Geminate Podcast

Sherri and Tamara talk about how they get ready for Fall Knitting! The conversation touches on sweaters, fall patterns, cowls, magazines that pull together posts about their most popular Fall patterns. Tamara also talks a little about the timeline as a designer for a Fall pattern release.

Sherri and Tamara take a little time to talk about switching over to a new season and slightly different format to accommodate the realities of continuing to record remotely during the ongoing pandemic and to reintroduce themselves.

Sherri and Tamara talk through planning out a quarter's worth of knitting at different budget levels shopping only at local yarn stores to support local. They each figured out and compared notes on how they could knit for three months on $20 a quarter, $20 a month, $20 a week and $20 a day. (We talk about lots of numbers here, so we're apologizing in advance if you are doing any counting while lis...

Sherri and Tamara talk through planning out a quarter's worth of knitting at different budget levels. They each figured out and compared notes on how they could knit for three months on $20 a quarter, $20 a month, $20 a week and $20 a day. (We talk about lots of numbers here, so we're apologizing in advance if you are doing any counting while listening.)

Sherri and Tamara talk about why they each have a stash. And why that stash is important.

Sherri and Tamara talk about working from stash. And about how they organize, sort, store, curate and sometimes get rid of yarn.

Sherri and Tamara discussed with they look for in a shawlette pattern -- yarn weights, construction, shapes, details and more.

Sherri and Tamara talk about shawlettes in general plus which shawlettes they've knit and wear. They also touch on when and where and how to wear them. Shawlettes are great projects for that one skein of special fingering weight yarn in your stash.

Sherri and Tamara try out remote recording

Cynthia Strelkoff, retired opera singer and costumer designer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cynthia is now a fiber farmer and designer in Butler, Missouri. She has a new book out, The Lace Makers of Wright Road. The book is co-authored by Willow Oringderff.

Cynthia Strelkoff, retired opera singer and costumer designer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cynthia is now a fiber farmer and designer in Butler, Missouri. She has a new book out, The Lace Makers of Wright Road. The book is co-authored by Willow Oringderff.

Sherri and Tamara finish the second half of the conversation about knitting for warmer weather. They talk about Freezing Office Syndrome and about what they like to wear in the summer.

Sherri and Tamara talk about knitting for warmer weather.

Sherri and Trish talk about their experiences for learning from their knitting groups.

Trish, guest host, owns Yarn Social and is passionate about the community that surrounds knitting.

Sherri and Tamara talk about knitting and weaving scarves that stay flat and to tame the curl.

Scarves are portable and make great gifts. One of the best thing about scarves is that you can make them as long or as short as you like and as thin or as wide as you like. Sherri and Tamara learned to graft in pattern and talk about wearing scarves.

Sherri and Tamara continue their conversation about mittens and review Brown Sheep Company.

Sherri and Tamara talk about knitting mittens. Mittens are portable, make great gifts, fun and quick to knit, one of the few knitted things teen boys will actually wear on purpose and small enough to be low risk for learning new techniques or for going all out on fancy color work

Geminate, a podcast about knitting, spinning, dyeing and other crafts in Mid-America. Sherri and Tamara continue their conversation about hats and pom-poms.

Sherri and Tamara talk about knitting hats.

Sherri and Tamara tell their origin stories.

Sherri and Tamara introduce themselves and Sherri explains the podcast name Geminate.