Knitting Podcast Episode #3
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- In this episode of my knitting podcast, I talk about current socks I'm knitting, future sock knitting designs, the pair of Mermaid Avenue Socks I knit during a hurricane, another funny dad story, tales from my long ago dating life, two tripes to a magical yarn store, and an incident involving a Lincoln Town Car and potbellied pigs.
To see episode #2 of my knitting podcast, click here!
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I came here for sock knitting but am going to stay until we have a full sit-down interview with your dad on your podcast😂😂😂
It is my mission to convince him!!
Yes, please have Dad as a guest!
A few weeks ago I didn’t think I’d be someone who listens to knitting podcasts and knits socks, but then I discovered your IG and became OBSESSED with the idea of making beautiful socks!! So here I am listening to your knitting podcast and knitting my first pair of I’m So Basic socks (the most high quality pattern I’ve seen!) with about 20 tabs open to hand dyed yarns. Thank you for inspiring me and making me laugh :) can’t wait for more!
Oh please, please, please continue doing these, you are SO good at it!
Hello Summer! Your podcast is so, so good. The perfect balance of beautiful knitting, yarn and hilarious stories. My Dad is a loud jokester, has a story about EVERYTHING under the sun, and makes friends everywhere he goes. He still keeps family life interesting to say the least. I learned to drive in a '69 Pontiac LeMans, it was a classic and drove 30mph without putting your foot on the gas pedal. Even though we lived in the suburbs, our town before the build up was mostly country roads and we used to have good talks when I learned to drive. Anyway, happy knitting! Ingrid
A Pontiac Lemans! Wow, what a cool car to learn on!
Well, I had a hard time looking at all the lovely yarn. I just loved your little skeleton in the background. I want one. I’m a 67 year old lady and can’t believe that I want a skeleton to go with all the little gnomes that I knit
Thank you for starting the funniest knitting podcast I have come across so far! You are great company to knit with. 😊🥳
Thank you so much!! ❤️😊😊
It’s a great day when there’s a new podcast! Loved seeing your new yarn! Nothing better than a good mail day/yarn shop splurge. My dad was a motorcycle policeman for 25 years - and one year I was walking downtown, on my way to a reading at Powell’s Bookstore when I hear the loud chirp/whooooop of a police siren. I look over to see what the fuss is and there’s Dad, pulling up next to me on the sidewalk, asking me what I thought I was doing walking around town in the evening by myself?? I was like 33 years old, for heaven’s sake. Everyone else walking along started giving me the eye as I turned three shades of red. Um, overprotective much, Dad?? 😆
That’s amazing!!! And so mortifying!! 😂😂 And Powell’s books!!! 😍😍😍😍 On my bucket list of book stores to visit!
Your stories make me smile... as do your gorgeous socks. My dad is so calm, though his dad was a character so maybe that was his way to cope! When I was a teenager my grandad came to collect me from the quiet village pub where I was working dressed in lederhosen and bright red long socks. He was not of German descent, nor was he wearing them for an occasion, this was just part of his day to day wear...
My dad in the '80s adored those athletic tube socks (with stripes of course!). One Saturday we're going to a casual party, nothing fancy and my dad decides to wear his tube socks with Bermuda shorts and LEATHER business style loafers😫😫😫😫 I said: dad you look like Cristopher Columbus hahahahahahahah. From then on every time I see an image of Columbus I remember that day! by the way, my dad went to the party without changing hahahahahah I love my dad! Thanks for your podcast, it's fantastic!
Athletic socks with loafers is such a dad fashion moment! 😂😂😂
Im sad there are only 4 of your podcasts! These are some of the best I watched in a long time!
Lol, you are a breath of fresh air😀
I get the dad face thing. Growing up my dad was always stressed and got frequent migraines and the one thing you didn't do was make him mad. He wasn't abusive at all, but the face he made was very scary. After he retired he calmed down so much that he's a completely different person! And no more migraines! Also, I'm in the Pacific Northwest and you are very welcome here if you ever want to move. :)
I really enjoyed your dad story!
I absolutely loved my dad, he was the cool parent, stay-at-home dad who braided my long hair every single day before school.
Once I decided to play hairdresser and cut my own hair by bending over and cutting my hair in one (almost) straight line. It didn’t work and I ended up with really bad hair 😂 I was so scared to tell my parents, so I put on a beanie and went to bed (it was winter, so they believed me when I said I was cold). I couldn’t sleep that night because of the guilt and the fear that all the kids at school would laugh at me the next day, so I wrote my dad a long letter apologizing for my stupid attempt to cut my hair. He came straight away after reading it and demanded to see my hair. I took my beanie off and much to my surprise, he started to laugh so hard! Then he sat me down and proceeded to cut my hair properly. Fortunately, cutting hair is one of his many creative talents 😉 he was a little disappointed in me because he loved my long hair, but luckily it grew back and I swore to never cut my hair myself ever again 😂
Stumbled upon this video and channel. This gal is so darn likable and I enjoy the videos. All the yarn and socks are great too!
