Subway Knits
By Maria MN
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Podcast Description
Adventures in knitting on the subway (and everywhere else!) in New York City
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Episode 33: Oh, Canada | On the Needles Have the desire to knit stockinette and try English style knitting – picking up the Larch Cardigan again because I need a warm sweater in the middle of July. Having a really hard time trying to do English purling. Spin Right Rou[...] | 5/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 32: Cinco de Sheepo | Off the Needles Finished my project for the Downton Abbey Swap…but still not telling the pattern. It’s a shawlette, with leaves and short rows. Brownie points to whoever figures it out! Knit out of Road to China in Blue Tourmaline. On th[...] | 5/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 31: Happy Accidents | On the Needles Working frantically to finish the shawl for my Downton Abbey Swap partner. Learning to let go and getting knitting mojo back by cleaning out the favorites and the queue, and working on my Summer Flies shawl in an attempt to finish the[...] | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 29: Losing All My Buttons | Off the Needles Fimbrethil by Bethe Galantino of The Worcester Knitting Company for the Dreaming Pickle Pot Lord of the Rings Club called There and Back Again. On the Needles 2 Categories of WIPs: 1. WIPs slowly moving into Hibernation: Herringbone[...] | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 28: C’Mon, Vogue | On the Needles Larch Cardigan – finally finished the 4 inches of stockinette! Darjeeling Socks – my first toe ups. I read online through knitty how to do Judy’s Magic Cast on, but this video helped me alot. The jury is still out on[...] | 2/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Conductor’s Booth: An Interview with A Playful Day | This week, I am on holiday in South Carolina and while I was down here, had the opportunity to chat with Green Triangle Girl of the A Playful Day podcast. As usual we had loads of fun and were definitely playful. In her About Me page, she lists her[...] | 2/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 27: The Hardest Things to Find are Under Your Nose | Off the Needles Abstract Leaves Cowl in School Products Handyed Cashmere. This was the cowl that I knit for my knitting groups spoilee. Saartje’s Booties for 2 teachers at work, and they were a big hit! I had to sew on the button during on[...] | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 26: What’s Your (Knitting) Sign? | On the Needles The Summer Flies shawl for my swappee is officially lost. I cast on for something in cashmere and its a bit tedious, so I am scrambling to finish it. I think I won’t get the yarn again because it was hard to knit with due to the[...] | 2/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Conductor’s Booth: An Interview with Clara Parkes | After the Wonders of Wool class at Vogue Knitting Live! I got a chance to sit down with Clara Parkes. She is such a lovely and interesting person to chat with, and I learned alot both in her class and the interview. My swatch from Wonders of W[...] | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 25: Stitching the Past | On the Needles The Bella Mitts that I am knitting with Yarn Bee Melody Bulky that I purchased from Hobby Lobby back in South Carolina are 50% done. I finished the thumb of the mitt though it’s a bit short. That being said, it has been so cold [...] | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 24: Retrospectively Speaking | On the Needles: I thought I would never say this, but I got suckered into knitting a commissioned item, which is a cabled baby hat.That is what is currently on and active right now because I have to finish this by the time we get to work on Tuesday.[...] | 1/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 23: Field Trip! | On the Needles First, I need to make this clear – I am not doing ANY holiday knitting. This year I had put my foot down on it. While I have the yarn for many a holiday gift that is not only assigned to queued projects, I unfortunately do not h[...] | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Conductor’s Booth: An Interview with Franklin Habit | December 1 was a very knitterly birthday indeed: first, I went to a talk by Franklin Habit at Lion Brand Yarn Studio called “Impractical Magic: Oddities and Curiosities of Nineteenth-Century Handwork.” And surely, induce seizures of lau[...] | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Conductor’s Booth: An Interview with Lela Nargi | On a gorgeous fall day, I had the opportunity to interview Lela Nargi, who recently published Knitting Around the World. There will be a more detailed review in the next episode (which due to a trip to IKEA is delayed – but there is a knitti[...] | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 22: A Knitter Grows in Brooklyn | Off the Needles We finally have an FO! Two of them actually, since I haven’t really talked in much detail about the February Lady Sweater. Another FO that I have is the Bramble Beret. It was such a slog to finish that thing because I made the[...] | 11/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 21: Fall, Fibre, Friends, Food | Special shout out to Megan of the Stitch It! Podcast, who in a tweet summarized Rhinebeck in four words and gave the title for these week’s episode. I was loaded up in the car with Mel (the husband), my friend Lisa, co-proprietor of newly-open[...] | 10/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 20: Mitosis | On the Needles: Nothing much new to report…still working on the Cladonia and the February Lady Sweater – now that I am out of HPKCHC, I do not feel the pressure to knit the Cladonia and to finish it immediately. That being said, it is st[...] | 10/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 19: For the Love of Color Cards | The school year has started! My kids are a bit crazy at times and I am feeling overwhelmed and trying to find my feet, but the knitting helps. On the Needles There has been a bit of a stall with the knitting lately simply because school has started[...] | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 18: The Double Whammy | Discovered a new podcast: Knit. Spin. Cake. Check it out on iTunes and her group is here. On the Needles Still working on the February Lady Sweater, but now at the garter stitch hem of the body. I see the end in sight! Last night I ordered buttons f[...] | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 17: Pattern Binge | On the Needles Because I left my February Lady Sweater in my parent’s car on Sunday, and there was a miscommunication between my dad and I about him coming by so I can get it back, I didn’t get the sweater back until Wednesday night. I w[...] | 8/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 