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🧶🧶🧶 Slowing things down a lot on this #WestKnitsMysteryMusiKAL shawl, designed by #StephenWest of #WestKnits.

Clue #2 - nine curvy bands of color - each held to the next with narrow eyelet strip in pink mohair.

Teaching myself to enjoy the process. Turns out there is no race against time, just an old habit to rush, that I'm working on eradicating.

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🧶🍾🥂🧶 Clue #2 = soooo much easier!

Yes there is stitch counting for short rows. Using stitch markers helped a lot with both those things. Looks more orange here than in real life.

I go back and forth between liking this #MKALand finding it all too busy. I proceed, having faith in #StephenWest and #WestKnits. Onward!

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🧶🧶🧶 Jesus, Mary and Joseph, people! FINALLY finished Clue #1 of #MKAL- the MusiKAL shawl from #StephenWest of #WestKnits. It was a beast.

All those ends to sew in. Juggling 3 needles for all those welts. The constant color changes. Aiaiaiai.

Clue #2, with its glorious long bands of garter stitch, here I come!

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The MKAL, just one more crescent to complete clue #1. Giving myself to Christmas to finish the 4 clues, and enjoying the process!

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Slogging forward on the WestKnitsMKAL2025.

I'm 2/3 of the way through clue #1. The final clue (#4) is about to come out! So, I've had to majorly adjust my self-expectations. It's OK to take longer. I don't know why I put these time pressures on myself.

Peeked ahead at clues #2 and #3. This design is wild! Based on music.

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OMG I finally finished part one of clue one of the #StephenWest #MKAL. Hooray!

Tried for the brioche stitch for THREE AND A HALF DAYS!!!!! Still couldn't conquor it, although I think I finally understand what went wrong. Epic fail.

Plus a color change. Plus a color order change. Finally, off to the races. Yay! #WIPWednesday

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🧶🧶 UPCOMING! 🧶🧶

Next week, #StephenWest's #WestKnitsMystery MusiKAL kicks off. This one has vibes of being an especially good one.

Shawl, 4 colors, mohair dare. US4, 24sts/4", fingering weight. Options to end soon, or go into schlanket territory. #YouTube support videos.

Greatly excited about this one! Anyone care to join?

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mystery-musikal

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🧶🧶🧶 This year's #StephenWest shawl #MKAL is a good one:

🧶 4 high contrast colors
🧶 Solid or speckles work, as long as high contrast - great for stash-busting
🧶 Fingering weight, w optional "mohair dare"
🧶 Built-in "early exit" if running low
🧶 Has extender options, if you want a large "shlanket"
🧶 Starts in October, so syncs up perfectly w #FinishOrFrogAlong 😊

https://youtu.be/UUoZwty9DYA?si=N_260D8dpT0Oh7lf

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Day 10. Finished the second clue. Two clues to go. 🧶 #knitting #mkal #stephenwest #stricken

Loving how this Mingling Daisies Shawl is coming out! And have seriously fallen in love with this 30% yak 40% merino 30% silk blend from Anzula Lana.

Just one or two more repeats of the three stripe sequence to cast off with an i-cord finish.

A very mentally stabilizing and clarifying knit - did a lot of good thinking during this one. Recommend!

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@NoGods1936 Peter Adamson's "History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps", both primary and secondary (Indian and Africana) channels. Comprehensive...

Stephen West's "Philosophize This". Less comprehensive, more formal, and unfortunately of late, with advertising. But some solid material including coverage of topics / people I'd been unfamiliar with of late. Ethics of Care was a particularly impressive as a topic I'd been utterly unfamiliar with (July 2022): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sxfbWdShtSo&listen=false

Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds put out "Philosophy Bites" and a number of related podcasts ("Philosophy Sites").