I just subscribed because of your dad (yeah, I know this is an older video- doesn't matter)
So, cars and dads... When I went to take my driving test in Texas, I owned a full sized 1974 Chevy Impala station wagon. To pass the test, you have to be able to parallel park in less than 20 ft, so I borrowed my dad's car because his car was 5 ft shorter than mine. Then during the test, I had to admit I didn't know how to parallel park because my car wouldn't fit. The trooper laughed as I told him I'd borrowed my dad's car and very kindly taught me how to parallel park and passed me anyway.
I am binge watching your episodes and my husband was listening. He says, wow you found another awkward okie knitter. 😂
I hope your dad lets you share more stories. It feels good to have a laugh. Xoxo
This already is my top 1 favorite podcast! And funny thing is I haven't even knitted a pair of socks yet. My very first one is on the needles.
Thank you so much! And yay for new sock knitters!!
I love the thought of your dad being Florida Stanley. And I have to know what his favorite word is! I’m so intrigued. I can totally picture your first car. My grandmother had a glorious gold Lincoln Town Car that she drove until it absolutely died then she went and got a brand new Lincoln Town Car. Can’t wait for your next episode!
Such a great video. Put your mermaid sock pattern in my favs on Ravelry, really love and want to make those. The whole time you’re talking about your dad I’m thinking I hope he doesn’t watch this bc he’s gonna be mad.. lol.. My dad was the same way when I was growing up. We had 5 kids in my family so as you can imagine my dad was always working but when he was home we needed to be quiet and be good. And he always looked exhausted and crabby. But now he’s retired and chill.
I got in an accident at 15 with only my permit, I decided after washing my dads car I’d drive it around the block to dry...what was I thinking?! Stopped at Dairy Queen for ice cream along the way bc why not and hit a car in the parking lot. I left the scene bc I was scared but someone in the parking lot got my license plate number and called the police. When I got home they had already called my dad and he brought me to the police station which at the time I thought was abusive. Now I look back and wonder what was I thinking in my know it all mind?! Lol.
I just bought some of that Frank Ochre! Such an epic color!!
I just discovered you.... I LOVE your stories and your knitting is beautiful....
Already loved your designs and now your channel.. would love to learn cables 😊
Thank you for truly entertaining me through my sock knitting. I SO adore you and your dad stories. 💗
Thank you so much!! I’ll tell my dad in the hopes that he’ll let me tell more stories! 😂
I'm having so much fun listening to you while I knit my first pair of "I'm So Basic" socks! How did Mr. Meat keep the meat in the pants? Wouldn't it just fall through the ankle to the floor? LOL I'm super amused picturing it. I never had any, but my husband did with his floppy strawberry blond curls.
COVID vacation fail? ME TOO! We had a full week secluded rental in December, overlooking the water. Had car trouble right before our departure. We decided to be patient for the repair, which cost us HALF of the scheduled days away. Hubby was livid, and he was also disappointed that I talked him out of renting a car. How was I supposed to know the dealership wasn't motivated to get the job done?
So excited to make your new sock pattern!!
Thank you!! ❤️❤️
Just found your podcast... love it!
I found your podcast video by accident! The best ever! Your knitting instructions are wonderful and I think my socks are going to be so much better thanks to your instructions!!!!!!!!!!! Keep these coming.
Hi Summer!
Thank you for recording another wonderful episode! I absolutely LOVE spending time with you here. Your fun, interesting stories, yarn stash and beautiful sock patterns are perfect.
I have so much fun with your dad's stories! tell him he has to share all his genius and knowledge. Can't wait to find out the favorite word!!
During your podcast I felt in love with YarnByStu yarn you showed, had to paused it and enter the Etsy store. And bought a couple of skins. They are really gorgeous. Thanks for sharing this info, again, in Chile there isn't a great variety of sock yarn.
And be fearless about your patterns, they are clear, easy to read and easy to follow. Plus the RUclips videos, step by step. Love to learnt sock knitting. Thanks for that.
