This week we begin and end in Italy, our travels punctuated by Jill Smith’s steamy Sunday, and Franklin Habit’s cunning bid for immortality. An image of the Royal Wedding Dress is here. Go, then come back. Alanna, of Tactile Travel, thoughtfully set up a Cast On Italy flickr photo group, where there are photos aplenty, and why is my mouth open in most of them? Possibly because I never shut up. Go there too, but come back. Also, Today’s Sweater is a scarf.
I talked about these things:
- Pam Helme helping out with Christmas in the City
- Save the Children‘s Cap Campaign
- Knitters4Critters Oil Spill Clean Up Support
- The Inside Loop, a new online knitting magazine from the UK.
I played KniTunes from these artists:
- The Fire Apes – Let Me Know
- Britt Sawdon – Sunday Kind of Love
- Wil Maring – Rows
- Dead Mans Corner – Language School Lover
- Dar Williams – The Christians and the Pagans (from Mortal City)
Yay! So glad the podcast is back, and I’m thrilled there will be a today’s sweater, even if it is a scarf. I care not! I just wanna hear the cute song and then listen to you talk about something you’ve made. 🙂 The link for the flickr group doesn’t appear to go to the flickr group, though. It takes me to the (still adorable) couple.
Hey, welcome back to the public part of podcasting! I’ve really missed you. As it turns out, the times and places that I listen to Cast On imply that my kids (now young and somewhat impatient) will get all teary-eyed when they grow up and echoes of your words fly around their minds whenever they see anyone knitting (themselves included) or probably, even a sweater or the word cold. Or a pointy stick.
Great show, as usual. Thanks for all of your hard work.
Yay! I’ve missed you!
SO good to have you back, and the scarf is quite lovely. I’ve been there with the knitting envy, and it isn’t a good thing for the soul. Good for you for getting beyond it. And now, pretty please, will you share the stitch pattern? You were SO close to giving it all up to us on the podcast, but not quite. Here, or the blog or whereever.
And yes, mother-in-law does know best, doesn’t she? ;’)
and thank you for your support of http://www.knitters4critters.blogspot.com
Great to have you back, Italy sounds as though it was fantastic. I loved this week’s podcast, especially Franklin’s essay, which made me tear up a little.
Yay, it’s great to have you back! I’m looking forward to the next series, and I’m listening to your return episode now. 🙂
So wonderful to have you back! I’ve been checking iTunes for a couple weeks now, missing the podcast dreadfully, and was thrilled to see it today (even if I did have to wait a whole 7 hours to actually listen to it). Franklin’s essay was particularly touching (I teared up as well), as was “Today’s sweater” that was actually a scarf. As usual, you have captured and given voice to essential aspects of the craft that your listeners love, and given us some great music in the process. Thanks for all your work, and I’m going to go back and listen to the podcast again now.
*sticks tongue out in concentration mode and grabs pointy sticks and yarn*
So that was slip, knit, yarn-over, pass the slipped stitch back over the two, repeat? and then plain purl back, start row 3 on a purl where row 1 was on a knit stitch, purl back row 4, with a couple of garter stitches to make the sides even, or (as you beautifully did) a single crochet border.
Aaaaaaah!
Gorgeous. Bellezza!
Thank you, grazie, thank you!
Yay! Welcome back!
Hooray hooray I’ve missed you Brenda! Of to update my ipod!!
Yay! I’m caught up again! Wonderful episode. Add me to the chorus of people thanking you for all your hard work, it’s greatly appreciated.
Brenda,
Missed you, so glad you’re back. I was thrilled to find your lasted podcast had snuck onto my iPod! I wanted to devour it right then and there, but I waited so I could sit and savor it. Great work – keep it up.
Thanks for keeping me entertained and informed.
PS LOVE, love, LOVE ‘Sunday Kind of Lover’
Great show and I loved that you ended with Dar Williams!! I’m seeing her tonight at Carnegie Hall. Wahhoooo!!
Have a happy holiday season.
Jessie
The scarf looks great! And thanks for playing Dar again. I’m so glad to know that she is known outside my little group of friends who have been Dar fans for years!
Thanks for the podcast — I loved the last song, but I loved the tiny “oops” at the very end even more! You’re adorable. 🙂
Hooray, you’re back! I love your podcast and I especially love the music you choose. This episode was no exception. That Dar Williams song is an old favorite and I think that Wil Maring’s Rows will become a new favorite.
Great to hear your voice again! Wonderful podcast as always. The final song and last words were awesome! 😉
I’m so glad your podcast is back. I had just started listening and getting really into your podcast when you left. I hope the wedding went great! You are amazing!
Yayyyyy!! I’m so glad you are back!! I loved the podcast so much. I told you that I usually bake bread while I listen. I didn’t today but as I was going through some recipes, I heard the very end and burst out laughing. That was wonderful. Thanks for the laugh. Mwaaaaah.
I am kind of a virgin when it comes to podcasts, so I’ve really only listened to you and occasional snippets of National Public Radio. But this week at yarnharlot.ca I learned that the Yarn Harlot herself was being interviewed on the podcast of, well let’s just say that it’s a podcast produced by a major NY yarn manufacturer named after a large African feline king of beasts, ok? Not to name names, ya know? So I went and listened because I love the Yarn Harlot, and I was shocked at how poor the quality of the podcast by the large NY yarn manufacturer was, compared to yours! The sound quality of theirs was awful, and the interviewer was vapid. Stephanie was her usual brilliant self, but I couldn’t help but wish that someone really good, maybe someone living in, say Wales, was asking the questions and manning the microphone.
