hi everybody and welcome to the irocknits podcast i'm cori Eichelberger and
how do you like that new music
i picked it so that we would have
something new going into our third year
here
i like it i think it's soft and pretty
for
a gentle start but then it also has some
fun parts with a little bit of
instrumental in it
it is called new day and it's by ixan
i-k-s-o-n
which is i think it has a little bit of
a fun
uh melody
i had a question this week and i really
want to get on it right away because i
think it is so
applicable and in two years i've never
talked about it
where is victoria minnesota
so i have people from around the world
that watch this podcast and they have
no idea where i'm at so i have a little
bit of a
a map here for you the united states
canada
mexico here i am at little budot
and so i am in the northern part of the
united states and here you are close up
so in minnesota minneapolis
is right there
on your right side
so in the northern half of the and just
to the uh west of the great lakes so
part of minnesota touches lake superior
um we have superior minnesota or spear
wisconsin duluth minnesota
right at that juncture and then the
mississippi river
runs down so the minnesota river runs
into the mississippi river and that is
the border
between minnesota and wisconsin on the
one side
and then on the other side would be the
border of south dakota which is where i
grew up and then directly below us would
be iowa where my daughter went to school
so we kind of are a midwest state that
is
tall and has a little peak out at the
top like this
it's very tall and narrow and minnesota
is almost as tall as south
dakota and north dakota put together
that makes sense so they're a little bit
bigger than we are side by side so for
those of you that had really no idea
hopefully i'll do a really good job of
putting these
up on the screen so that you can see
exactly where i'm
at in relation to but
not really far from the exact center of
north america
really
i'm wearing my atta girl today and uh i
put yellow buttons on it but it really
is
dark green on lime green it really
doesn't have that much yellow in it so i
put a lime green t-shirt under it today
instead of
my usual yellow dress or my dark green
dress
trying to still hang on to a tiny bit of
summer
here in minnesota
i have two audiobooks to tell you about
this week the first one was the
forgotten garden by kate morton
that i could hardly wait to finish last
week
it was a very long book and it really is
about um you know family uh living along
the coast
and and the trauma that happened with
um the sisters and
um and then someone going back and
finding out all these things about her
grandmother and
what had happened to her growing up and
who these
people were and oh i i really enjoyed it
um it was just a wonderful story i
really did like it
and then i started this tenderland by
kent krueger who is a minnesota author
and we are starting back to book club in
september and that's our september book
we read ordinary grace
i think that's what's called by him
a few years back and so now we picked
this one we started it in the car on the
way
back from our vacation up north which i
have to tell you about
uh my husband and i decided to go away
for a week before i have my thumb
surgery before my book goes live
before he goes into his busiest time of
year which is
october um and we went up and stayed in
a cabin on the north shore
so way up along lake superior
and then you head north and where we
were about 30 miles from canada
roughly so we were up there for a week
we were supposed to go on
to from sunday until saturday but in the
previous two weeks
my husband has had a couple of car
breakdowns
so he restores old cars and he has a
corvette
and a trans am that he is currently
you know driving because they're all
fixed up well
had a little struggle and he's had to
have have a flatbed trailer tow him home
on
three separate occasions before he
figured out
actually what was going wrong so he sent
the transmission away
to be fixed and then we left on vacation
but i could tell it was really bothering
him that the only car we had available
to us
even though we are a multi-car
multi-boat family was mine
in the moment and so all week he was
he's kind of stewing on how bad was the
damage will they be able to fix it
it's an old you know they're old
vehicles so
um harder to get people to work on them
and so he's finally said to me midweek i
would really like to go home on friday
if we could pick up the transmission by
five o'clock on friday
then i could work on the weekend and get
that into the corvette and then at least
i would feel like i have a car to drive
now
he doesn't need a car to drive because
he's not going to work and
we can share a car mostly i'm at home
but it was
i knew it was really bothering me kind
of like being away without your knitting
right like you forgot it you're
somewhere and you're just like oh if i
could just
get my knitting back everything would be
better so i said okay
you know we'll go home a day early
that's fine well then as many of you
know while we were away
um another
police shooting occurred in wisconsin
and it was horrific and we had heard
about it briefly
um via some updates on our phone but
hadn't been here to really see it and
then my husband got a call
um on wednesday night that some of the
looting had occurred in downtown near
his office building and they're on the
ninth and tenth floor but
a lot of businesses around there were
being vandalized and trashed and his
people were trying to get hold of him
and we were kind of out of cell phone
range and kind of in cell phone range
sometimes
and he was feeling pressure to tell
people no one should go into work
tomorrow there there are just a few
people that go in to kind of
maintain things that are happening there
most of people working from home but
he turned to me and said i think we
should go home in the morning
or we woke up thursday morning and i
knew what was coming
and i said you know okay and he kind of
dangled this carrot
you know we could stop at a couple
places on the way home but if we could
get home
today you know we could do some
sightseeing we've never ever walked out
to split rock
uh lighthouse which is right on the
shore we go by it every single time we
go
north we've never stopped and i had
wanted to stop and
and so i said okay you know but then we
started packing up
later than we should have and we
okay dog interruption but uh so we got a
late start
and then we were getting down the road
and then he said i
i don't know that we should stop and we
were gonna stop at betty's pies for
anybody who knows about
going up the north shore it's just an
iconic
tiny little diner that now they've you
know
made a bigger space for but we hadn't
been there in years and we had stopped
there
last year and so we were gonna eat
breakfast there on friday morning and
now it's thursday afternoon
and we had packed sandwiches for in the
car and so we just
drove straight home we got home on
thursday night
and then i pouted
i just was mad i was just frustrated we
had such a lovely time and it is always
very hard for my husband to be away and
stay away
he is kind of a doer and kind of busy
and
he did his two big portage day trips we
went to town one day
we had relaxed enough that's kind of how
i felt and so then i was kind of
frustrated with them because
we got home and he just wanted to dive
right back into work and i just wanted
to have my two days back my two days of
sitting
in the you know in the cabin knitting
and i'm doing working on a new design
and he knew that and so
i have i was just knitting away and i
was really struggling with the numbers
and trying to get them worked out and
trying to do it in the car on the way
home i
kind of threw my knitting down the floor
i was just mad it was
not the way a grown woman should act
but it is what it is i was frustrated
and
now i have my head around the fact that
i worked
friday for 12 hours on the e-book and
saturday last night i went to bed at 1
15.
