This is the first episode in a series of minisodes inspired by topic requests that come from our generous Patreon supporters! Ya'll are the best!

Juliet asked us to talk about photographing our finished knits. While we're definitely not professional photographers, we've put together some tips that will help you get great shots of your projects so you can proudly share your knits with the fiber community!

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We're in the depths of a brutal heatwave here in New Hampshire, so we're beating the heat by dreaming of autumn. You know what that means: Rhinebeck Sweaters! (If you're not familiar with Rhinebeck, that's the NY Sheep and Wool Festival.)

What's on our needles this week:

• Jessica: Easy V by Caitlin Hunter
• Karen: Sunshine on my Shoulders by Lissy Jane

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Today we're talking about "trusting the process" - by request!

In our letter we talk about how to adapt knitting techniques for one-handed knitting.

One-handed knitting resources:

• Elisabeth Ward's Youtube Channel
• Mary OneHandKnitter's YouTube Channel
• One-handed knitting aid
• Healing Fibers

This week we're answering questions from listeners:

• Valerie: how to balance knitting gifts for others with knitting for yourself;
• Sima: What to do when your swatch gauge and your FO gauge just don't line up;
• Micah: How to organize supplies for lots of different types of crafts;
• Jordan: What to do when you DON'T SWATCH and your row gauge is off; and
• Michelle: What aspects of our lives have grown and changed as a result of our knitting

What’s on your Needles? 

• Oakmoss by Alicia Plummer
• Easy V by Caitlin Hunter

#MAKEGOODCABLES KAL

Running through July 31st (THIS SUNDAY!)

We're talking about substituting yarn weights this week! Gauge, schmage. (You're going to need to swatch.)

Resources:

Tin Can Knits: Knitting a Garment at a Different Gauge

Jacqueline Cieslak: Yarn Substitutions at Different Weights

Jimmybeans Wool: Knitting Calculator (broad estimates)

Sister Mountain - How to Estimate Yardage in Knitting Patterns

What's on our needles this week:

• Oakmoss by Alicia Plummer
• Easy V by Caitlin Hunter

Summer Knitalong - CABLES!

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable. We'll be finishing up July 31, but that doesn't mean you need to be done by then - there's still time to join!
#makegoodcables (no year, please!)

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This week we're revisiting something that came up during our episode about ply week before last and talking about directional twist in yarn.

What's on our needles this week:

• Oakmoss by Alicia Plummer
• Easy V by Caitlin Hunter

Podcasts we like to listen to!

Jessica:

• Love to Sew
• Sounds Like a Cult
• Spooked

Karen:

• I Don’t Even Own a Television
• Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet
• The Opportunist
• Wild Thing

Summer Knitalong - CABLES!

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! We hope you'll join us!
#makegoodcables (no year, please!)

Send us your letters! [email protected]

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This week's episode is about the things (in addition to finished objects!) that we get from knitting.

What's on our needles this week:

• What’s on your Needles? Oakmoss by Alicia Plummer
• Tied Knots by Justyna Lorkowska

Summer Knitalong - CABLES!

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! We hope you'll join us!
#makegoodcables (no year, please!)

Send us your letters! [email protected] Please include your pronouns!

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This week's episode is all about ply - it's a deep dive on the construction of yarn!

Craft Yarn Council Standard Yarn Weight System

Tutorials:

• Avoid twisting your stitches by Arne and Carlos
• How to join in the round without twisting from Cocoknits

What's on our needles this week:

• Sunshine on My Shoulders by Lissy Jane
• Tied Knots by Justin Lorkowska

Summer Knitalong - CABLES!

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! Casting on June 1. We hope you'll join us!
#makegoodcables (no year, please!)

Send us your letters! [email protected]

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This week we're talking about Works in Progress (sometimes known as WIPs). Sometimes a WIP will become a UFO (UnFinished Object).

What's on our needles this week:

• Sunshine on My Shoulders by Lissy Jane
• Tied Knots by Justyna Lorkowska

Summer Knitalong - CABLES!

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! Casting on June 1. We hope you'll join us!
#makegoodcables (no year, please!)

Send us your letters! [email protected]

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We feel a bit knitting-adjacent this week - we're talking about buttons, and answering a Dear Scratch letter about cozy mysteries!

** Alternatives to buttons:**

• Shawl pins - https://www.etsy.com/search?q=shawl%20pins
• Screw in closures - https://juldesigns.com/screw-in-closures/
• Holeless Buttons - https://www.purlandhank.com/shop-online/hole-less-buttons
• Sweater clips - https://www.etsy.com/search?q=sweater+clips

Knitting themed cozy mysteries:

• Peggy Ehrhart: Knit & Nibble Mystery Series
• Sally Goldenbaum - Seaside Knitters Mystery Series
• Seaside Knitters Society
• Maggie Sefton: A Knitting Mystery series
• Allie Pleiter: A Riverbank Knitting Mystery

Other themes:

• Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
• Karen Menuhin: Heathcliff Lennox Series
• Alexia Gordon: Gethsemane Brown Mysteries
• M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin series

What's on our needles this week:

• Sunshine On My Shoulders by Lissy Jane
• Only Ocean by Sylvia McFadden

Summer Knitalong - CABLES!

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! We cast on June 1, and there's definitely still time to join us - we hope you will!
#makegoodcables (no year, please!)

Send us your letters! [email protected]

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We'll be live on YouTube on June 6 at 6pm EST! Click here or go to makegoodpod.com/youtube.

This week's episode is all about mosaic knitting! In our Dear Scratch letter, we talk about what to do if your gauge is way off only on one particular type of project.

Tiny Tutorial on Mosaic Knitting from SweetGeorgia Yarns

Barbara Walker's Mosaic Knitting (1976)

A few patterns we love that feature mosaic knitting:

• Pressed Flowers by Amy Christoffers
• Crystal Star Wrap by Jen Peck
• Dissent Cowl by Carissa Browning
• Shift Collection from Andrea Mowry
  • The Shift (cowl)
  • Nightshift (shawl)
  • Shifty (sweater)
  • Shiftalong (hat)
  
  

What's on our needles this week:

• Sunshine On My Shoulders by Lissy Jane
• Only Ocean by Sylvia McFadden

Summer Knitalong - CABLES!

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! Casting on June 1. We hope you'll join us!
#makegoodcables (no year, please!)

Send us your letters! [email protected]

Merch!

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