Sorry...Technical Difficulties

I figured out how to list all the old epiosdes in iTunes. In the meantime though, it reposted Episode 1 and it may download again as new. Sorry! Hey, I just realized that it's our 1 year anniversary in 3 days! WOW!!!

Episode #14: We're not worthy - Part 2 (Show Notes)

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Ms. B could finally pry herself away from her new addiction that is called "Spinning". Yeah, blame me and the Wollmeise who got her into it. :-p

We're carrying on with our conversation with the Wollmeise. It's Wollmeise Striptease Time!!! LOL

Wollmeise tells us about herself. We started off by talking about The Loopy Ewe Spring Fling, which she has attended. She doesn't like her photos taken, so we ask everybody to not take photos of her. In fact, she's just afraid that her third-eye will show in the photo. :-p Naaaaaaahhhh..it's the fact that she reckons that photos steal parts of your soul. Her mum doesn't like photos taken either.

The only way out? Take "backside" photos of the Wollmeise! And we promptly veered off to talk about the Rubber Ducky Crafters Group on Ravelry. Wollmeise is very against this.

Cashyie presented the Wollmeise with some "Red Hot" Lollies. She also asked Wollmeise, which lolly would she be if she were one? The answer: The old version of the green Gummibärchen, which is Waldmeister or Woodruff in English (you can also check out the Wollmeise's Woodruff Sorbet Recipe!).

• We found out who taught the Wollmeise to knit. How her mum sewed her clothes for her....which she of course didn't appreciate. Her mum even put creases on her jeans! Wollmeise used to wear wooden clogs...and no-one wanted to dance with her, so she had to take the "left-over".
• We also found out about Wollmeise's Husband, Rohrspatz! They met in a public swimming pool...well, Rohrspatz stole her sandwiches! I'm not going to tell you the whole story here...so you need to listen to the podcast! ;-)
• Find out how the Wollmeise came about dyeing yarns!
• Wollmeise used to spin. She crocheted some window blinds. She also reveals the fact that she's a learnt dressmaker!
• We then talked about Dirndl, Landhausmode and Trachten....and do you know what "Balcony" is? :-p
• Find out how Wollmeise feels about her popularity.
  
• Wollmeise also knits stuff out of other yarns. She tries out stuff from other dyers. And Cashyie promptly promotes Hobbledehoy yarn.
• Differences between German knitters and knitters of other countries.
• We also find out about some of the Wollmeise colourway names! E.g. Poison No. 5 was inspired by the movie Love Potion No. 9.
• Secrets of the Wollmeise smell: Perwoll!
• Blue Suzanne, how it was "discovered"! And how she comes up with new colourways.
  
• We tried to get the Wollmeise to start dyeing up rovings.
• She explains what a Schultüte is.
• Future plans for Wollmeise: An expansion?
• Who would play the Wollmeise in a movie?
• Wollmeise not dyeing yarns?
• Why are a lot of Indie Dyers in Germany named Claudia?
• Wollmeise smokes!
• Wollmeise's favourite food!
• She's also planning to do a SOCK CLUB!!!!!
  
• The Wollmeise hymn: "You can't get what you want (till you know what you want):
  

Announcement: The Ram Club - a sock club for men! Collaboration between Stitch Stud and the Unique Sheep.

Contest winner: We decided to ask the Wollmeise the questions and see what she thinks. Anyhow, congratulations to Phoebe from Knit Happened! Please email us your snail mail address, so that we can send you your prize.

Last question to the Wollmeise: Which podcasts she listens to?


This episode's music is American Heartbreakt's "Last of the Superheroes (of the 1970's)", and it is brought to you by:



Until next time! Keep Knitting!

Yours,
Elemm

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Episode #14: We're not Worthy! (part 2 of 2)

Episode #14: We're not Worthy! (part 2 of 2)

This is the second part of the episode. Sorry it took me so long to get this out, spinning has taken over my life. We are with the Wollmeise again and she reveals some interesting details about her life. Don't want to give anything away, you just gotta listen. Ok, one teaser - did she say something about a sock club???

Also, we reveal the contest answers and who the winner is!

Music: "The Last of the Superheroes of the 1970s" by American Heartbreak

Check out our blog at: http://knittersuncensored.blogspot.com or write us an email at: KnittersUncensored (AT) gmail (DOT) com, or check out our group on Ravelry called "Uncensored Knitters"

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Episode #14: We're Not Worthy - Part 1 (Show Notes)

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This is a very special 2-part episode!!! It's a very long one and poor Ms. B has to edit it. The session went for about 3 hours and so she decided that we need to break this up into two parts.

So why aren't we worthy? That's because the Goddess of yarn, the Wollmeise has graced upon us with her presence in this episode! It's a long one, so let's get started!!!

Welcome and introduction done by the Wollmeise herself in German: "Herzlich Wilkommen und herzliches Grüßgott aus München von der Wollmeise. Ich darf heute hier mit bei der 14. Ausgabe von Podcast, Knitters Uncensored, mit machen!"

Yes, finally we got the Wollmeise to come on the podcast. It was quite a task getting her on the podcast. She was so nervous that both Ms. B and Cashyie had to hold her hands. Wollmeise took some times off her extremely busy schedule to come over and podcast with us. And her English is great, don't you think?

Package from Charles was finally brought out. And the Wollmeise ended sharing the stitch markers from him with Ms. B and Cashyie! ;-)

What's on/off the needles?

