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Music:
And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine – Anita O’Day
After You’ve Gone – King Jesters:
Links:
Calendar of Hope:
Job Hunting for Knitters & Crafters:
- Crafters searching for work group (Ravelry)
- Job Market group (Ravelry)
- Job Hunting Tricks for a Web 2.0 World
CGOA:
Knitchat Updates:
- Knitchat group on Ravelry
- Knitalong details (Yummy Mummy)
- How to use Google + Hangouts
- Google + Hangout Plug In
Scale Mitts & Hanging Out:
Kollage Yarn Review:
Scale Mitt in progress in Malabrigo Rios
Report out from 2011′s Blacksheep Gathering in Eugene, Oregon. I find the wheel of my dreams. A little about our lovely national holiday and knitting during the American Revolutionary War.
Music Featured
Bugle Rag Call – Glen Miller
Links
McTavish Farms (Contact Tom for more info on McTavish Wheelworks and his fabulous spinning wheels)
Dicentra Designs on Etsy / On Ravelry
StitchJones (On Etsy)
Dudelace Group on Ravelry
Good Reads Book List on US History
iCivics
No Idle Hands
Monmouth Hat Pattern
Sock Knitting Segment
Worksheets:
1.) Designing Your Own Toe Up Sock Pattern
2.) Vanilla Sock Pattern
Yarns on the left are some of my handdyed sockyarns
This one is all about finishing by blocking and getting ready for the Sock Summit.
Music used:
- Django Rhinehardt – Exactly Like You
- The Toothaches – Don’t Be Lonely
Show note links:
- Sublime Mandarin (Actually I messed up the version with the sleeves is called Siam)
- Sock Summit site
- Sock Summit group/forums on Ravelry
- Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways for Sock Knitters- Book I.
- All the lovely places on No Po’s Mississippi Avenue
- The official Cloudy with a Chance of Fiber group in Ravelry
- Painted Turtle Afghan
- BUHBYE’s Tropical Fruit Punch Afghan
- PuffyGriffinClaw’s Wine and Cashmere
- How to participate in a #knitchat
- Knitting with ramen noodles
- Make1Inc (Vashte’s) pattern website.
Contest: Help me find a way to use this yarn. Post your suggestions at the Cloudy with a Chance of Fiber forum in Ravelry
In this episode Natalie tells all about her day at the Columbia Gorge Fiber Festival as well as her spinning adventures during the month of April.
- Columbia Gorge Fiber Festival
- Dicentra Designs on Etsy / On Ravelry
- Tussah Silk
- Artfibers Tantra
- A Verb for Keeping Warm
- Duncan Fiber Enterprises
- Cherry Hill Alpacas
- Sincere Sheep
- Pico Accaurdi Dyeworks
- Falkland Wool
- Black Sheep Gathering
- Sock Summit
- Blue Faced Leicester
- Frabjous Fibers (didn’t purchase from the festival)
- Imperial Stock Ranch (fibers)
The cat that ate the business card sitting on my Columbia wool!
Sample skein of purple yarn made from Columbia fiber
Hand spindle with Blue Faced Leicester from Frabjous Fibers
80% Merino & 20% Silk with Terroir fiber from Sincere Sheep
Suri Alpaca Lace.
Episode 22
Sorry Explicit this time because I used the S-bomb…. but only once.
This one is all about art.
Music & Sound Featured:
- Istanbul – Ella Fitzgerald & Bing Crosby
- Classic Routine – Jack Benny and Mel Blanc
- Ooop Shoop - Gosprom
- La Cumparsita - Carlos Molina
Yarn Bombing:
Giant Knitting (Art):
Freeform Crochet/Knitting:
FiberCamp Boston 2011:
- What is an Unconference?
- FiberCamp Homepage
- Ravelry Thread
- Session Page 2011 – you must request access to view.
Yarn Lust Confessions:
- Elann.com’s LE Milano
- Artfibers Anime Yarn - inspired by Miyazaki
Film:
- The Illusionist - Animated Film (2010)
My Scrumble (Freeform Crochet)
On/Off the needles:
- Kiri Shawl (.pdf)
- Yarnbowl on Etsy (I think she has more)
- The Episode of Murder Most Horrid: We All Hate Granny. (she survives by wearing layers of knitted garments)- warning, the humor is slightly dark. I think you can find the episodes on YouTube.
- Tweed Beret
- Tweed Baby Blanket
- Addi cro-needle
- Pin for Ruffled & Ruched Scarf was from Briar Rose Fibers booth at Sock Summit
- French Press Felted Slippers
Felting:
Music Featured this Episode:
- South American Way – Carmen Miranda
- Chica Chica Boom Chic – Xavier Cugat
- V.V. & O Processo - BNegão & Seletores de Freqüência
A few scary stories and some sequined shoes later and Natalie is ready for Halloween.
Links:
- Dogster Quiz
- Mythos (Knitty)
- 113-17 jacket with raglan sleeve and pattern on yoke
- Old Time Radio Show – Suspense
- Cóiste Bodhar (Death Coach)
- Death Coach Folktale
- Costa Burra Episode of “Strange” (part 1)
- Oregon Flock and Fiber
- Artfibers
- Scarab
- Cellini (I chose color #20)
- Rasu (color #10)
Music Featured:
- Louis Armstrong – Dark Eyes
- French Accordion – El Ferrero
- Louis Armstrong & Billie Holliday – You Can’t Lose a Broken Heart
Twitter Chat Instructions:
I started a new Twitter ID for this chat it’s @cloudynatknit. But you don’t have to follow me to participate in knit chat… all you have to do is the following.
