Show Sponsors Alongside an eclectic yarn range, which includes Hazel Knits, Icelandic Lopi & CoopKnits, we stock a carefully chosen selection of needles and notions. We’ve also recently launched ‘hand dyed by meadowyarn’, our very own in-house, hand-dyed yarn range. Working in our tiny dye studio, nestled in the Suffolk countryside, we are able to indulge our love of colour, producing complex tonal, kettle-dyed shades across a range of weights and bases. With regular updates our collections evolve and grow, inspired by the landscape and people around us. Find all your favourite luxury yarns and discover plenty more at A Yarn Story, Bath’s premier yarn store based in Walcot Street, Bath, UK. From gorgeous skeins by The Fibre Co and Walcot Yarns to a fine selection from Shibui Knits, La Bien Aimée, House of a la Mode, and Julie Asselin, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. With friendly and knowledgeable staff to help you browse, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. Visit the store at Walcot Street, Bath or shop online at www.ayarnstory.co.uk. The kids have made it back to school, our charity auction for those affected by the Australian bush fires is underway, and I'm starting to pick out my dream projects for our #knit20for2020 challenge. It's pretty exciting to consider all the possibilities, and I'm feeling very inspired. I can't wait to see all the amazing things we'll knit together this year! Show Links KAL News All the 2019 Curious Handmade KALs are ending this Friday the 31st, so add your FO photos to the Ravelry thread for a chance to win a lovely yarny prize. A couple of housekeeping notes to keep things tidy: Make sure you create a Ravelry project page for any design you'll be entering! For the individual shawl and sock threads, you can post one photo per completed project. So for example, if you knit two Sea Gleam Shawls or two pairs of Sailing School Socks, you can post each one separately for a chance to win. For the Grand KAL Threads, please make one post per collection. You can use a collage type photo or photos of each finished object, but put them all into one post. For the Knitvent 2019 FO Thread, you can make one post per finished item, however many you knitted from the collection. So one post for the Homebody Socks, another for the Habitation Throw, etc.  Remember that these are no-chat threads (to make drawing winners easier) so you should also post the same photo over in the chat threads so we can admire it out loud! The Shawl Society Season 4: Sea Gleam Shawl FO Thread Floating Shawl FO Thread Rockpooling Shawl FO Thread Sunset Skies Shawl FO Thread In The Dunes Wrap FO Thread Gathering Driftwood Wrap FO Thread Grand KAL FO Thread for 5 or 6 completed shawls The Handmade Sock Society Season 2: Shell Cottage Socks FO Thread Samphire Socks FO Thread Cliff Walk Socks FO Thread Cornish Cream Tea Socks FO Thread Sailing School Socks FO Thread Dorsal Socks FO Thread Grand KAL FO Thread for 6 completed pairs of socks Knitvent 2019: Knitvent 2019 FO Thread I will use a random number generator to draw a winner from each of the following threads on January 31st, 2020.  Destash Auction to Benefit Bushfire Relief I am currently holding my destash auction on Instagram. There is a separate post for each lot, and people can enter their bids in the comments. We're working across a lot of time zones, so I've done my best to choose a time that will work for most people. LA: 2pm Saturday 1st FebNew York: 5pm Saturday 1st FebLondon: 10pm Saturday 1st FebBrisbane: 8am Sunday 2nd FebSydney: 9am Sunday 2nd FebNZ: 11am Sunday 2nd Feb I will cover shipping internationally as part of my contribution and will divide all sums raised between these three charity efforts: Go Fund Me for First Nations Communities of Australia Affected by BushfiresThe Australian Red CrossThe Nature Foundation in South Au...

Show Sponsors Alongside an eclectic yarn range, which includes Hazel Knits, Icelandic Lopi & CoopKnits, we stock a carefully chosen selection of needles and notions. We’ve also recently launched ‘hand dyed by meadowyarn’, our very own in-house, hand-dyed yarn range. Working in our tiny dye studio, nestled in the Suffolk countryside, we are able to indulge our love of colour, producing complex tonal, kettle-dyed shades across a range of weights and bases. With regular updates our collections evolve and grow, inspired by the landscape and people around us. Find all your favourite luxury yarns and discover plenty more at A Yarn Story, Bath’s premier yarn store based in Walcot Street, Bath, UK. From gorgeous skeins by The Fibre Co and Walcot Yarns to a fine selection from Shibui Knits, La Bien Aimée, House of a la Mode, and Julie Asselin, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. With friendly and knowledgeable staff to help you browse, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. Visit the store at Walcot Street, Bath or shop online at www.ayarnstory.co.uk. It's another slightly tardy podcast as we prepare for the start of a new school year here in Australia! But I have news about the prizes for our Curious Handmade KALs from last year (The Handmade Sock Society 2, The Shawl Society 4, and Knitvent 2019) as well as some specifics about how my destash charity auctions for Australian Bushfire relief will work. And last but not least, my new word for the year. Show Links KAL News All the 2019 Curious Handmade KALs are ending this Friday the 31st, so add your FO photos to the Ravelry thread for a chance to win a lovely yarny prize. A couple of housekeeping notes to keep things tidy: Make sure you create a Ravelry project page for any design you'll be entering! For the individual shawl and sock threads, you can post one photo per completed project. So for example, if you knit two Sea Gleam Shawls or two pairs of Sailing School Socks, you can post each one separately for a chance to win. For the Grand KAL Threads, please make one post per collection. You can use a collage type photo or photos of each finished object, but put them all into one post. For the Knitvent 2019 FO Thread, you can make one post per finished item, however many you knitted from the collection. So one post for the Homebody Socks, another for the Habitation Throw, etc.  