Episode 50: So Soon

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Announcements:
Thank you to all those who support the podcast
-Barknknit Zazzle store.

Sponsors:

Our Christmas Stockings club is open for signups until the end of October.  This is a special one-time shipment club with lots of christmasy goodies, your choice of red or green Gradiance yarn and pattern for either a Christmas stocking to hang on the mantel or Christmasy stockings to wear on your legs!

This episode is sponsored in part by NH Knitting Mama.  Come celebrate Halloween by picking up one of the "Treat Bags" - which have yarn and goodies, or just goodies - you pick!  There are a limited amount so be sure to head over and get yours!  Right now all orders over $100 get a free gift...

UrbanGypZ Artisan Yarns has hand spun and hand dyed artisan yarns and fibers. Find them at urbangypz.com. And if you are going to SAFF find UrbanGypZ booth which has been moved. it is actually now in the main arena on the upper mezzanine, booth 21 B.. Come by and see the new base fibers and luxe yarns premiering

Rescued: Julie’s Pepper

Doggie bit: The Recall Game
- two people in separate rooms
- call the dog and treat them when they come
- advanced have them sit in front of you before giving them the treat.
- don’t forget to praise praise praise and happy voice.

Knitting:
On needles:
- iPhone Mitts by Julie Ridl in Shelby B's Designs 100% Superwash Merino Ginny Weasley colorway
- Barknknit raising squares using  Barn Raising Quilt by Shelley Mackie & Larissa Brown and sock leftovers
- Easy Peasy Newborn Sock Hat by Keri McKiernan in Arucania Ranco in Red 105 colorway
- The Subtle Stripe by Lara Killian using Knitpicks Shine worsted.
- Vanilla Socks ala Knitmore Girls in Madelinetosh Tosh Sock in Tart Colorway

Off needles:
Forgot to mention but will talk about next podcast
- Star Crossed Slouchy Beret by Natalie Larson using Malabrigo Worsted in Polar Morn.

Blog Contest: Barknknit WIP Parade!- to enter:
- take pictures of all your WIPs at this point
- post these pictures and details of projects to your blog
- leave a comment on my WIP blog post that is on my person blog at barknknit.blogspot.com not my shownotes page with link to your post by Oct 31st or email link to me.
- My Float

I will then post a blog post around Nov 1st with all the links to the blogs and pick a winner or winners depending on how many prizes I can come up with on my blog. If you want to donate a prize contact me.

Stick training: none.

Being open to seaming
- lots of comments about it helping a sweater hold it’s shape. 

Chasing my tail:  inspiration patterns
- Aidez
- Effortless Cardigan
- Cascabel

- Paw Print Christmas Stocking
- Dog Bone Christmas Stocking

Spinning: There has been none.

Barknknit time:
- Surfer Girl’s powder puff game
- slipped and was sore a couple days
- new awesome comfy shoes with rubber soles.
- Rays in the post season equals traffic and lots of fans coming out of the woodworks.
- Organized baby’s room.  No longer looks like a storage room
- Saturday KIPing in the wild: went to get my tire fixed and car cleaned.
- doctor’s visit.  scheduled all my apts until my due date.  5 more left!  So crazy!

On the Road: Florida Fiber In- forgot to mention the prizes we gave out!
- Dawn from Wolfe farms sent a prize

Rhinebeck - I’m not going but Sydneyknits and many other podcasters are.  Her meet n greet with other podcasters is at October 17 at noon rhinebeck grassy knoll see http://www.ravelry.com/events/rhinebeck-meet-and-greet

I'll have amazing goody bags and a grand prize raffle. I will also
have goody bags for listeners to win who could not attend the event. Knakedknits.com

Dog Park: Sydneyknits from Knakedknits podcast and I are going to do a virtual knitting group on Oct 26th at 8:30 pm.  If you wish to join, please befriend me or her on Stickam.com.

Treat of the week: New comfy house shoes.

Thank you listeners.
Thank you The Unique Sheep
Thank you NHKnittingMama
Thank you UrbanGypZ

Please feel free to email me at gnat(at)barknknit(dot)com, or leave a message in the show notes. Or please leave a review on Itunes.

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Episode 25: When Life Throws Curve Balls

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Announcements:
This months hosting fees are sponsored by The Yarn Think Tank group on Ravelry. Don't forget about Yarn Think Tank Squares Contest:
-to enter knit or crochet a 10x10 square in green, tan, and/or brown and pm or email me for address and send them to me.
-contest ends on May 31st
-prizes will be announced in May.

