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Cast On began on Monday, 31 October, 2005, founded on nothing more than the desire to talk about knitting to people who get it. Since then, the podcast has evolved to focus on finding inspiration in the ordinary, using it to kick start the process of making stuff, and finding ways to carve out the creative time and space that allows you to work your ass off on the projects that matter most to you. Like knitting a sweater. Or saving the world.
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217 Closer Than You Think
A culture of one sounds grand until it becomes a spreadsheet. Twenty garments, five categories, six with a date or a next step, and a lot of honest blank space. That is not failure. It is the handmade wardrobe becoming visible before it bec
216 Making
Everyone has worn something that felt like them. In this episode, that feeling starts with a teenage pantsuit made by Brenda’s mother, and widens into the question Claire McCardell asked in What Shall I Wear?: what happens when a woman dres
215 Ease
The mirror didn’t care what I thought should be there. Steroids, weight, a body that changed without permission — none of that was the real difficulty. The difficulty was the gap: the distance between what the mirror showed and what I expec
214 Enough
Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy. It’s a joke until you do the maths. Eight complete sweaters-worths of yarn in DK and fingering weight alone, not counting the oddballs, the luxury fibre, or the container of 2-ply jumper weight (https:
213 Fit
The quest for trousers that actually fit involved eBay-stalking vintage pattern drafting books - Flat Pattern Cutting and Modelling for Fashion (Helen Stanley, 1972), Pattern Drafting and Dressmaking (Dorothy Moore, 1971), Dress Pattern Des
212 Low Impact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinted used to feel like the internet version of a Naked Lady party: somebody else’s wrong thing becoming exactly what you needed, for a fiver and postage. Then the pro sellers arrived, the charity-shop stock m
211 Grace Notes
Ghost in the Orchard (https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/ghost-in-the-orchard). Four inches from done. I’d stare at the cable chart and the tiny squares would dance. Close my eyes. Open them. Over and over. The hands that made those ca
210 Two Bowls
Tears in the kitchen. Three bananas on the counter and a recipe I know by heart but cannot, for the life of me, turn into a sequence of actions. Seven ingredients. Too many decisions. My brain could not do seven. So I broke it down. Dry ing
209 Desire Paths
An Eye for an Eye - would the animals we eat, eat us? Impossible Hats. Box Hill Picnic, from Jane Austen’s Emma. Dangerous Questions, where the danger is yours, not your opponent’s. This is what insomniacs get up to at 3am while you are sle
208 Nighthawk
From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/), Nighthawk n. a recurring thought that only strikes you late at night. Mine struck every night for eight weeks. Zopiclone is a sledgehammer. Daridorexan
207 Too Much World
Trimethoprim for a UTI. Seven days. By day three, everything was hysterically funny. By day five, I could hear things that weren’t there. By week two, I couldn’t track yarn overs in garter stitch. Garter stitch. The projects on my needles w
206 Quality
Zabava Shorties (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/zabava-socks) disasters. The signs were there. Sometimes, you need to break up with a sock pattern. “It’s not you, it’s me. I don’t like you anymore.” Meanwhile, the Peppermint Pocke
205 Big love and secret pajamas
It's been a week of finishes and new beginnings. Off the needles, I've completed a Malabrigo hat (https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/malabrigo-yarn) and love the color pooling. You don’t hear me say that very often. I've finally finished
204 Cart before the workhorse
Finishing socks, saving the yarn, new projects from old, planning the perfect colourwork sweater, plus a bit of theoretical physics to prove what knitters already know: knitting is magic. Links and references: * Admiral Hanf yarn by Schoppe
203 Looking in
We travel from Iron Age fire-pits to mid-century homemaking manuals, consider the joys of stash organisation, and muse on the performative aspects of home decorating. There’s a deep dive into the ancient tradition of human-centred design th
202 A gentle pastime
Replenishing the sock drawer with Priory Socks (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/priory-socks) (project page (https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/priory-socks)). My Secret Circles (https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/secret-
Cast On Classic: A Snow Day
In which an American Thanksgiving is celebrated in the UK, albeit a day late and a pumpkin pie short. One of the first pieces of writing I recorded for Cast On in 2005, this has become one of my most popular podcasts. This particular versio
201 Knitting through sorrow
It’s autumn. Time for finishing projects, knitting socks and celebrating the impending winter by taking the sweaters out of storage. This one is all knitting, and I make no apologies. I'm channelling my grief in the time-honoured tradition:
200 Work as written
Off the needles and on; Tour de Fleece wrap up; notes from the production line; a new bag; a new spindle; good materials; and Bennet’s Boiled Potatoes. Compared to some, mine was a paltry Tour de fleece output, still... I made time for fibr
199 The system
Knitting the slowest sock in the history of sock knitting. Tour de Fleece. The merits of taking small steps vaguely in the direction a goal. I’m thinking about style again, and looking for systems. David Kibbe’s Metamorphosis: Discover Your
198 Picking up the threads
House projects have broken me; the summer of socks continues; the red that bled; Tour de Fleece; and a return to Clifford Byway. My new obsession for shorties led me to Zabava Socks (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/zabava-2). They
197 Gradual Stiffening
The weather. Men in shorts. The run down. Ta Da moments. And the moments just before a plan comes together. The Red Edge is complete! The chart for Red Edge was designed by Anna-Lisa Mannheimer Lunndown (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib
196 A wide variety of displacement activities
In this episode: The party dress; picking up threads; a project round up; and the big idea, spoken aloud. The High School Art Teacher Dress by Vogue [(V1410)](https://simplicity.com/vogue-patterns/v1410) I can highly recommend the following
195 You can't keep everything
In this episode: Stash enhancement; hat boxes of joy; the rug of sorrow; knitting memory lane, letting it go. Repeat after me: It is okay to rest. Thank you, past Brenda, for setting up [Esther](https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/esthe
194 What I did last summer
In this episode: Undone by Cosmo/Cosmo undone; colour blocking that didn’t stitck; a summer romance; a bounty of beautiful sock yarn; packing projects for a journey with no end date; and the view from the Stone Cottage! The sweater that was
193 The waiting phase
In this episode: I have more projects on the needles at one time than ever before, and I talk about all of them. Also, we're buying a cottage, and trying very hard to remain detached until the contracts have been signed. The Schneke Shawl (
192 The dam busters
The Great Airing of the Stash 2023. Hibernating projects emerge, blinking, into the light. The Red Edge (https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/the-red-edge-cardigan-poc) gets a new button band and top-down contiguous sleeve cap. Made prog
191 amazing technicolour dream shirts
The production line. Tiny arms. The trouble with Esther - I’d rather begin the yoke with GRANITE (not “graphite”). Ready to redesign the colorwork on the swatch. The sock makes a brief appearance before returning to time out. I have not yet
190 Talisman
IKvetching (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kvetching) is now free to all! Find it on Ravelry or on Jeny Staiman’s Payhip (https://payhip.com/jenystaiman). The Stitching show was fun, if a bit short on yarn. Next year, Wonderwool.
189 I want to do it this way
The level of craft chaos was high this week, but Lilly’s retro-vibe pinnies are finished! Pattern is Bias Trimmed Apron from Little Things to Sew (https://oliverands.com/shop/oliver-s-little-things-to-sew.html) by Oliver & S, in lightweight