• Elemm:
• Mystic Light KAL Shawl that turned into Juno Regina, which the Wollmeise suddenly claimed for herself...I was taken by surprise...but hey, what can I do apart from just bow to her wishes?

• Raku-Clapotis (FO):

• Opal Socks (FO):

• Icarus Shawl (FO) for my mum's birthday:

We veered off a bit here and it seems that Cashyie might be pulled into lace knitting soon. :-p

• Interlacement Tiny Toes "Canyon Lands" Toe-up (I won the yarn from a contest over at Esoteric Knitter)
• Emil-Clapotis
• Ms. B:
• Cobblestone Sweater (FO) for Rockstar-Husband

Promptyly Cashyie took on the tangent about hiding mittens in the hat and leave the whole package in the mailbox, so that she doesn't have to wear it to school. When she comes home, she could just take the whole package out of the mailbox again and pretended that she had been wearing it. :-p Wollmeise was perplexed by this and told us a better way: Just leave them on the tree and lose them! She then reminisced about how her mum told her to always wear her hats out and not to go out with freshly washed and damp hair. But well, who likes hat-hair?

Ms. B started discussing about the fact that Germans tend to "pack up" themselves, or especially their kids in really warm clothings, so that no skins would be exposed to the coldness.

Wollmeise reckons that German mums put on too much clothes on their kids and they end up losing them. Her own kids generally come back home with only one shoe because they play boat with one of their shoe. :-p

• Firestarters and a pair of socks (FO) for her neighbour and her kid
• Several Saartjes Booties and a pair of simple socks for her son from some hand-spun by Thing4String
• Embossed Leaves socks
• Baudelaire Socks (Wollmeise complained that the socks were too small for her! LOL)
  
• Wollmeise:
• Regenbogen plain socks
• Pearl Shawl
  
• Blue-Suzanne plain socks

We also found out that the Wollmeise knits with her own yarns, too...but only with skeins that have knots in them. She also has SSS (Second Sock Syndrome)! We also talked about the socks that she was wearing, which were knit out of her own hand-spun (you can see the picture above)...they're her lucky-socks.

Cashyie ended up comparing Wollmeise to Prinzregententorte. We also found out that Wollmeise's younger son did an apprenticeship as a Pâtisserie Master at a place that sells their stuff to Dallmayr. Wollmeise then thought of Bienenstich (Wiki entry in German)..hmmmm...yummy!

Wollmeise then shared her family life with us and talked about her kids. We found out why she doesn't knit for her kids, but at the same time throwing away her husbands white socks and giving him only hand-knit socks instead. ;-)

• Cashyie is still on sock-knitting mode and she's knitting up another pair of Hobbledehoy socks! She showed us another pair of socks that she was wearing...and Wollmeise noticed that Cashyie haven't even weaved in the ends yet!

We then talked about knitting on the plane. And Cashyie showed us some yarns that she got from her trip to New Orleans.

A report from me about the Handarbeits- und Hobbymesse in Cologne that I got to go to the week before with my boss from Lanaiolo. I got some Lanternmoon Rosewood DPNs to try and my review of it is that I really like them! It was the first time for me to knit with wooden needles and to my surprise, they're pretty sturdy and they feel nice in your hands. Thank you very much to Jo from Lanternmoon!

I saw my friend, Daniela from Maschenkunst. I also went to see Kelley Petkun from the Knit Pick's Podcast.

I also got to meet Miriam Tegels, the person who holds the current record in Guiness Book World of Record as the fastest knitter in the world! So, I took the chance and did a small interview with her! (CORRECTION: I said that Miriam knit English style, but now that I go and have a look at the videos again, she actually knits continental.)

Sauerlach Market, 18th-20th April, and the Wollmeise is there with her yarns! She has hardly anymore yarn though....and she still needs to get used to her new dyeing-station.

Spinning!!! I enabled Ms. B into wanting to spin her own hand-spun. And so, she got a Louet S15 lent out from the Wollmeise...plus, Ms. B has already managed to build up a fibre stash. We talked about what's special about hand-spun and got to hear the Wollmeise's take on it.

That's the end of Part 1. Keep a look out for part 2, it's coming soon!

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Episode #14: We're not Worthy! (part 1 of 2)

Episode #14: We're not Worthy! (part 1 of 2)

This session was soooooo long that I had to break it up into two parts. We have a special guest today - the Wollmeise! She was kind enough to take a break from her busy schedule to sit with us and chat. We also have a short interview with Miriam Tegels - the world record holder for fastest knitter! wowowowowow!

Check out our blog at: http://knittersuncensored.blogspot.com or write us an email at: KnittersUncensored (AT) gmail (DOT) com, or check out our group on Ravelry called "Uncensored Knitters"

Detailed show notes and polls can be found at the following URL: http://knittersuncensored.blogspot.com/

Episode #13 Contest is now closed

Thanks to all who participated, it was a hard one! We will announce the winner on the next podcast, but in the meantime, you should've gotten your score. The average score was 5.54 and no one got all of them correct. There were 24 entries and here is how everyone answered:

Questions	Elemmaciltur	Cashyie	Ms. B
Who has a coin machine and put coins in wrappers?	11	7	6
Who played High School Football?	4	15	5
Who has freakishly small baby toes?	5	7	12
Who has grey hair since childhood?	10	3	11
Who moved around a lot and lived in 16 different addresses since birth?	21	0	3
Who has the most handbags?	1	9	14
Who has a sibling married to an Asian guy?	3	5	16
Who has a Titanium plate in the hand?	9	9	6
Who love cleaning their ears?	16	4	4
Who prefers sharpened regular pencils over mechanical ones?	5	16	3
Who boycotted fast-food for 3 years?	7	10	7
Who doesn't like German food?	2	5	17
Who drinks about 12 litres of Diet-Coke a week?	7	13	4
Who likes brussel sprouts?	14	3	7
Who tried to pay for a person's meal at a drive-thru McDonald's as a random act of kindness?	4	14	6

Episode #13: Lucky Number 13! (Show Notes)

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After quite a bit of an absent due to scheduling difficulties (yeah, sorry, I've got a bf and Cashyie has to work). Anyway, we're BACK!!! And we got a whooping long episode for you and a fun contest! Just a warning that we went off constantly on tangents in this episode. :-p So this means a lot of interesting readings! (Hey, I took time linking all these, so you better go read them all!)