Great podcasts. Always a joy to watch. Love your yarn haul and I agree there is something about blues and rusty colours that draws me in every time. Say hi to your dad and tell him we love dad stories because we all have them so it’s like instant bonding. My dad died 10 years ago and I still miss him and his garden. Now off to knit some more on my socks and think about colours 🥰🥰
Dad stories are so universal!! My grandfather was a gardener and I totally still miss wandering around in it while he pointed out all the new things he was growing!!
I don’t know what is funnier....the meat in the pants or the pot belly pig story! And your yarn selection is scrumptious
It took several years, but I can finally laugh about both incidents! 😂
Love podcast #3 also!!! So great, love everything about it. Can’t believe it took me so long to find these!!
I stumbled across your podcast this morning at work so I was only 3/4 listening. I decide to rewatch tonight. OMG! I am so glad I did. I missed the full details of the dog/car/dad story the first time. Tonight I was crying 😂 laughing. Keep them coming!
It was definitely one of the more bizarre life experiences I’ve had! 😂
A fun podcast!!
My dad tends to say things completely innocently that out of context would sound horribly dirty. One example, we were talking about those really big glass bottles of fresh pressed apple cider and he said (very enthusiastically), "I love those big jugs!" 🤦🏼♀️😂
😂😂😂😂 That’s AMAZING! 😂 Totally something my dad would do too!
Hey summer, I recently started watching you as I’m obsessed with making socks 😅😅 thank you for the fun videos and for all the tips and tricks you share with us. I learned how to do the socks by watching you but unfortunately I can not read a pattern if my life depended on it 😅 but my socks are coming along nicely and I’m happy to carry on with what I’ve been doing. Will it be possible to post any suggestions for how to make socks for children under 5 years old? I would love that very much. P.S I miss your little glasses. You actually look super cute with them. ❤️
Your podcast is a joy,, thank you for your lovely smile, stories and patterns of which I've just bought my first one and looking forward to starting soon..
Loved watching this episode and hanging out with you (virtually) Summer! I'm glad you and your family had a great/safe time on vacation - it was super fun to follow along on your IG stories! Also, I TOTALLY agree with you about yarn hanging out in your stash - it's seriously sooo satisfying to match it to the perfect pattern once it comes along 👌🏼
Yes! I love when the light bulb comes on and you know EXACTLY what the yarn wants to be!
Here is my "chilled" salad date. My first date with C was so funny to me. He wanted to make such a good impression that he decided to make dinner for us. So he picks me up and we go to his house. (He lives with his mother. We were 18 at the time). So I'm sitting at the table with the lights down and music. He says we will have a chilled salad for our first course. So I watch him go to the freezer section of the refrigerator and pull out two plates with frozen lettuce on it. It was so gross I began to laugh a little. I said that if you want to chill a salad, it needs to be in the fridge, not the freezer. He was embarrassed. We are still good friends to this day. And when I ask him about chilled salad, he shakes his head and says let's not talk about it. Next time I'll tell you about his time with the police and me. Great show by the way
That is hilarious!!! He really pulled out all the stops and then some! 😂
Hey gorgeous woman. Love, love, love your podcasts!! Literally can’t wait for the cable tutorial. Quick question... I noticed you use a neutral sock yarn often for the cuffs, heels and toes often and it’s like an ecru/cream colour- can you tell me what yarn it is? Thank you! Much love 💕
Yes! It’s Paton’s Kroy Sock in the color “Muslin.” Love that stuff!!
So happy I came across your podcast last night, so refreshing to listen to your podcast. Thank you for sharing your time!
Thank you for the kind words! ❤️❤️
Only a true knitter can describe a hurricane and finding a yarn store in the same sentence. lol Love hanging out with you.😘
So true! 😂
But the Shire DOES exist. It’s in New Zealand. It’s a natural valley with the real view you see in the movies. Absolutely worth seeing. 😍
Hi from LA, Summer! Just watched the live stream and wanted to let you know how much I enjoy sitting here working and listening to your stories + yarn advice :)
Hello! I hope you are safe and well where you are and you get relief from the fires soon! Thank you for your kind feedback!
I immediately knew the Malabrigo Yarn you were holding up and the Frank Ochre colorway. I love that color. Love seeing the new addition to your stash.
I’m knitting with it now and it’s so beautiful!!!
I’m loving all your stories! And your sock obsession is inspiring me to dive into the sock world. I’ve knit one pair, which I started while I was in college. My ravelry notes say I finished the first in two days...I just finished the second about a month ago, 8 years after I started the first one! It was not very good haha. 😅 My dad is one of those people who can sit next to a stranger at a baseball game and have their whole life story by the third inning. I’m always channeling him in social situations to try and cover up my awkwardness!
