Knitting Pipeline

Monday, April 6, 2020

Episode 337 Journal #2

Click here to listen to us chat about nature, books, decluttering, a favorite cookbook, and Bob's constant journey to the perfect homebrewed cup of coffee.

Sunday, April 5, 2020

Epsiode 336 Our First Journal

I'm so sorry I forgot to post here when we recorded.

You can click here for the episode.

Saturday, February 8, 2020

Video #31 Knitting, Quilting, Rug Hooking, Embroidery with my sister

I usually post show notes but I cannot find the file on my computer. If you have questions, feel free to ask me in the comments on YouTube. I cannot respond to comments on the blog, but I can and will on YouTube.

This episode was recorded on November 5, 2019. I've had technical and personal issues that delayed publication.

Thanks for watching. Please subscribe and give us a thumbs up if you enjoyed the video.

Paula and Gayle

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Episode 335 Shades of Indigo

Note: I am having problems accessing photos to put in the blog. I'm going to post without photos so you have the links and will keep trying to add them in.

This episode is sponsored by Quince & Co.

Knitting Pipeline is a Bluprint Affiliate. Bluprint offers affordable online classes and supplies. When you use the link in the sidebar before purchasing I receive a small percentage of your purchase at no extra cost to you. Thank you!

You can also find me here:

Ravelry: PrairiePiper Feel free to include me in your friends.

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Twitter: knittingline

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Ravelry Group

Knitting Pipeline Retreats Group.

caringbridge

Pipeliner Notes

Welcome to our newest Pipeliners who have said hello to us on the Welcome thread.

iTunes

dvandalen 12/13

mdelmare in VA 1/8/2020

You can follow me on Caring Bridge.

Thank you so much for your donations for ovarian cancer research.

Dr Katherine Fuh

Make check out to Washington University.

Mail to

Knitting Pipeline

PO Box 549

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You will receive acknowledgement from Washington University and your donation is tax deductible.

Events

Links to retreats and registration materials are in the Knitting Pipeline Retreats Group on Ravelry. There is also a sticky thread with all upcoming retreat dates.

Georgia Retreat Registration is up. Links in the Knitting Pipeline Retreats Group and on the blog. Registration started but we still have room for about 10 more.

Needle Notes

Cobblestone #3 by Jared Flood. Finished! Cobblestone #4 is halfway done.

Barrett Wool Co Woolen Spun in Rain Shower colorway.

Northeasterly by Melissa Alexander-Loomis. I have a plan which I may yet abandon. If I do abandon the project, there are two potential takers.

Toadstool Doll and Leaf Set by Susan B Anderson

Taproot Magazine #10 Tend

Miss Marple by Nadia Crétin-LéChenne Blue

Sublime Yarns Baby Cashmerino Silk

In The Pipeline’

The Memory of Us by Camille di Maio (free on Amazon Prime) 4 stars

The Infinite Pieces of Us by Rebekah Crane (YA free on Amazon Prime Kindle) 3 stars

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson YA? 3 stars. Bizarre story. Children catch on fire.

Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912 (Dear America Series)

The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd only .99 on Kindle. 5 Stars!

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson 5 stars

Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly 5 stars

Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay by Julie Zickefoose (do not buy Kindle Edition due to many color photos and paintings. 5 stars

Blethering Room

Baby Born Surprise Collectible Baby Dolls with Color Change Diaper 1-2

Baby Born Surprise Baby Bottle House with 20+ Surprises

Tree Stump

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Episode 334 Do All the Good You Can

Please help me fund research for ovarian cancer. It is one of the lowest funded of all types of cancer.

Dr Katherine Fuh

Make check out to Washington University.

Mail to:

Knitting Pipeline

PO Box 549

Washington IL 61571

Through Jan 1, 2020. They prefer that I send checks in batches rather than everyone sending checks directly to Washington University.

You will receive acknowledgement from Washington University and your donation is tax deductible.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

John Wesley

Events

Links to retreats and registration materials are in the Knitting Pipeline Retreats Group on Ravelry. There is also a sticky thread with all upcoming retreat dates.

Georgia Retreat Registration will be released in when I get to it.

Needle Notes

Cobblestone #3 by Jared Flood. Finished!

Barrett Wool Co Woolen Spun in Rain Shower colorway.

Northeasterly by Melissa Alexander-Loomis. I’m on 5 out of 10, maybe 12. Going to abandon this project and give it to someone who wants a head start. No longer interested.

Toadstool Doll and Leaf Set by Susan B Anderson

Taproot Magazine #10 Tend

Miss Marple by Nadia Crétin-LéChenne

Book Notes

To The Point: The Knitted Triangle by Leila Raven Highly Recommended 5 Stars!

