Episode 59: knit and abide

SHOW NOTES
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*Thank you to tammieknits for the iTunes review

OFF THE NEEDLES
Vaila shawl design by Clare Devine
15 Sylvia Bookmarks

DESIGN NEWS
French Outlander Shawl design by me!
Description: This shawl is worked top down, beginning with smaller size needles to create a gatheredness-style at neck and then grows once on larger size needles. Design inspired by Dragonfly in Amber, Diana Gabaldon’s 2nd book in the Outlander series. Story takes the reader to lush, elegant 18th century Paris and then back again to the Scottish Highlands as the Battle of Culloden arises.
Pattern will take the knitter into close quarters of intrigue at the start, followed by a little labyrinth (much like the goings on at the French Court of Charles Stuart) then opens into pathways of knit and garter bands to illustrate the winding course from past to present in the novel. An eyelet border comes next, to bring the knitting traveller into a place of deep emotion and then swirls of ruffled edging soften the sadness as if in an everlasting hug.

ON THE NEEDLES
Summertide MKAL (mystery knit a long) design by Helen Stewart / Clue No 1 finished / Periwinkle Sheep Watercolors colorway Blue Turquoise, 2 skeins

Hitchhiker design by Martina Behm / Hedgehog Fibres colorway Villian

My Rhinebeck Shawl aka Yowza Weight it Shawl design by Susan B. Anderson / fibrestory Core DK colorway Gilded and Chopped Ginger Handspun colorway Hot Fuzz

GIVEAWAYS - join The Sampler Girl group on Ravelry to participate!
Clare Devine - 3 prizes of her patterns
"Agatha Socks" designed by Clare of New Hampshire Knits audio podcast

KALS
Cardiac Red-Along KAL/CAL ends Sept 30th
Vote in Oct/Nov KAL POll that closes Sept 25th

ENDING THOUGHT Devotion on scripture John 15:4-5
Abide in Me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.