Casual Friday Podcasts
329 videos • 131,656 views • by Roxanne Richardson
Weekly podcast of projects, knitting history, and textile-related topics. Click PLAY ALL to see the entire list of videos in order.
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How I learned to knit // Casual Friday #1
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Master Knitter, Blown Yarn, and an Old Aran Sweater // Casual Friday #2
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How to Overdye an Old Sweater // Casual Friday #3
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Search for UFOs, Office Tour, and Finish it February // Casual Friday #4
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Reducing Your UFO Pile - FiF week 1 // Casual Friday #5
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Knitting Reference Books and FiF Update // Casual Friday #6
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Color Blind Knitter // Casual Friday #7
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Rainbow Blankets and My Knitting Grandmothers // Casual Friday #8
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A New Cardigan and Some Minnesota Knitting History // Casual Friday #9
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Do Limits Cramp or Enhance Your Knitting Creativity // Casual Friday #10
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Latvian Mittens Get Me Out of a Rut // Casual Friday #11
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Birthday Yarn, Third Cousins, and Dog Park Friends // Casual Friday #12
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Mitten Fever // Casual Friday #13
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Lost and Found // Casual Friday #14
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Multi-color Knitting -- What I didn't Know // Casual Friday #15
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Collective Knitter Intelligence // Casual Friday #16
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Baby Blanket Thank You // Casual Friday #17
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Perfectionism // Casual Friday #18
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Lessons About Fairs, Farms, and Sheep // Casual Friday #19
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Spinning Head and Spinning Hands // Casual Friday #20
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Lessons from Learning to Spin // Casual Friday #21
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What Looms Ahead? // Casual Friday #22
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I Made Yarn, and Other Arts & Crafts // Casual Friday #23
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Alden Amos is My Kind of Nerd // Casual Friday #24
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How to Pick a Pattern Size / Buying a Spinning Wheel // Casual Friday #25
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Stitch Dictionaries, Podcasts, and Sleeping Beauty // Casual Friday #26
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Yarn Chimera and "Original Dawn" // Casual Friday #27
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Reading Norwegian Sweaters // Casual Friday #28
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You've Got Questions, I've Got Answers // Casual Friday #29
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The Rights and Wrongs of Knitting // Casual Friday #30
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Knitted Knockers for my Mom // Casual Friday #31
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Getting Help on Ravelry // Casual Friday #32
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Lighthouses and the State Fair // Casual Friday #33
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Ask a Knitter and the Skill That Made All the Difference // Casual Friday #34
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Protecting the Joy of Knitting / Contacting Designers Directly // Casual Friday #35
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Becoming an AnalyKnitter // Casual Friday #36
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Modify seamed to seamless; "full fashioned" decreases // Casual Friday #37
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Frog Pond Blues and Knitting Retreats // Casual Friday #38
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Norwegian Purl for English Knitters / Knitting Project Spreadsheets // Casual Friday #39
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Mystery of the 3D Turtle // Casual Friday #40
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Little Retreat in the Big Woods // Casual Friday #41
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What is a "Big" or "Small" Project? // Casual Friday #42
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Sweater Obstacles and Choosing Your First Sweater Project // Casual Friday #43
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Vintage Buttons and Advanced Pattern Searching // Casual Friday #44
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Travel Knitting and the Mysteries of Gauge // Casual Friday #45
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Talking Turkey and Talking Gauge // Casual Friday #46
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Baby Gifts and Shoulder Shaping // Casual Friday #47
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A Game Plan to Fix Collar Issues // Casual Friday #48
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49
Memory Lane // Casual Friday #49
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Roositud, Yarn Subs, and Old Knitting Patterns // Casual Friday #50
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Aran Designing and Edwardian Knitting // Casual Friday #51
