Pointy Sticks

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• 1 Elemmaciltur // Jan 26, 2007 at 4:37 am

  Yay! iTunes’s downloading the episode right now!!!! I’m getting my knit-podcast fix! (listened to all the Lime & Violet episodes already and now I’m considering getting the rest of the KnitPods out there to listen to…BTW, how come L&V’s not on your list?)

  Will get back to you again when I’ve listened.

• 2 Big Pink Cookie » Best Show Ever! // Jan 26, 2007 at 10:09 am

  […] Even though I had to record the first part of the show twice (Audacity ate my files!), I think that the latest podcast might just be the best show ever. Check it out and let me know what you think! Pointy Sticks - Episode 13, The Pink Show. I did a guest chat with Staci which makes up most of the show, and it amuses me to no end. We had a great time doing it, and I really think it shows! […]

• 3 Sallie // Jan 26, 2007 at 11:48 am

  Love the picture of you in Faith. This one looks much more true to color. Faith turned out really, really nice. Good job.

• 4 Lisa L // Jan 26, 2007 at 1:01 pm

  Hi Christine! I just listened to the podcast! I read visit Staci’s blog pretty regularly - what a treat to find out that you’re knitting pals! I’ll be smiling all afternoon!

• 5 Julia // Jan 26, 2007 at 4:40 pm

  I can’t wait to listen to the podcast, but I have to say this first: That sweater is just gorgeous on you, don’t you dare rip it. It is lovely and flattering and it looks really comfy and stylish. You will have this for years! Really, don’t you come anywhere near that thing with a sharp blade. I registered for SXSW - how about you?

• 6 Eileen // Jan 26, 2007 at 7:52 pm

  The jacket is gorgeous. Perfect color for you.

• 7 Becky // Jan 27, 2007 at 11:13 am

  Yay Christine - great podcast, yes, it’s one of your best.Thanks for posting the picture of you in your Faith Jacket. It is so gorgeous - it really makes an impact when you model it! It looks comfy and stylish. Good job on everything knitting-related and good luck with that surgery.I hope the retreat with Nancy Bush was fun!

• 8 christine // Jan 27, 2007 at 11:42 am

  Hi Christine,

  I listened to the podcast and see that, by now, you’ve met (and dined!!) with Nancy Bush–how exciting.

  I really enjoyed this episode and look forward to your next one.

  Also, I was excited to see your Faith jacket!! I just may need to knit one now!

  -Christine from Northern California

• 9 Ruth // Jan 27, 2007 at 2:13 pm

  The name of the country is not “The Holland”. It’s either “Holland” or “The Netherlands”. I was going to overlook this when you said “The Holland” once in episode 12, but then in episode 13 you say it three times! Sorry - I just can’t stand mispronounciations.
  Otherwise - great podcast. I’m glad you are back! Best wishes for your upcoming shoulder surgery.

• 10 s t a c i // Jan 27, 2007 at 2:48 pm

  Ruth - Christine and I both say “The Holland” because of a goof she made in a podcast long ago. She meant to say “The Hague” (in Holland), and said “The Holland” instead. It stuck. We both know what is correct, we just think it’s funny to say The Holland.

• 11 Stitchy Fingers // Jan 27, 2007 at 3:06 pm

  Early congratulations on your 1 year podcast anniversity (OK where did that word come from?) I mean anniversary.

  You wanted to hear from more Canadians – I’m one, but I live in Finland, does that count? I don’t remember knitting socks growing up in Canada so I suppose that I knit my first ones when I moved here to Finland. I’ve only used two types of yarn to knit socks and they are from a Finnish company called Novita. The one I usually use is ‘7 Veljestä’ and the other is ‘Nalle’. Both are 75% wool and 25% polyamide. I haven’t looked at other sock yarns because Novita is all that my LYS has. Well it isn’t a yarn store but it also sells yarn.

  Recently I’ve been knitting socks for a friend and her family. I like knitting socks because the actual knitting doesn’t take long and I’ve got a good pattern that was on the label of the Novita yarn. I don’t like knitting socks because I only use the same pattern! I should try another one but this one is so reliable and simple. Anybody have a suggestion of what sock pattern I should branch out with? Cuff down for me. I’ve never tried toe up and I don’t think that I ever will.

