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Edinburgh Yarn Festival 2018: Podcast 50
Hello – its been a long time since I’ve been on my blog but I’m back after Edinburgh Yarn Festival 2018 feeling refreshed and energised. I’ve just loaded up Episode 50 of the podcast, which coincides with my two-year podcasting anniversary. It seems a long time since that try-out Episode 1!
As its been a bit tricky during all the upheaval of the house renovation in the last few weeks and I’ve not had much time for playing with yarn, I’ve concentrated on telling you about my experiences at Edinburgh Yarn Festival 2018. I do a little bit of comparing and contrasting with my first visit to the festival last year. I’ll be back with a bigger catch up about my dyeing, crochet, knitting and general craftiness in a couple of weeks.
This episode is a review of the festival with details of all the beautiful yarn that I bought there. Sorry about the rogue title at the end – no charity projects this time, I just left it in by mistake 😮
General links
Find out more about Edinburgh Yarn Festival 2018, including all the photographs taken by the official photographer sponsored by Toft on the official EYF website.
Find out more about the beautiful city of Edinburgh, Scotland here
YouTube podcast links
Knitting podcasts
- Emilie who is from Norway and is host of the Arctic Knitting Podcast – YouTube
- Amy of Stranded Dyeworks who is a UK podcaster at Stranded on YouTube
- Kristy Glass of Kristy Glass Knits
- Tracie of the Grocery Girls Knit podcast
- Maria of the Ninja Chickens podcast
- Nathan Taylor of the Sockmatician podcast
- Melissa and Lisa of the Espace Tricot podcast
- Stephen West of WestKnits and the Amsterdam yarn shop Stephen and Penelope
Crochet podcasts
- Me of the Crafternoon Treats Podcast
- Fay of the Crochet Circle Podcast
- Clarisabeth and Caroline of the CrochetCakes podcast
- Caroline has just started her own new podcast Mind and Muse Crafting
- Alyson and Vivian of the Keep Calm and Carry Yarn audio podcast
- Charlie of the Love Charlie podcast
- Rosina of the Zeens and Roger podcast (who I managed NOT to meet!)
Links to the websites of the lovely vendors that I bought from
- The Border Mill  www.thebordermill.co.uk based in Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
- Whistlebare Yarns www.whistlebare.com based in Bowsden, Northumberland, UK
- Town End Alpacas www.town-end-alpacas.co.uk Based in Kendal, Cumbria, UK
- Midwinter yarns www.midwinteryarns.com Based in Machen, Caerphilly, South Wales, UK
- Baa Ram Ewe www.baaramewe.co.uk Based in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
- Iona wool  www.ionawool.com Based in the Isle of Iona, Inner Hebrides, Scotland UK
- The Crochet Project www.thecrochetproject.com Joanne (@notsogranny) and Kat (@katgoldin)
- Eden Cottage Yarns www.edencottageyarns.co.uk Based in Wetherby, North Yorkshire, UK
Timestamps
- 0 to 3.13 Â General intro and chat
- 3.13 to 17.56 Â Edinburgh Yarn Festival 2018 review
- 17.56 to 25.56 Â Fangirling – all the lovely famous podcasters that I met (see the links to individual podcasts above)
- 25.56 to 46.31 Â My Edinburgh Yarn Festival 2018 haul – all the gorgeous yarn and patterns that I purchased during the festival. See the links to individual vendors above
- 46.51 to 50.13 Â My yarn swap with Emilie of the Arctic Knitting podcast
- 50.13 to end The shawl that I forgot and Until next time… NOT anything to do with Charity projects – sorry I left that in by mistake from the last podcast 😮
I’ll be back soon and thank you for watching xxx Kathryn
My Edinburgh Yarn Festival 2018 photo gallery
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Hi Suzanne – you can sign up to follow my blog on Bloglovin’ or subscribe to follow me on YouTube. I’m also planning a newsletter later in the year so I’ll be in touch then to see if you want to receive it xxx Kathryn
BIG CONGRATS on two years podcasting, Kathryn–here’s to years more! :))) This was a fantastic episode all in all. It’s so nice how they made many improvements to last year’s EYF… It sounded much more comfortable in so many ways, which makes things like that more fun when out & about all day. I also really like how you presented the yarn and giving lots of detail in different ways–written text, you talking about them and showing, etc. So many lovely folk you met! Oh, but that was so funny–you “feeling up” Nathan Taylor’s “man-shawl” which was so wonderfully made and colorful… Us fiber folk, gotta touch! 😉 LOL… I would love to get to the EYF one year!
Glad you had such a fun trip. Despite the cold, Edinburgh looks like a city to visit in future. Congrats on the 2 year anniversary. I am not surprised at the success of your podcast. You’re a natural!
Congratulations on your 2nd year Podiversary 🎉
Fab podcast as always, loved that you fangirled out with Tracie, think I’d have done the same 🤗 What a fab haul too. Have to say my eyes are a little green this morning 🤣
Viv xXx