The Yarniacs Episode 104: Knitting with Rachael
The Yarniacs: A Knitting Podcast
Gayle Billat & Sharlene Goings
4.7 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2015
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we welcome Rachael Herron, author of the Cypress Hollow series, several mainstream fiction books and a non-fiction collection of memoirs. Rachael and I met years ago when we were both involved in the knit-bloggers ring, and recently reconnected at a local guild meeting. On the morning we were recording it was unusually windy and we had even had some rain. You've heard Gayle and I talk about the California drought, so yay, rain! But the wind? Not so much. Our internet conferencing software kept dropping our conference call. We don't really know what caused it to be dropped, but we vented our frustration on the wind. So our apologies for the few places were the chat is choppy and for the general lower than usual audio quality. That was a surprise and we hope you will stick with us and listen to our chat with Rachael. Thank-you Rachael for being patient and working with us that morning!
- Sharlene
What are we wearing?
C3 by Annie Modesitt
Sharlene's C3
Cromarty by Alice Starmore
Rachael's Cromarty
Kerstie Merino Crepe from Koigu
Traveller Tunic by Joji Locatelli
Gayle's Traveller
Tracie Too from Imperial Yarn
What are we knitting?
Koala cup cozy by Alexandra Davidoff
Rose City Rollers by Mara Catherine Bryner
Rachael is knitting a CustomFit sweater.
Stone Mountain and Daughter (store in Berkeley)
Wow air flights to Iceland
Lopi sweater images
The Long Beanie by Wooly Wormhead
Cascade 220 Superwash
Longfellow by Michele Wang
Rachael Herron
Rachael's website
Rachael's bio
Rachael's books
Rachael mentions her two spinning wheels:
Ashford Joy
Ashford Traditional
NaNoWriMo
Digit's return
more Digit
Digit, Actually Dead This Time (language not child-friendly!)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | This is episode 104, which we are recording on Tuesday, December 15th. |
| 0:17.5 | So it's the middle of December. |
| 0:19.3 | And we have a special guest on the program today. |
| 0:23.3 | Well, actually, let me introduce us first. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm Gail. |
| 0:25.8 | Absolutely. |
| 0:26.7 | And we have Rachel Heron on the phone with us today. |
| 0:30.3 | How are you, Rachel? |
| 0:32.1 | I'm so good. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm so glad to talk to you guys. |
| 0:35.4 | Well, we on our last episode, started talking about knitting in fiction as a prelude |
| 0:41.2 | just talking to you on the episode today. |
| 0:44.1 | Charlene and I have the good fortune to meet you about a year and a half ago at a Santa |
| 0:48.0 | Santa Cruz Knitting Guild meeting, and we're just fascinated by your writing and how you've basically made a career of writing about knitting, which is so cool, so very cool. |
| 0:59.8 | And we've been looking forward to having you on the podcast. |
| 1:03.0 | Thank you so much. I've been looking forward to talking to you guys. |
| 1:05.6 | Charlene and I go way, way, way, way back to old knit blog days. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 1:11.5 | That's true. |
| 1:12.6 | Even better. |
| 1:13.8 | Attend a knitting group at a now defunct, but was very cool knitting store back in, I don't know |
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