Fiber Cult

Episode 13.2 - The End

2008-03-09T22:14:00.004-04:00

In the last episode of FiberCult the girls talk about what they're knitting, knitting goals for the new year, and Cathy does a book report.

What's on the needles:

BFF Socks by Cookie A.

Spunky Eclectic

Hello Yarn

Wavy Socks

Inspinknity and the Fern Clog Socks

Ripples Socks from Sockamania

Hush Hush

A Perfect Red - Cathy's book report

Episode 13.1 - Lucky 13

2008-01-21T22:35:00.000-05:00

Alexis, Ariel, Catherine and Cathy talk about the holiday gifts they knit, the yarn they received and confess their yarny sins from their holiday travel.

Charlotte’s Web

BMFA Raven Clan

Knit/Purl in Portland, OR

Abundant Yarn in Portland, OR

Mirasol Yarns

Boston Yarn - Ariel got color 212.

Jknits

Canvas Works in Olympia, WA

Panda Cotton

Weaving Works in Seattle, WA

Rio de la Plata - the mysterious sock yarn from Weaving Works.

Webs in Northampton, MA

ShiBui

All of our Ravelry profiles are now linked in the sidebar if you'd like to see our current projects!

Episode 12 - A Wintry Mix

2008-01-09T22:06:00.000-05:00

Sorry that I'm late getting these up, everyone!

Here are links to some of the stuff we talked about in episode 12:

Bernina sewing machines
Charlotte's Web shawl (Link is to Ravelry)
Blue Moon Fiber Arts' Raven colors
Koigu Lace Shawl pattern
Holiday Knits postage stamps
Odessa hat pattern
the Yarn Harlot's Unoriginal Hat
Twinkleberry Sock pattern
Vancalcar acres rent a sheep
Amy Butler bags
Lorna's Laces Lion and Lamb yarn
Clapotis pattern
Repro Depot fabrics
Year of Lace
Cherie amour pattern

Get the episode here!

Episode 11 - The Mid-Holiday Episode

2007-12-17T23:52:00.001-05:00

Ariel, Cassandra and Catherine talk about holiday knitting, a bit of Cassandra’s spindling, stash enhancement followed by stash guilt, and then the random.

Catherine is knitting the Two-Tone Ribbed Shrug from Fitted Knits.

Ariel is knitting Central Air.

Cassandra is still knitting the Endpaper Mitts for Alexis. She's also started spinning a bit!

There's also talk of holiday knitting and which recipients should get handknits.

The girls ooh and ahh over their new BMFA Raven yarn, and Ariel shares her stash enhancement from Ancient Threads.

On to the topic of boys... Catherine's got her eye on some projects in the newest of the SnB series, and Ariel is contemplating Durrow as a way to screen potential boyfriends. Cassandra suggests you just smell them.

Episode 10.2 - Yarn School

2007-12-03T23:36:00.000-05:00

Cassandra, Cathy, Catherine and Ariel continue the second part of Episode 10 - Yarn School. Hear Cathy's educational book review, learn about Tencel with Ariel and Cassandra, and hear what Ariel thinks of Cherry Tree Hill Supersock. Including late night hilarity!

Links:

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years

The Lenzing Company’s website about Tencel

Elann Callista

Clapotis

Ariel’s mini yarn reviews

Fibersource

And the promised picture of the coveted Fleece Artist:

Episode 10.1 - Secret Spook

2007-11-11T01:18:00.000-05:00

Catherine, Cathy, Cassandra and Ariel get together and talk about what they're knitting and what they gave and received in the Secret Spook swap!

Because this episode was so long, this is just part 1 of 2. Part 2 should be up next week and contains a book report, a science lesson, and a yarn review plus a little more craziness... of course.

Koigu Lace Shawl

Charlotte's Web Shawl

York from Noro Knits

Sockin’ it to Maggie

Baby Norgi

Argosy

Endpaper Mitts

Entrelac's Dangle-Free Stitch Markers

More Sensational Knitted Socks

Rooster Hill Farm - Halloween stitch markers

Flesh Eating bacteria from Giant Microbes

pattern for knitted bacteria

Macek Designs

Also we got a comment on our last entry from Ancient Threads Farm & Fiber Mill which we spoke about - Catherine got some of their yarn at Rhinebeck. They do have an Etsy shop! (And I've ordered some beautiful hand-dyed sock yarn since I was so unlucky to miss their booth at Rhinebeck.)

Episode 9: Rhinebeck Recap

2007-10-29T23:26:00.001-04:00

Four of us get together to chat about our Rhinebeck hauls (with an educational spinning fiber interlude), general Rhinebeck experiences, and what we're knitting.

