Oh Lordy, it’s late! Special thanks this week to guest writer, Pam Ehlers Stec (my sister!), and to Sage for reading Pam’s piece. Thanks to Catrin Mears, at the National Museum Wales, and to Sally Moss, curator, and Ann Whittle and Keith Reese at the National Wool Museum – Julie is found! And you can read all about it. – Twisted: Knitting on the Edge subverts the genre at the HERE Gallery in Bristol – See me at the Knitting and Stitching Show in London – Interweave Celebrates National Spinning and Weaving Week – Visit FiberTwist in Massechusetts – See the saga on the blog for Sarah’s Yarns – Hear Sarah speak her mind, with Lime and Violet – Read the Manifesto

The complete text of this week’s essay can be found here.

Yes, I have seen The Last Knit! If you haven’t, you really must.

KniTunes:

• Slackstring – Stranded
• Matthew Ebel – Bright Northern Lights
• Sudden Death – Business As Usual
• 3 Blind Mice – Your Face Is Not Enough

Additional Tracks:
Mill(w)right – Music by Jeff Wahl from his cd “Guinevere” available at Magnatune

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Special thanks this week to guest writer Kate A, and to Susan for reading Kate’s piece. Thanks to Catrin Mears, at the National Museum Wales, and to Sally Moss, curator, and Ann Whittle and Keith Reese at the National Wool Museum, – Karen’s Sugar-Free Diabetes Walk Socks – Sheep Poo Paper – Christine is back! – This is your brain on yarn – Knit Out with Guido “2Skeins” Stein in Boston – Time Wasting Alert: Do you YouTube? (I tried to post the video, but it won’t play with WordPress.) Free Culture – Lawrence Lessig – Creative Commons

KniTunes:

• Fruit – Wait On
• The Complements – Beautiful Mistake
• Willie Shutter – Working Day
• Eoghan Colgan – Sunny Days

Additional Tracks:
Mill(w)right – Music by Jeff Wahl from his cd “Guinevere” available at Magnatune

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Listen carefully during the title essay, and you will hear dogs snoring. Many thanks to writers Karen Talerico and Emily Treen, and to readers Heather Ordover, and Kristen, for this week’s essays. Halloween is just around the corner. You’ve seen Hallowig. Now you can knit Leah - Knit for the cure with the Fiber Arts Avengers – Send Caps to the Capital – It’s Time2Knit, again – Check the progress of the minis at Chub Creek.

Follow Lisa Kartus through the blogosphere! Lisa is is here.

She has been:
The Diet Diary
Crazy Aunt Purl
Grumperina
Craftzine

She will be:
A Knitter Queens – 9 Sept
Sistah Craft – 10 Sept
Knit and Tonic – 12 Sept
CraftSanity – 13 Sept
Elizabeth Lenard – 14 Sept

KniTunes:

• Christopher Dallman – Mistake
• Katy Pfaffle – Halfway There
• Adrienne Pierce – One Perfect Day
• Sweet Diss and the Comebacks – Elinora

Additional Tracks:
All Roads Lead to Wales – Up Stairs – Mother’s Mandolin

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Please stand back. I have mordants, and I will use them. Special thanks to Zabet, Zach, and Meg, for helping with the intro, and to guest writer, Jill Smith. Thanks also to Debbie Fisher, of North Yorkshire Wools (no website, sorry), as well as David and Margaret Redpath for sharing their knowlege of natural dyeing so generously. The Redpath’s are retired now, but the wonderful palette they developed using only natural dyes can be found here. The yarn is great for lace knitting! Do you need a Knit Fix? Send photos of your knitting problems to Lisa Kartus. Be sure to put “Cast On Knit Fix” in the subject line of your email.

KniTunes:

• 3 Blind Mice – Call Me Beautiful
• Alyssa Hendrix – Found
• Parlotones – Colorful
• New London Fire – We Don’t Bleed

  
  Additional Tracks:
  

• Field Guide – Charlie Crow – Joy
• Local Colour- Torchomatic – Raining Colours

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In which I announce the three! winners of the caption contest, and then forget to tell them how to claim their Briar Rose Yarn. (Winners, please send me your addresses!) – The Multi-directional Diagonal Scarf (that SO needs a better name) – Mash it up with Clapotis – Police/Ben E King Mash Up courtesy of CCC – Buy these Ts* – Write a pattern - Swap watcha got, for watcha need – make a tiny hat and maybe also write these folks and suggest they call their project something else – Special thanks to Heather Ordover and Jenny Spotila and Sage (for telling me about magnatunes and their policy of not being evil) and Dave (for my catch phrase) and Dolores, just for being Dolores.

