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. Gorgeous colours and photo from Skein Yarn Our first Curious Handmade MKAL in quite a while is coming up quickly! I've finally got some details to share with you, including our theme (which I hope you're going to love) and the yarn requirements. I've also got a little chat about life with the kids heading back to school, my own personal crafting projects, and the garden. Show Links: Píosa by Renée Callahan Píosa KAL Sweet Fiber Yarns Liberty Fabric House Quilt Block Tutorial Skein Yarn SHOW TRANSCRIPT Coming soon!

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 Curious Handmade family is growing, with a very fuzzy new friend on the way. And so is my garden, and so is my Piosa Cardigan! There's a lot of exciting stuff to celebrate this week, and I have a fun virtual event to share which includes some of my very favourite yarn shops and some brilliant opportunities to win giveaway prizes. Show Links: The Strawberry Thief The Strawberry Thief Instagram Liberty FabricThe Handmade Sock Society 1The Shawl Society 3 Píosa by Renée Callahan Píosa KAL Sweet Fiber Yarns Subpod Compost iKnit7 A Yarn Story Emily Foulds This is KnitGinger Twist StudioKnit with AttitudeTribe Yarns Wild and Woolly A Yarn Story on Instagram   SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to the Curious Handmade podcast. You're listening to episode 296. 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 and transcript on my website at curioushandmade.com. Hello, and welcome to the show. I do hope you're having a good week. I hope you've been able to get in lots of knitting and probably some other creative crafty pursuits judging by lots of people I've been following on Instagram. It seems like a lot of my friends and people I follow are taking the opportunity to delve into some more hobbies. It's quite funny to see. I am certainly doing that here. We've been having a pretty exciting week here. Today, we had an extremely exciting day because I got an email yesterday in answer to an inquiry I had made about a potential puppy for the family. It was a little bit out of the blue. We had been promising the girls a puppy for a couple of years before we moved. It had always been, when we move to Australia, we'll be able to get a dog, but we can't get one now because we have no yard and we're moving to Australia. Since we've moved, I've been putting it off a little bit. I guess just being at home and having a little bit more head space to think about things, it clicked that I could manage a puppy now. I just put an inquiry out on Monday and got an email back on Wednesday, which I was really surprised about because puppies are in huge demand at the moment, apparently. We went and saw a little puppy today and agreed that when she's ready to come home, we would take her. That's going to be about a month time. Happily we have another month to mentally prepare and physically prepare for a new puppy. Other exciting things that have happened this week, not quite that exciting, but the Liberty Hexies kit I mentioned a couple of weeks ago finally arrived. I bought it here in Australia from a Perth company called the Strawberry Thief,

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. In my constant quest to nurture my creativity, I've added gardening to my list of personal projects! I'm finding lots of help and inspiration through the Master Class website and on YouTube. I'm also working on my daily habits and enjoying a new project, and I have news about our KALs and the final donation to the UN Refugee Council from Habitation! Show Links: The Grocery Girls Mrs Browns BagsYarn Ink Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg I'm a Master Class fan and an affiliate: if you join up by clicking on the photo above I'll get a small commission. Thanks for supporting the podcast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byoEBdVoVpM Píosa by Renée Callahan Píosa KAL Sweet Fiber Yarns Knit City, Vancouver Ambient SocksThe Handmade Sock Society 3The Ambient Sock KAL just finished and our winner was Toveme with Post 32! Rainy Window SocksRainy Window Socks FO Thread We raised $3000 AUS for the Australian UNHCR with the Habitation Throw last month! Habitation Throw KAL FO Thread The Yarniacs SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to The Curious Handmade Podcast. You're listening to episode 295. 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 curioushandmade. You can also find full show notes and transcript on my website at curioushandmade.com. I would like to say a big thank you to my sponsor, Meadow Yarn. Hello, and welcome to the show. Thanks for joining me for a chat today. We have had a big week here at Curious HQ with lots of celebrations. Last weekend we had Mother's Day here in Australia. We also had my parents' 50th wedding anniversary as well as dad's birthday, and this week Lexie's birthday as well. So there has been a lot going on, a lot of celebrating, a lot of cake, and a lot of fun. So that's been very nice. I also wanted to give a shout out to the Grocery Girls, Tracie and Jodi for their 100th episode. I very clearly remember watching their very first episode, because I had only just discovered them via Mrs. Brown's Bags, Jodi's bag shop. I think it's fitting that I have finally finished a pair of socks with the yarn that Jodi sent me with my first bag purchase before they even started recording their podcast, which I gifted to my dad for his birthday. So thank you, Jodi, and thank you for all the amazing entertainment you have given us over the years. I did finally remember the name of the indie dyer of that yarn from Canada as well, which is Yarn Ink, of course. I've also been getting out most days this month, my walking streak is going really well. I've been doing combination of hill walks and a little bit of flat walking...

