Episode 5

Show notes Episode # 5 – 9/30/14

Tempe and Chrystalmo

WIPs

Pattern	3 by 1 rib socks
Yarn	Lornas Laces – Franklin’s Panopticon
Pattern	Drop Stitch Scarf by Christine Vogel
Yarn	Malabrigo Rastita – Zarzamora
Pattern	Bridgewater by Jared Flood
Yarn	Alpaca with a Twist Fino - Champagne
Pattern	Moab by Verybusymonkey
Yarn	Handspun – Second Site
Pattern	Oak Park by Laura Aylor
Yarn	Plucky Bello Fingering

Pattern	Snowflakes in Cedarwoods by Anne Hanson
Yarn	Knit Picks Bare

KAL

Pattern	Honey Cowl by Antonia Shanland
Dates	10/01/14 – 11/30/14
Prizes	TBD

Spinning

·        Three Waters Farm – Dark Sweet Cherries - SW Merino/Merino/Silk

·        Spotted circus - House Targaryen Corriedale

·        Rock Day Fleece – Gray CVM

·        White Fleece - Wensleydale, Columbia, Rambouillet

o   St. Blaise Combs

Spinzilla October 6-12, 2014

Spinzilla is a global event where teams and individuals compete in a friendly challenge to see who can spin the most yarn in a week!

http://www.spinzilla.org/

Spinzilla is an event designed to increase education and awareness of hand spinning. Our goals for 2014 are:

• To raise awareness about the joy of spinning yarn by hand, globaly
• To empower spinners to spin more
• To support small business
• To fund educational programs for the spinners and weavers of tomorrow

Distaff Day, also called Roc Day, is 7 January, the day after the feast of the Epiphany. It is also known as Saint Distaff's Day, one of the many unofficial holidays in Catholic nations.

Many St. Distaff's Day gatherings were held, large and small, throughout local fiber community. The distaff, or rock, used in spinning was the medieval symbol of women's work.

In many European cultural traditions, women resumed their household work after the twelve days of Christmas. Women of all classes would spend their evenings spinning on the wheel. During the day, they would carry a drop spindle with them. 

Yarn Fest April 16-19, 2015 in Loveland, CO
http://www.interweaveyarnfest.com