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Marsha was a Marvelous Hostess for the Holidays and Kelly is considering a career as a Gingerbread Architect! Holiday shenanigans meant the Ewes haven\\u2019t talked in awhile. This was a MEGA episode but polling in the Ravelry Group led to us splitting this into two regular episodes. This is the first of the pair. \\xa0Full notes with photos and links can be found in the podcast section of\\xa0 our shop website: TwoEwesFiberAdventures.com Join the community on Ravelry or become a patron and support the show on our Patreon Page.

We had lots of catching up to do so the fibery content starts late. Skip to about the 27:30 minute mark if you\\u2019d prefer to get right to the fiber adventures. In our conversation about Christmas I promised the Spruce Eats blog links to the gingerbread house recipes. Here they are:\\xa0\\xa0

Structural Gingerbread

Royal Icing

Gingerbread House Tips

Kelly\\u2019s Projects

My newest cast on is a knitted Nativity from a Kit that my mom got me for Christmas.

I\\u2019m close to finishing the crocheted sweater! It\\u2019s the Habitat Cardigan crochet cardigan by Jess Coppom. I\\u2019m making it with the Lion Brand Heartland that is called for in the pattern. I\\u2019m doing the ribbing right now and I\\u2019ve made some modifications to the pattern due to my tight crocheting and maybe my choice of sweater size. I don\\u2019t think that the positive ease is built into the pattern.\\xa0

I\\u2019m still hooking along on the Dew Drop Shawl crochet shawl by Silke Terhorst.\\xa0 My project is using a gradient handspun that I made from a Loop Bump in teal, purple, and gray. The rows are getting bigger and bigger as I go so they are taking a long time.\\xa0

I finished four towels (out of a warp of six) of my\\xa0 Stashbuster Weaving. These dishtowels have yellow/gold/orange/brown tones in warp, and I used mostly a cream/yellow cotton weft. My favorite of the four towels I alternated wefts. I used the pattern LDLLD with the cream as the light and a gold cotolin as the weft. I also used pebbleweave and another twill variation so each towel was a different weave structure. They were given as gifts for Christmas. I will have to straighten out my warp before I tie back on. I had some tangling starting to happen and I\\u2019m not sure what I did wrong. It\\u2019s my first back to front warp and also my first time winding warp threads four at a time. Somehow in each bout of four there was twisting and tangling and it was ok until the end of the fourth towel. By that time the threads were so twisted it was affecting their ability to pull through the heddles as I advanced the warp.\\xa0

I\\u2019ve made two of the Mash it Up hats from the pattern Marsha talked about in a previous episode. I\\u2019m using sock yarn scraps that I had been saving for baby socks. I was tired of having so much and I wanted to deplete the jar. They will be charity hats.\\xa0

Marsha\\u2019s Projects

I finished a Mash It Up hat for Ben\\u2019s girlfriend using this free pattern by Babs Ausherman that uses sock yarn scraps. Great stash buster pattern. The first hat was too big so I knit a second (middle size) that fits great.

I also gave Ben and Bar each a skein of Shepherd\\u2019s Wool worsted to knit them an 1898 Hat. I hope to finish Bar\\u2019s before she leaves on January 9th.

I\\u2019m almost done with Shared Rib by Anne Hanson as a cowl.\\xa0 Old Maiden Aunt fingering in the colorway Crimson Lips. Had a mistake and debated ripping back. Check the next episode to see how this ends!

The sequel to this cliff hanger episode will be published the weekend of January 4th!