Relentless Knitting Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Introductions

Karla - K-Rae on Ravelry and Karlacrafts on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest

Emily -  EmGemKnits, EmilyTheTechEditor - Instagram, and  EmilyTechEdits Ravelry. 

Shout outs

Introduce yourself in the Ravelry group or leave us a review on itunes or google play music or send us an email with feedback at relentlessknitting@gmail.com We'd also love to hear from you in our "Meet a Knitter" thread.

What's knitting now

Emily - I have an Exploration Station on the needles. Rumplestiltskin socks and a musslebourgh hat in Gauge dye works 76. A pair of socks that I work on at work. 

Karla - 

Leah Cowl - crochet! In Lazy Hazy Summer Cotton DK

Toe Up Socks - two 16" circulars

Collette Test Knit by Olann Handmade - Pattern releases Oct 2nd!

FO's -

Emily - Vintersol by Jennifer Steinglass in Lettlopi. 2 musselbourgh hats. COLLETTE

Karla - Standard cuff down socks in patons kroy and west yorkshire spinners for retirement socks

Outline Tank by Jesse Maed in Mirasol Inka and Cosmos

Night Blooms Tuque by Espace Tricot

Pastella Tuque by Katrin Schubert

Design features - 

Emily- redoing the bind off for Collette

Karla - nothing to write home about

Spinning

Emily - Nope

Karla  - Earlier in the summer I spun a 2 ply in Smith and Ewe merino in beautiful pink tonal

Currently working on spinning for the Shift Cowl by Andrea Mowry and I'm using my Akerworks 3D printed Bobbins and they're awesome! The three braids for fiber I chose are merino or merino blends with a green and purple theme

Crafternoon/Sew-what

Emily -The Critter

Karla - I had my sewing machine serviced this summer and I want to make a blanket jacket. I bought a pattern from La'Rae Handmade on instagram and am watching facebook marketplace for a wool blanket.

Also going to needle felt some acorns today I hope.

Stash Enhancement

By Emily- sweatshirt, yarn bowl, yarn for kids teacher hats

Karla - There's been a few things have come home with me this summer, the one that's stayed out are two balls of Shhhhh Double Knitting. A slow rainbow gradient that the boys picked out. I think I'll get my knitting machine out and make some scarves. 

Best laid plans

Emily - Knit birthday socks in this pattern, Peace Fleece shawl -Thales by Whitney Hayward, Dino Sweater

Karla - I'd like to get the 3-4 sweaters that are on the needles finished and figure out my sock knitting machine.

Aros

Fougasse

Collette

Knitting machine sweater with granny squares.

Talky Talk

Emily - wrist injury - new puppy (april)

Karla - Discovery Day

Adventures in Mommyhood 

Emily- Back to school - all the dance. 

Karla - We had a great summer despite the fire. 

Introductions

Karla - K-Rae on Ravelry and Karlacrafts on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest

Emily -  EmGemKnits, EmilyTheTechEditor - Instagram, and  EmilyTechEdits Ravelry. 

Shout outs

Introduce yourself in the Ravelry group or leave us a review on itunes or google play music or send us an email with feedback at relentlessknitting@gmail.com We'd also love to hear from you in our "Meet a Knitter" thread.

What's knitting now

Emily - I have an Exploration Station on the needles. Vintersol by Jennifer Steinglass in Lettlopi.

Karla - 

Musselburgh by Ysolda Teague

Standard cuff down socks in patons kroy and west yorkshire spinners for retirement socks

Aros by Petite Knit in Rimu

Machine knit sweater

FO's -

Emily - No

Karla -

Design features - 

Emily- Just adapted the bottom of the sweater

Karla - yarn management with Aros, also worried about the size of the retirement socks

Spinning

Emily - Nope

Karla  - Nope

Crafternoon/Sew-what

Emily -Darned all the socks

Karla - the loom is gone and I bought a chair and I'm knitting and watching the great british sewing bee. I hemmed the boys karate gis and am thinking about what I want to sew next. There's a cute cross body bag by noodlehead designs that I would like to make. 

Stash Enhancement

By Emily- hand dyed hand spun

Karla - yup. Always. Yarn for Sadie's sweater. Caron Blossom Cakes from Michael's in Tropical Blooms

Best laid plans

Emily - Knit birthday socks in this pattern, Peace Fleece shawl of somesort. Dino Sweater

Karla - Max's Funfetti shawl when it's released and Sadie's sweater will start today.

