I'm back from the retreat and full of stories and gratitude for such a wonderful time. A beautiful place, lovely people, and almost endless hours knitting were hard to leave behind! Today I'm sharing a bit of what we got up to, and letting you know about lots of fun stuff coming up soon. Show Sponsors: Meadow Yarn is an inviting online retailer selling yarn, needles and notions. It's a small, family business based in rural Suffolk in the UK. Meadow Yarn was born out of a passion for beautiful yarn and knitting accessories and aims to bring you a range of great products. Yarns stocked include Northbound Knitting, Eden Cottage Yarn, the Fibre Co and many more. Show Links: I released the Bracile Hat and Cowl right after the retreat. To celebrate the launch I'm offering them all at a steep discount of 30% off until Sunday, October 30th. Each pattern will be £3.40 or the set for £4.40  AND until the end of the weekend only both individual patterns and the set will will be 30% OFF so each pattern will be £2.40 or the set for £3.00 (Remember, prices don't include any applicable VAT for your country) No code required…the sale is already applied! Yarn in the City Yarnporium Event is happening November 5th and 6th in Kings College London - Advanced tickets available until November 1st Shawl Society Update: I'm about to release the 6th and final TSS pattern! In the meantime, there's still some time to post your finished Aurore Shawl in the FO Thread. I said in the podcast that the deadline was this Sunday, but it's actually Tuesday the 2nd of November, so you've got plenty of time to finish! I have some absolutely delicious prizes from The Copper Corgi and Seven Sisters Arts so you'll want to be in on this one. We'll also be having the overal TSS KAL drawing later in November, so keep posting your finished objects in all the threads! Short and sweet shownotes this week! I'll talk to you soon. Until then, happy knitting!

Show Sponsors: Meadow Yarn is an inviting online retailer selling yarn, needles and notions. It's a small, family business based in rural Suffolk in the UK. Meadow Yarn was born out of a passion for beautiful yarn and knitting accessories and aims to bring you a range of great products. Yarns stocked include Northbound Knitting, Eden Cottage Yarn, the Fibre Co and many more. Show Links: Aurorae Shawl Norah Gaughan's Knitted Cable Sourcebook by Norah Gaughan Within: Knitting Patterns to Warm the Soul by Jane Richmond and Shannon Cook YarnGasm Brooklyn Kniffolk Handmade and Woolen Sew Sweet Violet Brown Berry Hannah Fettig Michelle Wang

Today's post is a bit of a general update...a cosy chat about what's been going on and what's coming up in the Curious Handmade world. Show Sponsors: Meadow Yarn is an inviting online retailer selling yarn, needles and notions. It's a small, family business based in rural Suffolk in the UK. Meadow Yarn was born out of a passion for beautiful yarn and knitting accessories and aims to bring you a range of great products. Yarns stocked include Northbound Knitting, Eden Cottage Yarn, the Fibre Co and many more. Blacker Yarns produce a diverse range of breed specific yarn for your knitting and crochet projects. With everything from Shetland and Blue-Faced Leicester through to Wensleydale, Gotland and Manx you’ll be sure to find an unexpected treat. If you are thinking of embarking upon a breed specific adventure, then head over to www.blackeryarns.co.uk. All Blacker’s wares are spun and dyed at their mill in Cornwall using 100% British Fibre and sustainable production methods.” Peppermint & Licorice Tea from Pukka Tea Show Links: Peppermint & Licorice Tea from Pukka Tea Arranmore from The Fibre Co. The Simple Things Magazine The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well How to Hygge: The Secrets of Nordic Living Hygge: The Danish Art of Happiness Hygge: A Celebration of Simple Pleasure: Living the Danish Way The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge Wild Planet Soft Embers Candles Events: The Autumn Curious Country House Retreat is sold out! If you’d like to have a spot on the waiting list, or be added to a list to hear about our next retreat in the spring, please get in touch with me at helen@curioushandmade.com Whether you’re coming along or not, you are very welcome to join in with the Curious Handmade Country House KAL. Use the hashtag #chmadewellalong on Instagram to see how everyone is progressing! We're making the Madewell Cardigan by Joji Locatelli and I'll be knitting mine in Eden Cottage Yarn’s Oakworth 4 Ply in the Pennine Mist colourway. The Shawl Society Update: Quill Shawl KAL winner: Post #51 by kirstan Aurorae Shawl “Aurorae are the spellbinding flames of light that gather in the sky at both ends of the earth. In the far north, in Finland, it’s said that the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights, occur when a great arctic fox brushes sparks from the mountain tops with his huge fluffy tail. On the other side of planet, the Aboriginal Australians believed that the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, were fires from the spirit world: the raging bushfires of sky spirits or the glow of their ancestors’ campfires. I love the idea that people from different places can look at one phenomenon and interpret it so differently and creatively. In a much smaller way we can see this same magic happening in something as simple as a knitting pattern, when the gifted imaginations and hands of knitters from every corner of the world create their own versions of a beautiful object. The Aurorae Shawl gathers up the strands of that sense of wonder, with rippling shifts of colour and flickering eyelet lace. Aurorae Shawl was designed using a six colour gradient set, with both sport weight and fingering weight versions. If you’re knitting from stash, this is a wonderful way to use up leftovers from other projects: just pick six colours that blend or play well together. This asymmetrical shawl features garter, eyelet and slip stitches: it looks intricate and complicated, but in fact it’s a gentle, easy knit. An i-cord edge gives Aurorae a lovely, polished finish.” The two samples for Aurorae were knit in beautiful gradients from two lovely indie yarn dyers: Copper Corgi Mini Skein Set in the Peacock colourway for the sport weight version. Seven Sisters Arts Meridian Gradient Set in the Raven’s Wing colourway for the fingering weight version. As always,