Episode 11 - It's almost Summer! I've been gardening like mad trying to beat the summer heat. I've also been knitting up the storm. I've had some successes - I've actually finished my basketweave shell and Claude is done except for the seaming which is driving me BONKERS!
Music by:
Martin Ekman - It's Always a Beginning (background)
Irene Bedard & DENI - Ideology
Dave Weeks - A Case of the Blues
Green Man - Banks of the Lee
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Episode 1 - True YarnsIntroduction to my very first podcast! Wow, at last. I talk about:*What's on my needles*A poetry contest (later cancelled but hopefully it will happen in 2007)*My review of the Quilts of Gee's Bend at the new de Young museum in San Francisco, CA*A quote from Gandhi*Going to see the Yarn Harlot in Los Altos, CAMusic by:Martin Ekman - It's always a beginning when something endsSamatha Tobey - Eleven Shades of RedListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode TwoWhere I talk about the 12th Annual Sebastopol Celtic Music Festival and the long drive there. The movie, "Capote" and a review of two books, "In Cold Blood" and "A Certain Slant of Light". I also read a poem to the Yarn Harlot. Plus what's on my needles.Music by:Cordafonia: Dreaming (background to introduction)Syd: Back homeRay O'Hara: Hole in my pocketbeat and path: Goodby beautiful day Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 3Episode 3Where I plead for forgiveness for taking so long between episodes.Topics include:Joining Secret Pal 9. What a lot of fun! I review my first present, The Vogue Stitchionary Vol. 1 Knit and Purl. (I'm still lusting after Vol.'s 2 and 3.)Sewing vs Knitting. I'm attempting to whip out three pair of pants to wear to a four day knitting event in Sacramento, Ca this coming weekend. Wish me luck!I give in and join the Red Sweater KAL (but I won't cast on till Jan. - honest).What's on my ne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 4: Happy Thanksgiving!Episode 4 True Yarns Happy Thanksgiving! My four days with the 4 Women of Design learning lots of lovely sewing techniques, viewing beautiful pieces of wearable art, and visiting lots and lots of fabric stores. A review of Viggo Mortensen's photography and poetry book, A Coincidence of Memory and his CD with Buckethead, THIS THAT AND THE OTHER. A few more thoughts about the Vogue Stitchionary and my old Mon Tricot stitch book. The latest Interweave knits issue ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 5 - Happy Holidays!Happy Holidays for 2006!Introduction along with odds and ends.A review of The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (hint: I didn't like it).A review of Interweave's Compendium of Finishing Techniques: Crochet, Embroidery, Knitting, Knotting, Weaving by Naomi McEneely (hint: I loved it).Complete with silly noises - what's on my needles.Music by:BUCKSTUD - Leesh BeeshJosh Woodward - I Want to Destroy SomethingThe Soft Conscience - Memory's RewindListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 6 - Happy Holidays!Happy Holidays everyone! My thanks to those of you who have commented. It means a lot to me.In this episode I talk about:*My "resolutions" for the upcoming year. Taking the time to select patterns that suit you (or the person you're gifting) so that you actually wear them. Being seduced by yarn color. Knitting from stash. Culling my household possessions. Joining KALs (I won a prize from the Red Sweater KAL!).*Donating to the Doctors without Borders via the Yarn Harlot.*What's on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 7: Winter BluesI have the Winter Blues. Brought on by having to frog some of my knitting but all is better now. Also pushing me over the edge was the successful completion of the somewhat cowl, with a perfect fit I might add that went away when I washed the sucker. It grew and grew and grew and it will also have to be frogged (after I heal from the pain of it all - five weeks of knitting down the drain). I plead for advice on how to wash skeins without having them become a huge ball of knots.In this episo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 8 - A Quickie!Episode 8 - A QuickieI'm hitting the road tomorrow with my hubby, three cats and one small dog to head over to Utah in our RV so this is a short but sweet podcast. Join our Anit-Knit From Stash (a total fantasy, non-existent club) Rotating Stash Club!A poem to the joys of Frogging.What's on my needles (without a fun "musical" introduction this time).Music by:Rose Gerber - Crossed WiresNathan Sheppard Band - Traveling OnListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 9: Rib-bitSpring has sproinged in Northern California! I have put on my shorts for the first time this year (but it's cold again so back to warmer stuff). There are frogs, lots of frogs around the house both in our pond and spaced very evenly along the edges of the pool cover. Luck seems to have happened because now there is frog spawn attached to the edges and underside of the cover. Stay tuned for a tadpole update in the next episode!I was unable to attend Stitches West this year so my friend ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 10: A ConversationI recently sat down with a long time friend and we talked at length about knitting: what we like about it, learning how to knit and crochet. What needles and yarn we prefer and things of that nature. I recorded the episode in segments and intersperced them with music. Enjoy!If you have a story about how you learned to knit or how you learned any type of craft I'd love to hear about it. Send me an email to trueyarns@hotmail.com and I'll read it on the air or record it and send it along.To se ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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