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Coffee and Craft Podcast Episode 39

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Hey lovely humans! My name is Bernadette and welcome or welcome back to the Coffee & Craft Podcast.

FOs

  • Nothing this time 😦

WIPS & Future Plans

  • Granny Square Advent Blanket
    • Spin Your Granny Square by Kylie Moleta
    • Have started joining! Using 2 balls of navy merino/acrylic DK
    • Advents I’m using are Tofino Knit Co (disney), Polka dot creek, gingersnap, corner of craft/chromatic yarns and now adding in Fibre Arts Studio
    • Holding the fingering weight yarn doubled for squares and a 4.5 mm hook.
    • Most minis are 20 g but some are 10 g. So making 5 round granny squares which makes 2 squares with the 20g minis and 1 10 g mini.
    • I was 6 granny squares short at the end of the blanket so I held scraps together to make blended/faded squares to be able to make the size I needed.
  • Baby Buzz lightyear sock
    • Yarn is a one off by TinyHumanKnits
    • Just plain toe up vanilla with an afterthought heel.
    • 2.25mm needles
    • 1 plain round of stockinette before i started the ribbing to avoid the color transition showing in the ribbing
  • Play Socks by Stone Knits (ravelry link)

Stashdown 2022

Prize winners have been drawn and contacted. Will announce on podcast once I hear back from everyone.

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Coffee and Craft Podcast Episode 38

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Hey lovely humans! My name is Bernadette and welcome or welcome back to the Coffee & Craft Podcast.

FOs

  • Stashdown 2022 total thus far: 12,477 m
    • First quarter ends at the end of march. Be sure to update the spread sheet with your numbers to be eligible for a prize.
  • New Tube BlanketKnit Picks Mighty Stitch. Navy, silver, ash, mulberry, marina, macaw

WIPS & Future Plans

  • Granny Square Advent Blanket
    • Spin Your Granny Square by Kylie Moleta
    • Advents I’m using are Tofino Knit Co (disney), Polka dot creek, gingersnap, corner of craft/chromatic yarns and now adding in Fibre Arts Studio
    • Holding the fingering weight yarn doubled and a 4.5 mm hook.
    • Most minis are 20 g but some are 10 g. So making 5 round granny squares which makes 2 squares with the 20g minis and 1 10 g mini.
  • Baby Buzzlightyear sock
    • Yarn is a one off by TinyHumanKnits
    • Just plain toe up vanilla with an afterthough heel.
    • 2.25mm needles

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Coffee and Craft Podcast Episode 37

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Hey lovely humans! My name is Bernadette and welcome or welcome back to the Coffee & Craft Podcast.

FOs

  • Stashdown 2023 total thus far: 11,041m
  • Gentle People Shawl
    • Knit out of Custom Woolen Mills 2-ply in Fox
    • On to the third section of the shawl and almost done my second ball.
    • Picked this up to knit on while reading instead of casting on a new sock.
    • Using 5mm US 8 on a 60″ cord

WIPS & Future Plans

  • Granny Square Advent Blanket
    • Spin Your Granny Square by Kylie Moleta
    • Advents I’m using are Tofino Knit Co (disney), Polka dot creek, gingersnap, corner of craft/chromatic yarns and now adding in Fibre Arts Studio
    • Holding the fingering weight yarn doubled and a 4.5 mm hook.
    • Most minis are 20 g but some are 10 g. So making 5 round granny squares which makes 2 squares with the 20g minis and 1 10 g mini.
  • New Tube Blanket
    • Knit Picks Mighty Stitch. Navy, silver, ash, mulberry, marina, macaw
    • Same general recipe based on Tutorial from Diana Levine Knits
    • Being used to film the tube tutorial. Coming soon!
    • Did have to buy a little bit of yarn but will take that yarn out of my meterage totals when its complete.
  • Baby Buzzlightyear sock
    • Yarn is a one off by TinyHumanKnits
    • Just plain toe up vanilla most likely with an afterthough heel.
    • 2.25mm
  • Daphne Afghan
    • Bernat Super Value in Natural and Primere Sweet Roll
    • 5.5mm hook
    • Pattern by Toni Lipsey
    • Using 1 sweet roll per section which should make a larger size.

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Coffee and Craft Podcast Episode 36

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Hey lovely humans! My name is Bernadette and welcome or welcome back to the Coffee & Craft Podcast.

FOs

  • Chocolate Shores Blanket
    • Made with 3 Caron Anniversary Cakes. 2 Sandy shores and 1 Chocolate fountain. Made 7 tubes total
    • Joined with braid crochet technique. Found on youtube but will make my own tutorial soon!