I include the last bits about Joey and Ullie Dugan! Click on their names to check out their dogster pages.
-Harry Potter Read-a-long!(on ravelry) Come join is in reading Harry Potter and the Half Blood-Prince

This week's sponsor is:
Sonny & Shear has just received new shipments of Madelinetosh Worsted, Pigeon Roof Studios Rovings and Pigeon Roof Studios sock yarns. Stop by and check out all of the beautiful colorways.

Check out http://knittingwannabe.com/ for moving sales.

Listener Coupon code is :BarkNKnit for 10% off and one per customer.

Barknknit Podcast Listener's Group News:
-Be Prepared for Gifts KAL come join us!
-Remember we have an FO thread and daily threads.

Doggie Bit:
Frankie rolls down a window and jumps out. He is ok but it has been traumatic and he is healing.
Jackjack and Abby are well too.
Off the needles/bobbins:
-Weaver's Wool Mini Shawl(rav link) out of the citrus yarn for my sister Gina.
-fingerless gloves for co-worker
-finished yarn for Surfer Girl for her birthday. A worsted weight 2ply merino yarn.
-about 2lbs of Romney roving. Spun into about 300 yards of 2ply bulky weightish yarn.

On the needles/bobbins:
-Entrelac Sock (rav link) by Eunny Jang in Araucania
-my dad's vest, The Subtle Stripe by Lara Killian in Knitpicks Swish DK
-Seaweed socks by Wendyknits in Dream in color Smooshy for Kenny's sister Sarah.

Knitting Bit: Frogging and Sizes
-My dad's vest was too small so I had to frog and start again.

Barknknit Time:
-Life throws me curve balls
-doggies
-My birthday week.
-Guild meeting and I am not the website chair as well as the spinning chair.

Spinning Bit: Fleeces have ARRIVED!!
-27lbs of some corriedale/merino blend showed up at my door.
-talk about cleaning this and processing it.
-Kookaburra Scour
-Aija's blog sockpron.

Picked Are you Soak Worthy winners!!

Happy Memorial Day!

Thank you Yarn Think Tank, Joey & Ullie Dugan and Sonnyandshear.com.

Thank you listeners for all your support and kind words during this time.

Thank you for listening and please leave me a comment here or feel free to leave a review on Itunes.

Happy Knitting, Spinning, Dog Training.

Episode 23: A Stray

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Announcements:
This months hosting fees are sponsored by Joey and Ullie Dugan! Click on their names to check out their dogster pages.

This week's sponsor is:
Sonny & Shear is having their annual Grits 'n Sticks contest to celebrate World Grits Day. Take a photo of a serving of grits along with your work in progress (either knit or crochet) and submit it to Contest@Sonnyandshear.com by midnight (eastern) on April 14, 2009 (World Grits Day!). First place will go to the most creative entry and the prize is a $35.00 gift certificate to Sonny & Shear. All submissions will be entered into the drawing for the second place prize which is a $20.00 gift certificate to Sonny & Shear. So get your grits, get your sticks and send us a photo!!

Listener Coupon code is :BarkNKnit for 10% off and one per customer.

Barknknit Podcast Listener's Group News:
-Be Prepared for Gifts KAL come join us!
-Remember we have an FO thread and daily threads.
Don't forget about Yarn Think Tank Squares Contest:
-to enter knit or crochet a 10x10 square in green, tan, and/or brown and pm or email me for address and send them to me.
-contest ends on May 31st
-prizes will be announced in May.

Doggie Bit: Our Stray "Frankie"
Off the needles/bobbins:
-nothing knitted finished
-red/white/black merino
-purple/brown BFL from yummyyarn.etsy.com
-black merino

On the needles/bobbins:
-Entrelac Sock (rav link) by Eunny Jang in Araucania
-Monkey socks ( rav link) by Cookie A in Dream in Color Smooshy Spring Tickle colorway
-Weaver's Wool Mini Shawl(rav link) out of the citrus yarn for my sister Gina.
-inspired by Grace, who has great shawl patterns!
-fingerless gloves for co-worker

Knitting Bit:
-The joys of knitting backwards

Barknknit Time:
-Kenny's birthday party?
-things are good

Spinning Bit:
-lurv the merino roving

Thank you to listeners. Thank you this month's hosting fee sponsors Joey & Ullie Dugan.

Thank you to Sonnyandshear.com.

Have a great weekend and please feel free to leave me a message or email me at gnat(at)barknknit(dot)com

Episode 21: We're Legal

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Announcements:

- Knitmore Girls Podcast is sponsoring our first month's hosting fees! Thank you Jasmin and Gigi!


Exciting news! We've got sponsors for April and May! YEAH!

