Show 1 – Make a slip knot

Welcome to the first show. If you’d asked me six months ago if I had any plans to do a podcast, my answer would have been “No”. I knew about pod-casts, in fact I’d been listening to pod-casts from the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) since they had put their beta system up in 2005, and one from a group of Everquest 2 gamers, but I had no intention of becoming a pod-caster. This week’s essay (yes I stole the idea from Brenda Dayne at Cast-On) sort of details the journey.

The book I reviewed in the pod-cast is Knitter’s Handbook by Montse Stanley.

The cardigan I’m knitting for mum for Christmas is the Striped Cardigan from threads&more.

Look for the next show next weekend, once again, I’m planning on recording it on Saturday (Australian time) and posting it sometime on that day.

The essay is available here.

What’s happening
Courthouse stitch’n'bitch - Sundays 1:30
NSW Knitter’s Guild - Blue Mountains – 3rd Saturday of each month
Sydney Royal Easter Show 5 – 18 April 2007- Competition details

This show’s music
All the music on this show comes from the Podsafe music network
(Except for the little bit of Bach at the beginning and end, that’s me on a synthesiser.)

Fumitaka Anzai Forest in the morning (link)
Eoghan Colgan The first time (link)
Little Thom Lullab-I-90 (link)

From the bottom of the knitting bag
Simon Armitage’s Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid
I never thought I’d be recommending a book of poetry, but this one is funny, clever and unexpected.

Link to the show file
Show 1 – Make a slip knot

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Sunday knitting

Having completed all that annoying household stuff that tends to pile up for the weekend (or at least decided that is was not so important that it couldn’t wait until next weekend) I was free to head off for some knitting related activities. One of the people who is a member of the same knitting group as I am was doing spinning demonstrations at Llandilo, a suburb at the base of the mountains, so it was to there that I headed first. As this was a school fete, I was expecting to have some difficulty finding the school, the difficulty turned out to be finding parking, there were massive crowds. It turned out to be quite a decent fete, lots of stuff to buy, lots of community involvement, not much for knitting, but there were the spinners. The problem I have with spinning is that I think I might like it, and that will mean a wheel, a pile of bits and pieces and even less time for my other hobbies, but it does look fun. I met up with Tony, and we talked about a new knitting group for western Sydney, so I may have yet another place to knit in public soon.

From the fete it was off to Courthouse Stitch’n'Bitch which was, as always, lots of fun. Shawls and lace knitting appear to be in at the moment, although I’m still ploughing through the cardigan I’m making my mother for Christmas, not much more mohair to go!

I spent most of this evening recording a place holder podcast and getting a libsyn account set up, so that’s one step closer. I’m aiming for next weekend. We’ll see…

Hello All

G’day. I’m David Reidy and this is Sticks & String, the blog that will eventually be linked to my knitting podcast.

I’m still getting ready for the podcast, selecting music, trying to find a theme, and making sure that the sound quality is as good as I can make it. I don’t think my current set up will do the job because although the mic works well, it is mounted on the headphones and I tend to get creaking noises if I open my mouth too far; I’m hoping the noises are from the headset. Also, I’d like to be able to do outside broadcast recording, so I think one of the new digital recorders might be the way to go, and if my cat hadn’t broken his leg, I’d have one already.

 I doubt many people are going to see this before the podcast comes out, but if you happen to have stumbled upon it and want to leave a message, please feel free. Also, if you have any opinions about which digital recorder would do a good job for 2 person interviews for use in the podcast, I love to hear from you.

 David.