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Episode 11A: Knitting On Any Budget

  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 Sign up for her newsletter  here .  Current Projects Sherri: Orange socks.  Tamara: Malachite Shawl test knit. Malachite Cowl test knit.  Astrid Tee test knit New sweater design out of dark turquoise/teal Knit Picks Gloss DK on US Size 6 (4.00 mm) needles.  The fingering weight sweater with bell sleeves and lace details sample garment. Almost all the way finished! Sample is knit in a color named Old Gold that looks very much like the prairies in late fall and early winter out of Miss Babs Woodbury (their fingering weight wool/silk blend) on US Size 2 (2.75 mm) needles.  Finished Projects Sher

10B: Working from Stash.

  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 Knitting Question: Why have a stash? Why not just go buy the yarn when you're ready to cast on?   Sherri and Tamara talk about why they each have a stash. And why that stash is important. Mulligan Sherri's List Springfoot Socks heel problems. It turns out knitting the heal backward on purpose is harder than it sounds. Tamara: Knitting a sample sweater out of Indie hand-dyed yarn right now. This one is in fingering weight. The first mistake is that she knit the entire first skein (400+ yards since it is fingering weight) and started the second skein while convincing herself that the color shift really