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Lots of home improvement talk (and some power tool noise) before we get down to the knitting this week. Full show notes with photos and links can be found in the podcast section of our shop website: TwoEwesFiberAdventures.com.. Also, we have a coupon code for 3GreenSisters Etsy shop. Visit their site and use the code TWOEWES to get 15% off and free US shipping.\xa0

Marsha\u2019s Projects:

The deck project is moving along, but it\u2019s slower than we originally thought.

I\u2019ve been busy knitting on Holey Comfort cardigan by Hinterm Stein using Elemental Effects Cormo. I joined the body and have knit about 6\u201d. Really fun pattern and interesting details.

Almost done with the bobbin of cotton fiber. Kelly and I discuss plying options and decide that it would be best to put the fiber on two bobbins and ply from the two bobbins. Singles management can be tricky with cotton, especially for a beginning cotton spinner.

I\u2019m planning to knit Walk a Long by Ankestrick using Little Fish Stitches fingering in the Seabrook colorway Mocrocks Beach. This is a custom colorway for String Theory yarn shop.\xa0

Kelly\u2019s Projects\xa0

I\u2019ve finished the knitting for the Targhee Lamb handspun sweater using the Dark and Stormy pattern by Thea Colman.\xa0 Weaving in ends, sewing on the vintage buttons that I found in my stash, and blocking will happen this week.\xa0

I cast on another pair of socks from handspun as we are finishing up the Summer Spin-In. I\u2019m using the yarn I spun out of the Shaky K fiber I got at Stitches this past February. This might be one of my fastest purchase-to-FO conversions if I keep moving along on an don\u2019t stall out on the sock.

I also cast on a charity hat using the same purple and pink yarn that I used for the Raticorn. I\u2019m holding the yarns doubled. One is a hot pink Stunning Strings fingering weight and the other is a sport weight merino cashmere. Both of these yarns are left over from Robert\u2019s neon argyle socks.\xa0\xa0

Summer Spin-In

The Summer Spin-In ends this Monday! (Sept. 7). We will announce winners in our next episode.\xa0

This is our best \u201calong\u201d yet with 34 posts in FO made with handspun thread and 144 posts in handspun yarn thread.

Two people will win bags from 3 Green Sisters.\xa0 Check out their shop! They make project bags, spinning wheel bags and loom bags. Even if you don\u2019t win a bag as a prize, they are offering a 15% savings for any bag in their shop. Use the coupon code TWOEWES.\xa0 They also provide free shipping in the US.

Here is some information from the 3 Green Sisters:\xa0 My sisters and I have been making purses and bags, knitting bags and project totes, loom carrier totes and spinning wheel bags for 19 years.

We come from a long line of seamstresses.\xa0 My great grandmother, Cecilia, sewed sequined and fancy dresses for the elite in San Francisco in the early 1900's. \xa0 Cecilia passed down the craft to my grandmother, who taught my mother, who taught us. \xa0 We take great pride in the quality of work-woman-ship in every product we make.

Our bags are made from recycled, upcycled, repurposed, vintage and rescued fabrics.\xa0 We have many sources to obtain our fabrics including an incredible fabric shop in NYC which lets us "dumpster dive" remnants, generous upholstery and drapery making shops who save their scraps for us, yard sales, Estate Sales and of course, second hand shops.\xa0 Each bag is a one of a kind.\xa0 This is our small way to give back to Mother Nature.\xa0\xa0

Visit their site and use the code TWOEWES to get 15% off and free US shipping. www.etsy.com/shop/3Greensisters

Yarn in the Shop

Our shop has new colors in fingering plus two new bases of Climate Beneficial(\u2122) Replenish Rambouillet!\xa0

We have a new sport weight 3-ply Replenish Rambouillet. Marsha created these colorways as part of the Iceland Collection

We also have an Aran weight 5-ply Replenish Rambouillet, in a variety of greens. Look for more colors in the future.\xa0

Besides the Replenish Rambouillet, We have silver gray Romney and a white Corriedale/Romeldale cross milled by Marcaile at Valley Oak Wool Mill.\xa0 These are Aran to Bulky weight yarns with a nice ply twist for a durable yarn. Both are currently available as natural colors, with some dyed versions available in the future.\xa0

The shop also has some spinning fiber. Check out the Two Ewes Fiber Adventures Shop.\xa0