Talky Talk

Emily - 

Karla - Okanagan Knitting Retreat!

Adventures in Mommyhood 

Emily- Why are we always sick, and tired

Karla - The pukey one

Introductions

Karla - K-Rae on Ravelry and Karlacrafts on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest

Emily -  EmGemKnits, EmilyTheTechEditor - Instagram, and  EmilyTechEdits Ravelry. 

Shout outs

Introduce yourself in the Ravelry group or leave us a review on itunes or google play music or send us an email with feedback at mail@relentlessknitting.com We'd also love to hear from you in our "Meet a Knitter" thread.

What's knitting now

Emily - I have an Exploration Station on the needles, and a Cumulus in mohair and gold glitter yarn. A pair of vanilla socks in Turtle purl purple stripes (not the actual colour way) and a pair of vanilla socks in hand spun from last episode.

Karla - 

Aros by Petit Knit in Zealana Rimu

Fougasse by Bristol Ivy in gift yarn from Ireland

Toe up Socks

FO's -

Emily - None

Karla - Bulky toque

Design features - 

Emily- Forgot how many stitches I cast on for socks, but I'm sticking to it. 

Karla - none

Spinning

Emily - spinning some yellow stuff Smith and Ewe Started to ply, but broke a single…. 

Karla  -  none

Crafternoon/Sew-what

Emily - Finished my frames - I think I said that last week. 

Karla - pressed flowers

Stash Enhancement

Emily- Midknit cravings in a harvest colour way, and a beauty braid of Sweet Georgia BFL in farm to table, an enamel pin that says, "Knit fast, die warm."

Karla - none - what?! Bought an ipad

Best laid plans

Emily - Knit birthday socks in this pattern, cast on my birthday sweater - Vintersol. 

Karla -Tossed the stash! Seaglass Sweater KAL with knitmore girls and lady dye yarns.  finish the monster pants, write up the design and start another. Wip bins.

Talky Talk

Emily - I bought envelopes!!!! I'm making progress on this and I have everyone's address. I just need to stuff them, and pay for shipping.  

Karla - 

Adventures in Mommyhood

Emily- Another plague. Books, bookmarks. Really, everyone has been good. 

Karla - karate

Introductions

Karla - K-Rae on Ravelry and Karlacrafts on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest

Emily -  EmGemKnits, EmilyTheTechEditor - Instagram, and  EmilyTechEdits Ravelry. 

Shout outs

Introduce yourself in the Ravelry group or leave us a review on itunes or google play music or send us an email with feedback at mail@relentlessknitting.com We'd also love to hear from you in our "Meet a Knitter" thread.

What's knitting now

Emily - I have an Exploration Station on the needles, and a Cumulus in mohair and gold glitter yarn.

Karla - 

Aros by Petit Knit in Zealana Rimu

Fougasse by Bristol Ivy in gift yarn from Ireland

Bulky toque

Toe up Socks

FO's -

Emily - None

Design features - 

Emily- Exploration Station gauge

Karla - saga of the bulky toque

Spinning

Emily - spinning some yellow stuff Smith and Ewe (?). Started my second singles

Karla  -  did some drop spindling and ordered spindles for the retreat!

Crafternoon/Sew-what

Emily - Embroidery progress

Karla - Abi needed a zipper

Stash Enhancement

Emily- Nothing, I've been so good. 

Karla - Garage sale yarn and wips! All the mohair, knit picks shadow, lang yarns neon

Best laid plans

Emily - Knit birthday socks in this pattern, cast on my birthday sweater - Vintersol. Cast on a set of socks for work.

Karla - finish the monster pants, write up the design and start another. Wip bins.

Talky Talk

Emily -Still have commit to knit prizes in the back of my head. I had the plague.  

Karla - Funny story about Kelowna events

Adventures in Mommyhood

Emily- The plague.

Karla - sass & demands

Karla - K-Rae on Ravelry and Karlacrafts on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest

Emily -  EmGemKnits, EmilyTheTechEditor - Instagram, and  EmilyTechEdits Ravelry. 

Shout outs

Introduce yourself in the Ravelry group or leave us a review on itunes or google play music or send us an email with feedback at mail@relentlessknitting.com We'd also love to hear from you in our "Meet a Knitter" thread.

What's knitting now

Emily - I have an Exploration Station on the needles, and I cast on Cumulus Blouse by Petit Knit

Karla - Fougasse by Bristol Ivy!