i'm just pounding in the time to get
two designs off the needles an ebook an
eight book
eight pattern e-book done uh in
additional
uh i also have a new cowl pattern coming
out here in the next few weeks
and juggling all this with everything
i i just went right back into full-on on
the computer mode
my husband comes in from the garage
every couple of hours and says you're
still on the computer
and i say you're still in the garage
which is why i was mad
that we didn't come home so anyway it's
fine we're home we're working
i'm breaking back in here because i
forgot to finish talking
about the book as i went into the
vacation story so
this tenderland is a minnesota author
rating about um
a sad story um
it's located on the banks of the gilead
river in minnesota
lincoln school is home to hundreds of
native american boys and girls who have
been separated from their families
the only two white boys in the school or
orphan brothers odie and albert who
under the watchful eyes of the cruel
superintendent mrs brickman
are often in trouble for misdeeds the
two boy's best friend is mose
a mute native american who is also the
strongest kid in school
and they finally find another ally in
cora frost a widowed teacher who is
raising her little girl emmy
by herself when tragedy strikes down mrs
frost it's the catalyst for a series of
events that will send
odie albert and moe's to rescue emmy and
flee down the river in a canoe
the first however much i've listened to
so far the first couple of hours are
hard to listen to
for me i have a empathetic um
response to
you know kids who are struggling kids
who are being hurt or
it's not well it's abusive it i'm sure
it's exactly the way it happened
um where when we took children away from
native american families put them in
schools to teach them how to be white
um but uh i definitely know that it will
probably become
a much better reading experience
once we get through that so we started
and then it was just hard for me to
listen to the beginning
parts of it um william kent krueger
usually does an excellent job of writing
stories so i would highly recommend him
this one just i'm um on chapter 11.
so i'm not that far in it just made it
makes me sad
that we treated people that way but
i wanted to break in and tell you that
um what the story was about and then
also to share the fact that some of you
saw
on on our way up north in the car i
looked down and the diamond
uh center diamond on my wedding ring was
gone
and it just i just couldn't believe it i
snagged
my shirt in the car and it happened in a
moment where we were both looking
at me and then i pulled it and i was
like oh i snagged my shirt and then we
moved along
but the reason that i snagged my shirt
is because the diamond was no longer
there and then the little prongs were
there and so it must have been an hour
or two later when i realized that
it was gone so we are looking at home
and many many many people wrote me
of finding a diamond after the fact but
we had packed up and gone up you know
we're on our way up north and
i could have banged it at any given time
over the last
several days i feel like i would have
noticed but i'm i don't have great hopes
and that was the diamond that my husband
bought me when we got engaged
he didn't have a lot of money i didn't
have a lot of i didn't have any money
let's be honest i had no money i was in
debt i was a poor teacher
living in a small town making no money
fifteen thousand dollars a year my first
year and we got paid monthly and
i just had no money so his uncle who was
a jeweler in small town in minnesota
sold him this diamond ring
and it was more than he could afford and
his uncle gave him a deal
so it has a special meeting for me we
had had it reset
i don't know and maybe after our 15-year
anniversary or something
but the diamond was still that original
diamond so
it will be covered under insurance
things are replaceable
it's just the memories right but it was
kind of a bummer way to start
our vacation so now i'll chop back into
where i left off on the other story i
have my surgery on wednesday
and so we i have a new plan here i'm
going to upload this podcast
uh tuesday as usual and this is going to
be just your typical
shawl and sweater podcast i have a tip
or trick i also have some podcasts to
shout out
i have recipes for you and then i'm
going to turn right back around and
record another podcast
immediately which will be a similarly
formatted podcast but the entire uh
center section will all be on all the
designs for the ebook
i made the difficult decision before we
left to go up north that i wasn't quite
ready
and i had a lot of stress and anxiety
and someone very wise who lives in my
house with me
said is there any reason that you
couldn't just put the ebook out
after your surgery does it have to go up
the day before your surgery
and i was also speaking with another
friend a
designer about some marketing stuff
who's very kind to me and sharing
some information and knowledge that she
has and i could tell that she was like
wow you're gonna try to put
your ebook up and then you're gonna have
hand surgery the next day
she didn't say anything but these two
things
two people adult people in my life could
tell
that i was stressed out and i thought
why i gave myself this arbitrary
deadline to work toward
that i would get this ebook done but
really
putting up eight patterns in an e-book
with discounts and advertising and
marketing that you need to do
is not going to be well coordinated on
pain medication
right you i'm already a little over the
top
um anyway and so i just said you're
right
ever you're all right i called my
daughter i called amber and i said
i think that maybe it should just go out
on labor day weekend
what is the harm in giving myself a
couple days at home
get my hand done kind of get myself
settled
and then just put the e-book up and so
although this was supposed to be the big
episode that i
included all the stuff from the e-book i
just decided
it really does make a lot more sense to
just do it in a few days
a few days later doesn't have to be a
hard fast deadline when it's your own
deadline that you set for yourself
so um i had a cardiologist appointment
on friday
that wasn't a virtual visit anyway but i
had planned to do it up at the lake and
ironically a year ago and i don't
know if i mentioned this or not but i
have a really high heart rate
exceedingly high so um i've been
monitored for years it's been this way
probably my whole life i do not have
like high blood pressure or low blood
pressure to go with it
but i do wear a watch that gives me
heart rate
um indications and i will sometimes
occasionally be sitting at rest and my
watch will go off and say that my heart
rate has exceeded 120 beeps per minute
which is why i think i have the
personality i do
like i'm always a little excited about
things a little geared up a little
you know ready to to go and i talk fast
and i think that's just part of what i
feel
and so cardiologist says
last year we did a lot of tests i'd been
five years and we did the whole you know
wore the thing
did the echocardiogram and she said you
know it's it's never going to go down
cory i take medication for but
it's never going to go down your average
beats per minute which is in a 24-hour
period
over the time that i wore the thing and
includes
sleep is 97.
