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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
 This one is all about Quick Christmas Gifts and the Regency Period.
Music Featured:
Quick Christmas Gifts
On/Off the needles
Reviews:
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Yes, we’re planning to dive back into sweater knitting because, after all, it is Fall!
On/Off the Needles:
- Ananke (Ravelry link)
- BYOB
- Toe up Socks for Every Body
- Pembroke Vest
- Morningside Neckwarmwer
- Light as a Feather Smoke Ring (Ravelry link)
- Gail aka nightsong
- Sierra Lace Cardigan
- Sublime Extra Fine Luxurious Merino
- Riveting (Kollage yarn)
- Midnight
Little Red/Sweater Design:
Festival Season:
Google + Database:
Music Featured:
- Carmen Miranda – “Tico Tico”
- Zero Suspiro – “Conversatione”
- Xavier Cugat – “Papa Loves Mambo”
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
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
Natalie
Cambridge Jacket from Best of Interweave Knits
Knit-a-long:
Knitting Fantasy lives:
Natalie’s 2011 Sweaters n’ more:
All unfinished items
Leyfi Pullover (IK)
Beatnik (Knitty)
Hawthorne Pullover (IK)
October Frost (A fine Fleece)
Forest Mushrooms (Twist Collective)
Thigh high stockings
Radiate (Knitty)
More Socks 1 pair a month?
Rachel’s 2011 Accessories:
Basic Ribbed hat with made-up pattern
Shawl Collared Cowl
Quilted Cowl (Free Ravelry download)
Quilted Cowl (Free Ravelry download)
Thermis Cowl
Pretty Thing Cowl
Ananke Shawl (Choose from drop-down menu)
Ruffled and Ruched Scarf
Wine and Roses Mitts
Daybreak Shawl
Susie’s Reading Mitts (free pdf pattern)
Cooper Spur Mountain Resort Thanksgiving 2010
Winter is here or in the Pacific Northwest we call it Wetter. I might as well call this one the Burl Ives Classic Episode, but I was have a pastblast of Christmas media the night before I recorded this.
- ChartGen - knitting chart generator
- Vogue Knitting Holiday 2010 (cover & fashion preview)
- Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Percentage System (from Wikipedia)
- Rarest Breed Sheep
- Cloudy with a Chance of Fiber Forum (on Ravelry) I’ll be posting the Softness Debate thread there.
- Tunisian Knit Stitch (from Crochet Spot… see I told you it looks like knitting)
- Lily Chin’s Couture Crochet Workshop – a great book that walks you through advanced shaping techniques in crochet. Yes, you can make nice looking fitted garments with crochet.)
Music featured:
- Island of Misfit Toys (Burl Ives and others)
- Typewriter Song (?)
- Marshmallow World (Brenda Lee)
- Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy (Tchaikovsky)
- You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch (Burl Ives)
- Put One Foot in Front of the Other (Burl Ives & Mickey Rooney)
Just a short solo show from Rachel:
Staying Busy
Baby gifts:
Better than Booties Baby Socks (free download with Knitting Daily Subscription)
San Francisco Giants Baseball (warning – video ads)
Some reflections on being a knitting commuter.
Music:
