Episode 159: The Birthday Endeavor

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Mother Bear CAL/KAL Winners!

They are:
RJHuggz
kathyg
MemaKnits!

Congrats!

MemaKnits, yours will come directly from FickleKnitter.

kathyg, I have your snail!

RJHuggz, I will check to see if I still have yours.

Congrats and thanks, Everbody!

Episode 159: The Birthday Endeavor

Live Long and Prosper and get ready to sign up for the CogKnitive Fiber Retreat!

SIGN-UPS for CFR V begin:
June 1st--if you have already attended a CFR
July 1st--if you have NEVER attended a CFR

More information here!

Celebrating our listeners who have joined the CogKnitive 25 – , 50 –, and 75 – Bear Clubs for MBP. You can see who they all are right here. Great work!

Have YOU completed 25, 50, or 75 bears for Mother Bear Project? Send me your snail and a link to your Ravelry projects page, and CogKnitive will send you a special wristband to celebrate with you.

Add yourself to our CogKNITive Listeners Map.

We have a website at http://www.cogknitive.com/. You can find older episodes there.

You can now subscribe to the BLOG on your Kindle or Kindle app.

I am gemmadw on  Twitter and Pinterest, and DrGemma on Plurk.

The Annual CogKnitive Mother Bear project CAL/KAL is now finished! Stay tuned for the winners!

PRIZES for the Mother Bear CAL/KAL:

What's On My Hooks, Needles, and Spindles:

Still in Progress:

The Tehachapi Project Shawl. One repeat of the final chart done, and moving right along happily.

Bears for the Mother Bear Project--my 13 bears in2013 project



Knit Komono--there IS a Kindle edition!
Folk Shawls

Dizzy Blondes:
No time to sit down at the wheel right now...trying to ply the llama/alpaca/silk/merino

Strategy:
Catalog your GOOD qualities. Recognize what you are good at, and enjoy these qualities.

Put A  Lid On It:
Oh yes, I DID!! Pickled lemons! Read more about them here.

From the Ball Book of Home Preserving

10 lemons--5 juiced, the other 5 in quarters
4 cinnamon sticks
1/2 cup salt--no iodine in this salt!
8 bay leaves
2 tsps. whole black peppercorns

Toss the lemon quarters in the salt.
Then divide everything between 2 quart jars (sterilized before you load them), including the salt left over from tossing the lemons in salt.
Fill to within half-inch of top of jar.
 Put lid on and ring. Close finger-tip tight. Shake up and then place in dark spot or in brown bag. Turn jars upside-down once per day to redistribute salt.



Something I Really Like:
 The 21-Day Meditation Challenge
Since beginning it, I have quit caffeine, continue off sugar, do yoga a few minutes a day, and begun walking my dogs as often as I can.

Delicious Yarns

Blather:

More evaluations...good and bad. HELP! I am seriously overworked!
On being a team player versus being an individualistic practitioner.
Spock in the box! A party in the park for a group of excited 6 and 7-year-olds
Spoon races, 3-legged races, and trash bag races.
A trip to see the shuttle Endeavor

158: A Giraffe Walks Into a Bar

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Episode 158: A Giraffe Walks Into A Bar...

Here's my son, ready to take his new scarf to Minnesota...

Because here is what it has been doing here:



Celebrating our listeners who have joined the CogKnitive 25 – , 50 –, and 75 – Bear Clubs for MBP. You can see who they all are right here. Great work!

Have YOU completed 25, 50, or 75 bears for Mother Bear Project? Send me your snail and a link to your Ravelry projects page, and CogKnitive will send you a special wristband to celebrate with you.

Add yourself to our CogKNITive Listeners Map.

We have a website at http://www.cogknitive.com/. You can find older episodes there.

You can now subscribe to the BLOG on your Kindle or Kindle app.

I am gemmadw on  Twitter and Pinterest, and DrGemma on Plurk.

The Annual CogKnitive Mother Bear project CAL/KAL is in progress until MARCH 1ST. You can enter ANY bear that you have made since MARCH 2, 2012, BUT you MUST post it to the group NOW, even if you've already posted it. That way, I can easily find who wants to be entered for our prizes.

What's On My Hooks, Needles, and Spindles:

Still in Progress:

Gossamer Infinity Cowl/Scarf....It's done and works quite well...And it has changed me to a person who throws her yarn properly and avoids twisted stitches.



The Tehachapi Project Shawl. One repeat of the final chart done, and moving right along happily.

Gareth's One Row Scarf...Quick and fun!



Dizzy Blondes:
Not really plying the 50/50 merino/silk, the llama and the alpaca. A lovely DK or sport...268 yards so far, but really no time to sit down at the wheel right now...

Strategy:
Manage your thoughts. Don't let your thoughts manage you.

Put A  Lid On It:
Kitchen is quiet...Using your empty, clean jars to make salads in advance! Quart jars: on bottom: favorite salad dressing, then layers of salad ingredients, top layer is ALWAYS lettuce. Put lid on this (canning ring and disk or normal screw-on lid that fits your jar.

