I Thought I Knew How: A Podcast about Knitting and Life

Anne is back with an episode after 6 months away!
Links to Things Mentioned in the Show
The Shetland Hogmanay Box will go live in the SOK Shop on May 31 at 2 pm BST!
Follow SOK: Shetland's Organisation for Knitters on Facebook or Instagram, and get on the mailing list. 
Caydo Electric I-Cord Machine
Foula Wool

In this episode, Anne finally gets around to sharing what she's been working on behind the scenes, though it's so late in coming that most of you probably already know by now... 

Support SOK: Shetland's Organisation for Knitters at the Crowdfunder. 

Follow SOK on Instagram and Facebook. 

Visit the SOK website to join the mailing list. 

Episode 17 of the Woolly Winter Countdown (will go live at 3 am eastern time on December 17).

In this episode, Anne shares a quick review of episode one of The Game of Wool. 

Find this new reality show on the Channel 4 website in the UK. American listeners, you'll have to wait or use nefarious methods to see it. The contents of this episode do contain spoilers, but also contain some information about knitting. Listen accordingly. 

Hear Gordon share his experience in his own words here. 
Hop over to the SOK: Shetland's Organisation for Knitters website, Instagram, and Facebook to follow for updates.

In this episode, Anne starts with all the details of this year's Shetland Hogmanay Box before diving into her experiences at the Connecticut and New Hampshire Sheep and Wool events and her trip to volunteer at the Woolly Good Gathering. Finally, she shares an excursion to the Western Massachusetts wool pelletizer with Erin Pirro of Morehouse Farm. 
Things Mentioned in This Episode
The I Thought I Knew How Facebook Group, Instagram, and website (where you can join the mailing list).
The Shetland Hogmanay Box preorders will go live on May 17 at 2 pm eastern time.
This year's box contains yarn from Aister 'Oo', Jamieson's of Shetland, Laxdale Yarn, The SIlly Sheep Fibre Co., Uradale Yarns, West Lynne Wool, and Langsoond Yarn, as well as a day of inclusions and a pattern created to use the yarn in the box designed by Mandy Moore.  
Connecticut Sheep, Wool, and Fiber Festival
New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival
Woolly Good Gathering
Western Massachusetts Fibershed
Peggy Hart on Instagram
Wool: Unravelying an American Story of Artisans and Innovation, by Peggy Hart
Morehouse Farm's website and Instagram
Check out Erin's video from our day at the pelletizer at her website!
The pellets should appear on the Morehouse site. If you are in the midwestern United States, you might want to order wool pellets from closer to home from The Wool Yard.
The Journal of Scottish Yarns
Rhode Island's unofficial Sheep and Wool Festival takes place at Coggeshall Farm
The Maine Fiber Frolic
Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair
Music
The songs in this episode were "What Love Means to You," from Tom Goldstein; "Better Than Us," by Humans Win; and Nicholas Rowe with "I Wish That I Could Sing It For You."

In this episode, Anne follows up on the progress with "steek", ways to keep your yarn safe from moths--backed by experts!--and offers a bit of commentary on the loss of Joann stores.

Links to Things Mentioned in the Episode
If you were not able to attend The Myths That Shape! you can watch it on YouTube.
To read the news article about the inclusion of the Shetland Lace definition of steek being added to the Oxford English Dictionary, visit the posts on Facebook and Instagram. 
You can also go back and listen to episode 113 to hear about the entire process of getting the definition of steek updated to include the Shetland Lace usage!
Sheila McGregor's Traditional Fair Isle Knitting
The Vogue Knitting interview with Alice Starmore
Find the links to scientificly backed articles about moth protection here.
Find Mandy Moore on Ravelry and Instagram. You can also listen to an interview I had with Mandy back in episode 69. 
Keep your eye out for information about this year's Shetland Hogmanay Box by following I Thought I Knew How on Instagram or Facebook, or hop over to the website to join the mailing list!
I'll be at the Woolly Good Gathering in a few days! I hope to see you there!

Music

The music from this episode was two songs from Ben Bostick: "The Myth of Translation" and "Sweet Thursday." Between those two was Sleeping Ghost with "Afro Summer."