Toe up Socks

FO's -

Emily -I didn't finish anything but I put pom-poms on my hats

Karla - 

Design features - 

Emily- I didn't knit enough to make mistakes - can't find the cord for my sewing machine

Karla - braining to figure out where I was

Spinning

Emily - haven't touched it

Karla  -  Drop spinning!

Crafternoon/Sew-what

Emily - paper mache pigs, finished the tables. Ains wants to learn to sew

Karla - not this time

Stash Enhancement

Emily- nada

Karla - Rimu for Edith

Best laid plans

Emily - Knit birthday socks  in this pattern, cast on my birthday sweater - Vintersol. Maybe cast on a Cumulus in white mohair and gold sparkle yarn? 

Karla - Aros Sweater by Petit Knit, toss the stash for Seaglass

Talky Talk

Emily - I have 4 of 5 addresses. 

Karla - Retreat registration

Adventures in Mommyhood

Emily- Lizzy rides a bike

Karla - Bike to school

Introductions

Karla - K-Rae on Ravelry and Karlacrafts on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest

Emily -  EmGemKnits, EmilyTheTechEditor - Instagram, and  EmilyTechEdits Ravelry. 

Shout outs

Introduce yourself in the Ravelry group or leave us a review on itunes or google play music or send us an email with feedback at mail@relentlessknitting.com We'd also love to hear from you in our "Meet a Knitter" thread.

What's knitting now

Emily - I have an Exploration Station on the needles. 

Karla - 

New design is coming soon!

Toe up Socks

FO's -

Emily -spiral socks in the Barn Owl Yarn by Rose Hill Yarns

Karla - Aeon Vest by Hilary Smith Callis

Design features - 

Emily- Brioche blunder. Bugs

Karla - dropped stitch, design process

Spinning

Emily - spinning some yellow stuff. Almost done my first singles

Karla  -  nada, going to try out some drop spindles

Crafternoon/Sew-what

Emily - Fence, tables

Karla - Needle felting!

Stash Enhancement

Emily- 52 Weeks of socks

Karla - went back for the Rimu, also picked up at Loop Kensington in Calgary a new project bag and 3 half skeins of house dyed sock yarn.

Best laid plans

Emily - Knit birthday socks  in this pattern, cast on my birthday sweater - Vintersol. Finish the WIPS. Maybe cast on a Cumulus in white mohair and gold sparkle yarn? 

Karla - Aros Sweater by Petit Knit

Talky Talk

Emily -Still have commit to knit prizes in the back of my head. I will package them TODAY.

Karla - Retreat registration

Adventures in Mommyhood

Emily- Fuse beads

Karla - bike to school! Family Trip!

Introductions

Karla - K-Rae on Ravelry and Karlacrafts on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest

Emily -  EmGemKnits, EmilyTheTechEditor - Instagram, and  EmilyTechEdits Ravelry. 

Shout outs

Introduce yourself in the Ravelry group or leave us a review on itunes or google play music or send us an email with feedback at mail@relentlessknitting.com We'd also love to hear from you in our "Meet a Knitter" thread.

What's knitting now

Emily - spiral socks in the Barn Owl Yarn by Rose Hill Yarns, and I have an Exploration Station on the needles. 

Karla - 

Aeon Vest by Hilary Smith Callis

Dinosaurs to Crochet!

FO's -

Emily - I finished my 5th Hex for my Embroidery kit.

Karla - sample for the mending class

Design features - 

Emily- Second spiral sock mind bender

Karla - at the same time...

Spinning

Emily - I finished a braid of Sweet Georgia. I can't find the tag but I think its BFL. Fractal spin fingering weight

Karla  -  nada, going to try out some drop spindles

Crafternoon/Sew-what

Emily - puzzles

Karla - modeling clay

Stash Enhancement

Emily- gold sparkle yarn

Karla - might go back for some Rimu

Best laid plans

Emily - Knit birthday socks  in this pattern, prepped for the retreat, cast on my birthday sweater - Vintersol. Finish the WIPS. Maybe cast on a Cumulus in white mohair and gold sparkle yarn? 

Karla - Chunky Magnolia is next on the to finish list, needle felted animals

Talky Talk

Emily -Still have commit to knit prizes in the back of my head. One day I will send out prizes. coming up. ← That. I'm going to put this on my spring break list. 

