Purl Diving Podcast

Download Episode Twenty-Eight ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 12:59 - File size 11.9 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: What happens when you take cricket, Bollywood, Marlon Brando and combine them with a little Xtreeeme Knitting? Listen to this episode of Purl Diving to find out. Links: The Kolkata Knight Riders video that inspired it all. The anthem ("Korbo Lorbo Jeetbo" AKA "2 Hot 2 Cool") is on CD, and available at Nehaflix, fine purveyor of all that is Bollywood. "The Detonator" is the name of this year's Sock Wars Pattern. Go. Knit. Feel a frisson of glory. John Meadows read the excerpt from the Reuters news article. His excellent podcast, On the Log, is all about, as he says, "looking at the future through the rear-view mirror", and is one I eagerly await each Sat

Download Episode Twenty-Seven ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 07:49 - File size 7.2 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: Because the Journée du gros pull originated in the Flemish part of Belgium, it's actually known as the "Dikke-truiendag", and because this year February 16th falls on a Saturday, the action will actually happen on Friday, February 15th. Get out your woollies! Audio: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode: American Baroque: The Four Seasons by Vivaldi -- "Concerto No.4 in g minor RV 297 :WINTER: - Allegro non molto" (from Magnatune) "Warm Up My Life" by Winters Longing (from the Podsafe Music Network)

Download Episode Twenty-Six ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 10:33 - File size 9.7 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: Today on Purl Diving we delve into the wonders of nana-technology with Shreddies Knitting Nanas. Darryl Cognito hides from the robots in the basement of the internet, where he produces the podcast Atomic Suburbia (As Darryl says, "Not just Calgary's best podcast, but also the most consistent!") I hope he doesn't mind me nicking his theme music, but as soon as I saw the bit where the nanas defeat the robots, I just knew I had to use it. Warning to Canadian listeners: earworm alert --> Good, good, whole wheat Shreddies! Audio: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode: "Replaced By Robots"

Download Episode Twenty-Five ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 15:43 - File size 14.4 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: In this episode, the Universe hands me the gift of a great idea, and some good people to help me make that idea a reality. This episode was a true Christmas miracle for me. I searched high and low for music for it, and I stumbled across The Perfect Version of "We Three Kings" by Derek K. Miller on the Podsafe Music Network. As soon as I heard it, I knew it was perfect. It was the first time I'd dared to create an audio play, and I'm grateful to Sage Tyrtle of the Quirky Nomads podcast, and Bruce Murray of The Zedcast, who immediately agreed to provide the voices for Madame Sofronie and Jim; and to my Tech Guy, who agreed to narrate the story, even though

Download Episode Twenty-Four ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 10:53 - File size 10.0 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: In this episode, Purl Diving discovers what happens when the Universe smacks you upside the head with the Christmas Knitting Crazy Stick. Yes, I had to inflict the parody song on you Again This Year. What good is a holiday if you can't trot out all the Olde Chestnuts? Oh, okay, the Maine Mittens can be found by visiting the page for Clara Parkes's book, The Knitter's Review of Yarn. (Scroll down for the link to the .pdf) (I don't yet have a copy of Clara's book, but I've thumbed through it at the local yarn shop, and I think any knitter would be happy to find a copy of this under the tree.) Audio: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from

Download Episode Twenty-Three ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 12:10 - File size 11.2 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: In this episode Purl Diving discovers knitting and manning a polling station don't mix, and mulls over the problem of voter apathy. To download a button to post to your blog or website (please don't link to the files here) right-click on the button of your choice and select the menu option to save the image file. For Mac users, Alt-Click on the button and choose the option to save the image file. Audio: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode: "I'm Henry the Eighth" performed by Harry Champion, from the Internet Archive

Download Episode Twenty-Two ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 9:10 - File size 8.46 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say he has no business here at all. -- Pericles, Greek orator and politician (ca 495-429 B.C.E) Exactly. What he said. Audio: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Sounds from a polling booth during the French Presidential elections, recorded by mosfran from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode: "Someday Soon" by Great Big Sea (from the Podsafe Music Network)

Download Episode Twenty One ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 10:15 - File size 9.45 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: I'm fascinated by the French concept of "le jardin secret", the secret garden, that part of one's self where one permits all freedom of thought, without worrying about what others might think. It's a metaphorical or imaginary place where one can retreat, recharge; where one can preserve one's identity and sense of self; where one can express one's most secret desires and emotions. I'm finding, more and more, that this podcast, this little pillow cast, this diary, has become, in many ways, my own secret garden. Well, not so secret, because I find myself compelled to share many of my most intimate thoughts with rather a large number of strangers. In the end

Download Episode Twenty ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 7:11 - File size 6.6 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: I've nothing left to write that I haven't already said in today's episode -- but I'm sure you're just here for the links, right? Ruth's very inspirational blog. Ruth's Kauni Cardigan (English Version) Ruth's Autumn Cardigan The Icelandic Lace Shawl (which was in Piecework Magazine, part of the Interweave family). I believe you'll have to be registered and signed in with Knitting Daily in order to download the PDF. The Bohus kits. Sigh. One day...one day... Audio: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode: "The Ride of the Valkyries" from "Die Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner, 1921 recording perform

Download Episode Nineteen ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 10:39 - File size 9.8 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: "Once upon a time, in a large forest, there lived an old woman and three maidens. They were all three beautiful, but the youngest was the fairest. Their hut was quite hidden by the trees, and none saw their beauty but the sun by day, the moon by night, and the eyes of the stars. The old woman kept the girls hard at work, from morning till night, spinning gold flax into yarn, and when one distaff was empty another was given them, so they had no rest. The thread had to be fine and even, and when done was locked up in a secret chamber by the old woman, who twice or thrice very summer went a journey. Before she went she gave out work for each day of her absence,

