Show Notes for Episode #56! Return of the Living Knitters

Everything mystical! From the chair to the appendix to the mysterious flu that came from Not The Hospital!

On The Needles

Miss Violet has finished the Nottingham sweater, a pair of socks, a pair of Monkeys, a pair of RPM, and a shawl. She has a Market Bag in progress and a pair of RPM.
Carin has finished two baby sweaters, a Mystic Light Shawl, learned to cable without a cable needle, three pairs of Monkey socks, began going green and using kitchen cotton to make bags. Finished spinning Big Yellow Taxi and gave it to mom, started spinning the local llama yarn,

News
BMFA has new colors and Rock Star has been found to cause retina scarring.
Amy Singer was interviewed by Canadian teevee!

Thank Yous!
Thanks Cynthia for the yarn
Thanks Divaknitting for the stitchmarkers.
Thanks for the beer!
Thanks a TON to all of you who donated!


YARN PR0N
Valley Yarns Northampton
More Big Girl Knits (Kit's note: I swear up and down she was saying Morbid Girl Knits and I was looking for some Goth Chic website)
A Fine Fleece

Episode #56! Return of the Living Knitters

Back from the (near) dead, and still buried in yarn.

Go figure.

Show notes forthcoming, if AdminKit remembers how to log in! :)

Thanks for hanging in there during the illness/vacation times, folkses!


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SQUEE!

p.s. Music is by Marc Gunn as entitled "Shakespearean Pie". OMG, he *rules*.

To put your minds at ease

Many of you have asked regarding the next podcast and what's going on. We're all very sorry for the silence but there's been a series of un-good events (not to rip off any popular series or anything) that has caused the ladies Lime and Violet to take a bit of a small hiatus.

Never fear, another podcast should come up at very LEAST before the year ends. I'm kind of joking. See, if another podcast comes up in--say--June, hey, that's before the end of the year, right?

Anyways, no one's dead thanks to Emma's unrelenting vigilance. Otherwise the ninjas would surely have won.

Please join us on the Message Boards or on Ravelry for better updates than this one.

Love,

AdminKit, Lime, and Violet.

Episode #54 Show Notes

It's Episode 54! And we have shaved butts, free with every dental check-up! Then there was crazy wine imbibing. This is not as related as one would think.

On the Needles

-Carin's knitting up the yarn from the I've Got You Babe roving and making Monkey Socks and just turned the heel using Magic Loop
-And then finished the first Baby Tulip Sweater
-And then started the Sweet Baby Boy Tulip Sweater.
-The Swan Lake Shawl took a swan dive into the Frog Pond.
-The Hermione Mitten-uh joined the Shawl.

-Violet is making Saartje Baby Booties
-And a shawl made of assorted handspun.
-And she will be making SSH an Alligator Scarf for Christmas! (FIL may wind up with a Tortuga Hat)

Then Carin's Trip To the Des Moines, Iowa Metro Knitters Winter Retreat. Most will be in the next episode but here are some of the highlights like a goody bag!
-Cute Stitch Markers
-A Mitten Cookie *nom nom*
-Snowcone Hot Chocolate Mix for Twooo~! in a really big mug
-A Metro Knitters Tape Measure
-A plain decorate-able clear plastic knitting project bag
-Sportweight Alpaca from Hollywood Hills Boutique

Thank yous and we love yous
-Nancy from Random Notions sent teeny stitch markers
-To our best listeners in the world. Sheepy kisses!
-And our fabulous producer, Gwen aka theaudiochick! <3

Yarn and stuff Pr0n
-Wee Ones stitch markers Bichons

Book Pr0n
-Making Mathematics With Needleworks
-Knitting New Mittens and Gloves: Warm and Adorn Your Hands in 28 Innovative Ways

And Ending song is The Jolly Rogers - Curvy Girls :)

L&V #53: Slow Down, Speed Kills Show Notes!

Violet is sick but not contagious. Perhaps the lingering sick is in part due to the asshat of a "web programmer" (air quotes!) who would try the patience of a comatose person. Sympathies from us all, V. Why do you always get the crazies coming to you? Also, nice censoring skills, Gwen!

Carin decided to take her chances and left the Hazmat suit behind. Perhaps she is relying on the power of cheesecake. After all, it was made/bought by nurses so maybe the aura of powerful nursing...powers kept the sick at bay. Along with the pizza vitamins. Or the Goth Boi love heart bubbles (go Carin!).

On the needles
Carin's working on:
- Stockinette sock: Austermann sock in a leafy Peach Melba (color #10)
- Blue Moon Sock of the Month: January Rockin' Sock Kit
- Leaf Lace Shawl
- The oldest WIP in her stash, a Fishman Sweater that may have to hit the Frog Pond.
- Branching Out in 100% mohair.

Violet is working on:
No knitting, all spinning! That's what you get with a Woolee Winder!
- Except for the Anemoi Mittens in Oceanwind Knits Berrijus in fingering and a skein of Louet Gems

Yarn Pron:
- Carin's Vintage Kit came with 27 pages of instructions. Of course, only 1 of those pages is the actual pattern
- Carin's Tulip Baby Cardigan Kit came in and they're sooo stinkin' cute.
- Violet's Yarn Pirate Sock Club package came in. Golly, how is YP doing it when she's ready to pop?
- Yarntini in the next Loopy Ewe Sock Club, yummy!
- Hill Country Yarn Sock Club came in, too! And the pattern is by TylerMacek!
- Creatively Dyed Yarn too!
- Then there's love in the air and its name is Sandy and her Etsy shop: BunkyBoBos

Books Pr0n
- Going Straight - knitting hats on straight needles, yay!
- Latvian Mittens: Traditional Designs & Techniques by Lizbeth Upitis
- Kristin Knits by Kristin Nicholas
- Start Spinning: Everything You Need to Know to Make Great Yarn by Maggie Casey

Thank Yous and Cookies
- Candace sent V a DVD full of Lime&Violet podcasts 1-50. THANK YOU!
- Thank you to all the marvelous test knitters! You're all fabulous!

