BROADCASTS.com

Published: July 24, 2024, 9:10 p.m.

Marsha is home from her Alaskan Advent-Ewe and we have lots to catch up on. Join our discussion of project updates and spinning for our Summer Spin In.\xa0

Full notes with photos and links can be found in the podcast section of our shop website: TwoEwesFiberAdventures.com Join the community on Ravelry or become a patron and support the show on our Patreon Page.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Subscribe on Android

Marsha\u2019s Projects

Socks: The Artful Ewe Clackamas. Finished first sock and about halfway through leg of second sock.

Emotional Support Chicken: by Annette Corsino. Sweet girl on hold while I was in Alaska.

Poppy Tee: by Jo Cottle. Cast on using Rowan Purelife Revive in the colorway Loam. Picked up in the NoCKRs 2024 destash room. Cast on and worked on this almost exclusively on my Alaska trip. I have completed the yoke and about 5\u201d of the body.

Pinot Noir Purchase Targhee: Started spinning the giant (2.2 pound) ball of Targhee roving I bought from an attendee at last fall\u2019s Fort Worden Knitting Retreat. You know I cannot resist those large balls! The woman I bought it from said she got it from a weaver\u2019s estate. It seems pretty dusty and I was sneezing like crazy last night. I\u2019ll have to wear a mask while spinning.

Kelly\u2019s Projects

Finished: Pride dish towels in German Birdseye weave structure. I used three variegated skeins of fluffy cotton singles plied with a thin thread of something else (polyester or nylon?). For the stripes around these three I used cotton or cottolin yarn in red, orange, green, and blue. I used all those solids as warp and also used a royal blue cotton, a brick red cottolin and some bobbin leftovers from the last project.\xa0 I ended up with 5 dishtowels and a square. I love these towels and can\u2019t wait to do another stash busting warp like this.\xa0

Two skeins of Jazzman (CVM x Merino x Columbia) are finished. I\u2019m in the process of topping off the bobbins before doing more plying. It\u2019s turned out to be a lighter yarn than I expected\u2013fingering weight. It didn\u2019t plump up as much as I thought it would after washing.\xa0

Use all the Spinning Tools Challenge: I\u2019ve finished and wound off a second ball of the green singles from the tahkli. I\u2019ve been taking it with me in the car and to dog class where we have a break between classes.\xa0

I also spun up small samples (about 6-8 grams) on the other two spindles.\xa0 Still to go: Charkha, Salish Spinner, Great Wheel, and Norwegian

Found buttons for Marsha\u2019s baby sweater. Have three baby items to make\u2013two for baby boys and one for a baby girl.\xa0

Anna sent me information about a colorwork sweater that I should make for myself. It used to be called Choose Your Own Adventure, now called Your Outdoor Adventure.

Summer Spin In

Started Memorial Day - Ends on Labor Day

May 27 - September 2

Two Ewes in Walla Walla, Washington

September 26-30

Alaska Advent-Ewe

Met our ship Noordam in Vancouver, BC

Ketchikan: Took a city tour and visited Potlatch Park.

Juneau: It was pouring rain but we did a city tour and drove to Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center and hiked to the waterfall and to the glacier viewpoint.

\xa0Changing Tides (their yarn is One of a Kind)

• One of a Kind - sock - 80/20 merino/nylon

• One of a Kind - lace - alpaca/merino/silk/yak

• One of a Kind - mini skeins - 80/20 SW merino/nylon -\xa0 \u201cMidnight Sun Memories\u201d

Skagway: Had a short city tour, visited the cemetery and drove over White Pass into Canada.

\xa0Aurora Yarns

• Raven Frog Fibers - Marvelous Merino worsted - 100 SW merino - \u201cTotem Spirit\u201d (3X)

• Nunavut Qiviut - lace - 30/60 arctic fox/superfine merino - natural color white

• Aurora Yarns - lace - 100 qiviut

Quilt Alaska: Bought fabric squares with Alaskan flowers prints to make napkins.

Anchorage: Visited the Musk Ox Farm and the Spirit Houses, an Athabascan/Russian Orthodox cemetery.

Food: Tequila 61, Whisky & Ramen

Musk Ox Farm - lace - 50/50 qiviut/silk

The Fireweed Studio - project bag with musk ox print

Wooly Mammoth (the shop is located inside Cabin Fever gifts)

• Alaska Yarn Co - sock - 75/25 SW merino/nylon - \u201cCrayolas\u201d

• Alaska Yarn Co - sock - 65/15 merino/Donegal nep - \u201cSpruce\u201d

Denali: Park organized wildlife tour. Saw a grizzly bear.

Polychrome Yarns:

Bad Sheep Yarn - fingering - 75/25 SW merino/nylon - \u201cSockeye Salmon\u201d

AK Venture Co - sock - 85/15 SW merino/nylon - \u201cMizzle\u201d (2X) and \u201cMidnight Sun\u201d (2X)

\xa0

Fairbanks: Panned for gold at Dredge 8 and rode the Riverboat Discovery.

Very nice shop but yarns I can buy at home so did not purchase anything.

Food: The Library, Jazz Bistro on 4th (Cuban), The Crepery