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Joanne Seiff

Joanne Seiff, author of Knit Green and Fiber Gathering, joins me on the show to talk about Rhinebeck, fiber events, and the complicated landscape of bring green. She is very knowledgeable about both fiber and the environment and breaks it all down for us in her writing.

Many, many thanks to my friend Alanna at Tactile Travel for taking me on her tour to Rhinebeck. Her tour was wonderful and filled with fiber, history, and wonderful people.

Also… I am working on so many projects I hope you can be patient with me as I work towards getting the show out and putting on some major events with my guild. If you are in Boston please come out and join the fun.

On Todays show I have a great discussion with Susan B Anderson about her new book “Itty Bitty Toys“. She shares her influences and thoughts about the book as well as her other projects.

In the Yarn-a-lot I talk about my joy of finally making it to Creative Fibers in Windsor, CT (near Hartford).

I am also getting ready to go on a trip with Tactile Travel to Rhinebeck, wehre I will be live posting my trip to fibercrawl.com over the weekend. You can also follow my live feed through my twitter account.

On today’s show I have an interview with Kathy Elkins of WEBS America’s Yarn Store. She blogs and has a podcast about the yarn that comes into the shop and the many interesting people in the fiber industry.

 

 

Projects

Little Bubbles (KnitPicks)

Quincy (by Brooklyn Tweed)

Common Cod Fiber Guild

Make Mine Local Fiber Arts Fashion Showcase

FiberCamp Boston

Other Links

Knit a Journey

On today’s show Mandy Moore and Leanne Praine talk about there newly released book Yarn Bombing. It’s a guide to kntting graffiti and the very public world of knitting.

This show is chock full of interviews from the Summer TNNA 2009. If that isn’t enough, check out the live feed post here.

Many thanks to Buffalo Gold for taking me in and letting me go to the show.

Interviews

Chrissy Gardiner of Gardiner Yarn Works talks about her designs and new book Toe-Up! Patterns and Worksheets to Whip Your Sock Knitting Into Shape

Diana of Ewe and I in Nartberth, PA

Beth Smith of The Spinning Loft(home of the Batt Bar)n Howell, MI

Amy King of Spunky Eclectic talks about her new book Spin Control: Techniques for Spinning the Yarns You Want

Abby Franquemont (fiber evangelist, ask to see her cape) of Abby’s Yarns

Special thanks to Kat for setting up the three fibery interviews above

Dave Van Stralen, President of Louet North America

Carol Sulcoski of Go Knit in Your Hat

Susan and Jill of Y2knits (they like travel tuscany, knit continental,  and organize designers for knit garments )

Sue Caldwell of Lovely Yarns in Baltimore (queen of the knitting Huns)

Laurel Murphy of HandKnitting.com

Vallery of Mountain Meadow Wool Mill in Buffalo, Wyoming

On todays episode My friend Deb reviews Pet Projects and Kristin Nicholas talks about some fun going ons at her farm. I also play a promo for a fun new podcast called Kiping it real.

In this Episode my friend Jen shares some insite into the Design Copyright discussion. Jen also posted more about it here.

I would love to hear you thoughts on this issue.

Sadly, this show is very short. I am having a hard time finding my voice as I switch from an older computer setup to a new one. Still trying to get comfortable with new computer/mic. I think I will be back in full swing again by the end of the summer.

ADDED:

Oh yeah… I have started to play promos for other knitting podcasts again. This week I played one for KnitScape.

I went to TNNA and all I brought you back is this lousy post… OK, this post and and two podcasts. Todays show is a quick overview of my weekend… secrets revealed…

First, all the time below is GMT, so please subtract 4 hours for the real time.

I put all the pieces together into chronological order and have added names and links so that you can find out more about the great people and things I found on the TNNA floor.

