Trashy Valentine
This episode of the podcast is a bit late due to my guest vegan valentine’s day segment on aplayfulday’s podcast along with changing semesters and our school art show. I do come back with a vengeance, Bruce Willis style, with 50 fun filled minutes packed with film festivals, trashy novels, knitting adventures, ebooks, and what it means to be from New Jersey! I mention two additional podcasts, so after you listen to mine, go check Amanda and her CraftLife podcast out, along with Sister Diane’s Craftypod podcast (more about Craftypod below). Falling to Pieces, the Zombie Romantic Comedy filmed for the Project21 Film Festival Summer 2010 will have it’s New Jersey Premiere at the Garden State Film Festival in March. I’ll update this...
Sky Scarf Update!
I mentioned in an earlier podcast that I started the Sky Scarf, a conceptual knitting project by Lea Redmond at Leafcutter Designs. I started a thread on the ravelry group for others to join me in this adventure over the coming year, but sadly, I’m knitting alone. If you are inspired to knit a scarf that records the color of the sky in your part of the world over the next year, join me! Or you can join this ravelry group started by Ms. Redmond, or join both! I’m using 5 colors, all from Peace Fleece: Negotiation Grey, Father’s Grey, Galooby Blue, Antartica White and the most beautiful turquoise blue ever, Blue Jay. It’s hard to differentiate the Blue Jay from the Galooby blue in this picture so I labeled it. I have yet to select...
Vegan Valentine
When GreenTriangleGirl from the APlayfulDay podcast asked me to do a Vegan Valentine’s Day edition of her “Munch, Burp, Slurp” segment, I immediately thought, “Hey, I have no significant other, don’t want one, how’s this going to work?” However, as she says in the introduction, GreenTriangleGirl recognizes that I can’t resist a challenge! So I cooked and baked, recorded and begged my daughter and her friends for their opinions, and thus, a Vegan Valentine’s Day podcast segment was born. (My son even tried the cake and rated it as “pretty good”.) On the menu? Mushroom Walnut Pate from Veganomicon by Post Punk Kitchen, Orecchiette with Basil-Mint Aioli from Veganize This! by Jenn Shagrin, some...
Kitten Knitting Blues
This episode finds me halfway through 1Q84 as I compare it to Leverage, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Stranger than Fiction, then freezing in New York City this past weekend where I found true (fiber) love at Vogue Knitting Live! I found my true love at Stitchuary and purchased some lovely wool at Green Mountain Spinnery. YarnPop‘s project bags are on my list of items to order once my bank account recovers, and Long Island Livestock Company‘s alpaca covered soap may be an inspiration for a collaborative effort between myself and Michele at Funkychunks. Knittingpodcast.blogspot.com kindly linked to my podcast, and you can find an extensive list of both audio and video podcasts on that site. Also a shout out to Green Triangle Girl over at the...
Vogue Knitting Live (Part 1)
Those of you who know me in real life know that 2012 is shaping up to be an exceptional year. I’ll share more about various opportunities as they’re finalized, but one of the best experiences thus far happened this past weekend. I attended Vogue Knitting Live; I shopped the marketplace (boy, did I shop that marketplace!) and took a spinning class for beginners (the kind with a spindle not a stationary bike). Heading back on the train, I realized that I learned and discovered so much in such a short period of time that it may take the rest of the year to process and appreciate everything I took in. This blog post contains my initial reactions and recollections, but I will add to and expand upon what I saw, learned and did in the next podcast...
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