Karla - heading out to do pruning this morning

Adventures in Mommyhood

Emily- sick kids this week The great toy organization of 2022

Karla - throwing sand, show and tell

Introductions

Karla - K-Rae on Ravelry and Karlacrafts on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest

Emily -  EmGemKnits, EmilyTheTechEditor - Instagram, and  EmilyTechEdits Ravelry. 

Shout outs

Salo9979 From Seattle! New Grandma knitting for the babes!

Introduce yourself in the Ravelry group or leave us a review on itunes or google play music or send us an email with feedback at mail@relentlessknitting.com We'd also love to hear from you in our "Meet a Knitter" thread.

What's knitting now

Emily - spiral socks in the Barn Owl Yarn by Rose Hill Yarns, and I have an Exploration Station on the needles. 

Karla - 

Aeon Vest by Hilary Smith Callis

Basic Toe Up Socks

FO's -

Emily - I finished my 4th Hex for my Embroidery kit. I finished two of the sparkly hats (Magpie Darling). Also finished my vanilla socks. 

Karla -  Guess Who Gloves by Holli Yeo

Design features - 

Emily- none really. My embroidery floss keeps knotting… 

Karla - Fixed a student's sweater

Spinning

Emily - No, but I'm hoping this bi monthly reminder will get me started again. ← I did look at my wheel fondly yesterday

.Karla  -  nada

Crafternoon/Sew-what

Emily - Cooking/Baking/puzzles

Karla - made focaccia bread yesterday! 100 day t-shirt, Abi sewing skirts

Stash Enhancement

Emily- Sweet Georgia Tough Love Sock in Sage. 

Karla - sale sock yarn

Best laid plans

Emily - Knit birthday socks  in this pattern, prepped for the retreat, cast on my birthday sweater - Vintersol. Finish the WIPS. Maybe cast on a Cumulus in white mohair and gold sparkle yarn? 

Karla - Obsessed with the Yarnspiration Pretty Puzzle Points Blanket

Talky Talk

Emily -Still have commit to knit prizes in the back of my head. One day I will send out prizes. coming up. ← That. I'm going to put this on my spring break list. 

Karla - 

Adventures in Mommyhood

Emily- sick kids this week. 

Karla - Screen Free Fun Times

Karla - K-Rae on Ravelry and Karlacrafts on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest

Emily -  EmGemKnits, EmilyTheTechEditor - Instagram, and  EmilyTechEdits Ravelry. 

Shout outs

Introduce yourself in the Ravelry group or leave us a review on itunes or google play music or send us an email with feedback at mail@relentlessknitting.com We'd also love to hear from you in our "Meet a Knitter" thread.

What's knitting now

Emily - Sparkly hat for the girls (Magpie Darling) One is done, the second… I ran out of glitter.    Socks x2 for me, and I have an Exploration Station on the needles. 

Karla - 

Guess Who Gloves by Holli Yeo

Aeon Vest by Hilary Smith Callis

FO's -

Emily - I finished my dishcloths. And I finished my 3rd hex for my SAL (embroidery)

Karla -  

Crochet Rope Basket  Youtuber One Dog Woof

Design features - maybe instead of going through everything in the last month, pick one thing we're really proud of that we were able to figure out?

Emily- I ran out of sparkle yarn. I did terrible travel knitting packing and ended up with no knitting.

Karla - stalling out on the Aeon Vest

Spinning

Emily - No, but I'm hoping this bi monthly reminder will get me started again. 

.Karla  -  nada but Max is a naughty dog 

Crafternoon/Sew-what

Emily - Cooking/Baking

Karla - Shashiko mended my jeans! Has me thinking about tons more projects, bought hats and shoes to embroider and pulled out a pair of jeans to decorate.

Stash Enhancement

Emily- Ancient Arts Yarn in Sunshine Coast colourway - Sock yarn - 437yds. Rose Hill yarns - Ice wine and Barn Owl colourways Sock yarn - 463yds each 

Karla - Nada but ordered some things!  Sock knitting machine part.

Best laid plans

Emily - Knit birthday socks  in this pattern, prepped for the retreat, cast on my birthday sweater - Vintersol. Finish the WIPS

Karla - I love the Sea Glass sweater by Wool and Pine and have decided to toss the stash, destash by selling and donation and put together some odd skeins for the sweater.

Talky Talk

Emily -Still have commit to knit prizes in the back of my head. One day I will send out prizes. coming up. ← That. I'm going to put this on my spring break list. 

Karla - Summer of Yarn and Fibre by Yarn Okanagan, Knitting Retreat

Adventures in Mommyhood

Emily- Dance class… Other than that the Hoobs are good. 

