Deborah wants to make sure you look your best in your knitwear in the coming months, so she talks a bit about fall and winter fashion trends.

When she was in Victoria a few weeks ago, Melanie got to chat with the owner of the LYS, Knotty By Nature.

The Girls will be going to Rhinebeck on the third weekend in October.
If you’re going to be there, they’d love to meet you; if not, you can be sure they’ll have lots of stories from the festival to share in future episodes.

Melanie goes extreme apple picking with Savvy Mom, and Deborah talks about what’s on her needles.

And finally, the gerbils close things out with an operatic ode to synthetic fiber.

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All this traveling seems to be affecting Melanie rather…uniquely. Amid tales of dodging the Law in western Canada, she recounts a strange, synesthetic (and yarnful) dream she had.

Deborah, meanwhile, is just getting over a cold. Unsurprisingly, that hasn’t kept her away from a variety of knitting projects.

While Melanie was fringe-ing about, she was able to meet and interview two of our awesome listeners: narfaz and ninidoo.

Finally, Savvy Mom reads a bit from the Janet Lambert book, Star Spangled Summer, and Melanie joins her in analyzing a short clip from a recent episode of the TV show, Weeds.

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