make good: a knitting podcast

This is the first episode in a series of minisodes inspired by topic requests that come from our generous Patreon supporters! Ya'll are the best!

Juliet asked us to talk about photographing our finished knits. While we're definitely not professional photographers, we've put together some tips that will help you get great shots of your projects so you can proudly share your knits with the fiber community!

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We're in the depths of a brutal heatwave here in New Hampshire, so we're beating the heat by dreaming of autumn. You know what that means: Rhinebeck Sweaters! (If you're not familiar with Rhinebeck, that's the NY Sheep and Wool Festival.)

• Jessica: Easy V by Caitlin Hunter
• Karen: Sunshine on my Shoulders by Lissy Jane

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Today we're talking about "trusting the process" - by request!

In our letter we talk about how to adapt knitting techniques for one-handed knitting.

One-handed knitting resources:

• Elisabeth Ward's Youtube Channel
• Mary OneHandKnitter's YouTube Channel
• One-handed knitting aid
• Healing Fibers

This week we're answering questions from listeners:

• Valerie: how to balance knitting gifts for others with knitting for yourself;
• Sima: What to do when your swatch gauge and your FO gauge just don't line up;
• Micah: How to organize supplies for lots of different types of crafts;
• Jordan: What to do when you DON'T SWATCH and your row gauge is off; and
• Michelle: What aspects of our lives have grown and changed as a result of our knitting

• Oakmoss by Alicia Plummer
• Easy V by Caitlin Hunter

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Running through July 31st (THIS SUNDAY!)

We're talking about substituting yarn weights this week! Gauge, schmage. (You're going to need to swatch.)

Tin Can Knits: Knitting a Garment at a Different Gauge

Jacqueline Cieslak: Yarn Substitutions at Different Weights

Jimmybeans Wool: Knitting Calculator (broad estimates)

Sister Mountain - How to Estimate Yardage in Knitting Patterns

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable. We'll be finishing up July 31, but that doesn't mean you need to be done by then - there's still time to join!

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This week we're revisiting something that came up during our episode about ply week before last and talking about directional twist in yarn.

Jessica:

Karen:

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! We hope you'll join us!

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This week's episode is about the things (in addition to finished objects!) that we get from knitting.

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! We hope you'll join us!

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This week's episode is all about ply - it's a deep dive on the construction of yarn!

Craft Yarn Council Standard Yarn Weight System

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! Casting on June 1. We hope you'll join us!

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This week we're talking about Works in Progress (sometimes known as WIPs). Sometimes a WIP will become a UFO (UnFinished Object).

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! Casting on June 1. We hope you'll join us!

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We feel a bit knitting-adjacent this week - we're talking about buttons, and answering a Dear Scratch letter about cozy mysteries!

** Alternatives to buttons:**

Knitting themed cozy mysteries:

Other themes:

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! We cast on June 1, and there's definitely still time to join us - we hope you will!

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