The faces, and stories of ordinary knitters are important. In our knitting groups, yarn shops, online forums, email lists, and podcasts we share our ideas, opinions, and lives. My hope is that Knitterati will draw our community into the new medium of online video, give us more opportunity to celebrate our craft, and allow us to consider our knitting culture.

Learning how to make a video podcast has been quite an adventure. Therefore, it seems appropriate that this first, pilot episode of Knitterati should be about the journeys and adventures of knitters.

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Episode 1: "Journeys"

[21 minutes]

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Synopsis

Knitters from the Sweet Life Knitting Group of Fairfax, Virginia talk about what knitting they bring while they travel and share a few travel knitting stories.

Betsy tells about her adventure at the Yarn Harlot's Represent Event in NYC, Naalbinding, and her knitting teaching.

The show's title is spelled incorrectly...oops...

Credits

Special thanks to Betsy, Meg, Alli, Mazhalai, Tiffany, Kat, Judy, for their excellent interviews and adventurous spirits!

"Make New Friends" by John McCloy was provided courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network.

All production by Nina Casey

This episode was filmed at various locations in the Washington DC, Northern Virginia area.

Many of the photos used in the opening sequence were made available on flickr. Please click on the images for more information about them.

This Videocast is Liscensed: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Deveritive Works 3.0

Notes and Links

You can find out more about Betsy and her knitting on Ravelry.

The Springwater Spinning Group meets every first Monday of the month at Springwater Fiberworkshop in Fairfax, Virginia. Springwater is a non-for-profit school for the fiber arts. Listings of classes at Springwater can be found here.

Read the Yarn Harlot's recap and see great photos of the Represent Event here and here.

Follow this link to listen to the Knitter's Represent episode of It's a Purl, Man.

Jaywalker Socks from Magknits.

Visit the Wikipedia page on Naalebinding to learn more about the craft.

View the Fibertrends felted Bunny pattern.

I bought my 4" digital mini callipers from LittleMachineShop.com.

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