Yarns and Tales

Yarns and Tales


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Yarns and Tales: Plans and Potholes
July 11, 2015

Howdy y’all and welcome to YaT episode 110.  You’ve heard the phrase”The best laid plans…”? Yeah. I had them for this show then missing needles and constrained time happened. Follow that with life and “ACK!

Yarns and Tales: Working Right and No Leftovers
June 28, 2015

Well, howdy y’all and welcome to episode 109 of Yarns and Tales. In this show we continue working the right hand side of the sweater project and well as chat about leftover chili and a possible location for the “family business”.

Yarns and Tales: Fronts, Frustrations, and Fairy Wands
May 28, 2015

Welcome to the 108th episode of Yarns and Tales. In this show, we continue to work on the Spring 2015 project, finishing up one of the fronts. Then with the wave of my harmony wood “wand”, we move over to frustrations, and it’s a doozy!

Yarns and Tales: The Venusian Vacation
May 04, 2015

Welcome to the 107th episode of Yarns and Tales! After an unintended detour of life, I’m back and feeling so much better after getting lost in a “Venusian” fog. We continue with the front piece of our Spring 2015 project while I explain my misadventure...

Yarns and Tales: Sweater Front and Caterwauling
May 04, 2015

Howdy y’all, and welcome to Yarns and Tales episode 106. In this show, we begin one of the front pieces to our Spring 2015 project as well as chatting about “kat-er-walling”. Find a comfy spot and let’s get started!

Yarns and Tales: Blind Knitting and the Vertigo Rant
March 20, 2015

Recorded live from the restricted safe zone of the bed covers, I welcome y’all to Yarns and Tales. In this episode I rant a bit more than I knit, but the title is a bit self-explanatory. Vertigo struck, making life a non-stop mental roller coaster ride...

Yarns and Tales: Back and Way Back
February 22, 2015

Howdy y’all, and welcome to Yarns and Tales! Tech gremlins made themselves evident this week, but all is well now. In this 104th episode of YaT, I explain the back piece for our little sweater then go on to chat about some jeans from before and after m...

Yarns and Tales: January Kicked My Ass
February 06, 2015

Howdy yall! I’m back. No, I ain’t dead or eaten by zombies or trapped by a yarn avalanche, but January kicked my ass.  Between wisdom teeth, inventory, feral Walmart viruses, and life, the first month of the year has simply bullied me this time around....

Yarns and Tales: Happy New Solar Loop!
January 09, 2015

Well, howdy y’all! Welcome to Yarns and Tales and another new solar loop.  That’s my way of wishing you a happy new year for 2015.  I went silent for a couple of weeks. Between a busy work schedule and watching my oldest move away to California,

Yarns and Tales: Little Sweaters and Left Hooks
December 21, 2014

Well, howdy y’all and welcome to the 101st episode of Yarns and Tales!! In this show, I chat about our new adventure in making a modular baby sweater, learning to crochet left-handed in order to teach left-handed crochet,