Triangular Shawls have been maligned. “Point directs attention to the derriere”.

Trend now toward bigger shawls and crescent shape. Stretchiness of triangle. Crescent shawl tends to have tight top edge no matter what you do.

Bob gives a mathematical lesson on triangles.

The Great Shawl Giveaway

We talk about nature, our succulents and especially my Christmas Cactus.

Thanks for listening!

Paula

Christmas Cactus flanked by Flapjack

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Video Episode: Antique Quilts with Jo Glass

My friend, Jo, has been collecting and studying quilts for many years. In this episode we go through the quilts that have been passed down in my family as well as vintage quilts I have purchased over the years. The last 10 minutes of the video features Jo's advice on caring for quilts, both old and new.

Jo is Qwiltnknitnut on Ravelry and Instagram
Paula is PrairiePiper on Ravelry and Knittingpipeline on Instagram
www.knittingpipeline.com

Books:
Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns by Barbara Brackman
https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Pieced-Patterns-Barbara-Brackman/dp/0891458158

Dating Fabrics by Eileen Trestain
https://www.amazon.com/Eileen-Trestain-Fabrics-1800-1960-Paperback/dp/B01FOC9RPC

Please leave questions on the Ravelry Thread or on YouTube.

Thanks for watching!

Friday, October 25, 2019

Episode 333 Embroidery Meets Knitting

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This episode is sponsored by Quince & Co.

Knitting Pipeline is a Bluprint Affiliate. Bluprint offers affordable online classes and supplies. When you use the link in the sidebar before purchasing I receive a small percentage of your purchase at no extra cost to you. Thank you!

Show notes are found at www.knittingpipeline.com. You can find me on Ravelry as PrairiePiper and on Instagram and YouTube as KnittingPipeline. There are two groups on Ravelry, Knitting Pipeline and Knitting Pipeline Retreats. Come join us there!

You can also find me here:

Ravelry: PrairiePiper Feel free to include me in your friends.

Instagram: knittingpipeline

Twitter: knittingline

Pinterest: Paula Emons-Fuessle

Ravelry Group

Knitting Pipeline Retreats Group.

caringbridge

Pipeliner Notes

Welcome to our newest Pipeliners who have said hello to us on the Welcome thread.

byhookandstix who is Sue in NSW Australia, Nsmerkt who is Nikki from Northern VA (Nikki’s Notables on Etsy---window bags), Linda Chamberlin in NH. Welcome! Thank you to the wonderful moderators in our group especially TwinsetJan who have said hello to those who posted in the thread.

iTunes

Groovy D on 10/22 “Like an Auntie in my Living Room” Listened from beginning and is now current.

Events

Links to retreats and registration materials are in the Knitting Pipeline Retreats Group on Ravelry. There is also a sticky thread with all upcoming retreat dates.

Eagle Crest Retreat October 30-Nov 2, 2019. Also will collect mittens for Threads Hope and Love.

Georgia Retreat Registration will be released in November.

Needle Notes

Cobblestone #3 by Jared Flood.

Barrett Wool Co Woolen Spun in Rain Shower colorway.

I am starting sleeve #2. Body complete to armholes.

Odette Hoodies for girls. Odette Hoodie by Carrie Bostick Hoge.

Both sweaters needed length in body. About 3 “.

In the last episode I explained how I lengthened the hoodies that were knitted from bottom up. I didn’t have enough of same dye lot so there is a wide stripe on the larger sweater. To fool the eye with the dye lots I presented a few options:

1. Add a big pocket, small side pocket or two side pockets.
2. Embellish with embroidery.
3. Both of above

JanMarie said large pocket with embroidery too. Butterfly on sleeve.

I added a kangaroo pocket on each in garter stitch since there are garter stitch details on sweater.

Marked middle of sweater all the way down with waste yarn.
Picked up right leg of stitches along bottom just above ribbing, making sure you stay in the same row all the way across. Start picking up about 1” from side “seam” and end about 1” from left seam. Decreased 1 stitch on each side until width of pocket looked right then straight up.
Used a modified 3 needle BO to join top of pocket to body of sweater. Again, picked up right leg of each stitch in row. (This is where marker in middle comes in handy because you want the same number of stitches on both sides of pocket and body of sweater. Worked really well and looks very tidy and sturdy.

Embroidery

In order to hide the dye lot change I fooled the eye with embroidery. Flower stems look as if they are coming out of the sides of the pocket. Flowers are different heights and colors. Leaves and buds on some, blooming flowers on others.

Helene's sweater size 4

Pocket detail

Butterfly and More flowers

Maeve's sweater with butterfly on sleeve.

A blue butterfly landed on her sleeve

Backs of sweaters:

Bunny on back of Maeve's sweater.