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Sweater Origin Story and New Year's Goals // Casual Friday #2-1
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Hand Knitting, Machine Knitting, and Fashion Made Us Rich with Choices // Casual Friday 2-2
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Sweater Setbacks and Knitters' Gifts // Casual Friday 2-3
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Starting Over Without Ripping Everything Out // Casual Friday 2-4
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Finish it February 2019 // Casual Friday 2-5
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Knitting UFOs, and Sunk Cost Fallacy // Casual Friday 2-6
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How WIPs Become UFOs, Magnetic Closures, and Yarn Ramen // Casual Friday 2-7
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Giant Mittens and Knitting Resistance // Casual Friday 2-8
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Smitten With a New/Old Mitten Tradition // Casual Friday 2-9
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How Knitting Style and Personality Influence Technique Preferences // Casual Friday 2-10
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Unusual Thumb Gussets and Writing Technical Knitting Articles // Casual Friday 2-11
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Spring is Here / Why We Knit // Casual Friday 2-12
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Podcasting and Productivity // CasFri 2-13
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My New Favorite Sheep / Casual Friday 2-14
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A Plan for the Finishing Touches // Casual Friday 2-15
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PLY Away and a 19th Century Woolen Mill // Casual Friday 2-16
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Netherlands Trip and Edwardian Sweater // Casual Friday 2-17
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Tripping Along and Planning Ahead // Casual Friday 2-18
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Shepherd's Harvest 2019 // Casual Friday 2-19
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The Search for My Next Vintage Project // Casual Friday 2-20
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Knitting World War I // Casual Friday 2-21
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Finding Antique and Vintage Knitting Manuals // Casual Friday 2-22
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Vintage Knitting With Updated Patterns // Casual Friday 2-23
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Seamless Inset Pockets and Crimean War Knitting // Casual Friday 2-24
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Washing Raw Wool // Casual Friday 2-25
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August Sock KAL and WWI Sweater Complete // Casual Friday 2-26
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Determining Knitting Direction and Sock KAL Part 1 // Casual Friday 2-27
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Edwardian Sweater Finale and Context for Sock Knitting Techniques // Casual Friday 2-28
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My Next Vintage Knit and How to Match Self-striping Socks // Casual Friday 2-29
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What is a Knitalong (KAL) / Fit Mods to a Vintage Sweater // Casual Friday 2-30
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Sweater Body Re-knit and My Sock Laboratory // Casual Friday 2-31
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1930s Sweater Yoke and 1920s Sweater Research // Casual Friday 2-32
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Minnesota State Fair 2019 // Casual Friday 2-33
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Sweater Fit Improvement Plan and Drum Carding // Casual Friday 2-34
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Estonian Socks and Creating a Gradient Yarn // Casual Friday 2-35
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Behind the Scenes of an Independent Yarn Dyer // Casual Friday 2-36
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Dyed Fiber Braid to Project and August Sock KAL Wrap Up // Casual Friday 2-37
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Knitting Communities Build Better Knitters // Casual Friday 2-38
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What is Thoughtful Design and Knitting Library Tour Part I // Casual Friday 2-39
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Knitting Design Books and how Test Knitting Works // Casual Friday 2-40
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Knitting Library Tour Part 3 (Socks) and My Design Niche // Casual Friday 2-41
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New Yarn, Recycled Yarn, and Learning How Yarn is Made // Casual Friday 2-42
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Using Stitch Dictionaries As Design Aids // Casual Friday 2-43
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Vintage 1938 Sweater and Who is Knit-Worthy? // Casual Friday 2-44
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Mock Cable Hat Pattern and Surprise Gift Knitting //Casual Friday 2-45
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Cashmere Goats and Knitting Design Do Overs // Casual Friday 2-46
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Danish Night Sweaters, Family Stockings and FlexiFlips XL // Casual Friday 2-47
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Neat Finish for a Christmas Stocking and Knitting Q&A // Casual Friday 2-48
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Casual Friday Road Trip With Knitting // Casual Friday 2-49
