Episode 36 Fix It Challenge

Published: March 18, 2011, 11:41 p.m.

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Sponsored by Quince & Co and my Longaberger Home Business.\\xa0 Show notes and links at www.knittingpipeline.com

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Japan Earthquake Relief

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  1. Brenda\\xa0Castiel is giving $5 from the sale of each of her designs for relief efforts.
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  3. \\xa0Mary Jo\\xa0 Colwell (HedgehogMJ) designed Rose of Sharing to benefit The Heifer Project and\\xa0UMCOR.
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Nature Notes:\\xa0 Panther in Illinois?\\xa0 Other in my area have seen it.\\xa0Before repeating anything a little bird told you, be sure it wasn\'t a cuckoo.

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Needle Notes:\\xa0 I was caught without my shawl comfort knitting last week.\\xa0 I fixed a pair of Scottish Kilt Hose that I knitted in 1996 before I became a piper.\\xa0 My Fix It Challenge is to review your knitting to see what needs repair or modifications.\\xa0 The Norwegian Setesdal Sweater continues.\\xa0 I am almost done with the body of the sweater.\\xa0 I want to start knitting a shawl, in particular Stripe Study Shawl.\\xa0

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Pipeliners share their ideas of comfort knitting.\\xa0 I review the following patterns from Quince & Co:\\xa0 Barcelona Scarflet, Abbey Road Socks, and Sabrina Mitts.\\xa0 Leave a comment on the show blog to enter a drawing for one of these patterns and your choice of Tern to make it.\\xa0 Also Carrie Hoge\'s pattern new garter stitch baby sweater and cap are adorable.\\xa0 I review Tern fingering weight yarn by Quince.

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View a video of Celtic Cross Pipes and Drums in the Peoria IL St. Patrick\'s Day Parade on the show blog.\\xa0 I am in the front row, in the middle and those are my shoes and kilt hose you see for a second or two later on.

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Music is The Irish Ground (Tollett) by DaCamera from Magnatune.com

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