So maybe you’ve spoiled me, set the bar too high for others to reach, or whatever. But it was great to listen today, loved the scarf story, the music, the naughty bit at the end…all of it! 🙂 Now if you could only team up with the Yarn Harlot some day….
Hi,
I love your podcasts. The music and the wonderful essays always move me. Your remarks about rapamt comsumerism with yarn really made me think.
I love my yarn, needles and hooks a lot, and I more than plenty. I especially love sock yarn, and have plenty of that as well, but I’m not cut out for the feeding frenzy some yarns and sock clubs have generated.
I’m not committing to a yarn diet so much, but I really need to stash dive a bit more, and think about what I can use from stash before I buy.
Hi Brenda………love your podcasts always. For your next extreme knitting podcast, could you discuss beaded knitting? Thanks……Shirley
Luff ya Brenda. Thanks fer yer devotion, brings me much joy.
I was so happy to see the little d/l icon with this webcast… I’ve finally caught up and now can be on top of the game with all of you.
Thanks for the stitch pattern!
I was on a very good diet until last night, I fell off the wagon badly… oh well! what a great way to spend a snowy evening, shopping for yarn 🙂
Oh my goodness. I’m still screaming with laughter at the closing statement! Nothing like seeming how much time one really has to record, is there? hee hee
Great ‘casting.
Can’t wait for the next one.
If ya need help of the editorial kind, e me.
Hooray ooray ooray ooray! Brenda’s back! Guess what, I have alpacas now! (sound of Erin’s brain whirring, thinking about Extreme Knitting)
I’m so glad you are back! Your scarf is neat!!
I can’t say that I’ve missed your voice because I relistened to all of the archived episodes as I work on yet one more piece of lace. But it is wonderful to have you back. I really enjoyed the essays and, of course, the music, too. Today’s scarf got me knitting the Milano stitch already with some amazing Mountain Colors in blues and browns…….(I had to go shopping for the perfect yarn unfortuanately…hehehe), Thanks for another great episode and Merry Christmas!
Hurray!!!!!!! Welcome back!!!
I love how you ended the show! You slay me!
Welcome back! We’ve missed you! I spent August and September (okay, and October) catching up on all of your episodes and missed spending time with you those few weeks. So glad you’re back! That Dar song is one of my absolute favorites. I’ve listened to her since my college days and it is always great to hear her recognized for the singer/song-writer she is – and with her older stuff too!
Hi Brenda……here is another suggestion for your ‘Extreme Knitting’ podcast. How about ‘Double Knitting’, especially socks. Thanks, Shirley
Loved the podcast. So good to hear you again. Loved Jill’s piece on jealous pieces of knitting and laughed out loud at Franklyn’s description of the passage of knitting time. My children have grown up with a mother who never talked in terms of minutes but of when she got to the end of the row. Have a good holiday and look forward to hearing you again in the New Year.
Welcome back – we missed you a LOT!
So… does RuTemple in comment #9 have the scarf pattern down? I want the secret Italian scarf pattern! Share? Please?
Loved this latest! I’ve been a listener for awhile, but really felt compelled to comment today. Italy sounded so fabulous and I can’t wait to try the Milan Stitch pattern. It was so beautiful and gave me the warm fuzzies thinking about the language of knitting the world round. I can totally relate to knitting envy and ripping out what SEEMED like a good project at the time; I’ve just done that three times with my mother-in-laws Christmas present. The Sunday Knitting essay was fabulous, and I got the giggles just imaging the come hithers my stash was sending me.
Also, the wedding dress couldn’t have been lovelier, nor could the bride herself. Talk about a happy glow! Congratulations on getting it finished in time.
And finally, I’m going to have to go back and listen to the Yarn Diet podcast, because I need it. My darling husband is building me a yarn cabinet (by hand!) and I’m afraid that my stash won’t fit into it when it’s done–he has no idea the true extent of my stash. And then he’ll divorce me for being an addict.
Brenda,
So glad to hear you on the pod cast again. Just caught a nice long look at the photos from the trip and they are BEAUTIFUL! Anyway, I just wanted to say “Thanks!”for the podcast and “Welcome back!”
A Guy….
I didn’t really get the sock stuff, even though I listened to your Podcast intently, I still couldn’t get out of my mind the muscle memory of brown sockwool and visions of my husband’s total unappreciation – until that was this week, when I started knitting a pair out of curiousity – the woold now available is amazing and I have revisited my decision.
Thank YOU SO MUCH….
Shani
Finally listened today…fantastic as usual. I love the last 2 seconds of the recording…priceless. :-))
Hi Brenda,
I’m a Canadian living in Korea (the Dink Dolls came to visit me. That was fun^^). I have only the most basic functioning grasp of the language. Listening to you talk about knitting in Italy reminded me so much of knitting here. I have a helluva commute to and from work so I’m always knitting on the subway. I have people just reach out and look at the fabric and talk to me. I have learned the word for “pretty” 🙂 They ask me all sorts of questions and just generally watch and are pleased that I’m knitting. Yarn shopping is always fun. I learned to say “socks” last time I was out. It’s yang-mal in case you’re wondering. Anyway, this episode just really made me smile. (So did the Whirled Peas episode that I was listening to while knitting on a bus in Thailand).
Thanks so much!
I am so jealous –
I love the black lace and want to go next time…I may be able to fit in your carry on 🙂
Love ya –
Gia
I am slowly catching up, listening to Cast-on in my car. I am sad to find that the wedding dress photo is no longer available. I would have loved to see it.