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01:07How to Teach What you LOVE
A Yarn Thing Podcast favorite, Gwen Bortner joins Marly to talk about how to teach what you love.
Gwen Bortner is a Craft Yarn Council Certified Teacher, teaches knitting and business classes at venues throughout the country, has been published in a variety of knitting magazines and is the lead designer for her business, Knitability, LLC.
Education is probably the most important component of the Knitability business plan as all efforts focus on the company motto of "Taking Knitters to the Next Level". Gwen's passion is teaching and enjoys every opportunity she has to share her love of knitting with others. Whether teaching through the local community education program or at a national knitting convention, meeting new people and sharing the love of knitting is one of her greatest joys.
Her most recent endeavor was converting her class “Share Your Passion, Teach!” into an online offering via Craftsy called “How to Teach It” Good teachers of all handcrafts are critical to ensuring these creative skills continue to be practiced.” Listen Live for chance to win great prizes!
Like this podcast? Be sure to leave a comment/review on iTunes to let other know about it! Stay up to date with the Yarn Thing podcast with the App available on iTunes and for Droid. Find our more about Marly at www.MarlyBird.com or follow her on facebook at www.facebook.com/marlybird This podcast is sponsored by: Knitter's Magazine, Craftsy.com, Fiesta Yarns, Kollage Yarns, Decade by Drew Emborsky, Love of Knitting, Love of Crochet and Bijou Basin Ranch.
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Franklin Habit
Designer, teacher, author and illustrator Franklin Habit is the author of It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons (Interweave Press, 2008) and proprietor of The Panopticon (the-panopticon.blogspot.com), one of the most popular knitting blogs on the Internet. On an average day, upwards of 2,500 readers worldwide drop in for a mix of essays, cartoons, and the continuing adventures of Dolores the Sheep. He recently founded Yarn Shaming (yarnshaming.tumblr.com), because while he loves yarn, yarn does not always love him back. Franklin’s varied experience in the fiber world includes contributions of writing and design to Vogue Knitting, Yarn Market News, Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet, PieceWork, Cast On: A Podcast for Knitters, Twist Collective; and a regular columns for both Knitty.com and Lion Brand Yarns. Several of his independently published designs are available via Ravelry.com.
He travels constantly to teach knitters at shops and guilds across the country and internationally; and has been a popular member of the faculties of such festivals as Vogue Knitting Live!, Stitches Midwest, Sock Summit, and the Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat. The amazingly talented Franklin Habit joins the podcast to talk about everything he has going on...including a new Craftsy class and a CRUISE with Melissa Leapman!
Stay up to date with the Yarn Thing podcast with the App available on iTunes and for Droid. Find our more about Marly at www.MarlyBird.com or follow her on facebook at www.facebook.com/marlybirdTags: marly yarn knitting crochet needlearts
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Rick Mondragon
For our next show, my guest will be Rick Mondragon, editor of Knitter's Magazine. He'll be talking about K110, the Spring 2013 issue, in local yarn stores and on newsstands now, as well as teasing you with what you'll see in the upcoming Summer issue. We invite you to listen as he takes you into the pages and between the lines of Knitter's Magazine. Gain insight on how it all comes together—stitch, color, and silhouette—along with logical
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by Fiber Hooligan in Knitting
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00:59Featured
Laura Bryant
Artisan hand dyer Laura Bryant joins Marly to talk about her amazing career as a designer, artisan hand dyer of yarn and now author of a brand new XRX Book. Artful Color Mindful Knits is a font of information specific to hand dyed yarns but manditory reading for all knitters who have a predilection for hand dyed yarns and wahtn to take control of the patterning potential that is hand-dyed into yarns. Prizes GALORE for the live listener and for the listen later types! Don't miss! Check
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00:31Featured
Carol Sulcoski
Two of teh biggest knitting trends in recent years are knitting socks and knitting with handpainted yarns. But what does a knitter do when she's already knit dozens of socks and still has a sizeable stash of sock yarn lying around? And waht about teh knitter who loves handpainted and other sock yarns, but isn't that crazy about the admittedly-fiddly process of knitting socks? These knitters need some sock alternatives: creative, stylish ways to use sock yarns for things oth