Karla - Tired two weeks

Emily -  EmGemKnits, EmilyTheTechEditor - Instagram, and  EmilyTechEdits Ravelry. 

Shout outs

Introduce yourself in the Ravelry group or leave us a review on itunes or google play music or send us an email with feedback at mail@relentlessknitting.com We'd also love to hear from you in our "Meet a Knitter" thread.

Where have we been since April 4th 2021?

HAPPY PODIVERSARY! Been working on this on/off since Jan 25th 2015

Karla - COVID and Family have been keeping me very busy, I'm on the JOHS committee at work and there's been lots of reading and needing to pay attention to restrictions and protocols in schools that it's taken up a lot of my time. 

I've also had an addition to my job description where I run a hydroponic farm on our school property. I've been busy with creating programs within the school to educate students around farming and food security. 

My kids are both in full-time school now and managing them and their adjustment to that has also taken a lot of bandwidth. 

I've also been doing a lot of designing and learning around fibre arts, I've taken a few classes with Knit City Virtual around Coast Salish Weaving, Spinning and Designing. I hosted a couple knit alongs over zoom with the local fibre artists guild and I've been teaching classes at Kelowna Yarn and Needlecraft since Sept 2021 and creating new classes for that. 

I'm currently in the process of designing two classes for the Okanagan Knitting Retreat in May and organizing Yarn Okanagan's Summer of Fibre and Yarn Tour. 

Emily and I were able to visit each other early summer at her family's cabin and will be seeing each other at the retreat in May.

Emily - Life has been lifey. I've accepted 2 positions in my school district working in Learning Support and Inclusion Support. The girls have transitioned back to school and daycare and we continue to stay busy with life. I'm looking forward to teaching a sock class at the Okanagan Knitting Retreat in May. 

I've waxed and waned in my knitting enthusiasm and picked up embroidery in the last few months, I LOVE it! 

What's knitting now

Emily - Sparkly hat for the girls (Magpie Darling - , socks (always) for me, and I have an Exploration Station on the needles. Dishcloths. 

Karla - 

Guess Who Gloves by Holli Yeo

Aeon Vest by Hilary Smith Callis

FO's -

Emily - I don't even know anymore. I finished Forsythian. A bunch of socks. Maybe a hat or two?

Karla -  

Autumn League Pullover by Alexandra Tavel

Winston Pullover by Jane Richmond

Stephanie Pearl Mcfee's Patreon socks

Dino Hat

Skimmer Socks

Abi's Hufflepuff scarf

Magpie Darling Hat

Granny Square Bag

Test Knits

• Haven Cardigan
• Baleen

New Published Designs

• Willow
• Rose
• Sourire

Design features - maybe instead of going through everything in the last month, pick one thing we're really proud of that we were able to figure out?

Emily- I started my Blackwork Embroider SAL. I'm behind but I'm so proud of my progress. 

Karla - Abi's Hufflepuff scarf, started out black with yellow stripes and had to restart, then right at the beginning had 1 stripe instead of two so without taking it off the machine I ripped out the 

Spinning

Emily -I did do some spinning, and I love it it's just not my go to. I took an online course with Kim Mckenna about short backwards draw and learnt lots. 

Karla  -  Finished some handspun for Jocelyn, Intro to spinning class coming up at retreat. 

Crafternoon/Sew-what

Emily - Not much other than my standard fibre arts. 

Karla - Trick or Treat Bags and Sleepover/carry all bags for the boys

Stash Enhancement

Emily- Sugar and Candy Large project bag, SQ of Lettlopi, skein of cascade heritage sock in raspberry. My embroidery kit and SAL

Karla - Too much to list but the amazing ones that come to mind are KZip Advent, Gauge Dyeworks socks and hat planet distance self-striping. A couple of amazing facebook marketplace scores of sweater quantities. 

Best laid plans

Emily - Get my sample socks  in this pattern prepped for the retreat, cast on my birthday sweater - Vintersol

Karla - Working through wips, planning classes, more designs

Talky Talk

Emily -Still have commit to knit prizes in the back of my head. One day I will send out prizes. coming up. ← That. 

Karla - Steek This Cup Cozy by Rachel Molenaar I created an editable google sheets where you can format your own colours 

Adventures in Mommyhood

Emily- Everyone is doing pretty good. Bedtime has been ok. I despise Dance class. Watching Movies 

Karla - getting into a groove, screens is our biggest battle.