Anyway, big thanks to Charles Lifestyle and Knitting, who sent us rolled paper stitch markers and art papers...and I was a dork and forgot to bring it to the recording.

Shout out to WonderMike and hizKnits in their podcast: YKnit! Very professional and great contents!

We went off on a whole loads of tangents here about hairpins, shawl pin, my being a crybaby, hair-clip....

Anyway, don't you think that Ms. B's kids would look great in emo? :-p

What's on/off our needles/hooks/spindles/wheels:

• Elemm:
• Firestarters (FO)
• Mystic Waters Shawl (FO - warning about the man-bikini picture...we went right off the tangent about European men and Speedos...and I'm bulge-obsessed. *LOL* *OhmygawdIcan'tbelieveIjustannouncedthattothewholewideworld* We also talked about FFK FKK = "Freikörperkultur" and Cashyie's got a colleague who's a nudist! And he also enjoys science-fiction!)...and here's a picture of me sporting the shawl:

Elemm sporting his Mystic Waters

• 2 Saartjes Booties (I also still need to knit more the Bockstark Way! Then we went off to discuss about the perfect gift for a new baby.)
  
• Flowerbasket Shawl
• Raku-Clapotis
• Icarus Shawl
• Hemlock Ring Blanket
• 16 microns blue merino on mosaic paua shell from Butterfly Girl Designs
• 50 g of singles of Galway by Yarn Wench
• 50 g of black Merino-Mulberry Silk: Midnight Stars (FO)
• Some hand-spun yarns I showed and my Rustikal neckwarmer
• Cashyie has been going crazy knitting socks:
• She's got 6 pairs off the needles already! And she's knitting one with Hobbledehoy yarn! We need to get Cashyie to follow a pattern properly. Then we just went off on a tangent about Cashyie's dating....anybody interested to go with her? Coz I won't pass as a hetero. :-p
• Can you believe that she knit a pair of socks out of Noro Silk Garden (Ravelry link)?! We went on discussing about sock yarns and sock patterns (seen the Noro Kureyon Sock Yarn review on Knitty, yet?)
  
• She's also contemplating about knitting a sweater.
• Ms. B:
• Falling In Love Socks from MagKnits
• Birthday socks for Rockstar-Husband out of STR
  
• Hand-spun hat (hand-spun swapped with Cauchy09 and now Ms. B's crazy on hand-spun and is now dealing out her Wollmeise for hand-spun. Rockstar-Husband reckons that he likes spinning more than knitting....because "spinning is like Gandhi")
• She also starts knitting stockinette socks with yarns that she hasn't knit with before in order to try out new yarns. She's knitting one with Violet Green Yarn.
• Countless Saarjtes Booties (okay, okay...7 pairs! Too many ends to weave in that she ended up finding her own way to knit it in the round. You can also find it on Ravelry.)
• Cobblestone Pullover for Rockstar-Husband.

Wollmeise colourways:

• Amazonas = The Amazon
• Türkis und Karneol = Turquoise and Carnelian
• Drachenblut = Dragon's blood
• Dani (we've met her!)
• Koralle im Meer = Corals in the sea
• Feuerwanze = Firebug, June Bug
  
• Flower Power
• Poison No. 5
• Birkenrinde = Birch Bark
• "Zenzi" is a name that a lot of Bavarian milk cows (in the brown and cream/white variatons) are usually given.
• (We veered off to Pappedeckel and Batzn)
• New colourways:
• "Boboli" is named after the Boboli Park in Florence (read about the Wollmeise inspiration HERE).
• Artists Series:
• Vincent (inspired by Vincent van Gogh's "The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, At Night".)
• Paul (inspired by Paul Gauguin's "Ta Matete")
  
• Emil (inspired by Emil Nolde's "Wilder Mohn: Rot, rot, rot")
  
• Franz (inspired by Franz Marc under "Der Blaue Reiter")
• DebütantInnen Series:
• Miss May
• Bob
• Versuchskaninchen = Guinea pig
  
• Salamander
• Johannisbeere & Brennnessel = Red currant & stinging nettle
• Mitternacht = Midnight

Speaking of Wollmeise, she's going to be having her Sauerlach Spring Market on 19th-20th April in Sauerlach near Munich. We'll very highly probably be all there. If you're around in the area, you're welcome to join us there! And you guys can look forward to our interview with her in the near future! ;-)

Life in Germany: Cashyie has fallen in love with German movies....or rather with Til Schweiger. *LOL* The movies that he has been in and we mentioned are:

• Was tun, wenn's brennt? = "What to do in case of fire?"
• Der bewegte Mann
• Barfuss
• Keinohrhasen
• Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

We also talked about other German movies:

• Good Bye, Lenin!
• Napola - Elite für den Führer = "Before the Fall"
  
• Die Welle
• Lola rennt = "Run Lola Run"
  
• Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tod
• Das Leben der Anderen = "The Lives of Others"
• Das Experiment = "The Experiment" (with Moritz Bleibtreu)
  
• Im Juli = "Im Juli"
• (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 = "Traumschiff Surprise - Periode 1"

I veered off plugging the Todd & Pony show....and then Cashyie started dreaming up the ceremony between me and Dr. D....just for the bridesmaid dress! :-p

Katia & KylieMac asked us about phone numbers in Germany...we share our confusion when Germans tell you their phone numbers in full numbers. The complications of how to ring up a phone in Germany.

