It’s a Purl, Man

Well… My pumkin has a wedding dress and as soon as I have recovered from this long weekend I will post some great new episodes.

Soon, a day or two, I promise.

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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So I put a duckie on ZE-FRANKS website.

Can you tell which one is mine:

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/01/011707.html

Also… I love his video podcast and am honored to have claim sponsorship of the episode with the dancing Peniseses.. or is that Peni? (it’s not dirty, it’s second life)

1. Podcast weekly unless I have already let people know that I need to change my schedule
2. Master the art of the half hour show
3. Put up all my remaining recordings from 2006 up in January
4. Do not let my podcasting get in the way of my knitting projects
5. Shave beard more often

OK… so these are just a few of the resolutions… And so much for number one.

But I thought I would start by saying this year I want to bring more regularity to this podcast… and if not regularity at least more communication. So that you guys don’t wonder about my fate or the fate of the show.

We are both good.

This weekend, I had some business to take care of both personal and professional and I am now trapped in my office hoping to complete the professional stuff and do not see myself being able to do the show tonight. But somehow this month I will get out all the left over recording from 2006…

This week I was struck with the a true understanding about Yom Kippur, jewish day of atonement. The act of dealing with the business of last year in hopes of getting a running start at the new businesses of next year is really a cleansing thing. In that vein, I will try to get last years recordings/events/interviews out to you and start thinking about new things that I want to share with the world. Also, for those of you waiting for a prize, I will send them out this week. There should only be two of you…

Anyhow… I would love to hear from everyone this month about old business that you are trying to clear off your own agenda. Please let me know how you will close out 2006.

see ya later

This week I am in Baltimore, next week I will go back to normal, I promise…

Tommorrow I will update the links.

 

 Knitting Out Loud Boston [28:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So not to spook you, but… Next week is ten weeks from Christmas.

This can me:

• It’s time to get you projects going
• It’s time to pick some holiday projects
• It’s time to buy some knitting gifts for friends
• It’s time to buy yourself some nice knitting gifts to sneak into the pile of gifts (he with the most gifts wins)

In this vain I am going to try and help people out in two ways:

1. I will be giving away a free books each week from now until Christmas
2. I will be incouraging you guys to knit some items for charity

I Bet you didn’t see number two comming. I know that I didn’t. I guess in a way I would like to start a knit along that contributes to charities. All knitting charities are good, but since the weather is getting colder in N.E. I am going to be working on some kid clothing and adult hats to keep people warm this winter.

So I will work to help give out some books that will inspire you to knit something for a loved one or charity, you guys get out there and knit until the cows come home.

So this week, if you feel so inclined, comment to this post with a charity knitting pledge and I will put you in a drawing for a free book on Sunday’s show. This is an honor system, but if you complete your pledge come back and comment about it again showing us what you have done.

So Lucy Lee at Minds Eye has been giggling about the new book Sitchy McYarn Pants put out. Last night at my Watertown group I learned that Ms. Yarn Pants was written up in the Globe.

So perhaps Lucy knew, but I didn’t… She is a Boston girl. Or she is in the boston area. Woo hooo!!!

Well… I hope she makes it out to the knit out. Congrats to yet another great Boston/New England blogger…

I just spent an hour seleting comment spam… need to find a better wordpress blocker…

Anyhow… I will put the show together tonight. So if your wating… Sorry… I had the mother in law over this weekend and a Bar mitzvah (congrats Aaron). so I have had little time to myself.

So today is blog day, the day where bloggers point out other bloggers. I know there is supposed to be some kinda interesting effect… But I don’t know that I get it all…

I read way to many blogs for me to pick favorites, they are all favorites. Anyhow, here are the 5 blogs that are currently showing new posts in my newsgator account:

Finished Object Dance
Patience is a Boston knitting guru who has completed 6 baby suprises in the time it has taken me to make one. She is a really nice and patient teacher and put up with me on an almost weekly basis. I highly recommend checking out her blog and reading about the many felted animals in her life.

Full Service Yarn Shop
Lucy is my main yarn pusher. She is a lot of fun to hang out with and holds court on Wendesday and Thursday in her shop. Her blog is new. She like to talk about her life and knitting and her new dog. The pictures of her cousins are usually pretty enteraining.

Grumperina goes to local yarn shops and Home Depot
Kathy is the most famous knitter I know. She is also awesome… and the blog is kinda fun too. As anyone listening to my show knows I am trying to get her to come hang out on the show. She has a very different prespective than I about knitting, but I think we both share a blind love and passion for Elizabeth Zimmerman.

Crazy Aunt Purl
Laurie makes me smile and laugh. Her blog is about her life as a knitter living with cats, an X, and a crazy gardener. Her tales and her deep fried recipes are heart breaking. I love to read about her life stuff and cheer her on from a distance…

Brooklyn Tweed
OK, so I don’t know much about this blog. The reason I have it in my newsgator is two fold; because everything this guy makes is awesome and all his friends seem to be super models. I how he does it, but every picture he takes seems to be more decedant than the last. How does he have all this time to complete so many projects. He really puts me and othe knitters to shame. Damn you and your love of EZ too!!!!