Can you see the carrot?

Duplicate stitch bunny from My Knitted Doll by Louise Crowther. Grass with carrot in the ground. Duplicate stitch good for repairs and small areas. This came out rather bulky and stiff…but I think she will love it.

Tip: If you are using a grid pattern from a book, make sure it is for knitting or convert. Reason is that knit stitches are not square: the are wider than they are tall; so, if you took a pattern from a cross stitch book, for example, the resulting image would be distorted.

Helene's Sweater Backside

Fluffy bluebird in backstitch. Branch and worm on the ground (bullion stitch with antennae in black embroidery thread.) Much quicker than duplicate stitch.

I used backstitch to outline the bird.

This little caterpillar in bullion stitch might be my favorite thing!

Detail of 3 needle bind off to join pocket to sweater.

Embroidery stitches used:

Fly
Backstitch
Outline
Lazy Daisy
Chain
Bullion. New to me and I love it! Looks like caterpillars.
Palestrinian knot. Learned from Anna Zilborg. Works better than French knots on knit, although you can do French knots if you are careful where you put them. Can fall in ditch between vertical rows so don’t stand out much.
Algerian Eye ( little bulky but I left it in)

Tips for embroidery on knitting:

Use a practice swatch before you start.
Easier to do straight lines than curved lines. Knitting makes a grid.
Use a yarn equal to or thicker than base yarn. Shows up better.
For bird I cut out a simple shape using freezer paper and pinned it to the back of the sweater as a rough guideline.

Blethering Room

I have been doing quite a bit of quilting which I will show in the next video, coming soon.

Nature Notes

Lots of rain!
Peepers on our windows and at the creek.
Wildflowers: self-heal, rudbeckia, daisy fleabane,
Johnny Jump Ups self-seeded from our pots in the spring.
Goldfinches are molting into their winter plumage.
Last hummingbird sighting October 4^th.
Lots of butterflies:Painted ladies, Buckeyes, Monarchs
Revived our deck for fall with mums, winter pansies.
Planted bulbs. Scilla and crocus in our Stump Garden.

Hiking in Forest Park and Eureka Lake

William Bliss Carman, FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years. 1861-1929

A Vagabond Song by Bliss Carmen

There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood --
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill of flame
She calls and calls each vagabond by name.

--Bliss Carmen

In the Pipeline

Watching

· This is Us
· Survivor
· This Farming Life on Britbox
· DCI Banks
· Durells of Corfu
· Poldark (the Final Season) Boo hoo!
· Press
· The Victim (Britbox)
· The Great British Baking Show
· Schitt’s Creek on Netflix
· Keeping Faith Season 2
· 800 Words
· Missing (Joanne Froggatt)
· The Yorkshire Vet

Paula

· Just Get it Done Quilts by Karen Brown

· Steph and Momo Show (quiltswag)

Reading

Paula

The Song of Hartgrove Hall by Natasha Solomons

The Woman who Walked in Sunshine by Alexander McCall Smith

One Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives by Bernd Heinrich

Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter

Listening

The Minimalists Podcast

Everything Happens by Kate C Bowler

The Joycast by Margaret Feinberg (Christian)

The Minimal Mom (Dawn)

High Note Low Note

Bob:

High: Paula’s excellent CT Scan on August 8

Low: Coming of winter

Paula

High: Marco Polo app

High: Fed and Fit: Wellness and Healthy Living

Cook Once, Eat All Week: 26 Weeks of Gluten-Free, Affordable Meal Prep to Preserve Your Time & Sanity by Cassy Joy Garcia

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Episode 332 Maine and Repair Tips

Pattilink on 8/27
Mr Snc on 8/23

Bird house with succulent roof garden.

Events

Links to retreats and registration materials are in the Knitting Pipeline Retreats Group on Ravelry. There is also a sticky thread with all upcoming retreat dates.

Thank you to everyone at the Maine Retreat who donated mittens to the Maine Mitten Project.

Eagle Crest Retreat October 30-Nov 2, 2019. Also will collect mittens for Threads Hope and Love. We still have a few spots left at Eagle Crest.

Needle Notes

Eldest son was pleased with his Cobblestone.

Cobblestone #3 by Jared Flood is in progress.

Barrett Wool Co Woolen Spun in Rain Shower colorway.

Modifications: Knitting Workshop by Elizabeth Zimmermann. Check out project notes on Cobblestone #1. Great retreat knitting. I had big plans to finish the body up to the armholes and get a sleeve or two in as well but that did not happen. I think I have about 10” on the body and will go to 17”.

Northeasterly by Melissa Alexander-Loomis. I’m on 4 out of 10, maybe 12.

Repair, actually modifying Odette Hoodies for girls. Odette Hoodie by Carrie Bostick Hoge.