• 12 Kimberly // Jan 27, 2007 at 10:11 pm

  Hi Christine,
  I wanted to say that I’m here representing Canada…the province of New Brunswick to be exact. I download your podcase each week & am very excited to share my ‘SOCK’ story & be entered for the draw…however, I am abit microphone shy…is there a way that i can email it to you?

  Kimberly ‘Christine’

• 13 Rosie // Jan 28, 2007 at 7:16 am

  Hi there, first time listener.. just had to let you know that I’m from Australia! I know we’re about 10 hours ahead of england… not that that really helps, heehee..

• 14 Katura // Jan 28, 2007 at 10:42 am

  Your chat with Staci was really fun! Maybe we can hear more Knitting chats????

  About socks, What can I say? I LOVE socks! I picked up knitting because I wanted to make socks for my sister. My first pair(and first project)in worsted weight took me almost two years. I then moved on to hats and scarves but my love affair with knitting and socks really started when I saw Cool Socks, Warm Feet by Lucy Neatby in my LYS. At first I thought that it was a trick of photography! No one could make socks that perfectly and with yarn that fine! One day I worked up the courage and marched into the LYS and bought the book, some yarn and needles. If she could make socks like that than I could too, even if it took me 100 trys! It only took me two trys and I have been knitting socks ever since. I mostly use my own patterns. I mix and match using Lucy’s gauge calculations and different toes and Heels. I have made top down and toe up. I started on double points and now I use two circulars and do both socks at once, No second sock syndrome for me!I don’t have a favorite sock yarn yet because I have not had the chance to buy what I really, really want, Hand dyed Sock yarn! I have my eye on Fearless fibers and Socks that Rock. I plan to knit some thigh high socks of my own design next and I’d really like to try the pomatomus pattern If I can convert it to fit me. (I have very little feet!)

• 15 Janet // Jan 28, 2007 at 1:24 pm

  Christine, I am sure you’re totally enjoying your sockish experience with Nancy Bush by now and I’m excited that you’re going to be interviewing her for the Pointy Sticks podcast! As much as I love all things sock-related and I’m super-impressed with Nancy Bush, I was just not going to be able to devote an entire weekend to Nancy, even if it meant staying at the Tremont. So you see, I’m REALLY glad you’re bringing back the experience FOR us via your podcast. And, as a sidenote, I would LOVE it if you would interview Sara for your podcast — almost as much as Nancy Bush. She impresses me to no end!

  Of course, you know I love the Faith Jacket you knit and I remember your trying to decide on which color to purchase! You definitely made the best choice.

• 16 Marti // Jan 28, 2007 at 7:40 pm

  Wow! I love socks, now. I hated the first pair I made. They were toe-up, very simple, but I hated doing the first one, and it sat for nearly a year.

  For some reason, I got the gumption to knit the second one, and really loved it. I have no idea why! Since then, I’ve done two more toe-up pair, and just finished my first top-down pair this past week. They’re a really cool self-striping yarn, and I’ve worn them several times already!

  By the way, your Faith Jacket is gorgeous!

• 17 Stumbling Over Chaos :: Of reading and wallpaper // Jan 29, 2007 at 7:01 am

  […] Christine of Pointy Sticks is having a podcast anniversary (podiversary?!) contest. She’s interested in comments or blog posts about socks (before midnight, February 6) - additional details are available in her most recent podcast. Prizes include a Lyra mp3 player! […]

• 18 scout // Jan 29, 2007 at 7:42 am

  Socks? Well they are easy and portable. Plain and simple. I have to admit that I love the basic stockinette stitch sock better than anything really. I like picking pretty yarn to show off rather than a pretty pattern. That way I really can bring it anywhere with me and not have to think about what I’m doing. I love knitting kids’ socks more than anything! Simple AND fast!!

• 19 Pointy Sticks » More on the Podcastiversary Contest! // Jan 29, 2007 at 6:03 pm

  […] Seriously, how cool is that? Thank you, Scout! Be sure to enter so you have a chance to win! The “Grand Prize” is a Lyra mp3 player, although this prize is pretty darn grand if you ask me! […]

• 20 Colleen // Jan 29, 2007 at 6:49 pm

  LOVE YOU! Love the “poke you in the eye” song. So much fun! I had no idea all the fun times I was missing since I have to listen to podcasts on the pc. Yes, sadly I have NO mp3 player. Snif.
  I’ll totally link to you in my blog tomorrow!

• 21 Michelle // Jan 29, 2007 at 7:00 pm

  Just love your podcast! Happy Podcastiversary!