16: Chicken and Rice | Off the Needles Towards the end of my program, I was getting severe startitis. I also really really wanted to knit from my stash and just do something with my hands other than write fake lesson plans and write on chart paper during summer school. I [...] | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 15: Proofreading | Need to make a minor retraction – when I reviewed Twist Collective last time, I failed to realize that when you click on the “More Information” button especially in the Paper Dolls section you can see the patters on real people. Th[...] | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Conductor’s Booth: An Interview with Allyson Dykhuizen | Allyson of The Sweatshop of Love was in NYC for Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn last week and we finally had the chance to meet! We had been tweeting back and forth for awhile now, and participated in fun shenanigans like the Tinfoil Tiara Brigade. [...] | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 14: Beware the Ennui of May | Off the Needles Will talk about the Cabled Feather Cowl next week; but I did finish up the Ripley. On the Needles I have been battling a bad case of ennui or something similar to writer’s block where you want to write something but don[...] | 6/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 13: Maryland Sheep and Wool!!! | 22 (give or take) of the girls in my knitting group came by plane, train and automobile to Maryland Sheep and Wool. You heard them all in the opener. On the Needles: With my Twisted Sisters Petite Voodoo in Green Teas(e) and Blue Sky Alpacas Alpaca[...] | 5/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 12: Back from the South | Off the Needles: I completed the MonkeySocks!Now that I have finished my first Cookie A pattern, I’m looking to start another of the free patterns that also re-appear in knit.sock.love – which pair of cookie a socks should I knit next?[...] | 4/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Conductor’s Booth: An Interview With Kate Oates | A few weeks ago, I had the honor to interview Kate Oates of Tot Toppers and When I Grow Up, who is from Lexington, South Carolina. It was my first interview via Skype so that was really interesting and alot of fun! Here are some the things that Kate[...] | 4/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11: Equal Opportunity Yarnies Unite! | On the Needles Did the heel for the Monkey socks and now working on the foot. Knitting Trainwrecks Still working on the Castle Pullover, but gauge is creating a bit of a detour. Swatch & Learn This segment is where I talk about tips and tricks I[...] | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 10: Monkeying Around | On the Needles Chugging along on my Castle Pullover which is turning out quite nicely; cast on for the Monkey Socks as part of the Manic Purl podcast’s March Monkey Madness KAL. Currently looking at the Dyakcraft needles in the 6″ leng[...] | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Conductor’s Booth: An Interview with Courtney Kelley and Kate Gagnon Osborn | Last Sunday, I had the opportunity and the pleasure to interview Courtney Kelley and Kate Gagnon Osborn of Kelbourne Woolens, distributors of the Fibre Company. We had so much fun! Me, Courtney and Kate. Can’t really see it, but I’m wea[...] | 3/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 9: Onto the Castle | Off the Needles Completed Vasili’s Socks - still need to weave in the ends and perhaps do a light steam block to open up the sock a bit more. Finished the toe while sitting in the front seat of my parent’s car – had the opportuni[...] | 3/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 8: Veni, Vidi, Mickey | Off the Needles: Can finally talk about the Ptarmigan! I knit this up in LB Collection Cashmere for a secret project for my friend Shelley and she loved it. This was the project that was frogged twice because I ran out of yarn and messed up the [...] | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 7: Escape to Splash Mountain | Hooray! Semester is OVER! Going to celebrate by hightailing it down to Florida where my yiayia (“Grandmother” in Greek), Aunt and Uncle live with trips to Harry Potter World and Disney. Off the Needles: The sock monkeyis complete, del[...] | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 6: Harajuku Knitters | Short episode this week – instead of stash diving, I’m ungraded paper diving. Not fun. On the Needles: Pickadilly! Finally! Getting over my fear of sweater knitting by having a Skype Knitting date with my friend Sarah who is also trying [...] | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 5: From the West to the East | Off the Needles: Vintage Baby Cardigan: all that’s missing is the finishing – sewing on the bow to close the front and seaming the underarms. Love the 3-Needle bind-off, I may be closing the toes on my socks with this more often. The Pat[...] | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 4: Hello, SweetGeorgia | On the Needles: Knitmore Girls Vanilla Socks: doing a 1×1 rib because I misread the pattern; freaked out about it on Twitter (I’m not following directions! No!) but people reassured me that it was ok. Doing a short row heel because I rea[...] | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 3: The Colorwork Class | On the Needles: Still working on the Sock Monkey. Hypothetically knitting the Skoufaki again – its all alpaca, so it stretched out. Stashers Anonymous: Support one another in trying not to get yarn! Will open up a thread for it by episode 4. [...] | 1/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 2: So This is the New Year | Happy New Year! Download and listen here. New Years Goals – NOT Resolutions: Among other things like finish the WIPs, on a worsted weight sweater kick – Tilted Duster, Alberta (times 2), Cascabel, Castle Pullover, Solstice Cardigan, Ma[...] | 1/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 1: Welcome! | Introduction and About Me: How the Selbu Modern gave me carpel tunnel Knitting Daily’s Newsletter on Wrist Exercises Off the Needles – The Holiday Edition: Hemlock for my in-laws Beaumont Beanie for my mum Turn a Square for my dad Wood[...] | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 39 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Awesome
A witty and down to earth debut- and the podcast even lasts long enough for my subway commute! Lots of topics broken down into manageable bits and enough content to pique and hold anyone's interests.
Fun
Subway knitters unite. It's a cool podcast, well put together and interesting.
fun podcast!
I just discovered Maria's podcast. I listened to 3 episodes before subscribing. The podcast is fun to listen to with lots of good knitting talk. Maria seems very comfortable with her podcast. Great job!
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