Ariel's blue yarn and fleece

Catherine’s purchases

Alexis's picture-ful recap

... and finally Cassandra's haul

Endpaper Mitts

Contest Winners!

2007-10-16T09:43:00.000-04:00

Thanks to all who participated in our knitting/crochet/yarn disasters contest! We rounded up a bunch of prizes so we have three winners. Here they are!

1. Cookey_knits with her disastrous sweater. (I sent you an e-mail.)

2. Danielle with the gigantic fishnets. (I left you a comment.)

3. Trish with the moth invasion (I have no info for you!)

Congrats ladies! Please make sure to contact us at the fibercult email address so we can get your prize packs together!

Episode 8 - Is that ribbing?

2007-10-15T23:37:00.000-04:00

Killing vampires, why Catherine will be wearing a turtle to Rhinebeck and what we should hit up while we’re there. Also hear the tales of sad and happy socks. And plenty of outtakes this week (they’re after the contact info for those of you who haven’t discovered them yet.)

Ariel is knitting York from Noro Knits.

Most of the group is heading to Rhinebeck this weekend!

Cathy just finished Emerald from Knitty.

The Gemstone Debate:

Ruby is corundum and emerald is beryl, but they both contain chromium as an impurity. So we’re all sort of right!

Catherine isn't sure she'll finish Argosy in time for Rhinebeck, so she might wear Coronet instead.

And we announce the winners of the Knitting Disasters contest! (More details on the podcast or in an upcoming post by Catherine.)

P.S. If you're at Rhinebeck feel free to come and say hi to us - we'll be wearing FiberCult T-shirts and likely hanging around in a big group so we should be easy to find.

Episode 7 - Randomness!

2007-09-27T23:31:00.000-04:00

All the girls get back together and talk about what we've been working on, Secret Spook projects, Rhinebeck and our stash enhancement (or lack thereof). Remember to enter the Knitting Disasters contest before October 5th, and thanks to everyone who has already entered!

What we talked about in the show:

Sensational Knitted Socks

kpixie

Claudia Hand Painted Yarns (Turquoise Jeans above)

WEBS

Windsor Button

Mind's Eye Yarns sock yarn

The Knitty.com interlude:
Emerald
Argosy
Lizard Ridge

Bam Boo Print

Zombies Need Not Apply

Grumperina

The Daily Chum

Blue Moon Fiber Arts (and new chicken STR colors!)

Stitches East

Lion Brand dyeing with food

Indigo dyeing on Stariel's blog

Episode 6: Silk Fondlers Anonymous

2007-09-08T12:51:00.001-04:00

In a rather random show, the gang (minus Cassandra) talks about yarn acquisition, what they're knitting, the Epic Yarn Diet Challenge, Secret Spook, and assorted other knitting goodness.

Get Episode 6 here!

General Links:
Knitty
The Knitty Board
Knitters Uncensored
Stitches East
Rhinebeck
Mystery Stole 3
Simply Socks Yarn Company
Ravelry

Books:
New Pathways for Sock Knitters
Last Minute Knitted Gifts

Philadelphia:
Loop
Rosie's Yarn Cellar

Yarns:
Misti Alpaca
Wollmeise Yarns
MariSilk
Crystal Palace Maizy
Reynolds Soft Sea Wool

Hey people! Enter our contest! We need Ariel to give away yarn!

Episode 5: Skype to the Rescue!

2007-08-29T23:07:00.000-04:00

Get Episode 5 here!

In which we gab further about Sockapalooza, more knitting disasters, a trip to NYC, Rhinebeck, and, as always, sock yarn. And in which the wonders of modern technology allow Amanda to join us again!

New York:
Purl SoHo
School Products
Rent
Spring Awakening

The Loopy Ewe
Interlacements Sock Gang
Rhinebeck
C*EYE*BER Fiber
Sunshine Yarns
Knitty
Cherry Tree Hill
Ravelry
Jaywalkers

Enjoy!

Episode 4 - Knitting Disasters

2007-08-17T08:46:00.000-04:00

In this episode Ariel, Catherine, and Cassandra wax poetic about life, trips to Chicago, and the contents of their Sockapalooza packages. Oh... wait, that was the unedited version.

Seriously, we recorded for over an hour so this one was severely edited!

In the version you're going to hear, we talk about what we're knitting (lots since the last podcast!), our Sockapalooza socks, and knitting disasters. There's even a little contest.

The links - very few this time!

Monkey Socks by Cookie A.

Pembrokeshire Pathways Socks by Brenda Dayne from the CraftSanity podcast

Fitted Knits

Enjoy!

Ravelry

2007-08-11T16:36:00.000-04:00

Yay I finally got my invite to Ravelry!
I'll be slowly adding a little every day, but I'm there.
My top secret codename alias is: grateblue2

Episode 3 Links

2007-08-09T17:32:00.001-04:00

Sorry it's taken so long to get the links up for Episode 3.

