episode 181 - three days til my birthday

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 September 17, 2019  and this episode is number 181

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 September - nkkfoseptember2019
~ $10 KnitPicks gift card or one giftable pattern up to $10

WIP make along September/October - nkkwip2019
 ~ prizes to choose from: Bookies: Bookmarks to Crochet,
     Comfort Knits 
     Knitted Jackets
     Gradient Style
     How To Knit Socks
     Up to 4 skeins (70 grams/2.4 oz) Bernat Cotton-ish ~ Seersucker colorway ~ Cotton and acrylic yarn
     $25 KnitPicks gift Card

Craft Along Ideas - place on Ravelry thread, please or under video

On The Needles

~pattern test for Nina, and Myla and RowRow and Kades

~Soup Kitchen sock ~ Chroma Twist Pegasus
~2 christmas socks ~ one out of The Lab Yarn UK Happy Hogwards colorway
     ~ other out of Chroma Twist Fingering FogBank colorway

 ~a chemo cap for kids

Finished objects

~hat pattern for RowRow and Kades

~Questions for Me

. Can I ask what your views are on Wool of the Andes sportweight? What is it like to knit with and how does it wear? And which is the better sock yarn to use? Felici or Chroma? Many thanks. X

Let's Chat

KnitPicks ~ 

Alpaca Yarn!!!

cookout to thank those who helped us move

14 Days we will be on our way to Chicago to fly on trip 

~book review:

~Resolutions for 2019:

     For the blog I want:  12 Patterns (4 published) , 12 pairs of socks for soup kitchen(8), 20 chemo caps for kids(11 finished),  spin 2 new fibers (completed 2), after October limit my yarn purchases to $50.00 a month, Knit 12 patterns from my Ravelry queue, finished one shawl/wrap