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The Yarniacs: A Knitting Podcast

The Yarniacs Episode 312: Knitting Q&A

The Yarniacs: A Knitting Podcast

Gayle Billat & Sharlene Goings

Hobbies, Leisure, Crafts

4.7615 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this last episode of 2023, Gayle and Sharlene answer some of the questions you've sent us over the past few months. 
 
I'll link the yarns and patterns that we mention. 
 
Coast yarn from Holst Garn in Denmark
Ilha by Orlane Sucche
 
Some things that you might need in your knitting bag:
chocolate, readers/glasses, knitting light, earphones/headphones
 
Thank you to our sponsor Twice Sheared Sheep!
 
 
What patterns taught us the most about sweater construction?
Most of Elizabeth Doherty's patterns!
We'll focus on this in an episode next year.
 
Project that I went back to after I gained some knitting experience:
Tara by Alice Starmore
Sharlene's Tara
 
Techniques we don't love:
Leicht by Annette Schleicher (sock madness pattern)
Lady Eleanor Entrlac Stole by Kathleen Power Johnson
 
Technique we want to try?
Traveling loop

Lucky Hat Wrap by Safiyyah Talley

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

0:11.1

This is episode number 312, which we are recording on Wednesday, December 13th,

0:16.8

2023.

0:18.1

I'm Gail.

0:19.1

And I'm Charlene.

0:20.1

And we have a slightly different episode today. Yes, welcome to

0:22.9

episode 312. This is the last episode of calendar year 2023. And Gail and I are recording this one

0:34.2

a little bit early so that we have a longer break between episodes for the end of

0:42.3

the year holidays and festivities and the self-indulgent knit along we have knitting to do

0:49.3

exactly so for this episode Charlene mentioned a couple episodes ago, she reopened the question and answer thread to see if anybody had questions for us.

1:01.7

So that's what we decided to do today instead of talking about our normal segments.

1:08.5

So there were quite a few questions that were added to that thread, and we're going to try to

1:15.8

answer as many as possible in the time that we have allotted for this, and some of them

1:23.7

we might be saving for a more in-depth dive in another episode because some of them

1:31.4

were really good really and well they were all really good but some were we'll take more

1:36.5

answering than we have time for in this episode thank you for clarifying that yes thank you

1:41.7

for everybody who popped in questions too. That was very, very

1:45.0

nice. Very, very helpful. And the first one that I want to take is from Kara, who is third hobby.

1:54.9

Now, Kara asked about specifically about the yarn that Gail and i have been using for a few years specifically the

2:04.4

holst garn yarn coast now the coast is a i can't remember the exact numbers but it's

2:15.0

approximately 50% wool 50% cotton i think in actuality one of them is 45 and one of

2:21.5

them is 55 I can't remember which is which but it's a wool and cotton yarn and we've been using that

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