Download Episode Eighteen ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 11:49 - File size 10.9 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: Our Lady of the Knit and Purl delivers up a little divine inspiration in this week's episode of Purl Diving. Diane Schoemperlen's book Our Lady of the Lost and Found (Toronto: HarperFlamingoCanada, 2001) provides not one, but two knitting references, and it's all courtesy of The Knitting Curmudgeon and the Knitterguy. Sometimes you just never know when the BVM is going to show up in your knitting podcast. Audio: Sound samples used in this episode: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Turning the pages of the book of Ruth in the Bible created by Charel Sytze from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode:

Download Episode Seventeen ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 7:53 - File size 7.23 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: Mama Purl goes to the Winter 2007/2008 TNNA Trade show, and shares some thoughts on knitting and the seasons. Turn, turn, turn... And for those of you who work on the Fahrenheit scale, a "30+ degree Celsius heatwave" translates to 86+ degrees... Listen to the episode to find out more. The Dyana Afghan Women's Fund is a Canadian charitable organization founded by Nelofer Pazira, an Afghan-Canadian journalist, writer and film-maker. DAWF provides assistance to local groups that provide education and training to Afghan women. DAWF has been my charity of choice for a couple of years now, as I truly believe that the most powerful change that can happen in a comm

Download Episode Sixteen ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 9:41 - File size 8.9 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: What the Dickens? Listen as Purl Diving spins a tale of the sea. Audio: Sound samples used in this episode: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Marseille crickets & waterfront sounds sample created by philippe b from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode: "Pais oceano (Ocean Country)" by Anamar on her album Transfado from Magnatune.com

Download Episode Fifteen ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 9:36 - File size 8.9 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: White coral bells upon a slender stalk Lilies-of-the valley deck my garden walk Oh don't you wish that you could hear them ring? That will only happen when the fairies sing. The prodigal podcaster returns with thoughts of springtime, Paris, and the May flowers brought forth by April showers. Audio: Sound samples used in this episode: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode: "Ce Moys de May" (15th century song in Old French by Guillaume Dufay) performed by Shira Kammen on her album The Almanac from Magnatune.com Additional Links: Maiglöckchen – Variationen eines traditionellen Strickmusters.

Download Episode Fourteen ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 15:07 - File size 13.9 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: "Who are you waiting for? I'm right here..." So begins the title song for the Bollywood film, "Main Hoon Na". Today's Purl Diving is an all singing, all dancing, all knitting extravaganza! Audio: Sound samples used in this episode: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project All film clips are from "Main Hoon Na" -- India, 2004. Directed by Farah Khan. (I've used these under the terms of "fair dealing", and if you're curious to see the film, it's available on DVD from Amazon.com) Music featured in this episode: "You" by the Indian rock band Pralay (via the Podsafe Music Network) Additional Links: A Canadian Bollywood movi

Download Episode Thirteen ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 11:46 - File size 10.8 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: In this episode of Purl Diving, we go where no knitter has gone before; we leap tall stereotypes with a single bound; we -- we -- well, we feel good. Pretty Good, in fact. So good that we had to come up with yet another knitting acronym -- the PGK. Listen to the episode to find out more... Audio: Sound samples used in this episode: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Waves on a beach sample created by gadzooks from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode: "Ovelha Negra (Black sheep)" by Anamar, provided courtesy Magnatune (the "We are not evil" people).

Download Episode Twelve ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 12:00 - File size 11.0 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Shownotes: Episode 12 is a kind of knitting sound-scape. Of a sorts. Kind of. Purl Diving knits at the Oscars. Audio: Sound samples used in this episode: Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Cinema projector sample looped under soundscape created by jlozano from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode: "Only in the Movies" by Caroline Hetherton on Podsafe Music Network. Additional Links: The Stig

Download Episode Eleven ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 15:41 - File size 14.4 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive In this episode of Purl Diving, we experience a small blast from the past, courtesy of Marcel Proust, his tea, and most of all, his madeleine. If you have your own Knitter's Madeleine that you'd care to share in a future episode of Purl Diving, please drop me a note, either in the comments or via email. If you have a microphone connected to your computer, you can also leave me an audio message of up to 3 minutes in length using the Odeo link in the sidebar. Audio Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode: "Gigue L'angloise": Suite In G Minor: Le Troisième Livre De Pieces De Viole (1711) by Marin Marais

Download Episode Ten ( 128Kbps MP3 - Length 1:01:24 - File size 56.2 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Episode Ten is a surprise package under the podcast tree -- a compilation of Christmas music from both the Podsafe Music Network (PMN) and Magnatune. Don't fret over the length of this episode -- I'll be back to my normal "short and sweet" format in the New Year. For now, enjoy the holidays and I hope you enjoy this special episode. Audio Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Music featured in this episode: "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Twisted Sister (PMN) "Just Stockings On" by Munk (PMN) "Christmas Here on Mars" by Bubble (PMN) "Christmas in the Sun" by Joel Kopischke (PMN) "Oatmeal for Xmas" by Let's Go Bowling (PMN) "

Download Episode Nine (128Kbps MP3 - Length 14:39 - File size 13.4 MB) ( To download: PC Peoples use Right-click + Save [ Target | Link ] As... / Mac Peoples use Alt-Click ) 64Kbps MP3 (smaller than 128Kbps MP3 but lower audio quality) & Ogg Vorbis format (please check your player for compatibility) audio files available on Internet Archive Audio Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project Sleighbell sample created by Connum from The Freesound Project "Jingle Bells" by Anup courtesy of Magnatune