The Knit Picks team has grown a lot during our long hiatus, and in this episode, we're excited to introduce you to two new staff members: Alena Ruman, the IDP Program Administrator, and Jen Burt, our Content and Outreach Coordinator. Lee interviews Alena about her experiences starting at the Knit Picks warehouse in Ohio and then moving to the Pacific Northwest to work as the IDP Program Administrator. Alena is an experienced yarn dyer and shares with Lee some of her tips for dyeing using acid dyes. Later, Stacey interviews Jen about joining the Knit Picks team as well as her regular participation in Olive Knits Annual 4-Day KAL. Jen talks about her speedy knitting of our sample of this year's pattern Sailaway in High Desert Worsted and the color selection process for our Sailaway curated color kits. Game Day Cardigan Knit Along High Desert Yarn Tubular Cast On with Waste Yarn Long Tail Tubular Cast On (alternative method) Square-tip Needles Hawthorne Yarn Natural Dyeing Podcast Episode How to Dye Yarn Learning Center Homepage Lee's Kool-Aid Dyeing Tutorial Yarn Dyes Bare Yarns Independent Designer Patterns Bare Stroll Bare Wool of the Andes Bare Mini Hanks We Crochet Brava Yarns Heatherly Yarn Stroll Yarns Olive Knits 4 day KAL Beekeeper Cardigan Foxtrot Cardigan Soundtrack Pullover Fireworks Pullover Sailaway Cardigan KAL Knit Picks Yarn Kits Comfy Colormist Yarn 0:03 Welcome to the Knit Picks Podcast 1:45 Swatching for the Game Day Cardigan and casting on 10:19 Summer crafting plans 7:15 Meet Alena, the IDP Program Administrator 20:33 Alena's dyeing experience 32:40 Meet Jen, the Content and Outreach Coordinator. 35:46 The Olive Knits 6th Annual 4-day KAL 40:40 Choosing colors for the Sailaway color kits 44:58 Sailaway's construction and Marie Greene's writing style 48:55 Credits