episode 147 - Happy Boxing Day

Welcome to Naturally, Kim's Knitting. I am Kim and this podcast is about knitting, spinning, and dyeing yarn from my home outside Lima, OH. 

Today is December 26 and this episode is number 147

Find Me Online

~on Ravelry as NapiersKnits and Naturally, Kim’s Knitting

~etsy: NapiersKnits

~on Instagram as knittin_kim

~on YouTube, Blogger, and Wordpress as Naturally, Kim's Knitting

~New Friends

  

~ Knit A long

~FO KAL for December is open will close on January 1, 2019 (New one opens on same day)

~Knitting for others November and December (will close on January 1, 2019

~another Myla's Knit Corner KAL Through January 2019

   for this one we will be working the Wonder shawl. It will be a 3 month KAL, unless you believe it needs to be long. And Myla is helping us to save money by giving us a discount on the pattern if you use the code KIM at checkout. She is also going to donate one of her patterns to the first person chosen at the end of the KAL. Let's support this great designer and share our love. BTW this can also count as a FO KAL and Knitting for others (if it is made for someone else).

Craft Along Ideas - place on Ravelry thread, please

On The Needles

~Temperature afghan - Knit Picks Swish DK - size 4 needles - Memory Blanket - hibernating until after Christmas

~Christmas Gift Socks (3)
 ~one plain sock

 ~one Straight and Narrow

 ~one un-named

~Garden Gnome Hoodie - Knitting Expat Designs (Mina Philipp) - Hand dyed, hand spun merino/nylon yarn - size 4(3.5mm) and size 7(4.5mm)

~a chemo cap for kids

Finished objects

~1 chemo caps

Questions for Me

Fun Stuff

KnitPicks 

~Skyping with Grandchildren this past Friday

~Resolutions: 13 pairs of socks for soup kitchen(11 done) ~ 45 chemo caps(33 done) ~ 13 scarves(6 done) ~ 3 garments (3 done)

~Resolutions for next year:

     For the blog I want: 

I would like to finally start writing down patterns I come up with and possibly offer them here on the blog for sale and some as free perks for my readers.

For my knitting I want:

I want to work more on my creative side and write up patterns.

I want to make 12 pairs of socks for the soup kitchen

I want to make 20 chemo caps for kids

For my spinning: 

I want to learn new techniques, I want to learn about different breeds of fibre animals and the yarn available to us.

For my knitting related purchases I want:

Now this is a difficult objective and I know I have to be vague here or at least open for changes. I would love to refrain from any yarn buying until my trip in October and only knit from stash but I know that is one objective I will never be able to reach.

So the idea is to come up with a yarn budget, for after the trip, some sort of a reasonable amount a month and IF I don't use the amount one month I can save up and have double the amount the next month allowing me to maybe buy more yarn for a bigger project (or just buy more yarn). I have not decided on what this amount should be but I will.

I also need to stop buying so many knitting patterns. I have so many knitting patterns in my Ravelry library and I am constantly adding more free one or adding to my queue ones to purchase for the future 

knowing full well that I will not be knitting them any time soon!

I might also look over some of my pattern stash and pick maybe 10 patterns (that I already own) and decide to knit all those in 2019. That could be a fun thing to do and an interesting objective.

What about you? Do you take the time to look over your past projects or plan for the future knitting wise? If so I would love to hear how you go about things. Do you maybe set yourself some sort of objective like knit X pairs of socks? Or earmark a certain number of patterns you absolutely want to knit in the new year? Do share 

What I have been reading, watching and listening to

~book reviews

     Catching up on book reviews: Renovating the Richardsons, The Christmas Town, Stories for the 12 Days of Christmas, The Made-From-Scratch Life

~Vlogmas Viewing: Skeindeer Knits, GeekyGirls Knit, Corner of Craft, The Knitting Expat - and watching Katie when she is free to post: Inside number 23

~ Stash enhancement: Looks Like a Deere To Me from Frankelyy on Etsy

     ~Spectral Alphabet from Hypothesis Yarns

Crafting Book Review

 ~Adorable Baby Knits by Jody Long

 ~Thrilling Quilling

~Shop Update All Yarn is $18.00 plus shipping at NapiersKnits in Etsy

What kind of yarn and colors would you purchase?

episode 146....Socks, SOcks, SOCks, SOCKs, SOCKS

Welcome to Naturally, Kim's Knitting. I am Kim and this podcast is about knitting, spinning, and dyeing yarn from my home outside Lima, OH. 

Today is December 18 and this episode is number 146

Find Me Online

~on Ravelry as NapiersKnits and Naturally, Kim’s Knitting

~etsy: NapiersKnits

~on Instagram as knittin_kim

~on YouTube, Blogger, and Wordpress as Naturally, Kim's Knitting

~New Friends

  

~ Knit A long

~FO KAL for December is open

~Knitting for others November and December

~another Myla's Knit Corner KAL Through January 2019

   for this one we will be working the Wonder shawl. It will be a 3 month KAL, unless you believe it needs to be long. And Myla is helping us to save money by giving us a discount on the pattern if you use the code KIM at checkout. She is also going to donate one of her patterns to the first person chosen at the end of the KAL. Let's support this great designer and share our love. BTW this can also count as a FO KAL and Knitting for others (if it is made for someone else).