David Runciman has a number of podcasts he's done with the London Review of Books, present is "Past Present Future", also a few on the History of Ideas, and a couple of standalone lectures. Uniformly excellent. Much of it concerns political thought, but it's very rarely enmeshed in current events. I find the latter tiresome generally. The context Runciman provides is both captivating and useful.

Wes Cecil has a series based on his community college course in Washington State. Informal, some bloopers that I've caught, but entertaining. https://yewtu.be/channel/UC9ff15w4ufviWfv9UfIuByA (also as podcast subscription).

Carneades is another YT channel I've found good in the past: https://yewtu.be/channel/UC1VzCyqpmCaRh8_BnijbOvg

You can also find audiobooks of various philosophical texts, including of course Plato, also the histories by Bertrand Russel and Will Durant. Not podcasts per se but available on YouTube last I'd checked.

Hope this gives you a good start at recreating your library. And back up your subscriptions as an OPML list!!!

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Here we go, several bands of overall shawl pattern down, 3 or more to go! Yak is magic yarn - so strong I can't break it with my hands, so soft it feels much like cashmere. And that color over a gray base. Loving it!

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Look at this... 👀👀👀!!!!

A sweater version based on the hugely popular #AuroraCabinShawl of the #StephenWest #WestKnits school of design.

As some of you might recall, I started knitting again and joined Mastodon, both at about the same time. The shawl was a marvelous knit -- lots of variation, 5 colors but always one at a time,tricks and techniques.

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Hello #Knitterati ~ FINALLY coming out of a months-long funk involving COVID, RSV, long hospital stays, and ginormous sleep, eg 15 hours a night... Yikes!

Back at this #MinglingDaisies shawl, #StephenWest #WestKnits.

So far, easy-ish with 3 pattern bands - mingling daisies, open lattice, broken rib. Will probably add extra band of all 3, for more length in back.

In Anzula Lana, a dreamy merino-silk-yak blend.

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Ooh-la-la Fiber Folks, this yarn is a revelation! Anzula's hand-dyed Lana - merino, silk and yak. Yak!

It's like butter. And the strength! I cannot break the yarn with my bare hands, even though it's just fingering weight.

Re color - it looks to be dyed on a distinctly gray base. Don't know about other shades in Lana line.

WIP is #ChasingDaisies from #StephenWest #WestKnits.

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En kestä kuin söpöjä nuo Vertices Unite swatchit ovat :meow_cry: :blobcataww:

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Here's another shot - much more accurate color in this one.

Now the mosaic color has gone all dark and high contrast in this next large band of triangles, followed by a deep edging, all in the contrast color.

SO. As someone else recently posted here, "Meet the shawl where it is." Therefore, I'm just gonna go with the flow, see what happens!

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I did it! Finished the #AuroraCabinShawl designed by #StephenWest and subject of this year's Hiber-Knit-Along, in which we all cast on, on Dec. 26th.

Hard work, also such fun. A big adventure. Mostly used Jade Sapphire silk-cashmere fingering weight yarn - correct yardage but lighter weight than pattern specified.

Will get better shots outside tomorrow, the color is off in these shots. My CNA Christine is modeling. What a thrill to complete it!

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OMG Mastoknitterati, hallelujah!

I've been working on the i-cord bind-off of over 1,000 stitches on this WIP... Knit 2, knit 2 together through back, slide 3 stitches from right needle back to left. One stitch bound off. Repeat 999 more times... 1/2

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This is it, Mastoknitters! The adventure is almost over - just five more rows of chevron border, then a final row in contrast color (a wonderful mottled green), then bind off....

And then weave in ends. And block. And final shots/notes to Ravelry project page. I'm so excited! I really threw myself into this one. It has been a great knit, wonderful pacing, and I learned a lot. Now for those four other WIPs!

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Kaivoin pitkästä aikaan Stephen Westin Dustland Sweater neuletyöni esille ja haudutinpa kannuun Jin Xuan teetä. Aurinkonkin päätti vilautella. :blobcoffee:

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