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8: Enforced Staycation

  Hosts Sherri, host, knitter, spinner, and fosters dogs. You can find Sherri as TangledThread on Ravelry Instagram: geminatepodcast Tamara, co-host, knitter, knitwear designer, hiker, mom You can find Tamara as tammo on Ravelry Instagram:  tamaramoots Blog:  www.tamaramoots.com Knitwear Designs:  http://www.ravelry.com/designers/tamara-moots Everything is Cancelled.  Sherri and Tamara talk about how everything is canceled. This is smart and necessary to flatten the curve and enforce social distancing. But also hard. This is just a one-part podcast to discuss how we are figuring out the new normal. We both recorded remotely from our own homes as we practice social distancing. Current Projects Sherri: Socks. Tamara: Top down tunic out of Treasure Goddess DK Treasures in a great red named Ruby Daggers. Getting ready to cast on another DK weight top down sweater with a shallow scoop neck and slightly flared bell sleeves in a great teal color. Planting gar

7B: Springtime on Cold Comfort Farm.

  Hosts Sherri, host, knitter, spinner, and fosters dogs. You can find Sherri as TangledThread on Ravelry Instagram: geminatepodcast Guest Information Cynthia Strelkoff, retired opera singer and costumer designer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cynthia is now a fiber farmer and designer in Butler, Missouri. She has a new book out,  The Lace Makers of Wright Road . The book is co-authored by Willow Oringderff. You can find Cynthia Facebook:  The Lace Makers of Wright Road Lace Designs on Ravelry:  https://www.ravelry.com/designers/cynthia-anne-strelkoff Knitting Question: What is the most surprising thing about owning alpacas? Why an alpaca farm?  Cynthia shares about how she came to have an alpaca farm. And her thoughts on the most surprising things about owning alpacas. Mulligan Sherri: Spinning gradient yarn with the end goal to make a gradient sweater. Math completed, weighed and carded into precise piles for the body and arms. Realized a big oops days