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Casey’s interview this week is with Amber Mitchell from The National WWII Museum of New Orleans. (The website that Amber gives in the podcast isn’t quite right, but you can find the patterns here.) They also have a Facebook group where knitters are sharing great ideas!
Other things we talk about in this episode:
Casey’s finished Christmas sweater
The scarf Staci is knitting, Cave of Kelpius (I haven’t made my own Ravelry page for it yet!)
Sidewalk Talk Flip-Flop Socks
I had the opposite problem as the person in this episode. I found Clover Takumi needles much too sharp in some very splitty, fingering weight bamboo/cotton yarn, with which I was making Knitted Knockers. I split almost every stitch. I’ve read online that these needles were redesigned at some point to be much sharper. I picked up a second set, and a pack of emery boards, and rounded them over. Suddenly, they knit beautifully. I almost never split a stitch again, and my speed went way up. I don’t think the bamboo needles have a finish. I think they’re just sanded very smooth. I used the rough one to shape, the smooth one to smooth it out, and the buffing one to polish it to a shine. I’ve moved on to metal DPNs since, but they worked great for a handful of knockers. You can just do one side with DPNs, and then you can use whichever side you need, as you need it. For sharpening, I’d always push the emery board toward the tip, to make sure I didn’t lift any fibers up.
Great advice Mr. Fixler!