Cloudy with a Chance of Fiber

Misfits - Wikipedia page
The Good Life (Wikipedia)

Cooper Spur Mountain Resort Thanksgiving 2010

Winter is here or in the Pacific Northwest we call it Wetter.  I might as well call this one the Burl Ives Classic Episode, but I was have a pastblast of Christmas media the night before I recorded this.

• ChartGen - knitting chart generator
• Vogue Knitting Holiday 2010 (cover & fashion preview)
• Elizabeth Zimmerman's Percentage System (from Wikipedia)
• Rarest Breed Sheep
• Cloudy with a Chance of Fiber Forum (on Ravelry) I'll be posting the Softness Debate thread there.
• Tunisian Knit Stitch (from Crochet Spot... see I told you it looks like knitting)
• Lily Chin's Couture Crochet Workshop - a great book that walks you through advanced shaping techniques in crochet. Yes, you can make nice looking fitted garments with crochet.)

Music featured:

• Island of Misfit Toys (Burl Ives and others)
• Typewriter Song (?)
• Marshmallow World (Brenda Lee)
• Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy (Tchaikovsky)
• You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch (Burl Ives)
• Put One Foot in Front of the Other (Burl Ives & Mickey Rooney)

Felting:

• Felting Article from Knitty

Music Featured this Episode:

• South American Way - Carmen Miranda
• Chica Chica Boom Chic - Xavier Cugat
• V.V. & O Processo  -  BNegão & Seletores de Freqüência

This is Natalie here. I'm very excited to host this upcoming #knitchat on Thursday November 18, 2010 (5 PM PST/ 8 PM EST). I have a feeling this first one might be modest, but that's good, it will be a great opportunity for everyone to get our feet wet with a Twitter chat on knitting. Ever since I first started tweeting, I've found that it's an excellent way to find others who are interested in the same things that I am. In  this case knitting, crochet, and fiberarts. 

If this goes well, I may start hosting this weekly. If I can't manage it, I may tag some very willing volunteers to help moderate the chat. Knitting is about community afterall. This new phenomenon of social networking online can be open to all willing folks.

If you're interested do come join us; love to see you there!

How do I participate in the upcoming #knitchat?

1. Get a Twitter account (http://twitter.com) if you don’t already have one.
2. On Thursday November 18, 2010 at 5:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time) log on to Twitter and start chatting away (including the #knitchat hashtag in the text of your tweet. The chat will last approx. 1 hour long.
3. The moderator of the chat, in this case me, will tweet the questions that will guide discussion. Don’t worry I’ll label the questions “Q1,” “Q2,” etc. and I’ll repeat them several times.
4. Chat and respond away. Have fun Please offer your own wisdom, wit, happy smileyness and lovely knit related comments.
5. The last five-ten minutes we can spend time introducing ourselves and plugging our sites, latest FO (finished object) that we’re proud of etc.
6. Also, if you’re shy, you don’t have to contribute to the discussion. Just type the “#knitchat” hashtag into the “Search” on Twitter and refresh every minute or so. Voila you will see the chat happening before you.

How do I follow along or contribute to discussion in a #knitchat?

How the conversation works. With every tweet you want to contribute to the discussion type in #knitchat at the beginning or end it doesn’t matter.

When you search for this #hashtag (#knitchat) in Twitter and refresh the search, voila… you will see a stream of tweets shared by your fellow knit tweeters.

Depending on the number of participants and how fast they tweet the stream make flow pretty quickly, but that’s okay. You can always look back at the stream after the chat is over to catch any valuable links, photos, or pithy humor your fellow knitters may be sharing

How does the numbered question thing work in a Twitter discussion?

During the chat one or two people may moderate the chat by sending out a discussion question out every ten minutes or as needed. They label these questions with a number. For example if I ask people Question #2…the following exchange might take place

@Cloudynatknit: QUESTION POST -  Q2) What is your favorite standby knitted holiday gift? #knitchat

@Afakeknitter: Q2 Washcloths accompanied with a lovely bar of soap #knitchat

@KnitterX: Q2 -Hats and mittens with personalized tags #knitchat

If you get lost in the case of our #knitchat discussion, always look for the text “QUESTION POST” when scrolling through the recent chat/tweet history.

What are the questions for #knitchat?

For those of you who like to prepare in advance… I’m posting them here.

Q1) Introductions? Who are you? Ravelry ID or handle?

Q2) What is your favorite standby knitted holiday gift?

Q3)  How do keep your holiday projects organized? Stay on task? Methods? Tools?

Q4) Do you have any holiday gift fails? What were they?

Q5)  Do you have any other  coping strategies?

Q6) Any cool quick knit patterns you want to share? Any cool gift ideas for knitters you want to share?

A few scary stories and some sequinned shoes later and Natalie is ready for Halloween.

Links:

• Dogster Quiz
• Mythos (Knitty)
• 113-17 jacket with raglan sleeve and pattern on yoke 
• Old Time Radio Show - Suspense
• Cóiste Bodhar  (Death Coach)
• Death Coach Folktale
• Costa Burra Episode of “Strange” (part 1)
• Oregon Flock and Fiber
• Artfibers
• Scarab
• Cellini (I chose color #20)
• Rasu  (color #10) 

Music Featured: 

• Louis Armstrong - Dark Eyes
• French Accordion - El Ferrero
• Louis Armstrong & Billie Holliday - You Can't Lose a Broken Heart

Twitter Chat Instructions:

I started a new Twitter ID for this chat it’s @cloudynatknit. But you don’t have to follow me to participate in knit chat... all you have to do is the following. 

