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...
Reverse Engineering
My iPad finally arrived. Like most new owners of an iPad, it took me about 20 minutes to realize it’s just a bigger iPhone with more expensive requirements to make it remotely useful. Also, like my iPhone (which I truly can’t live without), it needs a bit of protection out in the world. I immediately googled “ipad case” after unpacking my new toy, yet the ones that I found were kind of boring even if one was pink and another lime green. I closed that browser window only to find another window behind it open to Etsy. A knitted iPad case! That’s exactly what I needed! Minutes later, I found this lovely ipad cover knitted in Lion Brand Wool-ease in Redwood. Of course, I looked at the price and thought, “$30! I could so make...
In Praise of Ravelry
Got your Google+ invite? Yes? Created some circles, placing people where you think they belong in your life then moving them about every time someone else you know appears on the site? Wish the circles would overlap because you just can’t resist a decent Venn diagram? Want a Ninth Circle of Google+ where you could banish those people you never want to interact with? Well, I can’t help you with any of those questions but asking them got me thinking about how and why I use social networks. Maybe it goes back to those chat rooms when AOL was the only game in town and I had two kids in diapers (not to mention the two huge dogs and one large husband to care for) so uninterrupted face to face chats with friends over coffee or at a bar just weren’t...
On the Needles – Sunglasses Case & Father’s Day Gift
I delayed this post because my daughter asked me to knit a sunglasses case for her friend Paige as a birthday present. Sarah found a beautiful tea set but wanted to add something to the gift. Being a good daughter, she fed my yarn stash on Mother’s Day and then promptly picked one of the yarns she gave me for use in this new project. I tend toward bright colors (primarily pink and purple – can you tell?) so knitting a plain brown sunglasses case worried me … until I finished it. The yarn color took on some depth when knit, and Paige loved all of her gifts! The lighting isn’t great and I took that photo with my iPhone, but you get the idea! I also started a scarf for Father’s Day for my Dad. This is the first time I’ve...
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