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A walk in the woods is good for the soul.

I was pleased to have an opportunity to spend time in the woods with friends last weekend. We reconnected and played with craft projects. I love walking in the woods, the fungi tickle my fancy.

I don’t know what these are called, but they’re striking.

The green on this was so bright!

These look like a tiny fairy garden inside a decaying stump.

And these are just pretty.

I did have to look this one up. So cheery!

And the same color as Cheetos, really. There weren’t any chopsticks in the house, so I had to use skewers to avoid Cheeto dust on my new project. Slightly more challenging to balance.

I came home with a finished frog hat, and a lot of swatching for a couple projects. But there’s a lot of information in swatches, so I’m on my way with a couple designs.

I was hoping to sell this Portland Frog Hat for $100, but it’s not moving at that price point. So here’s the deal: Best offer over $50 gets the hat and Feminist Knit Club patch. USA addresses only, I’ll choose in the event there are multiple offers. Money goes to Northeast Emergency Food Program!

Just added to the calendar: Petite Brioche and Next Steps in Brioche: Increases and Decreases! New this time: Classes will be recorded and you’ll have access for 2 weeks after the event. You can preview the class offerings now, here.

Where else am I teaching this summer/fall?

Petite Brioche (beginning 2 color brioche in the round), Zoom class via For Yarn’s Sake, June 3, 10:30 am

Starfall Assigned Pooling Cowl, Zoom class via For Yarn’s Sake, June 4, 1:30 pm

Brioche workshops at Sitka Center (Oregon Coast) July 15-16

Nautical Knitting cruise on Zodiac Schooner, July 31-Aug. 2

Vogue Knitting Cruise to Alaska, Sept. 2-9

Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival, Oct. 13-15 (website not up yet…)

Planning ahead…come knit with me!

I’m just back from Vogue Knitting Live in NYC. I’ll catch up with pictures from that eventually, but right now I’m packing to go to Red Alder Fiber Arts Retreat in Tacoma, Washington. I’m leaving today, so…I’ll catch up when I catch up! You can see some of my pictures on Instagram.

I worked on this assigned pooling design on my flights to and from New York. I have a very small digital scale for travel, but it’s not very accurate on a bouncy airline tray table. I waited until I was in my hotel room to carefully weigh my yarn to see how many grams it took to knit a round. Then I figured the number of rounds I needed to complete my project, and added a buffer. That yarn there? That was calculated to be enough to bind off, and knit a cord to cinch the top of this cowl/hat, just like the finishing on Pooling is a Cinch.

Almost done…and it’s clear that the bit of yarn left is not going to be enough to finish binding off the stitches on the needle. So much for math! I need about the equivalent of one more round, but I’d have to frog 10 rounds to get to the place where I would shorten this piece. Blergh.

Luckily, I remembered this trick, so here is this tutorial for you.

I win! And I like this narrower cord; it will fit in the eyelets better. That’s serendipity!

Have you ever had to resort to binding off without yarn?

Virtual, of course!

I’m teaching for Peacetree Fibers Knitting and Yoga retreat, July 24 and 25. Classes are via Zoom. Click here to register.

I’m teaching Petite Brioche (beginning 2 color brioche in the round), and

Next Steps in Brioche: Increases and Decreases featuring your choice of either Heliotrope Hat or Cowl, or Brioche Pastiche hat.

You can take one or both classes, and you can even use the knitting from the Petite Brioche class as the beginning of the Brioche Pastiche hat!

I’m also teaching these classes at Virtual Vogue Knitting Live the week before, but those classes are already sold out. This is another opportunity to take these classes, soon.

(As of this moment, there is still room in the VKL Minerva Entrelac class. Jump if you want it!)