Backstage Knitting Podcast
Episode 26- One Year Podiversary!!

•Shout to Annie from across the country!
•To get your own shout out, join our Ravelry group and introduce yourself in our introduction thread!
•There will be an extra break between episodes due to travel but we will be back the 16th/17th of August.

•On The Needles:

oAnna is working on her “Close to You” shawl by Justyna Lorkowski in the “Hecate” mini skein set from A Hundred Ravens Yarns, an Entrelac lap blanket of Anna’s own design in Noro Silk Garden and Noro Kureyon. She is also crocheting a scrappy granny square blanket with what she thinks is a J hook.
•http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/close-to-you
•http://ahundredravens.com
oBethany worked on her “Coronation Day” Boxy by Joji Locatelli in “Winter Jewels” from Fancy Image Yarns, a vanilla sock in Plymouth Yarn Happy Feet in the “Blueberry” colorway, the “Shrowl” by Stephen West in the “Christmakah” colorway from Amanda’s Art Yarns, and TPCT by Teresa Gregorio in Miss Babs Yowza in the “Deep Sea Jelly Fish” colorway.
•http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/boxy
•http://www.fancyimageyarn.com
•https://www.plymouthyarn.com/yarn/happy-feet-100-splash-hand-dyed-item-1555
•http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/shrowl
•http://www.amandasartyarn.com
•http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tpct
•https://www.missbabs.com/collections/yowza/products/yowza-deepseajellyfish
•Off the Needles:
oAnna finished her modified Sock Head Hat by Kelly McClure in the “Hells Bells” colorway from Magpie Fibers and a green granny square blanket.
•http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sockhead-slouch-hat
•http://www.magpiefibers.com/productsdk/hell-bells
oBethany finished the Laboe Top by Cory Ellen in Amanda’s Art Yarn in “Platinum” and “Bad Juju.”
• http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/laboe
•In Time Out:
oAnna put her Close To You shawl in time out but it was released and forgiven.
•Sew A Needle Pulling Thread:
oAnna has been doing mending and working on some WIPS.
•Spinning:
oBethany has done lots of spinning for Tour De Fleece even though she did not make her goal. She also set some yarn that she spun and plied during the year.
•Knetflix and Knit:
oAnna has been watching the Great British Bake Off.
oBethany has been watching How I Met Your Mother and Gilmore Girls. She also watched The Lego Batman Movie and Fifty Shades Darker.
•In Rehearsal:
oBethany has started doing her sound design for Frankenstein with the New Muses Theater Co. that opens August 4 at the Dukesbay Theater in Tacoma.
•http://www.newmuses.com
•Events:
oThe Reduce Reuse Recycle Along is going on now through Labor Day!! Tell us how you’re reducing your carbon footprint in the thread in our Ravelry group.
oLeah Justine is giving away a copy of her DEBUT COUNTRY ALBUM!!!
•To win- join our Ravelry group and post in the contest thread who your favorite country artist is. The winner will be randomly selected on August 29, 2017. Must be a member of the Ravelry group to win.
oOregon Flock and Fiber Festival is Sept. 23 and 24, 2017 in Canby, Oregon.
oVogue Knitting Live in November 3-5, 2017 in Bellevue, Washington.