Episode 4 – Alpaca Crossing!
Today we celebrate Deborah’s birthday with a bonus episode!
Deborah goes shopping for presents for herself, Melanie sends her a present, and Deborah hosts a birthday knitting party.
What do YOU think about when you are in bed falling asleep?
Melanie tells of her encounter with “a big black woolly beast-monster“.
Patterns we discuss include:
- Ciara’s wedding afghan comes from this book.
- Sophisticated-Rustic Jacket from Interweave knits.
- The hat pattern comes from the company Mary Maxim.
No Bringing It Back word today, but we do make use of the terms yarn-spree and yarn-gasm. Is that good enough?
And Three Little Kittens totally trash some lovely hand-knit mittens. What a bunch of animals!
(On The Tree Top, by Clara Doty Bates and Others, 1881. Courtesy of the Gutenburg Project.)
Music used in this episode:
- Ordinary Day – Great Big Sea (with thanks to the Podsafe Music Network)
- The Knitting Song – “I want to knit myself a sweater” – Sophie Madeleine
- Doozer Knitting Song – Fraggle Rock, episode “The Great Radish Famine”
Patricia K Gauss Said,
July 31, 2009 @ 10:09 am
I am SO loving this Podcast. Every ep is funnier than the last. I have never met an alpaca, but now I WANT to! I am an avid knitter. I make and design hats, and I am jealous of your retro hat pattern! Knit on!
Luli Said,
August 5, 2009 @ 9:21 am
I m really enjoying your podcast… I took my bicycle, mi Ipod and I went for a ride!! So so funny!
I m loving the knitting songs and the comments about the patterns!
I know you from Ravelry… byeeee
Lulitelar
Maura Wood Said,
August 7, 2009 @ 8:49 am
I have never lain in bed and imagined myself in prison, but I spend lots of nights thinking about knitting, and sometimes when I am almost alseep my hands start making knitting-twitches (like as if I was holding needles). Isn’t that crazy? I mean wack.
Rock on D and M, love the podcast – I want to do one now too!