Friday

ok... what should I bring today bahhh!

sheep of convention

look this is what I should have packed

taken from Zealana booth

Voice Mail Jun 12 03:42 PM – Michael from Universal Yarn

daddys got a new bag

Michael from Universal Yarn

Voice Mail Jun 12 05:49 PM – Kimberly from the Alpaca Yarn Company

sandy from utopia fiber arts in dayton

LIVE AWESOME VIDEO UPDATE with MARLY

Cocoon by Universal Yarn

Kraemer Yarn (silver)

Jacques Cartier Clothier (qiviuk/Vacuna)

Buffalo Gold (Buffalo)

Bijou Spun (yak)

Zealana (possum)

Voice Mail Jun 12 06:48 PM – Jenny tells all

Jenny is rockin it at Cup O Joes

Jenny twitters here

Barry's at North market rocks

Barry’s can be found here

Voice Mail Jun 13 12:39 AM – Angela from the Alpaca Yarn Company

Voice Mail Jun 13 12:43 AM – Owner of Black Sheep LYS

the black sheep flock from florida

I think that this is the shop here

hard at work at the ice cream shop again...

This is a picture that I tweeted about Jenny and Kim tweeting… super Meta

Saturday

Voice Mail Jun 13 01:53 PM Elissa and the Kuku Dolls

bahhh... with kuku dolls

Sheep make friends with the kuku dolls

Voice Mail Jun 13 03:06 PM Annie from Annie Adams Jewelry

stitschmarker neclase from annie adams

Annie Adams had some beautiful stuf including these hematite stitch markers and necklace

Voice Mail Jun 13 03:15 PM – Carol from Farmhouse Yarns

danger crafts at deep south fibers

Multiple monsters patterns on one CD!!

Hanging at the Deep South Fiber booth

My favorite booth to grab some water and chill was Deep South Fibers

Voice Mail Jun 13 03:47 PM – Donna from Deep South Fibers

Hanging with the danger craft monsters

Deep South Fibers had some amazing monsters

LIVE AKWARD VIDEO UPDATE

Deep South Fibers

Roo Designs

Tamsco Instruments

Handy Hands Tatting

Interweave

Classic Elite

varian from atlanta

This is a listener who heard me and then showed me her awesome new designs

Voice Mail Jun 13 04:20 PM – Jamie from Interweave

Voice Mail Jun 13 05:39 PM – Chrissy(and her new book) from Gardiner Yarn Work

caffaknitted by katie park in gardiner yarn works booth

Pretty pretty in the Gardiner Yarn Work booth

Voice Mail Jun 13 05:52 PM Hansi and her new book

hansi and the sheep...bahhh!!

I have the biggest knitting crush on Hansi and her new book

(maybe I can get her to design me a sheep to knit?)

let them tweet cake with interweave

Jessica poses for me at Interweave’s “let them tweet cake” event

Voice Mail Jun 13 07:39 PM – The Ladies from Lovely Yarn and special guest talk about Jeni’s Ice Cream, Alchemy Yarns, and Qiviut

Voice Mail Jun 13 08:16 PM – Marly in the PolarKnit Booth

mega big blue balls

Marly of yarnthing podcast pointed out these fleece big blue balls by polarknits

offhand designs knitting bags

Offhand Designs makes beautiful bags from sophisticated fabrics

Voice Mail Jun 13 08:50 PM – Guido is Overwhelmed by TNNA

cookie a sheep

I totally begged Cookie A to pose with the sheep (squee)

Voice Mail Jun 13 10:11 Pm – Julia from Twist Collective

Sunday

y2knit ladies...bahh!

Y2Knit, like you need a reason 2Knit

Voice Mail Jun 14 03:44 PM – Kathy Elkin from WEBS (was supposed to be video, oh well)

Voice Mail Jun 14 03:56 PM – Joan from White Lies Designs

Annie Modesitt in a mask... ;}

Annie Modesitt is an amazingly talented masked crusader

Voice Mail Jun 14 04:29 PM – Cecily and Melissa, authors of the upcoming New England knits in front[...]

On the show I do some catching up with yall… and I have a great interview with Jacey Boggs of Insubordiknit. She talks about living through this economy as a spinner and her fun spinning DVD called Sit And Spin.

My friends and I will be sharing our experience at TNNA here:

http://drop.io/TNNAupdate

I will be doing a live video update at 12:30pm on Friday/Saturday/Sunday of this weekend for TNNA.  You can find the stream here:

http://www.itsapurlman.com/tnnaupdate/

I am in DC with IAN MAX…