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Techniques, skillbuilding, pattern discussion, interviews with makers we adore, our favorite tools... and the knitting advice column you've been waiting for!
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!
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.)
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:
This week we're answering questions from listeners:
#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.)
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
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!)
Send us your letters! dearscratch@scratchsupplyco.com
This week we're revisiting something that came up during our episode about ply week before last and talking about directional twist in yarn.
Jessica:
Karen:
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! dearscratch@scratchsupplyco.com
This week's episode is about the things (in addition to finished objects!) that we get from knitting.
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! dearscratch@scratchsupplyco.com Please include your pronouns!
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
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! dearscratch@scratchsupplyco.com
This week we're talking about Works in Progress (sometimes known as WIPs). Sometimes a WIP will become a UFO (UnFinished Object).
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! dearscratch@scratchsupplyco.com
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:**
Knitting themed cozy mysteries:
Other themes:
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! dearscratch@scratchsupplyco.com
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
Follow Scamanda on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