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New Year's Goals and Magic Motifs // Casual Friday 3-01
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Roaring '20s Sweater and Finish it February 2020 // Casual Friday 3-02
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Weird Connections: Knitting and Professional Baseball // Casual Friday 3-03
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Possum/Wolf Mittens and Crochet Frustration // Casual Friday 3-04
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Roaring Good Start to a Roaring '20s Sweater // Casual Friday 3-05
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Finish it February and Vintage Yarn // Casual Friday 3-06
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Early 20th Century Knitting Manuals // Casual Friday 3-07
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108
Damask Knitted Shirts for Kings and Common Folk // Casual Friday 3-08
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Make Do and Mend Tips from 1940s Vintage Knitting Books // Casual Friday 3-09
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Finish it February Wrap Up // Casual Friday 3-10
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Knit to Fit: Advice from 1936 // Casual Friday 3-11
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How to Calm a Knitter's Nerves and Distitch Review // Casual Friday 3-12
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113
A Beanie With Meaning and Gold from the Comments // Casual Friday 3-13
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When You Can't Go to Your LYS - Make Do and Knit! // Casual Friday 3-14
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A Sweater Star is Born // Casual Friday 315
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Spreadsheets, Charts, and Foolish Hats // Casual Friday 3-16
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Everything's Coming Up Shetland // Casual Friday 3-17
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Two Hands of Perfection: Letting it Go vs Holding on Tight // Casual Friday 3-18
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119
Foolish Fundemic 1940s Vintage Hat // Casual Friday 3-19
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Knitting Art and Knitting Experimentation // Casual Friday 3-20
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How we Knit (or not) During These Skimble-Skamble Times // Casual Friday 3-21
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Welcome to My Knitting Laboratory // Casual Friday 3-22
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Little Knitting Things and Big Non-knitting Things // Casual Friday 3-23
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Imperfect Early Knits // Casual Friday 3-24
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Back in the Saddle With my 1920s Vintage Sweater // Casual Friday 3-25
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126
On the Vintage Sweater Homestretch// Casual Friday 3-26
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A Roaring Good Finish to a Roaring '20s Sweater // Casual Friday 3-27
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Knitting Genealogy // Casual Friday 3-28
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Researching 19th Century Knitting // Casual Friday 3-29
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Sweater Ancestor: The Polka Jacket // Casual Friday 3-30
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19th Century Knitting Surprises // Casual Friday 3-31
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Learning a New Trick from an Old (1892) Dog // Casual Friday 3-32
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Singing the Row Gauge Blues // Casual Friday 3-33
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Treasure in Antique Knitting Manuals // Casual Friday 3-34
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A No (State) Fair Weekend of Knitting-related Housekeeping // Casual Friday 3-35
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Knitting Office Reorganization // Casual Friday 3-36
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Inspiration from Yarn Re-Organization // Casual Friday 3-37
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Reverse Engineering a Sweater: Getting Started // CasFri 3-38
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Refining Design and Modification Ideas // Casual Friday 3-39
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Revising and Reknitting an old Favorite // Casual Friday 3-40
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Designing Your Own Knits and Knitting Without a Pattern // Casual Friday 3-41
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To Swatch or Not to Swatch? // Casual Friday 3-42
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It's Not Stash, it's a Knitting Reference Library // Casual Friday 3-43
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Knitting Style and an Exploration of Woolen Spun Yarn // Casual Friday 3-44
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The Woman Who's Making Yarn Substitution Easy // Casual Friday 3-45
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Mail Ordering Yarn 100 Years Ago // Casual Friday 3-46
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It'll Be Fine (After You Re-Knit It) // Casual Friday 3-47
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Skill Building Advice for Newer Knitters // Casual Friday 3-48
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Knitting Goals and New Office Tour // Casual Friday 3-49
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What Did I Knit This Year? Let's Take a Look! // Casual Friday 3-50
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A New Year and a Vintage (Knitted) Chicken // Casual Friday 4-01
