201 Knitting through sorrow

In this episode: It’s autumn. Time for finishing projects, knitting socks and celebrating the impending winter by taking the sweaters out of storage. This one is all knitting, and I make no apologies. Pick up your pointy sticks. It’s time to cast on.

Saying goodbye. From left, many adventures together; younger days; Truman and daughter-in-law, Laura, first drive in the new convertible. (Probably my favourite picture of both of them.)

I’m channelling my grief in the time-honoured tradition: by knitting all the things.

I am filling the sock drawer starting with a riff on Winter’s Gift, by Amy Snell, using Autumn Leaves and Tarmac colours and a traditional Scandinavian motif.

Followed by Follow the Fleet, by Don Yarmon; and Priory Socks, by Louise Tilbrook.

Riff Socks, by Lise Brackbill and Toe-up Socks with Fleegle Heel, by Nitro Knitters, are waiting in the wings. Yes, that’s a lot of socks on the go, but they’re all necessary.

It’s time to add twin stitch and triple stitch to your bag of knitting tricks. (The method is also known as Shadow Wrap Short rows.) Here’s how you make twin stitch on the knit side and on the purl side.

Speaking of socks, I don’t expect you to remember Elm, but I’m happy to have found and finished them. My only complaint, and it’s a small one, is that that they look a bit like wrung out dishcloths just out of the laundry. (Is it weird that this bugs me?) But, they do look great on, and that’s what’s important.

There is still time this year to knit your own Clapotis ’24 and participate in the massive ClapotisFest Contest (which I somehow forgot to mention while recording). I’m knitting my latest in handspun Shetland yarn made from Fellview Fibres gradient rolags.

Have you seen this yarn (below left)? My Kiba Waistcoat is on the back burner while I hunt for another skein of the discontinued yarn or choose an alternative in which to work the side panels. Do check out the project gallery. I wasn’t kidding when I said this garment looks great on everybody.

Lastly, my new main project is Ghost in the Orchard, by Thea Colman. I used Tillybuddy cast on for this one, and I’ll have much to say about that in the next podcast. Once it became my main project, I worked this vest to the underarms in about a week. The yarn is Donegal Tweed which was many other things before it became this vest.

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I’m a serial maker of podcasts, and many things that are not podcasts. I love playing with yarn, fibre and cloth. I will never accept that furniture in my living room only goes two ways. Almost every night, I dream about houses.

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