so of course i a lot of times feel
pretty agitated and but also feel like i
have more energy
and then i will crash and burn and sleep
really hard right
so anyway all these things were coming
together and i was like why am i doing
this to myself
i think it's because i have excitement
about the fact that i wrote
you know eight patterns and ten stories
but
so this is how it's going to go all that
to say
regular podcast on tuesday and then
a second podcast coming up either the
4th
5th or 6th of september barring any
you know thing going wrong with my
surgery or me not feeling
good after my surgery or something which
shouldn't be a problem but
um i will put up the secondary podcast
for all of you to watch
if you have not signed up on my website
for
my newsletter you need to do that
it's going to save you a lot of money
so i i don't send out emails i don't
have a
blog where i give you updates all the
time but i usually will
say when i have a pattern come out and i
will give a discount
and so when the blog post
email blast goes live the podcast will
be up
and you will have a certain period of
time to save a bunch of money
okay tell your friends um
that's how i've decided to run it i'm
gonna try to amp it up in the first few
hours
and day of the patterns going live
i really need this to go well it has
been
a huge financial commitment for me
and so um i just need to sell some
books and recoup some of that money that
i've spent on yarn
and sample knitters and a tech editor
and a graphic designer and a layout
person and
all of that and a free photographer god
bless her
but anyway the ebook may
eventually come out as a print copy
now you certainly could take your file
in
and print it out i would like to print
some copies
i could not do that ahead of time
because i don't know how many pages were
going to be in the book because all the
pages weren't laid out
if that should happen and you want the
hardcover book
hardcover cover in addition to
that ebook then i would go ahead and
just
charge you the difference in the two
prices and then
it would the e-books would come out
that's how i'm doing it for right now i
i just need to get it out and be done
with it because i've made some other
commitments for the fall
and so i'm hoping that at some point
after the surgery
everything is happening either
pre-surgery or after surgery
that i'll be able to decide get a
financial
count on that maybe do pre-orders but
you could be looking for
for that information too if you follow
me on facebook or instagram
um or if i put it up on the next podcast
how do you know when a recipe is a very
special recipe
from someone else's kitchen you've never
made it
but you just happen to be in their
kitchen the recipe looks like a hot mess
because it's used all the time i even
have this in the sleeve
and i just took it out and it felt
sticky on one edge and i thought yep
that's probably some um
stickiness so my favorite salad recipe
of all
of all time my husband and daughter both
say oh it's a special meal when mom
makes
this recipe it is for uh salad
mandarin almond you take three
tablespoons of sugar and put it in a
little saucepan and then you caramelize
it heat it up
melt it just a tiny bit right before it
goes
past to burn and you put in a half a cup
of slivered almonds
and you stir that up and and it makes
kind of a mess on your fork and
and then you i put it in a ceramic bowl
i pour it out into a ceramic bowl
set the bowl in the freezer or the
refrigerator to cool down quickly
and then i'll take what's in there which
is usually kind of
a hard clump of sugared almonds in and
put them into a baggie
and then just bang baggy with a
mallet or rolling pin to kind of break
it up and
so basically make sugared almonds
then you take um a bunch of red leaf
lettuce and and tear it i
really prefer the red leaf lettuce for
this salad
uh a can of mandarin oranges
drained and a small red onion
and you cut up or tear all your lettuce
pour your mandarin oranges over the top
put the red onion in the salad or set it
off
the side in a bowl if you think that
people will not
want the red onion on it like my husband
and then you make the dressing a
tablespoon of sugar
quarter cup of vegetable oil two
tablespoons of vinegar
some fresh parsley or parsley flakes a
salt pepper
and then a little bit of hot pepper
sauce kind of a tabasco sauce hot red
pepper sauce i just
shake a few drops in there and stir that
up i will sometimes put that into a
plastic container and shake it and shake
it
and just pour it on before
you serve it but this salad is
best done not pouring the dressing on as
an
individual but as to making the salad
for everybody so we pour it over the top
of the big bowl
and then i mix it with my hands all the
dressing over
all of the mandarin oranges the sugared
almonds the
lettuce and then i just hand fill it
into our our bowls
i think it eats better that way i i like
it better
every every bit of the sauce is kind of
distributed
you don't get some lettuce without um
i'm going to show you a quick picture
here
i've been making it for years and i
often serve it
to company so it's like four ingredients
you make your sugared almonds if you can
find sugared almonds somewhere
i buy the little bag of slivered
and make my own but if you can find them
you could certainly buy them
don't eat it without them because it's
not as good if you don't have it with
with that and then the meal that i will
often serve if we're going to have
company but kind of homegrown
company or not fancy company or family
company
is baked spaghetti so um there used to
be
a uh restaurant in the mall of america
called tucci banooch
i don't know if those are nationwide or
not someone let me know if they've heard
of it but it was basically italian and
they had
baked spaghetti and then you choose your
sauce for the top
and it's basically just a block of
noodles together that they've cut out
kind of like a lasagna pan
you know cheese and noodles but then you
pick a meat sauce alfredo sauce red
sauce
cream you know whatever so
i make that baked spaghetti in a pan
and then cut the the squares out and
then i offer several sauces
so i will make a sun-dried tomato sauce
i'll make an alfredo sauce i'll make a
red meat sauce or a red plain sauce
whatever you know you prefer and some
people really like
red on one side and white on the other
kind of mixing it
uh but this is what is contained in
this i got the recipe from
the tucci banooch place online
but it has um spaghetti noodles
and then a container of whatever kind of