CONTEST!!!!!

You can win a skein of hand-dyed sock yarn from Handgefaerbt.com, another indie-dyer in Germany....and I'm throwing in the 50 g skein of my own hand-spun: Midnight Stars!


Elemm's Hand-spun: Midnight Stars
For each of us, we have 5 pieces of information. We've mixed them all up. All you need to do is to guess and match up the pieces of information to each of us. The person who gets all or the most correctly will win. If several gets it correctly, then we'll do a drawing. For the time being the deadline will be on 1st April 2008. Please email us the answer or PM us on Ravelry, do NOT post the answers here in the comments. You can find our contact information towards the end of the show notes.

Here goes:

1. Who has a coin machine and put coins in wrappers?
2. Who played High School Football?
3. Who has freakishly small baby toes?
4. Who has grey hair since childhood?
5. Who moved around a lot and lived in 16 different addresses since birth?
6. Who has the most handbags?
7. Who has a sibling married to an Asian guy?
8. Who has a Titanium plate in the hand?
9. Who love cleaning their ears?
10. Who prefers sharpened regular pencils over mechanical ones?
11. Who boycotted fast-food for 3 years?
12. Who doesn't like German food?
13. Who drinks about 12 litres of Diet-Coke a week?
14. Who likes brussel sprouts?
15. Who tried to pay for a person's meal at a drive-thru McDonald's as a random act of kindness?

Good luck!!


The Yarn Wench: Galway

Spinning!!!!

As you've heard earlier in the episode, Ms. B is dreaming of having her own league of spinners, so that she can get hand-spun to knit. So, here's a Q&A about spinning between Ms. B and me (Disclaimer: I'm still a beginning spinner, so what I tell you here might not be a 100% correct and they're all based on my limited knowledge and understandings about spinning.)

• Ratios in a wheel depend on what kind of yarn you want to end up with. The higher the ratio, the more twist it can put in the yarn. You can achieve a high twist in the yarns with lower ratio, too...but you'll end up treadling your wheel like a mad man.
• Single or Double Treadles don't really make any difference. It all depends on taste and your comfort.
• Bobbins, you can actually never have enough. But I would suggest about 6 bobbins to begin with if you're considering about spinning up some singles and plying them together...which also means that you'll eventually a tensioned lazy Kate (which can also be constructed easily at home).
• Setting the twist depends on what you find easier. Some people set the twist on their singles already before plying.
• Rovings: Combed, carded, batts, tops, rovings, slivers!
• Drafting: Pre-draft, stretching out, etc.

Go listen to the latest SSK Podcast episode! Rockstar-Husband did their theme song for them!

So now the truth is out, I've been interviewed by quite bit of media about my knitting! The first one was done by Brigitte.de, then follows the Jetzt article...and then I was interviewed and went on TV with ARTE. SWR also did an interview but it hasn't aired yet...and the latest TV interview was with "La Vita" on Bayerisches Fernsehen, which will be aired on German television on 03rd April 2008, between 7-7.45 p.m.). Oh, and the magazine Glamour also just did a small interview with me and it will come out in the April issue. :-p

And with all the interviews I got, I suggested that this episode's music should be "Famous" by The Lascivious Biddies, and it is brought to you by:


You can leave us a comment here or contact us via email:

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or come and join us at our Uncensored Knitters Ravelry Group! And if you're around in Munich and want to come knit with us, you can find the MuKnit: The Munich Knitters Group also on Ravelry!

Until next time, keep knitting!

Yours,
Elemm

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Episode #13: Lucky Number 13

Episode #13: Lucky Number 13

Sorry for the huge file size and length, but you know us, we can talk everyone's ears off! We haven't recorded in awhile, so this one is a whopping 1 hour and 45 minutes. It is filled with all kinds of information like what we're knitting, hot German actors and nudists, Wollmeise colorways, spinning Q&A and a fun contest!

Check out our blog at: http://knittersuncensored.blogspot.com or write us an email at: KnittersUncensored (AT) gmail (DOT) com, or check out our group on Ravelry called "Uncensored Knitters"

Music: "Famous" by The Lascivious Biddies

Detailed show notes and polls can be found at the following URL: http://knittersuncensored.blogspot.com/

Episode #12: The Catch-Up Special (Show Notes)

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Hey there Uncensored Knitters!

We're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! It's been quite a long while since our last episode....so we decided to just throw our normal format out the window for this once and just catch up with you guys on what's been happening with us.

Starting with Elemm (you know, it still feels so weird referring to myself in third person):

• I was promptly told to put away my knitting before the podcast started...but my Firestarter is finished in the mean time!
• I delivered the package sent to us from WonderMike. Thank you so much, hun!
  
