New to Knitting

This week we had the amazing pleasure to talk with Amanda Kaffka of The Crafty Jackalope. https://www.thecraftyjackalope.com/

Amanda just published her new book 'The Crafty Jackalope Vol. 1 Yarn' and it is now available through ravelry.com and her website. The book contains a variety of accessories in beautiful neutral shades with pops of color sure to fit every person’s style.

She tells us how she learned to knit from her mom using arbutus twigs at age 6 and later made a career out of knitting.

Amanda shares mistakes that she still makes in her knitting including dropped stitches and not swatching which both lead to having to rip out hours or days of her knitting (OUCH!).

Amanda also shares with us what’s inspiring from her news desk and that would be the beautiful designs of Pickles Oslo. @picklesoslo (instagram)

And of course, listen in as Brian tries to describe one of the designs from Amanda’s new book that Kayleigh test knit.

This week on the new to knitting podcast I talk about...

My first test knit.

I'm still not done with my shawl vest and I'm running out of time.

AmbahObrien is on my news desk.

And listen as Brian tries (kind of) to describe a toddler knit hat.

In this episode of New to Knitting,

-We discuss another knitting mistake. How one project went from a hat to a scarf.

-See what’s on my news desk and it is so adorable.

-Listen to Brian try to describe something that I’ve knit!

In this episode of New to Knitting,

-We discuss my very first knitting project / mistake.

-See what’s on my news desk.

-Talk about what I’m knitting on now

-Listen to Brian try to describe something that I’ve knit!

Our first episode of New to Knitting!

-We discuss why we started this podcast

-Learn some of my first knitting mistakes

-What’s new from the news desk

-List to Brian try to describe something that I knit

See detailed show notes on our blog

http://newtoknittingpodcast.com/blog