|
Illnois/Wisconsin contingent who came to support me at the Madison Knitters' Guild meeting. |
Listen here
or use the Flash Player on this site for current and past episodes. Flash
Player is not compatible with Internet Explorer. Try a different browser like
Safari. Or jaunt on over to iTunes
to find the show there.
Knitting Pipeline
is a Craftsy Affiliate. Craftsy offers affordable online classes and supplies. When
you use the link in the sidebar before purchasing I receive a small percentage
of your purchase at no extra cost to you. Craftsy Unlimited is now called
Blueprint. Thank you!
You can also find me here:
Ravelry: PrairiePiper
Feel free to include me in your friends.
In this episode we have Pipeliner Notes, Events, Needle
Notes, Blethering Room where I will share some of the talk from Madison, and a
bit of Nature Notes.
Pipeliner Notes
Welcome to our newest Pipeliners who have said hello to us
on the Welcome thread or to me in a personal message. Kamonson who is Kathy in
Madison, flatlandknitter who is Carla in CT, Pambaknj, knitting-travels who is
Shelly from MA and Mission TX, AmyRknits who is Amy in Madison,
Kristinallavenia who is Kristina in OH.
Thank you for your star ratings and reviews on iTunes. Cgribben
12/6, Gamer4011 on 12/6 and MamaLopez on 12/7.
Posted in The Knitting Pipeline Retreat Group by JanMarieKnits:
From Knitting-travels
Hi Paula,
I
have been listening to your podcast for a couple years, met you at Rhinebeck
two years ago and just realized I had not joined your group. How did I miss
that?? Anyway, I live in Northampton, Massachusetts, and travel with my husband
to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas in an RV for the winter months. We are avid
birders, and nature lovers in general, so the RGV is a perfect winter spot for
us.
I
think you mentioned Mother West Wind in a recent podcast (I hope it was your
podcast) and I wanted to comment on that, which is how I realized I was not a
member of the group. Old Mother West Wind stories were favorites of ours
growing up. Thornton Burgess spent his later years in Hampden, MA. My husband
grew up on the next property over (on Laughing Brook) and remembers Thornton
and the property, which later became a Massachusetts Audubon property. My mom
still has the old wooden puzzles of Burgess characters. We RV volunteered for
many years and spent one summer working with the Thornton Burgess Society in
Sandwich, MA. Anyway… you raised some nice memories.
Hoping
to make it to one of your retreats at some point. They all sound like so much
fun.
Shelley
Events
Thursday December 27, 2018
10:30 AM to noon, then off to lunch. Feel free to join us
for all or part!
February Retreat
Thank you for feedback on the February Retreat. Registration
will be coming out in early January.
February 15-16, 2019
Congratulations to #3
Betty4Fiber!
I’m not a beer fan,
but I could easily become a fan of the Zwan Wrap! I have some of my Handspun
Alpaca that just might work.
I knit Cheryl’s Side to Side Shrug a few years ago and really enjoyed the
knitting and wearing! I admired my sister’s shrug and she gifted me the kit.
Needle Notes
Quince & Co Phoebe Mercury colorway
Nature Notes
Nature Notes are brief today. On our drive up to Wisconsin
we saw the most beautiful landscape. Frost had frozen on every blade, leaf,
twig, branch making a furry white landscape. I’ve learned this is called
freezing fog. The roads were fine due to the traffic. (There is also something
called ice fog but this only occurs when the temperature falls below 14F.) The
beauty went on for several miles and suddenly it was gone. I was so mesmerized
that I didn’t even try to take a photo!
We had some trees removed from our woods on Saturday.
Blethering Room
This is a portion of my talk at the Madison Knitters’ Guild
December 10, 2018 meeting.
#47 The Day a Knight
Came to Dinner. (2011) I met Willie and Jose McVean through the pipe band while
they were visiting friends here. Willie was the pipe major of Dutch Pipes and
Drums for many years and was knighted. In 2012 six of us pipers from Celtic
Cross were invited to play with Dutch Pipes and Drums at the National Tattoo of
the Netherlands in Rotterdam. These were experiences I share with the listeners
who by then are called Pipeliners.
#27 January 7 2011
Knitting is my Passion. Most
downloaded show probably because Susan B Anderson mentioned me on her blog. Maybe
passionate knitters could relate to the title. Bald Eagles are featured in
Nature Notes and I tell a story. I had recently knitted Citron by Hillary Smith
Callis and I added a scalloped border with beads. I was telling some
non-knitting folks how long it had taken to do the bind off and one of them
said, “Get a life!” My friend, Mary, said, “She has a life and it is knitting!”
#33 Of Lice and Men,
a themed episode with Norwegian Knitting…the Lice Jacket, Robert Burns poem “To
a Louse” and Robert Frost’s poem “A Considerable Speck.
#35 Comfort Knitting:
What is your comfort knitting. It varied from very simple to complex. People
loved this episode and the ones following it where I share what others had
written in. I believe “Hold your knitting
close” came about after this episode.
#43 Owls: Mystical,
Magical, and Knittable. I talked about owls in nature, literature, art,
poetry, and of course, knitting.
#50 The Chambered
Nautilus
Knit One Knit All
My husband was a guest for the first time on the show and he
explained Fibonnaci Sequence, which I first heard about through Elizabeth
Zimmermann and the Golden Mean.
#202 Pi and Pi
Shawl. Super Pi Day, remember that?
3/14/15. My husband was again a guest on the show and explained Pi and we
talked about EZ’s Pi Shawl.
#160 Beatrix Potter:
Champion of Sheep. The life of Beatrix Potter and how she saved the
Herdwick sheep of the Lake District.
Thank God I have the
seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the
fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton
pass where my old legs will never take me again.
#176 A Pigeon called
Martha 6/22/14)
100 year anniversary of the death of the last passenger pigeon
on September 1, 1914. Her name was Martha, age 29, and she was living in the
Cleveland Zoo.
I became a little bit obsessed with the story of the
Passenger pigeon because no one dreamed that a species as numerous as the
passenger pigeon was in the 18th and 19th centuries could
become extinct…and yet it happened over a fairly short period of time.
Here is where my knitting world and my nature world
collided:
The last confirmed wild Passenger Pigeon in Wisconsin was
shot in September 1899 near Babcock WI. The bird was mixed in with some
Mourning Doves and it was only after it was killed that a man recognized it as
a young Passenger Pigeon.
Babcock, WI was the home of Elizabeth and Arnold Zimmermann.
(They had nothing to do with this.) Some of you may have ordered wool and books
from her at that address. There is a monument there with a plaque that was
dedicated in 1947. The conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote “On a Monument to a
Pigeon” to dedicate this memorial which is considered the first monument to an
extinct species. The essay was published in a Sand County Almanac after his
death in 1948, just one year later.
"Men still live who, in their youth, remember
pigeons; trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind.
But a few decades hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last
only the hills will know."
-Aldo Leopold, "On a Monument to the Pigeon," 1947
Reading
Second stanza from Helen Hunt Jackson’s New Year’s Morning.
American Poet. Born 1830 in Amherst MA.
Always a night from old to new!
Night and the healing balm of sleep!
Each morn is New Year’s morn come true,
Morn of a festival to keep.
All nights are sacred nights to make
Confession and resolve and prayer;
All days are sacred days to wake
New gladness in the sunny air.
Only a night from old to new;
Only a sleep from night to morn.
The new is but the old come true;
Each sunrise sees a new year born.
--Helen Hunt Jackson
Many thanks for supporting the show in 2018! I appreciate
each one of you. I hope you have a wonderful holiday and New Year!