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. Three weeks of homeschooling down, maybe two more to go? Somehow, I'm still managing to get some exciting knitting done in between it all. Today on the podcast I've got a short and sweet life catch-up, some KAL winners to announce, and more news on the upcoming Curious Handmade Mystery Knit Along, which I'm really excited about. Show Links: Download the 20 for 2020 Challenge printable Follow #knit20for2020 on Instagram May #knit20for2020 FO Thread April Ravelry winner: porthardy1 with Post 46 April Instagram winner: BlankSlateYarns Snippet Socks 52 Weeks of Socks Book Farm to Cable Yarns LYS Unnathi Shawl by Lana Jois The Ambient Socks is ending on Tuesday the 13th of May, so get your photos into the Ambient Socks FO Thread on Ravelry! The Handmade Sock Society 3 Impressionists Shawl Píosa by Renée Callahan Píosa KAL Sweet Fiber Yarns House Quilt Block Tutorial SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to The Curious Handmade Podcast. You're listening to episode 294. This podcast is all about crafting your life with happiness and creativity. I'm your host Helen and you can find me on Ravelry as HellsBells and on social media as curioushandmade. You can also find full show notes and transcript on my website at curioushandmade.com. Welcome and thank you for joining me for a chat today. I'm just snatching a moment in a busy day to record so it might be quite a short episode, but I just wanted to pop in and have a quick chat with you and not let a week go past without recording. It's been a really busy week. We are now just finished week three of homeschooling. The girls' school is providing a really great service with online classes and a lot of support for them, but especially with Lexi, she needs a lot of support here at home as well to encourage her to do some work. So I have her set up in my office on a little folding camping table beside me, and I've decided it's been quite interesting to see how she works. Sophie is a couple of years older and is doing really great. She has a little desk set up upstairs and she doesn't need as much support but still needs help with some things. I just kind of decided when we were homeschooling that I was going to enjoy the process and I was going to be patient with it and not expect to get any work done or expect too much of them in terms of what they would do. So that's been working pretty well. They've been doing more than I expected that they would to be honest. Their school's been really sensible and has just basically put on a schedule that goes until about one o'clock rather than the normal three o'clock, and in Lexi's case it really only goes till about midday. So that's really good and we can manage a morning quite happily.

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. Aside from getting lost in an absorbing new knitting project, one of the best things I know is escaping into a good book. Today on the podcast I'm talking about some of my recent favourite reads and what's on my list next. And of course there's some knitting news, with a new pattern from The Handmade Sock Society 3 to introduce and yet more WIPs on their way off my needles. Show Links: Pebbles and Pathway Socks by Marceline Smith HeyBrownBerry on Instagram Yarn Ink: the Canadian dyer of the skein I'm using for my vanilla socks WIP Rainy Window Socks @tinkhickman on Instagram Tracyrr aka The Comfy Red Couch on Instagram Ambient Socks FO Thread Sky Map Wrap by Emily Foden Viola Yarn Squam Art Workshops Stories for my Sister by Elizabeth Duvivier Ruth Galloway Series by Elly Griffiths @HillyFilly on Instagram Inspector Gamache Series by Louise Penny @susanhartmann on Instagram@DigsKnitting on Instagram The Dublin Murder Squad by Tana French @pawsandknit on InstagramBob Skinner Series by Quintin Jardin Download the 20 for 2020 Challenge printable Follow #knit20for2020 on Instagram April #knit20for2020 FO Thread SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to the Curious Handmade podcast. You're listening to episode 292. 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 and a transcript on my website at curioushandmade.com. I'd like to say a big thank you to my sponsor, Meadowyarn. Hello and welcome to the show. I hope you're okay, having a good week. I know things are really difficult at the moment for everyone, and I hear you, and I sympathize and empathize. I have been very up and down, and I'm not even sure why. It's all just a bit overwhelming and crazy at the moment. I'm a little bit fed up with my family and also feeling guilty for feeling fed up with my family because I know how lucky I am. And I'm just super, super grateful for crafting and my online community, to take my mind off being cooped up at home, and just feeling super grateful for all the people that are working, essential workers at the moment. Everyone from healthcare workers, doctors, nurses, amazing healthcare professionals who are overwhelmed at work, to everybody supporting society at the moment, grocery store workers, and just everybody who's supporting us to stay at home, and stay safe, and try and keep other people safe as well. We are in our first of five weeks of homeschooling. The government announced that that would be the case for our state last week. And so we're doing that this week. And yeah, my kids are doing pretty well. It's fairly intense, I have to say. And I've just decided to have really low expectations.