Thinx - You can use this link to get $10 off if this is your first order. If you happen to see this before noon EST on May 29th, you can just go to www.shethinx.com and order without a coupon code or special link and they will give you 30% off any size order - one pair or one hundred pairs! ...but don't buy one hundred pairs. There's so much yarn you could get with that money!)
Fiber Flair:
If you want to help your yarn shop owner get in touch with me, you can give them the address to this blog, or you can share my email address with them (coliemonte AT gmail DOT com) and they can request info that way.
Between the time I recorded the podcast and the time I published it, the Senate announced the names of the 13 men who will be crafting the Senate health care bill (because, thankfully, the House bill is supposedly dead on arrival as far as the Senate is concerned. All 13 members are Republicans, even though 48% of the current senate caucuses with the Democrats. There are no female senators included in this committee, even though there are 5 women who currently serve as Republican senators. (There are 16 women who serve as Democratic senators, but that is a rant for another day.) What could possibly go wrong with allowing health care policy for the whole country to be written by a group of all white dudes who skew much wealthier and older than the general population? (Let me just drive home how very similar these guys are by pointing out that 25% of them are named "John".) Surely my concerns are unfounded and they will have plenty of insight into women's health and be able to fully understand the challenges people without means face in affording decent health care.
.......and I announced the winner of the "bite size yarn" and an extra surprise prize! Make sure to contact me either via email (click on the "contact me" tab above), or with a personal message on Ravelry to give me your shipping address if you're the winner!
Also, please contact me if you are a yarn shop owner or the loyal customer of a yarn shop and want information on how your yarn shop can be a retailer of the new Trappings and Trinkets product!
Do you have creatures in your chimney or elsewhere that you need to evict? Here's a website that lists "wildlife rehabbers" who want to help you do just that! Blueberry Waffle Socks
Enter to win "bite size yarn" on Instagram! (Find the photo of the yarn, repost it to your account, then come back to the original photo on my account to let me know you are entered to win.)
Don't forget to enter to win my bite-size skeins of yarn (90g total) by reposting the photo of them on my Instagram page (user name: coliemonte) and leaving a comment on my original photo so I know you reposted (I won't know to count you in the entries unless you leave a comment here!), or by linking in the Yarn Thread in the Trappings and Trinkets Ravelry Group as I described in the podcast! Good luck! :)
Project Bags are available in my shop. Smaller sizes are finished and ready to ship, about a dozen larger sizes will be added by the end of this week. Email me if you see a bag you like but want it in a larger size, and I can let you know if I will have that available. (And I can tag it as reserved for you if you want me to do that.)
Many thanks to everyone who has left an iTunes or Google Play review, or who has subscribed to my You Tube Channel or left a comment there. I love reading your reactions to the podcast!
Perianth Mittens (comes with an included chart to use for other projects)
I forgot to mention that I first knit this sweater as a cardigan, decided it was a little too small, and then reworked my plan to make it a bottom-up raglan with sewn-in sleeves! I'm so glad I did tear it out and start over...I wouldn't have worn a too-small cardigan very much, but I wear the pullover all the time!