WIPS & Future Plans

  • Gentle People Shawl
    • Knit out of Custom Woolen Mills 2-ply in Fox
    • On to the third section of the shawl and almost done my second ball.
    • Picked this up to knit on while reading instead of casting on a new sock.
    • Using 5mm US 8 on a 60″ cord
  • Granny Square Advent Blanket
    • Spin Your Granny Square by Kylie Moleta
    • Advents I’m using are Tofino Knit Co (disney), Polka dot creek, gingersnap, corner of craft/chromatic yarns and now adding in Fibre Arts Studio
    • Holding the fingering weight yarn doubled and a 4.5 mm hook.
    • Most minis are 20 g but some are 10 g. So making 5 round granny squares which makes 2 squares with the 20g minis and 1 10 g mini.
  • New Tube Blanket
  • Cash Envelopes
    • Used a youtube tutorial to make the envelopes. I did make them a little longer so i could hole punch them without the money showing through.
    • Using mainly monopoly money in order to make my digital funds more tangible.
    • Paper is from scrapbook.com

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Coffee and Craft Podcast Episode 35

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Hey lovely humans! My name is Bernadette and welcome or welcome back to the Coffee & Craft Podcast.

FOs

WIPS & Future Plans

  • Gentle People Shawl
    • Knit out of Custom Woolen Mills 2-ply in Fox
    • On to the third section of the shawl.
    • Picked this up to knit on while reading instead of casting on a new sock.
  • Heart Shaped Sock Set (R) Test Knit
    • Red is Sea Turtle Fibre Arts in Firestarter
    • Grey is Dove Heather Knit Picks Stroll
    • Best short row heel I have ever knit
  • Granny Square Advent Blanket
    • Spin Your Granny Square by Kylie Moleta
    • Advents I’m using are Tofino Knit Co (disney), Polka dot creek, gingersnap, corner of craft/chromatic yarns and now adding in Fibre Arts Studio
  • Working on my Cryptid SAL again

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Coffee and Craft Podcast Episode 34

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Hey lovely humans! My name is Bernadette and welcome or welcome back to the Coffee & Craft Podcast.

FOs

Nothing this week 😦

WIPS & Future Plans

  • Vanilla Socks
  • Machine Knit Blanket
    • Using Tutorial from Diana Levine Knits
    • Brava Worsted in Dove Heather and Cobblestone
    • Impeccable Big in Black
    • Mattress stitching everything together.
    • Hoping in future to try some scrappy versions/
  • Secret Socks are Secret
    • Red is Sea Turtle Fibre Arts in Firestarter
    • Grey is Dove Heather Knit Picks Stroll
    • Test Knit for Charolette Stone. Cant show yet but soon!

Improvised Review for Knitting with Disney by Tanis Grey

  • Obsessed with the Carpet Blanket and the colorwork socks patterns
  • Ariel Socks also adorable

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Coffee and Craft Podcast Episode 33

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Hey lovely humans! My name is Bernadette and welcome or welcome back to the Coffee & Craft Podcast.

FOs

  • Bradley Afghan by Toni LipseyThe final xmas gift!
    • Craft Smart Value Yarn held double. Mushroom, Navy and Clay colors
    • My gauge is way off, 12 sts over 4” not 10. Still using 10mm hook. Wondering if the hook is mislabeled. 
    • Added more stripes to length and changing up the order for the finishing 
  • Draft Stopper
    • 360 rows on my addi machine
    • Single ply black acrylic and a papatya self striping cake. 
    • Stuffed with mainly towels and some polyfil to attempt to round it out
  • Machine Knit Hats
    • Started by using Shenandoah Valley Hat by Heather Moore
    • But they were turning out very long (will probably have to rip back) so I switched to doing a 40/40/40 row color switch
  • Persian Dreams Worsted by Jenise Hope (ravelry link)
    • Also using expansion pack, 27 hexes total. mostly 2 hexes from each chart
    • Wool of the Andes, US 5, 3.75 mm needle, magic loop then 16” circ
    • Using the weavin stephen technique to weave in ends as I go
    • Changed the construction from original pattern. I kept all my hexis on waste yarn and used a 3 needle bind off to seam them together. On the wrong side
    • Doing a 5 stitch icord bind off. Not doing anything special for the corners. Doing a little decrease between the hexis though.

WIPS & Future Plans

  • Vanilla Socks
    • 56 sts, 2.25mm
    • Deep stash from Mineville.

Sock Box 2021

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2022 Knitting Goals & 2021 Reflection

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A new year means a time for setting new goals! It’s not necessary but I find it very helpful to focus my energies a bit. But before I set new goals I need to look back on 2021 and see how I did.

My main goals last year were to complete my make 18 list (which included my major 2021 project of a Persian Dreams blanket), wrap up some old WIPs and work from stash. I think I was mildly successful overall. My persian dreams blanket is an icord border away from being done and I only have a few WIPs left from this time last year. However, my make 18 list was a major fail. It did help me realize that when I am obligated to work on something I lose all motivation, even if it’s a pattern I want to make and it’s for me. All in all I was only able to finish 5 of 18 patterns. All the patterns are still in my queue and I still want to make them just didn’t happen this year.

So in 2022 one of my goals has repeated itself and that’s to stash down. I didn’t really set up anything last year to work towards it but this year we have Stash Down 2022. My goal for the MAL is to use up at least 30,000 m of yarn. I recently got an Addi Knitting Machine kingsize and it’s going to be the key to really being able to eat up that extra yarn. I plan on adding to my knitted gifts stash a bit but there will also be a lot of charity knitting. Making hats and scarves on the knitting machine is a breeze and it makes me feel like a speed wizard. I can’t wait to crank out some tubes. Also debating trying to make a scrappy blanket on the machine as well.