Hanging out with you was a great way to start my weekend. Already love your dad. I hope one day you can have him guest star on your podcast. Maybe you can even teach him to knit and he can cohost -lol, Love the gorgeous yarn,-especially the purples- I'm a purple girl all the way! I have kept special skeins for years- and I got a lot of enjoyment from just looking at them and picking them up from time to time. When I finally knit up one of my all time favorite skeins of hand dyed yarn, I choose to knit vanilla socks with it - and let me tell you - I LOVED the relaxing and colorful knitting experience, and I actually get excited everytime I get to wear them because the colors make me so happy. So don't be afraid to keep and enjoy special skeins, and don't be afraid to knit something easy and fun with them. I got a lot of bang for my buck with that $28 dollar skein!
Did not mean to cross out the yarn comment, but I am a techno troglodyte and I don't know why it happened or how to fix it.
First, troglodyte is one of my fave all-time words! 😂 And I totally want to convince my dad to be on the podcast at some point!! I, too, used a special skein on vanilla socks and loved every stitch!!
Great podcast! I love your stories. My daughter lived near Dallas, Texas for 5 years and has finally moved home to Portland, Oregon a few month ago (yay). McKinney Knittery was her LYS then. When she would go there, she would always FaceTime me and walk around the store showing me all the pretty yarn.
It is truly such a special place - I could have spent hours in there! I bet you are so glad to have your daughter home again! ❤️
Thanks for your stories along with sock and yarn parade. I just remembered a story of me dating a young excriminal guy while I was working for the Salvation Army. And you know what - I was that kind of right person I was ready to wait until he would addapt to normal life out of prison. But he found out that he has started a wrong affair with too oposite person and he was scared to tell himself that he wants to break a relationship and sent an exmonk (who also worked for SA) as a messenger to me... Now I am happily married to man who had chosen to become a pastor 20 years ago and we have 5 lovely and smart children :) With greetings from Latvia- Gunita
Absolutely enjoying your podcasts. Such a great vibe! I can totally relate to your colors and love of sock knitting. 😀
I’m new to your podcast, and I love it! I also have a knitting and sewing podcast, and I also love knitting socks. I just bought your new pattern, and can’t wait to give it a try! Here’s my issue- I’m a very loose knitter. For sweaters, I generally only have to go down one needle size and I’m good. Socks, though are a different story! I just bought 1.75mm needles, after using 2.0mm for ages, and wondering if the smaller needles would help. I saw that in your free sock pattern that the gauge is 40st./10cm. With the 1.75mm I get 28st/10 cm. How should I adjust? All of my socks,though beautiful, are all “over socks”. I have yet to make a set that I feel I could really wear in my shoes. Thoughts?? I’d appreciate your help!
Oh goodness, yes! I had a pair of those jeans too! 🙈
Glad you guys had a good trip, even though it was rudely interrupted by a hurricane!
What were we thinking, right?! 😂😂 But at the time I thought they were the absolute coolest!
Summer Lee Design Co. Oh me too! But now I just cringe 😬
Hears Summer say "Grindr"...spits up my water a little bit....pauses....thinks to myself "I like her"....
Mermaid 🧜♀️ socks are beautiful what color is the yarn? so pretty! Thanks
I used to live in Houston and now I live in Little Rock...I had the experience of Hurricane and tornadoes...and I don't like them either!!!
Since I am learning to do socks..I would like for you to cover the different kind of "heels" you can knit.thanks Kimmy
It really seems like tornado alley is shifting towards the East! Arkansas, MS, and AL have had way more active seasons than OK the last few years! And I can definitely cover different heels!
Great podcast as usual!! Yes please to a cable tutorial I’d love to have a go but I have the fear and need to just get on with it. Look forward to it. Love all your socks....have bought most of them...can’t stop knitting socks since I started in lockdown....now on pair 20!!!!💕
Thank you!! Sock knitting is truly addictive! I can’t stop either!
Summer Lee Design Co. ❤️
Love your podcast! Is there any way when you talk about wips and fos for your socks, we at home could get a close up of the sock to see the patterning, yarn, etc? You have a great podcast!
My dad sounds a lot like yours. A burly, kinda intimidating kinda guy. I grew up in North Dakota, which sounds a lot like Oklahoma. My dad was an over the road trucker so he was gone for long stints of time, and we too had to be very quiet when he was home so that he could get his sleep during odd hours of the day. He has this way of saying some of the funniest things without meaning to. Back then, there were no cell phones, only a house phone. I never wanted him to answer it. In middle school and high school he taught it funny to answer "Your dime go ahead." And then he would say "She just left to go to the river to get a load of hay." Another one of his sayings is that" ND is not the end of the world, but you can see it from there." These may not be some of his funniest, but ones I can repeat in public :)
Your dad and my dad sound ALOT alike! Sooooo much of what my dad says I can't repeat in public! "She just left to go to the river to get a load of hay," is hilarious, and such a dad thing to do!
