Yarns and Tales

We’ve made it 20 episodes with YaT!! It took a couple of takes to cast this episode, but it happened.  Instead of chasing the Tunisian crochet stitch which I found I didn’t really like, I opted to do the Bamboo stitch.  This fun little pattern is super easy and visually clean and simple.  Even better […]

Episode 19 was cast on with the lingering echoes of busy neighbors and their yard works.  Once in motion, our leftover sampling stitch for this episode, the Tweed stitch, was easy-peasy.  We babbled about yarn, lawns, weeds, Boston, and being wayward in our thoughts.  We also talked about, um, something else… Just kidding.  Please have […]

Aside from a minor scratchy voice, episode 18 casts on without a hitch.  This show finds us talking about our new sample stitch, called the Chalice Stitch, as well as chatting about outdoor Spring cleaning and garden prepping.  Reclaiming a portion of my rock garden for a vegetable garden proves to be a wee bit […]

Most people have particular times of the day when things just “work” better.  I am no exception when it comes to casting on the show.  Having missed that optimum window to cast, I delight my listeners with one of “those days” while explaining and working our sample stitch of the week, the Purse Stitch.  I […]

Just when it looked like episode 16 was going to cast on without a hitch, I had to frog it.  In the second cast on of episode 16, it worked out just fine, as podcasts go.  I mention the fingerless glove project (again).  I tell a little tale about two of my cats in our […]

I cast on episode 15 with a brand new mic, some soft kid-friendly black yarn, and the stitch of the show — garter.  I talk about the fingerless glove project again, along with gabbing about silly words, regional words, gender words, and one of my cats.  Did I mention I talked about food too?  Why […]

We cast on episode 14 after a day’s delay due to the ‘influence’ of the neighbor’s lawn mower.  Yes, noise pollution, suburb style.  We talk a little about the fingerless glove project, a lot about our next fun sample stitch Irish Moss, and about feline gifts of love.  Did I mention my husband got a […]

I love the number “13”, but outer-worldly techno-gremlins delayed the posting of this episode.  With that said… We begin Episode 13 getting caught up on the fingerless glove project and its progress, then cast ourselves into the next sequence of shows.  We are going to learn or practice a handful of stitches from my favorite […]

Another episode without the gremlins of techno interfering with the casting of show number 12.  In this podcast, I start us on a new project after I plundered through my pattern notebook, looking for ideas.  This project is for a pair of fingerless gloves.  From there, I wander about chatting on confused weather and thermometers […]

I was thrilled that episode 11 cast on without any techno-gremlins this week and flowed easily, pardon the puns.  I chose the topic of eco-friendly, knitted tampons.  Yep.  Reusable “lady gear”.  This project is quick and simple, great for the environment, and both budget- and body-friendly.  Tune in and keep an open mind, if this […]