cheese you prefer to make
ricotta or um some people use cottage
cheese whatever
and then mozzarella two cups of
mozzarella cheese and then two eggs
two tablespoons of parsley flakes two
tablespoons of onion flakes it has some
cinnamon and nutmeg in it
um just for a little bit of flavor but
it's basically a white block
when you when you cut it out and put it
on someone's plate
it's not super appetizing looking but
it's it's the lasagna part of
you know just the block part and then
you pour your sauces over
so the baked spaghetti with mandarin
almond salad
to die for that's your recipe of the
week this week
okay i have a bunch of podcasts when i
was up at the lake i listened
people have sent me some i have so many
to shout out but i'm going to split them
out over
several podcasts just so that you can
kind of write them down remember i
always make the list um of all of these
things like the recipes are all in the
ravelry group show notes
the audiobooks are always there
i have a separate thread for all
audiobooks from
every podcast i ever did separate thread
for all of the
um recipes
i have updated the podcast thread
which was originally podcast quarry
watches kind of a list
and now i have added in podcasts that
i've been shouting out
because not everybody loves every
podcast right so
sometimes you just have to try them out
for yourself and listen for the few
first few minutes and see that if it
appeals to you so
i updated the podcast thread
flock around the table is a new
to me podcast it is from indiana three
women
sue micah and deb i listen to episode
six which was titled
feels like an orgasm
and they have a language
um what would you call it alert
they're a little naughty they can be a
little naughty if that you know
they're funny they're not it's not
they're not trying to be
you know vulgar or disrespectful
they're just having a good time these
three friends so
if they if that sounds like something
would interest you flock around the
table
drowning in yarn is a new podcast i
think it's
three weeks old so really new
that's caleb in chicago who is drowning
in yarn
and he had been talking about doing a
podcast for a while and then finally
decided to do it and then
i think he's the one that goes on the
walk to the yarn store
yeah goes and they walk yeah so you
might want to take look at that one
and another chicago podcaster who
started recently
is heather the fourth star
and she's on episode six so we have a
couple of chicago people who've probably
been
along with everyone else home during
quarantine and
was think we're you know they were
thinking hey i've always said i was
gonna start a podcast now is the time to
do it so that's kind of fun and i like
getting in on
you know the new ones uh it i think it's
fun to always watch that first episode
that everyone does when they're nervous
and
um trying to get things organized for
themselves
then uh this person is from new zealand
so gotta love the accent
this is jess and it is called fox's
blog knits i hope i wrote that right i
often make a mistake on these you guys
you know that right
i copy them down in um crappy fast
handwriting
and then i try to decipher that
handwriting later this is episode six
oh no what i'm not sure what episode i
watched of justice probably the first
one
just in northland new zealand
and then i have been watching in the
past and then didn't watch for a while
i think i just kind of lost lost it
is queen city yarn which is dying to
knit with kristen
and kristen is a knitwear designer and
yarn dyer out of north carolina
and she's on episode 32 so if you
haven't watched queen city yarn they die
beautiful yarns i had a design um that i
did up in their yard my bada bing
uh shawl pontini poncho capelet
all the things in that bada bing
and uh so it's called dying to knit so
dying like you dye yarn dye so there one
two three four
five new podcasts that i watch i think i
had a total of nine on my little scraps
of paper that i was
going through from being up north i'm
just lucky i keep track of
the little slips of paper i do have a
folder now that's orange
that says podcast notes on it
so if i see something i can say
you know put it in the folder at least
you'll
maybe remember that you were going to
talk about it
okay a couple of tips and tricks this
week
i have been noticing recently or maybe
i've noticed before
that people will often post something on
instagram and it will have a mistake in
it
they'll spell something wrong they'll
forget you know to say
whatever and then down below
in the comments they will tell you what
they meant to say or
they'll you know fix it or they'll say
you know sorry
whatever but you can fix your
post without having to do that so and
it's super simple and i just think
people don't know enough to look so
because i've done it a number of times i
thought i would share that
so if you're looking at my most recent
um post on instagram which is from my
vacation the
picture from my vacation and i took some
video for you guys up in the right hand
corner
are three dots and i may have talked
about this before
but i just noticed it recently again and
i thought i don't think people know
so if you touch on those three dots a
list comes up and one of them is edit
so you can just go in and edit click
edit
go in make your change cancel it save it
you're done
easy peasy also if you make a
comment on someone's post on instagram
and you
type it wrong or you hit send before you
meant to
you do not have to then also go in a
comment
below that and say sorry hit send too
soon or didn't do it right
you can just swipe right on your comment
and delete it and start over
so super super easy anyway just swipe on
your comment right
big red box with the trash can comes up
and type it over so two ways to make
yourself
seem like you're more together than you
actually were in the real life moment
ask me how i know
i need to thank you all so
much for your kind comments
your loving words that you sent to me
and my mom
after last week's last two weeks podcast
it has been amazing not nearly as many
people have watched that podcast as
previous podcasts
and i think it's because i put it's my
mom marge in the title and people are
like i don't want to watch her talk to
her mom
but those of you who did watch found out
that it was actually just a regular
podcast with mom as a speak
you know kind of a guest speaker at the
end
and you just made her day like she the
comments have been
overwhelmingly positive and kind
and loving and the fact that she has
really had a hard time
