Music:
And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine – Anita O’Day
After You’ve Gone – King Jesters:

Links:

• Happy Knits
• Madeline Tosh DK at Happy Knits

Calendar of Hope:

• Army of Women
• Calendar of Hope 2012

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:

• Forum Announcement on Ravelry on Crochet Master’s Portfolio

Knitchat Updates:

• Knitchat group on Ravelry
• Knitalong details (Yummy Mummy)
• How to use Google + Hangouts
• Google + Hangout Plug In

Scale Mitts & Hanging Out:

• Scale Mitts
• Exchanging Fiber

Kollage Yarn Review:

• Milky Whey Yarn
• Exchanging Fiber

Scale Mitt in progress in Malabrigo Rios

This is our first chance to chat with each other via a #knitchat on Twitter and I’m looking forward to it. Everyone grab a cup of tea and a pastry, biscuit or cake. Since this the first UK/US knitchat I thought we’d keep the discussion fairly simple and focus mainly on introductions and what we’re excited about learning (knitting-wise).

Please note I’m toying with the idea of hosting a Google Hangout instead of a Twitter chat in the same time slot (Saturday 8:00 AM PST) either the end of December or the beginning of January. If you are interested in participating in this or any other Twitter chats please follow me on Twitter. I am @cloudynatknit.

If you need a primer on how #knitchat works on Twitter please refer to the “DETAILS… DETAILS” section below. I’m not sure how many folks will join but there are a lot of folks the stream of tweets could get fast. It’s okay. Sometimes even I cannot keep up, but I do read the tweets the following day using Storify or http://hashtags.org/knitchat

#knitchat discussion questions:

Q1) Introductions: Name, Location, Ravelry ID (or nickname), Website, blog, podcast, etc.
Q2) What’s currently on your needles or hook right now?
Q3) What are you excited about learning (knitting-wise)? Anything you’d like to master?

DETAILS… DETAILS… If you want to know more about what #knitchat is and how it works

• Where: Twitter (follow the #knitchat hashtag)
• When: UK/US – December 10, 2011 – Saturday 8:00 AM PST / 4:00 PM London time.
• Who: Me you and other Twitter Knitters/Crocheters & Fiber-crafters
• How: Need a primer on Twitter Chat… check this out: What does this Twitter chat thing look like?
• How: to post photos - 5 ways to share photos on Twitter
• How: to shorten your links. Simply paste your link into the field in http://bit.ly/ and shorten it. Copy and paste this link into the twitter feed. Some Twitter aps actually automatically shorten the links for you.

This one gets us ready for the Holiday Knitting Effort.

Happy Knits & Melinda Vermeer:

• Happy Knits Onine
• Melinda Vermeer’s Website
• Melinda Vermeer’s Designs in Knit Picks IDP
• Melinda’s Ravelry Group

Holiday Knitting Tips:

• Koolhas Hat
• Turn a Square Hat
• Clapotis
• Laundry soaps for knitted garments: Soak & Eucalan
• Burberry Inspired Cowl
• Comfy Cowl or Woobie
• Provisional Cast On (Crochet) Video
• Kitchner Stitch Video
• Debbie Bliss Paloma

Halloween 2011. That’s me in the red deer mask in the back. Sorry the photo of the Owls sweater isn’t that sharp. The Halloween Party Bus theme this year was Red Devils.

• 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
  

• Cria
• Chickadee
• Lauriel (all ravelry links)

Festival Season:

• Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival

Google + Database:

• Google + Group on Ravelry

Music Featured:

• Carmen Miranda – “Tico Tico”
• Zero Suspiro – “Conversatione”
• Xavier Cugat – “Papa Loves Mambo”

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

• 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

• Kuelap Fingerless Gloves
• BethanyHendrickson.com
• Fleece to Foot play by play from Oregon.Live.com

Happy Knits

• Happy Knits
• flickr.com/happyknit

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!

Episode 30

More on knitting history and a new small business that helps other small businesses (including Local Yarn Stores (LYSs)) thrive.

Music Featured:

• Andrew Sisters – Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Woogie Beat
• Big Joe Turner – Rock the Joint

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