Geminate Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sherri and Tamara
Sherri and Ashley take a trip to the hardware store to discuss tools, storage, and handy tips for knitters, spinners, and weavers.
Sherri and Tamara take a few minutes to record a short Swatch Episode. As we round into a new year and are still under lockdown, we'll be adding some of these shorter Swatches in between our longer normal episodes.
In this episode, Sherri and Tamara review the Beaverslide Dry Goods Merino/Mohair 90/10 yarn. This yarn is grown on a family ranch on the Rocky Mountain Front and processed at a small family-owned woolen mill about 260 miles from the ranch for a very small and intentional carbon footprint.
Sherri and Tamara talk about the best books for beginning knitters. They both brought their favorite 3 books that they've lent to new knitters time and time again to discuss
Sherri and Tamara take a few minutes to record a short Swatch Episode. As we round into a new year and are still under lockdown, we'll be adding some of these shorter Swatches in between our longer normal episodes.
In this Swatch, Sherri and Tamara review the Woolfok chainette yarn Far. They took a little time to discuss how it knits up on different types of needles, how it handles cables and texture, their impressions of the yarn.
Sherri and Tamara talk about Chainette Yarns. Chainette or Chained yarns are made up of narrow plies that are machine knit into a strand that resembles mesh or icord. Ravelry lists 417 different chained yarns in many different weights/gauges at the time of recording. Sherri really loves them! Tamara found these words used by many to describe chainette yarns - hollow core, loft, lightweight, airy, strength, lift and luxurious.
Sherri and guest host, Teri of Fiberterian, talk about making a costume inspired by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and gush about season three of Star Trek: Discovery.
Sherri and Tamara take a few minutes to record a short Swatch Episode. As we round into a new year and are still under lockdown, we'll be adding some of these shorter Swatches in between our longer normal episodes. In this Swatch, Sherri and Tamara announce the winner of the 20 Hats in 2020 prize
Sherri and Tamara take a few minutes to record a short Swatch Episode. As we round into a new year and are still under lockdown, we'll be adding some of these shorter Swatches in between our longer normal episodes.
Sherri and Tamara take a few minutes to record a short and sweet episode with a few of the things they are enjoying this Holiday season.
Sherri and Tamara talk about small knitting projects. The conversation touches on how to find a project for special skeins in the stash, how to narrow down choices for small projects, why small projects are so great and favorite types of smalls projects.
Sherri and Tamara talk about how they get ready for Fall Knitting! The conversation touches on sweaters, fall patterns, cowls, magazines that pull together posts about their most popular Fall patterns. Tamara also talks a little about the timeline as a designer for a Fall pattern release.
Sherri and Tamara take a little time to talk about switching over to a new season and slightly different format to accommodate the realities of continuing to record remotely during the ongoing pandemic and to reintroduce themselves.
Sherri and Tamara talk through planning out a quarter's worth of knitting at different budget levels shopping only at local yarn stores to support local. They each figured out and compared notes on how they could knit for three months on $20 a quarter, $20 a month, $20 a week and $20 a day. (We talk about lots of numbers here, so we're apologizing in advance if you are doing any counting while listening.)
Sherri and Tamara talk through planning out a quarter's worth of knitting at different budget levels. They each figured out and compared notes on how they could knit for three months on $20 a quarter, $20 a month, $20 a week and $20 a day. (We talk about lots of numbers here, so we're apologizing in advance if you are doing any counting while listening.)
Sherri and Tamara talk about why they each have a stash. And why that stash is important.
Sherri and Tamara talk about working from stash. And about how they organize, sort, store, curate and sometimes get rid of yarn.
Sherri and Tamara discussed with they look for in a shawlette pattern -- yarn weights, construction, shapes, details and more.
Sherri and Tamara talk about shawlettes in general plus which shawlettes they've knit and wear. They also touch on when and where and how to wear them. Shawlettes are great projects for that one skein of special fingering weight yarn in your stash.
Cynthia Strelkoff, retired opera singer and costumer designer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cynthia is now a fiber farmer and designer in Butler, Missouri. She has a new book out, The Lace Makers of Wright Road. The book is co-authored by Willow Oringderff.
Cynthia Strelkoff, retired opera singer and costumer designer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cynthia is now a fiber farmer and designer in Butler, Missouri. She has a new book out, The Lace Makers of Wright Road. The book is co-authored by Willow Oringderff.
Sherri and Tamara finish the second half of the conversation about knitting for warmer weather. They talk about Freezing Office Syndrome and about what they like to wear in the summer.
Trish, guest host, owns Yarn Social and is passionate about the community that surrounds knitting.
Sherri and Tamara talk about knitting and weaving scarves that stay flat and to tame the curl.
Scarves are portable and make great gifts. One of the best thing about scarves is that you can make them as long or as short as you like and as thin or as wide as you like. Sherri and Tamara learned to graft in pattern and talk about wearing scarves.
Sherri and Tamara continue their conversation about mittens and review Brown Sheep Company.
Sherri and Tamara talk about knitting mittens. Mittens are portable, make great gifts, fun and quick to knit, one of the few knitted things teen boys will actually wear on purpose and small enough to be low risk for learning new techniques or for going all out on fancy color work
Geminate, a podcast about knitting, spinning, dyeing and other crafts in Mid-America. Sherri and Tamara continue their conversation about hats and pom-poms.