Music is by Her Space Holiday called A Match Made In Texas.

Episode 54 - Only The Red Ones, Please

Full show notes forthcoming, but suffice it to say that the girls, once again, are able to yap at you for an hour and a half about just about nothing. Yarn is involved, a nice weekend with yarngirls, and Violet's crazy-ass dog decides that only red food is worth eating. And there are books. Really, really good books.

Oh, and a little brush with fame that you geekflag wavers will understand. Oh. MAh. Gawd.

Music was picked by Executive Producer Gwen, so when she lets us know what it is, we'll let you know, too. :)

Download it here:

or get it from iTunes!

---v

L&V #53: Slow Down, Speed Kills

V's sick. The cobd in her dose id fairly evidendt, but the Power of DayQuil saves the day.

The girls chatter about the set-up job V tried to pull on Carin when she wasn't looking (and netted her a goth boy in vinyl pants), a whole lot of cheesecake, and growing your own buttfloss.

Oh, and there's knitting, too. And yarn. Seriously.

Full show notes coming soon!

Listen here:


---v

Episode 52 show notes

And we start with a de-snotting but isn't that what a good 66% of the population is doing right now anyways? Eck.

What's up with the girls?
- Carin finished her Monkey Socks for Mom
- Carin counted 124 pairs of sock yarn and destashed 33 skeins.
- Miss V has a dead llama from brain worms in her dumpster (thank you, in-laws).
- Miss V is not a drag queen. Thanks SSH.
- Miss V is working on a "swatch". Air quotes!
- The swatch is for the Artist's Smock from Indigo Knits.
- Then SSH is getting a sweater for Valentine's Day his birthday. Broad shoulder sweater, sounds sexy.
- Miss V is making a Klah-pooh-tiee!
- Miss V is spinning Raven, CJCopec, Yarn Love, Pigeonroofstudios, Copperpot Woolies, Red Barn Fibers in Autumn, and started some more CJCopec (who is needing help to go pee at the fiber fest, check the Message Boards).
- And there was good mail. The BPAL package came in for both girls and for Miss V; a pan, a measuring cup, about five billion books, fiber, her Diabolical trade--fiber and Kauni yarn, and her Yarn Pirate sock club came in.
- Carin ordered some Tulip Baby Sweater kits, thanks for everyone's links!
- Mystic Waters lady is designing shawls for all elements. Mystic Lights is up next.
- Check out the Benefit Bar, both search tools work to help donations.

Lime & Violet Pr0n
- Salish Indian Sweaters (sorry, the $2 one is gone).
- Sarah's Yarns.com
- Pluckyfluff's Intertwined
- Decadent Fibers Yarn Mmm, I'm hungry.

Lime & Violet News
- The winner for the Art Journal contest will be announced on the Chum sometime this week.
- Knitwars "Quest for StitchKeep Castle" - Ravelry board and Message Thread to come. And if you can, please donate $10 to get a gold membership. Thank you!
- Finishalongapalooza 2008 (on Ravelry and MB thread)! What UFOs do you have? And what are you able to finish this month?
- Carin's working on her patterns for all of you who want to be Test Knitters. :)

And we end on "Lemonade". Liquid sunshine, mm.

Episode 52: What's in YOUR Dumpster?

Just wait 'til you hear what's in Violet's...

Song is by Smallfish, "Lemonade", since it's snowing here AGAIN and we could use some thoughts of citrusy warm goodness. Stupid snow.

We talk about llamas and dog heads and yarn and play matchmaker. And squee a lot about books, because we do that. Violet makes a swatch; Carin casts on verboten socks.

Full show notes coming soon! (As in, when it's not 4:30 a.m. and V hasn't been up for almost a day.)

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love and cookies,
the girls, and the Llama that Is No More.

Show Notes for Episode 51 - Snorting Caffeine

'twas two weeks after Christmas and all thru house, Carin was answering movie trivia questions and Violet was freaking out about how it was already halfway through January. Oh wait, that didn't rhyme. *ahem* On to the Show Notes!

On the Needles:

Carin:
-She became a Hooker and is making Crocheted Bath Poufs! (This may not be the same one, but it's pretty.)
-Finished spinning and plying Magic Carpet Ride for mom.
-Finished plying "I Got You Babe".
-Finished Lenore Socks.
-Started Monkey Socks in Lisa Souza's Berry Poppins
-Working on the Secret Project
-Still working on Cherie Amour

Violet
-Finished the crocheted blanket for mom.
-Finished Montego Bay scarf also for mom.
-Finished Father-in-law's Sexy Turkey Hat

Yarn Porn:
-Tsock Tzarina Flock sock club

Thank Yous!:
-Thank you for the scones and test knitting, Ms. Merino!
-Thank you Sheri from Twist Yarn Shop for the shirts!
-Thank you Diane of Creatively Dyed Yarn for the outrageously fabulous yarn!
-Thank you Cat of Sweetie Peas Boutique for the stitch markers!
-Thank you Emily for the awesome yarn balls!
-Thank you Jennifer for the Greek Deli Coffee Cozy Kits!
-Thank you A for the Lime & Violet barbies!
-Thank you Knitfink from the previous blogcast where Violet was the goddess of efficiency and absent-mindedness. ;)

News:
-Caren needs test knitters: knitters at limenviolet.com
-The Snuggles Project for shelter animals.

And music is "Creative Commons Anthem" by FUMP!

--AdminKit