Weekly Blog Post: August 7th, 2022

It’s been so hot and humid here. Probably has been across the country, but. Getting stuff done has been MISERABLE.

We are getting close to country fair season! I’ve been planning out with my sister which ones we’re attending this year, to maximize how much fleece I can buy. I’m hoping I can catch a shearing demo or two as well, I have a goal to learn how to be a shearer in the next five years or so– it feels like the next step. Well, one of many potential “next steps” I guess. But it’s up there!

How have y’all been dealing with the heat? I want to curl up in front of the AC and just. Not move. Ever again. So spinning and weaving have been difficult at best 😉

This week’s videos:

Alright that’s it for now. Just holding my laptop is too hot!

See you next week!

Weekly Blog: July 31st, 2022

It’s been a nice week, taking a break from spinning. I’ve been practicing my watercolor techniques– I’m really focusing on drills lately, as I just got some new brushes and I’m still learning how to use them. I also warped the loom, did some dye work, and spent a lot of time just relaxing with Mike– I’ve really needed this rest!

Next week I have plans EVERY weekday, so I’m going to be running hard!! If all goes well though, I should be picking up some fleece to process for a new video one of the days, plus I have more watercolors en route to test out. So I’m happy with that!

This week’s videos:

The rest of the knitting pattern will be up by the end of next week.

I guess that’s about it.

See you next week!!

Glitched Knits Bulky Sampler Hat

Materials:

-Two colors of Sewrella Classic Bulky or a similar bulky yarn.

-Size 6.5mm 16in circular needles and size 6.5mm DPNs

Part One:

-Cast on 64 stitches in Color A on Circular Needles

-Rows 1-8: *K4,P4* in the round

-Row 9: Purl entire row.

-Row 10: Change to Color B and Purl entire row.

First Pattern Chunk: Chevron Seed Stitch

Four row pattern repeat:

1. *P1,K3,P1,K3
2. *K1,P1,K5,P1
3. *K2,P1,K3,P1,K1
4. *K3,P1,K1,P1,K2

-Repeat Pattern repeat 4x (Rows 11-26)

-Rows 27-28: Purl entire Row

To decrease slouchiness of the hat, skip Row 9 and repeat the Chevron pattern only 3 times

Part Two: Diamond Brocade

-For this section, the Diamond Brocade has an eight row repeat.

1. *K4,P1,K3
2. *K3,P1,K1,P1,K2
3. *K2,P1,K3,P1,K1
4. *K1,P1,K5,P1
5. *P1,K7
6. *K1,P1,K5,P1
7. *K2,P1,K3,P1,K1
8. *K3,P1,K1,P1,K2

-Rows 29-45: Repeat Diamond Brocade repeat 2 times, plus an extra row 1 of the repeat.

-Rows 46-47: Purl entire row.

To decrease the slouchiness of the hat, repeat the Diamond pattern only once (+ an extra row 1 of the repeat) and skip row 47.

Part Three: Decreasing Rib

-Row 48: *Knit 3, Purl 5

-Row 49: *K3, P3, P2Tog

-Row 50: *K3, P4

-Row 51: *K3, P2, P2Tog

-Row 52: *K3, P3

-Row 53: *K1, K2Tog, P3

-Row 54: Switching to DPNs, *K2, P3

-Row 55: *K2, P1, P2Tog

-Row 56: *K2, P2

-Bind off. Use a yarn needle to tighten/close the top of the hat and sew in your ends.

Weekly Blog: July 24th, 2022

Last day of TDF2022!! I am so happy lol…I’m really burned out on spinning at the moment.

I’ll probably take a week off from spinning, AT LEAST. I’m thinking I really want to weave for a bit before taking out the wheels again. We’ll see.

See you next week!

Weekly Blog Post: July 17th, 2022

Tour de Fleece goes on! Between that and all the watercolor/gouache study I’ve been doing, I haven’t had time for much else.

This week’s videos:

Alright back to work.

See you next week!

Weekly Blog Post: July 10th, 2022

Writing this reallllll quick before bed. I got way too into m painting today and typing this up completely slipped my mind!

Basically my week has been, [spin Tour de Fleece in the morning], [take a break when it gets too hot to spin and practice watercolors or gouache], [spin a little more], [paint after dinner]. It’s a delicate balance of ‘it’s too humid and my wool is sticking to me’ and ‘it’s too humid and my paintings need to dry before the next layer, let’s spin while we wait’.

This week’s videos:

Alright that’s it for now. Time for bed before I fall over!

