Podcast Episode 12 show notes - Mistakes Abound

Welcome to the show notes for Episode 12 - Mistakes Abound. Either listen below or subscribe in iTunes. You can search for Cozy Cape Cottage, or click this link.


I talked about:

Knitting - finished!
Calligraphy Cardigan, Hannah Fettig: 09.06.17 - 11.20.17
Vanilla Faded Socks: 09.06.17 - 10.27.17
Forest Floor Hat: 10.27.17 - 10.29.17
Kid Cowl: 11.08.17 - 11.11.17
Split Brim Hat: 11.20.17 - 11.24.17


Knitting - in progress:
Sock Yarn Blanket: 06.25.14 - the end of time
Procrastinatrix Socks: 10.29.17 -
Thrummed Convertible Mittens: 11.25.17 -


Future Knitting:
Lalita
Lanvad

Sewing:
Phoebe Mermouse

Spinning:
Still haven't decided on the plan, but have started spinning color 3

Big spin, in which I can't remember what my actual plan was. Should I....
A. 3-ply all 3 colors together
B. 2-ply like colors together, so one oatmeal (color 1), one off white skein (color 2), and one brown (color 3)
C. 2 ply combinations of 1-2, 2-3, 3-1

I mentioned:

Convertible mitten technique by Nuttin but Knittin and video tutorial by The Charm of It
A Sense of Place by Andrea Mowry and the Jubilee Hat

Contact links
email - cozycapecottage@gmail.com
instagram
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Music courtesy Bensound.com

Podcast Episode 11 show notes - Avoiding my Chores

Welcome to the show notes for Episode 11 - Avoiding my Chores. Either listen below or subscribe in iTunes. You can search for Cozy Cape Cottage, or click this link.

I talked about:

Knitting - finished!
Nothing to see here

Knitting - in progress:
Calligraphy Cardigan, Hannah Fettig: 09.06.17 -
Vanilla Faded Socks: 09.06.17 -

Future Knitting:
Forest Floor Hat by Alana Dakos
Howard Hoodie

Sewing:
None

Spinning:
Big spin, in which I can't remember what my actual plan was. Should I....
A. 3-ply all 3 colors together
B. 2-ply like colors together, so one oatmeal (color 1), one off white skein (color 2), and one brown (color 3)
C. 2 ply combinations of 1-2, 2-3, 3-1

I mentioned:

Clasp weft join tutorial

plans matter - Kinney House

Woolmaker's Bliss

Contact links
email - cozycapecottage@gmail.com
instagram
ravelry
facebook


Music courtesy Bensound.com

Podcast Episode 10 show notes - Works in Progress

Welcome to the show notes for Episode 10 - double digits! You can either listen below or subscribe in iTunes. You can search for Cozy Cape Cottage, or click this link.

I talked about:

Knitting - finished!
Nothing to see here

Knitting - in progress:
Calligraphy Cardigan, Hannah Fettig: 09.06.17 -
Vanilla Faded Socks: 09.06.17 -

Sewing:
Did some mending

General chat:
I talk a little about the design process in preparation for building our new home!

Contact links
email - cozycapecottage@gmail.com
instagram
ravelry
facebook


Music courtesy Bensound.com

Podcast Episode 9 show notes

Surprise! Podcast episode 9 is a thing! You can either listen below or subscribe in iTunes. You can search for Cozy Cape Cottage, or click this link.

I talked about:

Knitting - finished!
Phoebe's Party Dress, Joanna Johnson size 4 and 6: 05.14.17 - 08.01.17
Find your Fade, Andrea Mowry: 05.14.17 - 09.01.17
Zigzagular Socks, Susie White: 02.03.17 - 09.05.17
Flour Sack Baby Hat, Amanda Keeyes: 07.24.17 - 07.30.17

Knitting - in progress:
Calligraphy Cardigan, Hannah Fettig: 09.06.17 -
Vanilla Faded Socks: 09.06.17 -

Knitting - frog pond:
Mukluks, Tin Can Knits

Classes:
Attended spinning class at Wisconsin Sheep and Wool taught by Amy Tyler

Contact links
email - cozycapecottage@gmail.com
instagram
ravelry
facebook


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Podcast Episode 8 show notes

Podcast episode 8 is up! You can either listen below or subscribe in iTunes. You can search for Cozy Cape Cottage, or click this link.

I talked about:

Knitting and sewing - finished!