Something I Really Like:
The 1-3 Challenge on our Ravelry group, and this general idea of stash reduction,

Blather:

I review On Holiday, a fantastic new ebook edited by our own FickleKnitter, including more of her shawls. And go check the archive at www.fickleknitter.com. The absolute cure for migraines.

Update on the dog pack.

Here I am hamming with The Yarniacs (Gail and Shar), The 2 Knit Lit Chicks (right edge--Barb and Traci), and half of the DoubleKnits Team (Erin--middle of group)...and Allison1031 of the Hollywood Knitter Podcast (next to Barb). Sorry, Allison; after all the times we've met, I can't imagine where my brain went when I looked at this picture.
 and forgot your name...



Pre-one-row scarf, my son was forced to wear my Calm Cowl~!

21-Day Meditation Challenge

This seemed like a good thought for the day.

I have not mentioned this on the podcast, but I recently found on Facebook an invitation to join the 21 Day Meditation Challenge, hosted by Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra. Today, March 11, 2013, is the first day of the challenge.

As part of this challenge, the hosts are sending us very interesting articles concerning meditation and the true self, among other topics. Here is one of today's articles: How to Tell Your True Self from Your Everyday Self.

I really like the list at the end of the first page that basically shows how the True Self stays oriented in happiness at all times, while the Everyday Self is much more emotionally "fluttery".

I especially like this paragraph:
"Look at the qualities of the true self: self-reliant, evolutionary, loving, creative, knowing, accepting and peaceful. Whenever anyone is in crisis, whether the problem is a troubled marriage or difficulties at work or over money, they will make the best decisions if they utilize these qualities."

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/oprahs-lifeclass/Deepak-Chopra-The-Difference-Between-the-True-Self-and-Everyday-Self/2#ixzz2NG9CUStc

For more on this meditation challenge, you can go here. And you can join at any time!

Episode 157: Sanity Within My Grasp

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157: Sanity Within My Grasp

Uh oh. Erica Hernandez warned me that this might happen if I actually wore the Mad, Mysterious Cowl....

Celebrating our listeners who have joined the CogKnitive 25 – , 50 –, and 75 – Bear Clubs for MBP. You can see who they all are right here. Great work!

Have YOU completed 25, 50, or 75 bears for Mother Bear Project? Send me your snail and a link to your Ravelry projects page, and CogKnitive will send you a special wristband to celebrate with you.

Add yourself to our CogKNITive Listeners Map.

We have a website at http://www.cogknitive.com/. You can find older episodes there.

You can now subscribe to the BLOG on your Kindle or Kindle app.

I am gemmadw on  Twitter and Pinterest, and DrGemma on Plurk.

The Annual CogKnitive Mother Bear project CAL/KAL is in progress until MARCH 1ST. You can enter ANY bear that you have made since MARCH 2, 2012, BUT you MUST post it to the group NOW, even if you've already posted it. That way, I can easily find who wants to be entered for our prizes.

What's On My Hooks, Needles, and Spindles:

Still in Progress:

Gossamer Infinity Cowl/Scarf....Okay, so I forgot to actually mention this in the episode...



The Tehachapi Project Shawl. I am looking at it again, now that it is safely on my Chia Goo needles.

Finished!:

Bertha's Mad, Mysterious Mobius.  Unexpected love...

Here is Cat Bordhi's video for the cast-on.



Okay, I'm okay. Really. Sort of....

Dizzy Blondes:
Plying the 50/50 merino/silk, the llama and the alpaca. A lovely DK or sport...268 yards so far.

Strategy:
.Hypersensitive people...AND EVERYONE ELSE: Do NOT pathologize yourself!

Put A  Lid On It:
Do some canning in my stead (sigh)....Lemon juice is a natural tonic, so Yours Truly is making lemonade these days...water, sweetener, and LOTS of water.

Something I Really Like:
Twinset Designs Podcast
Yarniacs Podcast

Blather:

A bit more Stitches description...Here I am hamming with The Yarniacs, The 2 Knit Lit Chicks, and half of the DoubleKnits Team...and yes, I am forgetting who that last podcaster is (Oh no...whimper...)



BEWARE THE BLUE EPISODE...and get the kids out of the room for that one...

Of the world of psychological evaluation....

Out-Takes: The Blue Episode

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Out-Takes: The Blue Episode

Savvy Girl Melanie had a tough time coping with poor grammar and spelling at Stitches West.



Yes, it is the legendary Dead Elvis doughnut: doughnut, custard, peanut butter and jelly, banana and bacon. Thanks to the Knitmores for teaching me to revere this suicidal piece of indulgence.

In which Gemma screws up names, podcasters AbbyKnits, SavvyGirl Melanie, Dr Gemma, and Laura the food blogger all point microphones at each other and jabber, Melanie sings most enchantingly, and Gemma and Melanie wander the length of the 101, most blue-ly.