many of you reached out and said you
know you're missing your children you're
missing your grandchildren and you
haven't been able to see them
i just i can't thank you enough for
kind of encircling her in our little
family that we have over here because i
just talked to her again the other night
and one of you reached out and asked me
if you could send her a card
and you sent more than that and she was
super super tickled yesterday she could
not believe she got a package in the
mail
she didn't know who it was from she
opened it up there was the nicest card
with the nicest note
so you know who you are and thank you so
much for doing that i had no idea when
she sent me
a text message and a picture and said
look what i got
i was like where'd you get that from
because i had no idea
that she was actually getting a gift
that was just
she she was tickled she says i'm gonna
write them back and yeah
it was just really nice of all of you to
say such kind things i love her
with my whole heart and and i know she
loves me too but
it has been hard it's this has been
really hard on her and
the staying home and she's very social
like her daughter
let's do the shawl of the week this week
the show of the week is the ponchini
and i did talk about that uh on last
podcast with my mom
um she got one too and i
love this ponchini it is
well written you can wear it multitude
ways
it is fun to wear it's easy to knit
i did originally knit it with the be
sweet yarn
and that yarn comes out of africa
it's a woman's cooperative where they're
helping women
um in kind of a sustainable way to earn
an income
and you held your yarn double and
some of you heard me talk about that
before at you know
holding your yarn double doubles the
price so the reason
that people are designing things holding
mo hair
with things or holding two strands
together
is because then the yarn people sell
more yarn
right that is part of the
reason so this is lovely
yarn though i i would do this again in a
heartbeat this little baby mohair so
it's a very it's got a really nice halo
and then you're making these boxes with
yarn overs and stockinette in between
them
and then a yarn over row and then as you
will see it's
much longer on one side so you basically
knit a rectangle and then you fold it
so that you have like a head hole and
you stephen
b is the designer and he has done a ton
of different types of ponchini so you
can do a color black ponchini
a worsted weight a bulky weight this
one's called the
eyelet ponchini there are
i think nine or ten different iterations
of this design that you can you can do
it can be worn like a cowl
um you can wear the long tail on your
right or on your left it is
hooked together i highly recommend this
it was it was really fun to knit and
easy to do
so i put a white t-shirt on underneath
it today that's not usually what i would
wear
um but i want you to be able to see the
kind of the hole there you can see kind
of how that works
oh so it's flat across the front
and the back but then it has this kind
of tail
here lovely
here's my mom wearing hers
she sent me that picture
and she wore black under hers but yeah
it's a fun one i would definitely
recommend it it is available on ravelry
i
i assume you could get it also through
steven b by just calling the shop
it uses b sweet extra fine mohair and b
sweet bamboo
very soft very drapey it is considered
lace or fingering weight yarns but then
it's knit up at 18 stitches to four
inches on a six and an eight needle
so even though the yarns are both fine
it does work up quite quickly
350 people have made it and and he has
small medium large for sizes and many
other iterations so if you go out on
ravelry you can see all the other ways
that he has
designed this and made it mine hangs
much longer than that
mine's a little stretched out probably
could use a wash and a little juice in
the dryer
but um i'm afraid about that mohair
getting a little felted my mom's i felt
like my mom's a little felted even after
i just blocked it
so got to be careful a little careful
with that kind of stuff especially if
it's something you like to wear all the
time
and the sweater of the week this week is
what i call
the manos wrap front sweater because i
knit it in manos
but originally it's just called the neck
down wrap
cardigan and it is a knitting pure and
simple pattern it was designed in 2007
and it is a
staple it is a wonderful sweater
just classic design mine is wild and
crazy a little over the top
but it's just a phenomenal sweater so if
you have
a dancer ballerina ice skater in your
family
this is one of those traditional kind of
wrap front
sweaters that they would wear prior to
you know during their warm-ups or
whatever
500 people have knit this it's a knit
out of size 7 or 8 needle it's worsted
weight 18 stitches to 4 inches
i did do mine in a single ply yarn which
meant that it was going to pill like the
dickens but because
it is an entire blank slate of
stockinette stitch
it holds up to those variegated marled
yarns that you sometimes don't know what
to knit with them if you have a
sweater's quantity in your stash
that's got some high variegation in it
or even very tonal
this you know this works really well it
was a fun
knit because of the construction so i'm
going to try to show you how this works
here how this has a little cross right
here
yeah and then it's tied well this tie
comes all the way around and is knit
onto this piece
and in the pattern she literally has
included a yarn over hole
at the waist on that other side for that
tie to come through
so there is quite a bit of extra
knitting than a traditional sweater
because you have this whole
extra flap that tucks in there but it
makes it
such a nice fitting sweater
if you have a nice waistline this belted
little i-cord that comes across the back
here really accentuates that that's
really nice
but you can also tie it super loosely so
it doesn't
pull in at all if you don't have a
waistline that goes
in in the back or the front you know
like some of us
and it is long sleeved mine uh got
felted a little
we won't talk about the great felting
debacle
of 2012
husband it's just slightly felted but
that
cross your heart lifts and separates
do you all remember the bra commercials
from back in the day
some of you are my age you have told me
you're my age
your mothers are the age of my mother
some of you are a little older than me
some a little younger but
many of you will remember that
commercial uh the reason that that
commercial was so popular and all of