At the end of every year I do an inventory of my stash to see where everything is and to make sure no creepy crawlies have taken up residence. Somehow I managed to increase my sock yarn stash even though I don’t really remember buying that much sock yarn. Last year I was at enough yarn for 105 pairs of socks and this year it’s at 122. I think I officially qualify for sock yarn dragon status. So along with my machine knitting, I am aiming to get at least 20 pairs of socks knit, hopefully more.

I am also planning on starting a slipper basket. When I used to live in the Yukon my mother had this basket of slippers that would live by the door for guests to use when they visited. Although we are still not in the visitor stage of the pandemic, now feels like the time to start working on it. I have a decent acrylic stash that would make some very fun slippers. There are also so many fun patterns out there that I have been meaning to try.

My word of the year was nurture and I think these goals will help me nurture my creativity and rediscover the love for the yarns I already have.

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Coffee and Craft Podcast Episode 32

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Hey lovely humans! My name is Bernadette and welcome or welcome back to the Coffee & Craft Podcast.

Wearing my Julgran Sweater

FOs

  • Solstice Ornament
  • Machine Knit Baby Hats
    • 75 rounds total, various yarns
    • Knit Quick machine from Michaels. Loved it but it started making weird noises on the last hat. Returned and am going to get an addi king for myself after xmas
  • Slytherin Scarf and Headband
    • High Desert Worsted in Riverbend (green) and Quail (grey)
    • Followed youtube tutorial for headband
    • Scarf was made up as I went
      • 20 rows in green
      • 4 rows grey, 4 rows green, 4 rows grey
      • If I was to make it again I would make the 20 rows of green longer.
  • Quick Mittens for Men
    • Pattern (R) by jane richmond
    • Legit my go to mens gift knit
    • Making for a friend of mine that lost one of his originals
    • Charisma tweed in grey tweed
    • Only thing I changed about the pattern was adding a button and loop
  • Mittens
    • School Mittens (R) by Janis Kristjansson
    • Sock yarn 3x, drops fabel 
    • Xmas gift for my mother in law. 
  • Gift Bags
    • Connecting Threads Peppermint Please panels 
    • Ribbons were a value pack from michaels. Lined in plain white cotton.
    • Used lined drawstring bag pattern by jeni baker. Left out accent fabric and freehanded the size to fit the panel. Boxed corners are 3”. Sure there was an easier pattern to use but I wanted to line the bags and ive used this pattern a lot. 
    • Gift tags and fabric wrap also made.
    • Spool of thread peppermint fabric just needs to be hemmed to be made into wrapping

WIPS & Future Plans

  • Bradley Afghan by Toni Lipsey
    • The final xmas gift!
    • Craft Smart Value Yarn held double. Mushroom, Navy and Clay colors
    • My gauge is way off, 12 sts over 4” not 10. Still using 10mm hook. Wondering if the hook is mislabeled. 
    • Added more stripes to length and changing up the order for the finishing 
  • Granny Square Advent Blanket
    • Spin Your Granny Square by Kylie Moleta
    • Advents I’m using are Tofino Knit Co (disney), Polka dot creek, gingersnap, corner of craft/chromatic yarns and now adding in Fibre Arts Studio

#stashdown2022

  • This is a challenge against yourself to focus on using your stash in 2022! Love the collection you have spent so long currating.
  • We are going to use meterage to calculate how much stash is used. You can set a goal of a certain amount of meterage to use up but it’s up to you.
  • Runs from Jan 1 2022 to December 31 2022. Timezone is your own.
  • Yarn that is considered stash will have come into your possession before Jan 1 2022.
  • Meterage counts once a project is fully finished.
  • WIPS can count as long as you have to do some actual work on it, not just finishing.
  • Any craft that uses stash counts (knitting, crochet, tatting, spinning, weaving, machine knitting, needle punch). As long as you can count the meterage you are good to go.
  • Post in the shared google sheet with your name, instagram handle and quarterly totals! Every quarter I will do a random draw from the people who have entered their totals in the quarterly colums.
  • If it helps I have made a google sheet for myself to track my totals. You are welcome to save a copy! Its pretty basic but it works.
  • If you share on Instagram use #stashdown2022.
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30 Christmas Sock Patterns

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As the gift knitting (hopefully) comes to an end my heart wants to cast on festive socks. This time of year the self striping festive options seem endless. But sometimes you need to work with the yarns you have, enter Christmas Sock patterns! There are so many options out there but below are 30 of my favorites. Most of them are colorwork but there are other techniques mixed in as well. The levels of colorwork also vary so there should be something for everyone. Happy sock knitting!

Note: I have tried to find links to all patterns that don’t connect to ravelry but if the pattern isn’t available anywhere else the link will be marked as (R). Also the photos used are from the pattern pages.