Episode 105 | Slow Knitting

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In this episode I chat with Hannah Thiessen, freelance creative and social media consultant, and author of Slow Knitting: A Journey from Sheep to Skein to Stitch (affiliate link). The book focuses on enjoying the entire process, from knowing about your yarn, to swatching for it to tell you what it wants to be, to the actual knitting. It’s very much a book about a philosophy of knitting that would be applicable to crochet, weaving, and really, any yarn craft.

Show Notes:

• Slow Food Movement
• Slow Fashion Movement
• The quote I read from the book section called Experiment Fearlessly:
  

  Putting slow knitting into practice will allow you to muse over the simplicity of the stitches you know and rise to the challenge of using new techniques and materials. Take away the burden of perfection, and instead allow yourself to embrace or correct your mistakes as they come.
  

• Product vs. Process Knitting
• My favorite Interchangable Needle Sets, Hiya Hiya Sharps in 4″ and 5″ for the smaller sizes, and 5″ only for the larger sizes.  (all affiliate links)
• Hannah’s current swatch: Salt River Mills Simply Surrey, on size 3 needles.
• Some of Hannah’s Yarn Pornography
  
• The 10 patterns in Slow Knitting on Ravelry
• Green Mountain Spinnery’s Yarns and Weekend Wool
• Veronik Avery designed Luma in the book.
• Julia Farwell-Clay designed Russian Sage in the book.
• Bristol Ivy designed Tsuga Cardigan in the book.
• Jennifer Wood designed Wild Grains in the book.
• Carol Feller (the interviewee of episode 102!) worked with Weekend Wool to make the Hepatica Cowl.
• Vogue Knitting Live
• Woolfolk, which we wax poetic about and particularly Får.
• Shibui Yarns
• My post about the shaming in the green movement
• Organic Certification and what it really means.
• Loopville Yarn in Knoxville, TN
• Clover Hat designed by Rachel Coopey, Hannah’s gift to you all! Worked in Stein Wool. See below for details.
• The Beginner patterns: Michele Wang‘s Rhodiola, The Hepatica Cowl linked above, and Pam Allen‘s Sheep Sorrel Hat & Mitts.
• The video about people who work at Pantone and the testing.
  

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Next episode in 2 weeks with Jennifer Tepper-Heverley of Spirit Trail Fiberworks

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