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00:31Featured
Cap Sease: Cast On, Bind off
Cap Sease of Guilford, Connecticut, has been knitting since childhood. She is also a weaver, quilter, and basket maker. Her love of using her hands led to a career in conservation, and she has extensive experience as a conservator on archaeological excavations. She is also a designer and workshop leader for the Green Mountain Spinnery. Join Marly as she talks to Cap about her new book Cast On, Bind off. Now, in one extraordinary book, knitters have at their fingertips more than 12
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Gwen Bortner
On the next edition of Fiber Hooligan (6/3/13) my guest will be designer, teacher, and entrepreneur Gwen Bortner. Gwen is a Craft Yarn Council Certified Teacher, teaching at venues, including STITCHES, throughout the country and is the author of Entree to Entrelac. Her designs can be found in a variety of knitting magazines and through her business, Knitability, LLC. Education is probably the most important component of the Knitability business plan as all efforts focus on the company motto of "Taking Knitters to the Next Level". Whether teaching at a local yarn shop or at a national knitting convention, meeting new people and sharing the love of knitting is one of her greatest joys. Gwen’s teaching philosophy can be summed up in the following quote, “My job is to make the students’ toolbox bigger. If all you own is a hammer, everything looks like a nail! In the process of providing options, more skills are developed and a better knitter is the result. My mantra is knitting is fun, if you added something to your toolbox and had fun doing it, then I consider that a successful class.” Gwen has a lot to say about designing, teaching, and the teaching of teaching. I hope you'll tune to hear what she has to say on what should be an exciting and insightful episode of Fiber Hooligan.
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by Fiber Hooligan in Knitting
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00:34Featured
Craft Cruises
Melissa Gower is the founder of Craft Cruises and has been knitting for over a decade. Melissa does not consider herself to be a knitting expert by any means but surrounds herself with some of the most influential instructors and desingers in the fiber arts world. Since starting Craft Cruises, Melissa Gower has escorted thousands of knitters, beaders, spinners and crocheters of all skill levels on cruises around the world Melissa is not only passionate about the art itself but also in sharing
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00:30Featured
Serendipity Yarn and Gifts
Today we talk to the owners of Serendipity Yarn and Gifts in Buena Vista, CO about owning a yarn shop and the wonderful things they have planned! It's amazing how a group of knitters gathering at someone's house and doing what they love to do could one day become an inspiration for what is now "Serendipity Yarn & Gifts". Serendipity first opened it's doors in April and we are now going on our seventh year in business. As you enter the store you are
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00:31Featured
Tabetha Hedrick
New designer Tabetha Hedrick joins me to talk about how she got started knitting, designing and her new booklet The Crescendo Collection. Tabetha’s designs are classic, with distinctly lovely silhouettes, beautiful stitch arrangements, and well written patterns. Flattering the figure, while remaining comfortably in fashion, is one of her highest goals when creating new pieces. In addition to knitting, you’ll find Tabetha spinning yarn, sketching ideas, teaching knitti
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00:41Featured
Jennifer Hansen: Stitch Diva
Jennifer Hansen lives in California's Santa Cruz Mountains where she is a full-time crochet and knit designer, teacher and writer. Her innovative crochet work has been featured in various books, magazines and television shows including Vogue Knitting, Interweave Crochet, The Happy Hooker, The Encyclopedia of Crochet and Knitty Gritty. She has been described as “One of the names that immediately comes to mind when thinking of the creative forces that have hel
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00:31Featured
Jimmy Beans Wool: Knit Red, Crafts Healthy Hearts
– Knit Red, authored by Laura Zander, owner of leading online yarn and fabric retailer, Jimmy Beans Wool is the first book of its kind in the Needlearts industryto mix style and soul with essential heart health education for women and draw awareness to the #1 killer of women in the United States, heart disease. Knit Red(Sixth&Spring Books, June 2012, 144pp, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-936096-42-8) features 30 eye-catching, heart health–inspired red garment and acce
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