those uh
diane von furstenberg dresses is because
that is
so flattering on so
many body shapes
a picture of me in this sweater so i'll
post
it here knitting pure and simple
patterns used to knock it out of the
park they're just so well done
so this is written for small medium
large 1x and 2x
it goes from a 33 bust to a 47 bust
it uses light worsted or heavy dk weight
yarn
the gauge again is 18 stitches i highly
recommend this pattern if you're looking
for some
easy knitting knit across purl back with
some increases because it's worked top
down and so you're just
increasing along those edges so not hard
to keep track of
at all highly recommend the pattern is
seven dollars available on ravelry i
don't know if
the knitting pure and simple patterns
are still available in yarn stores
um like if people can buy them printed
out or not
um i think we've all really gone to kind
of online
pdfs so yeah
just a it's a great sweater i would like
another one of these
i really would it was fun to knit it was
interesting
you have that little hole over there
that you just reach for it's right there
you pull that
through and you feels kind of like magic
i just yeah it's kind of a special
sweater
go and look at the iroc knitter's
hashtag should we
i don't know where we left off last time
and i was going to mark it but
i think that patty knits 2
is knitting a gorgeous
gorgeous shawl look at how pretty that
is
pinks oh just so pretty
and she's also got a little kid's
sweater on the needles
then limestone knits has uh cast on uh
some new socks i believe
for sock week 2020 and um
and then sh look at how far she got from
one picture to the next
that's kind of a fast way to knit a pair
of socks right here's where i was last
week and here's where i am this week
and then she's doing some no pearl
monkeys
which i knit that pattern back in the
day but i kind of forgot about no pearl
monkey socks so the monkey socks
were a pattern in a book by cookie a and
cookie a used to be
huge in the knitting world and
especially for sock designs
and then randy b posted she often posted
the iraq knitter's hashtag
uh talking about being a weird knitter
and that she doesn't have a stash and
she would just usually buy yarn per
project and then she asks if anybody
else has
some weird things that they have about
knitting and so that was kind of a fun
uh thread to follow along
we have more than a hundred posts in the
irock knitters
hashtag thread so go over and take a
look at those
click the little follow button at the
top and follow along and cheer on your
fellow
viewers people that are in this family
and community by just liking the post
that they like
i know a lot of people when they first
get on instagram they're like i don't
know who to follow i don't really know
how this works i don't know
how would i know if i should follow
someone and i think that's the easiest
way
is to look at some hashtags and then
like things that
you seem to enjoy so i rock knitters i
i follow a lot of designers a lot of
designers so that's another thing you
can do
you can go to my thread and look at the
people i follow and just read down and
see if there are any names there that
you recognize
um as being designers and then you could
follow them through that as well
so that's kind of a fun way to do to do
that
some i have a special note here the yarn
harlot
who is doing that little sock school
over on patreon
so you can pay per month and you can
follow along with her socks
wrote a little post and since i'm
following her i got a copy of it and
there were two paragraphs in there that
i just found fascinating and i thought
you know i'm gonna
i'm gonna share this with everybody
nowadays there's a real shift in the
students knitting teacher c
most of you have learned experientially
you choose a pattern you thought would
be a good start
research the skills you needed and made
the thing at the end of it
if you chose another pattern you thought
you could handle and moved along adding
skills as you needed them
still works and my goodness has produced
some mighty fine knitters but also has
produced a bunch of knitters who at
least in one area or another
are missing skills they don't even know
they don't have i'm thinking here of the
self-taught knitters i see in lace
classes perfectly capable of knitting
complex lace even
lace where every row is an active row
but mystically still struggle with
things like counting rows easily in
their work
or reading their knitting or they do
things the way they learned on the
internet
struggling with certain aspects of
knitting but not knowing that there's a
better way or different way more suited
to their method or preferences
in medicine professionals come up with
the way they'll do things based on
results
for example imagine a heart valve repair
they don't look at all that
import they don't look
at all the different ways that the
repair can be made
they look for the patients with the best
outcomes the lowest rates of morbidity
and mortality when when finding that
group of people they go
find out how their surgery was done and
then they know there's a best practice
it takes a lot of debate out of it as
well as ego nobody has to defend or
promote the way
they do things the results speak for
themselves that's what we're looking
at in this series best practices for
knitters
i've looked at the knitters getting the
lowest rate of morbidity
unexpectedly complications in their
knitting
or mortality projects that really don't
work out at all and we're going to look
at the way they do things i'm basing it
all on a three hour lecture class i call
give called knit smart it's one of the
most useful
things i do but i've always wished there
was room or time to make it a weekend
workshop
that's what she's gonna do she's gonna
fill in the gaps for people
and i have all kinds of gaps i'm fully
aware of the gaps but i think that's
because i take classes
often and i go to knitting events and
knitting retreats and so i'm kind of
immersed in it and then i realize that
i've got some gaps in my knowledge
i just love that
i didn't do a good job of reading it but
uh you can go over to patreon and uh
kind of join her group by paying five
six dollars a month and then once a week
she puts up
the sock stuff so she did socks first
because that's really her forte teaching
you how to do socks without having to
think too hard
she's really good at that and i watched
most of those i think i have one left
and they were quite good
but now she's doing this knit smart and
i know i think when we were up north i