- Sign up for a twitter account if you don’t have one (http://twitter.com)
- On November 18, 2010 at 5:00 Pacific Standard Time type in a search for the ‘hashtag’: #knitchat
- Chatter away about knitting. The main topic for this chat will be… “Christmas Knitting”
- I’ll have a few #’ed questions for us to answer during the chat. I’ll post them to the Cloudy Chance Fiber Blog ahead of time if you want to do your ‘homework.’
Can’t wait to see you there. I’ll try to post up on Ravelry in both the Cloudy with a Chance of Fiber forum as well as other threads to generate even more interest in the chat. Hopefully the twittering of knitters will fill the air. See you there 
Beginning of my yoke sweater in Rasu:
In this episode Natalie talks about knitting for sewing. She also shares some antique knitting treasures and has found the perfect yarn for heirloom aran knitting.
Knitting Books from the past (long ago):
- Project Gutenberg
- Beeton’s Book of Needlework
- Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet
- The Ladies Work-Table Book
- My Knitting Book – Miss Lambert
- Exercises in Knitting
- The Ladies Workbook
- Ghost Stories of an Antiquary – available at Librivox.org or the Internet Archive
- Crochet Me – crochet community
Knitting my way out of my stash:
- Add your stashbusting ideas at the Stashbusting Project Form
- View the ideas submitted including your own in the Stashbusting Spreadsheet
- Getting started with Google Docs
- Digital Inspiration Google Docs Guide
Yarn Review:
- Shepherd’s Own
- Hawthorn Pullover from Fall Interweave Knits 2010
- Hermione Granger’s Hat
Housekeeping:
- Our very own Ravelry group
- Naked Sheep Class Schedule
- Natalie’s Blog- I am Addicted / Rachel’s Blog - Pen and Notebook
- E-mail: cloudychancefiber@gmail.com
Music Featured:
- A Fine Romance (Martha Tilton & Johnny Mercer):
- More about Martha Tilton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Tilton
- Ghost of a Chance (Gene Austin)
- Me Minus You(Boswell Sisters & the Dorsey Orchestra)
- 100,000 Women Can’t Be Wrong (Marshall Scott Warner)
Greetings, fellow needlers! This is Natalie. I came home in such a sour mood, didn’t feel like podcasting, but I put myself to task… git ‘er done, I said. And you know… after sharing with y’all, I’m in a much better mood.
- Market Bag Pattern
- My blog posts about Destashing, Ways to Get Rid of My Sock Yarn & Walking and Knitting
- History of Shoo Fly Pie
- Wool Pets
- Where I took my felting class: Naked Sheep. My very talented instructor and friend, Craig. I highly recommend his class. He’s a lovely instructor and person.
- Totoro
- Teaching our children how to be innovative – my blog post from my “other life.” (By the way… I can see the value of testing… I just question why we’ve let it become the driving force in our childrens’ education.)
- How to felt old sweaters (or failed projects)
- Again… I’m natknit & Rachel is RachelP (Ravelry links)
- Blogs
- Natalie’s blog = I am Addicted
- Rachel’s blog = Pen and Notebook
- E-mail us at cloudchancefiber@gmail.com
Rabbit Mnemonic for Single Crochet: (Made some adjustments because what I said in the podcast may not have made a lot of sense 
)
)1.) Make a chain (or a series of rabbit holes)
2.) Insert the hook into the 2nd stitch from the right (Go into the 2nd rabbit hole from the right)
3.) Pull the working yarn through this hole from the back (Pull one of the rabbits out of the hole)
4.) You have two loops on the hook (Now you have two rabbit friends)
5.) Pull the working yarn through the back of these two loops (bring the another rabbit through both of the friends. He takes these friends away)
Music Featured:
- Shoo Fly Pie & Apple Pan Dowdy – June Christy
- Swing, Swing, Swing – Glenn Miller
- Pinsonnette – French Accordion
- Hola Bossa Nova - Juanitos
Originally released on 8/9/10
Just a note dear listener… This is Natalie. Thank you for bearing with my learning curve. I’ve been experimenting with changing the format and delivery of the podcast. As ever I and we appreciate any feedback you have to give. email: cloudychancefiber@gmail.com
De Show Notes:
- Aran Sweater Design - Janet Szabo
- Traditional Aran Kntting – by Shelagh (pronounced Shee- Lah) Hollingworth
- Harmony 220 Aran Stitch Patterns (sorry it was not the Harmony Guide to Knitting Cables) … blame my weary head.
Link to my blog post on the old grey sweater that like at the bottom of my “Bin of Shame/UFO’s.”
Poorly drawn schematic of a Saddle Shoulder Sweater… note the saddles form the shoulders
Crochet Book Review – Crochet So Fine – Krisitn Omdahl
Music/Sound Featured:
- Six Lessons from Madam La Zonga – Jimmy Dorsey
- Bei Mir Bist Du Schon – Benny Goodman/Martha Tilton (1937 version)
- A Noisless Patient Spider by Emily Dickinson (reading by Peter Yearsley)
- Remember Melody – Torley ( from Solo 7)
- Spiderman – The Astroglides (from the Surf Guitar Compilation)
Housekeeping:
- A few days left to enter the contest to win Yarnia or handspun yarn in Episode 8
- I’m natknit and Rachel is RachelP on Ravelry
- I’m on Twitter – My handle is nlkilkenny
* There is another version of Stainless Steel yarn out by Lion Brand