On The Needles

~Temperature afghan - Knit Picks Swish DK - size 4 needles - Memory Blanket - hibernating until after Christmas

~Christmas Gift Socks (3)
~euglassia watsonia socks

by Dami M. Almon

~Hermione's Everyday Socks ~ Erica Lueder

~Garden Gnome Hoodie - Knitting Expat Designs (Mina Philipp) - Hand dyed, hand spun merino/nylon yarn - size 4(3.5mm) and size 7(4.5mm)

~a chemo cap for kids

Finished objects

~2 chemo caps

~Candy Cane (The Seasons Sock Club) - the knitting expat design - knitologie yarn

Craft Along Ideas - place on Ravelry thread, please

Questions for Me

Fun Stuff

KnitPicks stroll gradient are 20% off PLUS They are having a big sale throughout the store.

~ Plus Flash Sale $1 on patterns through 12/6/18

~Resolutions: 13 pairs of socks for soup kitchen(11 done) ~ 45 chemo caps(32 done) ~ 13 scarves(6 done) ~ 3 garments (3 done)

~Resolutions for next year:

     For the blog I want: 

I want to be more consistent, to absolutely post once a week and sometimes more (when with grandkids or special times)

I want to maybe organise something with you like maybe a knit-a-long 

I want to maybe find ways of making my blog better, maybe more interactive, maybe for it to reach more readers.

I would like to finally start writing down patterns I come up with and possibly offer them here on the blog for sale and some as free perks for my readers.

For my knitting I want:

I want to work more on my creative side and write up patterns.

I want to be more organised - don't get me wrong, I'm not going to become a monogamous knitter but just try to control the number of wips at any given time and most importantly keep track of them via a knitting journal and this is a project I will share here on my blog too.

I want to make 12 pairs of socks for the soup kitchen

I want to make 20 chemo caps for kids

For my spinning: 

I want to learn new techniques, I want to learn about different breeds of fibre animals and the yarn available to us.

For my knitting related purchases I want:

Now this is a difficult objective and I know I have to be vague here or at least open for changes. I would love to refrain from any yarn buying until my trip in October and only knit from stash but I know that is one objective I will never be able to reach.

So the idea is to come up with a yarn budget, for after the trip, some sort of a reasonable amount a month and IF I don't use the amount one month I can save up and have double the amount the next month allowing me to maybe buy more yarn for a bigger project (or just buy more yarn). I have not decided on what this amount should be but I will.

I also need to stop buying so many knitting patterns. I have so many knitting patterns in my Ravelry library and I am constantly adding more free one or adding to my queue ones to purchase for the future 

knowing full well that I will not be knitting them any time soon!

I might also look over some of my pattern stash and pick maybe 10 patterns (that I already own) and decide to knit all those in 2019. That could be a fun thing to do and an interesting objective.

What about you? Do you take the time to look over your past projects or plan for the future knitting wise? If so I would love to hear how you go about things. Do you maybe set yourself some sort of objective like knit X pairs of socks? Or earmark a certain number of patterns you absolutely want to knit in the new year? Do share 

What I have been reading, watching and listening to

~book reviews

     Catching up on book reviews: 223 Orchard Street; Running With Rhinos; Our Own Country; Knitlandia; Waterloo, Waterloo; The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

~Vlogmas Viewing: Skeindeer Knits, GeekyGirls Knit, Corner of Craft, The Knitting Expat - and watching Katie when she is free to post: Inside number 23

~ Stash enhancement: From Fabric Shack on Etsy

~Advent Calendar update and why so many on one day:

Crafting Book Review

~Shop Update All Yarn is $18.00 plus shipping at NapiersKnits in Etsy

What kind of yarn and colors would you purchase?

episode 144

Welcome to Naturally, Kim's Knitting. I am Kim and this podcast is about knitting, spinning, and dyeing yarn from my home outside Lima, OH. 

Today is December 4 and this episode is number 144

Find Me Online

~on Ravelry as NapiersKnits and Naturally, Kim’s Knitting

~etsy: NapiersKnits

~on Instagram as knittin_kim

~on YouTube, Blogger, and Wordpress as Naturally, Kim's Knitting

~New Friends

  

~ Knit A long

~FO KAL  - prize for November - pattern - WINNERS OF I GIFTABLE RAVELRY PATTERN UP TO $7.50: lasknit2 and TriLinda

~FO KAL for December is open

~Knitting for others November and December

~another Myla's Knit Corner KAL

   for this one we will be working the Wonder shawl. It will be a 3 month KAL, unless you believe it needs to be long. And Myla is helping us to save money by giving us a discount on the pattern if you use the code KIM at checkout. She is also going to donate one of her patterns to the first person chosen at the end of the KAL. Let's support this great designer and share our love. BTW this can also count as a FO KAL and Knitting for others (if it is made for someone else).

On The Needles

~Temperature afghan - Knit Picks Swish DK - size 4 needles - Memory Blanket - hibernating until after Christmas

~Christmas Gift Socks (3)
~Candy Cane (The Seasons Sock Club) - the knitting expat design - knitologie yarn
~Hermione's Everyday Socks ~ Erica Lueder

~Garden Gnome Hoodie - Knitting Expat Designs (Mina Philipp) - Hand dyed, hand spun merino/nylon yarn - size 4(3.5mm) and size 7(4.5mm)

~a chemo cap for kids

Finished objects

~2 chemo caps

Craft Along Ideas - place on Ravelry thread, please

Questions for Me

Fun Stuff

KnitPicks stroll gradient are 20% off PLUS They are having a big sale throughout the store.

~ Plus Flash Sale $1 on patterns through 12/6/18

~Resolutions: 13 pairs of socks for soup kitchen(11 done) ~ 45 chemo caps(30 done) ~ 13 scarves(6 done) ~ 3 garments (3 done)

What I have been reading, watching and listening to

~book reviews

Crafting Book Review

~Shop Update All Yarn is $18.00 plus shipping at NapiersKnits in Etsy

What kind of yarn and colors would you purchase?