Cloudy with a Chance of Fiber

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.

Thank you to everyone who entered or commented. Everyone’s a winner but we have four actual people who got prizes. I was feeling rather generous... so in addition to the yarn I’m giving two bumperstickers (#1: “I knit so I don’t kill people & #2: “Got balls? Knit”) If you want some of your own clever bumperstickers check on the Naked Sheep’s website.  

Winners:

• Yarnia - Tian or Knitdesigns on Ravelry
• Shetland - Desiree
• Bumpersticker 1: Maris
• Bumpersticker 2: Julie

I will be contacting the winners via e-mail.  

Actual Answers:

1.) We were at Milo McIver State Park on the Clackamas River here in Oregon.  

2.) That was the sound of my husband’s wet converse tennis shoes stomping on a river rock.

Now I have to go (turn this computer off)  because it’s so damn hot in here and I don’t have air conditioning :(

My attempt at a stainless steel spider web. Knit with beads and Habu Stainless Steel*

Just a note dear listener... This is Natalie. Thank you for bearing with my learning curve. I've been experimenting with changing the format and delivery of the podcast. As ever I and we appreciate any feedback you have to give. :) email: cloudychancefiber@gmail.com

De Show Notes:

• Aran Sweater Design - Janet Szabo
• Traditional Aran Kntting - by Shelagh (pronounced Shee- Lah) Hollingworth
• Harmony 220 Aran Stitch Patterns (sorry it was not the Harmony Guide to Knitting Cables) ... blame my weary head.

Link to my blog post on the old grey sweater that like at the bottom of my "Bin of Shame/UFO's."

Crochet Book Review - Crochet So Fine - Krisitn Omdahl

Music/Sound Featured:

• Six Lessons from Madam La Zonga - Jimmy Dorsey
• Bei Mir Bist Du Schon - Benny Goodman/Martha Tilton (1937 version)
• A Noisless Patient Spider  by Emily Dickinson (reading by Peter Yearsley)
• Remember Melody  - Torley ( from Solo 7)
• Spiderman - The Astroglides (from the Surf Guitar Compilation)

Housekeeping:

• A few days left to enter the contest to win Yarnia or handspun yarn in Episode 8
• I'm natknit and Rachel is RachelP on Ravelry
• I'm on Twitter - My handle is nlkilkenny

* There is another version of Stainless Steel yarn out by Lion Brand

From our last talk... some of the ideas Rachel & I generated: