The Yarniacs Episode 209: Tips to Pick a Pattern!
The Yarniacs: A Knitting Podcast
Gayle Billat & Sharlene Goings
4.7 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to 2020, and the first episode of the new year and decade!
What are we wearing?
Evening Dew Cardigan by Ririko
Minthe by Anne Ginger
Gayle's Minthe
What are we stalking?
The Baby Y*da controversy!
Alho by Anna Johanna
Domes around the World by Hinterm Stein
Brightfeather by Jennifer Steingass
Copy.Cat C.C beanie by Emily Ingrid
Thank-you to LoLo Body Care for sponsoring us this month!
What are we knitting?
Perfect Reversible Watch Cap by Nancy Elizabeth Munroe
Dawe by Amy Miller
Wee Melia by Ysolda Teague
Marklee by Elizabeth Doherty
What have we finished?
Puntilla by Joji Locatelli
Storm Shawl by Joji Locatelli
My Cup of Tea Mitts by Fluffy Fibers
Elephant Park by Gabrielle Danskknit
Dotty Cardigan by Stephanie Jessica Lau
School of Knit
What do you look for when picking a pattern? Sizing, yarn used, and design are all important. But what other factors can help you successfully pick a pattern that you will love to make and love to wear? In this segment we share a little bit of our process and what helps us to determine if a pattern is something we want to make.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | This is episode number 209, which we are recording on Monday, December 30th, 2019. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm Gail. |
| 0:18.1 | And I'm Charlene. |
| 0:19.4 | And happy end of the year or... or start of the new year. Happy New |
| 0:24.3 | year because by the time this episode is released, it will be 2020. It's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. |
| 0:32.5 | Start of a whole new decade. Today we're recording at the beautiful University of California at Santa Cruz campus again |
| 0:40.1 | because it's the week between Christmas and New Year when the university shuts it down. |
| 0:45.2 | So it's almost vacant here. We might hear an occasional car, but we're sitting in front of some |
| 0:50.4 | beautiful redwoods and it's very, very peaceful here right now. It's beautiful here. I'm |
| 0:55.4 | really happy that we were able to find a day to do a winter episode on campus here. We tried to |
| 1:05.6 | sit so that we had the ocean view, but it was a little too loud. So we have shucks. We have a redwood view instead. |
| 1:14.8 | Oh, shucks. And it's a beautiful sunny day here. It's just an incredibly clear, crisp, beautiful winter day. |
| 1:20.4 | It is. Very nice. So what are you wearing? I am wearing one of my favorite finishes of 2019. |
| 1:29.7 | It is the evening due cardigan. |
| 1:32.7 | I finished this a couple of episodes ago, and I was so excited. |
| 1:37.6 | I was telling Gail I wore it to a Christmas party that I went to, and everybody wanted to touch my sweater and everybody kept telling |
| 1:48.1 | me how beautiful it was and of course that made me feel good. That's not necessarily why I wore it. |
| 1:55.4 | But the main reason why I wore it is because actually wearing the sweater made me feel good. |
| 2:01.0 | I've got the Joan Jett song. Do you want to touch me there? |
| 2:03.9 | I'm not what I meant. |
| 2:10.9 | But if you could see her in person, she's so fuzzy. You do just literally want to reach out and pet her like she's a kitten. |
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