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On todays episode I do a little catching up…

I announce the winners of the Annie Get Your Needles giveaway.

I review It Itches and Knitting for Good.

I open a drawing to Get the word out about @GuidoS Dreamy Maryland Sheep and Wool After Party. If you post to a blog or twitter an announcement about the party with a link to the event page today or tommorrow and then let me know about it in the comments I will enter you int a drawing for a grab bag of 3 fun prizes. I need to get a head count together for Monday so I am doing what I can to get people resgistered for the party.

Also.. I share my views on second wave feminism and the sisterhood and how this makes me feel really disinfranchised and how I feel knititing is a family of everyone… oh yeah… I read some email too…

All this and the sounds of a beautiful spring Saturday morning in Boston on todays show

Come check out the fun at @GuidoS Dreamy MS&W After Party

I know this is last minute, and that is why I am asking all of you to help me… We need people to know this party is happening and to register this weekend ASAP. I am sure that you can blog/twitter/facebook/call someone you know who is going and ask them to sign up or pass this information along.

thanks in advance for all your help.. the show will be back this weekend and then I will be recording from the Maryland Sheep and Wool… awesome… hope to see you there… (seriously)

Prelude – Alanna Nelson is the force behind Tactile Travel and is planning to cast on for a trip to NH sheep and wool in the spring.

Act 1 – Melesa Sundquist blogs about her life, knitting, and free form bras at her blog Stances and Stitches

Music Break 1 – The Midnight Fog by After Sun

Act 2 – Annie Modesitt is designer, knitter, and just all around extraordinary person. You can follow her day to day vistories on her blog, modeknit.com. She was originally on the program in episode 59.

Music Break 2 – Rollin Kisatchie yamomanem

Act 3 – Stephen HizKnits blog is HizKnits.com and is podcast is Y Knits.

Music Break 3 – Positive Tension Bloc Party

Act 4 – Christine is a writer and a friend who is getting the word out about her work on casting on of her family. You can find out more about her and her family at their site www.peymanifamily.com. You can find out more about the adoption agency they are working with at www.adoptionhelp.org.

Music Break 4 – Chelsea Brando Quin and the RavenPheat Musicians

Kim Werker joins me on the show to talk about her dream and where that has brought her. She is a major player in the online crocheting and fiber communities. She has written books and edited major magazines. But she still thirsts for more.

ack… I totally appluad her for her ability to calmly move from career to career… I would freak… I hope that she gets her hokking habit back.

Here are the aussie links I mentioned in the show:

Etsy Shop for donations

Blogger who is doing a drawing for donatino collections

The Red Cross in Australia

The song I played today is be Ingrid Michaelson.

Award Winning Book

Annie Modesitt talks to me about her books, her life and then I make her cry. Akward…

Warning this show is very real and in your face which is the only way I think Annie knows how to be. So if you don’t want to connect with someone real, please move on. Go buy her  book now and say hi to her on her blog.

To be added to the drawing for her book/yarn please comment to this post sharing your passion. So, let’s say at least two sentences… the drawing will be open until the end of the month.

Back on the mic, I am so excited about all the projects I am working on this year. I hope to hear from listeners about what they are up to and let me know if you would like to do a FiberCamp in your neck of the woods…

Many thanks to those of you who comment and keep me in line with the show.

On todays show:

2009/2008 stuff

music Johnny Apple Seed

what have you been up to

catching up

Setting the tone

music Alpaca Cheese

Other things I was rambling on about today:

Common Cod Fiber Guild

Fiber Camp

Fiber Camp Boston

Knitters Review (Clara Parkes)

Courtesy of Boston Handmade Blog

Jessica Burko (the force behind Boston Handmade) and some of the exhibitors at Boston Handmade Downtown (located here) sit down with me to talk about the holidays and fiber fun. Jen of Blue Alvarez, Lynn of Cozy Cottage Creations, and Sedruola of Sedruola’s Yarn Obsession all have some interesting insight on making stuff for people as gifts and getting through the holiday season.

Also… I have an update about my Knit One Save One (KOSO) project. Some stores I have contacted have offered to collect caps as well as hand out some donated materials for me. You can pick up two balls of yarn (courtesy of Kraemer Yarns) for making hats for KOSO while supplies last and drop off caps for KOSO until Sunday January 18th at the following locations:(in alphabetical order)

Mind’s Eye Yarns in Porter Square

Windsor Button in Downtown Crossing

Woolcott and Company in Harvard Square

While there is some confusion about deadlines and what is written on KOSO’s brochure, I assure you we have until the end of January to send in the caps.

I would like to thank all the people who are donating caps to KOSO and the following companies for donating yarn for my KOSO project:

Kraemer Yarns

Westminster Fibers

The Yarn and Fiber Company

Today’s episode has an interview with Beverly of Ewe’ll Love it in NH. I also talk about my Knit One Save One Project, my pattern is coming soon. Finally I tell you a thanksgiving story about me and my sister and the Macy’s parade, here is the photo:

My family are all a bunch of turkeys...

MUSIC:

Yoga Master by Lee Coulter

On today’s show I do some catching up. I recorded the whole thing in one take and only added some music a the end.

The last couple of weeks have been a lot of fun and I have been knitting and crocheting up a storm. My brother got me started working on the Knit One Save one project and have had a lot of support from all the folks I run into. Perhaps I will put together an event for January for this project.

Music is by Chris Ayer “A Starfish In The Front Yard”

More links to come…

Added somewat LATER:

This show has a lot of discussion of my insane knitting life and the many things that are going on in Boston. I also talk a little bit about my friend Gary and his wife Lynn… I also talk about Prairie Home Companion and the song sailing around the room.

In my yarn-a-lot I talk about a hat I made for my friend gary of made of some Cascade 220 619 which I covet. I am also making a baby sweater out of some awesome organic cotton(it’s like terry cloth). I am making a couple of Olive You hats from Itty Bitty Hats.

Many thanks to Kraemer Yarns and Westminster Fiber for donating to my Knit One Save One Project.

So… show notes will come up later.. but for the moment I am having technical difficulties and am going to spend my time trying to get the links working again so that this end up in the feed… so this post is going to be updated tonight with all sort of good stuff about the show including my two interviews and music and a little bit more about the passing of Lynn.

Added LATER.. much LATER:

On the show I interview Janice Kissinger, Director of Slater Mill in Rhode Island and Cindy, Owner of The Yarn and Fiber Company in NH. I would like to thank Jane from Porter Square Books for helping the guild (I messed up the website on the show)host The Yarn Harlot. I would also like to thank Franklin ans Stephanie for for speakinin Boston.

If you would like to learn more about my friend Lynn Votour and Gary Votour please visit her caring bridge site. Gary would appriciate any donations made in Lynn’s name to the Caring Bridge. The service they provide s crucial for the families of people in the hospital.

The music on the show comes from the Podshow Network and I played the Mega Bottle Ride by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros on todays show. (this song really chokes me up and make me happy and sad at the same time… weird)

Finally… thank you all for your suggestions for working through my feelings about friends lost. Sorry the show notes took so long. (also, the title is a little nod toward the Seasonal Affective Disorder, because I get down in the fall..)