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...
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...
Vegan Vampires
Episode 2 – Vegan Vampires is up! I have to say, making a podcast is technically easier than I thought but much harder in terms of content and editing. Trying to hit 30 minutes with each episode, and I did better this time around. Conscious of all my “ums” and “ahs” last time, I think I’m less scattered but still need to work on spontaniety. Like @caithnesscraft said, it’ll come with time! Thanks for listening, and here’s all the info I promised in the show notes: Apology to HoxtonHandmade: I offer up Kate’s mustache themed website portal as this episode’s apology to @hoxtonhandmade. Make sure you roll over each logo as well as the heading at the top to see the facial hair and nifty mustache...
Podcasts (interim)
I know I promised a second list of podcasters from across the pond, but over the past weekend, I discovered a podcast right in my back yard. Subway Knits not only podcasts from Astoria, Queens, but she’s a first year 8th grade teacher. Years and years ago when I got my initial certification, I taught 8th grade, and while kindergarten teachers are a breed way beyond my understanding, I know exactly what’s going on in a middle school classroom. Maria, the Subway Knits podcaster, has my sympathies! (How she finds time to knit and podcast during her first year of teaching is beyond me!) I’m slowly working my way through her archive while knitting a version of the “Sarah Scarf” for myself out of some gorgeously autumn colored Lion...
Podcasts
When I was very young, I had a yellow radio that just got AM and perhaps 3 channels, one of which was public radio. I listened to a number of serial radio shows – ongoing stories, mostly mild horror and Twilight Zone-esque alien adventures – under the covers when my parents thought I was asleep. I’m sure this lead to my love of Stephen King’s novels, but it’s also the precursor to my great love of podcasts. In this blog post, I’d like to share a few podcasts from the US that I listen to regularly in the hope of inspiring my readers to go out and discover a few of their own. Recommendations are greatly appreciated in the comments section! Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me: This is the granddaddy of all podcasts. I started...
Acrylic
This time of year, Back to School immediately comes to mind as a blog post topic. I thought about writing one, began composing it in my head while driving back and forth to the farm, but realized the only people happy to see back to school are the parents of children young enough to have to pay for childcare in the summer. For the rest of us, teachers included, back to school is a depressing, somewhat expensive and possibly sad especially if you’re sending a kid back to college. I know, kindergarten teachers are skipping off to meet their new cherubs, glitter in one hand, paint in the other, but jaded high school teachers are contemplating the end of freedom just like those kids who belong to the names on our new rosters. So I didn’t write that...
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