• 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!

Congratulations!

• 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!

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!

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!

• 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!

• 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.

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

• 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.

Usual email address: littlelixieathotmaildotcom

• Janes Probably Knitting, featuring her stunning bracket fungus sock pattern
• Slipped Stitch featuring the chershire cat sock pattern
• Go Knit in your Hat with her book review
• Chuck’s cabled socks and other free and to pay for patterns from Eunny Jang.
• KCG Study Day “Use up your stash” - contact Alison alisonkuela@yahoo.co.uk
• Bryony’s recommendation - abakhan-onlineshop.co.uk Sirdar up to 85% off.
• Pooch’s 5-ply what he discovered (and other british breed wools)
• Feed the Children pattern book
• My blog (for the competition - deadline 10th Oct)
• The bits I forgot to talk about
• Knitting bags courtesy of knittingdaily.com (interweave book reviews, free patterns etc all emailed to your inbox. I can recommend it.)

Get in touch if there’s anything I’ve forgotten or if you’ve got suggestions for the next show! littlelixieathotmaildotcom

• Beautiful babies! Nickerjac and Moo Knits.
• Knit the Knits and her Kauni Jumper (yarn from Astrid’s Dutch Obsessions)
• Slipped Stitch (and the google map of UK yarn stores)
• Woolly Wormhead and her free patterns - now including baby sizes!

And there’s more…

• Ravelry (including screenshots of what it’s like on the inside)
• I Knit london S&B day in november
• The playout music (Magnatune lets podcasters use their music for free!)

• Fitter Knitter Blog
• Bristol Knits Pattern Shop
• WoollyWormhead’s blog and her ankle
• Heather’s Doodles blog
• The four books reviewed are Last Minute Knitted Gifts, KnitFix, Domiknitrix and LaceStyle. All available from…
• KCG Trading who also have a big sale on (LMKG is only £7.50 at the moment and lots of yarn reduced too)
• Join the Knitting and Crochet Guild (KCG)
• Chevron Scarf Flikr Group (from LMKGs)
• Craft Sanity - episode 52 is about the domiknitrix author.
• Knitty.com - their summer issue is up.

Don’t forget to let me know of interesting blogs or sites I should be looking at! Usual address: littlelixieathotmaildotcom

xx

• Blogs are Wendy Knits, No Knit Sherlock, Knit The Knits, A Journey to Middle England.
• Gimme Your Stuff blog
• Stashalong blog
• New York knitting lixie style
• Google Map for new york knitting
• Cupcake patterns (scroll down for the full monty)
• The book ‘Unexpected Knitting‘ on amazon.com
• The book ‘Last Minute Knitted Gifts‘ on the book depository (UK and very good).
• Contact me at littlelixieathotmaildotcom
• The Stashtimator is available as an excel file in the previous post to this.

I’ve got a feeling I’ve forgotten something…..don’t forget to send me suggestions for new blogs for me to read. I’ll always find time to look at a good blog!

There was an error in the first version which said you needed 2000 yards of yarn for a pair of socks. I have corrected this to 500 yards which is about 1/4 mile which is what Lime and Violet estimated it at.

• Yarnstorm’s blog
• Crazy Aunt Purl’s blog
• Crafty Drama Queen’s blog
• Cup cake heaven
• how to cut up your carrier bags to knit with them method 1 method 2 method 3
• One of a zillion sources of recycled sari silk (they have a sale on!)
• eco annie’s website
• Recycled yarn knit-a-long
• Kat who is doing the race for life for cancer research
• My blog!
• Email me at littlelixieathotmaildotcom

Keep those emails coming!