• I finally got myself a spinning wheel! And I've been spinning up a storm ever since. I love my Kromski Minstrel and named him Valrainë. I'm not going to go into details here about the wheel type and the spinning techniques involved that I tried to talk about in the podcast. Now I just need more bobbins and a tensioned Lazy Kate. (I got a Niddy Noddy from Ms. B later on in the show.)
• We then talked about my Firestarter a bit. You can get the pattern via a direct link over at Yarnissima. Don't forget to check out her other gorgeous patterns! We also talked about my knitting tightly.
• I also knit myself a pseudo-scarf/neckwarmer out of my own hand-spun.
• We moved on to Dr. D and I expressed my little dismay over the whole discussions that ensued from the last episode. Just let it be said that I got tested, Dr. D got tested, we're fine and we're together...and I'm putting a cap on this discussion now. :-p
• I ended up disclosing personal information again about getting drunk and dancing on the table. We talked a bit about Fasching. Is there something going on about kids having to dress up as birds?
• Dr. D actually wants a striped 100% cashmere scarf from me....until he hears how expensive a 50 g ball of pure cashmere is. Maybe I should just buy the fibre and spin it up and knit for him. We'll see. ;-)
• I've also started my new job at the LYS! I work there Thursdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. If you're around, come and visit me @ Lanaiolo, Grillparzerstr. 35, 81675 Munich! Just come, browse through the yarns, sit and knit with us! (There supposed to be a Knit-Night there tonight, but it's been cancelled.)
• I ranted a bit about my work at the Hostel....because I had to work over the holidays.

Ms. B:

• She gave us our belated Christmas gifts! (With lots of squeeing from the recipients.)
  
• Thank you to Lauren who sent us Tofutsies; to PhotoKnitNerd for the chocolate that Ms. B actually forgot back in Hawaii; and to Knit & Play with Fire for the cool firebrigade stickers!
• She talks about her trip back home to the USA, about reverse cultural shock. How she's happy about seeing Beef Shack and things that you just don't have here in Germany.
• She started talking about LYSs in the US...only to be interrupted by Rock-Star Husband pounding meat.....not his though. :-p
• Ms. B also got to help Hazel Knits with her work and we also got some yummy yarns from her! Go and check out her shop!
• She also finished her pair of Firestarters, 3 pairs of Felted Clogs, a Clapotis; started a Print O the Wave stole and worked on her La Digitessa
• She also gave me a Niddy Noddy!

Cashyie:

• Ditched the Mankittens who haven't been treating her so well. Happy for Climbing Wife who has got a girlfriend....and now Cashyie herself has a 3rd Grade Rebound crush. :-p
• She's also now knitting socks!
• Cashyie has also joined Ravelry (at last).
• The winner from last episode was also announced.
• She gave up on internet dating....and threw people off tracks by wearing make-up.

The only announcement we have is that a friend of ours is moving to New York and so she's looking for knitting groups and people in Jersey City and Manhattan. If you're in one of the groups or know someone, please leave us comments here or contact us and we'll forward the information to our friend.

You can leave us a comment here or contact us via email:

KnittersUncensored (at) gmail (dot) com

or come and join us at our Uncensored Knitters Ravelry Group!


This episode's music is Jonathan Coulton's "Tom Cruise Crazy", and it is brought to you by:



Until next time! Keep Knitting!

Yours,
Elemm

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Episode #12: The Catch-up Special

Episode #12: The Catch-up Special

We're baaaaack! This is an episode that gets you caught up on what we did on our break. Ms. B went to the states and bought lots of yarn. Elemm bought a spinning wheel and worked. Cashyie started knitting socks and joined Ravelry.

Check out our blog at: http://knittersuncensored.blogspot.com or write us an email at: KnittersUncensored (AT) gmail (DOT) com, or check out our group on Ravelry called "Uncensored Knitters"

Music: "Tom Cruise Crazy" by Jonathan Coulton

Detailed show notes and polls can be found at the following URL: http://knittersuncensored.blogspot.com/

Extra note on Episode 11's discussion

Hey there Uncensored Knitters,

It seems that you guys are shooting right over the real point in the discussion here....and I'm feeling that I am being misunderstood and I would like to do a damage control before people really get the wrong idea about me (yes, I do care what other people think of me....in some regards).

From what I've read on the comments, it seems that people are thinking as though I were against getting tested, which isn't the case at all. If you've read the show notes, you will see that I've already got tested and that it was Dr. D himself who asked the question first before I got to it.

What I was so adamant about in the discussion was the fact that I feel that Cashyie was giving me the idea that you were supposed to be asking right on your first date. Which isn't what I would do. I would of course ask, as I had stated in the podcast, but only when the relationship starts to get serious, i.e. that the relationship is official. When we were recording the podcast, it wasn't official yet, but it is now and like I said, both I and Dr. D got tested.

Now, to re-state and re-phrase the question that I/we want to know again: WHEN is the right time to ask your (potential) partner about their health status? Surely, you wouldn't be sitting down to the first dinner on the first date and suddenly blurt out about HIV-test, would you?

Cheers,
Elemm (who already got tested)

Episode #11: Scotch-Flavoured Condom Filled Christmas (Show Notes)

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A tad late than intended. Ms. B was enjoying her vacation too much that she didn't get around editing our Christmas episode. But hey, it's Boxing Day after all...so it still counts as Christmas, eh?

Opening done by Ms. B's son. Isn't he just cute???! (Here's what I can make out of what he said: "Welcome to Knitters Uncensored episode 11 with Elemm, Cashyie and Ms. B. Merry Christmas! Tchüss!")

Cashyie tries to welcome you in German with an Italian accent. We launched right into....

What's on/off our needles?

