podcast episode 71: Charlotte Bronte's 200th! (AUDIO)

podcast episode 70: Charlotte Bronte knitting, trip to NYC, & oh, I met Sam Heughan! (VIDEO)

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This episode will include: OFF THE NEEDLES / ON THE NEEDLES / KnitAlong NEWS / READING, LISTENING & WATCHING / HAPPENINGS / ENDING THOUGHT 

OFF THE NEEDLES

Puppy Lovey - pattern used: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sock-yarn-square

Gilded Dragonfly Shawl (above)

MKAL On the Moors with Jane Eyre  - check out #TSGcharlottebronteMKAL on Instagram

ON THE NEEDLES

another MKAL On the Moors with Jane Eyre - design by me! The Sampler Girl - Blue Bayou Shepherd’s Wool Worsted

Bad Nut - shawl design by Josh Ryks, Hedgehog Fibres Sock colorway Villian, 437 yards

KAL NEWS

Baby Knits KAL -ends April 30th

MKAL On the Moors with Jane Eyre ends May 31

New to Me! KAL ends June 3

READING

The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer 

Under the Egg by Laura Max Fitzgerald 

Yuki Chan in Bronte Country by Mick Jackson 

LISTENING

audio book / Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier 

on audible /Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, version narrated by Juliet Stevenson

WATCHING

knitting podcasts:

Nicole’s Needlework Podcast on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUt__I8iG7ppBdZ0kiqcFJQ

Arbor Twist Podcast on youtube 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqPfxVShztDxX9jSGSkqj-g

book podcasts:

The Sheep and The Wolf

https://www.youtube.com/user/MsWoollyWolf

Jen Campbell

https://www.youtube.com/user/jenvcampbell

booksandquills

https://www.youtube.com/user/booksandquills

HAPPENINGS

Spring Break / Easter / SIL's baby shower / NYC!

Hotel

http://www.westinnewyorkgrandcentral.com - 31st floor - lush suite!

Restaurants

http://www.perlanyc.com - strong Cosmo - excellent!

http://www.thepatsyspizza.com - fabulous pizza!!

http://www.highlands-nyc.com - pan fried lemon bass with duck grease potatoes, whisky bread & risotto 

http://www.papillonbistro.com - Craigh na dun cocktails with Laphroig Whisky mmmmmm!

http://theparistavern.com - magical evening all round

http://www.yelp.com/biz/sandwicherie-of-new-york-new-york / Sandwicherie - great for brekkie!

https://www.pret.com/en-us / Pret A Manger - yummy croissants that melt in your mouth - good coffee

Shops & Stops

http://www.knittycity.com - small yet great yarns in stocks, friendly staff

http://www.threelives.com - I wanted to live in this independent bookshop 

http://www.metmuseum.org - needed about a month to see it all - have to go back!!

http://www.outlandertvnews.com/2016/03/saks-fifth-avenue-and-outlander-spring-2016-collaboration-press-release-and-magalog/ - costumes were breathtaking

https://twitter.com/outlanderherbal - lovely Scottish lass who knows her herbs, delicious herbal teas too

Director's Guild Theater - where we saw a special screening of Outlander Season 2, epsiode 1!
For the first hour, we enjoyed Scottish music!

AND ... yes, I got to meet and shake hands with Sam Heughan, the actor who plays Jamie Fraser on Outlander! He was the Grand Marshal for the Tartan Day Parade. I dish about NYC and meeting him beginning at time 37:00 on video.

Outlander inspired knitting

My Heart, My Love Shawlette

Forget me Not Shawl

French Outlander Shawl

Gilded Dragonfly Shawl - NEW!

KAL prizes!!!!!!!!!

Over in The Sampler Girl podcast group on Ravelry, we have 2 knitAlongs currently running and the prize donations arrived!!!

Three Bags Full Studio on etsy has sent a lucky winner a darling project bag appropriately themed to cuteness!!! 

Yarn Love sent a Charlotte Bronte themed yarn for On the Moors with Jane Eyre Mystery KAL, colorway is Spring Daffodil in Charlotte Bronte Worsted. If you haven't already checked her website out, you must!! It's quite tempting for literary-loving-knitters.

I will be recording an audio episode for The Sampler Girl Podcast tomorrow so stay tuned ... I'll be dishing about these KALs and of course, their lush prizes and how you can win!

MKAL On the Moors with Jane Eyre!!

April kicks off ...

Mystery Knit & Read Along 

On the Moors with Jane Eyre

Knit on your own or join The Sampler Girl Podcast group on Ravelry where knitters work the project and read a book by Charlotte Bronte. 

Official knitalong will be April 1 - May 31 on the group.

Prize: yarn in colorway Charlotte Bronte 
donated generously from Yarn Love

starting April 1 ... Charlotte Bronte Mystery Knit & Read Along

Want to join me in a Charlotte Bronte themed knitting AND reading project this April?

In honor of Charlotte Bronte's 200th Birthday on April 21, 2016, this shawl design, in mystery knit a long style, invites the knitter to the Yorkshire Moors - to fancy a look back into Jane Eyre's story - to wander the windy, green landscape, harsh and beautiful - to step into the novel, this time with yarn and needle.

Here are all the details:

KNIT - On the Moors with Jane Eyre  

READ - any of Charlotte Bronte's books, I will be re-reading Jane Eyre
Join in the knitting and reading discussion on The Sampler Girl Ravelry group where we will be chatting about the project and the book.

ALSO!! .. In the Ravelry group, the Official MKAL will be April 1 - May 31 and there will be a YARN PRIZE donated by Yarn Love (picture of yarn to be posted soon!) for a randomly picked winner when project concludes on May 31.

Tag your project and reading status on Twitter with #tsgcharlottebrontemkal

Begins April 1st!

Questions? Just ask me samplergirl@cox.net

Happy Knitting & Reading!

New Shawl design ... out in 2 weeks!

Excited!!!