WoolWork

Full notes at www.woolwork.net/ep130   Not a "usual" episode - if such a thing exists.   

Full shownotes can be found at http://www.woolwork.net/ep129   I have finished my test knit of the #CroftersSmock by Gudrun Johnston and I love it!  Pattern here: https://payhip.com/TheShetlandTrader Yarn was Jacob from here: https://www.bluebellyarns.co.uk/ I have been sewing and I am crushing hard on all the designs from Muna and Broad - all designs from 40-64" bust! https://www.munaandbroad.com/   I also have a look at the new organiser binders from Popcorn and Crocodiles and Emily has given us one to giveaway! Listen in for that !  https://www.popcornandcrocodiles.co.uk/ Marked as Explicit for one Fu(£ mentioned about 24 mins in   Thanks for listening! #LoveLocalWool #WoolWork    

Full shownotes are at www.woolwork.net/ep128   A short stay with the WoolWork Podcast for the first ep of 2021.    Amongst other things, today I am talking about my recent WIPS, incuding a new test knit sweater from Gudrun Johnston.    Full notes / links / photos at the website.    (Marked Explicit as there is one mention of fuc& in the first ten mins or so. This is in relation to introvery energy levels, can I get a whup whup?)

Full shownotes are at www.woolwork.net/ep127   Welcome to episode— what is it now?  I think it’s episode one hundred and twenty-burble-burble-burble (checked later – its 127!) I knew when I sat down that this would be a long one! Today I’m talking about all the ‘I haven’t done that for a while’ things I did in November, which caused me some anxieties and some soul-searching.  I tell you about the awesome new book Perspectives, from Julie Rutter and Emily K Williams. I’m discussing all the things I want to cast on this festive break (or the endless days  as we reach the end of the year, depending on how you look at it!)  and we, EVENTUALLY, have Wool Exploration with Zwartbles! Come on in, the water’s fine!   #LoveLocalWool #WoolWork #WoolExploration

Full shownotes at the wwbsite https://wp.me/s303nu-ep126  

Dear listeners, an episode. Recorded amid flat-packing and edited lightly, but lots to say. I will add to the shownotes later, for now you’ll forgive content list and links. There are a few swears in the episode! Black Lives, Trans Lives and Black Trans Lives MATTER.  (Just a few UK based charity) Links and the books I mentioned: Stop Hate UK – www.stophateuk.org UK Black Pride – www.ukblackpride.co.uk Black Minds Matter – www.blackmindsmatteruk.com/ Black Lives Matter UK Fund – https://blacklivesmatteruk.com/ https://uk.gofundme.com/f/ukblm-fund Small Trans Library – Glasgow and Dublin charities Biased By Jennifer Eberhardt and her TedTalk Diversify by June Sarpong Don’t Touch my Hair by Emma Dabiri   For the love of Ravelry – WTAF?!   On the topic of Financial accessibility and yarn substitution     Some thoughts on crafting in the time of corona.  links  (not Ravelry) Treasures from the Forest Path – Patricia Fortune Lush  – Tin Can Knits Ursa – Jacqueline Cieslak Scout Tee Pattern – Grainline Studio

A few wee notes at the website https://wp.me/p303nu-4vF   Just a quick check in and a wee thought on my crafting through lockdown   Take good care pals. We will be standing on the otherside of this soon xx   BTW - there is one F word in this (I think)

Full links and notes can be found at https://wp.me/p303nu-4sF Hebridean Wool Exploration It was quite hard to return to the podcast, but we could all use a small distraction from the Covid Scourge, right? Stay safe      

Shownotes: https://bit.ly/2Tq0oJS WoolWork Rewind: Episode 30 Jamiesons and Smith   This episode of the podcast was first released in May 2015, when the podcast was still known as KnitBritish. At the time of recording, all information was correct. Please understand that some of this information may have changed now. Very sadly, in 2018 Lizzie Simmons died. I will always remember her with a massive smile on her face and ready to share a laugh. She was incredibly passionate about Shetland wool and textiles and someone you could lose hours with , just sheeksin'  about wool and making! :::::::::::: Hello listeners,  While I'm on this enforced hiatus, I thought it would be nice to dip into the back catalogue and re-issue a few older episodes. I asked on my instagram stories, which episodes folks would like to hear again and this was one of the episodes which was suggested.  I am delighted to bring it to you once more and I hope you enjoy it.       