• Cashyie:
  
• Off her sewing needles: 35 Advent Calendars! (Yup, she sews now! She even thrashed her sewing machine trying to fix it. She ended up having to go over to Ms. B's and use her sewing machine.)
• Sewn Faux-Tarp Plastic bag (FO)
  
• Another My So-Called Scarf in Alpaca (WIP. This also started the story about how Climbing Wife has fallen from grace for Ms. B.)
• Crochet Fish Christmas Tree Ornament for her Schlecker Lady ("Schlecker" is a chain of drug-store here in Germany.)
• Ms. B:
  
• "Striped Lily the Pink" (in the mean time almost an FO)
• 7 hats: Mission Fall Chullo hat for her kid, Rock-Star Husband and Amanda Hat and Coronet hats for her kids' Kindergarten teachers (digressions about the time when Ms. B went to Ecuador)

We then digressed about Cashyie's Scotch-flavoured condoms story and how she unintentionally got better treatments at a club because of them....and also how Climbing Wife "tried" it on and it fit perfectly!!! :-p

• Elemm:
• Mystic Waters Shawl (in the podcast, I caught up to Clue 5. In the mean time, I'm on Clue 6)
• Icarus Shawl
• Flower Basket Shawl with my own hand-spun
• Tiger's Eye Yarn (or as some of you would like it: "Tigerente")

Apart from that, I've been busy with my university work: Handing in my seminar papers, registering for my Diploma thesis and exams.

Cashyie has Christmas presents for us! I got a some Glühwein (mulled-wine) lollies and a ball of GGH-Vision.....and we had a great laugh over Cashyie's pronunciation of the GGH-yarn! Ms. B got also grappa lollies and a hank of Trekking Hand-dyed. Rock-Star Husband gets a small bottle of "Bärenfang" mead.

Life in Germany: The Christmas Markets in Germany. Cashyie went to the Nuremberg Christmas Market. I didn't make it to any of the markets at all. Ms. B didn't either, but she went to the Home and Hand Work show.

There are several small Christkindlmärkte in a city....pretty much one in each suburb. In Munich, the tourist hub would have a Christkindlmarkt that are full of imported stuff, but not made-in-Germany stuff. We also talked a bit about Tollwood which is a kind of seasonal festival here in Munich.

Wollmeise Colourways:

• Rittersporn = delphinium, larkspur
• Veilchen = violet
• Gewitterhimmel = stormy sky
• Sultan (and OMG, Ms. B didn't know what a "Sultan" is!)
  
• Regenbogen = rainbow
• Raku-Regenbogen = "Raku" rainbow

Please send the Wollmeise your well-wishes, she had been a bit unwell. Ms. B talked about how she was talking to Shannon from the SSK Podcast about the Wollmeise Moebius, which in the mean time also is offered as a kit in her shop (pretty new, because at the time of our recording there wasn't any kits yet).

Contest: Photoshop Wollmeise Yarns in some kind of funny settings and send it to us! We'll pick the winner and you'll...errr....win something, I guess. :-p

Cashyie's Freak-of-the-Week: We will now feature Cashyie's dating life over the internet...but she ended up getting some very weird "winks". Listen and have a good laugh! 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed!

Contest 2: Help Cashyie write up her headline and her internet profile! The best one will be picked by Cashyie and get a prize she got from the Christmas Market.

Sex-Ed 101 with the KU: And then they turned the conversation around to me and the fact that I was kind of off-the-market (in the mean time I'm officially off-the-market already...so you'll be hearing a lot more about my Dr. D from now on). Cashyie then started talking about "exclusivity"in regards to "Ahem"....yeah, okay, in regards to sex and whether you ask your partner prior to your first sexual intercourse whether they've been tested for "various things" yet. This sparked off a whole long discussion. Up to that point I never talked to Dr. D about this issue, because for me, it wasn't up to the *serious* point of a relationship yet. However, this is just not how we do it...or at least not how I do it.

Cashyie was absolutely appalled about my reactions to this issue. It wasn't resolved when we were recording the episode. However, for the record I need to say that it was Dr. D himself who brought up the subject (which surprised and amused me), and I would like to state here that in the mean time, I got tested and have got my negative result back (and yes, Dr. D also got tested, but he gets his results back after the New Year). I'll report more on this in the next episode. ;-)

So, what's your view on this? Do you ask your potential partner about tests? Do you ask them right early on, or when it's about to get more serious? Do you think that in doing so, is it just going too far or is it just being safe? Share your opinions with us!

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Until the next time, have a Happy Holiday and knit hard! And get tested!!!! :-p

Yours,
Elemm

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Episode #11: Scotch-flavored Condom Filled Christmas

Episode #11: Scotch-flavored Condom Filled Christmas

Ms. B is enjoying her vacation too much and took a loong-ass time to edit and get this out. We were hoping to get this out BEFORE Christmas, but well, we're a little late...

Opening by Ms. B's son. You may or may not understand what he is saying. It was too cute to NOT include it.

What's on or off our needles and Cashyie shares her condom stories

Cashyie gives out Christmas gifts wrapped with unusual wrapping.

Life in Germany - Christmas markets!

German Terms - Elemm deciphers more Wollmeise colors!

Cashie tells us about her potential dates and has a contest for our listeners

We turn the podcast into a debate about getting tested or not, join in the fun!

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Music: "The Greatest Xmas Song Ever Written" by American Heartbreak

Detailed show notes and polls can be found at the following URL: http://knittersuncensored.blogspot.com/

Merry Christmas!

