a podcast about knitting
A student at the Royal College of Art, Merel Karhoff, brings attention to the free energy source all around us in her final RCA show. Karhoffs installation makes wind energy visible by attaching paper windmills to unlikely surfaces – trees, architectural columns, and even the human body, via her pinwheel brooches. The highlight of her…
Sarah Moise Young discovers that doing her part is as easy as picking up her needles; Jasmin Canty escapes death by stash; I attempt to Make Do and Mend on 66 wartime rationing coupons.
Kim Werker, gets a few things off her chest; hand knit socks are the family business at Corgi Hosiery, through five generations; postcards from the knitting edge, plus Today’s Sweater.
A Victorian woman’s washing is never done, with Ruth Goodman. Modern laundry expert Jacqueline Sava offers advice for hand knit care. Plus, Camille De Angelis has her depression cake, and eats it too.
Tuscon writer, Heather Ordover, gets make do and mendy, and artist, Micheal Swain, mends clothes and the community in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. There’s talk of jam.