KnitWit: Rantings of a Rabid Knitter

Comment by ellen

June 11, 2006 @ 1:23 pm

Hello Carry,
I really like your show! Thank you for telling us how you handle ease. I am working on a tank top out of hemp yarn right now and I really hope I get the look that I want! My Grandpa had a stroke that changed his personality completely. I found it very dificult to deal with. Your story was very heartwarming! Keep it up!

Comment by teresa c.

June 11, 2006 @ 3:49 pm

Hi Carry,
thanks for your “lecture”, it was really helpful. I really enjoy listening to the podcast, please continue on doing it!

Comment by Heather

June 12, 2006 @ 1:15 pm

Thank you so much for that lovely story! I listened to your podcast in the office after I was officially done for the day but just winding down before I went home. It was a lovely thought to leave on. I’m an avid listener and wanted you to know you are most definately not “talking to yourself”.

Comment by Jen

June 12, 2006 @ 2:04 pm

One of your best episodes yet!

I found the ease lecture soooo useful — it’s one of those things that I’ve always been unsure of and that patterns seem to offer little direction about. The story was wonderful, as always.

Comment by Mark

June 12, 2006 @ 8:17 pm

Just checking in to let you know…that I check in occasionally (skip the knitting stuff though). I think that people who have lived with a stroke victim have their view of the world change in undefinable ways. I know Tracey had multiple “mom moments” after her mom’s stroke…most of which made her sad, but helped us re-prioritize our lives.

I checked out the comics you like, and recommend that you check out Derek Kirk Kim’s work at lowbright.com. He’s very sporadic with updates, but he’s an interesting writer.

Comment by Marlene

June 14, 2006 @ 12:28 pm

I’ve been listening for a while now, and I just love your podcast. In fact, yours was the first I listend to. To tell you the truth, it’s because of the explicit tag that yours was the first I downloaded.
I’d like to link to you from my blog, do you have a button?
Thanks

Comment by Anne

June 15, 2006 @ 6:54 pm

Thanks again for your show…I love hearing about your sheep adventures. Anne

Comment by Toby B.

June 18, 2006 @ 12:00 am

Dear Carry,
Yesterday, my dad and I drove from Santa Cruz to LA as he was taking me home from my first year of college. He started listening to your podcast when he stumbled upon it and saw that it was about knitting and, at the same time, warned about explicit content. He thought that was too funny, and too good to be true, so he started listening to you and you are now, by far, his favorite podcast. Neither he, nor I could knit a stitch if our lives depended on it, but we find you to be so incredibly funny and to be such a great story teller, that we listened to just your podcasts for about an hour and a half on the drive down. So, please, keep up the good work, and just know, that people of all ages and walks of life listen to you and truly appreciate your storytelling and sense of humor.

Comment by Cindy

June 26, 2006 @ 3:16 pm

Love your pod cast. Giv’m hell.l
Can you post some show notes about putting ease in garments when you design them?
Cindy

Comment by AuntieAnn

July 27, 2006 @ 12:22 pm

Thanks for the ease comments — just the info I was looking for! And not really discussed enough, IMHO. I’m returning to knitting, and striving to make garments that really fit, this time around. I just ripped back my first real sock to the toe (it’s toe-up, natch), to get the ease right, rather than have a sloppy sock. Fortunately, I had not yet done the heel.

Comment by Arlene

April 24, 2007 @ 9:11 pm

1) Maybe I’m being judgmental but I cannot see how anyone who has made clothes could see knitting as anything other than three-d (even scarves have a 3-d element). People who have never made clothes, well, I don’t really understand them but I forgive them *wink*.

2)That’s a great story. My granddaddy didn’t survive very long after his stroke. His was more physically debilitating than mental. He was teasing the nurses up until the day he died. While sad, the memories of the laughter help.