Fit, function, and fashion - Episode 43 - The Knitmore Girls
Knitmoregirls's Podcast
Jasmin Canty
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2009
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode has been sponsored by:
New in: Tanis Fiber Arts fingering weight and a pattern written specifically for it: the April Showers sock.
Check out our weaving supplies!
Administrative stuff: (00:39)
Stitch It! has moved. Subscribe to the new feed in iTunes by clicking here.
Cognitive's new feed page.
BarknKnit's new feed page.
(When you re-subscribe to these, please give them a new iTunes review.)
On the Needles: (3:58)
Gigi finished a pair of vanilla ribbed socks in the Kaffe Fasset Regia, a pair of vanilla Claudia's Handpaints Argyle. Gigi has also finished the first skein of yarn for her On the Vine scarf.
Jasmin finished her pair of Ellen's Half-Pint Farm socks (out of the Merino/Tencel sock yarn) in the greens. Jasmin is "chain-knitting" her socks. She cast on the Creatively Dyed Calypso (80% Superwash Merino/20% Nylon) in the Jamaica colorway. The color reminds Jasmin of Lisa Souza's South Pacific colorway.
Gigi is working on a former UFO - she is working on her white Einstein jacket again.
Jasmin and Gigi discuss knitting with neutrals for "lasting" garments. (You can see the "Mimosa yellow" shawl here.) They discuss balancing fashion and timeliness with how long it will take to finish the project. Jasmin talks about Tim Gunn's 10 essential items list and how to encorporate that into your knitting.
Jasmin and Gigi will be swatching this week! Gigi will be swatching some of the Tess Yarns' Silk and Merino (in charcoal grey) for a Cocoknits design. Jasmin has some of the same yarn, but in a pale blue from a few years ago. Jasmin is using it for the Cire-Perdue from the third Norah Gaughan book.
Gigi brought over a children's loom so that Jasmin can determine whether or not she really, really wants to weave.
CONTEST!
Go into our Ravelry group and suggest show topics in the "What do you want to hear about?" thread.
Mother Knows Best: (26:04)
Gigi and Jasmin discuss matching yarns and patterns. Vanilla socks are a great way of testing new techniques (like the channel island cast-on). We also encourage you to treat your swatches the way you would treat the garment.
When Knitting Attacks! (33:26)
Gigi has been too efficient with her knitting, and ran out of on-the-go vanilla socks. Cat Bordhi is a genius, and Jasmin is not, and proves it while working on a pair of Coriolis socks. (The test drive pair is in Myra Hansen's Fancy Image Yarns sock yarn.) Jasmin notices the correlation between knitting attacks and the hours in which they happen. Also, her complete inability to do math into the late hours of the evening.
Straw into Gold: (40:50)
Jasmin is spinning 70% Alpaca/30% Silk roving from Abstract Fibers in a deep, rich blue/black colorway. Jasmin talks about showing surface area and shine while spinning, spinning posture, and is honest about how she feels about spinning cotton. Jasmin recommends taking a beginning spinning class from Sandi Luck (at Purlescence) if you're in the Bay Area, and any spinning class from Judith MacKenzie McCuin.
(Next week, Jasmin will talk about cleaning spinning wheels.)
Jasmin talks about spinning merino/silk batts from Crystal Creek Fibers for Gigi (pictured above). Jasmin talks about using a Fricke skeinwinder with a yardage counter. Jasmin also had spun up some of the Fat Cat Knits 50% SW Merino/50% tencel roving in Spring Bulbs. Jasmin also talks about winding up the Black Magic Woman that she had spun up and was still resting on the bobbins.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Knitmore Girls Podcast, a mother daughter knitting production. This is episode 43 and has been sponsored by the Rain in Knitting, |
| 0:18.0 | for Lessons Yarns and The Naked Sheep. This week's segments include an administrative section on the needles, mother-news best, when knitting attacks, and our new spinning segment, straw into gold. |
| 0:37.0 | One, let's chat. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome, welcome. If you're a new listener, welcome to the podcast. If you're a returning listener, welcome back. |
| 0:46.0 | So we're mixing it up a little bit this week. We are going back to regular segments after our stitches review, but there has been some hubbub in the podcasting world, a few kerfluffles, if you will. |
| 0:59.0 | So evidently, mypodcast.com is having some issues with uploading new podcasts. We are not on mypodcast.com. Our podcast is actually hosted by Libson, which is a different service. |
| 1:12.0 | And we've had no interruption in our service, which is really great. It is. |
| 1:17.0 | However, some of our favorite podcasts have. And if you feel about podcasts the way we feel about podcasts, we want you to be able to get your favorites. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, and of course, and a lot of times when you don't see a podcast updating because they can't get a podcast up because they're having problems. Yeah, you just assume that they've podfated. That's not the case. |
| 1:42.0 | I know for sure that cognitive with Dr. Gemma's digit with Megan and barking it with Nat are all moving over to Libson. And you can find the link to either re-subscribe in iTunes or to their new feed page on our show notes as I get them, I will update it. |
| 2:01.0 | But as an added thing, what I think I'm going to do tonight is go through and explain how to manually put a new RSS feed into iTunes. So please keep your eyes peeled for that. I'm not sure if I'm going to do it on the show notes blog or if I'm going to do it on my personal log just because I don't want to |
| 2:23.0 | I don't know, do an informational thing on, I don't know, it'll be useful. But in any case, I don't want you guys to miss your favorite podcasts. And if you're another podcast or who's listening. |
| 2:34.0 | Please, please, please send us your new feed and we'll broadcast it and we'll play your promo and we'll do the whole nine yards. But this is this way if you're not completely comfortable with updating iTunes yourself. |
| 2:45.0 | And they're not in iTunes yet because they're also having to re-submit their podcasts to iTunes, which means they're starting from the very beginning and they're losing all of their |
| 2:58.0 | reviews and all that stuff. So please go in and review, re-review these podcasts. And if you haven't given them reviews and you like to listen, please do go give them a review. And if you like listening to us, go give us a review too. So yeah. |
| 3:11.0 | And if administrative stuff, let's, let's talk about some knitting. This week on The Needles is proudly sponsored by Varena knitting. |
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| 4:00.0 | I've had a busy knitting week. How about you? Have you? Yes or no? |
| 4:05.0 | Okay. Mostly yes, though. |
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