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Episode 27 – Coming Down With The Button Bug

The Savvy Girls unite once again in person! Melanie misses Vermont but is finding interesting ways to keep busy with Deborah in Buenos Aires! Deborah is knitting the Boneyard Shawl, but stops long enough to feature another yarn from her stash: Bouclé. She talks about what it’s like to work …

Episode 26 – Highly Suspect Canadians

In this episode Deborah comes to you from Buenos Aires, Argentina and Melanie podcasts from Lake Dunmore, Vermont. Melanie is in Vermont to sing with the Opera Company of Middlebury. How many States are there in the USA? Deborah finds the answer on Wikipedia. The internet knows everything. Need help …

Episode 19 – Ravelympics of Love

The 2010 Ravelympics are upon us. The girls talk about how they’ve been preparing to compete. Deborah’s friend Corrine drops in to talk about some of her first knitting projects, including the Clapotis scarf, the Sunny Baby Blanket, Angela’s Fabulous Felted Bag, and Thrummed Mittens. Our Confessions Contest is still …

Episode 18 – Mittens, Socks, and All Those Shenanigans

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the Savvy Girls, with both Melanie and Deborah hard at work on their knitting projects, among other things… As Deborah attempt to coordinate her knee-socks, Melanie’s neighbourhood gets to know her a bit more than she intended. Deborah describes her experience test-knitting …

Episode 1 – I hate knitting! (Not really)

Welcome all listeners! Today you meet sisters Melanie and Deborah. We discuss the 2009 World Wide Knit in Public day in Buenos Aires, and take a look at the poem What Happened to Lazy Charlotte from Heinrich Hoffman’s book Slovenly Betsy. We are looking forward to the Olds College Fibre …