Remember that these are no-chat threads (to make drawing winners easier) so you should also post the same photo over in the chat threads so we can admire it out loud! The Shawl Society Season 4: Sea Gleam Shawl FO Thread Floating Shawl FO Thread Rockpooling Shawl FO Thread Sunset Skies Shawl FO Thread In The Dunes Wrap FO Thread Gathering Driftwood Wrap FO Thread Grand KAL FO Thread for 5 or 6 completed shawls The Handmade Sock Society Season 2: Shell Cottage Socks FO Thread Samphire Socks FO Thread Cliff Walk Socks FO Thread Cornish Cream Tea Socks FO Thread Sailing School Socks FO Thread Dorsal Socks FO Thread Grand KAL FO Thread for 6 completed pairs of socks Knitvent 2019: Knitvent 2019 FO Thread I will use a random number generator to draw a winner from each of the following threads on January 31st, 2020.  Destash Auction to Benefit Bushfire Relief I am going to be holding my destash auction on Instagram. There will be a post for each lot, and people can enter their bids in the comments. We're working across a lot of time zones, so I've done my best to choose a time that will work for most people. In UK time: the listings will go up on Thursday and bidding will be open until Saturday February 1st at 10pm I will cover shipping internationally as part of my contribution. Other things I talked about: Woolfield Studio on Instagram Join the Sockvent KAL in the Woolfield Studio Ravelry Group Terracotta Socks Birch Hollow Fibers on Instagram Show transcript:

Show Sponsors Alongside an eclectic yarn range, which includes Hazel Knits, Icelandic Lopi & CoopKnits, we stock a carefully chosen selection of needles and notions. We’ve also recently launched ‘hand dyed by meadowyarn’, our very own in-house, hand-dyed yarn range. Working in our tiny dye studio, nestled in the Suffolk countryside, we are able to indulge our love of colour, producing complex tonal, kettle-dyed shades across a range of weights and bases. With regular updates our collections evolve and grow, inspired by the landscape and people around us. Find all your favourite luxury yarns and discover plenty more at A Yarn Story, Bath’s premier yarn store based in Walcot Street, Bath, UK. From gorgeous skeins by The Fibre Co and Walcot Yarns to a fine selection from Shibui Knits, La Bien Aimée, House of a la Mode, and Julie Asselin, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. With friendly and knowledgeable staff to help you browse, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. Visit the store at Walcot Street, Bath or shop online at www.ayarnstory.co.uk. It's the first podcast of 2020! Today I'm talking about embarking on a big destash to aid Australian bushfire fundraising. I also have news about my design plans for the upcoming year, and a fun little challenge we can all do together to nourish our creativity and stretch our knitting skills in 2020. Show Links Go Fund Me for First Nations Communities of Australia Affected by Bushfires The Happier Podcast The Literary Life Podcast #20for2020reads Use the hashtag #Knit20for2020 to join the challenge Clio Pullover by Elizabeth Doherty SHOW TRANSCRIPT:Welcome to the Curious Handmade Podcast. You're listening to Episode 279. This podcast is all about crafting a life of happiness and creativity. I'm Your host, Helen, and you can find me on Ravelry as HellsBells and on social media as Curious Handmade. You can also find full show notes on my website at curioushandmade.com. Hello and happy new year. This is the first Curious Handmade show for 2020 and I'm happy to be back chatting with you. It's pretty busy here still because school doesn't go back from our long summer holiday here in Australia until the end of January, so we're having our summer holiday and it's pretty busy with the kids trying to keep them entertained, bit of a challenge to get any work done. I'm happy to have a short window to record. They've gone out to jump on trampolines at the Big Boing, so I'm snatching a few minutes to record an episode. It was meant to be published on Friday a few days ago, but I'm just doing my best at the moment. I have a new office and studio so I've been spending a bit of time trying to set that up and get organized. I'm unpacking yarn and trying to organize that into some kind of order and yeah, that's a bit of a challenge. I have way too much. I've talked about this quite a bit in the past about how I want to do a destash of my yarn. Last year was crazy busy. It was really hectic with moving countries and still keeping up a design and podcasting schedule as well as quite a few trips. So I didn't manage to destash at all. Last year I did kind of declutter most of the house before we moved so I was pretty happy about that but the yarn was the one thing that I either couldn't or didn't do before we left. But now I'm thinking maybe there's a nice opportunity here. If you've been listening to the news or seen any social media, you will be aware of the terrible bushfires we've been experiencing here in Australia. There's been a huge amount of fundraising happening and I thought what I could do is to destash some yarn and donate the proceeds to some charities to support bushfire charity work that's happening at the moment. I was thinking about donating pattern sales and things like that, but I thought it might be nice to send this yarn to peo...