The Yarniacs Episode 213: Stitches West 2020!
The Yarniacs: A Knitting Podcast
Gayle Billat & Sharlene Goings
4.7 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Gayle and I have just returned from spending the weekend at the Stitches West event in Santa Clara. Stitches West is a large retail needle arts event with a large market place and classes. We also worked at the Western Sky Knits booth, helping with set-up, sales, and tear-down. One of the best things about any large fiber event is the people watching. Or in this case, the sweater watching. Trends we noticed included combining two or more strands of yarn together to create fabric; colorwork sweaters are still popular; new textures, such as the slubby yarn we saw at Western Sky Knits; and we noticed that many dyers are bringing back non-superwash bases. There is so much to see at a show like this and even though we try to at least walk the whole show floor, we still miss things! But we had a fabulous time and enjoyed spending time with friends and listeners. We hope you enjoy our brief recap!
- Sharlene
Slubby fingering from Western Sky Knits
The wedding dress we saw in the Forbidden Fibers booth
Super Simple Summer Sweater by Joji Locatelli
stitchinsenorita's Super Simple Summer Sweater
Old School by Veera Valimaki
Magnolia Chunky Cardigan by Camilla Vad
Sorrel by Wool & Pine
Sharlene's Sorrel
Magnolia Sock from Western Sky Knits
Ranunculus by Midori Hirose
Gayle's Ranunculus
Love Note by tincanknits
Sharlene's Love Note
Clio by Elizabeth Doherty
Gayle's Clio
Sheer V sweater by Jessie Mae Martinson
Paper Daisies by Lisa K. Ross
Calan Mai by Voolenvine
Thank-you to our sponsor Western Sky Knits!
Puntilla by Joji Locatelli
Sharlene's Puntilla
Maypop Hoodie by Susanna Winter
Gayle's Maypop
Handspun Hope - handspun yarn from Rwanda
These felted animals are just adorable!
Grace by Jane Richmond
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | This is episode number 213, which we are recording live and in segments from Stitches West 2020. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Gail. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Shirley. |
| 0:23.4 | And we are having a very good time and we'll give you little glimpses into each day as we do. We hope you enjoy. So we're at Stitches West 2020. I can't |
| 0:32.4 | believe it's 2020 that date when I see it and say it's still kind of blows me away. |
| 0:35.7 | 2020. This is Friday morning. |
| 0:39.7 | We have finished day one, which was Thursday yesterday. |
| 0:45.2 | Gail and I were working in the Western Sky Knits booth. |
| 0:49.9 | And we say working loosely. |
| 0:52.0 | It wasn't working. |
| 0:53.0 | It's really hanging out with our friends and playing with |
| 0:55.3 | yarn. But we are setting up the booth. We are actually working, but in a good way. But we got things done. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah, the booth looks beautiful. This year, they had actually gotten some of the yarn up before we |
| 1:08.4 | arrived. So it was already a work in progress when we arrived last |
| 1:12.5 | year when we arrived it was just boxes and stuff on the ground so and so much yarn so much yarn |
| 1:19.3 | it's amazing when you see all the bags and boxes in any yarn vendor's booth and the before and then the after. |
| 1:31.3 | It's simply transformative. |
| 1:33.5 | It is. |
| 1:34.1 | It's quite amazing. |
| 1:35.6 | I've been struggling with the cold and yesterday I was setting up Kim's Marino 17 |
| 1:41.2 | DK base and worsted base on two particular sets of shelves. And they just kept handing me |
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