Cloudy with a Chance of Fiber

• Give a Hoot
• Bunny Nuggets
• Rebecca Danger's Big Book of Knitted Monsters
• Incognito (Knitty)
• Shroom (Knitty)
• Spiral Cowl
• Susie's reading mitts
• Coco Knits Hotwater Bottle Cover
• Bev Galeska's Felted Hotwater Bottle Cozy
• Felted Soaps

• Stitch Heaven Video
• Jane Austen Knits 2011
• Jane Austen Knits (Ravelry link w/ pattern info)
• Regency House Party
• Mark Twain on Jane Austen 

Socks from my handpainted sock yarn

This is the one where I knit socks, socks and more socks... and try the Starmore sweater one more time!

Music Featured
Ballad of the Black Chihuahua - Jon Rauhaus
Swim Out - The Toothaches (sorry I featured them last time but I’m on a New Wave kick)
Inventio #2 in C Minor (Bach) - Learning Music

Beach Knitting
Alice Starmore’s Lochinver

Dyeing Tutorials
How to Handpaint Roving - great tutorial
Dyeing Silk Roving
More on Dyeing Silk Roving
Cascade Eco Wool
Fire on the Mountain

#knitchat
String & Beans Blog
Make1Inc’s Site

Updates
Black Sheep Gathering in Eugene June 24-26
Black Sheep Bingo
Contest Thread - Help me figure out what to do with this yarn!
Information about the No Po informal walking tour (Ravelry) - I’ll be updating this more...


Sock Pattern Links
Worksheets:
1.) Designing Your Own Toe Up Sock Pattern
2.) Vanilla Sock Pattern
3.) Heel Flap Extension

Come to Silver Sock Tutorials
Cat Bordhi’s Tutorial on Knitting on Two Circular Needles

In this episode Natalie tells all about her day at the Columbia Gorge Fiber Festival as well as her spinning adventures during the month of April.

• Columbia Gorge Fiber Festival
• Dicentra Designs on Etsy / On Ravelry
• Tussah Silk
• Artfibers Tantra
• A Verb for Keeping Warm
• Duncan Fiber Enterprises
• Cherry Hill Alpacas
• Sincere Sheep
• Pico Accaurdi Dyeworks
• Falkland Wool
• Black Sheep Gathering
• Sock Summit
• Blue Faced Leicester
• Frabjous Fibers (didn't purchase from the festival)
• Imperial Stock Ranch (fibers)

The cat that ate the business card sitting on my Columbia wool!

Sample skein of purple yarn made from Columbia fiber

Hand spindle with Blue Faced Leicester from Frabjous Fibers

80% Merino & 20% Silk with Terroir fiber from Sincere Sheep

Suri Alpaca Lace.

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?

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

Yarn Contest

Here are the photos of the yarns up for grabs in Episode 8's podcasts. Hey, y'all. There's only one contestant vying for the Yarnia and none for the Shetland handspun. Here's your chance. Post your answers or even best guesses. It doesn't matter if you're wrong. If there aren't enough participants I'll put everyone who comments into the pools for both yarns. To enter read the details in Episode 8's post and follow the directions. Good luck :) Contest 1 - Where was I knitting? Prize: 2 skeins approx. 50 grams each of homespun shetland wool in sport weight. Instead of 1 now 2.

Contest 2 - What's that sound at the end of the podcast? 1 350 yard skein Yarnia Estrel ( 34% Bamboo; 29% Merino; 27% Wool). Sweet... super sweet! Okay, here's where I confess. The yarn I originally promised from Yarnia a cotton bamboo blend was actually gifted from my stash. My deepest apologies. But I stopped by lovely yarnia and picked up this even more gorgeous (in my opinion) cone of Bamboo/Merino/Wool. It's enough to make a pretty luxurious muffler.

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