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Fruity Knitting Podcast

I do enjoy the Grocery Girls podcast found under the same name on YouTube.  They offer a campy, light-hearted, product-placement filled 1.5-2 hour video every couple of weeks.  But having said that every now and then I love a good old traditional, proper knitting video and the Fruity Knitting podcast fits that requirement.

Andrea in Shetland

Andrew and Andrea are a married couple who have lived in Offenbach, Germany (a suburb of Frankfurt) for over 17 years. Both were born in Australia.  For me the most endearing part of this is the lovely Australian accents.  That accent seems to make everything classy, distant and official.

Andrea is a skilled knitter, is a very good seamstress and a professionally trained singer.  She loves to make form fitting jumpers (sweaters) for herself and her family.  Andrew is relatively new to knitting and as a contrast to Andrea, his projects are more simple in design.  He recently completed a hiking jacket, designed by Andrea made with Hebridean conservation wool.

Andrea loves Alice Starmore designs, here are a couple from her Ravelry page.

Henry VIII - Alice Starmore design (photo from Ravelry)

Anne Boleyn - Alice Starmore design (photo from Ravelry)

In additional to showing off beautiful finished objects the Fruity Knitting podcast has a segment called Knitters of the World, where excellent knitters of all types show off their vintage, stranded or cabled knitting from their own home.  Another segment has Andrea interviewing known experts in the knitting world like Susan B. Anthony, Gundrun Johnston, and Ann Budd as well as several European experts, Nancy Marchant, Tom of Holland, Marie Wallin, and Ysolda Teague.  It is clear Andrea does a lot of preparing for these interviews because she asks the type of in-depth questions knitters want answered.

Finally Andrea shares in each episode a few knitting tips or tricks or how she modifies patterns to suit her fashion aesthetic that makes watching worthwhile.  Often this is done at the beginning of the episode as she and Andrew talk from their living room couch, but there are also excellent video tutorials created by Andrea to show the viewer how something is done.

The Fruity Knitting podcast will also take you to wool festivals in Germany, Scotland and Shetland (which will be coming out soon).  The length of each podcast is about 1.5 hours and they upload every couple of weeks.

I highly recommend checking out The Fruity Knitting playlist and select an interviewee of interest.  I am sure you'll agree it is time well spent, if you love to knit.


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