Episode 50: We celebrate our 50th!

Hello dear Knitters and welcome to our 50th podcast! We decided to change things up for this special episode and re-introduce ourselves for the newer listeners and to ask each other a few questions about our knitting life. We announce a few new Kal's and we share some of the plans that we have for the podcast in the coming months. Grab some champagne or sparkling cider along with your knitting and get comfortable!

Episode 50 Audio

What's in our Lesson Plan?

• On the PA System
• After the finish line
• Getting to know us, a little tete a tete
• What's on our black board?

  

  We celebrated our 50th podcast with champagne!

  
  

  

  Cheers to you listeners!

On the P.A. System

1. June 9, 2018 is the annual event 'World Wide Knit in Public Day!' We are hosting an event on 6/9/18 at the Fox and Goose pub in down town Sacramento from 2:00-5:00 pm. We'd love to have you join us! Our plan is to not only knit in public together, but to also kick off a month long sock kal. We can all cast on together (if you're unable to join us, hopefully you'll be able to co at home or join an event that is in your area. Look here for details.) Either way, please tag us on Instagram with #destined2knitpodcastwwkip . You can also post in the forum on our Ravelry group.
2. We would really appreciate it if listeners could rate and review the podcast on ITunes or wherever you download your podcasts. Thank you!
3. Join our Ravelry group and introduce yourself, we look forward to meeting and getting to know you!

After the finish line

Kim was wearing her newly finished Tegna sweater by Caitlin Hunter. 

Marcy has worn her Dawning sweater, which you can hear more about in ep 15. She also wore her newly finished Sandshore open cardigan. Wilson wore his monster pants and you can hear more about them in ep. 24. Marcy was wearing her purchased knit sweater, which was a sample that she bought from our Lys. The Campbell & 2nd is a beautiful summer top and she's thrilled with it.

Marcy's altered Sandshore cardigan with the crochet fix around the neck,
you can see the collar doesn't lay flat now but it still looks good.

Tête-à-tête:  

We both re share our knitting stories and a little bit about ourselves. 

We mention:

*Stitch and Bitch book by Debbie Stoller  *May is Bike Month  *Caitlin Hunter  *an interview with Caitlin by Kristy Glass *Andrea Mowry *Joji Locatelli *Veera Valimaki *Ann Budd and her Knit For Fun retreats *Andi Satterlund * Nancy Marchant * Bakery Bears Podcast *Vogue knitting Live 

Marcy's moms crochet vest that she has that her mom
made back in the 60's. Isn't it adorable!

What's on our Black Board?

Our sock kal will run from 6/9/18-7/9/18. On 8/1/18 we will start our 'Reading and Knitting Bingo' kal. This will be so much fun and Kim is hoping that you'll read and knit along with her this summer because that's such a great time to read! There'll be more details about that in our next episode. 

We are planning some more research papers. We would like to go in depth on these topics: decreasing, increasing, blocking and steeking. These will all be fun subjects to learn more about in the next 6 months. 

We will be taking a short hiatus while Kim and her DH are in Europe, but we'll be back in mid June with lots of knitting, spinning, sewing and weaving content! We'll share our experiences from the WWKIP day and much more. 

Thank you, as always, for joining us! We appreciate each and everyone of you. Happy Knitting!

Episode 49: Good bye April

Hello dear knitters! Thanks for joining us for our 49th podcast. Marcy and Kim are in the classroom today (we actually recorded in Kim's husband's car!) and they will share all of their wip's, fo's, and uber craftiness. Grab your knitting, a soothing beverage, get really comfortable and settle in to listen to this installment of the Destined2knit podcast!

On a sadder note, Marcy's father was recently killed in a motorcycle accident. Our thoughts and prayers are with Marcy and her entire family during this challenging time. xx

Episode 49 Audio

Look at all Kim's scarves that she weaved.

Podcast shenanigans!

What's in our Lesson Plan?

1. On the PA System
2. After the finish line
3. Show & Tell
4. We are Uber Crafty
5. What's on our Black Board?     

On the P.A. System

• Stash Dash is coming up! This yearly event is put on by the Knitgirllls video podcast and you can check their Ravelry forum for dates and information about this year's SD.
• Marcy shared some information about the 1st LYS Day and how well it went! The designer Casapinka designed a shawl especially for the inaugural day and it's still available for purchase on Ravelry- the Local Yarn Shawl. 
• She also talked about the tabs on the top of the 'yarn' page on Ravelry and how useful they are.  

After the Finish Line

Kim wore some of her hand knit socks and one of her "Crochet Crack Cardigans." There is no Ravelry project page for this project because it was knit/crocheted before she started keeping project pages. Here is another one of the crocheted cardigans that she made. The pattern is Chevron Lace Cardigan by Milobo. 

Marcy wore her Chaleur and you can hear more about this in ep. 45. She also wore her Wind Wave Tee and you can hear more about this top in ep 11. Marcy wore two of her sweaters from 2015, the After the Rain and the Eastbound Sweater. 

Marcy wearing her Chaleur when visiting her Grandma
with her Brother and Sister and Pippa!

Show & Tell

Kim is almost finished with her "Thanks Alice," socks. They need to have an afterthought heel picked up and knit. She is also continuing to work on her Tegna by Caitlin Hunter. Right now, she is stalled a bit because she's alternating her hand dyed skeins and she is also doing short rows on the shoulders/back and she can't alternate skeins while doing short rows...so, we'll see what happens!

This shows you how Kim picked up stitches above
and below the row that she's going to cut the yarn
in order to pick up and knit the afterthought heel
in her socks.

Marcy has finished the knitting on her Sandshore cardigan by Alicia Plummer. She loves it and is looking forward to wearing it. She is also continuing to work on her Wavelets Tee by Rumiko Alexander. This is a gorgeous oversized lacey top with a drop stitch repeat. 

Marcy's Finished Sandshore Cardigan!

We are Uber Crafty

Kim hasn't been knitting very much because she's been spending most of her making time weaving! She wants to use up the novelty yarn that she has from the 90's and 00's and weaving is a great way to use it up. She has finished 2 scarves and has another on the loom. This endeavor hasn't been HOWLER free though...when warping the loom for her 2nd scarf she messed it up THREE times in 3 different ways! Things are back on track and she's been using her Craftsy Unlimited membership to watch Deborah Jarchow's Rigid Heddle weaving class and that's been very helpful. 

This is the latest scarf on Kim's Cricket, rigid heddle loom.

The Cricket loom

What's on our Black Board?

Our next podcast will be our 50th episode! Marcy and Kim are planning something special to mark and celebrate the occasion and we hope that you'll join us.

Thank you for listening everybody. We hope you have a fantastic couple of weeks as we welcome May and warmer temperatures. Keep on knitting and we'll see you soon.