We're still working out how to record Amanda over Skype without echos (we use one mic for the rest of us since 5 headsets is not practical if even possible) but we hope to get that under control soon. Also I've had a cold so I wasn't going to make you all hear me cough and sniffle this week.

On to the links:

Sockapalooza Four

Monkey

jean nee the yarn of much name pronouncing

Nature's Palette

Baudelaire

Rogue

Jaywalker

Knitting Vintage Socks home of the Gentleman's Socks in Railway Stitch.

TOOL

WEBS

Blueberry Sock Yarn Yum...

Harry Potter Movie - it was awesome, but you already knew that.

Russell Orchards has biting insects, berries, and sheep!

Ravelry - I'm beginning to think we can't go even one episode without linking to Ravelry.

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann.

Friday Night Knitting Club

And we managed to use the word perpendicular twice in the podcast!

Episode 3 - Knitting Around

2007-07-26T23:27:00.001-04:00

In this episode we discuss knitting pretty much everywhere except at our knitting group! In addition we go off on rather large tangents (detective sheep anyone?) and Cassandra and I give a little science lesson about chitin, that hot new sock yarn fiber.

Show notes coming soon!

Get it here.

Finally, we're up on iTunes!

2007-07-14T01:32:00.000-04:00

Well after much trouble getting a listing up on iTunes, I just checked and found us there. :D

Their submission form was down for a while and then our submission got "lost" and I had to resubmit, but we're up and hopefully that will make it a little easier for our fabulous listeners to subscribe.

Amanda is down in DC now and we'll be trying to figure out how to get her recorded in the podcast as soon as she gets a little more settled.

Episode 2 - The Gang's All Here!

2007-07-04T01:00:00.000-04:00

Finally (ok, so it's only the second episode) we've got everyone together in one podcast! I think the audio quality is much better as well, and my editing has improved.

In this podcast we introduce the Cs and have a spinning interlude with Cathy and Ariel. We also talk about our knitting and fiber-related goals and a bit about our stashes.

Links:

Sophie Bag

Jaywalker

The Happy Hooker

Crochet Fan Bookmark

Blue Kitty Designs

Skull Wrist Warmers

Eiffel

Luna Moth shawl

Stariel's list of sock yarns

Yarn Pirate

Crisscross Sock by Amanda

You can get this episode here: fibercult.libsyn.com

Although we're not searchable on iTunes yet, you can still subscribe - there are instructions in the bottom of the previous post. iTunes submissions are down and I'm not sure when they'll be up again.

The C's finally join in

2007-07-02T23:18:00.000-04:00

Well today we finally got around to recording an episode with (most) of us present. You, Dear Listener, will now finally get to experience the (almost) full effect of us in 1 room.
I don't want to ruin the surprise for you, so make sure you listen to the next episode, which should be out shortly!
Also, check in on our blogs if you just cant wait b/c we always post our WIPs and FOs, in addition to fun links to the patterns we are working on. Many of us are already on Ravelry and we will be sure to link to our accounts soon.

Added by stariel:

Our Ravelry identities are:

Alexis - poodlestar
Amanda - theotheramanda
Ariel - stariel
Catherine - caflygrl

Also a quick note about the iTunes listing:

I've submitted the podcast rss to iTunes but it is still not searchable for some reason. I tried to submit it again but it seems there's something wrong with iTunes at the moment because it won't let us submit the feed.

Until then you can subscribe with iTunes by going to Advanced -> Subscribe to Podcast and entering our rss feed url: http://fibercult.libsyn.com/rss

Thanks for listening!

Episode 1 - Give me an A! (Introduction)

2007-06-22T00:08:00.000-04:00

The three As: Alexis, Amanda, and Ariel introduce themselves and talk about everything from knitting to air conditioners.

Get it on libsyn here - I don't think we're quite searchable on iTunes yet.

Our fellow podcasters blogs:

Cassandra
Catherine
Cathy

Mentioned in the podcast:

Ravelry

Family Labels

The Loopy Ewe

Ram Wools

Welcome to Our Knitting Group!!

2007-06-13T19:20:00.000-04:00

Six of us? Yes, SIX. Like any knitting group, at any meeting, the attendees vary. So, who are we? I'm Amanda, former traveling knitter (now officially on my way to DC). Ariel is the sock "goddess." Alexis knits everything from socks to...Mounties...(?) Cathy is our resident lace knitter and spinner, Cassandra is the Sock Virgin. And Catherine is the crafty one - not just knitting, but goddess of many other crafts, too!

Thanks for stopping by our online and podcast knitting group! We're working on our first episode now, so check back for additional details soon.