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  • Image of Lately Pullover test knit sweater and food themed stitch markers.
    knitting

    Episode 68: No Other Knitting Podcaster Does This

    Bymichelle June 6, 2023July 27, 2023

    This is where I record the eleventy billionth knitting podcast. This week: I search for my elusive niche space of authority in the knitting world and show progress on the…

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  • Episode 67: I Did Not Make This
    crochet | knitting

    Episode 67: I Did Not Make This

    Bymichelle April 17, 2023July 27, 2023

    I answer your questions and give the dirt on what I really wear, why my family didn’t love my knits for years, and I tell many more summer knitting lies.  Find…

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  • Episode 59: My Villanelle Sweater
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    Episode 59: My Villanelle Sweater

    Bymichelle October 12, 2022July 27, 2023

    This is where I post the eleventy billionth knitting podcast. Find me: on the blog: https://myso-calledhandmadelife.com on Instagram as @mysocalledhandmadelife: https://www.instagram.com/mysocalledhandmadelife/ on ravelry as mamatronic: https://www.ravelry.com/people/mamatronic Stuff I talk about:…

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  • Image of my Murder of Crows sweater in progress: a textured assigned pooling yoke sweater.
    knitting

    Episode 57: Famous Last Words

    Bymichelle August 8, 2022July 27, 2023

    All the show notes and links to all things epidosd 57: Famous Last Words, including assigned pooling knits, summer knitting, sock projects and more.

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  • Image of me holding a very bad kitty on my shoulder while I wear the Guthrie color work yoke sweater pattern.
    crochet | knitting

    Episode 56: Big Summer Knitting Plans

    Bymichelle May 15, 2022July 27, 2023

    Deets on Episode 56: Big Summer Knitting Plans where I show tons of summer sweaters and plan my own crochet and knit projects, plus talk Guthrie.

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  • Sunset Ringer Tee
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    Sunset Ringer Tee

    Bymichelle July 14, 2020June 10, 2023

    My first cotton intarsia tee, the Sunset Ringer Tee by Alexandra Tavel is finished and I share both the details, 80s surf inspo, and how I handled blocking this summer knit.

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  • Episode 48: Summer Knits Roundup
    crochet | knitting

    Episode 48: Summer Knits Roundup

    Bymichelle May 14, 2020July 27, 2023

    Show notes and links for Episode 48: Summer Knits Roundup where I list all the coolest summer knit sweaters and a crochet tote while discussing quarantine life in the most positive way possible, and general weirdness.

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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 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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  • Image of my Sunset Ringer cotton knitted tee, mid-round.
    crochet | knitting

    Episode 33: Hiding Out

    Bymichelle June 21, 2019July 27, 2023

    In Episode 33: Hiding Out I share all of your recipes for the perfect way to do nothing and do a little of that myself in my garden where I share some projects I’m starting in Mockingbird Fiber co yarn and progress on Sunset Ringer Tee.

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