- If you would like to host a month, please email me at gnat(at)barknknit.com.
- New show notes blog is www.barknknitpodcast.blogspot.com.

Yarn Think Tank Squares Contest:
-to enter knit or crochet a 10x10 square in green, tan, and/or brown and pm or email me for address and send them to me.
-contest ends on May 31st
-prizes will be announced in May.

Barknknit Podcast Listener's Group News:
-Be Prepared for Gifts KAL has more finishers!
-FO Thread has been added
-Daily Threads Barknin It Threads are getting more active.

Doggie Bit: Stay
-answer listeners question first about distance training
-teaching Stay the Sarah Wilson way
-teaching Stay the Obedience way
-DOGTOWN's new season has started on March 20th
-got a press packet
-friday's on National Geographic Channel at 10pm.

Puppy Time:
Jackjack's smile
Abby's a dirty dirty girl!!

Off my needles/Bobbin:
-Felted Spinning Wheel Bag by Shannon Geddes out of handspun BFL
-Finished 3 singles of my citrus colorway in domestic fiber

On my needles/Bobbin:
-Plying citrus singles into a 3 ply yarn
-Entrelac Sock (rav link) by Eunny Jang in Araucania
-Monkey socks ( rav link) by Cookie A in Dream in Color Smooshy Spring Tickle colorway

Plan to knit:
-Help me pick a pattern for a vest for Special K
-Baby Surprise Jacket
-more socks I'm sure
-Abrazo vest (rav link) by Laura Nelkin from Knitty, Fall 2008

Knitting Bit: Sock construction
-parts of sock
-toe up or cuff down
-pattern placement

Barknknit Time:
-been sick
-Budget talk with newlyweds
-Pinellas Spinners and Weavers guild meeting and SALE!!
-trip to beach with yarn
-Niece Surfer girl's school project

Spinning Bit: What other basics do you need other than a wheel?
(all links are to blog posts with pictures of my handmade items)
-Bobbins
-Lazy Kate
-Niddy Noddy
(if you listen you will hear how to make these yourself if you do not have them, can't afford them, etc.)

Thank you for listening! Please go check out the Knitmore Girls Podcast. If there is a podcast you're looking for or has a new feed check out Knitting Podcast Blog at knittingpodcast.blogspot.com.

Please leave a comment here or on Itunes and please feel free to email me with any comments or questions.

Episode 10: Knitting in Public

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Happy 4th of July!!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Here's the podcast.. I'm off to relax and knit and enjoy our nations independence with a beer. :)

Feel free to email me any comments or suggestions at gnat(at)barknknit(dot)com or leave a comment in the show notes or on itunes.

Gnat!

PS. Don't forget to enter the contest!!

Episode 3: Allergic Socks

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Announcements: Contest winners picked for the Valentine's day contest at Barknknit

Barknknit Podcast has been mentioned a couple places:
1. NH Knitting Mama mentioned me on her blog. Please go check her out and visit her etsy shop.

2. Charle's Lifesyle and Knitting Video Cast also featured me on his video cast. Please go by and check it out.

Thank you both of you for mentioning me!

Doggie Bit:

I got allergy news for Abigail Grace!! Yeah! Very exciting and I talk all about it. Local Pet Food Warehouse, which I'm thinking is not a chain so it might not be in your area, but please check out the local pet food stores. Food I mention is Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance.

Added a group on Dogster for listener's of Barknknit Podcast. Please go over and join the group.

Let me know if you would join a group on ravelry.com. I'd love to make one if I have interested listeners.

Edit: I made a group in ravelry. So click on the following link if you are a member of ravelry and join in the discussion. Barknknit Podcast Group on Ravelry. I believe Ravelry should be opening to the public soon.

Off the needles:
My Utopia Hat for Surfer girl.
Symmetrical Braided Gauntlets went to my sister. :)

On the needles:
The Rainbow Socks by Suzanne Kitzmann

Snuggle for Dogs on Thursday.

Knitting Bit:
I joined Sock Madness 2.

I talk about Sock Wars III, which Courtney explained to me.

Yarn Purchase from Christine of Lorna Laces Shepherd Sock in Gold Hill.

I talk about how I stared a St. Pete SnB on Wednesday nights at Panera near Tyrone Square.

Thank you for listening to Episode #3: Allergic Socks. Please feel free to add me on ravelry, I am barknknit or email me at gnat(@)barknknit(dot)com, or comment in the show notes.

We are finally on Itunes but are still not in the search as of right now but if you click on this link or on the sidebar you can subscribe to the rss feed.

Happy Knitting!!