noticed that she posted a thing of
this is my stash room or the yarn closet
and people were asking if she would
post it she's like we don't nobody needs
to see that we don't need to see that
but people must have
harassed her enough that she decided
okay i'll show you my yarn closet so
i think that will be fun too i just
wanted to pass that along because
i think during this quarantine people
are coming up with some really
interesting ways
to make you know teaching and workshops
and knitting guilds and
lessons work better for people so that's
what she's going to do
and i think knitting best practices
sounds great from the iron
harlot because why wouldn't you want to
learn from somebody who is
funny and intelligent all at the same
time
okay i have a favor i'm going to post in
the next
day a post on instagram that's going to
say
tag your favorite yarn store local yarn
store
nearest yarn store and tell them to send
me their ravelry id
so that i can gift them a copy of my new
ebook
so since ravelry had their kerfuffle
and a lot of people have left in the
last
year and a half it's harder to market
and to get word out
especially when you can't teach and you
can't take a trunk show on the road
you can't show people in person what
you've been working on
so one of the ways in which i'm going to
try to market and do some publicity is
by giving away
my ebook to a yarn store so one they can
display it
two they can uh put uh instagram
story together on um you know in their
stories or as a post for me
to get the word out that they have the
book and people could come in and look
at it and kind of see some of it
they can also knit some of the projects
and display them in the store
and i've offered to give away a copy to
any of the yarn stores that would prefer
it to give away a copy to a customer
um it is national yarn store day on
september 12th and it was postponed
from the spring because of covid and so
a lot of yarn stores are kind of trying
to do get people in this
in the store right calling in to order
things whatever
something to keep them in business we
just had another yarn store in the twin
cities
announced that they're closing the
unwind yarn in burnsville i'm so
sad about that i really liked barb i had
taught for barb and
you know just can't make a go of it so
uh i'm that's what i'm offering so if
you are on instagram
go out and tag your yarn store in that
post so you would just
put at steven b
send corey your ravelry id for a free
ebook
and then they'll see it and then if they
want to they can send me their rivalry
id
via instagram and they'll say our
ravelry
id is stevenburg or whatever and then i
can just gift it through ravelry
the the ebook um if you're not on
instagram you can just tell them
send them an email phone call whatever
and say
hey i watch a podcast who's giving away
a free e-book
and you might want to get it for free so
go to ravelry and send her your ravelry
id
or contact her via email corey
irocknits.com
whatever you can do to help me
give the pattern away so that more
people see the book
in local areas yeah and it's all digital
so
i can it can be done anyway anywhere
then i also need you all to buy the book
or gift it to a friend whatever once you
see all the designs
in the next podcast i think everyone i
i've been telling people everyone will
look at it and say
oh yeah i would knit that there's at
least one or two or three
items in the book that people would say
i'm gonna get that and then there are
three or
four items where people would say that's
over the top that's
you know that's wild and crazy
definitely cory
and i wouldn't knit those but i will
knit enough of it or i also want to
have the extras that come in the book as
well as the stories that i wrote and
hopefully
they make you laugh because that's
always my goal right to keep us all
smiling and
and moving forward
okay i have a little cory stories for
you today before we kind of
wrap it up i'm taking line dancing
lessons
i started last december i go on friday
mornings to a beginner class
where we dance to all different kinds of
music
irish jig popular country
rock and roll where this week we were
dancing to gloria
and we were all getting into it and
messing up the steps because you want to
sing along
so much however i'm
a lyric listener like i like to hear the
lyrics of the songs
and so there's a song that we dance to
that i really like
and in the song it says moonlit
concrete sheets and i didn't
know what that meant and we've i now
danced to it
let's say three weeks in a row and i'm
like i don't know what that means
and it has a good you know little beat
to it and
um i it is a fun song it's by
theo x so not someone who's super
popular
but um there's a video online on youtube
and so i went out and i watched the
video and the video
is just it's a boy in his room
and he wants to ask someone to dance
at the dance and he's worried and then
he puts on this suit and it's
it's kind of a white suit and it's too
big for him and he goes to the dance and
he's
all the kids are standing around and
they're like maybe junior high age it's
that
whole awkward time and i don't want to
give away what happens but
it's just it's really a special
music video with this song but i still
couldn't i still don't from the lyrics i
couldn't get the context of what
moonlit concrete sheets would mean and
i'm thinking
you know if you're inviting someone into
your sheets so i
i'm thinking you know might be a little
naughty or whatever
but i call i text my daughter and i'm
like hey have you ever heard this song
she's like no cause sometimes
you know you're singing along to song
and you're singing
and mostly my daughter will say mom
that's not
how it goes and she's like no i've never
heard of it mom and i'm like okay
so underneath the youtube video
for this song i typed in
can someone tell me what moonlight
concrete sheets means
should i know sorry something like that
and the man who wrote the music and
sings the song and he's like a dj in the
in the video
gets back to me and he says well it's
actually moonlit concrete streets
so now every time we do that song
in class and i've started going on
wednesday nights to a bigger
group of people we dance from seven to
nine
and the dance or from yeah seven to nine
and the dances get harder and harder and
harder so
you start the beginners start off and
then those people will trickle away
after an hour and the intermediates will
come in
and so we're all calling it concrete
sheets now the whole
we all and the song sounds like it says
