NOHO KNITS PART 2
In today’s show I show everyone why sound recording matters to me so much by recording on string out on the streets of Somerville/Cambridge. (I am sure that I corssed the border somewhere)
I also have a great time with Linda at Northampton Wools. She fills me in on the knitting scene and how she used the power of knitting to help her son. Also, we talk about her book (love the duckie).
The Northampton Wools Knitting Book: The Shop Patterns
Jim’s Big Ego plays Boston Band
Finally, post or email holiday knitting gifts that you want… i.e. notions, ball winder, knitting machines, ebony needles, etc. If you want it for the holidays, so do I …. 
OTHER LINKS
Denise Pink (interchangeable needles)
Bazaar Bizarre
Ramen Coin Purse (they are recyled.. upcycled)
December 14th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
I learn about so many great books listening to your podcasts! Keep up the great work!
December 14th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Hey Guido - okay, we are so hooked on your show. Loved the sounds of Boston in the background, actually feeling a bit homesick.
Steve & I celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas as well - Happy Hanukkah - got to get the menorah out tonight. At least this year we won’t have to sub b’day candles for the real deal
Knitting gifts I want - I want a box, under my tree that has inside of it “TIME TO KNIT” The store, the kids, life, etc. … there isn’t enough time for me. Besides that, Colonial Circs - they are pricey, but I am in love. I just finished the neverending shawl project and the Colonial Circs I was using kept me motivated and moving. I like Addi’s but they sometimes intimidate me.. . . .. I love our bamboos, but, the Colonial Rosewoods are true love for me. . . .
Hope the “practice” scarf knits up well -are you using the same yarn or just practicing the pattern?
Best
Kathy
December 15th, 2006 at 8:37 am
Hey Kathy and Katrina…
I also heart the colonials… perhaps I will have to get my hands on some of them as well… don’t they make ebonys as well??
As for the scarf, it’s in Noro Korian(from WEBS closeout), so it’s more practice than getting started on the project.
To anyone who is homesick for Boston, I am always happy to yarn crawl with you when you are in town… or at least try and take you to Boston with the show.
-G
December 16th, 2006 at 9:14 am
Another Kathy here! Do you sense a theme? You are so lucky to have access to such wonderful stores. I wish I lived in a place like that! But I’m not planning on moving anytime soon, so thank goodness for the internet! I could totally relate to Linda’s packing 4 projects! When I went away for Thanksgiving, I took one pair of socks on the needles and instructions and yarn for 2 more pairs. I almost finished the ones on the needles, I don’t know what I was thinking. And would it have been so horrible if I ran out of knitting? Would I rip back and reknit?
One of my customers, (I watch houses and feed cats, etc.) left for vacation last year to go to Utah. Her family skis and she knits. She called me from the airport, she had just gotten off of the plane and was freaking out. She got herself settled on the plane, made sure she could bring circular needles on board, and took out her yarn to begin a knitted jacket. But she left her pattern on the kitchen table at home! Could I drive over to her house and then scan the pattern and email it ASAP? I understood. She was in Utah on a Sunday with 20 skeins of yarn and no pattern…Our own version of up the creek…!
Anyway, I continue to love your shows. As for the holidays (we celebrate them both as well!) I think I want Linda’s book! It’s hard for anyone else to buy me knitterly things, I tend to treat myself to the things I love. Of course my husband could go into a shop a buy me a skein of yarn, but he would have no idea of what I would like. And like Kathy said, Time. Time and creativity in the coming year.
That’s what I want. And…maybe needles… that’s it and that’s the only thing I need, is this. I don’t need this or this. Just this yarn. And this roving, the needles and the yarn and the roving and that’s all I need. And this remote control. (Eh, that’s kinda from a movie, just trying to make a joke!)
December 21st, 2006 at 12:20 pm
BEST GIFT EVER: My aunt got me a ball winder and a swift for Hanukkah. Many thanks to the saleswoman at Webs who told her that it’s cheaper to buy them together as that’s how I managed to get both of them. Also, she said she’s going to get me Addi Turbos for my birthday (I just have to tell her what size and what length I want).
Other than that, I’d be thrilled with gift certificates to local yarn shops so that I can pick out yarn in the right amounts as I need it. Skeins of luxury yarns are always awesome and much appreciated but it is a little daunting when you have tons of single skeins of great yarns and then you can’t figure out what to do with them.
Another thing I just thought of but would be great would be those foam toy blocks (the ones that fit together like puzzle pieces) because I could use those to block on.
I’ve never seen Rosewood Colonial needles but after reading the other comments, I want to check those out too. I do like alumninum needles better than the bamboo ones that I have but the ones I have are all either Clover or Lotus. I do want to try some of the harder wood needles.
Someday I want a spinning wheel. I try to convince my girlfriend that a spinning wheel isn’t really going to cost more than the jewelry she buys me as gifts but she isn’t buying it. She thinks jewelry is easy and that a wheel would encourage more yarn which is the opposite of what she wants in our apartment.