We at the KU would like to wish all our listeners a very Happy Holiday! Thanks for sticking and cackling like mad with us through 2007!

Elemm (for the KU-Team)

KU Stickers, anyone?

If you are interested in getting some free Knitters Uncensored stickers (looks just like the logo), please email me at bockstark.knits(at)gmail(dot)com or leave a comment. If you are in Germany, just send me your address, if you are in the US, I will give you the info where you can send me a SASE (remember those?) and I'll send them whenever I arrive later this month.

Unfortunately, I can't send it to other countries since it will cost too much. Maybe if we can work out some kind of shipping arrangement.... :)

Ms. B

Episode #10: One Man, One Woman and One Other Woman (Show Notes)

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Sorry I took forever to write up this episode's show notes. I was finishing off my last seminar paper, which has already been handed in. So now I can concentrate on just knitting, spinning and podcasting really working on my diploma thesis. ;-) So, mea culpa, seems like I swapped place in with Ms. B this time putting things up. ;-)

Well, what did you think about our new intro? Ms. B and Rock-Star Husband rock, eh? And for some reason, I just sounded so chirpy doing the welcome.

What's on/off our needles?

• Cashyie:
• Red My So-Called Scarf (FO)
• Another MSCS in Wolle Rödel "Arizona"
  
• Cashyie's own design Mittens (FO)
• Montego-Bay Treber Scarf (FO)
• Knitted Fibre Optic Lamp

We digressed quite a bit here about drying acrylic in the dryer, Cashyie got a sewing machine and then her dating on the net! ;-) And if you notice the squeaking sound, that's Cashyie knitting on her Arizona MSCS!

• Ms. B:
• Malabrigo Hanami Stole (frogged - anyone want the yarn?)
  
• MariSilk Hanami Stole (FO)
• Firestarter Socks
• Secret Project
• "Stripes Moony The Pink" Baby Sweater
• Elemm:
• Mystic Waters Shawl
• Firestarter
• Secret Project (same one with Ms. B)
• Mohawk (FO)
• Koolhaas (FO - went to Minemma)
• I've got quite a bit on my spindles. Plus, I got new spindles from Butterfly Girl Designs! I've been spinning the lace-weight single...which is already done and now I'm knitting it up into the Flower Basket Shawl.
• Snicker yarn still on my Turkish Cross Spindle

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Belated Happy Birthday to Mike from Socktopus (not the yarn shop)!!!

Life in Germany: What do we think is weird in Germany?

• Ms. B thinks that when they have construction going on on a building and they put a ginormous poster with the picture of the building on the scaffolding. Also, take aways, especially Chinese take aways here come in styrofoam box with sealed foil on it.
• I think that the Schwäbische Kehrwoche (German Wiki link, for English, try this one) itself is kind of funny.
• Cashyie had people moving her furnitures around when they came over to her place for a party. But she finds it sweet that Germans would go the extra mile for you.
  

We kind of launched into the levels of friendship here in Germany. How you actually earn the title of a real friend and then enter into the circle of friends. Comparing between Germans, Tyroleans and Italians. ;-)

Also Q&A from Katia & KylieMac: When do you consider yourself an expat and not a tourist?

• Ms. B feels that she feels like an expat when she first moved in to her apartment with Rock-Star Husband here in Munich.
• Apparently, I'm neither and expat nor a tourist anymore, but more like an immigrant....although I could still be booted out any time.
• Cashyie feels like a European anyway, growing up in the multicultural Canada....even in Canada, she already feels like an expat.
  

Wollmeise colourway names:

• Suzanne
• Pfauenauge = Peacock feather
• Tiefer See = Deep Lake
• Pfefferminz Prinz = Prince Peppermint
• Vergissmeinnicht = Forget Me Not
• Am kalten Polar = At the cold polar

Cashyie was requested to pronounce some fun German words:

• Gemütlichkeit = cosiness
  
• schrecklich = awful, appalling
  
• fürchterlich = horrible, dreadful
  
• übermäßig = excessive, excessively, exceedingly
  
• Frühstück = breakfast
  
• ausgezeichnet = excellent, distinguished, "kick-ass"
  

Ravelry Q&A:

• What's the weather in Germany like comparing to our home countries?
• For me, coming from Thailand, we got only humidity and the three seasons we have are: Hot, Hotter and the Hottest. :-p
• For Ms. B, she used to live in Seattle, so she likes the mild temperature all year round.
• Cashyie talks about the extreme temperatures....especially the fact that you can really shock freeze your exposed skin in the matter of seconds! Scary!
• What about German food?
• I eat everything! Love all food! And someone at work asked me seriously whether I've tried the cow udders. *urgh*
  
• Ms. B doesn't like German food that much...especially those jelly sausages. Weird meat stuff just freaks her out....and she thinks that Germans aren't very big on veggies, it's all about meat, potatoes and bread. ;-)
  
• Cashyie pretty much likes everything, too.

I also presented Christmas presents for Cashyie:

Kolenyas #09 for Cashyie
Originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

And for Ms. B:

DK / Worsted-Weight: "Merry Berries"
Originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

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We were just about to close when I blabbered about my prospective boyfriend. ;-p And I know you're listening!

This week's music is "Junk Mail Never Stops" by Billy Reid!



Until the next episode, keep knitting!!!!

Yours,
Elemm

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Episode #10: One Man, One Woman and One Other Woman

Episode #10: One Man, One Woman and One Other Woman

After the record delay in editing last time, I promised to edit this one quickly and up it goes the SAME DAY we recorded. That is a record as well.

