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Kim Werker is a writer, editor, and instructor living in Vancouver, BC. Kim’s work really focuses on editorial and helping people find the joy and the fulfillment of making and learning to embrace failure and the ugly as a natural part of the process.

Interview Notes:

Kim’s Website
Friendship Bracelets! from Purl Soho
Interweave Crochet Magazine
Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years (affiliate link)
Mighty Ugly (affiliate link)
Radical Egalitarianism
Humanism
My Sandals
Stories We Tell Ourselves – Kim’s Video Presentation
Incidentally here are Kim’s Bluprint Classes (affiliate links all!)
Crochet Basics & Beyond
Next Steps in Crochet
Crochet In the Round: Basics & Beyond
ZigZag Crochet: A Beginner’s Guide to Ripples & Waves
The Uncanny Valley
The Creative Adventurer Community
Compulsory Podcast. Catch up with the back catalog before the new episodes start!
How to Be Sick by Toni Bernhard (affiliate link)
My doctor’s office is one of the top Fibro docs in the country. She runs a bunch of support stuff, so check that out, spoonies.
Sign Up for Kim’s Newsletter! It’s fun!
Kim’s Patreon

So what are the stories you’re telling yourself? What have you convinced yourself that you’re incapable of doing. Or that you would just fail if you tried?

Have you got that? Hold it in your mind? Now listen closely. You can do that thing. Your first attempt might be kind of shitty. That’s ok. In fact, that’s GOOD. Do it anyway. Do the hard thing. In fact. Do the hard thing and then tag me either as @mimknits or @yarnstoriespodcast with the hashtag #doingthehardthing. I want to see you all making what scared you. I want to see you work past that fear. I want you to show others that they can do the hard thing too.

You can follow me in all my making at Miriam Felton Knit Designs on Facebook, and on Twitter or Instagram. Thank you so much to the patrons who keep this podcast paid for. You can join the Patreon at patreon.com/miriamfelton

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This podcast was produced in Salt Lake City UT, with production help from Sid Fallon. Music is by the ever illusive Breakmaster Cylinder.

I’ll be back here in 2 weeks talking to Shannon Welsh of Fibre Evolution Bast Fiber Producers.

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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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This podcast was produced in Salt Lake City UT, with production help from Sid Fallon. Music is by the ever illusive Breakmaster Cylinder.

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

To receive the free Clover Hat Pattern, subscribe before end of day January 11th.

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