Welcome to Episode Three of the Plutonium Muffins Podcast – Kuruka! I discuss some projects I’m working on, as well as the events I will be going to in the next few weeks. I go through the Monthly Resolutions and talk about a KAL we will be doing in January 2015. There’s also a section on a brief History of Knitting, and at the very end – an explanation as to why I called everything Plutonium Muffins!
Episode Three: Kuruka
Introduction
Kuruka
‘knitting’ in Shona
Section One: Knitting
Knitting In the Oven
- Icon Dress by Purl Alpaca Designs.
- My Favourite Things by Jill McGee
- #WIPCrackAway with the Knit British podcast and Yarns from the Plain podcast.
- Chat thread in Yarns from the Plain this week.
- #mftkal with iMake
Future Recipes
- Naloa by East London Knit
- Kettle Yarn Co by Linda
Wooden Spoons (and so on)
- Loop, London
- Pebble – search “Nifty Knit” in Pebble Store
- Zigzag Jumper
Newsflash
- The Handmade Fair from September 19th to 21st
- Belinda Harris-Reid
- Great London Yarn Crawl, Saturday 20th of September
- Refuge – the charity supported by GLYC
- The Knitting and Stitching Show Alexandra Palace 8 to 12 October.
- Sincerely Louise’ book launch on 10th October in Brixton – Pre-Order Faux Taxidermy Knits
Great London Yarn Crawl 
My Favourite Things as it currently stands.
Section Two: Spinning
Half-baked Spinning
Kneading the dough
Gourmet Spinning
- Start Spinning by Maggie Casey
Le Cordon Bleu
- Improve Your Spinning with Brenda Gibson
Section Three: Resolutions
- Resolutions Monthly on Ravelry
- My September Resolutions
- Kelv from last month
- January KAL suggested by LakeLinda
“Between now and 12/31, don’t know about you, but my knitting will be consumed with Holiday gifts. So I always need a new project for after the holidays, I will lead a KAL in January. So let’s be selfish and make something for ourselves.
I’ll start a thread for ideas – so look at your queue, scout the patterns for something that you want to make and we’ll do this again.
$8 pattern for a random participant”
Section Four: Crafty Roots
Brief History of Knitting
- Sheep Breeds: The Mouflon
- Knitting Around the World: A Multistranded History of a Time-Honored Tradition by Lela Nargi
- Knitting History 101 on Knitty
- History of Knitting on Wikipedia
- How to pronounce nålebinding
Conclusion
Contact me!
- corrie[at]plutoniummuffins.com
- Plutonium Muffins Blog
- Corrie on Twitter
- Plutonium Muffins on Facebook
- Plutonium Muffins on Ravelry
- Corrie on Pinterest
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I’ve never thought about the direction of knitting being opposite to the direction we read! Very thought provoking…… I think your doing really well with your podcasting. A few months ago I started blogging for the first time and like others have said to me (and I’m sure it’s been said to yourself) it’s just about finding your voice. Keep up the good work.