And we’re back!
See my smiling face and count my sexy nose hairs on the BBC! This week’s Yarn Pr0n: La Lana Wools. Bust that stash! Here’s how: Join Wendy’s Knit from Stash-a-thon or, make a pledge at the Stash-a-Long. Already busted stash? Then buy more and join the Briar Rose Fibers KAL. My project is the Tilt Jacket, in Briar Rose Colette. Check out Knit Along and Swaps and never miss a KAL again! ADORE. DESIRE. COVET. Knitting-themed ceramics, by Alyssa Ettinger. Many thanks to Charles Voth, whose knitting journey begins in South America. Special thanks to our first Desert Island Knitter, Lucy Neatby. Enjoy hours of thrilling knitting action on her Knitter’s Companion DVD’s! Got CSS skills and want to share? Sarah needs you!
KniTunes:
- Jonathon Coulton – Skullcrusher Mountain
- Birds of Wales – Life
- Kate Rusby – Game of All Fours
- Natives of the New Dawn – A Good Day
Additional Tracks: Shelly Neiburh – Andean Dreams
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Thank goodness! I was suffering from withdrawls
-K
Just yesterday, I thought I should forward you the Jonathon Coulton webpage so you could try out his music on your podcast. Great minds, and all that.
Welcome back!!
Oh boy! The NPR of the knitcast world is back on air. Thanks!
Getting an error when I try to download it from iTunes, it says the file is corrupted.
Amber,
The file downloaded fine for me in iTunes. Don’t know what to tell you…
When dealing with iTunes, sometimes I find I need to unsubscribe, and then resub in order to get a file. I’m not sure why it works, but it often does.
If you try that and still find you can’t download, you can always direct download from the site (click that link that says, “Download Episode 44″, and save it to your hard drive) and then import into the iTunes library.
So glad you’re back…can’t wait to listen! And boy was it fun to see you on BBC!! Even here in chilly California! You’re an inspiration (you inspired me to start a clapoti!!! In Silk Garden!)
Yea! I can’t wait to plug in and listen.
Glad you are back & ready for action. Its still March 2006 in my Cast-On listening world as you are a ‘new find’ (& a new friend). My self & my Aunt are working at a rate of about three episodes a week through earlier podcasts. Your essay in ‘On Gauge’ was inspirational & has meaning way beyond the world of pointy sticks.Thank you!
Thanks for a great show, and THANK YOU for playing some Kate Rusby. She deserves all the exposure we can give her! I’ve been a fan since her first album.
Thank goodness you’re back and healthy?
I’ve missed you!
Welcome back! We missed you!
Yea, Brenda is well and all is right with the world……!!!!!
Glad your back, Brenda! Can’t wait to listen to the new podcast
Brenda so glad you are back! I’ve missed you terribly! Hope you are all better now. I’m running off to update my ipod right now!!
Welcome back, kid. We were a bit worried that you had been swallowed by your stash or Dolores kidnapped you for cosmos with Victorine.
Welcome Back Brenda! I was so happy to listen to you while knitting this evening. I guess everyone is trying to view the BBC video as it gave me an error. I’ll try again tomorrow.
Life has been hard indeed without your familiar voice. I am so very glad you’re back!
Brenda, hope you get your health back to 100% real soon. My hubby helped me download the BBC article and he was admiring your recording equipment. Was it a Behringer mixer? That’s his latest wish list item, so he’s green with envy. You now have a new non-knitting fan in Ohio. Ha!
Take care and be well.
Hooray! Welcome back.. now I have incentive to go figure out how to plug in a USB card so I can have my mouse AND my iPod plugged in at the same time for easy updating!
Can’t wait to hear your voice
I haven’t heard the podcast yet but I’m so looking forward to it. It’s good to see you’re back on your feet.
Brenda,
glad to have you back with us! I hope the health issue will be solved soon and that you’d be able to podcast regularly again.
Great episode as always!
You’re alive! Thanks for another fantastic show, and best wishes for all your new year’s plans.
Enjoyed the cast, enjoyed the BBC video, too! But just between us, I much prefer the sound quality of your cast.
The most fascinating thing about the video (other than your smiling *energetic* face, of course) was the glimpse of your “studio”. It was both more and less than I expected: more professional looking, more equipment, less cluttered, less fussy!
Welcome home.
How did you experience the NHs then? ( don’t answer that one) I know it must have been bad when you have not been able to knit and decided to have a look at your stash.
Welcome back, its great to hear you are mending stitch by stitch and the BBc video was great….well done!
It’s great to see you back, Brenda. hope you’re feeling much better.
YEAHHHHHH!!! So happy you are back – I can’t wait for the download to finish – I’m gonna start a new project just to celebrate tonight!
Welcome back, Brenda
I enjoyed the podcast very much. Take it easy!
Glad you’re back!
Welcome back to the earwaves.
Conveniently for me your return coincided with me having just caught up on the back issues (max three hours a day). I’m sure you will be so glad to hear that you being incapacitated suited me well.
In all seriousness I’m sorry to hear you’ve not been well and wish you all the best in getting back to full power.
I really enjoy the podcast, many thanks for your work for your knitsibs.
