{"id":823,"date":"2011-01-23T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T02:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2011-01-25T22:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T03:00:40","slug":"episode-43-where-we-wear-shrek-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/episode-43-where-we-wear-shrek-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 43 &#8211; Where We Wear Shrek Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura and Leslie show their FO&#8217;s in String Theory Yarn as well as other WIP&#8217;s and FO&#8217;s. Laura reviews the latest KnitScene magazine and another booklet. We talk about Twisted Strands Podcast and other sundry items.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/heraldmage42\">String Theory<\/a> discount code is &#8220;KNITGIRLLLS10&#8221;, and is valid for 60 days!  If she doesn&#8217;t have exactly what you want posted, just PM her for a special order!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"720\" height=\"430\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYKeqSkA\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"720\" height=\"430\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYKeqSkA\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here we go, Steelers, here we go! \u00a0Pittsburgh&#8217;s going to the Super Bowl!<\/p>\n<p>Laura is knitting on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/throughtheloops.typepad.com\/through_the_loops\/2011\/01\/washington-square.html\">Washington Square<\/a> out of New Zealand Aran Wool from the stash. I&#8217;m also knitting<a href=\"http:\/\/westknits.com\/index.php\/pattern\/shawls-scarves-and-wraps\/urbana\/\"> Urbana<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/westknits.com\/\">Stephen West<\/a> for the Selfish Knits KAL. \u00a0It&#8217;s out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theloopyewe.com\/browse\/yarn\/malabrigo\/rios\/\">Malabrigo Rios<\/a> in the Archangel colorway. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ysolda.com\/2009\/01\/14\/ishbel-pattern\/\">Ishbel<\/a> is on the needles, but you can&#8217;t see it because I forgot it. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also cast on some socks out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twistedfiberart.com\/\">Twisted Fiber Arts <\/a>in the Ravelry colorway.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie is knitting on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/slable\"> Slable<\/a> by Wolly Wormhead (my favorite hat designer). \u00a0She is knitting it out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theloopyewe.com\/browse\/yarn\/dragonfly-fibers\/djinni-sock\/\">Dragonfly Djinni<\/a> in &#8220;Blue Spruce.&#8221; \u00a0She is also knitting on some Master Knitter Swatches.<\/p>\n<p>Laura is done with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/elphaba-2\"> Elphaba Mitts<\/a> out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/heraldmage42\">String Theory <\/a>Duality in the Dark Matter colorway.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie is done with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/spot-check-sock\">Spot Check socks<\/a> out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/yarns\/library\/numma-numma-toasty\">Numma Numma<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/yarns\/library\/lime--violet-sasquatch-superwash\">Lime and Violet<\/a>. She also did some cross stitch from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.subversivecrossstitch.com\/index.html\"> Subversive Cross-stitch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leslie has had some progress with her spinning and I have finished &#8220;the batt that sheds&#8221; singles.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite Things:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedstrandss.blogspot.com\/\">Twisted Strands Podcast<\/a>: Hilarious and not child safe.<\/p>\n<p>Laura is in love with Stephen West and has purchased his <a href=\"http:\/\/westknits.com\/index.php\/pattern\/shawls-scarves-and-wraps\/clockwork\/\">Clockwork pattern.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went to Shrek the musical as a daddy\/daughter date. It was really funny!<\/p>\n<p>I got a new book and Magazine. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/sources\/the-shetland-trader-book-1\">Shetland Trader <\/a>by Gudrun Johnston is a wonderful little pattern book (Yay Indie Books!). I also got the new Knitscene. \u00a0There are quite a few patterns we like (sorry that my close ups are a little off).<\/p>\n<p>We love Knitting Without Tears and all Elizabeth Zimmerman books.<\/p>\n<p>We picked up some new stash at Loop in Tulsa, OK. \u00a0Leslie got some Madelintosh Pashmina in Turquose. \u00a0I got some Vintage Chunky by Berroco and Be Sweet Bamboo Taffy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura and Leslie show their FO&#8217;s in String Theory Yarn as well as other WIP&#8217;s and FO&#8217;s. Laura reviews the latest KnitScene magazine and another booklet. We talk about Twisted Strands Podcast and other sundry items. String Theory discount code &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/episode-43-where-we-wear-shrek-ears\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[316,211,248,294,7,296,186,297,177],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-knitting","tag-podcast","tag-podcasting","tag-reviews","tag-spinning","tag-stringtheoryyarn","tag-theknitgirllls","tag-twistedstrandspodcast","tag-videocast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}