Was perusing Knit Picks a couple of weeks ago I found a listing of Kelley Petkun's podcasts. I had never listened to a podcast before and thought that listening to someone talking about knitting might be cool, so I downloaded the last episode that was posted (#14) and gave it a listen. I did have somewhat of a preconceived idea of what it would sound like and I have to admit that I thought it might be kind of cheesy. I was pleasantly surprised, I really liked it. I then started at Episode 1 and downloaded them all to my MP3 player and listened to them on my trips back and forth to work. I did this over many days and once I was all caught up, I really missed listening to them. I thought that if there was this Podcast about knitting that there must be others, so I started a search. Eventually I found Cast On by Brenda Dayne. This was just last week, so when I saw the episode list I was amazed at how long she had been doing this. This time I started at the beginning and wow, she is amazing! At first I wasn't too sure if I liked having the music interspersed throughout the show, but the more episodes that I listened to and got to "know" Brenda a little better, I began to really appreciate the music. I just love this Podcast and the really great thing is that I have a ton of episodes to listen to and that is exactly what I have been doing. I am feeling a little guilty as all weekend I have not done a damn thing but listen to her Podcasts and knit. Has been great, but I must do some chores today! Am really having a hard time getting off my ass though.
I cast on a sock using Magic Loop with a toe up cast on. I have knit a couple of pairs of socks in the past but it has been a while and was feeling like I had forgotten what I had learned so have been knitting this sock since yesterday. I have just started the short row heal and have been following this tutorial. I had wanted to learn to do 2 socks on one circ. I did give it a try but decided that I really didn't like the pissiness of having yarn for 2 socks hanging around so I ripped it out and cast on for just 1 sock still following the same tutorial. Am having fun and it is going pretty well...so far.
Well, rather than continue typing I am going back to my sock and Brenda :D
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- My personalty is not one of a blogger, but I have come back to knitting this past year and wanted to keep some kind of knitting journal...I think ;
2 comments:
If you haven't checked them out, I'd suggest the Lime & Violet podcast. They are highly entertaining, although quite dangerous, in that they cause me to crave all manner of sock yarn.
(btw were you the woman smoking the cherry cigarillo at the spotted dick all those months ago?)
Hiya...yes, that was me.
I will definitely check out Lime and Violet, thanks.
Have been knitting socks and am trying different techniques. Am on a quest to perfect a sock..well as close as I am gonna get anyhow ;)
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