Episode 40 – Melabirthday

It’s Melanie’s birthday!

Deborah’s working on the Seascape Stole and doing even more sewing… but Melanie’s in birthday-mode with some tales of birthday past, some knit-lit, and lots more.

Plus, The Case Of The Ivory Needles (our original radio drama) nears its conclusion. Listen to the first four parts, if you’ve missed them.

Then, the girls bring back a word: cnyttan. Can you help to re-popularize it? (Can you pronounce it?)

The Savvy Girls will be at Vogue Knitting Live in New York this weekend, let us know if you’ll be there too!

What better way to celebrate a birthday than with presents?
That’s right… contest time!

What’s your idea of the perfect knitting bag?
Have you witnessed some knitwear meet its tragic end?

Send us your answers to either (or both) of these questions entries for a chance at some great prizes! (See below for more details.)

Music in this episode:

David Francey – Red-Winged Blackbird
Paul “Lolly” Lawton – How Long Do I Wait
Red Molly – Black Flowers
Stan Rogers – Mary Ellen Carter
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman – Rosie Anderson

Contest details:

Prizes include: a great book, or some special yarn from Manos Del Uruguay, Malabrigo, or 100 Pure Wool.
How to enter? Easy:
- leave a comment below,
- send us an email to podcast@savvygirls.ca,
- post it in the contest thread in our Ravelry Group,
- or, send it through Twitter or Facebook.
You’ve got until the end of February 2011 to send your entries in.
Questions? Check out the Ravelry post for more info.

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Katie says:

January 21, 2011 at 4:43 pm

Most tragic end…. well, this is just me and I’m too close to this FO’s demise, er, disappearance, but here goes.

Awaiting the birth of our first grandbaby 6 years ago, the mommie-to-be asked me to knit a baby blanket for her. After the paint for the baby’s room was chosen, I bought my yarn and got started. When finished, in plenty of time, I added a satin border and embroidered “Good Night, Tessa,” on the satin.

Imagine my sadness when I went stopped by granddaughter’s house just a year and half ago and saw, stacked up with all the Walmart receiving blankets, the “Good Night, Tessa” blanket.

Of course no one bought it, since it was personalized, so it ended up being donated to Goodwill.

After I got over the disbelief, I realized there was a lesson there, and I have never hand knit anything else for that particular household.

Talithia says:

January 25, 2011 at 3:16 pm

A knitting Bag: I like pretty but would love to have: a file made into the bag, to carry patterns with out all th wrinkles. It needs to be tall enough to fit the pattern page with no wrinkeling of the pattern. Maybe plastic with fabric wrapped over and then sewn to bag. Can you tell I don’t know how to sew. LOL

AnneLena Mattison says:

February 7, 2011 at 10:54 am

When my triplets were 4 or 5 yrs old I knit each one a beautiful aran sweater in Berocco Ultra Alpaca. These were for professional photos that we were taking later in the month. Before we ever got the photos taken my husband somehow managed to get one of the sweaters into the washing machine and of course it felted into this hard gnarled little gremlin sweater… oh how I cried.

Mistyday says:

April 4, 2011 at 1:47 pm

I know the contest is over, but I thought I’d share my story. I was knitting a lovely hat for my BFF using stranded knitting and an intricate pattern of my own design. I was in the habit of leaving my knitting in a basket near the sofa. When I came back from a short trip to the grocery store, one of my cats (who will not fess u
up) had grabbed my hat 50% done and decided to play with it. With some effort, they managed to get the stitches off the needles. Then, proceeded to carry and play with the project through three room of my house. It looked like a cartoon with yarn wound under and through table legs, behind the sofa and around the various bits of furniture. When I came home, all three cats were sharing in the gaiety, jumping and playing in the strands. I was left with a terrible tangle and a hat with only two rows remaining. Note to self…do not trust cats around yarn, even if they have never touched it in 15 years.

admin says:

April 4, 2011 at 2:02 pm

Haha… great story, thanks for sharing! 🙂

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