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This one is all about Shetland Sheep! I had a long conversation with Tracy & Tom of McTavish Shetlands.
- McTavish Shetlands Blog
- McTavish Shetlands Homepage
- Picasa Photo Album of photos from my trip. Apologies for some of the photos being blurry. I’m a podcaster not a photographer, Jim!
- More about Shetland sheep from Jamieson & Smith
- Oregon Wool - perfect place to buy local Oregon Fiber
Tracy’s Felted Shetland Vest. Read more about it on the blog.
Knitting Artifacts:
- Illustrated History of Needlework Tools by Gay Ann Rodgers
- Knitting Sheaths & Belts at the Old and Interesting website
- Demo of how to knit with one hand (video). This is most likely how people used the knitting sheaths.
Music Featured: Ease on Down the Road
It’s all about the Sock Summit 2011, but it’s not just about knitting socks. Sock Summit was one heck of a big party for knitters, spinners and fiber enthusiasts.
Rachel & Natale talk at the sock summit
- Sock Summit
- Craft Lit Podcast
- Petite Purls
- Sweet Georgia Yarns Pomegranate
- Sierra Summer Lace Cardigan Wrap (PDF)
- World’s Largest Sock
- Portland Yarn Store List
Sweet Georgia Yarns
- Director Park Downtown Portland OR
- Sweet Georgia Yarns
- Shop Sweet Georgia Yarns
- Sweet Georgia’s Ravelry Group
- Felecia’s Twitter ID: @HeySweetGeorgia
About Knitting & Spinning with Silk Hankies
- Tactile Fiber Arts
- Tactile Fiber Arts Ravelry Group
- Maia’s Twitter ID: @MaiaSpins
- Fleece to Foot
Bethany Hendrickson and Fleece to Foot
Happy Knits
Sweet Georgia Yarns Pomegranate Photo
Podcasting tool kit at the Sock Summit
PurpleYarnQueen’s hand spun sock yarn in all it’s purple glory!
Me waiting in the sun by the Bell before the No Po walking trek
The long line during the opening day of the Marketplace
The World’s Largest Sock (WIP) at the Sock Summit. It was like knitting a yurt!
More on knitting history and a new small business that helps other small businesses (including Local Yarn Stores (LYSs)) thrive.
Music Featured:
Links:
- Nautillina
- Lanesplitter Skirt
- Poems Yarn
- Fibre Company Canopy Yarn
- The Naked Sheep Knit Shop
- Article: Ravelry Beats Facebook
- Supportland
- Happy Knits (website)
- Happy Knits (raverly group)
- Ravelry Group on Sock Summit
- Little Red in the City
- Knitting America
- Monmouth Cap
- Short History of the Monmouth Cap
- Ryeland Sheep
- Donna Druchunas
- Arctic Lace
- Successful Lace Knitting
- Oregon Live Knitting Blog
- Sock Summit Walking Tour Thread (Ravelry)
- Map to Happy Knits
Sock Knitting Segment
Worksheets:
1.) Designing Your Own Toe Up Sock Pattern
2.) Vanilla Sock Pattern
3.) Heel Flap Extension
Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Sewn Bindoff (Video)
Correction: I mentioned the Inuit people in referencing the “Arctic Lace” book. This is incorrect as the book covers the traditions of the Native or Indigenous Peoples of Alaska. Inuit actually refers to the Northern Native Peoples in Canada & Greenland.
Lanesplitter Skirt Panel
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
Cave behind the South Falls at Silver Falls State Park
In this episode
- There’s a bit about a hike in the woods and knitting socks in nature
- Something about lace for dudes.
- Mention of podcasts I love from across the pond.
- and the continuation of the sock saga.
- Erosional Chimney
- Seabuckthorn Plant (WIkipedia)
- Sea Berry Plant (One Green World Catalog)
- Exploring Shimada’s Sock Class (Class is taught by Gayle Roehm)
- Purl District in Silverton, OR
- Knitting Thimble
- Dudelace Group on Ravelry
- Sock Summit Group on Ravelry
- I Am Addicted (Natalie’s Blog)
- Natknit Daily
- On twitter you can find me as: @Cloudynatknit
Sock Knitting Segment
Worksheets:
Other Tutorials and Support
Podcasts from Across the Pond
Sock Pattern Links
More Photos from the Hike
Music used:
Shake that Little Foot – Lark in the Clean Air
Shake that Little Foot – Lark in the Clean Air
Cave
Socks from my handpainted sock yarn
This is the one where I knit socks, socks and more socks… and try the Starmore sweater one more time!
