Episode 6: Y Love Lucy? (27:21)
Lucy Neatby spins a tantalizing tale of sea-faring adventures, cinematic drama and an evil rabbit named Reggie.

Here are some of the goodies mentioned during this episode:

• Lucy's DVDS
• Lucy's Patterns and Kits
• Lucy's Book, Cool Socks, Warm Feet
• Lucy's Videos on YouTube
• Shelridge Farms yarns, patterns and kits
• Fleece Artist
• Paradoxical Mittens
• Think Outside the Sox contest
• Ram Club, A Sock Club for Men

Y Ravelry contest winners (from episode 4)
Lapel Pins and Buttons: Tini.
Autographed Daily Dose of Fiber Tee: Kenyetta.
Autographed Ravelry Tote: Sara.

 

Y Knit? It's An Aesthetic.

We use snippets of the following songs in this episode:

• "Socks" performed by Rebecca Parks from the album "Night Ship" (Messiah Refugees Music/CD Baby)
• "Sailor's Hornpipe" performed by The Windjammers from the album "Shanties & Songs Of The Sea" (Really Free Music/INgrooves)
• "O Canada" from the album "National Anthems 1" (Sonoton / BFM DIGITAL)
• "I Love Lucy Theme" performed by Desi Arnaz Orchestra, Wilbur Hatch conductor, from the DVD "I Love Lucy: The Complete Series" (Paramount)
• "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" performed by William Shatner from the album "The Transformed Man" (Decca)
• "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Variations" performed by Anthony Bonet exclusively for Y Knit.

Because you demanded it, here's the "Lace for Boyz" in single format.

Lace For Boyz (2008)

Too Fine, Too Small
Too Fine, Too Small

WonderMike:
Yo, yo, yo, yo, hizKNITS
These big knit kids still frontin’ on us
Show them that we can do this, cuz we always knew this, HA HA HA
Yeah, boyeeeez

hizKNITS:
Lace! How long can it grow?
Last row, what a knitter throw.
Once again, back it’s the inflammable
The chart animal
The untangleable [FLEECE] knitted finery made by one

QueerJoe said, MOTHS! and I got numb
Can I tell ‘em that I really never had handspun?
But it’s the crack that the BMFA had done
Now they got me in a cell cause my needles, they swell
cause a brother like me said, well...
Lacy Knitters Guild's a posse that I think you ought to listen to
Guys who know the craft, I'm talkin' Gene and Lew.
Follow for now, power of the people, say,
Make the miracle [LACE] block the lyrical
Black is back, all in, we’re gonna win
Check it out [yeah y'all] here we go again

Chorus: Knit it up! Lace for boyz! Knit it up! Lace for boyz!

WonderMike:
Yo, yo, yo, hizKNITS
They spittin’ cuz we knittin’
Let’s show them that Yknit in da house
Yo hizKNITS, show ‘em what you can do

hizKNITS:
Never badder than bad cause the brother is madder than mad
At the stitch that's been dropped like a spindle whorl
Stole on the roll, but you treat it like soap on the rope
Cause the yarn in the shawl is so dope
Counting the stitches I'm knitting inside fabric with yarn-O's and decreases galore
They'll never care for the brothers and sisters
Now going blind, saying, "Rows? Just one more!"

We got to demonstrate [come on now]
They're gonna have to wait
Til we get it right
Victorian, Hemlock, Pi and Mystery
Swallowtail, Icarus, Shetland, and Hanami!

Chorus: Knit it up! Lace for boyz! Knit it up! Lace for boyz!

WonderMike:
Yo hizKNITS
They say boys can’t do lace
I don’t understand what they sayin’
But I got Orenburg for they face!

Yknit? It’s synthetic, athletic, aesthetic and prophetic
Yknit? It’s copacetic, energetic, not apathetic
Yknit? It’s electromagnetic
Yknit? It’s genetic!

Parody lyrics: hizKNITS (with little bits by wondermike), 2008
Respect and inspiration: Public Enemy’s “Bring The Noise?, 1988
Engineered by: Sex For Teens, 2008

Stay cool!

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Episode 5: Lace in Your Face (33:44)

We chat lace with guys from all over the country:

• Our favorite vet, Mel of Cabezalana blog was visiting from Maine (DrMel94 on Ravelry);
• Doug, from Southern California and Troy from Belliningham, WA met on Ravelry, then met in person (and with us) in SF; and
• Gene, from Eugene, OR and Lew from Sacramento, CA were "man-"ning the Lacy Knitters Guild booth at Stitches.

Let's let the lace do the talking. Here's the lace inspiration mentioned during this episode:

• QueerJoe
• Herbert Niebling (also a Yahoo group)
• Spirograph
• Yarn-a-go-go's Wedding Stole
• A Gathering of Lace, by Meg Swansen (available from Schoolhouse Press)
• Clapotis by Kate Gilbert
• Mel's completed Shetland-inspired shawl
• Sivia Harding
• Folk Shawls, by Cheryl Oberle
• Things Soo Likes blog
• Lavish Lace from Cherry Tree Hill
• Let's Knit2gether
• Muir by Rosemary Hill
• Victor's lace (from Knitter's Uncensored podcast)
• Last Minute Knitted Gifts airy scarf
• Eugen Beugler patterns at Fiber Trends
• Modern Lace Knitting by Marianne Kinzel
• Mary Walker Phillips
• Brooklyn Tweed's Hemlock Ring blanket (original pattern)
• Hanami stole (modeled below)

Contest winner Art vs. Craft episode
The winner of KnitKnit Issue #7 is KatKrafty. The essay she mentioned is found at redefiningcraft.com

Thank you to everyone who took time to ponder lace with us: Mel, Troy and Doug (thanks for the gifts!), and Gene and Lew. As Michael said, I don't think this is the last time you'll hear lace discussed on Y KNIT.

And, as always, thanks for listening! Leave your thoughts on men and lace in the comments below or in the Ravelry group.

Y Knit? It's poetic!

This show features snippets of these songs:

• "Love is Here to Stay" performed by Bill Evans from the Solo Sessions Volume 2 on Milestone Records (1963)
• "Leather and Lace" performed by the Jolenes from the album Get It to Go on Good Fork Records / IODA (2006)
• "Chantilly Lace" performed by the Big Bopper from Hellooooo Baby: Best of the Big Bopper on Rhino Records (1958)
• "Lace for Boyz" performed by hizKNITS and WonderMike. Engineered by Sex14s (2008). Inspired by the genius of Public Enemy’s “Bring the Noize? from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back on DefJam Records (1988).