October 2018

I modified it as a pullover per DIL’s request. They have worn these little hoodies so much and it makes me so happy. Sticks and twigs embedded in wool. I washed them both first.

Both sweaters needed length in body. About 3 “.

Knitted from bottom up and in the round. If they had been knitted in pieces, I would just knit new sweaters.

Process: Will add photos as I go.

· Where side seam would be, snip one stitch above the ribbing. Very handy to know how you weave in ends. Try to avoid that area. All joins were done using the felted method also called spit join.
· Start picking out the row. You can secure stitches if you want but not really necessary as the wool is slightly felted and wants to stay put. Pick out the row all the way around. You now have two pieces.
· Now you have two separate pieces:

1. The ribbing and several rows above it.

2. Top of sweater with sleeves attached.

· Pick up all the stitches on piece 1 so you will be knitting upwards. Make sure you retrieve all the stitches and have them mounted properly or knit them properly on the first round.
· Knit upwards the desired number of inches to length. Use leftover wool from project or incorporate another color and texture.
· Use Kitchener Stitch to join bottom section to top sections. This process took me longer than I thought it would because I’m pretty fast at Kitchener Stitch. First put front of sweater on one long circular needle and back stitches on another. These do not have to be the size that you used for knitting the sweater. I felted the new piece of yarn for Kitchener stitch.

My DIL said it wouldn’t bother her that the dye lot is different so I could leave as is. In order to blend in new color or dyelot:

1. Add a big pocket, small side pocket or two side pockets.

2. Embellish with embroidery or both.

What are your thoughts?

Blethering Room

My sister and I off to Maine Retreat!

Traveling with my sister is THE BEST!

Sue with her Skagen Shawl at Show and Tell

Show and tell is always a highlight.

Leslie showed an heirloom sweater she had knitted for her father.

Thank our mini-workshop volunteers:

· Jan Hamby aka Twinsetjan did beeswax wraps. If you have not seen these yet, they are made of cloth and covered with a solution of beeswax and a few other ingredients. You use them instead of cellophane, aluminum foil and save on waste. Very popular and Jan had to bring a lot of materials to do the workshop too.

· Kathy aka woolyeyes demonstrated brioche to eager learners. Might have shown helical knitting also.

· Jo aka qwiltnknitnut taught us how to make shawl closures with buttons and hair elastics. Thank you to Angela Loomis for donating her beautiful pottery buttons!

· Beverly did a trunk show of dolls and animals she has knitted from patterns by various designers. We were so enchanted by ALL of them and some of us might have bought a “few” books and patterns. I immediately came home and looked at Susan B Anderson’s books that I already own and immediately saw some patterns that I had intended to make but had lost in the shuffle. If you go to the show blog there are photos of Beverly’s display. You can look at her projects on Ravelry. She is bszen. I’ve linked to her projects page.

· Shetland Trip by Sue, Pat, and Debbie.

Thank you to all of you!

Me with Kathy. Flower Garland is behind us. Photo from Sue Witkin.

Flower Garland: Total surprise to me because I did not look at the thread that said Paula stay out. Flowers of all shapes and sizes, pumpkins, a pickle. Totally whimsical and I LOVE it! I think of all of you knitting positive thoughts and prayers into it and I feel very humbled and full of gratitude.

Shopping trip.

Lots of good food, walks to town, walks along the beach and nature preserves, vendor fair, visit to Knit Wit in Portland, a visit to Camp Wool which is always a highlight, walk to Mornings in Paris for a coffee, tea, croissant or all 3, and best of all knitting outside on the front porch with some of my favorite people!

Gayle and I at Camp Wool

Vendors

Seven Sisters Arts
PrairieBagWorks. Sue makes project bags and rope yarn bowls.
Fairwinds Farm: alpaca roving and yarn, lavender essential oil, woodcrafts
Starbright Muse. Starbrightmuse on etsy. She is an indie Dyer and also designs designer.
January Designs Co on Etsy makes beautiful project bags.
Knot a Llama Goods (moknita on Ravelry)

October by Robert Frost

1874-1963

O hushed October morning mild,

Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;

To-morrow's wind, if it be wild,

Should waste them all.

The crows above the forest call;

To-morrow they may form and go.

O hushed October morning mild,

Begin the hours of this day slow,

Make the day seem to us less brief.

Hearts not averse to being beguiled,

Beguile us in the way you know;

Release one leaf at break of day;

At noon release another leaf;

One from our trees, one far away;

Retard the sun with gentle mist;

Enchant the land with amethyst.

Slow, slow!

For the grapes' sake, if they were all,

Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,

Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—

For the grapes' sake along the wall.

Have a great week! Haste ye back and hold your knitting close!