Lixie Knits It

Links for this episode:

• Lovely sock yarn from Yarn Addict
• Artists Palette Smootherino
• Undyed sock yarn from bluefaced.com - Hmmmm, prices online are much higher than they were at the show??
• Trekking from Get Knitted
• P/Hop
• Jane’s Probably Knitting - look for the Cranford Mitts
• I Knit Weekender
• Roo Knitting’s blanket knit a long for P/Hop
• UK Ravelry Knit Camp 2010
• Woolfest
• Sirdar Snuggly Kisses
• The blue baby blanket and the pattern
• Russian join
• Cookie A’s Sock Innovation book and the Kai Mei socks
• Knitters Handy Book of Patterns on Amazon
• My blue cotton cardi
• A photo of a cat in a hat
• Crochet art
• Erqsome’s Hungry Bee Socks and Erqsome’s blog
• The butterfly top

Tell me if you’re an indy cotton dyer!

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susetheslowknitta is the lucky recipient of the woolmeise - it will be in the post as soon as I get your address.

Congratulations!

It’s been a while, but I’m back! In this episode we look at what wine to drink with your wool, project bags, blogwatch, Ravelry activity and more!

• A Mingled Yarn - visit her blog and have a look at cute baby knits and sews
• Woolly Wormhead - new book of baby hats. I talk about Cubba and Cupcake - so cute!
• Sandykins - Sock Wars III explained at last!
• Easy Knits Bamboo Mix sock yarn - recommended wine is a Chilean Sauvignon Blanc from Esperanza (will add link later)
• Rowan Tapestry - recommended wine is George Duboeuf Chiroubles.
• Peaches and Creme Cotton - recommended wine Brown Brothers Muscat.
• Kieran Foley’s website and on Ravelry. The Scandinavian pattern.
• Kauni. Examples of projects 1, 2, 3.
• Explanation of what a ‘chav‘ is
• ISO Group on Ravelry
• GoKnit project bags
• Beanie Baggie - polka dots a go go
• Competition yarn - Woolmeise - Thanks Sandykins! (Someone let me know if there is a UK ‘dealer’ I should link to)
• My blog - now I’ve remembered the name of it!

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Sponsoring this episode is Yarnimals!

You can get hold of her beautiful creations wither at her etsy shop or at Woolly Workshop.

In today’s podcast:

• Janesprobablyknitting blog (when I said Cranfield I actually meant Cranford and not a small town near Cambridge)
• WoollyThoughts and their new patterns for Revolution and Key Rings and them on ravelry (Rev and KR)
• WyeSue and her woollythoughts cushions
• James C Brett Marble Chunky online
• Stripe Generator
• The Inside Loop

I forgot to talk about unknittable sock yarn so I will add that to the agenda for next time.

Don’t forget to enter the competition! And you could win some Yarnimals stitch markers.

Deadline is midnight on 16th March!

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Thought it might be interesting to share this map of where all my listeners are! Hello Iran, New Zealand, Iceland, Japan and everyone else!

Tagline competition - we have a winner! Thanks Elizabeth GM!

“Life on a high fibre diet”

Genius!

Show notes:

• Janes Probaby Knitting - we talk about her blog in the interview. Check out those knee high sock blockers! Can there really be no one in the UK capable of making some of these in wood? Pleeeeeeease leave a comment if you know of any!
• Wye Sue Knits - 11th Jan post. What an amazing collection of needles!
• SkipNorth - the most amazing knitting and spinning holiday around. This link takes you to the timetable, the location, the cost and the booking form. PLACES ARE STILL AVAILABLE!
• Nickerjac and Lixie (me) organise it so here are both our blogs. Check out Nic’s for pics of the adorable Pete who will be the SkipNorth mascot for 2008!

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Blogs mentioned this time round:

• WoollyWormhead - marvel at the pictures of the hats coming in her new book. Can’t wait for it to come out.
• Turvid - Take a look at her 12 pairs from Sokker 2007 and admire the last pair called “Sodera”.

The winners of the competition are Turvid and Heather (night_crickett) - Congratulations! The next competition is to come up with a tagline/byline for this podcast. My initial suggestion last week of “It’s not craftypod but I like it” is your benchmark. It needs to be something pithy and concise and the winner will be used throughout 2008. The prize is 500g of Debbie Bliss Maya in a lovely red. (Photo coming once I find my camera…curse it.)

Knitted Christmas Tree Decos

• Craftypod.com links to Adorn’s blog.
• Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitters Almanac (available from socktopus.co.uk)
• Celestine by Norah Gaughgan on Ravelry
• Search for ‘decorations’ ravelry and then look at the projects tagged with this (should be around 70)
• Mini socks as christmas tree decos - perhaps from Cat Bourdhi’s new sock book

Lille - christmas markets and knitting shops will be coming on my blog soon.

Don’t forget to enter the competition and to let me know if there is anything you think should be featured on the next show. Also get in touch if you’d like to sponsor the next episode!

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The main bulk of this episode is an interview with Alice from Socktopus. Few other things to mention first..

• Live and Let Learn’s shark hat and the Brainmonster hat on ravelry.
• Glastonbury Glassworks - divine glass lovely things
• Video podcast - Crafted By Us
• PDF podcast from CRAFT
• Excellent podcast from CraftyPod (I have a nasty feeling I said this site was a dot org but it isn’t, it’s a dot com)
• All of these last three can be subscribed to through i-tunes.
• Socktopus.co.uk - yummy sock yarn!
• The stitchmarkers you can win this time round are pictured below. The deadline is midnight UK time on saturday 1st December.

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Goshdarn. Podbean just ate my show notes. Grrrr.

Am too pooped to do them again right now so look out for them in coming days.

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Here we are at the 10th episode - quite a milestone. Here are the lovely links for today’s episode…

• SHOW SPONSORS - Knit n Caboodle

• Serenknitity - winner of the first competition and star of blogspot
• Spinning Fish Wife shows us how to brighten up our blogs and make cake
• Knitting on the Green’s impressive ally pally haul and competition. And her etsy shop.
• Scandinavian Knitting Design have their fab cheap sock wool (£1.80 a ball?!) and the database of 1800+ patterns.
• Knitting Daily newsletter - one worth signing up to. And their article on who is what size.
• New podcast (for me at least) SubKnit - you know you want to!
• Magnatune - free music if you’re a podcaster but only about $8 an album if you’re not. And this week’s band Drop-Trio.
• Competition time - win Knit n Caboodle sock yarn and dpn’s. Listen to the podcast to find out how to join. Closing date is midnight on October 24th.

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