It’s a Purl, Man

Colleen The Subway Knitter joins me to talk about the state of the blog.
In the Yarn-a-lot we talk about the Boston Knitting Guild, my dream of a night time guild in Boston, the KnitSmiths, Gringa Tejedora, Santa Cruz Hat.

Todays song is I want to hear what you have got to say by The Subways

In the state of he blog we talk about; Spiders( I hope I get to meet you when I am at FIT for the Harlot), Rosie’s Place(a shelter for women in Boston), Doctor’s Without Borders, the socks that rock debacle, Etsy, and Lion Brand Blogs.
Blogs we talk about (in the order discussed):
January One
Crazy Aunt Purl
The Yarn Harlot
The Panopticon
The Blue Blog(Her New Book)
Brooklyn Tweed
Sil’s Fab Knitblog
ZeFrank (The Show)
Blog’s we meant to talk about:
NonaKnits
I may be knitting a ranch

If you have a moment, please fill out my survey. I will be doing a drawing for some fun prizes… and thanks for your time.

If you have any other thoughts you would like to share, please email me at 2skiens (at) itsapurlman (dot) com or leave me a voicemail at 206-984-4286 ( I know it’s not in Boston, but it’s free)

 

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My friend Diana joins me on the show to talk about knitting, the cutest kid in knitted gear in all of Cambridge, and review Amy Singer’s new Book ‘No Sheep For You‘.

I am looking for a little feedback about what people think about knitting guilds, and what they would like out of a knitting guild. So please post your comment, send me email at 2skiens -at- itsapurlman -dot- com, or call the new voice mail line at 206-984-4286.

Images will be posted as soon as I get more than an hour at home from my temp job…

MUSIC this week is by Nina Simone ALL BOW DOWN TO HER INCREDIBLE VOICE!!!

 

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Kathy, of Grumperina fame, joins me on this show to talk about socks, stash, and everything in-between. She is so cool… I’m not worthy…

YARN-A-LOT Links
Cascade Fixation
Pony Pearl Knitting Needles
The Bosworth’s
Greenwood Hill Farm
Stitches East
Green Mountain Spinnery
Skientily Clad
Komi Style Hat
Classic Elite Classic Silk
Winmil Fabric
Fabric Place
Windsor Button
Sew Fisticated
MUSIC: Spa by Johnny Socko
SOCKS Links
Cabin Fever
Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook
Jay Walker Sock Pattern
Lorna’s Laces Shephard’s Sock Yarn
Etsy
Regia Bamboo
Knitting on the Road

 

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FYI - I will post a new show later today, it’s really good and fun, with Kathy…

It’s so cool that she spent time with me doing the show.

Soon…

Hey all… Today’s romantic voyage begins with my usual and ends with a discussion about an upcoming trip to italy. My friend Alanna has started a travel company for knitters called Tactile Travels. Please check out her site for more information about her trips.

I have setup a voicemail system to start gathering audio commentary, please try it out at 206-984-4286.

Also in the calendar, the Spark Craft Studio is having a brunch with Vickie Howell on March 4. Please check out there site for more info.

Have a great valentines and stay warm out there… Thanks for listening.

MUSIC: Traveling Radio by jr

also… I don’t think I could say any-rate more in my show… wow … I fumble so much in this episode. You’d think I had never given anyone a valentine before.

 

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I am accompanied on this episode by the fantastic Stitchy McYarnPants. We take a trip in her Museum of Kitschy Stitches to find some of the origins of the male patterns. She has promised to add images of the exhibits on her site.
Some background, I have the following categories of male sweater patterns:
Mud Colors (most sweaters for guys are grey, black, navy, brown, or some combo of such)
Man Stripe (think abercrombie and finch)
The Cosby Sweater (nuff said)
Cable, rib, gansey (usually in a mud color)
NEW Lil Boy’s (upsized childrens sweater)
NEW Women’s Matchy (designed for her first and should have been left at that)

Please comment about this show, I am really interested in anything you have to say about the guy man issue.

MUSIC : Katrina’s Sitch and Bitch by Kentucky Jelly

IMAGES: Sttchy has posted the images in this post

 

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On today’s show I share the discussions I had with local yarn stores that were at Stitches East.

INTERVIEWS (in order of appearance on show)
Marie Connolly of Stitch DC in Washington D.C. (with acrylic heckling from Brandon Mably)
Carol of Rosie’s Yarn Cellar in Philly, PA (who also writes Go Knit In Your Hat and makes hand dyed yarn at Black Bunny Hop)
Lorraine Guadet of A Good Yarn in Baltimore, MD
Chris Cahs of Cloverhill Yarn Shop in Baltimore, MD

MUSIC
Darling by The Jon Conahan Group

 

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Today I talk about my Falling Leaves Scarf (made with Noro) and Fibonacci sequence Scarf. News this weeks includes the Subway Knitter’s Fame and Kim Werker’s take over of interweaves crochet. I also have a 2006 recap including my favorite park and the two major knitting stories of the year (keystone pricing and cashmere mayhem).

Today’s song is Some Girls from Adam Brodsky’s second album, Folk Remedies.

I also play an interviews I had at Stitches East. The colorful and wonderful Brandon Mably gave me a moment of his time. He talks about his (then) current project, his studio, and how awesome it is to have yarn set to him. Michael Del Vecchio talks to us about his balls of yarn…uhm or his book about balls… uhm or about it is great to be ballsy about knitting… uhm… oh just check out his book Knitting With Balls: A Hands-On Guide to Knitting for the Modern Man

Finally I am trying to get a group together to go out and support Ivana Clobber and the Boston Massacre. Come on out to the roller derby on Feb 10th.

 

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On todays show I take you to a craft fair for fun people and rave about my nieghbor Jojo… She and her little dog rock

Music today was provided by Adam Brodsky
Talked to these people at the Bazaar Bizarre

Simone at CHICK-A-DEE
Evalicouis of The Boston Derby Dames
Jessica who does faux-taxidermy
Alison of pepperberry crochet
Miss Hawklet
Mogo ladies

 

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So I was wonderin why it was getting so quiet on the site. And today I fgured it out… Itunes was not updating and people did not realize that I have done the last two shows. I have been having a techinical glitch and I want to strangle my computer and all…

So to all of you on iTunes… oops…

I think I have solved the problem, but will not know until tommorrow. I hope that this whole thing gets resolved by the time I put up the next show.