Hey everyone, remember the gorgeous Jenna Claire diaper bags that I mentioned in the latest episode?  Well now I have a special discount code for you.  Plug in the code MTV20 at checkout, and receive 20% off of your total order!  Offer is good until December 31st, 2007.  They have handbags too for those who have no need for a diaper bag, so check them out! 

(BTW, I'm not getting anything out of this endorsement -- I'm just really taken in by these bags, and I love supporting independent woman-run businesses.)

Hi everyone!  I'm working on the next episode, which will hopefully be posted sometime this week.  In the meantime, shouldn't you be shopping?  You could always use more yarn, right?  I need your help to clean out my stash!

Here's a few things that I realized I don't need when organizing the other day.  All items are listed for sale on eBay.  Clicking on picture will take you to the auction:

Well.  I've been working on shownotes for Episode 10 through a week of sick small people and slightly sick me, and I'm almost ready to record.  Unfortunately, it won't be today.  Perhaps tomorrow?  Certainly this week.

I've got a great show lined up, including a pasta dish that reminds me of stone soup, some exciting knit alongs, book reviews for two of the hottest new books to hit the shelves, and my new favorite hat pattern.  I can't wait to get it all recorded!

Thanks to everyone for being so patient, and for those who left well-wishes on the last post.  We are all feeling much better, and had a wonderful relaxing weekend, so things are looking up.

Very frustratingly, my fiber blog has been tagged as a possible "spam blog" by Blogger, so I won't be able to post their until they review it and verify me as a real human being.  So now that I actually have a moment to blog there, I can't.  Gaahhh!!!  Can I slap someone?

Completely unrelated, but has anyone ever tried eating reduced, syrupy balsamic vinegar over vanilla ice cream?

I've gotten a few questions from would-be listeners who can't get the podcast to play on their computer (via Windows Media player, or other non-iTunes program) or MP3 player (non-iPod).  The reason is because I release the episodes as MP4 to conserve space in my Libsyn (company that hosts each file) account.  At the moment it costs me almost nothing to put the show out each month, but all of that would change if I started releasing the files as MP3's.

This is how you fix the problem on your end: download iTunes (free, and works with both PC's and Mac's).  From iTunes you will be able to listen to the episodes with no problem (go to "music store" and type "The Knitting Cook" into the search engine.  From there, click "subscribe" and you'll never miss another episode.), but if you still want to transfer it onto your MP3 player, highlight the episode file after it downloads, then click "advanced" on the menu at the top of your screen, and then choose the option to convert the file to MP3. 

If you have an iPod, you probably already know that none of this applies to you, and the MP4 will work just fine, because iPods are super awesome.  :-)

If there are still unanswered questions, please feel free to leave a comment here or email me, and I'll update this post accordingly.

Well, my blocking wires finally came in the mail last night, and the shawl is pinned out to my bed drying.  I cannot promise which day this week I'll get the next episode out, but I'm so excited to be back at the mic again!  I've got a German New Year story for you, a journey of lace Fiber Tale, what just might be The Perfect toe-up-sock pattern, a tasty and good-for-you soup recipe, a brand new book review section and more. 

In the meantime, you can check out what I've been up to over at my fiber blog.

Talk to you all soon!!

Hi everyone.  Terribly sorry that I've left you all hanging here in the New Year.  (By the way: Happy New Year!)  I intended to get a show out last week...then I thought, well, this Monday would be a great time to start...the trouble is, I need to find out some things.  Mostly about myself, and it mostly has to do with re-discovering how wonderful motherhood is.  Because it seems that I've lost sight of that, somewhat. 

As most things do in my life, the dark clouds that are currently overhead will surely clear over quickly, as I am very pro-active about working through stuff.  I don't want to concern you all with this, but let me just say that I am working on my first laceweight shawl, and it is doing wonders for my psyche.  I may need to put off recording the next episode until the shawl is done.  In fact, that's what I'm going to do.  So watch my fiber blog for progress, and cheer me on!  I'll need it.

Hurrah for therapy knitting!  Hopefully you'll hear my voice again in a week or two.