Glad you’re feeling better. I really missed you. I hope your health is back to 100% soon. Being sick really sucks.
I couldn’t get the BBC thing to work. It told me I needed to download RealPlayer, so I did, and then it said I didn’t have it, but in more complicated terminology than that. Meh? Is there any way to watch it in QuickTime?
(Riin – the BBC site wouldn’t play the video for me either, so I closed that window and looked up another link, and it worked. If at first you don’t succeed …)
Thank you, Brenda, for another wonderful podcast! So glad you’re feeling better, as well!
Welcome back, Brenda! that was a terrific episode. I love Lucy Neatby and have taken classes from her. She is witty but even better, an excellent teacher! Good music choices, as usual. Take care of your health and come back when you can!
Wearing a warm sweater and snuggling with my tissue box in Wisconsin….
Sara
SO glad you’re back, Brenda! We missed you terribly. And I LOVED seeing the BBC video and finally being able to see the face that belongs to that voice! I’m so glad to hear you intend to keep up the podcast through 2007. What a great year it will be.
Many good wishes for your good health to return.
It’s great to have you back, you were greatly missed.
wow, thanks for coming back Brenda. listening to you is like coming home. Your’s is the first podcast I ever listened to and you have spoiled me for others. Wishing you all the best for your good health.
Yay! So glad to have you back! Another lovely episode- thanks. Cheers. ^_^
Hurray! You’re back! I got so excited when I opened Thunderbird and found a new Cast On episode waiting.
Welcome back! Hope you feel better soon.
I knit Tilt last year. It called to me for months until I finally succumbed. I used Noro so it’s very stripy. I didn’t love it at first, but it grew on me. Now it’s one of my favorites to wear and I always get many compliments. The charts for the yoke pieces are a little odd and took some getting used to.
Loved your interview with Lucy Neatby.
I’m glad you are feeling better.
That Jonathan Coulton song is very fun, he reminds me a bit of Voltaire (http://www.voltaire.net/).
Wonderful to hear your voice again Brenda!
And what great music!
So glad to hear you are getting better.
Just for the record. I for one would rather hear from you less often if it means I will still get to hear from you.
Don’t get me wrong I check every morning to see if you have a new episode up. I make a big deal out of it. I save you for the afternoon. I make tea, use the good china, get my knitting and settle down for nice visit with you.
I have a non-knitting question. I was wondering how you met your partner?
I met my husband online. I answered his Match.com advert. He said he was a voracious reader. I thought WOW a man who reads. Then later when I found out he takes a book to the movies I was hooked. I thought I was the only person who did that. If you don’t knit what else is there to do during that time before the show starts.
So glad you are back and take care of yourself.
Paula
I was so happy to have a new episode to listen to on the bus this morning! I’m half way through, and so have the rest to keep me company on the way home. Thank you!
I’m sorry to hear you’re sick.
I hope the doctors get everything straightened out and the meds work well!
Thank goodness you’re back! I had a costume to sew this weekend for a medieval faire next weekend, and I never would have gotten so far on the hand topstiching if I hadn’t had you to mellow me through. A good day! A good weekend!
Thanks,
Jane
I “patiently” waited to listen to your podcast on Monday morning while at work. It was hard (let me tell you!)
So I am listening right now. Congrats on the BBC. I can’t watch it while at work unfortunately so I will have to patiently wait until I get home.
your illness sounds something like I had this past summer. I was almost catatonic. I had NO energy to walk from room to room. I am feeling “fine” right now (fingers crossed) and So I wish you a good recovery and empathize with you heartily!
Thanks for your email btw. It was most inspiring and gave me a nice PUSH for my podcast. Realising how busy you are (and now so famous ;>P) and took the time to respond was very nice. Thanks.
Well I am going back to your soothing voice and finish my work!
Good Health
Peace
Caelidh
Hi Brenda – I’ve just finished listen to this podcast and I’m so glad you’re back. Thanks so much for the Kate Rusby song – I love her music and it was a great surprise to hear it.
As I crawled, barely able to make one more move, I clicked on ITunes and THERE. YOU. WERE.!!!!
Welcome back – glad you are better!!! Now I can continue to do whatever I happen to be doing when you are podcasting!
Brenda –
As you mentioned in your podcast, I just got an iPod (birthday on the 11th) and have been catching up on all of your previous shows. Fabulous!! Just wanted to drop a note to say thanks for the great time and it was such a wonderful surprise to have the new episode waiting for me this weekend…Yay!
Also…yes, Skullcrusher Mountain did get stuck in my head all day, but it did make me smile.
Welcome back. I finally caught up with the final 10 episodes that had (to me) been previously unheard – just after Thanksgiving when I was stuck in an airport for 12 hours en route to comfort a dear childhood friend who had just lost her son. I was sitting in an airport bar, pint in hand, sock on the needles, when The Church of Knitting came on. There I was, next to some burly, drunken “frat boys” when I began to sob. You were there to comfort me, and to this day I will remember the heart that went into that particular project. I am so glad to be hearing you in “real time” and look forward to each episode much as I look forward to my favorite sweater.
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