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Year: 2019

  • Image of my hand knit Christmas stockings hanging with care in front of our TV with a fireplace screen saver playing.
    crochet | knitting

    Episode 42: A Less- Traditional Christmas

    Bymichelle December 24, 2019July 27, 2023

    In Episode 42 I talk about my giant hand knit socks that I made as stockings and other non-traditional ideas for celebrating Christmas you all gave me while our home is being repaired. Plus there are lots of WIPs and my scrappy blanket make-along project.

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  • Image of the skies in my town and birds on telephone wires before the exlposion.
    knitting

    Episode 41: An Explosive Sequel

    Bymichelle December 9, 2019July 27, 2023

    Episode 41 is the “Explosive” followup to my great sweater try-on video. Instead of showing a million sweaters I show the explosion in my town and we talk about keeping it real on youtube, I give away Wicked Knittah yarn to celebrate the Texas Fall and talk about Christmas knitting plans.

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  • Episode 40: The Sweater Experience
    knitting

    Episode 40: The Sweater Experience

    Bymichelle December 5, 2019July 27, 2023

    This is my sweater knitting history. Episode 40 is over 100 sweaters that I’ve knit since I started knitting. It is literally everything from 2002 to 2019 because I’m a freak and had kept them all!

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  • Image of the sun setting through the leaves of trees near my first solo camping campsite.
    camping | knitting

    Episode 39: A Very My-So Called Handmade Life Camping Trip

    Bymichelle October 21, 2019July 27, 2023

    I take you solo camping with me in Episode 39 to the woods of East Texas where I show my Cinamon Regia Pairfect socks, Dirty Lace and Color Craze shawls then hide in my car from an alligator.

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  • Image of me leaning against an old Acadian barn wall in my Soldotna Sweater.
    knitting

    Episode 38: A Couple of Non-Knitting Confessions

    Bymichelle October 4, 2019July 27, 2023

    Episode 38 is the one where I show my Soldotna and Guthrie by Caitlin Hunter along with Ready Player One socks. There are also a couple of confessions.

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  • knitting

    Soldotna Crop

    Bymichelle September 24, 2019June 5, 2023

    I finally knitted a cropped winter sweater and managed to actually make it cropped. In the past, every attempt at a cropped sweater is thwarted by one of two things:…

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  • Image of a rainbow of mini skeins and soft gray main color yarn like clouds surrounding it.
    knitting

    Episode 37: Totally Baked

    Bymichelle September 12, 2019July 27, 2023

    In Epsidoe 37: Totally Baked I show results from my #EndWeavingParty : My finished Soldotna Crop sweater, Kia Socks, Color Craze, Sonder Shawl, and GIngerbread House Socks. How do you handle loose ends?

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  • Image of the inside of my colorwork yoke sweater in all of it's loose ended glory.
    knitting

    Episode 36: Ends Shmends

    Bymichelle September 1, 2019July 27, 2023

    In Episode 36: Ends Shmends I discuss motivation to weave in ends on projects and demonstrate 3 ways to handle ends in colorwork on my Soldotna Crop.

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  • Image of me reaching out from under a massive pile of knits that need their ends woven in.
    knitting

    Episode 35: #EndWeavingParty

    Bymichelle August 10, 2019July 27, 2023

    In Episode 35 I share your projects that need endweaving and I share mine too… and it’s super embarrassing, plus a weird End Weaving dance party clip because I have zero shame.

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  • Image of me in my colorwork cotton Sunset Ringer Tee.
    knitting

    Episode 34: A Beach Tee, minus the flesh-eating virus.

    Bymichelle July 12, 2019July 27, 2023

    I show my finished Sunset Ringer Tee by Two of Wands and some other home and family DIYs and a lot of other projects.

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