I was re-listening to this podcast today and at the same time, have been preparing to go on a trip to India to teach knitting. My biggest dilemna is of course, what am I going to knit? And your podcast came up in shuffle play at just the right time. I went to my LYS after work and she hooked me up (sounds like a drug transaction) with some yarn and a pattern of the Modern Quilt Wrap.

Because i abhor weaving in ends, I chose to do this in Noro sock yarn. It’ll be a little different but still lovely. Thanks for another great podcast and for a great idea for travel knitting!

Julie

Also, thanks especially for putting Will Maring on your podcast. I lived down the road from the Marings growing up and get comfortably homesick when I hear her sing–especially the Bottomlands.

I *lovelovelovelovelovelove* your show, and would pay you whatever you asked if I wasn’t living in such a tight budget. (I guess I’m one of those non-paying public broadcasting viewers… except I can’t watch my public TV station, because I don’t feel I can afford cable, and it’s based in the US and so isn’t broadcast in Canada. I *miss* it. Especially with them currently running the Jane Austin series that I can’t watch. *pout* But enough about that.)

I *love* your show. Does it make you feel any better that, when I have a higher income, I’d pay you before I paid for cable?

Well, I need to get back to trying to make a living myself… *hugs*

Don’t listen to those little voices. You need to make a living. You want to make a living doing something you love. There is nothing to be ashamed of. There’s a lot of middle ground between you suffering for your art and the kind of ugly commercialism that I think many of us here hate. I think you’re walking that middle ground well and could do a lot more advertising without turning people off.

And please don’t get rid of that donations button!

Your podcast fell into two neat parts – the part en route to the Baltimore-Washington airport and the part on the way back after meeting DH and seeing him onto his plane. Danalee might have been justified if the whole podcast had been about donating money, but it wasn’t. Only the last little part dealt with that and before that we all had a brilliantly put together pod-issue that I think was one of your best. It was a true magazine-style format and I am now going to find about more about the Monthmouth hat, as it sounds intriguing. The recording quality was excellent (as always) and the interviews most interesting.

It is true that you have spent some time dealing with these knotty issues in previous podcasts, but I don’t find it boring. Also it is true that this means your podcasts are not 100% on the sole topic of knitting, but then when was the chat at the last knit group any of us went to all about knitting either?

It is right that we understand some of the issues for people who are not able to produce podcasts just as a hobby. David Reidy this week was talking about people who underprice their sweaters, thus making it hard for knitters who wish to make a living from their craft to ask a true price to reflect the work involved. The same goes for podcasts. We have to be thankful that some are “free” and that others might need more support. If by supporting you we can have more frequent podcasts, then we would be the winners.

I like the “$1/podcast” idea, and that seems fair. Hmmm, but what price for Issue 1.5 “Snow Day”. That podcast was priceless.

Thanks again, Moi x x x

Thanks and have a great time in Portland (a.k.a Utopia)