Full shownotes are at www.knitbritish.net/ep122   I chat about the importance of self-care at this time of year and have a hug of solidarity for those who don't enjoy this time of year. (Any use of "festive" is used with air quotes!) Our Welsh Mountain Wool Exploration is split across this episode as, whooo, theres a lot of great info to learn and lots of great exploration.  There is also chat about the Tin Can Knits-along ad the Small Gestures Swap. This is the last show of the year - I'm thankful for all your support and enthusiasm for WoolWork (nee KnitBritish). I look forward to what 2020 will bring us!   I end with festive song from Snowy O McSnowerson (and guest sheep!) and listen out for a few expletives at the end, in the outtakes!   Thanks for listening.  #LoveLocalWool

Full shownotes can be found at the website - www.knitbritish.net/ep121   Settle in for a woolly hour and a half, I have a chat with the fabulous Esther Rutter, author of This Golden Fleece and I bring you a talk from Alice Underwood, who discussed the role of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust at our recent Hands on Wool Exploration day, at Fine Fettle Fibres.  All that and KALS and more!   Happy listening!   #lovelocalwool

Today we are talking about Norfolk Horn in the Wool Exploration; there’s chat of a new KAL (blog posts coming out soon too) and the Good Intentions Club: I talk about my day at Fine Fettle Fibres earlier this month and bring you one of the talks from that day too. When it’s up - on itunes, spotify, the website and wherever you get your podcasts - I do hope you enjoy!

Visit the website to see the full shownotes for this episode - http://www.knitbritish.net/ep119   This is the last podcast until October so that I can take my annual pod-break and it is a pretty bumper episode! There is a wee bit about my trip to woolness; our castilemilk moorit wool exploration and some news about WoolWork. When the podcast comes back in October it will have a new name - WoolWork. This is something that I’ve thought long and hard about.  When you’ve listened, I hope you will feel it speaks more about the kind of things that are important and central to the podcast and to me. I’m a different crafter and person since I did that initial 1 year blog challenge to knit with only British wool and while I feel reverence toward everything that meant and means, I feel the podcast title ought to speak to other levels. Same host - same content - same wool explorations - same love local wool - just a new title!   All links are with the shownotes at the website.  Enjoy the rest of the summer and we'll meet back here in October when it is sweater kniting weather!   Marked Explicit as there are a couple of effs near the end of the episode. 

Full shownotes are at www.knitbritish.net/ep118

All the shownotes, links and images are at www.knitbritish.net/ep117 Marked explicit for a $h!t early on in the show ;) #lovelocalwool #woolexploration    Music this episode is Doctor Turtle – Doctor Talos Opens the Door and  David Mumford – Singin in The Rain This are available via freemusicarchive and shared via CC-BY.  

Shownotes, links and images can be found at www.knitbritish.net/ep116

      Music this episode is David Mumford – Singin in The Rain This are available via freemusicarchive and shared via CC-BY. 

Full shownotes will be at KnitBritish.net very soon.  More to follow here!                Music this episode is Doctor Turtle – Doctor Talos Opens the Door and  David Mumford – Singin in The Rain These are available via freemusicarchive and shared via CC-BY.  

Full show notes for episode 113 are at www.knitbritish.net   This episode I had planned to look back at 2018 and plan for 2019, but we need to start as we mean to go on, so I start by talking about the conversations going on about race and inclusivity in the knitting community. Nutshell - I want to make KB a trusted and safe space for all listeners and support all yarnies - regardless of where you come from, who you love, what you look like or the colour of your skin. I am sorry if you have ever felt that I excluded from this community or that KB was not for you and I will do what I can to learn and to change.  Also in this episode we have Shetland Wool Exploration, Fieldwork Make-Along, Good Intentions Knitting Club, Edinburgh Yarn Fest and More!   #lovelocalwool            I'm not marking this explicit, but I do say a work that means the 3rd person present of urinating, in relation to being very annoyed. There are no F bombs.    

This is a special episode of the podcast to reintroduce Wool Exploration and how you can participate.  There is a post at KnitBritish.net which accompanies this episode In a tiny wool nutshell, we look at sheep breeds in yarn form by swatching and we all follow the same fieldwork notes to create a joint learning experience. The results of this I collate for the podcast so that others can learn about breed wool from our exploration. In 2019,  we are looking at Shetland, Cheviot, Wensleydale, Castlemilk Moorit, Norfolk Horn and the Welsh Mountain Breed Group Links are to the chat threads in the KnitBritish Ravelry group, which are all open - so there's nothing stopping you from getting going now or just jump there there and start chatting about the breeds!   Wool Exploration in 2018 has been an utter blast and I am so happy we will be continuing into the new year with 5 breeds and a whole breed group!   #lovelocalwool #fieldwork #knitlocal #makelocal