KniTunes:

• Kingbenny – By Your Sunshine
• Uncle Seth – A Gentle Shove of Fate
• Josh Woodward – Learn to Fly
• Arthur Yoria – Permanent


Additional Tracks:

• A Sense of Place – Jim Fidler – Midnight Rover
• Comments – Up Stairs – Mother’s Mandolin

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*The Cafe Press Shop should be working… shortly. Technology. Feh.

It’s a Library Thing – The Mighty MagnaBowl! – Design a Sweater for Marie Claire – Provisional Cast-On: The video – Short Row Toes for Toe-Up socks: The tutorial. – The Dink Dolls hit the road – Don’t miss the latest episode of Dark Speed! – Special thanks to writer Sally Snell and Dewi Jones of Esgair Moel, St Fagan’s and to cookie senders Sarah and Julia.

KniTunes:

• Josh Woodward – The Spirit World
• Bitstream Dream – Rising Sun
• Parlour Dames – Newcastle
• Black Lab – See the Sun


Additional Tracks:

• Esgair Moel – Jim Fidler – Flow on Waterford River
• Comments – Up Stairs – Mother’s Mandolin

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Well. What can I say. I changed my mind. I’m allowed, right? And though it may seem as though I’m on a humor strike, be assured my sense of the absurd is still intact, and will no doubt surface again next week.

Huge thanks this week to my very talented guest writers, and to sage of Quirky Nomads. Please send many cookies. Without them there would not have been a podcast this week.

This week’s guest writers are Elizabeth Fitz and Miriam Felton – Stick it in a pit, and fire it – Interweave Knits Magazine – Steal This Sweater – Granny G-Strings – New Podcasts! Red Light Knitting and The Knitting Cook – Special thanks to Elen Phillips of The Museum of Welsh Life and Sage of Quirky Nomads.

KniTunes:

• Andy Whittle – Old Fashioned Dream
• Peopod.net – Summer of Life
• Casey Desmond – Sugar Mountain
• Derek James – Free Love


Additional Tracks:

• Gwlana – Jim Fidler – Home Comes the Rovers
• Comments – Up Stairs – Mother’s Mandolin

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The dogs are still snoring; other than that, it’s just me this week. Me, and my socks. The Cast On – The Heel – The Bind Off – Elfine’s Socks – Stitch and Pitch – Stitch and Pitch Sock Pattern – KnitML Code. – Red Sweater Update.

KniTunes:

• All Girl Summer Fun Band- Canadian Boyfriend
• Derek James – There is the Sun
• Causeway- Endless Summer
• Greg Tannen- Train Girl

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This week you almost can’t hear me for the snoring dogs. Let’s kick some puppies! – Boing Boing – Knit Knuckle Tatts – XML Code or Knitting Code? You decide. – My perfect sock. (Could this be THE combination?) Good Toe Up Cast On. Reverse Round Heel Shaping (Widdershins). A Better than Tubular Bind Off? – Special thanks to Penny Tschantz, for this week’s essay, and to Pat Haynes, of Castell Henllys. – Check out these Iron Age textile tools, and “knot-less netting” – Lime And Violet – and don’t forget the handpainted yarn if you want to be my stalker.

KniTunes:

• Slackstring- Lend Me Your Love
• Katy Pfaffl – As She Stands
• The Broadcast Debut- Brooklyn Bridge

Additional Tracks:

• Into the Iron Age – Celtic Reboot – Aufbruch

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Series Three begins by not really beginning. Think of this as a place-holder podcast. My other car is a Ferrarri - My other podcast has a sexy feed – Knit Bears for the Snuggle Project – Thanks to Dave, from Chub Creek, for bringing my humiliating lack of iTunes comments to the attention of the world.

KniTunes:

• Mangomad - See the Light
• Last Fair Deal – Out of My Mind

Additional Tracks:

• Series Three Trailer – Aff the Cuff – Reels: Spootskerry; Willafjord; St Anne’s Reel

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