The Yarniacs Episode 109: Reading Knitlandia!
The Yarniacs: A Knitting Podcast
Gayle Billat & Sharlene Goings
4.7 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What did we wear at StitchesWest 2016?
Nakahi Shawl by Francoise Danoy
Sharlene's Nakahi
Polaris by Hiroku Fukatsu
Sharlene's Polaris
Newsom by Bristol Ivy
Sharlene's Newsom
Yowza Weigh It Shawl by Susan B. Anderson
Gayle's Weigh It Shawl
Twinkle Sock by Western Sky Knits
3 Color Cashmere Cowl by Joji Locatelli
Gayle's 3 Color Cashmere Cowl
Ecuador by Joji Locatelli
Gayle's Ecuador
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What are we stalking after StitchesWest 2016?
Castra by Anthony Casalena
Divvy by Annie Baker
Minthe by Anne Ginger
Woodfords by Elizabeth Doherty
Sharlene's Woodfords
Top Down by Elizabeth Doherty
Sans Serif by Elizabeth Doherty
What were we knitting at StitchesWest 2016?
Fancy Cardi by Joji Locatelli
Merino-Silk Sock by Western Sky Knits
Sharlene's Fancy Cardi
Hermione's Everyday Socks by Erica Lueder
Gayle's Hermione Socks
Knit Picks Felici
Arabella by Ann McCauley
Stone Soup Fibers yarns
What have we finished?
Secret Cove Cowl by Rosemary Hill
Gayle's Secret Cove Cowl
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | This is episode 109, which we are recording on Tuesday, March 1st, 2016. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Gail. |
| 0:16.4 | And I'm Charlene. |
| 0:17.3 | And we were just saying how it would have been fun if we had been able to record yesterday, |
| 0:21.4 | which was Leap Day. |
| 0:22.9 | Yeah, then we would have surely remembered in four years what we had done four years previous. |
| 0:28.5 | That's true, right? |
| 0:29.3 | Yeah, because what are the chances? |
| 0:31.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.5 | So we're going to do things a little bit differently for today's episode, aren't we? |
| 0:35.6 | We are. |
| 0:36.9 | Gail and I were lucky enough to attend the Stitches West event this past month in Santa Clara, California. |
| 0:46.7 | And we're going to look at our usual segments with a little bit of stitches flare out of day. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah, just for fun. |
| 0:58.0 | So instead of what are you wearing today, what did you wear to stitches? Yay, what did I wear to stitches? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, first off, it bears mentioning that it was really warm in the convention center, so there was not a lot of heavy sweaters. No. In the convention center. And previous |
| 1:16.2 | years, and when I say previous years, I mean maybe five, six, seven years ago, it had been |
| 1:25.2 | really cold on the Stiches weekend. In fact, several weekends, it |
| 1:29.1 | was the one weekend that it snowed in the mountains here. So those years, you saw a lot of heavy |
| 1:35.0 | knitwear. The last few years, not so much. Lots of shawls, light sweaters, and they come |
| 1:43.2 | on and off. |
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