• 22 Katy // Jan 29, 2007 at 8:14 pm

  …blogging away as we speak I am a sock yarn nut. Living in Portland, OR I have more opportunity to stock up on Socks that Rock than the average…we can get it on the street - hee hee

  Loved the podcast and am really excited to hear the Nancy Bush interview. I knit up the rib and cable socks from IK last year and gifted them to my mom, who loves them…

  Keep up the great podcasting!
  Katy

• 23 Lauren // Jan 29, 2007 at 9:15 pm

  I just found your podcast and have enjoyed the last two eps very much. I’m currently knitting my second-ever pair of socks, though I took a break to do some of Knitty’s Fuzzy Feet so I guess that’d make three pairs. They make great portable knitting and I’m loving how I can learn to customize them to my foot dimensions. I look forward to a lifetime obsession with socks!

• 24 Kristin // Jan 29, 2007 at 10:10 pm

  Since I’m no stranger to the microphone from volunteering at LibriVox, I had to record this on my computer rather than use Odeo. Here you go, my reason for knitting socks…

  http://librivox.greenkri.com/uploader/incoming/sock-knitting.mp3

• 25 Lisa // Jan 29, 2007 at 10:19 pm

  This was the first podcast I listened too. Thanks for the cool song at the beg.–love it! I also love knitting socks. So far, all my socks have been from Nancy Bush–all two of them. I can’t wait to hear the next podcast!

• 26 Kimberly // Jan 30, 2007 at 9:20 am

  I love listening to your podcast!! I just found you and I’m so glad I did-you’re great. Your songs are great too!! The one at the beginning made me so laugh at first that my colleagues were a bit worried (I love to listen at work while I’m preparing my lessons).
  Keep it up-Kimberly from Germany

• 27 chrispy // Jan 30, 2007 at 11:18 am

  I would like to say that I am from a Houstonian family. My grandmother and her siblings (6) were born and raised in Houston and still living there. My father was born and lived in Houston till he was 35 and I was born and raised till I was 12 when my parents moved overseas. Just thought I would let you know about those of us who have deep roots in Houston.

  I live outside the state because I married someone from Washington state.

• 28 Kenyetta // Jan 30, 2007 at 12:54 pm

  Let’s see socks…
  I love to knit socks because they are so pretty, and you can personalize them to your own taste.
  I hate to knit socks because you have to make two! It takes a while, I am new to sock knitting- 4 pairs made. Except for my youngest DD’s socks, her’s are easy and small.
  My favorite pattern, I have made them twice, is Knitty’s Monkey pattern. I want to try Knitty’s Red Herring, and Jaywalkers. I have only made top down but I want to try toe up one day.
  I have only used Socketta, Knitpicks and a cone of unknown sock yarn. I just won 2 skeins of Gloss- so soft, can’t wait to try it.
  I am a nurse, and on my lunch breaks, I knit socks- since I learned sock knitting a few months, that is about all I have made!

• 29 Patti // Jan 30, 2007 at 9:37 pm

  Socks are very special to my sisters and I. We lost our Mom this last Christmas season and my sisters and I knit self patterning socks as we took care of her at home. We were so honoured and privilaged to have such a special Mom.She would help us with anything, sewing, quilting and knitting (she is the only one of us able to follow a crochet pattern…the rest of us just fake it). Mom was great at taking out our mistakes, fixing our errors and handing it back to us. The last hour of her life I struggled with a german heel, I’d lost the stitches and even though I’d counted it many times I couldn’t figure it out. I finally put it down and concentrated on Mom. Hours later I picked up the sock to figure out where I’d gone wrong and the sock was right. I’m sure I’d been blessed with one more fix from my Mom….because that’s what Moms do best….they fix. My sisters and I have told this sock story many times and some believe and some people think we’re crazy. Whatever you want to believe I know that I have wonderful, warm and truely blessed socks. Thanks Mom, we love you to the ends of the earth and beyond. Thanks for asking about socks. We love your podcast (and the wicked song!)

• 30 Beth // Jan 31, 2007 at 6:54 am

  I’m going to be brave and admit I’ve never listened to a Podcast because I don’t own an MP3 Player. I don’t really know much about podcasts but I think they’d keep me good company on my morning walks (I walk 4 miles every morning). I could listen on the computer, I know, but that would mean having all the boy noise in the background. I guess I need an MP3 player.