Opening by Ms. B and Rock Star Husband. We're freaking hilarious!

What's on or off our needles (and spindles for Elemm)

Life in Germany - What is weird about Germany? When did we consider ourselves expats?

German Terms - Elemm deciphers more Wollmeise colors!

Laugh as Cashyie and Ms. B tries to pronounce those unpronounceable German words.

Ravelry Q&A - What is the weather like in Germany compared to where we're from? What do we think about German food?

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Music: "Junk Mail Never Stops" by Billy Reid (http://www.verytasteful.com)

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Episode #09: Someone Kissed a Girl (Show notes)

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Lawdy, sorry that we're so late putting up this episode. You know, life gets in the way some time. ;-) But we're here now, let the digression show begin!

Katia & KylieMac, when are you guys coming to Munich?! And no, I don't ever think I'd finish my Clapotis, this led us to digress on the merit of having LOTS of WIPs and UFOs on the needles. I started scheming on getting the KnitPicks Harmony Options Needle Set.

Anyway, who do you think has kissed a girl? Yeah, it was me, Elemm, but we'll get to that. And no, I didn't kiss Cashyie or Ms. B! :-p

We also went into discussion about the Long Night of the Munich Museums, which entails a whole load of other Long-Night-Actions here in Munich...

...and promptly we digress again into talking about herpes cold sore. And yes, a Mankitten with cold sore was sticking his tongue down the throats (yes, plural) of other girls at Oktoberfest.

Thank you so much to AuntlyH for the wonderful Yarn Cocktail book she sent us! Then we suddenly digressed into talking about rock climbing and the Flachmann (pocket flask). Also, Ms. B forbade me to knit or spin during recording.

We also got the magazine that did the interview and photo with us......and well, I like the photos, but Ms. B will only allow publication if the photo's cropped and if she's blackened out....soooooo:


The KU-Gang
All Rights Reserved!
Photo by and on courtesy of Sabine Höroldt for HP's Blue Line Magazine.

So, what's on/off our needles?

• Cashyie:
• Mitten she's making up the pattern for as she knits
• My So-Called Scarf in Wollmeise Gewitterhimmel (FO)
• Another My So-Called Scarf in a silk-merino yarn
• Cashmere Montego Bay Scarf (FO)
  
• Ms. B:
• Vesper Self-Striping Socks (FO)
• Vista Mare (Billy Reid Socks - FO)
• Firestarter by Yarnissima
• Hanami Stole in Malabrigo Lace-Weight
• Elemmaciltur:
• Swallowtail Shawl (FO)
• Icarus Shawl
  
• Mystic Waters Shawl
• Firestarter by Yarnissima
• Secret Project (FO - couldn't reveal while recording, but now, yes: it's the Mohawk socks for the November Scout's Swag Club)

So, what's the big deal that I got totally drunk and ended up snogging with a girl? I'm just one more experience richer now. And now I also know what a hangover feels like. ;-) And just for the record: I'm not going to make this a habit (both the drinking too much and snogging a girl).

Life in Germany with Ms. B or actually with all of us. What do we miss most about "home"? I was totally at a loss for the answer, but perhaps food. Cashyie misses the Canadian boys. Ms. B misses food, shopping and later opening hours, TV.

German terms with Elemm, more Wollmeise colourway names:

• Iris Sibirica = Siberian Iris
• Farn = Fern
• Wellensittichvogelfeder = Budgie's feather
• Rhabarber = Rhubarb
• Kräuterbeet = A bed of herbs

And don't forget to go sign up for the shop update over at Wollmeise Online Shop!

Cashyie reads her Oktoberfest Report.

Elemm went to the Vaterstetten Wool Market. I was kinda disappointed because I actually wanted to get new spindles, but there weren't any, even though on the brochure they were saying that there will be a focus on hand-spinning. I was also playing Wollmeise Groupie and I was also recognised by one listener: Hi Nicole!! The only thing that made up for the missing spindles were the rovings. :-p

Ms. B went to the Knitting & Stitching Show in London. And yes, London is expensive...not just for yarn, but for EVERYTHING! Cashyie didn't seem daunted by it at all. Ms. B also went to Stash and GetKnitted. The tube stations are also hot...and kinda nasty. She also went to the cinema.

Announcements:

• Cashyie was having a Halloween Party (came and gone already)
• Firestarter KAL
• Mystic Waters KAL (sign-up is now over, sorry!)

This week's music is Jonathan Coulton's "I feel fantastic", and it is brought to you by:



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Until the next episode, keep knitting!!!!

Yours,
Elemm

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Epiosde #09: Someone Kissed a Girl

Episode #09: Someone Kissed a Girl

Oh geez, we cannot just shut up about all things NOT related to knitting. We recorded this more than 2 weeks ago, but Ms. B was super lazy and didn't edit for awhile. But it's finally here!

Find out who kissed a girl and who has herpes!

What's on or off our needles

Life in Germany - What do we miss about our home countries?

German Terms - Elemm deciphers more Wollmeise colors!

Cashyie's Oktoberfest roundup

Vatterstetten and London trip reports

Announcements

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Music: Jonathan Coulton, brought to you by Podsafe Music Network (http://music.podshow.com)

Detailed show notes and polls can be found at the following URL: http://knittersuncensored.blogspot.com/

Better late than never...

Here's a special shout-out:

Happy (belated) Birthday to Mike from Socktopus!

You're a darling, dear, and we all luv ya! The rest of you go and wish him a happy birthday, will you?

Elemm & the KU-Gang