I totally wore the Jncos!!! It was my favorite jeans in high school! Also a friend of mine totally stole from Walmart a BB gun in hers! She just slid it down one pant leg.
Is your friend from Oklahoma?! Because stealing a BB gun from Walmart in your JNCO jeans is quite possibly the most Oklahoma thing EVER 😂😂😂😂
Summer Lee Design Co. South Carolina but sounds like they are similar lol
If you like ChiaoGoo needles for magic loop, you might want to look into the "Twist Shorties" set. They are minis and have two needles lengths-2" & 3" that you could put different lengths on the short cables (comes with 5", 6" and 8"). I'm going to try it but I'm a magic loop person too. Thanks for a great podcast. Do you knit anything besides socks?
Your dad sounds like my husband. Love the term “ thunder face” lmbo
Funnily enough, my husband also has a thunder face 😂. It’s just his natural expression!
Am enjoying your podcasts very much. The addi easy sock...question...does it not come in a size 1? I went to your link and found everything but that size!
I think they’re out of size 1 right now! 😭
I LOVE your t-shirt!
Thank you!!! Dolly forever!!!
Hi Summer. Can you just mix and match all fingering weight sockyarns I one project? Although they can vary in meters per 100 grams? Thanks!
Obsessed with your T-shirt collection! They're so good every time! I am soooo excited for the little black sock pattern to come out! I've been too afraid to try cables but I know you will explain perfectly and I might have a chance! 🤣Will cable needles be necessary? Also- I tried to date a boy in jnco jeans and my daddy promptly put his foot down! 😅😅😂😂
No cable needles necessary! I just use a double pointed needle! And I LIVE in t-shirts, so I always try to order good ones! Also, your dad was super smart to put his foot down on jnco boy 😂
Hi Summer your fellow Okie here. Have you been to Two Unravelled Chicks & a Llama? Love that shop. Would be so cool if I ran into you there lol.
Yes!!!! I go there quite often!! Love that little shop (though I I guess they moved next door, so not do little anymore!) Hopefully we’ll run into each other there soon!
Hi I’m Jen from mars, pa...I found your podcast from Melissa from the Encourage Better knitting podcast...Do you watch the Knitty Natty podcast? She is a knitter from Texas and one of her LYS is McKinney Knittery and one of her latest videos is yarn shopping at that store. Glad I found your podcast!
Yes! I saw that! That LYS is just amazing!
On the subject of special yarn, do you tend to just buy one skein, or do you buy a larger quantity? I a,m always on the fence about how much to buy!
Do you ever knit your socks two at a time or toe up? I love sock knitting but prefer toe up and two at a time magic loop though I have also done cuff down.
Any tips for hand winding yarn? I've just purchased my first skeins and I've made horrible knotted messes . . .
Here’s how I do it! First, unwind the skein and snip all the ties. Then sit on your couch or a chair (pretty close to the edge) with your feet planted on the floor. Drape the skein around your knees, and then wind into a ball!
I loooooooove your podcast so much! I feel like we may have been split at birth!! Especially when it comes to talking on the phone... Vs texting like civilized people!!!
Have you watched The Great- Hulu show? Being a Russian history fan:) it's amazing although very historicaly inaccurate....
Yes!! I loved the funny, irreverent take they did on Catherine! Binged watched it soooo fast!
Such a great video. Put your mermaid sock pattern in my favs on Ravelry, really love and want to make those. The whole time you’re talking about your dad I’m thinking I hope he doesn’t watch this bc he’s gonna be mad.. lol.. My dad was the same way when I was growing up. We had 5 kids in my family so as you can imagine my dad was always working but when he was home we needed to be quiet and be good. And he always looked exhausted and crabby. But now he’s retired and chill.
I got in an accident at 15 with only my permit, I decided after washing my dads car I’d drive it around the block to dry...what was I thinking?! Stopped at Dairy Queen for ice cream along the way bc why not and hit a car in the parking lot. I left the scene bc I was scared but someone in the parking lot got my license plate number and called the police. When I got home they had already called my dad and he brought me to the police station which at the time I thought was abusive. Now I look back and wonder what was I thinking in my know it all mind?! Lol.
I would have been TERRIFIED!!! I bet it was a long time before you could even look at a Dairy Queen again! 😂😂😂
Summer Lee Design Co. Right?!?! I was terrified. Never did that again tho.