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Episode 3B: More Mittens.

Hosts Sherri. Host, knitter, spinner, and fosters dogs. You can find Sherri as TangledThread on Ravelry Instagram:  geminatepodcast Tamara. Co-host, knitter, knitwear designer, hiker, mom. You can find Tamara as tammo on Ravelry Instagram:  tamaramoots Blog:  www.tamaramoots.com Knitwear Designs:  http://www.ravelry.com/designers/tamara-moots   Knitting Question: What is your thing about mittens? Or your favorite pair of mittens you've knit?  Sherri's favorite mittens she's knit are her Norwegian Mittens from Elizabeth Zimmermann's book Knitting Around .  Tamara's favorite thing about mittens is how warm they keep tiny hands. (Any hands really but it mattered even more when they were tiny). Tamara follows the same simple mitten recipe for almost every mitten she knits that she pulled together from a combination of the mitten numbers in the Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns and her own notes from knitting all th...

Episode 3A: All About Mittens.

Hosts Sherri. Host, knitter, spinner, and fosters dogs. You can find Sherri as TangledThread on Ravelry Instagram:  geminatepodcast Tamara. Co-host, knitter, knitwear designer, hiker, mom. You can find Tamara as tammo on Ravelry Instagram:  tamaramoots Blog:  www.tamaramoots.com Knitwear Designs:  http://www.ravelry.com/designers/tamara-moots   Current Projects Sherri: Plum Blossom Mittens by Kirsten Hipsky out of Valley Yarns Berkshire Bulky .  https://www.ravelry.com/projects/TangledThread/plum-blossom-mittens-2 Cobblestone by Jared Flood out of Berroco Blackstone Tweed.  https://www.ravelry.com/projects/TangledThread/cobblestone-2 Midcoast by Jennifer Steingass out of Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool .  https://www.ravelry.com/projects/TangledThread/midcoast Folded by Veera Valimaki out of  Machete Shoppe Simple Sock  color Toy Soldier.  https://www.ravelry.com/projects/TangledThread/folded Ta...

Episode 2B: Hats and Pom-poms

Hosts Sherri, host, knitter, spinner, and fosters dogs. You can find Sherri as TangledThread on Ravelry Instagram:  geminatepodcast Tamara, co-host, knitter, knitwear designer, hiker, mom. You can find Tamara as tammo on Ravelry Instagram:  tamaramoots Blog:  www.tamaramoots.com Knitwear Designs:  http://www.ravelry.com/designers/tamara-moots   Knitting Question: What is your favorite gift hat or hat to gift?  Sherri's favorite gift hat is the Garter Ear Flap Hat by Purl Soho. She also likes Rafa's Hat by Joji Locatelli. And she likes to make hats to donate through a LYS. If it is a hat that can be knit while at the movies, bonus points! Tamara's favorite gift hat is Judy , a basic ponytail hat. She usually takes yarn along with her to knit during the holidays as a way to keep calm and happy during the holiday stress. People were snatching the Judy ponytail hat out the gift basket (and off of her needles) as fast as she c...

Episode 2A: All About Hats

Hosts Sherri, host, knitter, spinner, and fosters dogs. You can find Sherri as TangledThread on Ravelry Instagram:  geminatepodcast Tamara, co-host, knitter, knitwear designer, hiker, mom. You can find Tamara as tammo on Ravelry Instagram:  tamaramoots Blog:  www.tamaramoots.com Knitwear Designs:  http://www.ravelry.com/designers/tamara-moots   Current Projects Sherri: Morel Hat  by Heidi Marie Robinson out of  Mineville Wool Project Merino Singles  in the color Beauxbatons. Spinning the Narwhal Pool Party fiber by  Hipstrings  into yarn to knit the  Botanical Yoke Pullover  by Purl Soho. Sherri's  spinning project page . Tamara: The first of two shawls in an upcoming Malachite Shawl Series out of  Dream in Color Jilly  in the colorway Green Lantern on US Size 2 (2.75 mm) needles. Starting Point  by Joji Locatelli in the very, very beautiful  Rustic Fingering...

Episode 1B: Origin Stories

Hosts Sherri. Host, knitter, spinner, and fosters dogs. You can find Sherri as TangledThread on Ravelry Instagram:  geminatepodcast Tamara. Co-host, knitter, knitwear designer, hiker, mom. You can find Tamara as tammo on Ravelry Instagram:  tamaramoots Blog:  www.tamaramoots.com Knitwear Designs:  http://www.ravelry.com/designers/tamara-moots   Origin Stories.  Sherri wanted to weave after visiting Fort Hays as a class trip at age 11. It wasn't until college when Sherri bought an angora rabbit at a craft fair that she joined the weaving guild she knew about because of her friendship with Tamara. It was through the guild that Sherri bought a loom from the K-State disbanded weaving program and also learned to spin. After graduating college, Sherri moved to Kansas City and was again living locally to Tamara. When Tamara mentioned knitting mittens but ended up not learning she gave the needles and book to Sherri. Sherri was ...

Episode 1A: It's Like Germinate Without an R

Hosts Sherri. Host, knitter, spinner, and fosters dogs. You can find Sherri as TangledThread on Ravelry Instagram:  geminatepodcast Tamara. Co-host, knitter, knitwear designer, hiker, mom. You can find Tamara as tammo on Ravelry Instagram:  tamaramoots Blog:  www.tamaramoots.com Knitwear Designs:  http://www.ravelry.com/designers/tamara-moots   Introductions Sherri and Tamara introduce themselves. Sherri explains the podcast name Geminate. Geminate - 1 : arranged in pairs : duplicate 2 : being a sequence of identical speech sounds (as in meanness or Italian notte \ˈnȯt-te\ "night")  Current Projects Sherri: Bolero Cowl by Tamara Moots out of Treasure Goddess DK Treasures Ghost Ship. Tea With Jam and Bread by Heidi Kirrmaier out of Mirasol Yarns Sisa . Swing Cardigan by Sherri out of Kim Dyes Yarn .  Tamara: Salt River Sweater is almost done with edits and ready to call for testers. Lavinia Shawlette ...