Music Featured
Ballad of the Black Chihuahua – Jon Rauhaus
Swim Out – The Toothaches (sorry I featured them last time but I’m on a New Wave kick)
Inventio #2 in C Minor (Bach) – Learning Music
Beach Knitting
Alice Starmore’s Lochinver
Dyeing Tutorials
How to Handpaint Roving – great tutorial
Dyeing Silk Roving
More on Dyeing Silk Roving
Cascade Eco Wool
Fire on the Mountain
#knitchat
String & Beans Blog
Make1Inc’s Site
Updates
Black Sheep Gathering in Eugene June 24-26
Black Sheep Bingo
Contest Thread - Help me figure out what to do with this yarn!
Information about the No Po informal walking tour (Ravelry) – I’ll be updating this more…
Sock Pattern Links
Worksheets:
1.) Designing Your Own Toe Up Sock Pattern
2.) Vanilla Sock Pattern
3.) Heel Flap Extension
Come to Silver Sock Tutorials
Cat Bordhi’s Tutorial on Knitting on Two Circular Needles
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 24
We’re both so ready for Spring weather and a repreive from the continuous downpour that has innundated the Northwest this year.
On & Off the Needles:
- Baby Bunny Beanie Baby Hat
- Tweed Baby Blanket
- Shawl Collared Cowl
- Pembroke Baby Vest Baby to Toddler Socks
- Doughnut Toy
- Two Seam Cube Toy (pdf)
- Honeycomb Skirt from Tunisian Crochet
- Scottish Highland Knits
- Cellini Yarn from Artfibers
Photos: Blue Baby Socks, Trellis Sweater
Hooray for Spring Knitting:
Spring things in our queue for the near future
Rachel
Baby things
- socks
- hats
- toys
Little lace projects & cowls
Natalie
- Buttercup in Hempathy
- Nautilina Shawl
- Striae Shawl
- Springtime in Philadelphia Tam
Twitter Chat or #knitchat
- #knitchat is a 1 hour Twitter chat that happens every Thursday night from 6:30-7:30 PST
- To follow and participate in #knitchat simply follow and tweet the hashtag “twitterchat”
- Shout out and thanks to participants of #knitchat @yarnsalad, @McDGG, @MrsKniterati
- Paper.li the Online Twitter & Facebook Paper
http://paper.li/
– my version is called the Natknit Daily
Music Featured:
Blue Skies – Betty Hutton
So I did fall off wagon. But I am valiantly getting back on and starting all over again.
- Shetland Trader - Gudrun Johnston
- Quince and Company (yarns)
- Persistent Illusion PDX LYS Map: You can find links to all the yarn stores mentioned in this podcast on this site. Thank you, Judy Becker, for putting this together for us.
- Alpaca Lace:
- Yarnia Charrierana yarn
- Yarnia Video
- Urban Fiber Arts
- Stitchjones gorgeous and color-popping yarns and fiber
- Cropped Crochet Cardigan
- #knitchat details….
- Bettna Jacket (posted by KnitnRide on Flickr)
- Knitting Pure and Simple Hoodie
- Leyfi Pullover by Rosemary Hill
- Lana Seta -Ooops I said…Lana Seta (Ravelry Link)
Photo from the Morguefile:
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/214462
Music
Lee Rosevere – Up All Night
Sally Gardens – Sláinte
Cow Cow Boogie – Ella Fitzgerald & the Inkspots
Back in the Saddle Again – Gene Autry
Music Featured
If I Knew You were coming I’d have Baked a Cake - Gracie Fields
Bongo Ride – Jon Rauhouse
Beamish’s Goat - Folksong played by Doug Goodhart
I’m no Superman – Lazlo Bane
Books
Rigamaroles & Ragamuffins – Elinor Kapp
Simple Times – Amy Sedaris
Barnyard in Your Backyard – Edited by Gail Damerow
Other things
Pygora Goats (Wikipedia)
Painted Turtle Afghan (Interweave Crochet)
Pop Culture
Portlandia Dream of the 90′s – Video
Portlandia Article
Misfits from the BBC
Misfits – Wikipedia page
The Good Life (Wikipedia)
