Episode 2 – Close your eyes and think of England… and other patriotic acts

Melanie and Deborah are back!
In today’s episode…

Deborah blabs about her knitting projects:
– My brother’s afghan (Desert)
– Clapotis
– Aran Afghan – From the Canadian Living Magazine

Use the following words in a sentence and join the movement to bring them back!
– Wack
– Aught

Knitting can be a very patriotic act. In honour of Canada Day and Independence day, Melanie explores this theme.

Melanie’s info sources include:
– The New York Times
– The Christian Science Monitor
– The BBC
– Life Magazine
– The WW2 Encyclopedia

Knitting is even pervasive in music. Enjoy these tunes:

• Ordinary Day – Great Big Sea (with thanks to the Podsafe Music Network)
• Pardon me, I didn’t knit that for you – Sung by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne of Mason Dixon Knitting
• The Knitting Song – “I want to knit myself a sweater” – Sophie Madeleine
• Jump – Kriss Kross
• Allegro, il Penseroso ed il – Moderato by Handel
• Knit One, Purl Two – The Glenn Miller Band
• Doozer Knitting Song – Fraggle Rock, episode “The Great Radish Famine”

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