Welcome to show 5, This show’s theme is ‘What men want’.

The book review this week is Knitting with balls by Michael del Vecchio

Wren Ross’s full CD is here.

The essay is available here.

What’s happening
Courthouse stitch’n’bitch - Sundays 1:30
Sydney Sity Klickers Every second Saturday afternoon
NSW Knitter’s Guild - Blue Mountains - 3rd Saturday of each month
Long Island Knitting and Crochet Guild (link to a page with their details, scroll down a little way) Westbury Library - 2nd Thursday of each month
Sydney Royal Easter Show 5 - 18 April 2007- Competition details. Arts entries close 20 December

This show’s music
This week’s tracks come from the Podsafe music network.
(Except for the little bit of Bach at the beginning and end, that’s me on a synthesiser.)

Phil Ayoub Carnival Days (link).
Alexander Blu Nature Days (link)

Link to the show file
Show 5 – What men want

You can contact me at: podcast at sticksandstring dot com dot au (I’m sure you know to replace the at with @ and the dot with . but perhaps the spam bots won’t.)

If you’d like to contribute to Sticks & String, guest essays, reviews, suggestions of music, people to interview, please just let me know. And please let me know about your knitting group I’d love to have to start a whole separate page because the list is too long.

Welcome to show 4, This show's theme is 'Knitting a community'.

The pumpkin hat I made this week was from Itty Bitty Hats by Susan B. Anderson.

The yarn I used was the recommended Rowan cotton, and Debbie Bliss baby cashmerino.

The spinning shop is Petlin's at Rhodes in Sydney.

And here's the sock!

The essay is available here.

What�s happening
Courthouse stitch�n'bitch - Sundays 1:30
Sydney Sity Klickers Every second Saturday afternoon
NSW Knitter�s Guild - Blue Mountains - 3rd Saturday of each month
Long Island Knitting and Crochet Guild (link to a page with their details, scroll down a little way) Westbury Library - 2nd Thursday of each month
Sydney Royal Easter Show 5 - 18 April 2007- Competition details. Arts entries close 20 December

 There are so many spring fairs in the various towns throughout the mountains, I can't keep up. Lawson is this weekend, and there are more to come. If I find something interesting, I'll let you all know.

This show�s music
Two of this week's tracks come from the Podsafe music network while one is from IODA.
(Except for the little bit of Bach at the beginning and end, that�s me on a synthesiser.)
Wren Ross After the ball is over (link)
Slow Burn (Download "Slow Burn" (mp3) from "Restless" by Gavin Lurssen MRG Recordings
Eoghan Colgan Sunny Days (link)

Link to the show file
Show 4 â�� Knitting a community

You can contact me at: podcast at sticksandstring dot com dot au (I�m sure you know to replace the at with @ and the dot with . but perhaps the spam bots won�t.)

If you'd like to contribute to Sticks & String, guest essays, reviews, suggestions of music, people to interview, please just let me know. And please let me know about your knitting group I'd love to have to start a whole separate page because the list is too long.

Welcome to show 3, This show�s theme is �Just Do It�, hey that�s why this podshow exists.

The book I reviewed was Itty Bitty Hats by Susan B. Anderson

The booties are from Cleckheaton�s Little Babies Volume 2 the yarn is from Heirloom 4 ply.

The essay is available here.

What�s happening
Courthouse stitch�n�bitch - Sundays 1:30
Sydney Sity Klickers Every second Saturday afternoon
NSW Knitter�s Guild - Blue Mountains - 3rd Saturday of each month
Long Island Knitting and Crochet Guild (link to a page with their details, scroll down a little way) Westbury Library - 2nd Thursday of each month
Sydney Royal Easter Show 5 - 18 April 2007- Competition details. Arts entries close 20 December

 The Glenbrook Spring Fair is this weekend. Iâ��ll have a report in Show 4.

This show�s music
All the music on this show comes from the Podsafe music network
(Except for the little bit of Bach at the beginning and end, that�s me on a synthesiser.)
Maria Daines Caliane (link)
Simon James Tollogong Queen (link)
Christopher Dallman Nighttime in the city (link)

From the bottom of the knitting bag:
Father Ted DVDs

Link to the show file
Show 3 � Just cast on

You can contact me at: podcast at sticksandstring dot com dot au (I�m sure you know to replace the at with @ and the dot with . but perhaps the spam bots won�t.)

If you�d like to contribute to Sticks & String, guest essays, reviews, suggestions of music, people to interview, please just let me know. And please let me know about your knitting group I�d love to have to start a whole separate page because the list is too long.

Why do so many knitters give their work away? In this week's show I explore that. We'll also catch up with a bit of what's been going on in local knitting, some reviews and some gread podsafe knitting.

Welcome to the first show. If you'd asked me six months ago if I had any plans to do a podcast, my answer would have been "No". I knew about pod-casts, in fact I'd been listening to pod-casts from the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) since they had put their beta system up in 2005, and one from a group of Everquest 2 gamers, but I had no intention of becoming a pod-caster. This week's essay (yes I stole the idea from Brenda Dayne at Cast-On) sort of details the journey.

The book I reviewed in the pod-cast is Knitter's Handbook by Montse Stanley.

The cardigan I'm knitting for mum for Christmas is the Striped Cardigan from threads&more.

Look for the next show next weekend, once again, I'm planning on recording it on Saturday (Australian time) and posting it sometime on that day.

The essay is available here.

What's happening
Courthouse stitch'n'bitch - Sundays 1:30
NSW Knitter's Guild - Blue Mountains - 3rd Saturday of each month
Sydney Royal Easter Show 5 - 18 April 2007- Competition details

This show's music
All the music on this show comes from the Podsafe music network
(Except for the little bit of Bach at the beginning and end, that's me on a synthesiser.)

Fumitaka Anzai Forest in the morning (link)
Eoghan Colgan The first time (link)
Little Thom Lullab-I-90 (link)

From the bottom of the knitting bag
Simon Armitage's Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid
I never thought I'd be recommending a book of poetry, but this one is funny, clever and unexpected.

You can contact me at: podcast at sticksandstring dot com dot au (I'm sure you know to replace the at with @ and the dot with . but perhaps the spam bots won't.)

This is really just a place holder so that I can test how things are working and get some music organised for the real first episode.