Phoebe's Sweater, Joanna Johnson  11.21.16 - 12.17.16
Phoebe Mouse, Joanna Johnson 12.18.16 - 12.24.16
1 knit and 1 crochet dishcloth + 2 scrubbies 
Time Traveler Socks 12.01.16- 01.02.17
Campside Quaker shawl 11.10.16 - 01.15.17
Burlap basket from book Growing up Sew Liberated by Meg Mcelwee
Sweater sized project bag

Knitting - in progress:
Tornado socks, The Yarn Enabler 01.05.17 -
Pure joy shawl, Joji Locatelli 01.17.17-

Contact links
email - cozycapecottage@gmail.com
instagram
ravelry
facebook


Music courtesy Bensound.com

Podcast Episode 7 show notes

Podcast episode 7 is up! You can either listen below or subscribe in iTunes. You can search for Cozy Cape Cottage, or click this link.

I talked about:

Knitting - finished:
Hermione's Everyday Socks 11.05.16-11.27.16
Grandma's Favorite Dishcloth  11.29.16-12.03.16

Knitting - in progress:
Campside Quaker shawl 11.10.16-
Phoebe's Sweater, Joanna Johnson  11-21-16-
Sock Yarn Scrap Blanket 06.25.15-
Time Traveler Socks 12.01.16-

Watching:
All the Vlogmas vlogs!

Mentioned:
Yarngasm
A Homespun House
Inside Number 23
Yarn Hoarder
Boston Jen's clasp weft join tutorial

Contact links
email - cozycapecottage@gmail.com
instagram
ravelry
facebook

Music courtesy Bensound.com

Podcast Episode 6 show notes

Podcast episode 6 is up! You can either listen below or subscribe in iTunes. You can search for Cozy Cape Cottage, or click this link.


I talked about:

Knitting - finished!
Ease pullover
Strie socks
Gingell socks
Simple Hat 
Toddler Mittens and mitten string - Embellish Knit I-cord maker

Knitting - in progress:
Hermione's Everyday Socks
Campside Quaker shawl
Phoebe's Sweater, Joanna Johnson

Knitting - soonish:
Union Square Cowl - Melissa Wherle
Woodland Fox - Susan B Anderson

Sewing:
Tinkerbell costume

Books:
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Mari Condo
Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi

Contact links
email - cozycapecottage@gmail.com
instagram
ravelry
facebook

Music courtesy Bensound.com

Podcast Episode 5 show notes

Podcast episode 5 is up! You can either listen below or subscribe in iTunes. You can search for Cozy Cape Cottage, or click this link. (Note: the iTunes link will update in 24 hrs. I was using soundcloud to host my podcast, but I didn't realize that it was only giving me 3 hours....TOTAL! I thought it was 3 hours per month. Sigh - I'm moving over to podbean. Hopefully I've set it up so that the old episodes will still show up in iTunes. So complicated!) Edit to add: NOPE! You probably will need to re-subscribe in order to get new episodes. So sorry about that! #techfail

Links mentioned:

Knitting
Love the Winter hat
Ease pullover
Strie socks
Gingell socks
Simple Hat

Sewing:
Lola dress
Tinkerbell costume

Classes:
Sarah Eichorn natural dying class
Wild Haven Fiber Company

Books:
Loving Frank
The Wonder by Emma Donaughue
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Mari Condo
The Modern Natural Dyer, Vejar
Natural Color, Duerr 
Harvesting Color, Burgess
A Garden to Dye For, McLaughlin

Contact links
email - cozycapecottage@gmail.com
instagram
ravelry
facebook

Music courtesy Bensound.com

Podcast Episode 4 show notes

Podcast episode 4 is up! You can either listen below or subscribe in iTunes. You can search for Cozy Cape Cottage, or click this link. (I'm not sure why episode 4 doesn't show up in the store list, but it did download in my iTunes subscription, so it's there somewhere)

Thank you to 3grrrls and Trinka11 for the sweet iTunes reviews. So exciting and unexpected to see those pop up!

I finished the podster mittens!

Finished - shop sample for the mitten class - still some spots available! We will be using Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride worsted.
I mention the stretchy slipknot cast on

With one project off my needles, I went back and picked up 2 others that have been in progress for quite a while.

Ease pullover by Alicia Plummer, on the needles since February. I want to wear it this fall! I prefer the funnel neck, so now that I'm done knitting the hem, I'm going to divide my last ball to knit the sleeves 2 at a time, and judge the leftovers to see if I can squeak out the funnel neck.

Strie toe up socks by Lara Neel, Sock Architecture. Finished a full color repeat during WI Sheep and Wool. Did a lot of trial and error on turning the heels before just going through all of Lara's calculations as my stitch count is smaller than the pattern sizing due to sport weight yarn. When math4knitters gives you math to do....just do it.

Started Love the Winter hat by Emily Dormier using leftover pink HiKoo worsted from a sweater for my niece, and random stash yarn in white.