concrete sheets but it's not it's
concrete streets
so i just thought it was funny because i
literally went down that rabbit hole
and then i got back to and i said i
sincerely apologize
that i'm singing the absolute wrong
words but then i went back to class and
it still
sounds like sheets so i can and then
everyone else agrees with me
they say it still sounds like sheets
okay
so the song is called you don't want to
dance
and that's kind of why i thought it was
you don't want to dance in my sheets
but you know because
of course that's how it would be but
here here's the song on youtube
and it's a little boy young guy in his
room
and
it starts out really slow you've got to
watch 30 or 40 seconds before the music
actually even clicks in but they're
setting
the scene of this kid thinking about
thinking about thinking about going to
the dance and asking
someone to dance so if you have time
go take a look i would love to play it
for you at the end of the video but i
really can't
because you know copyright and so
i just wanted to to kind of share my
little bit of crazy with all of you i do
want to say that there is a chat thread
on ravelry that is been started by some
women who have recently
or in the past lost spouses and if that
is a group that interests you
or you would just like to go over and
give those people support
some support it says chat at the
beginning of it it says join
in and so you can just go into that
anyone
at all who is maybe feeling lonely or
down or would like to support or be
supported by other people
is welcome to go into that group and
become friends and supporters of one
another i read all the comments that are
being made um there last night and i
i loved some of them and i'm trying to
kind of stay
not as like a moderator of that group
but i will
just kind of jump in from time to time
that is going over on the ravelry thread
if if anybody is interested in
in kind of joining or being a part of
that
conversation
let's do the hellos as we end today
which is kind of weird that i always do
them at the end but
i figure we have so many that not
everybody probably wants to listen to
all the names 229 comments this week for
mom and i to read
and respond to you kept us so busy but
it was
so nice and i appreciate every single
one i'm still responding to every single
comment that i get so lisa cantrell
and gwen gaither julie smith pat howes
bonnie glass
wonder willie 100 which is a great name
wonder willie robin gasser mary b
wanda miglis glenda bathgate penny
gilbert who said cornwall is
absolutely everything i think it is
although she says it gets a little busy
in the summertime with tourists and it's
it's a little more quaint and easier or
nicer to live
there in the winter so thank you for
that penny
patty skaggs zoelisk lori marchbanks
veteran popcorn kelly mather and sandra
boyle olivia menke and
taylor in south dakota jane knew exactly
where i was talking about when i was
telling about the stretch and
so being over near the kmart on
minnesota and 41st street
and emily doyen and kristen peterson
and mama got rachel weisenstein and
rachel i'm thinking of you
she lost her dad just not too long ago
here
um m.c radner mary from victoria
kansas diane o'brien lisa blues lost
mittens
wendy morris linda lepic lisa smith
butterfly crochet and knit who is
samantha
who is a 20 year old um who knits and
crochets
mike kotkamp wrote mike i need to know
if you're a guy watching my podcast
because i don't think i have too many of
those and if you're not
then i need to know who this is
rose lemke denise norber natasha heslop
rsb
design one cat diana barnes luanna
hendrix
donna walters carol morrison judith
muscroft
catriona alsop hbwt40
ali belzer pat wagner nancy willock
suzy fab carol forster maggie twosticks
mary woods downriver knitter colleen
amps who is from sioux falls and also
had a lot of memories
from places that i talked about with my
mom
lisa and the kyle cat montgomery kathy
evans janet roberson
heather wilson barbara hodge do holy
hummer
angela jenkins another huge thank you
to angela and sarah for bailing me out
on test knitting
and a couple of you volunteered to be
test knitters for me and i really
appreciate that
because i need more test knitters and
more sizes
and not excellent test knitters testers
who read every word of every pattern
melinda zaccardi russo sharon of knit
style mva 5493
sharon noonan s e will height jesse's
mom 12 christine carr
eleanor lowry pamela hopkins bonnie
vandemark hi bonnie
jet janet oh janet i have you on your
twice
janet i think sometimes you make several
comments because you comment as you
think of it
you can go back and just edit your first
one if you want
it doesn't bother me but i think this
has happened before
peggy bork terry monk beth arner
tesner extraordinaire sarah clock nelson
colette freeman melanie
cahoon carol childers tamara addison
tina kircher candy harris kathy b
jennifer walton cat gore
caroline sherry donna bauman mary case
ann atlusky lisa kingston coleman
carol lynn sarah benson amy mickelson
carol rabbit
or rabbit karen mezzacappo
stephanie haberman wendy herman paulie
nitz hi paulie
michelle m connie s brandy stoker
jenny davis edina cole emma butcher
danielle brown chris osborne nancy
johnson
cheryl lacemaker anissa m and
non-ravelry
palin knits who is peggy so run it who
is suzanne
who lifts me up all the time
by writing me little notes
peachy 6560 who is peg and cm jans who
is carolyn
so hello to all of you thank you for
your kind
and wonderful comments it is the thing
that keeps me going
to do another year of podcasting because
i can interact with people
while being on lockdown episode 53 in
the books
going on to episode 50 54 next
to be put up after my hand surgery thank
you all for your well which is on that
as well
um i am a little nervous they're
removing a bone from my hand
it just doesn't sound like a whole lot
of fun
and they're not putting one back in like
they're not giving me a new bone
i'm just getting some wire so
but my knees have been great and i am so
thankful that it can be fixed right
this could be a hand thing that couldn't
be fixed
so for that i am so thankful
and i will put up with not being able to
knit for a while
and doing some other things around my
house that
i've been setting out to have as
projects let's all remember that
in hard times everyone needs lifting up
keep it colorful keep your fork
see in a couple weeks and i won't be
waving with this hand
i'll be waving with this hand
there we bye
so
you