1. Sign up for a twitter account if you don’t have one (http://twitter.com)
2. On November 18, 2010 at 5:00 Pacific Standard Time type in a search for the ‘hashtag’: #knitchat
3. Chatter away about knitting. The main topic for this chat will be... “Christmas Knitting”
4. I’ll have a few #’ed questions for us to answer during the chat. I’ll post them to the Cloudy Chance Fiber Blog ahead of time if you want to do your ‘homework.’

Can’t wait to see you there.  I’ll try to post up on Ravelry in both the Cloudy with a Chance of Fiber forum as well as other threads to generate even more interest in the chat. Hopefully the twittering of knitters will fill the air. See you there ;)

Beginning of my yoke sweater in Rasu:

Just a short solo show from Rachel:

Staying Busy

San Francisco Giants Baseball  (warning - video ads)

Some reflections on being a knitting commuter.

Music:

For your listening pleasure. I created this playlist for myself and my own craving for this music, but in the interim between our podcasts we thought we'd share this with you our wonderful listeners. Please note the entire track plays all the way through. I did not have time to insert markers in the audio. This is something I'm working on learning more about how to do. Thank you for your patience.  The songs below were found on the Internet Archive. Most of them are from the 1930's or before. Note, some have been already featured in previous podcasts (see items with *) Enjoy! Natalie

1. Django Rhinehardt - Daphne
2. Josephine Baker - La Conga Primitive
3. Frehel - Tel Qu'il Est
4. French Accordion - Swing 1939*
5. Edith Piaf - Padam Padam
6. Django Rhinehardt - Darling Je Vous Aime Boucoup*
7. Lucienne DeLyle - Sur Le Quais du Vieux Paris
8. French Accordion - Swing 1939*
9. Unknown - French Folk song
10. Edith Piaf - Les Roses Blanches
11. Frehel - Pepe Le Moko
12. French Accordion - Pinsionette*
13. Charles Trenet - Le Soleil a Rendezvous Avec La Lune
14. Josephine Baker - J'Attendrai

We still heart all of you. :)

I know some people hate apologies so I won’t give one ;). But we’re on sort of a few week hiatus for now due to life (for both of us) getting in the way of podcasting. But I’ll shortly be posting a musical interlude only offering on the site as an offering and sign that we’re still alive and kicking, just slightly ‘dormant.’

I'm posting this musical collection separately in a following entry.

Natlaie

Rachel and Natalie introduce our new forum on Ravelry.  We take a look back at knitting in the 1920s and the social changes that influenced styles.  We have a long discussion of what we've been knitting.

Ideas for a Knit-a-long (Ravelry links):

• Cloud Bolero (Ysolda)
• Stormyweather Faux Cardi
• Storm Cloud Shawlette
• Cloud Shrug (Berrocco)
• Meandering Vines Shawl
• Twisted Rib Neckwarmer
• Cabled Feather Cowl
• Vent d'est vent d'ouest Cowl
• Cowl'd and Frosty Morning
• Cloudy Day Cowl (Crochet)

Let us know if you have any other suggestions!  We'd love to hear them.  Contact us here, through the Ravelry forun, or email us at CloudyChanceFiber(at)gmail(dot com) (replace @ and .com, we don't want to hear from spambots!)

1920s Knitting:

• Bonnie and Clyde
• Grant Park Pullover
• Trompe D'Oeil Sweaters
• Easy Virtue
• Unraveling Sophia- blog with vintage focus
• Boutique Knits

On and Off the Needles:

• Child's Sock in Shell Pattern from Knitting Vintage Socks
• Sock yarn Blanket (Ravelry Group)
• Sodera Socks
• Mossbank Pullover
• Jamieson's Color Card
• Yarn Bobbins
• Yarn Bra
• Sweet Norwegian Baby Hat
• The Knitting Guild of America's Mater Knitter Program
• Knitscene Fall 2010
• Gwynedd Hat
• Habu Silk
• Hermione Hat
• Doctor Who Scarf
• Felted Flower Bowl

Music Selections

In this episode Natalie talks about knitting for sewing. She also shares some antique knitting treasures and has found the perfect yarn for heirloom aran knitting.

Knitting Books from the past (long ago):

• Project Gutenberg
• Beeton’s Book of Needlework
• Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet
• The Ladies Work-Table Book
• My Knitting Book - Miss Lambert
• Exercises in Knitting
• The Ladies Workbook
• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - available at Librivox.org or the Internet Archive
• Crochet Me - crochet community
  

Knitting my way out of my stash:

• Add your stashbusting ideas at the Stashbusting Project Form
• View the ideas submitted including your own in the Stashbusting Spreadsheet
• Getting started with Google Docs
• Digital Inspiration Google Docs Guide

Yarn Review:

• Shepherd’s Own
• Hawthorn Pullover from Fall Interweave Knits 2010
• Hermione Granger’s Hat

Housekeeping:

• Our very own Ravelry group
• Naked Sheep Class Schedule
• Natalie's Blog-  I am Addicted / Rachel's Blog - Pen and Notebook
• E-mail: cloudychancefiber@gmail.com

Music Featured:

• A Fine Romance (Martha Tilton & Johnny Mercer):
• More about Martha Tilton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Tilton
• Ghost of a Chance (Gene Austin)
• Me Minus You (Boswell Sisters & the Dorsey Orchestra)
• 100,000 Women Can't Be Wrong (Marshall Scott Warner)

* I need to get another photo of Eric's vest in it's finished state. I'll post it up here once I find it.