle pattern for a coworker
-Lace Gauntlet Throwdown winner!!!

babble:
-kitchen is painted
-out with the old, keeping things that fit
-yoga, couch to 5k, now pilates?
-2 wheeler

word of the week:
Diz
video on how to use a diz
my diz is from gvpencheff.etsy.com

spinning:
-spinning bfl for cosy’s baby belle
-preserving color in singles (like eating a piece of layered cake)

favorite thing:
making homes affordable program