Needles, Hooks, and Crooks: A Podcast about Fiber Felonies

Spoilers warning! This episode we play a game of "fact or fiction" with stories of fiber felonies. Answers in the show notes below!

Fact: "Jumper Cables", "Skein of the Crime

Fiction: Knit & Nibble Mystery Series by Peggy Ehrhert, Berkeley Prime Crime Knitting Mysteries by Maggie Sefton, A Riverbank Knitting Mystery Series by Allie Pleiter

Other themed mysteries: Nevada Barr National Park mysteries, Tony Hillerman and Anne Hillerman, William Kent Krueger mysteries, Sarah Andrews forensic geologist series, Toni Dwiggins forensic geologist series

Natalie's projects are Jili socks w/ The Blue Brick sock twins yarn & another test sweater for Jennifer Brou w/ stash yarn including Brown Sheep Wildfoote, ND Yarn Company fingering, super vintage Phildar Lugano, & Zitron Trekking XXL. Natalie is snacking on frozen grapes, freezies, & Canadian Smarties. Ashley is knitting Winter Weekend Socks by Shannon Squire w/ Blue Brick in Muskoka DK & casting on for Easy V by Caitlin Hunter w/ Shelter & Spincycle from Starlight. She is snacking on Kitchen Kettle Jams, especially Fig Balsamic.

We also mentioned our National Park Centennial Blanket project!

In this episode, Natalie brings us a series of theft-related stories and studies that span centuries and countries! Including a story about "sheep lifting" by Lauren Potts (BBC) called "Fleecing the Farmers", a 2017 study on South African sheep theft, and 2006 paper by Lynn Abrams on Knitting, Autonomy and Identity. We have a couple more "yarn-jacking" stories as well; one from the U.S. with Fresno-based Anzula Luxury Yarns and one from Nova Scotia, Canada with LK Yarns..

Natalie is knitting “Rowing Socks” with Briggs & Little yarns using the Woodcutters Daughter pattern as well as working on Shifty

Ashley is (reluctantly, ugh...cables...) knitting Here We Gnome Again by Sarah Schira with Goosey Fiber scraps

Natalie is snacking on St.Viateur Bagel Shop which came in the mail.

Ashley is snacking on fresh strawberries from the garden (and now has the theme song from this show stuck in her head)

In this episode, Natalie "weaves" together crack in a crochet kit, knitting as addiction, and knitting in recovery.

Articles & blogs we mention:

Fibers and snacks we mention:

This is a story about yarn thievery, a hero who crochets (with appropriate sound effects, ha!), and how amazing and supportive the fiber community is. 

In this episode we mention:

For context, we also briefly mention two of our amazing fiber friends, Adrian and Leah.