Galina knits behind the Iron Curtain - Episode 48 - The Knitmore Girls

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Jasmin Canty

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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2009

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week, in lieu of our regular segments, we have an interview with Galina Khmeleva of Skaska Designs Limited.

In this episode, Galina discusses knitting in communist Russia, and how she ended up as an accomplished author, instructor, and historian of the Orenburg lace tradition.

Her books:
Gossamer Webs: The History and Techniques of Orenburg Lace Shawls
The Gossamer Webs Design Collection: Three Orenburg Shawls to Knit

Her workshop schedule and calendar of events can be found here.

Galina's preferred fibers for lace knitting:

1- Quiviut
2- Cashmere (longer staple)
3- Cashmere and silk. Silk helps the knitting retain it's memory.
4- Pygora

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Knitmore Girls Podcast, a mother-daughter knitting production.
0:12.1	This week's episode is brought to you by Varena Knitting and Per Lessons Yarns.
0:18.2	This week we have an Easter Egg for you.
0:21.2	The interview we had with Galina at Itch's West.
0:27.4	Come on!
0:28.4	Welcome back listeners.
0:31.4	As Mom mentioned in lieu of our regular segments this week, we will be airing an incredibly
0:36.6	interesting chat we had with Galina.
0:39.4	To give you a little bit of background as far as what she does professionally, she's
0:42.6	written a couple of books that are specializing in Russian lace knitting and she teaches
0:49.4	workshops and she goes to stitches events and I think she's hosting some sort of traveling
0:53.8	knitting thing and all of this will be linked in the show notes.
0:56.7	So if you're interested in seeing what she does, please go check our show notes page.
1:00.5	We have a couple of other small administrative things to take care of at the beginning
1:03.4	of this week's episode and given how compelling a speaker Galina is, I wanted to tell you
1:11.6	guys and so did Mom how this interview went.
1:15.5	There's a little bit of background noise because they were tearing down the marketplace
1:20.0	at stitches and of course when people see microphones they make more noise, right?
1:24.6	But that's okay, so Mom and I grabbed Galina and we sat down in this lovely quiet dimly
1:32.0	lit corner.
1:33.0	It was very nice.
1:34.6	It was very nice and a couple of my friends called Lisa, she invited us to go have drinks
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