Episode 070 (Into the Wool Fiber Retreat 2019)
Recorded Friday, October 18, 2019
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Announcements/New Patterns
Veracity and Rushing Home sock patterns: designed for the October 2019 Sock Crush sock box but available to everyone to purchase via Ravelry. Previous interview with Joanna of Sock Crush in Episode 55.
Kino Knits designs are now available through Deep South, a company that produces hard-copy patterns and provides them to local yarn stores at the wholesale rate. If you like Kino Knits, please ask your LYS to stock my patterns!
Update on Tesla Slept Here hat and cowl patterns:
- New Yorker Hotel
- Original Smithsonian Magazine article: Nikola Tesla the Eugenicist: Eliminating Undesirables by 2100
- Follow-up Forbes article: Tesla, Eugenics And Rationalizing Dehumanization
- Oatmeal Comic: Why Nikola Tesla Was the Greatest Geek Who Ever Lived (contains strong language, so don't click if you don't want to see bad words!)
- The Prestige: movie where David Bowie plays Nikola Tesla
- Tesla Car Company
FOs
Non-Euclidian socks by Sarah Jordan ($5 on Ravelry) - modified. US 1 (2.25 mm) in Quaere Fibre Self-striping Super Sock (80/20 superwash merino/nylon, 400 yards/100 g) in Chromatic (self-striping rainbow) and Sun Valley Fibers MCN Fingering (80/10/10 cashmere/nylon) for the heel.
Populuxe by Andi Satterlund ($7.25 on Ravelry). US 4 (3.5 mm) in Dragonfly Fibers Traveller (100% merino, 280 yards/113 g) in Into the Woods.
WIPs
Bigger on the Inside by Kate Atherley (free on the Knitty website) on US 3 (3.25 mm) using handspun Hobbledehoy battlings in the Time Traveler colorway. #makenine2019 #byscraftybingo2019
Knitting on Safari
Previous recaps in Episodes 19 (2016), 38 (2017), and 56 (2018)
Knitting Around the World
Smithsonian Magazine article: The Quest to Source Mr. Rogers' Signature Cardigans
Where to Find Me
Ravelry, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Periscope, Ello
Email: kinoknits (at) gmail.com
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