Episode 137: Catching up at Summer’s End

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Today’s episode is a bit of a catch up. We’re home from our holidays and starting to think about routines, and school, and new knitting projects.

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Shawl Society News:

The mini KAL for TSS pattern #3 Asana ends on the 4th of September. Be sure to post your finished shawls to the FO thread. If you don’t make the deadline, post it anyway! I’ll be drawing from all the threads at the big overall KAL in November. The yarn hints for #4 have gone out to TSS members! Who’s ready for the next one?

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Events:

Curious Handmade Country House Retreat

Oct 20 – 23 // Cumbria, UK

We still have a few twin share places available and a single room is now available also for the Autumn Country House retreat , which I mentioned in the podcast. Do you want to knit a Madewell Retreat Cardigan and join us? It’s going to be a magnificent weekend of cosy fireside cats, ridiculous amounts of tasty food, and unlimited knitting. If you are interested in finding out more you can email me – helen@curioushandmade.com

That’s all for this week! Happy knitting, and I’ll talk to you again soon!

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