I started spinning a new project, my first merino. I'm almost finished with the third bobbin, so I'm looking forward to plying, and to redoing part of the too tightly plied brown yarn from last time.

woolmakers bliss double treadle wheel

I talk a little bit about my sewing debacles described in the last post. I've let out some of the seams on my Lola dress and the fit is quite a bit better, but not perfect. I'm also working on a Halloween costume, Tinkerbell from Simplicity 1792. The size 4 measurements should have fit perfectly, but I think I'm going to start again using size 4 measurements at the neck but grading out to size 5 at the waistline for a little more ease and hopes of wearing it again in the future. Luckily (?) the pattern wildly overestimated the amount of satin fabric I'd need.

After the crafting segments, I talk about teaching crochet 101, WI Sheep and Wool, acquisitions

Contact links
email - cozycapecottage@gmail.com
instagram
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facebook

 

Podcast episode 3 show notes

Podcast episode 3 is up! You can either listen below or subscribe in iTunes. You can search for Cozy Cape Cottage, or click this link. 

Thank you to Eva from the charm of it for the shout out!

 I talk about Wild Haven Fiber Company and the upcoming classes - see the full schedule and details for how to sign up here.

Almost done with podster mittens (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/chilly-podsters). Put thumb in backward. Playing yarn chicken with last of the Ella Rae classic wool. Working my way up the flap before I decide if I need to carefully uneven the thumb or just snip it off and re knit with fresh yarn 

Also working on some class samples for crochet 101. Using cotton fleece by brown sheep company. 80 cotton 20 merino in Terra cotta. Should look nice in the shop as a sample. Doing a couple samples, rectangular dish cloth with single, half double, double crochet, a round cloth to teach about typical increases in round, and a big granny square. 

Got my first 3 ply off the wheel! 

woolmakers bliss double treadle wheel
Little Bobbins

Ready to spin something more colorful and traditionally handspun looking yarn

In sewing, I started working on bras

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email
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Podcast Episode 2 show notes

While I don't expect to make this to be a weekly endeavor, I've released my second podcast! You can either listen below or subscribe in iTunes. You can search for Cozy Cape Cottage, or click this link. (check out my show notes for episode 1 if you aren't familiar with subscribing to podcasts)


Links I mentioned in the show:

Snappy Stitches, Gingell socks

You know you have a win on your hands when wool socks are worn all summer night. Pattern is #gingellsocks by @manicpurl coming soon!

A photo posted by Kim Frer (@cozycapecottage) on Aug 8, 2016 at 10:42am PDT

Susan B Anderson
Sweet 16 Bralette by Pin Up Girls
Stitched in Time by Alicia Paulson
Posie Gets Cozy

Oh feel my regret for choosing such a curvy font

A photo posted by Kim Frer (@cozycapecottage) on Jul 19, 2016 at 6:12pm PDT

Wiksten Tova top
Tilly and the Buttons lining tutorial
Invisible zipper through waistband tutorial
Grainline rolled hem

Trying out a rolled hem technique to ease the pain of hemming a circle skirt inspired by something @meags531 mentioned a while back. We shall see

A photo posted by Kim Frer (@cozycapecottage) on Jul 3, 2016 at 12:04pm PDT

Thank you so much for listening!

Cozy Cape Cottage....the Podcast! Episode 1

Because apparently I'm starting all the new things, I started a podcast! I have been thinking about doing this for at LEAST 6 months, as I am an avid consumer of podcasts, but it has taken me this long to get up the nerve to do it. (I waffled about it back in January here) I set up the account on Soundcloud months ago, so it's actually uploaded to iTunes already! You can search Cozy Cape Cottage under podcasts and find it, access it directly through this link, https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cozy-cape-cottage/id1139840841, or you could also listen here:






(If you are new to podcasts, Young House Love recently started one, and did a great breakdown of exactly how to set your iPhone up to subscribe and listen to them in this post. )

I'm not sure if or how I will do show notes in the future, but for now, here is a list of links to things I mentioned:

Wild Haven Fiber Company
Wool and Cotton Co
Little Bobbins podcast
Bakery Bears podcast
Homespun House podcast
Snappy Stitches podcast / Mama Loves Wool / Chrissy Graham
Ann Budd Handy Book of Top Down Sweaters
Girl Bear by Julie Williams
Sock Architecture
Simplicity pajama pattern 1285
Woolmakers Bliss spinning wheel 

So yay! I have absolutely no idea what I am doing, so I appreciate any feedback you have! I'm brand new to recording and sound editing, so let me know if the audio is too loud, too quiet, file size is too big, length of the show, you hate the sound of my voice, that I say UM waaayyyy too much (seriously, I know, and I even tried to take a bunch of them out. You're welcome)....There is a pretty good chance I won't be able to fix any of that, but still, good information to have. And if you are a podcaster as well and actually know what you are doing and have advice for me, I'd love that too!