This week we take a look at Fair Isle knitting. There's a video available here. You can download it by right clicking on it and selecting Save Target... There's another video showing a different set of techniques available from Philosopher's Wool here.

What's happening
Courthouse Stitch'n'Bitch   Every Sunday at the Courthouse Hotel Newtown 1:30pm
NSW Knitters Guild (Blue Mountains Division)   3rd Saturday of each month at the Blaxland Community Centre
Studio 49 Fibre Retreat   A fibre arts retreat that Old Oak Ranch Sonora 16 to 18 November 2007 (pendria AT sbcglobal DOT net)
Sydney Sity Klickers   Every second Saturday at Barmuda, Australia Street Newtown

This show's music
Heavy Mellow    Spinnaker     (Magnatune)

From the bottom of the knitting bag
Books
Fair Isle Sweaters Simplified  by Ann Bourgeois and Eugene Bourgeios (link)

Check out the new video (it's not as good as the professional ones, but it gives you some idea of my way of doing it) and let me know what you think. Next week, a special interview about a new range of yarns...

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This week we catch up with the famous Scout of Scout's Swag. For a wonderful interview about dyeing and her work. It's lots of fun.

What's happening
Courthouse Stitch'n'Bitch   Every Sunday at the Courthouse Hotel Newtown 1:30pm
NSW Knitters Guild (Blue Mountains Division)   3rd Saturday of each month at the Blaxland Community Centre
Studio 49 Fibre Retreat   A fibre arts retreat that Old Oak Ranch Sonora 16 to 18 November 2007 (pendria AT sbcglobal DOT net)
Sydney Sity Klickers   Every second Saturday at Barmuda, Australia Street Newtown

This show's music
Ehren Starks    You are the You     (Magnatune)

From the bottom of the knitting bag
Other
Vogue Knitting 25th Anniversary Issue  from Vogue Knitting (link)

Next week - maybe some information about Fair Isle technique, but I'm still working on that so no promises yet.

You can contact me at david AT sticksandstring DOT com DOT au or
podcast AT sticksandstring DOT com DOT au
I'm on Ravelry as DavidReidy.
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G'day everyone, welcome to series 4.
A big thank you to everyone who has been in contact, and to everyone who helped get the show over the 100,000 download mark.
A very big thanks to Valerie of Valutree for the wonderful knitting bag she sent (details below), and to coldfriday for the yarn for Alice Starmore's Henry VIII jumper which will be our companion throughout the series.

This week's interview is with Marnie Kelly of Touch Yarns from New Zealand about the wonderful hand dyed yarns she makes.

What's happening
Courthouse Stitch'n'Bitch   Every Sunday at the Courthouse Hotel Newtown 1:30pm
NSW Knitters Guild (Blue Mountains Division)   3rd Saturday of each month at the Blaxland Community Centre
Studio 49 Fibre Retreat   A fibre arts retreat that Old Oak Ranch Sonora 16 to 18 November 2007 (pendria AT sbcglobal DOT net)
Sydney Sity Klickers   Every second Saturday at Barmuda, Australia Street Newtown

This show's music
Ehren Starks    Leaving the Theatre     (Magnatune)

From the bottom of the knitting bag
Other
Handmade Knitting Bag  from Valutree (link)

Next week, we'll have an interview with Scout of Scout's Swag an update on Henry and probably a whole pile of things that will come up during the week.

You can contact me at david AT sticksandstring DOT com DOT au or
podcast AT sticksandstring DOT com DOT au
I'm on Ravelry as DavidReidy.
I'm sure that you know to replace the at with AT with @ and DOT with . but maybe the spam bots won't.