Backstage Knitting Podcast Episode 18
Thinking about the 4th of July
April 1, 2017
•Shout out to Simms from Vienna, Austria. She introduced herself in our Ravelry group!
•Shownotes can be found at www.backstageknitting.weebly.com
•On the Needles:
oAnna is working on a pair of basic socks in Magpie Fibers “Empty Night” colorway. Anna is also working on a simple seed stitch scarf in some recycled teal yarn.
•http://www.magpiefibers.com/swanky-sock/empty-night
oBethany is working on her “Coronation Day” Boxy by Joji Locatele in the Winter Jewel color way from Fancy Image Yarns, she got her Frozen bag from The Scarlet Thread and an Elsa/Snowflake stitch marker from Dunn By Hand both on Etsy. She is also working on her Seahawks socks in Seahawks yarn from Fancy Image Yarns. The shawl of her own design is now a shell/tank top in progress in yarn from Forbidden Woolery in their “Sweet Pea” colorway.
•http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/boxy
•http://www.fancyimageyarn.com
•https://www.forbiddenwoolery.com/products/greed-sweet-pea
•Sew A Needle Pulling Thread:
oAnna made a lotion holster to hold her massage lotion bottles.
•Spinning/Weaving:
oBethany did some spinning but did not do the plying she had wanted to do.
oBethany has not done any weaving but is mid chapter 2 of “Women’s Work: The First 20,000 years.”
•https://www.amazon.com/Womens-Work-First-Years-Society/dp/0393313484/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491248181&sr=8-1&keywords=women%27s+work+the+first+20+000+years
•https://www.facebook.com/groups/1261394850617378/

•Knetflix and Knit:
oAnna finished watching Star Trek: Voyager and has moved onto Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She is also reading “Women Who Run With the Wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
•https://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Run-Wolves-Archetype/dp/0345409876/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491248363&sr=8-1&keywords=women+who+run+with+the+wolves
oBethany has been watching Friends, Feud, and RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9. She is also rewatching the West Wing along side the West Wing Weekly podcast and is enjoying the West-Wing-Along thread in the Ravelry group. She also read some textbooks and “Trifles” by Susan Glaspel and “Fences” by August Wilson. Bethany also saw the new Beauty and the Beast and did not care for it.
•http://thewestwingweekly.com
•http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/backstage-knitting-podcast/3598514/1-25#6
•https://www.amazon.com/Trifles-Susan-Glaspell/dp/1494891220/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491249254&sr=8-1&keywords=trifles
•https://www.amazon.com/Fences-Movie-tie-August-Wilson/dp/0735216681/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1491249325&sr=8-3&keywords=fences
•Healing Hands:
oAnna is really enjoying week 4 of massage school.
•Events:
oPNW Yarn Crawl May 4-7, 2017
•http://www.pnwyarncrawl.com
oWorld Wide Knit in Public Day June 10, 2017
oMariners Stitch N Pitch July 20, 2017
•Double Purloined “Mother Knows Best” from the Knitmore Girls Podcast
oSelfcare is not selfish and everyone’s time has value and as artists we need to respect that.
•Contests!! We want to up our IG and FB numbers so we’re going to have a contest to get that going. Details to follow soon.
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