  Socks are my all time favorite thing to knit. I always have a pair of socks going and usually have many more planned. My entire stash is sock yarn. I’ll have to explain more on my blog.

• 31 Tracy // Jan 31, 2007 at 2:05 pm

  Happy Podiversary, Christine! Lyras are sweet little players, I listen to you on mine while I walk back and forth to work - and when it’s warm enough, while I walk and knit. I admit I never stopped to really think about why I love knitting socks. Now thanks to you, I’ve posted my own confessions on my blog.

  For keeping me company at work when I can’t knit, thank you!

• 32 Kristin // Jan 31, 2007 at 2:25 pm

  Loved the podcast!! Kept me amused during my drive to Huntsvile Keep it up!

• 33 Jan // Jan 31, 2007 at 4:00 pm

  Great podcast! Happy Anniversary.

  Do you have the address of the charity Staci mentioned — where she sent her yarn?

  A great way to clean out stash.

  Thanks for your hard work — times two on this podcast.

• 34 Carie // Feb 5, 2007 at 5:09 pm

  Hi Christine, Happy Podiversary! Now about those socks…! I have to admit to a constant addiction to sock knitting mainly because I commute for 1 1/2 - 2 hours a day on the train and socks are the only thing to keep me sane and not frustrated by the train delays - plus you get some fanstastic odd looks from the fellow passengers and I think some of the regular conductors are rather intrigued. My sock yarn stash is not as impressive as many as I usuallly buy sock yarn and then knit it up fairly soon after (within 6 months anyway!) I do have lots and lots of leftovers and while I keep thinking about starting a sock yarn blankie like Shelly (the Heathen Housewife) has done I’m intrigued to see how much of the leftovers can actually go back into a pair of socks!
  I’m currently test knitting a pair of socks for Anna Tillman’s new book and these are just fantastic patterns - I can’t say more so we’ll all have to watch and wait!!
  Carie

• 35 Nicole // Feb 5, 2007 at 11:57 pm

  I’m another Canadian listener; I’m from BC.

  About socks… I’m an inexperienced knitter - not exactly new, but I don’t knit as often as I’d like to because classes get in the way - and I’ve only made a few pairs of very basic socks so far. I’d like to be better at it, because socks seem like something that I can make with creative colours or patterns and still end up wanting to wear, and because I see so many beautiful socks on the internet.

• 36 The Purloined Letter // Feb 6, 2007 at 2:02 pm

  I’ve linked to you but I’m having trouble leaving you a comment. Please forgive me if a bunch appear at once!

• 37 Hannah // Feb 6, 2007 at 2:17 pm

  I’m not sure why I can’t seem to comment on your site–but I did write about socks here:
  http://thepurloinedletter.blogspot.com/2007/02/socks-to-save-us.html

• 38 Persnickety Knitter // Feb 6, 2007 at 7:21 pm

  Happy Anniversary, Christine. I’ve really been enjoying your podcast. Here’s to another great year of podcasting!

  You asked about socks. Well, I love making socks. I almost always have a sock in progress. I’m a top-down sock knitter and I prefer the traditional heel flap; I find it fits my foot better. I really like the colors of Trekking yarn, but I find it kind of splitty to knit with. I think my favorite sock yarns I’ve used so far are Socks That Rock and Mountain Colors Bearfoot (the addition of mohair makes them so cozy).

• 39 Andrea // Feb 15, 2007 at 12:57 pm

  I attempted to send you an odeo commment today… it’s my first time, so I’m not entirely sure it worked. It’s nothing exciting… just a hello from Canada.

• 40 Susan // Feb 25, 2007 at 9:06 am

  Hi,
  Had to let you know that you do have listeners in Asia. I’m writing to you from Singapore. However, I am a Minnesotan who’s just a loooong way from home. Not much wool or mohair over here )c:

  Also wanted to let you know that the one of the children I taught when I lived in Malaysia was from Holland and she would have loved hearing it called The Holland. That’s certainly how SHE thinks of it.

  So glad I found your blog and podcast. This was the first of your podcasts that I’ve heard. I look forward to listening more.

  And about socks… I’ve never knit a sock. As I’ve been reading knitting blogs I’ve come to realize that many people love knitting socks. At first that mystified me since they seem like they’d be difficult. Then I started seeing how lovely so many of the designs were and now I know that there are socks in my future, but they will need to be gifts because we don’t wear socks in Singapore! (It is much too hot for socks.)

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