WoolWork

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

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

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)

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 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

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.

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.

Music this episode is David Mumford – Singin in The Rain This 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.

Full shownotes are at KnitBritish, do take some time to visit there and find images and links mentioned. There is very little mention of the word Christmas around here, but you can consider this episode a bumper edition as there is a lot to get through, including A chat with ramsaybaggins about our love of swatching Manx Loaghtan Wool Exploration and the breeds for 2019 (still time to swatch (or re-test any older swatches) for the Shetland Wool Exploration Cochno Wool from Glasgow University, a Scotch Mule Texel yarn Marlisle: A New Direction in Knitting from Anna Maltz Also mentioned: I talk about hanging up some hats! KB is nominated in the KnitNow awards. And there is mention of the Small Gestures Swap too. Of course, the only thing that makes the festive bearable (along with the small gestures swap) is the Dance of the Sugar Plum Rough Fells. That plays the episode out. A big bumper episode to hunker down with, (if like me you like to do that at this time of year) or listen in bursts over your festive break! It will be out tonight (at some point!) Happy listening! Marked as Explicit as there is a swear at the very end (after the end credits) 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. The Dance of the Sugar Plum Rough Fells is a maaaa-sh up using a recording of Rough Fells by Dr Felicity Ford (with her kind permission) and The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Kevin McCloud, FreeMusicArchive

Welcome to this special episode of the podcast, which focuses on the North Atlantic Sheep and Wool Conference, which I attended in Uist, in September. Full shownotes are at KnitBritish website. Music used in this episode is Squire Tuck, Declaration of Love, which is available via freemusicarchive

Full shownotes are at KnitBritish website Some of you will already be acquainted with Louise Spong and her company South Downs Yarn - I'm very happy that she agreed to sit down and chat with me for the podcast, we talk about the Southdown breed; Louise's draw to the breed and the impetus for her starting her business; we discuss the need to understand slow as a concept in the wool creating process and we dip into some of the issues wool explorer's may have found in sourcing Southdown for the exploration this month. We're deep diving into Southdown and our collective exploration in this episode. After this episode I am taking my annual podbreak. The next podcast will be in October. Until then why not cast on for our Manx Loaghtan wool exploration?