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Vintage Sock Constructions and Ravelry Project Notebook // Casual Friday 4-02
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Fix it, Finish it, or Frog it? // Casual Friday 4-03
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What Knitted Items Are Curated in Museums? // Casual Friday 4-04
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Finish it February Week 1: Aran Gets Sleeve // Casual Friday 4-05
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My Next Vintage Sweater Project // Casual Friday 4-06
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My 1890s (Slightly Weird) Sweater // Casual Friday 4-07
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DIY Schematic for a Vintage Knit // Casual Friday 4-08
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Digging into my vintage '60s sweater project // Casual Friday 4-09
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17K stitches forward; 12K stitches back // Casual Friday 4-10
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Plans for Outsmarting a (Yarn) Chicken // Casual Friday 4-11
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Quick Project Palate Cleansers // Casual Friday 4-12
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Organization Revelations // Casual Friday 4-13
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Lights, Camera...Knit, Sew, Spin, Write, Record // Casual Friday 4-14
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New (to me) Vintage Knitting Books // Casual Friday 4-15
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Mid-Century Knitting Manuals + Socks Without a Pattern // Casual Friday 4-16
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Vintage Knitting and Brand New Sewing // Casual Friday 4-17
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Swatches and a Muslin Mock Up for Testing Ideas // Casual Friday 4-18
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Sweater Construction Order and History of SSK // Casual Friday 4-19
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Finishing Techniques: Not Always What You Think They Are // Casual Friday 4-20
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Mystery in a Closet // Casual Friday 4-21
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Fiber, Fabric, Friends...and Knitting // Casual Friday 4-22
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Summer Fiber Fever: Doing All the Things // Casual Friday 4-23
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Custom Fit for My Socks and a Great New Knitting Book // Casual Friday 4-24
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Summer Road Trip Knitting // Casual Friday 4-25
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Vintage gifts, vintage finds, vintage projects // Casual Friday 4-26
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Polwarth socks, a 1950s jacket, and hand spun Cheviot // Casual Friday 4-27
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Even a Master Makes Mistakes // Casual Friday 4-28
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A Sock That's Out of This World // Casual Friday 4-29
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Answers to sock questions and project updates // Casual Friday 4-30
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I Swatch, Therefore I Learn (Reverse Engineering a Favorite Sweater) // Casual Friday 4-31
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The Search for the Perfect Buttons // Casual Friday 4-32
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Vintage sweater wheel and a Christmas stocking for Rosie // Casual Friday 4-33
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Spinning Yarns (Wool and Stories) // Casual Friday 4-34
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1950s Vintage Sweater Sewing Secrets // Casual Friday 4-35
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Fabulous Fifties Finished Raglan Jacket // Casual Friday 4-36
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Small Projects/Big Learning Opportunities // Casual Friday 4-37
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Perplexing Seaming Challenges in a Vintage Sweater // Casual Friday 4-38
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A Vintage Collaboration // Casual Friday 4-39
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Toe-Up Socks and a Qiviut Cloud // Casual Friday 4-40
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Updating the Neck of a 14-year-old Sweater // Casual Friday 4-41
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Gearing Up for Gift Knitting // Casual Friday 4-42
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Tricks and Techniques for Choosing Multiple Colors in a Knitting Project // Casual Friday 4-43
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Using Stitch Dictionaries to Modify or Create Original Designs // Casual Friday 4-44
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Ways to Keep Your Knitting INTERESTING // Casual Friday 4-45
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Technique Swapping: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't // Casual Friday 4-46
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Sock Knitting Innovations and a Hand Carved Bird // Casual Friday 4-47
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Planning the Finish Before You Cast On // Casual Friday 4-48
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Sweaters through the decades: progress in a long-term project // Casual Friday 4-49
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Episode 200! Historical Textile Tidbits Compilation // Casual Friday 4-50
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