See you next week!

~Glitched

Weekly Blog Post: July 3rd, 2022

I don’t have much time to type– it’s Tour de Fleece, I’m taking multiple classes on spinning and weaving right now, and I’m honestly so exhausted lol. But! It’s a good exhausted– the “I’ve actually managed to use all my creativity for once” exhausted, where I can fall asleep feeling like I actually did something. It’s nice.

Quite a few videos this week:

started spinning these today actually, they’re lovely.

glitter hooks!

Spoiler alert– I’m spinning way faster than I prepared for.

A mostly disappointing dye batch.

An absolutely lovely fleece!!

Ok I guess that’s it! I need to finish editing the TDF footage from the past few days to get it uploaded for tomorrow, pack mine and Mike’s lunches and dinners for tomorrow (I’ll be doggy sitting for the day, so Mike needs to feed himself 😉 ), make a pitcher of cold brew coffee to be ready for tomorrow, pull my spindles for tomorrow’s work, and on top of all that my watercolor palette is calling my name something awful and I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep without at least pulling those supplies together for a free moment this coming week! Sometimes I crave a specific medium the same way I crave a specific food– nothing else will scratch that itch.

I hope y’all had a great weekend. Stay safe!

~Glitched

Weekly Blog Post: June 26th, 2022

It’s been a really busy week! I think I was either out-and-about or had visitors basically every day, which was a little intense for me lol. It went alright though.

This week I finished two WIPs:

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Love this hat ❤

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And this blanket has been sitting around waiting for me to finish it for a couple months now.

Also here’s a sneak peak of a future video I’m finishing up samples for:

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That’ll be a fun one.

Alright beyond that, this week I had…multiple babysitting days, a family barbecue, and a farm day to visit. So that was a lot of fun! I’m very sunburnt right now though.

I’m sure this next week will be busy too– Mike and my four-year-anniversary is Thursday, and we have a fair amount planned. I’m also supposed to retrieve some raw fleece soon, so there’s that 😉 Hopefully I don’t overdo it!

This week’s videos:

Alright I guess that’s about it.

Talk to you next week!

~Glitched

Weekly Blog Post: June 19th, 2022

It’s been a very stressful week. I ended up burying myself in filming, so I’m actually a bit ahead of schedule for once, which is nice. Just wish it was under better circumstances.

I don’t have a lot to say today, but here’s all the videos that aired this week:

This one was fun to make 🙂

Nice look at the more precious members of my pen collection.

Can’t wait to spin those batts!!

I guess that’s it for now.

See y’all next week!

Weekly Blog Post: June 12th, 2022

It’s been a busy week, in all the ways that matter. I do like a productive week, they’re more fun for me, and I love the sense of accomplishment when I finish things…I kinda live for that, which somewhat explains the pile of finished scarves and hats that I need to get around to steaming and photographing (it’s on my list!). Anyways.

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Biggest accomplishment of the week? Washing Poppy’s fleece for this year ❤ Most of the details will be in a future video on my channel (already edited, uploaded, and scheduled!), but suffice to say her fleece is just as lovely this year as the last and I can’t wait to dig in and start spinning! She just has such a lovely natural range of greys, it’s so nice to see how they spin up 🙂

Other than that, I did some more plant maintenance. My sister and I are a little plant-crazy right now, so part of this week was going to the greenhouse so she could buy some berry bushes, and I bought a new houseplant (Caladium Carolyn Wharton). Yesterday I converted my Monstera to hydroponics, I’m hoping I can convince it to grow more straight this way. Then TODAY a friend gave me a plant of her that needs a little TLC– a Begonia, although I’m not 100% sure what varietal. I’m going to give it a week or so and see if it shows any improvement.

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The nice thing about swapping my Monstera is that, while I was cleaning the roots, I realized I actually had multiple separate baby plants tangled around my main plant. So I was able to send those off to new homes today ❤ Spreading Monstera love!! Truly one of my favorite plants 🙂

This week’s videos:

Looking ahead, quite a few of my weeks have ended up with three videos scheduled instead of two (for a variety of reasons). I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to aim for that moving forward, or just leave it as a fluke.

This week I have a farm visit scheduled! I’m looking forward to picking up another lovely fleece or two ❤ I also have quite a few videos in the “halfway there” stage, so I’m going to try to buckle down and get those done/get a little bit ahead. I’d love to have July pretty much done so I can focus on Tour de Fleece!

I guess that’s all! See you next time!!

~Glitched