Stash and Burn

Episode 18: Castaways

Episode 18: Castaways (33:09)

In which we prepare and plan our travel knitting, plan our travel shopping, and review Nancy Bush's Knitting on the Road.

Vacation Knitting
What Nicole is taking to Belize:

• Orangina
• On Your Toes Socks from IK
• STR Fairground and Fire on the Mountain

Jenny's Strategy

• Knitting should be fun on vacay!
• Pack enough yarn for options as the mood strikes
• Vacation knitting doesn't have to be small!

The Vegas hotel room
NYC yarn shopping

• Purl
• School Products
• the Point

Rhinebeck
Nicole: Don't take too much! Take small projects. Be a realist.
Jenny: Take what you most feel like knitting!

Yarn shopping on Vacation
Ambercake's NYC Yarn Crawls!

• The Ladies Who Lunch Tour
• The Village People Tour
• The Garment District Tour
• The Driving Tour

Knitty Boards on travel
Lime and Violet forums
Knitters Review
Google Maps
Nina in Chicago
Cranky is Good Daphne
Hilltop Yarns in Seattle
Jessica Rose's yarn store
Seaport Yarn in NYC
MK Carroll's Honolulu Guide
The High Rise Honolulu Yarn Store
The Medical Building Yarn Store
Habu
Google Transit Guide

Knitting on the Road
Nancy Bush's traveling guide
Modern Times Books
Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook
Socks- quick or not?
Jessica Rose's Knitting on the Road Socks (Dalarna, Spey Valley, Traveler's Stockings, etc.)
Canada Socks  (scroll down for a beautiful knitted example!)

New Podcasts
Stitch Stud and his Bride
Moonlight Stitches
Knitting Time Together
Find new podcasts on Itunes!
Cast-on's podcast list
We pre-recorded this episode, and then heard about some new podcasts that we thought we'd pass along:

• Knitters Uncensored
• KnitViews
• Sheknits
• Knit Science

Music
Dig Me Out: Sleater Kinney
Naked as we Came: Iron and WIne
Stella: Continental
Australia: the Shins

Episode 17: Sticks Are For Kids!

Episode 17: Sticks Are For Kids! (36:24)

This week we share the last listener destash tips, our experiences with teaching people to knit, and our first knitting books.

Destash Tips
The last batch!
Other ways to give your yarn away...

• Host a podcast in order to get rid of stash- who would do that?
• Secret pal exchanges
• party favors
• giving yarn to your cat- a bad idea
• giving yarn to birds- a good idea
• Nashville Stitch and Bitch's bird story
• Feral cats versus birds in Golden Gate Park
• 'a learn to knit' gift basket with yarn and pattern
• Jenny's vintage velvet II for Harold (finally finished!)
• raffling off the yarn- some hoop jumping involved
• send random balls of yarn to people who don't have access to it (country specific)

Toss it!
(though pet blankets out of acrylic are useful...)
Take it on the road, but sit in the back per Pixie (from the WEBS podcast)!
Reward yourself for FO's with cash! Though- will that just result in more yarn accumulation?

Teaching the Youngsters
The Waldorf School and knitting
homemade needles
Sugar n Creme cotton
finger knitting
Crochet first?
Giant posters for visual cues (a tip from Vietnamazing)
Video help from knittinghelp.com
video chat?

Our First Knitting Books
Lily Chin's Urban Knitter
Pam Allen's Knitting for Dummies
Debbie Bliss' How to Knit
How to weave in ends, courtesy of Aija
The Vogue Bible
Stitch ' Bitch! Thank you Debbie Stoller!
Stitch 'n Bitch Nation
The Happy Hooker
Flipknit! from Annie Modesitt

Thanks for listening! After next week's episode, we're heading off for summer vacation for two weeks. We'll be back July 3 for more podcasting fun!

Music
Dig Me Out: Sleater Kinney
Electric Princess: Jennifer Gentle
Australia: the Shins
Breaker: Low