The Yarniacs Episode 367: Knitting exceptional Barbara Walker
The Yarniacs: A Knitting Podcast
Gayle Billat & Sharlene Goings
4.7 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
What are we wearing?
Zephyr Mark II by Celia McAdam Cahill
Sharlene's Zephyr
The Squam Sweater by Elizabeth Doherty
Gayle's Squam Sweater
Elton Pullover by Joji Locatelli
Gayle's Elton
Gayle's Zweig
Zweig by Caitlin Hunger
What are we stalking?
Umbriel Hat by Courtney Kelly
Coffee Run by Veronika Lindberg
How Norwegians expressed resistance against Nazi occupation
Susan's Mad Knitting episode 98: Some thoughts on knitting and resistance
(This is a YouTube link)
Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2004 by Fleece and Harmony
Lale by Anke Telschow
Nordwand by Birgit Grunwald
What are we knitting?
The Lounger by Joji Locatelli
Ilha by Orlane Sucche
Chione by Andrea Gaughan
Chilly Podsters by Glenna C
Thank you to our sponsor Twice-Sheared Sheep!
What have we finished?
Mabel's Sweater by Joji Locatelli
Crochet moss stitch blanket #2
Bits and Bobs Blanket by Kay Jones
Gayle's blanket
Basic Doodle Hat by Jamie Lomax
Gayle's Doodle Hat
Rainbow dots Cowl by Jenina Böttger
Gayle's Rainbow Dots
We chat about Barbara Walker, a knitting exceptional, who passed away in December. You can read her New York Times obituary here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | This is episode number 367, which we are recording on Wednesday, February 4, |
| 0:18.0 | 2026. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Gail. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Charlene. And we are stepping back into the past today. We're doing it |
| 0:24.6 | old school. Where are we? We are recording on my dining table, which was where we started recording when we |
| 0:33.1 | recorded the podcast, stopped recording during COVID, stopped recording at my house during |
| 0:41.4 | COVID, and have never really been able to go back because of various schedules of people |
| 0:49.4 | in my household. |
| 0:50.5 | Exactly. |
| 0:51.4 | But it's probably been almost exactly six years since we did this last. Oh yeah. |
| 0:55.9 | February 26. It's literally been almost six years. Yes. It's crazy. It feels so good to be here. |
| 1:02.3 | Hoping that Nani, the bird, says hello and hoping that boo reappears. I scared him when I knocked on the |
| 1:08.5 | door. So hoping he'll come back and remember who I am. |
| 1:11.6 | Although, I don't have that same bag that I used to use. You don't have the felted bag anymore, |
| 1:16.4 | no, no. Who used to like to use that as a little cat bed. Yeah. Yeah. But also, stepping back into the |
| 1:23.4 | past public service announcement about the enchanted skeane. We just wanted to reassure you that |
| 1:31.4 | the Enchanted Skane was purely fiction from our time travel trip. Yes, the last episode, our |
| 1:40.4 | 14th anniversary podcast episode, we visited the Enchanted Skane, a local urine store that exists only in our imagination. |
| 1:49.8 | So for those of you who thought someday you might take a trip there, it might be difficult. |
| 1:55.4 | But thank you for all the love we've had since that episode came out. |
| 1:59.7 | Yes. |
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