A big thank you to Phebie Lozano for agreeing to be our first stop on the virtual yarn crawl.  Please show your appreciation by listening to this episode and visiting her lovely store.

Phebie's NeedleArt

532 W. First Street

Second Floor Gallery (Ste 210)

Claremont, CA 91711

(909) 624-5250

www.phebies2.com

Yarns:

Plymouth:  Encore.

KFI/Knitting Fever:  Noro, Debbie Bliss, Elizabeth Lavold

Trendsetter Yarns

Cascade 220

Hand dyed yarns:

Red Barn Yarn -- very tonal colorways

Lorna's Laces

Schaefer Yarns

Notions:

Lantern Moon

Addi Turbo

Clover/Susan Bates

Vintage Buttons

There is also a large selection of items for these other crafts:
Beading

Brazilian Embroidery

Small Talk:

Discussion on Ravelry

http://www.ravelry.com/groups/the-well-knitted-life

Eileen (redsknits) asked about traffic:

Getting around LA

            Sigalert.com

            Googlemaps.com

            AAA Los Angeles Freeway Map

            I also mention the Thomas Guide, though I don’t really like it

I was mentioned:  Knitcents, Knit Naturally, and Knitajourney podcasts.

Linked in the Knitting Podcasts blog http://knittingpodcast.blogspot.com/

Taking care of your ears from eardrums in

Hearing is a very amazing process that uses a lot of cool body parts, most of which you can’t see.

Too much noise will kill hair cells, which don’t grow back, so take care of them!

You ears also give you balance and a sense of where you are in space

Good diagram of the inner ear and description of hearing and the dangers of loud sounds here:

http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=g1962

There are also semicircular canals which I will talk about more in the future when I talk about dizziness and balance

Eustachian tube – in the diagram kind of tunnel pointing down and to the right.

Knitting skills!

Beading:

Rosemary Hill (designer of knits and pins) does pretty much what I do:

http://rosemarygoround.blogspot.com/2010/07/and-she-was.html

Nupps:

Myra Wood (Author of Crazy Lace:  An artistic approach to Creative Lace Knitting) has a video on how to do Nupps in one row:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIzYLbasHY

Thank you, Sally!  (fibercrafter on Ravelry)

Or use a big needle to wrap the extra stitches (as I did) ormake some extra knits and yarn overs to create extra space to work the stitches together (as recommended by Laura of Fiber Dreams)

Quote – Japanese proverb appropriate for episode eight