Episode 33 Of Lice and Men

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🗓️ 25 February 2011

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Episode sponsor is Quince & Co. and my Longaberger home business.

Travel with me from the Setesdal Region of Norway, to Scotland, to the U.S. to explore lice in knitting and literature. Robert Burns' poem "To a Louse" is read by Alan Wood of Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland. Alan is friend of the charming Louise, host of a podcast I enjoy, The Caithness Craft Collective. I read Robert Frost's poem "A Considerable Speck" which isn't exactly about a louse, but could be. I review the books that I consider most important for those interested in Norwegian Sweater knitting. Of course, there are many out there so I just picked my favorites.

Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Without Tears, Knitting Workshop, or The Opinionated Knitter
Sheila McGregor's The Complete Book of Traditional Scandinavian Knitting
Norwegian Knitting Designs by Annichen Sibbern Bohn.

For the very enthusiastic knitters and historians, consider Annemor Sundbo's Setesdal Sweaters: The History of The Norwegian Lice Pattern.

There is an update on my projects, although the Norwegian sweater has been stalled for the past week. I finished Baby Slippers from Knitting at Home by Leanne Prouse. They turned out lousy. I started on a new project and picked up a pair of socks that had been in hibernation since the summer.

Thanks to everyone who has sent well wishes to my mother who fell last week and broke her arm last week and also to me and the family. You are wonderful people!

The music is compliments of World Champion Piper, Bruce Gandy, from his CD My Father's Son. Available at www.brucegandymusic.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Knitting Pipeline, the knitting podcast with a Celtic flare.
0:09.0	Here is your host, Knitter and Piper Paula,
0:11.8	recording from Central Illinois, USA.
0:15.0	Hello, welcome to knitting pipeline.
0:17.4	This is episode 33 of Lice and Men.
0:22.2	Thank you for joining me today. This show is sponsored by my Longerburger Home
0:26.7	Business and Quince and Company. Quince and Company offers a line of thoughtfully conceived the arms spun from Once in raise animals or manufacture a yarn in as earth and labor-friendly away as possible.
0:46.5	Visit them at quince and company.com, that's Q-U-I-N-C-E-A-N-D-C-O dot com.
0:57.0	Well, in this episode, we don't have the usual segments
1:00.4	because I have a central theme. I think this may be the only podcast,
1:05.0	knitting podcast for sure, that has a theme of Lice. Yes, Lice, as in those tiny little pesky hateful little bugs, insects.
1:18.0	I might be crazy to do this, but if you're scratching your head, pun intended, wondering why
1:27.0	I'm doing this, well, just hang in there for a while.
1:31.0	Thank you to.
1:38.0	Thank you to everyone who was in touch with me in the past two weeks. I didn't get a podcast out last week.
1:41.0	If you've been on the board or on my blog then you know what
1:46.4	happened in my family. My mother fell and broke her arm into places and since she is the primary caregiver for my father, this was a bit of a problem.
1:58.0	So I packed up and drove down there to help my sister out and we have our brother coming in this week.
2:05.0	We think we have things worked out somewhat and it's going to be a long process.
2:11.0	But the good news is that so far far mom does not have to have surgery and
2:15.8	we were concerned about that but the arm does seem to be healing on its own and
2:20.4	we're very grateful for that and I do appreciate all your kind words and
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