The Yarniacs Episode 88: Stalking the Knits
The Yarniacs: A Knitting Podcast
Gayle Billat & Sharlene Goings
4.7 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2015
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
One of our favorite podcast segments (and we hope yours too!) has always been "What are we stalking?" Project planning and choosing yarns are often one of the highlights of a new project. At that point, it is still a knitting fantasy, and every knitter has an active knitting fantasy life. If you have a Ravelry queue the grows weekly, then yes, you too have an active knitting fantasy life! But sometimes those fantasies don't turn out the way we planned. In what will probably be the first appearance of this podcast segment, Gayle and I examine some of our "stalking fails." Those projects that, for whatever reason, didn't live up to our fantasy and fell by the wayside. Please note, none of these particular stalking fails were because of a poor pattern or poor yarn, mostly because--well, take a listen to the episode and you'll find out why! Happy knitting everyone.
- Sharlene
What are we wearing?
Let your Heart Unwind by Joji Locatelli
Sharlene's Unwind
Neon by Joji Locatelli
Gayle's Neon
Sharlene's Neon
What are we stalking?
Heverly by Julia Farwell-Clay
Newborn Vertebrae by Kelly Brooker
Handbrake by Kay Jones
Longfellow by Michele Wang
Focus Dress by Meiju K-P
What are we knitting?
Socks
Woodfords by Elizabeth Doherty
Sharlene's Woodfords
Literally Over the Top by Megan Williams
Gayle's Literally Over the Top
Sharlene's Literally Over the Top
Traveller Tunic by Joji Locatelli
Gayle's Traveller Tunic
Helena by Alison Green
What have we finished?
Gayle's Log Cabin squares
Swirl Hat by Mandie Harrington
Stalking Fails!
disclaimer: Our "Stalking Fails" are our own project fails, not a problem with the pattern or yarn.
Crazy Stripes Tee
Breter Breton
Missoni Falls Cowl
Sous Sous
Beatnik
Armande
Cece
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | This is episode 88, which we are recording on Tuesday, May 12th, 2015. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm Gail. |
| 0:17.1 | And I'm Charlene. |
| 0:18.1 | And we have a little bit of ambient noise and shenanigans here today. |
| 0:22.4 | I'll let Charlene explain. |
| 0:24.8 | Well, my cats are kind of on house arrest right now because we have some chicks in the backyard. |
| 0:32.9 | So keeping the animals in for the safety of the chicks. |
| 0:38.3 | And when we first tried to record about 10 minutes ago, |
| 0:43.3 | boo jumped up on the table in the middle of our... |
| 0:46.3 | We had just started. We were five minutes in, so it wasn't much of a loss. |
| 0:50.3 | And he walked across the computer, did something to the settings, made our file |
| 1:00.0 | disappear, made the settings for the microphone go wacky, we just got everything back, and |
| 1:07.3 | Boo is now off of the table. |
| 1:10.9 | He did for a brief the table. He did. |
| 1:11.4 | For a brief moment, though, he did crawl right into my lap, and he was sitting on my lap |
| 1:15.1 | where we were trying to get everything back in order. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, because he knew that if you made nice with you, you wouldn't be upset with him. |
| 1:22.3 | I told Charlene that I have a soft spot for soft black animals, so Lucy and Boo can share my lap on alternate days. |
| 1:30.4 | Yes. |
| 1:31.4 | So what are you wearing? |
| 1:32.7 | I am wearing my Let Your Heart Unwind Shawl by Hoi Locatelli. |
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