And, we're off! - Episode 45 - The Knitmore Girls
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Jasmin Canty
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2009
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode has been sponsored by:
New this week: Cascade Eco Alpaca, and dyed colors of Pure Alpaca, new certified Free Trade yarns from Frog Tree Alpaca, including the new Picaboo, bamboo, pima cotton, and Green Line
DK and Worsted merino from Lorna's Laces.
Administrative: (00:30)
Knit's up has moved to Libsyn. If you're having problems updating your feeds, find our tutorial here.
On the Needles: (2:00)
Gigi is making good progress on her On the Vine scarf.
Jasmin cast on a sock to chase away her bad knitting mojo. She is using the Abstract Fibers "Supersock" in Newport. (Jasmin and Gigi will be reviewing this yarn in a later podcast.) Jasmin also discusses working with the square knitting needles. Jasmin suggests that LYSes should have "tester" needles so that knitters can try them. (Jasmin refers to the Addi Turbo interchangeable review episode.)
Gigi is working on the Par Five sock out of the brown Malabrigo Sock. Jasmin tries to understand golf. Gigi describes golf as "banhoff".
The Knit(more)-A-Long!
Jasmin's: Katarina (by CocoKnits), in Tess Yarns' Silk and Merino.
(Jasmin is knitting hers in one piece, as opposed to the way that the pattern is written. She talks about how she blocked her Twist.) Jasmin is knitting this at a tighter gauge than is recommended in the pattern (Jasmin is knitting it at 5 sts/6 rows per inch) because she disagrees with both the math in the pattern, the schematic, and the gauge of the recommended yarn.
Gigi's: Carli (by CocoKnits) in Malabrigo worsted, Burgundy. Gigi is matching gauge and knitting the pattern as it is written, thus far.
They talk about substituting yarns and the need to occasionally recalculate a pattern. They also discuss picking colors.
Mother Knows Best: (30:24)
Gigi and Jasmin discuss warm weather knits; they LOVE the Tess Yarns' Microfiber Ribbon. Some of Jasmin's favorite patterns include the ribbed turtleneck (by Jill Ramos), the chevron ribbed tank by Ann Budd, and the perfect periwinkle turtleneck tube vest from Fitted Knits.
Jasmin seals the end of the ribbon with Fray-Check, talks about the best way to wind it,
Straw into Gold: (42:13)
Jasmin is still spinning Talullah, she wants to knit something with cables (like Mariah). Jasmin talks about "swatching" your spinning. Jasmin is going to use her Maggie mini skein-winder to make tiny test skeins.
Reviews: (46:10)
They review the Malabrigo sock yarn. Four Knitmore thumbs up!
They also review the Leslie Wind cable needle necklace. (Video tutorials can be found here.) Jasmin loved it, Gigi didn't.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Knitmore Girls Podcast, a mother-daughter knitting production. |
| 0:11.2 | This is Episode 45 and is sponsored by Bahrain and knitting and Per Lessons Yards. |
| 0:17.9 | This week's podcast includes... |
| 0:20.2 | Administrative? |
| 0:22.2 | On The Needles. |
| 0:23.2 | Mother knows best. |
| 0:25.1 | Straw Into Gold. |
| 0:26.8 | And Reviews. |
| 0:27.8 | Come on. |
| 0:28.8 | Let's chat. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome, welcome. |
| 0:31.4 | If you're a new listener, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:33.3 | If you're a returning listener, welcome back. |
| 0:36.2 | So, I know this administrative thing is getting a little bit tedious, |
| 0:39.7 | but as more of the old podcasts from mypodcast.com transfer over to other web hosts and other servers, |
| 0:47.3 | I wanted to continue letting you guys know where you can find your favorite podcasts. |
| 0:51.6 | So, this week I found out that Knit's up is moving to Lipson. |
| 0:55.4 | So, please do go give them a listen and change your feeds and update them. |
| 0:59.4 | And we have a tutorial in our show notes where you can kind of figure out |
| 1:03.5 | how to update your RSS feeds if they haven't been |
| 1:06.6 | re-accepted into iTunes, which is a process that I know a lot of these podcasts are going through. |
| 1:11.7 | So, please bear with me and update your feeds. |
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