Welcome to our first episode!
In this episode, we give you a little introduction to your hosts, tell you our Adventures in Knitting (hint: advance Christmas knitting and one shawl with a crazypants deadline), let out a loud Geek Squee about the two Harrys (Potter and Dresden, respectively) and let you know what yarns and patterns are our Cravings, Covets and Crushes for the week.
Links for things mentioned in this episode:
Neil Gaiman’s American Gods coming to TV!
Ghost Story, book 13 in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher – we mistakenly identified the upcoming Dresden book as “Changes” in the podcast; that’s actually the last one that came out. Whoops!
Indigodragonfly Yarns and the Knitalong (and its Ravelry group)
Knitty Magazine First Fall 2011
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A friend told me you were looking for things people were making for the premiere, so I thought I’d share the outfit I’ve made to wear.
It’s here: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/262227_10150263394914587_788804586_7569663_4240513_n.jpg
Crocheted sleeves on a thrift-store jumper, and an apron stitched with a custom-length pocket for Molly’s wand and wooden spoon.
That’s an awesome Molly costume! And extra credit to your house for creatively using thrift-store finds.
I was just thinking about this kind of costume today! Well done. Is that an honor roll sign on the side of it? Was this beauty in a contest?
Just trying out your podcast – it sounds fab – well done. Please have a listen to mine – iMake. http://www.imake.gg
Martine
A quick comment on stranded vs. intarsia colorwork. Intarsia is not just for knitting pictures. One could use stranded to knit pictures as well. Intarsia is actually the method of separate color sections where you twist the new yarn color with the old, then drop the old color to exchange it for another color. If you knit it flat, on your way back, you twist the two again and drop/pick up the color. You wrap/twist the colors so you don’t create holes at the color changes. In stranded knitting, you carry both colors at the same time creating floats..
Fantastic episode. I love when my two favorite things are combined … knitting and geekery! Keep up the good work!!
Excellent podcast! So glad you guys are recording and can’t wait for more!
what? american gods coming to tv?!?!?!? i will be investigating appropriately! wonder who they’ll get to do shadow, lol
Whoa, thanks for all the comments and congratulations, guys! I don’t think we expected anyone to actually listen to us or comment for weeks.
And @Deb, thanks for the clarification! I forgot to write that down to mention in Episode 2 due to Potter-related fatigue, but I’ll be sure to do so for the next episode.
First of all, love the podcast! You came highly recommended from Miss V.
I made myself a dark mark bag to wear to the premier:
http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/Blushed/63300340/001-15_medium.jpg
Will you be making a ravelry group for your podcast?
Look forward to hearing more!
That bag looks awesome, Jess!
We haven’t got a Ravelry group yet, but I’m working on it now. Here we were thinking we’d have a couple weeks to get things together before anyone we didn’t actually know listened to the podcast.
You girls are great! I so enjoyed this and plan on being long time listeners! I love the energy and chemistry you have.
I too adore all things Gaiman, so excited for the show. I’ve never read the Dresden Files but now you have me curious! Well give them a go around after I finish reading A Song of Ice and Fire.
I’m definitely interested in joining a Rav group if you get one set up.
A Rav group is on the TO DO list, for sure.
I promise you will not be disappointed with Dresden. I’m reading the latest book now and squeeing every few minutes at the mayhem ensuing and wondering how much worse could it get for Harry…. oh wait it just got worse again!
Fabulous writing.