Birthday Podcast

In this episode, I celebrate my birthday by attempting to make a vegan version of lulu paste, share my top 5 favorite reads in 2011 as well as an excerpt from 1Q84 (while not explicit, definitely a book for adults) that was a gift from my daughter & my current read, hope to start a conceptual knit-a-long with the sky scarf on the new ravelry group, and talk briefly about what I’ll be doing at Vogue Knitting Live! Oh, and there’s a lot of chat about the end of the world.

Music by Neema Ntalel provided by Music Alley.  Her EP was financed by AfricaUnsigned, a Kickstarter type site for musicians.  I played Let’s Talk About Love and Into the Dawn.  I also played Ichiro NAKAGAWA’s In Kamakkura as an interlude along with a few Star Trek sound effects because they just seemed appropriate!

Sadly, no lulu paste recipe yet but stay tuned! I’ll be testing this recipe in a vegan version again before the end of the month.

Leah Redmond’s conceptual knitting sky scarf idea can be found here.

Peace Fleece can be found here – remember, I bought 5 of their mini skeins for my own sky scarf.

Below is a picture of the hybrid mittens I made for Sarah from Christmas – this pair was made with gray Caron Simply Soft and Rowan Aura Rasberry:

Here’s a version I made for myself, this one complete with buttons made in Patons Classic Wool:

Please comment on this post or contact me if you are going to be at Vogue Knitting Live next weekend.  I’d love to meet up with podcast listeners and blog readers while I’m there.  I am learning to spin so I can create some (hopefully) wonderful yarn from the fleece of the sheep belonging to my my friend and former stepfatherinlaw (he really does look like Captain Picard).

Also, if you get confused during this podcast, I started recording on Tuesday, January 3rd (my birthday) when it was all of 24 degrees F, then completed on Saturday, January 7th when it was in the 60s at the Jersey Shore.  Bring on global warming!!